I sat in my room in complete silence as nightfall came in. I couldn't stop thinking of the girl's words that she said. They kept repeating in my head as did the kiss. The kiss was an accident, I didn't mean to kiss her!
"Hey Kotaro." I was snapped out of my train of thought when I heard a familiar voice call out from above me.
"Hey."
"Have you been sleeping?"
"Yes."
"Then why do you look like shit?"
I look up at Goemon before getting off topic.
"What's the girl's name?" He looks down in surprise as I ask him.
"She didn't tell you her name?"
"And you brought her here without knowing it?!" I stood up from my seat to get to Goemon's height, but the pain in my gut made me wince in pain but I ignored it as much as I could.
"Hey! It's not like she would even straight up tell me! I thought that she would tell you!" Goemon shouts back at me.
"What if she was an assassin?! Then what? How are you able to trust this woman more than anyone else? What did your intentions tell you?" I continued to yell at him as he just stood with sharp eyes and a frown. It then grew completely silent between the two of us before he spoke again.
"My gut feelings are never wrong." He begins to walk away from me as I felt myself begin to shake in anger.
When I heard my bedroom door slide closed, I punched the wall behind me and screamed out in frustration. What the hell was Goemon thinking?! For all we would know is that she might be an assassin!
"Kotaro!" I didn't look up as the girl ran into the room and takes a hold of my bandaged hand. She seemed to inspect it to see if I did any damage to it before sighing to herself. She looks back to the wall and quietly mutters, "And I just fixed it."
I look back at the wall and see that I have made another hole just a foot away from a previous damage I have made a few days back. I frowned as I jerked my hand from the girl's soft grip and walked out of the room. Yet I stomped my way down the hall, my footsteps seemed to be silent compared to the girl's as she ran to me from behind. Goemon stood next to the door with a serious expression on his face; but I don't bother with him as I walked out of the house and into the snowy evening.
"Kotaro!" The girl's calls out my name and as I turned around to look at her, she slips in the snow and falls to the ground while taking me with her as she grabbed a hold of my kimono.
I winced in pain from my gut before I noticed that I was hovering above the girl. I look down at her in silence as she stares up at me with her eyes beginning to tear on the corners. I went to get off of her but was pulled back down when she wrapped her arms around my neck. It caught me off guard, I didn't know what was going on!
"This is all my fault." I heard her whisper in my ear.
"Hey, it's not your fault." I look down at her as she releases me and I shook my head. "You've actually… helped me."
The girl could only smile as I looked away with red cheeks.
"My name is Wakana." She says quietly, making me turn my attention back to her.
"Wakana…" I repeat her name as though to remember it. "It's a beautiful name."
"Thank you." It was her turn to blush red and advert her eyes away from her.
"Hey! You two should get inside before you catch a cold!" I look up and see Goemon looking down at us as he stood against the doorframe with a smirk and crossed arms.
"And you should eat." I look down at Wakana before getting off of her. Helping her up from the snow, we walk side-by-side up to the house in silence.
For the first time in several months, I felt much of the anxiety and depression leave my body; just by finding out Wakana's name.