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Chapter 6: Death Changes Everything

Where is she? She didn't even go to the academy today. Did something happen? Wait what if she went to the compound? Even after I asked her not to go.

Wait until I see her I' am going to…suddenly what I was thinking goes away as she walks towards me. I cross my arms over my chest as she walks with her shoulders slumped and dragging her feet. Her face isn't visible to me because she has it bent down towards the ground. What is wrong with her? I ignore this nagging feeling inside my gut as I watch her. She nears me and looks up, her eyes look red. But suddenly she smiles at me and laughs.

"Are you crazy? What is wrong with you?" I ask her acting uninterested.

"I just wanted to see your reaction to my after crying face! You've never seen me cry have you?" she questions me with a tilt of the head. She taps her finger on the side of her mouth.

"No," I answer and silently add that I never want to. I don't know how I'd react to it.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's start training you slow poke!" she's teasing me! I hate her.

I still can't believe that Hinata and I are friends, instead of me teaching her we have actually been learning together. One thing that is weird is the fact that I have not yet gotten bored of her, instead it seems as if I can't wait to see her again. I arrive earlier at the academy and sometimes I even walk to her house first so I could walk her to school. I never thought that I would be able to tell everything to Hinata, I talk about my father, how I wish he would pay more attention to me, or how I wish I was better than Itachi and that people would stop comparing us. It's actually true what she told me when we first met, about her being a good listener; she just listens and never interrupts me. The truth is without her I'd be a loner and I wouldn't have anyone I could trust and someone to tell the truth to and for that I'm thankful to Hinata.

The only thing that upsets me about her is the fact that she is so close to Itachi. I'm not sure why but this ugly feeling inside of me grows as I watch them together. It's not jealousy. I could never be jealous of nii-san. But this feeling inside makes me wants to go up to Hinata and take her away and warn my brother to stay away from her. I don't like that Hinata and Itachi are comfortable with each other. I wish she would stutter with him or grow shy at least. But she looks so relaxed and happy to be with him that it upsets me.

What I like about Hinata is her ability to tell me when I've gone too far with anything. She doesn't say anything but her eye's change and I could just tell. She'll look at me with something similar to disapproval then she won't even look at me. She does this when a teacher calls on me to fight with another student and I continue to fight them even though we all know no one can beat me. They continue to fight even though they have no chance; it's almost as if they have something to prove either to themselves or the class. Towards the end I'll look over and she looks at me with those pale purple eyes filled with animosity. Just for a second then I know to tell the teacher to call it off and I go over to her before the teacher says anything. Hinata will then look up to me, smile, and give my hand a squeeze. I'm not sure why it makes me happy.

The crazy fan girls seem to have left us alone but, every once in awhile I see one look at Hinata with hate, they don't say anything to her at least not when I'm around and she hasn't told me that they've bothered her but knowing Hinata they way I do she wouldn't tell me because then I'd hurt their feelings as she always tells me. After a few hours of hand to hand combat we sit down and she begins to lecture me about girls. I hate it when she does this.

"Sasuke please remember that the girls really do love you in their own twisted way," she says to me as she throws some kunai at the dummy hitting the vital point in one throw. Two years ago she wasn't able to do that.

"Whatever," I tell her as I continue reading a book I got on the Sharingan. I sit against a tree as she goes to the dummy in front of me to retrieve her kunai.

"Okay, then at least ignore them if they say anything to you."

"No, if they bother me I'm not going to take it, I'll tell them," that and some other stuff, I say to myself.

"So you don't care if you break their heart?" she asks me as she sits next to me.

"No."

"You should," she says as she start throwing the kunai once more at two dummy's at the same time while sitting down and she hits each mark every time.

"But, I don't."

"Do you understand that these girls are human and they have the very same feelings as you? They aren't lower than you or anything. They are the same as me and everyone else in this world," Hinata grows a bit angry and she twirls a kunai on her finger. I look up from my book to stare at her.

