The True Sakura
Type-Moon Size Interactive
chapter 8
by
copier
· original author:
tinylelouch
That nightmare came again. Could it be called the same nightmare though? Something about this time was different. Like always Sakura felt her dream self dragging her feet along the cold pavements of the roads. There was still the strong presence of death everywhere. But something was different. Once she finally realized what it suddenly seemed so obvious. It was her size. In her nightmare she was a giant too. In her vision she could make out cars near her ankles, with each step the ground seemed to give way slightly to her immense figure. Even to her ears she could hear the booms that were her footsteps; how was anyone sleeping through this? The answer was simple: they weren't.
With each and every step Sakura's gigantic form stirred people awake, and people, curious as they were, would step outside to investigate what seemed like a series of tremors. Sakura looked to the people in their homes coming out.
Don't do it...She tried to warn them but no sound came out of her mouth. It would've done no good anyway. The darkness devoured everyone before they could exclaim about the giantess. Something about their tiny pleas was very pleasant to hear, Sakura felt her lips begin to smile. Her feet continued to drag themselves along the roads to get the attention of more people. Her mind cried out against what she was doing, but there was no denying it.
She was enjoying herself.
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"Uwah!" Sakura's eyes flew open, her mouth gasping for air. "Thank goodness, it was just a dream." She sighed. However when she re-opened her eyes...
"Aaah!!!"
"Sakura!!" A couple shouts came from nearby; their voices were familiar but they never sounded more distant than they did now. The giantess saw two familiar figures enter the open area of the Emiya household. Sakura wasn't in there though, she couldn't be. Because Sakura Matou was standing in front of the entire house at over a hundred feet high.
Tohsaka and Shirou stared dumbfoundedly at the giantess. The sun was just beginning to rise and they all hoped it was some sort of illusion from the night. It had to have been thirty minutes of all of them staring at each other, hoping that the increasingly blue sky would reveal it all to be a trick. Of course it wasn't. Once the sun had fully risen and the sky fully blue did Tohsaka finally break the long silence. "Oh my God..."
With the silence broken the air seemed to ease slightly. Sakura gently lowered herself onto the streets so her head hovered over the two tiny people. "Senpai, what happened?!"
"D-Don't worry Sakura! We can fix this, we can-" Shirou turned to Tohsaka for something, anything. The magus could only click her tongue and run into the building. "T-Tohsaka?!"
"Nii-san..." Sakura mumbled.
The next minute Tohsaka returned with a grim expression, "It's just as I feared..." Her voice was serious,, it was the tone she had whenever she put her feelings on hold to act. "I just checked the TV to see something."
"-And?!" Shirou impatiently asked.
"-Nothing. As in, no local news at all. Local stations have been completely stopped." She paused as if uncertain to continue, "...It looks like we can't keep playing nice Shirou."
"What?" Shirou and Sakura looked confused.
"I just sent out a familiar to check for life out in the city, there's nothing. Nothing except footprints." Tohsaka glared at Sakura, "Giant footprints."
"What are you saying?!" Shirou was as uncouth as always.
"I'm saying exactly what we've all known in our hearts. The Shadow gained enough power to completely devoid this town of life, and the fact it's now a giant can only lead to one conclusion- Sakura, you are the Shadow."
Each word Tohsaka said came off cold and calculating, but they weren't a surprise. In his mind Shirou recalled Zouken's words. You can choose to leave her be and she will surely devour more and more each night. Or you can choose to continue down this road you have started. He had only waited a single night, but was all of Fuyuki really gone as a result?
"What are you saying Nii-san? I didn't go anywhere, I was asleep! I-"
"Then why are your feet dirty?"
Sakura gasped. There was no way Tohsaka could actually see her feet past the wall of the house, but she couldn't bring herself to check to disprove her. Because she knew, she knew she was right. "They...They were just nightmares."
Tohsaka took a step forward, "I'm sorry Sakura, but as the head of the Tohsaka household and your sister it's my duty to kill you and save everyone from a madman like Zouken." The woman's arm began to glow, she was on the verge of casting magic. But Shirou and Sakura knew she wouldn't be able to do it. At her size Sakura wouldn't be wiped out so easily, especially if her magical energy has increased as Tohsaka said yesterday. But even so the magus was going to try, her hand was aimed at Sakura."
"Tohsaka!!" Shirou ran to try and stop her but it was too late. A series of chants came from Tohsaka's lips and out came a blast of energy. Sakura screamed as it hit her.
"I'm sorry..." Tohsaka muttered under her breath.
"Tohsaka what did you-?!"
The smoke began to clear around Sakura's face, revealing the bleeding wound on her neck. Almost in a trance, Sakura's hand touched her injured juggular and her eyes widened.
"I destroyed her juggular, soon she'll die before any more harm could be done." Tohsaka's words came out coldly.
"Tch." Shirou bit his lip, "Sakura!!"
