Disclaimer: I do not own any of Naruto or its characters, but I do own my OCs Please excuse any errors or mistakes in my story, thank you.. And things will finally weave together about the Uchiha massacre and all that good stuff in this chapter if any of you are wondering.. Also I apologize about the review thingy and some of you might think I'm some self centered person or something along those lines but all I can tell you is that that was all just a big misunderstanding and cannot get rid of it unfortunately :( which also reminds me I should kick someone's ass

I was gonna give up on this story but thanks to those who've reviewed for making me motivated to continue, thank you-oh! And I guess making Sakura a better character wouldn't hurt because after reading my chapters my friend told me she seemed more like Ino than herself and I also agree that Tenten is quite a weird person-But you'll understand soon enough! Now I need to stop blabbering because I'm sure everyone would want to read more about this than my rants :D

Rebirth

Chapter 4: Uchiha Massacre

In a building on eighteenth avenue, on the six floor and in fifth room to the right laid a girl buried deep within her blankets. She refused to go anywhere today for she was too frightened for what she might see. This was a brilliant idea, in fact, it was so fantastic that Hinata had lied to her boss that she was sick and was surprised he actually let her take the day off. When did Kakashi get so kind?

Hinata's stomach grumbled as she starved herself. I will not move anywhere! She chanted as her tummy growled in protest and she turned slowly from her back to the side where her phone was charging. She had gotten calls and text messages from Kiba and shino, but most were from Kiba; Hinata was glad she had met up and reunited with her old buddies, but damn, they can get clingy sometimes! Maybe it was because they all grew up together like siblings.. Or was it because of something more? Nah. The Hyuga curled into a ball and bit her fisted hand as her other held a pillow tightly on top of her left ear. The whisperings in her ear had gotten louder and she promptly wondered if it was because of those people she kept seeing... Or was it that decaying man that was also with them? A cold shiver ran down her spine as the small baby hair on the back of Hinata's neck stood sideways. She can still see his pitch black empty sockets glaring into her soul even though he probably couldn't see, she could almost, almost smell that disgusting rotting flesh if she thought about him too much. It was as if everytime she thought about him, he would appear and it scared her. Hinata slowly closed her eyes and grinded her teeth as her stomach screamed in hunger once again.

Her eyes opened and she gasped in surprise, she wasn't in her home anymore! Her comfy blankies on top of her had disappeared and so has her small little bed. Hinata inwardly squeeked in fear as she sat up on the hard dirty soil.

Splat!

Hinata's jaws hung loosely as she saw a woman awkwardly lying on the floor and blood started to pool around her small body and it had also sprayed all over Hinata's face. The Hyuga's hand went to cover her mouth as the girl's eye glared upon her, half of her face was already flat like the dirt road and her fingers twitched uncontrollably, "They won't come after me," the girl quickly repeated one thousand eight hundred and sixty five times. Unable to take this hideous sight, Hinata left into the closest building she saw, which was an old little tea shop. She walked in to see a man hanging loosely by a noose. His face was distorted and twisted in pain. She could see a small smirk spread across his purple lips as his blood shot eyes stare at her every movement. No no no no no no no! Hinata got down onto her knees and held her arms around her legs. This wasn't happening again! This can't happen again! She'd seen this over and over from the past few days. Next would be a woman who slit her wrists then a man who commits seppiku, but after that she'd be in her apartment staring at the back of her own head. Hinata's eyes widened as her surroundings had changed-

-She was awake and someone was banging on her door."W-who.. Who is it?" Hinata asked curiously.

"Open the door! I really need to pee!" She immediately ran to her door, tripping on the way there and pulling her fallen pants up, "Finally!" The other girl pushed passed Hinata and ran into her apartment, "Took you long enough!"

"What are you doing here?" This was absurd-no, it was horrible that this little devil was here, "You're not supposed to be here Hanabi, what if father found out?" After about five minutes and the sound of a loud toilet flushing, Hanabi re-entered her sister's tiny livingroom.

