Pudin's Guidance

This was the moment when both of Iwan's eyes were red simultaneously.

Sadly for him, the hug never came. The beautiful lady didn't even move an inch towards him.

'Damn.'

Iwan mumbled and hid his face by covering it with his forearm.

"Clap~"

The beautiful lady slapped her dirty shorts and glared at Iwan.

"Who knocked at the door? Who was it?"

"What?"

Iwan glanced at the lady who looked even more charming to him, now than before.

'Look at how she is begging me to know more of my past.'

'Did I really stop at such an exciting point? Exciting for others and devastating turn for me!'

"Beautiful lady, if you want to know what happened after the second betrayal then let me continue."

Iwan grabbed her hand and said with a majestic tone but the redness in his eyes didn't go well with his 'she will definitely fall for me if I do this' plan.

The beautiful lady pulled back her hand and let out a simple smile and thus falling for the maiden's simple tactics, Iwan continued to tell the coming incidents of her past after her mother's betrayal.

"The knocking on the door made me skip more than a single beat.

'Is it you mother?'

I screamed as I ran towards the door, thinking that the words I had read from the letters were just a fleeting wish that my mother was carrying.

But, the reality was right before my eyes when I opened the door.

'Pudin?'

A baby bear stood tall at my door whilst it faced me with its cute paws.

It was Pudin, an abandoned bear cub that I had rescued in one of my truck trips in Yakutsk."

Iwan stopped as he tapped his chest gently.

He tapped his chest, a second time but the result was the same.

The beautiful lady was also taken back as she couldn't tell what Iwan was doing right after he told her about the little bear he had saved.

To her, Iwan was only touching his buffed chest which was sticking to his shirt but suddenly something clicked in her mind.

She pointed at Iwan's chest which had been looking bigger than hers since the start and opened her mouth.

"Don't tell me, you have the bea-"

The beautiful lady shouted in an unladylike manner and at the same time, a cry came out of Iwan's clothes.

"Mhuuum"

"Come out, Pudin."

Iwan touched his chest gently a third time and the cute face of a small bear popped out from under his shirt.

"Mhuum~"

"Yes, she is indeed a beautiful lady."

"Mhuum~"

"Shut up. She is mine."

Iwan smacked Pudin's head and then turned towards the beautiful lady.

'Somehow, I still haven't asked her name, yet.'

Iwan thought but he didn't ponder over it for more than two seconds. He had still not reached the climax of his past and the reason why he had come to this wrecking yard.

"Lady, this is the baby bear I have just told you about. His name is Old Pudin but don't be fooled by his cute name and nature. He has produced more offspring than me."

Even though Iwan was shaking his head while exposing the harsh truth about Pudin, nothing was harsher than the reality that he was carrying.

'If only I could date someone...'

Iwan thought while glaring at Pudin.

On one side, Iwan was busy thinking about how he would cook bear meat while on the other side, the beautiful lady was processing what she had just heard.

"Your bear is really cute. But, why would you call him old when he is just a cute baby? Wait, did you say offsprings?"

The lady was flabbergasted as the details of Old Pudin settled in her mind.

Iwan raised his index finger and almost placed it on her lips if she hadn't moved an inch back instantly.

"Leave the small details aside, my Lady. You have a lot to cover about my history."

Iwan told her as he pulled back his hand while regretting the failure of another one of his 'she will definitely fall for me if I do this' plan.

Iwan with a regretful look lingering in his eyes pushed Pudin's head back in his shirt and continued with the history lesson he was giving the lady.

"I hugged Pudin as the master and bear cried together for a minute and a half.

Pudin escaped my embrace and even though I wasn't over the fact that my mother had left the house without leaving behind any milk, I followed Pudin.

'Wait for me, Oh little basta- Pudin.'

I shouted while chasing the little Pudin who was running away from me as if his body had been possessed by a dirty rat.

Soon, Pudin stopped and I realized something.

'Pudin. You weren't running away from me but guiding me to this.'

I pointed at the truck that had been parked right outside my house.

'Why did you run around the house just to stop at the truck?'

I asked Pudin but he returned my question with a simple smirk on his hairy little face.

'Don't tell me...'

I finally realized that the disappointment and sadness, I was feeling a few minutes ago were already gone.

'What a guy. You will be "Old Pudin" from now on.'

I touched my chest twice with my fist before throwing out a heartfelt salute at the little bear who had just rescued me.

Ignoring my respect, Old Pudin jumped into the truck through the window and was already wearing his seatbelt.

Old Pudin looked at me and showed me his undeveloped teeth.

'Mhuum~'

'Amazing.'

I was further impressed and understood that he was telling me to start a journey of my own.

I got into the truck and started it without looking back at the house that was a part of me just a few minutes ago.

I looked at Pudin, right into his dark eyes.

I was guided by you, Oh Little Bast-Bear of mine.

I wanted to tell the bear that but I knew that my tears would roll If I said such heartwarming words.

I had to say something and right then a thought struck me. I knew I had messed up big time and this was the moment to correct that mistake.

'Till your canines grow at least as big as my pinky, I will call you Pudin.'

'Mhuum~'

Pudin looked satisfied with my condition and thus I reversed the truck and made my way to leave the disastrous coldness of Yakutsk.

