Hello people! Long time no see!

Oh wait, it's not true, it's just that I was away in a family trip for the last few days, so I feel like I was gone…

About the trip: there's a lot to rant about, but I'll just tell you about what happened yesterday (Wednesday), we all went to the Harmon mountain, which is the tallest mountain in Israel and the only place with snow-related activities. Sounds great, right? Too bad that about 3000 more people thought about the same thing, it was so damn crowded that I couldn't even try peeing my name on the snow (which is the ULTIMATE snow activity) without the fear of law suit. At the end, I used my coat as a blanked and found myself a nice couzy uphill ramp of snow, and I sat there for about 3 hours without doing shit. Needless to say, I didn't ski (over one hour of waiting in line), I didn't go to the to (another hour of waiting in line) and I didn't build a snow man (one hour of freezing my hands to death), however, the moment I decided to do nothing but look at the snow, it started being fun.

Now ain't I a Shikamaru-wannabe?

On to the story, to a chapter filled with a flashback, half sane demons, and many meat to speculate on.

Chapter 11: The Painter of Death

Naraku was getting even more annoyed, he allowed himself to think about her again; "blonde silky hair, playful eyes, white empty playful eyes…" then he decided, he wanted the same eyes, "can you do it?" he asked inside his head, "I can try, but not here, this body can't stand much more now, you've got to get to somewhere safe before you really die" the voice answered him.

"Success!" Hob cried, it seemed like their enemy has given up, it was a surprise, the small boy has suddenly lost all of his strength and was hit badly, a punch threw him to a bush, when he got up he started limping away. "Let's get this idiot!" Doro shouted, "no, we got what we wanted, it's more important to rendezvous with Karen now" Hob stopped his friend

"can… *hhea* you… *ghh* do it?" Naraku struggled to keep his body intact, "I will try, lay down on the floor, the adjustments to your body will be easier that way, it'll take some time" the same voice replied. Naraku laid back and thought about the eyes, he still remembered Hinata, Karen had the same eyes as her, it was no surprise, Karen was her daughter after all.

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"are you sure you want to do this, Hinata?' Neji looked at his cousin, it was one of the rare times that she held her eyes up, he knew that she won't give up on her decision, but it was a surprise nevertheless. "Yes, neither you nor my father can drive me from this. I have made up my mind, I will go and take that test" she answered. "I don't; understand why, your father won't choose Hanabi over you, and the test stopped being a requirement for the position after the Uchiha incident, the last clan master who took the test was 4 generations ago, it makes no sense for you to go through this" he tried to insist, he was already banned from attending to that position as he was a member of the branch house of Hyuga.

 "I know that, it's just that I have to go through that test, it's not about me being or not being the head of the Hyuga clan, I want to do it for myself…" Hinata diverted her stare now, Neji recognized it as 'remembering past experiences', "o.k, I'll send the papers, the whole thing will be ready in two weeks, do you want to keep this a secret from your' father until after you leave?" he asked. "Do it, I hate to do this to you, but I'm leaving today so you'll have to handle all the paperwork on your own, and you can tell my father of that right now, I don't care" she answered.

 "Today? Why all this sudden? You've been sitting by Naruto's bed for the past few months, and when he finally wakes up you're leaving? Shouldn't you at least wait and have a talk with him?"

"That's exactly why I'm leaving, when he got up and tried to escape, I was there, I hit him with everything I have, but I couldn't stop him. Can you understand this? The last time Naruto stood up was three years ago, before the kidnapping, when I was still a chunin, but even with all that, I couldn't stop him from continuing, I'm still too weak…" she looked at her hand, she mastered enough of her family Taijutsu to render a shinobi motionless with one hit, but she wasn't able to stop a half-dead Naruto, "when you'll see me again, I'll look right into his eyes and know that I'm in pair with him, I won't look down anymore!" she announced to herself.

"There is no changing your opinion?" Neji asked, It was a few years since he last fought Naruto, he hated to admit it, but if Hinata couldn't beat Naruto, then his own chances were slim as well. "You know the answer already, don't tell anyone outside the Hyuga about this, after this, one Hinata will die and another will grow out of her" she said fiercely.

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"So this is where the Hyuga base of power lies?" The sand nin asked, "yes, this is the place where I'll be tested to say weather I'm worthy of my eyes or not…", the leaf shinobi looked at her, "tested? What will happen to you?" she asked.

"If I fail to prove that I'm worthy of my eyes, I'll die, if I pass the test, I'll come back unharmed, the third chance is that he'll think I'm not suited to be an Hyuga and will give me new eyes, but that happened only once" Hinata answered, that was all she was allowed to tell her companions, and that was as far as they could escort  her, the rest of the journey was only possible for those with the eyes of the Hyuga, she looked into the water, took of her clothing, and jumped in.

