tales of the past 1 Lost Innocence
"I wasn't always the monster that everyone knows me as. Like everybody else, I was a little girl, innocent and full of dreams. But it was taken from me. The reality of what the world truly was, not what my mother told me it is, hit me hard. As soon as I finally gained happiness when I met my shining star, I had hope for the first time that the future wasn't always grim. That there was hope. But hope died a long time ago. Before I became the Dark Fey that everyone in Konoha despises, I was just a girl with hopes for the future, hopes that were crushed."
"It's hard to believe that at one point I was powerless and weak. I guess when you think about the past of the person that you once were, it's hard to believe you're the person that you are now. Before I even knew that my people were enslaved, I myself was a slave - a slave to a cruel human father. I didn't know anything about myself, I didn't know anything about my origins. When I was a child, I didn't experience things that children take for granted - to be able to play, to be able to laugh, and have fun. My childhood was spent slaving away at a castle. Before I lost my wings, I had to hide my wings. The cruelty that I've experienced has shaped everything that I am and how I look at the world."
"Long before I met Naruto-Kun, the love of my life, my shining star, I had no hope. It's hard to believe I even had hope to begin with. Before I met him, I didn't know who I was, I didn't even know what a Fey was. I thought I was a monster. I did not understand why humans were so cruel. I didn't understand why the world was the way it was. My mother, bless her, was trying to protect me from the hatred and the darkness of humanity. I didn't understand why she couldn't hate humans despite the cruelty. Maybe she did, and she didn't want me to grow up hating them. I'll never know."
"I didn't understand what she was thinking until Boruto and Himawari were born. I don't want to pass on my hatred for humans to them – I want to keep them innocent for as long as possible, just like my mother tried to do with me. Long before I became a mother, long before I met Naruto-kun, I was a girl who had no understanding of what the world was like, of how cruel humans could be."
My sister Hanabi, I have no idea what happened to her. Is she still alive? I don't know, and I dare not hope because hope died a long time ago. It died the day Naruto was knocked off a cliff. I don't know if he's alive or dead."
The day my mother died, the day Kiba Kun died, was the day the innocent girl that I was died.
journal entry Hinata Uzumaki Hyuga
Hyga Castle of light, 24 years ago, the birth of Hinata Hyuga:
Hitomi was holding her newborn child. The girl was crying in her arms. She looked at her daughter. She had horns just like Hitomi and her wings, though they were small. So innocent. She wanted to cry that another one of her kind was born in a cage. She had not known freedom for most of her life. She had long since lost her wings, cruelly torn from her and used as a trophy by the cruel King Saito. The man next to her was her lover, a man she didn't think she'd ever love, as she hates the man that murdered her mother, but her lover was not fully human. Hiashi was looking at their daughter with love and tenderness, something that he never truly showed openly due to his upbringing.
"She is the spitting image of her mother. I'm happy for it due to how wicked my family is." Hiashi said, disgusted with his father. She was sad that nobody would know who the true father of Hinata was. She would believe for her entire life, along with everyone else, that her real father was her own grandfather. But she had to do it for her own protection. If he ever found out the truth that his own son got himself involved with a Fey, it would end badly for both of them.
"I'm so sorry, my little sunflower. I wish I could do more for you so you can fly and be free. I'm sorry, Hinata, my little." She couldn't help but cry seeing this little girl, the life of her would be one of pain and suffering.
She saw a woman appear before her. She was called The Seer. She had an elderly woman's appearance; she was the first queen of Hyuga. Her name had long since faded into legend, and nobody knew what her name was. She always appeared when the future Queen of the Fey was born. She never appeared when Hitomi was born. She wondered what this would mean. Could this mean that her people would finally be free?
"Hitomi Hyuga, I appear before you because your child that you hold in your arms will be the future Queen of Hyuga. I can see it in her future," the seer said, which caused Hitomi to tense at the very mention of the future.
"You can't mean that my daughter will be the queen, but how? Our lands, the usurpers, have burned this once lush forest. They've killed most of our people. We are all that remain. How could she be the next queen?" Hitomi asked the seer, who looked at her as if she was asking a silly question.
"24 years from today, this kingdom will fall. This castle will burn. All of its inhabitants will be destroyed. And it will be this little child you hold in your arms who will be the cause of it all." The seer said, looking at her daughter's future.
