Minato's Daughter

Chapter 41 - Family

Miyuki

I opened my eyes slowly. Where was I? I tasted blood. Was I alive? It looked like I was back in Konoha but something was different. I wasn't on the cold hard ground anymore. I was being held up by someone, but who? My eyes went in and out of focus.

"Miyuki!"

"Gai...?"

He helped me sit up as I winced in pain.

"Please don't move too much, Miyuki sensei. You are still injured," Sakura said quickly.

"How...?" I started.

"You're lucky that Sakura is skilled in medical ninjutsu. She saved both you and Hinata," Gai explained.

I looked at the Hyuga girl in front of me. Hinata, Kurenai's student. The one who had a crush on Naruto.

"What happened to you?" I asked her, sounding harsher than I meant to.

She turned away but Sakura quickly explained to me about how Hinata had risked her life to try to break Naruto free from Pain's metal poles. After I had been stabbed, Pain had gone back to Naruto and stabbed him several more times to prevent him from moving. Hinata had fought to break the poles, with Pain severely injuring her in the end and causing Naruto to become enraged. Sakura ended by telling me that Naruto had successfully defeated the last Pain and how he had gone to meet with the one who was truly controlling Pain from the shadows.

"Alone?" I asked, surprised that any of them would allow that to happen.

"Yes," Sakura replied.

Before I could open my mouth to call them all sorts of names, I coughed up blood.

"Miyuki!" Gai yelled, alarmed at the sight.

"I'm fine," I told him wincing at how loud he was.

"Kakashi would be angry if he heard you or saw you right now," Gai retorted before looking around. "Actually... Where is Kakashi?"

I flinched at hearing his name. Of course Gai didn't know... From what I remembered, he should have just been returning from a mission with his team.

"He's dead," I said quietly.

Gai froze. "What did you just say?"

Sakura's eyes widened in shock. I couldn't look at any of them, staring at the ground instead.

"Miyuki..." Gai began only to stop and turn towards a loud sound nearby. "What is that?"

We all turned to look at a strange figure which had burst from the ground. I recognized it as the face that had been used by one of the Pains to revive the others. Were they attacking again? The large face statue opened its mouth and suddenly, multiple short green light beams fired out of its mouth and into the sky.

"Are we under attack?!" The other Hyuga, a boy who I remembered as being called Neji, asked.

"I don't... I don't think so..." I managed to say, staring at the lights.

It really didn't feel like an attack, but what could it be? What was happening? We saw Lord Fukasaku's body suddenly be surrounded by one of the green beams of light before it suddenly disappeared. A few moments later, Lord Fukasaku sat up, confused.

"Ma? Where am I?"

Lady Shima screamed in shock as my eyes widened. How was he suddenly alive again? I turned my head to a nearby shinobi who I knew was dead and saw the green light fade from his body. Moments later, he also sat up clutching his head.

"Those lights... Are they... Do they revive the dead?" I whispered.

"I've never heard of anything like this..." Sakura replied, her eyes also wide.