OHHH YEAHHH we are still alive,... Limp, bruised and mentally beaten down,.. but still writing!
How long has it been? I guess somewhat around the three months,..
Sorry people,... we really tried but as you may know, life isn't as easy as the brochure tells ya when leaving your mom's warm womb ne
Soooo for all the newborns out there, don't get tricked by the people who make the damn Brochure,.. They are freaking sadists!
This chappy is mostly written while listening to love me or hate me the remix, nightcore in general.
Eto,.. I, Moonttje, have just finished reading the previous chapters, cause I wasn't really sure anymore where we were working to and writing about. Made some changes, added some sentences to make it look better,.. The real big change though (did you guys actually read it? Hmm I wonder), in chap 2 I guess, Teito had a nice warm shower and had to put on a shirt because,.. and here I quote Frau: "you should put a shirt on before you catch a cold",.. sure Frau whatever makes you happy,.. but has anyone,.. and I mean ANYONE noticed he freaking still was chained,.. explain to me how you put on a new clean shirt when your wrists are bound together with a chain,.. HUH HUH ANYONE? neh didn't think so LOL
Anyway in chap 5, I wrote about two paragraphs to make the chains change into a nice neckband,.. Ne ne ain't I good?! *cheshire grin*
Just out of my own curiosity, I will leave that little fault be in chapter two,. Just to look if a new readers will be able to pick up that little shippai of mine mhuaua,.. and only in chapter 5 or 6 will he/she be able to notice it if it wasnt already mhuaua,.. and I a meanie LOL
Well enjoy, and let us know what you think!
Thanks kiba1988 for beta reading this, suki dayo ne, you're THE BEST!
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in the story; I do own this story though.
Changed: 5 jan 2014.
It's been five days since Teito 'woke up'. He had been training with Frau every day to get his strength back. He now was able to walk around in his room without help, but he still wasn't allowed to leave his room.
On the third morning, Bishop Labrador had released him from the IV and told him that he would only be hooked on when he was about to go to sleep. Every night Labrador would come in to check up on him and would put the IV back. Frau would get it off again the next morning, when he brought food up and they would eat together.
It was almost time for Teito to go back to sleep again. He lay on his back with his hands behind his head, staring up at the ceiling as he thought of how the day had.
He had trained with Frau in walking up and down some of the stairs and Mikhail had been constantly cheering him on, but that didn't prevent him from getting some bruises from falling while climbing. The muscles in his legs were screaming from all the exercises they had done. "Funny how I ended up. Two weeks ago I could run a marathon and still assassinate people without ever having to stop to catch my breath. Now I can hardly walk the stairs three times without collapsing. Never thought that I had neglected my body that bad in such short amount of time by denying any food." Teito said to himself. 'I need a lot more training before I am able to get my hands on Ayanami, but I need to be careful, I don't want any of them to know what I'm planning to do,' he thought'.
"Master I told you not to do this on your own. You need all the help you can get and provably from the Frau."
"Yes, you did and I promised you I would listen, that's all. I swear if you even try and tell them what i just thought, I will block you completely, just as I did before."
"…, yes master." Mikhail said disappointed.
Frau walked in and closed the door behind him. He had gone to get some food for Teito and himself after he had brought the boy to his room to get some rest. He turned around and looked at the boy on the bed while he balanced the plates on his left arm. The boy seriously looked worn out after today's training. Frau smirked at what the kid had done today. How he had glared at the stairs for being too freaking hard to climb without stumbling. How he had growled at Frau as he was told to try it another time. Frau enjoyed the determination the boy showed in every action he chose to do, the actions he was ordered to do, the actions he willed himself to do.
Frau started to think back at the day Teito 'woke up'. He was so happy that time, but now, it seemed that everything had changed since then, and he was partly to blame for that. Before they finally seemed to be able to talk to each other with honesty, Frau still tried to speak like they used to do, but he noticed the guarded speech Teito had started to use.
