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Bonus Chapter
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Perhaps you could say that.
Perhaps, you could all claim that this, this obsession, my downfall stemmed from a simple meeting.
Because even the strongest beings have their own weaknesses.
Simplicity in Complexity. Or is it the other way around?
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"…-kun!" I calmly turned my head to face the person that was calling my name. Pink hair rushed into view before I was tackle-hugged to the ground. We laughed and embraced each other before getting back up to talk. Sakura. She pulled out a monocle and a fake moustache, and proceeded to stroke her chin while asking me something in the most trivial—yet amusing—of ways.
"Would thou be so graced as to accompany me to the park of amusement and fancies today?" I couldn't help but chuckle at the gleam in her eyes. "But of course, my fair man." I did a curtsey in mock amusement. "So, what have you accomplished today?" I asked her. She pouted and then mumbled something under her breath. I flicked her ear. "Ouch! What was that for, you bastard?" She began to throw punches in my direction while I smoothly dodged them. She was tired not soon after. "Jeez…." She said. The look on her face when she is frustrated was so cute, I just couldn't help myself. I always got a kick out of teasing people to the point of madness. Something about it made it so entertaining.
Watching the slow descent into madness of someone else is quite interesting. Even when they are least expecting it.
Maybe because he was already mad himself.
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I sat at my desk in my small apartment doing paperwork.
'bzzzzzz' I glanced at my phone. It was a text from Sakura.
From Sakura: Hey! I found this really neat castle game online! I can be a King and you can be the Queen! Together we will dominate our subjects and rule the virtual world! *cue maniacal laughter here*
Reply: I don't have the time. Besides, where did you find this game anyways? Please tell me that you did not click an advertisement with pictures of scantily clad women promising to give you an entire castle to rule?
P.S., I didn't know as of late that I could take on the role of a female spouse.
From Sakura: Heh-heh, funny you should mention advertisements! I also found this one called game-vance and whenever I want to play a game, it keeps loading more and more games onto my desktop! Pretty cool, huh?
P.S.S., Yes, you would make a very lovely female spouse. All we have to do is curl that hair of yours and apply make-up and accessories!
I literally face-palmed. This girl is certainly not an expert on computers. Sighing, I stood up, grabbed my keys, and headed out of the door of my apartment, fully intent on giving this girl a piece of my mind. I walked and made turns wherever necessary, while avoiding all flirtatious looks from females who passed by. They do not interest me in the slightest.
Arriving at her doorstep, I texted her a quick open the door and she came crashing to the door step. "Oh hello! Fancy seeing you here huh? So how's the wea- "I flicked her forehead. "You are an idiot you know that? Show me your computer." She grudgingly obeyed. I followed her down a corridor that ran past a staircase and made a right towards a door to a room that held her computer. I looked around. It was dark even though it was mid-day. I could barely make out the outlines of ornaments that hung on the wall.
"…-kun?" I hadn't even noticed that I had stopped walking. She called my name from where she was standing in the doorway.
"Why don't you open the windows?" I inquired. She shrugged. I looked to the wall on my right. It looked dusty. I dragged my index finger down the wall, and sure enough dust particles littered my finger.
Then a thought struck me. "How long has it been since another person has lived here?" I looked at her questioningly. She seemed to flinch before turning on the defensive. "What, are we playing twenty questions or something?" I looked on at her silently. She looked rugged, tired, and lonely. Quite different from her usual outwards display. I sighed. "No, we aren't. Now show me your computer. You have a virus." I said while advancing forward.
She sputtered. "V-virus?"
"Yes, a virus. Perhaps I need to educate you later about clicking advertisements on the web, no?" I smirked at her.
I sat at her desk. The computer was already logged in, and I watched as the icons on her desktop endlessly multiplied. Then there was a pop-up that advertised the building of your own castle and ruling as a king whose spouse is another female player. I glanced at Sakura. She was sitting next to me, seemingly hypnotized by the computer monitor. I coughed to get her attention.
"If I could take over this wretched world in which we live, if I could make it a utopia just for you, and you could do whatever you wanted with it, and asked you to be my queen, would you accept?" I said rather boldly. She seemed to not understand. "What was that?" She asked. "Nothing, don't worry about it." I replied. There was a long silence before she talked again.
"That sounds quite appetizing." She sounded amused before her voice sobered up again. "A world just for me? That would be wonderful. If only…" She sighed. Little did she know, and at times I was grateful that she didn't know. I fingered a small, green and roundish pill in my pocket. I looked at the window that was in front of us, it was shaded by a large tree outside. I focused on it a little more and saw our reflection. Blinking once, my eyes took on an other-worldly pigment. I blinked again and they were back to normal.
