Previously...

"I thought that if you were angry, I figured that you would want to talk about it with someone right?" Aoi asked as she laid on Sakura's bed. "You can tell me, I'll understand and I won't judge you for it either." Aoi told her determined.

Chapter 2: The Lie

Sakura looked at Aoi with a worried expression for a moment before she thought of something to say. She couldn't tell her about what had happened to them before. She keep thinking until she remembered something.

Something that she had forgotten about after everything that happened...until now.

"Actually, the reason why I'm so angry is because I have a close friend who is in the hospital that I almost forgot about. I was angry at myself for forgetting about them until now." Sakura told Aoi who looked surprised at the news. "Really? Who's in the hospital?" Aoi asked her curiously. "His name is Kenshiro. He is not just my closest friend, he is also my rival and...my...first love..." Sakura trailed off more quietly with each word that she spoke. Aoi looked at Sakura with absolute shock written all over her face. "Friend, rival, and love?" Aoi asked in surprise. Sakura shook her head yes.

"Man, that has to be rough. I never would have thought that that was what was making you angry." Aoi said. "I think it's cute that you still care for him so much despite the situtation that we're in." Aoi exclaimed happily. "Yeah." Sakura agreed.

Although completely calm on the outside, Sakura was internally screaming on the inside for what she had told Aoi. She couldn't believe the lie that she had just told to her...her best friend of all people...to keep the past memories a secret from her.

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After they finished training in Sakura's room together, Aoi left to go train in the gym alone. As Sakura watched her leave, she couldn't help but feel guilty about what had transpired between them.

She closed her door and let out a blood curling scream from deep within her throat that she had been hiding the whole time.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Luckily, no one was able to hear her because the walls were completely sound proof. It was also at this time that she had discovered another power...

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Crack! Crack! Snap!

At these sounds, Sakura looked up from screaming at the ground only to discover that she had done something without realizing it again. Only this time, she could actually see what damage she had caused. And looked behind her where the noises had come from. Only to be shocked at what she had seen.

The walls looked like they had been through hell and back, even though she didn't touch them. Cracks ranging from big to small rose up the wall and were almost to the ceiling of her room. The sight of the wall took her breath away as she looked down at her hands, which were trembling in fear.

'How am I doing all of this? What am I suppose to do with these new found powers? I don't understand.' Sakura thought to herself as she continued to shake in fear of herself. 'First I'm going back in time, Second fazing through walls, and now I'm cracking them with my emotions? What the fuck is going on with me?' As she thought this, she had a horrorfied look on her face. She stayed like this until she heard someone's voice.

"Sakura-san, is everything alright? You seem to be-" The person cut themselves off as they looked at the wall behind Sakura in pure astonishment. Then they looked back at Sakura. Sakura looked at who it was, to see that it was Kyoko Kirigiri.

"I-i don't know...I'm...scared..." Was all that Sakura could say to her. Kyoko looked back up at the wall again. "What did you do to crack the wall like this?" The detective asked her. "I have been punching the wall left and right to get the anger of this situation we are in out of my system. I honestly didn't expect the walls to break so easily." Sakura lied to her. Kyoko looked at her to see if she was lying, which she was, but didn't notice it. The detective closed her eyes a moment before turning to the door to leave. "Very well, I'll leave you be then until you pull yourself back together again. And if anything comes up, don't hesitate to tell me." And with that, Kyoko left closing the door behind her. Leaving Sakura alone in her room again.

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She felt like screaming again for having to lie to everyone, including to her best friend and the Ultimate Detective.

It made her feel like absolute hell. She didn't want this. She just wanted everything to go back to normal. Pretend that it was all a bad dream. She went over to her bed and got in it.

She felt that some sleep would help calm her down...even if it was just a little...

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A nightmare. That's what it felt like to her. She couldn't deny the fact that it felt so real that she thought that she was having the life sucked out of her. Biten... by a monster. That she didn't know who it was or where they came from. But she could sense them. From a place that she could not reconize. A place that was only dark and cold. A place where no ordinary human could come out alive.

A place that felt more like home than it should have been...

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"Sakura..." A faint girl's voice called out to her as she opened her eyes from sleep.

