Fanfiction: Closet

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Title: Closet
Genre:General
Characters: Lenalee, Kanda
Summary: Kanda needed a quiet place. Lenalee needed a place to hide.

 

It was a dark place, rather warm but it made him comfortable. He was all alone and that’s how he liked it. Alone in a small space. It was better than places with a lot of people because those type of places made him feel weird.

Other people are unable to see the lotus. He’s been told that what he is seeing is not real but he still cannot ignore it. It’s just there in front of him. No one else would point at it and exclaim “Hey! What’s that flower growing out of a stone floor?”

It’s a strange thing. He thought, sitting in a curled up position on top of thick blankets.  The lotus was just like a picture cut out. No matter the colour, texture or pattern of the background, the lotus would still remain the same shade of pink. It doesn’t change according to its surroundings like other real objects. Even the small crack of light shining in isn’t altering the shade on the flower.

Master should be looking for me. He thought. It was almost time for training. He doesn’t dislike training nor does he like it. It’s just that these were one of those days where he doesn’t feel like doing anything.

I’ll apologise later.

Then he heard some voices. The voices sounded angry and annoyed, cutting through the wooden door and through the warmth. He looked up, alert.

I don’t think it has anything thing to do with me, does it?

Then he heard the sound of panting and footsteps. It was the sound of fear and it was getting closer.

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They’re not catching up, are they? I got to hide.

She ran towards the closet. It was a good place to hide, it was small and blends pretty well with the wall so adults tend to overlook it. She usually was able to hide there for hours until the yelling stopped. Then she would leave and get caught before anyone realized that the closet was her hiding place.

She usually had a good amount of time to disappear but this time the adults was really close to catching to up. She never had to run so fast before. It was time to hide.

She opened the door.

 

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He looked up and stared. For a moment, the lotus vanished. It does that sometimes when he focuses on something else.

Eh? Did I get found out?

The girl stared back.

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What is she doing in there?

The other girl was wearing a light-coloured sleeveless Chinese top and long black pants. She wasn’t wearing any shoes at all. It was really a sharp contrast to her own dark coloured western dress and heavy shoes.

A ghost? Is she Chinese as well? Since when was there another girl in the Order?

The shouting was getting closer. There was no time to ask questions.

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The girl seemed to ignore him completely and crawled into the closet. Then she grabbed a thick thread which was tied to a nail roughly wedged in the inner side of the closet door and pulled the closet door completely shut. He hadn’t noticed the mechanism so there was quite a significant amount of light let in earlier.

Now that amount of light was cut to almost none.

The girl was sitting in a crouching position as well.

Involuntarily, he let out a hiss of irritation. That girl just crawled in, completely ignoring the fact that it was going to be cramped with both of them in there. He shifted a bit, pressing his back against the side of the closet but her shoes were still touching his toes. They were cold and hard not like the shoes he wears.

He could feel the heat creeping up to him. It was really uncomfortable and to make things worse, she was gulping for air. It was loud and noisy.

He let out another hiss of irritation.

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She could hear her own heart beat and breathing echoing through the closet. It was really loud. She wondered if the other girl could hear her heartbeat as well. Then she heard the other girl making a hissing sound. The same sort a cat makes when you anger it.

“Breathe in deeply.” The other girl said.

Huh?

She did not respond immediately and the other girl spoke again in a low whisper. The other girl had a rather low voice. Like that of an older girl much unlike her own higher pitched one.

“Breathe in deeply.”

She took a deep breath and was about to let it out when she felt the other girl lean in and covered her mouth with a hand. Her hand felt cool.

“Hold.”

She held her breath. The other girl backed off, removing her hand. After a few seconds, the other girl spoke again.

“Breathe out.”

She breathed out. Her heart wasn’t beating that fast anymore and she didn’t feel that out of breath either.

“Again.”

Breathe in. Hold. Breath out.

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He was relieved that that girl wasn’t gasping like fish out of water anymore.

Should I get out? Wait, if I get out now, would she get found out?

There were still voices outside.

Fine, I’ll just stay here for a while more.

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The other girl seemed to be staying. She was glad. She wonders if this meant that they could be friends.

They’re still outside…Wait! Oh no! They’re getting closer!

The footsteps approached the closet.

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Dammit.

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Oh no!

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“General!” The Finder saluted. “Sorry to bother you, but have you seen this girl, long hair, wearing a black dress?”

General Tiedoll scratched his curly crown. “No. Ah, have you seen my disciple? He has shoulder length hair and is wearing oriental clothing. He’s a cute child.”

The Finder gave a sheepish look. “We are so bad with children. How about we look for both of them?”

General Tiedoll laughed at how they, a group of adults have been thrown off by two children.

“Why not?”

After a while, General Tiedoll found the closet and of course the two children. He paused as the two children stared at him, wide-eyed.

“Did you find them?” The Finder asked.

“Only my disciple.” General Tiedoll pulled his disciple out of the closet and closed the door partially, blocking the girl from the Finder’s view. Carrying his student, Tiedoll said to him in a chiding tone. “Yuu, don’t hide like that, what if you get lost?”

The only reply he got was a scowl.

“Looks like you have to look someplace else.”

The Finder moved off.

Looks like the Order has became a more interesting place.