Two weeks later~
I had the front and back standing and part of the left wall up when I decided to take a break.
"Take a break guys." I say to my chakra lions who all but collapse in strain.
"It usually takes years to build a house like this but you managed to do this in weeks. Impressive." I open my eyes and I'm blinded by the sun so I shield them and a good luck at an old woman.
"My name is Chiyo of the sand." Her names run through my head and I recognize her as the best poison specialist in all the lands.
"I would ask you name but the blue lions are a dead give away Hinata." I smile and shrug.
"You have taken on quite the project. I would like to ask why are you wasting your time on this?" she stands beside me.
"Waste? Not really. I was taught that no matter how times you get knocked down you have to pick yourself up and start again. You guys seem to be getting kicked a lot but you're not rebuilding anything. I thought I would start for you." I smile.
"You are powerful enough to kill every dread lord and courageous enough to kill the Wind lord. That would be better help then this." She tries to scold me but I look at her understanding what years of war and poverty have done to her kunoichi spirit.
"I could but so could Gaara so why don't we do that? Because we get rid of one rat another takes its place and nothing changes. I get that you want the blood of the people who taken and taken from you but it won't change anything unless you decide to stop giving." She laughs bitterly.
"Don't you think we've tried? Do you even know how much we have lost?" She told me condescendingly.
"Yes you did and lost. You told the next generation and the generation after that to not try because you failed. You never gave them hope you just taught them to get by and never expect more. Hope is a powerful weapon chiyo-sama and you have to start somewhere." I wave my hand at the house before I get up and start going back to work.
"What can I do to change it?" I stop and stare at the old woman.
"I'm going to need drapes, bedding, kitchen ware and all that." I tell her.
"How will that change anything?" She glares at me.
"You don't until you try Chiyo-sama!" I walk into the house and get back to work.
Three days later~
I finished the left wall and was starting on the right when I heard my name being called.
"Hinata baka girl where are you?" I yell out and Chiyo comes walking over bringing with her two women and three girls.
"Hinata these are seamstress's and are willing to help out." She yelled and I hopped down.
"Oh? May I ask why?" the women smile at me.
"My name is Hitome and my husbands name is Toruto and we owe a debt." I smile and take her hand. She looks startled.
"I helped you and your so out because every body deserves a little of help once in a while. I don't expect you to pay me back nor do I consider my help a debt. Thank you for your consideration and it makes me happy that people still have integrity in these times." I bow and Hitome laughs.
"Oh you weren't kidding were you Chiyo-sama! She really is something else." I tilt my head in confusion wondering if the old woman was making fun of me.
"Chiyo-sama told me you would say something like that. Hinata I would like to help you regardless of you not wanting anything back. But why would you make your house with these old ruins?" She asks.
"Oh this house isn't for me, it's for Gaara. I want him to understand that its ok to rebuild and move on and be happy. Like I said Hitome, sometimes we all need a little help even if we don't think we do." I explain happily.
"You're doing this all for a man you don't know?" They asked.
"Yeah and? I told you before Chiyo-sama, a little hope goes a long way." I start to go back to work when Hitomi grabs me.
" To do something for nothing is unheard of in suna, it's a dream of a child. People aren't like Hinata and you're going to get hurt with that believe of yours." I smile sadly at her.
"It's not the child that dreams that should be pitied but the adult who stopped. Nothing great in this world is worth doing with out some pain because it makes the other parts feel so much better." She let's go and I go back to work.
"Why do I feel so heartbroken Chiyo-sama?" Hitomi asked.
"Because you know that someone like that has gone through pain that you and I could never imagine. And instead of become cynical like us she chooses to share her strength and her hope." Hitomi nods feeling that very thing bubbling up inside her.
"I'm going to help her." Hitomi told the old woman.
" Me too." Chiyo told the young woman.
Next day~
I was working on the left wall again when I heard people approach. It was Hitomi and her kids and some other women from the village.
"I thought you could use some hands." She yells at me and I laugh and nod. The woman start to wash the wall I had done with white wash to make it shine while the kids went around picking weeds. I had to make a new batch of bricks so I told them to stay out of the courtyard.
