Sasuke stared at the purple Ghost hovering near Ashura, the ghost had been by her side since she had assisted Shikamaru in bringing both himself and Hinata back to the tower. Eren and Kris, stared at Ashura for a minute, before they sighed and shook their heads. "What are you trying to do, harboring a second ghost? You know the speaker will have an issue with this." Kris said and Ashura grabbed the other ghost out of the sky and held it out for him to see, this ghost is not mine." She said and they sighed once more. "All I'm saying is that you have two ghosts following you around now... why?" he asked and she rolled her eyes.

"Look, it's not mine but I know where to find the owner of the thing, just chill alright? The ghost came to me for help because she knows where her guardian is." Ashura said and Kris blinked at her in confusion. "Kris, just drop it, let her be. You know how you two bicker. So just let it go." Eren said and Ashura waved them both off. Sasuke sat on the edge of the potted plant and rolled his eyes at the two brothers. They were extremely odd, but he didn't care, the one called Eren had helped Hinata return to the tower safely.

Hinata tapped Sasuke on the shoulder and he looked over at her. "So who is going to fight Omnigul, because Sakura and Gaara haven't returned yet... I don't want them to be left out of the decision." She said and he nodded. "Well they just got here according to Holliday, so you can chat this over with them in a moment." His ghost said and he nodded. "I however, am going with the two that are going. It's a personal vendetta now..." She said and they looked at her oddly. "Why?" Hinata asked and Ashura pointed at the small ghost in her possession. "This... This is Sai Mota, Omnigul slaughtered her in the attempt on Crota's life. I'm going to avenge her whether you allow me to assist or not." Ashura said and she heard the other three walk up.

"N-Naruto?" Hinata mumbled and the blonde looked at her with surprised eyes. He rushed over and engulfed her in a hug. "You look great, how have you been? Are you doing ok? You aren't injured are you?" he asked, pelting her with questions. She hugged him softly, but stepped away from him with a small smile. "I'm alright, not hurt, not in any pain at all." She said and he grinned at her. "That's good." He said and scratched his head, but then his eyes lit up and he started talking about Boruto and Himawari, which made Shikamaru cough, and Sakura blink at them. Hinata smiled lightly but silenced him. "I know." She began and he looked at her oddly. "Sasuke told me all about them, who they grew up to be, and who they married. "I'm so proud of them." She said and the shining light in his eyes dimmed instantly. "I'm going to guess that he told you about..." Naruto began but Hinata nodded and smiled. "You and Sakura? Yeah, he told me, and I promise you I am alright." She said and he looked at her with such saddened eyes that it made Ashura frown. "Are you sure Hinata? I mean.. You just told me that... never mind. It's none of my business." Ashura sighed and plopped herself down on the stairs.

"I'm fine Ashura, I promise." She said and Ashura looked her over for a minute, but then smiled. "I love your hair by the way, reminds me of a certain dark haired male I saw the other day before we left." Sakura said with a sly look but Ashura leaned backwards and quirked a brow. "Yeah, well the Queen was giving me hair recommendations as the sister of her previous wolves' bane." She sighed and Sakura pouted. "Aw... I thought you had a thing for the queen's brother for a minute there..." Sakura said with a deep sigh. "Don't let Ino know you think that, because if she finds out she will do everything in her power to put the two of them together." Shikamaru said and Hinata giggled behind her hand.

"Alright, so, back on topic... who is going with me to kill Omnigul?" Ashura interrupted and they all looked at her oddly. "Hinata and I are." Sasuke said and she nodded, but Naruto looked at him angrily. "I don't like how you suddenly think that you can call the shots; I can guarantee you were not brought back first! So here's how it's going to go. I'm going because Sakura and Gaara could barely handle a knight on their own, much less that giant ogre." He snapped and Sasuke looked at him oddly. "That was also no ordinary knight, I'll have you know. Sakura took down the Sol progeny on her own so don't you dare doubt her strength! Gaara is still learning to be able to use his new abilities so leave him be." Sasuke sneered and Hinata stepped in between the two. "Guys... this has nothing to do with who got here first, or who is stronger than whom, this is about Ino. We have to help her, so please... stop fighting." Hinata said and Naruto frowned down at her. "I'm sorry..." he said and Sasuke laid a hand on her shoulder.

