A/N: To everyone who reads this story, sorry about last chapter, I actually didn't mean to put it in poem format. It was the style my stupid computer put it in.
Disclaimer: I don't own pretear. I don't own the characters in pretear and I wrote this chapter while listening to Aqua- cartoon heroes. Crazy.
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Himeno and Kino sat on the bench in the park. There was a moment of silence until they heard a rustling coming from the bushes.
"Huh. Who's there?"
The bushes rustled more violently. Kino went over to check what it was but as she did a boy, aged about 12 or 13, came flying out.
"Whoa! Watch out!"
Kino and the kid tumbled to the ground, the boy lay to the side of her, cursing his rotten luck.
"Ahh, shit that hurt."
"Mannen?"
"What you know this kid Himeno?"
"Uhh...Yes, he's just one of the many kids I know around this neighbourhood."
Mannen stood up, on realizing what Himeno said he replied:
"Hey! Who are you calling a kid?"
God, for a little kid he sure does have a big mouth.
"I wonder where Mannen got to."
Mawata stared into the bushes where Mannen had ran.
"He sure did seem different."
"Come on Himeno, you gotta come back with me. If you don't, Go will get mad at me again."
Why doesn't anyone get that I'm not a little baby who needs tending to every five seconds!
Himeno stared at Mannen bluntly, it didn't really sink into her mind what he had just said plus she didn't know if Kino was going to be okay.
"Hey Kino do you wanna come to my house."
Himeno didn't know Kino's story about why she was outside so early in the morning, Kino really didn't want her to know either. Although Himeno didn't know she thought that Kino looked like someone without a family. She was right. Kino had grown up with no-one, she could not be called an orphan but more of an abandoned child, her mother had left her in the gutters of the street, as long as she could remembershe had no-one. Nothing. Not a soul. This was actually okay with her though, she liked being alone, it reasurred her and she sometimes wished she had never actually been born.
Himeno waited for her answer, but Kino was deep in thought. What about? Mostly the past, although she couldn't remember much of it. She didn't care much past, although she thought Himeno's face looked familiar in some way and also Mannen.
Where have I seen these people before?
Himeno strolled down the street with Kino following, still thinking though. Himeno didn't really notice because she was to tied up with Mannen, he was frantically tugging and twisting her sleeve, directing her down the quickest roots back home.
"Come on Himeno!"
Himeno went over to see if Kino was alright, she was acting pretty strange.
When I met her she was so hard-headed but now she seems quite side-tracked.
"Hmm...Are you okay Kino?"
Kino suddenly snapped out of her day dream.
"Oh! Yes. I'm fine thanks. Huh?"
"What is it Kino?"
"Where did your freind go?"
"Oh no!"
Himeno ran down the dim alley which lead to her house. Kino ran down
the alley too but she had lost Himeno. She didn't realize it but
there was also people following her too.
"Mannen! Don't run off like that!"
"Himeno."
"What is it?"
"Where's your friend?"
Oh no!
"Himeno!"
The other leafe knights had spotted Himeno and started to run up the path, they were relieved to see her as she dissapeared so suddenly.
"Good you're all here because I need you to help me search for someone."
Where did Himeno go...Urghh!
One of the five men grabbed her by the mouth.
"Well look what we have 'ere lads, a pretty little girl."
Most of the group looked drunk, one had a bottle of scottish whisky in his hands and another was holding something Kino tried to see what it was it looked like...a knife!
Oh shit! This really isn't my lucky day.
Kino knew how to defend herself, she had to while living on the street. Although she could probably take one drunk out what chance did she have with five! Espeically when one of them had a knife! Kino closed her eyes and thought that if she was going to die at least she was going to in the place she grew up, the streets.
One of the muggers put their hand right by Kino's mouth. She knew what she was going to do would upset them so is bit the guy's hand. The guy clutched his hand feeling the pain pulsate through it.
"Ohh you really should not have done that you little wretch!"
The man signalled to another member of the group and the mugger with the knife stepped forward, the one holding her also stepped away, reacting as though not to get his clothes covered in blood. Kino backed against the wall, she didn't want to die, she was scared. In the moment Kino closed her eyes and started to mutter. Mutter prayers. Mutter prayers to God. She prayed for help, to get away from these thugs. She closed her eyes more tightly... and because she did, she missed the sudden rain of lightning bolts from the sky, from the lightning a man appeared, he was aged about eighteen or nineteen.
The bolts hit the muggers in at least one vital part of their body. The man, who had been floating, descended onto the ground. He overlooked something though. The mugger holding the bottle was still alright. He picked up the knife of his friend, creeped up behind the man and tried to stab him.
The man could see this coming, he turned around avoiding the knife but could not avoid the whisky bottle being flung at his head. It shattered and luckily none of the glass went in his skin, though it did cut him. Badly. The left over alcohol seeped into the cut making it sting.
The man was in agony. In his fury he let out thousands of bolts of lightning hitting the thuugs and, luckily, missing Kino. The man reached out to Kino, who still had her eyes shut, he was going to see if she was okay, when she opened her eyes. The guy's hand suddenly shot back and he blushed, Kino saw this and she felt better.
"Urghh...Miss are you alright?"
"Yes, but. What happened to these guys?"
She indicated towards the agng that had attacked her.
"Umm...Well you see, the guy who saved you, he...Urghh, oh! I know! He went, he accidently left one person and I took him out for you."
He now indicated to the guy nearest them, holding the remainder of the bottle. He started laughing and sratched the back of his head, he felt a seering pain, he had forgot about the injury. He lowered his blood stained hand and quickly shoved it in his pocket so Kino didn't see, she still did. If not from his hand, then from the blood dripping down the side of his face. She stood up and went to touch the cut but the man turned away.
"You're hurt! You got hurt while...saving me."
She got quieter as she said these words. She let herself fall to her knees. He got hurt from protecting me. Why did he do that? I'm really not worth it.
"Kino!"
Himeno and the leafe knights were running up to Kino and the man. The man also noticed them (it was hard not to), he also knew who they were though Kino didn't.
Though she did know one thing, he was the one who saved her from all the muggers.
"Excuse me but I have to go." The man turned and ran around the corner. "So was that the new Pretear?"
He dissapeared. Himeno and the knights circled around Kino after seeing the unconcious muggers. Himeno helped her up and looked at her, she was worried that Kino could've been hurt. Kino saw this and she then told everyone what happened. After the knights had introduced themselves.
Himeno looked up at Kino.
"So are you okay now?"
"Yeah. I'm fine."
"Good so let's go home then."
Everyone started to walk along the alleyway. Kino spotted something by one of the goons. She cleared some of the glass off it, it was a small slip of paper. It had the letters 'Y-O-S-H-I-M-E' on it, but most importantly it had the name of a place 'Draytor Manor'.
A/N: That's my second chapter done and I really do hope it turns out better than my first one did.
