Hinata was standing barefoot in a pool of blood, bodies floated face down around her. She shook lifting each one, flipping them over trying to find any signs of a pulse of, breathing or heartbeat. None, they were all dead.

"Wh-who did this." She whimpered.

"You." Hinata turned in horror. Neji stood in the on the edge of the pool looking down at her in disgust. "You promised me you weren't killing people Hinata, you told me you were just their medic."

"I-I am!" She defended stepping back bumping one of the corpses, she flinched looking at it. It had blood coming out of it eyes, nose, and ears, brain rupture. She looked to another whose stomach was bulged and purple, ruptured stomach. Another had scratches over his chest and a ripped shirt as he tried to breathe, ruptured lung. All the bodies around where the sound ninja's she had killed.

"What have you done." She turned back to Neji who stepped into the pool, as his foot sunk into the blood he coughed and blood came from his mouth. Hinata launched forward to help him reaching out to hold him up. She grabbed his sides and he cried in pain as his stomach ruptured. Hinata screamed falling back into the pool looking at her hands.

"N-No I didn't!" She pressed her hands to her chest and he to started to cough blood as she watched her beloved cousin fall into the pool joining the other corpse.

"HINATA!" Hinata shoot up right slamming her face into something hard and squeaking in pain raise her hands to her forehead. Blinking her good eye rubbing the pain away she looked up at red as her eye focused.

"S-Sasori-san?" She looked over his hardened face in confusion. She noticed a groggy shirtless Deidara at the door.

"You were screaming." He explained. Hinata slowed into realization of her nightmare.

"I-I'm sorry for waking you." She looked between the two, two she noticed was not four, had she not woken Kisame and Itachi.

"I don't sleep." Sasori reminded her. He moved back standing up straight allowing her to get out of bed.

"Wh-where are Itachi-san and Kisame-san." She asked straightening her nightgown.

"They were called away, we will be staying Leader-sama wants you under protection until we are sure the Sound has no knowledge of this place." Hinata nodded. "They left a note." Sasori mentioned as he left her room closing the door so she could get dressed.

Deidara sat across from her making non-explosive clay birds as she read her book. Sasori was chipping and shaping something in the corner. They had had a rather quiet week other than her nightmares. Sasori had started to stay in her room sitting in the corner with his work, waking her when she would start to scream. The lack of solid sleep was starting to wear on her. She dark circles under her her lashes and her eye was dry and tired. She feared sleep. She relived her actions, was guilted by people she care about, and kill people she cared about in her nightmares. She would only go to bed at night because, in a way she felt she deserved it, the guilt was a fitting punishment for what she had done. That was what her nightmares were telling her and she believed them.

Her eyelid drooped and her head nodded down toward her book as she started to fall asleep, as she realized it she jerked back up and shook her head focusing on Sasori who was watching her.

"Can't you make a medication for your nightmares?" He asked pointedly.

"I-I don't think I have anything f-for nightmares, sl-sleeping yes, nightmares, n-no." She stifled a yawn.

"You have had these every night, there must be something you can take, yeah?" Deidara looked up from his little clay bird. Not every night, she thought. The first night she slept fine. She blushed in realization that was the night she had slept in Kisame's lap. She had felt warm and protected, but no! Sleeping on her companions was not an option to cure her nightmares.

"Are fevers becoming a symptom?" Sasori asked standing snagging up Deidara hand by the wrist and placing it on Hinata's forehead. "Does she feel warm for a human."

Deidara ripped his hand back. "Not fever level." He pouted rubbing his wrist.

Hinata's embarrassing went further and her face got progressively red. She shut her book down and stood. "I-I'll make more tea." She took the teapot from the table and scampered into the kitchen leaving the two artists confused in her main room.

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