Ok. I do not own destiny, or the anime it's crossed with.

First destiny story, and it's a crossover. This is for my older brother, Steven, and my friend, Alvin, who told me that destiny is life and that I should do a destiny crossover story. Well… here you go!

There are tales of humans from long ago, humans with unimaginable power and the ability to wield it at the very tips of their fingers.

Some say that they're just stories made up to give hope to children that one day humanity can overcome the fallen, the vex, the hive, and the cabal; and once again live on earth as the guardians live in the tower.

No one knows the exact origin of these tales, but these souls are the ones the ghosts have been dispatched to find.

There is, however, a lingering doubt that the ghosts will ever find humans of such strength.

Yet, despite these doubts... some still believe in the tales with all their heart.

Some say the speaker himself believes the tales to be true, saying the traveler has predicted the coming of a group of new guardians with unimaginable strength.

Others pass them off as hopeless stories for children…

Perhaps the tales hold some truth after all... because as time goes on, strange guardians are appearing one by one.

With unique talents and abilities it's possible that these guardians are the legendary few, but those aren't the ones this story begins with…

The one we begin with is the one who was seemingly forgotten, the first of their kind.

We now start with the forgotten soul, one lost so deep within the depth of the Earth's crust that they were thought to have been abandoned.

One guardian had been lost on earth, him having been in search of a special material called helium filaments, a material that is used to add to the durability of armor and to better weapons as well.

They weren't hard to find if you knew where to look, but the blades of Crota were as merciless as ever and had ambushed him in a group.

Perhaps it had been fate that yet another guardian had been awoken that very time he had taken his patrol trip to earth.

Perhaps it had been the traveler's will that she had appeared that very day.

The woman who changed everything…

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Chapter one, the forgotten one.

The Ghost hovered about scanning one thing after another, it was searching for something in this dark pit, the ghost could feel the energy radiating from the pit. A wave of energy rushed over the land, signaling a familiar fate. "Another has Fallen…" the ghost said as it scanned across the area of ornate rock in front of it. "Interesting… this is something new… is this the insignia that the traveler was telling me to search for?" the ghost asked no one in particular. It scanned over the carved insignia on the stone and sighed.

"Not it… this is a different one… I believe the one the traveler told me to search for was… a swirling leaf…" the ghost said as it hovered around the rock analyzing the area. "This is a flame. Hm…" the ghost muttered as it levitated the rock to reveal yet another passageway down in the pit. The ghost proceeded down the path, feeling the energy of the soul getting stronger and stronger the closer it got to it. The ghost came to a figure of a woman shrouded in a blue fog, the woman herself was see through, signaling to the ghost that she was one of the few, a destined guardian.

The ghost proceeded to perform the resurrection process. Starting from the feet a skeleton began to form from seemingly nothing swiftly nerves, blood vessels, and skin began to wrap around the foot bones and continued up the glowing skeleton to form organs and allow the veins, vessels, muscles, and skin to wrap around the organs and form a feminine form. Soft pink lips frowned in confusion as boots, clothes, and armor covered her body from head to toe afterwards. White eyes locked onto the ghost before a shade of black glass fell over her eyes and a helmet materialized over the rest of her head, encasing her long ebony blue locks in her armor as well.

Her form collapsed against the floor, the inability to hold herself steady apparent. She seemed to be struggling to get back to her feet as she wobbled on her hands and knees as if under the influence of alchohol. "Guardian…" the ghost called and her obviously unfocused gaze was searching for the source of the sound. "Eyes up, guardian." He called once more and her shaky gaze seemed to find itself on him. She seemed to be getting better control of her body now, as she carefully shoved herself to her feet and began moving her limbs as if to get used to the feeling of living once more.

"Welcome back guardian. Now what I'm about to tell you might come as quite a shock, and so will everything you see outside. You've been dead for a very long time, you see… so please do not panic if you don't understand." The ghost began and she turned her head up to look at the hovering creature. "I know… I know I've been dead for a long time… this doesn't smell of home… this smells putrid… like death, decay, and burned things…" she said, her voice soft and gentle. The ghost wouldn't have heard her if he had been a human… that was for sure.

"That may be… but for now we need to get you a weapon… seems like you're a warlock, judging by the armor you were resuscitated in. So follow me, alright?" the ghost asked and she didn't move when the ghost asked her to follow. "A weapon? What sort of weapon would I need?" she asked softly and the ghost turned to face her. "A gun… we need to find you a gun. I didn't bring you back just for you to die on me again…" the ghost said and she began fiddling with her fingers. "Um… if it's not rude to ask… what exactly are you?" she asked and the ghost hovered for a moment before beginning to explain.

