Oh Hitomi ~ 8
By *~A White Rose Petal~*
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I NEVER owned anything except the plot! Alright?!
A/N: Merle wakes up from her dream! Gabriella still smells a little bit like fish! The queen and king of Graos are coming…if the queen will be found! Van's advisor's wonder where the green shirt is…(-00-)
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Merle's eyes fluttered open. She put a hand on her forehead to make sure that she wasn't hallucinating then picked up the little bag off her bed. She looked over its' maroon color, making sure she hadn't missed anything. She quickly put it under her pillow when she heard footsteps uproaching.
"Merle?"
"Yes?" She said. She recognized the voice as Zinae. A rookie advisor, so to speak.
"D-do y-you know where k-king V-Van-n I-is?"
"No clue. Why?"
"Oh Nothing. Good bye Merle!" Zinae said quickly. He started to walk down the hall quickly in fear that Merle would chase him down, in which she did.
"Zinae!?" Zinae just kept walking, pretending he couldn't hear her. "Zinae get your butt back here and answer me this instant!! Why do you need to talk to Van?"
"Mer-"
"Zinae! What if I see him in the halls? Shouldn't I be able to tell him?" Zinae bit his bottom lip, hard enough to make it bleed.
"I-I s-suppose…"
"Precisely! So…" Zinae took a deep breath.
"Miss Gabriella's parents…are coming to visit…"
"Why couldn't you tell me that before?"
"Because Merle…I-I spied to get that information from the other castle, no permission from anybody."
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Merle was walking down the hall pondering on what Zinae had said. 'He spied? I thought that was how the advisors always got information…or at least pay expert spies for them…but still! Things like this happen when they DON'T ADVISE anybody like they are supposed to! I wonder why he needed to go straight to Van…Wouldn't it be valuable information for everybody?
Merle kept on pondering this when Gabriella came out of her room.
"Kitty Girl! How are you?" Gabriella said in an oddly cheery voice…
"Fine!" She said through gritted teeth.
"So…how are you…you know…after Van punished you?" Merle choked. 'Punish?! Oh Yeah…heh heh the punishment…'
"OH! That…it was ::fake gag:: v-very gru-grusome…"
"Serves you right! Um…what did he do?" Gabriella said bringing her hand up to her chin so she could hear what Merle had to 'go' through.
"Um…he…he…"
"Yes?…"
"He um, er, made me…"
"Clean the stables!" Said a girl voice from the corner.
"Huh? Oh-oh right! I-I had to clean the stables!" 'Please don't say a name after that or I'm Dead!'
"That's all?" Merle made her eyes wider at what Gabriella said.
"Um…yes…"
"Oh…I suppose I have to talk to him about this matter, for it's oh so VERY important…" You might not have believed but Merle's eyes got even larger.
"W-what?!"
"Talk to him about this matter! You should get more of a punishment than that!"
"Oh…"
"Merle!" The same distant girl voice said harshly.
"Huh? Oh I-I gotta go bye!" Said Merle quickly she ran down the hall to see who called her down there. She ran on the red carpet passing the green walls with the few portraits they had left after the fire. The portraits seemed to blend into each other so much that they blurred. Merle rounded the corner to see no other than…Hitomi.
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Zinae was walking the walls of the castle trying to remember where Van's room was. Because some of the construction was still going on, it was very hard. Suddenly he came to an area that he thought looked familiar. 'Ah, here we are! The king's room…now the hard part…to deliver the full message. Zinae took a deep breath then knocked on the door.
"Who's there?"
"McCross, Zinae your highness!"
"Proceed."
Zinae slowly opened the door, which led to Van's room. It looked just as it had when Hitomi was in it last…maybe a little dirtier though…
"Y-your hi-highness?"
"Yes?"
"I come with n-news…"
"Concerning?"
"Gabriella's Parents." 'WHAT?!' raced through Van's head.
"What are you talking about McCross?"
"I-I'm saying h-her p-parents are-are c-coming…" Van's eye's widened.
"WHAT?!"
"I'm sorry your h-highness b-but…"
"I-I know Zinae…"
"All right."
"Anything else?"
"Y-Yes…"
"And that would be…"
"The queen of Graos is not on Gaea for all we know, she's gone missing."
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"Hitomi! Thank goodness!" Merle gasped. She had no clue who or what was behind the one corner.
