"Ow"
Kai groaned and brought a hand to his thumping head, he opened his eyes only to see the world spinning above him, he quickly closed them again.
He slowly opened his eyes, and pulled himself into a sitting position, leaning back against a tree and took in his surroundings. He wasn't where he had fallen, definitely not. He was lying on a mound of ferns, softening the ground. A tiny fire was burning happily away in a small circle of stones to his left, and when he looked up he discovered there was a tattered piece of material stretched between 3 trees, creating a small canopy. He looked at his watch, 2 o'clock. He had been out for 3 hours!
He quickly got to his feet, only to have to sit back down again to stop his head from spinning. A twig snapped behind the slate haired boy and he whipped his head around in time to see a tiny girl frozen to the spot, a small bundle of twigs tucked under one arm.
Kai stared at the girl in wonder, how could such a tiny girl have moved him here by herself? She had knee length black hair, very messy and un- brushed. There were several black feathers wound into her hair at the foots. She was wearing a pair of pants that had been ripped off mid-thigh and a t-shirt cut off to show her trimmed stomach. Her feet were bare and Kai couldn't tell what colour her clothes had been as they, as well as their wearer, were plastered in mud. A necklace hung around her neck, an orb or something on a silver chain. But what was most fascinating about her, was her eyes. The wind blew her unruly hair away from her face to reveal a pair of ice blue eyes staring back at him. Her eyelids were painted a dark blue, and there were three black stars running under one of her eyes. Her eyes were wide as though in fear.
"Um...hi" he began, and much to his surprise, the girl dropped her bundle and shot up the nearest tree. Kai leapt to his feet and ran to the bottom of the tree, looking up to see the girl crouched on a branch just out of his reach. She looked down at him and began to climb even higher into the huge oak tree.
"Please wait!" he called into the tree.
The tiny girl paused in her accent and looked down on him with those pale blue eyes.
"Who are you? What do you want?" she spoke in a quiet voice, her head cocked to one side.
"My name is Kai, I want to talk to you" he called up into the tree, "Now will you come down? I don't like having to shout to someone"
"I prefer it up here" Came the reply.
"In that case, I'll come to you" Kai stated as he began to work his way up the huge tree, finding foot and hand holds in the knarled bark of the trunk. He worked his way up until he was level with the girl, then he started to work his way across the thick branches towards her.
"Don't come any closer, I don't know if I trust you!" the girl said in a wary tone.
Kai stopped where he was, and settled himself down on the wide branch. "Ok, I don't know if I can trust you either" he said with a slight smile.
"Why did you want to talk to me?" she asked him in a soft, but still wary voice.
Kai thought, 'why did he want to talk to her?' he didn't actually know, he had just felt drawn to her, but he couldn't tell her this.
"Well because, I want to know why you are here, and who you are, because I'm in this forest almost everyday and I've never seen you here before, I guess I'm curious as to why you are living in the forest" Wow, that had to be a record for Kai, he'd never had to explain himself to anyone before, let alone in so many words.
The girl seemed to think about the question before giving her answer. "I can't answer any of those questions" she cast her eyes down.
"Why not?" Kai asked leaning forwards.
"Because I don't know the answer to any of them myself"
"Well, surely you can tell me your name" Kai looked at her in shock as she shook her head, her black hair falling around her and blowing slightly in the breeze that whistled through the trees.
"Why not?" he asked again.
"because I don't have one"
Kai's jaw nearly dropped. "No name? But everyone has a name! Surely you can remember it!"
"No, all I can remember is the last few days, I've been here for," she counted off on her fingers, "4 days, and no, I don't know how I got here. I don't know anything, not even who I am! I'm so confused!" she dropped her head down and buried her hands in her hair.
"All I can remember is my days in the forest, and everything else is just a blur, except the flames, and that I'm supposed to remember something very important but I can't and everything's a mess!" she wailed.
Kai slowly started to make his way towards the distressed girl, "it's ok" he held his hand out to her, "I think it would be easier to talk on the ground"
She brought her head up and looked at his hand suspiciously, "how do I know I can trust you?" she asked cautiously.
"You don't, I guess you'll just have to take the chance" he said softly, still holding his hand out.
She nodded and slowly reached out to grasp his large hand in her own delicate one. His hand enveloped her tiny one as they slowly and carefully made their way down to the ground. They were soon sat down on the thick beds of ferns under the canopy.
