Natalya stalked towards the house, stealthy movements making no sound on the asphalt driveway. She had come immediately when she had found out what had happened to her brothers scarf.
A week earlier she had been following her brother around quite closely and making sure to never let him out of her sight. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Alfred, the schools current president, and mentally cursed.
The boy and her brother never got along and it being so early in the morning they were the only ones in the hall. She knew for sure a fight would break out.
The annoying boy confronted her brother and she narrowed her eyes. If not for the schools policy she would of gotten rid of Alfred years ago. He had been in their school since kindergarten and the two families had quite a history with each other.
Only years ago had a big fight broke out between the two and had almost threatened to destroy their peaceful school.
Sauntering up to Ivan and stretching to stand tall he puffed out his chest and began to speak. "You're so stupid" Natalya curled her hand around the knife in her belt. "You're so fat and ugly, you have a giant nose and no friends. Why do you even come to school?" He spat. "Junk!"
Natalya could take no more. Oblivious of the giant fist making its way towards Alfred's face (Ivan could take care of himself, as he's told her many times before) she imagined herself the savior and her brothers hero. Ugh hero. She had started to hate the word because Alfred used it so much.
Natalya lept out of her hiding place behind the overfull garbage can and ran at them with full force. The two turned eyes widening and mouths forming in a little circle upon seeing the raging girl before them.
She ran at them with full force not giving either of them a chance to get out of the way and slammed into them both toppling the boys to the ground.
Stunned the three of them lay there for a few minutes until with a grunt Natalya pulled herself off of the boys. After she stood up and dusted herself off she looked down at her brother below her. He lay there face down on the ground unmoving. Her lips forming a small frown she bent down and turned him over fully intending to look into the bright purple eyes of her brother.
However when she turned him over she noticed a very broken nose and a large gash wound in his side. Her frown deepened. Pulling off his scarf and tossing it aside she gasped as she saw a large cut down the side of his neck.
Almost as if noticing Alfred for the first time she saw he too had bruises all over his body and a bleeding gash on his head. Dismissively she turned back to her brother not really caring about the loudmouth blonde.
Putting pressure on the cuts she gave a slight smile, proud that she could cause this much damage. Thinking about it she realized that just pushing them down could not have caused this much damage. The bruises all over her brother and the large bleeding gash on Alfred's forehead when he hit the floor possibly, but not all the sharp cuts.
Checking her sides she realized what had happened. The numerous knives that she had hidden all over her body were covered in a red sticky substance that was currently leaking out of her brother's body. I will save these knives forever she thought.
The currently gushing blood being too much for her to handle she called the police then quickly fled from the scene.
Hidding behind the wall of the school she watched as her brother and the loudmouth got carried away by stretchers. Thinking about creative ways to stop the american boy from telling the police what happened a slight smile crept up on her face and lit up her eyes.
Later that day after school had ended she thought about her brothers scarf in the hall. A thousand thoughts were running through her head and that was at the top of her attention. She had left evidence behind! she felt so stupid. She had let her brother down, she knew for sure that she had failed him.
He would be so angry knowing that she hadn't covered her tracks and taken Alfred out for good. Giving a moments thought she wondered if he would be mad about hospitalizing him. She quickly dismissed the thought. Her brother would never be mad at her. He loved her. Turning over she snuggled close to her Ivan doll and fell into a peaceful sleep.
The next day she got to school early. She wanted to be one of the first people at school so she could quickly retrieve the wooly scarf. However when she got to the hall where she had discarded the scarf it wasn't there.
A sense of dread slowly started to creep up onto her. Her stomach was already starting to feel queasy and now her head was starting to hurt. She had no doubt that she could find the scarf but it would be a lot of extra work and right now all her attention was on her brother and his wellbeing.
Checking her phone she saw a text from her older sister. Yekaterina had been sitting in with her brother at the hospital and had been frantically trying to find out who had hurt Ivan.
Inwardly she chuckled. At the hospital her brother had woken up and looked around the room momentarily confused until he had spotted her. At the exact same time a cold breeze had wafted in and her older brother had visibly shivered.
She was unsure of whether or not her brother had shivered because of her or the breeze. Probably the breeze. He could never be afraid of her.
Flipping her phone closed she set off to look for the person who took her brothers scarf.
Over the course of the next few days she had kept a close eye on the school. She hoped sooner or later someone would show themselves wearing Ivan's scarf. However she had no such luck.The person must be a ninja she thought. Normally no one could escape her keen eye and she was starting to feel frustrated.
Skipping math class to search for the scarf, she walked down the hall peering into each room. Walking towards the end of the hall she started to push through the stairwell doors when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
Turning around slowly she locked eyes with the english teacher. What are you doing today miss Natalya? He asked suspicion clear in his eyes. Last time she had skipped class she had set up traps all over the school hoping to catching Alfred and make him 'disappear'. The teacher had a lingering suspicion that at that time a large cliff might have been involved.
Natalya soon found herself back math class grumbling about a detention that had been given to her courtesy of Mr. Roderich.
This is going to take up precious time that I could be using to visit Ivan at the hospital. she thought. Oh well, I deserve break after all I've done for him.
Plopping down on her detention seat she transfixed her eyes to the clock, already bored. Natalya spent the first 30 minutes drawing pictures of her brother on her arms waiting for time to pass. About 40 minutes in she started to get a weird feeling like she was being watched an felt the hairs on her arms start to stand on end. Quickly looking around the room she noticed nothing out ofthe usual but still the feeling wouldn't go away.
Spending the rest of detention feeling nervous and watched she was extremely happy to blot out of the room the second detention ended. As she ran out of the room she saw a quick movement out of the corner of her eye.
Feeling completely baffled she saw a blonde boy for the first time and wondered how he managed to appear.
Following the boy down the hall she strained to keep an eye on him as he appeared and disappeared from her line of vision.
'How can he do this?' she thought. To disappear at will, what an amazing ability! Curious about the boy she watched as he walked to his locker and pulled out his stuff. She watched in all good nature until he pulled out the scarf.
Wrapping it around his neck she imagined pulling it s it the invisible boy started choking. That's it she thought invisible ninja boy would have to die. And that's how she ended up at Matthew's houselate that thursday night.