The sun was blaring hot on the lazy spring morning. There were no birds out, which made the forest the boy was traveling through quite eerie. He had been walking for days, maybe even weeks, but he still went on. He didn't know when to stop or to slow down. The boy looked up to the sky, its blue haven stretching for miles. As he was looking up, the boy lost his footing and tripped over a rock nudged into the ground. He flew into the air a couple feet and hit the ground hard with a thud, tumbling down a hill. He fell face down on hard, mossy ground. Moaning at the stinging pain, the boy pushes himself up on his knees and looks around. He is amazed to find himself in a field, flowers everywhere in sight. The smell of the flowers perfume is overwhelming, but welcoming. He gets on his feet and starts to walk into the field.
There was a dirt road running right through it, with a tree right by the road, its branches streching for what seemed like miles. The boy was amazed at the beauty , although he wasn't sure that he was one to judge something of its appearance. He gazes up at the tree, looking at the tallest branches. Just then he hears something. Not the wind, not the birds in the air, but something more like a voice.
"Mmmh.. five more minutes.." mummbles a small voice. He looks around, and sees no one. A ruffle in the grass makes him realize that the voice came from there. He looks down and sees a girl, snuggled up against herself asleep and mummbling. Her hair was long for typical girls her age, which he guessed was about his age, her long top pushed up slightly to reveal matching romber pants. He blushes, embrassed at the scene, and looks away.
"Er miss, your dress.." He mummbles, keeping his head turned away. The girl seems to hear his barely aduible whisper, and flutters her eyes open. Her eyes were a shining red, contrasting her bright blue hair and making her look almost in human. She pushes herself on one elbow, looking around trying to fight off the last moments of fatigue. She looks at the boy, then down to see the embrassing scene.
"EEKKKKK! DON'T LOOK!" She shrieks, pushing her top down and blushing madly. The boy turns away, embrassed just as much as she was. As she starts to calm down she turns toward the boy. He was taller than her by a few inches, even when squatted down on the grass. He was wearing a sailor suit with black and white accents. But what was oddest of all was that he had ears, spouting out from his head and a small, bushy green tail to match his hair and ears. Curiousity taking over, the girl reaches out towards the tail to check to see if its real or not. Right as she touches it the boy whips around, grabbing her wrist.
"Don't." He says, letting go of her wrist just as quick. She brings her hand back. Bitting her lip, she looks down, sad that she had upset the boy.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you mad. My names Kurakay." She says, smiling and holding out her hand in a greeting. He looks at her , and then the greeting, not knowing what to make of it. He shakes it, finally given in to her innocent demanor.
"My names Hotaru." The boy says, not realizing he really hasn't ever told anyone his name since waking up those few weeks ago. They sat there, for what seemed like forever, holding there hands together firmly. Hotaru finally lets go, and blushes, realizing what they were doing. Kurakay giggles, also realizing but getting a different reaction from it.
"So what are you doing way out here?" she ask, apparently trying to make converstation. He looks at her, and then realizes he doesn't know what he was doing way out here, he wasn't sure what he was doing period.
"I could ask you the same thing." Hotaru says, pouting at not being able to think of anything to really tell her. The thought of telling her he didn't know and her laughing at him made him sick.
"Oh well, I'm traveling to the big city. Perhaps...you might want to come with me?" She ask, looking from the corner of her eyes at him. He looks at her, surprised she would ask him to join her. He thinks about it for a moment, he could continue the way he has been, wandering aimlessly around, or he could join up with this girl and maybe find some meaning to his life.
"Yeah...I'll join you." He says. She lets out a yelp of joy and warps her arms around his neck happily. He blushes madly, not knowing what to do about this kind of interaction. She lets go and gets up, brushing off her outfit, he gets up as well and does the same. As he does though he notices that shes much shorter than he was, about a head shorter, with the sleeves of her blouse just barely showing the tips of her fingers. She also now looked much more younger, about 2 years younger than him.
Kurakay looks at Hotaru and smiles, making him blush slightly. He notices the blush and scrowls a bit in his mind, hating the fact of how much it is happening since he met the girl.
"Are you ready?" She says, walking towards the dirt road. She had a slight skip and dance in her step, which Hotaru wondering if it was just because she was excited or she always walked like that.
"Yeah I'm ready." Hotaru says, looking once again at the field as if he forgot something, and follows after the young girl, not knowing what he has gotten himself into.