BRAIN DAMAGE 2: THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

A Naruto short novel

Chapter 1: Do you or do you not?

Hinata stood atop the hill, overlooking the great lake before her… the sky was entwined with dark stormy clouds and what seemed like forks of lightning loomed on the horizon… it fit perfectly with how she was feeling right now… destroyed, defeated, useless… and alone.

She started to think about things that made her feel this way… It was time to think, you know… "It's good to think and relax once in a while." she thought, sitting down on the hill, looking at the sky… images and questions just ran through her mind… they all made her head ache…

Things like this come to everyone, you know? Questions… A life is always full of questions… some already have answers, but it always depends on the person who's asking; for example, a daughter who asks why her father left her to someone else because he didn't love her is always bound to be something positive…

Why she's seen and not recognized is always bound to be something that supports patience… Why the person that makes you smile doesn't know what you really feel is always met with enthusiasm… But another question arises with another question: Why do you still hate these people?

When you were told by someone you hate that everything in your life is your fault… How would YOU feel? Hinata heard the wind whiz in her ear… she sank her head in between her knees and she started to cry… she let out all of the frustration and the angst inside every crack in her soul… every little fissure everyone had left in her... all of them spewing envy... lust... hate.

Do you or do you not hate these people? That's a question like all other questions in Hinata's mind… That she'd rather leave empty and unanswered…And instead she fills up the empty spaces with hate… hate that she tries to lock down and suppress and hide… However, a sudden answer rose up in the air like a bullet when she heard a very familiar voice call to her… answering who it was… "Hello, cousin. I was wondering where had you gone."

Hinata jumped up, and she turned around… And to her horror and her anger, Neji was standing there,in all of his pretty might and glory, an evil smile splattered on his face. "Go away…" Hinata said in between her teeth, clutching her hands into fist until her nail sank into her skin, "What are you doing all the way out here, my dear Hinata?" said Neji in an oily voice that Hinata hated very much…

"I thought I told you to go away…" said Hinata, trying to fake that she was calming down, but in vain, since her eyes still squinted in hate... "Oh come on don't be that way" Neji said, grinning, "I just wanted to have a little chat with you back there, is all…" Just a little speech, you know… get her on her feet again… tell her how much stronger he is…

"Go away…" Hinata said, now feeling a bit homicidal… and yet Neji started to get closer… ""Oh come on…" He said, before Hinata lost her mind… "GO AWAY, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" she roared, picking up a rock and throwing it at Neji, but missing, "LEAVE ME ALONE!"… And then she did something that Neji thought she would never do…

Hinata drew a kunai out of nowhere, and with a deliciously insane look on her face, she lunged herself at him, intent on ripping his throat out… so he'd never say anything else again… but hate and ire blinded Hinata… and she didn't see one attack until she felt it on her head... her skull felt like it would fall out from her head... Hinata screamed in pain… it cut across miles and miles, heard in the nearby academy... and even faintly in a far-away town… The next thing she knew, she was on her knees… life leaving her... images flashing before her... images of her life... happy times... horrible times... and now...this... death.

"You'll never understand, will you cousin!" said Neji, staring down on her as murmurs and yells filled the air… "I'm stronger than you… I'm BETTER than you… AND NOW YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO BEAT ME!" and he laughed cruelly... mockingly… seeing Hinata die at his feet… and then the screams of horror came, screams of realization, of anger and of surprise…...

And then the silence came… the horrible, dark silence… the never ending darkness that filled every corner of Hinata's life... the darknessthat ate away at her...the darkness that just wouldn't go away…

"OH, TAKE IT AWAY!"