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Chapter 3

Anna opened her eyes slowly, not wanting light coming to them. She flinched when the light hit her and covered herself with the sheets. A few minutes later she took off the sheets and sat on the bed. She looked around and saw Kratos still resting. Anna was at the end of the bed, still sitting down Indian style. She looked at him for a few minutes and turned around. Should she wake him up now? Or let him rest a little bit more. She didn't want to risk the Desians coming closer to Triet. She also didn't want to get Triet in danger. Anna stood up and walked towards Kratos. "Hey, Kratos…" Anna whispered bending down and was now face to face with him. Kratos was still resting not hearing what Anna just said. Anna sighed, 'I have to wake him up soon. I don't want Triet to get attack by those filthy Desians.'

Anna poked Kratos cheek and in an instant he open his eyes, angry of who ever touched him. Anna was still not moving at all, she could barely even breath. "What do you think you are doing?" he asked sternly. Anna gulped and frowned, "I was waking you up." Kratos stood up, while Anna fell on the floor, and walk to the door. "Get ready we have to move, understood?" he said and left. Anna nodded, when he shut the door. Why was he being so cold to her now? What did she do to make him so upset? Anna shook her head and looked around to wash herself. She went outside and walked downstairs. She looked at the Innkeeper that had been talking to the man that Kratos had paid him when they first came here.

The Innkeeper was old, well at least to Anna he was, his white hair showed that he could have been around his early fifties. His clothes were all old and yet comfortable. He looked at her with his cat like face. "Who are you miss?" he asked her with his old voice. It sounded as if a flute just recently broke. The other man looked at her annoyed. "I'm Anna Irving…" she said almost in a whisper. She was a shy woman, even though it doesn't look like it, she was a shy person. The old man smiled, "Hullo. Why haven't I seen you down here before?" The other man looked at the Innkeeper, "She's with that man that left a few minutes ago."

"Ah Kratos."

"You know Kratos?" asked Anna suspiciously. "Yes, he saved my kitty from a tree," he said petting a cat that was near the man. The man sneered at the cat while the cat purred and didn't care about its surroundings. Anna sweat dropped and nodded, "Ah…That's so kind of him." The old man nodded, "Ah how rude of me, I'm the Innkeeper, Roland, and here is my grandson, Kerk." Kerk looked at his grandfather then back to Anna, "If you need new clothes and wish to take a bath you may." Anna nodded and smiled, "Thank you."

"Don't mention it."

Roland smiled and went to get new clothes to Anna. Anna went to the back of the desk and entered the bathroom. Anna gave a grin and started to strip her clothes off. She went inside the tub that was somehow already filled with water, and relaxed. She closed her eyes and thought about Koki. She already missed her and wished nothing bad can happen to her. It had been three days since she left the Iselia Ranch. It seems so long, but it wasn't. She closed her eyes and slept for a few minutes.

Kratos was waiting outside the Inn. He couldn't believe that Anna would take that long to get ready, ' What in Martels world is she doing! I've been waiting for almost thirty minutes already…' Kratos sighed and didn't even dared to go inside and drag Anna outside the Inn. He had thought about this morning. He snapped at her for no reason, she was just trying to wake him up. Why in the world did he have to snap at her? His thoughts were interrupted by Anna's cough. He turned around and looked at her. To his surprised, it seemed that the old man had giving her clothes for the trip. Her blue pants were baggy and her white shirt. It was almost like a bra…not really since it had sleeves, but only to that. She had a green vest, which relieved Kratos. He looked to the other woman and they were wearing the same thing. 'I guess this is how the woman of Triet dress…and I haven't noticed,' he thought looking at the woman of Triet that were walking by.

Anna tilted her head, "Kratos?" Kratos looked at her and stepped away, "Are you ready?" Anna shook her head and smiled, "I have to thank Roland and Kerk for their hospitality." Kratos nodded . Anna walked to Roland and Kerk. She smiled and hugged them, "Thank you so much for the clothes!" Kerk blushed, while his grandpa nodded, "Don't mention it, be careful on you trip." Roland gave Anna her old clothes packed in a bag. Anna thanked them once again and ran towards Kratos. "Where are we going?" she asked curious looking around seeing a barn. "We're picking a friend," he said stepping inside the barn. Anna stepped inside and shrieked. "What the hell is that!" she asked pointing to the green and white animal. Kratos looked at the animal and then back at Anna, "His name is Noishe."

Noishe came forward to her, sniffing her hair and body. Her body stiffen and she looked at the dog. "H-Hey…nice doggy…good little doggy…" she said nervously. Noishe wasn't very big, he was at least five feet tall. Kratos smirked at Anna's reaction. "Hey what's so funny!" She glared at him. He shook his head and walked outside, brining Noishe outside. He looked back at Anna, "Are you coming or not?" Anna nodded and smiled, "Yes!" She ran towards Kratos and walked beside Noishe. "Noishe right?" asked Anna looking at Noishe then Kratos. Kratos nodded at her, and to his surprise, Noishe let Anna ride him.

"You know this beats walking anytime!" said Anna cheerfully. Kratos shook his head grinning, "Lazy as ever…" She glared at him and muttered, "Oh shut up!" It had been awhile since they got out of Triet. Anna was getting drowsy and weak. Her fever had once again come back to her, not as much, but she was turning pink. Kratos knew this, but he couldn't let Anna get inside the ranch, not until the situation would calm down. He already knew that the Desians would be looking for him and Anna, that's why he couldn't let her go…not yet. If he did, Anna would be sentence death…they had already broken too many rules to go back. Maybe they will forget about her. Yet again, she is part of the Angeles Project after all. The Desians would have never give up to find her. He wanted to bring back her his sister, alive. What he wanted was impossible. At least that's what Kratos thought.

