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Chapter 36
Hinata was now walking around looking for someone. She was about to continue her training today, but due to today's events, she didn't dare to ask any of team zero to come and train with her. She decided that her second choice would Sai and Tatsuha, they can perverted and anything else, but she can trust in them and were quite skilful, what she needed right now.
It was that, or return to the hospital where 13 kids, three mothers, three parents and the rest of the people of the hospital will have their eyes set on the ANBU captain.
Go around and look for those two seemed a wonderful idea.
Then, she saw that coming to her way were Sai and Tatsuha. They can be young perverted and good looking, but they are great ninjas too. Tatsuha promised her to help her with her training in the Kinomoto techniques, and knowing Sai would do anything to join them.
No problem at all.
"Tatsuha, Sai…" she called with no emotion, not like she saw them everyday. "Oh, Hinata. I just have a talk to the store owner and I got your clothes back. And he said that you can keep it, that you look good with the Sailor suit." Says the monk while shows a brown bag to her. Hinata twitched an eyebrow remembering the outfit. She needs to get changed…now.
"I though that you would still on the hospital with the others. Or did you got bored already?" asked the monk, while looking at her up and down. Short skirts looked so good in her…
"Yeah, I got bored. And I was looking for you too." She responded while the two males looked at each other…is she saying that for real? "Is just that I'm looking forward to train today, and I remembered that you are as skillful as Yuki Tatsuha. But since the change of events I didn't dared to ask them to leave for me. you know how moody can get Tomoyo."
"Yeah, I can understand you very well," joked the monk, while Sai just smiled. "So, what's the training about?"
Hinata just smiled and say, "Oh, you know just something that I want to try…"
Sasuke returned to the hospital, only to be received by Sakura, Naruto and Kakashi asking for answers about where he was. He just ignored them while thinking what happened earlier. Everything went too good for him.
They just had a conversation without attacking each other. That's good. She even told him to have a talk today at 'tea time'. That's very good too. But she just called him stalker.
That wasn't very good.
He almost messed up everything once; he must learn to control his mouth. His tongue is quite sharp, but right now is useless when it comes to get closer to her. If he wanted to get her away, he just has to open his mouth and let everything go.
While he was still on the other world, Sakura and the rest guided him into the hospital so he can have his check up. Sasuke had been avoiding the check-up since he returned, claiming that he is fine, that he doesn't need a doctor to touch him.
He has appointments with Dr. Nakano, but she doesn't touch him so is an exception.
After a couple of hours of medical inspection, team seven leaves the hospital without any incident. Sakura asked to the blonde nin about what he was doing with the Sannin, but he just answered that they can wait a little and see. Everything explained with one of his wide grins.
"…and there's still a commotion for that ANBU team and their families. Tsunade won't be pleased." Says Naruto while tries to get Sasuke's attention. "We must leave before the Hokage…"
"Before the Hokage what?" Says Tsunade behind team seven, and makes them jump apart except Sasuke who just turns to face her.
As defiant as lately...
"Tsunade-grandma! N-Nothing h-happened here…"
"Don't tell me that Naruto, I know very well what happened here with team Zero." says the Hokage while rubbing her temples. "I can't believe that from all the people, the ANBU captain has to be the one with the childish attitude…"
"It was Hinata hitting the director of the hospital, or three women in labor getting Mad." says the voice coming out from the hospital, showing no other than Hiro along with the rest of team zero.
"That reminds me to tell you that the hospital is not a daycare. Where all those kids came from…?" says Tsunade while pointing at the bunch of kids coming out following their fathers. "I though that as a famous medic nin you should know that question better than us, don't you think?" responds Yuki, while Sakura just blushed and Naruto scratched his head.
"Remember that I'm the Hokage Yuki Kinomoto, you can't hide behind your clan's name or Hinata's skirt all your life."
