"I don't wanna lose you...but what a painful world." - No More Pain by KAT-TUN
As the sun began to rise in the east, the all waited celebration of another day where it is filled with the color red or in this case white has begun. Yes the day is White Day, dated March 14 in the calendar of all people in the land. A day where in the boys would return their feelings towards the girl who have given them chocolates during Valentine's Day to only to double or triple the expensive gifts or a day where in the boy could confess his affection towards his so called "precious one". Though let us put our attention to a certain boy who is currently in the Uchiha compound; still in his world of fantasies and may have almost forgotten about the event if it weren't for his...
RING! RING! RING! RIN-
...alarm clock.
The young Uchiha sat up and stretched a muscle or two and messed up his hair even more so that he could get back to reality. His sleepy eyes scanned his room then stopped at the calendar where in he has encircled with a red pen and wrote in big letters: HOWAITO DE. In other words; "White Day".
Within a second of looking and rereading the message, he sprang out of the bed and began his way to the bathroom only to find it locked; it is occupied. With the bathroom occupied he decided to go to the kitchen or specifically the fridge if the candy that he made is not eaten by any member of his family or discovered by them; it would be annoying and embarrassing if they knew that he made candies for a girl who is not his mother. He looked side to side to check if anyone was around. Seeing that it was all cleared he opened the door of the fridge and opened the drawer on the bottom. He began to take away some fruits and vegetables until he have found what he was looking for; a container which contains his home made sweets that he made all by himself. He opened the container and check if the sweets wasn't eaten or ruined. Once he was sure, he quickly placed everything back as it was and was about to go back to his room to finish the final touches. Though he meet face-to-face with...
"What's inside the container, Sasuke?" his father asked him.
Okay it might have been better if it was his mother or older brother; might anyway but it's his father that has discovered him. What is a seven year old boy to do if his father finds out that he made chocolates to a girl he likes in the academy? Especially when that seven year old boy knows (or so he thinks) that his father expects high achievements from him like his older brother, who is the prodigy of the Uchiha Clan.
His eyes widen and blushes furiously as he stumbles a few words, "Um...uh...i-it-t's uh...um...a p-pro-j-jec-ct?" he stuttered.
"Is it really a project for white day, Sasuke?"
Sasuke's heart pounded strongly against his chest once those words came out from his father's mouth, "What am I suppose to say? Father expects a lot from me just like Itachi. He doesn't expect me to give chocolates to a girl when I could be studying!"
All suddenly, his father smiled or smirked a bit, "Is that project for that girl during the opening ceremony of the academy?" he asked.
Forget blushing furiously his face was red as a tomato now.
The blushing only made the smirk or smile of his father widen, "So it is for that girl. I think I heard her name was Mayonaka Hoshiko." He thought a bit, "Hm... so she's part of the Mayonaka Clan; the midnight jutsu users. My my my little Sasuke knows how pick a girl." he was practically grinning, showing off his brushed teeth.
Only to make things worse, his mother came running towards the kitchen; she obviously heard the conversation, "My little Sasuke is growing up so fast that his has his first crush already." she cupped her face and started swaying side to side like some crazy fan girl. Both the father and younger son sweat dropped at the female Uchiha in the house.
Then all the sudden, Itachi popped his head out from the door, "Little Sasuke has a crush?" he asked then smirked, "Aw~, that's so cute Sasuke! Hey! Why don't you let her come over after school?"
This only boosts the inner fan girl of his mother, "Oh yes! Sasuke you must invite her over!" then back to swaying from side to side.
With all this happening, it was like adrenaline overcame Sasuke that within a flash, he was back in his room with the candies, "That was embarrasing." he said to himself with a BIG blush across his cheeks.
As the morning in the Uchiha household went on, Sasuke cleaned up; makes sure that he smells good and nothing looks wrong, had a difficult time on trying to excuse himself from breakfast and run as fast as he can from the dreaded Uchiha compound to the academy where he saw a familiar pearlish white short hair with two pigtails on both sides of her head with a red ribbon; also known as Mayonaka Hoshiko. The girl Sasuke likes wants to spend his White Day with.
On with the description of Mayonaka Hoshiko, as spoken above she has pearlish white hair that has a shade of sky blue and her eyes are the ones that strikes out the most; her left eye is red while the other is yellow. Her skin could be similar to an angel or an immortal human creature. She wore a white trench coat with black buttons, black shorts and black ninja sandals.
Back with the story, Hoshiko is already inside the classroom; seating near the window. Her multicolored eyes fixed themselves at the world outside; must be in her own little world again.
"I wonder if I'm there too..." Sasuke thought as he went to his own seat which was a few more seats higher than her. He looked at his gift for her and sees it's fine.
