Krystal used her arms to army crawl towards to motionless and blood-covered Natalia. She struggled with doing so as her legs were seriously wounded. As she looked at Natalia, flashbacks of their childhood started to appear.

Flashback

A young Krystal sat on her floor drawing a picture of the army; something she had always loved. She went over each line with precision and concentration. When she finished, she squealed with happiness. She jumped onto her feet and picked up her amazing picture. She ran down the stairs and almost ran into her twin Tamaki.

"Sorry Tama-chan!"

He smiled and thought nothing of it.

"It's ok sis!"

She smiled and nodded and carried on running while her twin carried on up the stairs. She ran into the living room where her parents were watching TV. She ran up to her mother and handed her the picture.

"Mommy, look what I made!"

Her mother took it and barely looked at it before handing it back to her daughter and carried on watching TV with her husband.

"Very nice Krystal. Now could you move? You're blocking the TV."

"Oh, ok." She said in a dejected voice. She walked out and looked at the time. She ran upstairs and got dressed in her army cadet uniform and ran back downstairs. She ran past the lounge and out the doors where her limo was waiting to take her to cadets. As they drove towards cadets, Krystal was looking out of the window, wondering if that mysterious girl with the long red and black hair was going to be there again. She was so quiet and seemed traumatized. They arrived and Krystal got out and walked towards the field , where they would be marching. Far away under a tree, was the young girl with the long red and black hair. Her piercing gold green eyes were staring up at the sky and her beautiful face held no expression. Krystal slowly walked over to the young girl and sat next to her. The girl's eyes slowly looked over to her and the blond smiled.

"Hey, I'm Krystal Suoh. What's your name?"

The other girl's deadened eyes lit up slightly as she finally had someone to talk to. Everyone called her a freak because of her quiet personality. She hesitated but saw nothing but gentleness in the other girl's eyes.

"I'm Natalia, Natalia Hitachinn."

The other girl's eyes widened.

"A Hitachinn? Wow, I love your mother's designs!"

Natalia nodded and smiled. Krystal was taken back at how gentle her smile was. They both laughed and laughed for no entire reason. They just laughed at the happiness bubbling inside at having a new friend.

End flashback

From then on, Krystal and Natalia had been inseparable. They were the best of friends. Krystal carried on moving towards her best friend and tears of sadness and determination welled up in her eyes. She finally reached her and with an effort grabbed her hand and with even more effort she reached up to look at her injuries. To her horror, Natalia's right arm was missing and her face was covered in blood and blood blossomed over her army uniform from her many injuries. The tears started to pour.

"Come on Natalia... stay with me... come on please... we promised to always stay together..."

She gasped when she felt her hand being squeezed gently. With a huge amount of effort, she got to her feet and took Natalia into her arms. With one last look at her face, the pain of her wounds took over and she fell unconscious.

A couple of days later...

Krystal's blue-violet eyes flickered and opened slowly. She looked around. She seemed to be in a cave, decked out with technology.

"Hey, you awake?"

Krystal shot up and grabbed her side in pain and her legs screamed in protest and pain as she suddenly bent them in an effort to get up.

"Whoa, watch it!"

Krystal looked around and saw Natalia standing next to her, wearing her army slacks that were covered in blood, and a tank top she wore underneath her jacket. Krystal then stared in horror at her missing arm; an arm that was missing up to her shoulder, and now was nothing more than a stump. Natalia had roughly bandaged it up to avoid infection. That wasn't the only injury; Natalia had cuts and bruises everywhere that were untreated and becoming infected, much more than Krystal herself had. Natalia looked at her stump of an arm, and then shrugged it off.

"It'll grow back."

Krystal stared at her like was crazy and right now she was pretty sure she was!

"Natalia, this isn't a broken nail or something like that! It's serious and it could get a lot worse-!"

Natalia put up her hand to halt her best friend.

"One thing, keep it down or the guards outside the caves will come in on us with AK's. Second, I know this isn't a broken nail or anything. I just know that I will grow back."

Krystal raised an eyebrow at her.

"How do you know?"

"Well, as you know, I was an orphan before the Hitachinns took me in. But before that, I was a science experiment, trying to make the perfect human. I was experimented on ever since I was born, as my parents left me on a scientist's doorstep. That' why my eyes and hair are like this. I originally had brown hair and blue eyes. They made me so I can regenerate a limb, so like I said, it'll grow back so chill."

Krystal gasped. She had never heard that before.

"Did... did it hurt?"

"What, losing my arm, it regenerating or the experiments?"

"The experiments..."

Natalia looked down.

"I don't think... I have ever felt pain that bad since..."

Krystal looked down then decided to change the subject.

"So, where are we?"

Natalia looked pleased at the change in subject.

"We're at an Iraq base behind enemy lines. We were basically the best team on the frontline at the time so they targeted us and took us out with one missile... what an embarrassment..."

She face palmed. Krystal laughed nervously.

"So how do we get out?"

Natalia smirked behind her hand and peered through her hands giving her an eerie look.

"Now, THAT'S easy."

She whispered in Krystal's ear and not long afterwards her friend was smirking as well. They got in formation with Krystal pretending to be unconscious on the floor and Natalia standing behind the door with a knife.

And not long after that the guard came in to see Krystal on the floor unconscious and freaked. As he turned away, Krystal opened her eyes and nodded to Natalia and closed her eyes and the guy turned back around to examine her. Natalia crept over, knife in hand. She slowly raised it and brought it back down with such force that the knife went right through the man's neck. Krystal grabbed his AK-47 and Natalia grabbed his .50 cal Desert Eagle pistol. They ran out of the cave and Natalia shot a tank at its gas tank and it exploded.

All hell broke loose.

TBC...

Sorry for not updating in a while ive been busy with coursework and my other story. You know the drill, R&R

Uchiha's Werewolf67

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