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Edited; February 5, 2009 3:03 PM & March 5, 2010 3:03 PM (LOL OMG, I did NOT meant to edit it exactly the same time and on the 5th ! Woah. This is totally blowing my mind right now. xD)


Eternity: Allure of Blue Roses

Never ending, never forgetting, always together. Not even death itself can break your love apart. Never. – A Loverly Smile


Part One.

"Five more minutes!" I said as I grabbed the blanket and placed it back on my head.

"Young lady! May I remind you, you are the heiress for this whole kingdom and is this how a princess suppose to act? I mean imagine what Lady Hana would say!" My maid was lecturing me again about being proper and even using my mother as an excuse. I whined as I reminisced about the thought of being a… princess. Just saying the word makes me want to throw up. Nobody asked me if I wanted to be the heiress of this whole kingdom, I just want to be Mikan, not Lady Mikan, not Princess Mikan just simple Mi-kan Is that so hard?

After she left I went ahead and brushed my teeth, because of the "poisonous" word I'd just said twice and the thought of it made me want to run away from home. Today was my mother's re-coronation. In 2 years on my 18th birthday I'd be have my first coronation to take the thrown and the responsibilities of the royal heir to the Sakura kingdom.

❦ After the Coronation.

I was headed out the door of the kingdom right after I took off that stupid and itchy dress my mother made me wear for the coronation.

"Mikan, where are you going?" My mother was sitting quietly on the sofa, wearing her newly made crown, and reading one of my favorite books, Twilight.

"I'll just be going to the book store mother, I'll be back before dinner." I was putting on my coat that covered my whole body, even my face because of the hood. It was a color black, kind of like one of those witches robes I've read in books, however, in this one I could see though the hood.

"Alright then, but make sure no one sees you out there," my mother said then she turned back to the book.

I was walking through the village and looking around for the bookstore. My "robe-ish cape's" hood was on my head making sure no one saw me.

Right when I was walking towards the direction of the bookstore, I accidentally bumped into someone while I wasn't paying attention. I apologized immediately and looked up. That's when I saw, Him.

"That's alright," he took out his right hand and gestured it towards me. I shook it very carefully, "by the way, my name is Natsume Hyuuga." I stared into his crimson irises.

"M-Mikan, Mikan Sakura." I forgot everything, my hiding, my being the heir to the thrown, and the fact that my hood wasn't covering my face anymore. Natsume seemed to have noticed who I was, but he still gave off a friendly smile, which would have made anyone trust him.

When I said my name, someone must have heard and turned to me. They noticed my hood off, and came hurdling towards me. I was trapped in the crowd of the whole village, until I felt someone grab my hand and told me to follow him. I looked up to my savior and noticed it was Natsume. My hand was in his grip, and my heart beat faster than it had ever had before. I finally felt happy, alive.

By the time we lost site of the crowd, we were in some garden that I've never seen before, and it seems that no one has even set foot in here except one or two people since everything was beautiful and in place. The roses were in full bloom and there was a nicely carved fountain in the middle. The walls were covered with green vines that created a barrier to the outside world. The door was hidden under the swirling vines and the only way to get in was with a special key. However, what caught my eyes weren't any of those significant facts in the hidden garden, it was something else. Something not known to mankind, something not possible, something growing amazingly and perfectly placed around the fountain. Blue roses.

"Amazing aren't they?" Natsume said breaking the trance the blue roses caught me in.

I looked closer at the roses, touching them and feeling their flower petals in my pale fingers, "Yes, they are. But I thought these kind of roses don't exist, some kind of myth or just a legend?"

"Well you see them right now don't you?" I nodded but still held confusion and yet amazement in my eyes. When he noticed the confusion, he continued explaining, "My mother, can do many things, from cooking pot roast, to creating the first known blue roses. She's actually trying to create some black roses and any other color that hasn't been identified as possible."

I still didn't understand it but I just pushed my confusion aside to speak to him more. Sadly, time was running out for me as I noticed the sun was setting and I had to go home. "I have to go," I said as I went to the door.

Suddenly, I felt a hand on my wrist, "Will I see you again? And can I see you again?" he asked, worry in his ruby red eyes.

I took my arm away from him, looking closely at it as I tried to avoid his weary gaze at me, "Yes, meet me here again, tomorrow at dawn," I gave him a smile, even if I was worried about my parents and their thoughts about me talking to one of the villagers, and he returned one as well.

"Goodbye," I heard him say as I was opening the doorway out of the garden, "I hope I see you again."

