Hinata: Byakurenden

The Village Hidden in the Dawn

The portal snapped close, taking Hinata and Tayuya along with it.

Before anyone had been capable of doing so much as a single thing, they were both gone, taken to who knew where.

"Find them!" Neji yelled, having already activated the Byakugan and using it to scan the desert for any sign of where they might have gone. Kiba jumped on Akamaru's back, the large ninken racing off to see if it could pick up some kind of scent. Shino unleashed his kikaichu, the insects scattering to do their own investigation.

"There's no point." Sasuke didn't seem to be concerned, instead taking precautions against Kabuto's flaming corpse, preparing to seal Amaterasu's eternal black flames. If they didn't contain it, they risked the wind spreading it further and others being set ablaze. Naruto, meanwhile, stood completely still, simply gaping in shock at where the portal had closed.

"You don't know that!" Neji snapped, not sure if he was more angry about Sasuke's nonchalance, or his own uncharacteristic desperation. In truth, he had been anxious in regards to his eventual reunion with Hinata. He owed her a great debt; She not only freed him, but many others of the branch clan with her actions. Despite this, he hadn't said anything to her upon this brief reunion. He had put the mission first, naively believing that nothing would happen.

Now she was gone, and Tayuya, who had been placed under his care, was taken with her. He had to do something to try and get them back.

"Hahaha! That's hilarious!" A maniacal laughter drew his attention, and he had to double-take at what he saw, a disembodied head held in Kankuro's arms. "That's what you get for putting your faith in that bitch of a goddess!" He shouted, glaring with deranged red eyes at the burning corpse that had once been Kabuto.

"Knock it off already!" Kankuro once again tried to gag the head, but Gaara waved him off as he stepped forward to address him.

"You came here with the enemy, did you not?" He asked, "In that case, you must have some idea where they took The White Lotus."

"And why should I tell you, huh?" Hidan snapped, glaring up at Gaara out of the corner of his eye, but unable to actually rotate his head to look at him on his own.

"We have ways of encouraging you to talk." Gaara answered so passively, it was easy to miss the threat- until you saw the sand of the desert around him moving to his command. Hidan may have been immortal, but even he didn't want to be buried alive out here in the middle of nowhere.

"Look, how about a bargain?" He decided to trade instead, knowing that outright refusal wasn't going to get him anywhere. "You guys are going to take the fight to them, right? I'll tell you what I know, and you take me there too. I also need to recover my body." Last he heard, Orochimaru was using it for experiments, so he should still be able to take it back, so long as he had some help.

"Even if you tell us, it's not going to matter unless it's close." Sasuke had finished laying out a scroll and was sealing away the black flames as he spoke. "Neji and his team are escorting the Kazekage to the Land of Iron."

"What about us?" Naruto asked, pointing a finger between himself and Sasuke. "We could go after them, couldn't we?" They didn't actually have anything like an official mission now that Sasori had been killed, and returning with their teammate was technically their responsibility.

"Do you think Hinata is someone that needs us to go after her?" Sasuke asked pointedly, to which Naruto just shrugged and seemed to accept that as a fair point. "We should stick with Neji's team for now. If they're heading to the Land of Iron, that means my brother will be going there too. He seems to think something big is happening, which means we should be there to act as support in case the worst happens."

"Hmmm…" Naruto didn't appear quite satisfied, but much to Neji's surprise, he didn't continue to argue the point either. In the past there was no way he would simply lie down and accept that his teammates were in peril while he did nothing.

"Hinata-sama has been kidnapped by the enemy." He stated the obvious, just to be sure they actually understood the situation. Sasuke simply sighed and didn't say anything, instead rolling up the scroll that had sealed the black flames.

That left it to Naruto to respond. "Hinata is like really crazy strong, y'know?" He said as if it was that simple. "And Tayuya is with her. If I were to trust any two people in the world to be alright no matter the situation, it would be them. We got nothing to worry about and I bet you they'll meet us in the Land of Iron too somehow."

"I wouldn't be so sure of that if I were y'all." Hidan cackled to himself cryptically. To his surprise, the threat didn't seem to have any effect, and he could only wonder just how strong these girls were that the people closest to them seemed this confident in their abilities.

