Purple - Yata Misaki Love Story

Part 49

I hadn't really ever used my aura before, so it was a little out of control, but it was also very weak. Mikoto wasn't around anymore, our sword of damocles had dispersed into the sky, and I'm surprised that I even had an aura left at all. 
I jumped up, twisting and throwing my foot out towards the guys jaw, managing to hit him where I wanted too, he dropped to the ground. I stumbled on my landing, swallowing hard, I had barley enough time to raise my arms to cover my face as an explosion went off from one of the remaining guys' stupid bird grenade things. 
I grunted, taking a quick glance at my stinging arm that I had slid to a landing on, and my teeth rubbed together as I looked at the blood coming out of the large flesh wound. 
"God dammit!" I yelled, lurching forward and taking out the guy who had grabbed Anna's arm in the time that I had been distracted. 
"Shit! We can't get past this chick!" The few remaining began. 
"Oh come on, we gotta try! She's worth a ton of points!"
"Not worth it, bro! Look around you!"
They cursed under their breath, before throwing another grenade and sprinting off in the opposite direction. I covered Anna in an embrace, hissing at the heat of the explosion. 
"Yuri." Anna began as the smoke cleared, "Your knees."
"I know." I huffed, my knees had been scraped up too, a hole left in my jeans. I hadn't been expecting an attack like that - they were definitely ready to kill for their objective. 
"Your arm." She continued. I sighed heavily, ducking my head as she mentioned my side too, that was also bleeding from the amount of skin layers scrapped off from sliding to a rough stop on the concrete - I probably looked like a fucking rag doll too. 
"I'll be fine, let's get back to the bar, okay?"
"Those men... why did they want me?" She asked, tears in her eyes. 
I took deep breaths, wincing as the pain settled in, getting worse by the second. I thought for a moment, they never really said why, but it's not hard to guess. 
"They don't want you, Anna. They only want your strain power."