Sleepless D: Sorry for the late update, I hope things are going well for my readers and fans. I've been through some unusual patches. I am also doing a little scene that is in honour of. Peace out.

Naruto sits in his apartment. He signs as he rubs his neck and thinks about what happened today. The image of Hinata kissing him, it didn't feel like what he had imagined for Kami knows how long. He imagined it sweet, kind, loving. However, the kiss was cold, dark and unmoving, at first. Naruto rubs the sides of his head and rests his elbows on his knees as he feels confused. Hinata went from cold to… he doesn't know what, but for one instance, she felt like she once was, as odd as it felt. Naruto signs as his head starts to hurt because of his thoughts. He moans as he goes to try and get an early night in and walks to his bed.

A sudden knock on the door to his front door stops him in his tracks. He looks, a little confused by the lateness of the knock since the sun had set a couple of hours ago. He signs some more before walking towards the front door and stops; he feels somewhat uneasy, feeling something from the other side of the door. Naruto slowly reaches for the door handle, swallowing a little and opens the door. He carefully looks and his eyebrows raise in surprise, "H-Hinata?"

Hinata stands in front of him, her eyes unfocused for a second before they focused on Naruto. She opens her mouth a few centimeters, but closes as quickly as it opened. Naruto is thoroughly confused as to why Hinata's before him, and she even seems to give the impression of something that resembles bashfulness. "Naruto…" Hinata finally says, breaking the silence that seemed to last for hours, yet it lasted only seconds.

"Y-Yeah?" Naruto asks, still unsure to why she is here, yet he doesn't really care. His eyes fix on her lavender eyes, and then trails down the scar on the corner of her eye, down her cheek and reaches her jaw line. His eyes soon fix onto her lips, waiting for them to move with her response, and yet again, time seems to stop for hours, yet only seconds pass.

"Don't…" Hinata begins, looking down from his eyes for a second, "Don't read too much into this." She says, grabbing his jacket's collar and pulls him down.

Naruto's eyes widen in shock as Hinata's lips press against his, moving a little as his move against hers. The kiss broke as suddenly as it happened and Hinata pushes him into his apartment; this makes him stagger a little as the door slams shut. Naruto watches Hinata carefully, unsure what's going on. His brain is going into overdrive as he tries to figure out why she just kissed him. Hinata walks before him, pulling off her black t-shirt and Naruto's eyes widen. Hinata's pale skin glows in what little light there is in the room. Her breasts are wrapped up with a white cloth that have kept her breasts restricted and smaller to have easier movement. Naruto is mesmerised as Hinata removes the cloth. It slowly falls from her, sliding down her waist and soon her legs, soon laying on the floor. Naruto's eyes are wide as he looks at her breasts, hanging large and incredibly alluring that any man could wish for. Something silver catches his eye. He goes to look, but Hinata takes a step forward, catching his attention as she suddenly puts her right hand on his chest, pushing him gently and he falls back, landing on the sofa. She leans forward and puts her left knee on the sofa he's on and then her right. Naruto continues to look in awe and feels Hinata straddle him. He feels his erection press against her through his trousers and winks in surprise.

"H-Hinata?" Naruto says, unsure what to do.

"Just stay still." Hinata says, placing both hands on his shirt and she leans forward. Her lips softly brush his and she slowly brushes her lips down his cheek, down his jawline and slowly down his neck.

Naruto's skin crawls with goosebumps and feels her grind against him. His eyes drift to the ceiling, soon catching a shining silver. He looks down, seeing her back and his eyes look confused. Hinata's shirt and cloth seem to decompose and dissolve into silver fabric. Naruto's eyebrows knit together from confusion and he feels a sudden danger.

A sharp pain erupts from his neck, blood spraying on the wall and Naruto's eyes widen. Naruto quickly pushes her off, throwing her onto the table which shatters and Naruto grabs the side of his neck. A warm fluid running from his neck and through his fingers, slowly staining his shirt. "What the hell-" Naruto began. His body freezes and his eyes widen in shock.