The sea water covered Hinata's body, she tried desperately to swim with the currents of chackra that swirled inside, she felt how the air she stored in her lungs was escaping, she was about to go up for air when she saw a point shining with chackra in the water, "I can get there! I have to!" she thought to herself and begun swimming, she was only a few feet away from it when a large underwater wave hit her and threw her into a whirlwind, she struggled to set herself free from it's grasp but it was useless for her, the water kept on sweeping her in circles, "I can't die here" she tried to scream, but no one was there to hear her, she suddenly thought about everyone she knew, what would they think about her?

 Then it struck her, if she died now, nobody would have been surprised, they would say it was her own foolishness, to take the test of the whale demon, and that the worthless heir of the main Hyuga house has paid the rightful price for her own arrogance.

"I'll show them…' it passed through her mind, "I'll show them that I'm not the same as before, I'm here and they better realize it!" she screamed, the chackra flew out of her body onto the water, there was a moment that the water tried to keep their direction, but the momentum of the chackra was too strong and the water splashed back, leaving a clean 4 feet radius for Hinata to move in, she stepped forward to the point she saw earlier, it was a stone pillar, she sent her hand and touched the rock, she hoped that the chackra in her hands was enough to keep the pillar within her grasp, but as son as she connected her hand to the rock, a giant wave purged her body, searching for some invisible parameter which was required for those things, she felt the chackra focusing in her eyes, and then it all blacked.

Hinata woke up and tried to look at her surroundings, but she quickly realized her eyes were covered with something, she touched her face and tried to remove whatever it was, she felt it perfectly but couldn't pull it down, it was a regular piece of cloth, other then the fact it was bursting out with chackra.

Only then she remembered what she was supposed to be doing, "I know I hadn't succeed yet, since I didn't meet him… but if I've failed I should have died…" she tried to sort he thoughts, only to realize that wherever she was, it was the place where she had to be.

"So what now?" she wondered to herself, walking around naked and blindfolded made her feel pretty uncomfortable, but then again, the only one who would have the chance to see her in this state wasn't a creature that took any particular note in humans, other then when they came to receive it's blessing, like she was doing now. She sent her hands around, she couldn't touch any walls or the sealing, she placed her foot a feet beside her, checking for ground, she took another step forward, but then it suddenly struck her that walking around won't do her any good, "is anyone here?" she whispered.

Nothing in her whole life ever prepared her for that voice, not her father's shouts of her being too weak, not her cousin's hateful words, and not even Orochimaru's mad shouts of joy when he fought Kakashi and Gai,, it was terror that came only when one has lived and killed through centuries, lived and killed until it met the point when killing stopped being the center of it's life and become the whole skeleton of it.

"So, a daughter of the painter who draw death has come to me, are you still spilling the blood on the paper and creating the masterpiece of human art?"

"Yes, the family of Hyuga still watches as the red juice of humans covers the soil" Hinata answered, the painter of death was the first Hyuga, a simple painter that came to draw a battle between shinobies when he met the demon. The whale just looked at his paper and said he didn't like the picture, Hyuga answered him that he draws all that he can, the demon asked him what he would do if he got the chance to see the real fight between the ninjas, the artist replied that he would finish the painting and devote his rest of life to further the creation of the art, so the demon gave him the eyes that can see the chackra, that was the day when the Byakougen was created.

 A year after that the Hyuga clan was established, and a generation after it's establishment came the second head of the clan, Karen, and made it prosper into the greatest clan in the fire country.

"Why are you here?"

"I have come to ask for the eyes you  have given once to my ancestors, I stand before thee with the pledge for them" Hinata answered, she tried her best to stay calm and not to show her nervousness, but every thing she planned crashed when the demon talked to her, it was a complete loss of self esteem.

Which was exactly why she came there.

"I won't back down, if I can't face him eye to eye, how can I think about facing Naruto? Real demon, ha? nothing against my own personal demons" she thought to herself, she may not be able to see him, but she could make sure that if she was able, then she would stare right into his face, without hesitation of any sort.

"So, that is what brought you here? What a fitting twist for the painters blood, now the future generations will hold nine brushes to deal death with…"

"what? Can you read my mind? What did you mean by that?" she asked in fury, she couldn't figure out any of the things he said, but it still angered her, not only that she was blind and naked in front of him, but even her own thoughts were a open book in the demon's eyes.

