Yuki's death
Yuki just got back to her dorm from what felt like one of the longest days of her life! She could have sworn the new schedule she had to face was designed to kill them! All those lectures on a billion and a half laws! Then again this was Harvard, one should only expect that they want to root out anyone who isn’t up to snuff early on in the process… Still, they didn’t have to give so much god damned homework! She didn’t even live at home anymore! Yuki made a note that in the first debate she had in class to debate weather it should still be called ‘homework’ and not ‘dorm work’ after high school. Her newest teacher, who had an affiliation for wording things exactly right would like that. She sat down to start on some research on the bill of rights, as she heard the banging going on downstairs. Some upperclassmen where having another party downstairs. Yuki made another quick note, to make them the first of her judgmental wrath when she became a lawyer. She continued with her work as the party downstairs raged with bad metal head music and screams from those benefiting from the drinks that where obviously being passed around a bit too loosely.
About halfway done with her work she heard the smashing of a lamp downstairs as someone broke, yet another bit of the school’s property. That was it, the loud music and the drunks who sang worse than a tone deaf two year old was one thing, but once you started smashing furniture it was on! Yuki stood up from her work, finally fed up with having to drown out the idiotic dribble from the party and marched downstairs. She didn’t even bother to knock on the door, as by the time she got downstairs there was almost no room to walk. The party had spilled out into the halls and was gradually proceeding upstairs. She saw that what she had taken for a lamp was actually decorative potted plant life as she stormed into the room where the party was slowly oozing out from. She knew the upperclassman who had this particular dorm, he was known for throwing these parties and scoring with the girls. And when he saw Yuki he thought for sure someone had come to test his legendary score record, despite the fact he already had two obviously drunk chicks hanging on him. Yuki was more than happy to remedy this thought by walking right passed him to the source of the head banger music and ripped out the power cable from the wall, causing a loud feedback sound to emit from the speakers from a moment.
“ EVERYONE SHUT THE HELL UP!..... Some of us are not upperclassmen…. And are trying to stay here to become so, and unless you want to start something that isn’t party friendly, I suggest you all take up a more study-friendly hobby…. Like getting stoned!”
She didn’t care that everyone was ready to smash her face in now that she had basically crashed the party, they where all quiet now. One man thought he was brave enough to stand up to her and stepped forward condescendingly, looking down at her as if she was nothing more than a bug. A common misunderstanding, since she stood at a frighteningly short stature of barely 5’ 3”, but a poor mistake. He opened his mouth and all that escaped was ‘ you got a prob-‘ before she struck upwards at his nose, breaking it with the palm of her hand, the large man doubled over clutching his nose in pain as his eyes teared up from the pain. Now the whole room’s attention was fixed on her. They would think twice to anger her now…. Not bad for a first day’s work as a freshman, if she did say so herself. With a glare on her face she looked over the entire room, looking much more condescending than someone of her stature really should look.
“Anyone else got something to say about my attitude?.... Good.”
She said venomously as she headed for the door, passing the imbecile that decided to host this retarded collage bash on the first day for new students. They parted, not wanting to get in her way not that they had seen what she was capable of. She managed to make it back to her room with little incidence, but once she was out of sight of the room she heard the music start up again…. She put her fingers to her temples, another group that was less content to listen to her when she wasn’t there to back up her own words…. She couldn’t wait to be a senior again so she could command the campus to shut up at night so she could get some sleep before her second stressful day as a freshman…. Or at least take the party outside…. With an exasperated groan she gave up on her work for the night and hit her bed harder than a sack of bricks. She heard bottles smashing into the floor downstairs as she rested her head on the pillow, god damn them all for their accursed partying habits. Hopefully she would learn to enjoy the moldy beer smell that wafted up through the floor boards as time went on here, maybe even join in the party.
Yuki would have slept through the night well enough once she was able to tune out the music well enough. She slept soundly, she didn’t even notice as the people downstairs took her suggestion of getting stoned rather than partying, or as one carelessly dropped a lit match onto the beer saturated floor boarding. She even slept soundlessly as her body gave out from smoke inhalation, and she passed on. When she woke up, she was on the ground looking at was once the dormitory building.
