My Savior

chapter seventeen

"You ready?" I ask Haru.
"No." He shakes his head with his eyes wide. He looked like a small shy child that just got told to read out loud in class.
"Come on, you been practicing and you got the lyrcs down."Still looking unsure of himself.
"Look it's easy just focus on your wife and ignore every one else, you should be fine." He peeked from behind the curtain to look at Manami. Giving his body a little shake, he turned to me and gave me a determine nod. Smiling that he didn't chicken out we walk out to the stage.
"Attention." He taps on the microphone to get everyone attention. The crowd became silent and turn their direction to us.
" I want to perform a song for my beautiful wife. I love you " Manami smiles and He turns to me, I position my fingers on the key and nod my head to let him now I was ready. I begin to play and he begins to sing. I look at Manami face, she had a gaint smile on her face looking like she trying hard to to cry, but failing to do so. I look back to Haru and see he was starting at her the entire time. When the song finishes she runs up to him and they share a passionate kiss. Earning a round of applause by the crowd, I smile and get up to make my way off stage.
"Rinaaa!!!" Manami attacks me from behind into a big hug. I could have easily doge, but I chosen not too. Laughing I turn and gladly returned her hug.
"You wrote that." I shake my head and gesture to Haru who was next to us.
"His words, I just put them together." Haru just laughs and pinches my cheeck, something that he picked up from Manami.
"I couldn't have done it without our cute nee-chan."
"Nee-chan?" I question him as I rub my check.
"Yup, since Manami is your onee-chan it makes me your onii-san." He gives me a full smile. I smiled back and was happy he thought of me as a little sister.
***
"Be safe." I give Manami one last big hug before they left for their honeymoon. They were leaving town to go to some bath house resort. She pats my back letting me know I was starting to suffocate her.
"Sorry." I quickly let go. She just laughs.
"It's fine. I'll be back before you know it."
" I'll miss you " I say. I haven't been without her for long time and she truly is my older sister in everything, but blood.
"Me too." She pulled me back in to a hug.
"You ready." Haru speaks up. She lets go and heads over to her husband. They both wave goodbye and dissapered into the night. The smile I had on my face fades and my gut feeling returns. Tobi still hasn't been back since he had left and that was before the massacre happen. I was beginning to worry that something happen to him. Try to shake my nerve and convince myself that he is fine, I walk back to the party where my father and Manami's father where. My father trying to comfort her father and remenincing of Thier little girls childhood.
"Awahhh my little Mana!!" Manami's father crys out. My father pats his back for comfort crying too. I sweat drop at the sight.
***
I make my way to work. Manami has been gone for three days and It was getting a little lonely without her there. Walking into the restaurant I begin to set up for today. I hear whispires in the back and lady chouko steps out. I look up from my work to see she had her brows creased together and had today's paper tightly griped in her hand.
"Rina. Are you ok?" She asks in her most calm voice. I stop what I was doing and tilt my head at her.
"Is there something wrong?" Raising my eyebrow at here. Her lips form into a thin line and she inhaled deeply.
"Rina.... I..here." She hands me todays paper, I take it raising a brow at her behavior. I read the title in big bold letters. Ambush attack, bandit's kill six civilians. I look back up to lady chouko and she had her hand covering her mouth with a little bit of tears in the corner of her eyes. I look back at the paper, I read the names of the deaths. Then my world stands still, there in black in white. Manami and Haru Daisuke, believed to be newly weds making there way to their honeymoon died in the attack.  Manami's and Harus name there. Making sure what I read was right, I read it five more times.
"No. This is bull shit." Lady chouko didn't act surprised that I cursed she just tried to keep herself from breaking down. I refuse to believe it.
"She can't be dead." I run towards where the newspaper rack was and pulled each one. All of them said the same thing. Trying to control my tears I begin to shake.
"I knew how close you two were." She says. It hit me when she said the word were, meaning use to. I shake my head, I refuse to let these tears fall.
"This isn't true." I kept denying it. I believe I was have a nightmare and was just waiting to wake up. Lady chouko just shakes her head tears falling already.
