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Chapter 3
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Our time ended way earlier than we thought.
We thought we could at least live to see your return.
We thought we could at least live to see the next Autumn.
Until now, none of us could believe that you left us.
We stayed at the spot where you were last seen with humans on the second day, then the third, the fourth...
The others wished so hard for your return.
They wished for you to return and give them a new life.
"Yuu, you must believe in our flower! He will return for us!" Tiedoll was at the verge of dying.
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Yes, I believe in you, our dear flower.
Yes, I believe you will return.
But not for us.
I prayed silently for you not to return to us.
I know what will happen to a flower when they see their Leaf Tribe in such condition.
You may kill yourself in the most painful way ever after you see us die off, one by one. And yet, you could do nothing to save us.
You will lose your mind.
So please.
Don't come back for us.
Forget about us, start a new life with the humans.
And if I'm able to live through this-
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"There's more leaf tribes here!"
"Damn it, where's their flower?!"
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If I live.
I'll come and search for you.
So please,
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Wait for me.
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Allen slowly swum to the surface of the water, enjoying the water resistance that acted opposing him.
Its been days since Kanda told him he was a flower. Although, he could not figure out what a "flower" was, he just kept quiet and waited for Kanda to tell him one day.
But will that day ever come?
He waited and waited, yet Kanda showed no sign of answering his unvoiced question. Lowering his eyes slightly, he looked around the river before diving into the deep lake once again.
It was weird, his current owner.
Kanda appeared to be distancing himself from other people. They spent their night in a cave, under a tree, or even just beside a lake. Not that he minded, he just felt curious about Kanda's life style. He never goes near any village or town unless they really need something for their journey.
Their journey to where?
That was another question that Kanda refused to give a clear answer.
"Home."
He threw his head backwards as he reached the water surface once more, creating a beautiful splash of water. His silver eyes scanned through the bright blue sky, before long, he relaxed his body and allowed the water to support his weight as he floats on the water.
The wind blew softly, Allen could hear something whispering in the air. It was not the first time he heard weird voices in the air, in fact he could hear them since he was still an infant. His parents never did talk to him so he did not really have the chance to tell his parents that.
"….back….!"
"…vive…we…."
"…flower…."
Allen sat up instantly, his eyes now wide as he searched for the source of the voices.
"What are you looking for?"
Looking to his right, he saw Kanda walked out from the forest with an injured bird on his hands. As usual, Kanda would come back with injured animals with him when he went out to pluck fruits. He first thought that Kanda captured the animals as his own food, but Kanda never eat them. Instead, he placed them near Allen and stared at Allen with an unreadable expression.
He did not get it at first.
"Heal them." Kanda said.
Hesitatingly, Allen placed his palm onto the wounds of the injured animals. He replicated the atoms and rearrange them in the sequence they originally belong. He did not know if that could work, but he figured there was no harm in trying.
To his surprise, he healed them, the injured animals.
He looked at Kanda in surprise. Kanda just stared at him, his lips curved upwards slightly before nodded.
He wanted to know why Kanda believed that he could do so, all he gotten from Kanda was a sad smile.
"How do you know?"
"Know what?"
"That I can heal them."
Kanda would just stared at him with his cobalt-blue eyes, his brows narrowed.
No words escaped from his lips.
It was almost as if Kanda was remembering something sad in his past.
"What are you looking for?" Kanda repeated, snapping Allen awake from his memories.
"Kanda! I-I… heard something…"
Kanda raised an eyebrow at his answer before reached his hand out to Allen.
"So, what did you hear? The wind was talking wasn't it?" Kanda asked as he gently pulled Allen out if the lake.
"Eh, it was the wind?!" But he heard something about flower.
Why would the wind know about flowers?
If he could communicate with the wind, would he be able to learn more about his real identity?
Will the wind tell him?
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"You found him."
Kanda stopped his tracks and turned his head back, glaring at the intruder from the corner of his eyes.
"What do you want?"
A chuckle could be heard.
"You found him, didn't you?"
"Fuck off."
"As polite as ever, Kanda."
Leaves fell off the surrounding trees and all was aim towards the intruder, their blunt end sharpen up. The intruder smiled wider and raised his hand to his face level. The leaves fell off as gravity took hold. The intruder clicked his tongue in disapprove.
"Tch tch, Kanda you are breaking the rules."
"So are you, Neah D Campbell."
"Am I really now?"
The man, now known as Neah, swirled a white colored leaf on his hand, waving it at Kanda.
"Leaf tribes are not supposed to know magic."
