Chapter 4: Of Silence and Animals

She was walking around in the nearby field where she had met those golden eyed twins. As she was walking around, she stopped suddenly when she saw a dark haired boy trying to help a swan get its feet freed from a net. Once one foot was freed, the swan appeared to be working with the boy to get its other foot free, and once successful, the swan took to the air and landed in a pond, a stone's throw away from where the boy was. She continued to stare at him in awe, but once the boy looked at her, she turned her stare down to the ground at her feet. Soft foot steps gave her a hint that he was coming towards her, but once a white feather was thrust into her gaze, she looked up at him. "Take it," he said quietly, almost like a mumble.

She gently touched the feather and nodded before taking it into her hands to admire it. Wondering about how he had gotten the feather, she looked up at the boy only to find that he was gone and nowhere in sight. Sad that her question would go unanswered, she left the field.

She had returned to the field a few days later and had high hopes that maybe she will find the boy who gave her the swan feather. As she walked around, she found the boy standing near the pond that the swan he had freed landed in. She went to stand next to him and then looked towards him. It was then that she noticed that he was already quite taller than she was, but that didn't scare her too much. "Thank you for the feather last time," she said quietly.

In response, she only received a grunt, but the boy squatted down and placed both of his hands into the pond. Curious at why the boy was doing such, she leaned closer to him and noticed that he had cornered a fish in the water so that she could see it. The fish was a vibrant gold color and was quite small, not fully grown. Once she looked back at the boy, he released it and withdrew his hands from the water. It was then that she noticed that his hands were rough in certain places, almost like he had worked with something in his hands that roughed them up. "What do you do?" She asked.

"Kendo."

"Ah," she answered and looked backed across the pond.

The two of them stood there and enjoyed the company that they offered to the other.

It had become an unspoken agreement between her and the dark haired boy to meet by the pond every day, and the boy would show her something new dealing with animals. This agreement continued until one day when the boy wasn't there and a big book full of pictures of animals and text about animalswas there instead. When she picked it up, a simply written note fell out of the book, and after it landed she picked it up and began reading it. It was a note of an apology and explained that the dark haired boy wouldn't be able to make it any more. At first, she was sad and wouldn't go to the field, but as the days past, the sadness lessened enough so that she could go back to that field.

As she ran her hand along the swan feather, she looked back up to where the fake cake was to see behind it the cover of the book that she had found that day. A smile came to her face, and her thoughts took a turn towards speculations. I wonder if Mori-senpai was in that field because he was waiting for Honey-senpai to finish his cake at that bakery that I met him at near that field.

Then her eyes picked up another object hiding behind the book and fake cake, and her smile fell into a straight line. She found the memories that were coming unbridled was of someone she only knew as "Charcoal Eyes."

AN: I hope you guys like this little chapter, but as you can see, I'm very much stuck with Kyoya, and if any of you have any ideals about she could meet Kyoya, suggest them because you might be able to get my brain started, but until then, I will be working on part of the last chapter of this fic and finishing up a couple of one-shots that I have incomplete on my computer.

Edited: 9/2/2011