"We can stay, if you wish." Sasuke said and Naruto and the others stared at him oddly. "No, I want to go, but I don't want you to feel like you have to protect me all the time." She said and he nodded. Sakura offered a small smile then grabbed Naruto's arm. "He will take care of her, don't worry." Sakura said and Gaara offered a nod at Sasuke while Shikamaru was confused by the entire situation. Hinata offered Sasuke a hand and he carefully took it and followed her. Ashura sighed as she watched him go. "Damn..." she sighed under her breath. She sighed deeply and made her way to the docking area. She saw Hinata packing her things into her ship and once she had seen Ashura, she smiled brightly.

"Hey, you almost ready to go?" She asked and Ashura shrugged lightly. "I'll know when I get there." She chuckled and Hinata gave her a look. "What? I'm just telling the truth." Ashura laughed and Hinata sighed with a small smile. "Alright I guess..." Hinata sighed but Ashura tossed her a smirk. "So... you and pretty boy huh? Y'all a thing?" She asked and Hinata blushed darky and shook her head rapidly. "N-No!" she stammered and Ashura cocked her head back with a mischievous grin on her lips. "Are you sure, because I don't think I would ever hold someone's hands that I didn't have a thing for." Ashura snickered and Hinata smiled at her softly, which made Ashura furrow her brows and blink at her.

"No, we are not together, but in my past life I was with Naruto. I'm happy he moved on, so I'm not going to guilt him into loving me again. I don't want him to feel that just because we were married in a past life... that he has to love me again... it's another life and if he still loves her.... that is fine with me." She said and Ashura sighed deeply. "You are so weird and kind... I find you very odd, little woman." Ashura said in an amused yet sophisticated tone.

"But... for real though, chill. You have that pretty boy following you around and bending to your every whim, I'd totally go for that." Ashura said and Hinata blushed darkly once more. "But..." "But nothing..." Ashura said and Hinata looked over at her strangely. "I sat and watched Kira enjoy her life as much as she possibly could have. She was married; she had a daughter and three cats. I never married, I never had a puppy or a kitten, and never had children... don't do what I did and waste your second life by being alone." Ashura said and Hinata smiled at her. "Then why don't you go for Sasuke? I see that you are jealous of how he treats me, and it's alright if you want him." Hinata said with a small smile and Ashura shook her head.

"I wouldn't have a chance with him, besides... I already had my sights set on a certain fool." She sighed and Hinata grinned at her. "I see... You're taking my advice then?" She asked and Ashura snorted. "Nah, while I know that I'm dying still, I have no intentions to get married or have children. Not while I could die and leave them alone in this world." She said as she slung her bag through the door of her ship. "Trust me Hinata, Sasuke's all yours." Ashura chuckled and stepped within her ship leaving the fumingly embarrassed bluenette outside.

Hinata shook her head and made her way to finish getting her things gathered. She shook her head with a small smile and placed the last of her things into her ship. "You almost ready?" His voice rumbled from behind her, which caught her off guard. She blushed lightly and turned around with a nod. "Alright, let's head out then, shall we?" He asked and she nodded. "Do you want to join me on my ship? Yours still needs repairs." Hinata said and he glanced over at his arcadia class jump ship. "I think I will join you, that thing is an eyesore." He sighed and she managed a small laugh.

They hopped aboard their ship and before they realized it, they were back on the cosmordrome. They had been dropped off at a winding pathway that led up and around the side of a hill and into the building. Sai Mota hovered a moment before leading them up the pathway towards the building. The three of them crossed under a dirt structure that looked somewhat like an overhead bridge. Ashura grasped her cloak around her and Sasuke watched her oddly as static crackling was heard. She vanished from sight and the two exchanged looks, only to rush after her. They found her in the building once more with the arc blade in hand. She swung them up to lock blades with a knight that had come from seemingly nowhere. "What we are going to do is we are going to have to get through this part of the building and make our way up those stairs in the back room over there. Once we get up those stairs, it's going to lead us to a room with a smaller room at the top of the stairs; this guy was waiting on us there. But.. He wasn't alone, there were both hive and fallen battling it out in there, and he just managed to follow me." Ashura said as she swung her blades up to disarm the larger knight.

