Chapter 4: Hazards
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I guess you could say
You're misunderstood
I know you're meaning well
But you've been shot to hell
~ No Doubt
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A door was blasted away from its hinges when Sakura was thrown into and through it at a tremendous force. Her butt then hit the ground and skidded across the floor till her back hit the wall behind her, almost causing her carpet burn. In the back of her mind she was grateful there wasn't an added pain to what she had been going through in the last hours. There was a bunch of devilish, elfish laughter that could be heard in the room that made the reaper frown in annoyance.
"You know how much that means, you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings!" came a few voices sang tauntingly before the laughter could be heard again.
She was in an old Mansion that had high ceilings in the classic Georgian style with spacious rooms and large fireplaces. Unfortunately the old mansion looked like it had seen better days; the plastered walls were cracked and crumbling, a few pieces were just holding onto the very out of date wall paper or wall fixtures, the dirty grey floorboards creaked and threatened to break beneath your weight and all the lighting in any room gave off this horrible feeling that it might explode any moment. It was probably that way with the residences here continuing to scare off potential buyers and new people.
"Whatcha gonna do Pinkie? Need the Brain to help you out? Heheheheheheheheeeee!"
She could sense them moving about confidently and unfortunately if they did not wish to be seen then she would be having some difficulties. The rosette girl stood up slowly bracing herself against the wall, she wished for the thousandth time that day that Shizune had left her alone. These beings were not evil but they sure liked to piss her off.
"Ghosts, I really really hate Ghosts" Sakura growled through her gritted teeth.
"Awe, I know how to make you better, let's dance!"
She very much hated herself too in that second as she was grabbed suddenly by their invisible hands "What? WHOAH!" and these maniacal being she so loathed with a passion started to spin her around the room. If anyone had pointed out to Sakura that 'there was certainly enough room to swing a cat around' they undoubtedly would not be able to remember saying such a thing after the rosette reaper showed how much she appreciated the joke.
"FLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Round and round, a way she goes, when will she stop? NO BODY KNOWS!" the Ghosts chorused together.
"WEEEE!"
"LET ME GO!" Sakura snarled.
"If you insist!" the Ghosts chimed.
And just like that she was then sent into another room, her world was still spinning when she had landed in a heap. Her back stung from the impact, along with her pride and temper but she was okay. This all would not have happened if she had just waited outside but no, the little cracked up crazy ghosts had spotted her as soon as she took one step onto one of the lovely but unkempt gardens and found that all hell broke loose. Now that she had been thoroughly smacked about enough to be considered an odd shaped ping-pong ball, Sakura just wanted to lie there till the blood stopped swirling around her brain and could think without throwing up whatever she had for lunch or lack off.
Dear lord, this extremely embarrassing.
Shut up, feel sick.
Oh look, a flying vase
A flying wh-?
Her eyes widened and she rolled quickly to dodge the vase had been flung at her till she felt the shattered debris against her side, if she had been a second late and she would have had another reason to hate them. The pinkette propped herself up onto her elbows and looked around for the invisible, maniacally culprits.
"She dodged she dives, but will she dare survives? Pinkanatooooooor Pinkanatoooooor!" the Ghost sang together then laughed loudly.
Sakura looked down at her wristwatch that showed 23:59 then 00:00 appeared and so did the Ghosts when she saw them laughing just outside the doorway. Yes, they couldn't be seen if they didn't wish to, except these spirits had never heard about the Witching hour. She schooled her face calmly to stop the manic glee spilling on her lip as she slowly, ever so slowly stood and brushed away the dirt and dust that had been collected against her clothing from the tussle she had with them. From the corner of her right eye she saw the Ghosts grinned at seeing their little plaything was up again. They charged towards her.
"Let's do that again." One of them cried in excitement.
It was so fast that only three of them were now standing instead of the ten that had been teasing her mercilessly. Her scythe was by her side, the blade glowing with ghosts trapped within as the master of this terrifying weapon was placed on her shoulder like the harvester of souls she was. The three ghosts that had been at a greater distance than their trapped friends were stunned at what they saw and when they looked at her they began to tremble in fear. She was smiling in a smile that would put the worst of her enemies trembling in fear and her eyes taking in every shook their incorporeal bodies made with an almost twisted delight. Unfortunately for them, and very lucky for her, she knew these ones were the ring leaders.
