Chapter 8

A Chapter by Weeping Willow

Ryu and Aiko all alone

“You have to eat to keep your strength up,” Haru says giving her some bread, Risa looks at her and stands up

“I’m going to find Ryu,” Risa says storming off. Aiko looks at Haru

“Ryu knows that I’m part of the Higure family and his angry, better yet he hates me.” Aiko says looking at Haru, Haru looks at her

“You should eat something.” Haru says giving her, her breakfast

“I’m not hungry.” Aiko says looking at the food

“You should eat,” Risa says walking through the room “come on Haru help me with our stuff?” Risa says grabbing Haru’s arm and pulling him out of the room. Ryu enters the room after Risa and Haru exits

“Why aren’t you eating, you need to eat.” He says sitting next to her “I hope you’re not blaming yourself for my father’s death,” Aiko looks at him “it wasn’t your fault, but if you want to know the one I blame is your father. I’m sorry but after this mission I’m going to kill your father.”

“Can I join you?” Aiko says smiling, Ryu looks at her and says

“If you want,” Aiko and Ryu sit the and talk about things for a while, then someone gets sashed through the door

“Risa,” Aiko yells as both Ryu and her standing up “are you alright?” Risa looks at them

“Ryu get her out of here,” she says standing up. Ryu looks at her and then grabs Aiko, he takes her to another compartment as a large man stops them.

“I’m taking the Princess with me.” The man says grabbing out a small knife

“Princess,” Ryu whisper “you’ll have to kill me first!” he says grabbing out his sword from a watch. Ryu and the man fight for a few minutes until another man comes in “Crap,” Ryu says trying to fight them both. Aiko grabs the train door and pulls it wide open, Ryu sees this so he grabs her and jumps out of the train. Aiko at the last minute grabbed a bag and opened it, a large mattress comes flying out and both her and Ryu land on it. Aiko is straight on top of Ryu

“Are you alright?” Ryu asks looking straight into Aiko’s eyes, Aiko blushes and gets off him

“I’m fine,” looking back at Ryu she sees cuts all over his face “but you’re not,” she says looking at the cuts

“I’ll be fine, we need to find some where to stay tonight.” Ryu says standing up, Aiko stands up and puts the mattress away. “We’ll have to sleep in the woods tonight.” Ryu says taking Aiko into the woods. When Ryu and Aiko find a spot to sleep they start making a tent made out of sticks, then Aiko realise someone is after her. So she puts up a small force field around the tent and fire

“Good idea,” Ryu says sitting down near the fire “do you have any magic spells to keep us warm”

“No, and I don’t do magic I don’t know what it is but it’s not magic.” Aiko sighs going in the tent “don’t stay up to late, we need to get up early tomorrow,” Aiko says laying down. Soon after Ryu enters the tent and spoons Aiko, Aiko tries to acted sleep even though Ryu knows she’s not. In the Moring Aiko wakes up to sees Ryu’s arm wrapped around her waist, but see still keeps her eyes closed as Ryu wake up

“I’m glad that I got stuck with you and not Haru,” Ryu whispers hoping she can’t hear.

prev chapter