I apologise for any repetitive words or sentences in this chapter. Enjoy.
Fourth period comes and goes as the school bell rang, signalling the beginning of lunch. Some of the girl's in class had started to fan out, heading to the cafeteria with some of their friends, while the other girl's got their boxed lunches out from their bags and sat with their friends. They would also drag a few desks together so they could make a bigger one. All but one student was doing this however.
From her desk, Hinata turned her head and looked behind herself. She saw the new member of her class, packing her new textbooks and other things away in her school bag. Many times, during their small breaks in between classes, the ravenette would try her best to talk to the pink haired girl, Haruno Sakura. But every time she did, the pinkette would either ignore her completely or she would just leave the classroom and not come back until the lesson was about to begin.
Even some of the other girls who tried to talk and get to know the emerald-eyed girl were given a cold glare in return. They didn't have the courage to try again after that and left her alone.
But, unlike them, no matter how many times she would get rejected, Hinata didn't give up and she wasn't going to any time soon. With determination, Hinata took a deep breath and exhaled, calming herself down and then nodded her head once. She stood up from her desk and made her way to Sakura's, who was still packing silently. "Um... Haruno-san..." next to the pinkette's desk, she called out to her timidly.
Hearing her name being said, the pink haired girl looked up toward the person who was speaking to her, only to find the girl who has been constantly trying to talk to her standing next to her desk. Sakura gave the ravenette one of her cold glares, but she continued to speak regardless.
"I was wondering..." she began. "Do you want to-"
Sakura must of anticipated on what Hinata was going to ask her, as the pink haired girl abruptly stood up from her seat, the sound of the chair scraping the floor cutting off Hinata mid-sentence. "Haruno-san?" Sakura's name escaped the raven haired girl's lips as the gauzed wrapped girl grabbed her bag and walked past Hinata, heading for the classroom door.
After passing the ravenette, Sakura only got only took two steps before she had to stop again. This time another girl had stepped in front of her, glaring at the one-eyed girl with pure anger in her eyes. That girl being Hiramatsu Tenten.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Tenten demanded to know, venom clearly lacing her voice.
"Tenten!" cried Hinata, surprised at what her childhood friend was doing.
"What gives you the right to treat people, who are trying to be nice and friendly to you, like a piece of garbage?"
For a while, the two girl's stood there in silence. All the girls that were inside the classroom had now noticed the scene between Tenten and Sakura and were now waiting in baited breath, wondering what was going to happen next.
Tenten's eyes never wavered from the pinkette's right emerald eye. It had only been half a day so far and the brunette already hated the girl in front of her. It was bad when the pink haired girl was ignoring the other girls trying to be nice to her, but what pissed off Tenten more than anything, was that it was happening to Hinata too. At that point, the brunette wasn't going to stand for it any longer.
The silence between them was soon shattered by Sakura, who, instead of answering Tenten's question, just closed her eye and smirked. With that smug smile clear on the pink haired girl's face, Tenten snapped. The brunette closed whatever gap there was between her and the pinkette, grabbed the collar of her uniform and stared right into the one-eyed girl's eye.
"You bitch," Tenten spoke through gritted teeth. The ravenette shouted out the brunette's name again, surprised of her actions but she was too angry to care any more. "Everybody who has been trying to talk to you, to try and be friendly with you, are now too scared come near you and have given up completely." Tenten narrowed her eyes slightly but the other girl's expression hadn't changed. "But Hinata is different," she continued. "Even though you keep giving her the cold shoulder and glare at her, not once has she stopped trying her best to befriend you."
"Tenten..." Hinata whispered.
"That girl is trying her damn hardest to open up and to become friends with someone as cold as you," she carried on. "Can't you understand her feelings at all?"
Having said what she wanted to say, Tenten waited and stared at the emotionless Sakura, hoping for some kind of reaction. Only a few seconds went by, but for the other girls it felt like an eternity and then finally, Sakura's gaze turned into an icy glare.
"So...?" was all she said.