"Are we talking about the same thing?" I question her; she looks away with a blush.

"It's just that why can't we all live in peace? Why do we go to war? What is the point?" she whispers as she looks down. "I understand going and fighting for human rights and stuff by why do we fight each other? We are all the same. We all come from the same person, except we look different and stuff but I'm the exact same person as a cloud nin we aren't different or anything. So why do we fight each other?" Something about her question has me wondering where she is coming from.

"We fight to survive; we go to war because we are shinobi. We have to defend our lives and our people's lives," I respond as I close the book. She looks over at me.

"But why? Why can't we all live peacefully? Why do the Uchiha's think themselves superior to the Inuzuka? Why do clans have those beliefs? Aren't we all the same? We all come from the same person, don't you agree?" she looks so…something about this question has her questioning her teachings and beliefs. "I've been thinking about this today. But why are we separated? Why can't we live wherever we want without having to be a part of a nation? What is it about it that forces us to choose an alliance? Why can't we roam freely and be whatever we want to be without question? Why can't I go to Earth country and live there without fear of being prosecuted as a fire shinobi? Why do we have to…" she stops as she looks up at the sky. I keep my eyes on her and respond.

"People want to be a part of something. We can't just roam lands and pick up and leave to go somewhere else. They want a home a place where they can be secure and be protected by the nation state," I answer some of her questions. "Where is this coming from?" I question her as she looks at me again, her eyes grow wide. She shakes her head as if she's telling me that she's going to change the subject. Her questions still roam my brain.

"Are you ever going to change?" she asks me with a smile on her mouth, as she walks over to me.

"Nope."

"Good, but just be nicer to the girls."

"Not possible."

"It is but, you just don't want to try it."

"True," I say in a low voice hoping she didn't hear me.

"Why, do you act like that, then? Why not change?" she asks me genuinely interested in what I have to say because, she turns to face me with her arms crossed over her chest looking older than eight, and stands in front of me.

I stay quiet thinking of something else entirely then I look at her and say. "I don't know ask me again in a few years, maybe I'll have an answer for you then," I get up to go to our bigger shed to go put my book away and I grab our stuff to go home. I'm eager to get going because Itachi is going to teach me stuff only he can, he said that he's going to help me train and teach me some jutsu's (he's been saying that for the last year) I'm confident this time he really will teach me these jutsu's. We walk quicker than usual and Hinata doesn't say anything as we walk. I look back to find Hinata dragging her feet, almost like she wants me to walk slower. It's only after we're out of the forest that Hinata starts to talk once more.

"Why does it feel as if today is going to change the rest of our lives?" she asks me with worry in her eyes. She reaches down to hold my hand. "Can't we walk slower?" she suddenly asks me as she pulls her hand out of my hold. I continue to walk in a fast pace she jogs to keep up with me.

"What could happen? The whole day is over."

"Yeah, but, it's almost night and tonight there's going to be a full moon," she says to me as she grabs a hold on to my hand even tighter.

"Hinata, you are acting like a child and you're annoying me," I say to her as I remove my hand from her hold.

"I've been feeling like this for the whole week but, for some reason it's stronger tonight. Sometimes this feeling, feels as if it's taking over my whole body and all I could think is that something awful will happen tonight." Hinata tells me as she looks around looking to see if anything is wrong, expecting it to fly at her or something. I let out a sigh.

"Hinata stop being an idiot, nothing is going to happen," I say to her as I walk in front of her going faster, almost running.

"It's just…Sasuke please stop going so fast and listen to me," she raises her voice and I feel her getting irritated with me, I continue to walk ignoring her. "Haven't you noticed that Itachi has been acting stranger over the past year? It's like he's bathed in darkness," I stop to face her. I stopped so suddenly that she didn't even have time to prevent bumping into me and she falls back on her butt. She's about to get up but, I don't let her, I loom over her, she looks a bit scared but, I don't really care right now.

