HEAR ME HIME

A/N: Hola! It's February 0f 2013! Advanced Valentine's Day to all those hearts that cherishes love, I hope you are happy with those whom you love and hold dear, close to your heart… Please enjoy reading & reviewing!

(warning: violence, mystery, suspense, flashback, drama, romance)

Chap12 The Lost Memory

Immeasurable distance
tears our fates apart…
I was overjoyed
knowing that I live within your heart

My life… my soul… my will,
it all belongs not to me,
the moment your love reached my heart
I realized I was living for you…

The real meaning of love…
I never knew… I never justified it,
because I am still searching for it…
and I found it in you

there's a saying when you meet your destined one
you'll never give up on that person…
that is what I did for my late-spouse,
that is what you were and still doing… for me.

Hinata-chan… Thank you
for waiting for me patiently…

Previously on chapter 11:

At that point, in that very moment, the priest re-opened his amber-coloured orbs which were blinded by light, he focused on to see through the light to find the answer he was looking for, before he finally realized he already knew the truth about the connection between himself and this stupid blonde..

Seimei's denial dissipated, as he heard a small whisper at the back of his mind which had answered his question…

. . . .

'ch.. . . chichi-ue.. s-sama!'

It felt like another eternity… he was lost in the trails of darkness that took over him shortly after he had taken her into his arms. He leapt from door to door; he was puzzled about where he was right now. All that he could do was to move on forward. He felt his heavy heart throbbing against his chest; the blonde was puzzled as to why it was hurting him so much. Is this a premonition?

The Uzumaki looked around his surrounding and searched for the ones who was with him. What was his purpose of him being here? Everything surrounding him now was blank, everyone left him alone. The woman he came searching for… where did she gone off to?

'Where… where am I?' Naruto thought as he looked around him.

It was pure white. Nothing he could with his sky blue eyes. He couldn't even measure of how far does this white dimension stretches off to. Naruto breathed in and tried his best to stay calm. There was nothing to venture and no direction; it was all simply plain blank.

'huh… am I dead?' he frowned in confusion.

"Naruto…"

The Uzumaki turned to his back to look for the source of the voice that called out to him. He was taken aback when he saw a familiar person whom he was very fond of. She was warmly smiling back at him. Her jade green eyes stared at him with love and affection, her pinkish lips curved into a smile, blush adorning her porcelain cheeks, her beautiful pink hair floated as she stood before him. That was an image that he had always missed. Tears leaked down from the corner of his eyes and it glinted in light as it floated in the air as he sped his way towards her.

But before he could even reach out his hands to touch her, she vanished, 'Sakura-chan! Wait, don't go!' the blonde called out only to have his voice echoed back at him.

He was torn. The blonde scowled looking down at himself with a pained scowl on his forehead. Gritting his teeth he yelled, 'Sakura-chan! Kurama! Sasuke! Neji! Anybody! Tell me where am I?!'

'Tch… keep it down will you?' a deep masculine voice echoed from his back.

Naruto turned to his back when he heard another voice, scowling back at the man before him, Naruto was surprised. The Uzumaki stared at the man in shock, the man who was before him was so similar to himself. The striking similarity was that the spiky golden blonde hair, but this guy's hair was so long it reached down to his hips. There were bangs similar to Naruto framing the man's handsome face; he had fair skin and arching, thick blonde eye brows. His eyes were deep sea blue in colour; his lips were thin and were formed in a line, he was as tall as himself and had the same body proportions as the Uzumaki. The man was lean and his arms were muscular, his clothes looked expensive, they were an old fashioned Yukata, it held a royal look to it since it was fully black silk material and gold lining the edges of his yukata.

He had a medium sized, blood red rope-like trimmers tied around his waist. He also possessed three large swords that he carried at his back. The man looked like a person in authority, his confidence, wisdom, virtue, and raw strength reflected through his eyes, his mere firm glance held such deep domineering intensity. For Naruto being in the mysterious man's presence made him feel the heaviness of the man's strong, powerful controlling aura. He looked like an ancient warrior with a sense of pride, justice and duty. Naruto simply stared at him blankly before snapping out of it his stupor when the wise looking man before the Uzumaki grumbled his thoughts out loud.

