Hinata woke to the pitter patter of rain on the cave's edge, but that wasn't the only sound she heard. There was a rustling not too far from her. She tensed when she realized she wasn't the only one in the cave. She slowly reached for the kunai pouch that had supposed to be attached to her hip, but it wasn't there. She grit her teeth and lunged for the person. Her hands clamped down on his shoulders and before she knew it, her back was flat against the floor and the person used their body weight to pin her down.

"Get off of me!" she growled and she stopped struggling when she heard him chuckle. She looked up at him and she felt her face go red, she had no idea why she was blushing... she had been married to him for heaven's sake. She couldn't move her arms; he'd crossed them over her chest and held them down at her wrists. He hadn't bothered with her legs, but his knees were on either side of her hips to keep her down. His face was a few mere centimeters away, his shoulder length hair spiked down and brushed over her cheeks. The smirk that was plastered on his lips was mesmerizing to her, as it had always been. "You know...you kinda look good like this." He said tauntingly and she scowled at him lightly.

"You scared the hell out of me." she grumbled and he chuckled. "I thought you were dead when I got here, so who got the bigger surprise when the zombie lunged." He chuckled and she cracked a small smile. "You reacted quickly enough." She said with a twinkle in her eye. He grinned, but still didn't let her go. "I'm Madara, I have to have quick reactions." He said and she rolled her eyes. "Ok, sure." She laughed until he pinned her arms over her head and held them there with one hand. She looked at him in surprise. "What are you doing?" she asked as his hand reached towards the hem of her shirt and began lifting. "Your injury is bleeding again, you idiot." He chuckled with an eye roll and she blushed darker.

"Then stop touching me...I can heal it m-myself." She stammered and he grinned. "You stutter? What the hell?" he laughed and she faced away from him with an ever deepening blush. "Shut it...It's a nervous habit." She grumbled and he smirked. "Do I make you nervous?" he asked leaning down and his fingers trailed up her side to right below her ribs. "No...g-get off." She said and mentally cursed herself as he laughed. "You blush too, just adorable." He chuckled sarcastically, but rolled off of her anyways. Hinata jolted up and sat against the opposite wall. "Pervert." She grumbled and he laughed.

"Nah, for that one, you would have to meet my brother." He laughed and she smiled again. "Is that so? Are you sure he isn't just copying you?" she asked as she held a hand over the wound and green chakra coated her hand. The skin and muscle slowly began melding itself back together and she sighed in relief as there was only a tiny scar, compared to the half healed wound she had tried to heal last night. "How did you do that thing last night?" he asked and she looked over at him oddly.

"Which one...there was a lot I did last night. The water controlling, the Hyuuga clan jutsu I made my own, the-" she began listing off, but he shook his head. "The chakra beast. And the healing thing..." he said and she blinked. "The Susanoo? That's..." she began but looked down at her hands and sighed. 'something that you helped me activate...' she thought then looked up at him, where he was curiously watching her. "An Uchiha thing..." She said softly and he blinked, then a smirk crossed over his lips. "So I could use it?" he asked and she shrugged. "You and Izu- and your brother both could probably use it..." she said and tensed when she caught herself about to say Izuna's name. She saw his brow knit together and her heart raced.

"I see you already know my brother's name." he said and she tensed up even more. "I...I do..." she whispered, her eyes held fear of him, and he sighed and nodded. "I see...You don't wish any ill will towards him, do you?" he asked and she shook her head rapidly. "No! never! I don't want to hurt anyone...I just want my family back..." she whispered the last part and he furrowed his brow. "Why do you keep saying that? Aren't they dead?" he asked and she looked down at her twiddling fingers and shook her head.

"N-no... they just don't... remember me... It's complicated..." she said and he frowned. "Are you sure it's complicated?" he asked and she nodded. "You know the story of why the Hyuuga were killed off, right?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah... there was a Hyuuga woman who could supposedly jump through time..." he said and she nodded. "But... there are certain times when the jumper can't 'jump'." Hinata said and he nodded, not quite following; but he was going to continue to listen.

"That means there is something they can do to fix the problem without having to jump...but...in my case...I don't know what I am supposed to do now...I've saved the shinobi world once, after failing the first time...am I supposed to fail again? Am I supposed to let my family die all over again? Am I supposed to let y- him, become the villain? What am I supposed to do?" she asked softly looked at her hands, her eyes pricked, but no tears fell, she refused to let the tears fall.

For a few minutes, the only noise was that of the rain hitting the cave entrance. "So... you are the jumper?" he asked and she nodded. "Butsuma... he killed me in the past somewhere and then I was sent here. He... he slit my throat..." she said and she tilted her head back to reveal the thin pink scar across her neck. "Every time I die in the past... I wake up with no memory of how I died... but this time... I have this scar... and all of my memories... the first time I died in this time..." she said, but hesitated and lifted her shirt to right below her breasts and revealed the jagged scar there. "I... I think... I think I died... protecting someone..." she said and he reached to run his fingers over the scar in his curiosity, but her shirt dropped and a dark pink blush coated her cheeks.

