Hey sorry this has taken ages too put on my beta reader went on holiday so glad they had a good time, also would like to thank everyone who been reading this and reviewing so hoping that you will like the story I'm trying my best to go as fast as I can to get this story finished but I'm busy with work but I will try so far I sent chapter 7 & 8 because this chapter was not as long as the others but it will make up in later chapters.

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Chapter 6

Meet the Parents part 1

Natsuki finally arrived at the remote region of count Kruger island; miles around are nothing and the countryside's no city life. The Krugers' kept their islands more peaceful. There are lots of forests around where there are wild wolves that travel in packs but they keep away from humans. Only the Krugers' can go and see them as there are only few left in the world. The Krugers' do everything they can to keep them safe as the wolves have always been watching over their families whilst in return, the Krugers' look after them too. Thus, they have no hunting parties.

The Krugers also travel in carriages instead of fast cars. They wanted to keep the tradition and never wanted to change their beautiful country and not destroy it so whenever people decided to travel and wanted to get away, they always come to one of the Kruger islands. The island is also near water which is also connected to the moon and there are many stories about the moon and how the wolves became the guardians. This is why the Kruger's logo is a howling wolf head.

Natsuki is now outside of the huge mansion, which is surrounded by beautiful gardens and wolf statues. Inside the mansion is very modern but some looks antique. The mansion almost looks like a royal palace but very stylish with navy blue and a gold stripe on each side of the banners hanging down on each side of the mansion with the howling wolf and a moon as the background with the letter 'k' in gold.

As Natsuki is walking down the tall long hallways, pictures of wolves and also her ancestors are hanging on the wall. Then she stopped and looked at a familiar picture to her. It was her when she was younger with her family.

Count Alexander Kruger (Natsuki's father) has blonde hair and had blue eyes, His hair fall backwards and has a scar on his left side. He's one of the most respectable men in early days and also has good alliance with most of the other countries. Although he is a non public man, his specialty is in business and he also goes to meetings along with Count Viola.

Saeko Kruger (Natsuki's mother), a practical older version of Natsuki except she has glasses, is a scientist working alongside Aries. Although she not like her husband who loves tradition, she loves science and knowledge but also loves creating things whenever Doctor Yohko needs any help in upgrading or creating something new. She would always seek advice to Saeko. Though Yohko specializes in medicine at first, she then begun to change and started loving to create mechanical machines that could help the otomes and make the world a better place with Saeko as her mentor. Saeko at first was creating weapons but then she decided to change and focus more on raising her two daughters up and not create something which the countries would use to start war.

Alyssa Kruger is Natsuki's younger sister. She has her father's hair and eyes and her hair falls back too. Just like her mother, Alyssa helps work with her mother in the science division and right now is helping to create robotic humans to help the people. She would like to take over her mother's company whilst Natsuki is the headmaster and an otome for their region. Alyssa loves her older sister dearly and misses her. When Alyssa is very ill and often has to stay indoors when she was younger, Natsuki comes and plays with her all the time to keep her company but now Alyssa can enjoy life.

However, during Natsuki's childhood days, she became worst and the Kruger's have to search everywhere until they could find the right medicine. Luckily they managed to find it just in time. This took place while Natsuki was at Garderobe as a coral in her first year.

When Natsuki reaches the end of the hallway, there were two very large doors painted in blue on the sides and silver on the handles. She knocked on the door and as she got inside, she noticed Saeko and Alyssa were sitting on the sofa whilst Alexander was at his desk working on some documents. Alyssa lifted her head and noticed Natsuki near the doorway.

"Onee-chan!" she shouted which got her mother and father's attention. She ran up to Natsuki and gave her a bear hug. Natsuki smiled at her sister antics and hugged her back.

"Alyssa, is it just me or you keep on getting taller every time I see you?" Natsuki teased while Alyssa blushed at her older sister. She was right that Alyssa has grown into a fine young woman but still younger than Natsuki. She has now longer hair and pulled in a low ponytail and her face looks more like Natsuki except she has blue eyes and blonde hair.

"Natsuki, welcome home dear! Why didn't you tell us you were coming back?" Natsuki looked up and saw her mother and father approaching. She smiled and went to hug them separately.

"Forgive me mother, I've been very busy with work and things led one thing to another so I came here because of the situation which we are currently having" Natsuki explained.

"Is there something wrong Natsuki? Let's go and sit down so we can talk about it" Saeko reached towards her daughter. Natsuki nodded she then was led to near the fireplace where there was a large navy blue rug with white sofas on each side. They all sat down with Alyssa sitting next to Natsuki whilst Alexander and Saeko sat right across from them.