"How did you know I was here?" the girl asked Kai, breaking the silence.
"I could hear you singing and well I know that it couldn't be anyone I know because the only people who will enter the forest in the school are me, Rei, Tala and Brian. Although I'm sure Hannah goes in too. Why the hell do you sing so early in the morning?!" Kai stopped suddenly, realising he was rambling. What was wrong with him, he never rambled. He shook his head and decided that he must be suffering from concussion or something.
"I can't sleep and besides I have no way of knowing what time it is...what time is it?" she asked inquisitively.
"Um its," Kai glanced down at his watch, "2:30 in the morning" Kai told her, 'good thing it's a Saturday' he thought to himself. "What have you been living on?" he asked the girl.
"Fruit and water" she replied, and as if on cue, her stomach growled hungrily.
"Not very filling huh?" Kai smirked at her. She merely shook her head sadly. "I can get you some real food" her head shot up and she looked at him, almost pleadingly.
"Oh could you?"
"Yep, all you have to do is come back to the school with me, we can get you some food in the cafeteria!" She froze as he said this.
"Y-you want me to go into the school?" she stuttered. "Tell me this, how am I supposed to get in and out of the school when it is students only? Where am I going to get the money to buy food? And how can you expect me to go into that place, which I can't I might add, looking like this!?!"
"Easily, we can pass you off as a student, and I can give you money" Kai shrugged her little outburst off.
"I don't want your money blue boy!" she almost spat at him. "And even if we did do that, that still doesn't solve the final problem!"
"And what was that?" he asked innocently.
"The fact that I am not going anywhere near the place dressed like this!"
"I can get you clothes"
"I'm not wearing any of your preppy clothes mister!"
"Not those sort of clothes, girl's clothes, you baka! What makes you think I'd lend you any of my clothes anyway? They'd drown you!"
"No way! I've seen what the girl's in there wear outside of school hours! All pink and girly, do I strike you as that type of person!?! What I want to know is how that tiny dark haired girl can breathe in the clothes she wears. She reminds me of a vampire, does she even breathe? And I don't really expect you to have girl's clothes hidden at the back of your wardrobe unless you are some kind of freak, which I am actually beginning to consider. And I resent that comment!" she snapped.
"What sort of clothes would you wear?!"
"I...I don't remember but definitely not those sort of clothes!" she paused slightly, screwing her eyes shut in an attempt to remember something.
"Um...I'll get you something, you'll just have to wear it until you find something that you would wear" Kai sighed, "besides, the weather is turning, and you'll freeze in those" he jerked his head towards her small ripped clothes.
The girl seemed to consider it for a moment. "Ok, you get me some clothes, and I'll think about going into your stupid school!"
"Deal?" Kai held his hand out to the wild girl, who was now sat with her arms folded tightly across her chest, and a scowl on her face.
She glared at him, before hastily shaking his hand.
"Deal" she muttered under her breath.
"You'll need a name though" he pointed out thoughtfully.
"Hmm...I guess I'll have to think up a new one won't I?"
The girl seemed to think for several minutes, "I got nothing" she sighed.
"I know a name that might suit you!" Kai said to her.
"And what's that?"
"Raven"
"Raven?"
"Raven"
"Why that?"
"I don't know, you just strike me as a Raven" he said quietly.
"Well I like it, Raven it is!" she announced in a cheery voice, she beamed at him, "now we just need to get me some clothes and you might just get your way"
"Raven...what do you remember?" she flinched at the sudden change of subject.
"Nothing at all" she said, "apart from a few random pictures and that I'm supposed to remember something really, really important! Why?" she almost bit his head off.
"Ok then, I can see this is a touchy subject, I'll be back in about half an hour, I'm going to get you some clothes" Kai stood up looked down at the tiny female. He began to walk back through the trees towards the school. If he'd stayed he would have heard Raven reply.
"Thank you, Kai Hiwatari"
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Oooh wot ya think readers? In case you didn't notice, he never actually told her his surname, how does she know this? I know ^_^!!!!!!! And you'll just have to wait to find out won't you. Please review.