"Rina, take the day off. I'm closing the restaurant today." She says quietly and walks back to her office. Still with the news paper in my hand I stay there for a couple more seconds and walk out of the restaurant. I then remember Manami's father, I lift my yutaka up to my knees  and begin to run towards their home. I didn't even bother to knock, I open the door and find her father along with her grandparents crying at the kitchen table. They look up to see me and I rush over to them. The look on their faces made my tears fall.
"I'm-m sorry... I-i'm so s-sorry." I choked out. Her grandmother got up and pulled me into her tight embrace.
"Shhshh, Please it's not your fault." She whispers, but it was my fault. If I had gone with them, I would have protect them. That's the reason why I trained so hard and began to train. I promised myself to protect those I care for.
"They're brining the bodies soon, so they can be properly buried." Her grandfather spoke up, I just nod. Who ever did this will pay. My heart begin to fill with anger replacing what ever sadness I had with determination for revenge.
"I need to go. I need to be alone." I say to everyone. Her grandmother lets go of the hug. I bow to them and make my way home. Taking another look at the paper, It read there were a group of 7 suspects and this isn't there first time they have done this. It looked like there wanted in some other unknown small villages. Fucken cowards they don't go after the shinobi villages out of fear of being killed. Three out of the seven had a pencil sketch picture of them. I remember there faces. Ripping the  page I fold it and tuck it in my pocket. 
***
"Rina. What are you doing?" My father asks. I walk out of my room with my training clothes on along with my kunai pouch tied around my thigh and my senbon, shuriken pouch as well.
"I'm going to find and kill those son of a bitches." I say and begin to stuff food in my bag for the road. My father stood up when he heard that
"Are you insane!" He screams out. I turn to face him.
"No, I'm not. They killed her and I wasn't there to protect her." I tell him. He just shakes his head and rests his hands on my shoulders.
"It's not your fault. Please calm down and stay here." He begs.
"Yes it is, I promise I will protect all of you. I'm going after them, before they kill someone else." I push his hands off me and make my way to the door.
"Rina!Rina!! Get back here!!! Rina!!" I hear his voice fade as I begin to run out of town.
***
It was easy to track them down. They were going in a straight line to town to town for kami's sake. It was a good thing I had gone after them, because our town was next. I can imagine the damage they would have done. Jumping as high a can on the tree's i see there was some smoke coming from the north east. Im guessing that is where I'll find them, I begin jumping in that direction. Once I reached I saw there was seven men all around the fire eating. I concentrate on each face try to find a match on the pencil sketch pictures. Confirming it was them I jump down and make my self known. The men look up ready to grab there weapons, but saw me only to laugh. A gaint fat one spoke up.
"You look lost." He smirks at me while I felt he was undressing me with his eyes. Squaring my shoulders I stand tall with my chin raised.
"Your the bandit's who's been doing all the killings." They just chuckle and another one spoke up.
"What about it. Don't tell me your here to stop us." He begins to laugh
"Let's have some fun with her." Another spoke up. Trying to control my anger when I heard them say that.
"You killed my sister." I glare at them.
"Huh?"
"Hey doll face we kill alot of people."
"Yeah." Three of them say at once. How can they say that so casualy. The lives they took and the people they hurt mean nothing to them. My hands form into a fists.
"She was newly wed. Her and her husband were on they're way to have their honeymoon. She had light brown hair and her husband had blond hair." I discribe their appearance hoping they would remember.
"oh I remember that beauty." The men around him chuckled again.
"Yeah, she was something, isn't it right men." The one standing grabs his crotch. Indicated me that they did things to her.
"But she had a month." Someone else said.
"Haha the look of her husband's face while we pounded her was priceless."
"The way he begged."
"Oh, stop. Please stop."
"Just let her go."
"Will pay you money, hahaha" They imitate a voice that sounded nothing like Haru's. My eyes narrowed at them.
"I'll kill you." I threatens them as my blood begin to boil. They stared at me at silence then burst out laughing.
