She's My Everything

Prologue

Fire.

The house was on fire.

I watched how the dreams we promised to accomplish together faded. Everything got destroyed right in front of my eyes. But not only took the material stuff away from me.

It took my wife and my first born.

I felt the tears on my face. I only heard the burning sound of the flames do what they only had to do. Erase every memory, every goal Hinata and I achieved together.

Then I felt a moving body in my arms, snapping me back to reality. There she was, my second and now only child waking up from her sleep.

She was born premature, and her tiny, skinny arms could evidence it. I covered her body in the yellow blanket as the firemen, the police and everyone else did their work.

“You’re everything I have left…. Himawari” I murmured between sobs.

I tried to raise her on my own for a pair of months. Sasuke offered his small apartment for me to stay while I found a new house but the job company I worked for cut off employees so I was fired.

Sasuke wanted to help me find another one but he was barely entering the police academy to start training with Kiba, Tenten and Rock Lee. Sai was starting his career as a painter so having to deal with me was a huge distraction.

Shikamaru was studying to become a college professor. Chouji was building a new restaurant while Ino was running her family’s flower shop.

Shino was a school teacher whileTemari Gaara and Kankuro lived in another city so they had their own issues.

On top of that, the Hyugas blamed me for Hinata and Boruto’s death. And truth to be told it is my fault. I left them on a place I thought it was safe for them while I rushed to save Hima. Everyone says that I shouldn’t be so hard with me but I just can’t help it.

Then I got Sakura’s phone call, wanting me to meet her at her medical office. All that just to learn that my daughter, the only hope I had to keep living my life was about to fade away.

She offered her help to pay for the studies about her condition, but I didn’t heard it. All of that meant that I needed to get a job that paid me well enough to cover everything for her.

And I wasn’t ready.

I will never be.

That night I stood at the gates of the Hyuga’s mansion. Maybe they didn’t wanted to know anything about me ever again, but they can’t deny the existence of what Hinata and I created.

So I left her on a small basked, wrapped up in the yellow blanket I got for her. I cried as I placed a small kiss on her forehead, afraid that I might wake her up. Fortunately she didn’t, because it would’ve made the whole thing harder to assimilate.

But I was broken because I wasn’t ready for this and for what was about to come.

“I know they will take care of you Hima…just, forgive me.” I said as I left her in the middle of the night.