On the edge—
Chapter IV: On the edge—
“You desire now a way to die without losing your body.”
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Her world tilted on its axis.
Her body may have not done so with it; her mind however did.
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It was not like Kaguya’s mind wasn’t “off the axis” already. Getting murdered by your own mother kinda does that to you, you know.
It’s just that, she thought that Hinata loved her, loved her just as much as she did her.
Kaguya saw the way Hinata acted around Naruto.
Hinata herself knew that she wasn’t fully capable of loving him (she didn’t know where the rest of her heart was wondering. A lie. A filthy, filthy, filthy lie.), but she still did fully believe that she loved him, that much Kaguya knew.
She however, as an outsider, saw better. Knew better.
So, the pure betrayal at Hinata’s words (that Kaguya knew were true, came from Hinata’s heart) that she felt, clawed. her. open. (just like she did her mother and her mother did her - quite the repeating pattern it her life and afterlife.)
Her mind — or well, the shattered pieces of it that still were sane enough to work — was anywhere but on the axis of fraying sanity now.
It was standing on the edge of insanity.
And now, didn’t she always want to perform a bungee-jump? (Sans the failsafe, of course.)