Chapter 5: In the Flesh
Hinata had an idea of who could be behind her… but she didn't have time to check; she realized whoever that person was had vanished, he had released Hinata… and now Hinata stood in an empty room… a white, eerie, empty, door less, windowless, clean room.
However, Hinata saw that she couldn't be alone… and she was right: in front of her, smiling eerily was none other than Sakura, her pink hair radiating as it always was… she looked so normal… "Sakura… is that you?" asked Hinata, inconspicuously tightening her grip on her katana…
Something wasn't right… that smell… the smell of… dead flesh… that kunai in Sakura's hand… bloodied up and rusty… and that smile: and eerie, empty, airy smile, like she had no idea what was going on… and also, her eyes were of a pale, lavender colour… Hinata's eye colour… but could it be a trick of the light?
"… We came in?"
Hinata felt the little air in the room shift violently… and she realized that Sakura was flying towards her… kunai in hand… so Hinata whipped the katana about, straight at Sakura… and the screeching clink of metal reverberated around the room as the katana and the kunai clashed together.
Sakura landed behind Hinata, trying to catch her off guard, but Hinata saw through that move, and she spun on the spot to strike Sakura with her sword, causing Sakura to block, which gave Hinata an opening to kick Sakura onto the wall…
She did, and in doing so, Hinata now held the katana against the Mirror Sakura's throat, their faces inches apart, Hinata with a vicious look on her face, and the fake Sakura with an airy smile… Hinata honestly thought she had won… all she had to do was slit her throat, and it was over…
"Hinata…" Sakura now had turned her face into one asking for pity… she looked at Hinata, disgusted and horrified, like she didn't even know her… "Why are you doing this to me?" "Shut it, you're not Sakura" said Hinata, confidently… but looks can be deceiving…
"Hinata, you're acting crazy… please… spare me… I'm innocent... why are you doing this?" Sakura pleaded, "Shut up… you're not Sakura" Hinata's voice was breaking as this… thing… tried to plead its way out…
"Please… Hinata… you're my friend… let me go… you're hurting me…" "You're not Sakura…" "Please, let me go" "you're not Sakura… shut up…" "Hinata… what would Naruto say if you killed me?" Hinata then gasped… the Mirror Sakura smiled…And then a voice interrupted the fight…
"The worms live in every hearse…"
And then Hinata felt something on her leg… she looked down… and she saw worms, by the thousands, crawling out of the ground… and from holes in Sakura's shoes… and when she looked back at Sakura… she saw, instead… herself… before she realized that she had been shoved away by Mirror Hinata…
"It's hard to tell who they'll eat the most"
Hinata could hear her sing in whispers as she got up… but Mirror Sakura was back, and she stood ready, smiling that eerie smile, her eye dangling as she made her move… she was going to strike Hinata from the front, hooking from the right… Hinata countered it, and she planned on striking her away with the blunt side of the sword… but when she struck away the hook and swung her sword, blood splattered all over her and the floor…
The Mirror Sakura collapsed, seeping blood from a deep cut that went across her chest, and undoubtedly showing the lung where it was supposed to be… Hinata was shocked to see what she had done… and now she was in complete terror of what she had done… so much she dropped her sword… she kneed down… she covered her face in shame… and she cried...
"Isn't this where…"