Sasuke and Hinata rushed in to offer assistance against the knight, once it was defeated Ashura told them how the plan was going to go; seeing as she had scouted the area around where Omnigul would be hiding. "Alright, so what we have to do is... uh... not die. Watch my back... and keep an eye out because I sense more Fallen." She said and they nodded. They took off after her and they made their way up the steps and into a small room. Ashura held out her hands and halted the two behind her in their steps. She held a finger to her lips and pointed around the corner at the Fallen that were hiding in the corner prepared to attack if they came out of that small room.

Sasuke nodded and summoned the cloud of dark purple energy that surrounded him and formed the bones and blade. "Follow me out, I will take out as many as I can. You two can spread out and take out what's left." He said and they nodded. They followed him out and began shooting everything that moved. Ashura punched at a Fallen captain, but Sasuke swung around behind him to try and hit it, which caused Ashura to have to jump over the blade to avoid it. He offered an apologetic shrug and then turned to face the horde of thralls that had just come out of hiding. Ashura and Hinata took to each side of the room while Sasuke held down the center.

Hinata was currently in a fist fight with a Knight, while Ashura had just slammed her fists together and sent a group of thrall flying away from her. Hinata had engulfed her fists in the light which turned into the blade once more. She was currently cutting down everything in her path and Sasuke was doing the same. Hinata lunged and threw the blade of light, which sliced right through a knight that had appeared behind Ashura. Ashura gave her a nod and tossed a salute her way before she snapped the neck of the acolyte she held.

"Ok, now we need to go up the stairs over there and make our way to the large room with the computer in the back of it. You know where we are now, right? You fought the eyes of Crota here." She said and they nodded, they knew exactly where they were now. Hinata took off up the stairs and Sasuke ran after her. He saw her loading her rifle from behind her as she ran up the stairs, so he began doing the same for his hand cannon. He looked behind him and noticed Ashura was lagging behind, he frowned but figured that she was alright.

They ran to the exit of the room and halted, seeing as there were vandals ready to snipe them, Captains ready to cut them down, and Dregs in position to attack. Sasuke smirked and cleared his throat, causing Hinata to look at him. "No weapons." He said and she nodded, decrypting her rifle. "Old fashioned fighting only, here... just so we won't get rusty." He said the last part after a pause and she laughed lightly, he just wanted to use his abilities once more and that was all. She nodded, understanding that the need to feel like he did in the old days was nagging at the back of his mind as well. She didn't want to be special, she just wanted to be little Hinata who was married to Naruto... the one who used her innocent appearance and hands as weapons.

She clenched her hands and rushed out behind Sasuke who was flying through hand signs. He jumped up into the air and released a barrage of fireballs at the Fallen and they screamed in pain. Hinata's eyes pulsated and she lunged at a captain and struck swiftly and fiercely. Each hit became faster and harder, knocking the captain back with every touch of the fingers until she spun and thrust both palms into his chest, sending him flying backwards into the wall, she continued to do the same with every Fallen that was within her range. Sasuke nodded at her and jumped up into the air, his hand crackling with lightning before he spun on his side and slung his arm down, a dragon of lightning crashing into the ground where a Fallen ketch had just dropped more Fallen. It had taken out the ketch and all of the enemies it had dropped down.

Ashura jogged to a halt, her breath ragged and she had wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, only for her helmet to soon after fall back into place. "Where were you? Party is already over." Sasuke sighed and she looked around, charred spots littered the ground all over the place and Fallen were hunched over in positions that look inhuman and completely not survivable in any form or fashion. "I see that... what exactly did you do?" she asked as she caught her breath. "We used those abilities that supposedly make us guardians of legend." Sasuke said with a shrug. Ashura nodded and stood to her full height once more.

"Are you alright, Ashura?" Hinata asked and Ashura nodded rapidly. "I'm fine I promise... don't worry." She said and Hinata could hear the forced smile in her voice, but didn't say anything about it. "Alright, well, let's move out then..." Ashura said and the two nodded and followed her into the building.

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Loki grinned over at Lion and they knocked fists. "This is going to be lots of fun." He said and Naruto, Shikamaru, Gaara, and Sakura looked at them oddly. "What is going to be so much fun?" Naruto asked, but Thalor was spazzing out. " Crucible... they're taking us into crucible. Make me proud, puny titan." He said and Naruto glared at the ghost. Sakura smirked and slammed her fists together, while Shikamaru and Gaara sighed in unison. "Well, let's go see who is going against us..." Loki said and they landed on mars, which made Gaara stare around and a small smirk graced his lips. "Maybe this won't be so bad." He said as they all took off in different directions.

