Konoha's New Prodigy: The Journey

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Soon I saw how some guards took the nurse away. Her hand was bleeding badly as I managed to make a wicked smile, covered with blood.

"You....you have no salvation!" cried the nurse in pain as I kept on staring at her.

"Blame Lord Seventh for that..." I said while laughing. It didn't took long for them to close the door and leave me here, alone between these white walls.

Then I started to hear those voices again.

'You did well, my child'

"I didn't do it because of you"

'It doesn't matter, you did everything the way I said.'

"Shut up. You will not control me"

'I already did. Why do you think that woman says you have no salvation? Because you're a monster just like me. We're meant for each other...'

"Shut up! We're not meant to be. We never were. You lied to me from the beginning acting like the man I loved and-"

A huge pain in my head made me scream. I stried to shake my body to make it stop but I was so tied up that it was impossible. "Stop it!"

'Why? You look beautiful when you behave like that. I can't wait to have you in my arms, screaming for my true name.'

"No! No, make it stop!!!"

"Himawari!" Ino said as she came in, ready to do her mind jutsu again. "Hold her up."

Panic struck in. "No! No let me go! Please let me be! Don't touch me please!"

"Hima trust me, this will be over soon I promise" she replied.

"LIAR!!!" she screamed as her Tenseigan activated. By that time Ino was already inside her mind trying to calm her down.

"Hima-chan!" Boruto said while managing to stand at the door with Miroku and Hizashi. Both kids gasped in horror.

"Boruto take the kids away!" Ino screamed. "I can't barely control her, we don't need more distractions!"

"Guys I need you to go. This is dangerous for you dattebasa."

"But we wanna-" said Miroku.

"Go! I'll pick you up at the park" he dismissed them. Then he turned to face his sister. "Hima-chan, your brother is here. I'm here, stay calm please."

He felt scared once she faced him with those eyes. He was in shock however, he activated his Jougan subsconciously and saw something he thought he will never see.

Pain, fear, anger, loneliness. The sister he once knew was no longer there, she was a whole other person.

"You..." he heard me say. "The son of Lord Seventh, the prodigy, the one who was allowed to do everything."

"Hima stop with that please, now control yourself before something-"

"Something bad happens? Everything bad is directly related to me right?" I said before my head ache again. "Get out of my head!"

Boruto saw how Ino's lower lip started to bleed. "Himawari, Ino-san is trying to help you!"

"Get out of my head..."

"We're not going to hurt you"

"I said get out of my head!!" I said as Ino's body suddenly jumped away and fell on the floor. My whole body feeling a kind of strenght that broke me free from all the ropes and pushed everyone away. Boruto fell on a corner of the room in shock as I escaped the hospital.

******

Shinki was walking around the village. He already finished helping some civilians with the reconstruction plans and he was tired. He hoped to find some place to eat before going back to the apartment where he was staying.

Suddenly, a strong chakra presence made him stop and look to his left. He manage to saw a slim siluette running towards the forest that was at the park.

"Is that..." he murmured before following it. It didn't took long to get into the forest. Careful to not get discovered by it, he hid into the trees and watch her stop at the river.

"Finally, some peace" she said as she jumped into the water not knowing about hsi presence. She refreshed her hair as her headache faded away slowly.

It didn't took long for Shinki to know who she was. He actually was surprised to see her out of the hospital. But somehow, he was more mesmerized at how she looked.

"You know is dishonorable to check out a woman like that." he heard her say without looking at him. "I can see you with my Byakugan."

"I felt your strong chakra presence. I decided to follow you just in case..." he said as he climbed down the trees and got closer.

"In case I was a threat to the village?" she turned around to face him with tired, watery eyes. Shinki stared at her for a while before feeling ashamed.

"My apologies. I shouldn't have assumed that in the first place."

"No, you're right. I have always been a threat ever since I can remember."

"I don't think that's true."

"You clearly haven't participated in the war then." she smirked.

"I have" he stepped closer. "But I didn't knew you well enough. I would like to fix that, if you let me."

She saw him skeptically. "You're going to take me back to the hospital right? I'm tired of hearing the kind of monster I am, that I have no salvation, that I'm nothing more than a threat...."

She was crying by that moment. Shinki suddenly raised a hand and wiped away her tears. Himawari gasped as she raised her head.

"What are you doing?"

"If you were truly a monster I should be dead by now, am I right?"

And for the first time in a while, Himawari gave him a warm smile. "Thank you."

Shinki didn't knew what to say. He was hypnotized by her now, blue eyes. She looked at him in awe as he stared back at her. Words could not describe what they were both feeling at that moment.

"Himawari!!!!" Boruto's yell was heard from afar. They both jumped back to reality.

"They'll take me back there." she said in a defense mode.

"Don't fight. I will have a word with them." he replied.

"As if they were going to hear you."

"Trust me" he begged.

"I've been having issues with that lately." she said before he stealed a small kiss from her lips.

"Then I promise that I'll do everything in my power to win your trust." he said as he left her an iron flower at her hands.

"Hima! There you are- Shinki?!?" Boruto said in shock as he arrived with some other shinobi guards. "Ah, thanks for getting her dattebasa. Come on, let's bring you back to the hospital."

"I will not go back there." she said in defense mode.

"Hima-chan please. This is for your own..." he replied.

"Boruto, she doesn't feel safe there." Shinki said. "She's in good condition to leave the hospital."

"Is not her physical condition Shinki...and besides, who do you think you are?! She's my little sister!"

"I'm not little anymore!" Himawari yelled. "Boruto, I... I want to be free I don't want to be tied up forever...I-"

"Himawari" Ino said from beside her brother. "I was inside your mind. I know what you have. It's nothing like I've seen before. You need treatment."

"And she will receive it but with one condition." Shinki said before Himawari could reply. "She will be able to be around the village."

"I don't think-" Boruto started.

"Deal" Ino said. "Sakura and your father will be notified about this and we can discuss the terms of her freedom."