Once they finally reached the palace it happened to be time for bed, Mizuki and the others all had gotten something to eat in the forest. They didn't really care to hunt if they needed to, they killed a boar and ate it with little pride that they were able to kill and cook it even if they are princesses who hardly ever leave the palace. Princess Mizuki, Kimi and Hoshi all decided to have a sleep over; and Kimi knows just like Hoshi does that they are never to speak if Mizuki shows her emotion they are not to tell anyone if they did that they would betray her trust.
Minutes later you could hear laughter in Princess Mizuki's room, well the boys could and Master Jaken anyways because their rooms are all right next to each other in the same hall. Mizuki's room was light pink and had pictures of flowers, mountains and trees, she seemed to love them since she was only ever allowed out of the palace to go to Chiyo and she didn't do that often. The boys all woke up angry and wearing their white kimono underwear, they all opened their doors and looked at each other than the room across the hall. All of the girls rooms where on the right side of the hall and the boy's rooms on the left side.
XX in the hall XX
Ichiro rubbed his eyes "Do you know why Mizuki's room is so loud?"
Shikon glared at him "No, they better shut up thou."
Jaken wakes and comes out with an angry face "It's what I have feared since they were born . . . A sleep over."
Ichiro and Shikon looked at each other with questionable looks on their face, and in unison spoke "Sleep over?"
Jaken sighs yeah "Your mothers told me it's a tradition in the modern era for girls who are friends to all be in one room and laugh; tell jokes and do each other's make up or tell stories and things."
Shikon smirked and chuckled silently, Ichiro emotionlessly looked at him "What is it?"
Shikon looked at him "Well Mizuki probably is bored since she never shows her emotions to anyone it's probably no fun, I doubt she is laughing or smiling."
Jaken laughs "Yea, I bet she is looking like this," he puts on his most serious and boring face.
Ichiro glares at him "She even acts more noble and proper than me, and she acts just like father . . . how you dare mock Lord Sesshomaru."
Shikon slapped him "Don't you dare insult him."
Jaken is surprised his eyes widened when he was slapped "I'm so . . . sorry."
He then leaves and goes back to his room, suddenly Ichiro and Shikon hear a quiet and soft laugh it wasn't Hoshi or Kimi their laughs were so childish, this laugh sounded beautiful.
XX Mizuki's room XX
Mizuki is covering her mouth with her kimono underwear's sleeve, Hoshi and Kimi smile and laugh at the joke they shared. Suddenly they stop hearing her door open quickly; soon a Mizuki hears footsteps and looks like her emotionless self. Soon Ichiro and Shikon bust in and threw the door open, and are stunned when they see all the princesses with make-up and hair all done up.
Mizuki glared along with the other girls they all glared at him with a deadly stare, Shikon ran behind Ichiro who was a little surprised in his expression "What?"
Mizuki glared and stood up with everyone looking at her she then got up and used her hand to form a light purple glowing wipe "Get out!"
Ichiro glared "Were you laughing we heard a new laugh that we didn't recognize."
Kimi and Hoshi just sit back and watch "Mizuki make this quick, we wanna play truth or dare."
Shikon peers out from behind his cousin Ichiro "What is Truth or Dare?"
Ichiro slightly smiled and looked at Shikon "Something the girls could never beat us at."
Mizuki sucks her wipe back in her fingers "What do you mean? We can beat you no problem."
Ichiro walks up to her and in her face "Wanna bet?"
Mizuki glares "Sure do."
A few minutes later they were all sitting in a circle, and are half way into the game.
Kimi smiles looking at Mizuki "Truth or dare?"
Mizuki sighs "Dare."
Kimi smiles "I dare you to scar Jaken awake."
Mizuki slightly smiles "As you wish."
She then walks down the hall and knock on her parents door.
XX Hallway XX
Sesshomaru appears at the door shirtless with pants on while her mother is still asleep.
He looks at her curiously "Mizuki what is it?"
Mizuki looks at her father with pleading eyes "Might I barrow your kimono and Armor?"
He looks at her "Why?"
Mizuki smiles thinking at the thought "Well we are playing truth or dare and I'm supposed to scare Jaken, so I'm going to dress up like you father and say something like Jaken wake up now and go get some food for my daughters right now . . . or die."
He smiles with pride in his daughter she is smart scare him and get food "Sure and play me well."
Mizuki hugs her father and changes behind the blind in his room, "Thank you father I'll give it back once I'm done."
Sesshomaru smiles threw his eyes and pats his daughters head "Okay and enjoy yourself."
XX Back playing truth or dare XX
Mizuki walks down the hall and stuns the others they all immediately bow their heads thinking it was lord Sesshomaru, soon Mizuki speaks with a soft voice "Why are you bowing I'm not Lady of the empire yet."
