10. Enter Dark Sakura part 2
Bison got to his feet. "Okay, child. if you want to kill me so badly. then come at me!"
Bison's body was emitting a large mass of Psycho Energy. At the same time, Dark Sakura's Satsu aura began to flare furiously.
"You don't know when you are outclassed." Dark Sakura mumbled. She then dashed towards Bison. Just as she was about to punch Bison in the face, he disappeared.
"Huh?!"
"Knee Press. NIGHTMARE!!"
Bison appeared above Dark Sakura with three images of himself standing on one another. They dropped down at once and delivered multiple overhead flip kick. After about 3 of these (about 27 hits in all), two of the images disappeared, revealing the real Bison. He finished the move by sliding under Dark Sakura, sweeping her off her feet.
Dark Sakura quickly got up while rubbing her head. "Cheap move." she spat while getting into her fighting stance again.
{How did she get up so quickly after my move? Arrgh! I will kill her!}
"Cheap, huh?" Bison asked. He stared at his foe for a good while before finally making the next move. He put his hands to his chest, charging his energy into a purple ball. Bison grunted as he threw the energy ball forward. It was pretty slow, so Dark Sakura had no trouble dodging.
"Come on, now," she said while getting out of her dodge. She jumped forward and stopped in mid air. She quickly threw out one arm while her aura started to become enraged again.
"Hadouken!"
Dark Sakura let loose another big energy blast aiming at Bison. Just as it has about to hit, Bison disappeared again.
"Now I got you," Dark Sakura mumbled as she quickly landed, turned around and threw her fist into Bison's face, making him stumble.
"Shouoken!"
Dark Sakura hit Bison with her fist about 7 times before blasting him away. Bison froze in mid air and disappeared again.
"This trick is getting old."
Dark Sakura once again turned around, charged up another Hadouken, and fired upwards. The blast traveled for a bit before hitting its target. She could hear Bison's yelp as his body finally fell to the ground.
"How do you. know where I'll show up at?!" Bison demanded.
"Simple," Dark Sakura said. "I can sense your Psycho energy even if you try to hide it while teleporting. Besides, you're just the type of guy who would try to attack someone in the back all the time."
Bison growled loudly as he got up again. {I can't teleport on her. That's about all. She's nothing but an enhanced version of her former self. I'll find a way to defeat her.}
Bison lifted off into the air and came crashing down on Dark Sakura's skull. or at least that is what he though he hit.
"Shouoken!"
Bison was knocked into the air again by a shorter version of the uppercut, but he air recovered quickly by flipping and dived down again with his hands in front of him.
"Pathetic. Shinku. HADOUKEN!!"
Dark Sakura quickly charged and fired an insanely larger version of her normal Shinku Hadouken at Bison. Its power was so ridiculous that it made Darrell's Shakunetsu Shinku Hadouken look weak (although in reality, Dark Sakura's was just a few points stronger). Bison's body was covered with Satsu flames (i.e. dark purple flames) as it dropped down with a thud to the ground.
Dark Sakura spat at the ground. "Like I said, you don't know when you are outclassed."
Bison wobbled as he once again stood to face the darker version of the girl. {Blast it! I can't beat her this way. Maybe if. I use the reserved Psycho Power that I have stored, then I'll be able to kill this annoyance.}
"Consider this a compliment, girl," Bison started. He clenched his fists and his Psycho Aura surrounded his body again. "I never had to use the maximum amount of my power on anyone except that man."
Dark Sakura just glared at Bison, letting his aura get bigger.
"Sakura!"
Dark Sakura turned around to her friends tied up on trees. The voice was Darrell's.
"Listen, you have the upper hand. You have to kill this guy NOW!!"
Dark Sakura nodded. "I know. and that is what I'm about to do."
"Aren't you letting Bison power up?"
"Sort of."
"Why!?"
"You'll see."
Bison grinned at he relaxed after powering up. His muscles were twice the size as before and the purple aura was almost touching Dark Sakura's Satsu aura, even though they were about two yards away from each other.