She saw images of her daughter 24 years from now. She saw images of her ordering men to sack the castle that she is in, killing everybody that stood in her way. Killing many people in brutal ways. The hatred and malice in her daughter's eyes as she ended the lives of the people that would torture her in the future and Saito. She saw sadness in her daughter's eyes. She saw other possible futures too, her daughter becoming a benevolent queen as well, and even futures where she would bring peace once again to these lands. But many more futures, she saw her daughter become as dark and terrible as the king that currently inhabits this land. Almost every future she saw, her daughter was destined to become a dark monster.
"Oh no, no, no! This can't be what my precious child will become. It can't be." Hitomi said in denial when she saw most of the futures where her daughter would become one of the most evil beings to have ever existed.
"Like I've told your predecessors, the future is always in motion. It's not set in stone. But there is one outcome in those futures that is set in stone. This Kingdom will fall. Hitomi, what you saw in those visions, it is up to you what you do with my warnings. But know that the one thing that could save your daughter from such a dark path is love. Though I don't know who will be the person to stop her from going down that path." The seer finished as she was about to leave. Hitomi had to ask at least one last question.
"Will she ever find love? Will she ever find her shining star?" Hitomi asked, hoping she couldn't bear the idea of her daughter never finding love in her life.
"I cannot answer that because by telling you, it will not happen. Treasure the time that you have with her. The world may depend on it." After she was done, the seer vanished.
Her lover was wondering what she was doing because, for him, she was staring off into space. But to her lover, only a minute had passed.
She heard her infant daughter cry. She soothed her daughter by singing to her the song that her mother once sang for her when Hitomi was a crying infant. The crying infant calmed as she sang. The future that she saw ahead of her would be filled with pain. She was crying for her daughter's sake. She wondered if she would ever find her Shining Star. Hitomi was fortunate to have found hers in the arms of the king's firstborn son, Hiashi.
"She will never know I'm her father. She will believe her whole life that monster is her father."She looked at Hinata, the precious child she was holding. She was so innocent. So much suffering she would go through in the future. She would do anything to protect Hinata's innocence as long as possible. As a mother, she wanted her child to remain innocent for as long as possible. And she would do that to the best of her ability.
7 years later
"You stupid child, hurry up. We don't got all day," said Keiko, who was whipping her with her whip.
Hinata was scrubbing the floor as fast as her seven-year-old child learned quickly that crying never got you anywhere, so she didn't cry. She didn't want to cry because it would only make her pain even worse.
"Are you ignoring me, you stupid girl?" Ask Keiko again, whipping her.
"No, I heard you. I'm going as fast as I can. Please don't hit me." Hinata said, not realizing she had done the one thing she was told not to do.
She was slapped hard across the face, knocking her down and causing her to drop the bucket of water she had in her hand, which made a mess, causing her and her sons to laugh.
"Clean up that mess monster." Said the younger of Keiko's children said.
"Yeah, you freak, clean that up." The older brother said.
She had struggled to get up due to the intense pain of her wings being tied tightly and tucked into her dress.
"You'd better clean up this mess, girl, before the king sees this," Keiko said threateningly.
She said nothing as she picked up the bucket and headed to the well where the water was. She went back to where the mess was and spent the next two hours cleaning up the mess that Keiko and her sons had created. Normally, it would have taken her an hour to clean up the mess, but thanks to her master's orders, it took her almost triple the amount of time it would have normally taken. She did not want the king to be displeased, or she would be severely punished.
This was a normal occurrence for her; she had not known anything but cruelty. She was a monster; she was a freak. When she was done with her chores, she looked up at the sky and saw birds flying. She wondered what it would be like to be up there, to be free, to be able to fly. She clenched her wings that were in her dress. What would she give to be able to fly up there? Her mother had forbidden her to have her wings open.
It was painful that she didn't understand why she had to hide her wings. She had asked her mother multiple times, but she didn't get an answer.
When she walked, she heard other people whisper.
"That demon child from one of Saito's companies." Said a woman disgusted with Hinata's horns on her head.
"I don't know why he even keeps that woman around; I've heard he has another abomination." Said a man.
"Silence, you fool! Do you want this demon child to look at us and curse us?" The woman replied to her husband.