"We should at least hear him out, shouldn't we?" Naruto asked, glancing between Neji and Sasuke as if he was stuck between a rock and hard place. "We can decide what to do after that. For all we know, the place Hinata and Tayuya currently are is on the way to where we're going." The reasoning was sound, both Neji and Sasuke giving the barest nods of agreement to the suggestion.

"I didn't say I was just gonna tell ya for free!" Hidan shouted, starting to get sick of these Konoha ninja already. He had his pride, after all, even if he was only a talking head. Yet once again, he didn't get much reaction from the group, and it seemed like if he didn't tell them, they would just head to the Land of Iron without him.

"Look, if you're gonna say it, just spit it out already, would you?" Kankuro asked, looking like he actually felt kind of bad for the talking head now. It would seem he had no choice in the matter, either he didn't tell them and got left behind, or he told them and at least had a shot at getting to his destination.

"Alright, alright. I'll give it to you." Hidan sighed in resignation. At least it seemed like he had everyone's attention. "If that spineless bastard Obito was going to take them anywhere, then it would only be one place: Where he enshrined his goddess and started their whole bullshit religion-"

"Akatsukigakure no Sato."

"Now, now. There's no need for the two of you to glare at me like that." Uchiha Obito laughed to himself in a way he probably thought was meant to be disarming, but it did little to persuade either Tayuya or Hinata.

He looked similar to how Hinata recalled seeing him last time, half of his face still disfigured by awful scars that made her stomach squeamish. He had two Sharingan, one of them his original eye, the other once belonging to someone else, giving them mismatching chakra signatures.

Both Sharingan had the power of the Mangekyo. His original eye had the power of Kamui, a dead god, and it was this ability that he used to abscond with them. The other eye had the power of Amaterasu herself, the goddess bestowing the power upon him and transforming the eye, even though it shouldn't have ordinarily been possible.

The biggest difference was Obito's attire, the man now dressed in the robes of Shinto Priest. It looked like he was ready to perform some kind of ceremony or blessing and he would be more at home in a shrine, not here in this metal box of a room.

Sensing that their hostility wouldn't be so easily diminished, he held up both hands as if in surrender. He even closed his two mismatched Sharingan eyes, leaning back comfortably on the lavish chair he was sitting on. No matter how one looked at it, he wasn't asking for a fight. Although Hinata suspected that was more because he was actually just that confident he could win one if it were to start.

"Why the hell did you bring us here?" Tayuya was the first of the two girls to break the silence. She seemed to be thinking the same thing as Hinata; It would be easy for them to just start throwing around their power and weight, but they had no idea what was waiting for them outside this room. For now, it was better to just get as much information as possible.

"In order to talk, of course." Obito said like it really was that obvious. He kicked up one leg, resting it on his knee while he leaned his cheek into a fist, gazing once again at them out of only a single Sharingan eye- the one with the power of Kamui which he had used to bring them here.

"But why here?" Tayuya stressed the point. If a simple conversation was Obito's aim, then didn't he think it would be more comfortable for them to do it in neutral territory? Not in the den of their enemy.

"It has to be here, or else there wouldn't be any point." Obito didn't seem to mind the questions, and had probably even predicted them. "Words can only get people so far. There are only things you can believe if you see it with your own eyes." It wasn't like what he said was wrong. However-

"You could have tried asking first?" Tayuya took the words right out of Hinata's mouth. And she was thankful for it, for it sounded much better in the natural sarcastic pitch of Tayuya's voice than it would have sounded coming from herself.

"Would you have accepted my invitation if I had?" Obito retorted, probably thinking it had been a quick-witted response.

"I would have." Hinata answered honestly, something that seemed to actually surprise their abductor. She had been curious ever since Amaterasu made their way into their world about just what kind of society she would try to create. If it was supposed to be Hinata's duty to stop her, then she wanted to see exactly what it was she was fighting against.

Of course, she had already gotten a taste of what that was. Sasori had completely destroyed the Sand Village, turning it into a paradise only for himself and his puppets. And Kabuto had been incinerated for his failure at the first light of dawn.

"She speaks then." Obito smiled ruefully at Hinata, having not missed that she left most of the talking to Tayuya up until this point. "Which is good, because you were the one I actually wanted to have this conversation with." It would seem Tayuya had just been collateral then.