Hinata slowly gets up, but her body starts melting away. Half her face starts sliding off, blood trailing from it, but blood seems to be collected and is bundled into a small ball. Hinata, or at least her imposter takes out a test tube and collects the blood and looks at him. Her lavender eyes turn dark blue and Hinata's midnight blue hair turns into a dark brown hair.

Naruto's body shakes, a sharp pain going through his body and Naruto screams in pain. He falls backwards, onto the sofa and roars in pain. He feels his chakra coils burn violently. They feel as if they're splitting in half and filled with acid. Naruto's teeth clench harder. His eyes slowly make its way to his hand and fear increases as he seems his veins and arteries blacken. His body somehow burns and freezes at the same time. Naruto's body spasms, his breaths ragged as his eyes roll into the back of his head.

Naruto's eyes widen, he shoots up from the sofa and looks round rapidly. Confusion sets in as it's dark, there's no sign of destroyed furniture or blood. He quickly reaches for his neck. Nothing, nothing there, not even blood stains. He swallows in nervousness as he wonders if that happened, or was it a very vivid nightmare. Naruto shivers in fear as a cold sweat goes down his neck.

A knock comes from the door. Naruto coughs a little as he slowly gets up, feeling sick as he holds his head. He makes his way to the door, still feeling sick and opens the door. Naruto's eyebrows raise in surprise and confusion. "Hinata…?" Naruto says in slight confusion and disbelief, suddenly feeling déjà vu.

Hinata stands in front of him, her eyes unfocused for a second before they focused on Naruto. She opens her mouth a few centimeters, but closes as quickly as it opened. Naruto is thoroughly confused as he was before, knowing he saw this no more than a couple of minutes ago. "Naruto…" Hinata finally says, breaking the silence that seemed to last for hours, yet it lasted only seconds.

"Y-Yeah?" Naruto asks, still unsure what's going on since he's seen this before. The time seems to stop for hours, yet only seconds pass once again.

"Don't…" Hinata begins. Naruto grabs her shoulder, looking even more confused than she when he interrupts her.

"What's going on?" Naruto asks, knowing he's just been through this. "You kissed me, then you bit me and then your face melted…" Naruto tells her, still looking utterly confused. Hinata looks at him, looking slightly confused and just pushes him inside.

"What?" Hinata asks in confusion.

"You just came here, did exactly that and then we kissed and then-" Naruto began. He turns round to point, but he's suddenly smashed into the wall. The air is ripped from his lungs and it feels like his ribs are shattered. His feet dangle from the floor and his blurred vision catches sight of the figure. The figure's body is a reddish black, its eyes glow white and the intensity of the power coming from it is overpowering to say the least. Naruto finds the figure familiar and his eyes go to focus. However, the figure's fist collides with Naruto's face. Blood, bone and brain matter splatters across the wall.

Naruto shoots up, looking around in panic. Vomit suddenly rolls up his throat and Naruto falls to his side, vomit hitting the floor. Naruto's blurred vision comes into focus and he realises he's lying on his sofa. The lights are off and the only illumination is coming from outside. Naruto's stomach clenches once again and he tries to prevent himself from vomiting again. Try and he might, but he vomits once again and holds onto his stomach. Naruto rolls over, feeling sick and his head is buried into the sofa cushions and moans in pain. 'What the fuck was that?' Naruto wonders, the vision of that thing burnt into his mind, even if it was a blurred vision.

