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"I personally met Hyuuga to tell him of my intentions with his daughter, and on that day I met the arrogance of men.
"I do not accept this. I would take my name from yours if I could. This is a disgrace to our family's name. You do not need my blessing. You are no longer my daughter. Take your things and leave. I don't ever want to see you again. Not you and not your child." With this statement, Hemi left the Hyuuga's clan house.
She was obviously very well welcomed in my house and we got married in a closed ceremony. As the pregnancy went on, so the beast got closer and closer to Konoha, and that made us all terrified.
"We need to find a way to defeat it. It has to be stopped!" exclaimed the third Hokage in one of the meeting in my house. On that day, Elder Hyuuga was present as well, as you see; his family was the most interested, for they would be the first to be killed.
"I defend that a jinchuuriki is the only way to get over this situation. There is no other way."
"Excuse me, Kakashi-chan. I brought tea." Hemi said, entering the room. "Nice to see you, Hokage-sama!" she said in a smile "Nice to see you, Hyuuga-san." With that greeting, she showed her father how deeply upset she was with him, and that hurt old Hyuuga.
"Nice to see you, musume… It's been months that you don't visit your otosan…" he said. He missed her, it was clear, and he regretted putting her out the way he did. To call her musume (daughter) and himself otosan, that meant a lot for and old proud man. But he forgot that the Hyuuga's pride ran on her veins too.
"I no longer have a dad, Hyuuga-san. You must be misunderstanding me for someone else." She said coldly.
"Musume… Hemi…"
"You see, my father died the day I decided to live freely, for he could not love me enough to give me freedom and to love me or my baby as much as one day I loved him. But the tea I bring is hot and sweet. And this is all that matters for you now. Excuse me, husband." She said leaving.
On that night, I asked her if she wanted to talk, and all she said was 'there is nothing to be discussed about it, Kakashi-chan. All that matters is that our baby is growing stronger day by day.' She never said how disappointed she was, how hurt she was. Hemi was incredibly strong.
So strong that the night the beast finally got to our village, she saved us all from the attack.
The beast invaded and destroyed a great part of the clan Hyuuga's houses, hunting Elder Hyuuga. It was a matter of minutes until it finally found him. I was there, along with many ninjas and the Hokage himself.
"YOU FOOLS THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME?" laughed the beast "I WILL EAT EACH ONE OF YOU AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD AFTER I HAVE FINISHED OLD HYUUGA MAN! I HAVE BEEN CRAZY TO TASTE THE HYUUGA'S POWER!"
The monster was huge: a gigantic wolf that shone in the dark night as a star, with its twelve tails wagging behind it. Its scary yellow eyes stared at us all, as if from our smell it could tell our clans and the amount of chakra in our bodies. It had the Hyuuga's family wrapped around its tails and when the beast was about to devour Elder Hyuuga, she appeared. Behind Hemi, an enormous hooded figure with a sword on his mouth and arms opened. One hand of the creature grabbed the wolf' snout and closed it. Its long cape waved with the wind and in front of it, there she was. Hemi learned the Dead seal consuming Jutsu and was using it to save her father.
I could not believe my eyes. Tears ran and washed my face. I knew what that meant. I knew what she was doing. She wanted to close the monster on the baby. She wanted to make a jinchuuriki herself. "HEMI! HEMI STOP IT! HEMI PLEASE DON'T!" I shouted with all my strength, but the third Hokage held my arms. "LET ME GO! I NEED TO GO!"
"If you go, you will die!" Sarutobi said.
"MAKE HER STOP! MAKE HER STOP! PLEASE SAVE HER!" I begged.
But deep inside I knew there was nothing he could do. She would save the whole village. She would save everyone.
The shinigami behind her dragged the beast inside her belly and the gigantic creature faded as smoke inside my wife's body. I ran to her, I ran to her as faster as I could and there she was, half dead, on the floor, like a fallen angel. Death was over her, she was cold. "What… What did you do? Why, Hemi-chan?" I cried on top of her.
"Kakashi-chan… Take care of her… Don't let anyone hurt her… Do whatever you need to keep her safe… People will come after her… Make her strong… Tell her that I loved her, I dreamt of her and I will protect her, wherever my spirit goes…" she whispered weakly.
"Please, don't leave me… Please, don't…"
"Kakashi-chan… You need to finish the sealing… I am too weak… Please, my husband… Please…" She begged "I loved you, my dear. I love you and I will always do…"
I knew the hands position, I knew the words and I did the sealing. "I love you, Hemi…" Death took the only woman I truly loved from me, and on that same night, life brought me a little angel. When I first had that tiny human being on my hands, I knew that her mother would have been glad to have seen her.
