Chapter 2: The Nightmare in Your Head
Hinata felt her body burn like someone had thrown gasoline on her and set her alit… it was like someone had suddenly started to roast her over a fire… it all felt like all of the feelings she had locked up in her… she screamed and she screamed... she screamed until she felt her throat was going to fall out through her mouth… but… she didn't hear anything… she couldn't hear herself screaming…
She kept her eyes shut… the burning was so intense… but… as suddenly as she had felt it… it disappeared… replaced by cold, hard ground. Hinata staid hunched up, afraid it might come back… when it didn't, she slowly opened her eyes… and she saw whiteness… empty, absent whiteness… "Am I… dead?" she said out loud… but she still couldn't hear what she said… but then, she heard something: "No, good thing you're not"
The whiteness suddenly dissipated, clearing away like a cloud… and Hinata realized she was on a futon, comfy, grouchy… and that her team and her friends were around her: Sakura, Sasuke, the two guys from her team, and… Naruto, a big smile on his face… they were all there, looking scared. They were all around her, Sakura was crying, looking really worried, and Sasuke looked like he had crapped on himself.
"You're awake!" said Naruto, patting Hinata on the shoulder, "it's good to know you're ok" said Sasuke, a grin on his face, although he still looked like the bad boy he is, "Oh, Hinata, I was so worried" said Sakura, wiping off some tears, "yeah, we honestly thought you were going to die" said Hinata's teammates simultaneously, "Oh… guys……" and they all piled closer to her… "My head hurts real bad…" and they all laughed, including Hinata…
"Neji… that cruel bastard…" said Sakura, "he should die for what he did to you…" "Yeah, off with his head!" yelled Naruto, until he was crowned by Sakura, which shut him up, "the Konoha Military Police are having a field day with him" said Sasuke, "they're fighting with the Kage over stripping him of his Jonin rank, leave him be or execute him for using his family ninjutsu on you" "that's what he did to me?" said Hinata softly… "Yeah; they found him there with a smile on his face…"
Hinata felt the blood rush to her head… her own cousin had tried to kill her… tears started to crawl out of her eyes… she had been the one who started it… but then, she realized something when she tried to hurriedly rub away her tears… her arms were heavy and she couldn't move them… "No, don't!" said Sakura, "the doctors said you shouldn't move for awhile" "yeah; they said that you won't be able to move at all if you tried..." Naruto said… but he was cut short…
"We should leave her to rest" said a voice… Hinata saw Sensei Kakashi sitting next to her bed, "but… oh, all right" said Naruto, "hope you get better, Hinata" he added before leaving… they all said the same thing until they all left… Hinata felt sleepy as the light left the sky… she was alone… but she was so sleepy she didn't care… but she felt like crying again when they had left… especially Naruto…
She slipped away into sleep… she felt peaceful… but suddenly… out of the corner of her eyes… she saw that she really wasn't alone… there was someone standing there, staring down at Hinata… but… there was something wrong… and as he got closer… something was horribly wrong… the person… or thing… was taller than most people… reaching almost up to the ceiling… he walked up to where Hinata was… and he stared down at her…
Darkness kept his face hidden, but Hinata could see other details… he wore a strange set of clothes which reflected the moonlight… and he wore a pair of white gloves on dirty arms that soon reached out and touched Hinata's forehead… and started to make her dizzy… making her sleep……...
Hinata felt herself float off somewhere… peaceful, free, elated… the clouds whished around her as she went on… the dark clouds then started to form around her… and then she awoke. She wasn't in her bed… she was in someone's arms… she felt like she could move… but she couldn't think straight… some images whizzed by… and her wrists were bound together… when her head felt like at fit to burst, Naruto floated by… her screams were muffled by a gag… however, when she looked up… she was horrified… what looked like… what was once a face… stood before her…
The mouth was sewn shut, and staples and wires held them up into an ear to ear garish smile… the eyes were large and pale… just like hers… and a small, sewn patch of hair sat atop the head… her head started to hurt more… and a few images of Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke passed by… they were all walking away…
And then a voice said something… a sinister, insane whisper… in her voice…
"I don't want you, and I don't need you…
Hinata didn't care what this was… she wanted to run as fast as she could… she tried shifting around… she was trying to escape from the grip of whoever had her… she fell down and she tried to crawl away… but then someone grabbed her through the neck of her shirt and stood her up straight… grabbing her by the neck and standing her up straight… whoever it was… whispered in her ear…
"Don't bother to resist or I'll beat you…"
And then, she was slapped across the face and thrown back on the ground… and then, someone started to stomp on her… he kicked and raged at her… he lunged at her stomach… he stomped her in the face… and he punched her in the face… Then… someone, with their slim, gashed finger, touched her forehead… started to scratch on something… but it felt like someone had taken a hot poker and used that… Hinata screamed… she struggled to get up… but someone else was holding her down… this pain… it reminded her of Neji… and the pain he had done to her… the harm… and then someone else said something…
"It's not your fault that you're always WRONG…
The WEAK ones are there to justify the STRONG…"
And then, someone grabbed Hinata… she was hoisted up… and when she finally could focuse… she saw she was overlooking… thousands… of hungry, glowing eyes… all staring at her… as though waiting for her to be lowered again… they all… resembled… the people she knew… but they all looked like they had been tailored in a butcher shop: sowings, missing body parts replaced by white cloth that covered the area, staples... but they all had one thing in common: the eyes… Hinata's pale, gray eyes…
"The beautiful people…
The beautiful people…
It's all relative to the size of your steeple…
You can't see the forest for the TREES…
AND YOU CAN'T SMELL YOUR OWN SHIT ON YOUR KNEES!"