Second Best
Princess Botan stole the heart of every man she met. The first was her very own father King Enma; fresh out of his wife's womb with patchy sky blue hair and large pink eyes she became his everything. He named her after the first queen of the ancient Kingdom he ruled and vowed a great life for the infant.
Botan's unique colored features were like magic to the people around her, she enchanted them with smiling faces and young beauty. When Botan was two years old a second child was born, she came with a full head of dark hair and the shade of cream for skin, much lighter than her sister's healthy tan shade.
King Enma smiled at the baby in the queen's arms, not showing the disappointment of having another female child.
The little princess had light blue eyes that held uncertain in her surroundings, making her look lost in the new world she was birthed into.
The king turned to the open widow in the birthing room to see flocks of birds traveling south to avoid the harsh winter about to fall upon the lands. That's when the name came to him, "Her name will be Kagome," King Enma declared, not even giving another glance to his wife or new child.
Then he simply walked out leaving his wife and babe to be an attended to while he announced the delivery of the kingdom's second princess. The queen sighed deeply and looked down at her child with sad eyes and stoked her chubby cheek.
Her husband's coldness to Kagome did not go unnoticed; she made sure to give her several maids sharp looks as the quietly gossiped. Soon the news about the king's indifference to his additional daughter would be circling around the palace. 'Oh my poor daughter, favor is not with you,' she thought sadly.
Starting new stories always gets me back into writing. Chapters after prologue will be about 200 words long.
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