"I lied to him that I was going to go shopping but instead I sneaked here to visit you," Hanabi simply explained.

"How'd you know where I live?" Hinata's question was ignored as another person walked into the room.

"I hope you don't mind me coming in, I just couldn't say no to her," a kind smile spread on his lips and Hinata stared at her land lord for a bit.

"It-it's fine I guess," she said slowly as she came out of her trance, "I apologize if she has disturbed you Jiraiya," her head dipped down a little and the man boomed with laughter and waved his hand in front of himself.

"I hope this apartment is to your liking-"

"It is-"

"Well then, I'll be on my way back up to the apartment, wouldn't want to keep my guest waiting!" Jiraiya had cut off Hinata just like she had to him.

"W-wait sir!" She called out and he cocked his head to the side to look back at her, "I was wondering if I could ask you a question later if it wasn't that much of a problem for you," she mumbled.

"You can just ask me now," he suggested and Hinata glanced at her sister then back at the old man.

"It's sort of a long question so I'll ask you whenever there's time," Jiraiya nodded then left her apartment to his own on the seventh floor. Hanabi raised a thin brow at her sibling and puckered her lips out as she observed her every move.

"Something's wrong," Hinata whipped her head towards the other female in the room, "You look like a doe caught in headlights and I called your name a couple times and you didn't answer, what's wrong?" Hanabi wasn't the sympathetic type nor one to hide something, she was just as blunt as Neji, Hinata thought for a split second then answered.

"Do you believe in.. Things that are beyond us?" Her eyes downcast to her empty pale hands and then she fisted them tightly.

"Beyond us?" Hanabi took a sip out of her small tea cup, "As in aliens," she assumed and Hinata shook her head, "Spirits?" Damn she was smart. "You're not serious, are you? You believe in ghosts Hinata? Do you know how father-"

"I was just wondering Hanabi, no need to over react," she tried to stay as calm as possible without coming to tears, no one would believe her like how she had suspected. Not even her sister believes her, she was alone in this, all alone without anyone to support her or tell her everything's going to be alright.

"Look Sis, you need to come back home, I think you're losing your marbles, just calm down and come back," Hanabi soothed, "Maybe moving here in the big city wasn't the greatest idea, you know." Hinata hyperventilated as fresh tears oozed from her eyes, an empty feeling filling her chest as she kept staring at what was standing at the corner of her living room. Noticing her sister wasn't paying attention to her, Hanabi glanced to where Hinata was so interested at: an empty corner. The younger Hyuga sighed as she put a hand on the older's shoulder, "Just come back home Hinata, we all missed you."

"I have work and friends here and I can't just leave them," she thought of Kiba and Shino then Shikamaru and the others, were they even considered friends? Hanabi sighed again and stood up.

"I'm going to get more tea," she mumbled as she walked towards the small sink and got a scoop of black powder to put in her cup then fill it with hot water. She stirred the water a little and then blew the steam away as she sipped her drink while walking towards her sister. And yet again, Hinata stared at that stupid place on the wall! "What is so important about over there?" Hanabi glared at the walls that intersected in the corner, nothing. "You're a bit freaky Hinata, stop it," Hanabi warily turned her head slowly to the side, she felt creeped out by the other's weird behavior.

A couple seconds after Hanabi looked at Hinata, a loud scream erupted from the Hyuga's apartment.

"Are you okay Hanabi? Hanabi!" Hinata shook her sister's shoulders but was only recieved with a blank stare, "What did you see?" She whispered to herself as she saw Hanabi's eyes widen a fraction. Suddenly Hinata was pulled by the arm and dragged out of her place by her sister.