Ichiro and everyone look surprised and laughing, He looks at her "Let's see your glare."
Mizuki does just that and then speaks in a lower monotone voice "Get up Jaken and go bring food to my daughter's room at her order . . . if you don't I'll kill you."
They all look dumbfounded and stare at her "WOW you're just like him . . . Jaken I'm sure will also be amused at this."
Mizuki nods and then walks into Jaken's room, and shuts the door behind her and approaches his bed.
The others wait in the hallway to watch what Jaken does; Mizuki looks down at the loud snoring Jaken "Jaken."
She glares at him "Jaken wake up, and take food to Mizuki's room at my order or I'll kill you."
Jaken turns over still asleep "Five more minutes mother."
Mizuki glares and slaps him and repeats herself as she does Jaken runs out of the room screaming "Yes mi lord! Yes mi lord!"
She then returned to her parent's room and changed into her kimono underwear she left behind the blind in her parent's room. She then returned to find a small buffet of food in her room she smiled threw her eyes 'Good little Jaken.'
Next it was Hoshi's turns she picked truth and was asked by Kimi if she had a crush on anyone, everyone waited for her answer all eagerly waiting.
Hoshi shrugged her shoulders she wasn't really sure herself "I dunno maybe."
Next it was Shikon's turn and he was dared to have makeup on him and his hair done up, Mizuki and Kimi made him look so beautiful.
Ichiro busted up laughing and making fun of him for a few more turns. Ichiro smiles when Mizuki choose dare again.
Mizuki glares at him "Are you going to tell me what you want me to do?"
Ichiro smiles and get up taking her in the hall "Fine, knock on that door its general Tadashi's and then run away."
Kimi smiles and laughs "She won't run it isn't the noble thing to do."
Mizuki nods and then goes to the door he pointed at and knocks three times.
When she turns to walk away, a strong young man appears in the door way almost instantly "Yes, what is it?"
She stared at him for a while he was …
Mizuki stopped and looked at the young man "Um… I was looking for General Tadashi's room."
The young man points to a room two doors down "Why are you wanting him and who are you?"
Mizuki sighs and turns to see Ichiro behind her she glares and him and uses her purple poison wipe to wipe his face "You're so troublesome Ichiro, next time get the right room."
Mizuki bows her head slightly "Forgive me for his mistake, what's your name so I can thank you properly."
Kimi smiles with Hoshi and Shikon with makeup and hair all done up; Kimi smiled "Mizuki you're so nice even when you try not to show it."
Mizuki glares at her "I suppose that's only because it's a weakness to show it, so what is your name?"
The young man is stunned; he has dark brown hair with a black fur over his shoulder "Um . . . mine is Haruki and I never heard of you, who are you?"
Mizuki walks away and glances at him with the corner of her eye "Can't you tell . . . I'm Lord Sesshomaru and Lady Rin's youngest heiress and I will inherit the family empire when I'm older and take a mate."
Kimi smiled and laughed "You could of took it today, remember Dai a mortal prince asked for her hand today."
Ichiro and Shikon laugh while Haruki stares at Mizuki who glares at them both "I won't dare mate with a worthless mortal."
Shikon walks up to her "Why not your mother my mother and Inuyasha's mother were all mortal."
She slightly smiles and slaps him "Yes, 'Were' but think before you speak, everyone in our family besides your mother aunt Kagome hates humans . . . even my mother hates them so next time hold your tongue. Anyhow let's go back to playing our game."
Haruki just looks emotionless 'She is pretty, but pretty scary too. The other princesses and princes aren't like her she seems more mature and acts like Lord Sesshomaru.'
Mizuki turns around "Oh and it seems you too have learned the art of not showing emotions although I got to say, you haven't mastered it as I have."
With that he said goodnight to the princess and princes and then went to bed, they all decided to go to sleep as well so everyone went into his or her own room and slept.
With that they began to learn lessons and train they all were amazing at their lessons and with their training it's been two more years and everyone still has lessons except Mizuki, who has mastered it and now will soon be introduced along with her siblings at a ball to now they are able to have suitors now. General Tadashi and Haruki left right after he met Mizuki they were just resting at the palace for a day and then back to traveling.
XX Two years later XX
It was the day Mizuki got a new kimono that looked just like her father's, but pink and it didn't have pants in was a woman's kimono and definitely suited her well. She also had make up on now too, she had red lips with no eye shadow since her strips over her eyes were like she already had some. She now looked like a beautiful young woman of sixteen years even thou she was only twelve. It was a nice morning calm and peaceful, the other princes and princesses were all in the garden and playing, they were still playing childish games even thou they were all acknowledged as adults now. Mizuki left her room to join them in the garden.
