Alluring Secret [TechiNeru]

The Alluring Secret

It was another day of exhausting evasion of the young heiress of the Saito household for Neru. She has been constantly on the run this day as Fuyuka has been somewhat bugging her too much about this and that, like she even care about those things.

Fuyuka is a beautiful maiden, very charming actually, a bit humorous but still far from Neru's type. Yes, she did adore the young heiress back when they were younger.

"Neru!" Fuyuka yells at the top of her lungs, trying to find the other girl amongst the crowd of people.

They're in the marketplace now, Neru ducked her head low to avoid getting spotted by the heiress. She rushes down to a narrow alley that that would lead her to one of her favorite bookstore. She really just wants to get away from the annoying Saito heiress.

As she turns on the winding path, she encounters a girl being harrassed by a drunk man. The girl looks fragile, and younger than her, the girl had a short bob cut black hair and was wearing a white dress. She actually looks like one of those dolls. She assumes the girl is lost and was had probably asked for direction from the worst posible type of person.

Neru, calmly approached them. The squirming girl had a shocked look when she saw Neru closing in on them, as if telling her to get away, save herself. Or maybe was simply asking for help. Neru decided it was the latter, she gave a sharp kick to the man's crotch and he fell on the ground groaning in pain.

"You should keep in mind to not do these acts in broad daylight." She tells the man as she gave him another kick to his stomach. The man doubled in pain.

Neru held her hand out for the young girl, "Come on, we don't want to have you dirtied by such disgusting creature."

The young girl takes her hand in tears. Neru then pulled her into a hug, trying to coax the young girl that everything is ok. Soon enough, the sobbing had stopped and Neru decided to bring the girl along with her.

"What's your name?" Neru asks.

"Yurina." The girl answers, "Hirate Yurina."

"Nagahama Neru." She introduced herself.

"And where are you from? Are you lost?"

"I-I'm not lost... I am homeless." The young girl answered.

Homeless? Doesn't seem to be homeless though. Looking at how she was dressed this girl is not homeless.

"Really?" Neru asks lifting an eyebrow, showing the girl that she doesn't believe a word.

"I-it's true..." Yurina replies her head down, shoulder slump. "I-I... I ran away from home. I don't want to be married off like that.. I don't even like her romantically."

There was faint sobbing from the girl, Neru hugged the girl, her heart shattering. She never expected such a backstory to this girl in front of her, hell, the girl even looks younger than her but was already engaged with someone else. She remembered that she would soon face the same situation and was wondering if ahe could even ran away from home like how this girl did.

"H-hey, don't cry.. C'mon, I'll take you home with me." She tells the girl to which the girl had raised her head, cheeks wet with tears. She was a crying mess. Neru took out a handkerchief and proceeded to wipe Yurina's tears.

*****

"You're house is pretty big." Yurina tells Neru as she surveys the whole place.

"Is it not to your liking?"

"N-no! No, I don't mean it that way. I mean-"