With You in the Future

Dreams

It sometimes happens that memories rush back when you sleep and they become nightmares. Fortunately, Hinata and Naruto are always next to each other.

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Written for NaruHina week 2019 - Day 6

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She was on the battlefield.

Never had she felt such an amount of chakra gathered at the same place by Naruto's diehard strength.

Never had she witnessed so many lives cut short by Death, intransigent during these days of war.

In the thick darkness of the endless night, hundreds of bodies were laying around her, no more signs of emotions on their faces now pale forever.

But she couldn't care about that right now.

The priority was to save the shinobi world and it was only after that came the importance of keeping her war comrades alive.

In front of her, stood the huge wood statue that a part of the Shinobi Alliance was trying to fight back.

Next to her, still covered with the warm and bright chakra of the Kyuubi, were her precious friends still alive.

The Sandaime Hokage had just saved all of them by sending the statut's jutsu away from the ninja tropes.

"Oh Kami... that was close..." Ino sighed.

"Oi, don't underestimate us, Sandaime!" Kiba exclaimed, ready to fight again.

However, despite their good will expressed by her lifelong teammate, Hinata could feel that Shikamaru was worried.

She could see that Sakura and the medical team started to run out of chakra. Chakra they needed to continue to support the fighters.

But at least, all of her friends were ok. She comforted herself with this thought. They were going to make it. It wasn't the time to have doubts.

If there was a thing she couldn't do, it was giving up.

Not now.

Naruto was still counting on her.

"What, Ino?" asked Shikamaru as he noticed that his friend was suddenly tense.

Hinata's attention stayed focused on the enemy before her, giving her friends the opportunity to collect themselves and to develop a new plan of action. The formation Ino-Shika-Cho was too important on the strategic level in this war for the Shinobi Alliance to allow itself to lose them.

Therefore, Hinata had made team eight her priority after she parted with Naruto a few moments earlier.

She had let him go ahead again for the well-being of the entire world.

He was their hope.

But...

"Naruto" Kiba said while sniffing the air.

"What?" Hinata asked as she looked at them.

What Naruto? What was happening?

She didn't want to panic.

She couldn't panic.

And yet the atmosphere became eerie. Something other than the fear created by the enemy was heavy on their shoulders that had already well weakened throughout these three days of intense fighting.