Chapter 2: CHAPTER 2:
The sun slowly rose over the horizon bringing forth its beautiful rays of light which looked like soldiers as they chased away the darkness of the night.
In an alley, a boy can be seen lieing down almost motionless on the floor, his pitch black curly hair draped over his face, his long sleeved shirt which once had some patches of white has been replaced with a red coloured substace.
The boy slowly regained consciousness as he wriggled his nose as a result of the foul stench of the alley he was lieing in, getting up slowly the boy leaned against a nearby wall which he used to slowly get back to his feets, the boy felt immense pain all over his body and he grabbed his head as the memories of what happened last night flooded back into him. The boy could only sigh as he then began slowly and painfully walking out of the alley heading back home.
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Infront of a small house which looked to be a bungalow that could only fit a single person although the house seemed old and due for maintenance,it still looked better than any other house on its street.A girl could be seen sitting on a chair made of plastic, the girl looked young as seemed to be in her tenth year of age, she had a nice oval and symmetrical face, with straight pink hair which reached her back, with a pair of blue eyes. She wore a pink sweater and a bum short which highlighted her slime long legs. Although she was supposedly ten years old, she looked a little matured which could be seen from the swells on her chest although they were still developing she would definitely be gorgeous when she matures fully.
The girl sat facing opposite an opened gate leading to a dirty street which had different sort of garbage littered all over. The girl sat watching the littered street as though waiting for someone or something to walkby and someone did. A boy with pitch black hair, deep blue eyes with gloves on his hands walked into the gate.
"Toku...." the girl shouted as she ran happily to go and meet the boy who had just entered through the gates. The girl hugged the boy tightly "Kylie...." Toku also reciprocated the act and they remained like that for some minute.
"What happened that you didn't come back home last night? you know i was so scared that something bad happened to you, and why is there some red stains on your shirt?...." the girl kept on talking and asking questions but the boy didn't answer but rather smiled at the girl as she was busy talking. A red liquid slowly dripped down from Toku's mouth and landed on the ground. The girl finally stopped talking and looked at Toku.
"Toku you're blee-" before the girl could finish speaking, Toku fainted and was falling forward, the little girl caught him and was very shocked by the turn of events, one minute Toku was standing,the next he just fainted. It took the girl sometime before she could realise the severity of the situation after which she started shouting
"MOM...MOM...M..OM...." Kylie kept on calling out to her mother as she dragged the unconcious Toku towards her house. Upon entering the house a matured woman who looked to be in her mid thirties with straight pink hair and deep blue eyes could be seen coming out from a room which was supposedly the kitchen. She looked exactly like Kylie or to be more exact Kylie was a carbon copy of her. She had a nice body structure with curves in the right places and was wearing a plain yellow gown with an apron over it.
" Kylie what is the probl-" the woman was speechless as she saw the scene in front of her, Kylie was assisting an unconscious Toku into the house, who from the state his was in had been bleeding. She didn't waste anymore second as she assisted Kylie to lay Toku on a mat with a blanket on it.
" Kylie go and get some hot water and the disinfectants from the kitchen and a clean rag" the woman immediately ordered Kylie on what to do, and Kylie while still crying went to the kitchen to get what was needed. While Kylie was gone, the woman tore off Toku's shirt which was barely covering his body by now and was shocked again by what she saw.On Toku's chest, were many burnt marks and deep cuts.
'What on Earth did this boy do to get beaten up so badly' the woman thought as she immediatel laid her hands on Toku's chest and immediately bright yet calm blue light radiated out from them and slowly entered into Toku's chest. Kylie on the other hand had come into the room with what her mother ordered her to bring, she had stopped crying a little but after seeing the burnt marks and deep cuts on Toky's body, she couldn't help it and she started tearing up again. Her mom removed her hands from Toku's chest which at this moment the burn marks and cuts were mostly healed. She took the disinfectant poured it into the warm water and dipped the rag in. She then used the rag to clean the remaining burn marks and cuts on Toku's body.After sometime, the woman was done treating Toku who now had a bandage around his chest. She stood up and entered the kitchen to wash the rag which was now red in colour and also to throw away the bloody water. Kylie on the other hand was still sitting down beside Toku sobbing. The woman latter came back and sat near her child trying to console her. "Mom will he be ok?" Kylie asked as she turned to look at her mom in the eyes. "Yes he will, i have done my best and beside this isn't the first time this is happening" the woman then looked at the still unconcious Toku before saying " he has a strong life force so he will definitely survive so don't cry my dear" the woman then hugged the still crying Kylie.
Waking up, Toku was in a lot of pain, he placed his hand across his chest where he felt the most pain, he then noticed that it had already been covered with a lot of bandage. He then looked around and noticed that Kylie was sleeping at his left hand side. With a smile on his face he used his right hand to caress her face and then looked out the window and saw the moon was already high in sky indicating that it was around midnight.
" She has been waiting for you to wake up all night and finally slept not too long ago.." looking in the direction of the voice, Toku saw a matured woman who was sitting down on a wooden stool drinking what seemed to be coffe.
" Aunt you also awake, i didn't know you cared so much" Toku said with a smile as he saw his aunt still awake.
" Cut the crap kid, this is no joking matter you could have died if I hadn't met you earlier..." Toku's aunt said in a serious voice as she placed the cup of tea on the ground.
" Am sorry..." Toku said as he bent his head a little.
" Sigh....it's okay, this isn't the first time...so what happened to you?..."
Toku's aunt asked as she resumed taking her coffe listening to Toku who then began narrating everything that happened to his aunt not leaving out a single detail.
" Sigh...the duke really is a torn in the side. So they took away your allowance right" the woman asked Toku after listening to all he had to say. The forsaken realm was such a harsh place that they had to do gruesome labour in order to get money to get a little amount of food and upon that they still had to pay something known as protection fee to the duke who everybody in the slum still worked for. This indirectly means that the money they gained wasn't really actaully for them but for the duke who still sent out thugs to steal from them. They really couldn't do anything apart from put up to what the duke ordered them to do.
" hahaha...not really" Toku said as he reached down towards his left leg, pulling up his trouser a small pouch almost similar to the one Mister Dick took could be seen attached to his leg through some sort of tape. He removed the pouch from his leg and threw it towards his aunt who then caught it with disbelieve in her eyes.
" hahahahahaha.....what a smart kid you are, so this was why you asked for the tape the other day, what a smart kid you are indeed" Toku aunt laughed as she praised Toku for what he had done, because he managed to trick the duke's thugs, and also his son by seperating the income he gained in two, the original one with him and the decoy was the one with the duke.
" you flatter me too much.." Toku said as he too started laughing. At this point the room feel silent once again and his aunt continued sipping her coffe.
" Toku I have something really important to tell you....." Toku's aunt said as she broke the silence in the room
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