MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS

DISARRAY WITHIN THE BRAIN

Forget about the two days of comfortableness and casualty especially when there is nothing but awkwardness now echoing in the narrow passage as duryodhana walk by the corners, 10 steps away from bhima who is also walking by the corner without any thought of stopping..........No, they are not going to stop no matter what until they reach outside the other end.

This. Is. Too. Much. Of. A. Bloody. Nightmare. that happened just a while ago making it all awkward, uncomfortable and everything they felt when they were near each other's presence at the palace which is definitely not pleasant and never was even.

.................God! Duryodhana is seriously wishing he get a heart attack right now and die in the corner without any chance of getting saved, he would prefer that over facing bhima again for God's sake. Each silent passing second is just making him pray more for his death more, it would had been better if bhima wouldn't had helped him or he wouldn't had tried to walk out before his other leg get released or he wouldn't had stumbled.........or he should just stop thinking about that!!!

Though he is sure bhima must be also wishing, either for this passage to end or to vanish in thin air immediately and he can clearly feel the embarrassment radiating from bhima cause he himself is feeling that.

They both walk for a while until they saw light coming from front making their steps faster as bhima look over from the end only to find himself above a cut off tree while there is only greenery in front of them making him jump down before duryodhana jumped down too.

Walking more towards the Greenery, they both look around in the awkward silence until their stomach growl as they look at their stomach then at each other only to look a way immediately before looking near.

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"apples" Bhima hears duryodhana mutter as he turn around to watch duryodhana going towards a tall tree, filled with green leaves and apples making him go towards that tree too. The tree despite being tall and large shakes when duryodhana punched it giving a sharp impact as the Bushel of apples fall down immediately making bhima step back.

Bhima watch duryodhana still standing in their making him confuse as peek a little to find duryodhana's eyes lowered to the ground while his fist clenched tightly, realising that duryodhana is having pain in his chest, he though to move forward but stopped once duryodhana's eyes blinked lightly before looking up while his fist opened.

Picking one apple from the ground, bhima watch duryodhana dusting off the the apple before taking a bite as he chew on it with his mouth closed while his lips makes ridiculous shapes..........wait- why is he observing all that? It is all because of that bloody incident for real!! Damned that place! That ice spikes! That timing! And this bloody person who has no so care of the world as he just eat the apple like he didn't got chest pain a moment ago!!

Taking a big bite of the apple, bhima look away in anger while duryodhana who hear the biting sound of apple look at bhima with a frown before he shrugs, continuing his eating while ignoring bhima and his lost temper.

After eating some apples bhima watch duryodhana getting up as he went somewhere making bhima ask "is that the path even?" to which duryodhana replied "I will walk this path and you will walk another one, I am not staying with you so just-" but before duryodhana could complete his sentence he felt a presence behind himself making him ready to turn around but before he could even, a hand grabbed his neck from behind as he got pushed to the nearest tree, groaning when his side face collided with tree harshly.

"I don't want to stay with you too egoistic bastard but unfortunately for this hell situation.................I don't want to listen of your any bullshit, so just shut up"

"as....i..f....I...would.....you...bloody.....glu...tton" Duryodhana grit out before he got released from the grip as he move his head right and left, walking forward behind bhima, away from 15 steps while picking up a thick branch of tree, throwing it towards bhima with full force but tsked when bhima turned around catching it with bare hand.

Though a light grin still came on his face when bhima hissed lightly as the small and big prickles on the branch injured bhima's hands while bhima shake of the blood from his hand before checking for his angavastram to wipe off his blood but upon realising that his angavastram is still tied on duryodhana's arm, he glared at duryodhana who walk forward with a satisfied mixed with smug expression.

Wandering for a while bhima look at duryodhana who is continously moving his arm forward and backward before he look at his arm only to notice blood covering the angavastram and bhima clearly knows how that happened-

"it happened because of you"

........what? Is he even is in his right mind or did he lost it the moment bhima grabbed his neck? Well he never had one so......

"how did it happened because of me!? you were the one who punched the tree with that hand!!"

Sighing duryodhana look at the sky before looking at the his blood covered arm as he says "I don't know how to treat it" only for bhima to say mockingly "as if I do, have to find nakula and Sahadeva first after all we are your servants"

"as if I told you to do it" Duryodhana replied in same mocking voice while rolling his eyes making bhima grit his teeth but he kept his silence as they walk more until they hear rustling from near making them alert but exclaimed when they saw-

"Arjuna!!"

Arjuna look up at duryodhana and bhima before sighing in relief as the four Pandavas came from behind him while Sahadeva and nakula exclaimed in relief "at last we found everyone!!"

Duryodhana watch bhima, arjuna, nakula and Sahadeva talking before his eyes caught yudhishtir's one which are darker than usual while looking at his neck and for some reason he can feel a shiver running down his spine as he look at his injured arm immediately which didn't got unnoticed by Sahadeva.

"the wound opened again! What did you do?" Sahadeva asked as nakula helped him with the medicine while arjuna open the angavastram around his arm carefully as they put the medicine on his wound before tying the angavastram again carefully while bhima just watch it and throughout the process duryodhana didn't even glanced at yudhishtir, just looking at his arm being treated and even after treatment.

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