Tenten's eyes widened in surprise for a split second, before they narrowed. That one word made her blood boil, her free hand closing into a white knuckled fist. "You... cold hearted..." Tenten said slowly, her anger reaching it's breaking point. "BITCH!"
The brunette cocked her fist back, ready to punch Sakura with everything she had. But seeing the situation and the danger it that could come from it, Hinata took action. She quickly removed Tenten's grip from the pinkette's collar and got in between the pair of girls, her arms spreading to the side, protecting the pink haired transfer. ""That's enough Tenten!" Hinata pleaded to her friend.
"Hinata...?" the brunette spoke in bewilderment. Shocked to see what her best friend was doing. "But...!"
"It's alright Tenten," the ravenette said reassuringly. "You understood my feelings and I'm very grateful. Thank you Tenten."
Hinata gave Tenten an innocent and sincere smile, and not being able to look at, the brunette turned her gaze to the floor and unclenched her fist, returning to it's original colour. Satisfied, the raven haired girl turned on her heel, facing the other girl who still wore the same expression from before. "I'm very sorry, Haruno-san," Hinata apologised to her. "Please forgive Tenten. She didn't mean for it to go that far and she was only doing that for my sake. So please forgive her!"
Hinata then lowered her head in apology, this time surprising Tenten as she whispered her name. Sakura just stared at the raven haired girl who was bowing before her and after a few seconds, she let out an exhausted sigh. "Very well," she said.
Hearing the words that she had hoped for, Hinata raised her head and looked at Sakura once more with a bright, innocent smile. "Thank you very much, Haruno-san!" she said joyfully. For just a moment, the pinkette's expressionless mask broke, a look of surprise gracing her features but it soon quickly reverted back. With a "Hmph" from Sakura, the pink haired girl walk past the two girl's and left through the door of the classroom.
After the little incident from the classroom, Hinata thought it best to go and get some fresh air, so she decided to head to the roof, Tenten in tow, and eat her lunch there. As the duo were eating, Hinata could tell that the brunette was still in a mood from what happened before, but she decided not to say anything about it.
"Damn that Haruno," Tenten complained, picking up a sausage octopus with her chopsticks and stuffing it in her mouth. "Acting like she was all and important. I bet she was born in a rich life style. No wonder she acts all snobby."
"You're wrong, Tenten," stated Hinata, putting whatever she was holding with her chopsticks, back in her lunch box. "I think she's just lonely. She's pushing everyone away so that she and probably everyone else doesn't get hurt."
"Huh?" Tenten looked at Hinata like she had grown a new head. "What make you so sure of that?"
"Her eye," she replied, thinking back. She wondered how she missed it the first time. When the ravenette stood in front of the pink haired girl, she saw everything in that eye. Sadness. Pain. Anger. There was so many emotions going through that quick glance, that Hinata wondered what had happened to the girl to make her like that.
"Her... eye...?" Tenten repeated. She thought for a moment, but soon gave up and she then just shrugged her shoulders. "Well it's none of my business anyway."
The ravenette nodded absent mindedly and the two girl continued to eat their lunches in silence, the sound of distant traffic and other schoolgirls serving as background noise.
After what happened in the classroom during lunch, Hinata decided to not approach Sakura for the rest of the day and Tenten agreed, reluctantly, to not say anything bad about the girl either. And with that, the slow school day finally came to an end.
When home room finished, Tenten had Naginata club to go to so she and Hinata parted ways and the ravenette started making her way to the shoe lockers. As she got to the lockers, Hinata noticed Sakura was in the middle of putting her out door shoes on and putting her shoe-like slippers back in her new locker.
Seeing the pinkette, Hinata really had the urge to go up to her and say a simple good bye, but when the memory of what happened at lunch came to her mind, she stopped the words that were threatening to come out of her throat. By then, Sakura had left through the doors and when she did, the ravenette let out a sigh. She then went to her shoe locker, replaced her slippers for her shoes and, too, headed out giving her goodbyes to anyone she knew along the way.
