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Hinata woke to the sky over her head. Her eyes fluttered and she frowned. "Hinata…" his voice rang out to her. "Are you going to keep dragging me around like a possession or are you going to let me go home?" she asked bitterly. He walked over and cut the chakra chords binding her wrists. She looked at her wrists and rubbed them to get the feeling to return. Suigetsu and Juugo watched her, trying to figure out what her next move was going to be. She just watched Sasuke as he moved to sit across the fire from her.
"What I did…" he began but she glared at him. "Is unforgivable, and there is nothing you could say or do that would make it right. I don't care if you can explain it. You make me sick." She snapped and his eyes trailed to meet hers. "I know, and I would beg forever to the ends of time forgiveness, but it seems I don't have that long." He said and she glared at him. "I would still never forgive you. I loved you Sasuke, I turned down Kiba, Izuna, Shino, and even Naruto for you, and you use me? You raped me Sasuke, begging forgiveness will never make amends for that." She said and turned to face away from him, rolling over to face her back away from the fire.
Sasuke stood and walked away, but they could all hear his violent coughing from the campsite. Hinata frowned, she couldn't understand why he had done what he had done, but she knew not even him begging for his life would make her feel right about what he had done. Her mind hated him, her body hated him, but her heart still had this twinge… her heart still held a place for him, albeit a very small place he was still there. She was angry… she couldn't understand… she didn't want to understand. Not anymore, she just wanted to go home, so she could see Nana, Itachi, and Neji. She rolled towards the fire and saw Sasuke return from the woods. He looked paler than usual and his lips were tinged red. She shut her eyes and went to sleep once he had fallen to his knees and flopped onto his side to go to sleep as well.
Suigetsu and Juugo left to go hunt because they couldn't sleep and they had gotten bored. The howl of the wolf woke Hinata, but Sasuke remained still. A hand covered her mouth as the white wolf skulked through their camp. Hinata's first instinct was to scream, but when a familiar face came into view, she calmed down. She looked up to see Itachi's piercing red eyes and breathed a sigh of relief. She looked across the camp to see Sasuke's eyes open weakly. Nana grabbed him under his arms and lifted him to his feet. She was gentle with him, and Hinata hated should have just left him where he had collapsed, face down in the dirt. Itachi helped Hinata onto his back and Hinata watched as Nana helped Sasuke walk along.
"Nana… I thought you would be dead by now…" Sasuke muttered weakly. Nana snorted as the wolf ran behind Sasuke and nudged him along. "No, I am still alive, and I have been living in konoha. Hinata sought the truth… she brought me home." Nana said and Sasuke nodded. "I killed Itachi… then I found the truth… he was only protecting me… I have sullied the Uchiha name… but maybe my heir will help the Uchiha regain its glory…" he said weakly and fell into another coughing fit. Nana stopped walking and helped him stay standing. She reached to steady him and blood spattered her face and he hit the ground. Her eyes were wide and she looked at Itachi, whose eyes held the same sorrowful expression. "He has what you had…" Nana said and Itachi frowned and nodded.
Nana wiped the blood from her face and drug Sasuke to his feet and forced him to look at her. "Sasuke, look at me." She said and Sasuke's unfocused eyes roamed her face. "I can't…" he whispered and went limp in her arms. She lifted him onto her back the best she could and took off into a run, Itachi right behind her carrying Hinata. The wolf howled and the gates opened when they got close enough. Itachi and Nana ran straight to the hospital. Nana refused to hand the young Uchiha off to anyone but Tsunade. She found the blonde, who led her to an empty room.
Nana set Sasuke on an empty bed and Itachi set Hinata on another. "Don't leave me here with him! Please!" Hinata begged and Shizune rolled her bed from the room and into another. Nana didn't leave Sasuke's side for a moment. Itachi furrowed his brow and walked out. He followed Shizune back into Hinata's room. He didn't fully go into her room; instead he listened to their conversation. His teeth grit and he made his way back to Sasuke's room. He grabbed his younger brother by the shirt and shook him. "How could you do that!" he snapped and Nana yanked his hand from Sasuke and stood between the two. "I already went over this with him." She snarled and Itachi was fuming. It became an all-out yelling and shoving contest between the two, who had never yelled at each other once in their lives, nor had they ever laid a hand on the other in anger.
