Hye guys... Another chapter here... Pretty fast eh? Actually the Special Chapter I've already wrote it long ago so this one here is the continuation from that chapter. Kinda tired actually, but I managed to finish it. ^_^ Anyway, I'm going to have a semester break after the exam next week. That's why I'm finished this chapter quickly. Just wish me luck with my exams, okay? I hope you guys enjoy the reading and have a nice day!
Kyo Kara... You Are Our Lord!
Chapter 12: The Past That She Never Let Go
It was nearly a month since she had been stuck in this world as the new lord of some kind of kingdom. Not to mention it was pretty hard for her to learn everything that she should know to be the substitute lord, just to avoid some suspicions among the aristocrats and ambassadors from other regions.
It was really tiring and there were times she felt like wanted to give up and just let things happened just the way it supposed to be. But when she looked at her friends that always been such supportive and encouraging to her, the feeling just died out and she determined to do what she could to help.
Besides, Midori said that there might be some positive result on her research on how to get her back to her own world. That just made her more resolved to be a good lord for the time being.
"Natsuki…" she tilted her head up from focusing on her paper. She was presented with Mai's cheerful face at the doorway. She put down her pen as she straightened her posture on her chair.
"What is it, Mai…?" she took a deep breath as she watched the orange-haired woman walked into her office room. Mai grinned widely as she closed the door behind her.
"Nothing… Just want to check on you…" she settled on the reserved sofa in that room. Natsuki tilted her right brow and she sighed. She stretched her arms up and she smiled.
"Well, maybe I could do some rest too…" she got off her own chair and she sat on the sofa opposite to the orange-haired girl.
"You should… You've been working for hours, non-stop… Actually, Shizuru-san asked me to check on you…" she smirked as she pointed out her tongue. Natsuki just chuckled and she shook her head.
"I've thought so… Never in my mind that you going to check on me on your own will…"
"Hey! Leave me some credit… I do concern about you, you know…" she pouted. Natsuki just shrugged her shoulder as she sighed.
"Okay… Since you're here, where's the person that asked you to drop by…?" she stroked her hair lightly as she leaned her back restfully on the sofa.
"Shizuru-san was out for some business with Aries Kingdom representatives. She will be back shortly…"
"Wow… she's doing some job too …? She's the queen! Suppose she just stay at this huge palace, pampered and relax with her daughter…?" asked the raven-haired girl. Mai simply shook her head as she laughed a bit.
"Well, that was what she had been doing for the past 4-5 years, since our Lord Natsuki didn't do her job… Besides, since you're still new with these all dealing matters, she decided she would help you with all she can. She didn't want to burden you with everything, you know…"
Natsuki just smiled softly, and she nodded her head.
"Yeah, I know… I'll be doing my best too…" she said to the orange head.
"Say… We never really talk about your world, ne Natsuki? Tell me, what the other me looks like at your world…? Is she prettier than me…?" the question made the raven-haired woman twitched her brow in the speed of lightning.
"What the hell, Mai… You're just like a split image from a mirror with the Mai that I have in my world. There's no way I could tell which one is prettier…" she pinched her temple hard. Mai just laughed loudly and later on the door was being knocked.
"Your Majesty, Senior Officer Juliet Nao Zhang is here…" there was voice behind the door, Mai and Natsuki quickly turned facing each other.
"Just call me Officer Nao, would you…?" there came Nao's obvious annoyed voice and they also could hear the guard quickly apologizing. Natsuki and Mai laughed just before the door being opened by certain irritated red-haired girl.
"What are you guys laughing at…?" she snapped at the smirking duo who sat at the sofas and she closed the door behind her. Natsuki just laughed silently and Mai just shook her head.
"It's nothing, Nao-chan… Come sit with us… I've just asking Natsuki about her world… We never ask her before, right?" she said as Nao settled herself next to the orange head, facing the substitute lord.
