When they hit the surface of the moon Hinata looked around curiously. "What's wrong?" Sasuke asked her and she frowned. "This version of the moon is much different than the one Toneri and Naruto fought on. This one is more... Civilized." She said and he shrugged. "I was never here, so I wouldn't know. All I knew is that he had taken you." Sasuke said and Hinata shook her head. "I went willingly." She said and summoned her sparrow. Sasuke watched her silently, but he also kept an eye out for anything that could be a danger to them. He wasn't going to release the bitter reply to her statement.

He watched as Hinata's eyes flickered around the place more often than not, he understood that she was weary. Nothing was happening yet so he was noticeably uneasy as well. "Sasuke, theres movement over there." Hinata said and pointed towards a smaller building past the one in front of them that looked like some sort of bridge leading from one building to a smaller one at the opposite end. He felt the pulse of chakra that said Hinata was using her Byakugan and he repressed a smirk.

"Its Ashura. I wonder why she is here..." Hinata said and then her brows furrowed "What is that?" she murmured and started that direction on her sparrow, Sasuke following close behind on his own. they reached the area Ashura was fighting at only to realize she didn't need their help. she shoulder charged the blade off his feet, only to jump and use her fist of havoc on it.

She dusted her hands off then turned towards Sasuke and Hinata. "Ok... So you're not going to see much of me, Loki, Lion, or Dani. We have other things to do, but I thought I would show you where the titan was. We stumbled upon the remains a while back but we didn't have the ghost to revive them. When we figured out where the ghost was... they kinda sealed the titan within some sort of freaky green crystal." She said then flipped her cloak over her shoulder and winced.

"Hey uh... you guys don't see my arm around here anywhere... do you?" she asked and Hinata blinked at her only to realize that she had a circular mechanical stump a few inches below her actual arm. There were mechanical fingers meddling with the wiring there, but from the arm on the opposite side. "That's why they call you Ashura..." Sasuke said and she watched him for a moment before she gave him a curt nod. Hinata jogged over to her with her mechanical arm which donned gauntlets that matched the ones her actual flesh arms wore.

She held the end of the arm out to the circuits and the wires instantly began to connect once more, but then with a vicious jerk and a twist, her arm reconnected and it appeared painful. Hinata grimaced at the look on Ashura's face. "What? A second set of arms doesn't come cheap, there's always a sacrifice." She said then turned and shook out her mechanical arms.

"How did you get that mechanical leg, Ashura?" Sasuke asked and she frowned beneath her helm. "There are some things that a revival by ghost cannot fix." she said and continued on walking. Sasuke didn't ask any more questions because he knew with that one he had crossed a personal line. When they reached the temple of Crota he felt an odd chill go down his spine as the doors cracked open.

"Get behind me." He ordered and the two followed his command. The doors swung open and then he flew into hand signs. He took a deep breath and released it as a grand ball of fire escaped his lips and disintegrated the hive that came rushing out.

"Uh... wow... I guess y'all are some hella special." Ashura murmured from behind him. "Wait so you people have abilities but none like ours? What the?" he began but a swift green ghost shot past him, or so it seemed. There was no ghost there, it was just a recording projected from somewhere up above the rocks. Sasuke turned to see what was projecting from there, but nothing was there.

"I saw her... I actually saw her this time." Hinata whispered and Sasuke glanced at her oddly. "Who?" he asked and Ashura frowned. "That strange exo hunter... She appears everywhere. She doesn't stay long though. She called me strange because she couldn't decipher whether I was human or exo." She said and Sasuke nodded.

He looked forwards and saw a glimmer of green across the way. "The ghost is over there, so the titan should be around here somewhere." He said and they nodded. They slipped into the room and glanced around them as to be sure they were alone. They made their way up the stairs and saw the titan stuck in the crystal.

"Alright well I guess this is where I go then..." Ashura said with a sigh and they looked at her. "Why?" They asked and she shrugged. "I don't suppose you need me anymore." she said and Hinata shook her head. "We never said that." She said, but then a wizard screeched and grabbed the crystal and flew down into the lower levels with it.

"Damn it." Sasuke muttered and Hinata glanced over at Ashura who had jumped over the edge to follow. Hinata jumped over as well, following the other girl. This in turn, forced Sasuke to follow. He jumped down and followed the path that he knew the girls had most likely taken. He heard Ashura's familiar grunt of annoyance and he quickened his pace, only to see that she had just shoulder charged a wizard right out of the air. He was mildly impressed, but he continued to search for Hinata, who was nowhere in sight.

