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Monster ~

Chapter 1 ~ The Monster

Kabuto´s P.O.V

Just don´t attract too much attention…

That was what I thought while I walked through the small village, my old blanket laying above my head as a hood so that people couldn´t see my face. The Village belonged to a large Kingdom which laid in the West, that was reigned by an understanding, but also naive Lord. It were just rumors I heard, but still, as poor as this place looked like, I believed that the Lord wasn´t that successful in his position, especially because as much as I knew did the other three Kingdoms not have problems with impoverishment.

So as I made my way through the whole bunch of people on the street, I squinted every now and then carefully up to examine those who walked past me, as my belly suddenly made some noise. Five days had passed since the last time I ate something and because of that I was at that village in the first place, to get me something to eat. Normally I tried to avoid contact with other people, but just because they all react the same when they see my face. They´d look at me with disgust and fear, calling me a freak, a monster, something that doesn´t belong to this world. For that reason I lived on my own in the forest, inside of a little cave so that nobody had to see me.

All of a sudden I saw a booth, on which several kind of fruits and vegetables were laying on. As hungry as I was, I slowly walked closer to it, then observing my surroundings if nobody would see me and when I was sure, I grabbed me some delicious looking green apples. Holding my loot in my arms, I wanted to walk away again, but then I felt something dragging on my blanket and had to stop. Hesitant I turned around and looked then into the angry face of the sales man, whose property I tried to steal. The tall man was bald and had dark brown eyes which glanced at me with rage.

"What do you think you´re doing brat?"

Unable to say something I took fearful a few steps back, with the wish just to get away from there, but he suddenly dragged the blanket away from me and gasped.

"A Monster!"

He screamed, pointing with his finger at me so that everybody's eyes were looking at me in shock. Whispering they stood now around me, some looking at me with curiosity and others as if they had to be afraid of me. Being the focus of those guys made me become very nervous, so that I started shaking all over my body. Please, I just want to go away…

Afraid I turned back around to that man, but before I even could react something hit me so that I fell down to the ground, the apples laying now in the dirt. I looked above me and there was the bald man, holding a big wooden stick in his hands. Without any mercy he started bashing me with it, while I just let out some painful screams every time he hit me. Then he yelled at me:

"Freaks like you are not welcome here! Go away!"

He stopped and I tried with effort to stand back up, but the awful pain was nearly unbearable so that I had problems. I finally made it and felt then also the feeling of hunger that overwhelmed me, so that I grabbed one of the dirty apples and started then running. Since I had to get away from there as fast as I could, I ran through the shrubbery's that scratched me with their thorns. Behind me I still heard people calling after me, things like when I ever would return there that they´d kill me.

After I was sure that I had been far enough away from that village, I started walking again in a normal pace, though my limbs were hurting badly, due to the beatings which I got. Feeling that I couldn´t go any further, I stopped as I caught sight of a small little lake. The water seemed clear, so that I first drank some of it to refresh my burning throat. Afterwards I sat in front of it and glanced at the dented dirty apple which I held in my hand. Willing to wash at least the dirt off it, I dunked it into the water, but he still looked a bit sordid. My stomach growled loudly and I just took a bite from the fruit, since I didn´t want to starve.

I was done with it within a few minutes and realized that it was way too less to saturate me. But where should I get food from? If I go back to this Village they´ll hurt me even more or the worst case kill me!

Despair grew inside of me, while my eyes where then filled with tears. I leaned over the lake to examine my reflection on the surface, just to ask me the same I was asking myself since I could think. Why do I look like this?

My skin was pale and scaly, the eyes golden and around them I had violet marks. This appearance gave me the looks like a snake, no, like a monster. Why can´t I look like a normal person? With a normal skin, eyes and so on. Everybody fears me and I never did anything to anybody! I just want to be normal and accepted by others! I want to live a normal life like everybody else! Is that really too much to ask for?

Tears ran down my face, dripping into the water as I lost the hope that somebody ever could like me or even love me. I´m a monster, a monster nobody ever wants to have around them…