Chapter 9:

Hinata breathed slowly and gently as she felt herself whisked away… she didn't know where, but the again she didn't really care… she was alive… she was done… she couldn't feel happier. "you did it" said a voice... and when Hinata propped her eyes open, she was standing and looking at the boy with red hair who had appeared to her before her… "Who are you, anyway?" she asked, staring deep into his ruby red eyes.

"I'm someone who had the same thing happen to him as it did to you" he said, "this happened to you too?" she said, "yeah… and you and your friends will soon join us in our trip to the dark side of the moon" "Where's that?" Hinata asked, "you were just there… you just didn't see the whole thing of it… you will in time…"

Hinata smiled, and so did the boy… she then took these words to heart… "I hope I meet you one day" "we will"… And then she closed her eyes… and this time, she started to feel again… she could feel humid air… she could feel every wound on her body… she could feel the warm sun on her face… and she could hear someone…

"Hey, I think she's coming to" said someone… and when Hinata propped her eyes open, she saw… Naruto, normal as can be, his big blue eyes staring straight into hers, scared, confused… but yet relieved and full of glee and happiness as he stared at Hinata…

"Hinata, you're finally awake!" said another voice… a raggedy, tired looking Sakura now looked at Hinata, her puffy, red eyes filling with tears… and then a sigh of relief… Sasuke, looking just as raggedy and tired as Sakura, looked at Hinata, a smile on his face… "Miss Hinata!" said a fourth voice… and then Rock Lee popped up out of nowhere, a look of shame on his face… "Please… accept this humble apology from Team Guy… for we have faced a disgrace from our own blood…"

He looked intently… a couple of puppy eyes pleading forgiveness… "It's ok, Lee" said Hinata, "Oh, thank you, thank you…" said Rock Lee, dropping on his knees and letting his forehead hit the dirt… and then Master Kakashi came in… "oh, she's awake. You caused quite a stir Hinata; you acted weird the last couple of days… well, by weird, I mean criminally-maniacally violent, but that's ok" he joked, "you guys should give her some breathing room, come" and Sakura, Sasuke and Rock Lee went…

"Hinata" said Naruto… he had remained behind… "Oh dear"… "Sometime ago… you said something to me…" Hinata knew exactly what he was talking about… and yet… something weird was happening to her… "And I was wondering whether… you know… you meant it."

Hinata felt something… deep, in her stomach… in her guts… in her soul… she knew what she was going to say… but… she felt something else… something absolutely different than from what she though she had to say… "Naruto… I've done some… extreme thinking… and…" struggled Hinata… "Yeah, what?" said Naruto, intent on getting answers… "I'm sorry" Hinata sighed…

She thought Naruto would look deeply disappointed… which would make her feel even more different and make her more confused… but she realized… he did look disappointed… but he had a sad smile of understanding splattered on his face as well.

"I guess you found someone else, huh?" he said, "umm… yeah, as a matter of fact…" Hinata said, slowly being zapped with refreshing realization… "Well… I guess I need to move on…" Naruto said, looking over his shoulder and then at Hinata again... "However, it would have been nice to have you as a wife" and then he ran off… Hinata smiled after him, feeling happiness and understanding fill every corner of her…

In fact, she could feel it… she could feel the cracks filling up… all of that poison and scum that filled her slowly dissipate… she could feel happiness, connection, understanding, self-respect, power and life fill in every crack in her soul… it was about time too…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… whoever said that was a freaking idiot. The truth is, beauty is undefined: no one can judge anyone on who is beautiful and who is not… because beauty is in one's self. No matter what anyone says, or what anyone infers, you are who you wish to be. And as long as you set yourself to it, you can become what you want to be… to be honest, there are no beautiful people… in fact; everything is beautiful in one way. The only way one thing can become ugly is if someone ruins it…

"WE ARE ALL STARS NOW…"

THE END

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