Chisuji Jeishi, The Devil

"Oh hello Sue-chan, what are you doing on the floor like that? Did someone challenge you to a break dancing contest and they chickened out after you pulled out a head spin?"

The Leaf Jounin Sunaku said to her. The little girl barely heard her new sensei talking to her as the Sunaku's words drowned out in the beating sound of the little girl's heart. She wanted to say something back or to reply to her. She wanted to. But could not. She was not being rude. That one least of all.

But it was simply because most of the little girl's attention was on the man.
The little girl's eyes followed the Kunai which was still flying towards the direction of the man. The idea of getting a hit was simply out of her mind for surely he could deflect the weapon as easily as he had thrown it at her sensei with an almost casual ease.

"Aww...Poor baby...You're lip is bleeding..."

"Don't do it Oni-san! She will eat your cookie!"

The little girl can't believe her eyes. Why isn't he making a move. The Kunai was inching closer and closer towards him.
She didn't want to hurt anybody.
Not even that man who had almost scared her out of her wits with that strange presence of his.

Any moment now. Too late.
The little girl quickly closed her eyes as the Kunai hit home.

"...Oh yea...You did throw something didn't you?"

The little girl opened an eye to peek out as the man asked her lazily as if there wasn't a Kunai sticking out his torso with a red drop of his thick blood falling to the floor. The little girl looked at him, mouth opened slightly as if he was some strange bug on the wall.

Heavens! He didn't even flinched! And he just asked her a simple obvious question. Of all things!
Is he even human? The little girl asked herself as she considered him there standing.

Wait. Her sensei called him something. What was it again?
Teacher called him Oni-san. She remembered.

"Purple!"

The little girl blinked.
Do not tell me she knows that he is a . . .

The little girl's mouth gasped in surprise as the man vanished in a puff of smoke, leaving a log in his place that was strapped with a very peculiar note.
What technique is that? Or better yet, where is he now?

The little girl's bluish white eyes searched frantically in vain with her hands touching the floor.
Crouched in a defensive posture as she anticipated to leap away as fast as she could at any give moment

Oni-san? He is a devil? The little girl nervously gulped.

"...Boom..."

A thousand ring of mental alarms rang on her mind.
The familiar voice behind her like the voice of a venomous snake rasping gave her the shivers and froze her where she was.
Unable to move or to even breathe. Cold sweat trickled down the side her face.
Move! Don't just sit there! Move!
She shouted angirly at herself inside her mind. She tried to but she could not.

"...I like you Sue-chan...You've got potential...Keep this Kunai...It's a present..."

The oni said to her in a low whisper as he handed the Kunai, still wet with blood to her stilled hands.
Dark red drops started to drip to the floor from her hands as she gripped the weapon tight with it's handle.

"...Why isn't this one Genin?"

"Sue-chan guess what! I think Oni-san has a crush on you."

Great. Of all the things I need.
I should have stayed home and slept beside Mother. She thought to herself with regret.
That was the last thought on her mind as the little girl fainted out from fear and stumbled to the floor with a soft thud.
Still gripping that bloody Kunai in her bloody hands. Silly.