"No, I rather hide under my wife's, but thank you anyway for the offer." Responds all cocky the blonde ANBU while Hiro scolds him for being so rude. "I apologize for my teammates behavior Hokage-sama. But he just had triplets and he is still on the high of the moment." Says the red-haired ninja, while giving a 'death' look at his teammate. Yuki learned to be afraid of Hiro's look, so he nodded immediately.
"Talking about teammate's behavior," responds the Hokage, forgetting Yuki, "Where's your captain? It doesn't matter if she is the captain of the ANBU, nobody threatens a medic nin without reason."
"To tell the truth, I was going to ask you the same thing." Says Saito, "She left the labor room after seeing us, and I was going to ask her a favor."
"Well, when you find her tell her that there's a meeting in two hours with the council. Something new just happened." In that moment, team zero and team seven raised their eyebrows. "Something new?" asked the samurai.
"Yes, something important for the council just came out and we need ALL the members of the council to attend. Can your captain be responsible and attend?" asked Tsunade while she walks away "Oh, and I wan to talk to her about today's incident. She won't get out if this one so easy." With that Team Zero returned to the hospital, and invited team seven to join them.
Entering to the room where the three wives were resting, they saw that the room was practically full of children, mostly Chibi versions of the fathers. "Father, no initruder has entered the room while you were out. Mission accomplished." Says one of the kids that looked like a young version of Saito. "Well done Kira, any nurse had came here while we were out?"
"Yes Sir. They came to bring up the babies."
"And Katan has been a little over proctetive with everything. Just like his father." Says Tomoyo while breast-feeds two babies at the same time. "Fr someone who has her two tits quite busy can't talk too much."
"Maybe you should give one of yours to feed the third, Yuki-kun." Laughs the proud wife, along with Ayaka and Mika. Looking over his shoulder, Hiro looks at the door. "Well, aren't you to come in or not?"
"Are you sure that we are not interrupting anything?" asks Kakashi, while Sakura just sights…men.
"As long as you don't do anything perverted in front of my kids is ok, got it? Now come in, breast feeding doesn't mean that you'll be bitten for being here." orders the red-aired ninja and team seven follows, passing through so many children in the room.
"Oh my, I never though to see so many blonds on a same place." Says Sakura while she looks at them, "The blonde ones are obviously Yuki's, the red head are Hiro's and the dark ones are Saito's. Is not hard to see, right?" Responds Kakashi while getting closer to see one of the babies that is sleeping on her crib, "They look so innocent and pure…"
"Yeah, but the funny thing must be naming them." Says Naruto while three kids with ages around six or seven step in front of him. "And who are you?" asked the blonde of the three, while crossing his arms. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, she is Haruono Sakura, he one eye is Hatake Kakashi and that's Uchiha Sasuke…"
"Uchiha Sasuke…" mentions one of the kids and the three makes a fighting pose, "What is sempai's enemy here?" growls low another one.
"Hey, calm down you three." orders Saito, "What's the commotion here?"
"He is Uchiha Sasuke, sempai's enemy. And an enemy for sempai is our enemy too." in that moment Sasuke steps in front if them, making the dark haired look angrier. "I don't see why you get into adult's conflicts. Don't get in the way kid."
"As long as I remember you aren't on legal age yet and you are the mean one. The one who decided to fight with someone that is younger than you." points out the red haired one. Sasuke blinked twice, Hinata is younger than him? But they finished the academy together, and he though that all the members of the 'rookie nine' had the same age as him.
"Katan, Kira, Eiri. Can you behave a little? We have newborn babies here." asks gently Ayaka, but makes Kira, the red-haired one shudder a little. "Yes mom…but still…" then he looks back at Sasuke, who was grinning at him evilly. "I don't want people like you around Hinata, got it?" seeing his tone, Sasuke decided to play with him.
"And why should I do what you say, huh?" then Eiri responds. "Simple, Kira-kun here has a dream." Then the rest looked at him with raised eyebrows, they seemed that they didn't knew that one.