Frau saw the conflict in his eyes and decided he should start first. "I am sorry for how I reacted that night. I shouldn't have left you like that, but still I did. I was kind of shocked to find out, that you figured out my true nature, like the way you had. I was shocked to learn how much hardship you had felt in this life you have lived. I was confused, I didn't know what I was thinking, hell, I didn't know if I even were thinking at all. I was intrigued with you, the way you acted, the way I responded without even thinking it over, it just happened. Then Mikhail spoke to me, snapping me back to reality. I was scared of what I had done to you, what I could do to …"
"Frau, stop, just stop. It is done, it happened. It is finished. I don't want to talk about it."
"But… Kid, listen to me I don't want to leave it like that, we need to, I need to …"
"No Frau, you don't, we don't. I promised Mikhail I would listen to you, to Labrador-san and Castor-san, but I will not listen to things that happened in the past. Too much has already happened in the past, … I wish to not think about the past, I wish to not talk about the past. What has happened is done, I need to work at whatever I think I need. I know what I need to know, I will use what I need to use, to achieve what I plan to accomplish in the time I have left in this life.
Frau stared at the kid, when did he start to speak like that, what had happened while he spoke to Mikhail? When did he build up all those walls again. Frau had thought that he had found a way into those, but now it seemed they have strengthened and even doubled. Frau was thrown away from the trust he had received because he had tried to run away, and he couldn't really blame the kid.
"Frau stop staring at me like I am for sale or something, you need to help me train, as fast as possible. So shall we start right now, I have eaten and I can drag the stupid IV with me if I really have to. I have to get my strength back."
"Yeah, nice try, damn brat, you won't let me explain how sorry I am, and then you expect me to help you train, don't think so. You will have to wait 'till tomorrow at least. Maybe if you ask nicely, I will help you then. First you need to sleep."
"No, I …"
Frau felt familiar pain inside his head as Mikhail tried to speak to him, so he let him. At the same time, Teito could hear him also in his head, speaking to them both. "Master, Frau is right, even though not for the reason he says." Frau could almost feel the glare Mikhail was throwing at him. "You need to rest tonight, you just 'woke up' and your body is not strong enough. Not as it is now."
"Yeah, I know, and that's why I need to train, now preferably."
"Teito, kid, listen to Mikhail, he …"
Teito tried to get up, but Mikhail prevented him for doing just so. Mikhail slowly took hold over his body.
"Master if you will not listen to me, I will MAKE you rest, right now. I don't want to force you like this in anything, but I feel like I have to. So you will agree with this and do it yourself, or do I have to do it for you?!"
Both Frau and Teito were shocked after hearing what Mikhail had just said to Teito, but as Mikhail had said, Teito could slowly feel Mikhail taking full control. Teito knew that if he really wanted to he would be able to shut Mikhail out again and Ignore whatever he tried, but to be honest he was to tired to try. "Ok, Mikhail, I will," he whispered as he lay down again.
Frau smirked as he started to get up from the chair he sat in. "I will be back in the morning to bring up some more food and help you with exercising your body. Sleep well, kid."
Frau looked up from his thoughts and saw that Teito had fallen asleep. He walked to the table to place the plates on. The door behind him was opened once again as Labrador and Castor came in. Looking at the both of them he smiled as he pointed to the kid on the bed, gesturing he was asleep.
Labrador smiled. They had heard the snoring when they were about to walk in, but it had stopped when they entered. "We still have to wake him up, he needs to eat the food you brought up and I need to hook him on, though this is probably the last time. What I have seen and what I have heard from you, I gather he is doing well as one should expect him to do." Labrador walked over to the bed and softly shook Teito awake.
"nnh, I was not sleeping,…" Teito mumbled as he started to push himself up from the bed to look at the three Bishops in his room.
"Teito-kun, if you weren't sleeping, what was the snoring I heard just now when we walked in? I really think that was you, seeing we are standing on our feet, at least I know Labrador-san and I were awake. Frau on the other hand, is another story." Castor stated with a devilish grin on his face.
"Kid, you really were snoring." Frau laughed.
"Was not."
"Yeah, brat you were."
"Argg, fine, all right I was. Labrador-san will this really be the last time you will hook me up to that thing? Does that also mean I can train on my own, from now on?" Teito asked while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
Frau scowled as he listened to the boy and snapped. "So what do you mean by that brat? What are you really saying, you don't want me to help you anymore. That you can't wait to push me any further away, even further than you already have done. You don't want us to help you train."
