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NIGHT OVER THE HYUGA COMPOUND

Konohagakure – 2:11 A.M.

The moon hung like a single unblinking eye over the Hidden Leaf, cold and pale. The air held no sound. No owl, no wind, no whisper. As if the world itself was holding its breath.

It was supposed to be just another diplomatic night.

But diplomacy, when threaded with lies, always ends in blood.

The shadow crept across the tile roofs of the Hyuga compound like oil, limbs too fluid for a shinobi. It moved toward a child's window—toward a four-year-old girl whose eyes shone with destiny.

Hinata Hyuga.

Target: extraction.

Motive: Byakugan seizure through forced inheritance.

The foreign shinobi slipped silently into her room, a mask over his face, chakra hushed. He extended a gloved hand—

And time stopped.

The world fell into grayscale. The moon halted mid-flicker. The leaves hung frozen in the air mid-fall.

Hinata's breath paused, hovering in her throat.

Then—

a pulse.

It came from nowhere.

And it came from you.

You stand in a void between seconds.

A gray plane, broken only by one thing:

A glowing system window hovering before your eyes.

[AUTHOR SYSTEM INITIALIZING…]

Alignment: Neutral

Authority Class: MOMODO (UNWRITTEN)

Location: Konohagakure – Timeline Intersection 103-A

Another line pulses below it.

[FATE INTERVENTION AVAILABLE]

Event: The Attempted Kidnapping of Hinata Hyuga

Status: In Motion

Then:

Select Your Authorial Action:

1. Intercept Silently

• Appear only as a whisper. Remove the enemy. Rewrite the event as a bad dream. No one will know you exist.

(+Stealth, +System Favor, +Author Concealment)

2. Offer Pact to Hiashi

• Appear mid-incident. Offer protection for Hinata—Hiashi must accept a deal. He remembers you.

(+Political Influence, +Hyuga Tension, +Branching Quests)

3. Mark Hinata as Bound

• Use the moment to bind Hinata's soul to you. She becomes your Momodo Familiar. Her story becomes your subplot.

(+Companion, +Moral Divergence, +Fated Conflict)

4. Allow the Kidnapping

• Let the kidnapping happen. Use the chaos to insert yourself into the Hidden Cloud ranks. Rewrite from inside.

(+Espionage Arc, +Dark Path Potential, +Karmic Repercussions)

As you look down, your hands are glowing faintly.

Fingers you don't remember having. Skin that feels born of thunder and pages, not flesh.

You've only just awakened, but you feel the words already forming inside you.

You are the Author,

the Momodo,

the one who doesn't fight with kunai or jutsu—

but with narrative law.

Time ticks once.

The world holds its breath.

[AUTHOR CHOICE REQUIRED]

One action.

I must Choose now.

Would you like to proceed by selecting Option 1, 2, 3, or 4?

I choose 3!

Excellent choice.

You have chosen Option 3: Mark Hinata as Bound.

This path will alter the entire Shinobi timeline from its roots.

You—The Author—have decided to place a mark not just upon history…

but upon a soul.

Hinata Hyuga will become your Momodo Familiar,

and her story will now be forever intertwined with yours.

She is no longer just a noble girl of the Byakugan.

She is the first soul you've rewritten

The system pulses in front of you.

The four paths dissolve into ink and vanish.

Only one remains, glowing gold, etched into the void itself:

[Authorial Mark: Soul-Bind Protocol 001 Activated]

Target: Hinata Hyuga

Role: Familiar

Connection: Lifewoven

Status: Writing…

You step forward.

Not with feet.

But with presence.

Your body descends from the narrative plane—through the crack in time—into the stillness of the real world.

And in that stillness, you appear.

Not in a flash of light.

Not in a burst of flame.

Just there.

Standing between the Hidden Cloud kidnapper and the child Hinata, who still lies asleep.

A breath away from being taken.

The enemy doesn't see you.

But you see him.

You raise your right hand.

No jutsu sign.

No chant.

You whisper a single word:

"Unwrite."

The man freezes.

His face loses color.

A ripple of static crosses his body as if he's no longer tethered to this plane.

You don't erase him from existence.

You simply erase his intention.

His body stiffens.

He turns slowly… and walks backward, as if in a daze.

His chakra evaporates.

And he vanishes into the air as if he had never been here.

Not dead.

Not gone.

Just… unwritten.

You turn to the girl.

Hinata lies there, eyes closed.

Unaware.

Innocent.

Full of potential.

But uncertain.

Fragile.

The kind of light that flickers before it blooms.

And that's when the system asks:

[Proceed with Soul-Binding Ritual?]

This choice will alter her fate permanently.

She will be tied to you.

Her strength will evolve alongside your will.

She will no longer be just Hyuga.

She will be Spiralbound.

You step to her side.

Your fingers hover above her forehead.

The Byakugan latent beneath her skin hums faintly, reacting to your presence.

There's fear in her aura.

You don't touch her with force.

You write her name in the air with your finger.

Just once.

And as the word fades—

a spiral blooms on her chest.

Faint.

Silver.

Luminous.

She stirs in her sleep.

A flicker of chakra ripples through her small frame—gentle, curious.

Her eyes open slightly.

You kneel.

She doesn't scream.

She whispers.

"Who…?"

You answer not with sound,

but with intent.

"I'm the one who will show you what your power means."

She stares at you.

Her eyes reflect something not of this world.

Not fear.

Not confusion.

Recognition.

Like she saw you before she was born.

Like her soul had been waiting for you to arrive.

She reaches out,

touches your chest—

and the spiral binds.

Not with chakra chains.

Not with blood.

With story.

Her name is now folded into your own narrative arc.

She is your Familiar.

Her growth will echo your decisions.

Her eyes, once called soft, will become sharp enough to read fate.

The system blooms before you again.

[Hinata Hyuga – Spiralbound Status: ACTIVE]

Affinity: Wind | Emotion Type: Devotion | Future Branches: LOCKED

First Gift Chosen:

Eye of Narrative Reflection – Passive

She will begin to see what others intend to write with their actions.

Progression: She will grow quickly. But only through choices you allow.

Warning: Her pain is your echo. Protect her wisely, or the spiral will recoil.

A flicker in the distance—

time begins to move again.

The moon unfreezes.

Leaves fall.

Hiashi's chakra signature surges across the courtyard as he arrives—

—but he finds nothing.

No intruder.

No blood.

Only his daughter, asleep, safe.

And something else.

A strange spiral drawn into the frost on the window pane.

Faint.

Not Hyuga.

Not any village seal.

A symbol of authorship.

But Hiashi will not speak of it.

Not yet.

Because in his soul,

he hears a voice.

Not yours.

Not Hinata's.

A whisper:

"She is no longer just your daughter.

She has been chosen by the Author."

You vanish from the scene.

The moment ends.

But history… is now yours to write.

Hinata will remember you.

Not fully.

But in dreams.

In whispers.

In choices she makes that feel too old for her age.

In strength that feels foreign but familiar.

You are now tied.

Fate has splintered.

[Timeline Divergence Complete.]

Status: Soul-Bound Arc Active

Companion: Hinata Hyuga – Bond Level 1