For her entire life of barely seven years, the young girl had been lost and had nowhere to really call home. She was surrounded by darkness with her older brother being her only light. But then her brother left her just like everyone else did, and everywhere she went there was nothing but contestant loneliness. That was until she met him. He stumbled into her make-shift camp one morning right after she had finished eating her breakfast. He was young and looked only a little bit older than her brother had been.
"Who are you?" The little brunette asked. No one ever came this far out into the forest. The villagers had long abandoned this land.
"Zeno is Zeno!" the boy, with hair like the sun and a smile even brighter, replied excitedly and plopped down on the dirt ground right in front of her. "What's your name?"
"Etsuko," she stated hesitantly. Something inside of her was telling her to trust this boy, but she knew better. Trust only got others hurt. Still, she couldn't help but blush and crack a smile at Zeno's silly behavior.
"Why are you all alone little girl? " asked the blonde. Etsuko said nothing, embarrassed by such a straight forward question. She looked to the ground in her stubborn silence, but the boy smiled on, "or are you lost?"
"I have nowhere to go." She muttered finally. "I have no home or family. The villagers shun me. They say I'm to blame for everything bad in our village."
Zeno giggled and offered her a hand, "Why don't you come with me and my comrades then?"
The short haired girl just stared. She was tempted to take his offer but she held back. She knew nothing about this person or his so-called comrades, and they knew nothing about her. "I should warn you Sir. I am cursed. Everyone who was ever nice to me has died a horrible death."
"That's perfectly fine Miss." The boy countered happily.
Etsuko froze. He didn't care? She had never met somebody who wasn't bothered by her curse before.
"After all," he continued. The girl, so blinded by his smile, completely missed the bitter look in his eyes, "I can never die."
A/N: I really like how this one turned out! Please review, favorite, or follow for more drabbles!
Etsuko means "joy child" so its kind of ironic that I made her cursed. I love Zeno but I can't ship him with any OCs or with anyone in the story except Kaya. That's why I'm having him kind of adopt Etsuko. Now neither of them will be lonely!
Disclaimer: I do not own Akatsuki No Yona/Yona of the Dawn, but I do own this drabble and my OCs