I stopped on my tracks, "Me too." I rushed out the door and at that moment, I knew it, I knew that Natsume, Natsume was the man that my heart has fallen for.

❦ One Year Later.

I've been having secret meetings with Natsume whenever I was allowed to go to the village. We'd always meet up in the garden where he'd first taken me. He also told me many things about him and his mother, and he also gave me a hand-made key to the garden that he'd carved himself.

He told me everything about him and I too did the same. It's like we've both lived in each other's lives, like all these years of pain and happiness, both of us were there and knew the emotions of those times. He told me a story when he was little. His mother was able to curse people but never anyone without a reason. He'd told me that many people would start exaggerated rumors about this and that about his mother. By the time he was fourteen, he couldn't take it anymore and told anyone that said those kind of rumors while he was around, would receive a lecture on face punching 101. He told me that he's never liked that stuff before and never will. He loved his mother and that no one messes around with her while he was around. And he said the same thing about me too. And I did the same.

We were in love. One from a poor family that survived on field and crop work. And the other living on royalty that she has never wanted. Yet those two broken hearts met, and created a full heart together with the pieces still there.

Natsume and I were sitting on the bench he made in the garden. It was nightfall and I snuck out of the kingdom. We were watching the twinkling stars above our heads when I noticed Natsume was looking at me. I looked at him and I noticed a yearning in his eyes. I put my hand on his right cheek as he sat on my right side on the bench. Our faces were inches apart, and I wanted what he wanted as well. After a while, our lips were locked together sending butterflies up my spine from my lips, to my stomach, to my chest, till they were all over my body. Natsume has been the first man I'd ever locked my lips with, and I promised myself that he would be the last and only man that will ever happen with. We sat there, lips locked, under the moonlight and the stars, showing the gods of our love for each other.

The next morning, I was woken up by the maid, and she seems to have a very sad face on. I was sent downstairs to my parents who were arguing immensely about something I didn't know about.

My father was very angry and my mother was as well. I went closer to them, and asked them what they have called me for. That's when it happened. My own father, my own flesh and blood had slapped me so hard that I fell on the floor, holding my reddened cheek, and wondering what I've done for this, the first time my parents have ever lay a finger at me.

My father's intense glare was enough to show me that I've done something very wrong and I had no idea what that was. Until he said the words, the words that were enough to break my heart apart and stab it to pieces, "I NEVER want to see you with the Hyuuga boy again!" How had he known? What force in the world told my parents about the secret meetings I've had with Natsume? I got my answer, "Your always leaving the house to see him Mikan! I have guards all over the village and many of them have told me about this incident!" My father said angrily as he paced back and forth in the room. I could see my mother, shaking her head, and I bet she's thinking 'what did we do wrong Mikan?'

I got up off the floor and sat on the sofa, when my father was to busy pacing and thinking at the same time. I couldn't make words come out of my mouth. My mouth was dry, and my mind and body were full of thoughts about what had occurred last night with Natsume.

Then, a boy with black and red hair and prince-like clothes came out from the corner. My father stopped and told the boy to come over, "Mikan, this will be your betrothed, Hiro Kanashimi." My mouth fell and my eyes were wide.

That boy, with a stupid grin on his face and weird whisker thingies on his face was going to be my fiancé! "What!" I screamed as I got up the chair, "But father I love someone els—"

My father cut me off, "Someone else whom is on the poor side of the village, what can he do for you! The Hyuuga's can curse and Hiro here is way better than that Hyuuga boy and the wedding will be tomorrow, and today, you are not to leave this kingdom until the day you become Mikan Sakura Kanashimi!" My father yelled at me.

"No! I love someone else! You can't make me do this!" I shouted to my father.

"I can and I will! I am your father, and while your living under my roof you must listen to what I'll say!" he shouted right back as Hiro was getting closer to me.

I stepped back, and an idea popped into my head, "Alright father, whatever you say, I will do," I said making my way back to my room.

"Good, me and Hiro and your mother here will discuss the plans," I just replied with a nod and headed back to my room.

I had plans to meet with Natsume today, but I guess those have to be cancelled. It was close to midnight and everyone was asleep. I could here my father snoring as I began to pack my suitcase. I packed very quietly and you could barely here a sound. I put on my shoes and headed for the back door. Luckily, the maid's rooms were upstairs so no one was downstairs. I left a note on my table explaining everything to my mother and father:

Mother, father, I love you all so much, but I can't do what your telling me to do. I love Natsume and I will never love anyone else. I'm sorry if I'm disobeying your rules but since father did say that I wouldn't have to follow his orders as long as I didn't live under his roof, I've run away from home and I will never return. I love you both but this is what I have to do to earn my happiness. Goodbye.

