"you don't have anything to tie your hair?"
They all walk until the sun directly stand above their head as the sweat run down their forehead making them groan before duryodhana hear a voice from behind as he turn around to see it is nakula who is pointing at his untied hair making duryodhana shrug........To be honest he did had it until he forgot it inside the cave..........now it is better not to give them any point to coma at him so-
"No"
"really? Don't you feel hot? Man! Seems like today is the sunniest Day! My face! It's all sweaty!! I won't come out for whole month after reaching home! How will people in inside the palace will recognise me!?" Nakula exclaimed, fanning himself with his hand while duryodhana blinked twice before his mouth curved down from corner making him look disgusted and annoyed as Arjuna who is walking beside duryodhana look behind at nakula's drama making him raise an eyebrow before he himself went to ignore his younger brother.
"daily soap drama" Duryodhana hear Arjuna muttering while nakula's rant go on all the way until they decided to take a break under the shade of tree.
"today is just burning day after raining for whole week" Sahadeva commented as they all look up at the sun but couldn't so they let it go while duryodhana ruffles his open hair to get some air on his nape too until they hear Arjuna asking "we haven't found Maaya Sarovar nor we have found the exit of this forest. What are we trying to do?"
It was duryodhana at first who averted his eyes before looking away, soon followed by everyone as they said in he silence until bhima broke it "aren't you here to find your best friend?" to which duryodhana relied with a shrug "I don't have to find him, he is more than enough to know how to come out, he has survival skills from starting", looking at bhima who also look at him as they blink once before immediately looking away while others watch them with confusion.
It was not supposed to be awkward but it seems the gears inside their mind keep repeating that incident over and over again making them more awkward by each other's presence............life can't be more miserable than this.
"then why are you here now?" Nakula asked making duryodhana reply while rolling his eyes "cause I don't know how to leave this forest........why are you all here? For Maaya Sarover?"
Nope, they aren't here for Maaya Sarovar but they can't say that their uncomprehend younger brother feeling for their 'eldest brother karna' took them here by impulse and that's why they will answer with "yeah, for Maaya Sarover" and it was definitely good answer from Arjuna as they all went silent without further questions.
Leaning against the tree and by laying down in the ground in shade, all of them slept soon except yudhishtir who is blinking tiredly, want to sleep but isn't as duryodhana and bhima are sleeping while leaning against the tall and big tree behind him with nakula and Arjuna sleeping while laying on the ground and Sahadeva just sitting silently between duryodhana and yudhishtir.
After a while yudhishtir slept leaving Sahadeva to be awake who look at his all brothers before looking at duryodhana's injured arm making him suddenly reminded of the flashback of that rainy night when they talk comfortable without any awkwardness, enjoying each other's company while whispering among themselves.
It was very much different from duryodhana's Personality but then Sahadeva realised, he never truly knew duryodhana's personality so how does he know what duryodhana like or how he behaves, their only meeting that happens of them were in the palace that were definitely not pleasant but after that night he observed another thing too that duryodhana likely to get curious...........quite very much surprising but yeah, he has seen duryodhana getting curious about many things as he look at the forest and suddenly stops when he find something interesting before again catching upto them, which intrude Sahadeva cause it is not new to see people taking interest in new things as they always likes to learn what they hear about, not the one that has never been seen or hear and it makes Sahadeva more curious, so that's why he get intruded in duryodhana's thinking.
Observing more about duryodhana, he realised that duryodhana is like a locked book, it just cannot be open by anyone and by seeing him in Anga and that night, Sahadeva is sure, not even Mata Gandhari and Tatashree Dritarashatra nor his brothers has ever opened his book.
He has fake facade as an outer shell to show him like how he is not so that no one would try to approach him, though Sahadeva don't know what is the reason for that or maybe the reason is the childhood filled with misunderstanding, it does makes Sahadeva soften to the point of thinking if he could be the one to whom duryodhana would open up just like he did to karna and ashwatthama.
Maybe they could be closer to each other but whenever they jump on another level, duryodhana always run away though Sahadeva can understand his fight going inside himself, he still wishes duryodhana would get courage to open up more to other people............or just him.
The sudden blustery took Sahadeva out of his thoughts as he look around before his eyes caught duryodhana's moving hair making him raise his hand towards duryodhana's face before tucking his (duryodhana's) hair behind his ear only to back off abruptly while looking away when duryodhana opened his eyes.
Sahadeva can obviously feel duryodhana's frowned filled questioned stare at him but he just kept looking away until duryodhana's stare get removed from him as he breathed lightly in relief...............it was truly an impulsive behaviour and he sincerely hope not to happen it again without even knowing why he did that in the first place?
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MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS
Historical FictionIn the shadow of a legendary feud, where ancient rivalries simmer, a hidden truth awaits. Beneath the surface of animosity and pride, a tangles web of emotions threatens to upend the fate of sworn enemies. As the winds of destiny sweep them towards...