"If you really just want to speak, then I'll cooperate." Hinata put all the training she received from her father on how to speak as an emissary to work. "However, I want a guarantee of safety, not just for me, but Uzumaki Tayuya as well." She eyed the door to the outside warily, the closest access point for sunlight. There was no guarantee that the moment Obito opened that door they wouldn't just be incinerated like Kabuto had been.

"I promise, no harm shall befall either of you." Obito stood up and gave a formal bow. "So long as you uphold the rules of Amaterasu-sama and this village, that is."

"You mean like how Kabuto did?" Tayuya spat, not trusting his words for even a second.

"He broke the rules, actually." Obito corrected her quickly. "Amaterasu-sama forbade the Edo Tensei technique, professing it to be vile and unnatural. The moment he used it and his life was pretty much forfeit. He would have known as such, and was probably hoping that by defeating you, he could have her overlook that transgression." His explanation was sound, but maybe just a little too quick…

"Isn't it strange that he was even there in Sunagakure?" Hinata asked, watching closely for Obito's reaction. "It seems like Sasori had taken it over on his own, and there were no signs that he called for any help after we already set out on our mission."

"I'm sure that I don't know what you're implying." Obito's smile had a wicked tint to it now and Hinata knew for sure that he had been the one to put Kabuto there. He had been hoping that his new Byakugan-riddled arm would upset her enough that she would make a fatal mistake, but that plan had failed, so he had switched to a backup.

"How the hell did she even know he did it?" Tayuya asked, having not heard about that until just now herself. She knew about the Edo Tensei, as it had been part of Orochimaru's plan for the Konoha invasion, but he never got the chance to unveil it. She wondered why she never heard about it again until now, but it would seem that it was because Amaterasu disagreed with the very concept of it.

"She shared her chakra with him and all of us Akatsuki." Obito pointed to his other Sharingan eye, which was now capable of producing the same black flames that were named after the goddess herself. This had happened on the first night she arrived in their world, making him her first vassal and giving him greater power. "She can tell what her power is being used for. And anything under this sun is visible to her, so the moment the dawn rose, he was as good as dead."

So that was what had happened, Hinata now realized. She thought it must have been Obito that cast the black flames, but it had been Amaterasu herself. She had done the same to Danzo, but that had been with direct line of sight. If it was someone she had shared her chakra with, she could immolate them no matter where in the world they were, so long as they were in contact with direct sunlight.

"So what then?" Tayuya asked, "You just going to keep us inside this room the whole time, or is there something you wanted to actually show us?"

"Not you, but the White Lotus." Obito felt the need to remind Tayuya. "Consider yourself lucky to be allowed here. Ordinarily, only those that have already pledged themselves to Amaterasu-sama are permitted in the village. I will be guiding you to our location, but first allow me to make some final preparations. I'll be back for you in a minute." No sooner did he say that and he vanished, his body being pulled into a swirling vortex with his Sharingan at the center.

Hinata and Tayuya were now completely alone, unsupervised for the time being inside the very center of the enemy's stronghold. Obito must have been really confident to just leave the two of them like this.

"What are we going to do?" Tayuya wasted no time, already dashing around the room to inspect it for any kind of hidden mechanisms or spying devices. In contrast, Hinata felt strangely calm about the whole situation and remained standing in the spot she had been dropped onto.

"For now, let's just remain calm and hear out Obito-san." Hinata had a hard time believing her own composure. After the fight against Kabuto, she thought that her emotions would stay unbalanced for some time, but something about this sudden development had helped her find a semblance of peace. She wondered if it was because Kabuto had been killed for her, allowing her to put that behind… or maybe perhaps because this was the place she was meant to meet her destiny?

"You've changed a lot these past couple years." Tayuya noticed, stopping her search to turn and stare at her. "Almost like you're more confident… the look suits you." It was too bad that their long awaited reunion had to be done under these circumstances. Hinata would have liked it if they could chat more peacefully, and find out how she had been adjusting to life in Konoha. Not that there wasn't any reason they couldn't enjoy a short reprieve now.

"You seem to have mellowed out somewhat yourself." Hinata said, only half-jokingly. Tayuya used to be much more foul-mouthed than this, and was always on edge. She wouldn't have stopped what she was doing in order to give Hinata a compliment in the past.

"What can I say, you Konoha twats are infectious." Tayuya shot back, smirking as if to say she still had some of her old flare in her yet. "And I shouldn't have to remind you, but I only joined because it was my mother's dying request that I find you. So it's actually a good thing that I got dragged along. If you're going out in a blaze of glory here, then I'm going with you." That was something Hinata could never forget, as it had been what brought them together to begin with.