"You are a fool, girl." Bison said.
"Oh, am I? What are you, blind?" Dark Sakura snared.
"What did you say!?"
"Look at our auras, stupid!"
Bison looked at both his and Dark Sakura's auras. and let out a long, "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
Bison's aura was being pulled into Dark Sakura's, meaning that Bison was losing strength when he was supposed to gain it and Dark Sakura was becoming more powerful by the second.
"You won't be able to withdraw that precious energy either and now I have a permanent lock on your energy supply, you'll be getting weaker by the second until there is nothing left to suck." She started to laugh suddenly.
"WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!?" Bison yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Funny? Well, there is the fact that you were the one talking about stealing energy. Guess the shoe is on the other foot. And when the draining is complete, there will be nothing left of you."
Bison's eyes grew wide at that statement. {How did she.?}
"I bet you are wondering something like how I know that you'll disappear. Well, Bison, I know that you are nothing but pure Psycho energy gone bad."
"How." Bison managed to say.
"I rather not talk about it, Bison. It's a long story, and I really don't want to waste your last moments boring you. especially when you ARE DIEING right at this very second!"
Bison growled again. "There is no way I'll let you beat me! I'm the leader of Shadowloo! I cannot be defeated by some teenage girl!"
"You will." Dark Sakura replied.
Bison finally lost it. Without knowing it, he disappeared from Dark Sakura's sight.
{You cannot hide from me, Bison,} Dark Sakura thought to herself.
"DIE!!!!"
Dark Sakura felt an enormous burst of energy coming from behind her. She turned around just in time to see Bison come barreling towards her at high speed. She saw this move before. Bison was wrapped in his Psycho Energy while spinning like a torpedo, but his energy was roughly 5 times more powerful than the one that he used on Hinata so many weeks ago.
"PSYCHO CRUSHER!!!"
Dark Sakura put up her defense as fast as she could as Bison rammed himself into her. At first Dark Sakura looked as if she could ward off the blast, but after a while, Bison broke through her block and tunneled right into her face.
"SAKURA!!!!"
Darrell was livid, so he didn't even notice that Hinata was awake now or that she screamed with him. His aura instantly appeared, first white-blue, then red-orange, then a blazing orange. The sheer strength of his aura caused the tree he was bonded to erupt into flames, freeing him.
"BISON!!"
"Don't get involved!"
Darrell was about to run into the battle, but Dark Sakura's voice cut him off. You. are. OK?
"I got this, Darrell!" Dark Sakura said as Bison rushed past her. She quickly wiped the blood off her mouth, then got into a very weird stance. I hope I do this right. She lifted one knee to her waist level and put a fist on that knee. She put the other fist across her chest and floated forward.
"Huh?" Hinata gasped, getting Darrell's attention.
"What is she doing.?" Darrell asked himself out loud.
Dark Sakura glided forward slowly. then as she predicted, Bison reappeared right in front of her.
"What the.?" Bison let out.
"Gotcha!" Dark Sakura yelled as she reached out to grab Bison. They stood there for about 3 seconds, Dark Sakura staring into Bison's eyes. Then everything went black. then blows could be heard all over the area. Bison was screaming for dear life in the darkness.
"WHAT"S GOING ON!?" Darrell yelled.
"Shun. Goku. SATSU!!"
Suddenly, a huge flash of light erupted in the dark, causing both Darrell and Hinata to close their eyes to avoid blindness. In a blink, everything was back in eyesight. and what Darrell and Hinata saw was just scary. Dark Sakura had her back to them, looking over Bison. or what was left of him. His body was totally destroyed; the only remains were shards of his uniform. There was total quiet for about 2 minutes.
"Oh. my." Hinata finally said. "Damn." Darrell added in disbelief
"I'm done." Dark Sakura announced. She turned her attention to the two kids to her left. Darrell took the time of silence to release Hinata from her shackles. When he was done, Darrell looked at Dark Sakura.
"I. know that you are not really Sakura, are you?" he asked.
