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Mayhem: Leaving Hinata City
I don't know how long I been out for. And I frankly don't care either. The only thing I want to know is am I alive? And are the officers alive?
I begin to breathe a little heavily, watching the dust on the floor scatter upwards. I try to pick myself up, but I'm too weak to do so. Even rolling to my back is taking a lot of my energy.
"At least nothing has come to attack me," I say to myself.
I spoke too soon, hearing a door screeching open with slow moving footsteps. In my state, there is nothing I can do. I begin to think of all the things I been through since leaving the Hinata Sou. Throughout all the fighting, the heartbreak and the turmoil I have been through, it has all been for nothing now that I'm going to dead in a matter of moments.
"SHINOBU!" I hear someone shout as the footsteps become faster and much closer. Before I know it, someone grabs me from my shoulders, turning me around. I'm happy and delighted to see that it's Officer An, alive and looking well. "SHINOBU! ARE YOU OK?"
"SHINOBU-CHAN!" Recognizing Officer Motoyuki's voice, seeing him standing behind Officer An. "ARE YOU ALRIGHT? WHAT HAPPEN?"
"NOTHING!" I shout, finally feeling my second wind. "BUT IF YOU DON'T STOP YELLING, I'M GOING TO LOSE MY HEARING?" We stand silent for a time being, before Officer Motoyuki and I begin to laugh. I can tell Officer An is confuse and somewhat lost in his eyes since I spoke Japanese.
"Huh...what did you say?" Officer An ask. I wrap my arms around his neck, pulling myself up.
"I told him 'Don't wake dead'." I whisper in his ear, hearing him chuckle. I know that's not what I told Officer Motoyuki, but that sounds funnier.
"Alright, but what happen to you? Why were you on the floor?"
"I tired after fight with Mayhem. I faint I guess." I feel a little embarrass telling him that, showing signs of weakest. But he doesn't seem to care, smiling at me and giving me a hug.
"As long as you're safe."
I unwrap my arms around Officer An as he helps me up to my feet. I look over to Officer Motoyuki, looking concern.
"You weren't bitten anywhere, were you?"
"No."
"Did you black out while we were fighting Mayhem?"
"Huh...yes." Officer Motoyuki sighs.
"I'm sorry to say this Shinobu, but we're going to have to check if you're bitten anywhere." I push Officer An off of me, crossing my arms over my chest and having a tear run down my right eye.
"But I'm not bitten anywhere!" I know that Officer Motoyuki means well, but stripping down to my unmentionables in front of grown men is a bit humiliating. I know I did this before, but Officer Tèa was the one to check me and from what I saw, all the male officers had their backs towards me.
"What the hell did you say to Shinobu to get her all frighten?" Officer An yells at Officer Motoyuki.
"I told her that we need to check if she is bitten anywhere when she blacked out."
"I think if she was bitten, they'd still be on her, chomping away at her body when we arrived." Officer Motoyuki has a blank look on his face before slapping his forehead.
"You have a point there." He turns around, heading towards the door. "Well, if everything is fine with you, then we should get going." I nod my head, walking out of the building together.
When we make our way into the street, I see Mayhem laying face first on the ground. I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that this nightmare is over. But as I look past the monster, I notice we have another dilemmas.
"How we get through firewall?" I ask.
Both officers look puzzled, checking the wall's surrounding. Officer An suggests we go into a building that connects the fire to see if there is any way out. With no other options, we enter another building and sure enough, find a window that's goes to the other side of the firewall.
First through the window is Officer Motoyuki, then Officer An and lastly me. Once I hit the ground, I watch both officers checking abandon cars in the street.
"What you doing?" I ask. Officer Motoyuki looks up at me.
"An and I are looking for a suitable automobile to leave this place quicker. It'll probably take us a full day, maybe two to reach the nearest city on foot and we don't know what's out there." I agree with their thinking. Pretty much after the bridge is a small forest and I don't want to fight anything else. I've done enough fighting for one lifetime. I want to help, but most of the car in the street look either torched or smashed.
"Hey guys!" I hear Officer An shout from across the street. "Is this car find with you guys?" Officer Motoyuki and I walk towards him, getting a good look at the car. It seems to be in good shape, except for a large dent on the backside. One of the windows is cracked open, making it easier for us to get inside the car.
"It looks run able. Are the keys inside?"
"Keys! I can fucking hot-wire this car." I look up at Officer Motoyuki, who looks surprisingly confused.
"You sure? I mean, this is a Japanese car."
"If it's anything like the Japanese cars I hot-wired back in San Diego, then yeah." Officer Motoyuki's face looks even more confused.
"Where did you learn how to hot-wire a car?" Officer An gives a sly look towards him.
"You don't want to know."
After opening the driver side door, Officer An begins to hot-wire the car while Officer Motoyuki checks the inside, the trunk and under the car, telling me that they don't want any unexpected visitors. After watching Officer Motoyuki make he's thorough search, we hear the engine revving up.
