Lost Voices and Silent Cries

Chapter 1 – Tranquility

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"Is she dead?"

"She isn't dead."

"Then why is she still here?"

"We need to watch her for a few more days."

"Her father isn't going to be pleased."

"Yes well I rather him be pissed than for me to lose a friend."

"Well, you shouldn't put emotions into your occupation, Haruno-san."

"Maybe you should. That is your cousin in there Neji! Do you not care?!" Her voice was cracking by the second. "She might die and all you care about is what her father thinks!" She looked through the window. "We are trying."

He stood there with the same passive face. "If she wasn't weak then she wouldn't be there. I will tell her father but if he wants her out then I am sure your emotions will not sway him." He turned slightly. "And try harder." He walked away.

She put a bandaged hand up to the window. Her chest heaved slightly. She didn't deserve this. She covered her mouth as tears were pushing to be set free. She choked a sob down as the girl's window opened and the famous blond ninja came through. He looked over her with a frown.

She opened the door. "Naruto, you can't be in here." She whispered. The taller male didn't budge he kept his eyes on the girl covered from head to toe in bandages. "Naruto…" His eyes caught hers. His normally bright blue eyes were foggy and red. He wiped a tear away.

"I should have been there." He muttered. "I should HAVE been there!" He was breaking down in front of her. He left his black and orange jacket at his apartment and all he was wearing was his normal mesh shirt, the blue crystal hanging from his neck and black slacks.

She shivered under his voice. "Please… we have to leave." She begged.

His fists were clenched tightly. "I could have made it. I could have… I should have been there."

"N-Naruto…" She touched his hand. He snatched away. She shook her head. She and other medical nin spent all day trying to close the gash that ran from her collar bone to her navel, her broken limbs and torn muscles. Sakura was tired but she had to keep going, she had to push herself. "It's not your fault."

His eyes glowed red. "It is. I can't save anyone…" He chuckled dryly. "I couldn't save Hinata, Sasuke…" She flinched at the name. "What use am I as a ninja if I can't save those closest to me?"

"Don't say that."

"But I did." He snapped. The pinkette embrace him tightly. He was shaking. "She was c-calling my name. She was screaming for help." He shuddered.

"It's not your fault. It's not her fault. It's all in a greater plan…" She tried to calm him down.

"A greater plan? Sakura there is no greater plan for me, her or any of us."

This wasn't the Naruto she was accustomed to. Tears fell finally and she didn't care to catch them. "We have to leave her to rest, Naruto." She pulled him out the room. "She isn't dead."

He sighed. "She might as well wish she was." He walked away. Sakura wanted to call back from him but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She looked in the window again.

"Please," She looked up. "Please help us."

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Three weeks later

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"Are you sure?" Tsundae walked through the hallways. Shizune followed closely behind her. Sakura was in front of them.

"Yes ma'am, last night the nurse reported that she saw her hands and leg move." She couldn't hide the fact that she was happy that the girl was showing signs of life. "It must be time. She is fighting the coma now."

"I agree." They stood in front of her door. Tsundae sighed and walked in. They walked closer and the nurse's report was true. Her hands were moving. Tsundae did the right hand signs and pulled the girl out of her coma.

They watched her body calm and her eyes flinched. Sakura quickly went over her body one more time. Her eyes opened slightly and closed. "Hinata it's time to wake up." She smiled happy. The girl breathing got heavier as if she was trying to breathe all the air she could. "Be careful Hinata."

Her eyes opened and connected with Sakura's first. Sakura gasped. Those eyes were different. She couldn't pinpoint it but Hinata was not the same. She gripped the bed handle and slowly pushed herself up. Tsundae took the IV's out of her arms and watched her closely. "Hinata, how do you feel?" She asked. Hinata looked over with her eyes. Her face was very pale and hair dry. She had lost a lot of weigh and her eyes were almost hollow. "We are going to run a few test, okay?" She closed her eyes and slumped back down. "Don't worry sometimes being in a coma for an extend amount of time it may take her a while to being to use her body again."

Sakura smiled and rubbed her arm. "I should tell Naruto. He will be thrilled! First Sasuke and now Hinata!"

Tsundae turned back. "Sakura…"

The girl looked at her mentor. "Yes?"

"Naruto is in a weird state right now, as are Hinata and…Sasuke so you must be careful how you approach him."

She paused. "I…" She nodded and ran out the door.

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She knocked on his door. "Naruto!" She yelled. She stood there. She smiled happily. Sasuke had came back into the village a week after Hinata was in the hospital. Sakura hoped that would bring a smile to Naruto's face but it only seemed to bother him more. She couldn't wrap her head around the fact why Sasuke came back to the village of his own free will, why Naruto wasn't happy to see him in some type of way.

He couldn't seriously blame himself for a mission like that? It was supposed to be a simple escorting mission and things got out of hand. Naruto was fighting when Hinata got ambushed. They knew her blind spot and attacked. Naruto lashed out and killed all of them afterwards but that didn't help the fact that Hinata was basically dying in his arms.

She sighed and knocked again and this time the door opened slowly. Naruto was leaning against the doorframe shirtless, his eyes had dark rings around them and he had a five o'clock shadow. His eyes were dull and frown was ever so present. She blinked a few times trying to pry her eyes off of his well-built body.

"N-Naruto," She looked up. "Hinata… she is awake now." She smiled. He stared at her for a moment. "Isn't that great?"

He sighed. "Do you want to come in?"

She looked off to the side. "Naruto, I thought you would have wanted to see her? Tsundae is running a few tests but she is alive and as I can tell-"

"Would you like to come in?" He asked again.