"I'm a ghost, more importantly, I'm now your ghost. I will help you get out of tricky situations seeing as you're not as technologically advanced as a lot of the other guardians. There are many of us ghosts out there, so you don't have to worry about me having to assist the other guardians." The ghost said and she nodded. "Alright, so what do I call you? Do you have a name or something?" she asked softly and the ghost was caught off guard. "We uh… we don't have names… we just… were just ghosts. That's all." The ghost said and she frowned beneath her helmet… "Well that's no good… I'm going to name you… Ko… After an old friend of mine." She said and the ghost spun to turn to her.

"You remember your past?" he asked and she nodded. "I remember it well… was I not supposed to?" she asked and the ghost made a movement as to shake its head no if it had one. "No… most guardians remember the landscape… but if you remember your past you're just like them… we have to get you to the tower. But first… no fallen brother left behind." The ghost said and she tilted her head. "When we reach the opening to this pit, we are going to go west, there is a fallen guardian. We need to get you a weapon first because you don't know if the Fallen are still surrounding him." The ghost said and she began moving her limbs trying to see if they still held her muscle memory, which they luckily did.

"I'm not sure how much help I will be overall… but a fallen guardian is one of my own right? A comrade?" she asked nervously and the ghost made a nod type movement. "Alright… then just as I used to… I have to go help my friends." She said softly, her voice still insecure. The ghost watched her for a moment then sighed. "Follow me. There should be a gun this way, I can feel its inanimate energy." The ghost said and she followed the ghost up the path obediently.

The ghost led her safely up the path leaving the pit and out in the open. Her eyes widened in shock as her world spun around her. The images blurred and all she saw was orange, light brown, and red… the colors of the desert wasteland surrounding her, the broken down metal objects with what looked like rubber coated wagon wheels, the old brownish rusted buildings blurring in her vision as well as the wasteland landscape. A choked sob escaped her lips and when her hand shot up to attempt to cover her mouth in shock, her gauntlets collided with her helmet.

"What happened to my home… where are all the trees? The oceans? The villages? What is this place?" she sobbed and her ghost hovered over to her. "This is earth… I suppose what is left of your… village, as you said… is buried deep underground where I found your burial… I'm sorry…" the ghost said and she turned towards the ghost. "What caused this to happen." She asked softly, sniffling as she tried to get her emotions under control. "Creatures called the Fallen. They came here to destroy earth and steal resources… At least that's what we have recorded in the history of our computers…" the ghost said and she looked at him. "Computers are devices with un-measureable intelligence and vast computing properties. Don't worry you'll learn everything you need to know about in due time." The ghost said and she nodded.

"Thank you Ko." She said and the ghost looked at her. "You're welcome guardian." The ghost said and hovered ahead of her towards an abandoned shed with a metal crate within. Propped up on the side of the crate was an auto rifle, and sitting atop the metal crate was what the ghost described as a hand cannon. "You should take both and the ammo for them, seems someone is being careless." The ghost said and she nodded. She grabbed the auto rifle by the strap and tossed it over her shoulders.

She strapped the holster for the hand cannon to her thigh and put the gun within it. "Alright, lets go, the hunter should be over this direction." The ghost said and she looked at him. "Hunter?" she asked and the ghost made a noise then began to explain. "Hunters are a special type of guardians, they usually go out to gather things from the surface of the planets. Hunters are pretty much free to go wherever they please because once they have proved themselves strong enough to activate their inbred ability to materialize out of sight, they can move around virtually undetected." The ghost explained and she was awestruck.

"We should h-hurry then!" she said and took off running quickly towards the direction the ghost said the downed Hunter was. She skidded to a stop when she heard incoherent speaking. A chill went down her spine as she froze in her tracks as those incoherent voices faded out and the sound of a heavy blade sliding across the metal floor and heavy breathing sounded right behind her. Her fingers trembled as she slowly turned to look behind her at the creature towering over her.

"A blade of Crota… run guardian… we can't save the Hunter. We need to find us a ship, that's more important right now." She looked over and saw the downed guardian, his hood and helmet were crumbling away, his skin becoming exposed. She narrowed her eyes as she caught sight of a face that brought back so many memories, she couldn't be certain if it were actually him or not… but she couldn't allow him to die." She spun on her heel and rushed at the blade. Her ghost continued to yell at her, telling her it was suicide and that he couldn't revive her on his own.

