Forgotten

Chapter 1: Anbu Black Ops

Day break broke through the window. Colors of orange and red painted the wooden floor of the manor. I woke up upon the calling of the birds and the howl of the Inuzuka clan on the other side of the village of Konoha. I stretched and made my way to the bathroom to wash up. I stepped into the steaming shower scrubbing the sleep from the corners of my eyes and pulling my fingers through the tangles in my hair. Once I finished I stepped out drying off and wrapping the towel around my chest and walked to the mirror. My skin looked orange in the rising sun but in reality it was white as snow. My eyes scanned the face in the mirror but all they saw was a fragile girl hoping, wishing, for a spot on the top Anbu Black Ops team in all the Leaf Village.

            My name is Hinata Hyuuga. I’m the heir to the Hyuuga manor but that was given to my sister, Hinabi, because of my lack of status among the other ninjas in the village. I am not very strong but I am smart and quick on my feet. I am unconfident but that will all change today. Today is the day I try out for the Anbu Black Ops. I’ve been training for months and I am nowhere near being ready but it’s now or never. I don’t expect to become a powerhouse ninja for fighting; I expect to become a medical ninja and the best one at that. I hold a special gift that can help me surpass any medical ninja in the world. I have a Kekkei Genkai, a family trait passed down through generations. My trait is a Byakugan. It is a trait that gives my family the identical white eyes. It gives the Hyuuga clan a 360 degree field of vision beside a small blind spot. It can detect chakra up to 50 meters away and see through all matter. With this gift of sight I will be able to see into my patients body and pinpoint what is damaged and greater heal it through chakra control which is also a natural gift of the family given that it takes great chakra control to activate and keep the Byakugan going.

            I brushed through my wet strands of indigo hair, blow drying it the best I could before pulling the hair away from my face in a pony tail. I got dressed in my normal clothing of pants and a sweater with a fish net t-shirt underneath so that I didn’t get too hot under the blistering sun when testing. Once I was ready I ran out the door to the Anbu training grounds on the edge of the village so that what happened was kept secret.

            I arrived at the gate. No one stood guard which surprised me but I realized why when I stepped past the line of reality and fantasy. I was spun into a Gen jutsu instantly thrown into a world of blood, death, and war. I saw my old fellow teammates fall to their knees gasping in their last breaths. I wanted to run to them and help them. I wanted to break down and cry as I looked away from them and ahead to see that the whole village had been destroyed.

            “This isn’t true it’s only a jutsu.” I kept telling myself forcing my mind to stop its spiral into insanity. I tried the Gen breaking jutsu but the jutsu was too strong to break. I was already taking the test. Part 1: Will over Mind. I couldn’t break down if I wanted to past I had to pass through and find a way to break the jutsu. I could last for now but soon I’d be among the students I saw screaming to be let loose. I walked past the dead bodies avoiding looking at their void, lifeless faces. I finally made it past the streets of corpses but I spiraled into a new jutsu.

            I was in the manor looking at a scene of my father yelling at me for failing the family name. He walked away but instead of staying where my other self stood in horror I followed him into his office where he asked my cousin Neji to dispose of me. Wait! He wants to kill me?! No, this isn’t real I have to remember that. This is only a jutsu. It’s not real. Nonetheless, I ran to my reflection and just as I entered back into the training yard I saw the bloody battle of Neji and myself. My reflection tried its hardest to just dodge and not cause any injury to my cousin, but its efforts were futile. In the end Neji’s strength over powered and my chakra was stopped in an instant causing all my systems to shut down in a painful, slow process.

            Once my other self fell to the ground I felt the pain. Each agonizing second passed by as each organ slowly started its descend into death. My body quivered in pain as my nerves screamed to be let free of the pain coursing through my body with each and every cell dying. I could feel each cell lose the fight to live. Next, were my tissues and finally my organs.

            A voice rang in my mind, “The young Hyuuga princess should have never came to such an evil place. You should have stayed in the world where there is still hope. Go ahead and let go and you will be set free, able to walk away and live with only a small memory of this pain and suffering.”

            Tears threatened from my eyes as I closed my eyes trying to find my chakra to revive my body. My heart slowed about to stop. I cursed it and forced it to keep beating. “I won’t stop fighting. I will persevere through the pain. Don’t underestimate me just because of my past.” I said aloud forcing my muscles to abide by my will and not by their will. I stood up and walked forward but before I could take more than two steps my heart couldn’t take the strain and stopped. Darkness surrounded me. I waited for my mind to go black but I stayed consciously thinking. Am I dead? I don’t know. All I knew was that I couldn’t feel my body; I couldn’t sense my chakra. I must be dead. All is gone; all I know is pointless now. Disadvantage: I can’t fulfill my dream of the Anbu Black Ops. Advantage: I don’t have to worry about making my father proud anymore. Who knew death would feel so bittersweet?