A/N: Hey! I'm back. :) Here's the next chapter. But just a heads up, this one's un-beta-ed, too. So, I apologize for any mistakes.
In this chapter, you could definitely notice we're crawling closer to the climax of this story, though some facts are still a little sketchy and I haven't introduced the other characters of the story, especially the main antagonists, yes it's plural.
Enough spoilers! Go on, read it. =)
Standard Disclaimer is applied.
PREVIOUS CHAPTER RECAP:
The smell of lavenders enveloped the whole room where she was. The walls were pure white and window panels were a light shade of purple. It was matched by cream-colored curtains with a pattern of swirls connecting violet lilies and yellow chrysanthemums. But something was off. Standing up, she walked over to the window and pulled the curtains away. It was dark outside.
Wow, I slept through the whole day. She thought distractedly.
Looking around, the room seemed vaguely familiar. But before she could think much of it, she heard footsteps heading her way. Looking for some kind of weapon, she snatched a vase from the nightstand. The door knob rattled, and then opened, finally. Bracing herself, she held her breath.
Before she could hurl the ceramic vase to the direction of the door, she froze.
It was Hinata.
She was more than flabbergasted, but that didn't matter right now. Putting aside the vase, she flung herself to Hinata's direction.
"Hina-chan!"
"And that's what happened." Sakura finished grimly. She sighed and plopped herself down on the miraculously fluffy bed full of equally fluffy lilac pillows.
She felt like a ton of weight was removed from her shoulders by telling Hinata the misadventures she had ever since she found that… that creature called Sasuke. Everything was just a blur of confusion and frustration ever since. She just tried to help. And this is what she gets, getting abducted.
Looking around her conspicuously, she now realized where she was. She was at Hinata's house. Or more appropriately, she was at the Hyuugas' mansion, the Hyuuga estate.
She glanced at Hinata. She was sitting calmly on the mauve-colored futon with her hands folded on her lap. She was staring at her hands thoughtfully.
Probably digesting all the insane information I'd just told her, Sakura thought.
This is what she liked most about Hinata. She seemed to be calm and collected all the time, always thinking first before acting. She was the complete opposite of her other two friends, Ino and Tenten. They'd mostly be screaming their heads off and panicking like headless chickens if she ever told them everything she'd just told Hinata.
"Sakura-chan?" She heard Hinata call out to her softly, effectively shattering the mental image she was having about her blonde and bun-headed best friends.
"Yes?" Sakura answered back. Hinata was looking undecided, as if she wasn't sure how to continue. Her mouth was set in a bleak line as she pressed them together edgily.
She smiled in encouragement at her. It couldn't be as bad as what she had just relayed to her a minute ago, could it?
"I don't know how to explain this to you, so I guess I'll just show you." Hinata spoke serenely and her eyes had this determination in them. It gave Sakura a feeling that whatever it was that Hinata was going to show her, she had to understand and not freak out.
Hinata stood up gracefully. It was only then that Sakura noticed what her lavender-eyed best friend was wearing. The Hyuuga ex-heiress was wearing a flowing white silk gown that flowed all around her feet. It reminded Sakura of a Greek goddess. The flowing robe had mesmerizing violet swirls at the edges. The beauty of it distracted Sakura for a moment. She wondered if the way Hinata was dressed was normal for the Hyuugas around here. After all, she was the first-born daughter of the owner of the whole Hyuuga enterprises and this whole Hyuuga estate. Before she could give much more thought to this intriguing idea, her vision finally focused more clearly on Hinata.
Hinata was standing still there, in the middle of the room. Then, she closed her eyes. The anticipation nearly killing Sakura, she sat up straighter and waited for what was going to happen next.
Breathing in deeply, Hinata steeled herself for what was to come.
Sakura saw Hinata raise both of her hands, and with a startling jolt, Hinata closed in on herself, bracing both of her hands on her chest. Then, a second and a swift tearing sound later; Hinata straightened her posture, with two wings on her back.
The scene in front of Sakura made no sense at first. As if her mind had shut down. Then, a second later, she came back to her senses but, she would wish a moment later that she hadn't. Hinata had wings.
Her gentle Hina-chan had white and lavender wings jutting out from her back.
The horrible sentence kept repeating over and over inside her head, bouncing inside her mind like a swarm of hornets. It was just unbelievable. Hell, it was downright impossible. Maybe she was in some kind of horrid nightmare, the kind where it was filled with angels instead of demons. Who'd have thought the cast members of her nightmares would be angels instead of gargoyle-like demons? Oh well, it does not matter. She just wants to wake up now.
But a voice at the deepest recesses of her fuddled mind kept telling her that she wouldn't wake up because she was already awake. The worst part of it was that, this was already reality. And she couldn't accept that. There should be another way to explain this. Either she was dreaming of angels or she was hallucinating about angels because she was insane. Anyway to explain this at all would be fine, just to disprove that this was reality.
"Saku-chan?" Hinata asked taking step toward her uncertainly. "Are you alright?" Hinata was now in front of her, looking at her worriedly.
Hinata looked the same. She looked like her usual calm and gentle self. She could almost imagine that she was the same person she hung out with in the club mere hours ago. But sometimes almost was a very big word.
Sakura was only made aware that her jaw was gaping open much like a fish and that her eyes were wide and staring glassily at Hinata, as if she wasn't seeing something that was there.
Hinata, staring anxiously at the shell-shocked girl, crouched in front of her and kindly placed a gentle hand on Sakura's shoulder.
"Is something wrong, Saku-chan?"
It was the wrong thing to ask for, because that simple question caused Sakura's barely maintained composure to shatter, like the wall of a dam shattering from immense pressure. Sakura shot up from her sitting position on the lilac pillows and shrieked in a hysterical voice,
"Everything's wrong! I tried to help someone injured, which that someone was supposed to be an angel. And here's what I get, having someone break inside my house, and getting held against her will, by said angel I tried to help. And now, look! My best friend just shows me her fluffy lavender wings to show that she is indeed an angel too!" Sakura finished, panting after her rather lengthy rant with panicked wide eyes.
Hinata, after listening placidly to the pink-haired girl's hysterics, replaced a gentle hand on top of Sakura's tense shoulder. Upon contact, Sakura's bearings slackened and she plopped back down on the pillows with an unsteady sigh as she put her face in her hands.
Hinata already expected Sakura to react this way. After all, she was entitled to have her own hysterics fit since her life was being turned upside down by creatures she could barely believe existed. Nonetheless, she had to do what she was tasked to accomplish. She folded her wings back to avoid them from getting in the way and sat down next to the upset girl. In a gentle but solemn voice, she said,
"I have to tell you something very important, Sakura."
At that, the girl momentarily stopped her moping, lifted her face from her hands and gazed sideways at her raven-haired best friend.
"You have to save the world, Sakura-hime."
A/N: Le gasp! :o Our Hina-chan's a lavender winged angel! And how will our heroine react after the proclamation of her being responsible for the safety of the world? Well, ya just gotta wait for the next chapter, ne? :]
Please gimme some reviews to inspire me! You could also tell me your personal ideas on this fic so I could work something out and make the story much better for you guys.
Oh, by the way, I hope you guys won't think that Sakura's reaction to Hinata's existence as an angel was too melodramatic. I mean, how would you react if that happened to you? I would most probably react like how Sakura just did. Since, in my opinion, meeting angels seems like a great idea in theory, but in reality? There's a big difference. That's all, just sharin' my ideas on this matter. :]