Mine Alone

A Yang Production

Have I gone past the point of no return? I think I am way past that point. I'm sure that everyone would agree, even Father…if he was still alive that is. Though many have now come to believe that Orochimaru was my first victim that is not true. By my hand I killed father…and yet I didn't regret it. By my hand…I killed off the Main Branch, my family. And yet I did not regret it. Everyone thought Hinata weak, but Hinata is not weak. Is killing one's family without a shred of guilt weakness? Neji-nii…is wanting to kill you weakness? Surely you knew that something was wrong when my father did not respond to your letters, when he did not come to those meetings? I had to make them all my puppets. To control them all, make them go about so no one would know, masking my great chakra…is that truly weakness? I don't think so. Everyone must find my actions mad, but who are they to decide?

Sasuke jumped out of the way as the ground beneath him split in two. Hinata was muttering rapidly to herself, her eyes looking back and forth between Sasuke and Konaha which lay in ruins.

"Hinata, please stop this!" He cried out as the ground became uneven and he was thrown about.

" I'm sorry Father!" She jerked her hands up to shield herself, breaking contact with the ground. The earthquake stopped as she huddled over, her hands over her head. " I'm sorry! Don't hit me! I'm not weak! I'm not!"

Sasuke grabbed the edge of a tall column of earth, below him was a bottomless pit. He felt that for now he was safe and so was Konoha. "Hinata…just give yourself in."

Reality blurred with Hinata's world. Swiftly her dead father landed in front of her, his decaying body inching closer. " Give up…you're too weak."

" Shut up!"

" Give up…weak." He seemed to hiss at her.

" I said to shut up! I don't want to hurt you!"

" Weak…"

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!" She plunged her hands into the soft earth as if it was water and lift a large chuck up. " Don't call me weak!"

Maybe Sasuke should have made sure that Hinata would have stayed down and not lifted a boulder sized piece of earth above her head. " I'M NOT WEAK! I killed you once Father! I can kill you again!" She threw the boulderish earth at Sasuke whom she saw as her father. "Hee…Who's weak now Father! Look, I can still see your blood on the walls!"

Neji felt something tugging at the seal around his mouth, Hinata's chakra must be running low. Seizing his chance he was able to peel it off, then it wrapped itself around his right hand. His right shoulder lost all senses, and it became limp, he would not be able to fight in this condition, not like he could before. During the earthquakes, he had sustained an injury to his left arm, making it almost useless, he narrowly missed being struck by shurikens and kunais meaning he had lost a great deal of blood and much of his exposed skin had be burned badly. To say the least should he come face to face with Hinata or any of her clones he was dead. What happened to his cousin? Every time he saw her she would run to tell him about Naruto's latest pranks or something else about naruto, he never really paid attention.

"Neji-nii!"

" What is it Hinata-sama?"

" Stop with Sama! Just call me Hinata-chan. But Neji-nii, today Naruto told Sakura-san that he liked her and she turned him down!"

" She always turns him down!"

" But Neji-nii, I would never turn him down…Naruto is just so nice." Neji could only roll his eyes as his cousin let out a dreamy sigh. " He's handsome too!"

" So is Uchiha Sasuke according to almost all the girls here."

" But I really like Naruto…I think I really truly love him."

He couldn't help but snort at the comment.

" Just wait and see Neji-nii…someday I'll show the whole village my love for Naruto!"

"Show her love?" Neji leaned against a rock. " There's a thin line between love and obsession, Hinata-chan."

Hinata came in with a bruise on her face that she tried to hide from Neji.

" Hinata-sama…"

"Chan!"

" Did your father punish you again?"

Why as he, slid to the ground to die, did he start remember all of this?

" No, I deserve it for being so weak…I failed his test."

" I just ran into a wall."

" The lesson was harder than I thought…"

" I had my guard down that's all."

She would always try to deny everything Neji said. It was her fault, her father would never hit her without cause. Then suddenly she stopped coming to him. Hinata's father would stop coming to visit Neji, he wouldn't write back and he wouldn't show up for the meetings between the houses. In fact the Main house had stopped all forms of communication all together.

" Father is ill, Neji-nii. Why don't you come back sometime later?" Hinata had told him when he stopped by worried. She had seemed more pale and tired. " I will send word when he is better."

He did get better after a week but always he had Hinata at his side, serving him tea, waiting on him hand and foot.

"I'm sorry that my illness had cause concern in the Branch House. Thank you Hinata." He took the tea that his daughter had given him. " I am still weak after all the rest I've had."

" You do seem pale Uncle."

" Father is just working when he should be resting." Hinata smiled at her father. Then she turned to smile at her cousin.

" Why…when did you change Hinata…my dear cousin. I don't even know you anymore." He grabbed hold of a branch and hoisted himself up to his feet. He had to find Hinata and stop her even if he had to take her down with him.

The room Hinata stood in was dark, the doors were locked. In front of her stood her father, laying down in a pool of his own blood. There were streaks of blood everywhere, bloody handprints of the wall. In her hand she held the sword, an heirloom passed down to the eldest child of the Main House. The lesson had taken a turn for the worst as he continued to talk down at her, saying she would never live up to anything, that Naruto was taking up too much of her time, he would have to go. All the years of being put down, all the pain, all the hatred, all the rage that Hinata had spent burying came pouring out as he called Naruto a waste of life.

" I told you I could kill…" The room shifted and she found herself standing in a complete waste land. No living thing could live here. Konoha was leveled by what looked to be an earthquake. Lava flowed freely like new born rivers, there were levels of ground stacked on top of each other. Some one lay buried under a pile of crumbled earth.

