pant pant
They were close.
Everything hurts… I can't go much further…
Rukia winced as she tripped over a fallen branch, leaving more blood as she ran. The words echoed in her mind.
Rukia Kuchiki, for being guilty of committing forbidden acts with humans, you are now sentenced to death by the counsel…
A sudden noise to the right. She ran faster.
"I didn't…" wince "…kill him…" she mumbled to herself under her breath.
The bodies of Kaien Shiba and his wife were found dead three nights ago, drained of blood; an act only committable by a vampire…
"Sir Kaien…" tears of sorrow joined the ones already formed from pain.
A snarl to the left.
I know there's shelter… I can feel it.
A final leap opened up to a clearing with several houses.
I just need to get into one.
She ran top speed towards the nearest house, until a sudden force of instinct pulled her broken body towards the third house from the end. It was definitely further… but her body kept running. Vision blurred and limbs numb, she finally reached the back door and slammed on it with her bloody fist. It opened a second later to the surprised face of a young man with…orange hair?
"Please! Please, may I come in?" Rukia begged.
Everything about this situation told the man to shut the door on the bloody stranger immediately and never look back. But by some unexplainable reaction, he nodded once and pulled the injured girl into his home.
The last things Rukia remembered before slipping into unconsciousness, were warmth, the pain melting away, and a pair of soft brown eyes.