Flasherback
It had only been a kiss. A single, simple, harmless kiss.
That one kiss had ended the friendship that had taken so long to build. It was hard work befriending a demon.
Of course, it had been a forced kiss. And had hurt the one being forced into it.
Wind roared in his ears as the rain pounded the top of his head from the heavens above. Each strike seemed to be a scolding strike from a parent, bad boy, you never ever do that!
He was stupid, really stupid. Note to self: don't force a girl.
But, I hadn't meant it to hurt, didn't that make it ok?
But you knew she wasn't going to like it.
But, all I wanted was to know…
Curiosity killed the cat…Shut up! I hate you, I hate everything! I hate me…
Do you hate her?
No.
Why not? She's the one who broke your heart.
Because…
Because?
Because…it isn't her fault. It's mine. I was the greedy one, the one who couldn't wait for relationships to form. I lost a friend. No, someone better than a friend…
Now what are you going to do?
I want to die.
The words hurtdeep inside. She didn't love him, she never did.
Thinking suicidal…
She, in her own mind, was a monster. He was a human to her, one of her few friends worthy of her trust. She had been raised to have no emotion. She was to put others needs and desires before her own.
He would never reach her through that thick shell that had encased her heart over the years. The closest thing to her, was friendship. He had just lost it.
He turned his back to her apartment and starting walking off into the rain. Her apartment was right next to the village wall. He was up on it. There was a break in the wall, opening up to a drop of over a hundred feet ending at the bottom with jagged rocks to keep invaders out. He was heading straight towards it.
She didn't love him, she never did.
And never would.
It had been an hour. He had been sitting at the bottom of the cliff bleeding for an hour. Why did everything go wrong for him? Now he was suffer a lot before he died. Life was too much.
It got worse.
"Owwww! My head…" A voice called from not to far away. It was Dark. Recently, he's been having problems with sleep walking. But, how he had managed to sleepwalk out of his house and outside the outer village gates, was beyond Ichi. "It hurts. The pain, ZE PAIIIIINNNNEEEE!" the idiot suddenly yelled.
Ichi sighed. His life was going waaaay downhill: first, there was the loss of his 'lovers' friendship; then, there was Verin and Dark screaming their heads off at him; then, there was the attempted suicide that just had to go wrong; now, the idiot found him.
"Heeeey, I know you." Dark said slowly, pointing down at Ichi's somewhat still figure. "You're um…"
"Ichi…" he managed to whisper.
"Yeah!…I think I hit my head too- hey! You're bleeding!" the genius finally pointed out, finally.
"Just go away…."
"Hey! Ichi wouldn't talk to me like that! I…." For one of the few times, the idiot thought with out going into his 'super smart' mode. "I must be seeing things again.. I mean, why would I find Ichi at the bottom of a cliff sliced open and bleeding to death? It's completely illogical. You have to think of the facts, Ichi is smart and thinks before acting. Suicide in his position would be stupid. Another thing, I know Ichi. He wouldn't want to die in a ditch. Why I remember when we were kids how we used to talk about how we would die, Ichi always replied 'dying in battle heroically while protecting the one I love'. So, you're not Ichi…. Hmmm, hungry…" up, it was over. Back to stupidity Dark went.
Ichi bit his bottom lip to stop from crying. He hated Dark for that.
"I think I'll go tell Kik about this… then I'll ask her for milk and cookies!" And before Ichi could try and stop him, the idiot was gone.
Ichi felt tears stream down his face, he was so stupid! He brought his head up and brought it down sharply, intending on ending it.
Darkness engulfed him.
a sharp scream sounded somewhere above. "I-Ichi, oh my god Ichi, are you there?" a voice pleaded, no, Kikiru's voice pleaded. He was almost out of it: energy, strength, blood.
"You can see him too?" Darks voice asked from behind her. I could only have way open my eyes. They deceived me.
It was raining, she wasn't crying for me, was she?
"oh my god he's still alive, Ichi, please don't die. Please…" the pleading tone in her voice broke his heart. He probably would die, he couldn't even feel her shaking hand caressing his cheek, but he knew it was there from the short glimpses he caught of it.
"Will he be ok?" Dark asked, slowly coming to realize this wasn't a hallucination.
"I don't know Dark." She replied, voice shaking, the rain still fell. But, it was only falling on his face. Funny, her face was suspended over his, and her eyes were kinda red.
"Can you find out, please? I don-"
"Dark, shut up for once." She yelled at him. Yelled at the sweet idiot that meant so much to her. Never, she had never even raised her voice at him, and here she was practically screaming at him. Ichi's mind was utterly confused. "Just…go find Verin and tell him that Ichi's in danger….." the world was starting to fade.
He came with one conclusion: he. Loved. Heaven.
a few weeks later he had woken up in a hospital bed. He hadn't been in heaven. But, she wasn't there. She was, as Verin explained, on a mission that would end in disaster.
End of Flasherback mode
"Kikiru…" Ichi whispered, tears fell as the orange eyes stared at him, empty of expression.
A slight smile met her lips. "Hey now, don't cry. I'm back. And you're in one piece." She said softly. The last part got a chuckle from Ichi, who wiped a few stray tears from his eyes.
"You guys ok now?" Verin asked, still holding Dark back.
"Yeah, I think so." Ichi said giving a sniff.
"Yaaay!" Dark yelled running to them as he pulled them into a hug. " Best friends forever!" Ichi let out a small laugh.
And another one as Kikiru's fist connected with the side of Darks face, she wasn't one to be hugged.
A/N: I…just read a fic that made me cry…. Hi! How was the flasherback? Tell me! I think it was good….. ok, next chapter gets interesting. It involves Akatsuki attacking! And I have a lovely title for it: Just Another Day In Konoha.