SORRY SORRY SORRY! I am a very moody girl and often I change idea: initially the epilogue must tell about Emi and Hiro in a school trip at Sephiro, but now I have changed idea. However the basic idea is the same.
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My Daughter is Marrying A Prince From A Different World!?
Epilogue: Reality won't change your love?
Emeraude watched her reflection in the mirror: her expression was sad, almost worried, and her beautiful blue-green eyes were red and bright. The tears' traces were still on her cheeks.
She, Hiroyuki, Lou and other students were at Sephiro from about ten days: her schoolmates didn't know that she and her brother were Sephiro's crown princes and the teachers ignored the thing. Hiroyuki propped up that this was better, because the mixed marriages were considered indecorous and they would have had many problems at school if the others have known whom they were. It didn't bother Emeraude, instead: she liked much be considered a common girl. Also because, in this way, she had had the opportunity to have friends and live normally.
Nobody knew. At least they didn't know before that day.
King Ferio wasn't well; Queen Fuu was pregnant, and the baby must bear in those days. The audience with the terrestrial schools couldn't be postponed; so Emeraude had been forced to replace her parents.
" I envy Hiro," she said loosening her dress" as Clef's disciple and Sephiro's future Madoshi, he has avoided this trouble."
She didn't care what now their teachers and schoolmates thinks about her, she had just to bear their comments for four months and then she wouldn't have met them more. But her friends...
Their faces had impressed in her mind: amazement, surprise, and disappointment. Miwako and Isabella were astonished and Arashi was amazed. Joji was disappointed: surely because she had not told him who she was. During the reception, they had avoided her.
" It is comprehensible: they feel betrayed..."
Joji.... now the things between her and Joji would have changed and this hurt her more than everything: their relationship was weird, but they were in love.
" Now he won't want me more..."
Emeraude was wearing her nightgown, when she heard somebody squabble with one of her maids. Slipped in hurry and fury a robe, she went at the door.
" Do you want me let in yes or no?!"
" Are you crazy, sir? In the Princess' bedroom?! At this time of night!?"
" Lucile, what's this noise? You know well that tomorrow will be a very tiring day and... Joji!"
Emeraude exclaimed putting a hand on her mouth and watching the boy with wide eyes. Joji smiled and said:
" Caroline, tell at this pain in the neck to let me in: we must speak."
" Stop to call me Caroline: how many times I must repeat that my name is Emeraude?!"
" Ok, Caroline."
Joji teased. Emeraude was about to kick him in the shinbones when she remembered that Lucile was looking her: resumed her regal composure, she told her:
" Lucile, don't worry: Joji is... ahem... a dear friend, I have the situation under control."
" But, Your Majesty...."
" I have the situation under control! Now retire, if I will need you, I'll call you."
The lady bowed nervously and left.
" Goodness, you know how to do the princess very well! I have always thought of you as one of Cinderella's stepsisters."
" Saves up your remarks for an other occasion. Come in: didn't you want to speak me?"
Joji went in and closed the door, he then turned around and whistled:
" Wow, what a nice room! Miwako would go mad for such a thing."
" Maybe I could organize a pajama-party before leave. For girls only. Sit there; could I offer you something?"
Emeraude asked pointing out the couch, Joji nodded and sat on her bed. She took a bottle, two glasses and a bonbonnière from a closet: she offered him a full glass and a candy.
" Are you sure that they aren't poisonous?"
" Ah ah, I am laughing hard" Emeraude answered nervous" that is raisin wine, and these candies are typical of Austina, my father's native country."
Also Emeraude sat on the bed, chewing a candy nervously. Joji stroked the sheets and watched the canopy's curtains, he then stretched putting his hands under his head and said:
" Those curtains' cloth is fine, I like the way in which it falls and the pleats: what is it? Roughly it seems silk."
" If you like it so much, I can gotten some remnant. Even, as soon as I have some free time we go in the tailoring to raid some cloth; but if you have an interest for silk, you should go at Pharen."
Emeraude watched the blue-haired boy for a long time: even if they were together from almost ten months, Joji was still an enigma for her. She sighed and fell on the bed, her hands laced on her belly.
" You haven't come here to speak about my curtains."
" ... "
Emeraude sigh again and said bitterly:
" You're angry with me, aren't you? In a way I could understand why you are in a huff with me."
" Instead no, you don't understand it: you today have disappointed me so much. I thought that we had come at the point to tell everything to each other."
Joji said leaning on an elbow: he looked her impassive, as if he doesn't care much of her. Also Emeraude watched him, to let out the frustration that she felt she began to wrap a nightgown's lace around her left forefinger.
" Stop to look at me in that way, it is intolerable. And stop to think that the world turns as you want. If I haven't told you that I'm Sephiro's Princess, it is because I have very valid reasons."
" Really? And what would they be?"
Joji puffed indifferent. Emeraude grabbed a pillow and tightened it at her breast.
" Would you have believed me?"
He glanced at her an instant; her eyelashes were again damps.
" ... You should have told me it equally. "
" I don't bear you when you do so, you are so odious! You think that things are easy, but you make a mistake. You make a big mistake."
" Looks who's talking: you talk in this way only because you are a princess!"
" I am sorry, Koizumi-san: I have not asked to be a princess! I... I want just live as an ordinary girl."
Emeraude exclaimed through the tears. Then she tightened the pillow and kept on:
" It isn't easy being Sephiro's Crown Princess, it isn't funny as it could seem: you don't have an instant of breath, your day is scanned by duties. You couldn't go out with your friends, couldn't go to see a movie or at the fairy park, couldn't have friends out of the castle... When my mother has sent Hiro and I on the Earth, for the first time I felt free to do what I wanted."