Dark Sakura shook her head. "I guess I have some explaining to do. but let's go back to that hotel room, shall we?"
"How?" Hinata asked.
Dark Sakura smiled. "I know a way."
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"Okay, this is how things go. I'm not, as you probably guessed, Sakura Kasugano. at least not exactly. I'm her 'dark' side. I was always in her ever since she started learning Shotokan karate. I just came to surface now, when she saw you guys and Bison. She almost lost her mind, so I controlled her body so that she wouldn't do anything harsh."
The three warriors were in their hotel room. It was nightfall, so florescent light from the bedroom lamps filled the room. Dark Sakura and Hinata were sitting on one of the beds and Darrell was on the other. All three were in their nightwear.
"Okay. that explains the whole you coming about," Darrell said to Sakura's dark side, ".but there are a lot of things bothering me. First of all, what is with the whole Harugokusatsu and Shungokusatsu thing?"
Dark Sakura took a deep breath then said. "One day, Sakura came across the technique of the Shungokusatsu, the Raging Demon. She looked and studied it, but after learning of the consequences, she decided to tweak it somewhat. First of all, she needs someone to hold up whoever they are fighting for her to use the move. Second of all, her Harugokusatsu makes everything in the vicinity turn white. If you have a keen eye, you can see some of her attacks. This is a clean giveaway that shows that she didn't want to learn the real move. The real Shungokusatsu leaves everything black and you cannot see anything."
"But why did she do that? What is so terrible about the Shungokusatsu?" Hinata asked.
"When a person uses the Shungokusatsu," Dark Sakura answered, "their soul is thrown out of their bodies, leaving only the Satsu energy in the body to reek havoc."
"So why did you use it. and you are perfectly fine?" Hinata asked again.
Dark Sakura smiled a bit. "I guess you didn't see the little pause that I did before I finished Bison. I was gathering just a little less energy so that I don't accidentally lose Sakura's soul in the process. Normally, the Shungokusatsu is 15 hits and almost always kills the opponent. The one I did was really 18 hits, and all of them were. Actually, I can't explain it, but I had to alter it."
"I see. So now, where is Sakura?"
"Oh, she is unconscious right now. She doesn't have a clue what's going on."
"There is no way I can tell her what happened." Darrell said loudly. He crossed his arms like a stubborn child.
Dark Sakura laughed a bit. "There probably is something I can do."
Hinata's attention immediately went to the other dark-skinned fighter. "What is that?"
"Just watch and learn."
Dark Sakura closed her eyes, focusing herself. Her black aura appeared then spread outwards. The two looked on in awe as Dark Sakura's skin color lightened up and the black aura started forming another body.
"What the.?" Darrell said as both he and Hinata jumped away.
After about a minute, Darrell and Hinata were looking at two identical beings, one on the bed and one standing in the middle of the two beds. The one on the bed was light skinned and her light-blue aura surrounded her body. Her eyes were closed as she sat up on the bed. The one standing was the being that was talking a few minutes ago.
"That felt pretty weird." Dark Sakura said while stretching her own body. She bent down to the ground and did some leg stretches.
"Did you just. make yourself a body?" Darrell asked, uneasily. "That was really creepy."
"I'm fine, guys," she answered. "It will take a while to get used to my own body but it shouldn't take long."
"Ugh."
Darrell and Hinata turned to the girl on the bed, whose eyes started to open. When they did, she yarned while stretching her arms.
"Wow. oh! Hi, guys! How is everything?"
"Sakura's back!" Hinata rang.
Sakura looked at her friend as Hinata ran over and hugged her. "Hey! What's with this, Hinata?"
"I was pretty worried about you. when I saw you fight Bison."
Sakura pushed Hinata away. "Wait. You mean to tell me that I fought Bison?"
"Well, it wasn't exactly you who fought." Darrell said under his breath. "It was your body, but."
"But what?" Sakura asked as she got off the bed while rubbing the back of her head. Little did she know, Dark Sakura was about to get up from stretching. You can guess where this led to.
