"Your heart isn't into it that's all. Water is your thing."

Hinata frowned at Sasuke's words and was further annoyed seeing Naruto tailgate along with Sasuke by shrugging his shoulders and nodding his head. Stubbornly Hinata shook her head, "I disagree. My heart is into it."

Hinata poured more sake into Sasuke and Naruto's cups before pouring a little more into her own. They've had an eventful day of training and a lavish dinner prepared by Hinata. Her and Sasuke spent some time on lightning elemental training and Sasuke personally just felt like Hinata was very stiff with it. Her overthinking it just led to her almost burning herself if Naruto or himself didn't intervene.

Sasuke sipped on what he believed was his 5th cup before shaking his head and looking at Hinata, "No. I've seen you use your chakra wires. I've been on the receiving end of it in case you forgot. The amount of free flow and confidence you have with manipulating the water in the human body is impressive. You handle it differently than with lightning. Lightning you're ridged and you hesitate. The only time I've seen you remotely relaxed and confident with your lightning was against Zetsu…and you fried yourself."

Naruto being him just threw the cups back like they were in shot glasses. He never felt like alcohol was something to sip and savor. So annoying. It tasted awful. He had no clue how Sasuke and Hinata sipped on it. It was gross. He'd throw the drinks back when Sasuke and Hinata were almost done with their drinks that way he wasn't taking in more alcohol.

After downing the burning liquid Naruto nodded his head again and looked at Hinata, "I'm sure that was because you used your chakra wires too. You used lightning and water together. How did you do that anyways? You said Zetsu wasn't human. It had no heart. Did Zetsu have any blood then? Since it wasn't real."

They were all sitting in Hinata's room, quite frankly their room now, on the floor. The room was dark save for some candles that were lit and Naruto cracked a window open to get a little bit of the crisp fresh air in. It was nice, relaxing. Plus a little bit of alcohol fueled the way the moods were going, none of the three were angry, emotional drunks, so it made for a fun sort of night. The morning after they were sure they'd probably regret it, but right now they were living in the moment.

Hinata leaned against her bed on the floor while Sasuke and Naruto sat beside one another on the opposite side of her.

Hinata took another sip on her drink. She then held her hand up as she examined it, "My wires are created based off the water in ones body. For me to create that connection some of my water in my body has to be connected to theirs so my wires can fully become one with them. It sounds hard but it's really simple with my Byakugan. Once I connect, my eyes work through the human body to find the vital organ that would do the fastest lethal blow. The heart is the easiest, it contains the most water. I could do other parts of the body, but the heart holds so much water and works rather fast in ending a life I just stuck with that. I just pumped more of my own body liquid into Zetsu so when I shocked myself I was shocking Zetsu too. I was hoping Zetsu was going to try to use my wires against me and it worked to my advantage…sort of."

Naruto looked mesmerized by what Hinata was saying. This sounded like some real deal medical genius shit, "Wow. You could be a doctor ya know Nata. Like a surgeon or something. You would have been amazing working under granny."

Naruto immediately grimaced as he said that, he was sure Hinata felt the same way and had years to marinate on it. Hinata just smiled at him and almost giggled at Naruto's reaction, "Hmm maybe I would have. Or maybe I would have never discovered my talents under Lady Tsunade. I discovered my talents because I was in a dark place. It's okay Naruto. I do not regret it."

Sasuke smirked at this before downing the rest of his alcohol that was in his cup, "Good. Don't regret it. I don't regret having a snake contract. I don't regret learning how to weld a sword. The travels and scenery. The training. I don't regret the skills I got out of working under Orochimaru. So you shouldn't either. Now Naruto, he should be ashamed with the perverted personality he picked up."

Naruto chuckled at this. The bottle was nearing its end and Naruto poured it's last contents into the three cups. Filling them up higher to empty the bottle. "I regret nothing I've learned with pervy sage. I own that shit."

Hinata laughed loudly at this. She covered her mouth for the loud un-lady like outburst. Sasuke and Naruto looked at her for a moment before laughing themselves and the three of them just laughed whole heartedly.

Hinata took another sip of her drink before looking at Naruto, a light blush gracing her face. "You really were a closet pervert Naruto-kun. You acted like you didn't like what Jiraiya-sama was doing but you secretly always peeked or was jealous and wanted to look."

Naruto looked at Hinata amused at the name reference she gave him now that she had some liquid courage in her. "Oh yeah, that's right. The all seeing Hinata Hyuga. Watched me every second of every minute…did you have any moments that you watched that was your favorite?"

Naruto grinned at seeing Hinata look off with a full blown blush on her face. He didn't push the matter any further and turned to look at Sasuke who was lying on the floor looking at the two. His dark eyes were just as beautiful as Hinata's to him. "What's your demons Sasuke?"