"Hahaha you here her men. Come on doll face and let us have fun with you like your sister. Let's hope you don't fight back and scream like a bitch like she did." He starts making his way towards me With that I took out my kunai and charged at them.
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"No!! please!!please don't kill me!"
"Now you're the one screaming like a bitch." I stab him were his crotch was located ,he cries in agony until he finally died in blood loss. I look around at the mess of blood and bodies around me.
"You can rest now Manami, Haru." I say while looking towards the sky. My hands and clothing were stained with their blood. I began healing the cuts on my arm and a slash I had on my thigh. Even if I was more skilled then them, I was still out numbered and they got some lucky hits.I then felt someone coming and I quickly pulled my kunai out. Realizing that it felt familiar and see it was Tobi.
"T-tobi, what are you doing here." I lowered my kunai shocked to see him here and alive. 
"I came and sensed you weren't in town, so I followed your trail. What are you doing?" He ask pointing towards the dead bodies around me. Finally breaking out of my shock, I ran up to him burrying myself into his chest for comfort.
"They killed her, they killed Manami." I say into his chest, holding him tightly as if her were to disappear. He stiffened, he grabs my shoulders to make me look at him.
"I thought you ran away, because of your father."
"What do you mean?" Wondering why would he think that. He squeezes my shoulders shaking his head once.
"Your father...I guess after you left for the bandit's. The stress and anxiety led him to have a heart attack. He's gone." My eyes just widen and I denied everything I just heard.
"You're lying." He grabs me and teleports us to a blank white room. The only thing that were there was black bags on top of gurnies. I walk up to the one closest to us. I looked for the tag, once i found it and there it read Katsu Hiroshi. Going against my my gut feeling I shakily reached for the zipper, but was stopped by Tobi. I look at him he just shakes his head letting me not to do it. I go against him and pull the zipper down. Right there was may father's face. All the color and life gone, he was so stiff I thought he was dreaming. I reached for his face and it was cold to the touch.  "There is no point of protecting your self or those you care. In this hell world it takes away everything we care for." I think back on those word Tobi said when I first met him. I know understand what he meant, I look back at him and see he was just waiting patiently. Everything that happened finally raises to the surface, I break down and drop myself to the floor.
"Why me?" I cry clutching my aching heart. I failed, I completely failed to protect those I swore to protect. If I had just stayed I will still have my father. Why Kami why, papa I'm sorry. I should have listened, I'm sorry papa. All these thoughts in my head as my tears kept falling to the floor. I hear his footsteps approach me.
"Come, let's get you cleaned up." I forgot that I was covered in blood.and I didn't say anything or make a move. He wrapped his arms around and pulled me into his lap. I didn't even noticed that he teleporting us to my home. There he lead me to the bathroom sitting me on the toilet. He grabbed a washcloth, he ran it under warm water beginning to clean me up.
***
"I'm sorry for your loss." I here someone else say as people keep coming up to me saying comforting words. Her I am dress in all black at the funeral for for some of the people I was so close to.
"They're in a better place now." The nice women's says. It was raining and I didn't shead a tear, because the sky was crying for me today. I walk home after, not wanting anyone's pity or anyone's company besides Tobi's. I was in the training area not wanting to be at home surrounded  with memories of my lost love ones.
"Please don't leave me ." I say to Tobi while sitting in his lap. I didn't want to leave his presence, I didn't want to be left alone. He was the only person I have a close relationship with. Sure there was lady chouko and Manami's family members, but I was never actually close to them as my father, Manami, and Haru. They were my family. Tobi didn't say anything for awhile. He just let me cry on his chest and took care of me these past couple days.
"What if I told you there's a way to bring them back." He finally speaks.
"How?"  I ask, he lifts me up from his lap and gently turns me to face him.
"Listen closely."  I nod my head knowing he was being serious.
"It's called project infinite tsukuyomi."
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Alright so if you are wondering what song they performed it was "all of me" by John legend. I know write I'm so original.-_- anyways stay tune to see what Rina thoughts on Tobi's plan is. Will she hate or choose to help? Till next chapter ^_^