Gifted Strangers (Yona of the dawn/Akatsuki no Yona)

Chapter one

(A/N)

Hello guys! I'm back. Life has been busy. And I also kinda sorta lost interest in posting my stories for a while. My confidence isn't that strong when it comes to sharing my work with the public. But any way I won't bore you with that info. Instead, heres a new story that I'm writing. Enjoy!

The three of us had been traveling a while. The last village we came to was in bad shape, so we ended up giving them a lot of supplies we had gathered, keeping only a few necessary things like water and a small ammount of rice. We did this once in a while, and so we went hungry from time to time.

Li-sun and Li-han were ahead of me. I hadn't been feeling well lately and the hunger began taking its toll on my body. I didn't say much to the brothers, knowing that they would most likely fret, getting us no where.

I stumbled and fell, feeling weak and dizzy. Why couldn't I just tough it out? Some times I hated this body.

Li-sun was the first to turn and see me fall. He ran back to me, panicked. He worries too much..

I wasn't looking up at him, I only focused on not passing out.

"Oi, don't push yourself so much. If you're sick, please say something." I couldn't see his face, but I could tell that he was worried. "No, it's alright.. I didn't sleep well last night is all..." I lied, not wanting to cause a scene.

Li-han walked up as well. "We need to stop to rest and regain our strength. I'm hungry as well." He admits in his casual dull way.

I sighed loudly after a long pause. "Alright fine." I looked up at the two. Li-sun offered me his hand and I took it, standing up slowly. My head spun a little and I had to rely on him for support.

We made camp in a forest not far from a village we spotted. Li-han went hunting while Li-sun collected firewood and I set up our camp. Though I didn't have enough energy to set up the tent, not that it was easy to do on my own, so I just laid out the bed rolls and made a fire pit, feeling even more dizzy and exauhsted after. I slumped against a tree, too tired for any other work. Amd before I knew it, I passed out from exauhstion.

I was headed back to camp when I figured that I had enough wood. I also wanted to check on Mi-na. She hadn't been looking well lately, she looked worse than I felt. I suspected the lack of proper food to be the culprit.

As I made it back to camp, I noticed that she had managed to actually set up some of the camp. There wasnt much, just bedrolls and a fire pit. I must have underetimated her endurance and strength.

I stepped up to the firepit and set the wood next to it, and spotted Mi-na resting against a tree to my left. Her head resting on her knees and her arms wraped around her, hands clasped infront of her shins.

I sighed and picked her up gently and carried her to one of the bedrolls, I put her under the covers and placed a bag underneath her head to use as a pillow.

As I set to work getting a fire going, I thought about the past events. We left Port Awa to escape the corrupt government, only to discover that other places had the same problems, some times worse than Awa.

Not only did disease and corruption plague the lands, bandits pillaged villages that were too weak to fight back.

We all were shocked to find some villages, it's occupants just barely alive. None of us knew much about treating the diseases the people had, but we gave them food and water, some times working along side villagers to find food. Bandits some times attacked, and we fought them off. But just barely. That was when we were all a little more healthy.

I worried about what would happen if bandits decided to attack now.

I worked subconciously on starting the fire as I mulled over my thoughts.