Ichiro looks at his younger sister Mizuki "Why don't you play hide and go seek with us in the forest outside of the palace."
Mizuki glares at him "I will if you all play fair and don't snitch on me for leaving without the protection of Aoi or Ryuu."
Kimi smiles and hugs her "Deal!"
With that they all go to the forest and they all hide although Mizuki is smart enough to hide very deep inside the forest about fifteen miles from the palace; that way she would win no one would find her, she would return in an hour or so they should all be done by then.
Mizuki sat on a fallen log in a small clearing with flower beds everywhere; she smiled and picked some then picks the flower petals one by one. She slowly began to smile, she loved time alone and from the palace it was the only time she could sing and show her real emotions.
Flowers bloom
Flowers are captivating
By their beauty, their scent and their touch
So beautiful their scent is fresh and sweet
And their touch is so soft it's a treat why
Would someone ever crush them beneath their feet
Some angry souls say they are vile and not sweet
Not a treat but a pain who would be so cruel and humane . . .
Suddenly she smelled a fire not far away and got up she didn't want anyone to hear her voice, suddenly a disgusting demon pinned her to the ground "I'm hungry and you look so delicious and sound sweet."
Mizuki narrows her eyes and used her now pink poisonous wipe, that once was purple to strike him in his stomach, and it killed the demon within seconds. Soon the two figures at the campfire heard the demons painful screams and ran to the clearing to see the beautiful princess Mizuki. She was wearing three layered kimono and it was a long white kimono with the same print from her father's kimono, but instead of red it was pink and she had a belt tied just underneath her chest and it was just like her father's belt, with a red flower in her hair and she was a pale white skinned woman with a shimmering crescent moon and maroon stripes on her cheeks and upper eyelids. She also had golden eyes and red lips and smelled like the scent of flowers and her fur over her shoulders and forearms with small sandals on her feet with white socks as well, while her hair blew in the wind as it brushed against the back of her knees.
She narrowed her eyes it was General Tadashi and that boy what was his name . . . 'Haruki, Great they are going to tell my father for sure.'
Suddenly she glared a threating glare at them then before any of them could speak more demons that were vile, ugly; they were disgusting to even look at. She narrowed her eyes as some surrounded each of them, General Tadashi looked at the princess "Don't worry we will save you."
Mizuki slightly smiles "General Tadashi I do not need your assistance," she then used her wipe and began a deadly ballet gracefully jumping, spinning and running to kill all who surrounded her with ease. General Tadashi and Haruki used their swords killing them all, but one far more powerful than the others cut Mizuki's cheek and paralyzed her. She began to fall however Haruki ran and caught her then General Tadashi killed the being that paralyzed her. She looked at him with anger how dare he touch her why not let her fall.
General Tadashi looked at her "We are far from the palace and she is hurt we must camp until she is able to move and is willing to go back, princess Mizuki here is so powerful no one can make her do something she doesn't want to with the secret power of a strong priestess like Kikyo mixed with the strong demonic power like her grandfather."
Haruki looked at the princess who was tired from being paralyzed and fell asleep in his arms while he carried her back to camp, General Tadashi was thinking 'Their lives are now intertwined. We should now stay at the palace with the princess ,so they might begin to take an interest in one another if they did that then It'll be easier for them to seal the prophecy; that shouldn't be hard after all they're so alike they have high pride and never show emotions they should just get along fine.'
They soon are at camp and preparing food and soon her face is able to move, but not her body, she awoke at night to see them eating; she narrowed her eyes at them "General Tadashi why can't I move?"
He smiles at her threating look and tone "You are so much like your father."
Haruki looks confused "princess Mizuki?"
She glares at him "What."
Haruki looks at her beauty "Were you not the child I saw long ago?"
She huff and look off "I don't know what you speak of I have never seen you before."
He narrows his eyes "You are, but you look more grown up then last time."
Tadashi leaves he know they need to be alone to bond or whatever Just then Haruki gets up and looks at his father "Where are you going."
He looks back and then walked off "No need to worry," with that he disappeared.
Haruki looked back at her and grabbed a bowl with rice and pork, and then put her head on his lap to rest. He looks down to see she is still glaring "What is wrong Mizuki?"
She looks even more evil glaring at him "Address me as princess you do not know me enough, not to use it and why are you caring for me? If you don't know not me at all?"
He looks emotionless and slightly smiles "I thought you were rumored to not show emotions and now you show your anger."
She huffs and looks off "If I could I would get up and leave . . . but not return to the palace of course."
His looks softens as her does "You need to eat or your health will fall."
