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A good solid minute of silence was followed by Sara looking over to Akito and giving him a small smile. Akito just sighed and went over to his chair and sat back down, "As long as you're here, you will have to follow the house rules: follow my every command and don't get in anyone's way. Understood?"
Sara vigorously nodded her head. Akito just sighed heavily.
To be honest, Akito had no idea what to say, or what to do. He had just invited a random mute orphan to come and stay at the Sohma family main house. He couldn't just had her memory erased and just have the problem solved real fast. But for some odd reason…something that he couldn't explain...he let this girl stay here.
"I must be losing my mind…"
Sara tilted her head to the side, "Ahh…?"
Akito looked to her and couldn't help but smile at her extremely innocent expression.
Realizing that he was smiling, he quickly replaced it with a small frown. Seeing this, Sara giggled lightly and continued to stare at Akito's face.
Noticing that he was being stared at, he made a slightly upset face, "…WHAT?"
Not used to the sudden outburst, she yelped and went to just staring down at the floor. Once again, silent filled the room.
Finally, not being able to take the silence anymore, Sra stood up, causing Akito to look up to her, "…yes?"
She grinned and wrote in the small notebook, showing to Akito. It simply read, "Lets go for a walk?"
After reading it, Akito turned his gaze to look at Sara again, who had a sad-puppy-dog-eyes face on her.
Something happened then that probably no one would or could ever explain. Something stirred in his soul that he had never felt before. And, almost as if he just couldn't control the words coming from his mouth, he smiled a small smile and nodded, "Sure…I haven't gone on a walk for a while…"
Truth be told, he had NEVER gone on a walk…at least not a very enjoyable one.
Akito was at the front door when he noticed that Sara was still wearing the summer dress. He raised an eyebrow, "Is that the only item of clothing that you have?" Akito was wearing a dark blue yukata, much different from the kimono that he had on earlier.
Blushing, Sara nodded slowly, as if to say, "I'm so ashamed and embarrassed…"
Sighing, Akito took Sara by the hand and they started out the door.
At first they were walking around the nearest forest trail next to the main house in silence. That is, it was silent until Sara saw a small humming bird.
A small light blue humming bird was feeding on this big red flower. Sara had never seen a humming bird before in her life…meaning, she had no idea what a humming bird even was. She stood there in the middle of the walking path, staring at the strange small bird.
Akito stopped, too. He looked back and forth between Sara and the humming bird. That rare (though becoming not as rare) smile crossed his face, "It's a humming bird."
Sara looked instantly surprised, as if she wanted to say, "You mean that thing is a BIRD?"
He chuckled lightly at her amazed expression. Giggling, Sara turned away from the humming bird and started to skip down the path. Akito just calmly walked a little ways behind her.
During their walk, they ran into a snake, a few bees, plenty of pretty wild flowers, which Sara had picked a few to take back to the house, and they came across a lake that had a small family of ducks in it that made Akito smile, and Sara squeal in delight.
Finally, it began to get dark outside. The two were still at the small lake. Akito stood up and helped Sara to her feet as they walked home.
The only thing that the two had spaced on, was that the whole time that they were walking home, Akito had failed to realize that he was holding Sara's hand. Sara almost couldn't really tell. The both of them were almost too caught up in the day's events. Akito had a new house guest, Sara had just seen many animals that she'd either never seen before, or had never even heard of, and they both had just gone on a walk that they were bound to remember for a long time.
One thought/problem still remained…where was she going to sleep?
End Chapter 4
Shuichi: Hehehehe, ooooohhh, I know, I'm evil, aren't I? -dodges random flying objects- ...ACHEM...anywho, Read and Review, please! I wanna know what ya'll think of my story so far. Oh, and just so you all know...and just to taunt you all a little bit...the fifth chapter is all typed up and ready to go, so when I get more reviews...the chapter will come out very fast. What'cha think of them apples? -giggles while dodging more flying objects-
