-3 Days later in Konoha-
Inside the Hyuga complex, Hinata approaches her father Hiashi, the current head of the Hyuga clan.
"Father"
"*Sigh*, Hinata, if your request is still the same, the answer is still no."
"But we have to-"
"Enough. Don't bring more embarrassment to the Hyuga name. You failed a simple C-rank mission, abandoned your teammate to save your own life, and now want us to risk our seasoned Jonin to look for his body."
Hinata struggles with herself but keeps facing her father.
"He is still alive, I'm sure of it."
"He is dead Hinata, face reality.
This is what being weak means in this world. It means lacking the means to defend your friends, your village, your clan and your family."
Tears start streaming from Hinata's eyes, her heart guilt-ridden as she clings on to hope.
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"I know that but is still out there, he has to be."
"I'm leaving it to the Hokage to decide whether to send a team or not to look for… a single Genin. If you want to be of any help go back to your room and train harder."
"...Yes, father
Inside the Hokage's residence, Anko walks in to face Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third Hokage.
"The situation is highly unusual…"
"Yes Hokage-sama, I'm afraid from the moment the enemy sensed our presence, this was already the best possible outcome"
"I've read the report but I want to hear it from you as well. Tell me about them, you have them graded as S-rank…"
"Yes, looking into our intel, it matches what we described, the enemies were Kakuzu and Hidan, both S-rank missing-nin known for being employed on assassination missing as mercenaries."
"What luck… why would such enemies wonder inside our borders."
"Likely they were on a similar mission as us. Looking for the merchant but it seems both our parties were late. Orochimaru got to him before either of us."
"Orochimaru… yet another S-rank."
"This might be our chance to find some lead on his whereabouts."
"Anko… how are the girls?"
Anko bites her lip.
"Hinata has been pestering her clan to send a search party with no result. Sakura has locked herself in her room refusing to come out…"
"You need to think about them first…
As for Yami… there is value in finding him, dead or alive.
"I'm sending a team, but only to find and recover him."
"Please… Let me be a part of it, Hokage-sama"
"Go Anko... bring Yami home."
"Thank you Hokage-sama."
"I'll let you know as soon as the team is ready.
Take care of yourself Anko, your face looks weary..."
That night, Rather than resting, a ninja in a spiky ponytail poured over all the intel she could access about S-rank missing-nin, trying to find anything that could connect her to the word Yami had unintentionally let out as a whisper, 'Akatsuki'.
She kept much of the information Yami gave about the enemies a secret as she could not explain its origin in her report.
This was now the third time Yami had spoken of things he shouldn't know as just a Genin.
First, he spoke of information that only higher-ups in the village knew about.
Then he shared information that even the village's intelligence network hadn't picked up on yet.
And now this time he provided extremely detailed information on an unknown enemy's jutsu and combat style.
"Damn you Yami, just how many more secrets are you hiding. You better fucking make it out alive or I'm going to kill you myself."
The next morning Anko left with a search team, heading back towards the site that had kept her up at night.
As for the girls...
Sakura stayed locked in her room. Naruto tried to visit her when he heard the news but wasn't allowed inside. Only Hinata and Ino were allowed to visit her.
Sakura stayed sitting, hugging her knees and talking to herself for hours at a time.
Hinata stayed inside her clan compound except for when she visited Sakura.
She'd train herself to exhaustion then cry herself to sleep, she'd repeat this cycle multiple times each day.
As for Ino, she heard of what happened a day later. She visited Sakura several times to cry together but couldn't find it in herself to blame Sakura or Hinata for what happened.
Instead, she blamed herself for not even being on the same team to help him.
Her mind wandered in scenarios where she could have possessed Hidan and if not ensure his defeat, at least allow Yami to have fled the danger.
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They say miracles happen when a person approaches death.
When a person is dying of cold. The body tries to constrict the flow of blood as much as possible to vital organs.
When their body gives up to the cold, it suddenly throws all that blood back at the limbs and skin. This causes a person to feel so hot they start undressing before finally dying.
People with incurable diseases with weakened bodies often find their faculties restored and brimming with energy. One last hurrah before the end.
Some people claim they can feel their souls leaving the body and that they can see themselves from above.
Others report seeing the souls of loved ones in their final moments or light beckoning them to follow to reach Heaven.