"Sure," She frowned. He stepped back and let her in. She was surprised to see everything was clean and in place. She excepted it to be the normal messy pig-pin that is normally was. He looked a mess so his house was clean? What kind of mind battle was he going through? "Naruto, what is going on?"

He smirked and went into the kitchen. "Do you really expect me to want to go and see her?"

"I did." She replied quickly.

"I don't think I want to."

"Why is that?" She walked in the kitchen. He poured a glass of apple juice and swirled it around. His eyes drifted on hers slowly.

"I don't want to."

She frowned. "You aren't explaining yourself. You raced to go see Sasuke."

He nodded and drank the apple juice slowly. She looked away at him. "That's correct."

"Then what is the difference!" She growled.

"Sasuke is in a cell, probably being tortured right now and he deserves it. Hinata is in a hospital and doesn't deserve it."

"But-"

"But what? Why are you so concerned?"

She stepped back. "What happened to you?"

He shrugged. "Something about having the one person that loved you when everyone else hated you die in your arms. Something about that does something to a person." He nodded. "You know, she loved me since we were kids?"

"I did."

His eyes didn't move from his cup. "I was the only one who didn't," He laughed dryly. "I loved you, I didn't even notice her… she loved me, me…" He poured some more. "You know what she said before she passed out from blood lost?"

"I don't."

He nodded. "She said 'Did I do good, Naruto-kun? Did I make you proud?' and I couldn't speak so I just nodded and she smiled. She smiled and said 'Thank you Naruto-kun because of you I…' and then her eyes closed and I just watched." He looked up. "I was her hero."

"You still are."

He slammed the cup down. "Heroes save Sakura! I couldn't do that!" He yelled. "So no I don't want to look the only person who loved me before anyone else in the eyes like everything is fine, like I deserve some type of praise for something I didn't do!"

"Naruto," She breathed. She hadn't seen this boy so emotional in a long time. "She's alive that's all that matters and you can't stay in your house for the rest of your life! If I have to drag you there you will go!"

He stared at her. "Why can't you respect my wishes?"

She smiled. "I never have before and I won't start now. Put on a shirt we are leaving." She turned. "I'll be waiting outside."

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"Everything came back normal. She just won't talk to us." Tsundae told Sakura and Naruto. "Maybe you can get her to talk, Uzumaki" He nodded and walked in.

Hinata was sitting up arms by her side and her head looking out the window. He went by her bed and touched her hand. She didn't move. She head turned to look at him. Her eyes void of any emotions. "They sent me in here to talk to you." He muttered. She blinked and watched him. He clenched his fist. "I am so sorry Hinata."

She watched him as he hugged her. Her heart didn't even speed up. Her face didn't turn a shade of red. She just let him hug her. She didn't want anyone to touch her. She just wanted to be alone. She felt her gown getting wet. "I should have been there for you." He spoke.

Silence

"I heard you, but I wasn't fast enough."

Silence

"I should have been faster."

Utterly silent

He looked up and her eyes were outside again. He stood. "Are you going to stay mad at me?" She looked over and touched his cheek. Feeling his prickly skin, she moved her thumb to wipe his tear after that she dropped it and looked out of the window.

He touched her forehead. "I am so sorry, Hinata." He saw the beginning of the scar the gash left under her collar bone. She would never forget that day and he knew it. She didn't want to speak for a reason and maybe he could handle that. He could handle her silence at least her heart was beating and maybe she didn't want to live. Maybe she wanted to end it that day and that's why she tried to get out those words to him. He watched as tears fell from her eyes. He wiped them away.

"Sasuke came back," He laughed. "Of his own will can you believe it?" She over at him. "All that work and he decided to come back on his own free will. It kind of made me mad. I can't say I brought him back now but I suppose they will go easier on him since he did come back"

She was like a doll. He nodded. "Sakura dragged me here and I thought I was going to lash out but I feel… well I don't feel the need to lash out." He bit his lip. "Talking to you just seems normal, you know."

He was greeted by silence. "You know I can talk a lot so I am just fine talking to myself…or you not responding and the more you don't talk I will only talk more!" He smiled.

She didn't even crack a smile. "Fine, I bet I can make you at least smile." She blinked and closed her eyes. "Just because you close your eyes won't make me disappear!"

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Sakura watched him outside of the room. He was talking to her as if she was responding and he was smiling. She looked at Tsundae, who turned to her. "Tell the nurses to allow him to come whenever he feels like it."

"I will, what are you thinking about Tsundae-sama?"

"That it will heal both of them, she might decide to speak to him and he won't go into depression."

"I agree then," She paused. "Why do you think she can't talk?"

Tsundae sighed. "I don't it's the fact that she can't talk, I think it's more of she won't talk. I believe she will eventually start talking it may either take the right person, time or both either way I firmly believe she will start again."

She looked now. "What about the Hyuuga Clan, Neji came to retrieve her."

"They are not taking her anywhere until I give the say so. They will only cause more trauma for her and I will not allow that in the mean time we will watch the Uchiha closely and see what his motives are."

"What if he doesn't have any motives?" Sakura asked.

Tsundae laughed. "You know nothing of the Uchiha's. Everything they do, everything they say is per-meditated and calculated… they always have a motive" She looked in the window at Naruto laughing while Hinata watched him. "They always have motives."

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Author Note: Oh honey, I think this the story that probably is going to have a billion chapters! Oh snap, I'm joking. Not that many but hey you never know! I hope you liked this and I can ensure you that this story is going to be different I want to try to get every emotion in this one. Review my darlings!