Although Officer An hot-wired the car, he is unfamiliar and uncomfortable with driving, being as to my understanding, the stirring wheel is on the right side of the car. He slides to the passenger seat, letting Officer Motoyuki drive. Naturally, I take the back seat, resting the sword on the floor and my bag on my lap as I sit in the middle. With everything set, I guide Officer Motoyuki towards the bridge.
It takes about a minute or two to reach the bridge. When I actually see it, it dawns on me that this is the last time I'm going to across this bridge; that I'm leaving Hinata City for good. Looking back, getting further and further away from the city, it feels like leaving the Hinata Sou all over again, except that this time, there is no more fighting.
Once we're out of the city area and into the small wooded forest, I lie down, holding onto the bag that I bought from the Hinata Sou. I suddenly remember that there are a few breakable things in the bag. I sit back up and unzip the bag, checking if anything did break.
The first thing I grab is Kitsune's beer mug. For some reason, I'm not surprised that it's not broken. I mean, she wanted unbreakable things incase she was very drunk and became violent. In the middle of searching, I grab Su's night vision goggles, remembering that I left the flying mecha Tama flashlight back in the room where I slept the previous night. I feel guilty for leaving that, but I'm glad that I still have something to remember her by. I put the goggles to the side and continue on until I find the only other breakable thing; a framed picture of everyone from the Hinata Sou. Through everything that this bag has gone through, the frame, glass and picture are still intact. I hold it tightly to my chest, shedding a tear.
As I remember moments from my past, the car moves slower and slower before becoming to a complete stop. I come back to reality seeing Officer Motoyuki stepping out of the car.
"What wrong?" I ask.
"Just step out of the car and we'll tell you," Officer An answers before leaving the car.
I follow suit, feeling a little scare since they aren't telling me anything. As I step out, I realize that we stopped on a small mountain with the view of the city below, seeing some of the areas on fire. I look at the back of the car, seeing both officers sitting on top of the trunk. As I walk up to them, they tell me to take a sit in the middle, since both officers taken the edges. I become even more frighten, but follow their order and sit in between them.
"First off," Officer Motoyuki begins, speaking in English. "I didn't realize that when I stopped, we would have a view of your city for what we are about to do."
"What you talk about?"
"Blowing up the your city." I feel like I just been knocked out, unable to believe this news. "You see, An and myself, along with the rest of the team where sent to destroy the city with a bomb before any of those monsters could reach any of the near-by cities."
"You tell me this because?"
"We want you to do the honors of blowing it up," Officer An replies.
"Why?"
"Because it's your city. It's only fitting that it should be done by someone from there."
I look back that the small infernos around Hinata City. As much as I don't like the idea of destroying the only place I called home, I understand that this is the only way that people from other cities will be safe and to give peace to the ones that turned in zombies.
"Okay. I'll do it."
Officer Motoyuki hands me some kind of remote. On it is a red button with two keyholes right below. With me holding the remote, both officers put in a key in the keyhole and turn it at the same time.
"Alright Shinobu-chan. All you have to do is press the button." Officer Motoyuki tells me, sounding very respectful. I look at the remote again, unsure about something.
"Will it work from where we are?"
"You could press it in Osaka and your city will still blow up."
I take one last look of the city. But not from the view of the small mountain we are on, but from the view on the roof of the Hinata Sou that is imbedded in my mind. I remember the city looks wonderful under the morning sun, romantic as the sun sets in the late afternoon sky and beautiful as lights brighten up in the evening. But now, as I press the button, watching the city I grew up in explode and turning into a pile of rubble and nothingness, the way I saw the Hinata City is now a distance memory.
I begin to cry as a smoke-filled cloud covers up what used to be my hometown. Tears begin to pour more and more that my vision becomes blurry. I cover my face with my hands so that neither officer can see the tears I'm shedding, but it doesn't help that I'm making crying noises. Out of the blue, I feel one of the officers put his arm around me, embracing me with a comforting hug.
"It's okay Shinobu," Officer An whispers into my ear. "Just let it all out."
I drop my hands and wrap my arms around Officer An, digging my face into his chest as my tears pour into his vest. I can hear him talking to Officer Motoyuki, but can't understand a word he's saying with my crying. After what seems like hours, I hold back my tears and regain my composure. I wipe off the remaining tears off my eyes, looking at Officer An smiling at me.
"Let's get going." I nod my head, jumping off the trunk.
I notice Officer Motoyuki isn't with us when I hit the ground, but as I walk to the back seat, I see him in the driver's seat, waiting for us. Like before, Officer An sits in the passenger side while I take seat in the back. I already hear the engine running as the car drives off. I take one look back at Hinata City, only able to see the smoking cloud rise in the night sky. As we drive farther and farther away from the city, seeing the smoke dwelling, I have this weird sense that the people who died in the Hinata Sou were watching over me; protecting me throughout my journey. The heavy burden of honoring my friends' deaths is now lifted off my shoulders, knowing that I have avenged them and the people of Hinata City as they are now in a better place. With that in mind, I lay myself down and take a long deserve nap.
The End
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