She jumped and spun, her booted leg connecting with the blade's arm. She tried to jump back but the blade grabbed her by the leg and slung her against the ground. She released a pained yell upon impact, but she refused to stay down. "I refuse to give in… he wouldn't… so why should I?" she muttered more to herself than to her ghost. Her flat palms began to radiate blue energy and they soon formed twin lion heads that spread over the outside of her gauntlets, surprising the ghost.

"I refuse to fall without a fight." She ground out, a bit more determination this time. She was fast, especially for a human… the ghosts had never seen humans move at such speed before. "You're one of the legendary ones…" her ghost said as he watched her lion fists make crack after crack in the blade's hardened exterior. She finished the blade off by grabbing a hold of the large sword the blade had continuously tried to end her with, and she ran it through with its own blade.

The creature fell to the ground and she crouched next to the fallen guardian. She held her hands out to his deconstructed ghost and green energy flowed from her being and into the guardian's. Dark eyes snapped open and a deep breath was heard right before the helmet snapped back over the man's eyes. She stood and offered her fellow guardian a hand. "Damn it all…" the hunter muttered as he studied his destroyed auto rifle. "Here… this might do the job for a while… at least until we can get out of here…." She said and he looked at her.

He nodded and took the auto rifle she was extending towards him. "You're a new guardian, huh? Well I guess it can't be helped." He sighed and reached up to rub the hood covering his head. "Come on, let's get you in my ship, then we can head back to the tower and get you one of your own, how about that?" the hunter asked and she nodded exuberantly. He chuckled and hit a button on his gauntlet and his ship zoomed overhead and it scanned him, his ghost, her, and her ghost before it teleported them into the ship.

"You seem to have this whole technology thing figured out…" she said softly and he chuckled good naturedly. "It was a bit bothersome, but I figured it out after a while." He chuckled and turned to her, she appeared to be frozen, staring at him. "Uh… was it something I said?" he asked scratching his hood once more. "Uh… no sorry. You just remind me of someone I knew when I was alive so long ago…" she said softly, her shyness seeping into her voice slightly.

"Ah, I see. Well, that's no big deal. I'm sure someday you'll find someone you know. My brother is the assistant to the speaker, it was only by chance that he was brought back though." He chuckled. "But… if there are other rank one guardians as strong as you out there… I'm absolutely sure that the ghosts will find them." The hunter said and she nodded. "So, what is your name? I'm Eren." He said and she extended her hand to shake his outstretched one. "Hinata, Hinata Hyuuga. I'm from edo, I lived in a village called konoha." She said and he stared at her wide eyed.

She blushed lightly, nervous because of the look she was receiving. "Edo? You mean early japan? Wow… how did you end up buried under Russia!?" he asked and she blinked. "Russia?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah… Japan is so far from here it's not even funny." He said and she frowned. "So I was left there…" she began sadly and he watched her. "What do you mean?" he asked and she sat down in the passenger seat of the ship. "When I died, I had been sent on an assignment… it should have been a simple one, but the cave collapsed. I guess they never found me…" she said softly, her voice deeply saddened by this.

"Well… at least you can remember how you died, I was found as a pile of bones in a toilet… talk about a shitty death." He said and she laughed, a grin crossed his lips as she did so. "See! Not everything has to be all down in the dumps, come on, once we land I will introduce you to the warlock vanguard leader and she will get you some better armor." He said and she nodded. "Oh… um… Eren…" she called and he turned around to face her once more.

"What is this… glimmer my gauntlet keeps flashing at me?" she asked and he walked over to her and flipped open the touch screen cover on her gauntlet. He began tapping on random icons and explaining what they do. "This one, the one that looks like a storage box, it turns your weapons into recognizable engrams so that you can store them and equip them just as easy. See watch." He said and tapped on the storage box on his gauntlet. He had been holding the auto rifle that she had given him, but it turned into a white multi surfaced flat-faced shape and vanished into his gauntlet, a purple object of the same shape flew from the surface of his gauntlet and formed a Hand Cannon in his grasp.

"See, isn't that neat?" he asked and she nodded. "Alright, so this one…" he began and pointed at one that looked like a list. "This is your current bounty list. Obviously yours is empty so far because you haven't even been to the tower yet." He said and she nodded. He pointed to the icon that looked like a coin and smiled. "This one is going to be one of your best friends. This is the one that shows how many Motes of Light you have and also how many Strange coins you have." He said and she nodded, not quite understanding what those items were.