They all had headsets on so they could communicate and tell each other who was in the match with them. The first on their team to die was Loki who screamed a retreat, before his headset made static. "ZAVALA!" Loki screeched once he revived, he did so with a fearful noise before he screamed again. Sakura made her way over to him and she looked to where he was crouched, and behind his barricade of crates stood both Zavala and Shaax. "Oh, hello guardian... how are you?" Shaax asked and she furrowed her brows. "So nice to have you here, young titan." Zavala greeted before the two of them rushed at her. She clenched her fists and waited for them to get within a foot, before she smirked and sent Shaax flying backwards into Zavala.

Once they hit the ground she ran and shoulder dropped them, causing Zavala to make a noise of pain before their forms vanished from sight. She dusted her hands and offered one to Loki, who shook his head and opened his mouth to warn her, but her head whipped around at the last moment and she jumped high above the titan that had rushed her. "Well done, young titan... but not well enough." He said as her eyes went wide, Shaax had appeared behind her and landed a fist of havoc right on her back, sending her face first into a deep crater on the gorund.

As she revived, she heard Loki yelp, signaling he had been found. She checked her gauntlet and saw that Cayde's name had appeared on the death notifications, having been killed by Loki. "Sakura! Behind you!" Gaara yelled and sent sand after the hunter that had lunged for her. She spun on her toes and sent her leg at Cayde, but he grabbed it and threw her to the side, her eyes went wide as she noticed the grenade stuck to her foot. She reached for it to yank it off, but it blew and took her with it.

Gaara sent tendrils of sand at Cayde, but he continued to dodge them and maneuver around each of them. A green orb shot past Gaara and knocked Cayde away from him. The orb flew right back at Gaara, only for him to look deep within the orb's center and his eyes felt heavy. A blade met his neck and the last thing he saw as his body faded was his ghost bursting open to revive him. "Eris morn." He muttered and Lion nodded. "She's annoying me." he grumbled and Gaara nodded.

Shikamaru landed near them and shoved them down as that same green orb shot overhead. "I only rescued you from Cayde so I could fight you myself. You seem susceptible to illusions, young guardians... you need to work on that..." she said in the same monotone voice she always spoke in. Shikamaru grabbed her orb with his shadows and she turned to face him with a frown on her lips. She held up one hand and three throwing knives were in her grasp. They glowed with a green aura that made the three furrow their brows.

"Every man for themselves!" Lion yelled and turned to run, seeing as this was Eris morn's legendary super, It worked in the same fashion as golden gun, but seeing as her light had been tainted... her super had been as well. "Enjoy my hydra blades." She said and threw the three glowing blades, which each one burst into three more. She turned to walk away, seeing as she had heard their armor become pincushions. Naruto continued running away from everyone else because if you were in a group the vanguards would find you and decimate you. He made a squawking noise as Eris entered his line of sight. He backed up into the small building outside of the larger one and ended up trapped.

Cayde, Ikora, and Eris stood at each exit of the small building. Naruto whimpered and threw his hands up. "Look guys... I really should have gone with Sasuke and Hinata... then you wouldn't have to kill me every time you see me." he said and Eris frowned at him, only to send her orb speeding towards him. He whimpered. "I knew this was a bad idea... thanks a lot thalor." He grumbled and his ghost just sighed. "Look kid... I ruled this crucible... and you are my legacy? I'm the one who should be angry." He said as Eris' orb smacked Naruto in the gut. "A true warrior fights back.." Eris said and Naruto sighed.

"Well, you asked for it... don't complain if I hurt you too bad." Naruto said as clones appeared and began forming the rasenshuriken. Cayde and Ikora stepped back, but Eris held position. "Take this!" Naruto yelled and threw it at her. She leaned her head to the side and held up one hand, in which the rasenshuriken dissipated and he gulped. "Well... shit..." he said as the Hydra blades came flying at him. "And I thought it would work... I really should have gone with them." He sighed.

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Sasuke and Hinata looked up the path leading to Omnigul's throne room, or whatever it was... She had sent a horde of thrall and a knight at them when they had first entered this area, but Sasuke put them out with a grand fireball. Ashura ran around the two Wizards and the ogre, only to run straight into the room at the top of the hill. Sasuke rushed at the first wizard and cut it down with a lightning blade, the second one falling from Hinata's empty palm technique. Sasuke's bow formed in the hands of his Susanoo and he pelted the ogre with arrows until it disintegrated.