"No, it's this place, the blood of the painter which flaws in your veins is drawing what's in your heart, can you see it?"

see? See what? Hinata tried focus her eyes, but the cloth of chackra was in her way, she sent her hands to pull it off, this time she tried forcing chackra out of her hand, when she grabbed the cloth she felt something on her hand, like a small itch poking her palm, she suddenly realized that the poking created some sort of pattern, she focused more chackra out, and the feeling grew stronger, she could feel their was a large block of chackra on the cloth, and the chackra had some inscribing marks on it, she could feel that her body was at his limit, she sent a final wave of chackra, the itch reflected back to her hand, she could identify the cloth now, it was a forehead protector, with the symbol of a whale on it, as she fell to the ground she heard the voice talking.

"congratulations, daughter of the painter, you've mastered the ultimate eyes of Hyuga, the sixth sense of chackra"

a second before she fell unconscious, Hinata realized that she could even 'see' the shape of the ground by the reflected chackra, "you'll be the first person to see my new eyes, you'll finally see that I can change myself and be the greatest, just like you, Naruto" she made a silent promise to herself.

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"I can't, I'm sorry, the eyes of hyuga are the work of another demon, not mine" the voice said, "but… but.. I waannnnt them!" Naruku replied, he tried to adjust his fall in a way he won't be too hurt, he managed to avoid having his head priced, but a pillar still hit his arm, leaving an ugly looking entry whole, but his arm didn't bleed, he never had any blood of his own to spill.

"stop being such a baby! I'm sure that the whale demon will gladly give you a pair of eyes if you go to him…" the voice hissed, he would have much rather to awaken at an older age, somewhere like twelve or so, Naraku was completely different from all other humans, but he still had one normal thing; he was an annoying eight year's old child.

*****Chapter 11 – The painter of Death – END*****

well, that leaves a bit more space to speculate on Naraku, right?

Oh, and before I forget, shout outs(!):

Babowonsumi:

You think the plot is confusing now, ha? then prepare to have your mind ripped apart into oblivion with the plot twists coming  around, I've got so many surprised lying ahead that you can't even see where it ends (neither can I, actually, I'm still not sure about how I'm gonna end the story, I planned on going Trigun but it doesn't fit me anymore..).

What lack in detail do you mean? I'm kinda positive that I explain (or at least out hints) most of what's going on, but if there's something you didn't get then tell me about it, so I can explain it more clearly.

Eikou:

Well, Naraku does seem like a main character, and it does look like I'm teasing you to expose him, but don't worry, I think that everyone will guess right until he 'comes clean' with his name.

I'm pretty sure that I wrote about my teacher's son a few months ago, I mentioned it again because when I looked at chapter 10 to edit it, I was thinking "why the hell did I write this thing?" and then I remembered that that's why.

Actually, your idea sounds good for a dark "naruto learns the truth and leaves the leaf" story, have Naruto steal a bunch of scroll and by mistake give him a scroll describing something evil about his past (like how he was planned to be an experimental super weapon, but nobody wanted to take care of him, and even his mother didn't want him) and then have him leave to a remote village and plan an evil revenge on Konoha! Wah ha ha! it's another twisted creation of my mind!

Fushigi yugi: I was planning to check it out someday, I'm not a "all action and bombing" anime viewer, I watch almost everything (expect Shonen ai and Yaoi, which as you know, I detest!), and I espically like stories with 'real' characters in them, so I'll give it a chance in a few weeks I hope.

V-day: I didn't get any candy )…; but still, it won't stop me from completely forgetting that this day exist! And I don't even have any idea what I'm saying right now!

No questions about Narauko, eh? That's cool. Konohamaru will get his big 'entry' in a few chapters from now, I'm not exactly sure what will happen to him (I have a habit of killing supporting characters once a while), but he'll get his '15 minutes of fame', sometime, someday.

List of the teams? You actually expect me to write so many new names that I'll never use? God, that's crazy! The important indvuidals go like this: Karen-Hob-Doro in team 13, Gray and Tack are each the only important genin in their teams.

Shadowcriminal:

Mighty close, that's all I can say about your Naraku theory, a few more inchs and you'd have it.

And we really need to stop discussing history, it just reminded me that I lost 6 hours of  history lessons in the past week, so I need to get someone's notebook and copy it, fast…

Peace out, Rock on!

Synaptix:

Another close theory, but no. reincarnation stories should come to fix something that went wrong in previous life, mostly in the romantic side, but since Hinata and Naruto got together, it doesn't really work. And if Naraku is really Naruto's reincarnation, then who's Hinata's? you can say it's Karen but it'll be like 'father dating his daughter" thing, which is really disturbing. Anyway, I thought once about making this into a trilogy and have a 'high school reincarnation' fic as the ending part, with Naruto and Hinata again, but then I realized that if I'd do that, then this story is completely useless, so I moved on. But keep guessing you're on the right track.

Last note: I'm happy to say that I have many new twisted ideas for the plot line, and that this story will become even more messed up, HOORAY!