I summoned the pillars and melted them down to mix with the mud I made to make my usual amount of bricks. The only difference was the applause I got after words.
"Chiyo said you were a Kunoichi but that was amazing." I thanked them and got to back to work summoning my first lions for the day which once again the women had to stop and gawk at. That evening everyone went home for dinner and Chiyo brought me something to eat like usual.
"A war has broke out between the dread lords and they're taking it out on us. Its been a hard couple of weeks." She tells me and scratch my head nervously knowing I had mostly likely started it.
"No war here is there?" I smile at her and get back to work.
"Do you ever stop?" She yells and yell back.
"When I'm finished!" She shakes her head at me. After dinner Hitomi unexpectedly returns with her husband and so did the other women with their husbands and sons.
"I hear you are the one I owe my life to." Toruto was a solid built man with a kind smile.
"You owe me nothing." He smiles at his wife.
"My wife tells me you could use a hand to rebuild this house for Gaara-sama. I heard he doesn't even like you." I laugh and nod.
"Nope he hates me. I don't worry about it. Life is too short spent on something like that. If you want to help then you are welcomed to." I smile and I hold out my hand he looks at me then my hand before reaching out and shaking it.
"Where do we start?" He asks and I show him the bricks, he and the other men make the mortar and spread it while my lions move the stones. I actually end up making a fourth batch in the evening sun. The women continue to put on the white wash and the kids play with the mud. Chiyo like always plays supervisor.
"Hinata!" I jump at the old woman's screech.
"what?" I yell down at her.
"you didn't tell me you had water here! Do you know how mach we pay for water?" I sit there absolutely stunned that you had to pay for water.
"you have to pay?" I ask. She rolls her eyes.
"Do you know nothing about Suna?" She asked.
"No I've been staying here and out of trouble since I got here." I told her honestly.
"All the wells dried up and the river is owned by the lord who charges us to use its water." I zone out for a good five minutes before a stone to my head knocks me out of it.
"I said I'm using the water." I nod dumbly and struggle to focus on work.
"That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Thank Kami for letting be alive today to see it." I say loudly. The kids want to see so the jump on my lion to sit on the wall with me. Soon everybody was sitting just watching the sun set. Night falls and everyone waves good-bye.
Instead of working on the house I get down and walk Chiyo home.
"This is new. You usually never leave the house." I shrug.
"I'm sorry. I should try to make more of an effort to understand the people of Suna." I apologize to her.
"Hinata the reason we are all helping you is because you are not like us. You make us want to be better people and that's a good thing. Today Toruto shook your hand and that's a change in itself." I frown in confusion.
"I don't understand." I say.
"Men don't think of women as their equals so they don't shake hands but today it was different. Things are changing bit by bit Hinata. I saw the same sunset I had seen thousands of times before but today I was reminded of its beauty, of Suna's beauty." She smiles and I wish I could keep that smile on her face forever.
"Come in for some tea Hinata?" She asks me.
"Not tonight Chiyo-Sama, there's something I need to do." She nods looking sceptical at me. I walk away and come to the first well I see. When I was training with Mangetsu he showed me how to place a seal on the ground that Siphons water to it. It was suppose to be used as a trap that would drown the opponent. I place the seal inside of the well and watch with satisfaction as the well fills up slowly. I do this too about 50 wells or so before I stop and sit at the stone statue. I turned to see the stone statue I had been sitting on was actually a fountain. I smirk and summoned a water jutsu and filled it up. It was about two in the morning so everyone was asleep. I walked back home and crawled into bed not waking Temari.
Morning~
"This is unusual. You are usually gone by the time I get home." Temari tells me as I sleepily brush my teeth.
"late night. Chakra is a little low today." I told her groggily. I follow her down stairs to see Gaara had the kitchen full of people.
"What are you doing here?" He glares at me.
"Sorry, sorry, consider me gone." I say as I leave out the back door.
"Hinata!" I stop to see Temari chasing after me.