"Those are special currency that the speaker and Xur will trade you items for." He explained and she nodded. "Alright, now that we have the basics covered, glimmer. Glimmer is gained by killing the enemy. Every time you kill something, your ghost takes it's death into account and amounts its worth in glimmer. The more glimmer you have, the more you can buy. It's pretty simple, you kill the bad guy and get paid for doing so." He said and she nodded. A small smile crossed her lips.

"My husband would have loved the idea of this… his ramen binge would never be satiated." She laughed and Eren raised a brow at her. "You were married?" he asked, seemingly astonished. She nodded and he blinked. "Wow… just wow… you don't even look twenty three." He said and she furrowed her brows. "I guess when they bring you back they bring you back at your peak of strength." He offered and she shrugged lightly. "I guess so…" she said and her eyes caught sight of a large structure they were pulling closer to.

"Is this the tower?" she asked softly and he nodded. "Yup… this is home…" he said and her eyes were shining in amazement. His ship landed and they were teleported out of it. She landed ceremoniously on the tips of her toes, while Eren on the other hand landed in a noisy crouch. "How do you land so softly? I drop like an elephant on ice." He laughed and she blushed. "Um… I'm not sure… I think its muscle memory…" she said and he nodded. "Well… follow me. There's a gunsmith over here. Let's get you a better weapon first." He said and he led her over to the gunsmith.

"Ah… A newcomer to the tower. I haven't seen you before." Banshee said and she nodded shyly. "Hello." She said and Banshee chuckled out an electronic laugh. "I'd take it you've never seen an Exo before." He said and she shook her head. "That's fine. Since you're a newcomer to the tower I am obligated to give you your choice of a weapon, on the house." He said and she blinked. "Really?" she asked and Banshee nodded. Her eyes scanned over the weapons he'd laid out for her and the one that caught her eye was a small shining silver gun with a long barrel. "Ah… the hand cannon." He said and she picked it up.

"Very good choice, you take care of that weapon guardian." He said and she nodded. "I will sir…" she said and he nodded at her. She turned to Eren and frowned as she held the slightly heavy weapon within her grasp. "I want to go back to earth… I want to bring a few ghosts with me. if I can find my friends, they will no doubt be willing to assist in helping." Hinata said and he frowned "I'm sorry… I don't think that's how it works Hinata… the ghost has to choose you…" Eren said and Ko hovered around her.

"I'm afraid he's right Hinata. We have a set DNA that we are supposed to find, I was told to find yours. Some ghosts never actually find their guardian, sadly enough…" her ghost said and she smiled at him slightly. "Thank you for finding me, Ko. I'm very grateful to you." She said and her ghost said nothing, he just hovered around her once more. "You're very welcome… guardian…" he said and she smiled at him. "I can do one thing for you Hinata… I can gift you armor from a higher rank…. It should fit you." Eren said and Hinata looked at him in shock. "Guardian, if you can wear the armor he gives you already, we must go speak to the speaker... he is the voice of our traveler, the one who chose you to come back…" Ko Said and she nodded.

They made their way over to the Speaker and Hinata began to get nervous. They entered the dome like room and Hinata was engrossed in the large spinning gyro sphere. She walked over and reached to try to touch it, but someone cleared their throat. "You must be the newest guardian, it's a pleasure to meet you." He said as he made his way down the stairs towards her. "But my, aren't you dressed oddly." He said, mildly surprised at seeing her wearing higher ranking armor than she already should.

"That is why I'm here, sir, I was told that if I could wear the higher ranking armor already… then I was um… special…" Hinata said as she fumbled with her fingers. Her dark navy locks fell in nearly a solid curtain around the shoulders of her armor. The Speaker circled her and she watched him without even turning her head, it seemed she still retained the majority of her abilities from her past life. "What a fierce gaze as well, that is something I haven't seen before." He said and she only blinked.

She didn't think much of this man, she wasn't sure if she should fully trust him; but the fact that everyone else here trusted him she supposed she should as well. What set her on edge was the fact he remained a obscured face in this place where it seemed that no one covered their faces. "You're skeptical. I understand this fully. You have no idea where you are, what this place is, what is actually going on, and why you were brought back." He said and she watched him carefully.

