A Thousand Years of War (Griffith/ Guts Fanfic)

A Strange One

All chaos broke loose. Reino stared indifferently at Guts as his face slowly contorted into recognition. She averted her eyes in hopes that the less eye contact was made, the better the situation would be. Once his breath hitched sharply, she flinched, he opened his mouth to confirm his belief. Griffith then put a pale hand on the man's forearm.

"Guts, please unhand her." Griffith said calmly.Guts did as told still staring her down with his sharp gaze. "This is a woman I met, I spotted her when she was injured and took her back to be treated." Griffith explained his eyes darting from Reino's quirking brow to Guts.

Guts crossed his arms, a smirk finding its way onto his face as he looked at Reino. "I know this person, we are childhood friends." He said sitting next to Reino. "Ain't that right, Little Samurai." He snickered as he looked down on her seated, fidgeting form.

Reino was cautious with her stance and words. 'This guy is a complete maniac! Does he not remember the countless times He toppled when we fought' She nearly snarled at the thought of him being the child who she used a wooden sword on when she could have used Killer Daisy. "I should have killed his insolent ass while I had the chance..." She mumbled to herself, expecting no one to call her out on her insult, for it was too low to hear.

"What was that Ms. Reino?" Guts trudged slightly to her left bending down so his mouth was near her ear. "Cat got your tongue?" He chuckled as her upper lip twitched with the desire to hit him square in his jaw.

She abruptly stood, hitting his jaw with her shoulder. Guts fell back, startled by her sharp movement he looked to her sharp frown, expecting for it to morph into an apologetic pout. To his surprise, it never did. She looked to the side quickly, her expression hardening with every passing second. Griffith just looked on in awe of her strange but powerful movement.

She finally spoke, her voice octaves below what it usually is. "Who gave you the right to mess with me? Do you perhaps think you are better than me? Do I have to remind you of how I hammered you all those years ago?". She stated her voice cold and vile. Guts stammered over his words almost flabbergasted, she was indeed not lying.

Griffith was beyond shocked at this. This girl he just met, awkwardly hanging from a tree with blood pouring down her legs, had beat the rabid animal of a boy he encountered before nonetheless multiple times. He glanced over at Guts who had a dark maroon shading across his face. This had to be true which would mean that he was not the only one to beat Griffith so easily, and he hadn't even beat him multiple times. This girl was a complete barbarian despite her less than interested aura she gave off. Now that he thought it over he overheard a small statement on wandering, was she perhaps a vagabond or maybe even a mercenary like himself.

As Griffith went farther into his thoughts and assumptions, and Guts sat unable to bite back at her insult. She wandered off, annoyed with the situation to the point where she just wanted to leave, and she did. She looked around in search of Julius, she enjoyed his company and wanted to be around him more. His hair was light and soft, and so was his skin, he was childlike and kind, a great companion.

As she glanced around in uninterest she caught a glimpse of a shining silver. She waddled after it seeing it must have been a member of their mercenary group. She caught the shielded shoulder and flung it back so she could see their face. She was surprised to see a female, someone around her age with dark hair and eyes and tan skin. She backed away from the girl as she put her arm up in defense.

Casca stared at the strange girl. She suddenly pulled her shoulder and they both stood gawking at one another. The girl pulled her hand down, tugging her sleeve to her wrist. Casca just observed the girl as she shied away from her even after she was the one to move toward her first. After a moment of observation she decided the girl was not a threat and to treat her with the respect you would treat anyone. Despite the girl being quite tall towering over her she silently decided they were around the same age.

"I am sorry, are you lost? Should I help you find your way? It is dangerous here." She said with a strong voice and attitude. Reino stood at two, The woman's tone made her feel trust worthy enough to at the very least guide her. Reino nodded reluctantly, as the woman turned and walked off Reino trudging along after her.

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After a steady walk they came along to Julius. As he discovered them he waved awkwardly, it seems as though she met quite a few of his associates since Griffith first met her. Casca jogged to the spot where Julius was, shining his armor and mending the scratches. He stopped and waved to them as they approached. Casca bent to his level to talk to him, her position fixed as her hands rested on her knees.

"I met this girl suddenly, do you know where the nearest town is so I can walk her there? She seems to be lost and if that is the case her family must be worried." Casca breathed out to Julius. He frowned, he had not even consider the fact that Reino would be a lost girl, she just seemed to comfortable in the woods.

"If you would excuse me Miss. I do not think we even spoke of being 'lost' I am not, please do not spread such accusation to Julius." Reino said calmly, even so you could hear the anger in her voice. Casca was shook and bowed her head slightly in apology, not uttering a single word. Julius to stood shaken quite a bit despite not being told off.

"I think my friends would be worried so, goodbye for now mystery girl, and Julius." Reino muttered lowly, and walked off slowly, seemingly in a daze."Ah, please do not mind me though, I am just a wanderer, it would be strange if we did meet again." She spoke up as she turned a corner her image distilled by the trees she passed.

Casca and Julius took time and spoke with one another over what the girl was even doing in the woods, and what 'friends' she had. Even after throwing guess after guess in they could never figure. Julius long forgot what she told him, so he guessed she was just a traveler. Casca guessed she was a runaway and they both agreed to just let it be from that point forward.

Griffith and Guts came soon after. Both seemed out of breath from running around, looking for the lavender headed msfit. Griffith sat with Julius and Casca as they both bombarded him with questions on the woman.

"Who was she?"

"Is she a villager from here?"

"Did she state her profession?"

Why was she in the woods, is she perhaps homeless"

Griffith could not answer any of the questions that were thrown at him. He looked at his followers with a sincere expression as he shook his head apologetically, as both of their shoulders slumped in disappointment. Unlike Griffith, Guts pumped his chest out proudly as he waited for them to quiet down so he can answer all of their questions.

"I know her, very well actually. Her name is Reino. She is a vagabond, and has been since she was a child. We would spar a lot when we were younger but I never thought I would see her again." Guts explained to the pair, Julius nodded in amazement at her feat.

Sparring with Guts is something he could barely stomach thinking about, and yet this woman did so, and many times. Casca simply nodded her expression a bit iffed, she could not believe that girl even fought Guts, but he said she had, so it must be true.

"Where is she? I wanted to ask her about something." Griffith piped up. Casca and Julius stopped to explain she just left, worrying about her friends.

"Damn it!" Guts bursted out as soon as he heard she was gone. He wanted to spar with her, seeing as he is much stronger than before."Why is she so hard to find?" He scratched his hair roughly.

"She is a strange one." Griffith said to Guts, his hand resting on Guts' shoulder. "I bet we will see her again though."

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I am posting this super late, ik. I really need to get my schedule together (；'艸｀). I really want to post about every week, but I might have to change that plan if this isn't going well. I think I will make a Bangtan fanfic as well soon but I also want to make a fanfic for Yuno from Black Clover.

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（☆ω☆*) -Soki