Chapter 2 ~ Silver Lining

Kabuto´s P.O.V

During night I laid in a little cave, shivering because of the cold inside of there. Since I had to leave my blanket behind, I was totally uncovered and the nights became colder because it soon would´ve been winter. It´s so cold…

The next morning I woke up, feeling a bad pain in my stomach and knew it had to be my hunger. If I wouldn´t eat something very soon, then I feared I´d starve, but I still didn´t know where to look for food. With fear and doubts inside of me I went again to the Village I was yesterday, since I didn´t believe in my condition I could´ve reached another one.

I hide behind a shrub, as there suddenly went a delicious scent up my nose. Hiding in the shadows of the trees and the shrubs, I followed it, until I saw a small house, where the scent had been coming from. On the windowsill I noticed something from which steam rose from and as fast as I could I ran there, standing then on my point of the toe to look what stood there in front of me. How it smelled like I could tell that it was something made of apples, but I had never seen something like this before. I dipped a finger into it, but was then burned because it was hot. Still determined to steal it, I grabbed it, but then all of a sudden looked somebody out of the window and down at me, which terrified me so much that I let go of my loot and stared with wide eyes at the person. It was a young woman with fawn hair and green eyes which glanced at me in surprise.

"A child…"

She mumbled and I took a few steps back, willing to run away again, but suddenly I was hit from something on my head that made me feel a little bit dizzy. I was so distracted from the woman that I didn´t notice the whole bunch of people that were standing there a bit further away from me, wearing angry expressions on their faces.

"We told you not to come back you freak!"

They started throwing stones at me and as I tried to run away, a big one landed directly on my head, making me fall down to the ground on my belly. As I touched my head, I saw then blood on my hand and panic spread through me. Now I tried to crawl away, but I felt too weak and just gave up. Help me, please…

"Stop!"

A high but also dominant voice ordered behind me and as I turned around, I saw that woman standing there.

"Nonō get out of the way!"

"I won´t let you hurt this child any longer! What kind of people harm an innocent child?"

"That thing is a monster and nothing more! Look at his appearance, he´s not a human being!"

"You really have my compassion when you judge somebody just because of how he looks like…"

The green-eyed woman kneeled down to me, having a nice smile on her lips and a friendly glance in her eyes.

"Come here, I won´t hurt you little one…"

She slightly touched me, but I jerked and tried again to crawl away, since I never had been touched by anybody like this. All of a sudden she touched my back, making light up and down movements which scared me at first, but then they made me feel looser. She then stood back up and took me as well up from the ground, while holding me then tightly in her arms. Her body was so warm and gave me a really good feeling inside, so that I closed my eyes and enjoyed this short moment of joy. She carried me inside of her house, but I heard the people outside whispering:

"She´s going to keep this monster?"

"Nonō always was some kind of strange, wasn´t she?"

"I hope this monster won´t eat us…"

When she closed the door, the voices vanished as well and she sat me down on a chair. Lightly shivering I watched as she examined me and went then away, coming back with a white box in her hands. She kneeled down in front of me and touched the injury on my head slightly, making me cry out a bit. Then she took a long white band out of the box and wrapped it around my head.

"Do you feel a bad pain?"

I shook my head and she smiled again at me.

"That´s good, by the way my name is Nonō and yours?"

Since I had no name, I looked to the ground, but she just laid her hand on my head and said:

"So you don´t have a name as it seems, well how about we think about one?"

Though I had doubts about it, I nodded, while she looked around the room, having a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Hmm what could be a good name for you…"

She gazed at something that stood on a wooden board that hung on the wall and asked:

"What do you think of Kabuto?"

I thought about it for a moment and replied then the name:

"K- Kabuto…"

"Yes, do you like it?"

Nodding I also smiled lightly at her and she seemed to be happy as well.

"Fine, so Kabuto are you hungry?"

I didn´t even need to say something, because my belly made some noise on it´s own and Nonō said giggling:

"I´ll take this as a yes…"