Hey guys, I just want to say a quick something. Ever since I started writing this episodic story, I've been threatened to go and kill myself twice now, and I just want to say this. I CHOSE to write this and the people who read my stories CHOSE to do so.
And I've got a message, or more like a list, to the people who read my stories.
If you don't like how I write, or my style of writing - LEAVE.
If you don't like how I use the characters - LEAVE
If you don't like the pairings I use - LEAVE.
I'm not forcing anyone to read what I write. And to the person threatening me, I've only got this to say. GROW. UP. And get on with YOUR life. I've got family and friends, a job and my life is good, so why would I want to end it?
Now since that is all out of my system, let's get on with the story shall we.
It took a bit of time but the ravenette eventually made it to the construction site. Or what was left of it. What she saw made her eyes go wide, a small gasp escaping her lips. The entire site was a mess, support beams laying on the ground, broken. Even some of them managed to survive whatever it was that landed here.
As Hinata looked around the messed up construction site, something caught the corner of her eye. A hint of pink. Moving closer, the pink thing appeared to be someone's hair and then a face soon came into view. The ravenette gasped again, knowing instantly who it was. "Haruno-san!" Hinata cried out, running to her classmate. When she was at the emerald eyed girl's side, trying her best not to trip over anything on the ground, she crouched down next to her and began remove the metal poles and the other little debris that was on top of her.
Thankfully, there wasn't any of the heavy support beams on top of the girl, and once everything was off of the pinkette, Hinata started to call her classmate's name again. "Haruno-san!" she cried out worriedly. "Haruno-san, can you hear me!?" But, again, she received no reply from the pink haired girl.
Hinata was starting to lose hope. The girl before her was unmoving, dead. That thought terrified her. What if Sakura was dead?
Stop it Hinata! The girl shook her head, dispelling all those bad thoughts that had quickly manifested in her mind. There was no way this girl was dead. Sakura couldn't die. Hinata didn't know why she thought that, but she knew. In her heart she knew that this girl wasn't dead and once more, the ravenette decided to call her name.
But she stopped herself mid-call. Sakura's fingers had started to twitch. Her brows furrowed as her closed eye slowly started to open, revealing emerald green. The girl blinked a few times before slowly turning her head slightly to look at the raven haired girl. "Hyu...ga...?"
"Haruno-san," Hinata said sighing in relief. "You're alright." Knowing she was all right and alive, the short adrenaline rush Hinata had slowly disappeared, leaving only fatigue behind. But the relief she had was short lived when she noticed the huge blood stain on the pinketee's uniform. How could she have missed something like that!? "Haruno-san what happened!? Why are you bleeding so much!?"
When she asked the question, Sakura's eye suddenly went wide, like she had realized something and sat up. The instant she did, she growled in pain, her hand reaching up to clutch her shoulder.
"Haruno-san you're hurt," Hinata told her. "You shouldn't move so quickly."
Sakura ignored the concerned cry and fixed the raven haired girl with a serious look. "What are you doing here Hyuga?" she asked, but then quickly shook her head. "Never mind. There isn't time. You need to get out of here right now!"
"W-what are you talking about?" Hinata asked back.
"Like I said, there isn't time!" she repeated. "You need to get out of here before-"
"My, my. Now that's not a very nice thing to say to someone who's trying to help you," a voice from above the girl's said, cutting off Sakura.
Both girl's looked up and saw, sitting on a support beam that survived Sakura's fall, the demon woman. The pinkette glared at her, gritting her teeth, but the demon chose to ignore it and smiled, jumping down and landing behind Hinata. "Good evening. It's nice to see you again, Hinata-chan."
The ravenette's eyes widened. Getting a closer look now, Hinata knew the thing in front of her was the same monster, or demon as she found out, that had attacked her the other night. The raven haired girl felt a cold sweat drop down her back.
"It's you..." she spoke in a whisper.
The demon had obviously heard her, as it's smile grew even wider. "I see you recognise me. I'm touched," she giggled. "The devil must be by my side. Not only will I get to kill this annoying pest-" she pointed her index finger in Sakura's direction, "-but I'll also get to kill my original prey as well. My, it must be my night!"
The demonic woman began to cackle. As she did, the pink haired girl tried to get up, but try as she might she couldn't get off the ground. The pain in her shoulder, in combination with her aching body, refused to let her move. Shit! Sakura cursed inwardly.
Seeing Sakura struggle, Hinata swallowed the lump that had gathered in her throat and putting forth all the courage she could muster, before she stood in front of her injured classmate, her arms spread out to the side. "I won't let you!" she declared at the demon.
"Hyuga...!?" Sakura shouted the ravenette's name, stunned by the girl's foolish action.
"Oh yeah?" the demon spoke, cocking up her brow. "You're going to protect her?" She once again started to cackle, laughing at the front that the ravenette was putting up. "Knowing full well that she is a demon, like me?"
"Demon or not, that doesn't matter," Hinata replied, glaring at the demon. "She's my friend. And I never abandon my friends!"
