Do you beleive in fate: Chapter 2
#2 of Do you believe in fate?
Hey there, I'm not around much anymore but I've decided to keep writing this as a past time, something to do when I have free time.
Thank you to all of those that emailed me about the first chapter and the feedback I received, I am glad that you all liked it.
This chapter has no yiff in it as you can see by the area it is in. The next one will but I wont promise any dates it will be out by.
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Rose stood frowning at the door in front of her, she had been standing there knocking for over five minutes now, furres looked at her strangely as they past and she regarded them with a glare. She growled and smashed her fist against the door.
"Damn it Yu, open the hell up!" She gripped the handle and pushed, almost falling forward as the door opened. "Well geez, that's twice in a row his left his door unlocked, his just asking for a thief."
She frowned and walked through the now open door and locked it behind her, she looked around and couldn't see him, he said he had next to no work this week so he was probably sleeping his lazy ass away. She spotted the bag of coins next to the small chest and made her way over to it, she undid the cord and had a look inside.
"Hmmmm...." She stood there looking down at the coins with her arms crossed over her chest and then she grinned and took a gold coin and redid that cord. "You owe me this." She said out loud.
She looked around for a moment long before moving into the corridor and heading for his room.
She slowly opened her eyes too see the male feline next to her. He lay on his back, the covers she had placed over them were down to just above his waist. During the night when they had both waken up they simply held each other and kissed gently until one fell back asleep in the others arms. Now she could see the small streams of light coming through the cracking in the shutters. She kisses his cheek softly and rubbed his back in a small attempt to try and wake him, no doubt he had some sort of work to do even though she didn't want him to leave her, she didn't care if it was selfish. She raised herself slowly off the bed, by the time foot steps crossed her hearing it was too late, the female feline was watching her, brow raised slightly in surprise.
Yusuke stirred himself awake slowly as the women next to him raised herself making a small valley in the bed. He opened his eyes and looked up to her, a small smile on his face until he saw the look of surprise and horror on hers as she looked at something across from him. He quickly moved his head to see what was there, Rose stood there just out of the corridor looking to the human, as she noticed him she glared at him with a look of anger. He quickly sat up and put on foot on the floor.
"Rose! Wait, I can explain, just listen to me first." He quickly stood up, one hand raised slightly to her.
Instead of looking over him like she normally would have done any other time he was naked she just glared at him and turned into the corridor.
"Follow me." Was what he heard and he quickly obeyed after picking up a pair of breeches.
Rose walked out of the room, away from the human, her hands tightly into fists, so tight that she couldn't even unsheath her claws. So he had gotten himself a slave girl had he. She heard him behind her, telling her to stop so he could explain.
"Explain what!" She turned sharply and he almost ran into her, he was holding up his breeches with one hand. "That you have gotten yourself a little slave?" Something clicked inside of her. "Wait....You can't afford that much....." She thought for a moment, he had gone silent for some reason, wait, that face of the human girl, she had seen it before. "Shit Yu...Shinta is going to kill you if he sees her, that girl is one of his higher ups slaves."
He gritted his teeth tight.. "Rose, you can't tell him I have her, when I found her out of the street in front of the forge she was half dead, the bastard had almost killed her Rose."
Rose nodded he head slightly and leant back against a wall, her hand over her mouth like she did when she was thinking.
"Have you ever heard of Termoa?" She said after a few minutes, raising her head slightly to look at him.
"Termoa....." Yusuke frowned slightly, he did know that name from somewhere.
Before he could answer Rose spoke up. "The journeys of Haro Windrunner, in one of his quests he mentioned a place called Temora ?city of the free?, a place where slavery was shunned"
Yusuke nodded his head slightly, it was possible, Haro Windrunner was an adventurer, albeit he was a few centuries dead, the things that he had wrote about are still being discovered today, still, he could just be a fairytale.