"Dream?" asked the Uchiha.
"Yes, I see all my destiny ahead. We'll enter the Academy next month and do our best to be at the top of the class. Then we'll be a team with Hinata-sempai as out trainer. Then we'll become chounnin and then jounnin. And when I have 18, I'll marry Hinata-sempai and live happily ever after."
Then when Kira looks around after his breathtaking speech…
Silcence…
He looks at his father Hiro and his mother Ayaka…
Silence…
He looks at his younger brothers, who had their eyes opened wide….
But still silence…
He dared to look up to meet Sasuke's face…how he wished to never do that.
Sasuke was shaking…with his face down. "Sasuke…?" asked Naruto a little worried, and when he was about to touch his friend's shoulder, Sasuke started to laugh. Soon the room was filled with the incredible laugh of Uchiha Sasuke.
"You are (Laughs) marrying (Laughs) her? (Laughs)Are you (laughs) crazy?!" (LAUGHS)
Then Kira looks around again for support, but then Eiri just shook his head. He turns red as a tomato, but then he crosses his arms and goes to a corner to lean against the wall. Then Hiro looks madly at Sasuke, who hadn't noticed how team Zero was hating him right now.
Sakura, Naruto and Kakashi were still looking at the Uchiha, who was still pointing at Kira and laughing. They never saw him laughing…in fact, the closest that Naruto head had been his evil laugh…and that doesn't count.
Then Kakashi, seeing that they must leave the place, he just scratches the back of his head and grins: "Well, at least we know now that Sasuke has sense of humor…" and slowly, they start to leave.
Mere minutes after leaving, Yuki starts to feel a little weird, and Tomoyo is the first to notice it. "Yuki, Yuki what's wrong?" asks his wife before he lost his balance and nearly falls, being caught by his teammates. Looking up at Hiro, his eyes gleaming with worry.
"Hiro, take me to my house now. Saito, you stay with the rest and watch them." Hiro just nods and helps the blonde nin to stand and walk out of the room.
"Yuki, what is it?" asks Saito, worried by his sudden change.
"I feel something happening…I have to go." With that both ANBU leaves the room. "I know Yuki Saito and…" trails off Tomoyo, getting the attention of the rest. "And what Tomoyo?"
"He maybe quit being the priest of the Kinomoto clan, but he is still a monk. He can still feel things around. And if he can feel it, it means something important…"
Team Seven leave the hospital while Sasuke had just recovered by that 'show' and restores his cool stance again. He didn't mean to laugh at the kid like that…but is just funny to know that he can see that child as competition. And he had enough with Sai, Kiba and that perverted monk.
Then, Kakashi turns to a side to leave too when he spots Sai rushing towards them. Getting a closer look he notices that he has his right shoulder wounded. "Sai!" and then the others notice the same thing and rushes to the ninja to help him.
While Sakura takes her time to tend his wound, Sai looks around very desperate, "Where's Yuki? Yuki Kinomoto, where is he?" asks over and over Sai, until Naruto faces him. "Yuki is at the hospital, we'll get him when you get better…" and before he can continue, Sai spots the blonde ANBU leaving the building with Hiro. "YUKI-SAN!"
The young ninja runs towards them, followed by Kakashi and the rest. "Yuki-san…something happened…"
"I already sensed something wrong. I'll go to my house to gather some stuff and then…"
"But you have to hurry!" then Yuki looked back at him with eyes wide open, he didn't liked that tone.
"What's happening?" asked this time a little annoyed Hiro, not expecting what he was going to say…
"At the Nakano river…Hinata--" and before he could continue his sentence, Yuki is running along with Hiro at full speed. Desperately Sai follows him and the same does team seven. What is making Yuki look so frightened? What is Hinata doing?
Seconds later they made it to Yuki's home, aand waited for him to come out. A couple of minutes later he comes out wearing an outfit that looks the same as Tatsuha's. Then he looks at Sai and says: "Show me the way."
