Chapter 5

I hit the wood floor of Naruto's apartment hard. I scrambled backwards and grabbed what cloths I could and rushed to throw them onto my naked body.

I can't believe it turned out like this. It's all my fault. Oh god I'm such a failure. The cold reality of it hit me hard and I began to sob uncontrollably. I actually made this turn out to be the worst mistake ever. I've not only destroyed what friendship I had with Naruto and Sakura, but I've might have destroyed their relationship along with it.

I'm such a failure.

Naruto's plead for help cut through my self-loathing. "Please Hinata, tell her you tricked me. If you really cared for me, you would tell her the truth!"

Oh god, now I had to confess. Okay, I can do this. I started to tell the truth, but before I could even start, Sakura cut me off. She wasn't going to believe a single thing we said.

She screamed at Naruto, telling her I would cover up for him. It's true, I would cover anything up for Naruto-kun, but this wasn't a cover-up. This is all my fault, Naruto shouldn't have to take the fall.

I once again began to speak, but before a single sound could come out of my mouth, the door slammed and Sakura was gone. The impression of Naruto actually cheating on her still burned in her mind.

Then it got one-hundred times worst.

Naruto looked at me with so much hate that I wanted to kill myself just to escape his gaze. He growled at me with a voice I've only heard him use around the deadliest of foes. Today . . . today that foe was me.

"If you were anyone else Hinata, if you were anyone else, I would kill you! NOW GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"

My heart shattered, my guts twisted and my mind began to throb with pain. He didn't just say that, no I must have misheard him.

No, he said it, and he meant it.

I wanted to scream, I wanted to pull my hair out so the physical pain would cover up the pain in my chest. This, this . . . oh god this is a goddamn nightmare.

I slowly got to my feet, my body felt like a ton of garbage that has been compacted and smashed a million times over.

And that's what I was. I was garbage.

I pushed the soreness of my throat, and the sniffing of my nose away just long enough to say something.

"I'm so sorry Naruto-Kun. It wasn't supposed to end like this!"

He didn't respond, he only pointed at the door.

New tears started to fall down my cheeks, and I ran out of his apartment as fast as I could.

Once again I found myself running with all my speed away from Naruto and toward the gates of Konoha. This time there was no reason to live, no reason to stay and no reason not to go through with it.

I came to a skidding stop at the threshold between a horrible life in this village that will come to hate me, and freedom. I stood in that one spot for at least an hour, silently crying, and the thoughts of things I could have done to prevent such a tragedy zipping through my mind over and over.

Thoughts of what I would do if I did leave followed soon after. I had no friends on the outside, well I had one. However he was the Otokage, and we weren't even that good of friends. He probably wouldn't help me. I could just become a missing-nin or go to some small village and practice medicine.

Or I could do what I really should do.

I should just kill myself and let everyone rejoice. The slut was dead; the wives wouldn't have to worry about their husbands.

A laugh escaped from my mouth, a hollow, fake laugh, but still a laugh. I was too much of a coward to commit suicide, too much of a coward to do anything really.

I sat down on the same bench that I was on earlier, before I did the worst thing anyone could have done, before I was a heartless whore . . . before.

I started to tap my fingers together for the first time in years.

I leaned my head back, and tightly closed my eyes. The tears still clinging onto my eyelashes started to slide down my already tear stained cheek. There was an entire another matter to deal with.

My family . . .

My strict, hard headed family that will see me as a devil, an adulteress slut that has lost all respect for the Hyuuga ways, and will cast me out like the morning trash.

Truthfully I didn't care about them; they have always hated me and the weakness I brought to the head family. I worked so hard to get their approval; I gradually gained more and more respect, to the point of almost regaining the title of heir. However, that will be all ripped away as soon as the horrible act I performed today is revealed to the public.

It was saddening, but in reality, I didn't really care about them. The only one I cared about was Neji. The cousin that's sole purpose in life was to protect me. Not just from enemies' weapons, but also from myself and my stupid feelings.

It seems that my heart turned out to be the worst type of weapon.

Neji will not understand; he will go on about how I defiled a sacred thing between two people, two people that were his friends. He would become like the rest of the Hyuuga household, he would hate me, and would look down on me like the weakling I am.

