Part 1: the truth (the girl)

"Hikaru, don't forget to say "hi" too Sora. Remember you two are meant to be together". My parents always used to say when I was a little girl. My parents knew what they were planning and they never told me the truth. All my life I was living like a blind bat. Back then I thought it was because they knew that I liked him. Yes, I have to confess I did like him, he was the best guy a girl would want and there were always girls behind him. That's why I knew I would never be with him, that's why I gave up on him . Now im 15 years old and here I am in my living room with my parents and me -- in shock-- couldn't believe what they were saying.

"Honey I know this is hard for you ,but we already had the marriage planed before you were even born" Mom said.

I stared at her with wide eyes. How was I suppose to react? I wanted to scream, scream and hit something 100 times, no, not 100 times, 200,000 times. How could they! I wasn't the only daughter… I was the youngest! And they decided that it was me the one who should get married with a stupid popular guy at the age 20!Were they crazy, why not Sara? Why me? Of course instead of exploding (naturally) ,I acted as calm as I could.

"WHY ME!!!!!!"I screamed at them. "Sora has an older brother so why don't u marry him with Sara!" I said trying to breath.

"Because he's already marring Juury and Sara is going to marry Kei. That way our bonds with the other family will be strong and when war comes we'll be protected. You know well that in any moment we could have a war with the Hayami family." My dad said calmly.

Ah katsu, he was from the Hayami family. I remember I used to hate him just because my parents hated his family. So I followed their heinous patterns and hated the Hayami family too. But then ,3 years ago ,we ended in the same squad.

Flash back:

"Squad 11:Azumi, Hikaru ,Jiro and katsu" the teacher said.

"WHAT!!" katsu and I said at the same time.

I looked at him, as he looked at me with angry eyes, and then pointed him with my finger and looked at the teacher

"You cant be serious! We hate each other! Our family has been in war with them for centuries! are u trying to get me killed!? Or worse start another war!"

"Calm down Hikaru, the hokage thinks its best if u guys are in the same squad maybe you guys can become friends" The teacher said with a smile on her face like it was possible for us to be friends.

Back to the present:

Wow… it was hard to believe that after THAT we actually became friends, it wasn't easy, at first we didn't really talked but we needed to work as a team to complete the missions correctly and that's how we put our differences behind to do our work, but as time passed we started to talk more and more and the next thing I knew I started to like him more than I should.

"Mom I don't think I can marry Sora. I'm not ready and I don't love him." I said.

"That's why were telling you ,now that you're going to be 16 next week, and don't worry you're not going to get married tomorrow" she laughed like that should be funny…."You still have 4 more years and that will be enough to be ready" she said smiling.

I don't want to get married with Sora, but for mom and dad I most definitely had to. After all, Sara was going to get married too.

"When is Sara getting married?" I asked, curious.

" Next week, actually ," Dad said enthusiastically.

I said nothing. Instead I thought about my older sister , my only sister, I didn't feel sorry for her. She loved Kei, after all…. I wonder why? Was it because my parents told my sister the same thing when she was a little girl ( that they were meant to be), just like me?

"Did she know a long time ago?" I asked, nonchalant.

"Yes, its been 4 years since we told her, since then she started to talk more to Kei, and of course Kei already knew ,he chose her 4 years ago." My dad said, proud of my sister because Kei had chosen her and not another girl.

I wasn't surprised by this, after all she was a "princess" ,one of the most beautiful girls back then and she still is, just not as innocent as she used to….

"Dad did Sora choose me?" I asked

" No .Your marriage was arranged by his parents and by us. But he already knows," Dad said, unruffled and utterly calm..

" What! he already knows!? And what did he say?", I said, thinking about all the times I've spoken with him, looking for the smallest hint that he already knew. Why didn't he say anything! Why didn't he say something like " Hey! How are you? Guess what? Were getting married!!" Definitely a bad idea, that would have been waaay too awkward…

"Um….well I don't really know…. His parents told me that he already knew"

"Ohh." It was all I was capable of saying "Can I be excuses?" I said

" You know-"

"Of course honey you must be tired, it most had been a long day. After all tomorrow will be the chunning exams. I hope you sleep well" my mom said with a smile on her face.

I got up form the floor, went up the stairs, pass the bedroom of my sister, then I enter the bathroom .Maybe this was all I dream, maybe I could wake up if I wash my face. I wash my face a couple of times, then I looked myself in the mirror. The girl in the reflection was looking back at me. She had black short hair in the back and it was pointing to every direction, the front was long. She had the most beautiful blue eyes that I had ever seen. Yes her eyes were beautiful but they were empty, alone in the shadows. As I watch I saw the beautiful reflection starting to cry.