(Y/n)'s POV

Days passed fast and before I knew it I was already two months in that wizard's house. Of course I don't have anything to complain about. He was really nice with me. Taking care of me all the time and making sure that I had everything I needed. He made sure that I felt like home.

However, the only thing that was strange enough to make me suspicious of him was the time he was leaving the house. Every time he left it would take him hours to come back and every time I asked him where he was, he would just tell me for a walk. I wasn't so stupid to believe him, yet I couldn't do much since I was still resting due to my leg. It's been almost two weeks since I took off the gypsum, but I still needed to not tire myself. So I just sat there. Waiting for him to come and cook or just talk with me. Sometimes I really missed his company. It was so enjoyable after all.

-"I am going out." I heard his voice tell me as he put on his jacket.

-"Be careful." I told him as I watched him leave.

Once I heard the front door close I stood up and put my shoes on along with one of Kabuto's jackets. I exited the house quietly as I made sure that no sound could be heard. Then I started following him, leaving a big distance between us. I was extra careful with each step I made, since the snow around me could either betray my position or make me injure myself again. My hands were in the pockets of the jacket in an attempt to keep them warm as my eyes were fixed on Kabuto's figure ahead of me.

We were walking for quite a long time, which made my leg to start hurting. I got tired faster since I wasn't fully healed yet. However, I wasn't going to stop now. I had to find his secret. Then, suddenly, he disappeared. One moment he was right there and the next one it was like earth had swallowed him. Without thinking I run where he had disappeared looking around for clues, when I felt something. I stretched my hand noticing an electric field, a magical barrier. I had two choices with this. It could kill me or it could lead me where Kabuto had gone.

-"Here goes nothing." I told myself as I walked forward.

I successfully passed through the barrier making me sigh with relief. However, now I stood somewhere completely different from before. I was at the entrance of a village. I started walking in it as I kept looking around for Kabuto or any other human being, but I couldn't find neither. And the strangest thing was that this village looked awfully familiar, which was giving me a bad feeling. A feeling that I felt once in my entire life.

Suddenly a loud scream was heard making me widen my eyes with fear as I started running to that direction. That could be Kabuto. He could be in danger. We were in a human village so it was very possible that they had captured him. They could be torturing him. So, without caring about my leg, I continued running. I continued hoping that he was ok, that my savior was still alive.

Soon I reached the place were the scream was heard of. I immediately stopped, looking at the place in front of me both shocked and scared. I couldn't believe my eyes. There at the middle of, what seemed to be the square of the village stood Kabuto. An axe in his right bloody hand as he cut open the now dead human who seconds ago was screaming for help.

-"Please help us!!!"

A man's voice screamed at me making me look at my left. There, in cages, were more humans. Their clothes barely keeping them warm from the cold weather as they looked like they had to eat in days. They were staring at me scared. They wanted to escape before they ended up like the other man.

-"(Y/n)?"

I heard Kabuto's voice, which made me look at him. He was already looking at me with a calm look in his eyes as his hand hadn't left the axe.

-"Kabuto what are you doing?" I asked him as I tried to stay calm.

-"Nothing that should be worrying you."

-"But it is worrying me. You are hurting people."

-"I am just giving them a taste of what they did to us, to creatures like us." he said as he went to wash his bloody hands.

-"That's not what we are supposed to do." I fought back as I took a few steps closer to him.

-"And what are we supposed to do?" he asked me in an angrier way.

I stayed silent. I didn't know what to say, how to respond. It was true that for years humans hunt us and killed us and when we tried to fight back we were considered the bad ones. However, it wasn't right to kill them like that, so disrespectfully, so brutal.

-"If you can't answer please go home." Kabuto told me as he walked to the cages.

-"Did you kill everyone in the village?" I asked him as I watched him drag out one of the many men that were in the cages.

-"No. Only those that deserved it."

-"Please help me!! Please! I am begging you!" the man cried as he was tied up to a table.

-"So, it's only hunters?" I asked him as my body shivered a little.

-"Hunters that hunted you." he said as he glanced at me.

My eyes widen surprised at his words as now everything made sense now. I now understood why those people, this village, this whole place looked familiar. It was the locus that I had my wings taken away. It was the locus that I lost everything important to me. It was the locus that I was tortured. It was almost three months ago that, at the very same table that the man is tied up, I was tied up. That day I wasn't fast enough to escape. That day they captured me and led me here. A crowd of people had gathered around me as the hunters cut off my wings with an axe, the axe that Kabuto is using to them now. I remember them naming prices and laughing as my beautiful wings got sold off. I remember them using me as a toy, a woman to please them because I was useless for anything more. I remember everything.

-"How... How do you know?" I asked him as I fell on the snowy ground still surprised as to what was happening.

-"You once asked me in what kind of magic I specialize." he told me as he started walking close to me.
-"I specialize in dark magic and with that magic I have the ability to know every bad moment or feeling of a person's life with just a touch of its skin."

He was now standing in front of me. A serious look in his eyes as he kneeled so he could lift me in his arms. Once he was standing again he started walking towards a gate that he had opened seconds ago.

-"You should rest. Once I finish here I will come home."he told me as he passed through the gate.

We were now at the living room of his house. He put me softly on the couch before kissing me on the forehead and leaving. I sat there still shocked about what had happened. There were things that I still didn't understand, but something inside me was telling me to not ask about them. It was like I didn't need to know, because Kabuto had already taken care of it. It was like my soul was feeling safe despite all that I saw. All that because of Kabuto.

{...}

I felt a hand caressing my hair making me to start opening my eyes. The first thing that I saw was Kabuto's face smiling softly at me. I was laying my head on his lap as a this blanket was over my body making sure to keep me warm.

-"I am sorry. I didn't want to wake you up." he told me as he closed the book that he was reading.

-"It's ok. I slept enough anyway." I said as I looked at him.
-"Kabuto, why do you do all this?"

-"Because I like you."

His answer came with no hint of lie or fakeness. It came from his heart. It was like now I understood why he was taking care of me so much and why he was always by my side. I understood why he was so sweet to me and only me.

-"I think I like you too."

-"You think?" he asked me confused.

-"Well... I have to get to know you more to be sure." I told him as I tried to get up, but his hand didn't allow me to move.

-"And you will, because we will be staying together forever." he told me smiling as he brought his face close to mine.
-"I will make sure to always protect you from now on."

After that he kissed me softly as both of us got lost in the feeling. It's true that I don't know him much and that it may be a bad decision, but I have nothing to lose if I try. After all, I lost everything when I lost my wings. So I think it's time to find something else, more important, to replace that empty spot in my heart.

....

The end.