'why do I look so stupid?' the man sighed pinching the bridge of his nose, regaining his posture the man stared straight at Naruto.

Naruto asked the man before without any hesitation, 'Where is this place? Who are you?'

'as expected… you are in your subconscious mind, Naruto-kun' the man answered the Uzumaki to his first question.

'Subconscious what? Where is that?' Naruto questioned again.

The man stared back at the Uzumaki's unbelievable amount stupidity. The man simply sighed at the hopeless Hokage, 'you… I never knew…'

'huh what?' Naruto asked back.

'I never knew that I… you, are this stupid…' the man turned away stepping ahead towards the blank space, folding his arms at his back.

'Hey, hey… What the hell was that?! Who are you to call me the great Hokage that?!' Naruto retorted back as he sprinted towards the man.

'Just listen brat… I'll only explain this once so remember it. Subconscious mind is the mind you have at the back of your head… it is like another mind inside your head that keeps all your memories that you think you have forgotten. Understand?' the man asked him.

'huh? No, repeat it.' Naruto as he looked at the man attentively waiting for him to explain again.

'tsk, what a pain…' the man sighed and said, 'you're asleep, now you are in your mind.' The man said.

'ooohhh… so that's it…' Naruto rubbed his chin as he looked around, they were sitting down crossed legged while facing each other as Naruto heard the man explain.

'hmmm… I don't understand…' Naruto said.

The man who sat in front of him snapped angrily at him, 'now what?'

'hey, If I am in my mind… then who are you? Why are you here?' Naruto asked the man as his sky blue eyes skimmed the man from head to toe.

'phew… you're not so dumb after all… It's about time, you should go now… we'll talk later' the man said with a smirk on his lips.

Naruto was pushed towards a blank space by the man while Naruto was halting to depart from the place, the Uzumaki looked back at the man as same as his height, Naruto said, 'hey you look like someone I've seen before! Wait, wait! … um, who is it?'

'Huh? You've seen me before?' The man stopped pushing the blonde for a moment.

'Ah! The Yondaime! You are the Yondaime right!' Naruto exclaimed at him.

'Yond… Yondaime? Who's that?' the man questioned staring at the Rokudaime.

'My otoh-san!' Naruto exclaimed and turned around being jittery and enthusiastic he glomped onto the man crushing him with his hug, 'TOHSAN! I missed you! I wished so much that you were here to see your granddaughter Hikari-chan!'

The man cocked an eyebrow and looked completely flustered, 'your tohsan? Granddaughter-… Oof!'

Pausing a moment the man stopped his urge to bang his head onto the wall, he pulled out of the embrace and pushed the Uzumaki forcing him out of the space yelling at him, 'NO! I AM NOT YOUR OTOH-SAN! IS THAT HOW YOU ADRESS YOUR CHICHI-UE-SAMA?! HOW INSOLENT! YOU SHOULD BE MORE RESPECTFUL OF YOUR ELDERS! NOW GO BACK YOU IDIOT!'

'Then, who are you!' Naruto yelled as he was pushed away from the last door.

The blonde floated in the space and he fell deeper as sudden gravity began to pull his weight down.

'UWAAAAAAA~~~H!' Naruto yelled in surprise as he fell deeper.

The mysterious man who pushed him down smiled at the Uzumaki, his voice faded as he Naruto's yell was even louder, the man softly answered the question that Naruto asked him earlier…

"I am YOU, Naruto-kun." A smile adorned Shouhei's face as he watched Naruto vanishing at the end of the dark tunnel.

His body felt heavy, very heavy as if something was leaning over onto him. He felt every fibre of his muscles ached in pain, he felt as if he was overworked after training with Lee for a month. His head was spinning and was painfully throbbing as if he had a hangover after three sleepless nights. He frowned as he felt his heartbeat; a small groan escaped his lips. The man's eyelids fluttered open, his blurry eyes were taking its time getting used to the surrounding light. He felt goose-bumps when the temperature of his surrounding cold night hit his skin.

