Chapter 2: A path we must follow

Before they left the village, Nagi resupply for the long journey. She lectures Aladdin about being patience and be prepared for anything. Aladdin apologies after the lecture, Nagi only sighed then pats his head. They left early in the morning to the next village in a steady pace on their travels. It leads them to their destination earlier than expected of the estimated time, three days. Nagi watched Aladdin walk around in a state of awe. She follows close to him as large crowds of people started push between them. In a flash, the crowd dispersed to reveal a missing child in front of her. Frantic brown eyes search for the missing child. Nagi looks around for Aladdin, "Oh no! Aladdin where are you!?"

After a while of searching, she started to ask people of Aladdin but little results. Only vague hints are the result. One elderly man points the direction of the little boy, Nagi politely thank him as she runs to a large building with a garden filled with carts and horses. She saw two men talking to each other, Nagi approach them. "Excuse me; have you seen a little boy with blue hair?" She politely asks then one man answered.

"Nope, I'm sorry missy. I hope you find the boy."

Nagi let out a small sigh, thanking them to walk by the carts. She saw a blonde teenager in the distance holding a basket of apples onto a cart. Nagi remembers Aladdin being joyous with fruit; she called out to teenager as she runs to him.

"Excuse me!" The blonde teen saw Nagi and stop filling up the cart. Nagi let out a tired breath, "H-have you seen a small boy with blue hair? I have been looking for him…" He only thinks for a few seconds then shakes his head.

"I'm sorry; I didn't see anyone with that description." He saw Nagi's small frown on her face. The blonde felt a bit of sympathy for her as she bow to him then walks away. Nagi walk past three men slowly, lost in thought. She stops next to the archway that leads into town for a tiny break. Then a loud shout caught her attention, Nagi runs back to the path where she heard the shout.

'Maybe someone found Aladdin!' She thought. Nagi saw the blonde teenager with the same three adults, the blonde looks shocked from a distance. She approach them running, Nagi's jaw dropped to see Aladdin fondling then landed his face into a fat man's chest.

"How come you have boobs when you're a man? I love boob, you know! Onee-san's chest has the softest one!"

The blonde went to an outrage as he pulls Aladdin off the chubby man and throws him down to the ground. Aladdin and the blonde teenager try to bow in apology to the chubby man.

"My deepest apologies sir! ...t-this little boy!" The blonde explains but only received a stomp to his head by the chubby man. After a while the chubby man left with his bodyguards, leaving the scared boys alone.

Aladdin looks behind him to see the traveler, Nagi in a state of deep shock. He gasps, "Onee-san!" The teen looks back to see the same woman, his jaw dropped as Aladdin approached her. Nagi broke out of her shock to have a long lecture forAladdin about how sick she was about him missing, only to be in trouble easily. She sniffles as small tears decide to build up then hugged the life out of Aladdin.

"Y-you idiot! You make me worried sick about you!" She shouted. Aladdin tries to gasp for air as the teenager watch on with confusion on his face.

Aladdin apologizes to his friend, Nagi. She listens to Aladdin as the blonde introduce himself as Alibaba to her. Nagi gave her apologies for Aladdin causing troubles to Alibaba. She invited them to dinner then introduces herself to him.

"Forgive me but my name is Nagi, a traveler. This little boy is Aladdin."

Alibaba stares at Nagi as he watches her movements. Nagi seems calm when Aladdin eats his food. She eats her food quietly as her cloak turns into a cape for her arms to be free for movement. Alibaba notices her left bracelet to have a familiar symbol upon it and sees a strange tribal tattoo on bare left shoulder. He eats slowly to see her dark brown hair to be tied up to loose low bun with a few strands of hair touching her chin and her bangs resting on her right forehead. Her cheongsam top leaves an opening, showing only her collarbone and a jade pendant held by a light silver chain. Nagi pauses then looks at Alibaba.

"Something wrong?" She asks, only to leave Alibaba's cheeks turn pink from embrassment.

"N-no, everything is alright!" He answers while finding the left wall interesting. Alibaba heard small laughter in front of him to see Nagi trying to contain her laugh and covering her mouth with her hands.

"Sorry sorry, it's just funny to see a teenager embarrassed." Nagi explains to leave Alibaba's cheeks slowly turn to red.

Nagi wave good bye to Alibaba as he thanks her for the meal. She looks down to see Aladdin lost in thought. A small smile appears on her face as she pats Aladdin's head.

"You can go after him if you want."

Aladdin looks up at her with confusion, "What do you mean Onee-san?"

"My grandma always says 'fate works in mysterious ways', maybe Alibaba can lead you somewhere along your path." She answers.

Nagi sees his mind lost in thought then Aladdin held her right hand, "What about you? Do you want to go with me?"

"Well, I have to do a few things somewhere else, Aladdin. I have the feeling that boy will be your friend. Don't worry, I'll see you soon." Nagi gave her advice then Aladdin nods to her. He gave a hug goodbye to Nagi then runs to the path where Alibaba was.

'Grandmother, I'm glad I followed this path. Please watch after Aladdin and his journey.' Nagi thought while looking up to see a few stars in the night sky.

She starts to walk to the opposite path with her hood up over her head with her bag on her back.

'Maybe we will meet again Aladdin in a different time and place.'

A/N: Anddddd Done! Thank you my lovely readers for being patience with me. Don't worry I'll keep updating when I have time! Bye! try eating grilled shrimp with rice, they are simply divine!

-FancyBunny

Trivia:

. Nagi greatly dislikes spicy food due to low tolerance...