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She visited him the whole week, once a day. It was always the same time at noon, not a second later, nor a second earlier. She was always there and watched him far away from the corner of the room.

He never looked at her anymore when she entered, and never did she need to fix her gaze on her knees not to look into his face. A sign that he had got used to her visits, that was what she believed… Or told her to believe.

There had been moments when she imagined how he made up a plan to throw himself over her. Many times Hinata had imagined how she entered the room to see an empty bed and two holes in the wall, where the chains should have been.

By the time she had calmed down and let those paranoid thoughts fly away…

The more Hinata watched over him, the more she learned. The way he sat, in the same position, the way he never reacted to her made her realize one thing; he wasn't alive on the inside. He was an empty shell. There was nothing inside him, no light, no happiness and no sadness.

Likewise her intestines were all messed up inside her he was also messed up, mentally. Even though their situations were far from different Hinata couldn't help but think how similar they were after all. She couldn't understand what he felt or what he thought in that state, but she knew he was broken.

Hinata's thoughts had been proven before. One day when she was on her way to his ward Sakura had caught her and asked for a favor.

"He hasn't touched the food for days." Sakura said and gave Hinata a tray with warm food. "Can you make him to eat?"

Hinata felt her heartbeat accelerate. It had taken a week to her to even get used in having him in the same room and she wasn't sure that she would be able to get closer to him this fast, even less force him to eat. She was just going to ask if Sakura could do it instead when she received an encouraging tap on her shoulder.

"You have done a great job with him." Sakura told her as she pushed the wheelchair towards his ward.

Hinata nodded thankfully, but on the inside she didn't agree with her friend. She hadn't done any progress with the Uchiha. She hadn't even tried. The truth made her guilty and she wished that Sakura wouldn't have so much courage in her, if she just knew.

"Good luck."

He groaned as the head pounded by pain. He closed his eyes to shut out the light and tried to relax, but the pain didn't ease. Instead the pain worsened. He sank back down in the bed, the head on the soft pillow. Breathing slowly while the cold sweat dropped. This emptiness was driving him insane.

He heard the door creak open… He heard her breaths as she rolled herself in. Those vibrating sounds of her made his head almost crack open and he wished that she could leave him alone. He had no energy to dismiss her.

The way he lay on the bed dangerously near to fall off, made Hinata's stomach skip and she couldn't help but feel how panic spread through her. He was in pain. Even without byakugan she could see it.

Hinata swallowed and started to roll her chair closer to his bed. The more she approached him the more nervous she became.

When she was right beside his bed she couldn't believe that she even did this. Right before her the man who she feared lay.

Hinata couldn't help but notice how the Uchiha tried to jerk away and made longer distance between them. She frowned at that, wondering if he was afraid

Her attention was caught to him again when she heard a snarl. He held his head in his hands, like he was suffering. The way he stroked his temples made her suspicious.

"Byakugan!" She whispered, feeling the chakra around her temples as she opened her eyes and scanned him.

Obito's chakra system seemed off, his chakra was gathered at only one place; inside a round circle in his stomach. The whole spot vibrated, like all his chakra aimed to spread through the limits. A seal? Hinata's frown deepened as she tried to figure out what was wrong with him… Her eyes scanned upwards to his torso.

It wasn't before she scanned his head she found the problem… He suffered from a headache. During the war preparation Hinata had spent most of her free time studying medicine in case if it was needed during the war. According to everything she learnt it wasn't unusual to have headaches during amnesia, and it wasn't either unusual that they were as severe as Obito's.

She carefully reached her trembling hands towards him, afraid that he either would slap it away or hurt her once again. But he didn't react to her. He barely noticed how close she was to him.

He felt a warm sensation around his temples. He felt how the pain eased a bit… He relaxed and opened his eyes. Everything he saw was a green bright light and how she watched down at him… Everything he felt was how her trembling hands stroke his temples... The way the pain eased made him relax. Something warm spread through his chest.

He had a feeling that he had experienced this before, but where and when?

"Who am I?" he heard his own raspy voice ask her.

He saw how the girl tensed up. He felt how her hands started to tremble even more. Her white eyes avoided his glance, like she was afraid of him. Both of them were drowning by the uneasy silence between them.

"Y-y-your na-… name…is Uchiha Obito." She stuttered shyly.

Obito … The name sent a jolt through him. He had heard the name being called many times by voices he didn't recognize. So it was his name… And this girl knew it?

He stared at her as he wondered how much she knew about him. What if she had been one of those he had known before? What if she known everything he didn't know? What if she was his only hope to find out everything about his past?

Suddenly the green light disappeared, likewise the warm familiar sensation. He was about to try to get her to go on and lifted his hand towards his temples were one of her hands were. But right when he was about to grab it she jerked her hands away from him…

Hinata looked ashamedly down at the tray in her lap. She was afraid of him touching her after what he had done to her. But yet she wondered why she had reacted that defensively. Hinata was fully aware of how he stared at her… Shyly she looked up at him.

Instead of that glare she feared she was met by a confused look and a bit sad look… She was taken aback. Instead of that man who had once plunged his arm through her body, she saw a lost child before her.

"Are you afraid of me?"

Not knowing if she should lie or say the truth, Hinata looked around in the room for an escape route not to answer at all. Her gaze stopped at the food tray in her lap and she reminded her of what she had promised Sakura.

With shaking hands she put the tray on his night table. She rolled her chair away from the bed, full aware that he was still staring at her. Hinata wished that he would look away from her, but he didn't.

She sighed and rolled herself out of the room to escape those eyes. That look had glued itself to her memories, like his sadistic look. It would bug her nightmares the same way, if not worse.

It hurt so much, that she actually had felt sorry for him when he was in pain. Why couldn't she feel the same sick joy when she saw him suffer? Why couldn't she just enjoy the same sight, as he had enjoyed it when she fought to stay alive? Why was she this kind?

Hinata sighed in relief when she had rolled herself far away from his room. She looked up at the clock that hung on the wall. She had just been there for 15 minutes and she had almost lost it there.

Once again she asked herself how she would go through the hell. Once again she came to the same conclusion, life was hell and this was nothing different.

"Oi, Hinata…"

The call of her name made her turn around. Her heart skipped as she saw who had had called her name. He stood there right before her, blonde hair… And blue eyes staring at her.

Of everyone it had to be her former crush...

End of chapter 3

A/N. One of the reviewers asked if Hinata's life will be dependent on time and if she always will sit in that wheelchair.

– The answer to your question will come up later in this fic… I have something planned for that, but I don't want to spoil it yet...

And the chapters will hopefully get longer the more into the plot we dive.