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Chapter 2
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I tried to get to you, but the elders stopped me.
You were about to be crushed into powder to be consumed by humans, but we could do nothing.
I understand that I, as part of the leave tribe , will only endanger myself if I went out for you.
Leave tribes are precious in the human society.
Perhaps it was because of our beautiful human feature, or perhaps it was because we are so weak without the protection of a flower.
We never did found out why.
We only know that we are as good as dead if we got caught by the humans.
"The flower will save itself," Tiedoll said to me. But I could see it in his eyes.
Even Tiedoll is unsure if you will.
"It will save itself." He repeated, with so much grieve in his voice.
You continue laying on the table, not even moving away when you sensed the danger.
"It will."
But you never.
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Is that why you are white in color, our dear flower?
Flowers are always colorful, so beautiful that it would make every living things stop their steps just to stare at.
But you were white- pure white.
White, the color nothingness. Is that what you were trying to tell us as you stared at us from the tree branch?
You could not save us.
You were a flower that consists of nothing.
You were the sign of destruction of the clan.
Is that what you tried to tell us as you stared at us with your silver eyes?
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Our dear flower, did you know?
Leave tribes were the clan that never know grieve or hopeless.
We were never sad, because flowers will always protect us from any danger.
Our dear flower, did you know?
That was the day, I witness the breaking down of the whole clan.
Tears streamed down our cheeks, but we dare not make a sound.
We could not risk ourselves being found by humans.
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You are the protector of the leave tribe.
You are the hope we wished for.
But we lost you.
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-Yuu.K
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It was not his first time having an owner, his father had sold him so many times, just to be brought back to his father due to his rude and uncooperative behavior towards his so-called owners, so Allen could guess what his new owner would do to him.
His past owners often brought him to the town and showed him off, forcing him to use his powers to kill innocent little animals in the streets. Or to be more precise, his past owners were just trying to gain attentions of the girls by using his ability.
He hated that.
He could not bear the thought of killing innocent lives, be it pests or not. Why should he kill them when they did nothing wrong? Why must he kill them just to let his owners impress the females?
Humans are so hard to understand.
Sometimes, he would question himself if he was really a human. If he is, then why could he not understand how humans think? And if he's not, then what could he be?
The elf is out of the question. Elves had pointy ear; his was round, just like human's.
Allen studied the male before him. This man... is different somehow, he couldn't tell why, he just know.
"We're here."
His new owner's voice woke him up from his thoughts. Looking ahead, he gasped.
There was a lake before him. A natural one, not the artificial he saw in his village. He sniffed slowly, trying to see if his eyes deceived him. The smell of water flows smoothly into his nose, alerting his smell receptors of the fresh water ahead. It was not easy to spot a natural lake, seeing that humans had destroy so many habitats. Gaping, he did not realise Kanda had him held up and was carrying him nearer to the lake. He did realize, when the lake water was already at Kanda's waist.
He felt Kanda staring down at him and looked up to meet with Kanda's cobalt-blue eyes.
People would look at him with so many emotions flowing in their eyes, but Kanda's was different. The others would look at him in fear, curiosity, or even greed; Kanda stared at him with such look that was so foreign to him.
He knew that look, it was the same look when his father stared at his mother. Ah yes, it was called "care", but why would it appear on Kanda as Kanda stared at him?
"Are you going to stay in my arms forever?"
"Oh, I- I'm sorry."
Gently, Kanda guided him down from the taller male's arms. As soon as his body touched the water, he could feel his body relaxing instantly, as if there was something in the water that welcomed him. He felt so free suddenly. He slowly bent down, touching the pure water with his hands. Almost immediately, he could feel his body being filled with more energy, though he could not figure out why.
It was then he realized his hair was flowing on its own. It flowed around him on the surface of the water. He could felt the water diffusing into his hair so naturally, causing the hair to increase in length in such speed he never knew it could.
He felt a hand on his shoulder.
"You should take a rest. You look really tired."
He saw Kanda slowly moved his palm onto his eyelids, closing them as Kanda slid them in a downward motion.
It was the first time he felt something like this. His body that was once so tensed up relax in just a split second. The darkness before him slowly lured him into dreamland without him realizing.
He could faintly feel himself being covered by something wet, causing him to feel cold at that moment, but soon warmth followed. He was pretty sure he felt his body being immersed in some liquid. So why the warmth?
Was it the water?
Something was pulled him downwards, but he could not find the energy to open his eyes. He was so tired- Oh, so tired he could sleep for years. It felt almost as if he had never sleep well in his life.
"Sleep, I'll wake you up when time comes."
Kanda's voice was blurred up by something, probably due to refraction of sound as it travel between two different medium.
"...Sleep well."
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He was... Full.
Slowly, Allen opened his silver eyes and found himself standing vertically underwater, with both his hands up beside him, just like a cross. His silver hair flowed around him, surrounding him, just like how petals would surround the core of the flower. He breathed a deep breath and was shocked to find out that he could actually breath underwater.
The peaceful water surface was disturbed by something, Allen looked up slowly and saw Kanda staring down at him from the land. Kanda made a hand motion of asking him to go on land. Allen slowly applied some force to his toes, pushing himself off the bank of the lake, swimming towards the water surface.
"How do you feel?"
Kanda asked after he helped Allen up the lake.
"... I'm full."
As weird as it sounds, Allen felt really full. And to his surprise, Kanda nodded at his answer.
"...You don't think I'm weird?"
"Why should I?"
"You asked how did I feel but I said I feel full."
"I'm not deaf, moyashi."
"I'm full. As in, I don't feel like eating anything, even though I consumed nothing?"
Kanda stared at him, puzzled.
"You fed. That's why you are full."
"But I did not."
"You did."
Just when Allen tried to give a reply, Kanda cut it.
"All you need as nutrients are water and sunlight, if that's what you're trying to ask."
Allen could only stare at Kanda suspiciously. He expected Kanda to elaborate more, but Kanda just ignore him.
"Why?"
"It's obvious." Kanda comented, "Why else?"
"I meant, why do you know all I need was sunlight and water?"
Kanda chose to stay silent at that question.
"Do you perhaps... know what I really am?"
When he saw Kanda nodded, Allen gotten excited out of the sudden.
He had so many questions in his mind. What exactly was he? Why was he so different from humans?
And the most important question : How did Kanda know about his real identity?
"Flower."
"Huh?"
"That's what you are. Find out the rest by your own, moyashi."
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TBC
Author's note : Hope you guys enjoy this chapter as well ~!
REVIEWS:
Silent Death Walker : Glad you like it ;)
Shin-kai Syndrome : Yep, cause I love that series so much X3 Yea, the pairing is Yullen~ ((if this is gonna be a romance one, that is)) Yuwo... I need to buy her new book soon that will air on Dec 1st (in Taiwan...)! *super fire up*
Natsuki D : Here's the next chapter for you~
Twispa : Glad you enjoy this fic~
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Well then,
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