Wah-chay (hello in Moose Factory Cree)! This is my fourth and most recent story! I hope you enjoy this! Please note that my title for the first chapter was a bit long. So I partailly summarized it on the place where you have access to all of the chapters. I also drew the cover image myself! This chapter was very fun to write!

Please Don't Marry Me

Chapter 1: The Arranged Marriage Proclamation

It was a time when Rikuo was in grade 12. In this time, Setsura lived with the rest of the Nura clan.

Tsurara and Rikuo were walking home from school. The sun sprayed golden rays across the sky. It was rush hour in Ukiyoe Town and the air was filled with the cries of children returning home. It was perfect Kuchisake Onna weather.

"Waka, will Kiyotsugu and his friends be breaking in tonight?" Tsurara asked. Her beautiful black, shiny hair drifted with the soft breeze.

"No, not that I know of," Rikuo responded. His glasses shined nervously. When they returned home, both were exhausted.

"How can you keep up this 'school' thing Rikuo-sama?" Tsurara asked, "It's so tiring and pointless! Most of the things you learn aren't useful to you as the commander of the Nura clan."

"I still want to live a regular life Tsurara," Rikuo responded.

"You have to get up at an unkamily (a play on words) (kami version of ungodly) hour, and sit for hours listening to a human go on and on. It's so-"

"Tsurara! I know how much you don't like school, but you won't convince me to stop going to school," Rikuo said.

"Okay waka."

Reira walked by with her hair down. Her long hair the colour of sakura blossoms flowed in the wind. Tsurara watched her dreamily.

Nurarihyon with his long bread shaped head came, "Rikuo, Tsurara, we have exciting news for you."

"What is it Grandpa?" Rikuo asked.

"Come here you two," Nurarihyon said pointing towards a room. They entered it. Setsura, Wakana, and Nurarihyon sat at a table in the room.

"Sit down," Setsura ordered. Rikuo and Tsurara, in her yuki onna form, sat down at the table.

"We have important news for you," Nurarihyon said.

"As you know Tsurara, Rikuo and you are close." Setsura said.

"Yes. We're practically siblings." Tsurara responded. "We've been through a lot together."

"We've arranged for you two to be closer than just servant and master," Wakana said.

"What do you mean Mom?" Rikuo asked.

"What she means is that we have arranged for you two to get married," Nurarihyon said, "Congratulations."

"WHAT?!" Rikuo and Yuki Onna screamed. "Grandpa! Tsurara and I are not romantically close! We wouldn't work as a couple!" Rikuo reasoned.

Yuki Onna didn't say anything. She merely had a mournful face. She may never be able to be with the person she loved.

"Look at that sad look on Tsurara's face. Your refusal is hurting her feelings," Setsura said.

"It's not that Mom. I don't want to marry waka," she said calmly, her face painted with sorrow.

"Rikuo, Yuki Onna is a nice girl. You two would be an adorable couple," Wakana said.

"Adorable couple?! She's like my sister or mother! Yuki Onna practically raised me!" Rikuo yelled.

"Nothing more will be said Rikuo! You'll marry Yuki Onna! She is the perfect wife for you," Nurarihyon declared, "You are dismissed now." Rikuo stomped off angrily out of the room. Yuki Onna walked out.

"Can you believe this?!" Rikuo angrily said to Yuki Onna, "They're actually choosing who I'm going to marry!"

Yuki Onna was silent. She looked at the polished wooden floor in the hallway. Yuki Onna then glanced at the sakura trees, which instead of cute pompoms, now looked like dreary, sickeningly sweet pink trees. She gazed at the beautiful gate, which now looked like a wall in a jail.

"What's wrong Tsurara?" Rikuo asked.

"Nothing waka," Yuki Onna said softly as she glanced at the roof.

Her eyes weren't their usual bright, content amber. They were melancholy, dim yellow-orange eyes.

"Are you sure? You've been pretty silent ever since we found out about this arranged marriage," Rikuo inquired, "Let's get something straight. We don't have any feelings for each other, right?"

"Right waka."

"And we'll get them to cancel this arranged marriage!" Rikuo proclaimed.

"Right waka," Yuki Onna repeated feeling comforted by Rikuo's proclamation of them ending this engagement. She hoped his words were true.

"You've been looking around a lot, Tsurara," Rikuo noticed, "Would you like to talk?"

"No. Waka, could you do me a favour?" Yuki Onna asked.

"Anything Tsurara."

"Could you get engaged to Ienaga or Maki?" she asked.

"WHAT?!" Rikuo exclaimed, "Why?!"

"Well, any person would do. Just so that you can marry someone else and I can be with whoever I want," Yuki Onna proposed. Her eyes were filled with hope. Rikuo could tell she really wanted him to say yes.