While running behind ai and Yuki, team seven is jumping tree branches with Hiro. "Yes, of course." Says suddenly Sakura, getting her teammates attention, "Hiro-san, why the famous river of Konoha is named after your clan?" then Sasuke and the others realized the same thing…his clan has the same name as the river! But it could be a coincidence, doesn't it?
"Many decades ago, the Nakano clan was originally from Konoha." Says the red haired ninja, while still running, "Until a conflict between the Uchiha and the Nakano clan for the tittle of the legendary clan happened. Obviously the Uchiha won in a battle over that river. Is named the Nakano river for all the blood that the Uchiha's made it spill with my comrades. Is said that the river went color red for weeks due to the amount of blood that was over it…" He says while looking back at Sasuke who just frowned at him back.
"My clan left and moved to the sound village, and we became the royal family of that country. I'm named Hiroshi in honor of the clan leader who was in that war. And due to my birth date and time is the same as the anniversary that my ancestor was killed in that fight, I was declared heir and prince of the sound." Then Hiro looks ahead for a moment, they still have half way to get there.
"I was raised and trained to lead my clan back to Konoha and destroy the Uchiha clan. And since I was against that, I left them with my slaves; Ryuichi, Shuichi, Suguru and K. I set them free, and then like destiny I ended in Konoha. I asked to live here due to my bloodline and relation to the clan, and the Third saw it as a way to the Nakano clan revive here from a clean start. And even if I wanted to lead my people to kill the Uchiha clan, Itachi made it before me." With that Sasuke growls, but he can't blame him. he didn't know that there was a rival clan in Konoha.
"And there was even an old statement that even the Hyuugas hate. It says: 'to defeat an Uchiha it takes two Nakanos, or four Hyuugas.' So don't worry, I don't believe in grudges, and less in grudges that happened before my mother get born." Smiles the read haired ninja and the he gasps and stops. The rest make the same thing and sees Yuki…
He can hear it too…
The sound of a monster…and water.
Moving to the ground, they move closer to their destination and Yuki finds Tatsuha. He is soaked wet but fine, looking at the water. Looking at the same direction as him, their eyes open wide. They wouldn't believe it if they aren't see it by themselves.
Hinata was fighting on the water, with a giant water snake.
Taking a step into the water, Yuki is sent flying back a few feet. Landing safety on his feet, he looks closely at the water. "It won't let us interfere." Them the rest looks at Yuki like he was crazy, not believing his words Naruto runs towards the water, but as soon as he stepped on it, he is sent back flying too, harder this time.
"But there's something we can do?!" screams Hiro while he sees how Hinata is avoiding the hits from the water snake. At that moment Yuki looks at Tatsuha. "Why you let her do it!?" then Tatsuha looks up at his elder brother and screams too. "She said that she was going to train and that she needed me just in case that is necessary! Everything looked like a normal training session until she made the hand seals! She was performing a forbidden jutsu and didn't know what to do! Then that transparent freaking thing attacked Sai because he were beside her! Then, I don't know…!"
Then Yuki looks at Hinata fighting the huge animal, clenching his fist against a wooden stick that he was holding. "HINATA YOU BAKA!"
Hinata jumped back, just in time to dodge the swing of the water snake. Making hand seals, wind started to form around her. Taking out her sword, the blade starts to have blue chakra around. "Cutting winds no jutsu!" and she swings it at the animal. Due to the closeness towards her, the water snake tried to dodge the attack but is cut in half, turning into falling water. Then she puts a hand on the left side of her torso, maybe she got injured.
"YEAH! She beat that freaking thing up! And you said that she needed help Sai, she just needed out prayers that all!" screams Tatsuha with joy, then he looks at his brother and tenses. Yuki is looking at the water; looking at his direction he sees that Hinata seemed injured but walking towards them.
