Fallen Angel

Chapter 9: Guilty Conscience

Hinata barged in to Toneri's chambers, looking very livid.

"So what's the next village or country do you want me to smite?!," While she said this Shizuka appeared and blocked the way to her Mentor. "What happened in Iwa, happened in the Land of Iron. A massive snowstorm. Thousands dead thanks to your cursed manuscript!"

Toneri was shocked, "This cannot be."

Shizuka spoke, "Hinata, a person cannot start an earthquake or a snowstorm!"

Hinata looked at Shizuka then said, "A person meddling with these Pearls could. You saw the Fruit Shizuka. The Temple was filled to bursting with that kind of power.

She looked at Toneri with anger, "You made me SLAUGHTER INNOCENTS!"

Shizuka pushed Hinata back, "How dare you!"

"You defend him? Toneri sent me in there like Orochimaru sent his man in Rice Country. He knew."

Neji heard the commotion and helped Shizuka restrain Hinata.

"What the hell is going on? Stop this!"

Toneri tried to appease Hinata who was being pushed away by Neji, "The operation was delicate. Perhaps you-"

"You are shifting the very Earth itself! Who are you to decide what village falls next?!"

"Get her out of my palace."

Neji pushed Hinata out of the Mentor's office while Shizuka slammed the door.

(Outside Of Palace)

Neji is a fool if he thinks I leave this be. Toneri cannot be trusted. He must never find a Continental Pearl. Hinata thought.

I don't care that he's Mentor. Or he is the last remaining Otsutsuki. There's no excuse for this level of madness! She thought as she put on her oxygen mask, let out a big sigh she's been holding so long and put on her hood.

"Only one thing left to do." Hinata muttered as she entered inside the palace. There weren't really a lot of guards there as it was easy to find the chest that contained the manuscript.

Hinata looked at the locked chest

"There's no turning back now." She said as she used her Gentle Pad to break the lock. She picked the manuscript up but was caught by Toneri.

"I had such high hopes for you Hinata."

"Toneri, I had to do this."

"And what is it you're doing exactly? Stealing from your brothers? Turning on me again?"

"Someone must correct their mistakes."

"Correcting mistakes? You have no idea what you're doing here. The future of the whole of every continents. Maybe even the whole world is tied up in that manuscript."

"That may well be. But we don't have the right to decide that future."

"The right? We have the responsibility!"

"We are responsible for killing innocents and destroying villages! This mad grab for power...it ends now."

"I will not let you destroy everything we have built!"

A struggle ensured but Hinata barely overcomes Toneri and jumps out of the window and started running.

"Assassins! Stop her! Stop Hinata!"

Hinata dodged torpedo fire from Hamasaki's ship, much to the shock of many assassins. Hinata run to the edge of the moon. Neji shot an explosive barrel, causing a landslide but Hinata run past through it.

As she was nearing the edge of the moon, Neji shouted, " That's far enough!"

Shizuka was wearing her armor and tried to reason with Hinata, "Give back the manuscript Hinata. I'm sure Toneri-"

"I cannot. I will not let this happen again. All those souls lost. One more hardly matters."

As Hinata was preparing to jump, someone shot her from behind and she began falling down to the Earth's atmosphere.

Author notes

Hinata will survive the fall. She'll be heavily injured though.