Well, uploading this chapter early due to thinking nobody will know who is the green boy...which i think i'm wrong. =D
Congraulations miharu1111-san got the correct Answer! As promise...
*showering the winner with Ryuuto Plushies and handing over vitual Cookies*
I realise there is a review answer when i was mintues before uploading the chapter XD"
Animebookfreaker-san: XDD you are right... Kaito revealed something he didn't want to tell... even you paid him with a truckful of Ice-cream...if ice-cream exist in the story setting i have. /pat well, i only get to know Ryuuto & others when i did some searching info of Kaito Append release... So it's ok that you didn't know~ =D
Killfith- san: Thank you for alerting and reviewing my story! Don't worry about that you didn't do any for last time, just be happy you did now! XDD I promise i shall keep the chapters going, but not regularly...haha.../swt
miharu1111-san: O_o Oh my...should i call you a quiz King? Or Queen? You are the first reviewer that got it correct! And about Piko... i shall not tell you till i had upload Lucifer's enterance again! And that is...about 10(?) chapters away... i guess...
About Rin chan...if you don't mind her 1st appearance in a letter, i guess you get to see her in this chapter! XD"
And now, let's us began the new chapter! XDD
Chapter 9
Dear Gumi,
How are you now? I just got my worst time here.
You see, I just wrote a letter for dear mother and my cute little brother that just a few more months, 2 or 3 months later, I'll be back home as a accomplish healer! Surprise? Those healing spells were more easier than I thought that even most of my teachers were surprised and had nothing more to teach me! Hehe…
But, that is not the problem of my worst day. Just as I told you, I wrote a letter to my family, and asked them to send it to Kagami Village, but they told me there is not such village around! How could they do that! Do they truly want to joke with me? I, the greatest healer-going-to-be, Rin Kagamine? It's not even funny. The worst thing is that the teacher who taught me most of the healing magic had even confused that I came from Karakura Village! And I'm an orphan staying at a great Herbalist, Lily's home and HAD came here to learn healing magic due to I want to help her lessen her work, since she also not young anymore. JUST WHAT KIND OF (ink splash) SHIT THEY ARE TALLKING ABOUT!
I thought that voice I heard some time ago was joking, and it just a dream, but no matter whom I approached, everyone thought I must be mad, or because I missed home so much that I made that story out somehow. I think I gonna crazy soon!
This might be my last letter for you, cos' after this I running away! I want to know what happen to my home!
P.S.: hope you still able to understand what I'm trying to tell, my best sister/friend.
Yours truly,
Rin Kagamine
"Who are you?" Shocked that they had failed to notice someone else was there when they are fighting, and now this young boy might be holding Kaito as a hostage, Len decided first asked his identity, and see what to do later. However Gumi seemed to know that boy.
"Ryuuto! What are you doing here? Don't you know this place is dangerous? Shouldn't you be at home now?" Gumi asked, both hands at her waist, looking angry. The green boy, Ryuuto, only laughed.
"Hahaha, that's funny, Gumi-nee. And…." Holding his hands at his head, he continued, "Please don't ask so many questions at once. How do I answer you? Ahhh, so confusing….. Oh, that's right."
Pointing at Len, he smiled sheepishly and said, "Since you only asked one question only, then I answer yours first! My name is Forresta, but in outside world my other name is Ryuuto, nice to meet you, Lumi's blessed child."
Silence held the place for about five minutes, before both of them registered what he had said. "YOU ARE FORRESTA!"
Covering his ears and squirming his eyes shut tight, he remarked, "Awww, please don't yell…my ears hurt…..and you will wake that big guy here. He was resting peacefully here you know."
Jumping down from the barrier 'seat' and, with a flicked of hand, he removed the roots that covered the blue teen, which was found still fast asleep, despite the commendation they had caused during battles and the earlier conversations.
"I had cast a sleep spell over him, so he wouldn't be waking soon. Also, I had treated his wounds when both of you having 'fun' with my guardian Golem, so with just a day or two good rest, he will be as good as new." Placing his hands at the side of his waist, he held his head up high, proud of his work. But that was not the case with Gumi or Len.
Trying to keep his voice low, he asked, angrily. "What the hell you are thinking, sending that golem at us. Forget about us, but what if it hurts Kaito? He is unable to defend himself you know." Gumi nodded her head in agreement, staring at him with her best angry look face. "And we are not having fun at all….."
"Well, even if Gumi-nee didn't put up the barrier over him, I'll do that too, since I own him my life when that bad demon was around, finding me. He had also proved himself worthy, but I need to know your strength, especially Gumi-nee."