Suddenly, a mass of water emerges in front of her, making the captain stop and revealing a person. The rest couldn't see who it was or how it looked since she was still far away and the person had his back towards them, but they could see the surprised and terrified face written over Hinata's face.
This is not good…
"Maybe you can pray a little more Tatsuha…" says Yuki while the person who appeared on front of Hinata takes out a kunai, making her jump back in defense and forget about her wound on her left side. Her eyes are still wide looking at this person, which means that she knows that 'thing'. But who it was?
Sasuke was looking for any sign to recognize him. The only thing visible was his dark hair….no…it can't be…he turned him into ashes!
Then in a quick movement Hinata takes out a kunai and counterattacks the person. After some strikes with the weapon both jump back. Now the distance became less from them and they can hear anything. "Great, what else I can expect from Itachi's shadow…"
Then team seven got surprised, who can be that he knows Hinata's relationship with Itachi?! Then Hinata stood up straight and takes out another kunai. "Uchiha…Shisui…"
Then Sasuke couldn't believe what he was listening…Uchiha Shisui?! He was supposed to be dead! Not caring about the others, they continued fighting, after some time Yuki and Hiro looked at the scene. "What the hell she is doing?" Says Hiro, getting the attention of the others.
"What do you mean?" asked Sakura,
"She is holding back, that what is happening! She trained almost all her life with the strongest Uchiha of all, why she hadn't beaten him yet?" says Yuki, while Sasuke looks at the fight with intensity. "She is fighting like an Uchiha…" then they turn to face Sasuke.
"Since she was trained by Itachi, she is fighting using Uchiha trademark moves. That is one of the reasons that the last fight at the valley of the end was almost even. Most of her moves were the ones that the Uchiha clan uses."
"No, is not that." Remarks Tatsuha, "She doesn't want to fight him, she is holding back. And knowing that he is an Uchiha makes her easier using Uchiha moves. She has no intent to kill him."
"What are you talking about?" asks Sakura, "He is not real! She doesn't want to fight a freaking clone?" then her statement was answered when Hinata suddenly throws a shuriken, scratching Shisui's cheek, and the wound bleed.
"He is real?!" screams Naruto, now seeing how Shisui is now cleaning the wound with his thumb and licking the blood. "So, you have the intention to whipe the Uchiha clan no matter what, right?"
"Shisui, I don't want to fight you. I don't know why you became for the second stage, but…"
"Liar." Says the Uchiha, making her look at him, was he serious? "You were there when Itachi killed me. You watched while I was drowning. You watched while every member of the Uchiha clan was wiped out! You watched while Sasuke was entering the Uchiha compound, and you never stopped him! Say it Hinata, you wanted to wipe the clan from the very beginning!"
"That's no true!"
Then she looked back at Shisui, she shouldn't have.
"Tsukiyomi…" then Hinata went into trance, her body lifted in the air. Suddenly, she started to scream. Then from one of her arms appears a line of blood. Shisui was hitting her with a whip in the Tsukiyomi.
"She is trapped in the Tsukiyomi! We have to get her!" says Kakashi while he tries to step into the water, but it pushes him back again. Yuki looks at the water and notices that his reflection is not seen. Is this part of the forbidden jutsu…?
"This must be some kind of genjutsu…is not possible. Only the ones who had the Mangekyou Sharingan can make that jutsu." Says Sasuke while Hinata this time groans, she must be holding back her screams of pain.
In the Tsukiyomi…
Hinata had her wrist tied and clinging from the middle of a room. Shisui was behind her, hitting her again and again with the whip. Hinata can feel the pain, and somehow she knows that is real, she can tell that is real. "You wanted to wipe us from the start…"
"No…" responds Hinata weakly.
"You could have fool Itachi but not me…freaking witch." and he hits her again.
"No…" she keeps saying, like she doesn't know what else to say.
"Faking with your innocent look, but deep inside you are nothing but a demon."
"No…" Shisui was breaking her spirit, she was in his hands.