It was always like this. She wondered, why did so many people hate her? What did she do wrong? She tried not to let it get to her, but it hurt. She had no friends, nobody to talk to; she was afraid. When she was walking, she noticed a stray animal. The dog was a puppy; he looked to be about a few months old. He looked at her, wagging his tail. He eagerly went to her. She didn't want to draw attention to herself, but she couldn't turn away an animal in need.
The dog was hungry. Hinata had no idea what to do. She wanted to help the animal, but she barely had food.
"I can understand if you can't help with food; I can find it myself, but if you can, can you please help me with water?" asked the dog, which surprised Hinata that she could understand him. The canine had a wolf-like appearance; he was native to the land of Hyga, she thought they were extinct.
"Sure, I can help," Hinata said. She went to the well and got as much water as she could get away with without drawing attention. She went back to where the dog was and gave him as much water as she could.
When the animal was done drinking the water that she had given him, he sniffed to see if there was anyone nearby.
"Thank you. I could tell by the look of you that you're a pure soul. I didn't think your kind still existed there are very few races that can understand my people." The white dog said.
"What do you mean?" Hinata asked him innocently.
"I don't know; I only know stories told by my ma. She didn't get a chance to tell me much before she was killed." The dog said sadly.
"I'm sorry,"Hinata said apologetically.
"Don't be. My pack is still alive. If even one of us is still alive, then we're not gone. We're scattered for our own protection. Until the true Queen returns we dare not gather in one place." The dog explained.
"True, what?" Hinata asked.
"Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. I should introduce him myself to you, considering you were kind enough to give me water. My name is Kiba Inuzuka of the Inuzuka pack." Kiba said, introducing himself to Hinata. She thought it was unusual for an animal to have a full name; she thought only humans have that.
"I am Hinata," she replied with childlike innocence.
"Hinata, what a great name it fits you!" Then she noticed he was sniffing.
"I'm sorry, Hinata, I need to get going, and so should you. I'm looking forward to seeing you again, my friend." Kiba said as he left.
Hinata didn't want to go outside her room after hours because she quickly went to her quarters. Servants weren't allowed to have their own rooms; they had to share them with their families. It was small and cramped, her mother and her sister Hanabi shared it. Hinata, in the one place she could have her wings out in the open, removed the bandages that kept them in place, and she felt instant relief when her wings were open. She wished she didn't have to hide who she was, but her mother said it was for her own protection. She didn't understand why.
Her younger sister was 2; she was tucked in her bed. Unlike Hinata, she wasn't born with wings. She had the horns from her mother, but nothing else. She was all intense and purposes almost completely human. The horns were the dead giveaway.
"Are you all right, my sunflower?" her mother asked. Hinata had to stay strong; she couldn't show any weakness, especially in front of her mother. It would only cause her further pain.
"Things were fine, mother," Hinata lied.
"What have I told you about lying?" Her mother said lightly reprimanding her for being dishonest.
"They've been cruel to me again. What have I done wrong, mother? Why is everyone so cruel?"Hinata asked, crying. The only place she cried was with her mother.
"I don't know," her mother answered.
"I wish they would all disappear,' Hinata said with hatred of the people who are so cruel to her, which shocked her mother. Then Hinata realized what she had done.
"Sorry mother,"Hinata said apologetically.
She felt her mother wrap her arms around her, and she felt tears dropping from her mother's eyes.
"My little sunflower, I'm so sorry," her mother couldn't finish as she buried her face in Hinata's shoulders.
She didn't like seeing her mother cry, so why was she crying? She had to say something she didn't want her mother to cry.
"I'm sorry mother it was wrong for me to say that," Hinata said, not wanting to see her mother sad.
"I don't want you to lose who you are, my sunflower. Please understand that not all people are like that." Her mother said to Hinata.
"Why are they so cruel? What have I done wrong? Why do I have to be in pain all the time? Why do I have to deal with people being so mean to me? What have I done?" Hinata cried in her mother's arms. The cruelty the seven-year-old child had no idea why she was being wicked. Did she do something wrong?
"You've done nothing wrong," her mother said to Hinata.
The mother and daughter stood there, not saying anything.
