Alright here is the new chapter for you. Before i thank a few people let me explain why i paired Gaara and Lee together (alter ego: "I told you it was a bad idea, now you are gonna lose readers"
Me: "I was experimenting and this is a SasuHina fanfic, you idiot.")
Right where was i? Oh ya, I wanted to put a taste of reality in here, and i've seen (fanart) a few of GaaraxLee pairings so I flowed with it i guess (Alter ego:" flowed to much...way to much") Hope you can keep your food down...well try too.
I hope you all understand if not email me. Thank you to: HeartBrokenHinata, rinrin2, Lex02Gaa and cherryvampire3. Also thank you to anyone else who reads this fanfic and for those who put on author alert, favourite story and story alert. ARIGATO GOZIMASU!
Sorry for the mistakes, I have checked but you know (alter ego:" i will say again...NOT AN EXUSE, CHECK IT AGAIN!)
ENJOY!
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"N-no…no…no p-please…please stop!" Hinata spoke in her sleep and eventually awoke up with a cold sweat, panting heavily and trembling, her ears were ringing from that nightmare that she was trapped in. 'Why?' she asked herself removing the blanket off her cold wet body and glancing at the clock; which stated that it was four fifteen in the morning. It had been this way ever since the wedding of Naruto and Sakura, ever since she danced with the Uchiha leftover. She moved steadily to sit at the edge of her bed with her hands beside her and her head down; letting the damp hair cover her face as if someone were watching her. She then walked to the balcony of her apartment and watched the view of the still sleeping Konoha.
The morning wind stung her face as she leaned over the railing; she felt the weight of her hair lift off her shoulders as the wind slid through her hair lifting it, making it levitate. As this motion occurred she closed her eyes, listening to the wind, a small voice in her began to speak:
"Thought that memory had faded with the scars?" it had a deep voice that which reminded her of Edo
She hesitated "It-it has d-disappeared so h-have the s-s-s-scars" she answered back looking at the remaining scars on her wrists, she felt herself being pulled into a dark void of anguish.
"Why do you repeat what that fox boy said to you? He left for that big fore headed pink nuisance and why do you hesitate when I ask about that memory? Its still there isn't?" the voice continued
She cringed gritting her teeth, trying to retrain the tears that were burning her eyes "H-he s-still cares for me a-and his name I-is N-Naruto"
The voice simply laughed "I will not repeat what I said a second ago. He will never love you because you let him slip away and now you are letting that avenger creep into you"
She kept quite then spoke in a crackly voice "H-he understands me, l-l-like I u-understand h-him"
It laughed again "He just wants to revive his clan and you are will become his little pet. He is violent, he will play with you and then well…need I say more?"
"N-n-no…I-it w-won't h-happen a-again! I-i-i-i won't l-l-let it" she was now crying, slowly dropping to her knees and her hands sliding down the bars of the balcony's railing.
"You were alone then and you are alone now, that's that. Uchiha knows nothing of love and he will do what that filth did to you and once again the whole of Hyuuga will look down upon you! You can only trust you, yourself and I!" it began to shout as if losing patience with her
She could not answer anymore; she put her hand to her heart remember that night; that painful night and came to the conclusion herself "I-I will s-stay away from Uchiha, in fact who is that?"
With that, the voice disappeared along with the void; it was now satisfied with her. After wiping the cold tears off her warm red cheeks let the words spill from her mouth "I thought coming out for fresh air would sooth my restless mind but I guess not, maybe I should…"
She trailed off into the kitchen of her apartment opening the drawer and looking at the knives in there, thinking about what to do. Picking up one she thought of how it helped her to cut through her skin and let the blood flow out as though it were trapped. Letting the pain disappear before the skin compensated for what was lost. She brought it down to her arm letting the sharp end of the knife touch her fragile skin. She once again sobbed then she put pressure on her skin; with one strong swipe she cut her skin open and she did it again and again. The blood ran out of the opening, she cried hard and even harder, realising this would cause the neighbours to wake up next door she ran into the closet and there she let all out. This continued for a one hour and fifteen minutes as the memory played in her mind over and over only to stop when she heard knocking at the door.
"Hinata? Hinata? Hinata are you in here?" the voice asked as it knocked
She slowly got out of the darkness, holding her new wounds, walked to the door, rested her back on it and finally spoke without a stutter "What's the matter Shino, do you not know what time it is!?"
Shino on the other side of the door flinched hearing the tone of his team mate's voice. He dropped his head and released on of his bugs and let it creep underneath the door "Did you not hear the eagle? We have a mission…" he heard the sound of something sharp hitting the wall inside and he already knew, she had killed the bug, she had used Byakugan the second he knocked on the door and killed it the second it entered her apartment. Shino felt uneasy, the tone of her voice, it reminded him of the aftermath of the incident which seemed to still haunt her.
