VI: Fallen
Part I
I'm surprise that we're still alive after our escape pod got shot by the enemy's missile, Sachiko mused over the event that led to Yumi healing her wound. No matter how much she thinks about it, Sachiko couldn't exactly figured out who was behind it all and it's not like she's paid to solve the puzzle. It had been two days since they left the wooded area, the city isn't really bustling but not so bad that there's no life to it.
"Eek!" Yumi let out a yelp when she felt someone grabbing her behind as she walked closely to Sachiko. Acting upon pure instinct, Sachiko whirled around with gun drawn, pointing the muzzle right in the middle of her target's forehead. The man screamed once out of fright, dropped on his bottom and literally peed in his pants as the muzzle was kept aiming at him the whole time.
"Try that again and I'll rip your guts out," Sachiko warned as she leaned over and whispered to his ears so that Yumi didn't hear it. In a split of a second, the mercenary had magically pulled a rather thin knife out of her jacket and kept it dangerously closed to the man's throat. "Y-yes… ma'am…" he squeaked frightfully as something pinched his throat a little. "Good, otherwise I will be cutting removing your fingers by joints and slit open your throat before ripping the artery out." Sachiko purred giving a little more pressure into the knife and drawn blood from his neck just to emphasize her point. The man nodded his head vigorously all the while fearing for his life as blood started trickling down from the cut on his neck.
"I'm glad that we understand each other," Sachiko said loudly at last as she stood up and straightened her long jacket out a little. The man apologized to Yumi and fled like a demon was chasing him, Yumi said nothing as she gazed over at Sachiko with a puzzling look on her face. She knew that the woman with sapphire eyes had something to do with how polite the jerk was, but she had no idea how scary Sachiko looked just a few seconds ago.
After a while of walking, the two settled for a quiet ramen shop at a corner of a small plaza. Halfway done with their large bowl of noodles, a bullet pierced through the shop and shattered Sachiko's bowl first. With timely reaction, Sachiko yanked on Yumi and using her jacket to securely covered the girl from the coming rain of bullets that shattered the store and killed everyone inside of it. Frightening, Yumi shut her eyes tightly and covered her ears trying to block out the loud noises.
Jaws tighten as bullets riddled itself onto her back; Sachiko remained ever so still while holding onto Yumi tightly. Once the shooting ceased and died down, she let go of the scared girl and stood up. Grabbing onto the jacket and giving it a light tug, the bullets that hit her back peeled itself off of her jacket and dropped onto the floor in the sweet clinging sound.
"Put this on you," she said calmly as she took her jacket off and put it over Yumi for protection purposes. Without bothering to turn around, she drawn her guns and started shooting with amazing accuracy and dropping men like leaves. Once the shooting finally stopped and all the men dropped, Sachiko turned around and activated her watch for a pair of gloves using the nanonite that was contained inside the watch and the small wristband on her other hand. She searched the bodies for money, IDs, and even ammunitions, while Yumi was scared out of her mind that she kept her eyes tightly shut still.
"It's alright now," Sachiko's soothing voice got Yumi to cracked open one eye and looked up at the beautiful woman in front of her. Out of the corner of her eyes, Yumi noticed a pile of bodies stacking up so high that it looked like three trucks stacking on top of one another. "Is… is it over?" Yumi asked meekly. "Yes," Sachiko replied softly as she helped the frightened girl up on her feet.
Suddenly, the sound of an unbearable hissing sound was heard, someone had launched a grenade and it is cutting the air with incredible speed heading at the two women's way. Shit! Sachiko's mind cursed as her body reacted naturally, scooping Yumi up with ease, Sachiko dashed out of the shop. As soon as she leaped outside, the place went into blaze from the impact of the grenade and Sachiko could swore her back was on fire.
Making their escape, they stole a card a few blocks away and sped off to gods know where. Her eyes turned slit, Sachiko's brows furrowed trying to add up all the mess so far. "Why are they trying to kill us?" Yumi's question drawn Sachiko out of her concentration. "I'm… I'm not sure," Sachiko answered after a long moment of silent as she honestly couldn't answer it either.
After hours of driving, they made it to yet another town, completely deserted. Sachiko didn't mind, and Yumi was practically clinging onto her as they opened a jagged door to a house that looked less rundown than the rest of them. Dust covered tables and beds, Sachiko make the best of things by dusting and cleaning the place up and Yumi helped. The girl proven to be way better at it than Sachiko, being that she cleaned much of the house before Sachiko managed to finish with cleaning the one bed that they will be sleeping in for the night.
"Do you like it?" Yumi asked shyly over dinner. She had made what she could from the things that Sachiko had gathered: some dried seaweeds, rice, and dried fishes. "Mm… it's better than anything I've had," Sachiko nodded swallowing a mouthful of rice and fried fish down. "I'm glad," Yumi blushed lightly at Sachiko's compliment and that didn't go unnoticed by the mercenary.
"Where did you find this?" Sachiko asked as she took a swig of the bottled plum sake. "In the wine stellar in the basement of the house," Yumi answered as she poured herself a glass of sake and took a little sip from it. "I thought people would took it with them," Sachiko said as she took another gulp of the spicy burning stuff. After finishing the whole bottle, Sachiko looked pretty red on the face from being drunk and not embarrassment. "This is good," Sachiko laughed as she popped another bottle and Yumi gave her a quirked brow. "So, are you born in Neo Japan or in America?" Sachiko asked plopping down on the couch next to Yumi.
"Um… uh…" Yumi studdered as Sachiko leaned toward her a little. "Well?" Sachiko sounded husky. "Neo Japan, but my family moved to America right after I was born and my little brother was born in America but went back to Japan to attend college." Yumi replied not sure why she just went and give the whole history of her family to Sachiko. "I see, that's wonderful..." Sachiko grinned as she rested her head again the other girl's shoulder. "You smell nice…" Sachiko said sleepily. A small puff of smoke could be seen escaping from Yumi's head, still unsure what to do when Sachiko pushed herself up again Yumi while nuzzling her face on the girl's neck. She was definitely making herself comfortable on Yumi while she's asleep. Sighing to herself, Yumi wrapped her arms around Sachiko's waist and settled for being the one beneath and dozed off.