Author's note: In celebration of Epic's one year anniversary have a set of one shots to say when I think Nod should off kissed M.K. I hope they aren't to OOC.

Total M.K x Nod fic.

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The first time he saw her.

She was hanging upside down her cherry bangs lingering in front of her bright green eyes full off childlike innocent wonder. She dangled her pearly whites showing a petite, unsure smile. Something wasn't right about her she was different somehow.

Maybe it was those metal things in her ears or the cloths she wore. The only thing he knew to be true is that she would need to be protected.

Before he knew it they would be riding on his new acquaintance a beautiful, brown bird with delicate wings that suffered over time. They glided through the air almost touching the misty clouds that happily drifted above them. But she was too worried about his flying apparently not looking where he was going was a bad thing.

After all he was just introducing himself to her and when she introduced herself to him that's when she said she had never been flying and this was so new to her. Now that was concerning. She had never been flying before he would have to fix that.

"Put your arms around me." He murmurs to her his hands gripping tighter on the bird's reins.

"But I just met you and-" she replies with a disgruntled, annoyed look. But before she could finish her most endearing sentence he turns his dainty bird to the left.

He warns her "well you're gonna want to hold on to something." He feels his body writhe, while they begin to plummet towards the ground.

Frigid air rushes between them at first but soon enough something warm wraps around his muscular frame, it feels so affectionate, welcoming and pleasant. As they turn upside down her arms get tighter her ear pricing screams filled up the air that surrounding them.

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

He feels his bird stutter mid-flight she was injured. She cries in pain. But when she got back to just gliding she was okay a little rusty but okay. "Do you know how hard it is to do that without falling?" He gingerly asks her. Thinking he impressed the cherry haired girl.

"I do now!" She yells. Just for a moment those small dull pink lips that sat on her face sat open, inhaling deeply one arm holding on to his chest the other on the small pod. Suddenly she couldn't hold her breath.

But then she sat there her face so close to his, he can feel and smell her breath on his lips so close.

He could just give her a peck on those sweet lips of hers.

But when he tried "Nod you injured your bird!" He hears in the distance, he has a cocky smile on his face he grunts.

"What I was just trying to lighten the mood." He replies allowing his bird to rest for a moment.

But the sight they found broke their hearts. The forest in ruin, rotting, dead. After all he just wanted to protect her, those bright green eyes full off such childlike innocent wonder that hid behind those cherry red bangs.

And he would.