I leaned to the side so I could lie down on the hard wood of the bench. I covered my eyes up with the baggy sleeve of my jacket to block the setting sun's glare.

I let out a sigh of defeat. "I'm sorry Naruto-kun, I'm sorry Sakura . . . I'm sorry Neji."

I burst into tears once again, and cried myself to sleep.

I was laying flat on a hard table; people in horrible, disfigured masks of ancient demons surrounded me, talking in a long forgotten language that I couldn't understand. My legs were prompt up, spread wide open for anyone to see. I tried to scream at them, asking what was going on and what they were doing to me. The masked man to my left, revealed his face to me.

It was Neji-san.

"Hello Hinata, please be quit. We are only checking on the baby."

What did he mean? "What baby!" I screamed. I wasn't pregnant, how am I giving birth if I was never pregnant.

An evil grin spread over Neji's face. "What baby? Well, yours and Naruto's baby of course."

I struggled to get free, my hands were not tied down, yet I couldn't move a muscle, this can't be happening. Naruto and I . . . we did have sex, but I never got pregnant. I was never pregnant!

The masked figure to my right also revealed its face.

It was Sakura.

"How did my fiancé do Hinata? Did he satisfy you, did he make you scream in ecstasy?"

I high pitched cry arose over the people around me. The figure farthest away lifted up a beautiful baby boy. The figure then removed its mask, revealing itself as Naruto.

"Here's our baby Hinata, isn't he beautiful."

I found myself able to move, and I reached out quickly and took the child in my arms. All the evil feelings around me were pushed to the back of my mind. The baby was so small, its bright blue eyes shining with a joyful hope.

I stammered. "It's . . . it's my son."

The roomed darkened and the light focused on me and my child.

The child's bright blue eyes faded to a dark red. He looked up at me, and a demonic voice bellowed from his tiny mouth.

"Who are you!"

He exploded in a bright red light, and his body twisted into nine whipping tails. Eight of them lashed out at the figures beside us, ripping them apart in bloody chaos.

The final tail hovered over me for several seconds before bolting towards me and ripping through my chest.

"You are not my mother! I will NOT allow my mother to be a WHORE!"

The tail pulled out of my chest, my beating heart wrapped inside its grasps.

"I've taken you heart, now you can't ruin anyone's life again."

The tail threw my heart away, and whipped back around.

As my vision began to fade, I saw my headless body getting farther away from me. A baby with bright red tails still clutched protectively in its hands.

I exploded from my nightmare with a horrifying scream. I heard a voice beside me.

"Calm down, It's only me."

I looked over to the person beside of me. It was a Jounin guard that I've seen many times during my life here. He spoke again.

"It's dawn Hinata-sama. You should get home and to bed, instead of sleeping on this hard bench."

Nodding in agreement, I stood up and straightened out my now wrinkled cloths. I took a single step towards the Hyuuga estate.

The ground shook from a huge explosion, and I whipped my head around towards the direction it came from. The Jounin guard was gone in a second, rushing away to close the gate just in case. I followed him and then sprinted up to the top of the protective wall that surrounded the village. A large cloud of smoke was pluming up from the area of the explosion just over six miles away. Another Jounin guard turned to me, knowing my abilities he asked if I could take a look.

Nodding my head, I forced chakra to my eyes. "Bayakugen!"

The forest turned white, and began to race past me with blurring speed. The forest came to a jolting stop and my vision focused on a lone figure struggling to its feet. I focused harder, the blur became sharp and I noticed who the figure was.

Sakura.

Releasing my technique, I ordered the Jounin next to me to gather some reinforcements then follow me. A leaf shinobi was in trouble and we had to save her.

Only seconds later I was sprinting towards Sakura, the forest once again a blur. Four Jounin guards were following me, ready to do anything to help a fellow leaf ninja.

We raced for several minutes, and then came across a small body lying motionless on the forest floor. I jumped down to it, noticing right away who it was.

It was Ino, and she was in critical shape. Her face was burned badly, and she was covered from head to toe in small scraps and large bruises.

But she was still alive.

She slowly opened her eyes, and noticed who was holding her. She coughed up some blood, and cleared her throat.

"Shi . . . Shikamaru and Chouji, they . . . they are alone against many enemies. Please help them. Please!" She dropped her head and before falling into unconsciousness she pointed toward Shikamaru and Chouji's location.