"Five things you made a mistake here." Her voice was smooth as silk and cold as frozen rivers as spoke. "One, you abandoned the reaper that was designated to you. Two, resisted to be taken to limbo willingly. Three, throwing me about like a rag doll. Four, never learning about the Witching Hour were beings like I, can see you without trouble. Five, calling me Pinkie. Combining it with the fact I really hate ghosts you all deserve meddles and a beating. And since I'm all fresh out meddles, well, you can guess what's going to happen now."
And did they tremble even more when she advance towards them.
There was a knock on the door of the boss of Limbo office. Shizune, who was helping her employer with some files, waved her hand and then froze in shock when she saw who it was. Needless to say Tsunade was also stunned at the sight of the pinkette walking with purpose towards her. Sakura placed her hands on the desk when she arrived in front of her and tilted towards Tsunade in anger and annoyance, forcing the blonde woman to lean back on her chair. She didn't even have to wait that long to hear Sakura speak on why she was so angry it had positively shown on her face.
"Ghosts! Ghosts! You send me after some GHOSTS! Do you have any idea what it's like to be thrown around like helpless rag doll? Do you? And they were throwing not only me but other things about! Forget Naruto or any of others! Why the hell wasn't Kakashi, Gai, Kurenei or Asuma on it!? And don't give me 'they were busy' because they sure as hell weren't!" she fumed.
Tsunade relaxed in her chair and crossed her arms, unafraid of the situation. Though still stunned at the time it had taken for her to arrive back. The ghosts she had assigned Sakura with were supposed to be quite difficult to catch as they were a stubborn bunch that liked to egg each other on. Not many reapers would have tried to catch them yet the ones who did end up failing or never wish to be reapers ever again.
"You survived didn't you?"
Sakura's green eyes narrowed with a deadly precision.
"Tsunade-sama, I was tired when you sent me after them and now I'm exhausted and pissed off." Sakura said, trying to reign in her temper "Why would you do that to me?"
The blonde bombshell raised an eyebrow with an air of authority. "You can't expect me to leave you un-punished for the racket you caused the other day, did you?"
Flabbergast at this Sakura uttered "You put me through all that because of one little fight? You and I both that is full of crap."
"Is it? I haven't deducted your wages and haven't fired you; a simple reprimand is needed in this situation."
"Tsunade-okasan, you never raised your hand at me, nor punished me whenever I had beaten Naruto's butt into the ground or for any fights I had in Hell or caused such damages that would be considered costly to my wages." Tsunade remained silent that moment, debating what to say to the young reaper but Sakura had a quicker mind and had already come up with a conclusion. "Now, see? That right there tells me you're keeping something from me and, with what you've put me through, I know it's something to do with Sasuke." Sakura said. The young reaper stood up straight and crossed her arms in defence.
Tsunade rolled her eyes exasperation and stood. She walked around her desk when she next spoke "And I suppose you want a confirmation? Hmm?" then sat down on the desk, next the pinkette.
"Where is he?"
The door to Tsunade's office was thrown off its hinges (or whatever it was attached to the wall with) when a wet guy with sunshine hair, a muscular frame and a set of gorgeous royal blue eyes kicked it in anger. This lad stormed into the room with an air of self-importance that annoyed Tsunade in that very moment when the young reaper approached her.
"Naruto, that was an old and expensive door!" Tsunade said. "And you are ruining my carpet!"
"Really?" Naruto growled, and then purposely scrubbed his soggy boots into that very carpet. "Didn't notice."
"NARUTO!" Sakura shouted at his rudeness.
"It's not even a true door and the carpet self cleans anyway!" Naruto continued, ignoring Sakura.
Tsunade sighed, trying to control her short temper with the boy and looked dead into his eyes with seriousness. "Did you find them all?"
He looked at Sakura with consideration then back at Tsunade with the same seriousness. "I want a pay rise and a week's break! I got sand in places I didn't think was possible! Datteboyo! But yeah got it done and it's been delivered."
"Good, a pay rise is out of the question but a paid week's break will do unless you're truly needed for guard duty." Tsunade said.
"Two weeks paid break." Naruto said in utter boldness.
"Naruto" Tsunade warned.
He pointed and jabbed towards her with his forefinger to put emphasis in his statement. "Sand in places it should never be found woman! That ain't right! That was NOT in the job description at all! AND extra problems while collecting them! Two weeks paid break in FULL or find someone else for your charity service! Datteboyo!"
Tsunade's lips seemed to have disappeared into a thin line as she stared at the young man with irritation before giving in. "Fine but AFTER this month, you hear me? Humans are extra accidental during this season and I don't want another word about this."