"Maybe...but who's to say if this city is still around, not to mention we have no idea how to get there.." He shook his head slightly, from thinking he would be cussed and turned in by her, true he had known her since childhood, but what he was doing was called for serious punishment, for her also if she did not alert the town guard, instead she was trying to help. "Best you just forget that she is here, I will see if I can slip away tonight, the ne-"
Rose quickly cut in, talking a little louder than him. "You just get yourself ready to travel, We leave tonight you, me and that little slave girl, I'm not going to stay for Shinta to force me up to say the marriage vows while you go off travelling."
He simply looked at her like she had lost her mind. "Rose, this isn't one of our little games we use to play, I'm dead if they find her, you might get off easy because of Shinta but I wont. He will have me hanged before the day is through."
Rose smiled, Smiled!
"Now now blacksmith, you just have yourself ready to travel and be quick about it, like you said, we will slip away during the night." She kept that absurd smile on her face as she turned and made her way out of his house. He stood there for a few moment his mouth opening and closing without making a sound.
She made her way out of the bed after being left there for some time, she was growing worried. Draping the bed sheet around her shoulders she made her way out the door and into the corridor, she didn't know what to expect, knowing nothing of what the female would do or was capable of. Images ran through her head of the male on the room with blood around his lifeless body, of him in chains being dragged around with cuts and bruises on his body. That made her rush down the hall in time to see him standing there while the female walked out and the door closed. She looked from the male to the door, unable to understand what had just gone on. Her eyes quickly moved over the male's body, satisfied when she saw no injures. She slowly made her way over to him, her feet silent on the wooden boards of the floor. Placing a hand against his chest she waited for his reaction, which was nothing, he still stood gaping at the door. With a slight frown she moved closer and placed her head against his chest, that received reward. She felt his arms move up around her, gently caressing her.
"I need to get you ready....But how am I to disguise you..."
"I need to get you ready....But how am I to disguise you..."
His mind ran through the possibilities, most ended with his head on a pike. He sighed slightly and placed a gentle kiss in her hair. There was so many things to do and with little time as well, the sun was already halfway through it's descent. He stepped back and moved his hands up to her shoulders.
"Wait here, inside. I have to get things ready. Make sure the windows are closed and don't come outside." His voice was calm and he hoped that it would reassure her.
He waited a moment to see her nod her head slowly and he let go of her shoulders, she moved off down the corridor, looking over her shoulder once.
"What the hell am I going to do now...." He muttered to himself.
He moved to sit down but he was out the door before he reached the chair.
Rose smiled to herself as she walked along the dirt street, few other furres were in view. She stepped out of the way of a horse pulling a cart of wheat along. She would be leaving this rotten place and away from that bastard Shinta, most of all she would be going with Yu. She couldn't help but smile as she walked up to her door and unlocked it with the key from her pocket. Stepping in she looked around quickly, running from one spot to another, she had to prepare, to get ready.
The little slave girl sighed to herself as she listened to the sounds of outside, she could hear him talking to himself at times but could never make out the words. She sat on a high backed chair with her long golden hair over her shoulder in front of her and she absentmindedly combed it with her fingers. Her mind wandered, she knew what he was doing, what he was trying to do but would it work, there were a lot of risks she could think of at the moments and the punishment for them was anything less than pretty.
She looked up over to one of the windows, she could hear two voices now.
Yusuke hissed lightly as he saw Shinta making his way down the street with his blockheaded guards pushing people out of his way, even from where he stood there was no mistaking the rage that was present in the Canine's bloodshot eyes. Yusuke couldn't help but let out a little smile, seems that Shinta had been chewed out by one of his contacts, having half an ear doesn't make one quite the looker. Then Yu noticed one of the guards handing him a sword, the one that he himself had made for him the day earlier. Could there have been a crack in the iron... No, of course there wasn't he was better than that, then it crossed his mind, did he know she was here? He quickly took one of the designed swords that he kept out for potential buyers, he ran a padded finger over the blade and nodded his head, it was sharp enough. He started to shift from one battle stance to another, fluidly, much like a dance. Perhaps he could intimidate the canine.