Looking at her with his bright, green eyes, he continued, "You are my favorite child since your birth, and I had blessed you with my power. Luka-nee also told us spirits that one day there would be nine children will come fore and defeat Reficul for abusing his power, and you and him and that big bro' are one of those children she had spoken about. So…..after that great team-work performance both of you had display, I shouldn't have to worried so much."
Confused of what he was talking about, they looked at him, who had held his hands together, creating a green light. Suddenly, the light spitted into three, small balls of light and flying towards Gumi, Len and the sleeping Kaito.
Thinking it was an attack, Len held high his arms, trying to defend from it. But the light floated and attached to Len's left wrist, glowing softy and slowly died out, becoming a wooden bracelet with a small dark-green gemstone in the middle. Looking at Gumi, who had received a ring with a similar colored stone which attached on her middle right finger, and Kaito's case, he received a necklace.
"This is my presents for you. It's a Wood Spirit stones that held more power than those pretty crystals you had seen it laying around. With that you can cast wood spells more easily than through indications or stone powers, and it won't break no matter how strong is the spell you had been using. And also…"
Giving them a puppy face look, he pleaded them, "Please don't tell anyone I'm Forresta. I still want to play around as Ryuuto~ Come on, I apologize to you for whatever bad things I had done~ Pretty, pretty plwwwese?"
Looking at each other, Len sighed. "Well…. I don't see any problem for this…..and you took care of Kaito while we are busy….."
"Really?" Grabbing both of his hands, he stared at Len, eyes sparkling with happiness. Gumi nodded, and patting his head. "Yup, I mean, you don't look like a spirit to me anyway. Calling you Forresta seems weird to me too."
"Yipee~ Thanks Gumi-nee. Thanks blond bro'~" Jumping around with excitement, he ran towards the exit. "I got to go now~ I need to find my brothers and sisters to inform them about the movement of Reficul now! So see ya next time!"
"Ah, wait Forre—he's gone now." Sighing, Len sat on the floor beside the sleeping teen. "I forgot to ask him why people forgotten about my village that has been destroyed….and who the hell is 'Reficul'…." Patting his back, Gumi silently agreed with him. Looking at Kaito, she hope that they could get some answers from him, or if Forresta, no, Ryuuto came back after his trip.
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Running aimlessly in a pitch black darkness area, where one can't see anything around them, a young teen trying to get his bearings. "Len, Gumi, where are you guys now? Answer me!" Cried out, he tried to find out where he was. Please don't tell me my magic had failed…..
Panic, he ran towards the direction he could think of and finally, saw a person lying there on the seemly ground. "…..Len? Is that you?" Rushing towards the figure, who was indeed Len, but something was off. Picking up him off the ground he found that his chest had a hole where the heart should be, and his jade eyes were glassy over.
"No…..this couldn't be…" Looking around he saw Gumi and Lily, laying somewhere not far away, sharing the same fate as Len. Upon further looking he also could see a purple head guy and a white hair boy nearby too.
"Gaku…..Piko…..no….this isn't true….." Suddenly, a pair of cold hands came out from nowhere and embraced the frightened teen.
"I told you….." said the unknown voice, whispering beside his ear gently and eerily sweetly, "This is what you get for running away from me. My dear container."
Jolting awake, with sweat all over his face, Kaito was finally out from the nightmare he had a moment ago. Feeling his heart was racing, he tried to calm himself down and taking a few deep breathes. Sitting up slowly, he found that he was on a bed, and Len was sitting beside it, fast asleep. Doing a simple checked to make sure he was fine and alright, he let out a sigh of relived. So it was a dream after all…
"So my dear 'hero' had decided to wake up now, uh?" Flinched at those words, he turned towards the speaker - Lily.
"Uh…..good…." having a quick glanced at the window outside, which the sky was dark with only a single moon shining outside, "Good evening, Lily. Sorry I had made you worried, and now I really fin-" Walking towards him, she pulled his cheeks sideways.
"You knew I'm worried, and you knew what you have done is wrong, so can you stop been reckless for once? Huh?" Pulling his cheeks a little harder, till Kaito had begged for her forgiveness again, she released the hold. And Len had woken up due to the commendation.
"Ah, I'm sorry Len, you can go back to rest a bit more while I scolding this idiot." Looking at Len, who rubbing his sleepy eyes, Kaito felt bad for them. He had made them worried about him.