"But is sad that no matter how you tried to be an Uchiha, you're not an Uchiha…"
"I never wanted to be an Uchiha…" she suddenly responds, gettgin another hit from him.
"But in the end, you became his puppet, his toy, his pet….his shadow." Then Hinata gasped…not is not true.
"I see that I'm saying the truth. Yes, even now. Even with Itachi burning in HELL, you still live in his shadow. No matter what you do, how high you achieve in your life…everyone will justify it with the fact that you were under Itachi's teaching."
"Liar…"
"Am I lying?" then Shisui chuckled, "then why the council still calls you Itachi's pet? Why his existence marked you so deep? Why with all the power you have, he still managed to control you, to make you fear him? How many chances you had to beat him, to prove him wrong? And you know what…?" then Shisui was in front of her, and holding her chin hard he whispered to her.
"You were so afraid to loose his shadow that you decided to leave the task to kill him to Sasuke. The question is…why?"
"I never wanted to kill him…"
"We are inside of your mind Hinata…and I'm sure that you regret be the one who gave the final blow…right?"
"Don't mess with my mind! That's not true!"
"You never loved him! You were beside him because you feel pity for him! You caused so many lives miserable for your selfishness and when you saw what you caused you tried to justify it being beside Itachi! You accepted to marry him for fear!"
"He loved me and that was all that mattered…!"
"Oh, yeah?" with this Shisui laughs, "then let me show you the same love that he had for you." then he started to hit her again with the whip, this time harder. "I love you (hit), I love you (hit), I love you (hit), I love you (hit)…"
Suddenly Hinata started to cry, it was true. It was how Itachi 'showed' his love.
"And you know the irony of all this?" asked Shisui, "That you didn't wait too long to cheat on Itachi."
Then she opened her eyes and looked at him directly. "I didn't…"
"Of course you did…twice."
"Don't dare you to say that again!"
"I didn't pass even a month since he died that you started to sleep with 'him'!"
Then Hinata opened her eyes, and started to struggle to get free. Shisui just laughed again. "It surprise me that you survived this far in the Tsukiyomi. But that doens;t mean that you'll get out of here alive."
Then Hinata looks at him and smiles, "Don't you remember from who I was pet…?"
Then a hard light comes from Hinata making Shisui step back…
Shisui steps back covering his eyes; while Hinata falls from the height she was elevated. Her body is covered with the marks that the Tsukiyomi caused on her, but she still managed to get up.
Yuki and the others had been trying to find a way to get close to Hinata and save her, until they saw the light that came from them and then the release of the captain from the Tsukiyomi.
"You…broke the Tsukiyomi from the inside…how…?" asked Shisui, still trying to look up at her, his eyes still burning. "Itachi has been hitting me for three years. It was almost obligated in his twisted mind to end me with a Tsukiyomi. Through the months I started to be used to it, until I started to create a way to destroy it without messing with hi eyes. Never managed to try it until now."
Then Shisui looked up at her, the pain from his eyes finally out. Still on his Sharingan, he moves in a offensive pose. "Breaking the Tsukiyomi doens;t mean that you can beat the sharingan. That's our difference Hinata."
"It will be different this time. from now on," then she takes out a kunai and puts it on her mouth. Moving her wrists on the edges of the weapon, she cuts herself, making everyone gasp by her action.
"I swear right now on this legendary river, that I'll do everything possible to stop being someone's shadow. I'll reach my own limit by myself. No Uchiha Itachi or Hyuuga's shadow. No Sannin or Kage's shadow. I'll reach my limit and I'll create my own destiny, I'll be a legend. And today is the last time that I'll let a man trying to bring me down! I'll live for fighting or die trying it!"
"Beautiful speech," says Shisui, "So sad that everything will end up here." and then the fight continues, this time Hinata is not holding back, and now with a calm face. Yuki and Hiro looks at the fight in awe…this was too good to be true.