"I'm not using magic."
"It is, to your clan, that is."
Kanda's eyes harden.
"Well, at least you found him. Bring him back, and I won't say a thing about this to the others."
"...Did you forget that you are part of the leaf tribes too, Neah?"
"But I'm a flower. So its acceptable that I know magic."
"A fallen flower. You don't deserve such power."
The leaf on Neah's hand were crushed suddenly.
"Oh, did I hit a spot?"
Sensing Kanda's smirk, it was Neah's turn to glare at the Japanese male before him.
"At least I'm better than your white flower." Neah retorted back.
A punch was sent to Neah's face but Neah dodge it with ease.
"Allen Walker, the protecter of the Eastern Leaf Tribes." Neah continued, his smirk slowly turned into a mocking laugh.
"Yet, he let your clan die off. If my Leaf Tribes did not arrive in time, you can't even live until now, Kanda Yuu."
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The wind was whispering again.
Allen closed his eyes and concentrate more on the soft whispers of the winds.
"...flower... two..."
Knitting his brows tighter, he heard the trees as well.
Oh god, why is everyone so active today?
The grass, the water, the air-
Everything was whispering, yet all the words he could catch was "flower" and "two".
What does that mean?
Are there another flower in the area he's in now?
Quickly, he scanned through his surrounding.
There, over there.
The whispering got stronger, the voice got clearer out of a sudden.
"...Where?"
There, to the right.
"What's over there?"
Leaf tribe.
Now that's a new word to him. "Leaf tribe"? It was a new word to him, yet he could sense some familiarity with it.
"How about the other flower?" Not that he did not want to care for the "leaf tribe", but he was eager to learn more about himself.
Busy. That Leaf tribe, injured.
He turned to the direction Kanda had disappeared to hours ago, unsure if he should leave their camp for a while. But something is injured... Kanda won't be mad, right?
With that in mind, he took a step forward, moving towards the direction given by the whispers.
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"Well? Can't handle the truth- Huh?" Neah turned to his left as he received the information from the whisperings in the wind. Taking the chance, Kanda aim his weapons to the ex-flower and fired them. Neah's hair starting to grow longer and finally shielding it's host from danger. Tch, I forgot about the hair of flowers!
"... That white flower of yours is getting in contact with a leaf tribe."
Kanda froze in his place.
"You don't want that, don't you? After all, you want him for yourself-"
"Where is he?" Turning back to his opponent, Neah pretend to be afraid of the expression Kanda wore before bursting out in laughter.
"To our left. He's heading there."
Neah watched as Kanda rushed to the direction Allen was heading, the smile on his face never-fading.
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It was a disaster, the Eastern Leaf Tribe.
We heard that their tree was dying, we heard about the birth of their white flower. We knew, the newborn flower could not do much to save his own leaf tribes. My leaf tribes felt bad for them and asked me to bring them there so that they could help the Eastern Leaf Tribes.
I agreed without giving it a second thought.
When we finally reached the eastern area, all of us were shocked to find the eastern leaf tribes in such condition.
They were all crying their eyes out, their broken voice screaming out to their now-missing flower with such despair.
It shocked us to the core.
Leaf Tribes never had to feel despair. They should be happy, energetic, and everything positive.
I was one of the strongest flower, for I had protect my leaf tribes for the longest time. I never seen any leaf tribe in such grieve.
It was my first to see how hopeless leaf tribes can be without their protector.
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"There's more leaf tribes here!"
"Damn it, where's their flower?!"
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We tried out best to save them, but many lost their lives.
We were too late.
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"...How many live?" I asked in shaking voice. It was my first as well, to witness the death of leaf tribes in such great amount.
"None."
"... Not a survivor?"
"No."
"Wait! There's another leaf tribe right here!"
In my leaf tribes' hand, there was a eastern leaf tribe, a child.
I was so anxious, I give it my all to heal that child.
Perhaps that was my mistake.
I should not have acted recklessly.
If I just let that child die, I could have enough energy left to protect my own leaf tribe.
But I did not thought that far back then.
The child was saved at last, but I lost my leaf tribes instead.
10,000 of them, or even more, I'm not sure, all gone in a split second, before my eyes.
"Allen Walker, this is all your fault!"
You failed to protect yours, you does not have the right to be born as a flower.
"ALLEN WALKER!"
Why did you drag me down too?
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Neah D Campbell.
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TBC
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A/N : For the ones that still read this story, thank you very much! Neah enters~ (DUN DUN DUN) xD Hope you guys enjoy this chapter~
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