Inaho watched how he collapsed to the ground, and broke down little by little. He saw different emotions passing by on Slaine's face, Inaho wasn't one of the most social people, but he knew that if he wouldn't say something now, the boy in front of him would disappear in total darkness. Guilt is one nasty way to get lost, and Inaho knew that.
"What are you crying for?" Inaho said, softly and still uninterested. Yet it was enough to make the white-haired boy look up. "Why do you think we are here?" He asked him, but there came no response. Slaine however, merely looked in despair at him, but then he became angry.
Slaine's hand grabbed for the gun around his waist, he flighted up, standing in front of Inaho now, he pointed th gun his way. "NO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE DOING HERE, WHY, WHY ARE YOU!?" He yelled with all he had, tears pouring his angry and confused face. "AFTER ALL I DID, WHY!?"
Inaho sighed softly. "She trusts you." He said. Slaine stopped sobbing, he now just stared at the boy in front of him, with wide eyes. "E-Eh?.." He stuttered.
"We came all this way, because she knew you would keep us safe"
Slaine made fists of his free hand, as his last teardrop flowed down before he got up and wiped the rest of his face with his fist. "I did doubted to come..." Inaho continued. "And... you haven't proved yourself trustworthy yet, but I'm sorry I misunderstood you back then."
Slaine carefully lowered his gun, and slowly let it slip out of his hand till you heard it fall to the ground. "I'm sorry too, I should have never shot you." He murmured softly. "But you can trust me, I'm willing to sacrifice everything to keep princess Asseylum safe."
A tiny smile came from Inaho, he knew Slaine was a close friend form Asseylum, and he knew that Slaine would do anything for her, he just wanted to hear it from him. He said nothing as he lifted his hand up in the air. Slaine first looked slightly surprised, but then understood what he meant. He grabbed Inaho's hand and shook it.
"Let's keep her safe together then!" Inaho said.
"H-Hai!"
A few hours later, Slaine was changing Inaho's bandages, while the hot tea was whistling on the stove. "Your wounds are healing quite fast." Slaine said, to no reply from Inaho. Inaho was just looking at how he was doing it. "Where did you learn to treat wounds like this?" the brown haired boy then asked him.
Slaine gathered the dirty bandages with a small smile. He threw them into the fire and took the book next to it with him back to Inaho. "This helped out a lot!" He handed him the book.
"Can I borrow it?" Inaho asked. "It might be handy to know."
"Sure." Slaine said as he walked over to the stove. He filled two cups with the now hot tea and handed one to Inaho.
"Don't you have a heating?" Inaho asked, noticing he give him something to warm up every now and then.
"No, I got this house from the daughter of the Mayor. He didn't wanted to let a traitor live in his city, so she came up with the idea to let me live in this abandoned cottage. I'm glad I have a place of my own though, I got refused in any other city before."
Silence filled the air once again. Both just sipping their tea while staring in front of them. The last few hours, this had happened a lot.
"M-May I ask how-" Slaine stopped talking in the middle of his line, as he looked down.
"What?"
"...H-How you two survived? I though you both were d-dead..."
Inaho didn't hesitated to tell him this, he had the right to know after all. "Asseylum's airbag saved her live."
Slaine looked up at the fast reply and listened attentive to Inaho's story. "She woke up an hour later and with her last bit of strength she took us somewhere safe and took care of my wounds. Your shot had hit my head, but didn't hit anything vital. After a few days I woke up, seeing her totally worn out, but our wounds were healing with quite a good speed, so after we both strengthened up a bit, we went back to earth, but once there we found out that everyone we fought with 'till now were all dead..." Inaho paused for a moment.
"..."
"There were still people around who wanted to assassinate her and we got attacked multiple times, that's when we decided to go as far away from there as possible and as soon as we started to think where we could head, Asseylum immediately called out your name. She said you would keep us safe and that we could trust you. But back then we didn't had a clue where to find you. Asseylum knew you came from a cold land, so we traveled around asking for you, then we finally crossed path with an old lady who saw your aircraft landed somewhere near, as soon as we came in this village is was quite know that there was a traitor at the forest-edge. But we somehow dragged the war with us and got attacked again, we nearly escaped and that's when we ended up here so harmed." Then Inaho stopped talking and took a sip from his tea.
Slaine just stared at his feet's, he was shaking so hard that his hot tea was burning his hands. Inaho noticed it and took he cup out of his hand and put it down on the table. Slaine just continued to stare. "I should've checked on her before drawing conclusion, shouldn't I?" He mumbled.
Inaho looked up to him. "Yeah, maybe you should've done that, but why thinking about it when there is nothing you can change about it now..."
"You are right, sorry, I hit a breakpoint back then. It's late already." He stood up. "You need rest, I'll check on the Princess again."
"Again? That's the fourth time." Inaho said with his usual blank face, knowing he was still feeling too guilty.
Slaine became a bit red. "A-Ah well, I like to be sure she's okay.." And he turned around fast, and walked to the room. He closed the door behind him and turned around to Asseylum. He remained standing with his back against the door, as the sad sight in-front of him made him upset. He somehow wasn't able to look at her properly, since he knew she was the princess.
Every time he checked on her, his knees start to tremble and his mind becomes black. Standing there as a zombie he walks out again not knowing what he truly did inside. But now... now he feels different, he sighs and let his guilt and fear get slide past him, as he walks over to her bed.
There he stops, looking down on her as shadow covers his eyes. Again just a single tear streams down from his eyes. "Why do I keep on crying for god's sake!" He mutters as he wipes the tear away. He leaned forward and lay down his hand on her forehead, to check her fever. "The fever is down." He whispers to himself. Relieve fills his body and he relaxed immediately. His cadaverous cheeks get a bit of color back as he now rests his hand on her cheek. Holding her feels so much better, when a healthy color and normal-warmth covers her face.
Suddenly the door opens and Inaho entered the room. Slaine quickly pulls his hand back and turned around to face him. "You shouldn't walk around, you can't yet in your current state..." Slaine said as he rushed to Inaho because it seemed he could fall at any moment.
"Someone is knocking is on the door." Inaho said hastily. Now that the door was open, Slaine also heard it, first a knock then followed with a cheery girls voice saying: "Slaine? Hello, you there? I came to check on you. Since you've been sick for a couple of days..."
"Ah.." Slaine muttered. "That's the mayor's daughter I told you about earlier." He hit his hand before his face out of stupidity. "I could have known that she would come... stupid." He said again softly.
"Slaine, are you okay?" The cheerful voice sounded now more worried. "Friend of yours?" Inaho asked.
"Uhm, well... kinda, she's my boss."
"Slaine, open up please... I barge in if you don't."
"Ah lock this door, it's kinda suspicious if she sees you two all hurt, she's kinda uhm... kinda curious." He orders Inaho before walking to the door. "I'M COMING!" He yells, so she could hear it. Before he opened the door he looked back if Inaho had locked the door, and when he saw none of them anymore he opened the door.
"Hello, Pepper." Slaine smiled awkwardly.
Some information about the girl named Pepper, hehe. Pepper has long pink/orange hair and light blue eyes. Two sections of hair come down either side of her face to chest level and spiral slightly towards the ends. The rest of her hair is tied into a high ponytail and curl a bit. She wears a white camisole with above it an blue tank-top, and a light jeans. And she always wears sneakers.
That's it for this chapter, I hope you like it? ^^ Thank you all for your reviews, I love all of them! :) hihi