Chapter 2: Better Days than This
This day just got better…and better. She had to wake-up way too early just because they had to hide their tracks; they had to run for hours just to make sure no shinobi were following them which made her miss breakfast and lunch, and she was still tried. This was the worst day of Tyomi's life. What made it worse was that Orihime was trying to make her better with words of confidence or giving out subjections on what they should do next. "You know the Rice Pattie Village isn't far from here. We can go there and rest to get our strength back up." Tyomi thought about the idea, and then she grabbed her stomach as it started growling from lack of food. "Man, even the name of the village is making me hungry. Fine, Orihime, how much longer till we get there?" Orihime immediately started getting their map out and began calculating there distance and travel time…until.
"Umm, yeah, about that." She said awkwardly. Tyomi stop in her tracks suddenly, causing Orihime, who was still looking at the map, to bump into her. Tyomi turned to her partner slowly, noticing that she was shaking like a leaf and excessively sweating.
"What?" Tyomi asked deadly.
Orihime stared to stutter uncontrollable. "Well, we-we might have m-m-missed that village at t-t-the last…turn. Umm, s-s-sorry." She turned her head away and closed her eyes instantly; holding the map up in front of face like it was going to protect her from Tyomi's killing rage. She waited and waited…but nothing came. No punch to the head, no yelling or shouting, no push to the ground…nothing. She hesitantly opened one of her eyes, lowering the map down slowly to see, in her surprise, that Tyomi was walking down the dirt road they were on. She opened her other eye and blinked them several times to make sure she wasn't daydreaming. But, no, she wasn't. Tyomi was actually walking away from her as if nothing happened, that she didn't screw-up their destination plan. It wasn't until later after her curious thoughts that she realized that she was being left behind. "Hey, wait up, Tyomi!" she yelled after her, running to catch up to her.
After she caught up with her, Orihime began to worry about Tyomi's strange behavior. "Hey, Tyomi, are you feeling okay." She said, walking beside her and placing her hand on Tyomi's forehead, in case she had a fever. Tyomi swatted her hand away in annoyance. "Yeah, I'm fine, Orihime." Orihime walked in front of her and stopped, making Tyomi stop as well; Orihime still didn't believe Tyomi's wellness. "Are you sure?" she said concerned. "Yes, I'm fine. Jeez, when did you become my mother?" Tyomi partially growled at her, pushing past her and continued walking. Seeing as how Tyomi was being persistent and annoyed with her concern of her well-being, Orihime figured she was fine and put her curiosity behind her. "Alright then." She said and began to follow her, again.
But just as she was within an inch of Tyomi, something grabbed her by the collar of her shirt with great speed and began shaking her back and forth victoriously. Orihime closed her eyes in fear of want was happening to her.
"Are you kidding me!" someone yelled. That someone was none other than…Tyomi. Orihime opened her eyes to see Tyomi practically red with anger. "I had to run for several hours and had to skip breakfast and lunch, because you heard something while being on night guard duty! And all you can say is "Alright then?" She finished at the top her lungs and ceasing from shaking Orihime.
"Sorry." Orihime barely whispered as she hanged limp in Tyomi's hands and the world dizzying before her eyes. "Arrgh!" Tyomi groaned, releasing Orihime from her hands like a ragdoll, "You're helpless." And began walking away from Orihime's body.
But she stopped instantly when she heard "And you're brainless."
"Run that by me again." Tyomi said turning her head with an eerily look and the ears on the top of her head pointing up and turning towards Orihime direction.
Orihime looked up at Tyomi with eyes now big as a cow's and an expression of pure fear. "Oh, d-d-did you hear something? I-I sure didn't, nope nothing." Putting on a nervous smile upon her face to cover up her insanely huge mistake.
"Run." Tyomi said darkly.
Orihime looked at her confused. "Wha-?"
"Run."
"Oh…" Then Orihime understood very clearly what Tyomi meant and dashed off back down the dirt road from where they came from, leaving a storm of dust behind her. It wasn't long before Tyomi was making the same cloud of dust behind her as she chased after Orihime and cursed out profanity to her.
