[Episode 229814] [Episode 229814]It had been over a decade ago now that her hopes and dreams had died when HE had died.
She'd continued on, the bright hope his smile had kindled within her gradually dying. Too many years, too many changes, too much blood on her hands and those of others.
She remembered that as she watched the bird winging away with the message. Her job spying was done now. She wouldn't be able to return to the village though, the alarm would already have been raised. There was only one way for her to end this mission.
Only one freedom left for her. Her family and her father would be pleased that she'd done this much right, she supposed. That she'd been of some use to the village. After her dreams had died, been dragged through the filth, crushed and burned with the intervening years. With the Caged Bird Seal that had been applied to her when Hanabi had come into her inheritance - she couldn't even see as clearly as she once had. Not that it had come as a surprise, her father had done to HIS brother the same thing.
Courtesan training had been tough, but it was a weapon in the arsenal of the mature kunoichi. She had gotten through several missions like that. As one of Hokage Danzo's people had put it, her body was just another thing to use for the betterment of the village. It had made her feel filthy and untrue to the memory of her love, but that was her failure - not his.
After a few missions in which she'd been seduced/seducer, lover, betrayer, and killer - she'd grown a bit colder. Not that anyone could notice as everyone was going through the same things under Danzo's control. The Land Of Fire was more powerful than ever, especially after Danzo killed off the feudal lord in order to hold the reins of power himself.
She let out a deep breath, taking a long knife from the folds of her obi.
Her own father had arranged this marriage, which was a mission. Now the plans for their defenses was winging its way to the village she'd been born in. The village which had once been her home. Where a boy she'd loved had once dwelled.
She wiped the useless tears away. Useless tears from a useless girl. On the other hand, it was surprising that she could still weep. She'd thought she'd long passed that point.
"Naruto," whispered Hinata, pointing the tip of the blade at her throat. Would she see him again on the other side? Could she dare hope?
"THERE SHE IS!" yelled a guardsman, apparently spotting her in the garden.
Hinata took a deep breath, and plunged the dagger in with all her strength.
Everything stopped.
Do you want to see him again?
Hinata wondered what was going on. Why wasn't she moving? Had she been hit with a paralysis jutsu? Was even this release denied her? Or had it all finally been too much and she'd gone insane?
You are not insane. If you could do it all again, if you could avoid this fate. Would you?
"Yes," whispered Hinata as she found her lips able to move that much. "Oh yes."
Then you may try.
"Who?" asked Hinata.
Does it matter? said the voice, a gentle-sounding baritone. This is simply a second chance, we shall not meet again. Everything else is up to you.
"Eh?" muttered Hinata as she sat bolt upright and immediately took in her surroundings.
She was... where?
"Are you okay, Hinata? It's not like you to fall asleep like that," said Iruka-sensei from the front of the classroom.
Her eyes wide, Hinata looked around. People she KNEW were dead, were instead sitting at their desks. They were also kids again.
Her vision turned misty as she looked down near the front of the classroom and saw him there. Naruto. Alive.
It also looked as if they were:
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