"You see… there is a darkness coming, trying to extinguish our light. They are trying to destroy everything we know. As you can tell from what you must have already seen, they are succeeding in their efforts of making us obsolete. Whatever the cost, we cannot allow them to extinguish our light. We cannot allow them to break us down and take everything away from us." The speaker said and she watched him in the same silence she had been keeping.

"Come a bit closer." He said and she stepped forwards ever so slightly. "I want to see what the Traveler will allow me to see of your purpose." He said and she closed her eyes as his gloved hands gently pressed against the sides of her head. "What mystifying things I get from you…" he managed as a purple chakra engulfed her and his hands, slowly crawling down his arms as well. He was struggling to keep his grasp on her as said chakra seeped across him.

"What is that?" Eren asked as he and his younger brother, Kris, took a few tentative steps backwards. "This void ability is one that I have never felt, it is frighteningly ominous." Kris said and made his way back up the stairs just to get as far from the feeling as possible without getting out of visual range. Eren watched his younger brother tremble at the top of the stairs and he knew that this young woman he had brought in was in fact very special.

Hinata's eyes had snapped open, tears falling from her white orbs, her mouth open in a silent scream of either fear or agony; they couldn't tell. "You must forgive me… I have never seen anything like this." The speaker said, still not removing his hands from her. "What terrifying eyes of crimson I see…" he whispered his body going slightly rigid at the mental image of said eyes. "So angry and vengeful… neither the same pattern, one obscured." he said as ebony locks crossed over one those eyes in his mind.

"A name isn't uttered, just an image… I suppose this person will be an ally. One to keep an eye on, but an ally nonetheless." He said, but when he made a move to remove his hands a shock of pink flashed in his mind's eye. "Such a calming color… but what a rage behind those Evergreen eyes…" he said and the glint of a jewel flashed in his vision. "A woman with pink hair, eyes the color of the leaves, and a rage unlike any other." He said and Eren watched the purple chakra flare and sprout foxlike ears atop her head.

"What a magnificent sight indeed!" The Speaker managed as one by one the chakra surrounding her sprouted tail after tail. "This power is not yours." He said, the excitement in his voice audible for all those around to hear. Her arms began to tremble violently and slowly she attempted to clutch herself. "What beautiful sights I see from you, young one. Do you have any more to show me as of this moment?" he asked and she reached up with trembling hands and grasped his helmet.

The moment she made contact, his hands fell limp. "What beautiful power…" he whispered. "These legendary few…" he added and the chakra began to fade. Blue eyes and blonde hair flooded his vision, then light green eyes and red hair, then dark hair and brown eyes, and lastly pale blonde hair and baby blue eyes. "The power is terrifying to me, so their power should no doubt fight off the darkness." The speaker said and the ominously colored chakra began to fade and Hinata hit her knees.

She was hyperventilating, but that was understandable to the Speaker. An ebony ghost hovered by Hinata and they all watched the new ghost. "You…" the ghost began as it hovered around her. "You can lead me to him…" it said and Eren blinked. "Lead you to who?" he asked and the ghost turned to him, then back to her as she stood. "I… can find Sasuke…" she said and the ghost vanished into the screen on her gauntlet. "Who is Sasuke?" The speaker asked and Hinata shakily stood.

"He was my husband's best friend. He is far stronger than I could ever be…" she said and Eren furrowed his brows at her. "Now that is nonsense. I have never seen a human as strong as you…" he said and she pulled her curtain of hair over her shoulder and began to braid it into a loose braid. "You will see…" she said softly with downcast eyes. "I suppose that once again… I'm only here to find the ones who are stronger than I am…" she whispered and turned to leave but the speaker placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Take this." He said and handed her a warlock bond. She gently grasped it and it began to glow brightly at her touch. Eren's eyes were wide, as were Kris'. "Speaker, sir… I have never seen a bond like that." Kris stammered and The Speaker nodded. "Nor have I, it is the bond formed by her touch. I handed her a blank slate, and she became the leader of ghosts." He said and eyed the strange bond. The image of feathered wings protectively circled an image of a Ghost.

She proceeded to leave and make her way to the ship docking area to get her a ship. The image was a bright shade of blue, noticeable by all who passed. She heard their whispers, their murmurs of intrigue, but it did not phase her one bit. What did, however, sent her mind into turmoil. She knew that if she were to find him first, it was going to be trouble. She knew this, and yet despite her heart ache she knew she needed to find him.

