K, im not posting chapter five until someone guesses who I killed x.x

Don't be mad, but this actually wasn't meant to have ONE pairing. It wasn't a smack dab Sasu/Hina. So, this is gonna take a turn on the road with no turns.

My god, I love metaphors.

Don't own Naruto, don't sue me, Kishimoto.

We left the gates of Konoha and made our way through the trees. Some time passed, or a lot of time has, but I couldn't keep track. They all kept ahead of me.

Sometimes I'd trip, but Kakashi would save me from falling, while Sasuke just kept going. It was sunset when we chose to stop to camp. It was Kakashi who only brought a tent, luckily it was big enough to fit the whole rookie nine. I slept in the middle of the two, since Kakashi didn't want to sleep next to Sasuke and Sasuke liked to sleep near the far end while Kakashi said he urinates a lot in between hours, so he slept near the exit.

I was a very light sleeper, and Kakashi and Sasuke both liked to talk in their sleep. I kept my eyes closed, for whatever reason.

"I…Itachi…" muttered Sasuke.

"No… Do it… do it…" muttered Kakashi. I opened my eyes to look at both of them. Sasuke's eyes were opened, but probably unconsciously. His eyes were a fiery red… was that a sharingan? It wasn't sharingan, it was something else. Was it the Mangekyou?

Suddenly, all the colors faded to black and white. I was tied to a pole, and I felt a thousand kunai and senbons pierce my skin. I didn't bleed, but it kept going on and on. Suddenly, it ended. Then everything faded black.

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If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting. Time after time.

I became aware, but I couldn't move.

"You lost the fight, Sasuke?"

"My mind was occupied with other situations, Kakashi."

"I've been asking you for two weeks, she hasn't woke up yet. Tsunade is going to kill us. Our mission, especially yours, was to protect Hinata on our way to Suna. It only takes three days to get there and we took two weeks already. I bet Tsunade is pissed right now. Plus, you were the one who did this to her."

"I don't care. Why does Gaara need damn beer from Konoha anyway?"

"Sasuke, if we don't give it, our peace treaty will be broken."

"Over a bottle filled with liver killers? I think Tsunade's beer is too intoxicated for others to drink. Plus, I think we'd do Gaara a favor by not letting him get drunk."

"What are you talking about?"

"Gaara sleeping. Shukaku would take over him, wouldn't it?"

"No, Shukaku is gone already. Gaara is dead, Sasuke. Don't you remember?"

"I don't know."

"You should, you're the one who killed him."

"I? I don't think I was conscious whenever Orochimaru was there."

"Do you remember you killed Akamaru, Itachi, the whole Akatsuki, Kurenai, your best fri— Hinata, are you awake?"

I sniffed. They should've took that as an answer.

"I'm going to get more firewood."

"We have enough, Sasuke."

"I'll get more."

Kakashi sat next to my bed. I felt my left side sink a little bit, as if he were leaning on it.

"You should know, when sharingan or mangekyou is unconsciously turned on, the sharingan holder sleeps with his or her eyes open? Well if you don't, you should now. I just told you."

If I could, I would've rolled my eyes, but my eyes were unfunctioning right then.

"Hinata, you should also know, there are a lot of guys who's tripping over air for you."

I didn't know if I blushed.

"That blood rush always gets the better of guys."

I was glad I was paralyzed as of the moment.

"Ah, someone is calling me right now. I see it is Tsunade. Well, I'm sorry, Hinata, I'm going to have to answer this phone call.

"Hello? Ah, yes? Hm, are we? Are you? Should I? I don't know. I don't know either. Hm, that's bad, right? Tomorrow? Okay, but you might not be pleased with what we might bring. Okay, bye."



"Was that Tsunade?" asked the voice of Sasuke.

"Yes. She said she's annoyed the we're late, we should hurry up and that I should know what would happen, where you were, where we are and that we were gonna come back to Konoha tomorrow."

"Hm. These firewood are useless then."

"I told you we had enough. Ah, let us go to sleep now. We have a day tomorrow and extra luggage."

The one thing I didn't get is that we had motors. Why couldn't we use cars instead? We had cellular phones for one. Maybe it was because of the Ninja, Nindo way.

I fell into the sleep again.

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Sasuke's somewhat POV

"She took a lot of damage, Neji. She's going to take about a year or so to recover."

A year? We only had ten months to get married and create an offspring. If she had already carried my child, that wouldn't be a good thing.

Neji nodded and left, leaving only Tsunade and I in the hospital room.

"Sasuke, she's pregnant."

"Oh."

"With twins."

"Oh."

"But… They've died."

"…"

"They also took the effect of your mangekyou. It's not necessarily your fault, but, you know. We're going to have to remove the fetus."

