Day 1: Dinner Death Revisited: Breaking Point
"Hinata?! What are you doing here?!" Naruto proclaims as he, Shikamaru, and Choji were confused as the supposed malevolent feeling they sensed were of their meek friend and ally.
Hinata, however, did not respond. She stood still, with her head down…
…it was as if she was…lifeless.
This sent chills down Naruto's spine.
"What…what's going on? Why are you here? And why are you giving me such an unpleasant feeling?" Naruto spoke with unease.
Hinata did not respond.
"Naruto, what will you do? Something definitely isn't right here," Choji says to his buddy, clenching his fist while he tried to understand this baffling situation.
"Do you think she is being possessed?" Shikamaru says to Naruto. "What kind of jutsu does this to a person?"
It then suddenly dawned on Naruto…
"Wait…that…isn't really Hinata…it's a damn illusion!" Naruto proclaims, calling out to Hinata.
The seemingly unresponsive Hinata suddenly flew her head upwards, now piercing a glare at the three shinobi.
She then gave them a very menacing grin of contempt.
"So you were able to figure it out," the fake Hinata spoke, her voice now sounding like that of a demonic male's.
What the shit is going on?!" Choji responds, eyes wide open in shock at her tonal shift.
The fake Hinata chuckles.
"Indeed you saw through my illusion. Your perception is quite commendable, Naruto," the fake Hinata spoke. "First you managed to circumvent your demise by finding a replacement for Sasuke after your resurrection. And now in his absence, you saw past the fake that is your dear friend Hinata. Are you noticing a pattern here?"
Naruro's eyes shot wide open as a revelation came to him.
Both of Naruto's most dangerous moments involved the people who experienced the previous chain of events prior to this situation…
…with Sasuke and Hinata.
Still, it didn't answer the fact that Sasuke was missing without a trace and that this freaky Hinata was the one who killed him a second time. Sure, the voice in Purgatory who allowed Naruto to rewind time and fix his mistakes spoke of his world's natural sequence of events warping upon each repeat.
But he now sees this only complicates things more, and now the real Hinata is now missing.
"Tell me, you fake bastard! Where is the real Hinata?! And why are you trying to kill me?" Naruto demands.
The fake Hinata's gaze turned serious as he/she fixes its glaze to Naruto's.
"You were given a gift to change destiny…twice. No person should be allowed to wield such powers except for me. I will kill you and take your place no matter what it takes…
…and to do that, I will take everyone you deeply care for out of the picture…
…one by one…
…for every time you abuse your powers," the fake Hinata reveals.
As the fake spoke, Shikamaru was starting to lose his grip on the enemy, as his Shadow Sewing Technique was beginning to fail due to too much chakra use to maintain it.
"Naruto...quick...dispatch this phony...now!" Shikamaru says in a strained voice to the orange-haired shinobi.
"Right!" Naruto says with a reassuring nod as he draws his weapon. "I won't let you mess with my reality!"
As Naruto prepared to go on the offensive, the fake Hinata breaks free from Shikamaru's jutsu and immediately teleports behind him.
"No, look out!" Choji shouts to Shikamaru.
But it was too late.
The imposter strikes Shikamaru with its hand, piercing straight through his chest.
Shikamaru gasps in shock as he freezes in place from the sudden attack that he could not evade for some reason.
"NOOOOO, YOU BASTARD!" Naruto shouts at the top of his lungs as he charges straight to avenge his mortally-wounded ally.
Then suddenly…everything started to warp and distort all about him, as if reality was beginning to unravel within itself. His whole surroundings began to fade from existence: the ramen place, Choji, Shikamaru, the imposter…they all started to fade to blade.
To make things worse, Naruto started to feel tired…as if something was pulling him into the deconstruction of reality.
"Ugh…now…what is going…?" Naruto says tiredly.
Then suddenly, everything went black.
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