Shinta gripped the hilt of the sword tightly in his paw as he looked down at the blade, he saw the reflection of his bloodshot eyes looking back to him and then he tilted the blade slightly and looked at his left ear, about two inches had been taken off from the lose of the slave. Once he found the dirty human he would beat her until she opens that mouth of hers and begs him to stop, but oh no, he wouldn't stop there, not after what the little bitch had done to him. He growled as he moved under the roof of the forge and saw the pathetic feline playing with his little swords. In a real match that weak cat wouldn't stand a chance against him, today he would prove it.
"My beloved told me she wouldn't be able to make the sheath for my blade because she is leaving to the next town to get some leather with the this little villages blacksmith. She refused time and time again when I told her I would send one of my boys... It got me wondering, that maybe something was going on between my love and this... Blacksmith.....Answer me!"
Yusuke continued to cut his blade through the air, it seemed that his hopes of imitating him wasn't going to work.... Of course it wasn't, the mongrel was insane.
"I don't remember her saying anything like beloved about you..." He cursed himself of the words slipped out of his mouth and he twisted his paw around in time to block the dogs blade with his own. All he heard was the snarling and growling of his attacker as he deflected each blow aimed at him. He parried a thrust and took a few quick steps back and took the time to ready himself as rage clouded his opponent. Shinta had gone insane, he was frothing at the mouth and his eyes darted everywhere. He half expected the canine to swing at his own people. Instead he made another mad thrust and the agile feline strafed to the left and swung the sword in a upward crescent. A pained howl pieced the air as a furred paw feel to the ground and Shinta feel to his knees as his paw covered his wrist as the crimson blood flowed through his fingers.
She had closed her eyes at the sound metal against metal touched her ears. She wondered what he was working on since there was not constant noise like there was at the forge her former master had. As the howl echoed through the house she jumped off the chair and wrapped the bed sheet around her tightly. She didn't care who saw her all she was worried about was him. Her eyes widened as she saw what had happened. She looked at the one that her master had given her to and had abused her repeatedly. She raised her gaze to Yusuke and opened her mouth to shout out for the first time in many years, but the only thing that came out was a strangled cry. The next thing she knew the canine was stumbling over to her as his blood spilled onto the dirt.
Yusuke dashed forward, there was no need to wait any longer, if he gave them a chance to gang up on him then it would all be over. The guards were a mix of feline and canine but they all wore the same thing, tunics in the colour of Shinta's house and a plain broadsword in paw. Dashing at the closest Yusuke ducked under a high slash and brought his own blade to the feline's waist, the blade sinking into the skin and out the other side. He jumped back, ignoring the two halves of a body falling to the ground, his eyes were now on the other that tried to run him through. He glanced around quickly, there wasn't much room to fight in here so he would have to be careful of where he stepped. He brought his blade up swiftly and blocked the overhead slash and he lashed out with his left paw which connected to the side of the felines head, he dropped to the ground and lay motionless. With a quick look around he saw that the rest were keeping their distance, then he saw Shinta moving towards the girl, in his only paw was a old styled dagger which looked much like a stake. Yusuke found himself bounding forwards towards Shinta. His sword whirled in his paw and another guard fell to the ground, his head following soon after.
Shinta let out a gurgled laugh, blood spilled into his lungs and his breath came out as short bubbly breathes. His eyes stayed on the pathetic human girl that just stood there, with fear in her eyes as she looked down at him. His feet where shaky, he knew they would soon give way under the weight but not now, not yet, he was too close. Red foam blew from his mouth as he raised his arm into the air and let out a choking howl, before his could bring his dagger down the howl stopped and his vision faded.
Yusuke meet no more resistance, no more wanted to lose their lives. Bring his sword over his shoulder and he skidded to a halt his knees on the ground as the blade flashed through the air. He saw the red liquid splash onto the ground in front of him and then against his fur. Raising his eye he looked up as the wolf fell to his knees. Blood poured out the gasp in the back of his neck, which feel forward, being held there by the smallest bit of furred flesh.
He lowered the blade and closed his eyes. He had no choice now...