"Oh, really…? Well, that's interesting… Anyway, I'm coming here because I just want to give some report from my division, but it can wait… Come on! Just continue with the things from your world then!" Nao's eyes sparked with anticipation. Natsuki just sighed loudly as she sank deeper into her sofa.
"Why the hell that I need to be a story teller right now…?"
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After a short briefing with the HiME events and all that happened few years back, the two audiences seemed to be gaping in awe to Natsuki's story.
"HiME…? Child…? Seriously…?" Nao had this surprised look on her face as she rubbed her jaw softly.
"Pretty hard to believe, eh?" Mai turned facing the red-haired girl beside her. Natsuki just sighed as she took a look at the two women in front of her back and forth. She smiled almost to herself when she saw the astonished look on them.
"So you and Fujino ended up died in each other arms…?" Nao asked with an arched brow. Natsuki just nodded her head as she took a deep breath.
"So romantic…" she said with this 'aww…' expression on her face.
"Shut up, Nao…" she grunted angrily and Mai just laughed.
"Ne…Natsuki! Then I was the one who defeated this Obsidian Lord?" Mai asked excitedly.
"Why the hell that you need to be that excited? It wasn't exactly you at the first place…" Nao twitched her brows.
"Whatever! Still, she played a lot better role than that spider Nao did…"
"What 'spider Nao'!? I'm not a spider!"
"Why do you have to be angry anyway? I'm not talking about you…"
"Still you can just call her 'spider Nao' for no reason…"
"Duh… She had this Child which looks like a spider… Not to mention the name of that 'spider' is Julia… So much alike your name…" Mai smirked with a wide grin on her face.
Natsuki who had been watching the whole verbal argument between those two just gritted her teeth as veins already popped on her forehead. She quickly took a sip on her drink that already prepared since she worked earlier that day to cool down her head.
"Well, at least this Nao didn't go so down for a girl like you did for that girl Tate!" Nao retorted back angrily, and Natsuki almost spurt out her drink out of her mouth when she heard Nao called Tate a girl.
"What the hell, Nao! Tate is not a girl! He's a boy, for god sake!" she wiped her mouth dry, her brows twitched tightly. Nao and Mai quickly silenced as they turned to look at each other.
"Boy…? What's that…?" and Natsuki almost fainted.
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What the hell is going on in this world…? Being a lord is crazy enough for me, not to mention to have a wife, and a KID! And now this world has no boy…? No man at all…? What is this?
"Ne, Natsuki… Do you have to be that surprised…? I don't see anything so shocking here…"
"What the hell that you mean no shocking thing here? That was the craziest thing that I ever heard in my entire life!"
"Okay! Okay! Just cut this short… What is boy anyway…? What is this thing…?" Nao spoke with a blank face. Natsuki took a deep breath as she leaned her back on the sofa.
"Before that… Just tell me, what kinds of human are living in this world…?" Natsuki stared directly into Mai's violet eyes.
"Why do you have to ask such question, Natsuki…? Of course the woman…"
"No man…?"
"What is a man anyway…?" Nao asked back. Natsuki sighed again.
"Could you at least describe it a little…?" Mai looked at the raven-haired girl with pleading eyes.
"Well… This man is a human… who doesn't have…" she halted her words and her cheeks instantly turned red.
"Don't have what…?" Nao asked impatiently.
"They don't have...um... Breast…?" she said while gulping down hard. Nao's brows twitched in the speed of lightning and Mai just widened her eyes in disbelieve.
"No breast…? You sure you talking about a human here, Kuga…? Not some sort of alien or something…?"
"Why they don't have breast…?" Mai asked with a confused tone.
"Who have no breast?" and the three of them turned simultaneously at the voice that suddenly interrupted them. Chie stood at the doorway with an amused look on her face after she closed the door behind her. Oh god… This is just great… Now I have another stupid audience joined in… Natsuki sunk deeper on her sofa with her hand pinched hard on her head.
