A story I've been sharing with ShegoXP on DeviantART.
Dark clouds loom over the city of Tokyo, with the streets lit up with lampposts.
A lonely figure stepped out from the shadows, walking under the lights to reveal herself to be Kirie Kojima. Dressed in a large trench coat, the girl carried with her a single rose, with the intent on giving it to the patient whose name is tagged on the flower – Yukinari Sasaki.
Yukinari Sasaki was a childhood friend of hers, once upon a time. When they were kids, Yukinari was bullied by a lot of girls, including Kirie herself, due to his short stature and cowardice nature. Kirie would often defend Yukinari from many bullies, given to her gifted martial art talents. Though all the same, she whenever she was angered, or misunderstood one of Yukinari's bad luck as "perverted" motive, she would violently, and blindly, attack him before she was given a proper explanation. As a result of his torments, he had developed a rash that breaks out whenever he gets near a girl. All of that changed, however, after another of Kirie's violent temper outburst, when Yukinari was sent to an alternate world called Seiren. There, he met the only girl who doesn't cause his rash to break out, and one of the few to genuinely care about him – Miharu.
A magically gifted girl, with three dots on her forehead to symbolize for it, Miharu has powers that very few could scarcely imagine, even the power to travel between Earth and her home world at will. The same power that she had used to summon Yukinari to her home, from which their love and adventures have begun. Unlike Kirie, Miharu was an innocent girl with a heart of gold and is scarcely upset. At least, up until a recent tragic event which had robbed Miharu of her innocent and crushed her heart completely. The day when both Miharu and Kirie had lost their love – Yukinari.
Past
It was about a week ago, when Kirie, Yukinari, Miharu, Koyomi, Tomoka, and their former enemy-turned-friend, Yukina, were visiting a museum that had recently opened up a new exhibit, displaying a collection of artifacts that had been recovered, detailing further back during the era when Japan was under the rules of the shogun and mighty samurai warriors who dedicated their lives to the code of Bushido. The exhibit also houses a great stone dragon as the center of attraction.
It was a marvelous sight to behold, though to Miharu, Koyomi, and Yukina, they were rather frightened by the dragon statue. To them, it was a terrifying creature to behold, since it looked as if it could come to life at any moment to eat them. But during the visit, Yukinari had tripped on a loose shoelace, causing him to fall towards Kirie, pulling her skirt down, and exposed her panties to the public. Driven mad by the humiliation, seeking retribution towards the boy's blunder in spite of his plea for mercy, Kirie lashed out.
"You sick pervert!" Kirie hissed venomously. "I never thought you'd stoop this low!"
"No, wait!" Yukinari pleaded in his defense. "It was an accident, I swear! I just tripped!"
"GO TRIPPING IN HELL YOU PERVERT!" Kirie roared as she landed punches and kicks to the boy's head, chest, and stomach, before she grabbed him by the arm and leg and summoned incredible amounts of strength, which she used to hurl him into the mouth of the dragon statue.
"Yukinari!" Miharu screamed, horrified at the sight of her beloved Yukinari in a dragon's mouth.
"I'm sure he's fine," Kirie muttered, without a care in the world as she bent down to pull her skirt back up.
However, before anyone knew it, the dragon statue crumbled, and it broke into several little pieces on its very foundations, with the head taking Yukinari with it. Once the dusts cleared up, there lying on the floor, unconscious, crushed, and bleeding in the dragon's mouth was Yukinari. Everyone, including Kirie, were all aghast at what they had witnessed. But none were more heartbroken, or horrified than Miharu herself. To her, it looked like Yukinari was being eaten alive by the dragon, and Kirie was to blame.
"Yukinari..." Miharu whimpered, devastated at the sight of her beloved, dying in a dragon's mouth. "No...no! No! NNNOOOOOOOO!" She wailed, with the star marks on her forehead glowing in a piercing aura of light, that burned in her skin.
Out of inhumane despair, Miharu lost control of her powers. Horrified at the sight of her beloved, bleeding and eaten by a fiendish creature. For the first time in her life, all sense of joy was completely drained out of Miharu, and in their place, she knew only grievance, sorrow, and rage. All negativity manifested itself into a swirling vortex, with which she directed it all on Kirie herself.
