And You Don't Remember
"Shattered dreams
Cut through my mind
Tragically our love has died
Memories confine my head
Bitterly I face the end"
Rain was heavily falling as Hinata tried desperately tried to stop the bleeding. Putting pressure on the young man's abdomen he groaned in response. "How could this happen?" Her mind raced. "It was supposed to be a simple mission. Collect the scrolls and get out." The simple enough tasked turned into her worst nightmare. They were ambushed on the way out and a blade meant for Hinata's heart was instead impaled into Naruto's left abdomen. Refusing to stop, Naruto threw 4 razor sharp kunai into their assailants, killing them instantly. "Shit" Naruto said through his teeth. They kept running until they got to the end of the village close to the forest. By the time they reached it, Naruto was about to keel over. In an instant, Hinata was at his side helping him into the thick woodland. After getting to a clearing that was hidden by the foliage, Hinata laid Naruto down gently and for the first time since all the commotion, she looked at his wound. With fast but steady hands she pulled the knife out his the man's ab and applied pressure. Blood gushed everywhere. They were at least a 2 days journey away from home and they packed light thinking that this mission would an easy one. Oh,how wrong they were. Hinata started to panic. tears filled her eyes making it hard to see anything. He was starting to lose his color in his face. "Naruto, we are going to be fine! I promise!" She told him in between sobs. She ripped one of her sleeves to pack the wound but there was too much blood. "If only I had my herbs I could save him" she thought to herself. "This isn't enough" she thought frantically. "I can't save him!" The realization that her efforts to help him weren't enough, she began to sob. "Please, I'll give anything to save him" she said no more above a whisper. A snap of a twig made her look up from Naruto's seemly sleeping face. A man came from the shadows and walked slowly towards the pair. With no fight left in her, Hinata could only beg in hopes that this mysterious figure that approached them was a friend and not a foe.
"Please save him" tears filled her eyes and shamelessly rolled down her red cheeks. "He's...he's all I have! I'll give you anything!" Looking up desperately into soulless eyes, she immediately regretting doing so. As she took in the mans features it was clear they lacked sympathy; she shuttered and looked down at the mangled body in her arms. "I'll...I'll give you anything." A sadistic smile graced his cold features. "She doesn't know who I am. Do they not teach the youth about me anymore?" That thought amused Itachi. "Anything you say?" He looked down at the pathetic human as she cradled a blond haired man in her heaving bosom. "Even your soul?" Without hesitation Hinata shook her head yes. Taken aback by her eagerness, he blinked and a smile graced his features once again. "She has no idea what she's agreeing to" Itachi thought gleefully. "How about we make a deal. I'll save your beloveds life on one one condition." Whipping tears from her weary eyes she stammered "Wha..what's the C..condition?" Blood red eyes poured into her lavender tinted ones leaving her no room to move an inch. She couldn't look away from the strange man with the power to save Naruto. "You're so ready to give your life to this man...but" he paused, walking around the pair, taking in the situation as if he wasn't sure if he wanted to get involved. Before he was disturbed by a heartbreaking plea he was working on separating souls, making sure they got to their final destination. As the God of the underworld, he was a busy man that hated to be disturbed. However, the sobs that he heard from the living world were too much to bare. Usually he could drown the noise out but this type of sobbing was different. It was heart wrenching. "Would your lover do the same?" She made a face at that last comment and looked down at her blood soaked hands. "Interesting." Itachi thought."I'll take your lack of a response as an answer. The condition is that if this man is ever unfaithful or untrue to you, you must leave the living world and work as my slave in the underworld. For all eternity" She wasn't looking at him. She was staring down at the man in her arms. As if she was looking for the answer on the young man's face. "I love him so much, we have so much history together. He has helped me become who I am today...I'm sure Naruto would do the same for me." Hinata thought to herself. "Even if he wouldn't do the same..I'd die for him" With that last thought she looked into red eyes and gave her response. "I accept your terms."