"So Natsuki, is there something you wish to discuss with us?," Alexander said. Natsuki took a deep breath to try and calm her down. She then looked up at them.

"Yes, there is something that I need to explain to you although I'm not exactly sure how I should start with it."Natsuki said.

"Natsuki whatever it is, you know your mother and I loved you very much and we'll be there to support you" Alexander smiled whilst he grabbed hold of his wife hand and hold it.

"Well…. the thing… is recently as you are aware of father, the Garderobe and other countries had an investigation mission to search inside a secret base that the Duke of Artai left and so we sent down our otomes to search out the base. Meister Shizuru Viola was also in this mission…." Natsuki went on.

"I hope Shizuru is alright," her mother asked in a concern voice. Natsuki smiled at her mother's concern for Shizuru.

"Yes, she is fine. In fact it's something that does involve her but also me as well. But anyway when Shizuru and the others enter the base, they have found something which shocked all the otomes that were there" Natsuki said.

"What did they find nee-chan" Alyssa asked curiously.

"They found three small children in test tubes sleeping" Natsuki said.

"Are the children alright now?" Alexander asked.

"They are safe and for now have been separated in order to protect them more. It seems that they were created to be some kind of weapons or evolved forms of new otomes even though they are small. But luckily for them they don't have their G.E.M.S so they can't activate their powers right now. They seem to be regular children except they are artificial beings. Their creators have stolen some DNA from different people and somehow created these children for what purpose we don't know but we are still investigating." Natsuki said as she waited for a while so that she knows that her family is listening properly.

"Wait…. you said that you and Shizuru are somehow involved in this right? So could you explain to us in more detail how both of you are involved?" Her mother just has to ask that question which makes her blush instantly but Natsuki knew it best to just tell her now.

"Well… erm… you see…hm…"

"Onee-chan? Are you alright? You seemed you're a little red? Are you sick?" Alyssa cut her off as she started checking the temperature of her older sister.

"Oh.. no Alyssa, I'm totally…fine! Really fine…." Natsuki waved at Alyssa to show that she is not sick.

"Oh okay.. I worried coz you look like an exploding tomato…" Alyssa gave her a worried glance.

"Don't worry. I'm fine…Anyway, as you know… we found those three children and we did some tests. We determined that each child has DNA that has resemblance to some of my friends like Mai, President Yukino and Haruka."

"Okay.. so how are you and Shizuru connected to it then?" her mother asked in confusion.

"Well.. the thing is… it also seems that one of the children has my DNA with them so that makes me a…. biological parent." Natsuki was still blushing while the whole room went silent. As soon as she said that, she looks at their shocked faces and her parents' faces have gone white almost pale color.

"Natsuki…wait… let me get this thing clearly… so you are saying…. you are saying that you… have a …. child?" Alexander said

Natsuki nodded her head up and down.

"Yes….. with Shizuru" she stated.

"WHATTTT!" the three blurted out in unison.

"WITH SHIZURU! But... but how?" her mother was so shocked to hear this to have her eldest daughter to have a child with another woman and not even married yet.

"You and Shizuru have your own child!" Alyssa exclaimed.

" Well we're not sure exactly how but they somehow stole my DNA as well as Shizuru's and somehow fused them together to create an artificial being. Apparently we think it's because they didn't have enough DNA from both of us to create a child so they fuse us together. Well that what I think but I'm not really sure though as further investigations are still in process" Natsuki said.

"Does this mean that I'm an auntie then? Tell us more about your child!? Is your child a son or a daughter? What's the name? Can I see your child? Are you with your child? Does she look more like you or more like Shizuru onee-sama? Oh please please please tell me more!" Alyssa, in an excited voice, bombarded her older sister with endless questions. She couldn't believe her sister's luck to be able to have a child and also with the person she loves too. Alyssa and her family really liked Shizuru and they can tell that Natsuki was happy too but then she also knew the reason why they broke up and that made her sadder.

Natsuki giggled at her sister antics and smiled at her. "Yes, of course, you will be her auntie. I have a daughter and she's around 5-6 years old. She has short blue hair like me and red eyes like Shizuru but she looks just like me when I was younger except her hair is shoulder length and has spiky fringe on her side. She is currently with Shizuru." Natsuki said proudly telling her family about her daughter. Although she is still unsure about Natsumi, she will try though for her sake and for Shizuru.