Just like that five years passed, as Pudin flirted with all the female bears of Siberia while keeping me as his personal truck driver."

Iwan stopped and trembled. It wasn't because of the work he had been put through because of Pudin

Something was messing up with him. It wasn't the time he had driven his truck nor the fact that he may have been dancing on the little bear's paws since the beginning but completely something else.

"What happened, Iwan?"

The beautiful lady asked and as if Iwan was literally waiting to see her worried expression, his trembling stopped and he ruffled his hair in a sexy manner.

"It was the day of my 21st birthday.

That damn date again.

They appeared in tens of thousands if not in millions and covered the whole world."

Iwan shook his head while remembering that particular date.

"Are you talking about the port-"

"Yes!"

"MHUUM~~"

Iwan cut right when the lady was finishing a suspicious word and along with his interruption came the cute cry from Old Pudin.

The beautiful lady didn't mind the rude interruption.

She was here as a listener. Thus, Iwan deserved to get the spicy parts.

"Let me continue without wasting another second of your precious time."

Iwan blinked his eyes at the lady who was almost blinded by his tsundere act.

"Mhuum~"

Old Pudin tried to slowly wriggle out of Iwan's shirt but a smack on his hairy head was enough to keep him in his place.

"You little bast-ahem...Old Pudin, this lady isn't even one of your species so why would you like to give her honey? Just let me continue my thing and once I am finished with it, we can all share the honey. Okay?"

Iwan looked down towards the crack in his shirt's collar and glared at the little bear. He had a condescending tone but Old Pudin wasn't one to back down.

"Mhuum~"

Old Pudin cried with a squeaky sound. The sound could be easily listed as one of the top ten cutest animal cries ever but the meaning behind was something that could easily start wars between two nations.

Iwan was silent and didn't know how to respond.

"What did he say that got you so quiet?"

Even the lady next to him couldn't stop herself from questioning the sudden chill atmosphere around the man and his bear.

"My mom left me because I was ugly. That's what he said."

Iwan tilted his head upwards and with a blank expression, he turned towards the lady whose mouth was clearly twitching for some reason.

"The mama bear abandoned a cub. If I found that sow, she won't get past me without hearing the word hoe."

Iwan mumbled words that were an attempt to get back at his furry partner.

'How stupid?'

The lady thought but suddenly she heard a weeping sound.

"Mhuu, Mhuu, Mhuu...."

"Yeah, take that Old Pudin."

Iwan also had tears in his eyes as both he and the bear suffered the same fate. But, Old Pudin had it coming from the moment, the word 'ugly' left its mouth.

"Mhuum"

"Oh, yeah then you are a honey thief."

The bickering of the century had started between Iwan and Old Pudin.

This continued for a minute as both suffered mental damage while the beautiful lady was left speechless.

"Can you continue?"

Her one question with an urging look was enough to achieve the peace between Iwan and Old Pudin.

"I shall do as you command."

"Mhuum~"

Both Iwan and Old Pudin expressed their resolve as they swallowed the hurtful words that they had prepared for each other.

"Thank you."

The beautiful lady for the first time since Iwan had laid eyes upon her, bowed her head in a very peculiar manner.

"You don't need to thank me. It's my pleasure that I can pass my past to someone so beautiful. I will be in peace knowing that someone like you will be keeping my story even when I won't be a part of this world anymore."

Iwan told the beautiful lady in a very burdened voice. But, throughout this, his voice never shook even though the words coming out of his mouth were undoubtedly quite saddening.

"I see."

The lady had no words of comfort for Iwan but she could still do one thing.

"I will listen to it attentively."

The lady told Iwan while showing him her fist. This was her way of showing her interest and at the same time, a shot at cheering Iwan.

Iwan knew that the lady was cheering him but for some reason, the fist of the lady was something that his body was urging for.

"I would love to get hit by your cute fists."

Iwan mumbled as his masochistic features were overrunning his sane thoughts.

"Mhuum ( Me First )."

Even Old Pudin was trying to get ahead of Iwan just to get beaten by a pretty lady.

The beautiful lady glared at Iwan and shot a cold glance towards the bumpy chest of his where the little bear was resting.

"What did you say?"

The lady could only pretend that she couldn't understand what the two were saying. But, her question and her killer looks were enough to shut them down.

"I am greatly ashamed by how my partner is acting. Thus, I shall continue in a way that you won't have to hear his name."

Iwan announced in a manner that would send Old Pudin into a deadly trance. Removing his feats of conquering the mama bears of the continent was simply announcing him as a beta bear. But, there was no way Iwan would leave out Pudin from his past.

"Mhuuu~"

Old Pudin was quite disappointed at Iwan's decision.

"Don't disturb me anymore, Old Pudin. Or, there shall be a fight of paw and palm between you and me."

'Why did I tell her that, 'Let me continue without wasting another second of your precious time.'"

Iwan thought and realized how troublesome Old Pudin was as all of the blame went on to the little bear for wasting his time.

'Well, whatever.'

Shaking his and looking right into the lady's eyes,

"Now, Let me finally tell you about the betrayal that I faced when I was twenty-one."

Iwan quickly continued from where he had left off.