GrimReaperoftheHiddenLeaf
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Chapter Three
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Chapter Twelve
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Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
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Chapter Twenty-One
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Chapter 23: "Lenne's Question"
Teacher: Alright, class dismissed.
Nel walks to the door.
Nel: What is it you wanted to ask me?
Lenne: The reason I wanted to talk to you is because of this...
Lenne took off a mask to reveal her actual face which she has a hollow hole in her left eye.
Lenne: I am the only one out of the kids who doesn't pick on Kalin.
Nel: Well, that's good. I am proud of you.
Lenne: Also, my whole family was killed.
Nel: I'm sorry.
Lenne: It was about 7 years ago when they were all killed.
Nel: I'm sorry.
Lenne: Eh, it's okay.
Nel: Is there anything else you wanted to talk about?
Lenne: Yes, I want to further develop my traits as a hollow.
Mitsuo ran into the academy.
Mitsuo: I can't find Kalin anywhere.
(Back to Kalin and Ravi)
Kalin: I'm not in trouble am I?
Ravi: With Nel maybe, otherwise no, but you need your arm looked at.
Kalin(in serious pain): I'm fine, Ravi.
Ravi: No, you aren't.
Ravi puts a hand on her shoulder and shunidos to his place.
Yanagi: Ravi, get a bowl of water. Tamo, get the ointment and other things. Come here, my child. What happened to your arm?
Kalin: It was self-defense.
Yanagi: A knife wound. Hold out your arm.
Kalin raised her arm. Yanagi waves her hand over the wound, and a green light glows from her hands. She beckons the water bowl with her finger as if saying come here bowl. She, with her other hand delicately touches the water's surface with her fingertips. The water somehow sticks to her fingers in a water bubble. She moves it to the wound, and the water seeps into it. It has a soothing and numbing effect. After a moment, she extracts the water bubble, there was specks in it. She empties it into the bowl.
Yanagi: There was poison on that knife. Do not fret, child, I have already extracted all of it.
Kalin: What a dirty trick to play.
Yanagi: Indeed, but it is a good way to finish off them, if you have not killed them.
Kalin remained quiet for the rest of the treatment.
Yanagi: You know, beauty is a curse on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are.
Kalin: Also popularity.
Yanagi: Popularity is not important. What she did was not very wise, especially on Academy grounds. It is both your faults. She attacked you, yes, but you retaliated.
Kalin looked at the ground.
Yanagi: It is her that should be ashamed, not you. She had started it, true. And she got what she deserved, of course.
Yanagi proceeds to wraps gauze around Kalin's wound. Kalin winces as she ties it.
Kalin: I didn't even touch her. The only thing I did is scare her, but that's it. I took a lot of damage from her, but I never hurt her.
Yanagi: She did get what she deserved, perhaps the fright of her life(chuckling) so she should know not to hurt you again.
Kalin: I don't think that will stop her.
Kalin washed her hands, and some skin colored cover up came off. revealing some scars. Then took off a gauze off her neck that hid more scars.
Yanagi: You know I cannot see, right?
Kalin: No, but I do know you are very wise. If you're blind then how did you know where the wound was, and that there was poison in my arm?
Yanagi: The poison was a hunch. I had lost my sight from old age, so I now see the world through spirit particles.
Yanagi rummages through her things. She finds it.
Yanagi: I loved to sing, and draw. This form of art is called stippling. And this is the skull from the drawing.
Yanagi shows Kalin both the stipple drawing and the skull.
Yanagi: That was, of course, when I became completely blind.
Kalin: I see, well, I better get back. Nel is probably looking for me.
Kalin walked to the door, but stopped.
Yanagi: Yes?
Kalin: Thank you for taking care of my arm.
Yanagi: You are mighty welcome, my dear.
Yanagi smiles like Grandmother Willow. Then Kalin left, and went back to the academy grounds. Kalin walked to the academy, and saw Nel, Lenne, Mitsuo.
Nel: I see you were at Lady Yanagi's place.
Kalin: Yes.
Lenne: Are you okay, Kalin?
Kalin: Yeah, why do you ask?
Lenne: You were poisoned, weren't you, but got it taken care of?
Kalin: Yea.
Nel: Do you see now, Mitsuo, what I was saying earlier about be treated like that just because you're different?
Mitsuo: Yeah...
Mitsuo went up to Kalin and gave her a hug.
Mitsuo: I'm sorry, Kalin, for what I've done, and what Kat did to your arm.
Lenne: Mitsuo, time to go.
Mitsuo turned and nodded, and left.
Lenne: See you tomorrow Nel, and you too Kalin.
Kalin nodded, and turned to Nel.
Kalin: Nel?
Nel: Yes, Kalin?
Kalin: Am I in trouble?
Nel: No. And no matter how strong a girl is, she has a weak point. And sometimes, all she needs is a hug.
Kalin: I see, well, I'm going to what I call home.
Nel: May I come?