Rolling to my left I can feel my favorite pillow underneath my face. A familiar feeling I haven't felt in months. Opening my eyes I see the pillow.

I am in my old room. Why am I back again? Something about these dreams leave an ominous feeling.

I take my phone from my bedside table and look at the time. Evening on the same day of the last dream. I think I can remember this day the last time around. Noticing that I was hungry I went downstairs and met my mother while she was writing in her diary.

In fact I am hungry and go downstairs into the kitchen. I grab ham, cheese and tomatoes out of the fridge and make myself a sandwich when my mother enters the room with her diary in one hand and her glasses in the other.

"Matt, honey. How do you feel? Your father told me about your headache."

"I am alrigt mum. It was probably just the weather."

"Hm of course. It wouldn't be something about your girlfriend right?"

Right. There was that conversation. My mother never had a good opinion of Lea. Something about Lea always seemed to irritate my mother and never found out what is making her feel so frustrated.

"We just had a small misunderstanding. Really I am fine."

"Matt you know how I think about that girl. She is so different from you that I don't think you would really suit each other."

"I know mum, but I really like her."

"Son, there have been rumours about her in the neighborhood. Her father is apparently an ex-convict and it is said that her mother is being abused by him. I don't know about you Matt, but that family has problems."

"They are just rumours mum. Lea is totally okay. True she as a strong attitude, but that is what I like about her. She is an open-minded person, but should something clash with her opinion then she will try to have you see her perspective. But it is not like she is not listening to you during such a discussion. I am sure we will be fine after the weekend."

*sigh*

"Matt I am just trying to protect you."

Doesn't that sound familiar from somewhere?

"You know how parents are Matt. They just want to see their little kids staying children and you will forever be my little boy."

Yeah and there is that phrase 'Little boy'. I am so happy that everything right now is only a dream. Weirdly realistic dream, but still a dream.

"Mum I am already 15. I might not be an adult yet, but I am certainly not a little kid anymore."

"As I said you I will still love you as my little boy no matter how old you will be."

And how you love the little boy you also wanted to have and not the one person standing right in front of you. Is this why I am having this dream? To realize that the moment my mother said 'love' it didn't hold the same conviction, when Hitomi said 'love'? Damn these dreams are joking with me good time.

"Yeah I know."

"Anyway Matt I will be out for the next hour or so, just that you know."

"Got it mum."

Eating the real stuff like a good sandwich at least made my day, or dream. Drinking breast milk the whole time and that weird baby food had been stale at best and at worst disgusting. I don't know about you, but drinking breast milk hasn't been a funny experience for me.

Oh mum left her diary here. I could sneak a peek after all this is only a dream. Let see... newest entry is as expected today.

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Dear diary,

I had ordered my husband to find more details about my sons girlfriend, that bitch Lea. Her father is apparently an ex-convict, but get that. He was arrested for killing another person!

Of course it later came to light that he killed in self-defense, but he still murdered another person. There is no way that I am allowing someone like that into our house or more important any way near my little boy.

So I started spreading rumours about the block and I am sure by monday everyone in my boys school will know about Leas true family.

That was what happened this morning, until my husband told me that my boy had a fight with this bitch. That is my chance to have my son see reason!

Anywa-

What is this? I still remember what happened on that monday when I went to school. Leas lockers had graffiti all over spelling out messages like: 'Whore', 'Murderer', and so on. Her friends didn't support and to be honest I was afraid how friends could backstab anyone that fast.

And you know what Lea did? She took it like a champ. Well as well as you can take being ostracized by everyone and having to clean the mess of others. Publically no one supported her and she still made it through that ordeal. At least that was what I thought about the situation at the time.

What did I do? I was the coward that sent her private messages telling her that she is probably the strongest person that I know and I would support her. She called me out on it and asked me where I had been that morning when she wanted someone at her side. Yeah that was kind of the end of our relationship.

After 3 weeks of constant harassment, Lea just disappeared one day and I never saw her again. Looking back at the person that removed the slander from her lockers, that was one of the worst moments in my life.

I had never before seen anyone as fragile and helpless as Lea did. Her appearance was that of someone ready to take on the whole world, while her heart was bleeding inside of her. One of my biggest regrets had been to have left her hanging.

I know that I am dreaming, but should I ever get back into this weird dream, then I atleast want to live a life that I wouldn't regret.

So I closed the diary and went up to my room and immediately messaged Lea.

"Hey uhm. I know it might be weird to read from me, but my mum just told me about some bad rumours that had been going through the neighborhood and they are not really pleasant. They are obviously about you and I don't what to say, but should something happen on monday, I will be on your side."

And send.

Hey isn't that message super weird? Maybe I should have instead talked about our fight? What was it even about... heck whatever. Let's get back to resting and to the real world.

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I open my eyes and see my mother sleeping at my bedside. Somehow she seems really tired even during her sleep.

Anyway it seems to be close to noon so I try to shake her awake and she slowly starts waking up.

"...mmmh oh, Hinata how are you?"

What is this feeling. Seeing her fatigued eyes somehow really hurt me inside.

"...ma..mof-..mother."

The time stands still for several seconds and on the frozen face of my mother a smile starts appearing. With the smile appearing, all the fatigue that had been displayed seems to have vanished and Hitomi is having the most wonderful smile right on her face. I can even see her eyes glistening and a small teardrop that is released from her right eye, which slowly falls on her cheeks and meets the edge of her upper lip.

"Please say it again, honey."

"mafr...mother. Mother! Love mother!"

Hitomi literally starts bawling her eyes out and hugs me close to her. I may have started tearing up too, but that is completely my bodies fault and has nothing to do with my personal feelings! Okay?!

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P.o.V. Ko Hyuga

My name is Ko Hyuga a jonin-level shinobi and one of the Hyugas rising starts. I may not be on prodigy level, but from my current age I am one of the best.

The clan head, Hiashi Hyuga, gave me a mission to protect his daughter and whenever she is doing something irresistibly cute take a photo of her. In the four months of my mission, I have already taken 207 pictures, but the last two shots trumphed them all.

As usual I was hiding in the roof of my target, when I noticed her using chakra. During all this time, that was the first occasion Hinata ever used shakra outside of her body. True I noticed her using it inside of her multiple times to remove fatigue, but that still surprised me. Hinata is five months old and already capable of using chakra outside her body? That child is a true prodigy.

That was when her mother, Hitomi, entered the room and started a lecture about her monstrous behaviour up to now and I felt that she may have gone a little too far with her speech. It somehow resolved itself with her voicing her unconditional love for her daughter and both crying.

I didn't want to intrude further in the moment and left them both for the night as I didn't think it necessary to protect someone that is currently at the side of her mother. When I came back the next day, both mother and child were sleeping. One on the bed facing her mother and the other sitting on the ground with her head leaning on the bed facing her daughter.

That was photograph Nr.206 and I dubbed it 'peaceful sleep'. One of the best events I had witnessed, but it got even better when Hinata woke up.

She gently woke up her mother and told her that she also loves Hitomi as a mother and then they started crying like crazy.

The moment Hinata said her first words and time seemed to stop, was the exact moment I made Nr.207.

I might even develop this wonderful moment and have it framed for myself.

Don't worry. I will try my best to preserve your peaceful life.