2 years later
Hinata was taking a break after doing long, grueling hours of chores. It was one of the rare times when she didn't have Keiko and her son tormenting her. She was waiting for her friend Kiba, who appeared at the time, and he always agreed. She smiled at her one friend. The last time she saw him, he was more extensive and significant, a full-grown adult canine bigger than Hinata. He was happy to see her, he always was. Since she gave him water, Hinata and Kiba have been friends for two years. She didn't know how he managed to sneak into the castle. She wished she could know so she could leave this prison.
"What is the outside world like, Kiba Kun?" asked Hinata.
"I only know what's in our borders and the stories of what our land was like before the usurper and his ancestors burned these once lush forests," Kiba answered.
"Wait, do you mean this was a forest? What happened?"Hinata asked, confused.
"The humans invaded this land and killed the last queen of the Fey and burned the forest around this place that was once the throne of the Hyuga royal family, who were guardians of this forest for generations. Very few of the forest remains."Kiba said with sadness in his tone.
"That's sad. The place we're sitting in was once lush and green, but what I see here is dead. I hate this place." Hinata said quietly.
"There's a lot of beauty in the outside world and cruelty and evil. Beyond these walls, you are in Hinata, and a vast world exists. There's kindness and gentleness in the big world, not every place is as cruel as this place."Kiba said, knowing what she was thinking.
"Will a monster like me ever find peace?"Hinata asked Kiba.
Her friend looked at the sky.
"I believe you will, and please stop calling yourself a monster. Don't let what the humans say get to you."Kiba said, not liking her self-deprecation.
"I'm a freak. I have horns. I can't even openly be a normal child. I'm stuck in this place. Maybe I did something wrong."she didn't get a chance to finish before her friend comforted her in a way that a dog always does to their friend.
"You're not a freak and you're not a monster, you're a kind and sweet girl, Hinata. Your heart is pure. I know you'll find your shining star someday. There will be someone who will love you for who you are." Kiba said, trying to reassure her.
"What's a shining star?"Hinata asked, never hearing the word before.
Before she could ask, he sniffed, noticing someone coming.
"I have to go, but consider what I said."Kiba said as he left her you know it's a new that she had to get out she couldn't be caught sitting around especially with Keiko and her children wondering about.
She was heading to her quarters when she saw her father, who gave her a hateful glare.
"What are you doing outside of your quarters at this hour, girl?" Saito asked Hinata darkly. Hinata was terrified of this man; he had a presence about him that made her scared. He wasn't wearing his normal royal attire; instead, he was dressed in the clothing he typically wears when he goes to his room for the night. Her mother was with him.
"Please, my Lord, it's just a small mistake. My daughter won't do it again, please." Said her mother, who was slapped at her face. She didn't fight back because she knew the consequences unlike two years before her mother did not have her horns they were ripped off when she accidentally spoke out of turn.
"Silence, woman," Saito said to her mother cruelly as he kicked her over and over again. Hinata wanted to get him to stop making her mother suffer. She couldn't say anything because it would make it worse.
"You see, girl, the consequences for disobeying me, the consequences for staying out late at night. This is what I'll do to you if you do it again. Do you understand me, girl? I will rip those horns from your head, and I won't have it be done gently either. Do I make myself clear?" Saito said in an icy tone.
"Yes,"Hinata said, terrified; then she saw the man who was more like a father than her actual father, who was her uncle Hiashi.
"Father, this is barbaric," Hiashi said to her father with no ounce of fear in his voice.
"Silence, boy," which caused him to punch his son in the stomach.
"Do not forget that you're all my possessions, all of you, Hitomi; your only purpose is to produce strong heirs to my throne. You have no other purpose, so do not forget that," he said as she tried to get up.
"I understand," her mother said weekly.
"Again, where were you?" asked Saito, asking Hinata darkly.
"I wasn't doing anything; I was just looking at the sky." She was struck again by Saito.
"What have I told you about lying girl?" he asked her threateningly.
"We found what she was doing, we found a vermin in our Castle we captured the thing." Hinata looked horrified no they couldn't.
It wasn't Kiba. It was another animal. They looked at her pleadingly. She could hear their thoughts.
"Help me." said the cat.
"We all know how much she loves animals. Let's punish her by making an example of this cat." Saito said with a cruel grin.