Enough with Sasuke, let's go to Hoshiko next. Oh wait I have to give a small background for her don't I? Must have slipped my mind for a moment but better late than never. Hoshiko is the heir to the Mayonaka Clan other words Midnight Clan. Their specialty is their midnight jutsus which is kept secretly for many generations now. What are midnight justus? Well, what comes up to your mind when it's midnight? The end and the beginning of the day, it is quite ironic or oxymoronic. If you still don't have clue on their jutsus, it may be best when Hoshiko will be in the battle field so you, reader, would understand better.
Her family consists of her father, mother and older identical twin brothers, Sora and Youta. Mayonaka Sora and Youta both have silver spiky punky hair style with some beads on one strand of hair. Like their younger sibling, their left eye is red while the other is yellow. Both wore a black windbreaker jacket that is opened and black pants along with their ninja shoes. Their headbands are worn on their foreheads and as for the rank; they're Jounins. Her father, Mayonaka Ryuu, and her mother, Mayonaka Suzume, are the leaders of the clan. Okay! We're done with backgrounds, now back to the story.
Inside the mind of Hoshiko, she was recalling the words that her older mischievous twin brothers told her earlier morning...
"Ne~ Hoshiko-chan, who do you think will give you chocolates today?" Youta's voice ehoed.
Followed by Sora's voice, "Or how many admirers will our cute little sister have?"
She sighed in annoyance and sadness mentally, "Who will like a me anyway? Most kids ignore me because of my eyes...they're too weird. Who would like to give chocolates to a weird girl on Howaito De anyway?"
The memories of other children around her age rejecting her, avoiding her, and sometimes glaring at her because of her eyes. It is unusual to have two eye colors and quite rare, though the 'rare' part is not a positive one, rather a negative one. But do not worry, it's all in her mind and imagination that kids are doing that to her. They reject and avoid her because they think they could not reach her level or they are just shy to be with a Mayonaka girl (it's kinda a big deal if you're in the Mayonaka clan...details later on the story), they, well actually girls, glare at her because of her beauty.
Everything moved so fast that it was already dismissal, Hoshiko is currently packing her notebooks and books while Sasuke is taking his time to pack as he watches the other students go through the portal of accommodation: the door, at the same time looks at Hoshiko if she's still inside the classroom. From the looks of it, fate is being good to him right now because the last student just went out while Hoshiko is still in.
He gulped, "Okay Sasuke, you can do this. You practiced this last night and earlier morning." He took deep breaths and gather the courage to walk up to her.
Hoshiko felt somebody near and turned to her right and saw a boy with raven hair and onyx eyes holding something behind him, "Um...what is it? Uh..." she thought of what could the name of this classmate of hers, "Sasuke is it?"
His body stiffed and a small blush appeared on his face, "She knows my name!"
"Well, that's what the other girls call you right? Or did I mistake you for him?" she titled her head to her side in a cute manner.
He shook his head, "No, I'm Uchiha Sasuke."
"Oh, well I'm Mayonaka Hoshiko. Nice to meet you, Sasuke-san." she bowed.
"Um, it's okay. You can call me Sasuke." he took another deep breath and bowed and offered a small box with some cute stars as its decoration, "Hapi Howaito De, Hoshiko-chan! Daisuki (I like you)!" he confessed.
Hoshiko was startled a bit, well anyone would if it's their first time to receive a gift during an event like this, "Wha-what did he just said?"
With shaky hands, she reached out for the gift and took it from Sasuke's hands. As she did this, Sasuke looked up with a blush and surprised eyes only to see Hoshiko had a blush as well and hugged the box tightly on her chest, "Th-thank you, Sasuke." she said as she shyly looked down.
Sasuke straighten up, "Um...you wanna come over my house?" he asked.
She looked at him with wide eyes then looked somewhere else, "Uh...okay. But I have to tell my big brothers first."
"It's okay." with some sort of courage and energy, he grabbed Hoshiko's hand, "C'mon then! We only have until sunset!"
He then rushes out of the classroom dragging poor Hoshiko with him, "W-wait a sec, Sasuke! Our things!" she yelled as they were almost near the exit.
That event already happened a few months earlier, after his confession; the two were inseparable. Sasuke thought of his confession as a key to paradise; he got Hoshiko as his friend (even though he confessed his feelings for her, she still treats him as a friend), he got a good relationship with his and her family and nothing has ever gone wrong after Howaito De. Though fate twisted his destiny so violently that what happens next...he didn't expect it at all...
"See you tomorrow, Sasuke-chan!" Hoshiko yelled out as she waved a farewell to Sasuke as the sun began to go down.
In return he waved back with a grin on this face, "See you tomorrow too, Hoshiko-chan!" then rushes towards the Uchiha compound.
But when he got there (which I know you all know what happens next), he saw all the lights closed, "Huh? Lights are out already? But it's still early, right?" he thought as he continues his way.
As he did, his eyes widen and his mouth shaped into an 'o' as he sees the scene before him; blood everywhere. Bodies, in which he knows are all Uchihas, are scattered everywhere. His heart pounded hard against his chest with fear then remembered something, "Mother! Father! Itachi!"