" Sasuke-san…you don't love him enough to kill your own flesh and blo- Cough Cough." Her chest felt like it was on fire as she struggled to breathe. She could taste blood every time she coughed. Ever since she had become stronger she became physically weaker, her immune system could not keep up with her rapid growth. It was a small cost in order to protect her beloved.

" Am I being punished for doing nothing wrong?" She yelled. " I've done nothing but protect what I held dear."

"HINATA-CHAN!"

Hinata knew that voice. She whirled around to see her injured cousin. Tsunade had done her best to heal the bleeding before he took off. The Hokage stood behind Neji, supporting him with about a hundred of the least injured shinobi she could find. Naruto was no where in sight.

" Come out to die then Hokage-sama?" Hinata wiped the blood from her mouth. " If Sasuke couldn't defeat me then what chance do you think you have?" The usual glare returned to the Hokage's face. " Well then, let's get this party started then…" Hinata popped a soldier pill along with a strong pain killer. Taking her thumb she bit it to draw blood and pulled out a black scroll. She drew a long line of blood over the text and snapped it shut as she made the sign for Dragon and Snake. A large scaled snake burst from the ground.

" Remember Hokage-sama? In your little battle with Orochimaru?"

Before the giant snake could strike a large steel fan ripped through it's body and it disappeared in a large black puff of smoke.

" Don't forget that Konoha has the Sand Siblings." Kankuro smirked as Temari caught her fan.

" Damn…" Hinata hissed. Gaara did not look happy…thought you could never really tell if her ever was happy. His sand shot forward twisting and spinning rapidly. Hinata took a deep breathe and made the sign for dragon and drew the character for fire. A large dragon fire appeared and raced head on the sand of Gaara. From the side it seemed that Gaara was losing and Hinata looked smug at the thought.

Pain erupted throughout her body a single spear of sand was able to get past the fire. Hinata found herself reeling backwards, her world swirling around her, her mind torn between what she wanted and what she felt. The smell of wet grass filled her lungs as she landed face down. What she wanted was the complete destruction of Konoha…what she felt was only pain.

"Heh..heeh." It started small. A small giggle…then laughter as Hinata rolled herself over. She could still see the spear of sand sticking up from her left shoulder and her blood mixing and rising into the sand. She gripped the grass as she muttered a few words in between her fits of laughter.

" Earth Clones Rise."

Laying on the ground she could not see the faces of utter shock on the people surrounding her. They all seemed to step back, and their silence made Hinata feel uneasy. Her clones encircled their injured master and only then did she see why everyone was so silent. Every member of the Main House , all victims in the state she had delivered them, and her dead father were crawling from underneath where she lay.

"Murderer…" They wailed in unholy voices. " Worthy of hell alone…" Their bodies twisted and mended as they pulled themselves up. Hinata could barely muster everything to move. "Murderer…"

"Shadow Shuriken!" A hundred copies of the Large Shuriken flew past Hinata and started mowing down the clones. Sasuke wrapped one arm around Hinata's waist and grabbed her right arm. " Can't you stop them!" But Hinata couldn't respond even as she was pulled to safety.

" Thank you Sasuke-san…" She whispered as she pulled out the family heirloom, " for coming to me!"

" Not really Hinata-chan…" The image dissolved as Neji placed a flat palm on Hinata's stomach. She was thrown back, her chakra sealed.

" Neji…!" She gripped the sword tightly as rage fueled her movement. Blinded by the instense hatred she didn't see the onslaught of Kunais.

"Forgive me Hinata-chan…" Everything slowed down as Hinata brought down the sword.

"NOO!" Naruto bolted upright in his bed. He scanned the room and realized that he was in his apartment. Tsunade was asleep at the foot of his bed.

" Baa-san! Baa-san!" He crawled over to her and poked her awake. " I just had the worst nightmare…"

" Naruto…" She yawned not looking at him in hopes of getting more sleep.

" My nightmare…Hinata! She went mad and started killing people, she even destroyed our village! Then …Sasuke…Me!" He waved his arms wildly at a loss for words.

Tsunade finally lifted her head and raised a hand to the bandage that was wrapped around her head. Someone knocked at the door and entered.

" Is he awake yet?" Sasuke walked in with an arm in a cast. He leaned on a crutch as he entered and closed the door behind.

Naruto paled as he ripped open the window curtains. Outside there were only a sea of ruble. Looking closer Naruto's apartment was on the ground and was the only room intact of his whole building.

" Then my nightmare…Where's Hinata!"

Tsunade exchanged a look with Sasuke. He shook his head to the disappointment of the Hokage.

" Get dressed and we'll take you to her."

Naruto got dressed and took a deep breath as he was lead out of his room. He didn't know what he would exactly find but he somehow knew that he wouldn't like it.

Yang-chan: I'm sorry if some people don't find this to be much like my other chapters. I didn't get an hour of sleep last night. I'm tired. Not to mention I'm a little sick….sorry that it took so long to update….(yawn) Tired. Anyway, I wanna tell everyone that I have two other stories that I am writing about Naruto. Legacy Of A Fox: Seven Years and If There Is a God…Which is gonna be renamed Cursed Wish. I hope that you will at least read the first chapter of each and leave some comment behind. Thank you and have fun….(yawn)

Ferret-san: Legacy Of A Fox: Seven Years is an adventure where Naruto leaves and doesn't come back as planned. Sasuke and Sakura start hunting Naruto down….yeah…and (If There Is A God) Cursed Wish is a love triangle between Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura where an over worked, under paid God has to watch over them while know what fate awaits them. So please read if you want to.