Queen's Orders
Chapter 02
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"AKKK! Uncle! You didn't even ask for my opinion!" Mikan blushed madly. She was furious.
"AH? But Mikan, you wanted to become queen, didn't you?" Narumi asked.
"Well, I was going to think about it..." Mikan muttered. She fidgeted with her fingers.
"Besides, it's not you that asked him to marry you. It's him that proposed to you...You have the right to refuse, am I clear?" Narumi explained. Mikan nodded, she understood, "But if he's from the Hyuuga family... I think you'll go through some serious trouble if you refuse."
"Eh? What troubles?" Mikan asked.
"Well, the Hyuuga family is one of the most powerful lords in the land. From generation, they all had dangerous alices...if I'm right, Natsume Hyuuga, the one who just proposed to you had the fire alice, didn't he?" Narumi explained.
"Fire..." Mikan repeated.
"Anyways, they are very powerful. You could say they own half of the whole army in the country. They love the power and attention. They've dreamed of becoming king... Natsume's father must have ordered him to marry you... It seemed like he was forced too to propose to you." Narumi sorted out.
"Ah..." Mikan murmured. So, he being forced... Well, I'm being forced too! I'll be invaded by his father's army if I don't marry him...Mikan complained.
"Mikan, I'm sorry to say this, but I think you'll have to marry him...We don't know what he'll do if we refuse." Narumi patted her head.
"Eh...Uncle. Would it be worth to become queen?...I mean, I really think it wouldn't be worth to throw away my life for the position. I would have to throw away the possibility of a marriage with love, freedom..." Mikan worried. Narumi smiled.
"Mikan, if you become queen, and decide it's really not worth all the touble...You can always come back here." Narumi assured her.
Mikan dropped a tear, "WAahh...Thank you so much, Uncle..."
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The day arrived. As promised, Natsume arrived after lunch. Mikan was already waiting in her room. As she heard the carriage arrive, she ran from her room to the front door.
"Oh, you've been waiting." Natsume noticed as he saw Mikan open the front door. Her cheeks were red and she was out of breath, because she ran as fast as she can.
"Yes, I've been. I've decided to become queen...Actually, to say it correctly, I've decided to let you become king,"Natsume twitched an eyebrow at Mikan's comment, "It's true. I am the one with the position. If you marry me you become king. It's not that I marry you I become queen. I can marry anyone else and become queen just fine." Mikan plainly answered.
Natsume was getting annoyed, "Anyways, do you want to marry or not?" Natsume demanded.
"Hey! You can't just do that. You are the one who proposed, right? I have the authority to refuse. I have several conditions...Number 1, I do not want to marry with anyone who I don't know. We'll marry...If we engage first. We'll get to know each other and if I think I don't want to marry you, I'll cancel the engagement. You have no rights to refuse this. We'll be engaged for a time period of 1 year. If I don't refuse the engagement within that time period, we'll marry. am I clear?" Mikan demanded. Natsume was getting pissed off.
"Whatever." He rolled his eyes. He glared at her at the corner of his eyes.
"Number 2, you'll become 1st in charge once we engage, but I am also in charge. Until we officially marry, we both have the equal amount of authority. I can't do anything with ignoring your opinions, and you can't do anything if you ignore my opion. Until we officially marry and I become queen and you become king, we're both 1st in charge."
"Sure, like I care." Natsume answered.
"Number 3, in any case where we split up before the marriage during the engagement, you have no right to force me to marry you, or attack anyone I know or care. Is this clear?" Mikan asked.
"Okay." Natsume answered, "I agree. So your three conditions are : 1. We're being engaged for 1 year and you have the right to cancel the engagement any time during the year. 2. You have the same amount of power as me until we officially marry. 3. In the situation where we break up the engagement, I have no right to force you or attack anyone who you know."
"There, you got it. We will get officially engaged and we will be engaged for a year. You may have the authority of the king, live in the palace, whatever you want, as long as you remember my conditions." Mikan smiled.
"Well, how about heading home, my wife? Pleasure to be with you for the next year." Natsume took her hand. But he had sharp cold eyes which made Mikan shiver the moment he touched him.
"Thank you, my king." Mikan forced herself to smile. With this, I can find my parent's murders with ease now...
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It was a 2 hour drive on carriage from Narumi's house to the palace. Mikan found herself sleeping very soon after the first 30 minutes.
"Sir Hyuuga.." Natsume's servant driving the carriage called out to him.
"Aha- now I will be king soon, let's get used to it." Natsume corrected him.
"Ah, yes...King Hyuuga. Are you sure with marrying this girl?..I mean, Princess Sakura? Well, she has many conditions...and I think there is a possibility where she can cancel the engagement with you." The servant asked.
"Ha, keeping the engagement will be easy. All that girls like her want, is a marriage with love." Natsume replied with a small grin in his face.
"Love? Well, they expect to much. Marriage with love never happens in the royal family, my lo- I mean, king." The servant answered.
"Exactly. That's why most marriages are unhappy and they end up having a second wife or husband. So, what do I need to do to become king forever until I die? Make the marriage that she wants." Natsume replied.
"The marriage that she wants?"
"All I have to do is make her fall in love with me," Natsume explained, "...very simple. She won't want to split up. That's all I have to do."
"Ah...that would make sense," The servant understood. Natsume glanced at Mikan.
"She's very strange. Very carefree for a princess. She knew this day was going to fall on her. She would rather not become a princess. Most girls in her situation wouldn't become a princess. Sometimes peasant's live a much more carefree life." Natsume wondered, "I wonder if she has a special reason for becoming a princess. I really don't know anything about her. Her age..I'm guessing she's around my age though...Her parents, the former king and queen...They died because of food poisoning. That's all I know. Her alice...Her friends" Natsume pointed out some things.
"Well, you've just met..." The servant also pointed out.
"True. If I'm going to make her fall in love with me, I'll have to know more about her." Natsume glanced at Mikan again, "Besides. She's a very cute little brat." Natsume snickered.
"My king, did you just say she was cute?" The servant asked.
"I said she was a cute brat. Demanding such conditions, who the hell does she think she is. Bloody hell." Natsume swore.
"I mean my king, the cute part." The servant asked again.
"Ah, the cute part? Why do you ask?" Natsume raised an eyebrow.
"Well, my lo- I mean king, you rarely mention anything as cute, if you do not include your younger sister." The servant explained.
"...Ah, well, she's prettier than other girls, isn't she? She's much more cute than that annoying girl...what was her name again? She had the cat/dog alice..." Natsume tried to remember her name.
"Oh, the daughter of Lord from the north? Lady Sumire, she's very taken by you." The servant snickered.
"Oh yes, the girl with the perm," Natsume sighed, "or any of the other plastic and stiff daughters of the Lords...They are all very stiff and unemotional...all the same, too loud or either very quiet. As if they were born to be statues. Compared to them, this princess is so different. She was was so loud when meeting me, and now she's so quiet. She's...different. So different, it's tingles my mind. I want to know why this girl decided to become princess..Beside...I have to admit, she might not be great, but she is quite a beauty."
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End of Chapter
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