"Kaito! You are awake!" Len exclaimed, and hugged Kaito. "I'm sorry I had taken you for granted. You had been ill, and your injuries hadn't healed due to my fault. I never care about your well-being because my burns had been healed some time ago. Even when we were in trouble I always waited for you to help, while I didn't do anything to more for my part. I'm so sorry regarding them….." sniffed and trying to hold back his tears, Len apologized to him.
For once, Kaito realized. After being betrayed by his father, and a death of his friend, he tried stopped to care. For some reason when he first met Len, he reminded him of who he was when young. Reckless, caring, ignorance to most things of the world, and the willed to protect…. He admitted he was attracted by his values that he decided to stay for a year, to teach him what he wants to know. After a period of time, he found that he had started to care for his well being, worrying bits of things he was going through when his village was gone. That's why he lent him his favorite sword - to protect him from harm. "I thought we are friends!" His words three days ago still resounding in his mind. Friends… he never knew he would made another one after Piko's, and Gaku….he is more a big brother to him, even he is the older one.
I need to find Gaku, I…can't continue my trip alone, anymore. If anything, the best way to protect my friends…..people I care…..is to be with them, not away.
Hugging Len back, who slightly shocked by him, he replied, "No, I'm the one who should say sorry…"
Sadly, this small reunion was broken off by knocks of the door. Lily stormed off to the entrance, while Len broken off the hug to wipe the tears that threatening to fall. Kaito, on the other hand, left the bed and gather his things, reckoning Len to do the same. He had a good idea what's going to be about.
Once Lily opened the door, she was surprise to find Gumi was here, with her mother, who looked worried. She wondered what they want in the middle of the night when Gumi's mother spoke. "Please Lily sensei, you must help my child. There are some weird knights came just a moment ago and wanted to take her away. I had a bad feeling about what they want so I bring Megumi to you. I heard there were some travelers at your home so can you ask them to bring her along?"
Confused at her request, Lily asked, "What've happen Mrs Grassfield? What do you mean by that?"
Seeing her distraught mother, Gumi decided to answer for her. Holding up a letter, she showed Lily, who took it and read them. "You see, because Rin sent this letter and another to a non-exist village that the King thought there is a tension going around. So he sent his knights wanting to capture me. Now dad is stalling them away while mum brought me here. Maybe those knights might visit here because of Rin."
Holding Len back in case he might say something wrong, Kaito went towards the entrance. "Madam, I'll gladly to help you to sent Gumi to another safer village if you want to. Because now I'm in a hurry, I'll be leaving with my other friend in a moment."
While waiting for Gumi and her mother exchanging their goodbyes, Lily half angry, half worried staring at him, which he ignored about that. "Lily, will you be coming with us, or you had some other plans?" He asked, offering her to come along, which of course earning a shocked from her.
After thinking a moment, she shook her head. "No, I'll be staying here. I do not want here to become another Kagami Village accident. Also, I want to know what to the knights were up to. I'll sent letters if I'm able to, to update you for the things going around here." Turning towards Len, who had done packing and bring the things towards the back door, she made a request to him, again. "Please look after this idiot again. Even after he apologizes I don't think he will take care of himself."
"Come on Lily…" He tried to protest, but Lily cut off his words. "For once, Kyle, shut up and listen. You had everyone worried, and Gumi nearly give up the graduation because that flower I sent her to get is only grown at that castle area, and bloomed once every five years. I don't care what are the reasons you ran away from home, or why are you going so hard and difficult on yourself, but can you even once remember you might died for all those reckless things you are going through?" Hung his head with shamed, he silently apologized to Lily again. Even after all those years, he still made her angry and worried about him again. Suddenly, a warm embrace feeling around him, and Lily was the one giving him.
"Please take care. No matter what happens please do remember, you are not alone. You still have your friends, afterall. And I will gladly welcome you here if you have nowhere to go, or you need my help." Nodding his head, he returned the hug. "….I will Lily. I will. You should take care too."
Breaking off the hug, she smiled, and lightly tapped on Kaito's forehead, before she hugged Len, too. "You should take care too. And try to refrain learning any reckless thing that idiot was doing. It's bad for your health. And good luck on finding Rin."
Returning the embraced too, Len thanked for the things she had done so far, before breaking off and picked up his things, joining Gumi and Kaito, who went to the door and waited for him. "I'll be back visiting next time, with Rin too. And I promise I will be still alive and good in one piece too!" Waving back, they set off under the night sky, towards their next destination—the holy capital, Naos.
Minor news for Rin fans, she will be appear again in another...2 more chapters? Just wait paitenly till then XDDD
And btw, how many had thought 'Gaku' had dead? Just asking...