After getting crammed next to my little sister, making my ears pop, telling my dad to sit his ass back down, and getting sick on airplane food, I decided I was bored enough to get my ass moving on this project. So yeah, I'm stuck in a plane as I write this and my butt and back hurt already, but screw that. Wait, why am I talking about this to myself?
Okay, sorry about the slightly altered last names and Shizu-chan's gender, but this story is supposed to take place during a previous life that the characters lived, don't worry, they're still identifiable. Be warned! There will be a character death later on, and it will be dramatic. Not in a Gone with the Wind sense, though, that would be way too extreme.
I sat calmly before my aunt in the respectful manner that she had taught me to, back straight, looking straightforward, with a blank expression. I was dressed in the heavy silk kimono that all lord's daughters wore, with my long black hair tied back. Anyone that assumed me to be the fifteen year old niece of the noble lady that served the emperor so loyally were wrong. I was actually in fact, a boy.
Not long after I had been born, my mother and father died unexpectedly, leaving me with no other living relatives except for my terrifying aunt. For some unknown reason, my aunt raised me as girl even though I well knew the difference between men and women. My hair had been grown out long and I wore a girl's kimono everywhere I went which was embarrassing. Since my birth name so happened to be Mikado, I received the fake girl's nickname of Miko. No one besides my aunt, my doctor, and the closest servants knew that I was truly a boy.
Of course, since almost everyone in the castle thinks that I am a girl, I have never in my life been allowed outside the castle, because 'it's not safe for young women'. I haven't even been allowed to go to any of the places that my aunt goes to visit.
My aunt was the powerful and greatly respected lord of the majority of the land of the Chūgoku region of Japan. She may have been a woman, but her father was very sickly and had no sons or nephews that could take over. Thus, taking advantage of the opportunity to show the country the true power of women, my aunt forced her father out of office and took over. To keep the emperor from forcing her out, my aunt black mailed the him with all sorts of disturbing scandalous events that occurred under him, which worked beautifully of course.
She was a lean and fairly muscular woman that wore men's pants underneath a woman's kimono with her wrapped chest exposed so you could see all of the disfigured battle scars on her upper half. Of course, you can't miss the four and a half foot long katana at her belt. Upon first meeting her, most people would think that she was a yakuza boss, but in truth, she was a very kind but cold person that had a difficult time expressing her feelings to others. She was also incredibly voluptuous, but in a direful way. Along with all of the other odd appearance features to her, there was one thing about her that stood out against all the rest, and they were those bright violet eyes of hers that could bore into your very soul.
"Um... Is there a reason you called me in here?" I ask nervously as my aunt glares down at the long letter that she had received from a neighboring lord.
She lets out a long sigh and says in an exhausted voice, "The lord of the area to the south of us is dying. And he wishes to have his child married before he dies so there can be a successor."
"Your going to have me married? But who will succeed you, then?" I tilt my head to the side a little.
"That's not the problem here, Mikado. We plan on joining our land and becoming one, so we can have one ruler, we have that much planned." I nod, understanding completely. "However, the real problem on our hands is that this lord doesn't know that you're a boy." WHAT?
"Y-you can't mean that his successor is a man!" I stammer, trying to reassure myself, but it's true, living being outside of our region knew about my real gender. She can hear my panic and nods solemnly as she rubs her temples out of frustration. I'm positively mortified. "That's impossible! I can't marry his son! If they find out I'm another boy, they'll have me killed for sure!"
The door of my aunt's study opens and Shizuko Heiwahara enters. She is the castle's head servant and is my aunt's closest friend while also being heavy with child. Shizuko is married to Izaya Heiwahara, who is second most powerful commander of my aunt's samurai, my aunt being at the top of course. "What's all of the yelling about?" She asks, raising an eyebrow as she sets down the tea she brought.
Being one of the few people that knows my real gender, I throw my arms around her and cry, "Heiwahara, auntie wants to marry me out to another boy!"
My aunt looks up and gives me an odd look. "'Auntie'?" We end up completely ignoring her confusion.
