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CHAPTER 2: Monster...?
Soujiro decided to follow the duo. He tracked them pretty soon. They were resting under a tree. He climbed a nearby tree to observe them quietly. Soujiro guessed she must be in her late teen. She had slender form with waist length brownish black hair. Soujiro decided that her features where nothing out of the ordinary. He then turned his attention towards the small kid lying next to the girl. The boy had a deep brown hair and must be about 10 years old.
Soujiro snapped out of his musings when the girl quietly stood up and pointed her hand in his direction. Before he could react, he was suddenly enveloped by water which lifted him off the tree and placed him in front of her. The water was flowing around him making an inescapable snare around him.
The girl stared at him and asked, "Who are you?" He smiled and said, "I'm Soujiro Seta and I mean no harm" The girl looked at him suspiciously and said, "Well then Soujiro Seta, why were you spying on us just now?" "I wasn't spying. I just wanted to return this to you", he said as he took the locket from his sleeve. Her deep brown eyes softened when she took the locket from him."If you'll release me, I'll be on my way" said Soujiro. The girl showed no sign of letting him go and had suspicion in her eyes. He didn't know how he was going to get away without fighting her.
"He can be trusted" said the small boy who was sleeping till now. Soujiro was aware that the water that was flowing around him suddenly vanished without a trace but his attention was totally on the small boy. The boy's startling blue eyes mesmerized him and he found himself liking the kid in an instant. "Now leave" said the girl. He smiled as he bowed and took leave from them.
Soujiro couldn't help but remember the small kid. There was something about the kid that he couldn't quite place. The girl's mysterious water also seemed to confuse him. He had seen a lot of strange powers when he was with Shishio but her powers were nothing like what he had seen before.
As he was walking, his instincts told him to find the small boy. Of all his years in the battle, he had learned to trust his instincts. So he turned around to find the pair. When he found them, they were captured by a bunch of men. The girl had knife on her throat and the kid was held by a burly man with his hands tied back.
Soujiro normally would have turned and left but somehow he couldn't do that this time. He jumped down from the tree and said audibly, "Let them go". All the men laughed when they saw a small boy making threats to them. "Don't play around kid. Go before we harm you", warned one of the giants. "Well I warned you!" said Soujiro as he clasped the hilt of his sword. SLASH.
SLASH. Bodies fell to the ground as he replaced his sword back. The men didn't have time to know what hit them.
Soujiro was astonished at what he did. He never thought he'd wield his sword for protecting someone else. He couldn't name the warm feeling inside him that was growing inside him. He then remembered the boy and the girl he saved and turned his attention to them. The kid had untied himself and was watching him with curious eyes. He saw that the girl was sitting down and so he walked over her to help her up. He offered his hand with a smiling face saying, "May I?" The girl then did something that he never expected her to do. She SCREAMED. It was shrill and was piercing the silence of her tranquil surrounding.
"Get away from me you monster!" said the girl looking at Soujiro with pure terror in her eyes. Soujiro couldn't understand. He had, for the first time in his life, saved someone's life and that person was screaming at him that he was a monster. What the hell was going on?
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