Hey guys and welcome to another chapter of Demonic Love. Sorry for the late update. And also (bowing my head down) I want to apologise for this chapter as well. I had a few problems with it, the problem mainly being writers block. It was all in my head but I couldn't get it out.
So I apologise if this chapter isn't up to the ones that I've written so far.
Anyway, like always, I apologise in advance for grammar mistakes, repetitiveness and poor writing. And I hope you (or try to) enjoy.
I don't own Naruto or it's characters. I'm just using them for the story. And any OCs are mine.
The sky was still a mixture of orange and purple as the sun was on it's last thread of light, slowly starting to go over the horizon as night would soon take over. The sight, if anybody saw it, would be captivating and majestic. Some people would say it would the most romantic thing they had ever seen. But, unfortunately for the three girls, Haruno Sakura, Hiramatsu Tenten and Hyūga Hinata, they wouldn't be able to enjoy the sun setting at this moment as there was a huge obstacle in the way. The white-skinned fiend.
After Sakura's declaration, everything went silent. The only sound that was filling that silence was the sound of everyone breathing. The pinkette gave the demon before her a menacing glare, while Hinata looked on with a calm and serious demeanour. She knew that she should be scared, terrified, but after experiencing this sort of thing the first time with the demonic woman, that was all it took for her to be this way. Plus, the main reason was that she trusted Sakura and believed in her, and always would.
Tenten however was watching with bated breath, wondering what was going to happen next. For her, the silence that was hanging over them lasted for eternity, but she knew that it only lasted a couple of seconds so far. The only thing Tenten could do at the moment was sit there and wait to see what would happen.
"Hehehe. HAHAHAHA!" The silence was finally broken by a bone chilling laughter, coming from the demon. Sakura narrowed her emerald eye and furrowed her brow. Whatever it was, the demon found it hilarious. "You? My Destruction?" it said, repeating what the pinkette said before and then laughed even harder. After a few seconds, it's laughter started to die down, and when it finished, the smirk came back on it's white lips.
"I'll admit," it continued, "that kick from before surprised me. I was distracted and you got in a lucky shot, but it won't happen again." It pointed at Sakura's scythe with it's bony index finger. "Now why don't you put that thing away before you hurt that pretty face of yours?" the demon asked her with a sharp tooth grin.
"Thanks, but no thanks," the girl replied, the corners of her mouth lifting up, forming a smile. But not a moment later did the smile she have disappear, replacing it with a serious look and taking her battle stance.
"Then..." the smirk that was on the white-skinned demon's face also vanished. It's blood red pupiless eyes meeting the girl's with the same look. The demon then lowered it's body slightly, it's eyes never leaving the pinkette's gaze. "HAVE IT YOUR WAY!" it roared those last words out ,and, like a wild animal filled with blood rage, charged at the scythe wielding girl with a battle cry that would shatter thick glass.
Not wanting this fight to last longer than it should, Sakura also ran towards the demon, meeting it half way. When both demonic presences were close to one another, the white fiend swung it's arm in a horizontal arc, it's ruler length nails trying to rip into the pinkette's throat. But the pinkette was faster, and she dodged it easily, ducking underneath the strike. And, after a second that she crouched, Sakura sprung back up, bringing her scythe into a diagonal slash. The sharp tipped weapon connected to the demon's hip and sliced through it's shoulder, until the blade came back out of it.
The battle was over before it even begun.
The white-skinned demon's blood red sclera widened, it's mouth a gape. Slowly, like a snail moving on the ground, the demon's upper half of the diagonal cut started to slide down. The pinkette continued to watch the demon slide down further and further and when it was just about to fall off, Sakura heard a quiet, "You bitch," before it finally toppled over, both parts hitting the ground with a giant thud.
Straightening her back, Sakura swung her scythe back to her side, cutting the air around her while doing so. She stared at the demon's crumbled body before her, it's eyes wide and mouth still a gape. Closing her emerald eye, her blue tinted scythe suddenly became engulfed in black flames and vanished from her hand. Opening her eye, she gave the body one last glance before turning on her heel, making her way toward the two girl's who were still on the floor.
Amazing...
That was the only thing that was running through Tenten's mind at that moment of time. Not moments ago, the white-skinned monster had been towering over her, sending shivers down her spine with it's wicked, pupiless gaze and bone tingling laugh. Now, it was on the floor dead, unmoving. It's body spilt diagonally in half, with a clean, perfect cut. And the cause of it's demise was now walking up towards her and Hinata. With just one stroke of the girl's scythe, the pinkette had ended everything. The brunette had to admit though, with all it's boasting from before and dying with just one attack, it felt slightly anticlimactic to her.
"Good work Sakura-chan," Hinata said with a smile. Haruno also smiled, nodding in return, before she turned her attention on Tenten.