Raven: Please do...she'll go crazy if you don't *shudders at past memories*
Soulful-eyes: I don't go crazy...much ^_^;
Kai groaned and brought a hand to his thumping head, he opened his eyes only to see the world spinning above him, he quickly closed them again.
He slowly opened his eyes, and pulled himself into a sitting position, leaning back against a tree and took in his surroundings. He wasn't where he had fallen, definitely not. He was lying on a mound of ferns, softening the ground. A tiny fire was burning happily away in a small circle of stones to his left, and when he looked up he discovered there was a tattered piece of material stretched between 3 trees, creating a small canopy. He looked at his watch, 2 o'clock. He had been out for 3 hours!
He quickly got to his feet, only to have to sit back down again to stop his head from spinning. A twig snapped behind the slate haired boy and he whipped his head around in time to see a tiny girl frozen to the spot, a small bundle of twigs tucked under one arm.
Kai stared at the girl in wonder, how could such a tiny girl have moved him here by herself? She had knee length black hair, very messy and un- brushed. There were several black feathers wound into her hair at the foots. She was wearing a pair of pants that had been ripped off mid-thigh and a t-shirt cut off to show her trimmed stomach. Her feet were bare and Kai couldn't tell what colour her clothes had been as they, as well as their wearer, were plastered in mud. A necklace hung around her neck, an orb or something on a silver chain. But what was most fascinating about her, was her eyes. The wind blew her unruly hair away from her face to reveal a pair of ice blue eyes staring back at him. Her eyelids were painted a dark blue, and there were three black stars running under one of her eyes. Her eyes were wide as though in fear.
"Um...hi" he began, and much to his surprise, the girl dropped her bundle and shot up the nearest tree. Kai leapt to his feet and ran to the bottom of the tree, looking up to see the girl crouched on a branch just out of his reach. She looked down at him and began to climb even higher into the huge oak tree.
"Please wait!" he called into the tree.
The tiny girl paused in her accent and looked down on him with those pale blue eyes.
"Who are you? What do you want?" she spoke in a quiet voice, her head cocked to one side.
"My name is Kai, I want to talk to you" he called up into the tree, "Now will you come down? I don't like having to shout to someone"
"I prefer it up here" Came the reply.
"In that case, I'll come to you" Kai stated as he began to work his way up the huge tree, finding foot and hand holds in the knarled bark of the trunk. He worked his way up until he was level with the girl, then he started to work his way across the thick branches towards her.
"Don't come any closer, I don't know if I trust you!" the girl said in a wary tone.
Kai stopped where he was, and settled himself down on the wide branch. "Ok, I don't know if I can trust you either" he said with a slight smile.
"Why did you want to talk to me?" she asked him in a soft, but still wary voice.
Kai thought, 'why did he want to talk to her?' he didn't actually know, he had just felt drawn to her, but he couldn't tell her this.
"Well because, I want to know why you are here, and who you are, because I'm in this forest almost everyday and I've never seen you here before, I guess I'm curious as to why you are living in the forest" Wow, that had to be a record for Kai, he'd never had to explain himself to anyone before, let alone in so many words.
The girl seemed to think about the question before giving her answer. "I can't answer any of those questions" she cast her eyes down.
"Why not?" Kai asked leaning forwards.
"Because I don't know the answer to any of them myself"
"Well, surely you can tell me your name" Kai looked at her in shock as she shook her head, her black hair falling around her and blowing slightly in the breeze that whistled through the trees.
"Why not?" he asked again.
"because I don't have one"
Kai's jaw nearly dropped. "No name? But everyone has a name! Surely you can remember it!"
"No, all I can remember is the last few days, I've been here for," she counted off on her fingers, "4 days, and no, I don't know how I got here. I don't know anything, not even who I am! I'm so confused!" she dropped her head down and buried her hands in her hair.
"All I can remember is my days in the forest, and everything else is just a blur, except the flames, and that I'm supposed to remember something very important but I can't and everything's a mess!" she wailed.
Kai slowly started to make his way towards the distressed girl, "it's ok" he held his hand out to her, "I think it would be easier to talk on the ground"
She brought her head up and looked at his hand suspiciously, "how do I know I can trust you?" she asked cautiously.
"You don't, I guess you'll just have to take the chance" he said softly, still holding his hand out.
She nodded and slowly reached out to grasp his large hand in her own delicate one. His hand enveloped her tiny one as they slowly and carefully made their way down to the ground. They were soon sat down on the thick beds of ferns under the canopy.