He caught a glance of her just as she had dropped that vortex of energy onto a group of the hive thralls. He had never seen anything like that come from her before and he couldn't help but stare. "Come on emo kid, that's something all warlocks can do. We have to go if we want to find where they took the titan!" Ashura yelled and he stared at her for a moment before she took off down a set of stairs towards Hinata.

He followed suit and hit the ground at the base of the steps, an odd room lay within and his ghost was saying something about the large orb-like object in the room. "There is something in there I need to scan to identify how to destroy the object above us." His Ghost said and he nodded, releasing the small mechanical creature to do what it needed to. A rumble in the foundation of the place made him feel odd, and he looked over to see that Ashura and Hinata were glancing around with suspicious eyes.

The rumbling felt like footsteps and Sasuke glanced up just in time to see a large knight pass through a newly opened doorway. "Shit..." He cursed loudly and Ashura looked up and sighed. "Great... Just great... And I thought Kells were huge..." She complained and went through her weapons to pick out a shotgun called the Matador. "Won't you have to get really close to use that? Do you really think that's safe?" Hinata asked softly and Ashura shrugged. "If not then just revive me. As long as I have my ghost you can bring me back." She said and Hinata nodded.

"Hinata, try and find his weak points, alright?" Sasuke said and she nodded. "You don't think your Amaterasu will work on him, do you?" She asked and he shook his head. "No... But I think something else will." He said and she nodded. "Ashura I would recommend staying back, just in case..." Hinata said and she nodded, but didn't seem to appreciate the advice given to her by a lower ranking guardian. Hinata didn't really say anything else to her, noticing the annoyance she had received.

She instead pulled out her Ice Breaker and began to take aim. "The chest and head are where his weak spots are." Hinata said, and no sooner than had those words escaped her, Ashura was gone. Sasuke cursed under his breath as he noticed she was attempting to shoot the giant creature in the face. The creature swatted her away and he grit his teeth. He then noticed that his Ghost was finished with its assignment and was awaiting his command.

He glanced at Hinata, who had greatly weakened the creature using her rifle, and she nodded at him. He lunged out of the small space with four hallways. The creature looked down at him and released a snarky sounding laugh. This made Sasuke raise a brow. This creature didn't think he could bring him down.

"Ashura, gather your Havoc ability. Hinata, gather your void ability. We need to use all three of our abilities to take this thing down." Sasuke said and the two girls nodded. Hinata Gathered the ball of void energy within her hands, as Ashura repeatedly gathered the sparking energy of her Fist of Havoc in hers. The hands of her mechanical limbs sparked as well as she repeatedly fisted and unfisted each hand.

With a nod, the two girls took forwards, Hinata reared back to throw the nova bomb; and Ashura fisted each of her hands and did a drop right on top of the head of the creature. Ashura's attack made it stumble; Hinata's had it clutching its face. Sasuke the pulled his blade and lunged forwards, his blade sparking with the blinding energy of lightning.

He then proceeded to decapitate said creature in a moment's notice. The large Knight hit its knees and fell to its side with a loud crash. They then turned to see the crystal that the guardian was trapped within was within the large orb. Hinata wasted no time shooting the orb with her Hawkmoon hand cannon. Sasuke jumped up there and grabbed the crystal before it could hit the ground.

He set it against the ground and reared back to punch it, but Hinata grabbed his hand and gave him a look. "Please don't. You will break your fingers." she said softly and he watched her for a moment then stepped away from the crystal. He watched as she carefully held her Ghost out to scan the crystal. His Ghost appeared and began to do the same. After seeing what they were doing, Ashura summoned her Ghost and allowed it to do the same. After a little bit, the crystal began to fall away.

The emerald colored Ghost that had been above the guardian within the stone shakily hovered for a moment, then turned and split open into smaller pieces, which didn't shock Hinata or Ashura, but had captured Sasuke's full attention. He reached out and touched the Ghost only for it to snap closed once more and a deep breath fill the air as the titan shot up.