"Fine!" Naruto barked then addressed to Sakura calmly and politely "Nice seeing ya Sakura-chan, hope I can catch up with you later in the week." Then eyed Tsunade "If I can" and walked straight out of the office without another word.
Sakura watched after him, astonished before gazing at Tsunade again. "What was that all about?"
"Naruto is just being Naruto." Tsunade said with a shrug.
"Uuuuh huuuuh" Sakura drawled.
"Hmph, I suggest you get going Sakura I have many things to do and you are interrupting me"
Sakura's placed her hands on her hips in defiance "But you haven't answered my question."
"Busy, now OUT!" Tsunade, pointed at her then to the door. Sakura was sent out of the office with an unseen force and the repaired door shut behind the pinkette. She didn't need to open the door again to know Sakura was now hopping mad and most likely going to do something impulsive and quite possibly give her a heart attack if Tsunade had been capable of getting one in the first place. Tsunade then turned to Shizune, who had been observing all of this quietly, and smiled. "Shizune, my sake please."
"Are you sure that's wise? What about work?" Shizune asked.
"Now Shizune" Tsunade growled. "I'm getting a headache."
"Knew it was too good to be true" the raven haired woman muttered as she went off to find Tsunade's sake.
Sakura felt she had been going through a horror show after her meeting with Tsunade. When she arrived home she ran Ino up to tell her what had happened and was very sorry about how late she was. Ino could hear how tired her friend was and knew how difficult those missions were when one was on their own and decided that Sakura should come round for another evening instead. It would have been the end of it if Sakura didn't receive another hair-raising mission and therefore had call Ino about the situation again. Sakura knew it was probably some sort of punishment from Tsunade as the boss of Limbo had never done such a thing to her before. Sakura had never broken the rules with anything or anyone, she had been too much good girl growing up that the only major flaw was her stubborn streak or got angry when someone called her short.
It was two nights later that they were finally were able to meet up and Ino decided to take Sakura out for drinks after her friend arrived at her home, near the edge of the Capital in the Middle-Netherworld. Unlike most Netherworlds, Middle-Netherworld was where anyone with any background could live there peacefully as long as they stick to the main rule: 'Harm none and do what ye wield'. This included angels and demons but these individuals were the ones who couldn't give a flying monkey about each other and everyone but themselves and would stick to themselves. The rules were strict and anyone caught breaking them were given three days to leave or face a dire punishment; to murder, rape or abuse anyone meant your own life.
It was considered a strange world, even by Sakura's and Ino's standards, as what was strange to humans would be normal them and that this world was indeed strange to them. Everything seemed impossibly elongated, sketchy rough by what thought you perceived from the very eyes of yours and this world was all black and white from bottom of the ground to the tops of trees and buildings, even the sky was black and white! But it was creepy and it got stranger and creepier at night. Morning it rained or completely foggy, midday it was sunny, clear and warm, evening it was windy and at night people's teeth chattered uncontrollably at the cold, very much like the autumn weather in the western worlds. Colour only seemed to be found on the passing people and indoors was where it was truly bright and cheerful. Then there were places where neon lights were hanged outside the doors and windows and that was mostly for the bars and nightclubs.
That was where Sakura found herself, you see Ino had noticed the rosette girl was a little on edge since she finally finished her shift and she had a feeling she knew why. So with a lot persuasion and threats Sakura relented to her friend's wishes. They both ordered the strongest alcohol at the local bar as Sakura body still felt a little sore and Ino just wanted to relax with her best friend.
"So did you fly into the wall again?" Ino asked, a bit too cheerful for the subject at hand.
WEEEE Ka-splat! That's what it was nosey.
"Ino, shut up." Sakura growled.
"Killjoy" Ino chuckled. Sakura rolled her eyes at her friend and took a sip of her drink. "So how many missions had Tsunade sent you on for ghosts?"
"Two haunted mansions and a house in a space of three days." Sakura muttered into her drink and took another sip for good measure to finish it off. "Even Springtime is tired."
"Oh poor babies." Ino said, eyeing the empty glass in her friend's hand and then back at Sakura's form "Another drink?"
"Bring it on" Sakura grunted and placed her empty glass down on the bar surface gently despite her weariness where one would unintentionally thump it down too hard and could accidently crack the glass.
Drinking is a hazard, Bubblegum.
If I was affected by such things it would be. Now shut up, long day.
"Bee, shoot me some shots yo!" Ino shouted towards the Barman, who was serving someone on the far side of the bar.