"Are you okay, Hiramatsu?" the pinkette asked her.
But Tenten remained silent, not giving the girl an answer. She lowered her head so that her bangs covered her eyes, shadowing them. I really am an idiot the girl thought to herself, a defeated smile forming on her lips. Having not recieved a reply, the pinkette called out Tenten's name once more and then, instead of giving the answer she was looking for, the brunette said what was really going on in her mind.
"I never had a chance against you did I?" she asked, looking back up, her grey eyes meeting emerald green. The younger girl looked at Tenten confusingly. She probably wondered what the brunette was talking about. "The sparring match back at the school," she continued. "You could have beaten me easily like you did that monster. So why didn't you?" She then asked the question that has been on her mind for a while. "Who are you really, Haruno Sakura?"
Again there was silence, as the pinkette and brunette locked gazes on one another. From the corner of her eye, it looked like Hinata wanted to say something, and if she knew her best friend, it was probably to de-spell the sudden tension that was now hanging in the air. However, she didn't need to say anything as the pinkette closed her eyes, and let out a sigh. And when she opened her eye, it looked like the younger girl had come to some sort of decision.
Kneeling down in front of her, Haruno had begun to roll up the sleeve of her one sleeved top that was underneath her school shirt. Doing that revealed her gauzed wrapped arm, and then, the pinkette reached out with her other hand, and slowly began to unravel it. Tenten heard a slight gasp coming from Hinata, but the brunette's gaze was too focused on the arm that was slowly becoming unwrapped.
At first, Tenten wondered what Haruno was doing, showing the brunette her arm. But, as the gauze was leaving the girl's arm, bit by bit, Tenten's eyes began to grow wide. Her heart had started to thump, loudly in her ears, when all of the gauze had been removed. The younger girl's left arm was the blackest of reds that she had ever seen, like she had been stuck in a fiery inferno. Even though it was defiantly human shaped, Tenten's gut feeling knew that it was far from it.
Next, using her now exposed demonic looking arm, she reached for her eye patch that concealed her left eye and took the bit of material off. Behind it, Tenten was met with an closed eye lid, which then slowly opened. The brunette was then met with an eye that you would only see in anime or manga. The pinkette's eye was a golden-yellow in colour, with a black slit for an iris, like a cat's eye. And surrounding the iris were four tomoe marks, two on each side of the iris.
Beautiful... was Tenten's honest thoughts.
"My name is Haruno Sakura," Haruno spoke, bringing Tenten back from her thoughts. The girl was now introducing herself again and the brunette wondered why. But her answer soon came with what the younger girl said next. "I am a half blood. Half human and... half demon."
"Half... demon..." Tenten repeated slowly. After a couple of seconds, realization came hitting her like a truck. "Then, that means you're..." The pink haired girl gave the brunette a nod, knowing where her train of thought was going.
"That's right," she confirmed, turning her head to gaze upon the corpse of the monster behind her. "I'm part of them." The younger girl then glared at it for a good sold moment. In her gaze, it looked like she was expecting something to happen to the body by now. But she had no idea what it was.
When the pinkette turned back to look at Tenten, the brunette was slightly taken aback. The girl's eyes were gently looking into hers. Not once, since they've known each other, has the younger girl in front of her given her that kind of look. It was the sought of look that she'd seen given only to Hinata. And now, she was being looked at that way.
"Why are you telling me this?" Tenten had to ask. At this point, any sane person would run away, having been told that the person in front of them was the same as the monster she just what the pinkette just told her was probably a huge secret. Apart from Hinata, why would she give the brunette the honour of knowing of who she really was?
"I want to apologise about before," the girl said, making Tenten think for a moment. "About the match you and I had, back at school. Everything I did back then, making you act rash. I did it all on purpose." The brunette's eyes widened a fraction from the truth. Haruno continued. "You were hurting. You may not have shown it, but deep inside you were. And I wanted to help you out, but I fear that I only made it worse.
"And also..." she paused for a moment. Then, with a gentle smile, matching her eyes, the pinkette spoke with sincerity. "I trust you... Tenten."
At this point, Tenten had lost the amount of times that she had widened her eyes in either shock or surprise. An apology was one thing, but to hear the girl say that she trusted her, with that gentle expression on her face, made the girl's chest tight. She wasn't even expecting Haruno to call her by her first name either. Tenten knew that she didn't deserve this kindness. She didn't deserve it at all. But... If the girl in front of her said all of that, and by the sounds of it, was willing to start over again, then she'd have to come clean herself and be honest. Just like how Haruno was for her.