Naruto already knew the answer, and Hinata had a good idea of what it was. Still to hear it from Sasuke would have been better validation. Sasuke's eyes slowly looked at Naruto before drifting over to a curious Hinata.

"My clan haunts me a lot. Their deaths. Especially my parents. I miss them, but this is a conversation that me and Itachi have talked about over and over and over again. I lost count how many times Itachi has apologized to me. The way he went about the aftermath, was very unnecessary. It all didn't have to happen the way that it did. At first I craved for the sorrow to forever last in him and for him to always apologize. For him to wish he was dead. Then overtime I realized that I just wanted him to find peace. It wasn't his fault, I rather an Uchiha stop my family than an outsider. Besides, really I could put the blame on so many other people. They used my brother as a pawn piece, they didn't care how he was traumatized. Obito being one of the main people that I am growing to hate. I hope he rots in prison after they extract all the information from his pea sized brain he has."

Sasuke watched Hinata's face to see her look off the side in thought, "Hinata. You're the older sibling. You were willing to do what my brother did. What were you feeling when given the orders?"

Hinata ran her fingers through her hair while she searched for the right words, "I believe I felt like your brother. I felt empty, I felt sorrow and anger, I'm sure that's what Itachi felt. To push all those emotions down…it hurt. Also, I couldn't kill Neji and Hanabi. I just couldn't do it."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her pitiful words, "But why? Why leave someone alive? Why leave them to form anger and grief? To fall into depression and misery. To have them hate you." He downed his whole drink and looked at Hinata as the burning liquid slid down his throat. The amount of depression, anxiety and mental damage he personally went through he didn't know why Itachi and Hinata thought the way they did.

Hinata looked out at the cracked window before looking back at Sasuke, "I love them too much. I don't know, maybe me and Itachi are just selfish. Or maybe we thought you all wanted to live? To experience life, not waste it like we wasted ours. Now we're alive, carrying our sins and left with the feeling of being stuck and just having to live life until we die. With our sins haunting us."

Hinata then downed her drink and made a slight twitch at the burning liquid. Naruto tapped her foot with his and she looked at him to see his bright lazy smile and sky blue eyes looking at her. The look immediately made her feel comfort. "Naruto-kun, what is your demons?"

He chuckled at the irony of it all, "Other than the obvious Nata? I guess a demon of mine is the fact that I actually wished I hurt people instead of taking the high road and letting them treat me the way they did. Sometimes in my mind I think about Gaara and I justwishedat least once I just said, 'fuck it' and just did what that voice in the back of my head wanted me to do. Every time someone denied me services or called me names and beat me. I just wishedone timeI just didn't have this good guy guilt and would have just fucked everyone and everything up. Then maybe I wouldn't have lived so shitty. I wouldn't have starved so many fucking times ya know? People would know better than to mess with me."

Sasuke and Hinata looked at Naruto with blinking eyes, Sasuke being the first one to come back from the shocking testimony. "I fucking knew it. I knew you were a ball of fucking pent up anger. Tsk…you should have. I would have."

Naruto laughed at Sasuke before shaking his head and looked at Hinata with a grin on his face. She had a conflicted look on her face, "Not you too Nata."

She pursed her lips, "I do not believe you should gave into dark desires at all. I also seem like a hypocrite considering how I've been acting the last couple of years, so I will stay silent on this matter." Sasuke looked at Hinata with a lazy smirk, "How could you say such a thing and really feel that way? You yourself dipping into the dark side of life along with me and from what I could see you seemed to like it. Own the fact that you liked being bad."

Hinata blushed at his words, "Naruto-kun is light. He did the right thing. We did the wrong thing Sasuke."

Sasuke gave a dark laugh at her statement, "It was fun though. Wasn't it Hinata?" Hinata looked at him with curious eyes, "At what cost Sasuke? Memories and experiences we lost and will never get back. I missed a lot of things and so did you."

Sasuke closed his eyes as he was feeling a little dizzy from the alcohol. He promised himself that this would be a once every blue moon type of drinking. "Hn. Naruto missed the same things. Remember Nata, everything happens for a reason."

He opened his eyes to reveal bloody red pupils staring straight at her. His eyes drifted over to Naruto, "I was where I needed to be at that moment. I was where Iwantedto be."

Hinata remained quiet as she watched the interaction between Naruto and Sasuke. Yes, the two males have gotten into countless miniature arguments before. Over the silliest things if Hinata was to be honest. This time it would seem that Sasuke finally plucked the right nerve from Naruto.

Sasuke liked to pick here and there with slight insults. Just to see if he could get that dark part of Naruto to spark. Sasuke would claim that he just liked the 'authentic side' of Naruto. He hated when Naruto was 24/7 goofy and chipper. He hated when Hinata was always so quiet and gave off the persona that she was a push over. That wasn't the real Naruto or Hinata. They were so much more and Sasuke wanted them to show it.