"Coming right up Little Daffodil!" the barman shouted back.
Bee wasn't a typical Barman; although he was muscular enough to be some mercenary he actually embraced the ideal of 'make love not war'. He was a tall imposing man with skin as dark caramel and hair as pale as white chocolate, he would be considered delicious to many of his female customers (and to some of his gay ones) but unfortunately for these customers he literally had no time for them after serving them their drinks. He spent most of his time either perfecting his lyrics (to which Ino thanked he stopped speaking to her that way and spoke normally in her presence), looking after his animals that were bigger than any house in Middle-Netherworld and looking after his bar. He was peaceful as he was musically gifted.
"Oh! You won't believe this." Ino grinned when she turned back to the pinkette. Sakura tilted her to show she was paying attention. "They've signed me up as reaper again."
Sakura looked surprised at her friend. "I thought you hated reaping."
"Yes well, Assigners are a pain to talk to, they never really wish to speak to me because I'm a born reaper and it does get boring after a while when assigning the deaths of a lot of humans." Ino said as a matter of fact.
"That does include lawyers and politicians Ino" Sakura drawled.
"Hmm, a joke, a bad one but a joke still. Are you feeling perkier this evening now?" Ino chirped.
You suck.
"I'll live."
Ino shook her head at the ironic words. "You need better puns."
"Says the girl who gets tongued tied whenever Shikamaru enters the room" Sakura lightly chided, reminding her of her own incident.
"That's different! How am I suppose impress him with a joke?" Ino whined.
"Same with everyone you talk to, you just open your mouth and say a joke. It may be bad or corny but I'm sure he'll appreciate the effort." Sakura said.
"You're a pain, you know that?"
"But you love me anyway, you said it yourself."
"Shut up"
Sakura chuckled and Ino smiled at that. This was the typical part of their relationship, they were sarcastic to one another, annoy one another, joke with one another but most of all they were there for one another no matter what. Since they were little they had been best friends and though they may have had a few hiccups along the way Sakura and Ino would never want it any other way. Bee choose that moment to appear and produced some shots of what Ino was previously drinking before the girls eyes.
"Anything else Flower Child?" Bee asked.
"Nah, it's all good here!" Ino chirped.
"Good, Karaoke is on tonight, feel like some rhymes?" Bee asked.
Oh no.
"Couldn't stop me even if you wanted to!" the blonde grinned.
Oh HELL no!
"Be seeing you up there then Little Daffodil!" Bee grinned before attending another off duty reaper.
Get me out of here I'm not going to sit through that girl's singing! It's torture! Hell, Karin can learn a thing or two from that screeching cat!
Oh shut up! Ino loves singing and I love her performing 'Saturday Night', it's funky and funny.
But EARACHE afterwards!
It's all worth it!
"So you're going to do some reaping then? Not to sound harsh but why?" Sakura asked as she reached out to one of her five shot glasses and took a swig like a pro.
Ino became serious as she watched her. "We're slightly understaffed Sakura."
"What?" the rosette said, her eyebrows high on her surprised face. "They still haven't been found?"
Ino shook her head in reply; she then reached out for one of her shot glasses and took a swig of it too. The blonde contemplated the telling of bad news while ignoring the burning effects of the alcohol in the back of her throat. Sakura bit her lip as she deeply thought too, worrying the bottom lip with her sharp teeth. She knew this wasn't good, reapers were not known to be pushovers in a fight but for them to be taken or disappear on Earth was unheard of until recently. Her eyes then scanned the room almost half-heartily before her eyes zeroed on a few customers, weighing up the pros and cons of actually speaking to them.
"Does anyone have any leads?" Sakura asked.
"Not that I know of" Ino shrugged. She then caught the look Sakura was sporting when the rosette was staring over to a few demons drinking in the corner quietly as they could. "Sakura, don't even think about it."
"I'm not going to start a fight." Sakura said as she faced her friend again with speed, looking serious and truthful about her words.
"Yes, but I don't think they would appreciate you sauntering over there and demand the return of the reapers. Besides, those demons are more inclined to beat you to a pulp for touching Karin." Ino said.
In annoyance, Sakura jabbed her right forefinger in Ino's direction "Hey, she started it." Sakura pointed out.
And I really wanted to finish it!
"Very mature of you." Ino drawled, rolling her eyes heavenward and shaking her head before glanced back at her. "Besides, Tsunade-sama has her best operatives over this; you shouldn't really worry yourself with it. What you should be doing is keep an eye out and make the hourly phone calls."