"What your daughter name? Why didn't you bring her here with you to meet us?" Saeko asked although she was still very shocked to hear about this at first but she calmed down and was glad that she finally has a grandchild.

"She's called Natsumi. She's with Shizuru and on their way I think to meet Shizuru's parents. I wanted to come alone to tell you the news because I wasn't sure how you were going to react plus there also something else which I wanted to talk to you about." Natsuki said.

"I understand how you feel Natsuki and although this is still shocking news for us, I think your mother and I have come to terms with it after all. It's not every day that our daughter comes back and says she has a 5-6 year old child but we still do love you and we also accept Natsumi as our granddaughter. We also accept Shizuru to be her mother too since she a nice girl and she will do well to raise Natsumi up with you" Alexander said.

"Yes father which is why I wanted to tell you this because of the situation now with Natsumi. She needs us and both of us have to be her parents and gave her the love she needs but I also want to give my love to… Shizuru. I want us to be a family with Natsumi. What I'm trying to say father, mother is that I want to marry Shizuru" Natsuki stated.

Alexander and Saeko looked at each other sadly before Saeko looked at Natsuki again.

"Natsuki as much we want you to marry Shizuru too, you know that you can't because you have been arranged to be married with someone else. It's been discussed years ago. They also sent a letter too recently about arranging it now. I'm really sorry Natsuki for this. For years your father and I have been trying to get you out of this arrangement but unfortunately we failed. They even brought up the subject about a war and which you know, our people are not strong enough to fight and there are only few of us. I'm really sorry sweetheart. There's nothing you can do to stop this" Saeko said in a soft but also sad voice.

"Why do I have to go through with this engagement? I don't want to marry anyone else except Shizuru. I don't love anyone else except her. Because of this arrangement, I ended up hurting the most important person in my life. I also left her heartbroken too. How is she going to see me with another person whilst she looks like a single mother whom her partner went up and left her to raise their child on her own. What about Natsumi? She wants her parents to be together too! " Natsuki was very much frustrated about everything and they were all shocked at Natsuki's behavior. Although they were used to Natsuki shouting but the fact that she was shouting out her feelings when she always hides her feelings means that this is really a serious matter.

"Natsuki, you are the eldest daughter in the Kruger household and although this is unfortunate especially now since you have a child too but you still need to up hold the agreement in order to protect your people." Alexander said firmly.

Natsuki balled her fist up with anger. She hated this idea to be married to someone else. She was on the verge of tears but not everyone noticed. Only Alyssa did and she felt sad for her sister to go through with it all. She wanted her sister to be happy.

"Can this really be happening…" Sigh "...I guess I really don't have a choice in this matter" Natsuki gave up.

"We're deeply sorry Natsuki. We truly are" Alexander said. He was sad to see his little girl grown up and now won't be able to love.

"So who am I suppose to get married to?"Natsuki asked

"This deal was set out years ago but now under the circumstances, it might be difficult for you. She is the eldest daughter but her younger brother became a duke but now since the duke is no longer in power it has come down to the eldest daughter to take hold of their responsibilities." Alexander said

"Who was the duke?" Natsuki asked

"You might know him quite well he's Nagi Dai Artai. So in other words you will be marrying his older sister." Saeko said.

"WHAT! Are you serious you want me to marry that brat's sister… the one who caused so much trouble just so he could rule the world?" Natsuki shouted.

"Natsuki, his sister is not like him at all and this was set out years ago so we didn't think that her younger brother nearly destroy the world. I'm sure once you meet her she might be different" Alexander said.

"But father, I don't want to marry her. I just want to be with Shizuru, to be with my family even though it wasn't that long ago but when I'm apart from them, it upset me and I feel like something is missing. I had a lot to think about when I was coming over here and now I know my feelings for Shizuru won't change at all." Natsuki stated as she started to feel strange and suddenly realized she was actually telling her parents about her feelings when she would always keep her feelings bottled up inside her.

"We're really sorry for what's happening to you Natsuki but there nothing we can do to get out this arrangement. Also Alyssa is going to Garderobe too to have some business up at Windbloom and also to check on you about this arrangement. It time for Alyssa to take responsibility too if she wants to succeed in your mother's business" Alexander said.

"Onee-Chan…. are you alright?" Alyssa said in a worried tone. Right now, Natsuki head is hung low and not having eye contact with anyone and her fist are still clench tightly together.

Shizuru… once again I failed and what's even worst, I can't even do anything for you I can't even love you. I'm so sorry Shizuru. This is really the end for us.