"I'm sorry Hinata, we've all been on edge lately and-" I stuff a biscuit in her mouth.
"You apologize to much for him. If we was sorry then he would say it himself. Besides I got to go so don't do any thing crazy!" She smiles at me and I walk to the house to see people were already working on it.
"You're late. I'll forgive you today but don't let it happen again." Chiyo stands there smirking.
"Yes boss. We have a crap load more volunteers." I remark.
"You suck at being sneaky Hinata, we all knew it was you with the wells." She smugly tells me.
"Don't know what you're talking about." I say innocently.
I go to the court yard and all work stops to watch me make another hundred bricks. I summoned my lions and work gets back to normal slowly after that. The walls get completed ahead of schedule and so I drop down to make huge round stone pillars to support the roof. It turns out some of the men were roofer's so between us all we pretty much laid the roof down in four days.
Two weeks later~
"Hinata how much longer till I can get some furniture in there?" Chiyo asks me as I'm on the last door way.
"Well the walls are done and the doorways are finished, electricity is done, the plumbing is done, the toilets, sinks are all in. Let me tell you that was fun teaching the guys about modern plumbing was almost-" Chiyo rolls her eyes.
"Ok all I have to do is put in the white stone floors and hard wood floors in because the kitchen and bath room tiles are setting as we speak. So give me tonight and I will get level one complete for sure." She nods and tells me to stop slacking and get back to work. I laugh and do as she tells me. Some of the guys stay late in the night to help me finish before going home. Instead of going home I get a couple of hours sleeping before I start on the upstairs and get a good portion of that done thanks to my clones. By the time Chiyo gets here I'm passed out in the master bedroom staring at the spinning ceiling fan.
"You finished the house in one night, I'm impressed. Here I got you some breakfast." I jump up and wolf down the food.
"So the furniture is arriving tomorrow, all hand-made. The walls are being painted, the kitchen is being finished so your work on the inside is mostly finished. The men are working on the outside wall and the courtyard is up to you. I think about another day or two and we'll be finished." She says.
"Yup I'll do the court-yard today and I want to finish painting the mural on the entry wall." I get up and we walk around the house saying hello to everyone. We head out to the court-yard and chiyo tells me what to do. She gives me the seeds and I chakra infuse them to make them grow till the court-yard was blooming with life.
"So I'm thinking we should have a party." I say and Chiyo lights up.
"I can't remember the last time there was a party. You go and talk to Hitomi at the shop and I will everybody else to bring food and lots of alcohol." I laugh as Chiyo all but skips into the house. I transport to the ally behind Hitomi's shop and surprise her in the kitchen.
"you look like hell." I say to her as her eyes are dark and she looks like she hasn't eaten in days.
"Its Kari, she's getting worse, the doctor just gave me pills to keep her unconscious till she dies." Hitomi starts to cry. I sigh and come to decision.
"Can I see her?" Hitomi takes me upstairs to see a girl around 12 who looks just like her mother and her sisters.
"Hi kari I'm Hinata." I say awkwardly. Hitomi leaves to go back to work while I activate my eyes to the sleeping girl. She has a lung infection, hell it was eating her lungs and causing one to already collapse on her. I sit on the side of her bed placing both hands on her lungs. I do some hand signs and pray to kami that my chakra would know what to do like it did with normal wounds. I watch as my chakra attached itself to the lung to fill it up and empty both of blood and fluids. It then accelerates the regeneration of skin so the girl has two functioning lungs. I fall backwards off the bed on to the floor in wonder. I had only knew my chakra to destroy things, I had no idea it could be used to heal people to.
"Kari! Hinata!" Hitomi comes running upstairs.
"mom! There is a strange girl on my floor." Kari says to her mom who stands in the doorway in tears. She starts crying as she too falls to the floor. The girl gets up and kneels before her mother.
"I feel better mom, the doctor fixed me." Hitomi shakes her head and brings her daughter into her embrace.
Mizuki pops into my head and I smile fondly at the warm hugs she use to give me.
So i decided to triple post today because of all the reviews i got. Thank you all!
White shadow.