"Leave him alone Hinata," I say to her in a low deadly voice she just watches me with a mixture of fear and regret in her eyes I see her hand go over her stash of weapons. "You always think about him, just because he's stopped talking to you it doesn't give you the right to talk bad about my brother. Do I make myself clear?" I ask her as I still stand over her. She removes her hand from her pouch of kunai. She nods at me and for a second in her eyes I see defeat but, she quickly looks at the ground not wanting or able to look at me in the eyes. I extend my hand out to her she looks up at me then and gives me a small smile and accepts my hand. She gets up and starts to wipe of the dirt on her butt. Then she starts to walk once more. I stop and wait for her to look over at me, and she does.

"Is it okay if I leave, I want Itac…" I don't finish as I see something go over her features making her mouth tighten and look small almost non-existent.

"It's fine, I can see the house from here," she says to me looking at the ground then she looks up at me suddenly. "See you tomorrow?" I nod; she turns away from me as she starts to make her way home. I stay there watching her until she turns to me and waves, I just give her a slight nod and turn away with my hands in my pockets walking on my own, making my way home.

What I don't notice though is her stopping and looking back at me her mouth open almost like she wants to stop me from leaving. I continue my fast pace not stopping for anything.

I want to run after him to force him to stay at my house but I have to let him go. Itachi would kill me if I were to make it so that Sasuke doesn't go back to the compound. Itachi wants Sasuke to witness the aftermath of the Uchiha massacre. He knows that Sasuke needs hate to drive him to live. He understands his brother so well.

But I don't want Sasuke or Itachi to suffer. Why do they have to…I suddenly feel like I want to throw up. As I close the front gate of my house, I make my way to my room to shower and change out of my sweat drenched clothes. I still can't believe the changes in my life over the last couple of years. To believe that I once was a loner and had no friends what so ever yet now mostly all the kids in class talk to me, I can't really consider them friends like I do Sasuke. Sasuke…I smile to myself, my heart feels warm, and I get this weird yet good feeling all over my body. I've never felt this before and I doubt I'll ever feel this again. When I see him alone, I remember back to how he used to be rude, cruel, unkind, and way to confident for his own good. He's still like that but, now he smiles more and sometimes I could even make him laugh. Over the past six months he's opened up to me he's told me his troubles and worries I could sometimes relate to his problems but, most of the times I can't. I feel bad though because he wants to reach Itachi but, Itachi is on a whole other level then either of us. It sucks though if anyone deserves to be the best it's Sasuke. Sure he doesn't have to really train because everything comes naturally to him. I envy him sometimes but I know (even though Sasuke will never admit it) he doesn't take it for granted. I truly wish Sasuke could reach his brother but, I know (I would never admit it) he never will. Itachi is the best the Uchiha have ever seen in like forever, he's one of a kind; no one could reach him no matter how hard they try. But what Itachi is going to do tonight, it just proves that he's on another different level then Sasuke could ever reach…he's doing things only a few shinobi would take on…

Itachi…he's going to lead a lonely life…at least Sasuke will have me…but Itachi is going to be wandering the world alone…I feel my tears burn my eyes. Itachi has calculated everything about Sasuke up to the point of me joining Itachi in a few years when Sasuke leaves to get stronger. I'm supposed to join Itachi and learn from him so I could use my knowledge to help Sasuke's quest. Itachi is a true genius he probably equals the Fourth Hokage in my heart. But whenever I think about Itachi I get this cold feeling take over my body, my whole body starts to shake from fear. I get up off my bed to walk around my room with my arms hugging my mid-section. I hate this feeling, I feel weak and it's as if those two years I've trained have meant nothing I fear him, sometimes I really do. I feel as if whenever he chooses he could kill me in a second like before I even blink, I'm dead. What's weird is that sometimes when we are alone he never really says anything to me but, I could feel his eye's watching my every move sometimes he even watches me with the Sharingan. Sometimes he looks at me as if he wants to confess something to me, like he has something to tell me, but then he quickly looks away from me it's almost as if I imagined everything but I know what I saw. I always feel this strange urge to kneel before him and ask for forgiveness and offer myself as some sort of sacrifice to him. I feel like I don't know Itachi at all, there are days when I can go up and hug him and laugh with him but others when I have to avoid his gaze for fear that he would kill me. But the truth is that I will entrust my life to him. If it means that I get to help Sasuke for him to get the strength and skill, for him to survive then I will sell my soul to Itachi…everything for Sasuke's sake. That's where Itachi and I are alike; we both would do anything and everything for Sasuke, only Sasuke.

