Chapter 13
Tenshi and Corro bought some blankets and food to last them a week or so. Then they continued on their journey.
They headed west now, and every so often each would glance at the other, walking closer every few seconds.
When night fell they made a fire and found some food. After a minute, Tenshi started laughing. Corro looked up at her with a raised brow.
"What?" he said. Tenshi laughed a bit more and took a breath.
"It's just; I forget why we started traveling in the first place." Corro raised a brow then started laughing himself. They both laughed back to back, laughing until their throats hurt and they couldn't breathe. When they stopped she sighed and whispered. "Something about not wanting to be around people I think." Corro looked at her.
"Why did you not want to be around people?" Tenshi smiled sadly and shrugged.
"I don't know, I thought I was a loner. That I had to be alone for my whole life." She whispered. Corro thought about it and smiled with a laugh.
"But, you've been around so many people now. Not just me, but Naito, Shadow, Magdala, all those people you care about." She smiled and turned to him.
"Yeah, I do care about all of them." She said. Her eyes went to the ground and she continued to smile. "First thing in the morning we turn around and go back to your friends."
Corro's eyes went wide and Tenshi smiled at him, wrapping her arms around him, she squeezed him. Corro blushed but squeezed her back.
The two smiled, then they stared at each other for a minute, they leaned closer but Tenshi cleared her throat and stood.
"I'm gonna get more firewood." She mumbled, stumbling off.
Corro raised a brow and looked at the pile of wood they already had. He groaned and put his head on his bent knees.
Tenshi paced in a circle a bit away so Corro wouldn't hear her.
"What was I thinking? I was about to kiss Corro! First I take him from his friends on some 'soul searching' trip, and now I try to make a move on him!" she groaned and fell on her butt at the base of a tree, her head buried in her arms.
"I was about to make a move on Tenshi!" Corro said to himself. "I mean, I wish I could, but she obviously doesn't like me in that way!"
"He obviously doesn't like me in that way!" Tenshi said. She kicked a rock and it ricocheted off a tree. It hit a bush causing a squirrel to run up a tree. Corro turned at the sound, walking to investigate.
"I'll just go back with him and not try anything else. I'll hold back on making any moves and sneak off in the middle of the night. I'll go anywhere; I just have to get away before I try anything."
Corro's jaw dropped and Tenshi sighed, she grabbed a stick and turned. She froze, her eyes wide, staring at Corro and his dropped jaw.
She looked down at the stick in her and traced a sketch in the dirt; actually it looked more like a scribble.
She chewed her lip; the scribble she made seemed to look a lot like her +Anima symbol.
"This is awkward," both said at the same time. They laughed and Tenshi asked Corro if he'd walk with her.
The Hawk Anima spoke to Magdala and Naito quickly. They pointed in the direction the two kids had gone earlier.
Naito had said they'd left a few hours before.
The +Anima thanked them and took off, hoping to catch them before they got to Moss Mountain. If they got to Sailand they may never get back to learn the truth from him.