"Well, let's try to avoid any blazes of glory for the time being." Hinata was actually exhausted from having been up all night, and she knew Tayuya must be as well. Her team had been forced to rush to the Sand Village after receiving Itachi's crow, and that was on top of having been on the road for the past few weeks already.

"I would appreciate it if you could do that." Obito responded, having returned as quickly as he had disappeared. The door was thrown wide open, natural sunlight spilling into the dim room. The rays of light bounced off the metal walls, becoming blindingly bright in a single instant, forcing Hinata and Tayuya to squint against the sudden luminescence. "This way ladies." They stumbled towards his voice, still half-blinded, making their way out into the village.

The first thing that struck Hinata as they stepped outside was the sound. It was just all so… alive. Unlike the puppet village run by Sasori, there was actual human activity happening here. Whether it was shop owners advertising their wares, people chatting animatedly, or children laughing as they played, there was a type of energy that just couldn't be replaced by puppets.

As their eyes adjusted, the rest of the village began to come into focus. Hinata had already studied it inside the room with her Nichiren Byakugan, but seeing it with x-ray vision and the naked eye were somehow completely different. Towering metal skyscrapers reached for the scattered clouds all around them. High above, there were numerous pathways and bridges connecting the higher floors, creating multiple levels to the city they now stood in the center of. They were on the bottom level, standing on a wooden porch with stairs to their right that led down into a bustling shopping district.

"Follow me, if you would please." Obito descended the steps, entering into the shopping district and beginning to navigate his way through it. Hinata and Tayuya quickly followed after him.

Above them, Hinata could see luxurious malls and the well-dressed individuals that perused them. Down here, it was almost like a different country, the people dressed in rags, advertising their goods out of shabby stalls and shacks. The wooden platforms- and the whole city for that matter- were built atop a deep lake, its depth beyond even her enhanced vision.

The wooden planks they walked on bobbed and rocked gently with the ebb and flow of the water beneath them, forcing Hinata and Tayuya to quickly find their sea legs. Obito didn't seem to have any problem, nor did any of the citizens, long used to the sensation. As they walked, many people stopped and bowed to Obito as he passed, regarding him as some kind of celebrity. Some even shouted greetings, to which he returned with a smile and a wave.

Despite the obvious wealth gap between the people living on the upper structures and those here at the bottom, there wasn't a single weary face to be found. Everyone was smiling and laughing, living their lives to the fullest. It wasn't hard to understand why. From what Hinata heard, the village used to be plagued by an unceasing downpour, but you never would have believed that if you were to see it now.

The sun shined bright and strong, even more powerful than it had seemed in the desert. For people that had gone their whole lives knowing nothing but the oppressive rain and dark clouds, this sun was a miracle. It was no wonder they had changed the name from a village hidden in rain, to one hidden in dawn. This was truly their dawn- a new beginning to a better life. Or so they believed.

"Something about this place is giving me the creeps." Tayuya said, a shiver running up her spine as she took in the same surroundings that Hinata did. It was hard to put a finger on what I was, but Hinata agreed with her. Something about this scene wasn't right, she just didn't understand exactly why. Everyone looked so happy, like their lives couldn't get any better than it was now. Everyone.

That was when it hit Hinata. This kind of unanimous joy wasn't just unnatural, it was downright impossible. No matter how perfect a paradise you might have lived in, there would always be those that were dissatisfied, or tired, or maybe even just having a bad day. Yet there wasn't any sign of that here.

These people were all wearing a mask, not unlike the one that Obito once used to cover his face. They may have been happy and at peace on the outside, but deep down they knew that they were lying to themselves. At the very least, that was the impression Hinata got.

"This is what you wanted us to see?" Hinata asked, feeling a sense of disgust pool in the pit of her stomach. Obito must have known that they would see through this ruse immediately. Surely he didn't think that they would be convinced by a bunch of fake smiles and a bright sun?

"Is there something you disagree with?" Obito asked, and he sounded genuinely curious. As if he himself didn't notice the problem. He continued to wave and smile at every person that greeted him, even stopping occasionally to bow back to some of the elderly people that approached him, going so far as to take the hand of one woman and shake it briefly before continuing to guide them.

