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Chapter 4

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I... Lived.

I was saved by a flower from the east.

I'm not even surprise when I found out that it was not our flower that saved me.

Even though I'm an Eastern Leaf Tribe myself, we were only called the "Eastern Leaf Tribes" due to our large number. We have the largest number of leaf tribes in the East, that was why others referred us as "The Eastern Leaf Tribes."

"We're sorry we did not make it in time..."

Everyone died, didn't they?

At least, you were not there to witness the death of the whole clan, my dear flower.

"I'm Neah D Campbell. You are to stay with us from now on."

The one who saved me looked at me with pity in his eyes. He felt sorry for me, I know.

"Where's... your flower?"

"Crushed. By humans."

I heard gasp coming from all direction, just like us, none of them could believe my flower did not even try to survive.

"Do you know his name, child?"

"...His name will be Allen, that was what the tree signaled us in our mind."

For days, they stayed to take care of me until I could move around without help. I warned them to leave, but they said that their flower was too tired to move. I learnt that Neah had used his all to try to bring the others back too, but I was the only one successful. And that took a toll on his body.

"There are humans here. You really need to leave."

"Neah will protect us. Don't worry, child."

As usual, they were so sure of their flower. But for how long, I wonder?

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They screamed ; I smiled.

Aren't you sure that your flower could save you? So why are you yelling in grieve?

I warned you all.

I really did.

I hid behind a huge tree, witnessing everything with Neah beside me.

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Neah looked so helpless, his voice screaming out for the humans to stop, but no one heard him. He tried activating his magic, even though he should understand it well enough. All his actions were in vain. He was powerless at the time.

Without magic, a flower is useless.

I smiled again.

I warned you all.

I warned you all but none of you listened.

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"Neah will protect us. Don't worry, child."

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Ha, look what happen now.

Neah was still too weak to go against humans in his current state.

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"Allen Walker, this is all your fault!"

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We were all mad, I realized.

Without our hope or things we hold dear, we are noting but a mad puppet.

I was mad. I lost my hope—my flower.

Neah was mad. He lost the only thing he holds dear—his leaf tribe.

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Y. Kanda

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This is a... Leaf tribe?

The person before him was beautiful, almost as beautiful as Kanda. If only there was no blood around the person, it would be a perfect image of an angel.

Allen quickly knelt down, his hand reaching out to the wounds on the person's body. The person before him flinched at Allen's touch and started screaming in fear.

"Chill, I'm healing you!"

Ignoring the fighting back of the person before him, Allen used his hair to hold the leaf tribe down before started to manipulated the particles in the air. The leaf tribe, in turn, relaxed as she saw it was Allen's hair that was holding her down.

"There you go."

Allen slowly released his hold onto the leaf tribe and sat down crossed leg in front of it. Is it a male, or a female? Allen could not tell. With that long green hair that could touch the ground if he/she stand, those sharp features on her/his face and those gentle facial expression on the face, he/she could either be a female or a male with beautiful features. Not to mention that the one before him was wearing clothes out of... Leaves? Well, he must admit, those leaves did a really good job covering up the body of the leaf tribe before him. He could not even identify the gender of the person before him due to lack of some... details.

"This may be sudden... Are you a female...?"

This may sounded rude, but he was really curious. He did not need to ask the same question back then because he heard his father calling Kanda "Sir", which meant Kanda is a male. Besides, male wore pants while female wore dresses, was it not? Even so, the clothes, or leaves, the person before him wore simply looked like confusing. It can pass as both skirt or dress shirts.

The person, who was busy inspecting the now-gone wounds looked up, with wide eyes staring at Allen.

"I-I'm really sorry! I should not have asked that-"

"Female."

The leaf tribe stared at Allen a little longer with a confused look before returning her attention to her once-injured arm.

"Hey... you." The leaf tribe said softly, her eyes still on her trembling arms.

Allen stared at her arms, did I not heal her up properly? Allen could not understand why she was trembling at the sight of her fully recovered arms. Her eyes watered slightly, a smile slowly formed on her face.

"...Thank you." She choked slightly, the tears flowed freely from her green eyes.

"These arms, I never thought someone could heal them."

"Well then, I'm glad I healed them."

"None of the flowers were willing to heal them. I thought I would die without my arms."

Flowers?

She knew about flowers?

"... Why not?" Does that mean all flowers can heal things up just like him? And if that's the case, why did the other flowers refused to heal the one before him?

"Because of this."

