If I had to choose an opening and ending for each of the chapters I write, then I'd choose these:
Opening - Turn to you by Mashiro Ayano
Ending - Passcode 4854 by Rei Yasuda
These have probably already been taken, but I'd choose these regardless. Anyway back to the story. Enjoy.
Haruno Sakura was standing firm and held on to the reddish-pink arm that had hold of the ravenette's ankle, as she stared down the two monsters before her. Hinata was still surprised to see her new classmate standing there in front of her eyes.
"Haruno-san..." Hinata mumbled the pink haired girl's name.
Meanwhile on the opposite side of the girls, the reddish-pink woman furrowed her brow and glared daggers toward the new arrival who had spoiled their evening. "You little..." the woman growled angrily. "How dare you interrupt!" The one, emerald eyed girl continued to just stare at the demon that was talking and slowly, started to tighten her grasp around the demon's arm. The demon winced slightly. How did this girl have so much strength?
Sakura continued to squeeze the demon woman's arm harder and harder, easily telling that the demonic woman was hurting. She could even tell, from a distance, that the female demon was sweating abit and began to tug at her arm, trying to pull it out of the girl's grasp, but to no avail. When the pinkette squeezed even harder, the hand that held Hinata's ankle had let go. But even though it did, the one eyed girl refused to release the hold.
"You little wench," the demon growled again. How could there be a human this strong? It shouldn't be possible. "Let go!" The reddish-pink demon gritted her teeth angrily and upon seeing the demon struggle so much, a smirk appeared on the pink haired girl's face and then finally, she released her hold. But she did it so fast, the demon didn't have time to prepare as she fell backwards, onto her rear from pulling so hard, her arm retracting itself back in place.
Hinata would have thought what just happened to the demon would be slightly comical, but then she would only be kidding herself. The situation she was in was far from funny. But she wasn't as scared as she was a few minutes ago and was alot calmer. Hinata wondered why, but when she looked in front of her to where the girl in the black, cherry blossom designed, kimono was standing, she then understood.
Haruno Sakura was the reason. She was most likely glad that someone she knew (albeit barely) was there with her. Then that itself raised another question. "Haruno-san," the ravenette called out to her saviour. She didn't know if the other girl was listening but she continued regardless. "What are you doing here?"
"Hyuga Hinata," Sakura called to the girl laying on the floor. "Go home. You'll be in the way." Giving the raven haired girl a warning, Sakura began to walk towards the two monsters, her opponents. Hinata shouted the pinkette's name several times but the girl herself refused to listen and continued forward.
Seeing the pink haired girl walking towards them calmly, the demonic woman's brows knitted together. So you think you're so tough? the demon wondered in her thoughts. We'll see about that. The horned demon turned her head to look at her servant. "Take care of her my pet," she ordered. "Show her why we should be feared."
The man-spider looked upon his master before nodding and with a sharp toothed grin, the spider demon charged at the approaching one-eyed girl. As the demon was making it's way, the man-spider raised it's bladed wrist and was ready to cut the girl, who was still walking calmly towards it, down. The demon finally roared and swung it's blade down with inhuman speed and seeing what was going to happen, Hinata made one final attempt and shouted out her classmates name. "Haruno-san!"
Just a split second before the sharp metal blade calved into Sakura's flesh, she stepped to the side and the blade had cut through the concrete were Sakura was standing a moment ago. Everyone was surprised (amazed in Hinata's case) at how fast the pink haired girl was at dodging the attack, the man-spider, at this point, was trying to get it's blade out from the ground. But there was no luck. It had used too much strength and speed, and now the blade was stuck, quite deep, into the hardened floor.
Sakura looked at the struggling demon in front of her with a neutral expression. She didn't really feel any pity for it. While the demon tried to get it's blade free from it's concrete prison, the pinkette used the opportunity and cocking back her gauze wrapped fist and pushing it forward, she punched the metal blade.
The blade's metal had started to crack from the impact of Sakura's fist, and in a matter of seconds, the blade was snapped in half, the demon spider-man starting to stagger backwards. The man-spider tried it's best to regain it's balance but Sakura wouldn't let him have the chance. The pinkette quickly grabbed the other half of the blade that was stuck in the floor, pulling it out with ease and with experienced hands, the pink haired girl threw the blade. It's target: the demon's chest.
The tip of the metal blade pierced the man-spider's chest, it's pupil-less eyes widening like saucers. But unfortunately for the demon, Sakura wasn't finished yet. With the blade now in the demon, the pinkette jumped up, high into the air, twisted her body around and kicked the blade even deeper into the demon spider's chest.