CHASH!
Both Sakuras tumbled over each other, dragging Darrell and Hinata with them. The result: a four-body pileup in the small space between the beds, limbs sticking out everywhere.
"Smooth move, guys,'" Darrell mumbled while blushing. "Smooth move."
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"So. who are you, anyway?" Sakura asked herself. "My evil side?"
"Exactly," Dark Sakura answered. "I'm the one who finished off Bison for you guys. It wasn't very pretty."
"I don't get it. I don't have any motives to have an evil side."
"I know. I'm not evil, really. If I was, then I would have done something even more evil than killing Bison. I'm simply Dark Sakura."
Sakura didn't say anything immediately after that. She just stared at her darker clone. Dark Sakura put her hands on her hips and raised an eyebrow.
"What's with you?" she asked Sakura.
"I was just thinking on what your name could be," Sakura answered. "We can't just call you 'Dark Sakura', especially in public."
"I was thinking about that a few minutes before we split. Uh. I think I got it." Dark Sakura turned her attention to Darrell and Hinata. "How about. Sakura Satsu? It fits my personality well, and most people will dismiss it as a cute little last name my parents gave me."
"I like it," Hinata commented. Darrell simply nodded in agreement.
"So we have a Darrell Goodson, a Hinata Wakaba, a Sakura Kasugano, and a Sakura Satsu," Darrell recapped. "A set of twins is just what this little team needs."
As soon as Darrell mentioned the word 'twins', a flash of the dream he had with Sakura popped into his mind. He blushed. and, for some odd reason, Sakura blushed as well.
"Hey.!" Hinata said to Sakura Satsu. "Why did those two just started to blush all of a sudden?"
Darrell and Sakura Kasugano just stared at each other. {Could she have had. the dream too?}
"Sakura. do you somehow remember a totally white room with you and me in it.?"
Sakura stared hard into Darrell's eyes, searching her memory. Then something hit her.
"Actually, I do," Sakura answered. "I remember that we were in a white room. and we had on the clothes that we met each other in 3 years ago. For some strange reason, we seemed to copy one another. We both had your orange aura and we. we were blushing. a lot. then."
Sakura's cheeks turned beet red in embarrassment, and just like the dream, when she blushed, Darrell followed suit. They both knew what came next.
"You said." Darrell said very slowly, ".that. you. uh. loved me."
"So did you," Sakura followed. They both turned their attention to the other Sakura and Hinata and were a little surprised. Now all four of the teenagers were blushing. Everyone had rosy red cheeks, especially Darrell and Sakura Kasugano. There was a long silence before Hinata let out a nervous giggle.
"I. see." she said.
"I remember that also," Sakura Satsu mumbled loudly. "I was still in your body when that dream occurred, when we were knocked out by that. stuff."
"Sakura," Darrell caught the original Sakura's attention, "this must mean something. If we both had the same dream at the same time, then."
"I know, but where in the world can we get help?"
"You know. we'll have to talk about this tomorrow," Sakura Satsu interrupted. "Let's get some rest why don't we? We have to get to America."
Everyone nodded but Darrell spoke again. "Hey... Sakura S. Where are you going to sleep at?"
For the first time, Sakura Satsu had a blank expression on her face. "Uh."
Darrell shook his head. "You can use my bed if you want," he offered. "I'll just sleep in on the couch."
"Thank you, Darrell," she replied as she slipped into her bed and continued with. "Hey. you just called me Sakura S., didn't you?"
Darrell shook his head in agreement. "I'm going to have to call you guys by your last names to avoid getting you two confused. The. um. 'original' Sakura is Sakura K. for Kasugano, and you're Sakura S. for Satsu."
Sakura S. nodded in agreement and flopped down on her bed. Sakura S. and Sakura K. shared a bed, Hinata got into the other bed, and Darrell, as he promised, spent the night on the couch. Just before he drifted off to sleep, he had a thought. and shuddered. {Oh, no. I have to see him when I get home.}
End of Chapter 10
Bison got to his feet. "Okay, child. if you want to kill me so badly. then come at me!"