Allen could feel the merging of the surrounding wind particles. A small tornado was formed forcefully at the area between Allen and the leaf tribe, it sucked nothing in, instead it was giving out warm air to the surrounding.

"I called this my personal heater. Pretty cool, huh?"

She knelt down to the small tornado and placed her palm on the tornado, her smile widen as she felt the warm feeling coursing through her veins. Hesitating, Allen mimicked her actions and placed his palm on the mini tornado. Just like her, Allen could not help but started smiling at the sudden warm feeling that flowed through his body.

"Can it destroy stuff?" Allen picked up a fallen leaf and threw it into the mini tornado. The leaf only floated around the tornado, not a sight of destruction was shown on the leaf.

"Nope, but I can change that."

The leaf was smashed into tiny pieces in a matter of seconds.

Allen quickly retreated his arms, causing the girl to start laughing at his action.

"Magic can't hurt flowers, you dummy! Well they can under certain circumstances but that requires lots of practice... And it's against the rules."

"What's against the rules?" What rule was she referring to?

"Leaf tribes, using magic, or some shit like that."

"...Why not?"

"Exactly, why not? It's not like I would start a war with this amount of magic I can manage."

Although Allen was still confused about all the new information that flew into his mind bit by bit, Allen simply nodded in understatement. Somehow, Allen could relate her case with his own. He was not accepted by his family ; No one was willing to heal her arms just because she used magic, he was all alone due to his special appearance ; she was all alone, dying in the woods yet no one seems to care about her death.

"I'm Leenalee, a Western Leaf Tribe. Which flower are you?" The female leaf tribe reached her hand out to Allen, a warm smile present on her smile, the nervousness in her when he was healing her back then was all gone.

Allen grabbed her hand, "Allen Walker. As for the flower question, I... don't know?"

Leenalee stared at him for a while, with her right eyebrow raised up.

"Which tree were you born from? North, South, East, West, direction?"

"Truth to be told... I was born from a human. I only found out my identity of being a flower like... 5 days ago?"

"You got to be kidding me."

A smile was sent to Leenalee, Allen simply shocked his head at her comment.

"How do you know I'm a flower, Leenalee?"

"Your scent. Every flower have a unique scent on them. Are you sure you were born from a human? There was no leaf tribe beside you all along?"

After answering his question, Leenalee continued with her questions. Now this flower is interesting. Not only that he appeared without any leaf tribe by his side, he appears to be clueless of his own identity.

"No, you are the first leaf tribe I met."

"Lies. The wind carries scent of another leaf tribe from you. Did you not realize anyone around you is a leaf tribe?"

"But Kanda was the only one-"

Then it clicked.

Was that why Kanda knew that he was a flower? Kanda knew he could heal, Kanda knew he only needed sunlight and water as nutrients—

Kanda knew so much, was it because Kanda is a leaf tribe?

"Moyashi."

He heard Leenalee's yelp as she was thrown to the trees on his left. Turning to the voice, he met a furious Kanda.

"Kanda?"

"We are leaving now."

Why was Kanda so mad? The tone Kanda used was so cold, so foreign to Allen, it frighten him.

"I remember now. Kanda Yuu, is it? The only survivor of the Eastern Leaf Tribe" It was Leenalee who spoke.

"Fuck off."

"I think I get it now. Allen, You are—"

"You bitch!"

Before Leenalee could finish her sentence, Kanda punched her across her face, his leg followed as he stepped onto the female leaf tribe without any sign of holding back.

"Kanda, what's gotten into you?!"

Allen quickly ran to pull Kanda back. Why was this happening? Kanda was mad, and Leenalee was laughing mockingly at something...

Did he missed something out? Leenalee said Kanda was the only survivor of the Eastern Leaf Tribes, so Leenalee knew about Kanda's family? What happened to them?

"Hahahahaha! You didn't even tell your flower the truth?! Man, what is this—"

"Leenalee! Stop provoking Kanda!"

He was really lost at the current situation, but he really hope he could stop these two from getting into a fight.

"And you, Kanda! Calm down!"

"Calm down?! You want me to fucking calm down after what happened?!"

"What happened?"

"The tree died and the flower—" Kanda suddenly cut himself off, his breath uneven.

"The tree died and..." Kanda repeated, his tone no longer fulled with anger, instead it was replaced with sorrow and grieve.

None of them realize that Leenalee had stopped her mocking laugh, instead she was watching them silently.