He and Hinata continued taking out the remaining knights and the acolytes that were scattered along the hill like room. A loud crash was heard and Ashura's blade impaled the wall of the room they had just entered. It was a smaller room that conjoined with the larger room that Omnigul was hovering about in. Ashura slammed her helmet against the ground and it shattered. Her respirator was gone as well and her breathing was heavy. "You have to kill her. The crystal is in the back of the room behind her. I couldn't reach it without getting blasted by her..." Ashura panted and Sasuke nodded.

"I don't think any of your special moves will be of any use, seeing as you have to use hand signs to use them. She will blast you into the next dimension before you even get through them." Ashura huffed as she rushed back out into the room and began ripping apart the knights that were scattered about the room. She had jumped up, wrapped her legs around the neck of one knight, and ripped its head off as she spun it to the ground. "Hinata try and disable the main wizard and I will try to hit her with my arrows from over there." Sasuke said and pointed to a small room located off to the side where Ashura was steadily taking out the smaller enemies.

Ashura finished off the smaller enemies and jumped up onto the bridge with Omnigul, who screeched at her loudly. Ashura screamed back at her in the language of the Fallen, which caught Omnigul off guard for a moment. After the initial surprise had worn off Omnigul had begun pelting Ashura with balls of lightning, which she appeared to be deflecting to an extent. With each orb that hit her, Sasuke noticed she was becoming slower and slower, but he still told Hinata to wait. Wait on his command, and then attack. He was going to let Ashura do whatever it was that she was doing before he signaled Hinata to strike.

He began counting down on his fingers until Hinata was going to jump in. At one finger, he stopped and watched as Ashura slammed a fist of havoc right onto Omnigul while standing before her. Omnigul backhanded omnigul right across the room and she made no noise, other than a thump as she hit the wall. She didn't yelp, or even grunt in pain... there was just silence as he dropped that last finger and Hinata slammed her palms into the back of Omnigul's head and made a large crack in the bone of her head.

That was Sasuke's cue. He raised his Susanoo and began pelting the stunned Omnigul with his Susanoo's flaming arrows. It wasn't long before she screeched her final screech and burned completely from existence. Hinata rushed to the back of the room and released her ghost, which, along with Kabr and Sai, began scanning the crystal. Sasuke trotted over and released Andal to do the same. The crystal crumbled away to reveal feminine bones, at which Sai mota burst open and began reconstructing Ino.

The blonde looked around with confusion, but once her eyes landed on Hinata she began sobbing and hugged her tightly. "Hinata! Sasuke!" she sobbed and Sasuke chuckled lightly. "It's nice to see you too, blondie." He said and Ino hugged him tightly. "I never thought I would ever see you two again... you died so young." She said with a frown, even though they couldn't see it, they could hear it in her tone. "Don't worry, there's quite a few people you thought you would never see again... I just need you to hop in Hinata's ship." Sasuke said and Ino nodded, but she halted and rushed over to Ashura, who was leaned against the wall breathing heavily.

"Hey are you ok?" she asked and Ashura nodded. "I'm fine, thank you for asking... I'm just tired is all." Ashura said, flashing a small smile. "The name's Ashura..." she said and Ino smiled and held out a hand. "Ino... nice to meet you..." she said and Ashura shook her hand. "Well I'm gonna head out, yall be careful on the way back to the tower. I will meet you there." she said and the three of them nodded. They all vanished into the two ships hovering overhead. "Whoa... how does that even work?" Ino asked and Sasuke shook his head.

"Don't even try to ask me. I still don't know." He said as they shot from above earth and began towards the tower. When they landed at the tower, they saw that on every monitor, it was a crucible match and the rest of their group was fighting like a tightly knit group, every move one made fit in perfectly with the moves of the rest. It was a beautiful dance of war and the guardians were all staring in awe. The match ended and they all received a message to report to the speaker.

Hinata was the last one there because instead of following the others she went to check on Ashura. Ashura had received a message from a guardian that there was something waiting on her in the docking bay. Hinata had run after her and had stumbled in to see Ashura staring wide eyed at an awoken fleet ship. It was the beautiful blue one with the aura that protected it from harm. "I... I haven't seen one of those since her funeral..." Ashura whispered as she limped towards the ship.

