Heh. I left you all waiting for quite a while! Sorry for being so…. LAZY! Heh. With the holiday vacation and everything. Not to mention that I got a nice big state of brain dead… ism. .
Kyo woke up on the Sunday morning with heavy eyelids. Slowly waking up to the sound of sniffling by the window sill. He looked through the corner of his eye to see Sana digging her face into her arms as she sobbed. He cocked his head, sitting up from his bed he slowly started to inch toward her. He gently tapped her on the shoulder, "Er… You okay?"
Sana didn't reply, she stopped crying but just continued to hide her face in her arms.
"Can you hear me?" He said slowly and quietly, but then started to tap on her head, "Hello?"
Sana shoved his hand away, "Go away…" She said in a airy voice, which seemed throbbed and overtaken by tears.
"Are you crying about me?"He asked raising an eyebrow, "Am I really that bad." He joked.
Sana rose her head up slowly and stared with weary dark brown eyes, "Actually… Yes it is about you." She gave him a dark look of hatred.
"What did I do?" But he had already had his questions answered. For he saw a small sketch of a family. One mom, on dad, two boys that were probably twins; about twelve, and they were both playing around with a small girl, smiling; of course it must have been Sana, she looked about five.
"Ah…" He frowned, "Your family."
Sana nodded slowly, still staring at him with blank cold eyes.
"Are you trying to drill a hole in my face?" He snapped rolling his eyes.
She jerked her head away and then resumed staring at the picture.
Kyo couldn't help feeling remorse and some pity for her, "You know… We don't have to be enemies. I mean, the whole point of war is to make peace right?" He didn't know where he was going to go with this. But anything to shut her up.
Sana raised her head again and thought for a minute, "I guess so…"
"Yeah, I guess so…" She wasn't quite certain where he was going with this either.
"Er… You wanna go down to the beach? Sea air usually calms people down."
She stared at her feet, but then slightly nodded.
"That's the spirit! Come on," He grabbed his walking stick and glasses, "I could use some sea air myself!"
They walked down to the beach in about twenty minutes, it was deserted. Sunday mornings were usually a day just to go down to the shopping centre and buy some food for the coming week.
Sana plopped down on the sand, and stared blankly at the sky. She hadn't planned to make conversation with the hot head.
Kyo sat down beside down beside her, to make some conversation might be a good resource for his report. "So…" He said tapping his hands to his knees, "Um… What was your family like?" It was the first thing that popped into his head.
Sana's face darkened once again, she obviously was very protective of her family. "None of your business fire eater…"
"Harsh." He smirked, "Real harsh." He shrugged, "If I told you about my family, would you tell me about yours?"
Sana thought it over for a bit, slowly starting to lighten up to him. "Well… I suppose it's only fair." But she kept a cautious aura either way.
Kyo nodded, bowing his head, "Well…" He thought of where to begin. "I had one older brother, and a step-sister. My mom died giving birth to me, so my dad had to take care of us until he got called out to the war."
Some of this did spark Sana's attention, but very vaguely.
"And so then my brother began taking care of my little stepsister and me. Oh – she wasn't neccecarily my stepsister. We adopted her from my mom's brother's family when they all got wiped out in the war. So neccecarily she's my cousin, but I always like calling her my stepsister."
"Oh… It must be awful to lose so much family." Sana replied quietly, still very prone, but starting to gain interest in his story. She turned to his direction, "Did anything ever happen to your brother?" She looked like a small child, hungry for a story.
Kyo couldn't help smiling, "Well… My brother was like a war hero in our village. They called him the 'ghost of the demon', after my dad. He learned everything from my dad, blocking, sparring, and even sneak attacks. And my brother and I started to fight together. When the water nation came around to our nick of the woods, well; you could tell that he and I wiped the battle field."
Sana nodded, scooting forward, "Yeah, what happened?"
"Well," Kyo scooted closer to her to add drama to his story, "While we were fighting, an in coming ice burg from the water nation commander came sliding by my brother. And let me note to you that that ice burg was huge." He expanded his arms, "and I caught sight that my brother was going to be flattened, so I charged at him and tackled him out of the way."
Sana thought about it trying to imagine it, but Kyo did that for her when he jumped and rolled across the sand, but came back up to his feet. Sana clapped delighted. Of course she must have forgot about her protective aura, "But what happened to your sister?" She asked, her big brown eyes still staring at Kyo with great interest.
Wow… I didn't know that girls her age still had this kind of spirit… Kyo thought to himself. "Well, my sister,"
"Or cousin," Sana added smiling.
"Or cousin," he repeated smiling, "wasn't really that big of a fighter. She was probably familiar with a fireball, but nothing that would be very helpful in battle. So I had to hide her in the cellar under our house. She had however, been more surprising than I had thought her to be. She had escaped from the cellar, and she knocked about three of them cold with a flame kick."
Sana nodded, blinking with interest. "Did you all get out of the battle alive?"
Kyo frowned slightly, "Er… No."
Sana didn't frown, but she did look to him for an explanation.
"Well… My brother and I escaped the battle with only a few scars, but my little sister… When got killed with an icicle between the eyes."
Sana winced, "Oh... I… I'm sorry."
Kyo smiled, "Don't worry. I have gotten pretty immune to loss."
"Well still. I'm sorry."
Kyo sat by her, "It's alright… So, what were your family like?"
Sana frowned, "Well…. It's kind of a long story."