YAMADA WOLFF

  I first realised about their existence at the age of four.

  Those monsters that crawled under the bed weren’t real, but the ones peeping outside the window were. As a kid, there was only so little that I could do. I tried to speak to the adults around me back then, but kids have various imaginations, that’s what they said. Hence, I tried to brave it out and brush it off.

  Until one night, when hurricane strikes with thunder and lightning, I witnessed how my Father was brutally murdered by four beasts in human form.

  Strangely, the doctor concluded that it was a suicide. And everyone around me had thought that I went crazy with the strong statement I made. My title as the rightful heir was stripped away, and I was sent to a confinement facility for a treatment.

  It was a place for the fucked-ups and deranged people, and I was treated even lower than trash. I would later find out that my uncles from my father’s side of the family sealed the deal with the doctors at the mental institution.. to turn me fully insane.

  I became a completely different person since then on, with raging hatred and all that is loathing in me, I was uncontrollable. And then, one day, on my eleventh birthday, an odd, red-eyed woman appeared before me with a birthday cake that tasted like shit.

  And she changed my life.

  For good.

  I was not a crazy person.

  I was not imagining things.

  But even so, even though I’ve outgrown that rotten past of mine, every single day of my life still felt like I was in a fragment of illusion.. an illusion that doesn’t belong to me, an illusion that doesn’t seemed to have an end.

  Including this fucking moment.

  I refused to lose to these fuckers!

  “YAKEDO!”

  *all assassins who fought both Yamada and Ryosuke, collapsed at once.

  **

  “They were just here a moment ago, where did they go? Was there any attacked behind us?” Ryosuke squawked in panic. “Shit!”

  “Calm down first, your high pitch voice is giving me a headache. However, chances are high for that reason, but that doesn’t explain the untraceable disappearance. My eyes can’t detect any, no traces of the Smoke Escape from Sakura either.”

  “Smoke Escape? Perhaps it’s that stinky old man? He’s not that fragile to do the basic Ninja thing, right? Detect any?”

  “None. That’s what bugging me.. dammit I can’t think straight!” I screamed in frustration. People don’t just simply vanish, do they? Ryosuke won’t stop screaming either. Tch!

  Wait.

  Something’s clicking.

  “Ryosuke, look around us..”

  “Huh?”

  “The rocks.”

  “The what?” My idiot friend looked around the surroundings, then I guessed his brain just switched to back to function. “Right. Holy fuck so it does exist!”

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  “Yeah. The portal. Right at the heart of the city, right in the middle of the three, triangle shaped rocks.” I smirked, a bit amused, we’re only kids after all.. there are rather plenty things we have yet to learn. “You ready?”

  “Uhuh. Our bones would probably break though, Yamachin.”

  “There’s always a first time to something..

  ..in count of three, set.. NOW!”

  IKARI SAKURA

  Where in hell are we? Sakura gasped, chasing her breath. “Ren?” She looked all around her. “REN! WHERE ARE YOU?” Shit, what is happening?

  “Sa-Sakura..”

  “REN!!” She rushed herself to find Ren who’s stuck under a crack of a big rock.. a rock with a hue of red, and then it hits her.. “Dammit! We’re in Underworld Realm!”

  Sakura was panting and huffing, tried her best to pull Ren out, before she realised a presence that stood right behind her. “You scum!” She shouted in anger. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!”

  Laughing like a maniac, Kentaro retorted. “My poor, foolish niece.. seems like my brother didn’t teach you a thing or two about not to let your guard down, huh?”

  Tch. This traitor son of a bitch.. what is he plotting at? “Ren, cover your head. This will hurt a bit but V Sensei’s Power Force should be able to withstand it.”

  “Huh?”

  “Just do it moron! We don’t have much time!” She gritted her teeth, irritated and annoyed.

  Ren followed the order, and soon after, Sakura blew the big rock with her ability and it shattered down to pieces.

  Shit. She muttered. This will attract the Spectres. I need to figure out a way to get out of here soon. Ha! Seems like the chances of that is close to none. “You alright?” She offered her hand out to Ren.

  “Y-Yeah, what happened? Do you know where we are?”

  She hesitated for a second, before she finally replied. “We’re in hell. Prepare to die.”

  **

  The vivid memory of my uncle was back when I was four.

  There was a birthday party at Ikari Estate, I don’t really recall whose it is, but I remember there were many attendees, including Ikari Kentaro, my estranged uncle who had a bad blood with my father.

  He was an uninvited guest, and he had come to make a scene. An unforgettable one at that.

  And at midnight, while everyone was busy partying, he’d snatched away from my bedroom when I was asleep.. and shit, the memory of that day.. I tried so fucking hard to erase it, but it kept on haunting me each and every night.

  He’d locked me up inside a car trunk, for days without food, and without water.

  And the moment I thought that I was on the verge of death, he’d dragged me by the hair and threw me off to a dark, dingy cell, and would beat me up senseless.. almost every day.

  I was born into a powerful family of Soshiki, a successor to the highest ninja clan.. and my eyes were opened way too early before I even knew what all the bullshit that I’ve just mentioned means.

  Back then, each time he’d kicked me, I would catch a glimpse of his eyes that were burning in so much hatred. I would later learned that he used to be close with father.. until I was born, and all father’s attention was shifted to me. The two of them had a big argument and he’d distanced himself from the family since then, but he confessed - as he was beating me up- that he had planned on my kidnapping from the moment I was delivered into this world.

  He’d tormented me for weeks, loathed me with all his heart and soul, and all because of some petty jealousy.

  Haaaa!

  What a childish little prick you are uncle.

  Due to the mental trauma, my memory became hazy and I couldn’t remember the face of my kidnaper, and that had helped him on manipulating the entire clan that he had saved me from hell.

  I regained my memory and realised that he was the real culprit when I was much older. But when I’ve grasped the truth, he’d been named a convict due to his rebellion against the Elders.

  I didn’t tell a soul about the true identity of my kidnaper, for the reason that I.. I..

  Self-hatred. Resentment. Bitterness.

  I grew up to be a bitch. Set my standard so high and put up a barrier to shield the real me.. who is nothing but a loser.

  A loser who couldn’t move on.

  A loser who couldn’t let go of the past.

  A loser who wasn’t strong enough..

  Ha.

  Haha.

  Hahaha!

  No.

  I am Ikari Sakura.

  “And I will end you here and now, KENTARO!”

  **

  “How many of them?”

  “I’m not very good at math so I can’t fucking count.”

  “Y-You don’t have to be so rude, Sakura..”

  “Gargh! Thousands! And more! Think you can handle them, noob?” She glared.

  As Sakura predicted, the Spectres have detected human presence. Hence, the very reason they’re swarming the place.

  “My dearest niece..” Kentaro grinned. “It would be wiser for you to just surrender yourself and I’ll make it quick for your death.. though I’ll let you watch the Spectres to devour your comrade first, hahaha!”

  Sakura was taken aback, in truth, she was quite frightened.. but with the flashback of her past, she made a resolved. And she will not back down. “I’ll have to face that piece of shit..” She drew in a deep breath. “I’ll make sure that he’d die in my hands, but I doubt that we both will survive here, Ren. I’m sorry..”

  “…” Ren winced, but his expression quickly changed to smile. “Hey, people die. Don’t be sorry.”

  Scoffing, she retorted. “You odd ball.”

  “Well then.. kick his ass, Sakura. It was cool to get to know yo..”

  *boom!

  An explosion occurred, not so far from where they’re standing at, and two familiar figures appeared before their eyes.

  “RYOSUKE! YAMADA!” They beamed in relieved.