"You need to go to the medical wing, Ashura..." Hinata said and Ashura shoved her hands off of her. "I'm fine Hinata." Ashura said and Hinata frowned. "You're not fine, you're limping, your breathing is ragged, and it looks like you've got a severe burn under your chest plate, you need help." Hinata said calmly, but did not place her hands on her again. "I'm fine Hinata... what is not fine... is that ship." She said and her voice became soft.

"It's a beauty isn't it? This baby here is yours." Holliday said and Ashura's whole demeanor darkened. "What?" she snapped and Holliday raised a brow at her. "I take it your boo didn't tell you he was sending you this gorgeous baby?" Holliday asked with an admiring glance at the beautiful war ship. "What are you talking about, Holliday?" Ashura snapped and Holliday frowned at her. "Lookie here, don't get snippy with me. I'm talking about the hunk with the glowing amber eyes, the ones that look like they could melt your soul with a single glance. Absolutely gorgeous, that one." Holliday said and Ashura sneered.

Hinata grabbed her shoulder and tried to stop her from leaving, but Ashura jumped into the ship and vanished. "She's going to the reef, no doubt." Holliday sighed. "Looks like someone's not a fan of surprise gifts from the man." She sighed and Hinata turned to face her, but Sasuke was standing there with an outstretched hand. "We need to go Hinata..." he said and she nodded. "Alright..." she sighed, but glanced back off at the ship that was about to break orbit.

"You can go after her after we meet with the speaker." Sasuke said and Hinata frowned. "Ok..." she whispered as she followed Sasuke to the speaker. When they had walked into the speaker's room, she swiftly noticed that Eris was there as well, watching from the perch above. The speaker was beside her and they were talking about something. Hinata was placed in the center of the group of her friends and they all grinned at her widely.

"Everyone place your hands out in front of Hinata. We have to do this all at the same time so nothing gets messed up." Andal Brask said and the group all nodded. They all held their hands up at the same time and Hinata closed her eyes. She felt the tugging of the energy within her and their energies outside of her. The lights in the room began to flicker and a vortex of colors swirled around her. The deep purple shot at Sasuke, the yellow at Gaara, the grey at Ino, the green at Sakura, the red at Naruto, and the black shot at Shikamaru. In a blast of white light Hinata stood before them as what looked like an ethereal being, while one by one the rest of them did the same.

Sasuke became covered in his largest Susanoo and he sighed in relief as his power had completely returned to him, but this didn't stop him from flaunting the skills he had at controlling the beast as he tossed the large sword into the air and caught it effortlessly. Nine tails swished behind Naruto and the Kyuubi armor that had formed around him released a demonic chuckle. Sakura's markings spread all over her face and down her arms, she grinned and smashed her hands together, relishing the feeling of the massive shockwave that had been caused at the force of her fists colliding. "Shannaro!" she chanted with a smirk.

The grey light lit up Ino's eyes and she held her hands out in front of her and her laugh echoed through the minds of everyone in the tower. "Communications, check." She said and her eyes turned blue once more. Sand began flying about the room and decreased the visualization of everyone in the room. "My sandstorms are back." Gaara said and the sand piled up onto his skin creating a sand armor once more. Shikamaru twitched a finger and smiled as all the shadows in the room began to crawl and immobilized everyone in the room and within reach of his shadows.

He released the hand sign and slouched over with a chuckle. "Good to know I have that still." He said and they all looked at Hinata, who slapped her hands together and a blinding light flashed about the room and she began to weave her net above her, but the chakra was white and it began not only expanding outwards but spinning as well. When all their power faded away, the speaker began clapping loudly. "Lovely! Eren, Kris... is this not the demonstration of power we need to show the darkness?" he asked and the two were at a loss for words.

"You far exceeded my expectations, Guardians." Eris said and she offered a small smile. "Look at your class marks, bonds, and cloaks." The speaker said and they blinked, but looked at them. They all matched Hinata's. The wings surrounded the ghost and held it close, protecting it from anything on the outside that could harm it. Each bond, cloak, and mark glowed with the color of the energy that had shot from Hinata's form, and together they were absolutely beautiful.