I slowly picked her limp body up, and handed it to the nearest Jounin guard.

"Here, take her back to the village and get her to the hospital."

He replied with only a nod, and was off, carrying the body of Ino on his shoulders.

I turned to the remaining two and told them to go and aid them, while I look for Sakura. They agreed, and with an explosion of speed, they were gone.

A huge explosion turned my attention to the east.

I rushed in that direction, knowing it had to have something to do with Sakura. I jumped from the ground floor and was once again leaping from branch to branch on top of the forest canopy.

I came to a sudden stop. Below me was Sakura, pinned to a tree with several large knives. She was hurt bad, blood pouring from every inch of her body. I noticed a bright object out of the corner of my eye. It wasn't just a bright object; it was a swarm of sharp metal weapons. They were flying around like a group of bees, and heading straight toward the incapacitated Sakura. I knew what I had to do.

But a thought made me stop for just one second.

What if I let her die here, then she would be out of the picture and Naruto would be mine. Right? That's how it would end up. Then a growling voice filled my head.

"If you were anyone else Hinata, if you were anyone else, I would kill you! NOW GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"

How naïve I was. Naruto hated me, and would never ever be with me. The only thing I could do is to get some type retribution and save Sakura here and then get them back together. Yeah . . . that's my mission. To fix what I've done.

I leapt down onto the forest ground and waited for the right movement. Expelling chakra from my body, I twisted around at a high velocity.

I let out a yell "KAITEN!"

The knife and cleavers bounced off my twirling chakra like toys, each hitting the ground then puffing back into whatever they came from. I stopped my deadly spin and began to search frantically for the foe that did this.

I found him by the sound of his voice.

"YOU BITCH, HOW DARE YOU STOP MY ATTACK!"

A bloody and burned sound ninja was prompt up against a large piece of wood. He was seconds away from dying, and I could tell that he didn't care. His last deed in this world was to kill Sakura, and thanks to me he was unable to finish it. I ended his life with a single Jyuken strike to the heart.

I rushed back to Sakura, and pulled out the knives that kept her in place. The last knife caused her to open her eyes and look at me. I tried to comfort her.

"Don't worry, you will be okay, Ino will be okay. Everything is okay."

I went to pick her up.

She half-heartedly swung at me. "Don't touch me you slut!"

I easily dodged, and she fell of balance and into my outstretched arms. She was unconscious before she landed. With tears in my eyes, I darted back towards the village.

I was losing, and Chouji was dying. I couldn't keep this up. It was three versus one.

They each knew my fighting style, they must have watched while I was dealing with the bandits. They never got anywhere near me, staying far away and only coming in close when they knew that my Shadow couldn't reach them. They were slowly wearing me down. I could take much more of this.

I looked over at Chouji, he was badly burned and barley breathing. I will make it out of this, for him, for Ino . . . for the girl I love living in the Sand village.

I ran backwards, holding my side where an earlier attack landed, breaking several of my ribs.

Another blast of fire crashed into my back as I ran away, causing me to fly forward and slide face first into the dirt. It was the last straw, I couldn't move. I was worn out, all my chakra was gone.

I closed my eyes and waited for the eternal darkness to take me away.

"Finally he's dead. Little punk took forever, couldn't believe he was able to last this long."

"Yeah, he was trying to protect the fat one. He failed though, now they are both dead."

"Okay you two, let's go look for . . ."

I felt them over and me and took the chance. I leapt to my feet and used what little strength I had left. I let my shadow fly, the tendrils shooting from my feet and hitting one of the ninjas in the chest, killing him instantly. The second ninja was just a bit too fast; my shadow missed a critical spot but still sliced his leg off, sending him to the ground in pain.

The last ninja dodged completely and then counterattacked with one of his sound jutsus. My ears began to bleed and the screams of the ninjas were drowned out by silence. All of my energy was really drained now.

I was only able to take out one of them, only one. I failed.

I fell back down, hitting my head hard. The remaining ninja was over me, screaming at me. I couldn't hear him though, but I knew he was pissed. He brought his fist up to make the final blow.

My vision began to fade and before I lost consciences a bright metal object sprang from the Ninja's chest, his blood sprinkling down on my face.

We're saved.

TBC