Realizing what she had done, and the fact that she's gone too far this time, Kirie's pride quickly turned to bitter horror, and her state of humiliation became meaningless. Before she had the chance to apologize, an unsheathed katana had flown towards Kirie and cuts across her face, literally scarred her for life. Then a piece of the dragon's claw that swatted Kirie out of the museum and into the courtyard. And like the coward she was reduced to, Kirie fled the scene, escaping Miharu's rage and the authorities, who had arrived to take Yukinari to the hospital.
Since that day, Yukinari was left in a coma, resting in the hospital, with Miharu at his side. With Yukinari's life hanging on by a very thin thread, Miharu's colorful, bubbly, and cheerful optimism has lost its natural color.
And as for Kirie, knowing she can never show herself to her family, or even to her friends, she had fled somewhere in the city, where no one, not even the police could find her. Kirie had won the fight. But at what cost? Yukinari, her childhood friend, a good person with a terrible upbringing and experience with girls, like her. A good boy who had always been good to girls, and to everyone, whether they understood him or not. A poorly misunderstood boy who had suffered a terrible humiliation very few had scarcely imagined.
Days have passed, and in time, Kirie realized her solitude. The sweetness of victory turned to ash.
Present
Kirie stood in front of the hospital, standing underneath the flickering light that barely shines down on her. She held her free hand up to trace the scar that cuts across her face, diagonally, starting from the upper left, across the bridge of her nose, ending in the lower right of her face.
Before, so many men, and some women, would be turned on at the sight of her gorgeous face, together with her well-endowed fit body. But now, her face was forever scarred to serve as a constant reminder of her inner demon, a symbolism, for the person she really is being shown from the inside out. And she deserved it. But her wounds have run deeper than a noticeable cut on her face. She can never be welcomed to the public, or to the hospital, and worst of all, she knew she wouldn't be welcomed back home. Not after what she did.
A tear trickled down Kirie's cheek, as she clutched the rose in her other hand. Even if Yukinari won't wake up soon, or if he no longer wants her in his life, she wanted to leave him a parting gift, to at least let him know her sincerest apology.
Kirie was about to enter the hospital, when she was stopped, "What are you doing here?" a voice asked, startling Kirie.
She turned to the right, to see a hooded figure emerging from the shadow.
"Wh-Who are you?" in response, the figure pulled her hood down to reveal she was a girl about Kirie's age, with silver hairs, piercing turquoise eyes, and a light blue headband that wrapped around her forehead, with a violet diamond mark printed on her forehead, "Y-Yukina?" Kirie murmured.
"Back for more?" Yukina scoffed. "So, feeding Yukinari to a dragon, watching and letting him bleed with a broken rib wasn't satisfying enough for you? You decided to come back for more?!" the girl spatted venomously.
"No, it's not like–Wait, broken rib?" Kirie shouted in horror.
"DON'T ACT LIKE IT'S THE FIRST!" Yukina shrieked angrily, before she ranted, "This isn't the first time, you know. Remarkable with how much he's had to put up with you. The abuse, the attacks, the humiliations? And all because of what?! BECAUSE OF A SIMPLE MISTAKE?! And for HOW LONG?!"
What Yukina had said struck Kirie to the core, creating a pit in her stomach, for what the angry girl spoke was the truth. For so long, Yukinari has had to put up with so much of Kirie's temper tantrums. Before meeting Miharu, Kirie was Yukinari's only friend. Growing up, the boy had always been bullied by a lot of girls because of his timid nature and small size, and Kirie has always had to defend him from them. But no one was ever there to defend the boy from Kirie herself.
Once, Kirie had came over to Yukinari's house just for a shower, because the bath at her place was broken. However, she had neglected to lock the door, or even to remind Yukinari that she was in his house. Thus, Yukinari had unintentionally walked in on her, clad in nothing but a towel. And when he spoke up in his defense, she outright attacked him in blind fury, sending him to Seirin, where he met Miharu. At first, Kirie was relishing in her victory, before she came to realize what she had done. Later when Yukinari returned, Kirie pleaded for his forgiveness, wanting to make amends to become a better friend. Unfortunately, she broke her promise when she saw Yukinari had returned with Miharu. From that day on to this point in time, Kirie was no better than she was, and now she stood in face of judgement from Yukina.
"It's not like that!" Kirie argued. "Okay, so I fucked up. But–"
"SILENCE!" With a wave of her hand, Yukina conjured up several bubbles of waters that snaked around Kirie, threatening to suffocate the life out of her.
"Wh-What are you doing?!" Kirie gasped.
"This will be the last time you've ever laid your finger on Yukinari again! I swear it!"