To you Far and Beyond

Set a few years after Go! Princess Precure. Kanata is being forced into an arranged marriage to become king of Hope Kingdom, but Pafu and Aroma have other plans involving a certain Princess of Flowers.

He had made an honorable choice, but he knew he ultimately wouldn't live happily ever after; like the fairy tales Haruka had loved so much. Kanata had a duty to the people of Hope Kingdom and their happiness was much more important to him than his own. He was their prince after all, and with his father's health declining rapidly he knew he would be taking over as King of the Hope Kingdom soon. It is a universally acknowledged fact that a king must take a queen. The prince hadn't given much thought to who he would marry, he let his advisors choose a wife for him. Some princess from a neighboring kingdom, one that had never been taken over by Dyspear Kanata had a duty to continue the royal bloodline after all. And a Prince had to marry a princess.

Princess… He thought sadly. No. He didn't want to interfere with her life. Not again. He already made her miss out on being a normal teenager by giving her the dress-up key, effectively sealing her fate as a warrior who had to fight to save his kingdom. A place she had no connection with and definitely no reason to fight for as hard as she did. She had given it her very all as Cure Flora, she even became a Grand Princess- the highest title one could earn in Hope Kingdom, one that can only earned by the Precure.

She's so strong, kind and beautiful. She always has been. Ever since the first time we met. Kanata shook his head, trying to push thoughts of Haruka out of his mind. His feelings for her only grew every time they encountered one another. She was his new dream. All he had hoped for was her happiness. Such a beautiful person, inside and out, didn't deserve to have her future taken from her. Not again. She had a purpose in the human world, he was sure. To live a normal life and be the beautiful princess she had become. He didn't have any direct contact with her any more, but he had asked Pafu and Aroma to watch over her. To make sure Dyspear didn't target her again. He may not be able to be involved in her life, but he had to know she was safe. She was his dream after all.

"Prince Kanata," Aroma's voice drew him from his thoughts. "Are you all right-roma?"

"O-oh, sorry" the purple haired prince replied. "Yes, I'm fine. Just lost in my thoughts.

Aroma frowned. With Kanata's recent engagement he had been thinking about Haruka now more than ever. "We need your approval of the china pattern for the engagement party-roma."

"Yes, of course." Kanata absentmindedly looked over the sketch that Aroma was carrying. "This looks fine, thank you Aroma. You may go."

"Prince Kanata, i-is there anything you need to talk about-roma?" The bird butler asked, worried if he was overstepping his boundaries.

"You can guess well enough, Aroma." Kanata smiled at him sadly. Right. They'd already had this discussion a dozen times. But Aroma still didn't understand. Kanata needed to marry a princess, and Cure Flora was a Grand Princess. The butler tried telling the prince Haruka's feelings for him, as they appeared to be obvious to everyone but the prince himself, but he wouldn't listen. Kanata was convinced her life was better without him. Aroma, Pafu and Princess Towa disagreed.

"Very well, Prince Kanta-roma" Aroma said before flying off, leaving Kanata to his melancholy thoughts of his lost love. He had a few matters to discuss with Princess Towa.

Towa was more than angry when she learned of Kanata's engagement to a woman neither of them had ever met. He was her brother! The person who she was closest to in the entire kingdom. And he was getting married to someone he never even met!? The princess of the flames knew of arranged marriages but they were so outdated they rarely happened any more! And her brother had made the decision to have an arranged marriage when his true soul mate was just a world a way. It was ridiculous! It was illogical! And a Grand Princess would make a much better queen than some random princess from some random kingdom. Even though she was from the human world Haruka's belief in dreams was so strong she fit in perfectly with the citizens of Hope Kingdom. Towa knew Haruka and her brother were meant to be but he could just be so stubborn sometimes.

"Princess Towa," a soft voiced pulled her from her calligraphy, which wasn't going very well any way. "There's something very important I need to talk to you about-roma."

"Yes Aroma, I know what you have to say already." Towa said, turning to him and sighing.

"Princess Towa! We have to do something at on- uff!" Pafu came running through the door until she tripped on one of her ears. Towa chuckled and walked over to her, kneeling down.

"Aroma, Pafu, I know what you need to talk to me about" Towa said, tying back Pafu's ears.

"No Princess Towa! She'll be here in three days-pafu!" Pafu cried with panic in her voice.

"W-what? Onii-sama's fiancee? But they weren't supposed to be meeting for another week! How, why? What is the meaning of this?" The princess of the Hope Kingdom asked her servants.

"What do you mean three days-roma? We don't have the details worked out for the engagement party yet! Why, Prince Kanata only just approved the design for the china! There's still the catering, the music, the-"

"No, not the party-pafu!" Pafu cut off her brother. "She's coming to the Hope Kingdom to confirm their engagement and make a public announcement on behalf of her kingdom. And she'll be here in only three days from today-pafu! Princess Towa we have to do something-pafu! What about Haruka-pafu?" Pafu looked at Towa with pleading puppy dog eyes.

"This sounds suspicious," Towa contemplated. "The princess already officially accepted onii-sama's proposal in writing a week ago. The two weren't supposed to meet until the engagement party, why the sudden change of plans? This isn't normal for an arranged marriage… Does my brother know about this?"

"I don't know-pafu. I'm just as surprised as you are Princess Towa-pafu."

"The Prince doesn't know this-roma," Aroma confirmed. "I had just spoken with him-roma. He would have asked about her arrival-roma."

Towa turned her back to the royal fairies in contemplation. She knew what she was planning to do was extremely punishable, but if her suspicions were right, the Kingdom was in grave danger. The portal between Hope Kingdom and the human world was only to be used for emergencies. But what constituted an emergency, exactly? To Princess Towa, this was an emergency.

"Pafu, Aroma," the scarlet princess said slowly. "I once again must ask too much of you. You are to go to the human world, find Haruka Haruno and bring her back to Hope Kingdom. As Princess of the Hope Kingdom I give you permission to enter their world."

"But.. what will we do once Haruka is back here-roma? What if she doesn't want to come with us-roma?" Aroma asked hesitantly.

Towa smiled. "I think all we'll have to do is give these two some time alone together and they'll work things out how we imagine they will. And of course she'll come back, you two have been watching her right? She looks at her dress-up key every day, and I know she's thinking of my brother every time. Those two have a connection. She has to know something is going on."

"Yes-pafu! We will bring Haruka Haruno to Hope Kingdom-pafu!" Pafu saluted, accepting their mission gladly.

"Thank you, now get going you two. We haven't any time to waste!" Towa smiled at them, her hands on her hips. She might be young but she had all the leadership qualities of a queen.

The two fairies nodded and flew away. Towa sighed after they were out of sight. She figured there was a 50% chance their plan would work out, but only time would tell.