Hello guys, its been a while, hasnt it?
Sorry for the big delay, but in the last months i had this brainstorm with some other projects and all my free time was spent in those stories and of course as consequence there was this delay, so sorry for that.
The last month was great, with the good reviews and support for all the stories, its been awesome so i hope this new month will be great as well.
There are some things i need to say, so let´s keep it short, see ya at the end of the chapter.
SHIDESU! OUT!
Chapter 8 : A new dawn
As the wind moved the leafs of the trees, a unique creature was standing seeing how the birds were flying and singing in the fresh morning, it was strange to be part of the scene, at the distance he could be confused with a deer, as the morning light barely managed to touch his body through the dense branches of the forest, he sighed moving his head like a deer would do, with a sneeze he turned to see one of the bushes near the stone path move, taking a step back he shook his head while he outspread his long wings, as he prepared he tried to focus in that sole point, and in a second his visitor revealed.
Small, fluffy and with a twitching nose with long white ears.
As the small creature looked at him with its black eyes, he slowly approached lowering his head to its level, the creature stood in its hind legs in sheer curiosity of the strange animal in front of it, he approached as well feeling his warm breath, it was odd that under normal circumstances that small ball of fur would try to hide from him, but now with one of her paws on his head smelling it feeling his scales, it was a strange, normally that form would scare anyone in the battlefield but now that animal was looking him, before he could move there was another rustle on the bushes aside of him, the animal just looked at it with her ears moving from one side to another and before he could look it started to hoop away of the place.
"Aaaah! What a cute bunny!" He heard as he looked how the animal hid again in the dense forest, with his head high trying to look the place where it hide, he just tiled his head confused for a moment "Aww it ran away, such a shame!" he turned to see the owner of the voice and was astonished for what he saw, before him was that sweet girl, her blonde hair free moving with the wind, and her black long dress with purple and golden details, it wasn't her normal attire, but certainly it was a good change "Mmm? What? You waited too long? Well, wait no longer since i have the solution here~" she showed what was hidden behind her, again he tiled his head as she pouted "What? You don´t like it? I worked so hard for this you know, and it was just to make you look less fierce" she looked at him and with a snort he bowed to her level, with glee in her voice she carefully placed the crown of flowers she just made with all kind of colors, even if it was a little small for his head he could feel the warm petals in his head "…….well, i think it suit you, but right now you´re a dragon, so could you transform back? I know that you´re training but…." She didn't need to continue, before she could even pout there was a while light and before noticed he was back to his human form, this time the crown was still in his head but now it was a little bigger, as he settled correctly her gift she launched herself with arms open with a giggle "Thanks Kamui! I know i shouldn't be bothering in your training, but im glad th-aah!" she suddenly felt how he embraced her.
"Bother? There´s no way you could do that Elise, thank you but, why is the gift for?" The albino asked.
"Well, i heard some dummies saying that you´re a great leader, but somewhat fearsome when you´re in your dragon from, so i wanted to do something about it"
"Oh silly Elise" he laughed while she pouted looking at his face with puffed cheeks "Don't worry about it, i know i can be …wild when im in the battlefield, but as long i have Camilla, Azura, Silas, and especially you at my side, i don't really mind what the other´s think about me"
"B-But i do!" her hold grew tighter "If only everyone could see how sweet and nice you are, not a lap dog as some of them think"
"Heh, don´t worry Elise, im fine, really"
"You promise?"
"Yes Elise, i´ll stay forever as the kind and gentle brother you know, no matter what, i promise" With that said Elise gave her brightest smile and buried her head on his chest, it was silly to think that, this was a war and seeing the hurt faces of everyone was hard, much more when he had to face his blood family, but for now he wanted to make everyone feel safe, that they don't have nothing to worry about, even if it the he had to hold all the blames and all grudges, he only needed that small ray of light to maintain his heart together and to move on, to continue, feeling the dizziness in his eyes, he felt how his surroundings started to melt together, feeling how his arms were trembling and now he was floating in a sea of darkness hearing her words in the void.
"Then is a promise Ehehehe~"
As he tried to stay in that moment, in that world he could feel his body numbness, how his back once again felt sore and the sharp pain, but above all of that, there was a pleasant feeling in his head, something soft with a small fragrance, opening his eyes he noticed a pair of eyes looking at him, unfortunately they weren't purple as he expected, but instead of a mixture of red and orange, red short hair and a small smile formed in her face when she noticed his gaze.
"Hey there, did i wake you up?" Hinoka asked as he felt her hand caressing his head, it was strange to wake up like that, perhaps he was used to the pain? Instead of the headache there was this warm feeling, it was when he noticed where his head was that he reacted.
"Wh-What? Where…..where i….oh….." Kamui stopped looking around, with his head on her lap, he could see his surroundings, it was morning already and for the light from the window he overslept "What…..What happened?" with his hand on his head he tried to recall the events of the last day.
"Well, i wanted to punch you for what you said yesterday and for the death scare you gave me, but after seeing you, i guess i kinda forgive you….." She said with a faint blush on her face, however the face of Kamui didn't returned those feeling, instead it was somber than before and he quickly tried to stood, stopped just for his dizziness and the lack of energy to even stand "H-Hey! Easy, i was joking, im n-"
"What are you doing here?" He asked still with his hand on his face covering his right eye, even if he couldn't stand, right now was sit and his eyes were focused nowhere near of her "I thought i was clear"
"Geez, what way to greet us" Another voice replied, with a tray in her hands Oboro entered the room "Sakura will be here in a couple of minutes for your check up, in the meantime she said you needed to eat something, so we th-"
"Again, what´re you doing here, you were supposed to l-"
"Leave you? I dont think so" Hinoka said as she got closer "Is not like i can leave you after what happened yesterday, beside….." she smiled warmly as he looked at her confused "…..not after hearing you calling me"
"Uh?"
