A Light In The Dark

Tobirama Senju

Hinata grinned and watched as people stood frozen in the woods by the genjutsu. She saw them as she walked through the nothingness, this was no different than what she was used to. She never saw anything but the people around her anymore, her surroundings didn't matter; she just needed to keep those who rely on her safe. And everywhere she went with her team, she searched for silencing tags, those had been what she had found upon further inspection of the house a year ago. That's why no one heard their screams...

Her eyes attempted to search the genjutsu for the caster, but she could not find them. She flew through hand signs. "Genjutsu: Mind hunter." She said with a smirk and chakra poured from her feet and pulsed through the ground and trees. Crawling across everything in its path to seek out the source of the genjustu. A few miles away she could see the caster tense. She shot off in that direction, he had showed up as a bright red outline meaning he was the one using the genjutsu. The darkness receded and she smirked. "So, you were searching as well? Interesting." She said and created twenty shadow clones, training under Naruto had gotten her really good at using that jutsu.

The clones all split off into different directions and she smirked, one of them would get the genjutsu caster. One by one, her clones poofed away and all the information she got gave her nothing other than the person was male, and used water jutsu along with the genjutsu. She used mind hunter once more and frowned he was gone now... interesting. She grinned when she sensed a presence behind her. She swung her leg up and the person grabbed it. She heard him scoff so she swung her other leg up and struck him across the face with it.

She hit the ground and rushed at him. He swatted away her every move like he knew exactly what she was going to do. She flew through hand signs and her cheeks swelled with water. She flooded the area and vanished below the surface. Water dragons surfaced from the entire lake she had created, shooting straight for the man engulfed in darkness. He back-flipped away from each of the dragons and she ran at him across the surface of the water. She was fast even on water, so she knew he wasn't going to get away very easily. Every movement of her hands brought another water dragon from the surface of the water.

"Very interesting, in order for someone to be able to control water like that, you must have been trained in water from the very beginning." The man said and Hinata rolled her eyes. "I trained myself starting from age twelve, I figured I could use the water to enhance my chakra control." Hinata said as she spun and a vortex of dragons lunged for him but all he did was hold up a hand and the moment they came within a foot of his hand, the dragons turned back on her.

Her eyes widened in surprise, no one had ever been able to turn her jutsu on her before. She smirked; this one could be an interesting one. She spun nimbly on her toes on the water, a barrier of water forming around her as the dragons collided. He seemed hesitant after seeing this, so she lunged and knocked him under water. His cloak of darkness began to fade away and she struggled to get a glimpse of him. All that she saw before he vanished were glowing red eyes, and white hair that she knew was longer than Naruto's.

She pulled her chakra from the water and the water drained into the ground swiftly. "Damn..." she growled and hit her knees. "He wasn't the one...I was really hoping the fool had come to me..." she whispered, her voice cracking the slightest bit. "I'm so sick of searching... I want to avenge my family... I want to restore the honor of my family... but... I don't know where to start." She whispered, her fingers digging into the damp soil beneath her. She had been searching for an entire year nonstop and Naruto had restrained her to the village.

"It's going to be alright, Hinata-nee, everything will be fine! Smile bright! Be a firework, be like me!" her voice echoed around her and Hinata's resolve faltered and her shock took a hold of her. "Hana-Hanabi..." Hinata stammered for the first time in four years. "Shine bright and fight for our honor, but don't lose the light! If you lose the light, we lose our warrior!" Hanabi's voice echoed around her once more and she looked up to see Hanabi smiling at her, her hand outstretched to Hinata, but her image was see through.