Chapter 3
Days past and still she hadn't awakened. Garou was set besides himself in frustration after he finally laid her head back down for her to sleep. Anger filled him to a point that he couldn't just sit there in that room, but he couldn't just leave. And his anger to only go towards training, with his legs kicking the hell out of the same tree that she had used for practice. His blood boiling as he thought over and over about how he should of chased after her, right after she left! He should have taken care of those brats right then and there! How pathetic! He yelled as he kicked the tree again. His knuckled and shins bleeding from the force he was pushing out when they made contact with the tree. Blood staining the bare bark of the tree as he treated this almost as though he were punishing himself.
"Garou…" A soft voice called out. His kick stopped in mid swing as he turned his gaze towards the room. He didn't hesitate on this one, and instantly went back to the room in a rush, as he saw Kyo sitting up with her head forward some, and her left shoulder lower than her right. She had most likely dislocated the shoulder from the swing as she sat there, breathing lightly and slowly.
"Kyo…!" he called and made his way from the doorway down to her side as he placed a hand on her back to help her sit up.
"My head hurts.. So much still…" she moaned and put a hand to her head and face. Her head lifting up to look up at him, as her eyes looked tired. "I.. need a favor from you…" she asked calmly.
"What is it?!" he asked in slight panic.
Her hands both coming up to his face again, as she looked up at him. "Can I… have some of your blood…?"
Baffled by her request, his eyebrow knitted upward in confusion as her hands slipped from his face, but her gaze stayed to meet his. "My clan… was a rare clan… like a type of werewolf… blood helps us… to recover… as well as.. Help others recover… please…" she begged with her tired eyes.
Without thinking, he leaned down towards her, taking one of her wrists in his hand as he tilted his head to the side. Her body leaning forward towards him as she opened her mouth and bit down on the lower part of his neck, where it met with the shoulder. She didn't need a vain, she just needed blood. Her mouth swallowing slowly, and barely taking any blood at all. Just enough. Her tongue licking over the wound she inflected on him, like she had done with his wounds when they first met.
"I'm just going to sleep.. a little longer now.." she began to lean back, as he instinct helped lower her down to the bed, and she closed her eyes once more.
The morning of the next day would come. Garou had slept sitting upright just off a ways from her with his head leaned forward in his slumber. A smile on Kyo's face as she was sat up looking over at him, before standing up, and leaving the room. The sound of food on a tray being placed down near Garou stirred him into waking as he shook his head and looked up to see Kyo standing above him.
"Sorry you hadn't probably had much to eat the last few days, so I hope this will help you out." She gave a half smile and turned to leave the room. Garou's thoughts were still piecing together as he woke up more. She made it seem like nothing had happened. She seemed fine, calmer and careful in movement, but normal.
He ran a hand over his face and stood up, leaving the food to chase after her, as she was back to sweeping the path way like she once had. It was almost like he felt he was dreaming and wasn't fully understanding what was going on.
"Hey." He spoke, taking the broom from her and grabbing her wrist. "Are you fine?" he questioned in seriousness.
"Yes. I told you I just needed a bit more sleep." She pulled the broom back away from him. "But I have news to tell you now…" he continued to hold her wrist. "I have to leave, Garou…" she said sadly, as she looked up at him.
"Why?" he asked, furrowing his brows as if getting mad. "You just barely got up, and you're already planning on taking off?"
"Yup. That's the plan, now." She pulled her wrist from him and went back to sweeping for a few more sweeps before putting the broom down and then starting to walk back to the room. "Come here." She said and pulled on his wrist to make him follow after her, as she let go, but only to have him grab hers once more and make her stop.
"No. you're going to tell me right here…. Where are you going?" he asked in seriousness.
"I have to go to the city."
"Why?" he pulled on her wrist, with some annoyance.
"My shoulder needs to be set back in place, and I don't exactly have the right things to help me here."
"It's only dislocated, I'll just do it."
"You can't just set it, Garou." She yanked her hand from him. Her right hand going to push something on her left wrist as the skin colored flesh shimmered away to reveal an arm that he had only seen on Genos.
"You." He pulled back away from her.
She looked at her left hand with a smile, as she spoke. "When I was little, I lost my arm to other monsters… Some human was kind enough to give me his prototype to use. And it just happened to be the same guy who did Genos' body." She looked up at him, and stepped closer to him as she placed her hands on his chest. Her head leaning back as she looked up at him. "But I can't leave…unless you leave. And the only way you can leave…is if you promise to not hunt the heroes anymore."
He grabbed both her wrists and squeezed them to a point of making her flinch.
"Why is that?" His tone bordered anger.
"It's the only way Bang would let me help you.. I can't let you live outside these walls unless you won't hurt the humans anymore."
"And if I don't stop hunting them?"
"Then…" she pulled back from him with her gaze turned down away from him. "I will have to kill you myself." She looked back up at him.
He chuckled which then evolved into a laughter out to the sky.
"You think YOU could kill me in your state? Don't make me laugh!"
Her eyes narrowed as she pulled her hands from his grasps, again. "I can, Garou… I don't want to. But I will." She stepped forward to him and hugged her body against him, putting her arms up along his back as she hid her face against his chest. "Please Garou… you don't need to hunt the heroes… They're protecting me."
"Tsk, just like those brats did the other night?"
"You know those weren't heroes. The S class heroes know of me. They support the fact that I'm on their side. I'm helping the humans."
He stood there, with his hands down at his sides. His head tilted downward, but he didn't look at her.
"Come with me Garou…!" she looked up at him. "We can fight the monsters together…!" she put her face against him and closed her eyes. "You're so nice and warm… I always wondered what it was like to do this to you." She let out an exhale, as her body relaxed some as she continued to hug onto him.
He clenched his fists as he stayed there, not sure what to do now.