"She is being more violent than she usually is. She is fighting to kill, nothing else. The pure essence of a ninja is happening right now." Says Yuki, while Hiro couldn't speak…damn, he can't even blink! Shisui and Hinata were giving their best, and the sharingan wasn't being helpful at all.
Then stepping back, Shisui makes hand seals, 'Katon Housenka no Jutsu!' and when she saw the fire coming, she dives into the water. Suddenly Shisui jumps in the air and thows another ball of fire, after that he looks his surroundings, for any hint of her.
Then he sees Hinata trying to grab his feet under water and he moves away, forcing her to move out, when she looks where he is, she hears him say 'Sofuushasen no Tachi' and when the shuriken trapped her and he screamed again 'Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu'…she screams 'replace' and instead of Hinata trapped, it was shisui.And right after the fire flame, Hinata appeared and kick him in the face, sending him meters away falling in the water.
Shisui got himself free from the strings and when he was about to look up, the last thing he saw was the shinning blade of her sword. He stepped back and attacked her with a kunai, and when both hit…their bodies stood still.
"HINATA!" screamed Tatsuha, while trying to get in the water, but whatever it was it didn't let them. Then, they saw some movement from the two ninjas.
Slowly, Hinata moved away leaving the dead body of Shisui fall. Her sword was full of blood, but Shisui's body turned into water. Taking out the kunai that he managed to hit on her abdomen, she puts back her sword and walks towards the others, looking at her hands. She was smiling, and laughed lightly…she made it.
Putting down her hands and holding where her wound was, her face turned suddenly cold, even colder than before. Passing by everyone, Yuki was the first to speak, "Why you did it."
She didn't responded and kept walking, "I made a question Hinata. You could have waited for us at least one day?! You got me fucking worried!" then she stops. "I didn't wanted to loose a day without training…"
"This is not training and you know it! the last time you almost got killed damn it!" then she turns around to face him, making Hiro shiver by her look. "But I'm alive right? Since today I changed my perspective about myself. I exist for some reason, everyone has a reason to exist. Now I have to find mine's…and is not living under a shadow." And before she leaves, she looks at Sasuke, who was holding a kunai.
"I just killed an Uchiha. If he had defeated me, he could have revived. He held a grudge against me because I didn't stopped Itachi from killing him…or you clan." Then while looking at her eyes, he noticed that her eyes softened….for a moment. "You can kill me when you want. I'm the real cause of your pain." Then she looks up and notices a bird flying around them.
"There's a meeting right now sand I'm not presentable. I must go and change for a moment." Then Hiro steps in and grabs her shoulder, "You should treat your wound first."
"Many people n this village wants me dead. If I die because of blood loss it will be less stressful for the council and the village, don't you think? Besides, there's nothing than some bandages can fix." And she walks away, leaving team seven, Hiro, Yuki, Tatsuha and Sai completely mute.
It is late at night,
And Hinata was already in her apartment, she just hoped to see him. They agreed to meet tonight, why she should change it? Then, seconds later after she started to put the mugs in the table, he arrives. She really didn't expect for him to come…not after what happened today.
Silently, she serves the tea and sits on her side. Then suddenly Sasuke speaks, "I've heard from the dobe that Jiraya is now part of the council. That must be the reason of the meeting." In that moment Hinata looked up at him, he was the one who started the conversation like nothing. She was taken back for mere seconds, and then she responded. "That and my eternal rivalry with Asuma, and not to mention today's incident at the hospital. Everyone was agasint me until they found out that Tomoyo, Mika and Ayaka were the wives of my teammates. That solved everything."
"You have a rivalry with Asuma? Doesn't he the Third's son?" asked Sasuke. Sipping her tea, she nodded, "Then?"
"Let me explain you with a living example about what he thinks of me…and maybe you." says the captain while getting rid of her ANBU chest plate to be more comfortable. "Huh?" that was all that he managed to say.