"My sons will do a good job of teaching this freak a lesson. Sanji and Sijo give a proper lesson to this horned freak." the woman said with approval. The cat wasn't the only animal. There was a bird, a pig, a squirrel. They were begging her to help them, but she was powerless.
"They haven't done anything wrong; please don't do anything to them," Hinata cried.
"This is your punishment, girl; your animal friends will be punished." Said Keiko.
"This is barbaric father." Hiashi said horrified what his father was ordering.
Hinata was forced to go on her knees her father's guards forced her to watch the horrific scene that was about to occur.
"She's only a child don't make her see this." Said her mother beggingly.
"My sons will do a good job of teaching this freak a lesson. Sanji and Sijo give a proper lesson to this horned freak." the woman said with approval.The cat wasn't the only animal. There was a bird, a pig, a squirrel.They were begging her to help them but she was powerless.
"If you turn your eyes away even once your mother will suffer consequences for your disobedience do I make myself clear monster?" Said Kanji.
Hinata was forced to see the most horrific things that no child should see. She heard the agonizing screams of the animals as they were slowly being skinned alive. The cat that she had known for years was screaming, begging for the pain to stop, not understanding why it was happening. In the others, it was even worse. The birds had their wings ripped off and tossed from the castle's highest reaches. The others were boiled slowly, and tears were falling. Seeing the scene in front of her, the cruel ends of innocent animals that did nothing wrong.
Why wasn't a hero here to stop them? Why wasn't a hero here to save her from this cruel treatment? Her mother told her not to hate, but she hated these people; she hated everything about them. The cruelty they committed on her, the cruelty they're committing against the animals; none of them did anything wrong, yet they were sadistically laughing as they enacted their punishment on her.
"Oh, how cute the monster is crying!" Sanji said mockingly.
"Did we hurt you?" Sijo added. The laughter of the casual cruelty of innocent creatures. Why was the world so cruel? She wanted to scream. She wanted to make all those people disappear. She wanted to make them suffer the same horrific ends they'd just inflicted on those innocent animals that did nothing wrong.
"Enough, father!" Hiashi said in front of Hinata to protect her.
"You stupid bastard," his father said, backhanding him, and he fell to the ground. She saw her father stomp at his own son's chest.
"Do you remember what I did to your brother when he disobeyed me?" he asked him with a barely controlled rage.
"I haven't forgotten father," he said with fear in his voice.
"See that, you don't fool," her father said as he removed his foot from his chest.
He turned his back on everyone while forcing her mother up. Hinata hated those people. She wanted to make them all disappear, but it was wrong. Her mother taught her not to hate anyone, but how could she not? Everyone saw her as a monster in this place, yet isn't that what they did evil?
"I'm so sorry"Hinata said to the corpses of the animals.
Hinata cried. Why did the world have to be so cruel? She wanted nothing more than to be free. She looks at the sky again – the birds. They were able to fly. What would it be like to actually be able to take to the skies, actually to be free? She clenched. Her wings were tied inside them in her dress. To be able to fly and leave this awful place – she would give anything to make that happen.
3 years later
Three years had passed since her father made an example of all of her animal friends. she was far more cautious when she spent time with her friend Kiba. She didn't speak out of turn ever again after that incident. She stayed as quiet as possible and drew as little attention as possible. She didn't want to suffer any punishments again. She didn't want to have her mother suffer, or her sister who was starting to get the brunt of the punishments. Every time Hanabi messed up, Hinata took her punishment in her place. When she was doing so now, the back of her dress was completely covered in blood. Her wings, she had not once in her 12 years of living ever flown. She didn't think it was possible. Her mother told her never to have her wings out; she can never openly show her wings, not even to her friend Kiba, because of spies potentially being able to see her wings from the castle. He didn't show up as often because he had a mate and had to take care of his pack.
It had been lonely. Her other animal friends tried to keep her company as best as possible. Despite what had happened to their friends three years before, they always went to her. They didn't hate her, and she didn't understand why. At the age of 12, Hinata was what would be considered beautiful by human standards, if it weren't for her wings or horns.