"How did you know I was here?" the girl asked Kai, breaking the silence.
"I could hear you singing and well I know that it couldn't be anyone I know because the only people who will enter the forest in the school are me, Rei, Tala and Brian. Although I'm sure Hannah goes in too. Why the hell do you sing so early in the morning?!" Kai stopped suddenly, realising he was rambling. What was wrong with him, he never rambled. He shook his head and decided that he must be suffering from concussion or something.
"I can't sleep and besides I have no way of knowing what time it is...what time is it?" she asked inquisitively.
"Um its," Kai glanced down at his watch, "2:30 in the morning" Kai told her, 'good thing it's a Saturday' he thought to himself. "What have you been living on?" he asked the girl.
"Fruit and water" she replied, and as if on cue, her stomach growled hungrily.
"Not very filling huh?" Kai smirked at her. She merely shook her head sadly. "I can get you some real food" her head shot up and she looked at him, almost pleadingly.
"Oh could you?"
"Yep, all you have to do is come back to the school with me, we can get you some food in the cafeteria!" She froze as he said this.
"Y-you want me to go into the school?" she stuttered. "Tell me this, how am I supposed to get in and out of the school when it is students only? Where am I going to get the money to buy food? And how can you expect me to go into that place, which I can't I might add, looking like this!?!"
"Easily, we can pass you off as a student, and I can give you money" Kai shrugged her little outburst off.
"I don't want your money blue boy!" she almost spat at him. "And even if we did do that, that still doesn't solve the final problem!"
"And what was that?" he asked innocently.
"The fact that I am not going anywhere near the place dressed like this!"
"I can get you clothes"
"I'm not wearing any of your preppy clothes mister!"
"Not those sort of clothes, girl's clothes, you baka! What makes you think I'd lend you any of my clothes anyway? They'd drown you!"
"No way! I've seen what the girl's in there wear outside of school hours! All pink and girly, do I strike you as that type of person!?! What I want to know is how that tiny dark haired girl can breathe in the clothes she wears. She reminds me of a vampire, does she even breathe? And I don't really expect you to have girl's clothes hidden at the back of your wardrobe unless you are some kind of freak, which I am actually beginning to consider. And I resent that comment!" she snapped.
"What sort of clothes would you wear?!"
"I...I don't remember but definitely not those sort of clothes!" she paused slightly, screwing her eyes shut in an attempt to remember something.
"Um...I'll get you something, you'll just have to wear it until you find something that you would wear" Kai sighed, "besides, the weather is turning, and you'll freeze in those" he jerked his head towards her small ripped clothes.
The girl seemed to consider it for a moment. "Ok, you get me some clothes, and I'll think about going into your stupid school!"
"Deal?" Kai held his hand out to the wild girl, who was now sat with her arms folded tightly across her chest, and a scowl on her face.
She glared at him, before hastily shaking his hand.
"Deal" she muttered under her breath.
"You'll need a name though" he pointed out thoughtfully.
"Hmm...I guess I'll have to think up a new one won't I?"
The girl seemed to think for several minutes, "I got nothing" she sighed.
"I know a name that might suit you!" Kai said to her.
"And what's that?"
"Raven"
"Raven?"
"Raven"
"Why that?"
"I don't know, you just strike me as a Raven" he said quietly.
"Well I like it, Raven it is!" she announced in a cheery voice, she beamed at him, "now we just need to get me some clothes and you might just get your way"
"Raven...what do you remember?" she flinched at the sudden change of subject.
"Nothing at all" she said, "apart from a few random pictures and that I'm supposed to remember something really, really important! Why?" she almost bit his head off.
"Ok then, I can see this is a touchy subject, I'll be back in about half an hour, I'm going to get you some clothes" Kai stood up looked down at the tiny female. He began to walk back through the trees towards the school. If he'd stayed he would have heard Raven reply.
"Thank you, Kai Hiwatari"
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Oooh wot ya think readers? In case you didn't notice, he never actually told her his surname, how does she know this? I know ^_^!!!!!!! And you'll just have to wait to find out won't you. Please review.
Raven: Please do...she'll go crazy if you don't *shudders at past memories*
Soulful-eyes: I don't go crazy...much ^_^;