"Wait a second. You've got the hots, or should I say shivers, for someone don't you?" Rikuo asked.

"No, I just know I don't have the shivers for you. Anyway, I'm tired. I think I'll go lie down," Yuki Onna said placing her hand on her head sleepily.

"Don't you have to help Mom with dinner?"

"Not tonight." Yuki Onna didn't even want to look at Nurarihyon, her mother, or Wakana. She didn't even want to eat supper.

At the supper table, everyone was there besides Yuki Onna and Rikuo.

"Everyone! We have an announcement to make!" Wakana proclaimed.

"Where are my daughter and Rikuo?" Setsura asked.

"I don't know," Nurarihyon said.

"Yuki Onna and my son are getting married!" Wakana declared.

"EH?!" everyone was confused.

"This calls for a drunken party!" Kurotabou pronounced.

"I'm with Kurotabou!" Aotabou yelled.

"Me three!" Kejōrō said.

"It's settled. We'll have a drunken party to celebrate!" Nurarihyon said.

"So where are Tsurara and Rikuo?" Nattou Kozou asked.

"In their rooms! It doesn't matter! It's time to drink!" Kubinashi yelled.

"Yay!" all of the yokai yelled gleefully. Wakana sighed.

While the yokai were getting drunk, Yuki Onna and Rikuo were in their rooms thinking. Yuki Onna, in her room that she shared with Kejōrō, was depressed. How would she stop this arranged marriage and be with the one she truly loves? She was just about in the middle of her depression faze.

"Let's get the happy couple here!" a drunken Kejōrō proclaimed.

"WE ARE NOT A HAPPY COUPLE!" both Rikuo and Yuki Onna screamed as they burst into the drunken party.

"Our parents set this up!" Yuki Onna said raising her voice furiously still avoiding the gaze of her mother, Nurarihyon, and Wakana. The room temperature began to drop. "Now I'll get out of here before I FREEZE YOU ALL TO DEATH!" Yuki Onna yelled as her final scream before she raced out there leaving a layer of ice on the door and ground around where she had stepped. You could actually see her irritated icy aura blasting out of her. She then ran to her room and was sobbing angrily.

"Huh, looks like she inherited the angry sobbing and yelling as she blasts out of the room leaving ice tracks from you Setsura." Nurarihyon said.

"Don't call me Setsura old man!" Setsura said.

"Look who's talking."

"Urusei!"

"Wait! Yuki Onna-sama!" Nattou Kozou ran after her.

"Mom, Grandpa, Tsurara's mom, I want to stop this arranged marriage…"

Nattou Kozou ran to Yuki Onna. The spot around her was covered in ice jewels.

"Yuki Onna-sama?" she asked.

"It's alright Nattou Kozou. I'm sorry I stormed out of there like that. It's just…."

"What Yuki Onna-sama?" Nattou Kozou asked.

"You see, my mother, Soutaicho, and Wakana-sama have arranged for Rikuo-sama and I to get married."

"I figured that much out. But don't you like waka?"

"Not romantically. I remember when I was a little girl, holding him as a baby. Then when I grew up, he became an adorable little snot-nosed punk who liked to play tricks on us. I never imagined us getting married. In fact, I always thought of him as a son. Truth be told, waka is nice, but I actually like-"

"Yes, yes…" Nattou Kozou said excitedly.

"I like-"

"Tsurara!" Rikuo burst in.

"Oh come on waka! She was finally getting to the good part!" Nattou Kozou said disappointedly.

"Hm? Either way, Yuki Onna, I don't want this to tear you apart. You always used to be so carefree and optimistic. This isn't like you. You're turning into your mother," Rikuo said.

"Yes waka, I will try to be optimistic. I'll start right now!" Yuki Onna got up with a smile on her face and brighter eyes. "We'll cancel this marriage!" she said as she walked off.

"That was quick," Nattou Kozou noted.

"I'm not sure it's over with her faze of depression. You can't smooth it over with one comforting comment and a smile," Rikuo said.

"She was about to tell me who she liked!" Nattou Kozou said.

Rikuo turned into his night-self, "I knew it! They thought I was crazy, but I knew it!" night Rikuo said.

"Who's 'they' waka?" Nattou Kozou asked. Rikuo shrugged.

PLEASE REVIEW! Even if the next chapter is already updated, you can still give me your opinion about the chapter! Thanks for reading chapter 1! Coming up: Something happens between Reira and Tsurara that hurts Tsurara. She avoids Reira. Meanwhile, both Rikuo and Tsurara try to talk to their parents (or grandparents). Then, Yura comes into the picture. Read more in Chapter Two: Awwwwwkward