"I will be with you at the Hokage's place in 15 minutes, and keep your filthy bugs off me" she spoke in an uncaring and harsh tone.
He stood by the door unsure what to do "It's really urgent, Hinata we must make haste"
"I said go and I will be there!" she shouted in that harsh tone again
Without saying a word he left for the Hokage's place. 'She has hardened again, how will we break her from this, this time? When did this happen?'
'Stay away from Sasuke, I can only trust myself now.' she reminded herself walking toward the bathroom to take shower, mainly to get rid of the blood and cover the marks so that no-one would notice. However her ears were still ringing from the nightmare, it gave her a head-ache.
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At Tsunade
Tsunade sat at her chair looking out toward the horizon watching the colours change as the sun made its appearance on the village. 'Can he do this?' she asked herself biting one of her nails. Knocking interrupted her thoughts. "Come in!"
Shino entered the room "Tsunade-sama"
She immediately noticed the distress in his voice "So? Where are they?"
"They are coming" Shino answered her question trying to hide the worry that had startled the Hokage
The anger in her became visible "Those brats don't they realise how urgent this is, this is not how a ninja should be, in my day…"
A voice full of rudeness walked in cutting Tsunade off.
"You sound like an old granny scolding her grandkids, oh wait you are a granny. Morning Tsunade".
She got up from her seat ready to strike when Shizune stopped her "why you brat, how dare you, Sasuke!"
He looked at her "You rang"
She calmed down, sat down and begun to give them a brief "There is a very important letter that needs to be fetched from the Land of Rice Fields. You will go as ordinary Jounin ninjas, not ANBU; that will attract attention"
Sasuke looked around and asked "Is it just me and Shino going? Than this letter is not so important, you woke me for this?"
Tsunade threw a glare at him "Its you, Shino and Hinata. That's all the ninjas in Konoha that are available, and I am reluctant to send you Uchiha"
Sasuke got excited at the thought of Hinata coming along but he also reacted to Tsunade's mistrust for him "Reluctant to send me hey?"
Tsunade continued to glare at Sasuke "My special sake has been going missing for sometime now and you seem more intoxicated than ever, it's strong and the effects of it are clearly showing itself through you. You are really in no condition to go but I have no choice"
As Tsunade said this Hinata walked into the room. Everyone looked at her waiting for to say good morning "The mission brief?" she spoke in that harsh not caring voice, waiting to be answered. Everyone looked at her in shock, Sasuke was most taken by this sudden change and Shino kept his face toward the floor.
"I will not repeat myself to someone who does not know how to keep time and good morning to you too. These are your team mates for the mission, they will brief you on it; now go!" Tsunade spoke to Hinata narrowing her eyes at the change of Hinata's voice
Hinata looked at Shino then Sasuke "How lame"
Sasuke was taken a back by Hinata and tried not to react to her but it pierced his heart to hear her say that.
The uneasy one(Shino), the drunk one(Sasuke) and emotionless one(Hinata) left the hokage's building
Tsunade kept the same position even after they had left. She was worried about Hinata and Sasuke, Sasuke was intoxicated, Hinata was in that space again and she wondered if Shino could handle both the drunk and the emotionless at the same time.
Just then he young man burst in breaking Tsunade from thought "Have they gone? I heard that Hinata, Sasuke and Shino have left for a mission. I must go with them!" the man demanded
"Another rude brat! I tell you, I can't take it anymore. You can't go, you need to brief me on the mission you just came from and you can't just go without Shizune attending to your injuries"
His face got serious "Tenten and Lee will brief you; I don't have any injuries, I can hold my own"
"Its okay let him go, he can go die and everyone will be a lot happier without him" Lee came in adding to the young man's request.
It was clearly evident that the two boys had, had an argument.
"Well…ummm...n-" she began to think
"Thanks" he left before she could finish the sentence.
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Konoha gate
All three ninjas checked their supplies then shimmered into the forest.
Sasuke kept looking at Hinata, he analysed her eyes 'they have changed, they are not lavender and in pain anymore, they are, they are' he struggled to find the right word 'they are silver plates of nothingness, is this how I looked before?'
"Byakugan" Hinata spat out the words then stopped on a near by tree
"What is the matter?" Sasuke stopped on a tree next to hers
She narrowed her eyes "Someone is following us, come on, we have to pick up the pace" Her ears were still ringing, 'how long will it take for this ringing to disappear' she wondered.