Teito looked down as he was formulating an answer. "It's not like that… I… I just hate that I have to wait for you every morning to hook me off this thing," Teito gestured to the IV Labrador had just hooked him on again, "before I even can start to train normally. Sure you can help me train if you want, I don't really mind. What I do mind is that every single minute of the day one of you is always around me. Don't you have other people to help, don't you have mass to attend to? Even you must see that I am hardly the only person here in the church. I can't ask you to be around me all the time when I know you have so many other stuff to do around here. It wouldn't be fair if I did. The sooner I can train on my own, the sooner you all are able to do the things you need to do for this church."
"He has a point there, Frau, you always are around him, and even use him as an excuse to stay away from mass." Castor said, but was elbowed by Labrador after that.
"Fine, see for yourself, damn brat. I will not help you tomorrow. I will go attend the mass and go do my chores. But don't complain if you fall down and can't get up."
Looking up at Frau, Teito saw some serious hurt in the males eyes, but he couldn't find it in him to care about it,… much. "…" Teito sighed as he looked away again, not able to look at the hurt eyes of the man who helped him so much these couple of days.
Frau gabbed a plate from the table and passed it on to Teito. "Go eat, after that you must sleep, so you can go train tomorrow… on your own." He walked back to the table and grabbed his own from the table as he walked out of the room.
"Teito-kun, I really think you hurt Frau just now. He only tries to help you. Maybe you could have said it a little nicer if you wanted some time for yourself. I understand we are always around you, but that doesn't give you the right to be so harsh." Labrador told him. He grabbed Castor by his arm as he started to walk out of the room with the said man. "Enjoy the meal, Teito-kun, good luck training tomorrow."
Teito looked at the plate in front of him, he didn't really feel like eating right now. He knew he had hurt Frau, but what was he to do? He wanted to keep them all at a distance, if he would let them get close again, they surely would get hurt, probably even more than by the words he just had spoken.
"Master, are you still convinced that you need to carry the burden on your own? You know you can't do it all by yourself."
"Shut up Mikhail, this has nothing to do with you." With that Teito started to shove the food down. When full, he placed the plate on the ground beside the bed, thinking he would clean it up tomorrow, before he lay down again to get the needed sleep.
Hakuren was helping the sisters when someone called him. He looked at the one who did and saw it was Castor. Standing up and excusing himself to the nuns he walked over to the two Bishops standing there. He looked at both of them, before he focused on Castor. "Can I help you with something Bishop Castor?" he asked.
"As a matter of fact, you can Hakuren. Do you remember the boy that was in bed while Frau was looking after him?" Castor asked.
"Of course I do, and ever since he woke up, I haven't seen Frau around. Is everything all right?" Hakuren had told himself 'that' night, that he would ask Frau about the boy the next morning. When he came back came back, the boy was already sitting up and eating. Both the boy and Frau were silent and wouldn't answer him, so he left and hadn't seen them both again after that.
"I think most will be fine, given time, but right now we need your help. He has made clear he doesn't want us around that much anymore. We like to ask you if you would mind keeping an eye on him for us. Seeing he is just a couple of years younger than you, maybe he will let you be around him." Labrador answered for Castor.
"Why should anybody have a problem if you would be around them? I don't get that. I think it's an honor to be able to be around even one of the Bishops of this church, let alone, three of them who will care about you. But if you ask me to do this, I sure will be willing to do so." Hakuren answered with a slight blush on his cheeks as he looked at the two Bishops.
Labrador smiled as Castor just looked with his usual stoic face. "Thank you, Hakuren-kun. He is asleep now, but if you would bring some food up tomorrow for him and help him, that would be great. " Labrador said and looked at Castor. "We should probably go looking for Frau, Kami knows where he took off to again." Both males took off to search, leaving Hakuren to think about tomorrow.
Hakuren had just woken up when he remembered what he had promised last night, so when getting up he wondered what he should bring the boy. He didn't know him, and the only time he had seen him, he was sleeping or not speaking at all. Still not knowing what to take when he entered the diner hall, he ordered two of the same, if the boy didn't want it, he was sure to eat it himself. Although he had to bring the breakfast to the kid, he didn't want to eat together with the boy. He ate his own breakfast at one of the tables near the kitchen before going up to the room of the boy.