Her hair was short. She had never grown her hair out. She was never allowed to because monsters shouldn't look beautiful, her father cruelly told her. The torture never stopped. It got worse as she got older. She got more complex tasks and demands that were nearly impossible to meet. She was forced to work harder because her sister constantly failed her tasks. She was forced to work the job of two people. Hinata barely slept; when she did sleep, she didn't sleep more than 2 hours. Everything was for her family, so they wouldn't suffer any more than they have.
She was currently scrubbing the kitchen floor; it didn't matter that her hands were bleeding and her feet had blisters. It didn't matter. There was no rest for a monster, no rest for someone like her. She had barely eaten and was reluctant to eat because she had given her share to her sister. She was doing everything she could to make the lives of her mother and sister easier. Her mother was no longer able to do the work because her body was not able to function. I like it because of what her father did to her mother. Her sister wasn't strong enough, so Hinata had to do everything.
She had to train herself not to let the pain distract her; it was the only thing that kept her from collapsing in exhaustion. The task was almost finished when she was done; she got up and was about to move out of the room when Keiko knocked her over; no, she couldn't let the bucket drop to the floor; all that work quickly within human speed flipped her body and caught the bucket just as it was going to spill all over the floor.
Blood dripped from her right hand. She couldn't show the woman in front of her, the woman she had grown to hate, and the woman she wished she could wrap her hands around her neck. No, she couldn't think about that. She would know she buried her violent thoughts about what she wanted to do to the woman in the most profound depths of her mind. She couldn't let any of them know what she felt about them. They would use that against her and her friends and family.
"You've done well, but there's still a lot to do," she said, pointing to the next room. As tired as she was, she had to keep going, no matter how much her body ached, no matter how much she wanted to stop, and no matter how hungry she was. She had to continue working. At this time of the year, it was hot, and she was on the verge of collapsing due to not having any water for almost two days.
She was about to reach her limit. She didn't know how long she would be able to last. When she was done with her daily chores, she walked, barely able to get to where her mother's and sister's quarters were.
When she opened the door, she almost collapsed She was exhausted. Her mother barely caught her before she took her temperature on her forehead.
"oh God, my baby." her mother said as she tried to get to bed. She wasn't able to make it before she collapsed on the floor. Her mother didn't have the strength.
She heard a knock; her mother knew better than to keep her father's waiting. When she opened it, he looked at Hinata, who was on the ground trying to get up, but she couldn't. She didn't have the strength.
"Pathetic child, you didn't finish the task I gave you today," Saito snarled. She tried to get up using her elbows for support, but collapsed; her body wouldn't move.
"Please, she hasn't slept. She hasn't eaten anything or drunk any water, please," said Hanabi. Her pleas fell on deaf ears as he slapped her sister hard, knocking her to the ground. The 7-year-old child did not understand why the world was cruel to her. Hinata knew that feeling, she tried to get up.
"Please, I'll take my punishment; just don't hurt my sister," Hinata said weekly. he went to where Hinata was and kicked her repeatedly in the stomach; her mother watched in helplessness as he continued to unleash his wrath on her.
She saw in the corner of her eyes Hanabi angrily shouting at Saito.
"leave her alone." she heard her sister say as she tried in vain to protect Hinata, but it was no use; he kicked her, turned his attention from Hinata to Hanabi, and continued to pound her. Hinata, the rage she was feeling, she wanted him dead; she wanted to make him suffer to make him feel powerless.
She tried to get up, but her body wouldn't respond.
"You bastard, she's just a child," she heard her mother say. Then he looked at her and smiled.
"I will show you stupid bitches why I own you," he said as he lifted their mother by the neck and slammed her on their bed; she tried to fight back with all she had, but it was no use. She wasn't able to stop herself as he forced himself on her. Hinata was watching as the man, the creature that she calls father, was violating her mother. Her sister, a child, was watching it happen as well. She heard her mother's screams and the man's evil laughter.
He wasn't done. He lifted the woman up by her neck and then let her drop. He left the three of them alone. Her mother looked away, ashamed, feeling violated. Is this what awaited her in the future?
"I hate him. I wish I could kill him and all those filthy humans. I hate those vermin." said Hanabi. Her eyes were turning green. Hinata saw fire forming. Her mother put her arms around her.
