A Light In The Dark

Tobirama Senju

Chapter 2 of a light in the dark. Please forgive me for the delay and expect an influx of updates because I have apparently been hoarding 11 chapters of this story without posting and I had completely forgotten.

Hinata ran as fast as she could, she could smell the blood, it was sickly and metallic. She had to get there! she had to make it! She threw herself through the doors of the compound. The smell of death and blood were thick. She ran through the halls of the compound dodging the bodies that lay strewn about the floor. Her tears splashed all over everything they touched. She made it to her parent's room and she screamed, they lay dead in the floor, their eyes crushed in their hands.

Her shoulders shook as she crouched beside them, the place had been silent when she had entered. Her fingers entangled themselves in her mother's hair as she pulled her mother and father close to her. She screamed her pain to the world, but no one listened; no one heard. "Mother...father..." she sobbed as their frozen cheeks touched her. "They just left you here! They let you die! They Left you here to rot!" she sobbed as she looked at them, their faces hadn't been contorted in fear, no...they held pride.

They had protected what had needed protecting. She set them back down as the thought of her sister hit her. "Hanabi!" she screamed and ran to her sister's room. Hanabi lay on the floor, holding her stomach where a kunai had been, she was barely breathing. "Nee-chan..." Hanabi breathed and struggled to turn towards her sister. She lay on the floor a huge puddle of blood surrounding her. "Nee-chan...they came from nowhere...they killed everyone....and they took my eyes...I...I didn't know what to do...I was scared Hinata-nee..." she said between deep ragged breaths. "Just relax Hana-nee...it will be ok..." Hinata whispered as her sister faded away.

Hinata jerked up in her bed, tears streaming down her face. "Hana-nee...I think... I think I could have taken it all better had you actually been able to speak..." Hinata sobbed lightly into her hands. She knew that the nightmares were recurring, so she barely slept. She wiped her eyes and got dressed for the day, her eyes landed on the small wolf the Hanabi look alike had given her, she felt drawn to the small stuffed animal for some reason. She grabbed it and put it in her pocket. She jumped out of the window of Sasuke's house and hopped the compound gates only to see ninja rushing about frantically. She raised a brow and made her way to the Hokage tower.

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Naruto frowned and watched as his ninja scrambled around the village. He sighed and turned to make a move for his desk but there was someone there and he jumped slightly. Her chuckled reached his ears and he sighed. "What the hell...Hinata I told you not to randomly appear like that." He grumbled rubbing the back of his neck. "I'm having those nightmares again..." she said suddenly and he frowned. "I will ask Tsunade to come back for a while then." He said and she nodded.

"So what is going on out there?" she asked and he frowned. "It's as if someone has placed a massive genjutsu over the entire forest outside of konoha..." he said and Hinata rolled her eyes. "I felt that, I'm wondering what those fools are doing..." she said and Naruto looked at her. "Fine genjutsu queen, instead of all of them going to go release it why don't you go find the caster, you should be able to navigate just fine, it's an eternal darkness genjutsu. You should be well accustomed to those by now, even if this one is much stronger than any I have ever seen. I knew only one person who could use one this big, but he was dead and reanimated during the war. We released the reanimation so he should be resting peacefully." Naruto said and the smirk that crossed Hinata's lips unnerved him slightly.

"Ja Ne, Naruto-kun!" she said with a little more excitement than there should have been. Naruto blinked. "S-she called me Naruto-kun..." he stammered in surprise. "Hm...she hasn't called you that since the war. I wonder what has got her so excited." Sasuke mumbled as he watched Hinata run down the street. "We released the reanimation? More like I did." Sasuke huffed and Naruto rolled his eyes. "Whatever man...you're so full of shit anyways." Naruto said and Sasuke glared at him. "Che. Idiot." He huffed.