"Ugh... Took you long enough." She grumbled and Sasuke didn't repress the rolling of his eyes beneath his helm. "You're very welcome, Sakura." He said with a slightly amused tone and her head shot up. "There is no way in hell..."She began and Hinata giggled lightly. "Hinata? Sasuke?" She asked and they nodded. "No way..." She began and then stood abruptly. "What is going on here?" She asked and they shrugged, they had no clue, none whatsoever as to what was actually going on.

"So you guys were like friends in your past life? I thought it was strange that you all knew each other, but weren't related. The only ones in the tower who remember anyone from their past lives are the siblings." Ashura said and then rubbed her helmet. "You know, Like Kris and Eren, And Loki and I... I thought that you could only remember family. But... This... What you all are... Is different..." She said and they nodded.

"Well... I think that we should go tell the speaker that we killed this thing..." She began and watched the three, each had some sort of tension between the others and she knew they could all feel said tension. "And I believe, Sakura was it?" She asked and upon receiving a nod, continued. "Needs some better armor..." she said and the three nodded. Sasuke held out his hand and summoned his ship, as did Hinata and Ashura. Sakura was teleported up with Hinata.

"Hey, also..."Ashura began, "The stranger said to give you guys a message." She said and they each listened in silence. "She wants you to meet her on Venus, Specifically Ishtar Sink, Venus." Ashura had said before sending over the coordinates.

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Hinata watched the Pinkette and the speaker interact amiably. Sasuke however was still a bit... indifferent at the fact she was here. Hinata supposed he didn't really know what to say, especially since he had told Hinata he was going to do whatever it took to keep her alive, even if he had to die for her. It was odd hearing him say that to her, and maybe she was just overly romanticizing things again, but that seemed like something you would tell your wife, which just happened to be standing in front of the two of them at this very moment.

Sakura made no advances towards Sasuke, much unlike Hinata had thought she would. She watched the pinkette with confusion in her gaze. Every time Sakura glanced at Hinata or Sasuke the only thing she could see was sadness and guilt. Hinata didn't understand this and shrugged it off as something Sakura and Sasuke needed to discuss on their own. She heard the Speaker ask Sakura what the Traveler meant when it called her the Forceful one. A glimmer flashed through Sakura's eyes and she smiled brightly.

"She doesn't need to show you while in the tower. You will have destruction on the caliber of earth if you do." Sasuke interjected and The speaker nodded. Sakura however, was highly unamused and had turned towards Sasuke with a disgruntled look. "Buzz kill." She grumbled and he rolled his eyes. "I'm only trying to spare him the massive cleanup. We will have plenty of time to show off what you can do when we get to Venus." Sasuke said and Hinata nodded with a small smile. Sakura shrugged and nodded. Either way, she was going to be entertained after having been deceased for so long.

"Venus, you said?" the speaker asked and they nodded. "Yeah, some strange Exo told Ashura to tell us we needed to go to Venus." Sakura said and The speaker eyed her for a moment then nodded. "I suppose this person also warned you all about the Vex and their god?" He asked and they shook their heads. "She may have told Ashura though, so we will go see what all she knows then we will head out." Hinata said and the Speaker shook his head.

"You need to let Sasuke and Sakura rest. They haven't had a chance to find the barracks yet, Hinata. I understand that you want to get this all settled as swiftly as possible, but you need rest and so do they. You should go speak with Ikora, and the other Vanguard leaders." The Speaker said and Hinata blushed but nodded. "I'm sorry Sasuke, Sakura..." she said and Sakura smiled at her. "Don't sweat it,I think I understand your hurry." Sakura said and Hinata sighed.

"Here, follow me, I can take you to where Ashura hangs out." Hinata said and they nodded. They strolled up the steps on the far right side of the tower, down the small hallway, and past both the Shipwright and Dead orbit. There were chairs and booths lined up along the walls and a bar in the far back. Ashura was sitting in a booth in the far back corner, while Loki and Lion sat right at the bar.

"You know, I think you only try to fix those broken down scrap metal arms of yours because you're too cheap to buy better metal for them." Lion said as he glanced towards Ashura, who was dressed in uncommon attire for a guardian. Her left leg was entirely exposed and she was currently working on screwing something into the circuit board on the outer thigh. "Shut it will ya? This has nothing to do with cost." She replied in a snarky tone and he shrugged.