She felt the same way Hanabi did, She wanting to do something to change their situation, but she felt powerless. She wished she could be stronger so that these people would never harm her or her family again. She tried to be strong for everyone but felt too weak and pathetic. She wondered where the hero was when she needed one and why they weren't helping her and her family. She prayed every day for a hero to come, but they never did. When she did see a hero, they were doing nothing more than indulging themselves in sadistic acts of cruelty, seeming no different from the King who ruled over her and her family.
She wishes she could burn everyone in the castle. She hates and despises them, but she can't let her hate out in the open because what example would that set for her sister?
Hinata was with her friend Kiba. He noticed the bloodied face in the blood stains on the back of her dress. He could smell blood, and he had a look of anger and rage.
"Damn those vermin, how can they do that to a child?" Kiba asked in a righteous fury.
"I hate them. I wish I could kill them All." Hinata said quietly. Her friend looked at her with sadness. She didn't understand why he cared. He hated the humans, too. She didn't know what she was but knew she wasn't human.
"your kind shouldn't feel the way you do. Damn them, even a gentle creature like a Fey can't be freed from their hatred." she heard the word Fey multiple times before they were a myth. They couldn't possibly exist.
"what am I supposed to feel, Kiba Kun? Every single day? I'm forced to work long, grueling hours and my hands and feet blisters. I barely eat, I barely sleep. I am afraid I wake up alone whenever I close my eyes. Why are they so cruel to my sister and me? What have we done?" Hinata said, breaking down.
She had no one else to talk to, no other friend that could understand her. Kiba looked at her. It wasn't easy to read his expression.
"I will never have someone that loves me. I'm a freak, a monster. I sometimes wish I was dead. It would be profitable to this hell." Hinata said. The sad look on her friend's face, knowing there's nothing he can say that could comfort her nothing.
"I wish I could be free to fly in the sky, or no one will ever have power over me again. I can't; I'm trapped like a bird in a cage." she didn't stop crying.
"You will find happiness, Hinata. I know you will. Your shining star is out there." Kiba said.
"She heard footsteps and knew she had to leave. She couldn't let anyone see her outside her room, so she ran as fast as possible. When she got to her room, she noticed something was wrong: her sister wasn't there. When she turned around, she realized it was her father. She was caught and couldn't lie.
"You can't lie yourself out of this one, you wretch," Saito said as he grabbed her by the wrist, forcing her to move. She was being dragged into his throne room and saw her uncle Hiashi, who had no idea why he was summoned.
"your daughter was caught outside her quarters when she was explicitly told there would be consequences if it occurred again. I'll be making an example of that wretch mother of hers." Saito, the snap of his fingers, Hinata saw her mother stripped down naked for a whole world to see the men were laughing as they took turns violating her in every way possible to degrade her mother and forcing her to watch Kanji force her eyes open made her not be able to look away as they one by one violated her mother. Even Keiko's sons took turns. She screamed, begging them to stop, but she was hit hard by Kanji. When the men were done, Saito took a dagger from it's scabbard and slit her mother's throat. Her mother fell face down looking at her. She was choking in pool of her own blood.
The whole world stopped everything that she had known her mother she went to her mother Kanji not restraining her she went to her lifted her face, and smiled sadly. She couldn't say words or form anywhere because her vertical chords were being cut.
Time stood still as the last essence of life left her mother's face, but that wasn't the end of it; they lifted her mother's body, and one of her father's Knight took his sword out of his sheath and cut her mother's head from her body as if the experience wasn't already traumatic her mother's head was placed on a pike. Hinata was forced as dogs ate her mother's head and her remains.
"Don't worry, you'll join that whore mother of yours soon enough. Unlike your sister, you won't fetch for a high price." Kanji said. Hinata, her eyes went green, she wanted to kill them. She tried to end their lives before she could do anything. She saw her uncle stand before her father.
"kill this bastard of the son of mine. I want all loose ends dealt with." Father said as Hiashi tried to fight with everything he had, but it was useless. She was overpowered by her father's men, who stabbed him with their swords. He fell face down dead, and the dogs also feasted on his body.
She was alone, nobody was going to save her, no hero was going to save her, she was going to die like a dog. Before anyone could do anything, Kiba attacked Kanji like a wolf protecting his herd by biting his hand. Hinata was cut off guard. She didn't expect him to aid her, but he wasn't alone. He had a few others by his side.
"fly out of here now go," Kiba said.