"You know…..how you used to call me" she smiled but he was still confused, with a sigh he just tried to stood but was stopped by Hinoka "Hey, you´re still weak, Miyu and Rin will be here soon with Sakura, so let's just at our breakfast, shall we?" she looked at the wooden tray and with a frown she just saw Oden* in the plate "….wait, this is…..there´s nothing more?"
"Well Lady Hinoka" Oboro commented taking seat in front of them, fortunately the small table was already at the side of the bed, so the moment she sat Kamui and Hinoka were much obligated to sit in the floor "Is just normal, he can't handle chopsticks and having knife´s or forks are out of the question" she said giving her a pair of chopstick, it was when Hinoka noticed that there were only a set of two.
"…..Oden*? this is weird, we usually have Miso*, or Tamagoyaki*, but Oden? Wh-" Before she could continue Kamui just took a boiled egg with his bare finger even if it was hot, he blow it a little to cool it, in seconds he devoured it with a bite while he kept grabbing the food with his fingers, and for the look in his face he stopped just a couple of times for the food being too hot "Kamui, stop it, you´re going to burn yourself"
"….." He looked at her with tofu hanging from his mouth, he just continued after they glared each other for a couple of seconds "Im hungry and thirsty…so no" he said still eating and drinking the cup of tea Oboro offered, Hinoka sighed face palming for a second, with her chopsticks she just picked a piece of tofu and with one hand under it she offered it to him.
"Here, open big"
"Not happening" Kamui replied as he was about to take another piece of food, just to have the plate moved away of him by Oboro who with one hand grabbed it, he looked at her and Oboro just shook her head.
"It´s rude to eat like that Lord Kamui, and you didn't washed your hands, did you?" Oboro scolded as Kamui looked at his hands.
"…i have been literally in this room for weeks, how i´m supposed to get them dirty if all i do is being in medicines and alcohol?"
"No excuse to be eating like a spoiled child" Hinoka continued with the tofu near of his mouth as he moved away his head "Look, if you´re not going to use chopsticks that´s fine, but there´s no way i´ll let you eat like that, so open up"
He stared at the chopsticks with a frown and raised eyebrow "…really? Is hard to believe that, especially if you´re feeding m-gpfsr!" he couldn´t finish before Hinoka eye twitched and forced the food in his mouth, he tried to hold it and even if he was angry she just smiled.
"See? Easy~" She giggled while he shallowed it, then again she grabbed another piece of food and offered it in the same way, with a blank expression he stared her "…I can wait all the day Kamui, either you or I have something else to do….." with a sigh he just opened his mouth without much enthusiasm, for the next minutes they were eating in silence as Oboro tried to contain his laugh seeing the scene in front of her, no doubt that if any other aside of her were seeing it they would be shocked to see it, then again it was known that Hinoka had this kind of relationship with him before his kidnapping, it was really something to see them like that, in a way she was jealous but also happy, a little guilty that she couldn't help them yesterday at the afternoon but definitely glad to see the outcome "Sooo… it´s of your liking?"
"Mmm? Not much, no….." He replied with a sigh
"I-I see, well, what you used to eat? I´m not really good, but i can make you something, i´m sure the-"
"There´s no point about it, anything is fine" He said making her sad for his words.
"Oh….c´mon, i know t-"
"Hello! Good morning Lord Kamui!" Another voice interrupted her, looking at the door they noticed Miyu, Rin and Sakura who were stepping in the room, with a rather big smiles in their faces "Oh? What is this? Lord Kamui eating without me pinching his nose?"
"Ah! Big brother! I´m glad to see that you´re feeling better" Sakura said with a crate in her arms, the familiar scene of the last month was somehow warm, even if he was still wary of them at the very least perhaps he could relax for the moment, as Hinoka helped him to stood, he sighed feeling refreshed, it was strange that seeing her smile made him nervous, he shook his head pushing those feelings away, for now he had to play along with them, for now he had to continue.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that´s all for now!
Phew it´s been a while since the last update, lets just do something before we begin, you can skip the next three notes if you already know this little piece of information, just a little something for the (*) in the story.
Oden: is a common plate with different kind of food, boiled eggs, white rice, boiled vegetables and fruit, other plates mentioned in the story, there's not something specific but is a really common plate that in japan eat as a normal lunch, not like breakfast.
Miso: a plate with soybean seeds, common with other product but also popular in the region of Kanto, something common to eat if you´re sick or have to recover from a medicine or illness, it would be like the chicken soup from America.
Tamagoyaki: Is a kind of Omelet, but somewhat sweet and it served with Miso, there are a lot of variants but it can have sushi (not the one you know, search japanese sushi for more info) and other boiled vegetables, the equivalent in America would be eggs with bacon or the corn flakes, a really simple meal for breakfast.
Ok, with that clear there are other things, first of all thanks for your support and your Reviews, it´s been hard but im glad that i can count on you guys, thanks for the support, any idea, opinion or comment is welcome, please send me a PM or leave your review.
Im impressed with the amount of PM´s of this story, really i can't wait to see what you have to say in the next´s chapters, so please continue supporting this story.
I think the next chapters will be updated in the week since im still checking the chapters and my beta readers are delayed, so sorry for the wait, just wait it for a little while.
With that said i hope you have a great day/night and a great weekend!
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