Where My Heart Lays - Yatori Fanfic [Abandoned, Read Desc.]

CHAPTER 1

"Please, mum! I'm begging you! Just let me go outside this one night, just this one night"

"Hiyori, I already told you about this. You can't just go wondering out on the street at times like this! You could get hurt!"

Hiyori felt helpless. "Mum, there isn't going to be another snowstorm within the 30 minutes of me walking down the street. I'm 17 years old for god's sake!!"

Hiyori's mother's face darkened even further, almost frighteningly.

"You will not go outside of that door!! Is that clear?"

Tears began to form in Hiyori's eyes as she heard the painful response, so much so that she couldn't face her mother anymore. She had to run to her room, where nobody else could see her or feel her presence.

After locking the world away, she sat and cried. Why was she so terrible at concealing her feelings? How was she ever going to act like an adult in these situations? She just wanted to check that Yato and Yukine were ok, that was all she asked for. How could she make her parents understand that?

Hours and hours passed as Hiyori sat in her bedroom, but she didn't waste any of the time given to her. As the sky outside blackened and her parents fell asleep, she crept down the creaky wooden stairs, grabbed an old torch and opened the front door.

She walked outside and observed the grim world around her. The snow had almost melted, but this world still made her entire body shiver. Hiyori only realised how slanted and ruined the houses on her street looked when she actually got the chance to observe them, and it was such a painful sight to see. Being one of the lucky ones who still had a sturdy home it was as if the fence gate to the rest of reality had finally been opened.

What am I thinking? I need to go and find Yato and Yukine right now!!

Hiyori ran down the street as fast as her legs could carry her. She searched and longed for that familiar scent she had always been attracted to. How she begged to find something familiar in this hellhole.

It took her about 20 minutes, but she had finally managed to find Yato and Yukine, hiding under a veranda beside a slanted building. As she ran towards them, she saw Yato's worried face glare at her in surprise.

"Hiyori, what the hell are you doing here?! You know how dangerous it is out!"

"I was looking for you, you idiot! How else was I supposed to know you were ok?" Hiyori shouted

"What are you talking about? Of course we're ok..", Yato's tone got a little less angry and a little more relieved, probably because he knew that Hiyori was safe.

Yukine's head poked out from behind him.

"Yukine!! You're alright, thank god!!" Hiyori ran towards him, but something stopped her.

"I'm sorry Hiyori.. I guess I'm a bit too cold right now.." .

Yukine's face was pale, extremely pale. It was obvious what was going on..

Yukine's lifeless body was failing and from more than just a little bit of the cold.