"No, you'll die. I can't lose you too." Hinata said he looked at her, accepting his fate.
"you can't die here, Hinata. You are the one that is promised. You are the hope of this land. You must go. Don't let it die in this place, fly." Kiba said as an arrow went through his right eye; the companions by his side were fighting with everything they had, and they wouldn't last long; she went towards the window the only way out she opened it with all of her strength when she was about to jump out she saw her first friend look at her one last time before Keiko and her sons tore her friend apart he screamed and told her to run he was begging them to stop begging them to end it quickly. Still, they didn't they tortured him. They prolonged his suffering.
She looked at them. Everyone in the room didn't matter everything. There was no hope in this world, no love, No heroes, and all were just stories. She looked out the window. It was down a cliff that would lead her to her death, but it was preferable to living in this hell.
"Mother, Hanabi and Kiba Kun I'm sorry." Hinata said as she let herself fall, she would let the gods decide her fate. For the first time in her short life, she made her own choice. She didn't care if she lived or died, just the fact that she was able to choose. If she ever came back, she would kill everyone in the castle, she would show them no mercy, and she would never trust humans. She closed her eyes, and all went black.
She opened her eyes, having no idea how long it had been. Her wings were out due to the force of the fall. It wasn't easy. She was coughing due to the amount of water in her system. She was surprised she was alive; part of her wished she wasn't.
She looked in the direction of the castle, but she couldn't see it. She didn't know where she was. The pain in her body did not compare to the pain in her heart. She had lost everyone. Her friend Kiba was killed in the most brutal way possible, torn apart, begging for the suffering to stop, but they didn't care. They left as they killed him.
Her mother's image of being violated by all the people in the room, including her father, had not left her mind, and her mutilated corpse, as the dogs ate her mother. She has nothing left to remind her that her mother existed except the necklace that her mother gave her.
Her sister had no idea what happened to her probably something worse than the others; she was enslaved, and she would never see her again. She screamed like an animal at the cruelty of humanity. She asked the question and cursed the heroes: why didn't they save her? The humans, the image of her burning the castle to the ground, incinerating everything in her path, she despised humans. She wouldn't trust them ever. She tried to move, but her feet hurt due to the blisters, but it didn't matter. The pain that she had in her feet and her hands was better than the alternative. At least she could come back someday and destroy the people that destroyed her family.
She was so thirsty that she drank the water near her. It didn't matter if it was from a lake; she was nearly dehydrated. Eventually, if she didn't find food, she would starve to death. She had barely eaten in days, even before she escaped the prison that was the castle. She had no idea where she was going; she didn't know where north, south, east, or west was. The only things on her mind were food and revenge.
She continued walking aimlessly, looking for anything to eat. The Rocky Mountains, with trees, had a forest nearby. A forest would have animals to hunt. She was reluctant, but she was going to die if she didn't eat anything soon. She went inside the forest.
Her wings, she had no idea how to fly. It would be a lot easier if she could fly, but she couldn't. She felt so weak; she was only moving by willpower alone. She followed the smoke, which indicated that someone was cooking something. She continued to follow in that direction until she saw a boy with blonde hair and a girl with red hair. They were with a group of people, which was a group of humans.
The older among them were their parents, a mother with long red hair, her eyes she couldn't see, and the father was blonde, just like the boy. She didn't know what kind of food they were making. She didn't care. she waited patiently as they cooked the meal; she couldn't hear anything they said; all she wanted was to eat something. She waited for the moment when they would leave. They went to fetch whatever they were looking for spices. She didn't care. She ran as fast as her feet would take her and grabbed the cooked meat. She didn't grabbed too much, just enough for her to feed herself.
She ran as fast as her legs would take her, and when she was far enough away, she ate the food like a hungry animal that hadn't eaten in days. It didn't matter how it tasted. There wasn't a single part of the food that she did not eat. She ate everything, including what was in the bone. When she was done, she lay down and fell asleep, not knowing that this would change everything. She would meet a boy who would change her life forever.
I started writing this chapter months ago. This is not the chapter I originally intended to publish, but I did it because I finished it first. The next chapter will be published in the editing phase as I type this. Multiple chapters like this will go back to the past to explain Naruto and Hinata's experiences before the present. The next tales of the past will focus primarily on Naruto.