"That's just reminds me, Tsunade-sama wanted to see me tomorrow. I have no idea what it's all about." Sakura said as she and Ino grabbed another shot and then drunk them down together.
Ino was glad she didn't choke on her drink as she looked astonished at the rosette for a moment before her face became thoughtful. She knew their boss was probably punishing Sakura to either appease Karin or the other workers in Limbo, but why go through all this and then ask Sakura to see her when she could just simply send her another mission through the assigners? Her thoughts then came to a conclusion of what could be and didn't like it.
"Must be one of those missions then" Ino said sombrely.
"What? Going downstairs?" Sakura said her thoughts similar to Ino's.
"Could be, they don't just let the average Joe Black down there without having a permission card or a permit from Tsunade-sama."
"Hmm"
"Have fun!" the blonde chirped.
Sakura huffed in annoyance until something walloped from the behind of her head and sent her to the floor. Ino yelped in surprised and pulled her friend up to her feet, both of them had been too relaxed to know someone had sneaked up behind them. The bar went dead still and silent at the commotion that had been caused, even Bee was watching the whole thing carefully in case he had to help out. Sakura rubbed the back of her head and as she slowly turned her head she saw what had hit her. It was one incredibly bulky purple demon that it looked like it may have overdosed on the steroids. Its arms were so long that the tips of its hands brushed the floorboards; its bottom canine teeth protruded passed its top lip near to its grotesque looking nose and what could be arguably the scariest part were the snakelike eyes.
"I Momoshi, Karin's faithful minion, challenge you on the behalf of my Mistress to fight!" it said eloquently.
One would have had to imagine how the bar stayed quiet after the minion spoke but in the back of Sakura's mind it probably was to do with shock. You see, the pinkette would have giggled at the fact that despite the creature's very obscene looks it spoke with a good upper-class accent and that it must have taken elocution lessons or something. Ino had no such trouble in laughing like a crazy loon; in fact, she almost fell to the floor because of how funny it very much was. The big purple demon (not used to treatment like this and more accustomed to people screaming their heads off before running away like the little ninnies they were) looked upset that he was being laughed at.
"Is there something to laugh about?" it asked.
"No, Momoshi, please forgive my friend she's just had a bit too much to drink" Sakura said politely, both protecting her friend and repressing every urge to laugh as hard as Ino. "You wish to challenge me?"
"Yes, you have offended my Mistress, prepare for battle." It said, raising its fists up in a fighting position.
Upon seeing this Sakura felt a rush of excitement running through her veins, there were not a lot of people who wanted to challenge her. She was a peaceful creature but had no problem in retaliating when someone hit her and if Karin's darling little minion wanted to fight her, who was she to pass up this offer? "Wow, they don't make them like you anymore, do they?" Sakura chirped, readying herself to fight.
"Sakura, you know you can't fight him" Ino said when she managed to catch her breath and realised the rosette was actually going to go through with it. "Karin would have a good enough excuse having you charged for damaging her property."
Sakura frowned and looked at her friend, she really hated when she tried to suck all the fun out for her but she had a point. She then turned back to the purple demon and gave it a good once over, annoyed that brain was going to have to be the answer for tonight.
"Before we start anything Momoshi, you're a slave right?" Sakura asked as she crossed her arms together. "You have no choice to fight me because Karin ordered you to or are you doing this willingly on your own behalf as you are loyal to her?"
"Both." It replied, though a bit hesitantly.
"And if say I defeat you, you won't try to correct the mistake over and over again? I hate to be unemployed because of that, but I probably would enjoy going after your mistress for the nuisance she caused me and you would be no where near her to protect her." Sakura explained in a bored but polite fashion. "If she was a…cherishing mistress as you believe her to be she wouldn't be doing this, unless she thought to be weaker than myself."
"My Mistress has enough power to destroy her own ring of hell and I included." It defended.
"Alright, and if she can do that then why send you to fight me? After all, if she's so powerful why send her faithful minion, who is less powerful than herself? I doubt downstairs don't have rumours so you must have heard about our fight, yes?" She said and continued when she saw it had nodded in agreement. "So you would have learnt that had it not been for a timely intervention of my boss we would have tired each other out. So think Momoshi, would you survive a fight against me? The one Karin had trouble with? A Reaperof Souls?"
Momoshi seemed to have realised the danger it was in now if it tried to fight Sakura and began to back away. Sakura smiled softly at the big purple demon as she sat down on the stool it had knocked her off from and picked up one of her full shot glasses. Her elbow was placed on the bar work surface while her drink was held up in an elegant fashion.
