BNHA: Dual Fates.

Chapter 18: Fear

Heavy breaths, shaky, in the shadows Yukimura stood with her back slightly leaned over and pressing against the wall of a red brick building. Long brown bangs had fallen past her face so only her parted, panting lips could be seen. Faint sweat rolled down her tan cheeks while those blind hues remained on the puddle of murky water around her feet, the metal from her dagger could be heard from her quivering hand.

Nothing but fear could be seen on her face while heavy droplets of rain poured and drenched everything on her. Her bangs now sticking to her skin, her uniform becoming tighter on her from the wetness, and the puddle around her feet gradually grew. Fear, afraid of herself, afraid of the voice in her head, afraid of what she would've done to that man, afraid of what might've happened if she had let that part of her kill Shinso at that moment; afraid... She was so scared ... Of herself.

Kill him... She could hear her whispering voice echo, it only made her breaths become heavier and her eyes widen. As before, the film over her blind hues disintegrated and was immediately replaced with those sharp, intimidating green slits that glow in the shadow of her bangs. "No...!" out came refusal from her lips after her hands clamped tightly onto her head. Kill him... It repeated with a more adamant tone and its whisper became harsher. "No!" Another word of denial left her, which only made the girl's head lower further and for her to squat in place.

Her dagger had fallen the moment her hands reached for her head, allowing a sharp clang from the metal to resonate through the alley. I need to, WE need it...! Kill him, KILL HIM! The voice was practically begging at this point. Struggling, shaking, she was and now Haru sat in a fetal position rocking back and forth.

What she didn't know was that an innocent civilian decided to stroll down the sidewalk that went past the opening of the alley. The very sound of those footsteps, which many would find hard to hear through the pouring rain, indicated that it was only one person and no one else was around him. No other pairs of feet thudded around them and their heavy footfalls told her that it was a man.

This time, she couldn't control it, the urge, the need, the craving inside of her kept building and that dark part of her caused her to make that menacing grin that she tried so hard to hide. It was too strong for her to hold back, so within seconds the girl stood and bolted for the man. A dramatic stretch of her now glowing slits zoomed past and the sight of the man's backside grew closer.

Flexible, her arm twisted in a certain way and curved, bringing the dagger's sharp side to the back of his neck, and rain droplets sprayed into the air from her speed. Not too much longer were they accompanied by spots of blood next to the splashed rain, only to splatter the wet sidewalk and spray one side of a tree near him. A loud cry only for a brief moment, echoed through the air before it cut off and a faint thud replaced it.

The brunette was soon standing behind the man who had fallen onto his stomach, his head laid next to the base of the tree near her and water made the pool of blood beneath him thinner. The smell of iron in the air eventually flew up to her nose and not long after did that sadistic grin fall.

Those green slits returned to her normal blind eyes the moment realization came, the girl finally snapped out of whatever hold her dark side had on her, and once again...fear took over. Panic became noticeable, though most people would scream in terror at the sight, she only stood there astonished before rushing to the fresh corpse and dragging him somewhere to hide his body. The head was tossed into a dumpster and was buried deep with her own hands, she just hoped the blood would wash away with how hard the rain fell