Ah yes, there's their first kiss, how cute! I wish that they only ended up together in the anime. I hope your weekly wait wasn't worth the agony of the cliff hanger. Yes well just to let you know classes have me with more homework now so I should update at least once a week and that's with out writers block which is now beginning to once again kick in. Also! I'm shocked to see how many people have visited my fic so far. I'm still shocked to see that there are still so little reviews though, well enjoy the fic.
-Darkia-
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An Unexpected Surprise
Hitomi blushed as she was forced in to a long white gown by her hand maids after Hinata had brought it in from one of her rooms that she didn't use. It hurt her to stand up as they placed it on and then she was carefully seated down in front of a mirror and then Hinata started to quickly but carefully fix Hitomi's hair. She sighed as she was handed some green looking medicine and drank it.
"It's suppose to help with the pain." Millerna explained. "You'll be able to move around pain free for the next couple of hours, I know that it taste bad, but…."
"It wouldn't work if it did. That and people who aren't sick would want to take it all the time if it did taste good, I know." Hitomi interrupted, the princess, as she repeated her grandmother's words. "My grandma told me that one time when I was sick." Hitomi explained. "She use to be the one who took care of me when I was sick or injured."
"Your grandmother knew much about medicine." Millerna said with a raised eye brow.
"Sort of, she wasn't a doctor or anything, but she use to have to know it since she did have kids." Hitomi explained. "I guess that the knowledge came to her after experience."
"She's missing something." Millerna said to Hinata who nodded in agreement.
"Yes your highness, but I can't figure out what." Hinata said when she was finally done putting Hitomi's hair up in a weird way. It reminded Hitomi of a braided crown. "I know!" The older woman said happily as she made her way to one of Hitomi's drawers and pulled out a tiara. "This will go splendly." The maid said happily. "What do you think, Princess Millerna?" Hinata asked and Millerna eagerly nodded. "Yes, I agree, it would match her eyes perfectly."
"That's that's not mine!" Hitomi gasped as she didn't even know that it was in there, not having to look in to her dresser much for the past few days since she was forced to stay in bed, and didn't really change anything but her under cloths and her night gown every once in a while. "Van…" She meant to think but it came out anyway. "It was the king, wasn't it, Hinata?" Hitomi asked the hand maid who shook her head and placed it on Hitomi's head. "It was Merle's idea actually." Hinata explained. "Van let her pick it out. It would look weird if the king was picking out a woman's jewelry." Hinata explained which made Hitomi grin. "Yes, I can imagine it now, that would be a site to see." Hitomi said trying not to laugh at the image that she saw in her mind.
"Now, it's time to go, Lady Hitomi." Millerna said with a slight grin on her face. "The king is having his future queen appear tonight. Since we are friends of the king, we wouldn't want to miss it now, would we?" Millerna asked with the grin still in place.
"No, not for the world! After all Merle would never let me down if I missed something this important." Hitomi said trying not to let the best of things get to her just in case someone happened to be over hearing their conversation. Most people who had seen the incident that day most likely put two and two together, but then again, there where people who where that stupid here and back on Earth who wouldn't even have a clue to who Van had chosen so it was best to just play along. The terrible tasting stuff that Millerna had given her earlier was beginning to work, she just hoped that it wasn't suppose to make her tired as some pain killers on Earth did. A knock on the door was then heard which made Hitomi jump some. "Who is it?" Hitomi asked.
"Merle, can I come in?" The cat girl asked.
"Yes, come in." She said and watched as the door slammed open and watched as the cat girl ran to her and hugged her suddenly. "Merle?" Hitomi asked as Merle started to cry.
"I'm sorry that you got hurt Hitomi!" Merle apologized. "I should have listened to you!"
"No, it's not your fault, not completely anyway, I should have told you why to get down." Hitomi said. "Not to mention it was me who had voluntarily jumped in front of that arrow remember?" Hitomi said as she felt the tears run down her friend's face. "Now, come on you helped me get my memories back. I'll explain it to you later or has King Van already explained it to you?" Hitomi asked and just got a blank stare. "I'll tell you later, but we need to go, his highness would be very angry if we where late. Especialy you Merle, you are his child hood friend."
"Yes, I suppose Van-sama would be mad at us, and when he's angry, it's not a nice thing to see… Well I suppose that you've seen part of that side of him already haven't you? Two years ago when we where traveling together." Merle said.
"Probably not as bad as his temper will be if we're late." Hitomi said smiling at her friend who now had stopped crying. "Come on. Princess Millerna, aren't you going to get ready?" Hitomi asked now realizing that Millerna hadn't had a chance to get ready.
"I've been ready all this time." Millerna said. "Or have you not noticed?" Millerna was right, the dress that she was wearing was made for such an event. "I guess like you where too frightened of me to even look at my cloths! I knew that you would do something like this and decided to get ready ahead of time." She sighed. "You are so predictable sometimes Hitomi Kanzaki."
