A day past and Hinata and her team mates were scattering to find a Heaven scroll. So far, they had no luck. Most of the teams that they attacked had Earth scrolls. However, Hinata knows that Naruto's team has a Heaven scroll but has no intention of attacking them. She considers making them move on to the next round. While all three of them leaned near a tree, Shino was thinking of a plan.
"Hinata, what about the Byakugan? Kiba asked. "Can't you still use that?"
"Kiba, the Koumori took my ability to see through things. Therefore, I can't use it anymore" Hinata answered monotonously. "I'm blind as a bat in the light now."
"So you can only see thoroughly in the dark?" Shino asked.
"Yes" Hinata replied. "The only thing that keeps me from blindness right now is the fact that I have black roses. The Hyuuga jutsus are worthless now."
Hinata heard a rustle in the bushes and aimed a black rose at that direction. The rustling stopped and Hinata checked that area out. It was a sound genin she didn't know and accidentally killed. She felt guilty for taking someone's life and pulled the black rose from the genin's neck.
Heheheh. What are you waiting for? Suck his blood.
I refuse to suck the blood of someone whom I just killed.
But I'm thirsty!
Hinata pulled out three blood pills and chewed them all at once. The blood overfilled in her mouth and some of it streamed down her cheeks. It was visible enough for Kiba and Shino to see. Both of them ran to her with worried looks. Shino, however, didn't show that expression.
"Hinata, what's wrong?" Kiba asked her worried. "Did you eat blood pills?"
"Yeah..." Hinata mumbled, keeping the blood in her mouth. "Look down."
Shino was the first to look down and spotted the sound genin that Hinata killed. Kiba saw him too and went two steps back. Hinata didn't blame him for backing up. It really wasn't a pretty sight to see a dead genin with blood still dripping from its neck to the cold rocky ground. Shino just stood there and looked over at Hinata. Hinata caught his gaze but didn't look at him. Killing was something that she does unexpectedly. Whenever she wants to trap someone, she ends up killing them in the process. This is also a reason why she didn't tell anyone about the biju. Since Hinata is half blind, there's a chance that she'll kill fifty percent of the time. So Hinata intends to be careful when around allies.
"I killed him..." Hinata whispered, loud enough for Shino and Kiba to hear. "I didn't mean to. I was aiming for the ground but it went through the neck."
Hinata felt hands on her shoulder. She looked in front of her and saw Kiba. She didn't know how he got there but she didn't seem to care about the reason anymore. Hinata noticed that a bag was beside the sound ninja so she picked it up and went through it. She found a Heaven and Earth scroll in there. She took out both of them and put them in her bag.
"We finally got a Heaven scroll!" Kiba exclaimed happily while Akamaru barked.
"We were actually lucky" Shino said monotonously.
"But we got it brutally..." Hinata sighed, picking up the corpse.
She walked to an open field with Kiba and Shino following her. Kiba dug a grave and Shino found a stone. Hinata placed the corpse gently in the grave and Kiba covered it up. Hinata helped Shino with the stone and placed it at the first end of the grave. Hinata sympathetically placed a black rose on the grave. She knows that it will burn in the sunlight, but it was a life for a life. Hinata and the rest of them left to go back to where they were, not noticing that the black rose turned a heavenly white on the grave.