"You bet there is." Tayuya snapped, her own expression twisted like she just swallowed some bitter medicine. "People ain't this happy anywhere. You think this is a village? It's more like a cult." Having once been in Orochimaru's service, she knew what such a thing looked like better than most.

"That's a pretty bold accusation, don't you think? Based on what information are you able to make that claim?" Obito wasn't offended at all by her words, and instead smiled back at them, as if he was also one of the brainwashed masses. It was so unlike the others of his clan, such as Sasuke and Itachi, that Hinata had a hard time believing they were even related.

"It's common fucking sense." Tayuya retorted, to which Obito actually laughed. Not just a small chuckle, but full on laughter.

"The fact that sadness and grief are things the world thinks of as common sense is precisely why we needed a new world order, don't you think?" Obito gestured to all the people around him, and many of them beamed enthusiastically back, grateful to be used as an example by him. "A world where everyone can be happy is a wonderful thing, isn't it? And no human on this planet could do it. That's why we needed a goddess from the outside like Amaterasu-sama."

The moment he spoke that name and there was a sudden shift.

"Ah, Amaterasu-sama!" Everyone within earshot of them fell to their knees, raising their arms to the sun and calling out her name in reverence, their voices trembling from some overflowing emotion. This caused a chain reaction, until the entire city, even those in the upper layers were on their knees and chanting the sun goddess's praises. Their voices rang out in unison, sending a shiver up Hinata's spine now.

"…What the hell?" Tayuya's voice was drowned out by their chant, yet that single unheard question resounded more deeply with Hinata than all these thousands of crying voices together.

"As I said before," Obito smirked at them, gesturing to the scene around them. "Seeing is believing. I know it defies what you think of as common sense, but this is the beginning of the new world order that I sought." He turned and led them to a nearby building, further conversation impossible over the chanting masses.

A metal door opened, revealing an elevator inside that he stepped into. The metal contraption was something Hinata had heard of on her travels, but this was her first time seeing such technology. She and Tayuya both watched in fascination as Obito pressed a button and the doors closed, before the box began carrying them upwards.

The moment the doors closed and some semblance of silence returned, although the chanting was still faintly audible. As the elevator carried them, the outside wall turned to glass, giving them a view of the city and the shrinking masses below. As they slowly went higher and higher, Hinata watched the city as it transformed, changing from a residential low-class district, to those of middling affluency, and finally the people of great wealth and abundance. All people, regardless of social class held up their arms in reverence to the being known as Amaterasu.

The designs at the top of the skyscrapers also came into view. It looked like the image of the sun goddess had been etched into many of them, but not all. Some of the faces were under construction, tearing down the old design to make them look like the others. Only a few buildings remained untouched for now, the faces on these skyscrapers that of Oni and Tengu, ancient mythological creatures. Hinata had a feeling those too would soon be erased, and only Amaterasu's face would remain.

"Why did you seek out a being like Amaterasu?" Hinata asked, tearing her eyes away from the city to look at Obito. They had only met once before this, and she would admit she knew embarrassingly little about him, the man that had successfully outwitted even Kali's carefully laid preparations.

She did know that he had the same eye as Kakashi, which would seem to imply he had given it to him. That meant he had once been a comrade, fighting for the same village that Hinata still called home. That was about the only thing she knew, however. His personality now was completely unlike when he wore the mask. She was loath to admit it, but something about his smile and the way he wore his confidence… It reminded her of Naruto.

"I feel like I shouldn't even have to explain that to you." Obito leaned against the back of the elevator, arms crossed as he continued to smile casually at them. "This world is hell. People kill and betray one another and all for what? Just so they can one day be the ones betrayed and then killed? Isn't it something like that which caused your uncle to die?"

Hinata would take it back. He may have acted something like Naruto, but they were nothing alike. This was a man that had already given up on the old ways, something which Naruto would never do. He only seemed like him because he had found something else to place his confidence in.

"And you think what you did to the Sand is any better than the old way of the world?" Tayuya immediately sought to tear apart his logic, and Hinata agreed that she was right to do so. To say nothing of the sand, he had quite literally betrayed Kabuto and sent him to his death should his mission fail. She didn't forgive Kabuto for what he had done, but she was starting to pity him.