Bison's body was emitting a large mass of Psycho Energy. At the same time, Dark Sakura's Satsu aura began to flare furiously.
"You don't know when you are outclassed." Dark Sakura mumbled. She then dashed towards Bison. Just as she was about to punch Bison in the face, he disappeared.
"Huh?!"
"Knee Press. NIGHTMARE!!"
Bison appeared above Dark Sakura with three images of himself standing on one another. They dropped down at once and delivered multiple overhead flip kick. After about 3 of these (about 27 hits in all), two of the images disappeared, revealing the real Bison. He finished the move by sliding under Dark Sakura, sweeping her off her feet.
Dark Sakura quickly got up while rubbing her head. "Cheap move." she spat while getting into her fighting stance again.
{How did she get up so quickly after my move? Arrgh! I will kill her!}
"Cheap, huh?" Bison asked. He stared at his foe for a good while before finally making the next move. He put his hands to his chest, charging his energy into a purple ball. Bison grunted as he threw the energy ball forward. It was pretty slow, so Dark Sakura had no trouble dodging.
"Come on, now," she said while getting out of her dodge. She jumped forward and stopped in mid air. She quickly threw out one arm while her aura started to become enraged again.
"Hadouken!"
Dark Sakura let loose another big energy blast aiming at Bison. Just as it has about to hit, Bison disappeared again.
"Now I got you," Dark Sakura mumbled as she quickly landed, turned around and threw her fist into Bison's face, making him stumble.
"Shouoken!"
Dark Sakura hit Bison with her fist about 7 times before blasting him away. Bison froze in mid air and disappeared again.
"This trick is getting old."
Dark Sakura once again turned around, charged up another Hadouken, and fired upwards. The blast traveled for a bit before hitting its target. She could hear Bison's yelp as his body finally fell to the ground.
"How do you. know where I'll show up at?!" Bison demanded.
"Simple," Dark Sakura said. "I can sense your Psycho energy even if you try to hide it while teleporting. Besides, you're just the type of guy who would try to attack someone in the back all the time."
Bison growled loudly as he got up again. {I can't teleport on her. That's about all. She's nothing but an enhanced version of her former self. I'll find a way to defeat her.}
Bison lifted off into the air and came crashing down on Dark Sakura's skull. or at least that is what he though he hit.
"Shouoken!"
Bison was knocked into the air again by a shorter version of the uppercut, but he air recovered quickly by flipping and dived down again with his hands in front of him.
"Pathetic. Shinku. HADOUKEN!!"
Dark Sakura quickly charged and fired an insanely larger version of her normal Shinku Hadouken at Bison. Its power was so ridiculous that it made Darrell's Shakunetsu Shinku Hadouken look weak (although in reality, Dark Sakura's was just a few points stronger). Bison's body was covered with Satsu flames (i.e. dark purple flames) as it dropped down with a thud to the ground.
Dark Sakura spat at the ground. "Like I said, you don't know when you are outclassed."
Bison wobbled as he once again stood to face the darker version of the girl. {Blast it! I can't beat her this way. Maybe if. I use the reserved Psycho Power that I have stored, then I'll be able to kill this annoyance.}
"Consider this a compliment, girl," Bison started. He clenched his fists and his Psycho Aura surrounded his body again. "I never had to use the maximum amount of my power on anyone except that man."
Dark Sakura just glared at Bison, letting his aura get bigger.
"Sakura!"
Dark Sakura turned around to her friends tied up on trees. The voice was Darrell's.
"Listen, you have the upper hand. You have to kill this guy NOW!!"
Dark Sakura nodded. "I know. and that is what I'm about to do."
"Aren't you letting Bison power up?"
"Sort of."
"Why!?"
"You'll see."
Bison grinned at he relaxed after powering up. His muscles were twice the size as before and the purple aura was almost touching Dark Sakura's Satsu aura, even though they were about two yards away from each other.