Closing her eyes, Tenten took in a breath. Then she spoke. "I hated you," she said opening her eyes. Her grey pools still met gentle emerald and demonic ones. "You were cold, harsh. You brushed off anyone trying to talk to you. And when you did it to Hinata, I despised you. I wanted to beat you to a pulp." Saying that so far, the pinkette's eyes darkened slightly and turned her gaze to the floor. From that action, Tenten knew that the girl was regretting what she did. Tenten was a little happy from that. At least she knew the girl was honest.
"Even after you apologised to everyone and began socializing with them, I still hated you," Tenten continued. This time, she looked towards the ground. Her own regret weighing down heavily on her shoulders. "And when you and Hinata became friends, I started to feel jealous. She was spending more time with you, and when I saw what had happened in the nurse's office, I just lost it."
Tenten then went onto her knees, and lowered her head towards the girl. She heard Hinata call her name in surprise, probably not expecting to prostrate herself. "I'm sorry, Haruno!" she apologised loudly. "If I hadn't been so selfish, so jealous, things leading up to this point wouldn't had to happen. You wouldn't have had to fight! You wouldn't have had to reveal who you were to protect me!" Tenten could feel her eyes starting to sting, and her body was shaking uncontrollably. She didn't why she was starting to cry, but it happened anyway.
Soon after, there was only silence. The only thing that could be heard was the quiet whimpers of the brunette. Tenten thought she was pathetic. Here she was, her head bowed down and crying like an idiot. Her eyes were shut tight, trying her best to not let any more tears fall but it was futile to do so.
Just as the silence, and the weight on her shoulders, were about to crush her, Tenten could tell there was something in front of her face. Slowly opening her eyes, her grey orbs saw a hand, the palm facing upward. The hand could only belong to one person and when she looked up, following the arm, there stood Haruno Sakura. With one hand on her knee and the other being extended out to her, the pinkette looked down on Tenten with another gentle expression.
Thanks to the orange and purple sky, Haruno looked like she was glowing and Tenten couldn't help herself but be amazed. Regardless if she was a demon or not, from where she was sat at that very moment, the girl looked like an angel, shining brightly. Looking back at the hand being extended to her, the brunette reached out with her own timidly. When her fingertips grazed the pinkette's hand, Tenten pulled back a bit, starting to have second thoughts.
She turned to look at Hinata, who looked back at her with one of her usual gentle smiles. The ravenette didn't need words to convey her feelings to Tenten. She grew up with her, so she can tell what she was saying by the look on her face, and it was telling her, no, urging her to go for it. Then, returning her gaze to the pinkette's hand, Tenten closed her eyes and a small smile appeared on her lips. She really didn't deserve it, but...
The girl then opened her eyes, looked up to meet gazes with the pink haired girl and, with her smile still on her face, grasped the younger girl's hand. Tenten was easily pulled up to her feet.
"You have nothing to feel sorry for," said Haruno.
"Neither do you," Tenten said back.
The pair then began to chuckle for a moment, which was a first. Then, Tenten's grey eyes became serious. "Thank you. For giving me another chance," she told her. "And I promise you that I won't tell anyone that you're a demon. You have my word... Sakura."
Sakura's eyes widened slightly at the use of her first name, but it changed back and she gave a nod to the brunette. Giving the girl a nod back, Tenten suddenly felt herself being embraced from the side. "Tenten!" It was Hinata.
"W-What is it Hinata!" Tenten exclaimed, trying to keep herself balanced so she wouldn't fall over. "Why are you clinging onto me all of a sudden?!"
"I'm happy!" she cried, tightening her embrace. "You and Sakura-chan are now friends!"
The brunette's cheeks had started to turn red from embarrassment and tried to pull off her clinging childhood friend. But on the inside, Tenten couldn't have been any more happier. A huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders, and she was playing around with Hinata like she did when they were younger. Sakura, rival turned friend, had forgiven her and she was smiling at her and the ravenette as they were having their playful banter.
"He...He...He...He..."
But the happy moment the three girls shared was quickly snatched away from them by a sinister laughter.
Sakura's eyes widened, and then narrowed, before she turned on her heel, doing a complete one eighty. The head of the white-skinned demon's corpse had craned it's neck up, it's pupiless blood eyes staring at the her and the two girl's behind her.
The pinkette glared at it. She knew it. She just knew it. She had a feeling that it wasn't the end. The demon didn't vanish in black mist like the rest of the demons she had slain. Sakura had pegged it for just being delayed, but she should have known better. She was kicking herself now. She had let her guard down too much!
"What's wrong little girl?" the demon asked Sakura, cocking it's brow. The pinkette glared harder at the thing on the floor. "Surprised to see me still kicking? Did you really think that was the end?" The white fiend then laughed once more, causing Sakura to clench her teeth and tighten her fists until they turned a pale white.
