PART 5
He never saw her. He was too bent on revenge.
She never saw him. She was too pressured by grief and family.
Even though they were in the same class. Their eyes saw each other, but their hearts never did.
To Sasuke, she was just a girl who was familiar.
To Hinata, he was just a boy who was familiar.
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"Tsunade-sama, let me talk to you about the punishment…" a doctor said.
"What is it?"
"This punishment blinds the subject and puts him in a torturing sleep for 9 days."
"And? This was decreed as the punishment for traitors."
"No one must be allowed to touch him. If one does, the sleep will transfer to the one touching the subject."
Tsunade nodded. "Just keep him in a room alone, with cameras of course."
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Punishment. He was getting what he deserved now. Naruto and Sakura were arguing against the Hokage, saying that there must be another way.
Punishment. He was strapped to a long bed in a dark room. They said he would be blind for 9 days, reliving his worst regrets.
A medic nin stood beside him. Seals flew across her hands and they began to glow with yellow chakra. She placed one hand over his eyes, the other over his chest. Soon he succumbed to darkness, and suffering.
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"Naruto-kun, what's wrong?" Hinata was worried. It seemed unusual that the blond would be so down.
"Sasuke's getting his punishment." Naruto sulked.
"What is his punishment?"
Naruto was quiet for a while, and in a hushed voice said, "9 days of blindness and reliving the worst times of his life."
Hinata's eyes widened and she froze. Naruto immediately regretted answering.
She was extremely against such cruel punishment, and she had many times in the past that she had come to regret. Besides, when she was little, she was blind.
"I'll try to talk to the Hokage tomorrow, so let's just eat our ramen." Hinata said half-cheerfully.
"Thanks Hinata! You're the best!" He hugged Hinata, who blushed a little bit and smiled.
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Fugaku's head lay at his feet. His mother was pinned against the wall with a sword through her chest. Itachi stood before him laughing insanely.
The scene changed and he saw a cute girl with white eyes. Suddenly she was on the ground, blood seeping from beneath her eyelids.
Let the pain stop. Please. No more…
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"I'm sorry, Hinata, I can't do it." Tsunade said impatiently. "He's a traitor, and this is what he deserves."
"Nobody deserves that kind of treatment! Not even the bloodiest assassin! He had a very good reason for leaving the village."
Tsunade sighed in annoyance. "I still can't do it, Hinata."
The girl grew enraged, and said harshly, "Then I will." With that she fled the office. It took 20 seconds for Tsunade to think of what Hinata was going to do before she chased after Hinata calling, "Wait! Stop, Hinata!"
Hinata ran across the street of the hospital. Instead of going through the main entrance, she jumped onto the roof, and proceeded with the stairs from there.
Important patients/subjects were always on the top floor. She activated her Byakuugan searching each room. Finally her eyes stopped on the door to a huge dark room.
She tried turning the knob, but it was locked. She focused on her chakra and forced it into the keyhole and the door creaked open.
She peered through. Everything was dark, but she could make out a bed with a long figure laying on it.
Hinata neared the bed, and stared into the most beautiful face she had ever seen. This is Uchiha Sasuke, last of the Uchiha clan.
His face seemed to have been carved carefully, and his skin was like the moonlight. His long lashes were curled over his closed eyes, and his black charcoal hair was parted at his forehead.
Something about him seemed to reach out to Hinata. She knew him. But how? He seemed so familiar, and she tried thinking of his voice. But the voice she heard was of her deceased best friend. The best friend who had died after her surgery.
His brow was wrinkled in pain, and she wanted to reach out to soothe him. To tell him that everything was okay. And that's what she did.
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"Little brother, you don't have enough hate…"
Sasuke slashed blindly with an edged blade. He was surrounded by darkness and white lightning crackled and shook at his feet. His energy was slowly being sucked away.
His body grew tired, his breath grew heavy.
Suddenly Itachi stood before him with a cold emotionless expression. Sasuke closed his eyes, and thought, "its over"
A scream pierced the air. Eyes snapped open. Itachi was writhing in pain before him, and suddenly melted away.
"Hero-kun!!" Sasuke turned with wide eyes to see the figure of a small girl. His best friend.
Tiny arms wrapped around him. Cute little eyes stared up at him blindly and yet innocently. "Thank goodness! You're okay!"
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Hinata screamed the moment she touched him. Agonizing pain flooded her body, and her world turned colors. First yellow then red and finally black.