"Obviously cost isn't a thing since you dropped Xur thirty four strange coins for those gauntlets." Loki said offhandedly as he sipped his drink. "Yeah, ok and? It's none of your business what I will and won't spend my money on lion. So really, just chill." she said and pulled The left mechanical arm off of her side with a wince. "Does it hurt?" Sakura asked her and her head shot up, as did Loki's and Lion's. "Yeah... It hurts a lot at times, but when you not only have mechanicals fluids in your system, but also human blood... things tend to... disagree." Ashura said and Loki frowned.

"But as I said, they have the spin metal alloy that could cut down on some of that." Loki said and Ashura sighed. "Ok... I know... But I need something stronger than spin metal. Being as why I keep talking to Banshee. He knows of something that could help me... Or more importantly, a certain someone." She said and they sighed.

"He will not help you, Ashura." Lion said with a nonchalant shrug. "How do you know?" She snapped and they sighed and shook their heads. "Do you not remember the last time we encountered him? He didn't seem too thrilled to see a guardian anywhere near his home." Loki said and she frowned. She tossed her mechanical leg down and spun towards the trio that had sought her out.

"So, what is it that you guys need?" she asked and Sakura frowned. "Uh... What exactly did the stranger say?" she asked and Ashura tucked her cloak over her shoulder as she shoved the previously dislocated mechanical limb back into its socket with a grunt. Hinata watched as the darker liquid entered her bloodstream and caused havoc upon her body. "You're poisoning yourself..." Danny sighed as he walked in. "Yeah... I know." She said but then turned to the trio once more.

"Danny, once they are all rested up will you lead them to the Ishtar sink?" she asked and he nodded. "Sure, I can show them where to go, as long as I don't die and they don't leave me if I do." He said and Hinata smiled. "I won't leave you, I promise." Hinata said and Danny nodded. "Anyways, She said you need to meet her at Ishtar sink, to destroy a vex conflux or something. Then she said something about the reef and the awoken, and something about them knowing how you can reach what you're needing to reach." Ashura said then she looked over at them.

"If they open the reef to the guardians... I want to be the first to know." She said and both Loki and Lion glared at her while Danny sighed. "Anyways, as I was saying... I want to know if they open the reef, if he can help me, I'm going to go see him." She said and Loki took a breath to say something but didn't utter a word. "He's not going to help you." Lion said as he spun around on his bar stool. "You wouldn't know, you just set him off is all, you do every time you see him. That's why he wouldn't help YOU!" she snapped and stood. She grabbed her cloak and slipped it on, once she was actually wearing it, Hinata realized it was made from a similar material to that of the stranger's. It was only a darker color.

"Hey Ashura... Where do you find materials of that grade?" Hinata asked and she went frigid. She pursed her lips and rubbed her cloak between two fingertips. "If you can get them to open the reef, I will show you. But... For now...We are banned from the reef, due to a certain hunter." She said and Loki and Danny sighed, while Lion just smirked. "Hey, Its not my fault he was being a whiny-" Lion began with a shrug but she glared at him. "Don't you dare." she snarled and he snorted. "Why do you care? The guy never looked your way, never said a word to you, and yet you just seem sooo...." he began then looked up at the ceiling in thought. "In love with the jerk." he said and she sneered at him.

"You have no idea what you're talking about!" She snapped and he shrugged. "You getting all pissy over it is proof enough for me." he said and she gritted her teeth audibly. "I'm dying Lion, I'm dying in a way that even if my ghost tries to revive me, I will just die again... and again. Only, I will die faster and faster each time. At some point... It will get so bad, that I won't be able to be revived at all." She said while fisting her hands. "So, if there is a rumor about someone who knows a way to be able to save me... I'm going to jump at the chance." She said and Lion rolled his eyes.

"So much drama." he said and before she could A. toss a fist into his face, B. Yell/ scream, or C. all out just murder him, Danny grabbed her and ushered her out of the bar, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata close behind. "Ok, time to go. We don't need this right now. You know if you continue to be this way that you will only spread that stuff around your body faster." Danny sighed and she looked at him with apologetic eyes. "I'm sorry Danny." she sighed and he nodded.

"For now let's go discuss things in the Barracks." He said and they nodded.