Sasuke began coughing again and they stopped yelling at each other. Nana wiped her eyes angrily and looked away from her friend with shame and regret on her face. Itachi frowned and rubbed her shoulder lightly in apology.
"I made a mistake!" Sasuke said to the best of his ability. Nana whirled on her feet and grabbed Sasuke by the shirt and yanked him up to her. "Damn right you did! What the hell was going through your mind?" she snarled and he coughed once. "I... I only wanted a chance to revive the clan… I killed my brother… now I am all that is left… what was I supposed to do?" he asked and Nana backhanded him. The sound echoed through the room and Itachi pulled her away from Sasuke.
"You give her a choice, Sasuke. A choice, you don't force her into this!" Nana yelled and Itachi held her back. "And for your information Sasuke, you aren't alone! You aren't the last Uchiha! I'll have you know, your brother is the only thing standing between you and death. I will kill you if you touch her again!" Nana screamed as tears streaked down her face. She had continued to struggle against Itachi's grasp, but after a while she had given up.
"You lie… Itachi is dead…"Sasuke slurred his head swimming from dizziness. "Sasuke, if I weren't having so much trouble keeping Nana away from you, I would be choking the life out of you myself." Itachi said and Sasuke looked at him for the first time. Nana had stopped struggling, but her anger had turned from yells to sobs. Itachi slowly released his hold on Nana. She hit the floor and succumbed to her tears. It wasn't long before she began to sober up. She stood and wiped her eyes. Her hands were still shaking as she walked from the room.
She made her way to Hinata. Hinata sat on the hospital bed looking down at her hands until she heard her door open. "I'm sorry he did that to you…" Nana said and Hinata rubbed her knuckles insecurely. "He… he is dying from the same disease Itachi was dying from, isn't he?" she asked and Nana crossed her arms over her chest. "He got the disease from taking Itachi's eyes. He could hardly see when he took you. He still can't see clearly now. This began not too long after you brought us home…" Nana said and Hinata nodded. "I am going to keep the child, the village elders paid me a visit… they told me if I declined…" she began then her eyes trailed up to her older sister. "If I had declined… it would be you they would force this upon…" Hinata said and the room was silent.
Nana's calm façade vanished instantly, Hinata's head shot up as an angry aura filled the room. Wind whipped Hinata's hair around and she had trouble keeping herself stable on the bed. Hinata could have sworn Nana's eyes flickered red for a moment. Hinata could feel the hatred coming off of Nana. The glass window rattled in its place. The papers that were neatly stacked were all over the room, torn to shreds. The door was ripped off its hinges and Hinata's eyes filled with fear as Nana spun on her heel and walked straight out of the room.
"Lady Tsunade!" Hinata screamed and the blonde came running. "She didn't take the news well! I'm afraid she may hurt someone!" Hinata said and Tsunade took in the state of the room and nodded. She ran out and told Itachi what happened. He rushed from the hospital. It wasn't hard to find her. Half of the training area was blown away from her wind. She sat in the center of the destruction, her knees pulled to her chest and her arms wrapped tightly around them. He could hear her cries within the wind. Her long hair whipped around her and she looked as if she wanted the wind to take her away.
He clung within the trees that had managed to stay standing and he made his way to her. He dropped down in front of her and she looked up at him, sniffling. Her white wolf whined from her side. "Nana…" He murmured and she sniffed once more. "She is too young… she is… she is only seventeen…" she sobbed and he frowned. "I know, Nana, trust me… I know… the way they are making her do this… that is how my mother had me… the elders forced her to do the same, except my mother was younger than her…" Itachi said and the roaring winds began to die down.
"She is still a baby…"he said and she nodded. "She did this for me…" Nana said and Itachi looked at her, shock evident in his eyes. "What do you mean?" he asked. "They wanted the Uchiha clan restored… and it was either her…" she began hesitantly and Itachi fisted his hands in the ground. "Or me…" Nana said and the tears fell again. "I don't know why… I don't understand why… Why would she do this for me?" Nana asked and Itachi shook his head. "It wasn't just for you… she can't kill the child. She doesn't have it in her, she can't bring herself to kill the baby, and even if she could… she couldn't bring herself to kill your hopes and dreams of finding someone you want… if you have a child… no one would really want you…" he said and Nana frowned.