On the way home, Hinata made her way to the convenience store and bought herself some ingredients for dinner before heading for her part-time as a waitress for a café. She hoped work would cheer her up after her failed attempt of befriending her new classmate.
Considering that it was summer time, the sun had begun to set and soon, night filled the sky above. Hinata walked along the familiar path that she had taken this morning, before deciding to take a short cut down an alleyway. She soon started hearing footsteps coming from behind her and found it strange. Am I being followed? she wondered but then thought other wise. No way. I'm just imagining things. Their just probably going the same direction as me until the corner, then they'll turn the opposite direction.
But her thoughts were completely wrong.
As she turned a corner, the footsteps, that she thought would go the other direction, continued behind her, and Hinata was starting to get a little worried. She decided to move a little faster and picked up her pace, but so did the person chasing her and after a few seconds of walking like this, with no indication that the person behind the ravenette was going to stop, Hinata had now become scared. And having come to that emotion, the raven haired girl ran.
Sprinting as much as her legs could take her, turning multiple corners and other short alleyways, leading nowhere near her house, the footsteps that were behind her had lessened up to the point that Hinata could no longer hear them. While running, the ravenette took the risk of looking behind her and saw that there was no one there. She felt utterly relieved and turned her attention back to the front, only to see a woman, in an expensive looking business suit, walking round from the corner.
Even when she tried to slow down, Hinata was still going too fast to stop and she couldn't dodge the woman either, which then resulted in the ravenette bumping into the other woman. Hinata nearly fell backwards upon impact, but thankfully a pair of hands had grasped her shoulders, stopping her from falling. "My, my," Hinata realized that it was the woman she had bumped into that stopped her fall. "What's the matter dear, why the rush?" the woman asked, looking slightly concerned.
"There was... someone... chasing me..." Hinata said in between breaths, trying to get it under control. "But I think... they gave up."
"You poor thing," the woman said in a sympathetic tone. "Girl's like you shouldn't really be out when it's this dark. Do you want me to accompany you home?"
Hinata shook her head at the woman. The idea was very thoughtful but she didn't want to cause the woman any more trouble and wanted to get home as soon as possible so she could forget all about it. "Thank you very much for the offer." she told the business woman. "But I'll be alright once I get to a crowded street. So please excuse me."
Having said that, Hinata made her way to leave. Or rather she tried to. The woman's hands were still on the ravenette's shoulders, refusing to let her move. "Um... Excuse me, miss?" Hinata called out timidly. For some reason she had a really bad feeling. "Like I said before, I'll be fine."
"Oh, but you see dear you're not," the woman spoke, the concerned voice from before no longer there. "Hi-na-ta-chan."
When the woman playfully said the raven haired girl's name, Hinata's eyes widened like saucers and a cold sweat started to go down her back. "H-How do you know my name?" she asked, her voice starting to crack from how scared she really was.
The woman grinned at the raven haired girl with a wicked smile, the gentle smile having been replaced. "We've been watching you for a while now Hinata-chan," the woman said, turning her gaze from Hinata, to what was behind her. "Isn't that right, my pet?"
Those words made Hinata's blood go cold, her fear increasing ten fold as she turned her head to look behind her. The ravenette's fear came true when she saw a man (her instincts telling her that it was the same person that had been chasing her before) wearing a plain suit, a creepy smile plastered on his face. "That's right," the creepy man said, licking his lips." ...Master."
The man began to cackle and in that moment, Hinata witnessed something that would probably stay in her mind for the rest of her life. The man's skin started to turn black, darker than the night itself and the pupil's of his eyes vanished as the white of his eyes became blood red. His plain suit then begun to rip open from the back, as his muscles started to grow and bulge up, his veins practically sticking out of his darkened skin. And then finally his pants were torn off as well, his lower body starting to grow in length and many legs started to sprout out, causing the man, turned spider-like creature, to grow taller, making Hinata look up.
Finished with his (or it's) transformation into a spider-like monster, the woman that was holding Hinata in place, began to chuckle to herself, causing the ravenette to turn her fearful gaze back to her. "Now then. I think it's my turn," she said and then she, too, started to change.
