Chapter 3: The Short Time Together

"Oh my god!" Asuna and Konoka ran towards the fallen person.

"Setsuna-san! What happened?"

Setsuna just winced as she stood back up and jumped away. Few seconds before she jumped away, Asuna and Konoka saw a couple of new fresh cuts all over her arms, back, and legs.

"What's up with that?"

"I don't know but I think that we should follow her."

Asuna and Konoka ran after Setsuna, and decided to split up since the road split into to and they didn't know where she went.

Konoka was running, not even knowing if she was going in the right direction or not, but she didn't really care. All she cared about was finding Setsuna.

'Where is she?' Konoka thought as she ran. She even looked around, but there was nothing but trees everywhere she looked. 'If I was Setsuna-san, where would I go?' Konoka closed her eyes and tried to think where she would go.

Then an idea popped into her head. "That's right! Since no one's around, I can use my magic!" Konoka looked around herself once more to make sure that no once was there and pulled out her magic wand, "Valde phasmatis illae silva, succurro mihi reperio Sakurazaki Setsuna-san!"

A thin line of light appeared and Konoka followed the line. Few moments later, she saw Setsuna, stumbling near the trees.

"Setsuna-san!" Konoka cried, running towards her.

Setsuna looked back horror, "Look out!"

Konoka didn't even notice that there was a gap between herself and Setsuna and fell right in with Setsuna jumping after her. Soon everything went dark.

Konoka opened her eyes and saw that she was in a cave. Getting up, she saw Setsuna leaning on the wall opposite side of where she was.

"S-Setsuna-san?"

"You're awake now?" Setsuna got up and stumbled towards her with a small canteen of water, "Here, you need this more than I do."

"T-Thank you." Konoka took the canteen and took small sips, "Where are we?"

"In a cave near a place that I train." Setsuna went back to where she was minutes before and closed her eyes, "It'll take a few days before someone finds us. Unless you want to risk getting ourselves more hurt than we were, we can go now."

Konoka thought for a minute before deciding that resting there for one more day then heading back, "Can we stay here until tomorrow then go back?"

"It doesn't matter. You're just going to go by yourself anyways." Setsuna tried to move her left arm, but it wouldn't move, "My left arm's broken, and left leg's still a bit shaky from the fall earlier."

Konoka started to cry, "I'm sorry! All of this is my fault!"

Now Setsuna got nervous and for two reasons too! One: She never really saw anyone cry, so she doesn't really know what to do (mostly because she avoided other people and went out training). Two: She hated it whenever she saw girls cry.

"Um…uh…K-Konoe-san! P-please don't cry!" stuttered Setsuna, having a hard time to figure out the right words, "I-It's all my fault s-so please! Don't cry."

Konoka wiped her tears and sat next to Setsuna, "Thanks for trying to cheer me up!" Konoka wiped the last tears in her eyes.

Setsuna smiled a little, then quickly went back to her non-emotional face. She noticed that Konoka was starting to shiver from her thin clothes that she was wearing. Taking off her haori, she wrapped it around Konoka and held her close to keep her warm. Konoka blushed from the sudden movements, but she rather liked it and leaned in on the touch.

"We're going to be here until tomorrow morning, so get all the sleep that you can."

"Ok. Good night Setsuna-san."

And with that, the two girls fell asleep, Konoka sleeping with her head on Setsuna's shoulder while Setsuna's arm was around Konoka, keeping both of them warm.

Me: I'm pretty evil aren't I? :P Oh well, just hoped that you guys liked this since I kinda BSed this (sweat drop and hiding in corner) AS always please read and review!

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Couple notes: Konoka was already aware of her powers, she's the cheerful happy-go-lucky type and Setsuna was never really social with anyone.

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