As a child, Shizuko had to be my nanny since my aunt had no time to raise me herself with her work, so she always listened to everything I said. She looked up at my aunt. "Does he mean Kidaki's boy, Kamikawa?"** My aunt quietly nods again. "Well, I'm not so worried about the boy, but I am about the father." She says this so calmly, almost as if nobody needs to worry about it.
I leap off of her. "How can you shrug this off so easily?!"
"You'll just need to meet the kid to understand, dear." She stays calmly. The door opens again, this time being my childhood friend, Anri, who is another servant that also knows my gender.
"Um... Miss Heiwahara?" Her sweet voice barely a whisper. Shizuko looks up. "You were taking awhile, so I was worried that something came up..."
"Oh, something came up alright." Shizuko nods her head in my direction. "Young master is panicking because it's so horrible to marry another boy. That boy being Kidaki."
"Oh... Kidaki? Why didn't you tell me earlier? You really shouldn't worry about it..."
"You all are horrible! How is this so easy for you?!"
Almost as if to make things worse, Izaya pops up behind Anri with a stupid grin on his face. "Hey, Kidaki is here!"
"What?! Why didn't you tell me this as he was coming here NOW?!" My head is spinning. What in the world is going on?
We welcome a young emissary from the lord Kidaki and an accompanying boy about my age with fairly good looks. I instantly know that he's Kidaki's son. He has warm brown eyes that slowly look me over as I sit next to my aunt. The young emissary who introduced himself as Yumasaka is trapped in a conversation with my aunt that I can no longer hear because I am too busy trying not to look like I am staring at Kidaki's son. I can tell that I am doing a terrible job of it, though.
My aunt glances over at me and Kidaki and emotionlessly tells the emissary, "I have some papers that your master needs to look over and sign. Come with me, please." I watch as she escorts him out of the room, leaving me behind with the other boy.
When the doors close, I'm too flustered to even look in his direction, I angrily scold myself mentally for blushing because of another boy. Why is it that I feel this way? When I hear movement coming from the direction of Kidaki, my curiosity gets the best of me and I look over at him, just in time to catch him climbing over my body and pushing me onto the floor.
"WHA-!" Before I can yell for help, he softly presses his lips to mine. At first, I think he only did it to shut me up, but then I begin to lose my strength and even start to get lost in him. I can only snap back to reality when he sneaks his hand under my kimono and starts to grope my crotch. I cringe and try to push him off, but he remains firm, he just continues to make it even more intense by snaking his tongue into my mouth.
Just as I start to lose myself again, he pulls away and crawls off of my body and starts closing up my kimono. It's only then do I realize that my bare chest has been exposed. I blush. If he had felt me and had seen my chest, then that ought to be enough proof for him that I am actually a boy.
When I look at his face, he actually looks quite satisfied and is blushing himself, not seeming at all to be flustered by my gender. "What... What's your real name?" My request ends up coming out in a voice like Anri's.
"You're adorable." He smiles at me when I hide my bright red face with my sleeves. "My name is Kidaki Masaomi." Masaomi. His speaks in a voice that is gentle and kind, just as he is when he touched me. Just thinking about it makes my face even hotter, I can almost feel the heat radiating from my face against my hands.
"I know they call you Miko, but that can't be you're real name if you were born a boy."
There's a long pause as I try to decide if I should tell him or not. "Mikado..." I whisper. "My name is Kamikawa Mikado."
He holds out a hand and strokes my face. "I can't wait to make you my wife, Mikado."
Hmmmmmmmmmmm... I seem to have forgotten the part about the crazy turbulence and how it's FUCKING UP MY TYPING! Oh, hey there! Thank you so much from moi, le author! Please review and tell me what ya think, yeah? Damn I'm already talking like my aunt (-_-;)
**the name Kamikawa is written in the kanji (神川) which mean 'god river'. To those of you who have read my story I'll Kill You Later, you may notice that there is a recurring OC with a fairly similar name, like I said in that story, got any idea who she might be? And why are Shizuo and Izaya in a similar situation?