He knocked on the door waiting for an answer. Hearing a "Yeah, come in." Hakuren walked into the room. The first thing he noticed was an empty bed, and an IV with no-one attached. 'So the boy took it upon himself to remove it, didn't expect that,' he thought honestly. Looking around the room he saw the boy on hands and feet, he looked like doing push-ups but Hakuren could see it took a lot of energy out of him.
Teito looked up as someone walked in. He hadn't expect anyone to come, since how things ended last night. "I see, you defiantly are not Frau, I thought maybe he would come, as he has been doning every day." He said as he looked over the boy standing before the door. The boy seemed a couple of years older than him. "What's your name?" he asked while pushing himself up to sit.
"My name is Hakuren. I came to bring you some food. Labrador-san and Castor–san asked me to do so yesterday. They said something about, don't wanting them around anymore, but honestly I think you are being stupid for saying that. The Bishops earn great respect, especially from someone they took care off. You had three Bishops taking care of you, the three most important, may I add, and you just told them to leave you alone. I find that very disrespectful, especially to Frau, he sat here almost a whole week looking after your sleeping body." Hakuren's volume went up the more he said to the boy. "And I don't even know your name!"
Teito looked at the now fuming boy by the door as he pulled up one of his eyebrows. He didn't want anyone else to know his name, it was bad enough Frau and the others knew it. What was worse, he kind of looked like one of the guys he met at the academy. The one called Shuri Oak. "I don't think you need to know my name, and even if you need to know, I don't want to tell you. Please don't tell me you don't happen to be an Oak, do you?"
Hakuren lost it, who was this boy, not telling his name., what the … how did he know he was an Oak? He dropped the plate with food on the ground as he walked over to the boy. He grabbed him by his nightshirt and pulled him up against the wall. The only reaction he got was a groan and a smirk. "Who the hell do you think you are kid! I come up here, bringing you breakfast and stuff, and all you can do is being this ungrateful brat, and besides that, calling me an Oak."
"So, you are an Oak then!?"
A groan left Hakuren's mouth as he lifted a hand over his eyes and answered. "Yes, I am an Oak, but I am not proud of being a relative of that family. As you must know, seeing that you know the name Oak I will tell you something. They always go into politics or into the military. Wanting to be a bishop is hardly the right path they see fit for an Oak. So, don't compare me with those people from the Oak family, I might wear the name, but I am not the same."
Teito's eyes widened as he replayed what Hakuren had just said, in his head. "Ok, so you are not like that Shuri Oa…"
"You know Shuri, my cousin?" He let Teito go as he thought about how the boy possibly could know his cousin. "How do you know him, wait, are you from the military, please don't say you are from the military."
When Teito was released, he felt his legs complain of the sudden pressure. He had to use his hand to grab onto Hakuren to prevent falling to the ground. Teito looked into his eyes as he thought of how to answer. "Uhm no, I am not from the military, not anymore any more anyway." He said while waiting for the reaction he would get.
Hakuren looked at the boy before him, he felt the pressure of the boy as he tried to keep standing. He saw the suspicion and doubt in the look of those eyes. Looking away and around the room he noticed the chairs and table not far away from them. Silently pulling the boy with him he walked over to one of the chairs to let the boy sit before he sat in the other one.
Teito let himself be guided to the chair as he kept his gaze at Hakuren as he walked to the other chair in the room. Both stared at each other as they both were looking for something to say.
Expecting the boy to stay quiet, Hakuren started to speak. "So you once were someone of the military, please explain this to me. I don't like people from the military. I may say, I even go as far as hate them."
"I…" Teito didn't want to tell him anything, but something started to bug him. Something told him he could somehow trust this one person. He resembled someone, but he couldn't explain, who or why even. 'Mikhail, who is this person, do you know something?' He thought to Mikhail. 'Why do I feel like I have to let him know who I am.'
"Oh master,.. so now I am allowed to talk again. So you admit you need others to help you."
