Hello everyone! Hope you're all enjoying what's left of summer. (My gosh it's August already!) And I hope you end up getting summer reading projects done at some point. Anyway, here's chapter two of the bashing of Sakura Haruno!
If you want a disclaimer you can go back to chapter one.
Part 2
Hinata jolted out of her fitful sleep. She had seen Sakura, eyes wide and staring her rosy locks matted with-
She shivered and tried to go back to sleep. Just as she began drifting off she felt something familiar on her left. Near the window
'But that's impossible. He was surely older than us then he has to be dead now…'
"Who's there?" she called nonetheless.
No answer came but she felt them moving towards her. She felt an unsettlingly cold hand brush hers.
'Oh what I wouldn't give for my sight right now!' she thought in frustration. She reached up to touch this person's face, but felt them move away, "Wait!"
But they were gone. She bit her lip more sad than annoyed, 'I must be dreaming. Why would he come to see me even if he was still alive if he hadn't before now?'
Some time later she reentered the release called sleep.
As promised, Tomoe returned the next morning.
"Ohayo Tomoe-chan! The weather feels lovely today doesn't it?" Hinata asked cheerfully, a breeze ruffling her hair.
"I suppose." The reply was detached.
There was a tense silence, "W-well where did I leave off?"
"You'd just passed through the kitchen."
"Ah yes I remember now! My sense of foreboding grew with every step we took deeper into the house…"
.: Begin flashback:.
"Not this one. It's locked." Sakura sighed, frustrated. But her excitement quickly returned by the next room they entered, "Wow look at that old staircase!"
The said set of stairs had probably once been lovely but now had a few boards missing and did not promise a safe trip to the to.
"S-sakura-chan it- it doesn't look very safe."
"Hmmmmmm I guess you're right. This will be our last resort. There might be another one somewhere. Let's look."
"Ano, but if this one's bad than what makes you think that we'll be able to use the other one?"
"Well he had to get upstairs somehow!" She replied pointedly.
And so, they continued to wander through the rooms. All still furnished and some lacking the expected dust. However the rooms that did have dust made Hinata's asthma start to act up and she began to have coughing fits. Nothing severe though, yet.
Finally they reached a room with another set of stairs in it. They were in surprisingly good condition, as opposed to the floors in this particular room.
"Are these stairs good enough for you Hinata-chan?" Sakura strode over to the staircase an excited grin on her lips.
Hinata coughed, "Y-yes. Th-they look safe."
"Then let's go!" She exclaimed holding out her hand.
"H-hai."
She quickly walked over to her friend, which caused her to sneeze suddenly. And due to their combined weight on the floor and the sudden motion of the sneeze, two boards abruptly snapped.
They screamed as they plummeted into the cellar of the place. Hinata was totally and utterly terrified and the scream quickly changed to a coughing fit.
"Owww." Sakura groaned as they hit the floor.
"Oh S-sa-sakura-chan I-I'm so so-sorry." Hinata gasped out in between sobs, "I-I n-never should have come a-along!" she buried here face in her hands.
"N-no Hinata-chan. It's not your fault. I shouldn't have made you come. I knew how bad your asthma was and how scared you are of this kind of stuff." She embraced her friend comfortingly.
"N-no no," She clung to the girl's red dress, "I a-agreed t-t-to g-go. P-please don't b-blame your-yourself."
Sakura sat with her until she calmed down a bit and then said, "Well Hinata-chan If we ever want to get out of here we're going to have to find a way out so you can just sit here and I'll go try to find the way."
She nodded and released her friend. She tucked her knees up to her chest and lifted her head only when she heard the pink haired girl gasp.
W-what! What is-is it!" She asked hysterically.
"It's- ano- well it's a-" Sakura didn't want to tell Hinata she'd just found a coffin," More of those really big bugs. Like in the kitchen. They just surprised me."
The pastel eyed girl sighed with relief, "Oh."
She heard her moving some things and then ascending stairs. A doorknob rattled. Her friend moaned, "Hinata-chan?"
"Y-yes?"
"I found the exit it's locked though. But I'll try to break it down."
"Oh no!" Hinata sobbed following the soprano voice of her friend.She ran up the stairs (1) and began pounding on the door, "Help us please someone!"
They beat at the door until their hands were bruised and burning and their voices were barely a rasp but still no one heard. And eventually they slept until well after it became dark they were awakened by a silky voice, "Pray tell, what are two children doing in my house?"
As the figure came into the scant light that came through the hole in the ceiling they saw what they had been fearing for their few years of their young lives… Michael Jackson! (Ha ha no not really. You can just ignore that.)
.: End Flashback:.
"Tomoe-chan the next bit of the story is rather gruesome. I would like to have some time to rest before I get into it. Is that all right?"
"Hai Hinata-sama." The girl bowed and disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Hinata dreaded the next day when she'd have to relive what haunted her dreams again.
She missed the coffin in her panic.
Well there you have it, chapter 2 is finished. Sorry about that last sentence. I just couldn't resist. Ohhhhhh school starts in 20 days! OMFG I don't wanna go. I despise school with every fiber of my being. Also how have the lengths for the chapters been? Too short? I think they are. Any way, just don't forget to send me your complaints or compliments!
Arigato!
12:32 Eastern Standard Time
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