Title; Seraphim
Disclaimer; Nope I don't own any of the Naruto characters.
Chapter Two;
The rain lashed heavily on the window as I stared out at the traffic below, it had been two days since the office I had worked in had been burned down and my boss Doctor Mason had gone missing. I had yet to receive any contact from Doctor Mason, his wife or anyone else with information about what had happened to him.
Then there was the mysterious Sasuke and how he might fit into all this, he visits Doctor Mason and then the very next day the office is burned down and Doctor Masons house has been ransacked, the last parts of which I seemed to have wandered into to be violently confronted by some dangerous men and Sasuke appears to save me from them, proving himself to be many times more dangerous than I could imagine assuming I wasn't completely concussed and only imagining what I saw.
How'd he know Doctor Mason, who were the men in the white suits and so many other questions, they plagued my mind and there was nothing I could do to get any answers. I was so distracted that I failed to hear my front door open.
"You know you used to tease me for having a messy apartment right?" called a voice from behind me startling me.
"Tenten!" I was surprised to see my friend drop by unannounced, but I probably should have expected it, the girl never had the foresight necessary to call ahead.
"Wow...bet you wish you'd stuck with the self defence classes now huh?" although she was teasing me Tenten's voice was soft as she crossed the room and pulled me into a carful although still tight hug.
"How're you holding up?" asked the girl as she released me, keeping a grip on my shoulders as she examined my face at a better distance.
"Haha, you should see the other guy." Even if I hadn't done it myself the other man had been damaged far more than I, last I heard he'd been rushed to the emergency room in critical condition one of his lungs had been pierced by one of his broken ribs and there was damage to some of his other nearby organs.
All from one kick.
"That's my girl." Breathed Tenten relieved, it always freaked out the tough girl when people got emotional around her, the corners of her mouth quirked up into a gentle smile.
"Now come on, I'm taking you out for coffee, well coffee for me, you can have hot chocolate or somethin' girly like that." Exclaimed the brunette now with a full-fledged grin on her face.
"Okay sure. But I do need to get changed first." I answered gesturing to the sweat pants and oversized t-shirt I wore.
That may have been a mistake as Tenten quickly grabbed my arm, dragged me to my bed room and proceeded to start pulling clothes from my wardrobe.
A bad habit of both my 'bestest' friends was that neither of them considered me capable of picking my own clothes, Ino would stick me in short pink and purple skirts with cute tops with bunnies and kittens on them and thigh height stockings so cute and colourful they'd make your eyes bleed. Tenten on the other hand would make me dress in leather and denim and would refuse to allow me to button up my jacket above my belly to cover up the obscenely tight tank tops she'd stick me in; she claimed it was a crime not to show off that rack, the end result was me resembling some variation of harlot...not that I'd tell either of them that.
I don't know why both of them hated my baggy comfortable clothing so much.
So in short we wound up leaving my apartment looking like a couple of biker chicks.
We reached the nearby cafe under the cover of an umbrella and found some seats near the window, Tenten quickly excused herself to get the coffee and as I reminded her a hot chocolate.
I got a few hurried glances from a couple of the cafes other patriots, either for how I was dressed or the bruises but most likely because of a mixture both, but most turned back away quickly, guess the biker chick look has it's uses after all.
I contented myself with watching the few people rush about trying to keep as dry as possible as they travelled to their destinations, all except one that is.
It took me a moment to recognise him, he walked quickly on the opposite side of the road his hands in his pockets he was either heedless of the rain that drenched him or simply didn't care about it. For a moment I froze and stared at the walking enigma between the passing vehicles.
The next moment I had darted from my seat and the cafe and was running after Sasuke, in the back of my mind I heard Tenten call out behind me. I sprinted as fast as I could all the while cursing the heavy boots I wore that made me more awkward than usual, by the time I'd gotten across the road I only had enough time to see Sasuke turn down a small alleyway.
I kept up my pursuit and rounded the same corner several seconds later, there was no one there and the alley was a complete dead end.
I spent several seconds just staring down the alleyway looking for some kind of explanation, I became aware of just how wet I'd become as a man wolf whistled at me, I'd left my jacket at the cafe and my white tank top had become soaked through revealing the modest black bra I wore beneath.
Tenten arrived a minute later to find me in the alleyway searching for how Sasuke had disappeared, she draped my jacket over my shoulders and lead me away from the alleyway.
We had returned home instead of to the coffee shop as Tenten put it 'So you don't scare the kids flashing your bazookas about' and to avoid me catching my death in my drenched clothes.
"Explain." Demanded my friend taking a seat across from me as I towel dried my hair.
And so I did, I told her about the mysterious Sasuke, the cop who'd came by and the impression I'd gotten from him at the time, and everything else I could think of at the time.
"And you decided to chase after him on your own?" asked the brunette girl her eyes wide as she stared at me in amazement and shock.
"Well yeah...I wanted answers." I explained scratching the back of my head somewhat lamely, what was I going to do if I caught up with him. I felt a burst of embarrassment in the pit of my stomach which soon wormed it's way up to my checks to make me blush brightly. Tenten simply dropped her head into her hands.
"And here I thought Ino was supposed to be the impulsive one." There was a slight laugh in her voice that told me Tenten wasn't too annoyed at my admittedly foolish actions, good I wasn't looking forward to one of the lectures usually enjoyed by Ino.
"So what should I do?" I asked my voice hopeful, Tenten was always good at seeing the best way out of a problem.
"What can you do? Forget the whole thing Hina, find a new job and avoid the hugely dangerous men in the future." Answered Tenten an odd expression on her face, one that I couldn't give a name to but which I knew entirely too well, it was the mirror image of my own expression whenever we scolded Ino, one that silently questioned why the recipient didn't use some common sence.
