Darkest Days

3, Maki

The girl looked at me with lifeless eyes again as I took my hood off and she finally spoke properly asking with a neutral voice. "Why do you care for me so much?" She asked looking at me with her lifeless eyes. "I'm just a mere tool...nothing more" she said again as if this was still her life. As she looked at me lifelessly I had tears coming down my eyes and everything became a blur from the amount of tears in my eyes... it became hard to breathe, her state made me suffer from the inside... "y-you know...I also used t-to be...a slave.." I replied, now properly crying... and with a shaky voice.

As I was crying I could of sworn I also saw tears form in her eyes as well and after a few seconds I quickly wiped my tears off and took my jacket off. I gave it to her and then said to her... "put this on, your coming with me" she put on my jacket and she looked quite small compared to it; she looked up at me..finally showing some emotion.. she was crying silently with those lifeless eyes of hers whilst looking at me.

When we both returned back to my home.. it was dead of night and no one was around ...it was pindrop silence outside, not a sound could be heard other than those constant crickets chirping. We both walked into the house and then I asked her "How are you feeling right now?"

"I feel... happy, free but my life was so hard, I can barely even feel any emotion" she said with a stale voice.

"What's your name?" I asked her again, calmly

"I'm Maki" She said now her eyes lit up again...just a little bit though, it wasn't so clear what she really was feeling at the time though.

"Maki is a great name..." I said calmly, whilst smiling.

Out of what seemed to be no where she finally sparked into life and hugged me with her eyes full of tears... It was hard to watch but I knew what it felt like...to be a slave for so long. I was also a slave... I nearly died to the hands of my slaver but I killed him.

A few moments later she finally walked up to me and sat next to me; she looked into the screen of my phone and asked
"Who are you speaking to?"

"Oh, my sensei... he's the old man who was shouting at me.." I laughed a little, trying to get Maki to get comfortable with me.

"Oh... What's your organisation called by the way?" She asked so curiously.

"I'm not allowed to leak too much information but it's called Azure Dojo...why do you ask? Are you gonna join?" I replied, tilting my head at her.

"Yeah I'm gonna join! I wanna be like you!!" She exclaimed; smiling. Instead of crying for her I just smiled because I was happy she finally spoke and sparked into life...

"Well, if you are joining then you better be prepared for the training... because it progressively gets harder...if you want to impress everyone in the entrance exams, then you have to know basic combat" I happily explained to her. For a second I thought I was missing something but then my eyes jolted towards her and I frantically said.

"Wait, wait!! Remember this organisation is secret! You can't tell anyone I told you its name ok?!" I frantically cried, but then she just laughed hysterically.

"I know, I know I won't say a word" She replies with a big smile.

At least she's actually feeling emotions I told myself within me...