Sakura's facial expression was of one of surprise. Even after all the pinkette had said and done to the girl, the raven haired girl still considered Sakura a friend. The pinkette was right all along. The girl in front of her was completely stupid. Stupid... but for some reason hearing her say those words made the pinkette feel warm inside. What was it that she was feeling? She didn't get to ponder for long. The demon's cackling laughter had brought her out of her inner thoughts.
"Are you not scared of me?"
"I'm terrified," Hinata told her. "But I still refuse to let someone I know, especially my friends, get hurt!"
The demon sniggered to herself, finding Hinata's speech very amusing. "You're a brave girl Hinata-chan, but a very foolish one." the demon said, releasing one of her blades from her wrist, licking the sharp metal with her tongue. "Very well. If you're her friend, then you can spend the rest of your time together. When you're dead!"
Hinata stood firm from those threatening words, her eyes showing determination that wasn't there before when they first met. But the demon honestly didn't care. With a smirk, the woman swung the back of her hand against the ravenette's face, causing the girl to fly to the side and hit the floor.
"Hyuga!" Sakura screamed, trying to get up. But unfortunately the demon had cut her off, her sharp metal blade pointing at the pinkette's face.
"Na, ah, ah," the demon said. "Not so fast. The guest of honour can't leave just yet." One side of her lips curved as she slowly started to bring her blade back, the sharp tip now trained on the pinkette's chest, were her heart was.
It looked like this was it. Tonight was the night. The night that Sakura could finally die. The pink haired half demon could finally leave everything behind. The suffering. The sadness. The loneliness, everything. Sakura closed her eyes. She could see her best, and only, friend's face behind her eyelids. Yuki-chan she thought. She could see her gentle, blue coloured eyes looking at her, her smile warm. I'll be with you soon.
When she saw the girl close her eyes and accepted what was going to happen, the one horned demon smiled. "Now then. Time to die!" And with that, she thrusted her bladed wrist toward the the pink haired little demon.
"Haruno-san!"
For just a moment, Sakura thought that she heard her name being called out, but she chose to ignore it. It was probably just her hearing things, and continued to wait. Soon the sound of flesh being pierced could be heard, followed by a splash of something lukewarm hitting Sakura in the face. She then realized that it wasn't her body that had been impaled and a bit of the lukewarm substance had gotten into her mouth. It tasted like iron. Finding it strange, the pinkette slowly opened her emerald green eye and when it was fully open, it went wide immediately.
Standing there was the reason why she wasn't killed yet. The reason why she heard what she had heard and felt what she had felt. The reason had long, raven coloured hair and the same uniform she was wearing, which now had a sharp metal blade through it, and was starting to go red. The reason was Hyuga Hinata. The ravenette was standing there in front of her and was holding the blade tightly, causing blood to run through her fingers, which had pierced her through her abdomen, so it couldn't go any further.
"Why...?" Sakura asked in a whisper. The most shocking thing of all was even though blood began to slip from her mouth and down her chin, plus the fact that she had been stabbed, the raven haired girl gave Sakura a small, kind smile.
"Are you... alright... Haruno...san?" she asked the shocked girl beneath her.
Why? was all Sakura could think of at the moment. Why was this girl, who had been stabbed and was probably in a lot of pain, still worrying about someone like her? It didn't make any sense at all. She didn't deserve all this kindness!
The cackling laughter from the demon brought her attention back to her. "You really are a brave girl Hinata-chan," she said. "But a very foolish one as well, just like I said." The demonic monster began to pull her blade out from the human girl... or tried to. She realized the blade wouldn't budge and soon noticed that Hinata was holding it tightly in place. "Hey!" she screamed as she pulled, "Let go!"
Hearing the woman behind her struggle, Hinata, who still had a smile on her face, spoke to the pinkette, whom was still looking at the ravenette with a wide eye. "Haruno-san, run," she told her. Now Sakura's eye had widened even more when she heard those words. "Run away... quickly."
Sakura had a quick flashback when she heard those exact words. Instead of Hinata standing there, it was her friend, Yamanaka Yukiko. Back then, it had been her in this same sort of situation. With her warm loving smile, saying those exact words the ravenette said.
"I said let go you stupid bitch!"
Finally coming back to her senses, Sakura noticed that the Hyuga girl wouldn't last much longer and at that point, the pinkette made up her mind. She wasn't going to run away like she had last time. She refused to let what happened then repeat itself. Narrowing her eye, and gathering up what little strength she had, Sakura quickly summoned her weapon, the scythe materializing in her hand from black flames, and went to the side of the blade that was connecting the demon and Hinata together. Using all of her remaining demonic strength, she swung down her scythe in a horizontal slash. The sycthe's sharp tipped blade somehow managed to cut the demon's blade, the demon herself falling backwards when she decided to pull hard at that moment.
And, using the opening that she had created, Sakura held the ravenette in a princess carry and fled the construction site with her classmate in her arms.