"You guys should keep the voice down… I could hear you guys talking about breast miles away from here…" she said with a grin on her face as she sat next to the red-haired. They silenced for a while then the attention quickly turned back at the raven-haired girl.
"Anyway, who have no breast…?" Chie asked full of interest. Mai and Nao nodded her head in unison.
"I can't believe I'm talking about this… I'm not going to explain everything over again!!" Natsuki spoke rather sternly.
"Well… our Lord here told us a very interesting fact from her world… She told us about a human being called 'man'…" Nao took a role to explain to the newbie in that conversation as her finger curled playfully to the word 'man'.
"What the hell is that…?" asked the short-haired girl with a confused tone.
"You tell me…" Nao turned facing the raven-haired girl. Natsuki just grunted in annoyed manner.
"Like I've said earlier… A man is a human who don't have breast like woman~!" she said it rather loud but not loud enough to be heard from outside.
"Why didn't they have breast like woman…?" Chie asked again, her voice was full of obvious confusion.
"Why don't you guys ask God about it!!?" I can't believe it… out of all the amazing things in the world, now we're talking about breast… Natsuki rested her arm on her forehead as she sighed heavily.
"Well, breast is one heavenly creation that God ever made… Like this one here…" Chie playfully poked at Mai's chest, making the orange-haired girl yelped in surprised. Natsuki who also watched that bold move Chie made couldn't help but to widen her eyes.
"Chie-chan! What are you doing~" Mai's face was blushing hard. Nao just laughed loudly when she saw Mai's redden face.
"Mikoto is so lucky…" Chie sighed. Nao laughed again and Mai now was blushing from head to toe.
"What is it got to do with Mikoto-chan?" Mai retorted angrily plus with embarrassment to the short-haired girl. Chie just shrugged her shoulder as she laughed. Natsuki also couldn't help it but to smirk.
"Argh! Okay! I'm done with this breast stuff… What else about this 'man' thing that we need to know…? What are the other criteria…?" Nao moved slightly forward from her previous position. Natsuki silenced for a while just before she continued.
"Um… they have this…" and her face turned bright red again. Her head started to have a picture of a certain part of man anatomy… Stop! I don't want to have that picture burned inside my head! She could feel a shiver ran down her spine.
"What the hell, Kuga? Enough with the blushing already!" Nao was impatient, so did Mai and Chie. Natsuki just raised her right hand weakly as the other clutched her head tightly. She all of sudden felt dizzy…
"Okay… That's enough… I don't want to talk about it…" it's just too embarrassing…
"What…~" the other three whined loudly and Natsuki just waved her hand as a sign that she didn't want to continue.
"Ceh! Kuga! You're no fun…" Nao puffed out some air in annoyed manner as she settled her back on the sofa again.
"You guys tended to make the whole conversation a lot worse… I'm not going to tell anything anymore…" she was about to close her eyes, then she snapped it open again.
"Anyway, Mai… I've been wondering about this for so long… How the hell Kruger and Shizuru got Shizuka…?" she asked with this perplexed look on her face. Mai and Nao just turned to look at each other then they laughed out loud.
"Wh-what so funny…?"
"Oh my god, Kuga… You're so funny… Of course by having sex, you moron!"
"But how it even possible…?" unless this Kruger has 'something' under her pants that I don't…
"Well, Nao was kinda explaining that when two people are in love and getting married, they have a sacred ritual and they can have a baby after go through the ritual…" Chie said with a wide grin on her face. Mai on the other hand seemed tried so hard to restrain her laugh.
"Oh… really…? Wow! What kind of ritual is that…?" Natsuki innocently asked as she looked at them again but the three girls were silenced.
"You really believe what Chie said to you, huh Kuga…?" Nao snorted and later on the other two burst into relentless laughs. Natsuki blinked her eyes confusingly.
"Wh-what are you guys laughing about…?"