He rushes towards his house, and searched for them in each room. Seeing most of the rooms are empty, he rushes out towards the door near the pond and opened the door. He regretted it once he opened it; his mother and father were there...dead. Then he saw his older brother emerge from the shadows.
"Itachi!" he yelled as he took some steps forward, "Who did this? Who could do something like this?"
Itachi, as calmed as ever, looked at him with an emotionless face, "I did."
Sasuke's eyes widens, "Wha-why? Why, Itachi?"
"To test how strong I am." he replied in a dull voice.
His younger brother could all stare at him with horror. Next thing that happened was that Itachi showed him the events; he killing all the members of their clan while little brother was having his play date with Hoshiko. As the flashbacks were all over, Sasuke was on the floor then tried to run away from Itachi though he was faster.
Itachi scoffed, "You're not even worth fighting. Run away, little brother, run and save your pathetic life." suddenly he smirked, "Oh yeah, one more thing. If you're still going to be friends or a lover with Hoshiko...
...I'll kill her."
Sasuke's heart shattered, his dream of living peacefully with Hoshiko until their death beds vanished into thin smoke, "WHY! WHY ALSO HOSHIKO! WHY ITACHI!" he yelled at his so called older brother.
Itachi's smirk just widens, "The mere fact that she is precious to you; is enough reason for me to kill her. So if you want to see her walking in this world, I suggest you break up your friendship with her as soon as possible. Until you could have the guts to kill me, you can't be with your Hoshiko." Sasuke could only stare at him with disbelief.
"If you won't believe me, I just killed her father before I go killing the clan." he stated with amusement.
The younger Uchiha took a step back, "You killed Ryuu-san?"
"He killed Hoshiko's father..." he thought.
"Yep, and if you don't want any family members of hers to die or more importantly her to die, break up with her." and those were the last words he heard from Itachi. The next thing that happened to Sasuke was that his world became black.
"Hey, Sasuke. What did you want to talk about?" Hoshiko asked.
It has been two weeks since the Uchiha Massacre and the death of Mayonaka Ryuu and ever since that happened, Hoshiko was always by Sasuke's side; making sure he is alright and comforted. Also, so she could have some support from her best friend. Though that only made it harder for him to do what Itachi told him to do, "It's black mail" that's what he always thought. Now, he asked Hoshiko if he could talk to her privately in the training grounds, in other words: break his friendship with her.
Sasuke took a deep breath, "Hoshiko," his body became stiff, "I don't want to be friends with you anymore." his heart ached on his chest.
Hoshiko widen her multicolored eyes as she stares at him, "What?" Sasuke hid his face from her; unable to look at those eyes that he adored, "Why would you do that, Sasuke-chan?"
The suffix -chan tore his heart, "She hopes that is all a joke...I wish it is, Hoshiko-chan." he thought sadly.
With all the strength he could gather, he looked at her straight in the eye with a glare, "Why would I do that? WHY! BECAUSE PLAYING WITH YOU ONLY MADE MY LIFE WORSE!" he yelled at her with such anger.
"No, that's a lie. Ever since I've been with you, my life was in paradise." he thought hoping she could hear his words in his mind.
"I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO WHAT THE OTHER KIDS TOLD ME ABOUT YOU! YOU'RE JUST WEAK AND A JINX!" he continued.
"I never listened to them and I always thought of you as my good luck charm."
"MY CLAN IS DEAD BECAUSE I PLAYED WITH YOU! IF I WAS THERE MAYBE I COULD HAVE SAVED THEM AND STOPPED MY BROTHER! YOU'VE BEEN A WASTE OF TIME TO ME!"
"I always cherish our time together and hope that it would never end."
Through his glare, he saw that tears were going down Hoshiko's face, "I will never forgive myself if she died because of me..." so he will finally say something that he never thought he would say to her...
"I HATE YOU MAYONAKA HOSHIKO!" his heart is officially broken. He broke two hearts in order to save a life.
Her eyes widens then whimpered. With her head down, she said in a cold voice, "Then, I hate you too Uchiha." then looked up to him with a glare as well.
SLAP!
Yeah, Hoshiko spanked Sasuke, "Well you know what? IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU THAT MY FATHER DIED! I KNOW YOUR OLDER BROTHER KILLED HIM! I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT MAYBE IF I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HE COULD STILL BE HERE!"
After she said that, she ran away from Sasuke as far as possible. Once she was out of ear shot, Sasuke fell down and started to cry, "I'm sorry, Hoshiko. I'm so sorry. I hope you could forgive me once Itachi is out of our way." he whimpered.
From a distance, a tall figure could be seen wearing a black jacket with red clouds that has a white outline, "I'm sorry too, Sasuke. I'm sorry that you two have to suffer this but it's the only way to motivate you to kill me faster." then within a second, he was gone with the wind.
To be continued...