"Oh, Momoshi? Please tell Karin, not to send anymore of her lackeys otherwise I will send Naruto to have a word with her." Sakura said and downed her drink before placing on the work surface in a fluent manner, as if this sort of thing happened hundreds of times. She had taken great delight when its eyes widened at her other blonde friend's name and then she watched the purple creature scuttled off to disappear.
The bar noise returned to normal when the minion was gone and Sakura could see from the corner of her left eye Bee let out a huge sigh of relief, knowing he must have been praying or something. The rosette mused it must have been because he didn't want to shut down for repairs; Sakura wasn't exactly a gentle a fighter and she tended to get a little carried away. Her best friend then plopped herself down in her seat next to her, looking very entertained at the events transpired and gazed at her to which Sakura mirrored as she relaxed back against the bar's work surface.
"You'd send Naruto? That's a bit on the harsh side." Ino smirked.
"Hey, if I have to hear him scream down my ear once in a while Karin should have the honour too." Sakura smirked back.
There was a moment before the pair laughed out loud, sounding almost like a pair of witches on a Halloween night. It felt good to Sakura, and Ino knew then the girl had finally calm down and relaxed for the night.
"Karaoke time y'all!" Bee shouted across the bar.
Ino squealed happily at this and shot off her chair to the stage while Sakura watched her friend contentedly.
SOS! SAVE OUR SOULS! MAY DAY! MAY DAY! ABORT ABORT!
Suck it, Hakumei!
You wait! You will rue the day Karaoke was born!
"Whatever" Sakura muttered quietly to Hakumei happily as the music started up from Ino's selection.
It was slightly chilly later that night as a lone red head woman walked down the street. Her green eyes were checking her text messages tiredly from a long shift in Limbo. Since there were missing reapers everyone seemed to be taking longer to finish their shifts. More souls had been applied to the lists and everyone had to be quicker to get from one reaping to another in a short space of time. There was a gust of wind and she pulled her collar up higher from the chill with one hand but as her fingers released the material she stopped in mid-step. Her heart started to speed up a bit as she felt a dark intent pulsating in the air. Slowly she looked up from her screen and straightened herself to scan the area properly at full height. The only things she could see moving were the few leaves left over from last autumn and a plastic bag gently taken by the wind. It looked completely peaceful and serene.
Looks were deceiving.
Her black scythe appeared in her free hand and she raised it so the blade parallel to her thigh, allowing it to point to the sky. The red head turned cautiously for a better look.
"Fee"
Hers flicked to the rooftops.
"Fye"
To her left.
"Foe"
To her right.
"Thumb"
She then turned to where she originally was facing before she felt the dark intent.
"I see a cute reaper and then some"
Her eyes focussed and narrowed at the figure in the shadows, leaning against a nearby car. They held their fingers that made a diamond shape as they rest against their thighs. The red head started to dial a number but the phone was shot out of her hand with a knife. The blade was thrown so fast she barely felt the phone being ripped out of grasp and nailed into a nearby car. She gasped at the speed in shock but kept her eyes on them, knowing to never to take your eyes off the enemy until they were either truly incapable of moving or dead.
"Silly reaper, that's not very nice."
She swallowed nervously and then grasped her free hand to the scythe tightly, holding it now with both hands for battle. Yet this being just looked so relaxed and content, it made her want to shiver.
"If I wanted a party I would have called you're friends already"
"Who the hell are you?" she asked, sounding braver than she was.
It sucked in some air dramatically, as if she did something so audacious. "Silly silly reaper, cursing like that, it's very rude you know." She then felt the dark intent turning almost mischievous but still had the deadly touch to it. "I'm bored, let's play."
"Stay back!" she shouted, raising her scythe to defend herself.
"Don't you want to play with me cute little reaper?"
"I'm warning you!"
Before she knew it she was faced down on the floor, her scythe gone from her clutches and her right arm twisted back while her other had its weight, maybe a knee, against it. She moaned uncontrollably in pain, the first to ever to feel such sensations in a long time, as she felt it play around with her finger. She still couldn't see it from over her shoulder but judged that is was fast and uncannily strong now.
"I want to play."
And her world went white.
Yeah no Sasuke here. But he shall arrive soon! Just have to wait and see!
Okay! Chapter 5 is ready but like I have done with Chapter 3 it shall be released when Chapter 4 has sunk in. Till then I am working on 'Between the Shades of Grey'.
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