The giantess looked to Shirou and smiled, "I love you Senpai, even now when all I've done is be a burden I-"
"It's okay Sakura, we'll get through this!!" Shirou sounded desperate, behind him the magus was silent.
"Senpai..." Sakura smiled, but her mind remembered her dream yesterday. How in that dream she almost died and her mind turned to the young man before her. How if she died she'd never see him again, how even if he would be better off she couldn't die without him. How she couldn't die without him. He was hers. No one was going to take him from her.
"What?!" The two before Sakura exclaimed, Sakura herself knew why. The wound on her neck was now healing. If her dreams were indeed reality such things couldn't kill her anyway. For what felt like the first time in her life, Sakura smiled at the people before her. "I'm not going anywhere Nii-san." Her voice changed in an instant, this wasn't the meek voice of the girl before. This was the confident voice of a woman who knew what she was capable of.
Sakura stood to her full height, easily towering over the neighborhood. Around her ankles stirred a darkness she recognized. With her smile, the darkness, and her height she must've looked like some sort of demon. But that didn't matter. She took a step forward, her foot easily crushing the wall that separated Shirou and Tohsaka from her. "You've always been like this."
"Sakura!" Tohsaka looked rightfully scared. Near her Shirou looked too stunned to react.
Sakura turned and continued to follow the wall instead of going forward. "Always acting cold."
BOOM!
"Always the perfect person."
BOOM!
"Always trying to hurt me."
BOOM!
"Always trying to take Senpai from me."
BOOM!
"But now look at you." Sakura stopped after destroying everything besides the main building. Her feet were before Tohsaka now. "You're just a bug to me. I'm greater than you could ever hope to become. I'm..." The giantess paused to search for an appropriate word, only one came to mind. "...I'm a Goddess." Finally came out. Sakura raised her sole, revealing the dirt and grime she got from the previous night. "It would be so easy to just crush you...But I won't." Her foot returned to the ground. "Because even if I hate you Nii-san, even if you make me miserable...I do love you." Sakura smiled down at the bug, "So I will keep you alive. You can become a part of me."
Tohsaka knew what she meant, around Sakura's feet the darkness that devoured people was dancing in anticipation.
"Consider it an honor. I'll let you experience everything I've felt over the years." Without waste Sakura let the shadows eat Tohsaka into the void. It lasted seconds.
"Sakura..." Shirou finally managed to speak, sounding completely broken now.
"I can feel her struggling Senpai." Sakura smiled, "She's begging for me to let her back out, but we both know that won't be happening." The giantess began to pace again, her feet walking around Shirou regardless of what was in their path. "But that begs the question of what to do with you Senpai. If I'm a Goddess then what are you? I still love you, but I'm definitely superior now. What should I do?"
With each and every step Sakura's gigantic form stirred people awake, and people, curious as they were, would step outside to investigate what seemed like a series of tremors. Sakura looked to the people in their homes coming out.
Don't do it...She tried to warn them but no sound came out of her mouth. It would've done no good anyway. The darkness devoured everyone before they could exclaim about the giantess. Something about their tiny pleas was very pleasant to hear, Sakura felt her lips begin to smile. Her feet continued to drag themselves along the roads to get the attention of more people. Her mind cried out against what she was doing, but there was no denying it.
She was enjoying herself.
-----
"Uwah!" Sakura's eyes flew open, her mouth gasping for air. "Thank goodness, it was just a dream." She sighed. However when she re-opened her eyes...
"Aaah!!!"
"Sakura!!" A couple shouts came from nearby; their voices were familiar but they never sounded more distant than they did now. The giantess saw two familiar figures enter the open area of the Emiya household. Sakura wasn't in there though, she couldn't be. Because Sakura Matou was standing in front of the entire house at over a hundred feet high.
Tohsaka and Shirou stared dumbfoundedly at the giantess. The sun was just beginning to rise and they all hoped it was some sort of illusion from the night. It had to have been thirty minutes of all of them staring at each other, hoping that the increasingly blue sky would reveal it all to be a trick. Of course it wasn't. Once the sun had fully risen and the sky fully blue did Tohsaka finally break the long silence. "Oh my God..."
With the silence broken the air seemed to ease slightly. Sakura gently lowered herself onto the streets so her head hovered over the two tiny people. "Senpai, what happened?!"
"D-Don't worry Sakura! We can fix this, we can-" Shirou turned to Tohsaka for something, anything. The magus could only click her tongue and run into the building. "T-Tohsaka?!"
"Nii-san..." Sakura mumbled.
The next minute Tohsaka returned with a grim expression, "It's just as I feared..." Her voice was serious,, it was the tone she had whenever she put her feelings on hold to act. "I just checked the TV to see something."
"-And?!" Shirou impatiently asked.
"-Nothing. As in, no local news at all. Local stations have been completely stopped." She paused as if uncertain to continue, "...It looks like we can't keep playing nice Shirou."