'You know what, forget it, I will handle it myself'
"Be my guest…" Mikhail chuckled as he noticed the confused emotions of his master. "I will be here if you admit that you need my help."
Hakuren saw the look in the eyes of the boy before him glass over, but soon they were as bright as ever. He didn't know what cased it, but he would keep an eye on it, to see if it would happen again and to see if he could find an explanation.
Taking a chance, Teito told him his name. He had decided to wait for the reaction after that before he would continue telling him more, or just ignore the presence of him. "My name is Teito, Teito Klein." Even though it wasn't his real name, it was the name he was known for throughout Barsburg Empire.
"You, you are THE Teito Klein… The one that is mentioned as a coldhearted killer?!"
Teito twitched as he was reminded at how people saw him. He slowly nodded and waited for Hakuren to freak out, but when he didn't, he looked up.
"You seriously don't look like a killer, are you sure that's your name. You are not playing some sick joke, are you?" Hakuren continued.
"What, I tell you my name and instead of running away like a scared cat, you make fun of me. As if I don't know my own name …" Teito couldn't help but smile a little at his own answer, a week ago he actually didn't know his real name.
"I thought you were mad? Why are you smiling all of a sudden? Why should I run away, it not like you can catch me in the condition you are in now." Hakuren smirked.
Teito rolled his eyes, this guy before him… he was something else. He suddenly knew who he resembled, he was like Mikage. He was able to make fun of him, without Teito losing it or even get angry about it. He took things as they were presented to him, instead of what he already had heard. He was someone who wanted to look with his own mind and eyes. "Yeah, I am sure that is my name. For the other question, I ran away from the military. Frau caught me when I fell from the Hawkzile I escaped on." Teito wasn't about to tell him about Mikage or how he ended up in the military in the first place so he ended it there as he waited for an answer.
Hakuren was speechless. The boy, Teito had just told him his name, while just minutes ago he had refused to do so and he had also answered another question without trying to ignore the question in the first place. Looking away he noticed the scattered food he had brought up for Teito, but then dropped when he went to grab Teito by his collar. "Uhm, I guess I have to bring you some new breakfast, I kind of ruined it."
Teito looked at the plate and the food. "Yeah, I kind of like food that hasn't been laying on the ground, but instead of you bringing it to me, what do you say if we clean it up together and I walk with you to the dining hall."
"I would like that, I guess, saves me walking up and down the stairs again and all." Hakuren laughed.
Both stood up as they walked over to the food scattered on the floor to clean it, before they took off to the dining hall.
Frau saw the two boys leave the room as he stood in the shadow of one of the pillars. He had been there since Hakuren had entered the room and had listened to what went on in the room. When he had heard that Hakuren had shoved Teito up against the wall, he had been about to storm in to stop the two. But Labrador had stopped him from entering and had said he should leave them be. That it would be all right and that Frau should trust Hakuren in knowing what he did.
He had a kind expression on his face as he saw them walking toward the dining hall. Sure, he wished he was the one leading Teito there. Staying away from Teito know was a goodway he could still make sure the boy was ok, and let the brat think he was listening to him. Maybe if the kid thought they listened to him, he would trust them a little again in time.
Pushing away from the pillar he started to walk to the garden, sure to find Castor and Labrador there. He wanted to thank them for asking Hakuren to go to Teito. It was a good choice of them to send the boy instead of letting Frau bring breakfast again, even though he didn't particularly liked it.
Halfway through the way to the dining hall Teito had stopped to catch his breath a little. They hadn't talked as they walked out of the room and Teito had noticed the presence of someone nearby, but he couldn't tell who it had been. Now that he had stopped and thought about it, he suspected one of the bishops They were all capable to somewhat hiding their presence, as he was able to do himself. The fact that he did notice it was that he knew the person well, or that person was not that good at it. He thought back at when he had first came to the church and he had tried to hide his presence while stalking Frau. Now that he thought about it, the one nearby most certainly had to have been Frau.
Hakuren looked at Teito as he was catching his breath. They hadn't talked since they left the room, but it seemed Teito had something on his mind. "Do you want to talk about it?" Hakuren asked as he kept watching Teito.