Amazing Hinata thought. She couldn't believe her eyes at how much strength her new classmate had. The man-spider was sent flying backwards from the kick, flying past the demonic woman, and hit a street lamp, bending it from it's landing. The female demon looked, wide eyed, at her partner as it groaned in pain. The man-spider then looked up, meeting the female demon's gaze and slowly reached it's black hand out. "Master..." was all it said before it turned into black mist and was evaporated into the air, vanishing in the night sky.
Watching her partner vanish into thin air, the demon woman's vision began to go red. She started to shake in anger, blades,much like the man-spider's, came out from the top of her wrists. "I'll... kill... you..." the woman whispered at first, clenching her sharpened teeth and whipping her head around, staring daggers at the pink haired girl with the emotionless face. "I'LL KILL YOU!"
The demonic woman charged at her partner's killer recklessly in rage, whilst the one-eyed girl remained still, and watched her opponent come at her. The reddish-pink demon swung her bladed arms wildly at the other girl with inhuman speed,but the emerald eyed girl dodged the first attack with relative ease. The demon thought it was luck that she dodged the first strike so she went in for another, but again she missed. She continued to swing her arms again, and again, but still got the same result. How!? she screamed in her thoughts. How is she able to avoid my attacks!?
After a few more unsuccessful swings, the demon knew then that she wasn't getting anywhere, and the girl in front of her was starting to get on her nerves. All of a sudden, a thought came to her mind. Time for a change of tactics. Intentionally, the demon woman swung her bladed arm in a downwards arc and that forced the pink haired girl to side step out of the way, causing a the demonic woman's lips to curve.
Sakura didn't miss the smile that had plagued her opponents lips and and that was when she realized her mistake. Not missing a beat, the demon woman shot past Sakura, the pinkette turning her head to follow where the demon was going. Shit! Sakura cursed in her thoughts. The reddish-pink woman was heading straight for the ravenette who, even though the pinkette told her specifically to leave, was stilling sitting on the concrete floor, with fear in her eyes, as the demon approached her.
When she saw the monster coming her way, Hinata was too frightened to move. She remained sitting on the floor as the woman approached her, her blades gleaming in the moonlight. "Hinata-chan..." the demon woman called the ravenette's name, raising her blade, "DIE!" and with a scream, swung down her blade when she closed in.
Time seemed to slow down at that point for Hinata, the blade looked like it was going in slow motion as it made it's way toward her. But at the last possible second, just as the blade was about to meet Hinata's flesh, black clad clothing with cherry blossom petals came into Hinata's line of sight.
Somehow, Sakura was able to get in front of her raven haired classmate, raising her gauzed wrapped arm to block the incoming blade. The blade's steel struck her arm but the injury wasn't serious. The gauze, which was wrapped around her arm, had been cut and slowly, it started to unwrap itself, hitting the floor below.
The demon woman began to breathe heavily. The adrenaline rush of anger she had, had now turned into fatigue, as she stared at the one she had struck, a grin forming on her pink lips. Unfortunately, her original target was blocked, but she was happy at the thought that she had finally struck a blow against the pink haired girl who was too confident with herself. She didn't seem to care that the girl managed to get in front of her with inhuman speed. All she cared about was the fact that the girl could bleed and get hurt like everybody else.
At the corner of her eye, she noticed something falling to the floor and when she looked down, she saw that it was white cloth. It probably came from the one-eyed girl in front of her. Looking back up, the demon's eyes widened, her white pupils getting smaller. The pink haired girl's arm, which was hidden behind the gauze wrapping, to the demon, was defiantly not human. The arm itself was human shaped, but it was the blackest of reds she had ever seen, almost like it had been burnt from a wild fire. "Who are you...?" she couldn't help but ask.
Sakura narrowed her eyes into a icy glare. "Ha...runo...san..." and when the voice of Hinata called out, the pinkette cursed inwardly. It couldn't be any worse than revealing who she was, especially in front of one of her school peers. But she had no choice now. Not answering the demon woman's question, Sakura proceeded to remove the bandage around her left eye and like the arm's it, too, fell on the floor.
If the demon was surprised about the girl's arm, she was even more surprised about what was behind the eye that was hidden. Her left eye was a golden-yellow colour, the black pupil of the eye that would normally be there, was replaced with a sharp, thin black line, something similar to a cats eye, and four black, tomoe marks were next to the cat-like eye, two on each side.