Hinata froze for a moment, clutching her chest, but then she took off running towards the docking bay. She was gone before any of the others could catch up. Hinata was panicking now. Something wasn't right. She jumped from her ship once it passed over the vestian outpost and landed in a crouch beside Krux. "Hinata... something wrong with Ashura." She said and Hinata's eyes widened. She took off running after Krux, panic in her eyes keeping every awoken from trying to stop her.

When they reached the area where Krux had told her Ashura was, the only thing she saw was the prince himself on his knees. He was doing something and she couldn't see for all the awoken crowding him. Hinata pushed past an awoken woman and her breath hitched. With every movement Uldren made, the legs she now saw moved, but only from the momentum from his movements. She shoved past all the rest of them and he glanced up at her from the corner of his eyes as he breathed air into Ashura's lungs. He did this twice and then continued to do chest compressions.

"Is she..." Hinata began but he shook his head. "She has no pulse, she just collapsed. If you or any of your special abilities can give her a hand it would be very much appreciated." He grunted as he continued his chest compressions. Hinata's eyes were wide and she was frozen in place... Krux's hands trembled beside her and Hinata looked up at the Fallen kell...

Tears were falling from the eyes of the kell. She was genuinely crying... and Hinata was just frozen in place. Uldren turned to her, grabbed her hands, and shoved her flat palms onto Ashura's chest before Hinata could pull away. "Good..." he said and reached to touch the nape of Ashura's neck and feel for a pulse, but she lurched forwards and inhaled deeply. "Damn you Marie... Don't you dare do that again..." Uldren sighed softly under his breath.

"Marie?" Hinata asked and Uldren looked at her in surprise. "Ashura's real name..." he said and Hinata's eyes went wide. "You didn't honestly think an American in their right mind would name their daughter Ashura, did you?" Ashura asked from her place in Uldren's grasp. "Don't bother calling me by that name either... Kind of hard to intimidate when you're the typical white girl with the name Marie, now isn't it?" Ashura asked and Uldren sighed deeply and knocked her over the head.

"You dumb little girl." He sneered and Ashura sneered at him. "You didn't have to save me, dickhead." She snapped and he curled his lip up at her. "Pathetic human." He grit out and she coughed, but snapped out her retort as well. "You're the pathetic one, you kissed me for god's sake. That desperate are we?" she asked and he dumped her from his grasp and dusted himself off. "Marie." He spat. "Uldren." She returned, but a slow smile crossed her lips as she looked up at him from the ground.

"Thank you." She said and then looked over at Hinata's hands. "uh... does that not hurt?" she asked and Hinata blinked then looked at her hands, she had felt the tingling sensation... but she thought it was her nerves causing her panic.

Her hands were crackling with electricity.

"She's the one who saved you." Uldren said, but Hinata stammered and bowed to him. "No, sir... it wasn't me... it was you. You were the one who kept her alive... I panicked." She stammered and he sighed and frowned at her with a dirty look. "You restarted her heart. I just did what I had to." He said and Ashura butted in. "Actually... my ghost would have revived me." she said and he blinked at her in confusion, but then that confusion faded away and he sighed.

"We awoken don't have the luxury of a ghost that will bring us back at the drop of a dime... we just die when we die. Such is the reason her highness has made it blatantly clear that if we can save lives... we do it in any way we possibly can... we can't just let each other die." He said and grabbed Ashura off the floor. "To the medical ward with you, disruptive woman." He sighed and Hinata laughed lightly. Sasuke ran up to her and grabbed her shoulders lightly.

"Is everything alright?" he asked and she nodded. "For now I think it is. Prince Uldren just took mercy on our white haired brat." Hinata sighed and Sasuke released a sigh as well. "I thought something bad was happening... I rushed to follow you..." he said and she smiled at him.

"Don't worry, nothing is going to happen to me... I'm going to be right here, on your left. Always on your left." She said as they made their way back to their ships. Hinata had said this to make Sasuke feel better, because she knew he was worried for her safety. She smiled lightly, and tried to squash the feeling that was gripping her bones.

"It's all going to be just fine." She whispered as she boarded her ship, but a dark laugh echoed through her mind and she froze up when the voice echoed in her mind as well...

"Once you're dead."

Ah! So sorry for the wait! I've been trying to hard to work on these and study for my three certification tests as well... it's been a long road and now I am on Christmas break! Also! I Passed all three certification tests, so go me! now I am going to try and spend my Christmas break working on these for my lovelies! I hope you enjoyed and I hope you continue to enjoy!