"Hanabi," the girl still stared at her sister and then put a hand over her face in a tired fashion. Hinata lightly touched her and she flinched away, "Hanabi don't be like this-"

"I think it's time for me to go, father might get worried," Hinata looked at her watch, Hanabi had only been in her apartment for not even ten minutes and she freaked, then they sat on the curb outside her building for two whole hours! "Goodbye sister," Hanabi bid farewell as she hurridly wrote down Hinata's number then left towards the subway; had Hanabi seen what she had seen these past weeks? Did she see that man with those people clad in black? Many questions zipped through Hinata's mind as she walked towards the elevator and pressed the number seven on the button. Maybe Jiraiya's guest had already left so she could ask him questions but was surprised by who had answered the door.

"Hey there Hinata, I thought you called in sick today?" Oh no oh no oh no oh no! Hinata's face burned red as felt suddenly small around the world, "Are you alright?"

"N-N-Nar-"

"Naruto who's at the door?" Jiraiya asked from the doorway, "Oh hello Hinata, come right in!" He grinned and the red lines running down his cheek moved as his cheeks did.

"Ol' man you know her?" Naruto asked as if the girl wasn't even standing next to him; his eyes squinted dangerously into small slits. "Hey pervy guy, I'm talking to you!" The blonde threw an orange sneaker at the old man's head.

"Show a little more respect ya tweet," Jiraiya gave him a knuckle sandwich, "We have a guest over."

"What happened to your other guests?" She asked timidly.

"Naruto is my guest and my god son," the old man boomed with laughter, "Did you want to stay for dinner? We're getting pizza-"

"Yeah and I said I wanted ramen but-" Naruto had gotten his loud mouth covered by Jiraiya and he chuckled nervously.

"No, I'm sorry I can't," Hinata smiled and bowed her head, then her stomach growled loudly like it had before before, had she forgotten all about her roaring tummy from seeing all that's happened in her apartment?

"Will that be a yes then, I assume?" Without any answer to reply back, she just nodded a little. Jiraiya had showed his new companion around his large apartment, his bathroom was as big as her bedroom and his livingroom was twice as big as hers, "You like watching Glee?" Not knowing how to answer to that, Hinata just shrugged.

"I don't own a television," she simply answered as she watched the teenager sing like no tomorrow.

"Well you can always use my laptop, do you want to use it?" Blue azure eyes stared deep into Hinata's own pearly ones, "Do you want to use it?" he repeated and she couldn't do anything except nod because she was too captured by his peircing gaze. The man handed her his black mini computer and grinned, "Just touch the screen when you open it," he instructed her then sat back down on his seat on the couch and laughed loudly at the television. Hinata lifted the top of the laptop and touched the screen lightly. A giant picture of two boys popped up, was this-it was a younger version of Naruto! How cute; and this other boy was probably Saskey? Saslin? No, Sasuke, Hinata assumed. Naruto had had an arm wrapped around the other boy's neck and he had a surprised look across his features mixed with a frown.

Hinata touched the flat mouse and clicked on the big 'e'. Internet explorer loaded onto the site google, she wandered for a couple seconds what to look up; she hadn't been on a computer for a long time now so she chicken pecked on the keyboard: Fanlike cresents. The first she saw were a couple of pictures of regular old chinese fans with moons on them and stars, she scrolled down but just found fans and cresent moons. Hinata deleted the words she had previously typed in the wrote down the word Uchiha.

Uchiha Massacre, old japanese folklore, wasn't this what Tenten asked her to read or something? She clicked on it and a black backround with white typing showed up; a small drawing on the right was of a man holding another person's head. Hinata read the caption underneath the picture. Itachi Uchiha after slaying his clan. Asakira Ai. 1900. And there it was, the fan on the dead body's back.

The only sound that Hinata could hear was the blood rushing through her ears and the slow beating of her heart. Her eyes skimmed the long paragraphs and it seemed as if time had stopped itself; the loud laughing of Naruto and Jiraiya along with the television had faded to the back of her mind. She took a sharp intake of breath. So much hatred, so much agony.. And so much death this family endured.