Firemen where spread out across the place, looking for survivors. She looked about and found several black butterflies, a species that she had never noticed before, fluttering silently across the grounds. She went to go examine the butterflies, stepping over the heaps of rubble and between firemen, who strangely none of them went to stop her. When she approached one of the many butterflies she saw they where fluttering above charred bodies, and where pitch black. She got down on her knees, wondering what was going on, why she had woken up outside, had someone saved her in the middle of the night? Well she was certainly luckier than this per…. Wait a minute. She looked closer at the body, THAT WAS HER! Yuki smiled, this was a joke, this was a dummy of some kind made to look like her. Or maybe a dream! That was it! A bad dream. Yuki stumbled backwards away from the body with laughter, she made a note to stop inhaling so much beer fumes before bed. She stumbled right into a fireman, or rather through him. She stopped in shock, only dead people could go through things! She was dead! NO! this was a dream, it couldn’t be happening! Yuki at this point was trying to coap with her newly deiced status, hyperventilating and going through the usual steps of shock, trying to tell herself it was just a dream. How could she not have noticed?! Who is so dumb as to not know they are dead? She tried to grab the nearest person’s shoulders and shake them demanding that this was all some sick form of a joke. Sadly it wasn’t, her hands passed through him as well. She freaked out and collapsed next to her body in a stunned shock.
She hardly got a handle on the situation, just barely accepting that she was now dead as a huge monster in the distance with a massive ivory mask chased the obnoxious louse of a party host. Yuki watched, in uncaring shock, as the obnoxious upperclassmen came stumbling her way as the four legged, almost lizard like, masked monster chased him down. Yuki was surprised to notice that rather than running over one of the rescue workers as the man ran in a panicked attempt to escape his almost certain doom, he ran through them. At least she knew the man responsible for her death met the same fate. The party host was soon run down by the monster, who happily devoured his new meal. Yuki watched in amazement as the beast devoured the cocky b*****d, served him right! When it was finished the monster surveyed the wreckage, apparently looking for a new meal, and it’s eyes fell on Yuki. Yuki’s eyes widened, no way it would consider her a decent meal! She was too small! Sadly the monster decided that even someone of her small stature was worth taking in for dessert, and he too passed right through people on it‘s way to make a quick meal of Yuki, this time it was a family that was crying over the burnt body of someone or other. But she was too worried about the masked monster that was charging after her with a vengeance to notice who’s body it was. With a gasp she stumbled backwards over her own body as she attempted to get up and run. The great beast charged over her, nearly giving her a heart attack as she kicked upwards, in a hopeful last minute reaction, into it’s neck, hoping to generate at least enough force to wind it so she might get away. The demon thing hardly even flinched due to the impact, all her kick had done was alert it to where she was, and it stopped right above her, and looked between it’s own legs, the mask came up just inches away from her face, where she now sat on the burnt ground. It’s breath was putrid even over the smell of rotting burned bodies and still smoldering wood, and it’s eye holes seemed like black pits leading all the way to hell and back again. Now that she was underneath the behemoth monster she even took note of a gaping hole a few more feet down it’s length, near where the stomach should be. She took a deep, panicked, breath and covered her face with her arms out of pure shock. Praying that only he would devour her quickly rather than taking his time to enjoy the meal as it had with that S.O.B the beast ate before her.
“It’s over.”
What she thought was going to be her final thoughts as the great demon mask opened what could be considered a mouth to take it’s first bite out of her head. Her muscles tensed as she braced for a bite that would thankfully never come. After she was sure she was dead, again, for the second time today she cracked open one eye to find…
A boy…. A boy with stunning white hair and a blade jabbed into the back of the great monster’s head. The monster was frozen, paralyzed, or dead, it didn’t matter, the point was that Yuki was still here and the beast was no longer a threat. He was dressed in black with a white jacket over it, and a plank strapped to his arm that read ‘ 10 ‘ across it. Yuki was still panting from the shock that she wasn’t going to die, at least not this second. For all she knew this boy had only saved her to kill her himself, after all he had taken down the beast like it was nothing, making her way less than nothing. Now the great white masked creature melted away as if it had never been there, and the boy floated down to the ground as the monster dissipated from under his feet. He faced her, just barely shorter than her as she was rather small herself. As he looked at her he spoke.
“your lucky I was here today, captains usually don’t come down to earth, but I was here for another Hollow…. Now rest, a new life is ahead of you.”
“A Hollow?…. Is that what that thing was?….”
The boy raised his sward as she asked her question, she thought he was going to cut her down, but his arm was raised too high for that his swing was off. As he brought it down, she realized there was something on the bottom of his blade, a symbol of something or another that she couldn‘t understand nor cared to understand. Whatever he was doing she didn’t really care, as long as it didn’t involve that blade in her head. All she wanted to know where two things.
“What’s your name? Why did you save me?”
“Hitsugaya, It’s my job as you will soon learn.”
And he brought the hilt down upon her forehead. A glow came from below her, and she felt at peace…. Hey… it was those butterflies again, they where so beautiful up close, she tried to catch one extending her hand out to it in welcome and grasping out at it, although it danced just out of reach. And peace rushed over her as she sank into the slowly growing glow of another world.
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