"Huh, what… no. It's not important. I think I can go on now, sorry to make you wait for me." Teito said while standing straight again and continued to walk toward the diner hall.
"No problem, it has only been five days since you been out of bed." Looking sideways at him, he still thought that Teito was bothered about something, but he decided to leave it at that.
The dining hall was almost empty now, except for the few nuns there who had the chores of cleaning it after breakfast. As soon as they stepped into the dining hall three nuns came rushing towards Teito. "Little lamb, how are you feeling, we haven't seen you for a while now." Rosalie said as she stood before Teito.
Libelle, who stood behind Rosalie, saw how thin Teito was. He wasn't big to begin with, but it seemed he lost even more since they saw him. "Little lamb, have you been eating properly, did bishop Frau not bring enough food for you. He probably ate it himself as he walked up to your room every day. We really need to have a talk with him. He should not eat the food of his precious person."
Athena elbowed Libelle softly when she heard what the nun had said. They could not let Teito know that Frau cared so much about him. Frau hadn't told them but they had just seen how protective he was. How he looked at the boy when the boy wasn't looking. Athena looked at Teito and saw his face change a little with hurt, but it soon changed into a more stoic expresion.
"Uhm, I feel fine, thank you Rosalie, and yes, I have eaten enough, though I am a bit hungry now, so I like to grab something if there is still some left." Teito said as he brushed a hand through his hair and looked at Hakuren for help, Ignoring what Libelle had said about Frau.
Rosalie watched the look in Teito's eyes as he looked at Hakuren. "Well, we girls," she pointed at her two sisters, "will go look for Frau and tell him he isn't allowed to stuff all of your food in his own mouth. Maybe Hakuren-kun will help you in getting some food then." She said while pushing her two sisters out of the dining. "Oh, and Hakuren, make sure he will eat enough this time, he looks like he needs it." She said looking back.
"I will do just that, sister Rosalie." Hakuren chuckled to her back. Still chuckling he gave Teito a slight push toward where some leftover food should be. "Go on, help yourself to some food."
Stumbling forward as he was pushed, trying to regain some of his stability. He shook his head as he grabbed a plate in the corner to fill it up. There was some fisheye soup left and some weird looking sticks with something (probably one of Frau's creations). He grabbed both of it and walked over to Hakuren, who had taken a table to sit on while Teito could eat.
"So, what are your plans for today? Something specific you have in mind?" he asked as Teito sat down. "Maybe I can help you train, if you want me to?" he remembered what bishop Labrador had said, but didn't see anything wrong as he offered his own help.
Looking at Hakuren, he really didn't see why he shouldn't allow Hakuren to help him. Maybe they could train together. Frau always just stood watching him with a smirk on his face as if he tried not to laugh as he stumbled through the exercises. The only thing Frau was good for, was for catching him, especially in the beginning, when he couldn't even make one step without falling. Who knows, maybe he could get in some battle training with Hakuren helping him. "I want to do some training for my legs, I think that's the most important part, maybe throw in some arm movement just to make them move. You could come train with me, training never hurts."
"Sounds good, so we will both be training today. We could start with just walking through the church square, when tired do some pushups and belly muscle training while catching ones breath. If that works we can speed up until we can run full speed for a while. I don't say we have to do that right away, but we can build it up." Hakuren talked on and on with some kind of training plan.
Teito began to eat as he listened to the plans Hakuren made. He had to admit he liked the idea of training together and the plans Hakuren made sounded good and solid enough to give a try. When he was done eating, they had a training schedule for about two weeks. The first week would be mostly muscle training, but the week after, they could work on their zaiphon handling as well.
Hakuren had asked, while rattling on about the plan as he was eating, if he was able to use zaiphon. Teito had nodded at that and when his mouth was empty he told him that it was the attack zaiphon that he could used. Hakuren had nodded and said he used that sort of zaiphon as well, so they could train with each other.
Bringing the plate to the kitchen so it could be washed, they wanted to train as soon as possible. They both felt excited to start their new training, so they left the dining and went to the square to start their first training day.
It was almost evening when three males were hidden away in the shadows to look at the two boys who had been training there all day long. They had kept their promise to leave Teito alone some more, but hadn't really expected that things would turn out like this.