"You remember when we were paired up in teams when we graduated from the Academy?" Sasuke nodded, where she is coming to? "Well, the final result wasn't the official. In fact, it was the first time in the history of the Academy that the Hokage interfere in those matters."
"You better explain that." Says Sasuke while raising an eyebrow, she suddenly looked at him. Maybe it was the environment or because she was too tired, but tonight Sasuke's eyes looked deeper than usual. Darker than usual…and she suddenly had the urge to touch that darkness…
Slapping herself mentally, she continued explaining. "On the first version, it was Aburame, you, me and Hatake as teacher. At first the Hokage though that the mixture was perfect, but the council though that it was a too powerful mixture in the hands of Hatake. Then they changed it with Nara Shikamaru, you, me, and Asuma as teacher. This time Asuma declined to have you…even less me. He always said that I was just taking advantage of the Third, so we have some conflicts and since the Hokage even though that it was a bad idea to have Sharingan and Byakugan on the same team. Even knows that I wasn't interested to use it. Our actual teams were the last mixture. "
Sasuke glared at her in awe, he could have teamed with her! maybe nothing of this never happened if he was with her, seeing each other everyday. Maybe he could get closer to her and maybe make her get out of her fake self. Maybe right now they weren't drinking tea like this.
After more conversations about the newborn babies and how they were named. Saito followed her recommendation and called his girl Tomoe. Hiro and Ayaka called theirs Angel and Yuki and Tomoyo called their kids Uriel, Michael and the girl Kurai to keep the Kinomoto tradition when it comes to Japanese names, if that was Japanese.
After finishing their cups, Hinata stood up to grab Sasuke's only that instrad of grab the cup, he grabed her hand. "Are you ok? I mean your wounds…"
"I'm fine, you know that I can perform healing techniques."
"I don't mean those wounds."
"…" she looked at him blankly, thanks that the room was already dark and the only light was the window that was behind her illumination her form in Sasuke's eyes.
"The Tsukiyomi causes internal wounds. The kind that can't be healed so easy--"
"Itachi used to torture me constantly with the Tsukiyomi for the last three years. I think I can deal with that. Thanks anyway." And with that she leaves to the kitchen to clean the dishes.
With no other word Sasuke leaves the apartment, when she senses him gone, she collapses o the kitchen floor. His touch made her tremble completely…his eyes. Those eyes were so deep…completely different to Itachi's whose no matter what she did they always remained empty. With Sasuke no matter what she did or say, he always held something.
Hate, compassion, understanding.
Suddenly, just the memory of his hand touching hers, made her feel warm inside. It held a bit of guilty, maybe what Shisui told her in the Tsukiyomi was true…she had cheated on Itachi…with his own brother.
But…
"I can't deny it. He's handsome…"
Sasuke was jumping the roofs on the quiet night returning to his place. He didn't made any physical contact with her until now, and she welcomed. It was inevitable to not see that she looked at him and looked spaced out for a moment…looking at his eyes. Her light blush remembered him that she can be all the headstrong and mean, she is still a young woman.
Then he understood why she told him that back at the Nakano river. She wanted him away, he was an Uchiha anyway. Itachi tortured her with the Tsukiyomi, Shisui did it to her today too, what was her guarantee that he won't do the same thing? He can swear it to her, but still she is still has fresh wounds inside her.
Deeper than Ayaka could see that day…
The feeling of her wamr skin made him to almost touch her, he missed her skin so much. Her scent, her sweet pale eyes on him, the feeling of her midnight blue hair between his fingers…
Then he made himself a promise, he will be the one who will heal her scars no matter what.
Because he wanted her to heal him as well.
A/N: Well, in case that you didn't know, Shisui was Itachi's best friend. The one he killed days before the tragedy, thinking that in that way he could get the Magenkyu Sharingan. And since in this story Hinata was there, it was natural for him to feel grudge against her. She is a Hyuuga after all.
Hope that you liked this chapter and enjoyed yourself as well.