"It's all right Merle, ::laughs:: calm down!" When Merle did she looked back at Hitomi.
"Since when were you wearing a dress other than that schooly uniform? And where did you get it?!" It was true. Hitomi was wearing a very long scarlet gown that had a long tail. Hitomi blushed.
"Oh-oh this?"
"Um…is there any other dress in the hall?"
"I-I found this one room that goes underground and-well…I got attached to this dress!"
"No kidding! You look great Hitomi!"
"Thanks!"
"Want to know something?"
"I always thought I did know something but one more wouldn't change a thing…right?"
"Hardy, har, Gabriella's parents are coming!"
"What?!"
"Yeah I know! Isn't it strange someone like that can even have a family?"
"Oh Merle! Don't be cruel! I'm sure her parents are very sophisticated!"
"So sa-fist-e-kate-ed-"
"sophisticated"
"sophisticated, whatever, anyway, they must be really smart to grow something like that!"
"We really shouldn't make fun ::chuckle:: of what we don't know about Merle!"
"I know, I know but still!"
"Good point I suppose…"
"Yeah, exactly!"
"Oh no! I forgot!"
"What?"
"Gabriella's going to talk to Van about…"
"Oh man! She is isn't she?"
"Unless I get lucky and she forgets!"
"For some reason Merle, I don't believe that she is!"
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---Gabriella's POV---
Let's see… Ah this should be Van's room… I knocked on his door waiting for my future husband to open up the door. When he FINALLY did {I had to wait exactly ten seconds after my knock!} his hair was ruffled up, very much un-like a king should look at all times.
"Oh…Gabriella hey." He said doily. We'll have to work on that! I thought. I walked past him into his room and looked around. I sat on his bed looked up and smiled at him.
"Um…" He gave me a stressed smile. He was probably smiling at me even though he was VERY tired. He would just say 'hey.' To everybody else. His eyes looked tired probably to tired to shine in my presence…or the just burned out from being around me SO often. Hehe.
"Van-nee!" I said. He looked surprised.
"um…Gabriella…heh…"
"Van-nee, the one kitty type girl-"
"Merle?"
"Yeah her…um why do you call her that? I mean why won't you call her something fun like…Lady, or Pinky, or Orange?" Van shivered.
"Um…"He said again.
"well?"
"Because Merle is her name?"
"Well yeah but Oh Never mind!" Van just shook his head once looking at me in a strange way.
"Um…Gabriella?"
"Yes Van-nee."
"Could you please leave now?"
"huh? Why?"
"Um…because I have to get dressed…"
"So…"
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Van hurried over to open it. On the other side of the door was Hitomi and Merle.
"V-" Hitomi started to say. But then she saw me, and thought better of it. I bet she saw me practicing my moves earlier this morning!
"Van-nee! I almost forgot!" I chirped in with my pretty voice. Merle and Hitomi's face got red and they both got strange smiles on their faces. Van's got red from blushing. The girls both leaned on the sides of the door.
"V-Van I-I n-need t-to talk to y-you…::chuckle::" The maid said.
"Huh? O-Ok Hitomi." Merle jumped into the room with disappointment easily hidden from my face. I was astonished when Van actually put a MAID before ME! He walked outside with her and then I don't even have a clue to where they went. All I know is they left me behind with…Merrill!
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---In the hall---
"Van?"
"Yeah?" Van stared at Hitomi's dress.
"I just thought that you should know…you gave Merle a punishment by cleaning the stables."
"Hitomi what did you do?"
"I didn't do anything I swear!"
"Oh all right. Now why did she get this punishment?"
"For making Gabriella fall in the lake!"
"You gave her this punishment?!"
"No! I got her AWAY from it!" Hitomi explained to Van what she was talking about as they got closer to her room.
"Um…Hitomi?"
"Yes?" Hitomi said turning the knob.
"Where did you get that dress?" Hitomi blushed as she walked into her room.
"This? Oh, I found it lying around…"
"Oh…It looks nice on you."
"Thanks, Van-nee!"
"Shad-dup!"
"Van-nee! What's wrong?"
"Hitomi!"
"What?" Van backed Hitomi against the wall and kissed her hard and passionately.
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A/N: Woo-Hoo! I have already started the next part because I got hit by this small dose of Writer's Block and now it's gone and VIOLA! I hope you like the rest of the series! 10 reviews for the next part.