The Love That Will Blossom (HTTYD Hiccup X Reader)

(16) Past events

3rd Person POV

After Y/n healed herself, she look up at the sky where the dragon took off with Hilde. A frown formed in the corner of her mouth.

Hiccup followed her gaze before looking back straight at her eyes. Y/n sighed as she gave Hiccup a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry I'm fine." Y/n pat Hiccup's hand which was on her shoulder. Then, she stood up, all the Berkians were watching with either a shocked look, or a worried one. "You're not safe here... You better follow us." She said sternly, her head hang low as she walked to her dragon.

Dervin's eyes widened, but he didn't complain. He climb at the back of his dragon as Y/n and Lightstar hovered in the air, waiting for them.

Everyone copied their actions and flew, following the two.

"So, I didn't introduce myself yet. My name's Eret, son of Eret." Eret said proudly as he flew beside Y/n.

Y/n directed her gaze at the man with a neutral expression. Then, her face became bored as she look straight where they're heading, "I remember you." She mumbled coldly.

"See that, chief? I'm quiet famous." Eret grinned at Hiccup.

Y/n was shocked, 'Chief? Did I hear that right?' She thought to herself. She looked behind her and saw Hiccup with an unamused look.

"Chief?" Y/n raised her eyebrow.

"After my father died, I took my place as a new chief." Hiccup tried to hide the sadness in his voice, but Y/n heard it.

"Oh..." Y/n stared down at her hands, guilt was filling her. "S-sorry... I really missed a lot of things, didn't I?"

Hiccup smiled sadly at her before changing the topic, "And can you explain to me how can you remember that guy?" He pointed at Eret.

"Well.... He's on the list that me and my family hunt-" 

"Family?" Fishlegs questioned.

"I thought you don't have a family?" Astrid followed Fishleg's question.

"How did you get a family?" Tuffnut spoke before Y/n can open her mouth.

"Did you buy them?" Ruffnut stared at Y/n with a questioning look.

"Oh! You said you were homeless so, where are we heading now?" Snotlout joined in.

Y/n cringed each time the riders bombarded her with a questions.

"Maybe she bought a whole family to be her family..."

"Or maybe she bought a whole island to be her home.."

Y/n shoot up a fire, getting the riders' attention and stopping their questions. She sighed as the riders stared at her, waiting for an answers.

"Okay... I lied to you... I have a family and I have a home. I lied to you because when I first met you, I was on a mission..." Y/n stopped for awhile, wondering if she should continue. But, deep down she knew if she didn't tell them the whole story, they'll bombard her again with a thousand of questions. "A mission that my parents assigned me to do. I was supposed to investigate you... I was supposed to know if you were a dragon hunter or not. We didn't trust you at first that's why we decided to hide our identity so that we can get to you easily. I didn't want you to be involved in our fight against the devils, so we tried to hide our true nature. I thought if the devils knew that you were our allies, they'll hurt you like they did to-" Y/n stopped suddenly as she shook her head down. "I-I'm just afraid that innocent people like you will get involve on the things that you are not supposed to experience."