I haven't been able to sleep. I go down the stairs but as I reach the downstairs I see a few elders of the Hyuga clan with my dad and get this feeling that Itachi is done. That he's completed his mission; I hide against a wall and listen in on my father's conversation.

"It seems as if they have all been killed," the old man says. I stay put trying to listen but, it's difficult because my heart is beating so fast and so loud I'm afraid one of the men downstairs might hear it, I also feel like I can't breathe.

"There are reports saying that just one man killed them all that it's the bloodiest massacre we've seen since the nine tailed fox attacked Konoha. There's no way anyone survived," another man much younger says. I see my father with a frown like he's deep in thought.

"So what you saying is that the Uchiha clan has been annihilated, every last member, this is what your source told you?" I hear my father ask. Sasuke that's all I could think about. I reach for my heart as I fall on my knees, crying. Itachi he did it…he really did…in my heart I wished that he wouldn't be able to go through with it…this is going to break Sasuke…he is going to…I think about the first time Sasuke actually talked to me, the first time he smiled at me, or when I first made him laugh, or how we would help his mom make dinner, well me not him, he'd just sit there and watch us. I feel as if the stairs are spinning, I also feel my heart start to break. I close my eyes with tears still coming down and concentrate. I must get to Itachi as fast as I can before it's too late and he leaves without saying good-bye. I get up and almost trip on the first stair I take but, I quickly recover and run down the stairs. I ignore everyone there, as I run past them, I barely hear my dad yell out my name. I choose to ignore it as I run the fastest I've ever run in my life.

I feel as if something, no someone has given me new strength that I've just found and need. I jump on to the tree branches so I could get away from the people on the streets because they are walking to slow. I feel my tears dry as soon as they fall out of my eyes. The only thing on my mind is the need to get to the Uchiha compound soon.

As I near it I see a few people at the entrance trying to see inside. I stay on the branch and use my Byakugan to locate Sasuke. I soon find him in his house in front of his parents who are on the floor dead. Itachi shouldn't have let Sasuke in! He shouldn't have let him see their dead bodies!

I send some charka to my feet then jump off the branch on to the ground as I jumped to the ground my feet left about a foot deep shape of my sandals, the dirt flew all around me. I run faster towards a wall some thirty feet away, as I get closer just a few feet away from the wall I jump up and land on top of it. I hear some Jounin yell at me but, I jumped on the other side, into the compound.

I start to run once more feeling wetness on my sandals and toes and I feel it splash on my clothes. I look down expecting to see water but, instead it's blood. Then I smell it, I smell the blood and death. I fall to my knees in a puddle of blood; my legs are covered in it. I feel the vomit in my throat wanting to come out. I swallow it, I get up slowly, my legs feel wobbly. I start to run once more until I trip. As I fall my face falls in another puddle of blood I put my hand down to get up once more. That's when I feel something squishy in my hand I look down to see my hand inside a man's stomach. He's lying there on the ground with his eyes open, a mixture look of pain and astonishment on his face, I look at the man and the tears start to fall once more. This time I do throw up. I remove my hand out of his stomach. I slowly look ahead to see a few dead bodies scattered around in the street. I stay there looking, not believing what I see; I feel the blood drip down my face onto my neck and clothes. I can't believe Itachi did this all by himself, what kind of monster is he? I get up slowly feeling the vomit go up into my throat. As I get up I feel something stick to my leg, I don't look down at it instead I just reach down and pull it off of me. I put my hand to my mouth to stop the vomit but, it's no use it comes out against my hand. I slowly reach down to remove it then I notice on my sleeve the small intestine stuck on it and it goes down touching the ground, I remove that too. I start to run once more feeling light headed and trying to flee all those dead. I feel the blood dry, becoming one with my skin, as I run once more. I just hope I'm not too late. Once I reach their house I see them both standing outside their house, a few feet away from each other. I let out a breathe I seem to have been holding waiting until I saw Sasuke once more, I can see that he's been crying even now he's still crying.

