Cardfight!! Vanguard: Bujin

-Part 2

"Yukie!"

Standing on the sidewalk, Yukie looked at the road extending infinitely ahead of her.

"Are you coming or what?"

Harui called out to her from the middle of the road, waving her hand at her.

"Come on, we're gonna be late!"

Like a stone statue, she was incapable of moving. She could only watch.

"Aren't you coming? I won't move an inch if you don't!"

Her fingers briefly wiggled.

"Come on, Yukie!"

Her legs started shaking.

"Hurry up and join me already!"

Her hand reached out to Harui.

Harui smiled.

The front bumper of the incoming truck violently impacted her body, and was gone in the next moment.

A destroyed and battered body was all that remained in the middle of the road, its white hair stained red by the pool of blood surrounding the corpse.

Yukie fell to her knees.

Her crying eyes remained locked on the body. Her mouth moved, but she couldn't utter a sound. That was, until her eyes began following the river of blood that moved towards her, dragging along a single, destroyed eyeball.

Her mouth prepared to scream.

But Yukie covered it just in time to stop herself from yelling against her will.

She glanced at the alarm clock on the nightstand by Harui's bed. 3:45. They had fallen asleep around midnight, so taking this long to wake up because of that recurring vision was a new record. Usually she'd only get two hours of sleep before her reflexes stopped her from waking up someone else.

Yukie wiped her tears away and looked at the bean bags on the other side of the room. Bachi usually slept on top of those, but he was on the floor with his belly up instead. He must have rolled off in his sleep. He was a heavy sleeper, the building could collapse and he wouldn't notice a thing.

She turned to face Harui, who was also sleeping. Her mouth was slightly open, but for the loud snorer she was infamous for being, she was uncharacteristically quiet.

A bit too quiet.

Yukie moved her fingers near her mouth and nose. Breathing, check.

Then she moved them to side of her neck. Pulse, check.

Finally, she moved her head closer to Harui's chest, but that's when the not so sleeping beauty wrapped her arms around her and pulled her into a hug. Heartbeat, check.

"Gotcha..." Harui quietly chuckled. "I'm still kicking, you can be at ease now..."

"Did I wake you up?" Yukie asked, moving her arms behind Harui's back.

"Of course not. Bachi did. He's sleeping but his butt isn't..." The white haired yawned. "But I guess in a way, you did. You got him the beans."

"Lesson learned." The other girl chuckle and snuggled closer. "Harui..."

"You don't need to say it out loud if you don't want to... It was that dream again, wasn't it?"

"Mhm..." She nodded.

"It's alright... I'm still here. And I don't got any plans of going anywhere without you. No place is good unless Yukie is there too." Harui spoke, her hand caressing the back of Yukie's head. "Better?"