"You are a fool, girl." Bison said.
"Oh, am I? What are you, blind?" Dark Sakura snared.
"What did you say!?"
"Look at our auras, stupid!"
Bison looked at both his and Dark Sakura's auras. and let out a long, "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
Bison's aura was being pulled into Dark Sakura's, meaning that Bison was losing strength when he was supposed to gain it and Dark Sakura was becoming more powerful by the second.
"You won't be able to withdraw that precious energy either and now I have a permanent lock on your energy supply, you'll be getting weaker by the second until there is nothing left to suck." She started to laugh suddenly.
"WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!?" Bison yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Funny? Well, there is the fact that you were the one talking about stealing energy. Guess the shoe is on the other foot. And when the draining is complete, there will be nothing left of you."
Bison's eyes grew wide at that statement. {How did she.?}
"I bet you are wondering something like how I know that you'll disappear. Well, Bison, I know that you are nothing but pure Psycho energy gone bad."
"How." Bison managed to say.
"I rather not talk about it, Bison. It's a long story, and I really don't want to waste your last moments boring you. especially when you ARE DIEING right at this very second!"
Bison growled again. "There is no way I'll let you beat me! I'm the leader of Shadowloo! I cannot be defeated by some teenage girl!"
"You will." Dark Sakura replied.
Bison finally lost it. Without knowing it, he disappeared from Dark Sakura's sight.
{You cannot hide from me, Bison,} Dark Sakura thought to herself.
"DIE!!!!"
Dark Sakura felt an enormous burst of energy coming from behind her. She turned around just in time to see Bison come barreling towards her at high speed. She saw this move before. Bison was wrapped in his Psycho Energy while spinning like a torpedo, but his energy was roughly 5 times more powerful than the one that he used on Hinata so many weeks ago.
"PSYCHO CRUSHER!!!"
Dark Sakura put up her defense as fast as she could as Bison rammed himself into her. At first Dark Sakura looked as if she could ward off the blast, but after a while, Bison broke through her block and tunneled right into her face.
"SAKURA!!!!"
Darrell was livid, so he didn't even notice that Hinata was awake now or that she screamed with him. His aura instantly appeared, first white-blue, then red-orange, then a blazing orange. The sheer strength of his aura caused the tree he was bonded to erupt into flames, freeing him.
"BISON!!"
"Don't get involved!"
Darrell was about to run into the battle, but Dark Sakura's voice cut him off. You. are. OK?
"I got this, Darrell!" Dark Sakura said as Bison rushed past her. She quickly wiped the blood off her mouth, then got into a very weird stance. I hope I do this right. She lifted one knee to her waist level and put a fist on that knee. She put the other fist across her chest and floated forward.
"Huh?" Hinata gasped, getting Darrell's attention.
"What is she doing.?" Darrell asked himself out loud.
Dark Sakura glided forward slowly. then as she predicted, Bison reappeared right in front of her.
"What the.?" Bison let out.
"Gotcha!" Dark Sakura yelled as she reached out to grab Bison. They stood there for about 3 seconds, Dark Sakura staring into Bison's eyes. Then everything went black. then blows could be heard all over the area. Bison was screaming for dear life in the darkness.
"WHAT"S GOING ON!?" Darrell yelled.
"Shun. Goku. SATSU!!"
Suddenly, a huge flash of light erupted in the dark, causing both Darrell and Hinata to close their eyes to avoid blindness. In a blink, everything was back in eyesight. and what Darrell and Hinata saw was just scary. Dark Sakura had her back to them, looking over Bison. or what was left of him. His body was totally destroyed; the only remains were shards of his uniform. There was total quiet for about 2 minutes.
"Oh. my." Hinata finally said. "Damn." Darrell added in disbelief
"I'm done." Dark Sakura announced. She turned her attention to the two kids to her left. Darrell took the time of silence to release Hinata from her shackles. When he was done, Darrell looked at Dark Sakura.
"I. know that you are not really Sakura, are you?" he asked.
