The sun's rays grated harshly on Hinata's sensitive eyes.
She blinked furiously, getting her bearings.
They were outside, in the open.
And it was a massacre.
Bodies lay strewn all around, charred, mangled.
Cloud ninja.
A battle had raged above her prison and she hadn't even known.
The smell of burned, rotting flesh and charred metal filled the air, as well as the familiar scent of lightning.
Lightning.
SASUKE.
Hinata whirled around, searching frantically for the Uchiha.
A chirping filled her ear and she saw kokai jumping around a body.
Running towards it, she froze.
Sasuke wasn't breathing.
'No...,'Hinata breathed.
'Nonononomo,'she whispered, tears streaming from her eyes as she ran towards him.
She frantically grabbed his wrist, it was cold and pulseless.
Hinata sat still.
'I love you...'
Hinata straightened,face set with determination .
No.
This time she would save him.
This time she would not give up on him.
'Byakugan!', Hinata activated her blood line limit , eyes frantically searching sasuke's cold body for any signs of life.
'Please, kami, please,' Hinata prayed, fervently looking for something , anything she could hold on to.
He couldn't leave her.
Not now.
Not after...
'I love you...'
Hinata squeezed her eyes shut, refusing to let the tears fall.
Hastily wiping the ones that escaped, she grabbed Sasuke's hands between hers, rubbing his icy fingers with her own, eyes quickly flitting over his body.
There!
She saw it, a tendril of chakra, coiled tightly around his silent heart.
Focusing healing chakra into her fingertips , she carefully positioned them on top of his chest and thrust the energy into his heart.
Ba-dum.
His heart convulsed once.
Then stilled.
She pushed again.
Ba-dum.
Then...
Nothing.
Again. Again. Again.
Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum.
.
.
Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum.
Sasuke took a deep, gasping breath and Hinata smiled.