"Sorry?" Hitomi asked questionably.
"It's fine, let's go, we will be late if we don't stop talking!" Millerna said as she got up, a smile on her face. "Coming Merle?"
"Yes Princess Millerna." Merle replied as she grabbed hold of Hitomi's arm. "You are not getting out of my sight." Merle hissed dangerously. "Van-sama would be very angry with me if you got hurt again."
"Merle… Is that really necessary?" Hitomi asked as Merle held her gloved hand all the way to where the ceremony was being held.
"Yes, It is, for my sanity!" Merle said all weird like which made Hitomi sweat drop some. "If you say so…"
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One of Van's adviser's was speaking, but Van suddenly came up and whispered something in to her ear. She seemed to give Van a strange look to what he had said since Van nodded. "Continue, it won't be canceled." Van reassured the woman with a smile which made the woman only shake her head and then continued to speak to the crowd. Hitomi would kill him for this, but he wasn't the one who had planned it to be this week. The adviser's had been pestering him for the past two years to take a bride to be his wife and to have a heir as soon as possible. There had been countless number of women who had wanted to try to seduce him in to forcing him to marry them. They wanted to get in bed with him so that they could end up with his child and then that way Van would have an obligation to them: but he wasn't stupid, there was only one woman who he had been in love with that that was Hitomi Kanzaki. Princess from other countries tried to even get him drunk to do something with him, but he wouldn't drink anything more then tea with them, even at balls and parties. It was always better to be safe then sorry, and end up paying the price later. Tonight, he would finally get rid of all of those pesky women, and their strange way of wanting to be his queen.
'Mother are you watching?' He thought to himself. 'Like father, I have chosen someone who no other sane man would have chosen to be his wife.' He thought silently to himself, trying to reach his parents somehow or just wishing that he could talk to them. 'The Lady Hitomi Kanzaki from the Mystic Moon.' He thought. 'Would you approve of her mother? I think you would like her, Folken had seemed to taken some liking to her at the end of his life. Since he seemed to have saved her from the dragon that day in the forest.' He thought remembering how a rather puzzled Hitomi had explained it to him two years ago. 'I wish that you where here, mother.' Van thought and then suddenly felt a familiar presence, but no one was there.
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Hitomi stood behind the half closed off room as she watched the woman speak. Music started to play and then Merle nudged her slightly. "Remember after I stand next to Van-sama it's your turn to go out there!" Merle hissed. "Don't mess this up!" With that she left and then Hitomi watched as she walked with amazement how lady like Merle could be sometimes. Then again, it was the same thing for her, she guessed since she was considered a tomb boy back home. Then again, Earth wasn't her home any more, she couldn't go back, she would live here with Van, as his queen and wife. The thought still made her blush.
"I'll be waiting back here, Hitomi." Millerna said. "I want to be able to get to you quickly if something happens."
"Yes Millerna." Hitomi said as she took a deep breath as she now walked forward. Van was bowing which was strange since she never seen him bow to anyone before. Not to mention she was only a "lady" in this world so she had no real reason to be bowed to. Once she moved closer to him, he stood up back to his full height and then took hold of her hand. He was so dressed up, nothing like she had seen before. He had a nice smile on his lips as well, which made Hitomi blush even more. Earth and the Silver Moon hung high in the sky, right above them, she glanced at it through the corner of her eye looking at her old home. 'Sorry everyone.' She thought to herself as she was now looking back in front of her. 'I can't go back this time, mother, father, my brother, Yukari, and Amando. Forgive me!'
The woman who was speaking earlier stood near the balcony, with her back turned to the crowd. "We gather here tonight for the wedding of King Van Fanel, and Lady Hitomi Kanzaki." The woman said which made Hitomi shot a glance over to Van who was standing in front of her. 'I'm going to kill him!' She thought as she watched him try to move his eyes away from hers. 'I'm going to kill him! How dare he do this! I thought that he was just going to introduce me as his FUTURE bride! VAN YOUR DEAD!' She yelled in the back of her mind and tried not to grin. 'I will make you pay dearly for this Van Fanel, and you will have the rest of your life to make this up to me!' She didn't mean it in a bad way, but in a way to where she would make sure that he never forgot about this moment! That was a promise she would not forget to keep.
"Van Fanel," The woman started. "Do you take Hitomi Kanzaki to be your wife, and queen? To love, hold, and cherish, for better or worse to death do you part?" The woman asked Van who was blushing brighter then his shirt. "I do take thee Lady Hitomi as my wife." Van replied as he took the ring that Merle handed him, and placed it on Hitomi's ring finger.
Hitomi was blushing as brightly as Van was now, as she felt the ring placed on her finger. It was beautiful! She had never seen anything like it! It was better then Yukari's ring that Amando had given her. 'When did he have time to get such a thing?' Hitomi asked herself as the woman turned to her. "Do you, Hitomi Kanzaki, take Van Fanel, to be your husband and king, to love, hold, and cherish, for better or worse, until death do you part?" The woman asked.