Mikan Sakura

I was close to the gate and the guards were asleep, typical. I got out easily by climbing the gate but since Natsume once taught me how to climb a tree, I did it pretty easily.

I was at the garden now, and I hoped Natsume would be there, still waiting for me to come. But I doubted it since if he had, he'd have been waiting for more than three hours. I took out my key and opened the door to the garden. And there he was, lying on the soft grass, waiting for me to come. He was getting cold as he shivered a bit, but he still waited. I came slowly to him, trying my best not to make any sounds. I knelt down and put my hand on his cheeks. He was surprised at the touch, but when he felt the warmth from my hand, he stood up now sitting and staring at me.

I couldn't resist him any longer. I did lock the hidden door so who would find us. Again, our lips locked and we stayed that way for a really long time. Enjoying the feeling of the warmth in our mouths. Then, the alarm rang from the watch-tower in the kingdom. We ran out of the garden and into this dark place that seemed to be a dungeon close by.

"Stay here," Natsume commanded me to stay in this little dark whole where no one could find me as he stood up and looked around. He was holding a sword that he found lying around the dungeon.

Someone came out of the shadows, Hiro. Natsume and Hiro were fighting with swords. I guess Hiro was sent to look for me and the first place he went to was the Hyuuga's.

Natsume and Hiro were fighting and both of them were bleeding. I was crying for Natsume since he'd lost a lot of blood and his clothes were cut and blood was dripping from those cuts. They were panting and Hiro was bleeding as well but not as much as Natsume. After hours of shedding tears and blood, Natsume could barely move. He tried to avoid the sword that Hiro was holding as much as he could, but he could barely handle it. Hiro was still moving freely, dragging Natsume's bloody body to the carriage. I followed behind while Hiro was riding back to the castle. I rode on the back where no one could see me. I still saw Natsume's body in the carriage through the carriage-window, he was coughing up a lot of blood and he was turning very pale. I waited for Hiro to get him out, I felt so helpless. However, when I was about to follow, the guards caught me.

"Let go of me!" I shouted struggling out of their grip.

They brought me to my father who locked me in my room. I was brought food but I didn't eat it. I was told to take a shower and get myself clean but I didn't. When my father let me out, I asked where Natsume was but he didn't say. I asked everyone but no one would tell me.

Finally, I went to my maid.

"Natsume," she looked down, "Your father, the day we found you, he buried Natsume alive. I heard Natsume whining outside, under the dirt. He was crying, and making a lot of coughing noises and then," my tears were threatening to fall, "I couldn't hear anything anymore." That was the last thing my maid said until I was locked back in the room.

I was crying, crying really hard. My bed was full of the tears that came from my swollen eyes. Again, I wouldn't eat anything, I wouldn't sleep, I wouldn't do anything but sit in my locked bedroom, on the bed, crying.

One day, I couldn't take it anymore. I found a rope and wrapped it around the hook for the lamp on my ceiling. I hung myself, loosing every ounce of life I had left. Following Natsume in the after life. Blood replacing my tears, I felt the warmth red blood drip from my eyes as the rope was strangling me. I didn't struggle at all, because the rope didn't hurt me, it didn't leave pain, I was numb. From the hurt, from the only person I loved being killed in front of my own home, from the betrayal of my own father, and from the heart I no longer had.

* * *

The maid was going into Mikan's room, unlocking the door with her free hand and using her other to hold breakfast for Mikan. She screamed. She screamed at the site of Mikan's dead cold, bleeding body hanging from the ceiling of her own room. Everyone came and saw her body. Her mother was crying, the maids were scared, Hiro was clueless, and her father, her father felt guilty.

* * *

Where am I? Who's that? I was lying on the floor of a place I've never been to before. There was something weird, I was glowing, glowing weirdly, my glow was red and black, the colors of hate and misery. My throat was very scratchy like it needed something, but what? I looked at my hands and stared at claw-like fingernails that could kill in one scratch. Someone was with me. He glowed with the colors of hate and misery as well. I knew who it was, but at the same time I didn't. It was him, but who's him? Does life have an after life, will we get to finally be together, or filled with the pain and misery we now acquire. What's eternity, and does it exist? I hope it does.

"Hi," his voice was filled with sadness.

"Hello," I said, my voice was rough.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"I don't know, I feel, nothing." I said to him.

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Writer's Note:

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*A Loverly Smile