Naruto suddenly hears something. He slowly slides/rubs his face against the cushion and looks outwards to the room. Something moves and his eyes narrow in confusion. A very tiny hand grabs the edge of the sofa cushion and pulls itself up carefully. It's a two-inch humanoid figure, wearingly a ragged blue cloak, brownish, straw like hair sticking out of his head and a silver mask with yellow eye sockets. It looks like some demented ragdoll. It walks forward and another tiny hand grabs the edge of the sofa cushion. It starts climbing and to Naruto's confusion, it looks like a mini mannequin used for drawing. He remembers it because he saw Sai looking at one a few days ago and it was weird. This one however didn't have any support and is completely silver. It climbs and stands straight, looking down. Another tiny hand appears and starts climbing. Naruto is resting his end on its side and he watches in confusion and watches the miniature beings. The third one comes into view and it looks like some cross between a canine, snake and porcupine. Its shape is that of a dog, but instead of fur, its skin is sharp, jagged and scaly, like jagged spikes. Its eyes glow red and its breaths are ragged, almost as if it's close to death. Naruto's eyes catch a forth tiny thing, looking and seeing a toy Shinigami; a skeleton wearing a black cloak and holding a small scythe.

Naruto rolls over a little, fascinated and confused by the sight. He watches them all as they march along unusually. Naruto sees them begin to climb up the arm of the sofa. Naruto slowly reaches out, a little confused and his hand slowly glides towards the small group. They look, seeing the hand reaching for them and they make their way up the arm faster. Naruto sees the two first ones make it up at the same time, looking back and the dog creature made it up. It soon looks annoyed as the mini Shinigami starts climbing up from its tail and makes it to the group. Naruto's hand shoots forward, clutching them all in his hand. He slowly pulls his hand back and opens his hand. Nothing.

Naruto looks rather confused as looks round a bit, but nothing. He sighs a little and rolls onto his back, believing he's still half dreaming. His eyes closed as he tries to get back to sleep since he's still feeling too ill to clean up his vomit. He soon hears a click. His eyes open and stares at a barrel, he looks beyond that and sees a hand on a handle and a trigger. Instinct kicks in and he quickly throws himself from the sofa and he even rolls over the small table. A deafening explosion happens and Naruto's sofa is now half of one. Naruto's ears ring as he holds them and looks in shock as he sees the intruder. The figure is wearing a raged, blue robe, a metallic mask with yellow eye sockets and he has messy brown hair.

Naruto's in utter shock and confusion as he sees the tiny ragdoll now human sized. The man looks towards Naruto and slowly raises his other hand which held another barrel which he soon realizes is some kind of flintlock, which is rare. Footsteps soon come and Naruto's eyes quickly go to his bedroom door, soon seeing a naked woman, but she's completely made of silver. She raises her hand and her fingers point at Naruto. Danger hits Naruto's mind and he quickly raised himself a few inches. Her fingers suddenly shooting at Naruto, stretching out like spears. They puncture the walls and Naruto stiffens in shock, he quickly looks round, seeing a spear miss his elbow by a mere centimeter. He looks down, also narrowly missing his groin and he's never been so glad to of had a semi and scared, otherwise he's of been castrated for sure. He feels something run down his cheek and he realises that he's just narrowly stopped himself being pierced through the head. Her other hand soon aims at him and Naruto's eyes widen in shock as the two go to attack. Her fingers shoot out and the masked man fires. Another deafening explosion and the wall collapses as the fingers stab into what remains. The smoke rapidly clears and a Kakashi dummy with a large hole in its chest and a finger through its arms, legs and head.

Naruto rolls away, bolting for the door since being in close proximity is feeling too dangerous. He hits something, glass shatters and Naruto hits the floor. He feels cuts into his knees, forearms and hands. He looks at the floor, seeing glass and what remains of a mirror image of his door and corridor. More footsteps are heard and he looks, seeing a dark figure in front of the door. It stands hunched and takes a step forward. A shiver goes down his spine as he sees the dog like beast standing before him. Its presence bares the smell of blood, hate and rage overbearing over all else. It takes a step forward and a sudden flow of power and blood streams at Naruto like a fire hydrant. Naruto flies back and quickly rolls to escape the stream. The floor collapses into a liquid, nearly causing Naruto to drown. Naruto quickly surfaces, his clothing stained in red and even blood staining his hair. He quickly raises his hand and looks in shock as he realises it really is blood, half coagulated, but still liquid enough to drip from him. Naruto vomits on the blood. He looks round, panicked since he has no idea what's going on and his eyes widen. Standing on the blood, the former mini Shinigami standing tall, but no skeletal parts were seen and only darkness. Naruto sees a sudden shine and its scythe swings. Naruto raises his arms, feared as he the scythe flashes through him.