Yearning for more power, the leader of Uchihas, Fugaku Uchiha plotted a scheme against the town village. He wanted what he thought was rightfully his and tried to take over Konohagakure. Seeing his father was doing wrong, Itachi tried to reason with his father but could not change his heart. The young man then sought out help from one of his own, an ancient Uchiha who had secretly hated the others for betraying him in earlier years. Madara agreed to help Itachi but had told him there was only one way to stop the clan, death; Itachi refused but after what had tragically happened, he found no way out as his and his family's fate was forever sealed

During the midst of the civil war in the Uchiha clan, a friend, and the lover of Uchiha Itachi had accidently over heard the evil scheme against her grandfather's village and went against it. She was then brutally murdered. Afterwards, Itachi's logic of thinking had become like an unwinding clock and he had no choice but to murder his own clan for they had taken what was most precious to him. He drowned his bestfriend, Shishou, then gouged his eyes out as punishment so he will never be able to see or be reunited as one with the clan in the afterlife. One by one everyone else died, all being slaughtered like wild animals.

And lastly there was Sasuke Uchiha, as Itachi rose his blade to his little brother's throat, Sasuke had side stepped then stabbed Itachi's back out of fear and instinct. As Itachi slowly died he cursed everyone that in the next generations, anyone one with a single drop of Uchiha blood would be dead before the age of twenty-five. Sasuke fled the Uchiha manor as the only survivor of his clan-

Hinata's heart beat faster and her eyes grew. This can't be, it's just a legend, but she remembered Tenten said this was real before.. Tch, screw Tenten, this wasn't real, it's just an urban legend, right? right? Her eyes scan the last sentence on the page.

Every time Umenokouji is reborn, she commits suicide before ever returning to her lover. She always dies at the age of twenty therefore the cycle of life and the Uchiha curse is never put to rest.

Images of that girl who jumped off the building came into Hinata's head, then the man who hung himself and so on and so forth. This wasn't real, Hinata was twenty three and this girl dies at age twenty so it's not real! The story is so completely off, if the Uchiha clan killed Hina then why would they want Hinata's help? I mean, it's not like Hinata was assuming she was the reincarnation of Hina because she's not Hina, right? The Hyuga's thoughts processed in her mind as she tried to piece the puzzle together.

"Whatcha doin' Hinata? Pizza's here," Hinata scrambled to close the website but she was too late, "Why are you looking this stuff up?" Naruto took the laptop from her, "I didn't know you were into legends," he snorted, "These are all just fake and they make everything just all about a girl, that's why people die." Hinata stared wide eyed at him.

"You know this legend?" Her leg bounced up and down on the floor and shivered as she felt a cold breeze behind her.

"Not much but I know Sasuke think's the stuff online that says stuff about his clan aren't all true," he explained while squinting his eyes and holding his chin in one hand.

"L-like what?" She shouldn't have asked that question, what if he answers that this was all a lie? No wait, wouldn't that be a good thing?

"Well he said Hina didn't die and the reason Itachi killed his family was to test his strength- oh! Pizza, come on Hinata let's go eat," Why would Sasuke say that? Hinata thought for a second then a light bulb dinged in her head. Sasuke Uchiha. That was the boy who survived the massacre and Sasuke is also Sasuke Uchiha. Does this mean this only happened recently? No, this legend said it happened in 1865. 1865!

"How's Sasuke related to the Uchihas?" Hinata blurted out without thinking.

"Eh? All I know is Sasuke was named after his Great Great Great Great Great Great whatever Great Grandfather, Sasuke Uchiha," Naruto seemed a bit annoyed and a little curious as to why Hinata would ask so many questions about Uchiha and all that crap, "Why?"

Hinata stared at Naruto and no thoughts could process in her mind at this moment. Before she knew it, she had had a brain fart.

Dun dun dun! End of fourth chapter, did any of you get it or having brain farts like Hinata? I got a little confused when I was typing this but all is swell and good. I hope some of you enjoyed this! Just wait till next Chappie- Itachi appears!... maybe...

Did any of you notice anything about numbers? *hint hint*

This is by far the most words I have done in this chappie. 3,443 words!

~Arisa