One year had passed since the day her sun was robbed, not from the sky but quite literally from under her fingers. The last year was only a nightmarish memory – moments overly clear, like frozen in time and weeks only blurs of red and steel.

When he appeared in the gardens of the Hyuuga-mansion she wasn't surprised, it was merely a sign for everything to start once again – for the war to begin anew. Hinata had waited six months for this day, she was as ready as she could ever be, ready to fight until the last breath as her friends did.

But when she looked at Sasuke Uchiha she knew something was wrong, everything seemed to be so different about him...but before she could figure it out he vanished, as if he never were there to begin with.

Once again a year passed filled with days of frenzied rebuilding and training, training for a war you couldn't win, and filled with dreams. Dreams full of dead friends, walking corpses and burning skies.

When they met again she knew, why he was feeling like the burning skies and screaming people – his chakra was not human anymore.