Naruto looked at Sasuke with an incinerating look. He didn't raise his voice at Sasuke, he just had a look like Sasuke was walking a thin line. "Yeah? Where you wanted to be huh?"

Sasuke just continued to stare at Naruto with that know it all, arrogant smirk. A slight shrug of his shoulders was enough of an answer for Naruto. His blonde companion looked at him in utter annoyance, "Tsk. Maybe Hinata was right all along. I am a fool for you. So many people almost lost their lives for you. Just for you still to say you regret nothing."

Naruto had an aura around him that screamed if Sasuke said one more asshole-ish thing he was going to knock the young Uchiha lights out. Sasuke went to lay on his back and his smirk slid off his face as he looked at the bedroom ceiling.

"I hated Orochimaru. Everything that he stood for. His lack of morals. Lack of human qualities. He lived like a rat more than a snake. Still…I traveled. I could always travel as a ninja, yes, but I lived Naruto. While I was gone, I lived. I lived, I learned, I was able to do things without having people judge me. Without having people look at me like some pariah. 'The last Uchiha', 'everything he says is law'. People really were acting like that and you know it. I hated the people and this village. I couldn't breathe."

Sasuke was still looking at the ceiling, but his hand traveled over to Naruto's. Naruto looked as Sasuke's fingers started to play with his until they interlaced. "I was able to experience what it felt like to miss people other than my clan members, other than my parents. I was able to travel and see that it was okay to miss another person of the same sex. To have feelings for a male. I don't think I would have learned all of this in Konoha with a bunch of fan girls throwing themselves at me. I learned to yearn for people to treat me normal, like how you and Hinata treat me."

Sasuke turned to look at Naruto. He gave a rare smile when he saw that Naruto refused to look at him and how Naruto decided to point his attention to his bare feet. "You forget I was the one to say I love you first Naruto. You were still green to emotions and how to go about doing what you wanted dobe."

Naruto gave a light chuckle at this with a light blush on his face that he would later blame on the alcohol, "Yeah. Well I guess I'm still green in both those departments."

Sasuke brought Naruto's hand that was interlaced with his to his lips and kissed it while still looking at Naruto. He continued to hold like that until Naruto finally looked at him. Sasuke raised an eyebrow and grinned at Naruto, "Yeah. I can tolerate it though." He smirked after this and just like that the two made up once again.

Hinata leaned against the bed and smiled at her two lovers. Lately it was getting hard to determine who was her sun and who was her moon. Both becoming barer each day with her.

Did everything happen for a reason? Like with Sasuke. He wouldn't have gained the power level that he currently has if it wasn't for doing what he did. Still. He could have though. Hinata determined that a long time ago while in ROOT.

Naruto wouldn't have gained this power if he didn't leave to pursue Sasuke. Right? No. The late Jiraiya more than likely would have still came and taken his Godchild due to a terrorist organization trying to kill him.

There were alternatives there for Sasuke and possibly Naruto. Both alternatives would prove to have the males grow stronger over time. Kakashi would have been an amazing for Sasuke if he stayed and Naruto was destined to train under the toad sannin. Did she have an alternative? Where would she be if she didn't go to ROOT?

No. She didn't REALLY have an alternative. It was either be sealed or join under Lord Danzo. Yes. Hinata knew exactly where she would be if she didn't leave the Hyuga clan.

She would be caged in. A weak caged bird. Just watching the outside world live their life until she was married off to some stranger of a high social status. Or maybe they really would have wed her off with her own family member. She would have been forgotten and died miserable.

Why again was she so willing to forgive her family?

It was so easy for Hinata to feel emotions like anger, jealousy and hate. She believes that she always carried these nasty feelings.

Hinata blinked back to reality and noticed herself touching her forehead. Like she was trying to make sure that horrible curse seal wasn't there. She continued to blink for a moment before a giggle popped out. Her eyes grew wide and before she knew it a series of giggles started to escape her before she realized she couldn't contain them. It was just so FUNNY to her. Like an epiphany about herself that she was finally okay to accept.

Hinata ended up clutching her sides a little in her laughing fit and she realized that she rarely actually laughed. After calming herself she looked over at Naruto and Sasuke and noticed them looking at her like she had lost her mind.

Hinata was able to calm herself for a moment, "I have ruined the moment. I am sorry! But I just realized after watching you two in all your innocence that…I am not a very nice person!" She went back to laughing at her internal resolution and she noticed when Naruto was the first to send her back a dark smile. "Oi. You just realizing that Nata?"

Sasuke smirked at what Naruto said and looked at Hinata, "It took you long enough to realize this. What made you come to this conclusion?"

