Second chapter updated ! Ido preparing his departure... Bhee, "Clara" is so cute~ Really, if only Revo could make more stories with this character... At least on MC parts during concerts (which would go on a DVD... I'm dreaming, sorry.)

Disclaimer : as always, nothing to say~ I'm enough egoist to steal Revo's characters from Sound Horizon during a few minutes... Let's wave a story together !

Chapter 2 : A last glance

He didn't think that he would have to leave so early. It was not like he planed everything, but thinking that he was already doing his luggages was quite bothering.

It was already the morning, during a clear october day. It seemed like summer was stuck and didn't want to leave its place to autumn, with this so blue sky, even if the temperature was slowly dicreasing.

-Vati, you want me to help ?

Ido jumped a little, as he didn't notice her daughter already awaken. It wasn't that shocking : after all, it was the first time since her mother's death that her father would be far from her.

-Er... well, I don't remember where I've put my black coat, do you remember ?

Clara smiled and disappeared a few seconds at the second floor of the house. Ido sighed warmly, and continued to sort out his items carefully. Just what did he have to take with him ? It was quite stressing to think about all of that... And it wasn't like he had a lot of money to buy new stuffs right now...

-Here ! Here it is !

Clara rushed out from his own bedroom with a wide smile, like she was playing some running. She was carrying a huge coat that was dawdling on the ground. As she was going down the staircases, Ido noticed that she didn't take only his favorite coat, but also a long, long dark sheath.

-Cl...Clara, just where did you find that ? I didn't ask you to take it by anyways...

Clara stopped in front of her father, her green eyes a little confused.

-But I thought that if you came in a long, long journey, you'll have to hold something with you to protect you ! We never know what would happen, Vati !

-Ah ? You actually read too much fairytales, my Sunbeam. It's not like you are always attacked when you go outside, there is no need to take that s...

-But, Vati, it's a shame to not take some precautions ! And... You look quite cool with it.

Ido laughed lightly while ruffling his girl's golden hair.

-So you are just proud to have such a handsome father ?

Clara stabbed her father's hand to make him stop, not hidding her amusement. One more time, she grasped his other hand, like she was enjoying his presence until the last moment.
Ido's heart hurted a bit, but the impression vanished instantly, as he heard someone hitting the door outside.
The man sighed once more, this time of annoyance.

-Ah, it's your DEAR Aunty, Sunbeam...

-Don't open the door, then, whispered the girl, as bothered as her father.

-I'd like to do so, but I truly want to see you as lighty as you are now, my Clara, so you'll have to let Aunty take care of you.

-If only she wanted to take care of me...

-Don't say such silly things, he murmured, slowly opening the door.

And what he found behind it was a contorted figure, with black curly hair as the one of an unpleasant crow. Stuck to her dark blue dress, a little, very little girl was hiding her plump cheek behind her mother's hip. She seemed quite... a perfect pest...

-When do you leave ?

That. At least it was a direct way to ask thing. When do you leave ? You, disgusting stuff ?

-In less than one hour, be sure of that, answered the man.

Ido admitted the two relatives, and even left his bad mood aside to propose them to sit down. Ironically, they refused. "More like you can't sit on your sister's assassin's chairs ?" he thought, a creepy smile stuck on his face. He was just quite sure that his eyes were actually throwing wild flames all around him...

The woman was fleeing his wild glance, just looking passively all around the room. She had some reasons. Almost all of the cupboards and furnitures had their place changed since her last visit. The kitchen, the hall, nothing appeared to be like some months before. Idolfreed just wanted to start a new life. But it was not like he wanted to forgot all the kind moments he had lived with his late beloved. It was for Clara too. To avoid the fact that she would have seen her mother's ghost roaming through the corridors. On every corners. Behind every doors... Not like him...

-You'll find all the food in the kitchen, I bought some yesterday, started Ido. The well is easy to use, I cleaned it up too, the water is really clear... Oh, and Clara is a young yet intelligent girl, so she can manage on her own to do things, you know, she doesn't need a lot of care, and she won't bother you at all. And she loves helping at housework by the way.

While saying that, he stared at his sister-in-law's face, though she was clearly avoiding his eyes. He was trying hardly to hide his fury behind a trembling voice and a false smile. If only he could just take her by the neck and threaten her with death if she just dared to touch a single fragment of his Light...

Midday. He was in way to go. On the edge of the little garden in front of their house. With an heavy bag, a black sword at his belt, as her daughter obliged him to take it. He knelt and embraced Clara deeply, with all the force his arms could give. Clara whispered kindly in his ear :

-Come back... Come back...

-I promise you.

-Just...

Clara took slowly something out of her little skirt's pocket. And hid it in her father's hand.

-Just take them with you...

Ido did a movement to try to see the object she just gave him. But she stopped his gesture while murmuring :

-Stare at them in the carriage, they'll permit you to not be bored...

-Okay, Sunbeam, no problem. It's a present ? I'll have to discover it when I'll be on the road, right ?

The little girl smiled sadly and took her last embracing from her father, before he started to go away. A coachman was waiting for him just a few steps ahead.

He got in the carriage and settled on the soft bank. The horses began their long journey, their heavy hoofs clapping on the ground. Looking outside the little window, Ido didn't stop staring at Clara until she disappeared from his glance. Behind her were standing her aunt and her cousin, like two miserable trees which just were adding some kind of mourning atmosphere to the scene...

When Clara was totally out of his sight, he closed his eyes for a moment, listening to the sound of the horse's footsteps.

Then, he remembered that something was waiting to be seen in his hand.
Since the beginning, he knew that it was some kind of sweet stuff, done with wool and fabric. It was so soft beneath his fingers... Full of a little girl's innocence and love...
As he bent to see the present, he opened his eyes surprisedly.

It was two little dolls... Holding their hands, sew together, with pale fabric and wool for the hair. One looked like Clara. The other was.
The other was Bettina... His beloved Bettina. His dead Bettina...
The two were not longer than a finger. Their face were smiling happily, sewn with some wool...
Their were not longer than a finger... But for Idolfreed...
They were, at the moment, the most cheerful thing he had in his hands...

Two tears ran down from his cheek... To fall on the chests of the little dolls...

Poor Ido... He is now in way for his "endless" journey. I let you imagine what events will happen now...

"Bettina", the name I imagined for Ido's dead wife, is a derivated name of "Elisabeth", in German... Sorry to have made this link, it's quite mean T_T' But I couldn't retain my "Id" to call her like that.
Even so, don't imagine Bettina like an Elisabeth, please, it's not my purpose. She is just the dead and beloved wife of our beloved Ido anyway~

By the way, sorry, I just noticed that I have a strange way to make dialogue. The "-" is a french way to make dialogue signs in french novels. I guess in english, you just have to put " "blablablablabla" ". But well, habbit is habbit, sorry for that. I just hope it's understandable for english or other people (*does not know how other languaged people write dialogues in fact lol*)