"I understand that… but I would have been better suited to be a mother… she is still a child Itachi…" she said and he nodded. "I know… but the elders demanded a sacrifice, and Hinata gave herself to be that sacrifice, since she already carried my brother's child." He said and stood. "You really scared her, you know…" he said staring up at the cloudy sky. "I know… I guess I should go make amends huh?" she asked, standing and wiping her eyes. "Yes… you should. Maybe bring her some food…" he said and furrowed his brows.
"She claims your eyes darkened." He said suddenly, breaking the silence of their trek back to konoha's main road.
Nana looked at him confused. "I have no idea what would make her think that… I don't know anything about my eyes changing colors..." She said and he nodded. "That was exactly what I was thinking, I didn't think you knew about it either." He said and she frowned. "It is odd if you ask me…" he said and Nana nodded. They stopped by a small bakery in town and bought some things for Hinata.
"…Itachi." Nana said, breaking the silence. He turned to look at her, the box of baked food sitting atop his head as he walked. "Can… can I stay with you…?" she asked and he blinked confused. "What do you mean?" he asked. "With you, in your home…" she said and he chuckled lightly. "I know that… I thought you already did live with me, seeing as you have stayed at my home since we got out of the hospital… or do you just count that as a long time sleep over?" he asked and she snorted in amusement.
"I figured I would formally ask, seeing as now we have Sasuke who is going to live with us… and maybe one day a little Uchiha baby." Nana said with a frown. "Makes sense… but you live with me, you don't have to ask. One rule though." He said and she raised a brow. "what?" she asked and he sighed. "Don't bring any strange people into my house. No boyfriends nothing of that sort." He said and she nodded. "You don't have to worry about that… everyone in konoha our age hates me anyways… and I am so not stooping to the age of our siblings, that's a no go." She said and Itachi chuckled, as he set the box atop his head as he walked. "Figures, but after some time people will stop hating us, and maybe someone will find your crude humor hilarious." He said and she glared at him.
"You mean someone other than yourself of course." She stated and he nodded. "Of course Nana, of course." He chuckled as they walked up to Hinata's door. They pushed it open lightly and were surprised to find the room filled with teenagers. The loud chatter ceased as soon as Nana opened the door. There was a woman standing against the wall with a child in her arms. "Itachi, Nana…" she greeted, the understanding tone in her voice eased a bit of Nana's stress. "Kurenai…" Nana greeted. Itachi removed the box from his head, causing Kurenai to laugh lightly.
"We brought cinnamon rolls Hinata…" Nana said and the white wolf snatched the box and pounced on Hinata and dropped the box on her lap. "Oki! Get off of Hinata!" Nana scolded and the wolf rolled her eyes. "Ok Nana, don't have a cow." The wolf growled to her. The large dog sitting by Hinata's bed let out a humored bark. The brown haired teen with red marks on his cheeks looked from Nana to Oki. "You can understand wolves?" he asked and Nana shook her head. "No… only Oki. Itachi can understand her too. Oki likes making jokes about Neji behind his back." Nana offered with a light laugh and Kiba chuckled.
"Oki says Neji hates spiders… they scare him to death." Nana said and Itachi chuckled. Hinata smiled and her friends began talking to the two older nin. They were completely intrigued with every technique the two had, although they wouldn't reveal their abilities in detail. "So Nana…what do you think of konoha?" Naruto asked. Shino, Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, and Sai looked at the woman interested in what she had to say. Nana smiled lightly.
"It is definitely not what I remember… the young ninja are so strong now… it is truly amazing. When we were younger, we were stars… all because we were acclaimed geniuses… genius has nothing to do with it… it is will power… and all of you have it…" Nana said with a smile. "You all have what it takes to be honorable ninja. You all have what it takes to turn a world of hate into a world of understanding, you grasp the concept brilliantly. You have all been taught well…you all have what it takes to be something greater than anyone says you will be. And I truly wish I could have been raised like all of you…" Nana said and Naruto grinned.
