Ezio X reader

Chapter 22: ~Truths be told~

A few days after Rosa and I's discussion on figuring out where Ezio stayed, my body felt significantly healed, not quite fully but enough to get around without any trouble, bruises still lined my weakened sides, some had already begun to turn yellow showing that the healing process was yet to come to a complete end. My legs crossed, one over the other, a book in my hand and my elbow propped up by a pillow laced with white wool, a unique pattern, my toes tapped to the sound of faint music inside the back of my mind, calming, allowing me to unfocus from my book for a slight moment as I then heard light footsteps descending the stairwell.

"Si Antonio, I shall return back here come the morning, and we shall discuss this topic once more, I refuse to leave it at your opinion and yours only." For a moment Ezio eyed me, it was a piercing look as well, they must have been discussing me.. though Ezio seemed a little agitated, I thought I go ahead and try to pry something out of him.

"I wish to speak with you, as long as I'm not troubling you." I attempted to sound as polite as I could.

"No trouble at all, what is it?" He ignored words Antonio shouted back and focused his attention on me, I felt honored.

"Well, as for me, I don't want to mooch off of Antonio for much longer, do you know a secluded area in which I could hide out, with a price not terribly expensive?" I ended up just sounding weird.

"I don't, here is probably your best bet in honesty, you're still healing anyway, take your time, Antonio has no issue caring for you, don't concern yourself with it too much."  He seemed disinterested in me real quickly, did he really have something better to do? Likely.

"But Antonio has enough on his hands, Ezio-" I was cut off mid sentence.

"I have no time for your inconvenience, excuse me." He knocked his shoulder with mine causing me to stumble backward, strong guy.. guess it's time for the alternative remedies; Follow him though rosa told me I probably shouldn't, I'll do it anyway. As I watched him angrily walk out I waited to follow silently, no longer limping or in too much pain, this would be good exercise for my extreme loss of strength within my time of healing.

He started off at a slow pace, easy enough, but he then sped up into an immediate sprint, I kept up. He was quick, but so was I, aside from the pain in my chest, sides and lack of exercise; he took a sharp turn down an alleyway, and as soon as I took the same turn I was met with his chest..

"Do you need to be escorted back? Don't know the reason why you followed me but you weren't very subtle, at all in fact. You don't need to be out here, you've no proper training whatsoever, clearly, with the way you just approached." Insulted, I backed away.

"Well.. Rosa and I were just curious, as to where you lived.. do you sleep anywhere? Get proper meals at all?" Suddenly my curiosity faded into concern for him, not sure why.

"Is it your business at all? No." Stern he hovered over me as I cowered.

"Mi dispiace.. I'll leave, I'm not sure why you're so against having me around, but it seems that everyone else likes to have me in presence, you were just as useless as me once! No training, nothing, but here you are, a supposedly 'master assassin' I'm not untrainable, I'm not impossible, so if you're so damned good master, then train me. You were the same as I, and here you stand all tall and mighty in talk, well let's see if you can practice what you preach." I emerged from cowardice, my body and mind were ready for teaching, the kind of teaching someone undetermined would never succeed.