CHAPTER 4

A new day means a new journey. Yuuki was cuddled up with Michiru on their makeshift tree house. They were both in need of a family. Michiru thinks that Yuuki's family has already given up on finding her, thinking that she's already dead. She on the other hand, wants and needs a new family. One that will fully accept her and will not get rid of her anymore nor abuse her. Michiru just wants to be loved truly in the loving arms of a real family and she's taking Yuuki with her and she vows to keep Yuuki alive and protect her as if she was her younger sister.

While Yuuki was still asleep, Michiru carefully moved from the makeshift tree house, climbed down and gathered more food for them. She did not have to go far from the tree house, as she knew Yuuki would come looking for her and end up getting lost again so she looked around the area close to the tree house. After gathering food, she looked for a sharp rock and a sturdy thin branch to make a spear out of and with incredible luck, she found the perfect pair to be made into a weapon. From the pile of vines that was left over, Michiru took one thick vine and tore it in half so that it was thin but sturdy enough to tie the rock onto the branch with. Now that she has a weapon of her own, she made another for Yuuki, one that was slightly smaller to fit her size and light for her to carry around but strong enough to impale an animal for hunting. Michiru thought she had to teach Yuuki to go hunting so that they could prepare themselves better food.

Yuuki woke up to find Michiru gone from her side. Of course, she sort of panicked but then as she hovered over to her side, she found Michiru right under the tree house making something pointy. To her curiosity, she carefully climbed down the tree and looked over Michiru's shoulder slightly. "What's that you're making?" She asked as then Michiru looked over and smiled at her, "I'm making you a spear or well… I guess you could also call it a dagger that is slightly longer than a normal one." Michiru said as she had another look at the weapon. "Why would I have a weapon?" Yuuki asked as then Michiru replies with a chuckle, "You need to hunt and I will teach you. It's good training, plus, you will learn how to fight." Michiru then handed Yuuki her new weapon. Yuuki took it and examined it thoroughly – how heavy it was, how sharp the rock's tip and sides were and she also gave it a few swings to test its sturdiness.

"You're really good at making things Michiru. Where'd you learn all of this?" Yuuki asked as she gave Michiru an intent look.

"It takes a lot of trial and error to be able to make things this sturdy. When I first made a weapon, it was flimsy so it broke a lot of times but then I looked for better materials around town and was able to make weapon that was stronger than the first."

"How come you don't have that weapon anymore?"

"It was stolen from me, sadly. It was a good weapon too…"

"Ouch, that sucks." Yuuki says as they laughed it off and stood from where they were.

"Hey, Yuuki?"

"Yeah?"

"Would you like to cut your hair? It's awfully long and tangled, I'm sure you've been having a hard time with it." Michiru suggested and to her surprise, Yuuki happily agreed without hesitation.

"YES PLEASE!" Yuuki excitingly exclaimed.

Michiru laughed at Yuuki's excited expression as she then took Yuuki's new dagger from her and held it up. "Well then, shall we test your new weapon?" Yuuki nods in excitement as she immediately turned around, her back facing Michiru. Michiru gathered all of Yuuki's long hair, though tangled; she did her best to comb Yuuki's hair with her fingers. "Hmm… I think it's best to get your hair wet first so it's easier to comb through." She suggested and Yuuki agreed so they went into the river. Since the river was flowing downstream, Michiru sat down with Yuuki sitting by her right. She gently laid Yuuki down with Yuuki's head on her lap. With the water flowing downstream towards Yuuki's direction, they got her hair wet enough to have Michiru's fingers comb through. As Yuuki's hair smoothed out, Michiru sat Yuuki back up and gathered all of her hair. With a swift motion, she made a cut directly across as Yuuki's hair now falls about two inches below her shoulders. "There. Now that's easier to maintain." Michiru said as she placed Yuuki's cut hair onto the ground away from the river. "I feel like I'm lighter too with all that hair gone!" Yuuki then says happily.

With that, the two of them bathed in the river. Michiru spots a wild boar near the river while they bathed and she told Yuuki not to make any sudden movement or sound as she then carefully picked up her new spear from beside the river's edge. The boar did not notice Michiru's move as it was facing the opposite direction. She took that as an advantage as she the swiftly and strongly threw the spear towards the boar. Her shot was successful with Yuuki celebrating in cheer. "Nice shot!"

Now they will have to create a fire pit near their tree house and so they gathered firewood and some rocks. Michiru found some forked sticks sturdy enough to be stands so they could roast the boar. Yuuki then found a sturdy yet thin branch to impale the boar with but of course Michiru had to peel off the bark so that it would impale the boar smoothly. "Good job finding this stick, Yuuki." Michiru says while she peels off the bark from the stick. "Thanks. I found it over there. There was a big pile of them." Yuuki pointed towards the direction opposite from the river. "A pile of them you say?"