The demon woman was shocked at what she saw, but Sakura was going to make sure that was the last surprised expression she made. She reached out, pointing her arm to the side, and then suddenly her left arm was engulfed in black flames.
Hinata, having finally gotten over her initial shock of the truth about the pinkette's arm, looked on worried as the pink haired girl's arm suddenly combusted. But she didn't worry for long as the black flames started to leave the girl's arm and begun to take shape in front of the palm of her hand. The ravenette watched Sakura as she wrapped her fingers around the black flamed shape, and as she did, the flames dissipated, leaving a weapon, a scythe to be exact, in it's place. But the scythe she was holding wasn't an ordinary one Hinata would see in farming. This one looked more threatening.
The polearm was long, longer than the girl's height, and intimidating. The rod itself was tall and thin, made of silver metal cold to the touch. The blade was long and curved, the tip sharp. It was rimmed with white that glinted in the moonlight, with a dark blue tint. The dual side of the blade was short, resembling in a way a small, yet deadly sharp, knife. The scythe itself made her the very picture of impending doom and destruction.
Sakura begun to twirl the massive weapon over head with ease, like it weighed nothing at all. She then swung the scythe to her side and immediately lunged at the demonic woman standing before her. With just her left hand, she swung the deadly blade diagonally, trying to cut the demon in two, but the reddish-pink woman managed to block the move with her blades at the last second. The pinkette could hear the demon grunt from the attack, but unfortunately for said demon, it was far from over.
Horizontal, diagonal, and vertical slices, Sakura barraged her opponent with attacks with incredible speed and accuracy, the demonic woman still managing to somehow block or dodge the incoming blows, albeit barely. After her last swing of her scythe, the pink haired girl jumped into the air, twirled her body and kicked the pink demon, whom blocked the kick with her blades but was sent skidding backwards, a few feet away from the girls.
Coming to a stop, the demon started to breathe heavily, sweat slowly beginning to pour down her face from her brow. The pink haired girl, again, twirled her polearmed blade and lowered it, her expression remaining the same. "You little runt..." the demonic woman growled, her anger only rising even more. She couldn't understand how the girl in front of her was able to push her back. The pinkette didn't even look remotely tired at all. How was it even possible?!
"What the hell are you!?" The pink haired girl, who the demon only knows as Haruno as Hinata said, just stared at the reddish-pink demon. The expressionless mask was really starting to get on her nerves. "You're not human," she continued. "From the looks of your arm, your eye and the fact that you can summon a weapon like that shows as much. Are you a demon?"
Sakura looked at the demon for a moment. She didn't feel obligated to say anything about herself to her opponent, but since the creature was going to die by her hands, the pinkette thought she might as well humour her. "That's partly right," Sakura answered. "I'm a demon. But I'm a human as well. You could call me a half blood."
"Half... blood..." the woman repeated. After those words, Sakura charged at her opponent once more, ending the conversation, between them, there. Seeing the pinkette filling the gap between them quickly, the demon woman knew that she was in no condition to fight. The girl might be a half-blood, but she was extremely strong and skilled, even though the demon hated to admit it herself. The demonic woman decided to retract her blades and used whatever strength she had left to back flip away from the girl's incoming scythe attack.
Landing safely far away, the demon looked upon the other demon girl with anger and disgust. "As much as I want to, killing you will have to wait," she spoke, venom lacing her voice. "But mark my words. I'll kill you when we next meet. Then I'll go after Hinata-chan." A pool of darkness appeared beneath the demon and she slowly started to descend into the floor.
Sakura just remained still, watching the demon leave, and once she was gone everything went silent. The battle had come to an end... for now.
Hours later, back at the Hyuga residence, Hinata was laying in bed and was staring at her bedroom's ceiling. She couldn't get to sleep, even when she closed her eyes and tried, her thoughts were too occupied by the days events, specifically tonight's.
After the reddish-pink monster, that had attacked Hinata, disappeared into some kind of pool of darkness, Sakura let out an exhausted sigh and the huge scythe, that the ravenette saw being summoned by her classmate, had combusted into flames and disappeared. The pink haired girl then twisted her head so she was looking over her shoulder, gazing at the still sitting girl. Hinata was able to see the other eye , that was hidden behind the gauze, thanks to that action. And even though the other eye didn't look human, Hinata wasn't afraid.
"Go home, Hyuga Hinata," she told her," and forget what you saw here. For your own sake." And with that warning leaving her lips, Sakura started to walk off, disappearing into the shadows.