He blinked and propped on his elbow to rise himself up a bit to find himself lying on the ground in the middle of a crater. He looked around to see he was in some forest, shirtless at that. He wondered where everybody went, Seimei, Sasuke, Neji and the others, no one was there. The man couldn't move his body all too much since he was worn out. Suddenly something moved against his chest, he felt its soft gingery touch against his chest sending thousand waves of warmth through his body at each of its tiny movement.

Naruto bend his head down to look at the woman who he was unconsciously holding within his arms in an embrace. Her hair that was so long and it flew like a midnight blue river from the end of her scalp to the end of her thighs; it was spread around on the ground as well. She had beautiful pure white, soft, porcelain skin. Her arms were draped around his abdomen; he could still feel her calm heartbeat that he felt against her skin. He moved his other hand to move the strands of hair that hid her face.

The small gesture made her stir and cuddle even closer against him, Naruto's heart skipped a beat when he felt her breath against the nook of his neck. Taking in a sharp breath, he was startled to see her moon-like, pupil-less, lavender tinted white eyes staring back at him. They were as warm as ever; she blinked looking at him as a small, shy smile appeared on her lips. Pink stripes of blushes accompanied the smile as she staring at his sky blues eyes.

"You're awake… anata…"

'Bu-Bump!'

Naruto's heart skipped a beat as he heard her whispering those words directing at him. His eyes grew wider in surprise as he stared at her in stupor. A small blush adorned his whiskered cheeks as embarrassment sank in him. His heart began to trumpet loudly against his ribs as he searched for words to say to her.

"A… um… Y-yeah…" he managed to croak a stutter in which made her chuckle softly in response.

His eyes widened even further in surprise as one of her hands touched his whiskered cheeks, softly caressing him in the process.

She asked him softly with genuine care and worry lacing her voice "Are you okay?"

'Gulp'

Naruto swallowed the hard lump that blocked his throat, "U…um." He nodded his head not trusting his own voice.

She gazed at his sky blue eyes deeply; Naruto felt the swell of warm and tingling feeling whenever she gazed into his eyes, his face flushed to beet red as she continued to stare with a heart melting smile. Suddenly he felt so self-conscious, he felt his rapidly beating heart, his nervousness peaked and he felt himself getting lost in her eyes. Is this how Hinata was feeling whenever he looked at her? He was lost in his thoughts as he looked at her; he nearly missed what she was softly whispering to him.

"I would have to leave you, earlier than it should be… Anata, will you be okay by yourself?" she asked with unexplained sadness deep in her voice.

"Anata?" she called at Naruto again.

Totally missing what she said he nodded smiling sheepishly at her, "A? O-okay… haha…"

Naruto was startled by her when she hugged him lightly, whispering inaudible words to him she broke the hug, leaving him blushing from head to toe. He watched her silently admiring her curvy features; his eyes flowed upon her as he takes in the very image of her unbound beauty. The woman looked down at herself for everyone thought she was weird, plain and unattractive. He wished he would punch to death whoever that said those words at her. Because, what he was witnessing now enveloped within his arms was a beautiful, breath taking wonder of the earth. She is a woman whose beauty rivals the full moon, a beauty that is so ethereal and pious; it enchants the beholder with just a glance. She captured him in a sudden unexplainable trance with her beauty.

Naruto was suddenly pulled out of his muse when he was startled by the said woman when she gasped sharply. Naruto looked at her as she hid her bosom with her arms; Naruto was shocked as the woman scurried away from him. He nearly whimpered when he felt the loss of warmth as she parted away from the embrace they shared together.

"H… Hinata?" Naruto called her out, reaching his arms at her.

She just ran away leaving him, frowning to himself in confusion. Without much thought, Naruto hurried after her.

"W… Wait! Hinata! Where are you going?!" Naruto yelled at her back as he leapt from tree to tree trying to catch up to her.

The woman glanced with a saddened scowl on her face, tears cascading down to her cheeks, her face was flushed as she said, "Love isn't always about lovers being together… I am happy beyond words… that I could protect both you and her; I'll be content with just your memories Naruto-kun. You'll always be there within me, I'm sorry… Anata, I have to go…"

"WHAT? NO! WAIT! HINATA, DON'T GO!" Naruto yelled as he chased after her.