"How long have they been there?"

"2 months."

"No wonder she was starting to look like a pig. And eat like one too."

"…Sasuke."



"What?"

"She's in the near stage of dying. She's in a coma."
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It was 3:30 when I got home. So I had twins. No wonder she was slower and lazier. Neji shouldn'tve been there. Maybe I could've fooled Hiashi and have got another baby. But Neji didn't know that unless he was listening to our conversation. Either way, he wouldn't want Hinata to die, right? Right.

So I went to Sakura's.

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She opened the door.

"I need a baby."

"Excuse me?"

"I need a baby."

"Sasuke, where's Hinata for you?"

I pushed her in her house and close the door. I pushed her against the wall and pushed my forehead against hers, barely touching her nose with mine. Her breath smelled like menthol.

"I need a baby."

"Sasuke, get out of here."

"If you don't give me one, I'll leave the village."

"Sasuke!"

I closed the space between us and kissed her.

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Four Years Later

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(Hinata POV)

I woke up. I woke up. My eyes opened. Light flooded my mind.

"Lady Tsunade! Hyuuga-sama has woken!"

I looked to my right to see Sakura with a little girl next to her. Her hair was black, her eyes were green, but she wore an Uchiha crest over her clothes.

I was momentarily confused, but Tsunade came to me, and quickly healed something.

"There, Hinata, you are fine, now. That was close. You almost forgot the feeling of walking. But, anyway. You're going to go to therapy later or something okay?"

I was still looking at the little girl who was playing with a doll.

"Ah, you see that's Kanuya, Sakura's child."

I still looked at Kanuya.

"Oh, the Uchiha crest… Sakura got married to Sasuke, you see."

I shifted to Tsunade. My eyes got wider then narrowed. Looked over to Kanuya then to Sakura, then to Tsunade.

"Where Sasuke is? Well I guess it's better to tell you know than later and throw you into another coma. Sasuke, is, well, he passed away."

I looked to Sakura. Who was looking down at her fingers, saddened. I was confused again. If the child was wearing the Uchiha crest, does that mean that that was Sasuke's child?

She should be a baby then, no, she should still be in Sakura. I faded to sleep then.

A few days later, two men came to help me walk. I asked them if I could go to Sasuke's grave.

After they took me to the cemetary, they gave me an automatic wheelchair.

"Uchiha Sasuke. Died of Battle between enemies. May the cherry blossoms bloom upon your grave." (I don't know when he was born TTTT)

Between Enemies? I asked one of the nurse what year it was. It turned out to be that it was four to five years since I have drifted into the everlasting sleep. The sleep between earth and heaven.

It seems I have missed a lot of things. Right next to Sasuke's grave was Kiba's, then Hiashi, to Hanabi… Was there a war? A war once more in our generation?

Hanabi, she wouldn't be in battle, she was too young. But Neji. Neji's grave wasn't there.

The men were talking about the upcoming sports events. I thought that maybe I'll get to see Naruto again, but I remembered…

Suddenly, my heart spilled with the abundance of hate. My tongue started to taste like sarcasm. My throat felt dry, and as if there was a ball in it, the only way to get rid of it was to scream it out.

The hate reached my eyes, spilled with tears. The men came running to me, scared of what would happen to them if I was hurt. That's right, the selfishness. How they don't sympathize that I've missed out on 4 years of my life… I was twenty-two, now. I was just 18 a week ago. No, I wasn't mad at Naruto. I missed Naruto, wherever he was then.

Suddenly, a flash ofwhite whizzed by me. Turns out it was Kakashi.

"I heard you were awake."

I looked up to him. He looked the same as ever.I gave him a slight smile. He was one thing I probably wouldn't lose. He never changed. He gave what looked like a smile.

"I bet you can walk by now." He bent over. "You're just lazy aren't you?"

I looked away, considering how close he was.

"I'm sorry, we have to go now, Kakashi-sama."

"Ah, no. I don't think Tsunade would mind me to take care of her for now. You may go."

"But, those were Lady Fifths orders."

"Then these are my orders. You may go now."

The men bowed and ran away.

"Kakashi, what are you going to do?"

"Hm, I dunno. What every man would, I guess. For you, I mean."

"What's that?"

He took me out of my wheelchair, blindfolded me with his forehead protector, and carried me off somewhere in his arms. His sweet, sucullent arms…

But he was twice my age, so I couldn't think about that. But pineapples…

He took my "blindfold" off and some of my age group were there.

Shikamaru, Choji, Ino, Sakura, Shino, and Neji.

"Surprise…" They all said, unwillingly.