Dark Sakura shook her head. "I guess I have some explaining to do. but let's go back to that hotel room, shall we?"
"How?" Hinata asked.
Dark Sakura smiled. "I know a way."
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"Okay, this is how things go. I'm not, as you probably guessed, Sakura Kasugano. at least not exactly. I'm her 'dark' side. I was always in her ever since she started learning Shotokan karate. I just came to surface now, when she saw you guys and Bison. She almost lost her mind, so I controlled her body so that she wouldn't do anything harsh."
The three warriors were in their hotel room. It was nightfall, so florescent light from the bedroom lamps filled the room. Dark Sakura and Hinata were sitting on one of the beds and Darrell was on the other. All three were in their nightwear.
"Okay. that explains the whole you coming about," Darrell said to Sakura's dark side, ".but there are a lot of things bothering me. First of all, what is with the whole Harugokusatsu and Shungokusatsu thing?"
Dark Sakura took a deep breath then said. "One day, Sakura came across the technique of the Shungokusatsu, the Raging Demon. She looked and studied it, but after learning of the consequences, she decided to tweak it somewhat. First of all, she needs someone to hold up whoever they are fighting for her to use the move. Second of all, her Harugokusatsu makes everything in the vicinity turn white. If you have a keen eye, you can see some of her attacks. This is a clean giveaway that shows that she didn't want to learn the real move. The real Shungokusatsu leaves everything black and you cannot see anything."
"But why did she do that? What is so terrible about the Shungokusatsu?" Hinata asked.
"When a person uses the Shungokusatsu," Dark Sakura answered, "their soul is thrown out of their bodies, leaving only the Satsu energy in the body to reek havoc."
"So why did you use it. and you are perfectly fine?" Hinata asked again.
Dark Sakura smiled a bit. "I guess you didn't see the little pause that I did before I finished Bison. I was gathering just a little less energy so that I don't accidentally lose Sakura's soul in the process. Normally, the Shungokusatsu is 15 hits and almost always kills the opponent. The one I did was really 18 hits, and all of them were. Actually, I can't explain it, but I had to alter it."
"I see. So now, where is Sakura?"
"Oh, she is unconscious right now. She doesn't have a clue what's going on."
"There is no way I can tell her what happened." Darrell said loudly. He crossed his arms like a stubborn child.
Dark Sakura laughed a bit. "There probably is something I can do."
Hinata's attention immediately went to the other dark-skinned fighter. "What is that?"
"Just watch and learn."
Dark Sakura closed her eyes, focusing herself. Her black aura appeared then spread outwards. The two looked on in awe as Dark Sakura's skin color lightened up and the black aura started forming another body.
"What the.?" Darrell said as both he and Hinata jumped away.
After about a minute, Darrell and Hinata were looking at two identical beings, one on the bed and one standing in the middle of the two beds. The one on the bed was light skinned and her light-blue aura surrounded her body. Her eyes were closed as she sat up on the bed. The one standing was the being that was talking a few minutes ago.
"That felt pretty weird." Dark Sakura said while stretching her own body. She bent down to the ground and did some leg stretches.
"Did you just. make yourself a body?" Darrell asked, uneasily. "That was really creepy."
"I'm fine, guys," she answered. "It will take a while to get used to my own body but it shouldn't take long."
"Ugh."
Darrell and Hinata turned to the girl on the bed, whose eyes started to open. When they did, she yarned while stretching her arms.
"Wow. oh! Hi, guys! How is everything?"
"Sakura's back!" Hinata rang.
Sakura looked at her friend as Hinata ran over and hugged her. "Hey! What's with this, Hinata?"
"I was pretty worried about you. when I saw you fight Bison."
Sakura pushed Hinata away. "Wait. You mean to tell me that I fought Bison?"
"Well, it wasn't exactly you who fought." Darrell said under his breath. "It was your body, but."
"But what?" Sakura asked as she got off the bed while rubbing the back of her head. Little did she know, Dark Sakura was about to get up from stretching. You can guess where this led to.