He halted standing upon a tree branch; he covered his eyes as he witnessed Hinata vanishing before him behind eye blinding light. Tears fell from his eyes, he felt stabbing pain in his heart when he witnessed her crying face. He didn't understand she would do that.

"NO! HINATA~! HINATAA~~!"

'I will always… always love you no matter what Naruto-kun'

Naruto fell to the solid, grassy ground on his knees with tears smearing his tanned face, as her last words echoed through the forest.

'fffsssssshhhhh….'

The leaves danced as the strong stroke of wind passed by them in a howl. The night was still dark as it was about to reach dawn in a few hours. A woman lay lifelessly on the dusty ground, her half-lidded eyes were white were staring at space, her grey hair which is long and very little lay tangled onto the green bed of grass, her skin was dark as if she was burned all over by some light, her wrinkled face was half buried into the soil. The woman was very much 'dead' by her last encounter with the raw power of the light which scalded her from top to toe.

Her fingers twitched as a grumbling voice of a man in pain were heard echoing from a long distance from her. The man crawled towards her holding his right shoulder that was stinging in pain with red blood dripping from the site of injury. He breathed hard as he approached the woman who had sent him to the temple. He kneeled down near the woman trembling in pain and shock.

"Hi.. highness.. y-your highness.." he reached up to her as he tried to wake her up.

As he shook the burnt woman's limp body on the ground gently, he waited as there was no response from her.

"gasp. Gasp.. Y-your highness.. I-I had brought what you a-asked f-for.. pl-please wake up.. highness.. please.. don't kill.. my family.. ugh.."

His voice trailed away as he gasped for air as he felt his consciousness began to slip away, due to heavy blood loss, the young man fell on to the ground. His body slammed against the solid soil, the vial that contains Hinata's one drop of tear and blood, fell away from his grip of his left hand. Slowly the bottle rolled and reached to the woman's side. It tapped against the woman's arm.

Again the body twitched from the sensation of the cool vial touching against it. Suddenly, the woman's back bended up her abdomen grew, bigger and wider. At the moment her wide abdomen burst and splashed blood over to the ground, her intestines flew off from her body and plopped onto the ground. A small head covered with slime and blood peaked out of the woman's womb and emerged from her licking its lips. It slowly and steadily climbed out of her womb and began to groom itself.

Finally getting itself out of the slimy stuff that was covering it, it looked around and sniffed the man's arm. The blood that was slowly flowing from his right shoulder, it licked and licked it until there was any flowing over there. Growing agitated and to calm its protesting little tummy, she climbed on top of the man and plunged her finger deep into his chest killing him by that and also it ripped his chest cavity open. It began to lick more of the red liquid to quench its thirst. Growing hungry and curious it pulled the man's lung out and bit it to taste.

"mm… um.. um! yummy" it began to grab the other lung and chomp it down to its stomach.

After devouring the man out alive she began to get interested over the woman's cooked body. She began sniff it down and finally it devoured that one as well. After that it noticed something near the woman's body. The little bottle took its attention and she grabbed it into its hand and looked at it closely, sniffing it as well. The moment it licked the vial, the little monster transformed. It crouched down to the soil and heaved for breath, she looked back at the vial.

Eyeing it closely she spoke, "good thing its back to me.. if it wasn't for this, I wouldn't have.. revived..".

She looked back at the left overs the bodies that she just had devoured, smirking at the man's body, she said, "hn.. pitiful.. if only you had come earlier.. this wouldn't have happened to you..".

After a little thought she scoffed, "hn.. but that's better, or else I wouldn't have this new body or food to eat..".

The naked woman turned away and walked into the woods finding her carriage where she had placed it. She noticed that it would be daylight soon, and it had been 12 hours since she weakened the forest's powers for a while. It would be better if she left the forest before sun rise… The place could mean very dangerous to her.

And so without any second thought she climbed into the carriage and fly it off to her abandoned mansion, where she had prisoners to take care of. As she flew away, she eyed the place where Naruto found Hinata… they were still there, together with priest. All three of them were lying there unconsciously in the middle of a large crater. Her white eyes stared at the man with long black hair who had just waking up, behind Hinata and Naruto. She felt something was fishy about him.