"Oh Natsuki! You're so easy to get fool by such stupid prank Chie told you… There's no 'sacred ritual' here!" Mai laughed hard, she curled herself on the sofa while holding up her stomach. Natsuki could feel her cheeks flared up.
"You guys fooled me? I was being serious here!!"
"Ahahahaha~" but the others just laughed, so loud even the guards and the maids that walked by looking at each other with confused look on their face. What's going on inside there…?
Natsuki just sat there, crossing her arms across her chest with incredibly embarrassed and fuming face as the other three just laughed for another few good minutes.
"Oh god… I never laugh like this before… Phew~" Chie laid her head on the sofa and sometimes she let out few laughs.
"Okay! Okay… Someone's mad now…" Mai grinned widely to the raven-haired girl in front of her. Natsuki just grunted as she gritted her teeth.
"Our Lord Kruger and Her Highness Shizuru got Princess Shizuka by genetic engineering, Kuga… There's no such thing as a 'sacred ritual' here… " Nao rubbed her sore jaws because of laughing too much.
"…genetic engineering?" the raven-haired girl asked back and the three of them nodded their head. But Natsuki shot an unconvincing look at the three, making the three of them cringed at the death stare Natsuki gave her.
"It's true… We're not lying to you this time…" Chie waved her hands in front of her while laughed nervously.
"If you don't believe us, you can ask Her Highness Shizuru by herself…" Mai quickly interrupted and Nao nodded her head. Natsuki just sighed as she smiled.
"I will later on…"
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After the dinner time, Shizuru still not back from her meeting with the Aries Kingdom representatives. Natsuki had her dinner with Shizuka instead and after took the young princess back to her room, she decided to take a walk outside the garden by herself.
"I'm wondering how Shizuru's doing back at my world…" she stared at the empty sky and she sighed heavily. She had to admit that she missed the older woman so much, though she could see another Shizuru in this world she currently lived. Well… I can't hold her like I hold Shizuru… We're both belong to someone else… She sighed again. Hopefully she's doing fine…
Then she heard someone walking towards her from behind. She turned around abruptly, and she saw a certain green haired girl, with a pair of piercing eyes approached her.
"Akira-kun…?" she uttered softly, still surprised with the younger girl presence. Akira just bowed her head slightly as she stopped a few feet from the raven-haired woman.
"Your Majesty…"
"It's okay… Just call me Natsuki… It's only both of us here…" she smiled. Akira seemed startled a bit before she quickly nodded her head.
"Yes, Natsuki-san…" and Natsuki nodded her head.
"Anyway, what brought you here…? I thought you're out of country for some errands…?" she asked the younger girl and Akira nodded her head.
"I am… and I'm here to give you the report about it…" she silenced for awhile before she continued,
"And I have something to discuss with you, personally, Natsuki-san…"
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~Flashback~
5 years ago…
"You have anything…?"
"Yes, Your Majesty! It was indeed exactly as the way you've expected. We even found few witnesses who watched the whole scene…"
"Where are they now…?"
"We placed them under witness protection. I'm afraid their life in danger when the rumors of us pursuing the evidence on your mother's death will spread across the nation…"
"I'm sure it will… Nothing could be keep as a secret anymore in this kingdom… Anyway, you're doing a great job on the finding… I never thought I could hear any result this early…"
"I'm glad I could help, my lord! We will proceed with the interrogation anytime you wish…"
"I don't think so… Things are going a bit complicated for me these few weeks. If we continued with the interrogation, I'm afraid someone might notice our work…"
"You're concern about something, my lord…?"
"Lately I had a feeling that something is going on between the senate and one of the emissaries … but I couldn't make it out…"
"The Senate…? What makes you say that, my lord…?"
"I don't know… Just some intuition that I had whenever I'm dealing with them… I try not to jump into conclusion yet but maybe I need you to help me again…"
"I'll be more than glad to be at your service, my lord…"
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"Did Her Highness Shizuru aware about this matter…?" Natsuki asked the green haired girl. Akira simply shook her head.