Because this constant madness is only for you, my sweet.
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It was midday when I appeared in her room. I knew she could see me in this form, because I allowed it. Yet, she was still sleeping. I looked down at her. She looked so peaceful and angelic with her pink hair fanned out around her head on her pillow. Her lips allowing air passage into her lungs. I touched her face gently. She began to stir, and before I knew it, emerald eyes were staring up at me in wonderment. "…-kun?" I was distracted. "Did you get new contacts? And what's with the strange get-up?" She asked as she rubbed her eyes. "Happy Birthday, Sakura." I said. My face was probably looking uncharacteristically caring right now but that didn't deter me from what I was about to do. I scooped her up in my arms and I shunpo'd out of her room so as to not give her motion sickness. We were outside in mid-air. I shunpo'd again higher in the air and held her there.
"Wh-what are we…how?" She began to fire questions at me but I silenced her. "Look around, this is all for you, my sweet." She was stunned. "A-are..what…for m-me?" I chuckled. She adjusted herself in my hold to look around at the town in which we both resided, Karakura town. Right next to it was Konoha, her birthplace. "What's that? And why is it glowing?" I looked in the direction of what she was talking about and was suddenly reminded of what I was up to earlier today. "With that" I breathed into her ear "we shall rule the heavens." She shuddered in my hold.
Suddenly she screamed. Why had she screamed? Then I realized I was falling, and blood was coming into my vision. I had been hit, I let my guard down and now I was paying the price.
I wasn't able to solidify the spirit particles around me in order to keep from falling from inevitable death. All I could think about was keeping her safe, because with no doubt they would think that she was an accomplice in my grand scheme of plots. Bastards.
At this point, the only thing I could do was to at least slow down the impact significantly, and so I did. We reached the ground, and Sakura wasn't hurt. It was too late for me.
"Y-you can't die! You can't! Not yet, not yet!" Sakura was in hysterics, crying hard, pulling on the front of my outfit. I reached my hand out tiredly and stroked her cheek with the thumb of my right hand.
"N-now. D-don't cry. Show me those beautif-ful eyes of y-yours." I finished with a lot of effort. She opened her striking emerald eyes and gazed down at me. There was so much hurt in her eyes, but I didn't really care. I lowered my hand into the pool of blood that was quickly forming beneath me, and dipped my thumb into it. I raised my thumb back up again and began to write a message on her cheek. She held my wrist lovingly and leaned into my touch. I could feel the reiatsu of him and the others who were after me.
The one who struck me.
"…-kun?" I was always so distracted whenever she called my name. I always missed the kind of face she made whenever she said it.
They were here, and I glanced to the side to see the faces of all of them, his little gang. So I'd been hit with his famous 'Getsuga Tenshou'? What a way to go. I didn't want help, it was better to die this way.
Even though I was just running away from my problems.
I gave them the craziest face I could muster, and then I shifted my head back to Sakura.
"C-closer…" She obliged and tilted her ear towards my mouth. "Home…my dr-drawer..pr-present f-for you..n-night stand.." It was getting really hard for me to breathe. I began to close my eyes, everything fading away. The last thing I heard before the darkness completely enveloped me was him.
"Aizen!"
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Sakura sat there, a look of disbelief at what was being told to her.
"However, even in all that madness, I do believe that Aizen-kun really loved you." A man in a striped hat said to her. "And by the way Sakura-san, I would advise you to take a look at your left cheek before heading back." He handed her a mirror. She looked at what was written in blood by her late best friend. 'Happy Birthday Sakura' was written in Japanese, but that is not what made her tear up again. Underneath it she saw what he had begun to write but couldn't finish. 'I love' was written in kanji.
She also remembered what Aizen was telling her before he died. Something for her was waiting on his nightstand at his apartment.
She arrived at his door, but it was locked. She pulled out a spare key that was under the mat and let herself in. She walked past the kitchen and made a right and walked into one of the rooms. In it was a nightstand, and next to it was a bed. She proceeded forward and on the nightstand she saw a small, closed box with a piece of folded paper on top.
She opened the small box and in it was a ring, and inside the ring her name was engraved. She then opened the piece of paper and promptly dropped to the floor and began crying.
Sakura Haruno, will you be my queen?
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An omake. ~~~~~ I hope you guys enjoyed it, and I hope Aizen wasn't too terribly OOC -I kind of feel bad for making the chars ooc.-
if this makes no sense, then I apologize =v=
This is to make up for not uploading a chapter sooner =v= I have been very busy with school…I'll try to update when I can!
See you soon!
Critics are welcome.
Oh and on another note, I really appreciate your guy's feedback. =v= Sorry if I seem ungrateful 'orz
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