'perhaps.. that is.. ! no way! He looks nothing like that Tachibana.. it couldn't be..' she thought.

There was one question present in her mind bugging her as she rode off. Who is that man in the crater with those two and why is he there? Just who is he?

'Krrkr… krrkrk…'

Stones and rocks crackled beneath his feet as he stepped forward rushing towards his friends who went to the other side of the river. Kiba and Shino soon followed behind his back as Neji fled away to the river bank. Kiba halted as Akamaru barked looking at the sky.

'WOOF! WOOF! ARROOOOO~'

Noticing something wrong Kiba asked his big white canine partner, "what is it Akamaru?"

The dog kept barking looking at the night sky, Shino stopped as he felt slight disturbance with his bugs.

"My bugs are uneasy too…" Shino told his team mate.

Kiba looked up at the sky again and said, "But I can't see anything wrong up there…"

Walking ahead Shino told to Kiba, "we should get going or we might lose Neji's tracks… we'll discuss this later Kiba…"

"A…" agreeing with his team mate for once the Inuzuka rushed forward with Akamaru in tow.

Neji scanned the place with byakugan as far as he can see across the grass field and found his cousin, Naruto and the priest. As he rushed forward, leaping across the river towards where they were. He noticed Sasuke on the other side lying unconsciously, but what made his surprise grew stronger was the sudden changes in the priest. As Neji helped Sasuke to get onto his knees his eyes widened in wonder as the man on the ground slowly transformed into a totally different being.

His byakugan caught the transformation as he scanned the priest's, 'H… he… his chakra is… differing as well?'

Forgetting that Sasuke was still limp in his arms the Hyuuga dropped the Uchiha to the cold ground with a loud thud and rushed towards the priest in panic. As he scrambled on his feet towards the priest, Seimei who turned fully conscious propped himself up with his arms, he grumbled tiredly as his eyes skimmed around. The man brightened at the sight of Neji, he noticed that his Hinata-sama was alright now.

Smiling affectionately at the blonde he thought, 'Thank you so much… ch… chichi-ue-sama…'

Seimei flinched and was startled when he heard Neji yell while pointing his finger at him, "YOU!"

Looking down at himself the priest stopped his urge to give himself a face palm, 'Oops, I've transformed again…'

Gazing warmly at both the Uzumaki and the woman in his arms, Seimei smirked as he thought, 'My powers aren't that great when they are around…'

"So it's you?" Neji asked as he stood before Seimei with an accusing glare that held gratitude deep under its coldness.

Knowing that the Hyuuga wouldn't expose of the priest's true identity Seimei stood up on his feet as he stared at the Hyuuga with a straight face as if nothing had happened, while Neji boiled at him, "y… you, You, YOU! How dare you cheat us!"

Once held the staff on his hand the priest transformed without much effort in the blink of an eye, "Yes, me? Hmm... I didnt intend to cheat any of you, just believed me that I was another person..."

Neji blinked at the priest who was now into his transformed fake human shroud that can't be seen through, "Is that a genjutsu? H… how did you do that?"

Smirking at the Hyuuga, Seimei said, "If you promised me that you won't tell anyone about my real identity… then I'd discuss with you and tell you everything that you need to know…"

"A bargain isn't it?" Neji said as crossed his arms across his chest cocking an eyebrow at the priest.

The man simply chuckles at Neji's look and said, "isn't it good? I'm trading truth for hiding another truth…"

Smirking at the priest Neji thought over, 'who the hell he maybe… he's intelligent…', sighing softly the Hyuuga head said, "Fine it's a deal then…"

"NNN…" both of them who were smiling at each other suddenly perked up when they heard a groan coming from someone who was in near distance.

"Naruto-sama!" Seimei snapped out of it and ran towards the stirring blonde.

Neji yelled out as he followed Seimei, "Naruto!" Neji then noticed the honorific title the priest used to address the Uzumaki.

He eyed the man with suspicion and pure curiosity clouding his mind, his mind mused as he watched Seimei waking up Naruto gently, 'Even we… the ninjas under his rank never used that to call Naruto that… but how? Out of the blue this guy… just who is he?'

To be continued...

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