That morning Frau had come to Labrador and Castor to thank them for sending Hakuren to Teito. He was a bit skeptical as they started off fighting, but it seemed they were doing fine just now. Teito seemed to accept Hakuren's help during the training, and Hakuren seemed to enjoy being with Teito.
Frau turned to Labrador again. "Thanks again Lab, I hadn't expected things to work out like this, but is seems you made the right call once again."
"Well, Frau-kun, we couldn't leave Teito on his own, not really, and seeing that Hakuren had no partner so far. It seemed like it was planned like this from the start." Labrador smirked.
"Don't hide it love, you had foreseen this, haven't you." Castor landed a kiss on his lover's forehead.
"Ah, get a room four-eyes. But still, thank you Lab." Frau said, while he stared at the training boys. "Hé, does Hakuren still sleep alone in that room of his?" he asked the two.
"Yes, he does. What about it?" Castor pulled his brows together as he looked at Frau.
"Well, the brat doesn't want us around him anymore, so I guess he can sleep in one of the rooms all the apprentices sleep in. Seeing now that he seemed to get along with Hakuren, why not assign him to that room. They could be roommates and we have the guestroom free again." Frau told Castor.
Finding it hard to admit Frau was right, even with something as trivial as this. "We could probably do that, but it doesn't have to be right now." Receiving an elbow from the youngest male he added: "Ok, I will see to it right away." He gave a look to Labrador, who only innocently smiled back, he walked toward the two boys.
Labrador looked at the sky. It was getting rather late. "Frau, you should probably start scouting soon. It's getting dark already. I will make sure Teito-kun will be assigned to Hakuren's room, so you don't have to worry."
Frau looked up at the sky himself, sighing inwardly he had to admit Labrador was right, as always. "Yeah, I will go and prepare. See you later Lab." He walked off to his room to change into better clothes for scouting.
Labrador walked over to Castor who had seated the two boys near the edge of the square. "Teito-kun, how was your day?" he heard Castor ask. Labrador looked at the two boys. Hakuren was looking like he always did, neat as if he just groomed himself. Teito on the other hand looked like he could collapse any minute now while he answered.
"It was good, I guess. We did a lot of training today."
"I can see that, Teito-kun" Castor looked at the boy and smiled at the state he was in. "You should take a shower and go to bed soon. You can train again tomorrow after breakfast."
"I guess we should call it a day." He looked at Hakuren as he was about to take his leave, but Labrador stopped him.
"Teito-kun, you have been here for a month now, if I am right." Labrador looked at Castor for confirmation. Seeing that Castor didn't say otherwise, he continued. "We think it is time to assign you to one of the rooms in this church. That way you have somewhat your own room and we could use the guest room for other people in need of a place to stay for a while. We were thinking of assigning you to Hakuren's room. You both seem to get along fine, and Hakuren still needs a roommate."
Teito didn't like the fact that he needed to share a room. He thought about it, sharing a room with Hakuren, he didn't mind that much. Him being his roommate was better than some weird stranger he hadn't met before. "Would you mind to share your room with me?" he asked Hakuren.
Hakuren shook his head. If asked this morning he would have asked if there wouldn't be another room free for Teito, but after the day they spent together he had started to like the quiet male a bit. Yes, he was mysterious and didn't say much about himself, but he wasn't unfriendly at all. "I wouldn't mind, could be fun, I guess" he said looking from Teito to Castor and Labrador.
"Ok then, Hakuren, you should bring Teito to the room then and show him the shower first before you show him his bed," Castor said with a smirk, "Labrador and I will report it to the archbishop and will bring Teito's things later on. I expect both of you in bed, by the time we come in."
With that, all four stood up and went with what they had to do. Hakuren let them to their room while Castor and Labrador went to find Archbishop Jio, to tell him of the change of rooms of Teito.
It had been a week and a half since they had started training. Teito could finally run for a period of time without needing to catch his breath and they had started to train with their zaiphon.