I felt a little saddened with the lack of spirit. But tugged Kakashi's shirt towards them. I hugged all of them at once, while also getting support from them.

"H-hey!" I was happy. That some people came to see me.

(Kairi I song playing on the background. From KH OST. It's very mellow.)

Ino smiled, Sakura grinned. Shino smiled. Choji offered me a barbeque stick, Neji bowed to me. Shikamaru smiled, with more Shikamaru-style spirit, "Welcome back, Hinata."

We ate, talked about our lives.

Shikamaru was an ANBU Jounin now, although he wasn't supposed to even say that.

Choji? Well, he got his life going for him. He got some girls chasing after him. He lost lots of weight and got a haircut.

Shino was training kids about animals.

Sakura was a Medic-nin with a three year old green eyed baby Sharingan that I wished was mine.

(Listen to Cueshe, "Hard To Believe"

WHO DIED IN CHAPTER TWO!)

Neji was the first Clan leader with the curse mark. He lifted that thing where all other branch families were branded with curse marks.

Ino owned some flower shops and tea houses.

Kakashi? Well he already accomplished a lot. Accomplishing more wouldn't be as surprising as Choji who lost weight.

(2,011 words here.)

It was 8:47 when we all parted. Kakashi suddenly told me that I was going to stay at his house, since there was already another coma patient in my room and that all the vacant spaces in the hospital were taken. And that this was Tsunade's suggestion.

I didn't have any clothes, but he had his mother's kimonos, that were what I used. He only had one room in his apartment, so he told me I would sleep on the bed, he would sleep on the couch.

It was far more better than Sasuke's arrangement though… Well that was what I thought before walking into Kakashi naked in the shower. He still had his mask on though.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry! I didn't know you where in there."

He walked out with a towel draped around his waist that look like it was about to fall off.

"My fault, I always forget to lock the door. But you know, you can walk into my shower anytime you like." He chuckled.

I rolled my eyes.

A few weeks later, I was as good as before the coma issue. A few weeks later, our relationship progressed into something else.

"K-kakashi…"

He stopped. "What?"

"Your mask…"

"What about it?"

"I can't… kiss you like that…"

"Why not?"

"Well, I'd be basically kissing cloth."

"Are you sure it's cloth?"

"What?"

"Maybe it's a genjutsu…"

"Kakashi…"

"Fine…" He took it off and kissed me right after, not giving me a chance to see his face.

Either way, the kiss grew deeper. We were still fully clothed, considering, we haven't exactly done "it" yet.

He pulled the cloth keeping the kimono together, untying the bow on my back. The layers of cloth became released. I unzipped and took off his Jounin vest, breathing heavily at it. Kakashi layed me to the bed, leading me by my hips. He bent over me, staring at me with one sharingan, one normal eye.

He didn't do anything, but bent down and resumed the kiss again. I pulled his head in, my hands tangling in his silver hair reflecting the moonlight.

He started to move toward my neck, sliding off the sleeve ever so softly, I didn't even notice. He started to suck on my skin, drawing blood to one spot to another.

Later, all I had on were the bandages around my chest and the silver pants beneath my kimono and all Kakashi had on were his pants. It was then I got a full look at his face. He hid it because of a scar? There was an X shaped scar on his right cheek. His nose was the shape of Sasuke's…

I traced his features I was allowed to see, but was I the only one?

(play: Sanctuary by Utada Hikaru. Turns on the atmosphere at this next scene.)

He took my hair and put it behind my ear.



"Kakashi… Am I… In love?"

"I don't know. I think I am, though."

He crawled to my side and turned to me. He wrapped his arms around my waist.

I flinched.

"Oh, sorry," he said.

I wondered what was there. I took Kakashi's arm off. I started to unwrap my bandages.

"You don't have to, Hinata, you know."

"What are you talking about?"

"Aren't you…"

"Tsk, no."

"What are you doing then?"

"You know, I really don't know why I have these bandages on, or why I always need them…"

I finished unwrapping, only beneath my breast, I could see that Kakashi was somewhat disappointed, but surprised. I had a scar right on my belly. I didn't have any injuries. I was only in bed right?

"Kakashi, what… what happened?"

"I don't know… Go ask Tsunade tomorrow. I'll take you to her."

"Mmm…"

I slept it away anyway. I slept in his mysterious warm pineapple scented arms.

"I had twins?!"

"She had twins?!"

"Well where are they?"

"…Hinata," said Tsunade. "Did you know how you got into a coma?"

"No…"

"Well Sharingan holders sleep with their eyes open when their sharingan is turned on. I guess Sasuke's mangekyou was turned on, and you fell into it. You were pregnant then. Your…"

"My… children died." I broke on the Hokage's office floor. Kakashi held me up.