Serena- Hehe, Oops….. This ones really late…. Oops… sorry!
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Boundless
By: Serena
Chapter 16
Confusion and Attacks
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May 15th
I woke up some time in the middle of the night to find myself in my room, on my bed, under the covers, but still in my clothes I had changed into that morning. Sighing, I dragged myself up from the bed and stripped to my chest bindings and underwear.
Grabbing a baby blue nighty I threw it on and got back in bed. After a few moments of realizing I was most definatly not going to sleep, I sat back up. The red glow that the clock gave off produced shadows that flickered across my face. I closed my eyes trying to remember what had caused me to go into Shatto Umou.
Even though I didn't remember going into Shatto Umou, the nausea after waking up was a tell-tale symptom of the dreaded illness. And so I racked my brain for the reason. Nothin' doin'.
Sighing, I got up to go to the living room. Flipping on the television I sat in the dark for awhile. The last thing I remembered before falling back asleep was some busty blonde bimbo winning a game show.
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"Rui, wake up." I felt someone nudge me and I quickly opened my eyes to be met by Sasukes indifferent face. I gasped slightly and pushed my body further into the couch.
"What happened?" I asked, only to be met by Sasuke's confused face. "What happened yesterday? Why did I go into Shatto Umou?"
He answered my question with one of his own. "You don't remember anything?"
I shook my head, both in telling him that no, I didn't remember and to clear my jumbled thoughts. Like that helped at all… "What happened?" I asked again.
Sasuke looked away before looking back and saying, "You just got upset about your birthday. That's all." I nodded, squinting my eyes, trying desprately to remember. That sounded right- yes of course, I was probably just so upset… yeah, that was the perfect explanation…
Finally I sighed and got up. "So," I asked. "What do you want for breakfast?"
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"So you just got up and ran off?"
"Y-yes."
"Hinata! How could you?"
"Leave her alone, Tenten!"
I gave Hinata a sympathic glance before focusing on Sakura again. Poor Hinata. From what she had told us, it seemed she had gotten worked up when Naruto had leaned in to do something. Hinata just saw the close proximity of his face and bolted.
Sakura, who had been spying on the couple, later told us that Naruto had just been reaching for a some chopsticks. Poor Hinata had refused to come out of her room for the longest time- embarrassed at her actions. I could understand her plight and knew that in the same situation, I would have done the exact same thing.
"Oh give me a break, Sakura!" Tenten exclaimed. "This was her only chance and she blew it!"
I glanced back at the heiress to see her eyes watering. "Guys." I whispered. "Cut it out." They finally looked over at Hinata and saw her obvious distress.
Immediately the two girls were trying to calm her down. Almost fawning over her, whispering words of encouragement. I sat and watched them unsure what to do, until Hinata finally waved them off saying, "It-It's okay. I-I'm fine."
I smiled at her. "Besides," Sakura said. "I can talk to Naruto for you."
Surprisingly the shy girl shook her head. "I have to be the one… I have to fix this. Thanks though…" I smiled at her confidence. From what I had heard, Hinata used to be much more timid and right then I finally saw her as the butterfly unfolding from its warm shell.
Sakura and Tenten also smiled, their mini-argument long forgotten. "Sakura!" A voice called from behind the bedroom door. Sakura seemed to recognize the voice because she yelled back,
"Yeah, mom?"
"Your friends have to go home now!" We all said our good-byes and as I exited her house I finally noticed that the sun had set long ago. Everything was desolate- even the normal hussle-and-bussle of the market was absent.
I sighed as I continued my journey. Creak. I turned to the noise, but no one was there. I hugged myself as I turned back around and continued on. A few more moments of silence passed before- Creak, Crack.
I instantly spun around but once again, no one could be seen. Subconsciously, I touched my wrist, wanting the comfort of my hari-shashu's, but nothing was there.
I mentally cursed- something I normally never did- and turned back around. My traveling continued in silence once again before- Creak, Crack, Thud. I didn't even bother turning around to see if anyone was there- I just full out sprinted.
Or, alteast I would have, but something grabbed me from behind. I opened my mouth to scream, but a hand was place over said orifice, silencing my wail.
I tried to bite down on the hand that silenced me, but that didn't work. Instead, my attempts to escape angered my attacker more and he gave me a swift blow to the back. I cried into the hand covering my mouth, letting the tears of fright and pain fall.
I had lost all hope of rescue. And just like that, I gave up. Instead of thrashing about, I hung my head limb, with the small hope that the pain would be over quickly. I didn't know what the attacker had planned for me, but I just wanted it over with quickly. The man twisted me around to face him and I flinched. My attacker looked just like Sasuke!
Lank, dark hair fell, nearly covering his red menacing eyes. He pushed me down and I gasped as I felt the breath leave my lungs.
I closed my eyes, not wanting to see what would become of me. That was why, until the fuzzing feeling in the back of my head started, I didn't know when Shatto Umou took over.
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The next time I opened my tear-crusted eyes, I was met by a blinding light. My eyes snapped shut, for fear they would burn out of their sockets. Slowly, I opened them again to find that the blindly light was still there.
My eyes blinked again and again as I slowly sat up. I was obviously in the hospital- judging by the tidy room. A vase filled with flowers sat beside my bed and I smiled at the note, "Get well soon, Rui! From: Sakura (my idea) Tenten (was not) Hinata (Please excuse them)"
My smile stayed in place as I looked around the room. I sat up, having too much energy to go back to sleep. I swung my feet off of the bed, and as I heard the door open to my back, I turned with my smile still on my face, ready to greet anyone that was stopping by.
I didn't expect to see the man with the dark hair and red eyes standing in the doorway. I opened my mouth to scream, but no sound came.