She hadn't even shown the Madara she married, that scar, they hadn't even been together long enough to make their own family. They had been taking it slow, having their family time with little Kami and Izuna... they hadn't even had a real wedding... the reality of it hurt, but maybe this time... she could make this all go differently. Maybe she could figure out how to stop Butsuma from ever causing the problem in the first place. She knew that this Butsuma... was the one from her past. She had found the body of this time's Butsuma the very same day she had arrived, the very same time that Butsuma was teasing her about how he had killed her the moment he saw her.

"At least you were protecting someone... you could have been like most people and just fight for the hell of it and die because they fight because they just feel like it..." he said and she looked at him and had to resist the small smile that wanted to break free. Even if things were happening differently...things were still the same about him...his beliefs were all the same. She watched as he turned and looked outside the cave with a forlorn look on his face. "I have to go now... try to stay alive long enough for us to chat again." He said and she raised a brow at him. He took one last look towards her, and then he vanished into the pounding rain outside.

She sat against the wall of the cave, her eyes hurt and she knew she was still tired. Her head fell back against the wall and she sighed as her eyes slid closed. She drifted back off to sleep, but she knew she couldn't rest for long she always had to be cautious. She rested for about an hour then she stood on tired legs. "Now...To go play tracker..." she said and she lunged for the entrance of the cave. The rain had stopped, but there was a lot of mud puddles scattered about. For any experienced shinobi, avoiding these was common knowledge.

But, for her; puddles were an advantage. Her feet slid soundlessly over the surface of each puddle. Stepping on grass always made some sort of noise, but for Hinata when it rained she was nearly undetectable because she slid over the surface of the water and there was not a single sound that was made when she did so. She enjoyed being outside, she hated being cramped up in a compound all day where you were taught proper etiquette and if you weren't doing it properly you would get hit with a ruler.

She hated how she had lived before. This world, made her feel strong, free, made her feel able to do whatever she wanted. She loved it, but she hated Butsuma Senju. She wondered how Izuna and the others were, she knew they wouldn't risk letting her in and she knew that the Senju would kill her on sight... so who was she to trust? There was no one, was there? She slowed her run and sighed as she walked through the woods that surrounded her, they sucked the sound out of everything and the light as well. She wasn't sure as to what to do...

"Hey, you girl." A female voice called and Hinata looked up to see a red haired woman standing in a tree with her arms crossed. Mito Uzumaki... "Yes?" she asked and the woman jumped down from her place in the tree. "I hear you stood against both the Uchiha and the Senju and lived, is this true?" she asked and Hinata shrugged. "Not really... I did fight the Senju, but the Uchiha just seemed to want to belittle me every time they walked by." Hinata said and rubbed her arm.

Mito looked around her then leaned closer to Hinata. "You want this war to stop, don't you?" she asked and Hinata nodded. "Yes, I don't want any of them to get hurt. No one else needs to die over a simplistic turf war." She said and Mito grinned. "Thank goodness someone else who wants this over with!" she said and Hinata smiled, this was the same Mito who she knew would go on to seal the Kyuubi within herself, the same woman who would stand by the first Hokage. The same woman had been her best friend.

Hinata smiled. "Hinata Hyuuga, or as I am titled now, Okami." She said and Mito grinned. "I know who you are, that's why I called out to you. We can work together, can't we?" she asked and Hinata nodded. "Here, take this." She said and Mito smiled at her as Hinata looked down at the mask that she was being handed. "My mask... this was supposed to have been lost..." she whispered and Mito smirked. "Yeah, in Butsuma's collections." She said and Hinata smiled.

"Thank you. Don't you have one?" she asked and Mito smirked once more. "Don't I ever!" she laughed and spun a fox mask on her finger. A fox... how ironic... Hinata smiled at the complete irony of the mask. "What?" Mito asked and Hinata shrugged. "oh its nothing, I promise." She said and Mito frowned. "I know what you are." She whispered as she looked around from side to side, trying to see if there was anyone who shouldn't be listening, eavesdropping.

"You're the jumper, I saw you arrive. I was going to confront you then but Butsuma was there so I couldn't." she said and Hinata frowned. "I guess it is going to be hard to keep that a secret then, huh?" she asked and Mito shook her head. "Not at all, I'm the only one other than Butsuma who knows. Um... when we get to my home, could you tell me about your experiences?" she asked and Hinata smiled. "I can tell you about some of them, but not all because some concern you and I don't want that path to be changed. You deserve to be happy and I know when you realize what it is, it will be even better than if I had told you." She said and Mito smiled.

"I don't mind that one bit, I love surprises, so leave me out of it." she said and Hinata smiled brightly. "I think we are going to be even better friends than we were before." She said and Mito grinned. "We were friends? Too cool! I'm friends with one of the strongest shinobi alive!" she squealed and Hinata laughed. "You sound like a child getting a new toy." She said and Mito beamed at her. "I'm just so excited, my clan thinks of you as a savior. They wished for you to show up again, they had always wanted you to be our ally but you would always vanish. I figured out why, but I haven't told anyone." She said and Hinata smiled.

