The Song of the Stars

The Finding Of Secrets

Silence...

Nothing but silence... Other than her own breathing and heartbeat. She hears NOTHING. Just a void of emptiness, much like her heart. She looks around, hoping to find someone, but can only see a pitch-black room. The assassin took steps, silent steps. So silent you can barely hear her coming, just as she was expected to. Her heartbeat gets louder and louder and louder as she continues to walk around. Not only that, but her chest feels tight. Her pace goes faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster until she heard lighting...

"GAAAAAH!!!" she was clearly terrified. Her breathing became faster and so is her feet. The victims she has killed in the past were appearing one by one, clearly seeking the repayment of her sins. Her body became paralyzed, she was unable to run away, her face suddenly felt wet. Tears came rolling down her face. Sounds of screams, lighting, gunshots, and the crying children from her orphanage were all blending up together, making her feel weak, guilty, sorrowful, shameful, miserable, and regretful. All she can do was cry on her knees, hoping this nightmare would end, hoping she would cease to exist

"I'M SORRY!! I HAD NO OTHER OPTION!! I NEEDED THEM TO KEEP THE ORPHANAGE ALIVE!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!" her heart went faster and her breathing was picking up the pace. She really meant those words, if she didn't go with them, then the orphanage would be-

"Maki!! Wake up!!!"

Maki jolted awake and sweating, she was breathing as fast as her lungs would let her. They were gone. Those people chasing her were gone. They won't hurt her physically, but emotionally and mentally. Horrid memories of her nightmare came back flooding as she also recalls someone calling for her. "Maki, breathe. Calm down, no one's going to hurt you. As long as I'm around." Ah, it's Kaito! Relieve and comfort has filled her through the bone. At the worst times possible, he was always there to cheer her up. Sometimes with humor and sometimes with his stupidity (however he does this on purpose). "Laughter is the best medicine" as they say, which is mostly true. But-

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Flashback

in Maki's case, the first time she cried in front of Kaito, which was before he knew about her past. This was when the assassination cult had threatened her to "kill Kaito and her friends" and "burn the orphanage if you'd stop or failed as our best assasssin". The threat made her stop going to school for a few months. Thus sent a red flag to the astronaut since he cared for her most out of everyone.

Maki's abrupt disappearance made the transfer students (Maki's classmates from The Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles) initiated a search party. But it was mostly Kaito who created it. This took weeks until Kaito, went to a dark alley near the old building of the Academy they came from. Maki was.... covered in blood. She had just eliminated a maiden who looked like they were in their 20's. She held a knife in her hand and judging by her fresh wounds on her face and the way Maki is holding the left part of her stomach to stop the bleeding, this lady can fight. Another thing he noticed is her breathing, she was panting, and needless to say, was exhausted. Maki didn't notice Kaito until she turned around to see his horrified and worried face. She was both paralyzed and speechless, to see Kaito at the worst possible time and the fear that he would avoid, despise and tell her to the school. And like that, she cried outright. Her fears got the best of her emotions, she was shaking and can barely speak. "I'm... s..orry.." her voice was barely heard from where Kaito was standing. "I... I h.. ad.. no oth.. er choi-" she fainted on the spot mostly due to the loss of blood from her stomach. What happened next was a mystery. All she knew was Kaito probably carried her to the hospital cause as she opened her eyes, she finds herself in a white blanket, a white room, and someone napping beside her, lightly gripping her hand. Maki felt her head and stomach hurt, she had been bandaged up. Her attention turns toward her hand to find the charming but stubborn astronaut asleep. His presence alone made her feel relieved that he didn't abandon her which she hopes means he probably didn't have hatred towards what he had witnessed her doing. Kaito had stayed with her at the hospital for quite some time, she caresses his hand which made him slowly awake. His eyes steadily fluttered awake to see a worried Maki, she was about to cry again and he figured it was probably because of that incident earlier.

And hell was he going to make her cry again.

Cross post with Archive