paradisalost | [[recorded; overheard on by a journal in the library]]

[thoughtful] "You saved me before and protected me during the battle just now. But I don't know you, correct? Why? Why would you do such a thing?"

[Surprised] "You were in danger! Why should I not help?"

[confused, almost hear the slight head tilt] "You'd only get yourself hurt. Why do something that would get you hurt? Is it a wish of yours?"

"Of course not! But you were hurt and could no longer fight... And today you were supposed to be resting! Not in the middle of all of that. I could take the damage, but you couldn't. So I protected you."

"Why should I be resting? But ... I felt that I should have done something for Kohaku. I don't understand your reasons."

[Sighing] "You should have been resting because you are hurt. What good could you have done if you were simply injured further?"

"I don't know. But I ... wanted to help rescue her. Is that wrong, then?"

"Of course that's not wrong... But if you were injured... Others were helping! You didn't have to!"

"Oh. I see. I wasn't needed."

"At the battle, things were covered. It would have been better for you to have stayed and rest like you were supposed to."

"I see. I did not know that was what I was supposed to do."

"It's all right! You don't seem to be much of a fighter, if you don't mind me saying so."

"Why? No. I don't mind."

"Well" [A pause] "How are your wounds?"

[blink] "I don't know."

[Shocked] "You don't- How can you not know?!"

[slightly troubled] "I don't know."

"How can... Should I take you to the healer to check?"

"If you want. I have no preference one way or the other."

"If you don't feel you should then I guess you don't..."

[head cant] "... All right."

[Another pause] "You are an odd one Nataku."

"Yachiru told me that as well." [pause] "Why am I odd?"

"You simply...Are."

"Oh. I don't understand. Is it bad to be odd?"

"No! It is perfectly fine to be odd!"

"Oh. ... That's good." [thoughtful pause] "Should I go back to rest now?"

"You should! You could injure yourself further!"

"All right. And, Kohaku ... will be all right?"

"She will. I believe she is under the protection of the other who had been there."

"All right." [shuffling out of library] "I still don't understand why you saved me." [and out it disappears]