She sighs and tries to nod "Fine I will eat," with that he slowly lifts her head slightly and feeds her slowly and gently. She looks at him and analyzes him as he does this he is what she hoped to find in a mate, he is under her when it comes to classes, so they cannot besides her father told her he knew the one she would marry and he would tell her when she was ready to know. She ate and chewed staring at him and then blushed slightly when she looked back in her eyes, she looked away thinking 'He is kind; strong; brave; and shows no emotion and seems noble . . . why can't I find a lord like him.'
Soon she fell asleep in his lap and looked so at peace he stared down at her 'She is very beautiful and why did she blush when I looked at her . . . does she like me or something? She is beautiful but I couldn't mate with a spoiled rotten and cruel princess such as her.'
She woke in her room and was in her underwear 'why?' and had a head ache; she got up and wobbled to her door and looked around and then went back into her room "How did I get back here?"
Haruki appears from a corner in her room, she had failed to notice him, how could she not notice him he picked her put and put her back into her bed "You need your rest, and I'm you new body guard and know I go where ever you go."
She glares at him and gets back out of bed "Let me do as I wish," he holds her down and glares back "No you must get your rest."
She spits in his face "Let me go, I said now!"
He glares at her and wipes her spit from his face "No and I said rest!"
She narrowed her eyes and was kicking and squirming 'I hate being told what I must do!' "Oh and how am I supposed to rest when I'm being forcibly held down against my will."
He lets her up and stand up then goes off into the corner where he was "I will not let you leave this room your father and mother are angry that you disobeyed them, they told me not to let you leave this room and besides you can hardly walk."
She gets up and then grabs her head, her head was aching and it hurt so much, she fell to her knees and then Haruki caught her head before it hit the ground. He sighed looking at the princess in his arms 'My this princess has proven to be quite a handful, she'll be most troublesome to protect.'
He looked at her she passed out he told a servant go to doctor Cho and get an antidote, she comes with the antidote and then cares for the princess while she is unconscious.
He gets up and looks to see the princess had a fever but it was going down thanks to the medicine, the servant brushes her hair and cleaned her face and put a vase of flowers on her nightstand by her bed. He looked at her and she smiled back and talked kindly to him "Just hide somewhere in her room if you do then she won't be so angry and will calm down when she wakes."
He bows to her and then hides in a bathroom and opens the door just a crack to still be able to see her
. . . to do his job and protect her.
She got up and looked around to see if he was anywhere around he wasn't so she went behind the blind in her room and put on her kimono that was like her father's, then brushed her hair and looked at the flowers and put one in her hair.
She also went to her balcony and smiled as the breeze blew through her hair, she soon went to her bed and began to read a manga from her mother's time it was called Vampire Knight. She was unaware that she was being watched by Haruki, she smiled and while she was reading and laughed slightly with a kind and soft laugh, she then was blushing "Zero stop trying to make Yuki love you she loves Lord Kaname." She glares and puts it away in her bookshelf and then smiles and lays on her bed "True love seems nice . . . too bad I don't have a choice in a mate."
She picked up the flowers and picked off each petal while she sang a soft song it made her feel relaxed when she sang; it was tough hiding her feelings all the time so she often let them out in her room.
I show no emotion with the slightest annotation
In my speech, or on my face
I only have this place
Where I can be weaker myself
I must be my stronger self among others
That includes my Brother, grandfather, grandmother and all others
Except my mother and . . . Suddenly Haruki moved and made a slight sound.
Mizuki glared and burned with rage her eyes turned red and her markings on her cheeks turned Jagged as her hair flowed, "Who is it come out or I will end you without the slightest thought otherwise."
Haruki slightly smiled and came out with his hands up "Sorry I thought you would want a little privacy."
She glared and blushed when she returned to normal "How dare you," she put her claws against his throat "If you ever speak of what I have done here I shall kill you and whoever you tell will pay a similar if not more painful expense."
He couldn't help but smile "Alright and now if I do you can tell them I smiled," she sighed and glared then went to her door and tries to open the door before he blocks her.
She sighs "Can't I at least rest in the garden surrounded by flowers and the peaceful wind?"
He shakes his head "You would have had flowers here if you didn't destroy them, and sing."
She glared and sat on her bed "Why do you speak of it, you said you wouldn't."
He glared back her silent anger growing "You're right and by the way try not to show emotion even when your alone."
She was angry and looked off not paying any attention to him "Fine, just leave."
He knew if he didn't make her calm then being her guard was going to be even more troublesome, "You know I can't do that but if you wish I will go to the garden with you."
She sighed and got up to stand next to him "Fine its better than being cooped up here anyways."
He then escorted her down to the gardens and they passed by some servants who were gossiping about how she ran away and got lost. She just brushed off their stupid comments. He looked at her while they walked she looked and acted so noble, he was oddly surprised how she could change so quickly.