"No, Natsuki-san… Lord Natsuki Kruger asked me to keep it as a secret between us…"
"So, you've been working directly for her for the past 5 years… To investigate this speculation about her mother's death…?"
"Yes…" she answered again. Natsuki twitched her brows slightly.
"But why it took so much time to finally have the conclusion…? You've said that we even have some witnesses on that event…"
"We are… but this isn't as simple as we thought. We can't just simply throw the accusation with some mere witnesses as a proof. Not to mention that this include of our own people, Natsuki-san… Besides, we were about to proceed with our next plan, but then the accident happened and I had to take a full awareness about this matter before I could simply share it with you…" Akira said with a low voice as her eyes twinkled dangerously.
"I understand… Since the accident of your Lord Natsuki went missing and been exchanged with me instead, of course it would hold up the process. What do you mean our own people…? You've said there is a traitor?" she lowered her voice too. Akira nodded her head.
Natsuki was totally surprised with the whole new information that she just heard. Now I understand why Kruger's doing all these flirting things… She just wanted to get Shizuru and her daughter out of this nation before she took some action which may cause those two lives…
"I'm practically assumed that this matter was only been known by the two us…?" Akira nodded her head.
"What are you going to do, Natsuki-san…? Things are finally within our grasp right now… If we waited, things may not be in our side… This particular person was quite smart when it comes to cover her trail…"
"I know… but I need to tell Shizuru about this…"
"Are you sure, Natsuki-san…?" and Natsuki nodded her head.
"She might know something you know… She's a very smart woman. In fact, she was the one who been dealing with all these people when Kruger was out focusing on this investigation..." she said while rubbing her jaw. Akira silenced for a while and she nodded her head.
"You're indeed right, Natsuki-san… But how about the others…?"
"You mean Mai, Nao and Chie…?" And the younger girl nodded again. Natsuki bit her lower lip before she continued,
"Better to keep this matter out from their notice… The less people know about it the better…"
"You not trust them…?" the green haired girl simply asked. Natsuki arched her brow and she smiled slightly.
"Don't be silly… Of course I trust them… It's just if we told them about this, it would make more difficult for us to do our job. I'm not saying that they would simply make it into public… It's just they might freak out and they will start to be suspicious to these people we wanted to catch…" she stopped as she stared at the distant ground.
"I will tell them anytime soon anyway, but just not now… We have to be really sure and at the same time, we're not going to lose that person's trail on this case…" Natsuki crossed her arms across her chest as she smiled softly to the younger girl. Akira just watched the older girl in front of her and she smiled widely.
"Never thought that you could be this calm, Natsuki-san… I was expecting that you might freak out when I tell you about this thing…" she laughed a bit when she saw Natsuki grinned as she scratched her head.
"Well… I used to do the same thing like what she did right now… Seeking for revenge of my mother's death too… And I screw it up because I didn't tell anyone about it…I simply neglecting other people who care about me… I thought that I didn't want other people to get involve with my problem, especially Shizuru. But then, things were out of my control and I just simply hurt the feeling of my most important person…" she smiled faintly as she spoke of her memories. Akira was quiet as she kept looking at the older girl intently.
"I made a mistake for seeking revenge… It didn't help me to change anything… It didn't give my mom back… Though I had my revenge, I lose everything that I treasured… If I haven't been given another chance to fix it… Maybe I wouldn't be here tonight…"
"Sure you've gone through a lot of things, Natsuki-san…" Akira smiled fully to her. Natsuki smiled back and she shrugged her shoulder.
"Maybe…But I will help Kruger to seek a justice for her mother, but not revenge. We got law here and we will settle this by law… That person will have the punishment that she deserved…" she stroked her hair lightly and Akira nodded her head contentedly.
"I must say that was a wise decision, Natsuki-san…"
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