"Now then," the monster continued. "I think it's about time that I got up."
With those words leaving it's mouth, a low growl began to erupt from it's throat. Sakura, wondering what it was doing, didn't take any chances and summoned back her scythe, taking a defensive stance. What she saw next surprised her.
Underneath the upper diagonal half of the demon's body, where Sakura had cut it in half, it suddenly started to bubble, like water in a bowl on top of a fire. The same thing was happening to the demon's cut lower half, as it too started to bubble. Then, slowly, it began to grow in length and take shape. The upper half was growing an arm, torso and legs, while the lower half started to do the same and grew an arm, chest, neck and head.
The pinkette's eyes widened, her defensive stance slackening. Standing there now were two white skinned fiends, two pairs of blood red pupiless eyes staring into the pinkette's emerald and demonic orbs. What the hell was this thing?!
"So, what do you think of my ability?" one of the demons spoke.
"Quite useful don't you think?" said the other.
Gaining back her composure, Sakura tightened her defences again. Knowing what the thing in front of her was could wait. Right now things were looking a little bad. But the pinkette had a feeling that things were only going to get worse. A creepy smiled then formed on the demon's lips, turning to look at it's twin self and giving it a nod with it's head. The other one did the same, and they both looked back at the pinkette. Sometimes, Sakura really started to hate herself for being right with her feelings.
The white-skinned fiend slowly raised it's hand up, it's fingers straight and ruler-length nails sharp, and, with a strike that was like lightning hitting the the ground at the speed of sound, swung it's arm at it's twin self. The pink haired demon eyes widened as it's head was instantly cut off, and hit the ground, the smirk never leaving it's face. The body remained standing and after a few seconds, the neck cut began to bubble. And like before, the bubble's started to morph and take shape into a head.
The head on the floor also went through the same thing. A body was forming and taking shape, and when it was finished, a third white demon was born and stood with the other two. Now, the pinkette was facing three demons instead of the original one. Things were looking grim for her.
"What are you going to do now little girl?" the demon who had it's head cut off asked with an lopsided smirk.
"As you can see, you're out numbered," said another. "Even if you are a demon like us, you should know that you're at a disadvantage."
"And since you're a fellow demon," the last demon said, " and we're such nice gentlemen, we'll give you a chance." Sakura narrowed her eyes. "We'll let you go, but we'll have those girls behind you." the demon continued, gesturing to Hinata and Tenten behind the pinkette.
"What do you think? A good deal wouldn't you say?"
But the demon got no reply from the pink haired girl. The pinkette had straightened herself, defensive posture forgotten about, and her eyes downcast, her pink locks covering them. "Do you know what happened to the last demon who said that to me," Sakura then asked after a long pause. The pinkette then raised her head, her eyes meeting the three pairs of pupiless eyes. A small smile playeing on her lips. The demon's grins had all but disappeared and their eyes narrowed.
"I defeated it." And with those words, Sakura's demonic eye began to glow. Power had started to course through her body like flowing water in a stream. A perfect circle of black flame had suddenly appeared and surrounded the girl's feet and in the next instant, the black flames shot up, engulfing Sakura in a inferno of blackness. And, after a couple of more seconds, the black flames began to shrink. It shrunk into human shape, before it completely dispersed.
"Izanami," Sakura called out a name, now in her demonic form, which the pinkette decided to name it as. A long defined, robe-like black overcoat with a burgundy highlight that flared out into ragged ends and had white lining and a hood. A black kimono with cherry blossom petals imprinted on it, with a black divided umanori hakama and white split-toe socks and waraji covering the pinkette's feet. With the scythe that was in her hand, plus the outfit that she was wearing, it looked like Sakura was the grim reaper incarnate.
Ignoring the demons in front of her for the moment, Sakura turned her head slightly so she could see the girl's behind her. She noticed that Tenten was looking at her with saucer-like eyes and it was a comical sight for her. Sakura couldn't blame her for that reaction. But there wasn't much time to dawdle.
"Hinata. Tenten," she called to them, bringing the brunette back from where ever she was. "Get away from here as far as you can and hide. Now."
"Right," Hinata replied, giving the pinkette a nod. She then turned to her best friend, and with a "Let's go Tenten," the ravenette grasped the older girl's hand and pulled her towards the forest of trees and bushes in the park. When they left her field of vision, Sakura brought her attention back on the three evil entities in front of her.
"Now that they're gone," Sakura spoke, the smile from before returning to her face. "Shall we begin?"
There you have it. If this chapter didn't meet up to your standards, then I'm so very sorry. Thanks for reading anyway and please leave a review. And if there are any improvements I can do to make it better, please let me know. Also constructive criticism is also very appreciated.
Thanks again, and see ya next chapter!