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Ashura sat on a random bunk with shorts on and a t-shirt, while Danny sat in full battle rattle. Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke, However, were enjoying the feeling of being out of the armor and in civilian clothes for the moment. "Oh my gosh... Sweat pants feel so amazing..." Sakura sighed as she flopped backwards on the bunk in the room they had claimed as theirs. there were six beds, but until they went to search for the last member of their group, this would be just fine. "So... A group of six people is called a fire team?" Sakura asked as she rolled over to face Danny and Ashura. The two nodded in an iffy manner.

"A fire team can have as many as six people in it, but it's rare you have any more than that. Not everyone in the tower gets along as well as the traveler and speaker would have hoped. Take Lion for instance. It's extremely rare you find someone able to tolerate him." Danny said and she nodded. "I can tell...' She said, then looked over at Ashura, who didn't seem to want to pay all that much attention at the moment. "Hinata, will you get me a basin of water, please?" she asked and the blunette nodded.

Sakura stood and walked over to Ashura, and with a swift jolt of her arm, the albino looking woman hit the bed unconscious. Danny looked at her, eternally freaked out. "What the hell, lady!?" he yelped and she shrugged. "She's not dead, just... forcefully sleeping." Sakura said but Danny didn't seem to like where this was going. "Listen, I'm not going to hurt her, I'm just going to try and ease her pain for the time being..." She said and he frowned.

"She's going to be so mad when she wakes up." He said and Sasuke sighed. "Yeah well... She will thank us later." He sighed as Hinata returned with the basin of water and Sakura set to work on the unconscious woman. As soon as she had actually begun pulling the mechanical fluids from Ashura's form, Sakura was taken aback by the thick inky black liquid she was dropping into the bowl. "How long has she been in the tower like this?" Sakura asked and Danny frowned. "I met her two years ago doing patrol in the vault of glass on Venus." he said and Sakura frowned. "She's been here about that long." He said and she nodded.

"She's trying to make herself immune to the stuff, but it's only making her worse. She's trying to get the Prince to pay her some sort of mind because he has helped someone before in a situation similar to hers, but we all know he won't help her. He despises guardians." Danny sighed and looked at his friend. "Personally, I think her reasoning for wanting to go to the reef is to see him for more than one reason. Similar to the reason Lion and Loki want to go... In Lion's words... He said he would bang the queen...." Danny said with a sigh and Sakura snorted with an eye roll.

"Typical men." she said and Danny rolled his eyes. "Sure, she's pretty, but... I'm gay. And I honestly don't want to touch something that bleeds for a week and gets insanely irate during that time. It's weird. I don't understand how you can bleed for a week and not die of blood loss or something." He said and noticed Sasuke lightly chuckling beneath his hand. Hinata was red in the face, as was Sakura. "What?" he asked and they shook their heads. "Nothing... but... You have an interesting take on that..." Sakura said in a slightly amused way.

"There, she should be fine for a while." Sakura said with a small satisfied smile. "She should be fine long enough to talk to that prince and see if he will help." Sakura said and Danny sighed.

"He's not going to help." Danny sighed and Sakura shrugged. "Who knows, If I don't like his answer to her... he may not have another answer to give." Sakura said and chill ran down Danny's spine. This was a frightening woman. "Um... I think you and Ashura would get along just well..." Danny said with a look in his eyes, that Sasuke recognized well. "Well, I'm going to take her to her room, and I will meet up with you guys in the morning. Get some rest. It is going to be a long day tomorrow." he said and the three nodded.

Sakura was still concentrating on tapping the side of the bowl, and watching the slow ripple pattern cross the surface of the disgusting black liquid. she dipped her finger into the bowl and the liquid clung to her skin, staining it a darkened color as well. "She needs help..." Sakura whispered and Sasuke watched her carefully. "You seem distant with me, Sakura. You have yet to actually speak to me." He said and she looked at him while wiping her hands of the liquid in the bowl.

"Yeah, I know... I'm sorry..." She said with saddened eyes. "Are you alright, Sakura?" Hinata asked and she nodded. "Yeah, It's just I feel guilty..." she said and Hinata tilted her head to the side and blinked at her owlishly. "After the two of you died..." She began and looked up at them with sorrow filled eyes. "I married Naruto..." She said and the two exchanged glances.

"Sakura... There is no wrong in remarrying after the death of a loved one..." Hinata said and Sakura stared at her with wide eyes. "I thought you would be so angry with me..." She said and Hinata shook her head rapidly. "No, Never, I'm happy that the two of you settled down together..." She said and Sakura's lip trembled. "I spent my days thinking you would hate me for marrying him... but here you are telling me it's all good." Sakura said and Hinata smiled at her.