"... I understand, Kanda Yuu. You have your reasons to not remember those dreadful past, my bad." Perhaps she had went a little overboard... It's not like she knew Kanda Yuu would react like that! Pouting, she held her hand out to Kanda, "Nice to meet you."

"...You-"

"Yes! Both of you make up and lets live happily ever after!"

When Kanda Yuu accepted her outstretched arm, she smiled to herself.

Perhaps I can find a place of my own with them.

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"I was kicked out of my clan because I use magic."

"You deserved it."

"Kanda, please."

Turning to the side, Kanda started glaring at the poor tree.

"I'm sorry, Leenalee. You were saying?"

"Me. Magic. Clan does not accept me. End of story."

"I wonder why, magic is not evil. Kanda, what do you think?"

"Magic is evil to some people, moyashi."

"But why? As long as we use it correctly, we are not evil."

"Look here, Allen." Leenalee said as she took a bite on the raw fish they caught together just a while ago. "Magic is unusual because they are rare. Not many can get in contact with it. Actually, everyone can as long as they are willing to, but none of them give a shit about getting in contact with it. In other words, magic are foreign to them, and all living things think that its evil because they don't understand its concept."

"Or we can say that they are afraid of changing?" Allen questioned, "But flowers seem to be able to use magic, according to both of you." Then, are all flowers evil to the others?

"Flowers are different. They are the protector of the Leaf Tribes."

"That doesn't really answer my question."

"Moyashi, to survive in this world, you must understand that every existence is a danger to other existence. Humans used to be the weakest organism on earth, no one were afraid of humans in the past, look what happen now. They climbed to the top with their so-called revolution, but what are they actually doing? They killed other organism that they think are harmful to them, destroying the four main elements on earth just for self-satisfaction. Leaf tribes were once an ally to humans, but they were hunted down in the end. What do you think went wrong in those so-called revolution?"

"Humans were lost in their greed. They forget about their selfless self and evolved into a selfish being. So, flowers exist to protect leaf tribes at all cost."

"So they turn a blind eye that flowers can use magic but making a fuss when other beings uses magic?" Honestly, which idiot came up with the idea of hating other organism that uses magic? Sighing, Allen leaned his back towards the tree behind him, still lost in his mind.

A world were every organism are able to live peacefully without greed and lust, is there such world?

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When the flower felt asleep, she watched as Kanda made the surrounding fallen leaves to form a blanket and covered the flower with it. Leaf tribes respect their flower, that was an understatement, but what was this weird feeling she got as she stared as those two? Besides, what was with Kanda's reaction when she tried to tell Allen his real identity?

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"I think I get it now. Allen, You are—"

"You bitch!"

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It just doesn't make sense. Kanda should be happy that his flower will finally remember his clan. Instead, Kanda was so against the idea of Allen finding out the truth. It was almost as if he was afraid that Allen would figured that Allen did not protect his clan back then... Wait wait wait. What happen to a flower that fails to protect its leaf tribe?

They will turn into a fallen flower and their magic is prohibited. They will be hated by all other leaf tribes. They will blamed themselves for what happened and went mad—

Was that it?

Kanda was trying to prevent his flower from going mad?

Why? Leaf tribes never does stuffs like that unless they were...

No way.

Glancing at Kanda once again, she met his glare, confirming her suspicion.

"You made a bad decision, Kanda" She whispered to him, knowing well that she could sent the message to Kanda with the help of the wind.

"Shut up." was the only respond she received.

"He might really loss it when he found out the truth. After all, what's worse than to being lied to by a comrade? For a flower, that is."

"... He will not know."

"And it's forbidden."

"It's not forbidden to lie."

"You know what I'm talking about, Kanda Yuu."

Once again, she received nothing from the male.

"Nothing will come out of your feelings and you know it."

Geez, what kind of duo is this?

"A love between a flower and his leaf tribe is—"

"I know."

The wind blew, causing the whisper to echoed louder to Leenalee.

"I know, you don't have to remind me of that."

"Then tell me, when did this all happen?"

Never had she thought she would come across a duo like this.

Well, everything's unexpected in this world.

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There's something I hid from Tiedoll. I hid it so well, no one realize.

Neah, however, looked through that façade of mine straight away. He shook his head, telling me that it was impossible for our future.

I know, I really know. That's why I hid it from Tiedoll.

Sometimes I wonder, why am I born. If not for him, then why? Why did I exist?

Allen and I, we are not like normal flower and leaf tribe.

We are... (words were lost in the wind)

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Y. Kanda

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TBC

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A/N : Sorry for the delay! Hope this chapter is satisfying~!

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