Hey All. I'm back with my third chapter of The Girl with a Reason. WARNING! The following chapter contains massive amounts of violence. It is not for the faint of heart. So please read, please review, and beware violence.
Konata had a sleepless night. Bright yellow eyes, than dark blue eyes were haunting her dreams. The yellow eyes held evil, and coldness, and blue held worry, concern, loneliness, and many other emotions. She disliked both of these stares, but the one that held concern, made her feel, well she didn't know what she felt at those. It was a new feeling that she had never known before. The closest she could come to was a description that her mother had given her of an emotion called love. It fit the description almost perfectly. She felt her heart speed up at the thought at them. She liked them, but at the same time she wished, and prayed for them too just go away. She couldn't get enough of them, but to see them with such pain as to worry, and fear, hurt her deeply, giving her another foreign feeling that she would come to recognize as guilt. And the other eyes. They filled her with fear. Not just fear, with terror. A terror that made her spine shiver, and her hair stand on end. They held only hatred, and looked as if they only wished harm on all others, but themselves. The two pairs of eyes, looking like they had both experienced similar fates, but handled it differently.
Kanata walked in to her daughters room to wake her up, She stood stock still, horror gripping at her heart, as she saw her daughter having a fit on the floor. Her eyes wide in fear, but she couldn't be awake. She was groaning, mumbling. Kanata dropped to her daughters side, gripping her shoulders yelling "Wake up Konata! Wake up! Please Konata, please wake up!"
As Kanata got up and ran to the phone to call an ambulance, Konata stopped moving. Kanata gasped, and waited, her eyes filled with terror, not wanting to believe what she was seeing. Then suddenly, Konata's chest heaved. It shook hard for a minute, than stopped, silence, a cold silence, where not even the wind seemed to blow.
Then, Konata gasped, and took a huge breath. Shuddering, inhaling huge amounts of oxygen, Konata sat up.
Kanata dropped the phone, and dropped once again to her daughter's side.
"Konata, are you alright? Please tell me you're alright.."
"I'm fine Mommy, but if you don't let go, I, might not, be…" Kanata had pulled her daughter into a bone breaking hug, causing her to almost stop breathing again. She immediately released her.
"Sorry, Honey, I'm just so glad you're okay."
"So am I. And..." Konata, paused, not certain how to ask the next question. SHe decided to be straight forward.
"Do you mind not telling Daddy about this? He was scary yesterday." Konata said nervously.
"Alright Honey. You can count on me. Now get dressed, you're going to be late for school."
Time Skip
"Alright, Konata, have a good time at school."
"Alright Mommy. I'll see you later."
"Hi, Kona-chan!" Yelled an excited Misao, and Tsukasa at the same time.
"Hey Konata." Said Kireina, and Kagami in sync.
"Why is it twins always have different personalities?" Konata asked, amused at how much the twins were similar with other twins, just not with their own.
"I don't know." All four of the twins said in unison.
"Well that's as least something that all four of you have in common."
As the 5 girls talked about different things, one of them pointed out a new boy.
"I heard that he came from America." Misao whispered quietly.
"He looks scary." Tsukasa whimpered, and his behind her older-by-a-few-minutes sister.
"He's not so bad." Said Kagami, Misao, and Kireina said together.
"Well why don't we invite him over?"
"No way. He's a boy!" Said the four twins.
Konata sighed and said, "Well whatever, I'm going over to talk to him. You guys can stay over here if you want."
Konata walked over to the boy, and took in his appearance.
He had long black hair, and dark blue eyes. He was wearing a black shirt that had the Japanese symbols in red, for dark on the right side, and the symbols for light on his left. He wore a permanently sad look on his face. Konata wondered what made him like this.
"H-hi." She said to him nervously. She had a light blush on her face. She didn't even know why. It's not like she had never seen another boy. But she still stuttered, she still had that stupid heat in her face, and she still looked down whenever she tried to look at him.
The boy just looked at her with an annoying superiority, and sneared at her only grunting, "Hn." as an answer.
Konata's thoughts and feelings for the boy, all but disappeared with the single word. Or more like the single grunt.
"Um, excuse me but I didn't quite catch that." Konata said as innocently as possible, but still had enough menace in her voice to make The Hulk, Naruto, and Superman wet themselves in fear. All at once.
The boy flinched and immediately said in a more respectful, almost awed voice.
"Oh, I'm sorry, that was rude of me. My name is Atarashi Inu. May I ask what your name is?" He said with a bow at the end.
"Oh, okay. My name is Konata Izumi." She said, her blush returning in full force.
"That's a very nice name." Atarashi said with a little bit of his a blush on his face as well. As he realized it was there, his face set back into it's unreadable, brooding, look. Konata knew she made a friend. Even it was a reluctant one. She also knew that he had nothing more to say to her,despite the very short conversation, so she went back over to her friends. As the girls immediately started berating Konata with questions, Atarashi sneaked a look at Konata. He gave a small smile, and remained silent.
Yet another Time Skip
"So Konata how was your day."
"…"
"Konata, can you here me?"
Kanata had come to pick up Konata. As they got into the car Kanata noticed that Konata was in a kind of stupor. She was still thinking of the boy she had met earlier.
"W-what?" Konata came out of her trance, stuttering and blushing.
"I asked how your day was."
"Oh, he was okay."
"Don't you mean it was okay, Konata?"
"I just said that." Konata said, unaware that she had let anything slip.
"Is there something troubling you Konata?"
"How'd you know?"
"Call it a hunch." Kanata said smiling.
"Well, there's this knew boy named Atarashi, and he can be really nice, but he's kind of, dark. And I-I… I think I like him." Konata said blushing hard. Kanata held back a giggle at how cute her daughter looked when she was embaressed.
Konata suddenly got a serious look on her face.
"Why do you think he was so dark Mommy? He seemed really lonely. And he looked really sad, and… afraid." Konata said sadly. It hurt Kanata badly to see her daughter with guilt lining her face. Especially when she could not have done anything in the first place. She took a deep breath and recited, as if she knew it by heart:
"In the darkness light shines the brightest. A soul, sealed away by in isolation, and mistrust, can only be freed by another soul, but only if it wants. But the savior must be a soul that has been gifted with light." Kanata stopped. Konata looked up at her mother, as if seeing her in a whole new for the first time
"My mother told me that." Kanata said quietly
"When?" Konata asked interestedly
But before Kanata could answer, the sound of gunfire rang out like a bell, resonating around the street, a menacing wave, rebounding off the ears of citizens.
"Konata, stay here." Kanata said urgently. She got out of the car, and ran toward the alleyway that the gunshot came from.
(That's a great idea isn't it. Running into an alley that someone just shot a gun in, all alone. Really great thinking.)
As she sat in the car, thoughts of what might happen to her mother. Several minutes passed by, and the thoughts only increased as she heard several more gunshots, and a scream. Konata couldn't take it anymore, and got out of the car, and ran into the alley. (Like mother, like daughter.)
She ran down, and stopped as a horrible terror shot through her like a fast acting venom.
Her mother, naked and on the ground, covered with dark gleaming blood, with 4 holes in her chest that were the source of spilling blood, and a shocked look on her face. Konata dropped down next to her mother screaming and crying "Wake up Mommy, wake up! Please wake up!" Just as her mother had screamed to Konata only that morning. Only this time, she wasn't waking up.
A quiet, husky, drunken voice whispered in Konata's ear. "You're a pretty little girl aren't you?"
Holy Crap. I warned you. I will update the next chapter tonight. I hope you enjoyed reading this. If you liked it, hated it, didn't like Kanata dieing, or don't like that I brought a boy into the story, then please review. See you later.