There are also cases of a person feeling immense pleasure right before death. A final kindness of our body, releasing endorphins to ease our passing.
The other world's knowledge has many theories but no concrete answers on why this happens.
And then, just like in my own final moments, some people see their life flash through their eyes.
I see memories of my time in the Orphanage, now so distant and faded...
Years in the academy training to be a ninja, being too much of an introvert to make friends.
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And then the memories after that day where I got to know the future the world was heading towards.
How I got closer to the girls… Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Anko… I'm about to let them all down. I did the worst possible thing. I took them for myself and then got myself killed, the pain they will be in...
I saw all the moments I spent with the girls. Sakura's sweet joy, Hinata's quiet support, Ino's fiery demeanor and Anko's ceaseless teasing.
I got a new outlook on life, but of what use is it in death?
I noticed things I hadn't noticed before but none of it matters now.
Was I too soft? I knew what the future awaited but didn't do everything I could have done.
Was I too confident? I thought too much about the script and forgot this is a real world and people wouldn't simply follow a script.
I don't want to die. For myself and all the girls.
I want to live and enjoy my life and my time with the girls.
Being weak was my only crime in this world. It's not fair.
Life isn't fair.
I wonder where my soul will go… apparently, there is a Heaven, called the Pure Land and people can even be summoned from it to be used as weapons of war... doesn't sound all that pure to me. Heaven seems lacking in security but I doubt anyone would summon pathetic old me.
This is a world where souls and chakra exist. Chakra can apparently do miracles if used correctly.
That was my last hope and only hope.
I had to find out how in hell that stupid zombie Hidan got his immortality, but even that I failed.
Soon I will die, I will...
...why will I die?
Everyone dies for a reason.
People don't just die because they are killed.
People don't die because their health bar reaches 0.
People always die because something stops working.
And I NEED to remember, this world has chakra.
And chakra can do everything.
I force my senses to answer me. Pain assaults my body but I need to know. How do I stop what I killing me? What is killing me?
Hidan and Kakuzu are close but they already killed me. I turn off my senses to the outside world.
I'm bleeding from my leg but it's a minor issue. I ignore it, pain is pointless
My heart is punctured, blood leaking out of my heart into my leftlung and outside my body.
A human can live with only one lung.
The blood loss will be fatal in a few minutes, but that is still not why I'm dying at this instant.
It's the lack of pulse. Blood is not flowing into my brain and the lack of oxygen is going to kill my brain cells.
That is why I will die.
Human cell get their energy from oxidizing fuel. This means they need 2 things, food and oxygen.
Both are supposed to reach everywhere in the body through blood.
Thinking of food I can feel that bastard's tumor on my stomach.
Hidan's finger, even surrounded by my stomach acid seems to fight for its life.
How is it alive then? It too just like me has no oxygen and no food flowing into it. How does it stay alive for so long?
I can feel a will on his finger fighting against me… a will?
Is this what a soul is? But then why does my own feel like a single monument and Hidan's finger feels like compacted sand?
I'm tired, but I feel like I'm getting closer. What am I missing? How did Hidan get his immortality?
It was given by his god Jashin.
Ohh great god Jashin please grant this humble server your favor…
Yeah didn't think it was gonna work either.
Hidan got his immortality through a ritual to his god that required a great number of human sacrifices.
If I ignore the god part about it, what is left?
The sacrifices!
They didn't have to be ninjas or anything, so I doubt their chakra had anything to do with it. Otherwise a single Jonin had hundreds of times the chakra of the victims.
The victims were innocent and it seems the closer to Hidan the better.
Why? Why were young women preferred even?
Because they wanted to live the most.
But sheer will can only go so far. Is that what I'm feeling in the finger? The condensed will to live of his sacrificed victims?
There is something else. Another reason the finger feels so disgusting.
It's still permeated in Hidan's chakra...
And what is chakra in the end? Physical and Spiritual energy.
If the will to live is spiritual energy, then the energy the cells create from burning fuel is the physical energy. But Hidan's finger...
It's not radiating that much chakra....
...it's radiating physical energy, while having no fuel or oxygen.
It was a very close but important distinction.
It was never using chakra in some way that made Hidan immortal.
It was destroying chakra in some way that made him immortal.
This fucker was converting Chakra into Physical energy all along.
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