"You two deserved it, I could never hate either of you, especially since I died before my children could grow old. Naruto raised them well, yes?" she asked and Sakura nodded rapidly. "Yes!" She exclaimed, and a smile crossed her lips. "Bolt and Sarada married at nineteen." She said and Hinata smiled. "Good, they deserve it as well." Hinata said and Sakura smiled brightly and engulfed the darker haired girl in a hug. "Thank you for being such a wonderful friend, Hinata." She said and Hinata smiled brightly "You too, Sakura-chan."

Sasuke watched Hinata carefully, not quite understanding how she could be so passive about the situation, but then again he could understand what Sakura had meant. He could understand the feeling of being alone and not wanting to be alone anymore. "So when we bring Naruto back... What is going to happen?" Sasuke asked after Hinata had already drifted off to sleep. Sakura looked him dead in the eye and watched him for any readable emotions or signs that he was upset. He seemed to be off, but not in the usual manner of him being 'off'. He gave her one sharp glance then lay back on his bunk. "But I suppose you've already chosen, huh?" He asked and she gave him a sorrowful look before she too lay down and drifted off.

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Danny led them right to the conflux that would tell their ghosts where they needed to go. "Alright, so before I leave, do you need anything else?" he asked and Hinata shook her head with a small smile. "Alright... You two?" He asked looking over between Sasuke and Sakura, who shook their heads as well, but remained silent. "Alright... well... I guess I will see you guys around." He said and vanished from sight only for his ship to appear overhead, then speed off out of sight.

Sakura and Sasuke exchanged glances then followed Hinata over to the conflux circle, in front of a strange spherical wall. "I suppose you should step within..." Ko said and Hinata nodded as she stepped within the red circle. "Hinata wait, you don't even know what that does." Sasuke said, but she had already stepped into the circle. As the red conflux went down, a white one arose. Static filled the air and Hinata looked around frantically. Body parts of a large Vex began to form and Hinata began stepping backwards away from it.

As soon as the creature formed, it attempted to drop its large mechanical foot right on Hinata, but Sasuke grabbed her and jumped away faster than Hinata could even see. She looked up however, and saw Sakura lunge right for the large vex Gatekeeper. The impact of Sakura's fist hitting said being, Echoed loudly with the crunching of metal, a wail of pain from the creature, and the sound of her fist cracking as her knuckles popped. The creature had screeched out in pain, but as soon as her fist had come away from the creature, It had gone flying straight through the large circular portal behind it, destroying both the portal, the wall behind it, and the creature itself.

"Shannaro!" Sakura exclaimed as she rubbed her fist lightly, but walked over and ripped the head off the Vex Gate lord. There was a silence for a moment before Sakura looked over at both Sasuke and Hinata and grinned while holding the head of the creature. "Mission accomplished." She said and Hinata blinked at her for a moment then giggled and nodded. "I guess we should hit the tower and see what Ashura has to say about this." Sakura said and Hinata nodded while Sasuke shrugged.

When they reached the tower, Ashura told them that they needed to make a visit to the reef, and see what the Queen and her younger brother had to say. Which made the trio, with unanimous sighs of exhaustion or annoyance, take off once more.

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When they arrived to the Reef, they were immediately escorted to the queen by seemingly irritable awoken women. It also didn't help that Sasuke was mirroring their irritation. Sakura was busy admiring the reef and its strange beauty. Hinata seemed to be the only one paying attention to their surroundings, other than of the actual surroundings. When they reached the queen's chamber, she watched them silently, although her brother; had a disgusted look on his face. That was, until his eyes landed on Hinata.

Prince Uldren's glowing golden eyes didn't once leave the two female guardians. His molten gold orbs flickered from Hinata's Glowing opaque lavender, to Sakura's lively green ones. His eyes then flickered over onto the lone glowing red eye he could see from Sasuke. He could sense the tension between the pinkette and the dark haired man behind her, but the woman in front of the two appeared to either be aware of it, yet, ignoring their tension; or she could possibly be unaware.

