Secrets
Ok, It's been a while since I updated this, but I've fianally written the next part of the story! Let me know what you think!
Kat wondered aimlessly along the edge of the water. The stars twinkled friendly at her from the dark curtained sky. She sighed and sat down. The oasis was beautiful, but Kat wanted to get to Doby village. She pulled her shoes and socks off and dipped her feet into the cold water. She'd been walking all day. She sighed slightly and gazed up at the stars again. She closed her eyes, feeling. Every heartbeat, every emotion, every thought of every tiny creature in the water. She could hear the whispers of the sand, and the voices of the trees, the soft whistle of the grass, and she could understand it. None of the others could hear nature's songs as she could, though, Yoh had come rather close, but though her could hear the song, he could not understand it as she could, and that, was normal. She opened her eyes, and shouted with surprise. Faust was standing over her, and odd, interested expression on his face. "What are you doing?" He asked sitting next to her. Kat smiled.
"It's been a long day." She said. "Just cooling off." Faust smiled and flopped back on the grass. He propped himself up on his elbow and began playing with the long green blades, he picked one or two in his fingers. Kat flinched. She took his hand to her lips and kissed it. "Don't do that." She said. Faust looked confused.
"Why?" He asked. Kat shrugged,
"Just…a thing I have. I prefer to see plants alive and it soil than dead in a mans hand." Faust looked even more confused.
"It's just grass." He said.
"But it's alive." Argued Kat. There was an uncomfortable pause.
"There is a lot I still don't understand about you." Said Faust. Kat frowned.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"You seem so strange sometimes, in a good way I mean."
"How?" Kat asked. Faust rolled over and laid on his back.
"You just are." Kat smiled.
"You know…" She joked "That's funny coming from you. The man who carried the skeleton of his deceased girlfriend in his coat." Faust laughed slightly.
"I suppose. But my reasons are not secret, but I don't know why you hold such value of plants and wildlife." Kat sighed.
"And you never will." She said. Faust frowned.
"You can tell me. I can keep a secret." Kat shook her head.
"No. I never even told Yoh." Faust frowned again.
"Yoh's not your boyfriend." He protested.
"No, but he was my closest friend. Like family. The story is between my sister and I."
"You have a sister." Kat smiled, seemingly relived at the subject change.
"Yes. Katie, she's older than me."
"What's she like?" Kat smiled.
"She's…tough. Kinda gothic and very independent. She looked after me when I was little."
"Where were your parents?" Kat shrugged. "Do they have a connection to your nature loving?"
"Faust, I told, you, I'm not going to tell you about it, I don't want to talk about my past, I just want to focus on the future."
"You can't go on the rest of you life in the future, eventually you'll have to go back and face it, take it from one who knows." Faust sat up. "Don't let the past burden you as it does me."
"Faust, I'm not running away from my past, I'm just… I'm not strong enough to face it right now. I'll go back after the tournament and I'll fight it." Faust frowned and gently wrapped and arm over her shoulder. "When the time is right…I will tell you everything, until then, I can't, I just, can't."