"Kratos?"

Kratos shook his head and looked at Anna in worry, "What is it?" Her lips were curled up into a smile, "You know you day dream to much?" Kratos looked puzzled, but Anna got off Noishe. "I think I'll walk for now." He shook his head and carried her back to Noishe, while he did that Anna's face where crimson red. "Your fever is coming back, I cannot allow you to get another fever, Triet is now far away from where we are going." Anna nodded and looked dull, "Where are we?" Kratos put her small body to Noishe's back, "Near the Ossa Trail."

"Where is your friend? Is he going to meet us there?"

Kratos stood quite and began to walk. Anna tilted her head and repeated her question once more, just incase he did not hear her the first time. He was still silent not daring to talk. Anna stood silent also, they stood silent for quite awhile now. They didn't talk to each other the whole way to Ossa Trail, Noishe was getting a little nervous himself, not wanting the humans to argue. They were now in Izoold, it wasn't really a nice place to live in, since Anna had never been near a shore. They went inside the Inn and sat down near a chair waiting for the woman to come and talk to them about their room. Anna looked around the place and smiled, it reminded her of the Inn in Luin, where she lived when she was a child. She frowned at the thought and looked at Kratos who was looking straight at her. Anna blushed and turned away not daring to look. For the past days she had some…weird feelings for him. She didn't want those feelings, but she couldn't handle them.

Once the woman, Mariane, came to the front desk, Kratos stood up and asked for a room. Mariane looked about her early thirties. She was wearing a light brown dress, which matched her chocolate brown eyes like Anna. She looked at Anna and smiled, "Ah a honeymoon I see? Well we do have a special room for tha-" She got cut off, by Kratos who coughed and snapped at her, "We are not in a honeymoon or anything like that, we are just companions traveling to Palmacosta." Mariane frowned and nodded, "I'm sorry for my outburst, please come this way." Anna looked at Kratos blushing from what Mariane said just now. He would never want a wife like her! She shook her head blood flowing her cheeks, they followed Mariane to a room that was upstairs. Mariane past Kratos and smiled at Anna and muttered, "Don't worry…He'll figure things out sooner or later." Anna looked at Mariane leave and back to Kratos who made a sigh. They entered their room and with a great grief there where two bed instead like one, like Triet.

"Well there's two bed instead of one?"

"Yes…"

"Hey what's with your attitude!"

"What do you mean?"

"You could have not snapped at that lady! It was a mistake!"

Kratos stood silent not wanting to talk. Anna sighed and walked to the door. "Where are you going?" Kratos asked sitting down on his bed. Anna looked at him back and the back to the door, "Outside. I want some fresh air." Kratos shrugged and laid down, "If you get lost don't come back and yell for help." How horrible of him to say that to her. Suddenly she glared at him and silently talked, "Fine…It's not like I'll come back anyway." Kratos stopped laying down and stood up. "Yes, you will." He said in a tone of voice that was strong, yet again, afraid. The aura between them was very strange, it felt as if two boars where fighting with each other. It felt very heavy, to heavy for Anna that she burst into tears. She didn't really know why she was crying. Kratos stood there not knowing what to do. This happed once to him, but he tried to forget about it.

"You don't understand…"

"Don't understand…?"

Anna looked at him, with sadness and pain. She tried to choke, but she felt as if she had already lost her voice. She shook her head and let the tears fall silently. Kratos step forward, but Anna open the door, "I'll come back." She then close the door. Kratos not knowing what just happen fell to the bed thinking about her tears, how painful it looked when he saw her eyes. He sat down for an hour, once Anna came he stood up, she was smiling, for the first time giggling. Kratos looked puzzled by her actions and dared not to speak about it. She was holding a dandelion on her right hand. "Why the dandelion?" asked Kratos a little suspicious. "A nice man gave me an escort to the Inn, William, is such a kind man to just give me a dandelion," she asked somewhat dreamily.

Kratos didn't know what these new emotions where coming to him. He felt…envious, afraid, anger, and jealousy, through him. "I see…" he muttered laying down again. Anna sat down and looked at Kratos, "I'm sorry about earlier, I didn't mean to make such an event." Kratos shook his head and said nothing. "Ah, Williams father owns a ship! He can take us to Palmacosta!" she said excited of her new adventure she was going to go. Kratos nodded and stared up at the ceiling. What where these emotions flowing through his blood? Why did he have to have them? He wanted Anna to…to do what exactly? He didn't want her to become a victim of the Angeles Project. Was that it? Was that why he saved her in the first place? But what about that small child that she talked about in the beginning? Koki was her name? Did she suddenly forget about her? She was thinking of that man William instead! He sighed of frustration and stood up. He couldn't stand steady and wished he was alone.

Anna looked at him and frowned, what was he thinking about? She closed her eyes and wished to everything to be gone. Night came and their silence was still going on. They ate something, and went straight to bed still not talking to each other. Anna grabbed the dandelion and pet it. It felt soft and cozy. For a minute she saw Kratos glare at her, but he was sleeping soundlessly. Was he…mad at her for hanging out with William? Was he jealous? She put the dandelion away and looked at Kratos. He was sweet sometimes, yet again, he was cold…Maybe he didn't have friends, or at least true friends. She smiled, she can never tell him how she really felt. She sighed and turned around and softly she said to herself, "I love you…Kratos." When she said 'Kratos' you could have barely hear it. With those words she suddenly fell asleep.

Kratos, being an angel, could not sleep. So he pretend to be asleep to fool Anna. He looked at her for a minute and shut his eyes, not wanting her to wake up. Since he had a good hearing he heard her words. He suddenly smiled then frowned. He couldn't love her…He knew that…

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