Like the man, the woman's skin changed colour as well, but unlike his, her skin became a reddish-pink colour. A horn had started to appear from the right side of the woman's forehead, her bangs growing longer, covering half of her face and the white in the woman's eyes became black, the pupils turning white. The woman's transformation wasn't as horrific as the man's was but it still sent fear down the ravenette's spine and the grip on her shoulder's had gotten a lot stronger than they did before.
At this point, having seen two people transform into monsters, Hinata's fear had reached it's limit. Now, she did the only thing a teenage girl would do in her situation. She screamed. The raven haired girl let out a high pitched scream from the top of her lungs, dropped the bag of ingredients she was carrying and began to struggle within the woman's grasp, trying her hardest to escape.
"Let go of me!" Hinata cried, having trouble with the woman's hardened grip.
But no matter how hard she tried, Hinata couldn't brake free. The demonic woman's grip was far too strong and she had begun to laugh wickedly at the ravenette's useless attempts of escape. But the demon's laugh, however, got cut short as Hinata bit down hard on one of the arms holding her. The reddish-pink woman screamed, cursing outwardly from the pain. And as she did, the grip on the raven haired girl's shoulders slackened and Hinata took this opportunity, braking free from the woman's clutches and ran past her.
The woman, realizing that her prey was escaping, gritted her teeth and looked at the runaway girl with murderous eyes. "Where do you think you're going..." she said through clenched teeth. "You little Bitch!" Cocking her arm back, she thrusted it forward and as she did, her reddish-pink arm extended, approaching the fleeing raven haired girl and grabbed her ankle, causing Hinata to trip and fall on the hard concrete floor. With her prey now in her grasp once more, the demonic woman began to chuckle under her breath, her arm retracting and dragging Hinata with it.
The ravenette looked back as she was being dragged and noticed that the man-spider was releasing blades from the top of it's wrists, scraping them together with anticipation. Hinata was now that much afraid, her voice got caught in her throat and tears had started to form and fall from her eyes. "Someone... please... help me..." she said in a very quiet voice, slowly getting closer and closer to her demise. "Help me... please..."
This was it. This was how Hinata was going to die and she couldn't believe it. Weren't you supposed to die a normal death? Finish school. Get a job. Find Love. Have children and a family. Watch the children have their own and after that, finally die of old age. Wasn't that how it was supposed to be? That's how Hinata wanted it to be, but she wouldn't be able to get that now. The ravenette closed her eyes, the tears continuing to pour down her cheeks and waited for the inevitable to happen.
But, as she waited for her death, her childhood friend, Tenten, suddenly appeared in her mind. Tenten... Then the other girl's in her class, her friends, flooded her mind too. Everyone... Then finally, a girl with pink hair and a cold emerald eye staring at her, flashed in her mind also. Haruno-san...The ravenette's eyes then shot open, sudden realization hitting her. That's right she said in her thoughts. I can't die yet. There are things that I still need to do!
Hinata then finally found her voice again and as she was getting closer and closer to the pair of monsters, and to her death, she screamed her final words from the top of her lungs. "Someone please help me!" And as if the her prayers were answered, the ravenette felt herself stop.
Curiously she looked up, and saw that a hand, had reached out and grabbed the outstretched reddish-pink arm that had grasped Hinata's ankle. She thought it looked familiar, so when she looked up further she was surprised to see who her saviour was.
Her saviour had shoulder length pink hair, a black kimono with a cherry blossom petal design on them and wore a black divided umanori hakama. White split-toe sock and waraji sandals covered their feet. And a gauze wrapped hand was gripping the reddish-pink arm. Haruno Sakura. That was who was standing in between Hinata and the two demonic presenses and she was staring at the monsters, without fear, with her one emerald coloured eye.
And on that night, Hinata knew, deep down, that her normal school life would never be the same again.
Well that was a chapter O.o. I know. My descriptions suck but there you have it.