"Transitions aren't always smooth or easy." Obito admitted, his tone and expression far from repentant. "It wouldn't be necessary if those that made this world the way it is now would just accept that the old way is finished and hand over power peacefully."

"Easy for the one taking all that power to say." Tayuya turned away from Obito as if to say she was done listening to his drivel, looking back out over the city once again.

"The power isn't for me, but Amaterasu-sama." Obito claimed, but Hinata didn't actually see how that made a difference. "Only she can lift us out from this hell we've created for ourselves. Kaguya left behind a broken world, and Amaterasu-sama shall be the one to fix it." It was just like with Sasori, Obito as enamored with her as he had been.

The elevator arrived at the top floor, the door sliding open to reveal a wide bridge in front of them. They stepped off, the wind gusting more strongly this high above the surface, and the power of the sun beating down even more heavily upon them. The people at the bottom level were no longer even visible, obscured by criss-crossing bridges and metal buildings all the way down.

At the other end of the bridge was a wide temple, built atop what must have been the biggest of all the skyscrapers. Unlike everything else in the city, it was made of wood, giving it an old, holy feeling. It seemed that this was the true center of the village, and it was no doubt the place Amaterasu now called home. Lined along the bridge were hundreds of monks hunched over in prayer, taking up almost every part of it save for a single pathway through.

"There is one last thing I want you to see." Obito led them down this pathway. This time, none of the people he passed by so much as glanced at him, too singularly focused on their prayers to even notice them.

Hinata steeled her nerves as she and Tayuya followed just a step behind. She glanced at her companion, catching her eye and giving a short nod, to which Tayuya returned. It was looking like they might be going out in a blaze of glory, after all. For it was obvious what this 'last thing' Obito wanted them to see was.

Amaterasu, the sun goddess, herself.

Despite this being her headquarters, Hinata hadn't actually expected to be brought face to face with the goddess on this excursion through the city. If they were to come face to face with each other, then there was only one conclusion for them. Hinata would finish the fight that she had failed to conclude last time. This was her destiny, and what she had been preparing for these past couple years.

No matter what awaited her on the other side of those temple doors, she was ready.

As they approached, Hinata saw six figures standing guard outside the wide double doors. They all had orange hair and wore the old Akatsuki robes marked with red clouds. Their faces were littered with piercings, which by itself would've been enough to catch her attention, but it was the eyes that really demanded it.

Rinnegan.

The same eyes as Sasuke had awakened. Only they had them in both eyes, as opposed to Sasuke's one. It seemed their Rinnegan also didn't have the tomoe of the Sharingan like Sasuke's did. How exactly this made them different, she didn't know, but she knew it would be foolish to doubt the power of these six.

The six men didn't say anything as Obito approached, instead pushing the doors open for them, the wide heavy doors taking the strength of all six to budge. The wooden doors scraped against the floor with a terrible screech. All the praying monks behind them fell suddenly silent, their prayers stopped as they lifted their heads just to get even a glimpse of their beloved goddess.

Obito strolled into the temple hall before the doors were even fully opened, Hinata and Tayuya rushing to keep up with him. As they entered the room, Hinata raised a hand to her heart, prepared to open the chakra gates at any moment.

Only to stop dead in her tracks, body completely frozen at the scene before her. She had thought she was prepared for anything… but not this. On the far side of the chamber, sitting atop a raised throne was Amaterasu.

She was exactly as Sasori's puppet had been, down to the last detail. Almost.

The Gurengan eyes were just like the Hyuga's Byakugan, only a pale red instead of white. She wore a beautiful red kimono that was wrapped around her ordinarily slender tanned skin. Black fingernails in the shape of claws poked out from the long sleeves of the Kimono, matching the ethereal darkness of her long black locks. It was just as Hinata remembered her, save for that one major difference that Sasori's puppet also lacked.

"So you've some, Hinata of the White Lotus." Amaterasu greeted her almost amicably, smiling as if a doting mother who was welcoming home her daughter for the holidays. She started to rise from the throne, when a woman with blue hair appeared by her side in an instant. The woman laced an arm through Amaterasu's elbow, assisting her to stand.

It wasn't that Amaterasu had been weakened and incapable of standing on her own, it was just the gesture meant to remove any unnecessary stress on herself and the baby. For that was what it was that demanded all of Hinata's attention and caused her to doubt everything she had just been thinking.

Amaterasu… was pregnant.