guess what?? this is the last chappie!! and its a song fic n.n
(play bleeding love by leona lewis now n.n)
Hinata looked up at Naruto, her hands clutching his shirt. She heard that strange girl screaming some place far off. She heard Itachi saying something, and it slowly entered her ears and her thought process.
"You will never understand, for you are immature. You wouldn't be able to spot purity if it bit you in the ass and crawled in. She is the pure one of the Hyuga bloodline. She is young, she has never killed, nor has she witnessed a death personally. She has never laid with a man, and she is in love. With her blood, I could control any demon summoning that I wanted to. This girl had total chakra control, which you will never obtain, and therefore can never completely lose her chakra. She is the perfect ninja."
Naruto looked down at her with a smile, blood dripping from one corner of his mouth.
"Hinata-chan, I am so sorry." He coughed, and held her tight, speaking into her ear.
"I love you. Please..."
"Naruto-kun." She whimpered, crying, ignoring Itachi's monologue.
"If Kiba hadn't have...done that... 'Tachi would be right." And she knew it was true. She was not the picture of innocence that he made her out to be. She had in fact had sex with Kiba, though unwilling. She did not have that pure blood that he needed.
"Please...tell me...before..."
"No...No, Naruto-kun. I won't believe you...you can't...can't..."
"Tell me...please."
"I...I love you, Naruto-kun. So much." A ghost of a smile crossed her face, and she clutched him close in an loving embrace. She felt the air escape Naruto's lungs as his last, painful breath left him.
"So you see, you stupid fox, I don't need the Kyubi, I need her."
Remember that Hinata was still not prone to true anger. She had temper flares every now and again, but real anger at one person, no. Only twice so far. Once at Kiba, and now at Itachi. She slowly lifted Nauto's body off her, standing in the utter blackness around them. Her vision was declined, and she was glaring at the ground, one steady thought in her mind.
Kill that bastard
Itachi laughed, a creepy, evil laugh.
"Are you angry?" In a cooing tone that made Hinata want to throw up.
Her fists clenched at her sides, she unconsciously gathered all her available chakra (which happened to be ALL her chakra at the moment) into her palms.
"I am not pure, you stupid, maniacal, ego maniacal, black hearted, pompous, selfish, self righteous, self centered, bastard!" With each insult, her voice increased in volume until she was screaming at the ground. She brought her hands up in front of her, and did seals in quick succession. Mumbling words under her breath that translated(she speaking...er... not japanese n.n) into these sacred words:
"Let thy mind and soul release. Bring forth death and life. Take from thine evil foe, and give to thine love. Protect from danger, not thy body, but thine heart."
As the last seal was completed, Hinata screamed in a known language,
"Crystal Shield no Jutsu!"
The darkness was broken by a blinding light produced by Hinata's palms. She closed her eyes, and allowed it to consume all in its path. Itachi's body came into focus, only to have beans of light shoot through his body, like the katanas that were on the verge of killing Naruto. Hinata was lifted off the ground as the chakra in her body was pushed downward. It exploded into beams of light, shooting from her mouth, eyes, and hands.
It became painfully clear what she was doing. She was going to sacrifice herself for Naruto's sake. She was going to prove herself, in the most extreme way. In her eyes, her death would prove to everyone that she was worth something. She still felt that she had to prove something to her father, to Neji, to Tsunade, to Kurenai, and mostly, to Naruto. Her sweet, innocent Naruto. She hoped that this...her death...would let him know...everything.
Naruto felt a surge of air push into his lungs, and he pulled himself up on his hands, falling into a fit of coughing. Glancing up trough his bangs and eyelashes, he saw Hinata, high in the sky, limp as if she slept. He stood shakily, never allowing his eyes to leave her.
"Hinata-chan!" He cried, his voice cracking in panic. He had to shield himself as a flash of light burst from the girls body. All went white in Naruto's scream.
The steady beep of a heart monitor was the only satisfaction that Naruto had. He sat in a padded chair that had cracks in the old leather and scraped against the cold tile floor. He tapped his toe in time with the beeping. His eyes were closed and he was slumped down in the chair, holding his head up with his right hand and clutching the armrest with the left. She lay there in the thin hospital bed, surrounded my machines, doctors, and metal bars. The only thing that He saw, however, was her frail body under the white sheet.
The she spoke, so softly and quietly that Naruto barely heard her over the deafening beep.
"Naruto-kun." He jerked up, and was kneeling at her side in less than a second.
"Hinata-chan. You're awake."
"I should be dead."
"I'm glad you're not."
"He's dead."
"You killed Itachi, yes." Naruto laughed weakly, then said, "I feel upstaged."
"Naruto-kun." She whispered, then looked him in the eyes with a deathly serious look in her eyes.
"I should be dead."
"But you're not."
"I'm dying, Naruto-kun. I am going to die."
"What? What are you talking about?! You're not going to die. I won't let you." Now it was Hinata's turn to laugh.
She pulled his face down to hers, and gave him a soft, sweet kiss. She leaned forward to whisper four words in his ear.
"You have no choice." Then the steady beep changed into a long, shrill tone. Naruto sat motionless next to the bed, only moving when a doctor shoved him out of the way. He fell into the chair he had once occupied, and it skid loudly across the floor. The sound of nurses and doctors examining Hinata filled his ears, but he could not hear them. He could only feel those soft lips upon his. The last thing of him she would remember. The last thing of her he would remember.
The funeral was a week later. It was as somber as the Hokage's had been over 4 years ago. They all wore black, and it was sunny out. It seemed like it should be raining, or at least overcast, but the sun was shining high in the sky. Even Shikamaru had managed to pull himself away from the clouds, and he even cried a bit. Of course, Temari was there to comfort him. Iruka had been there for Naruto, but all he could manage was the occasional nod of the head. She was dead.
When there was no one there but Naruto and Kakashi, they looked at the gravestone, not speaking for sometime. Then the sun sank lower into the horizon, red mixing into orange, and orange into purple, and purple into pink.
"Naruto-kun, did you ever find out?" Kakashi asked behind his mask.
"Find out?" Naruto asked, his eyes on the stone.
"Did you find out that she loved her."
"Oh...yeah, I did."
"Good...good." Then it was quiet for a moment longer. Then Kakashi said something that was actually useful for Naruto's later days.
"It's better to know, and show it, than to not know until it's too late. If she knew before she died, then she died happily." Then he disappeared in a cloud of leaves. Naruto stayed there, looking at the gravestone still. Then he looked up at the sky and said to himself,
"I showed her, right?" Then he felt her lips upon his yet again, as real as it was the first time.
"You showed her, kid. She knew." And that thought was the only thing that would keep Naruto going for years to come. That and the memories he held dearly.