Naruto shoots up, yelping in shock as he searches round. Darkness, utter darkness. Naruto feels round, knowing he's whole and the smell of blood gone. Naruto's body shivers as his head pounds as his chakra burns. He's getting confused with the nightmares or visions or even delusions for all he knew. Naruto coughs hard and slowly gets up in pain, feeling weak and looks round in nervousness.

Footsteps are soon heard, Naruto looks, feeling the shadows move in the darkness. Naruto is feeling confused, feeling something pass through him as lights start appearing. Naruto squints in pain, feeling sick as his chakra burns and feels it burn his brain as he looks at the light. Shadowy figures could be seen in the distance and Naruto slowly crawls his way to it, feeling nervous as he does so. Naruto sees them, but they're nothing more than shadowy figures, like dead memories.

"Open the gate!" a voice screams, rage apparent as Naruto looks, seeing the largest of the people, a dank goliath of a man.

The shadows move, almost as if they're talking and interacting with each other but Naruto can't hear them, or at least most of them. Few words manage to get through, though Naruto doesn't know what they're talking about. One of the shadows reminds him of the Shinigami he saw before. The two remaining that he can see are more human than the others. To Naruto's confusion, one of them looks more detailed than the rest. Naruto looks carefully, seeing that the man is middle ages, his eyes having multiple rings seems to emit power that Naruto recognizes part of it for some unknown reason.

"The universe is fractured. We are only a shadow of our former selves." The Shinigami looking shadow tells the hulking shadow. "This universe could hold the key."

The shadows continue to move, talking forgotten words. Naruto's eyes glance and he sees the wall at the end. Wonder kicks in as he sees two handprints embedded into the wall, one with a white circle in the palm and the other with a black, crescent moon. Naruto feels somewhat unnerved from what he's somehow feeling from the other side, like something not of this world.

"Allow us time so we can see if this world has the answer." One of the shadows says, pleading a little, "You're also missing most of those that can unlock the gate. Just give this universe time, like all the others." shadows continue to move and speak, but nothing is heard.

Naruto looks round, feeling like he's missing the big picture and wonders what they're all talking about. His eyes drift to the last one, not having heard him speak, but something in him tells him he's about to speak, "We were born of this world and we have our family to think of." he says, looking at the goliath. Naruto's eyes widen, seeing Hinata's eyes, no, the Hyuga eyes.

Naruto soon feels a horrific power. He turns around and looks at the goliath, feeling dread and notices the shadow of the goliath. It grows and tendrils form and a dark eye is shown. Naruto feels fear as the eye reminds him of some form of Sharingan, but there were layers of them, "We are the closest family you'll ever have!" the shadow rushes, the power overwhelming and runs through Naruto.

Naruto's eyes widen, screaming in horror, pain and flails around in fear. He falls, hitting wood and pain goes up his arm. Naruto rolls over, vomiting and looks around in panic. His apartment, nothing different but darker. He holds his stomach, his veins burning and his head pounding. He slowly gets up, his body shaking and he looks at his hand. Confusion hits. Blood, dried blood. Naruto's hand quickly reaches for his neck, feeling more dried blood and feels nervous. He looks around, seeing the table destroyed and blood stains on the floor.

Naruto looks at his hands. Fear, confusion, hope that his nightmares have ceased. Naruto weakly walks to the sink, his head diving into it and his hand turning the tap on. Water rushes on his head, cooling his pounding head and cleanses some of the blood that stained the side of his head. Naruto feels his stomach convulse and he vomits into the sink. The smell makes him gag as he pulls himself back and slides onto the floor, holding onto his stomach and the water trickling down his back, side and even causing some blood trails down his body. He falls to his side, wishing he could sleep, but his chakra and brain refused him this privilege.