Hinata gave a couple more giggles before she calmed herself. A bright smile still on her lit up face, "I…I don't think I was ever a nice person. I was always jealous of people. Neji, Hanabi, Sakura…Ino, there are so many people actually. I was angry with my mother for leaving me. Why? It's not like she wanted to get sick. I was angry with my father for leaving me…twiceactually. He literally hated me so much he couldn't stand me for thosetinymoments I was in his presence."

Hinata had to contain a fit of laughter from coming out of her again at that last comment, "I was angry because Naruto-kun wouldn't kill the love of his life. I hated both of you for that. I don't knowwhatI was thinking back then. I hated so many things in people. I was not a nice personat all. I think I just covered it up by saying it was all for the mission, but in reality I just wasn't a nice person."

Naruto tilted his head at Hinata's declaration. He said it all along that he felt like Hinata was doing ROOT more out of spite than anything else. She was angry and she wanted everyone to feel her wrath. "So what did you love then? For four years, before me and Sasuke, what did Hinata love?"

Hinata looked at Naruto and didn't even need to think, "ROOT."

Naruto gave a dark laugh as a reply before looking at her with a smirk, "You mean Danzo? You loved Danzo. I thought we already came to this conclusion earlier Nata."

Sasuke matched the same type of confused and grossed out face as Hinata. Naruto held up his hand for a moment as a way to tell Hinata to give him a minute.

"Okay hear me out! You loved what that creep Danzo could do for you. You hinted at it all the time. He could 'save' you from your family. He accepted you in ROOT. Trained you. Gave you these crazy missions where you got the freedom to come and go from the village as you pleased. You loved the life Danzo gave you. I'm not saying you loved the man on some weird level like THAT, but like an…honorable type of love. Ya know? I guess a way a daughter loves her father. You would have had Danzo as a father than Hiashi I am sure."

Naruto wanted to puke just saying such heartful words in relation to Danzo. Hinata's face lit up at Naruto's understanding. She had no clue he could word things and hit it on the nail so precisely. She believed Naruto and Sasuke were too clouded by hate for Danzo to understand their relationship.

Sasuke still had this disgusted look on his face.

"Naruto don't fuel her weird obsession. The man was scum. A murderer and a psycho. He ordered you to kill yourfamilyand made it obvious he was going to kill you. He even said it to your face he was going tokillyou, he wanted to kill you and he should have killed you sooner. His basic words. He insulted not only my clan, but your clan as well. He even aimed at getting that Hyuga eye from that Aō man. Who knows what he was going to do with that eye or if he would have used it to get more of your families eyes."

It was like a flick of a switch and Hinata was no longer Hinata. This didn't happen often that Hinata would slip and Wire came out and showed her true colors. Naruto didn't mind it as much as Sasuke anymore. The blonde would even tease that it was like the 'authentic' side of Hinata came out and Sasuke should like it even more.

"Well it doesn't matter anymore. Neither Danzo-sama or Aō have the Byakugan anymore."

Sasuke sat up on his elbows and looked over at Hinata. Her having caught his interest, Naruto didn't look too surprised and actually sported a pleased grin looking at her almost like he was proud.

"When did you do this?" Sasuke's eyes widened in complete blood-lusting interest.

Hinata, who was looking intently at Naruto, eyes drifted over to Sasuke. "The moment I laid eyes on Aō at the summit, when he uncovered his eye. My clone never left his shadow until that eye was retrieved."

"Is he dead?"

"Let me see! I wanna see it!"

Hinata giggled at the annoyed look Sasuke shot Naruto, "He is alive Sasuke. I caused him to have a cardiac arrest with my wires and took the opportunity to retrieve the eye. I left him, but aid was not far from him. Last I heard he was alive and still performing his duties as best as he can."

Sasuke accepted this with a smirk before he looked back at Naruto annoyed. "Why the hell would she have the eye still? You think she's some nut that hoards human body parts. Dobe, use your head sometimes."

Naruto still sported a devious grin. He laughed a little and gave a hearty smack to Sasuke's shoulder that knocked him harshly off balance. It was almost like a reminder to the young Uchiha that Naruto let Sasuke get away with how he talks sometimes.

Naruto looked back at Hinata and the two locked a gaze. "Oi Sasuke. You still have so much to learn about Hinata. Do you still have the eye Hinata?"

They were met with silence.

Naruto got on all fours and crawled slowly to Hinata in a similar fashion he knew she remembered perfectly. "Answer me Nata."

Still looking into his perfect blue eyes, Hinata gave a shaky, airy reply. "Yes."

Now close up to Hinata. Only inches away from her lips Naruto grinned at her. "What does that make you Hinata?"

Hinata didn't miss a beat. "A monster."

She could have sworn when Naruto smiled he had canine teeth, "You're my monster though. You'remine."