Chapter 11: A Blatant Lie.
"Look he is back." Sakura addressed to Saber and then turned to me,
"Your friend here has been waiting for you for long." She told and with that said she gathered the dishes and left while I stood eyeing Saber, she too never broke our eye contact. Owing to the way she had been avoiding me like a plague it was hard to digest that she actually had come to meet me. May be she had finally decided to open up and disclose as to what was up with her.
"Goku, I.." she began but paused, I noticed how her once neutral face suddenly became etched with so many emotions as I looked more deeply into her eyes.
But in a blink of eye those emotions vanished and I wondered whether they were actually there or I had just imagined it.
"I have decided that till the war ends I and Shirou would be staying with you, you know that way it would be easy for us to train as you can help us enhance our strength and I can help you with magic. It had already been discussed with Sakura that I can take the guest room while Shirou would be sharing room with you. " She said, and without even waiting for my response she got up and started heading to the door that lead to our lawn where the guest room was.
"Wait!" I called out before she could leave the room.
"Is that all you wanted say and are here for? Don't you think we need to talk about things?" I popped up as anger simmered inside me. While I was thinking that finally she had come up on her own to account for her strange behaviour since her return, here she was casually telling me of a decision she made and walking out on me just like that as if my opinion doesn't even count.
"What things?" she came back, her face as neutral as always and it only fuelled my anger further.
"What things you are asking! Well as if you haven't realized by now but Miss Saber I think the two of us had agreed to be good friends when you were back in hospital. But how you haven't talked or even greeted me properly and had been avoiding me cannot be regarded in the least as to how good friends behave with each other! Also when I had found your letter stating that you were gone to help your father I got worried and headed out in your search. And I think I did the right thing because otherwise I wouldn't have found that you had lied to me about your whereabouts." I was almost towering over her by the time I finished. All the while as I was ranting she simply eyed me taking everything in.
"Well, for one thing I did lie to you about my whereabouts because of my father. He doesn't want me to disclose to anyone our place of living cause as I had told you he strongly prefers a secluded life thus don't like visitors. He wouldn't have at all liked the idea of me befriending anyone or telling them of where we live." She said.
"So you could have told me about it earlier also, there was no need of lying." I retorted.
"I thought that you may find it rude if I refused to tell you of my place. So I made it up thinking you would never find out. I was simply trying to obey my father, but am sorry if you felt bad." She said, and then proceeded for the door.
Though she was taken by surprise when I halted her actions as holding her shoulders I turned her around.
"We are not done yet as my other question still remain unanswered." I said,
"What are you talking about?" She asked still pretending to be ignorant, though now her eyes couldn't leave the floor.
"You know well what I am talking about. Why are you ignoring me like this? Whenever it comes to me why you are always in such a hurry to be done away with matters and leave? You weren't like this when we met in the hospital. " my anger was gone now, I realised I couldn't stay mad at her for long that too when must I say it was the first time since we had met again, that she stood looking so vulnerable being trapped like that between me and the door. All I wanted from her was a truthful ans.
But then as if regaining her composure back she looked back at me with a sharp glare, the vulnerability gone and now a firm expression occupied her face as she spoke,
"Goku that wasn't me! I don't know what effect you had one me then that I behaved like that. Maybe I was overwhelmed by your strength because after all in so many years you were the only one who was able to defeat me otherwise I am not at all a social person. I don't make friends with anyone. So stop bothering me, it's not like I am ignoring you. It's just the way I am, has always been, a loner, a very reserved person and I like it this way." She said,
"A blatant lie." The words escaped my lips even before I had contemplated them. A hint of emotion appeared on her pretty face but as usual the very next moment she was able to mask it and before I could say anything else she turned the door knob and left.
"It's contrary to what you are telling Saber. The girl I met in the hospital was the real you, cause I could feel the genuinity in you then and what you are trying to be now or has always trying to be is a personality your own heart can't accept and you are just forcing it upon yourself. May be because of your father. But you know what, everyone has the right to live the way they like not the way someone other wants them to." I said to no one in particular as I stood leaning against the door, my voice almost a whisper.
A/N: So guys what you think of this encounter between Goku and Saber? There would be many more and obvious more romantic than this one, this is just the beginning!
TBC...