Ruddy brown and grey murk drift and sway over brilliant shafts of light.
Focus.
Yes... Must focus...
Shimmering lights swirl into a small puddle of light in the grey haze. A woman dressed in drab brown robes knocks hastily on the small brown door. The door opens and a sleepy midnight haired woman stands in the doorway.
"Yes?" Hinata asks.
"I need your help, Hinata-sama... It's for my son, it's for Neji." The shaky voice of Tenten says from the robes.
Grey and red swirl drunkenly around the image, blotting it from sight.
A son?
Focus.
A son?!?
Focus!
Light returns in a rose bud funnel, Hinata stands with her back against the door.
"Tenten-kun, please explain." She says with all signs of sleep gone from her.
Tenten lowers her hood and reveals a harried and disheveled hull of her former self "I didn't know who to turn to." She slumps against the wall, her baby bundled in her arms. "I'm so tired... after the war, i found out that i was pregnant, and..." she shudders "And your cousin had died. His father had died..." the baby twitched slightly in her arms. "They found out that I was pregnant with Neji's son. We've been on the run ever since."
"Who though?" Hinata implores "Who is after you?"
"I don't know..." Tenten shudders "I only know that whoever it was, they killed the family i was staying with... even the children."
Hinata wraps her arms under her breasts and stares sorrowfully from mother to baby. "What is it that you wish from me?"
"You are Hyuga. Ca... Can you talk to your father? Have Hiashi protect him... give him a life that I cannot." Tenten holds the baby close to her breast peering into swaddling at a silver eye, she kisses his forehead and coos to him softly willing him back to sleep. "I cannot teach him about the byakugan... I don't know who else to turn to."
Why? Why am I seeing this?
Choose soon.
Choose? Choose what?
Life... or death.