Chapter Eighteen: Unexpected Twist
This – this can't be happening, this can't.
"Quick, steady the heart – steady the goddamn heart!"
"How the hell did this –"
"Shut up and do what I say! Someone stop the bleeding and check dose 1029A!" The blood, the blood - oh God, the blood. It won't stop -
"Dose is secured; it's the same, Lady Hokage."
"The bleeding –"
"What do you mean it's the same?! Why would all of a sudden –"
"Lady Hokage! Quick, the patient!"
"Rei -"
"Oh God – No, no, no, no, no!" The woman screamed, this can't be happening. This was supposed to be the easy operation! But it didn't matter what the Hokage was doing any more, nor did it matter how much advanced medic-nin were present, how much chakra was being pressured into this tiny vessel or how much medicine was being pushed into her bloodstreams. The greatest medic-nin ever, the Sennin, the renowned kunoichi, the granddaughter of the First Hokage, the leader of Konoha was trembling, eyes wide and tears were falling over the cooling, settling body.
How could someone who was so alive with energy hours ago become this? No struggle, no courageous last moment. Just a stop of the heart.
I lost her.
Rei was dead.
And she was gone...forever.
There you go.
I'm guessing you can tell what's going to happen next. Happy Halloween!