"You are nice when you really put forth the effort!" Naruto laughed and Nana smirked at him. She leaned forwards and thumped him on the forehead. He hit the ground with a bruise on his forehead. Itachi chuckled and Nana turned to look at him. "What? I was only telling the truth. There was nothing nice about it. I completely avoided his question and obviously everything I said went in one ear and right out of the other. "well, we have to go… Tsunade said we could visit for a bit but then we had things to do." Kiba said and the group nodded. "I have kids to deal with over at the academy." Shikamaru sighed. "Good luck with baby names, Hinata." They said as they left the room.
Itachi and Nana sat against the wall near the door and spoke to each other quietly as Hinata ate her sweet snacks. The door opened and Sakura and Ino walked in. Hinata frowned the moment they walked in. "This is what you get slut, now you are stuck here in the hospital for who knows how long, because oh! You got pregnant! It's about time, I mean really slut. You screwed every guy here, so it's pure chance you haven't gotten knocked up until now." Ino sneered and Hinata set her food to the side.
Nana raised a brow and silently stood, Itachi following suit. The two hadn't noticed that the two older nin were there, so Itachi and Nana waited for them to notice. "Whose brat is it, huh?" Sakura asked with a sneer. "Is it Izuna's kid? Or is it Kiba's? Maybe Shino's? Whose baby is it Hinata? Tell us, we are dying to know." Ino laughed and dumped Hinata's food hit the floor. "It's mine." Sasuke's voice rang out from the door and everyone's heads snapped that way. He was leaned weakly against the door frame, breathing heavily.
Sakura and Ino turned back to Hinata in their shock, only to come face to face with Nana and Itachi. "I suggest you leave Sasuke." Hinata said coldly, not even turning to look at him. He looked at her and frowned, but did as she said and left without another word. Sakura and Ino turned to make a move to leave, but Nana sent the two out with one quick wind assisted punch. "I wouldn't bother coming near Hinata again unless you have a death wish." Nana snapped and lifted Ino from the ground by her ponytail. "let me go you monster!" Ino screamed and Nana grinned. "you haven't even seen a monster yet." Nana snickered and threw Ino from the hospital by her hair. Nana strolled back down the hall to see if Sakura were still in the area but it seemed the pink haired one got the hint and ran.
Hinata was allowed to return home that night, where she had returned home to find Neji preparing dinner, offering to take care of her. she felt as if nothing could hurt her now…not with her sister and Itachi acting as bodyguards, not with Neji by her side. Nana smiled as she bid her sister goodnight. "Where do you live Nana?" Hinata asked. Nana was taken off guard by the question and stared blankly for a moment. Hinata had noticed that Nana refused to step foot inside the compound. "Um. I have been staying with Itachi. I… I can't live here… I'm sorry Hinata…" Nana said and Hinata shook her head. "it is no problem Nana, I understand… if his home gives you comfort, then stay there… but I cannot live there…" she said and Nana nodded. "I understand as well, he is there now…" she said and Hinata nodded.
"Maybe… maybe someday… everything will be alright… maybe someday we could all be a family again. I would get married, have my own children. You would get married… Itachi would get married… and we could all live happily… we all deserve happiness…" Nana said softly before she turned and slowly walked away. That night, the nightmares returned, and Nana sat alone in her room… crying and alone suffering from her memories of her own deeds. She didn't cry out, not once did she sob or cry out in her pain, but Sasuke knew she was hurting.
He couldn't do anything about it because he didn't understand her like his brother did. Itachi opened the front door and his bags hit the floor. Sasuke could only tell that the bags had hit the floor because he heard the vegetables hit the floor and roll away from the paper bags they had been in. Itachi's rapid footsteps signaled he knew that Nana was suffering again. Sasuke had not once heard a sniffle or a sob, nor had he felt her chakra spike. You could tell Nana was upset by the aura of the house alone, it was a dark desperate aura that made him feel like hope was lost.
That feeling vanished when Itachi had entered her room. Sasuke wasn't stupid, he knew there was some sort of bond that was stronger than the metal that forged his blade. Stronger than the bonds that connected the village. He knew their bond was something that not even death could shatter, because he had tried and had failed.
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