Hitomi, unsure of what was best to say just decided to follow Van's wording. "I do take thee Van Fanel, as my husband, and king." She said as she now took a ring that Merle handed her and placed it on Van's finger. She guessed like that weddings where different here then on Earth because the woman didn't say everything that a priest would have said.
"Now, with the power rested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride." The adviser said as she stepped to the side so that everyone in the crowd below the balcony could see the newly weds. Some cheers ran through the crowd as Van kissed Hitomi and then other's remain silent. Van took her hand again, and then brought her closer to the balcony's edge.
"I present to you, The Priestess from the Mystic Moon, the seer, the Wind Goddess, and now mostly and forever, the new reigning queen of Fanellia, Queen Hitomi de'Fanel." Van said loudly enough for all those below to hear, and Hitomi just stared at the people below as the same people cheered once again for their king and their new queen. Then, she could feel it, the sudden pain coming from her healing wound was beginning to pound at her again. "Van…" She whispered to him, making sure that her teeth weren't moving. "I.. it…"
"We're going back in now, I promise." Van said through his teeth as well and gave a small squeeze to his new wife's hand. "Just hold on until I can have you sit down." They took their leave as the music played once again, first the couple, Merle, and then the adviser. Once behind the half open room, Hitomi could feel Van around her, trying to keep her up.
"King Van, and Queen Hitomi, congratulations." The adviser said but Van completely ignored her.
"Princess Millerna, I thought that you said that the medicine you where going to give her would last for most of the night." Van asked the princess as he held Hitomi close to him, as he quickly moved down the hall.
"It was suppose to, I wasn't the one who mixed it, I knew I should have been but the other doctor insisted on doing so, and that I should get ready for tonight." Millerna said rather quickly. Allen and Dryden came up from down the hall and went to Millerna's side. "Dryden, when did you… never mind, Allen, do you know where the doctor is who fixed Hitomi's medicine?" Millerna asked hastily.
"Most likely with the rest of the crowd princess, it is a big night after all." Allen replied. "Why?"
"When I see him next I'm going to kill him!" Millerna said as Dryden just stood quietly behind her. "Get Queen Hitomi to sit down for now until I can fix the medicine again, or at least try to keep her off of her feet. What's next? The royals where invited for a dinner with the new king and queen right?" She asked Van who nodded. "I think so."
"Good, she'll have time to stay in a simi-comfortable spot until then. This is why I didn't want you up yet Hitomi." She scolded at the younger girl. "Even though I know your reasons I should have went against them as a doctor." She said as she hurried down the hall. "Dryden, you can either come with me or go ahead to the dinner, I Need to do something first." Millerna said to her husband.
"I'm coming with you." Dryden said. "I have been away from you for too long."
"Dryden…" Millerna said blushing slightly. "If you insist, but you'll have to move fast."
"Understood." Was all that Dryden said and then followed Millerna to her room, in a quick paste. Allen followed behind Millerna and Dryden not too shortly after.
"I'll be fine Van, don't worry." Hitomi said. "I just don't want to make you look bad."
"Don't worry about that, I just need to take care of you now." Van said as he looked around for a chair or something to sit on. "I didn't realize how very few sitting places there where in the halls." Van said trying to make a joke. He opened a near by door to a room on the side of the hall as they slowly made their way down and then went in, Merle following behind the couple. "Van…" Hitomi said as she felt his hand on to hers.
"Maybe I should take you to your old room, after all, the dinner is coming up and that dress is too fancy for just a dinner." Van said trying to change the subject.
"Van-sama how could you think of such a thing! Hitomi is hurt and you're thinking of the dinner, geeze, I thought that you where better then that Van-sama." Merle said scolding the king.
"Sorry, I was just trying to never mind…" Van said blushing some.
"Oh?" Hitomi asked curiously. "Trying to what? I mean we are married now, you wouldn't be thinking anything…." Hitomi said but was forced to be quiet once Van kissed her, Merle was laughing.
"But we should be getting Hitomi changed Van-sama, or would you want to do that?" Merle said with a sly look on her face. "I mean..." She just now realized that the two where kissing and turned around. "Van-sama, I think that getting Hitomi to her room would be the best thing right now, Princess Millerna doesn't know where we are so, wouldn't it be better if she waited in her room?"
"Your right, I'll take her." Van said now breaking the kiss. "Will you go tell Millerna where we are Merle?" Van asked as he looked at his child hood friend.
"Of course, just as long as you don't do anything to Hitomi, she is injured after all so don't forget about that." Merle said as she left the room.
"Of course." Van said to Merle as she left. 'As long as she doesn't want me to that is.'
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TO BE CONTINUED (Of Course.)
Well I hope that things are getting even more clearly for everyone, things will be better in time now that I'm getting a general idea to where I want it to go.