Naruto body shivers, the only thing he's hearing is his heart beat, head pounding and now his tap. 'Please…kill me…' Naruto prays, feeling worse than he ever has.

"Brother, you shall be released and the way shall be opened." A voice echoes in his head. Naruto quickly raises, alert but soon regrets it and vomits onto the floor nearby. "This world doesn't hold what we seek."

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Hinata stops, looking around in slight surprise and confusion. She looks at the sky and her thumb reaches her face, brushing her scar and continues walking forward.

Xxxxx

Minutes pass and Naruto hasn't moved and hasn't even turned off the water. He has spent what little energy he has on trying to figure out what happened or what that voice was or where it came from. Naruto's blurred vision catches movement, but he ignores it and tries to sleep on the cold floor. Naruto feels his hair move, but he's too delirious to think anything of it. He suddenly feels himself roll over and his head rests on something soft. Confusion sets in once again and he opens his eyes, looking and seeing the pale and beautiful skin of Hinata.

Naruto's eyes widen and he quickly rolls away, rolling only a few feet before he stops and heaves in pain and sickness. Naruto loses focus as his chakra coils burn and shivers in pain. He feels a soft hand on the back of his neck, causing him goosebumps and he looks, feeling nervous as he goes to look her in the eyes. That stops abruptly as he sees her eyes, seeing Hinata from years ago for an instance before what little light slowly died away. He felt her skin brush his and he feels her wipe his dried blood from his neck and shoulder. He feels somewhat at ease for some unknown reason, maybe because it was Hinata, or maybe because someone is caring for him.

Naruto relaxes and signs in some relief as Hinata uses something damp cleaning the blood, sweat and bit of vomit on him. Minutes pass and Naruto feels something press against his forehead, confusing him slightly, "Hinata?" Naruto calls, his voice gruff and his head feeling like it's vibrating with his words.

"Yes?" Hinata replies, slowly lifting Naruto's head and puts him on her lap.

Naruto remains silent for several moments, "W-Why are you h-here?"

Hinata remains silent for a while, second turn to minutes and Naruto remains silent throughout, "I decided to visit you, for old times' sake."

Naruto looks in slight surprise and just watches the dark shade of Hinata. He feels her hand, though cold as it was, it was smooth and soothing, "O-Okay…" he whispers, blushing a little.

Xxxxx

Just inside the village walls, a dark figure rests on the edge of a roof of a house, like a gargoyle. Its breaths are deep, filtered and what light there is seems to glance off round its eye which are completely circular. It waits and soon vanishes complete, almost like a shadow. The streets are almost empty and a nearby alleyway has a sudden figure appear. It suddenly kneels and it's the being from the top of the roof, "General Famine…" the person says, his voice deep and awaiting a response.

"Here, that's all I could acquire," A voice comes from the shadows. Kim appears from it and holds out a sealed test tube containing blood, "go now." the person takes the test tube and vanishes into shadows, leaving nothing but the night and Kim dissolves into her liquid form and vanishes into the shadows.

Xxxxx

Days away, at the border of the Wind Nation. Several shadowed figures stand before the barren wastelands of the Wind Nation. They remain motionless for several moments before one takes a step forward. Their voice is female, but is filtered in a gasmask as the others wear exact attire as her. "The target is no longer of this world. Our objective now is to collect the closest sample we have available. We could draw the blood of the target's corpse…unfortunately, according to data, the target has the ultimate defence, so we'll have to collect it while they're still alive. If you do somehow kill the target, then collect the blood and leave."

"Should be simple enough." One of the group says, soon vanishing in a small flurry, the others soon following as they all vanish in the darkness of the night.

Sleepless D: Sorry for the late update, I've been working and been stressed and I truly hope this at least continues to make the story interesting and thickens the plot. Please review and if anyone wants to help be an advisor or something if I've got ideas for this story. I worry that I don't make it interesting enough. Please review. Peace out.