CHASH!
Both Sakuras tumbled over each other, dragging Darrell and Hinata with them. The result: a four-body pileup in the small space between the beds, limbs sticking out everywhere.
"Smooth move, guys,'" Darrell mumbled while blushing. "Smooth move."
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"So. who are you, anyway?" Sakura asked herself. "My evil side?"
"Exactly," Dark Sakura answered. "I'm the one who finished off Bison for you guys. It wasn't very pretty."
"I don't get it. I don't have any motives to have an evil side."
"I know. I'm not evil, really. If I was, then I would have done something even more evil than killing Bison. I'm simply Dark Sakura."
Sakura didn't say anything immediately after that. She just stared at her darker clone. Dark Sakura put her hands on her hips and raised an eyebrow.
"What's with you?" she asked Sakura.
"I was just thinking on what your name could be," Sakura answered. "We can't just call you 'Dark Sakura', especially in public."
"I was thinking about that a few minutes before we split. Uh. I think I got it." Dark Sakura turned her attention to Darrell and Hinata. "How about. Sakura Satsu? It fits my personality well, and most people will dismiss it as a cute little last name my parents gave me."
"I like it," Hinata commented. Darrell simply nodded in agreement.
"So we have a Darrell Goodson, a Hinata Wakaba, a Sakura Kasugano, and a Sakura Satsu," Darrell recapped. "A set of twins is just what this little team needs."
As soon as Darrell mentioned the word 'twins', a flash of the dream he had with Sakura popped into his mind. He blushed. and, for some odd reason, Sakura blushed as well.
"Hey.!" Hinata said to Sakura Satsu. "Why did those two just started to blush all of a sudden?"
Darrell and Sakura Kasugano just stared at each other. {Could she have had. the dream too?}
"Sakura. do you somehow remember a totally white room with you and me in it.?"
Sakura stared hard into Darrell's eyes, searching her memory. Then something hit her.
"Actually, I do," Sakura answered. "I remember that we were in a white room. and we had on the clothes that we met each other in 3 years ago. For some strange reason, we seemed to copy one another. We both had your orange aura and we. we were blushing. a lot. then."
Sakura's cheeks turned beet red in embarrassment, and just like the dream, when she blushed, Darrell followed suit. They both knew what came next.
"You said." Darrell said very slowly, ".that. you. uh. loved me."
"So did you," Sakura followed. They both turned their attention to the other Sakura and Hinata and were a little surprised. Now all four of the teenagers were blushing. Everyone had rosy red cheeks, especially Darrell and Sakura Kasugano. There was a long silence before Hinata let out a nervous giggle.
"I. see." she said.
"I remember that also," Sakura Satsu mumbled loudly. "I was still in your body when that dream occurred, when we were knocked out by that. stuff."
"Sakura," Darrell caught the original Sakura's attention, "this must mean something. If we both had the same dream at the same time, then."
"I know, but where in the world can we get help?"
"You know. we'll have to talk about this tomorrow," Sakura Satsu interrupted. "Let's get some rest why don't we? We have to get to America."
Everyone nodded but Darrell spoke again. "Hey... Sakura S. Where are you going to sleep at?"
For the first time, Sakura Satsu had a blank expression on her face. "Uh."
Darrell shook his head. "You can use my bed if you want," he offered. "I'll just sleep in on the couch."
"Thank you, Darrell," she replied as she slipped into her bed and continued with. "Hey. you just called me Sakura S., didn't you?"
Darrell shook his head in agreement. "I'm going to have to call you guys by your last names to avoid getting you two confused. The. um. 'original' Sakura is Sakura K. for Kasugano, and you're Sakura S. for Satsu."
Sakura S. nodded in agreement and flopped down on her bed. Sakura S. and Sakura K. shared a bed, Hinata got into the other bed, and Darrell, as he promised, spent the night on the couch. Just before he drifted off to sleep, he had a thought. and shuddered. {Oh, no. I have to see him when I get home.}
End of Chapter 10