Teito was a bit proud after the first zaiphon training, when he noticed that his attack power hadn't decreased. He could still easily fight with his zaiphon, if only his body was back to normal he could easily beat Hakuren. He had a hard time dodging all the attacks that were thrown his way. His mind told him to dodge every attack thrown to him, but his body didn't always move like it was told to do. Lucky for them bishop Labrador had demanded that when they started training with attack zaiphon, he should be called for. If one of them did get hurt, he could heal them.
The third day after the day they had started training with zaiphon the three bishops had called them over. They had let Teito do as he wanted for some time now but they wanted to offer him their help again.
They had asked Teito and Hakuren if they knew about the types of zaiphon. Teito had answered while Hakuren was still thinking. "The academy taught us that there are two types of zaiphon. The first year we were all mixed in the same classes, but starting second year we were divided in two groups. A group for the attack class, with the guys who could use the attack type. A group for the medical class, with the guys who could use the healing type. The kids who were to weak or happen to have no zaiphon at all were thrown out of the academy., not allowed to stay a second longer."
Hakuren nodded at the answer, he had learned this from his father, when he was still a boy. He was always put into tests to trigger his zaiphon so he would have been strong enough to stay. But there was something else, last year he had read something in the church library. "I think I read about a third type of zaiphon. It's very rare but it was called manipulation zaiphon if I recall correctly. I am not sure what it can do, but I think there are only a handful of people who can use that type."
Teito looked at Hakuren in confusion. "A third type, why hasn't the military told us about it, why isn't there a class for those kids?"
That's when Labrador explained. "The military doesn't have a class for that type because it is too rare to fill a whole class. So now you know there are three types of zaiphon. It happens to be that Frau, Castor and I all have one of these types of zaiphon. As you have already seen, I have the healing type of zaiphon. This means I can't attack the Kor, but it can be used to restrict the movement, thus making it easier to remove at lowered risk of injuring the host in process. Besides that I can heal small wounds and am able to transfer my Zaiphon or life force to others who are in need."
"I have the same type of zaiphon as you two have," Frau told them, "as you know we are able to make long-range attacks by forming words with our zaiphon. These words will explode upon impact to cause damage or bind an opponent, it can also be used to cut through another attack. But not only that, we are also able to make shields around our self to protect us, but this has to be done properly, cause if we fail in controlling it, it can also harm us."
"And the last type is the manipulation zaiphon, which I can use. There are not many people who can use this as Labrador has already explained. It can be used at close-range and long-range. I can make objects move around and even let them look like something that they are not. This is one of the reasons I like to build dolls in order to make them work for me…"
"Yeah, yeah, Doll-freak we don't have to know what you like to do with these dolls in your own time. What we will tell you guys," Frau directed his gaze back toward the boys who had listened quietly, "We'd like to offer our help with your training schedule. Labrador can heal you, as he already had to do many times by now. I can help you fight off a real strong opponent as I will be fighting and training against you, and this doll-freak can put a Kor in one of his dolls to let you be able to learn how to fight against a Kor"
Frau was now staring at Teito. He really wanted to help the kid with his training, but he didn't want to have another fight. He wanted to earn the trust back he had before, and the only way he thought he was able to, was to let the brat make his own decisions.
The last couple of days had been really hard on him. Frau had wanted to give the brat a piece of his mind, telling him he shouldn't be so ridiculous. Why couldn't the brat just trust him a bit more and tell him what was on his mind. But every time he was about to loose it, Castor or Labrador were near him to stop him, and made him think about it first.
Since Teito had been in his new room with Hakuren, Frau had been hearing gasps as Teito woke up in the middle of the night. Teito always tried to stay quiet so Hakuren wouldn't wake up, but Frau was always near that room. Making sure Teito was ok.
Finally Teito moved.
Frau almost exhaled out loud, not knowing he had held his breath this whole time, not that he needed it really. It was more like a human habit that he was stuck with.
Looking at Hakuren first and receiving a nod and a shrug from his shoulders, he looked at Frau directly as he answered. "I think it's a good way to train, we could learn a lot from the exercise by fighting with Kor, I guess."
"And don't forget you can try and beat me." Frau said with a wide smirk.
"As if you'd stand a chance, we would beat you with our eyes closed." Both Teito and Hakuren told Frau.
Labrador and Castor both laughed. Frau just scoffed at the two kids before him. "Yeah, as if!"
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