"Sakura...please wake up...mom and dad are worried about you..." The voice spoke to her.

Sakura slowly got up from bed and looked around her room to see who was talking to her. It was pitch black in her room. She saw no one there and laid back down on her side.

"Sakura...please...Hina and the others...don't know what's going on..." At this, she shot back up only to see a small shadow standing in front of her. It looked to be the shadow of a young highschool girl. The only thing that was able to stand out were the girl's eyes. Which were blood red.

Sakura shot herself to the back of her bedframe as much as possible. She was shaking in fear. The girl in front of her saw this and slowly formed a creepy, evil smile on her shadowy face.

"Don't worry...Dear Sakura sister...you'll soon be back with your classmates again...real soon...however...we have made some adjustments to your body...so be aware of that when you go back..." The Shadow Girl then shot herself towards Sakura and whispered into her ear. "A little word of advice...be careful and don't get caught...after all...it's only a little flare in your chest right now right?" With these words, Sakura suddenly felt a burning sensation inside of her chest.

Or rather...it was her throat.

Sakura felt that her body was on fire. It was only then did she open her eyes for real...

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Sakura shot up in her bed and was breathing extremely heavy. She was shaking as she rasied her hand to her throat as she felt a burning sensation of dryness well there. She got out of bed and went to the kitchen to get a bottle of water...

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When she got to the kitchen, she grabbed a bottle of water and went to go back to her room. Only for her to turn around and come face to face with the Shadow Girl again. Sakura jumped back to the frigde after seeing her. "What the-! I thought you were-!" Sakura stopped when the Shadow Girl didn't respond to her. Sakura raised an eyebrow in question. "Uh, hey, are you alright?" Sakura asked her as she reached out to the Shadow Girl.

But when she did, her hand went straight through her. She shot her hand back in surprise, turned it into a fist, and got into a battle stance. "I don't know who you are or where you came from, but I will get my answers one way or the other. Even if I have to use force." With this, she lunged at the Shadow Girl with a rasied fist. Only for the Shadow Girl to dogde it before it struck her.

Sakura punched at her again and again with little to no affect, as the Shadow Girl dogded and weaved to avoid the punches that were being thrown at her. It didn't take long for Sakura to wear herself out. When the Shadow Girl took notice, she went up to her and whispered into her ear like in her dream. "You don't see it yet do you?... Your not quite there...But you almost are...You just need one more push..."

And with that, the Shadow Girl went in front of her and hugged Sakura like she was a child. Sakura was confused at first until the Shadow Girl tightened her grip around Sakura's waist as if she was afraid to let her go. Sakura felt this and started to struggle her way out of the tight grip. With little to no effect. As the grip around her waist continued to tighten up, Sakura felt herself start to lose conciousness. She could feel herself lose oxygen extremely fast.

And it hurt like hell.

That's when she regained conciousness...

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"-ra." Her eyes opened and she blinked. Her eyes were blurry.

'Huh?'

"-kura" She saw three blurry people looking down at her.

'Who's there?'

"Sakura!" As she focused her eyesight, she saw that the three people who were staring at her were her classmates who she reconized. Makoto and Aoi had worried expressions while Kyoko looked concerned.

Sakura blinked a few times before slowly sitting up in bed. She looked at the three of them slowly. "What happened? Is something wrong?" She asked them. At this, Kyoko signed.

"The three of us were checking up on you to see if you were okay after this morning. We got worried when you didn't answer your door after we rung the doorbell. I asked Monokuma to unlock your door since it was locked and he did. Afterwards, me, Makoto and Aoi found you having some sort of nightmare and got concerned when you didn't wake up." Kyoko explained to her.

Sakura looked down in shame "I'm sorry I worried you." She then looked up to them again. "But if there is a way to make it up to you three, I will." Makoto, Aoi, and Kyoko looked at each other before nodding in agreement. The three of them turned to looked at Sakura.

"Actually, there is a way to make up for it. We want to know something." Kyoko told her. "What is it?" Sakura asked her.

"Why are you working with the mastermind?"

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Oh boy. How will Sakura explain herself to Kyoko, Makoto, and Aoi? And who is this 'Shadow Girl' that Sakura saw in her dreams? Find out next chapter. See ya!