Her eyes slid shut as she felt the disgust fill her form. She didn't hate the man; no… it was actually far from it. She had been quite good friends with him actually, and that had been part of the problem. Technically it was selfish of her to want to find Naruto first, but if Sasuke was going to be the first one she could find she wasn't going to complain. "Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru, Gaara, I'm coming for you… I will find you and we will fix this. And then maybe we can all rest in peace." She whispered to the sky.

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His hands went through everything he tried to touch, damn wasn't this troubling. An annoyed twitch found his eye, but he still wandered aimlessly around this tomb he was trapped in. He could feel her soul, even from so far away. Her soul called out to his and he wondered if she would ever find him, and he wondered what would happen if she did manage to find him. When he sat and cleared his mind, he could feel other souls trapped as well; but only her soul called out to him the way it did.

He supposed there was a reasoning for this, being as they had been very good friends. Sakura's soul was off in the distance and he could feel her soul tugging at his blonde best friend's soul, he wondered if this divine interaction was taunting him. Trying to tell him exactly what his older brother had when they had been at peace, resting in the confines of heaven surrounded by his family. He released a sigh that held no noise, or even the usual rush of air that should follow.

He looked back at his marred pile of bones and his eyes drooped in his sadness. He had left Sakura a widow, and Sarada without a father. He hadn't meant to, but when he had fallen ill; it had taken him swiftly. Hinata had perished and no one had been able to find her, and he blamed himself all this time. It had actually seemed to be something of his fault, he had lost his grip. She had fallen so far into that cavern before it had caved, and no matter how much digging he had done, he never found her.

He had created her a grave stone, he had felt that it was only right that he had done so.

He could still see her eyes… those scared moon colored eyes of hers…

He could still hear her scream of fear as she had slipped from his grasp. He hadn't meant to let her slip from his grasp, but she just… had…

This being why the guilt, self hatred, and rage had followed him to his deathbed and even beyond... He thought Naruto, Bolt, and Himawari would have hated him… but they hadn't. Naruto still came over to visit him while he lay there, slowly fading from the realm of the living. Bolt and Sarada had come to see him on a daily basis, the young Uzumaki had even asked him for his daughter's hand in marriage. He had given consent, because the guilt was overwhelming to him and he wanted to make sure Bolt knew he was sorry.

He supposed Bolt had realized this, being as to why the young blonde had come to him and had told him that he knew what it meant to be a shinobi. He knew that you could die on a daily basis, this was how it was. Bolt had told him that he didn't want Sasuke to think he had owed him anything, because he hadn't. Accidents happen, they knew their mother loved them dearly; and they would never forget it. This had tugged on the Uchiha's hidden heart strings, Naruto's son could read him like a book it had seemed.

Himawari had a different approach to this though… she had come to sing to him more often than not. She had sung him to sleep as he had passed from the realm of the living, to be exact. The song had been a beautiful one, which he knew held so much meaning to her. Hell, anyone he knew could hold meaning to the song. They had all been through so much and just the title of her song had caught his eye. She had looked and sounded so much like her mother, that he had cried as he had passed away. Regret eating away at him even as he had faded from the world.

She would sing A Promise That Doesn't Need words, and no matter how many times he would hear her sing it… it still made him both smile ever so slightly, and make his chest tighten in his regret. He had always enjoyed watching her dance around as she would sing, even if he couldn't move far from the back porch of his home. She would come to him and try and brighten his day, although Naruto would follow soon after and make some sort of joke about no matter how many sunflowers surrounded him, they could never break the veil of darkness around him.

Himawari would laugh, knowing her father was referencing her name, and she would tell him that her mother could have… and then she would say she was just trying to be like her mother, and brighten the lives of all those around her. This would make Naruto grin and hug his daughter tightly, but would make all that guilt come rushing back to him. Sasuke had torn their family apart and yet they had still come by and tried to make him feel better.

The only way he could ever repay them… was if Hinata had found him once more. He had seen it happen in his mind's eye, a small mechanical creature had brought Hinata back from the realm of the dead. He knew his time to return was coming, because he could feel her soul edging ever so close.

Once she found him… he was not going to let anything happen to her. Not again, not ever again. Even if he perished once more, he would protect her.

So! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! I'm not sure when I will have the second one up because I'm working on trying to finish the Veil of Time trilogy, Bad Influence, and A Light In The Dark, as well. Do not fret however, I will be updating as much as I can, and editing my other stories as well. Thank you for reading!