"They think of you as a legend..." she said and Hinata looked at the ground. "I wouldn't be a legend if it weren't for certain things happening." She whispered and Mito frowned at her. "You're unbelievably strong, beautiful, and graceful, that is why we consider you a legend. The Uzumaki clan believes in strength and beauty." She said and Hinata blushed lightly. "I'm not that pretty..." she said and Mito frowned at her. "We are not having that conversation. You are gorgeous, and that is that, how else are you supposed to gain the attention of the Uchiha?" she snickered and Hinata blushed darkly.

"What exactly do you know?" she squealed and Mito smirked. "I know that Madara is a distraction to you. I'm curious as to why, also I just guessed." She laughed as they approached the compound. "Obaa-san! Jiji!" Mito yelled and the doors to the compound swung open. "Mito! Where did you go this time!?" Ayana Uzumaki screeched, Mito's mother. Mito jumped up and down and pointed at Hinata. "Look okaa-san! Look!" she chirped and her mother dropped to her knees and bowed to Hinata. The rest of the Uzumaki hit their knees and did the same.

Hinata felt guilty that all these people were bowing to her. "Please... please stand up..." she said and loud whispers erupted from the Uzumaki clan. "I do not deserve such treatment... please don't bow to me..." she said and Mito grinned. "See! She's modest too!" Mito laughed and her mother stood as her grandparents made their way outside. "Lady Hyuuga... you deserve only the utmost respect. Why do you deny this?" her grandfather asked and she looked down at her mask that she clutched tightly within her hands.

"I am only here to make what is wrong right, none of this is right and the only way I see that everyone can be happy is if I help fix this. It is not me who you should rely on. There are others who deserve this treatment. I am just a humble woman seeking to help. I would like to have my family back, and by helping end this feud, I see that being a possibility." Hinata said and Mito's grandmother smiled. "I understand dear, and you will have as much a family with us, when you get your own back. We just ask that you keep an eye on young Mito since she wants to run out and about all the time." Her grandmother Amayo said with a smile. Tai, Mito's grandfather, nodded in agreement.

"I will, thank you." She said and they nodded. "Mito, why don't you show Hinata-sama where her room will be?" Anaya, her mother, asked. Mito grinned and nodded, grabbing Hinata's wrist and pulling her away. She led her down a hallway and around a bend. They continued down another hallway and she opened a door at the end of the hall. There was only one other door on the hallway being as it was a short hallway, and she assumed that the other room was Mito's.

"My room is right there, I will be over here in a little while since you seem like you need rest." Mito said and Hinata smiled gratefully. "Thank you Mito-chan." She said and the redhead smiled brightly. Hinata closed the door behind her and she walked over to the bed and flopped onto it. her eyes drooped closed and she sighed in contentment. She drifted off to sleep, but her sleep wasn't pleasant.

:-:-:Dreamscape:-:-:

She heard noises, people screaming and things being destroyed. She jolted up and ran to her window. It looked like a massive battle was going on outside. She almost choked on her breathe as she saw the Kyuubi. "I thought we sealed you..." she breathed. She pulled on her leggings and her Uchiha attire, it looked like what Obito had worn during the war, but the shaping of it was more feminine. She slid her shoes on while she ran.

The Uchiha around her stared at her with hatred, fury, and anger in their eyes. 'Why are they looking at me like that? We saved them... didn't we?' she continuously asked herself that question, but it didn't sit well in her heart. She jumped the village gates as the Kyuubi poofed away. She heard talking and she saw two figures. She could tell who they were, Madara and Hashirama. Hashirama pulled his blade and rushed at Madara, who was standing before him, yelling at him to "Do it! just kill me! do it!" he just kept yelling it...

She jumped in front of him and her back hit his torso. She lunged forwards just in time for the blade to go through her, but not him. Or so she thought... her vision was blurring, but she could have sworn he was coughing up blood as well. Hashirama removed the blade from her and she gasped in pain. "I'm so sorry... oh Kami I'm so sorry!" Hashirama was sobbing quietly, her blurry vision turned towards Madara, who hit the ground on his knees, but then his face smashed against the ground as well.

:-:-:-: End Dreamscape:-:-:-:

Hinata jolted up in her bed, the scream that threatened to leave her throat was forced back down. Cold sweat dripped down her body and she fumbled with her shirt and yanked it up to reveal the scar. It had gone through in the exact same place as it had in her dream. It had gone through at the exact same angle as well. "I... was killed.... By Hashirama... trying... to protect Madara..." she whispered, the thought of it was scary...

The first one to kill her was Hashirama...

The second... Butsuma...

She was going to steer clear of Tobirama...

She was not going to die a third time, and certainly not by the hands of yet another of the Senju...

But what scared her even more than that... was her memories were all coming back to her... slowly but surely...