The world seemed out of whack as such, like something was beginning and possibilities were opening up but I had no clue as the what they were, it was frightening and exciting at the same time and I felt drawn to this man, Sasuke, like a moth to a flame; although I hoped that it wasn't quite a flame I was heading to, maybe like a moth to a light bulb instead. Or perhaps I was simply too excited to realise that it was defiantly a flame and that I wasn't heading for it.
It was coming for me.
The man stared at the apartment block directly across from him, he carried no umbrella and despite the torrential downpour from the heavens he remained out in the open refusing to duck underneath the cover that the first floor balconies of the apartment block he stood near would provide, the shelter would compromise his view.
Besides he enjoyed the rain.
The girls friend finally departed at almost midnight, the tall brunette with the buns and large chocolate brown eyes, she ran to her nearby beat up wine coloured Chevy ducking from the rain; five minutes after she'd left the apartment she pulled away after having light up a cigarette in the comfort of her vehicle.
He thought she looked like a whore.
Slowly he reached into his pocket and withdrew his mobile phone, carefully keeping it sheltered from the rain he opened the back and inserted the battery he withdrew from another pocket, hitting '1' on the speed dial he only had to wait two rings before a voice answered.
"Hello." Greeted the voice distorted and grainy by the lashing of the rain and the reception on the cheap phone model, still though the greeting sounded hollow like a bad actor reading his lines with no charisma.
"Sorry wrong number." That was the start signal, mobile calls were too easy to intercept so this was the best way to make use of them, the man once again removed the battery from the phone and pocketed both items, this left no chance for anyone to trace his current whereabouts using the gadgets electronic signal.
Half an hour later a black van pulled up next to the man in the rain and a man dressed in an expensive looking purple suit with a darker toned purple shirt beneath it stepped out of the back, he spoke to the man in the rain for several moments before they both crossed the street and entered the apartment building.
They climbed three flights of stairs, both men having an immense disliking for elevators, and finally came to apartment number 47, the man in purple gave a nod and the other man proceeded to kneel down, withdraw something for his pocket and after several seconds of fidgeting with the lock gently turned the handle and opened the door.
With that he stepped into Hinata's darkened apartment followed closely by the man in purple, just as he had said the girl had turned out all the lights and gone to sleep minutes after the other girl had left, they silently made their way to the single bedroom of the apartment.
They found an empty bed.
The man in purple quickly withdrew a walkie-talkie from his jackets inner pocket and ordered the men still in the van to begin searching the building and close off its exits.
She couldn't have gone far and he wanted her captured.
"What's going on?" I asked, no demanded, tearing my wrist from Sasuke's grip as he dragged me along behind him, we were on my apartment buildings roof now and I was now freezing only wearing an oversized t-shirt, which embarrassingly failed to cover much past my mid-thigh and failed to hide my now hard nipples.
He had appeared suddenly in my room as I lay down to go to sleep, for a moment I thought I had fallen asleep and this was only a dream then he dragged me from the apartment only stopping a second to shovel some of my clothes into bag before he dragged me up four flights of stairs with one arm over my mouth and another wrapped around my waist to keep me from running, he'd had to switch his grip to open the door to the roof.
"Some very dangerous people are after you right now, and if you want to survive tonight you'll have to trust me." Answered Sasuke, moving faster than I thought possible he once again snatched my wrist and continued to pull me along.
"Who, the men in the white suits?" I asked; as stupid as I knew it was I believed him, the sound of doors being kicked in from downstairs helped mind you, and I could tell he was on my side.
The rain continued to fall heavily and I found myself thanking every god in existence that my T-shirt wasn't white.
"No, it isn't there style." He answered leaving the question half answered.
"Why?" I asked unable to understand, an answer coming instantly to mind; because I met you.
"It's Masons fault really but I'll explain later." He answered and then almost as an afterthought raised the umbrella he'd been carrying and used it to shield me from the rain, I recognised it as the umbrella I'd 'borrowed' from the office.
"Hold on to me." Ordered Sasuke I didn't hesitate to grab onto his shoulders, my body moving of its own will before my mind had processed what was happening. I felt our bodies mash closer together and I savoured the warmth as he in turn wrapped his arms around me.
Then we were moving through the air, soundlessly over the rain we landed we were now fifteen feet away on the building top across the street from the one we had been on.
"H-how? W-what?" I stammered my eyes large and unblinking in amazement.
"Come on we gotta keep going." Whispered Sasuke gently into her ear before he released his grip on me, it took me several seconds longer before I realised I was still holding him though.
It would be two days later after neither had heard anything from me and found my apartment ransacked and seemingly robbed and trashed, although only a few items of clothing are unaccounted for in the ruins of my home, that Tenten and Ino my best friends would report me missing.
When mentions Sasuke and the officer whom had visited me she receives only blank looks and confusion from the officers looking into finding me before they chase up the leads to find nothing but dead ends.
They would cry as they imagined all the horrid possibilities of what had happened as despite what the detectives say to comfort the girls they don't believe I could abandon them without at least a goodbye.
Other groups of people will know about it too but only one such group will know that I was rescued, them assume who by based on the damage done to two of their subordinates who spotted us as we fled.
But before any of this happens my world will be completely unravelled at the seams and I'll be awoken to the secret world that stirs just beneath this world.
Okay this chapter is a bit shorter, I could write more but I think that this is the right place to divide this chapter and the next.
Hope you're enjoying it and if you wish to continue enjoying please review.
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