"What?" Shirou and Sakura looked confused.
"I just sent out a familiar to check for life out in the city, there's nothing. Nothing except footprints." Tohsaka glared at Sakura, "Giant footprints."
"What are you saying?!" Shirou was as uncouth as always.
"I'm saying exactly what we've all known in our hearts. The Shadow gained enough power to completely devoid this town of life, and the fact it's now a giant can only lead to one conclusion- Sakura, you are the Shadow."
Each word Tohsaka said came off cold and calculating, but they weren't a surprise. In his mind Shirou recalled Zouken's words. You can choose to leave her be and she will surely devour more and more each night. Or you can choose to continue down this road you have started. He had only waited a single night, but was all of Fuyuki really gone as a result?
"What are you saying Nii-san? I didn't go anywhere, I was asleep! I-"
"Then why are your feet dirty?"
Sakura gasped. There was no way Tohsaka could actually see her feet past the wall of the house, but she couldn't bring herself to check to disprove her. Because she knew, she knew she was right. "They...They were just nightmares."
Tohsaka took a step forward, "I'm sorry Sakura, but as the head of the Tohsaka household and your sister it's my duty to kill you and save everyone from a madman like Zouken." The woman's arm began to glow, she was on the verge of casting magic. But Shirou and Sakura knew she wouldn't be able to do it. At her size Sakura wouldn't be wiped out so easily, especially if her magical energy has increased as Tohsaka said yesterday. But even so the magus was going to try, her hand was aimed at Sakura."
"Tohsaka!!" Shirou ran to try and stop her but it was too late. A series of chants came from Tohsaka's lips and out came a blast of energy. Sakura screamed as it hit her.
"I'm sorry..." Tohsaka muttered under her breath.
"Tohsaka what did you-?!"
The smoke began to clear around Sakura's face, revealing the bleeding wound on her neck. Almost in a trance, Sakura's hand touched her injured juggular and her eyes widened.
"I destroyed her juggular, soon she'll die before any more harm could be done." Tohsaka's words came out coldly.
"Tch." Shirou bit his lip, "Sakura!!"
The giantess looked to Shirou and smiled, "I love you Senpai, even now when all I've done is be a burden I-"
"It's okay Sakura, we'll get through this!!" Shirou sounded desperate, behind him the magus was silent.
"Senpai..." Sakura smiled, but her mind remembered her dream yesterday. How in that dream she almost died and her mind turned to the young man before her. How if she died she'd never see him again, how even if he would be better off she couldn't die without him. How she couldn't die without him. He was hers. No one was going to take him from her.
"What?!" The two before Sakura exclaimed, Sakura herself knew why. The wound on her neck was now healing. If her dreams were indeed reality such things couldn't kill her anyway. For what felt like the first time in her life, Sakura smiled at the people before her. "I'm not going anywhere Nii-san." Her voice changed in an instant, this wasn't the meek voice of the girl before. This was the confident voice of a woman who knew what she was capable of.
Sakura stood to her full height, easily towering over the neighborhood. Around her ankles stirred a darkness she recognized. With her smile, the darkness, and her height she must've looked like some sort of demon. But that didn't matter. She took a step forward, her foot easily crushing the wall that separated Shirou and Tohsaka from her. "You've always been like this."
"Sakura!" Tohsaka looked rightfully scared. Near her Shirou looked too stunned to react.
Sakura turned and continued to follow the wall instead of going forward. "Always acting cold."
BOOM!
"Always the perfect person."
BOOM!
"Always trying to hurt me."
BOOM!
"Always trying to take Senpai from me."
BOOM!
"But now look at you." Sakura stopped after destroying everything besides the main building. Her feet were before Tohsaka now. "You're just a bug to me. I'm greater than you could ever hope to become. I'm..." The giantess paused to search for an appropriate word, only one came to mind. "...I'm a Goddess." Finally came out. Sakura raised her sole, revealing the dirt and grime she got from the previous night. "It would be so easy to just crush you...But I won't." Her foot returned to the ground. "Because even if I hate you Nii-san, even if you make me miserable...I do love you." Sakura smiled down at the bug, "So I will keep you alive. You can become a part of me."
Tohsaka knew what she meant, around Sakura's feet the darkness that devoured people was dancing in anticipation.
"Consider it an honor. I'll let you experience everything I've felt over the years." Without waste Sakura let the shadows eat Tohsaka into the void. It lasted seconds.
"Sakura..." Shirou finally managed to speak, sounding completely broken now.
"I can feel her struggling Senpai." Sakura smiled, "She's begging for me to let her back out, but we both know that won't be happening." The giantess began to pace again, her feet walking around Shirou regardless of what was in their path. "But that begs the question of what to do with you Senpai. If I'm a Goddess then what are you? I still love you, but I'm definitely superior now. What should I do?"
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March 13, 2025
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