Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, if I did then I would make sure the dubs that will be seen in the U.S. are top notch.

Author's Notes: I am playing what if with this story. Please no flames about putting Hinata through the hell that is in the story. She asked if her acting skills could be shown in their fullness. I do what I can to please dark weird females, well them and red heads. This is not going to be a Naruhina story. It would be sick and wrong if it was one. I am not sure if this will be a one shot or not.

When word came forth from the scouts that the team sent to retrieve Sasuke from the sound was approaching the first person to the gates surprised everyone. Hyugga Hinata waited anxiously to catch a glimpse of one person and one person only. It's not that she didn't care about her team mate or friends on the team, or even her cousin. They were not as important to her as a certain blond shinobi. She looked at the straggling group heading towards the gate in disbelief. She brought forth her Byakugan and knew that it was wrong.

The only person that was missing was that one person. The one precious person to her. The one single person that mattered to her, or gave a damn about her wasn't with them as she charged. As she approached the group something started to change in her. The timidity that she held onto for so long was burned away by an inferno fueled by rage.

"Where is he? Where is Naruto?" she demanded from the group. When she didn't receive an answer from the disheveled group she grabbed the closest person and tossed them to the ground. "Shikamaru tell me where he is!"

"I don't know," he sighed. "He went after Sasuke. The last person to see him was Lee. There are people looking for them now."

She just walked past the group and stared into the distance. She knew something that they didn't. Something that she was trying to deny. Uzumaki Naruto wasn't returning to the village. Her dream was true and she knew that she would never hold him in her arms as he slept.

That dream, the same dream that she had dreamed for three nights in a row. Naruto did in fact catch up with Sasuke and they fought. They fought as angels and demons. Susuke had changed into a demon, and Naruto, precious Naruto turned into a being of light. Ultimately it was to no avail as the black hearted fiend that everyone adored thrust his vile hand through the kind caring heart of the much maligned orphan. She woke up screaming every time she had it.

No one had believed her, but she had been there. She knew how they would find his cold body. He had died without anyone there for him. He died how he had lived. For the sole reason she hadn't been strong enough, confident enough to tell him how she truly felt.

She bent down and stood with a fist of dirt. "I swear upon the dirt of Konoha that I will make you pay, Uchiha Sasuke. You and all of your line, all of your supporters, and all that you hold dear."

A distant sound of thunder spoke its agreement to her oath. She slowly turned to the gathered group. "They will find them in the Valley of the Last. The Uchiha will be sorely wounded. Naruto-kun will be dead with a lucky shot after Sasuke failed to stop him with two other Chidoris that destroyed his lungs. He still fought on instead of giving up." As she finished she walked by the gathered throng and headed towards the Hyugga compound and to her room to weep.

Sure to her dream they brought back Sasuke, broken and battered but tethered to life but by a thread. Crowds gathered in shocked awe wondering what happened in the fight. The shock was eliminated when they brought in the limp body of Uzumaki Naruto. Cheers rang out from withered bodies and choruses from the not so old. Confusion reigned upon the younger generation as their colleague and classmates death was celebrated. Hinata soon joined the chunnin carrying Naruto's body to the morgue of the hospital and had ignored all in her grief until she was hit by a rock thrown by a towns person. She then saw multiple rocks flying at their true target.

The snapped part in her filled with something in that instant. The normal light blue chakra was joined by another energy. She felt the energy pulse through her Keirakukei and through her Tenketsu. They were widened and she could feel the energy pull in her chest. It wasn't the feeling of chakra, but the feeling of a... flower? Her mind touched that energy and she smiled as her eyes became luminant darkness. She spun between the stones and the still form of her precious one and the energy whipped out and redirected the stones forcefully towards their hurlers.

She stopped spinning and looked at the gathered people. "I was not able to be there for him at the last part of his life, but I shall not allow any to defile his body now!"

The crowd quieted and slowly backed away from the one thought to be the shy and retiring joke of a Hyugga heiress. She turned to catch up with the now hurrying chunnin. She escorted him into, not the front of the hospital like the others that would be returning from a mission, but the back. Unseen and unknown they stopped at a door and he nodded towards it. Hinata slowly opened the door for him and there was table after table, cold unfeeling receptacles any to be chosen for the corpse of the object of her love. The chunnin laid him upon one and bowed to the still body and left, leaving Hinata to stare deeply at the hollow construct called a body.

"I am so sorry that I wasn't able to help you Naruto-kun, but I shall avenge you." She lightly kissed his cold dead lips and left the morgue.