Joji looked Emeraude and felt a worm: she rolled on her stomach and hid her face in the pillow; her body shook with sobs. He got up setting] and laid a hand on her back.
" Emi, stop to cry: the tears aren't for you."
" Don't touch me! You won't ever understand what I feel! You, insensitive fool!"
Emeraude shouted striking him with the pillow. Joji, after an instant of dismay, took an other pillow and he defended: soon the two began a pillows fighting. While thousand white feathers circled in the air, Joji grabbed Emeraude wrists and pushed her against the mattress.
" I understand you if I don't love me more."
She said with eyes full of tears. He smiled and kissed her damps cheeks with tenderness.
" I came to ask you why you hadn't told me who you are."
" Then... won't this change the things between us?"
Joji bent down and kissed her. Emeraude melt in his embraced and wreathed her arms around his neck; she then cupped his face in her hands and drew him aside to look his eyes.
" This time I tell it. If you don't want to stop now, I warn you: after we won't be able to go back. Stay with me will change your life entirely; you will have.... some obligations and some limitations. Then, what do you decide?"
Joji looked her one instant.
" I won't stop."
Joji answered loosening her nightgown's ribbons: he smiled noticing that she didn't wear a bra. Emeraude pulled him upon her in a breath-taking kiss and began to unbutton his shirt with impatience.
" Emeraude-hime, your... oops! Excuse me."
" Clef, you dirty old man! Pervert! Maniac! Voyeur! Pig!! Go out of my room if you have dear your life!"
Emeraude howled fling at Mage each object that she found. Joji observed amused the scene.
" Highness, I couldn't imagine... I am here only to inform you that your mother is in labor! Your presence is necessary in your parents' chamber."
" It wasn't necessary storm in my room! Go out and let me dress!"
Clef nodded and went out painful. Emeraude took back her composure, kissed Joji and said:
" We'll keep on later, now I must go."
She got up, slipped robe and slippers and gave a quick brushed at her hair.
" Hey, waits. Couldn't show you so shabby: ParaKiss' image depends on you."
Joji said tying up again the nightgown. She went out and he followed her.
" Why do you follow me?" Emeraude asked, " This is a family's affair."
" I... ahem... I don't remember where my room is."
Emeraude sweat-drooped.
More they drew near the royal rooms; more Fuu's moans were loud. Joji was in a living room: on a couch, about ten children among two and fifteen years, waited timorous; Hiroyuki, Lou and a pink haired woman played poker; the previously guy read a book quietly; a green haired man walked back and forth nervously; other chatted with low voice. The green haired man noticed the couple and said:
" Emi, you're here: Fuu wanted you to be present at the birth. And who is that handsome young man with you?"
Joji was rearranged his jacket and, before Emeraude says a word, answered pointing Clef:
" I am Joji Koizumi, an Emeraude's friend: I was arguing with her about the next fashion collection when that guy has told her to come here."
" An underwear collection, I suppose."
Clef added smiling malicious. Emeraude got away a slipper and struck him in full face. Hiroyuki looked his sister and rubbed his nose.
" Emi-chan, it isn't that Joji-kun was... taking your sizes?"
" Hiroyuki Xepphirine..."
Emeraude growled threatening her twin brother with the other slipper. Caldina laughed winking:
" Good, Emeraude-hime, good: now we receive men in our bedroom!"
" Stop it, Cal: Emi is fairly old to do those things. I am Emi's father: I am glad to see that she has a social life."
The two men shook hand. Emeraude watched her father and said:
" Pa', but weren't you sick?"
" No, I am as fit as a fiddle; but I wanted to be with your mother."
Joji watched surprised that man: Ferio didn't seem more elderly than him; he showed about twenty-five years. After three quarters of hour of anxious waiting, from the next room they hear a whimper: the midwife went out tightening a bundle and handed it to Ferio:
" Congratulations, Majesty: it is a baby girl!"
The younger children ran toward their father to see their new little sister. Ferio looked the baby smiling; he then frowned.
" And now, how can we name her? We have exhausted all the family names!"
" Caroline."
Joji said caressing his chin. Emeraude glanced at him and said accompanying each word with a knock of slipper on his shoulder:
" Caroline. Is. My. Nick. Name!!"
" Caroline... what a beautiful name! Ah, Fuu, I'm coming! Emi, please, bring the kids in their room."
" Yes, yes, sure, sure. Ok kids: now we go to beddy-byes, ma' and little sister must rest, you'll play with her tomorrow."
Joji went with Emeraude, her brothers and her sisters: Arya, Stephen and Edward had their room; the other seven slept together. Joji watched the seven beds and Emeraude that turned up the covers at the children: she seemed Snow-white that gave the goodnight kiss at the seven dwarfs.
" But are they all your brothers and sisters?"
He asked unbelieving, she sigh:
" Yes."
Joji turned and watched Emeraude in face.
" But what era your parents? Humans or rabbits?"
" I dunno. C'mon, go back my in room: if I mistake, we have leave something undecided...."
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It's finished! This is the epilogue of "My daughter..": I thank all those that has supported me in this project and a special thanks to Joanni, whom I dedicate this chapter, and to Jo, whose "Rainy day love" has inspired this crazy, crazy fanfiction! Other stories wait to take form, other projects to keep on: stay tuned in on this channel; my mad mind has thousand and thousand surprises in reserve for you, my dear readers! Tee hee... - mad laugh.
MKR belongs to Clamp; Joji Koizumi and ParaKiss belong to Ai Yazawa; the idea is mine ^ _~*
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