However, he doubted she was unaware of their strife. Either way it didn't matter to him though the fact she had just dropped agate lord head in front of them, did. He didn't much like the feel of the other two, but the dark haired woman had soft glowing lavender eyes that eased his distaste ever so slightly. He could feel his sister's gaze on his back as he had swiftly closed the distance between himself and the young woman.

He was about a foot away from her, but the blade at his neck was sharp and icy cold. "Ah, seems the tables have turned." Was all he said as his eyes flicked up to meet with the burning crimson glare he was receiving.

"I was only going to bestow a gift upon the young woman." Uldren said as the guards removed their weapons from the dark haired man's form as Uldren waved them off. "You will refrain from touching her." Sasuke sneered and Sakura crossed her arms over her chest. "Or what?" Uldren asked with an amused undertone.

"Do not challenge me, princess." Sasuke began and Sakura cracked her knuckles. Hinata looked up at Sasuke and she felt guilty for being the reason he reacted this way. "Sasuke... Please stand down. I understand." Hinata's voice came out softly, a small saddened smile on her lips. The blade removed itself from the prince's neck but a small frown crossed the lavender eyed woman's lips.

"Forgive my friends your Grace. Sasuke feels he has to protect me diligently due to an incident in our first life. We meant no disrespect." Hinata said and then turned to slightly glance at her two companions. "And I also would hope to prevent the destruction of any buildings." Hinata said and the queen quirks a brow as Sasuke smirked and Sakura repressed a laugh.

"Forgive us your Grace for any inconvenience to you caused by us." Sasuke says and she nodded. "I am quite interested in you three... We never requested a gate lord eye from you." She said, her voice coming out elegantly. "A friend of ours told us that in order to free our traveler, we needed to find the black garden." Hinata said and the queen nodded in her elegant manner. "very well... I believe This was the woman with the mechanical leg, Ashura, was she not?" The queen asked and they nodded.

"I see... She is very determined to see that garden isn't she?" The queen asked and Hinata shook her head. "No, Your Grace. She is actually only attempting to seek assistance to treat her ailment." Sakura said and the queen's eyes shone brightly. "And she seeks this from us, does she not?" She asked and Sakura nodded. "Well... I actually happen to believe it is not me who she seeks..." The queen said, glancing discreetly at her younger brother.

Uldren turned to her and sent her a questioning glance. "Sister?" He asked and she smiled elegantly. "She knows you've been doing your research, dear brother." She said and he shook his head. "Most definitely not for her though." He spat and the Queen, somehow still elegantly, rolled her eyes. "Very well then brother, if you are going to gift the young woman the eye, do so now." She said and he nodded. "But guardians..." She began and they looked up at her. "Just know, if I ever need assistance, I will call upon you." she said and they nodded. "And I expect you to come." She added as they turned to leave. "Yes, Your Grace, if you ever need us. We will be available." Hinata said with a polite bow. "Good." was the last thing the queen said as she motioned for her brother to escort them out.

A loud thump rang out as Uldren led them out of the Queen's chambers. Hinata swiftly glanced up and saw a familiar creature. "Krux!" She called and the large feminine Kell turned to face her from her table of bowls with some sort of smoke emanating from them. "Ah, Human has returned for Krux, help, yes?" She asked and Hinata frowned. "No, Not today, forgive me Krux..." Hinata said and The Kell patted her on the head gently. "No worries, Krux likes Reef. Much respect Krux gets for being friend of queen." She said and offered a smile but it was a strange one, her being a fallen and all.

"That's good. I'm happy you're doing well here, Krux." Hinata said and Krux nodded. " They gave Krux, real home. Krux is Judgement Kell now. See, Krux Still kell." She said and Hinata beamed up at her while She was so excited over the new house she had gained. "I'm so happy for you, Krux." Hinata said and Krux clapped her hands together. "Ashura... friend of Krux too. Ashura ok?" She asked and Hinata blinked. "Krux can smell, Ashura oily blood." She said and Hinata nodded.

"Good. Good. Ashura met Krux when Ashura visited Uldren with Loki, Lion, Danny. Prince Uldren was not happy with the Lion. The Lion was rude." Krux said and Hinata laughed. "Yes, he is." she replied and Krux patted Hinata on the head once more. "Krux knows Hinata must leave. Krux just wants Hinata to be safe. Come visit Krux again, Yes?" She asked and Hinata nodded.

"Of course, Krux." Hinata said and Krux nodded.