"So Hinata you did decide to join us?" Itachi asks me without turning around. I notice Sasuke turn to look at me with fear, desperation, and a need to run away in his eyes.

"Leave, Hinata!" Sasuke yells at me with hate taking over in his eyes. I take a step back this is the first time I hear him yell, I blink then I see him on the ground unconscious I start to run towards him but, then Itachi blocks my way.

"What did you do to him?" I ask him my eyes and voice reflecting my sorrow for him.

"Nothing, only scar him for the rest of his life. Because of this tragic event our Sasuke will change, and let me tell you not for the better," he says to me in a bored voice and his Sharingan still activated. I look into Itachi's eyes and notice the bitterness and hate. He's putting up this front to distance himself from me. He's readying himself for when he runs. I grip my pants as I look away from Itachi…he's pushing me away and I hate it.

"Were you playing on leaving without saying good-bye to me?" I whisper as I look up once more deciding to face him instead of hiding.

"It wouldn't look really good if I was caught in your compound before I left now would it? After all I just annihilated the most powerful clan in Konoha," Itachi says as he looks at me with emotionless eyes and an unreadable expression. "It isn't a good-bye."

"I know…but it still would've been nice if you remembered me…" I whisper as I walk to him and he takes a step back.

"You smell like death," he murmurs as he tries to hide his disgust. I find myself laughing…it's wrong but I feel in that moment he wanted me to laugh…like he wanted the last thing to hear was my laughter…it makes it easier on him. I notice his shoulders relax and a small smile comes onto his face. This is how I want to remember Itachi even if I don't see him for years on end I want to see him smiling. Suddenly he gets blurry as I feel my tears wash away the dried blood on my cheeks.

"I'm sorry I wanted to…smile…before…gone…" I mumble with hiccups. I rub away the tears as I try to clear my eyes.

"I couldn't remember you any other way…" he murmurs as I hear him walk away.

"You're wrong I'm going to make Sasuke forget about getting revenge! He's going to stay by my side and we are going to get married and I'm going to make him happy and we are going to prove your innocence so that you could live with us! That's the future that awaits us Itachi just wait and see!" I shout at his retreating back. I want to believe it I want to believe in a beautiful future with the two Uchiha brothers.

"I don't want you to learn more about our evil ways but you will become my student it's the only way that Sasuke will be able to move past this. And I believe you, Hinata and Sasuke will marry and I'll be back in the village living until I'm an old man, it'll be us and your family. Always the three of us," this isn't like Itachi. He doesn't talk much so why is he…I look around and find him gone. I feel something in my hands and find a summoning scroll, he left it for me for when I go looking for him I'll be able to find him.

"Sasuke won't leave me, he's going to stay with me and we'll prove your innocence," I whisper to myself as I walk to Sasuke's motionless body. "He won't go looking for revenge, he won't." I lay my head on his chest as I start to sob. Itachi…poor Itachi…

"Lady Hinata are you alright? Are you hurt?" a Jounin I've never seen before asks me.

"I'm fine, but Sasuke I think he needs to go to the hospital," I say to him as I look down at Sasuke, he looks as if he's in pain and he's still crying.

"He's still alive?" the Jounin asks me, I nod. "Lady Hinata, do you know who did this?" he asks me as he goes down to get Sasuke and carries him to the hospital.