Thinking back now, when Hinata encountered the two monsters, she was completely afraid, terrified even. But when Haruno Sakura suddenly appeared to save her from her demise, the fear that had been built up had vanished, as if it wasn't there in the first place. She felt like she was safe, which that in itself, was strange. It was obviously clear that the pinkette was clearly not normal. She had powers that no one else had and she even claimed that she was a half-blood, which meant that she had those monsters blood flowing through her veins. Yet... she didn't find the pink haired girl repulsive one bit.
"Haruno-san..." Hinata called out the other girl's name in a whisper. Sakura had told her to forget about what happened, but in truth she couldn't. Or rather, she didn't want to forget. Because by doing so, she would have to forget the side that she only saw of the transfer student. And deep down, that was something she didn't want to lose. "Haruno-san..." Hinata repeated once more. "Who are you?" She left that question hang in the air. The ravenette wanted to know more about the mysterious transfer student known as Haruno Sakura.
With the determination to find out, Hinata's eyes slowly started to grow heavy and in seconds, she fell into the land of dreams.
As the people of Konohagakure were turning in for the night, hoping to have good dreams and a better tomorrow, there was one individual who never rests.
In the far depths of the demon realm, in a huge traditional, Japanese castle, which was surrounded by many demons big and small, and human slaves that they had gathered up over the years, there was a young man sitting upon his throne, watching the city of Konohagakure with his demonic sight. He had felt a small and familiar power coming from the human world and thought he'd take a look. But by the time he found the place where the energy originated from, there was nothing there.
Having missed what it was, and seeing that there was no activity going on, the young man grew bored and stopped using his sight, his glowing yellow demonic eye growing dim. As he did, he noticed a black pool of darkness before him and from it, a figure started to emerge from within. The figure was a reddish-pink woman, with a horn coming out from her forehead on the right side, and what looked like a business suit from the human world adorned the demon woman's body.
Once fully materialized, the demon looked up. Her gaze met the young man's one uncovered demonic eye, the other was being obscured by his black bangs. But the one eye was all it took to strike fear into the demonic woman and she quickly turned her gaze to the floor, kneeling on one knee and bowing her head. "M-My Lord," she stuttered, cursing herself inwardly for doing so. "I've come here, before you, to ask for your aide."
The young man, being called Lord, looked down at the grovelling demon asking for help. His help. "And why should I help a pathetic demon like yourself?" he asked her in a threatening cold tone of voice. If the demon's reason wasn't good enough, then he would kill her himself. At least it would relieve him of some of his boredem.
"Just moments ago, my partner and I were after our prey," she started to explain. Already she could feel that her Lord was getting annoyed with her story. His power was overwhelming and it took all she had to continue. "But as we were about to have our way, someone came and interrupted us. It was a girl and when she managed to kill my partner, she was going to kill me next, had I not come here instead."
The young man listened to the demon's story. At first he was going to kill her then and there for just opening her mouth, but after she mentioned a girl killed a demon, it piqued his interest. A smile had started to creep onto his lips. "So," he spoke, "you mean to tell that this girl you speak of, killed your demon pet and almost killed you in the process?"
"Y-Yes my Lord," the woman replied. "She was also a demon. She claimed herself to be a half-blood."
The black haired young man narrowed his eyes. Hearing the demon's story, it started to make sense. The familiar power he felt, and hearing about a half-blood, he knew immediately that it came down to one person, one specific girl. This is getting interesting he thought to himself.
Hearing the sound of someone standing, the demon woman looked up, and saw that her lord was gone. For a quick second she wondered where he went, but it was soon answered when she felt a huge, frightening power coming from behind her, up close, and she knew that he was right behind her. Sweat had started to pour down her face at that point, worrying about the worst. But the next thing she felt was a finger pressing at the back of her head. What is... was all the demon could think before she suddenly felt power coursing though her. The fatigue she had only moments ago, disappeared completely.
"I have given you a very small amount of my power," the young man told her, removing his finger from the demon's head. "It will be enough to kill that half-blooded girl. Now go. Kill her and any one else who stands in your way." The pool of darkness from before, appeared beneath the reddish-pink demon and giving her lord a "With pleasure" she was sucked in and it was all quiet once more.
With the demon woman gone, the young man was by himself in his throne once more, but now he was no longer bored. He now had something to think about. Now then, he thought. What will you do now... Haruno Sakura. The black haired man began to chuckle to himself, as he remembered the past. About a terrified pink haired little girl, which brought him much amusement.