"It was Itachi Uchiha, he did this." I say to him as I start walking away. He leaves running away to get to the hospital quickly. I leave to get to the hospital to be with Sasuke for when he wakes up, because, even though he won't ever say it, I know he needs me. I leave the Uchiha compound and I see a lot more people outside of it they all look at me with horror filled eyes, I actually hear some of them gasp and I hear some whispering. I go around all of them ignoring each and every one of them. I make my way slowly noticing people run away from me. I don't even really notice, I don't hear their yells, their gasps, their in takes of breathes I ignore every last one of them. All I can think about are Itachi's words, Sasuke's well-being and his face filled with pain.

I arrive at the hospital and they inform me that Sasuke is just fine and he should wake-up in a few hours.

"May I stay with him, then?"

"Wouldn't you rather get cleaned up?" the nurse asks me as she makes a face like I smell bad or something, I don't notice any weird smells so I ignore the face she is making.

"No, I'd rather stay by Sasuke's bed."

"I think you should go-"but before she could continue I interrupt her.

"Don't you get it? His parent's were killed by his own brother! I'm his only friend and I know he needs me. I want to be there for him, I need to be there!" I yell at her and I could feel everyone watching me, and the nurse to see what she has to say but before she could say anything, I say. "I'm sorry, it's just I need to be there for him, I'm all he has left," I quietly say to her, I feel the tears roll down my cheeks once more.

"Okay, fine," she gets up from behind the desk to walk me to Sasuke's room. "Try to sleep okay, Lady Hinata," she says to me as she walks me into the room. I turn to the nurse and bow to her.

"Thank you," she nods and smiles at me as she leaves the room and closes the door behind her. I stand there watching as Sasuke sleep with no more pain on his face and he's stopped crying. I know Sasuke, after today he won't cry anymore so I cry for him. I cry for his lost childhood, the loss of his parents, the betrayal of his brother, his dreams shattered, and his innocence lost but most of all because I know he won't be able to cry because, he'll think of it as a weakness. I go and sit next to his bed and put my cold hand into his cold hand, I squeeze it. I fold my arm next to his stomach and rest my chin on my arm, as I let the tears fall freely not wiping them away.

I wake up thinking I was just dreaming everything but, I look around my room only to find it isn't my room but, a hospital room. I feel something in my hand only to find a small hand covered in dried blood. I look over to find Hinata looking at me, her face is covered in dried blood only some lines under her eyes and cheeks show her skin, and her clothes also have dried blood on them. She smells like death and vomit mixed together. I look at her confused, she looks tired and worn out, her eyes are red form all her crying, it looks as if she's been up all night taking care of me and watching over me. I feel a lump in my throat but, I swallow it back down.

"Last night…did it really happen?" I see something dark come over her and she looks down at the covers not being able to look at me, she just nods.

"So Itachi…he killed everyone…he killed my parents…and the whole clan?" I ask her she looks up at me with tears in her eyes and nods. I look away from her to the wall and feel all these emotions trying to take over. I feel a need to cry but, I won't. I must be strong and not show any emotions. I let go of her hand not wanting any connection's to her.

"Sasuke…" she whispers my name driving away any dark thought's I had, I turn to her and look at her with cold eyes.

"The only reason we will stay friend's is because you saw something in Itachi that all of us failed to see. Remember that, that is the only reason," I say to her in a voice that holds no emotion what so ever. She looks at me still crying softly and nods. "Why do you cry?" I ask her in an irritated voice.

"Because, you won't," she says softly. I get up off the bed and get my clothes to change not wanting to look at her because all my dark thought's will leave me and I'll never be able to avenge my clan. Plus I might need to kill her to obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan just like Itachi, in order to kill him. I finish changing and I walk to the door without looking back at her I say. "I'll see you at the Academy on Monday," then I open the door and leave to go to the Uchiha compound to see if what Itachi said to me is true.