THE PROTECTOR OF INNOCENCE (THE SECRET)
Hi~! I know I should update more frequently, but I seems to have writer's block recently... please excuse me. I am trying very hard to finish this story and it seems to be taking a while. Thank you everyone for reviewing, I really appreciate it. ^^
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Yamato practically ran all the way to the library, he felt as if his question would be able to be answered in the library. He stormed towards the restricted section of the library and pulled out one of the thickest book in that section. The book titled "Family trees of Nobles of Kilka", Yamato nodded to himself. 'If he is going to find an answer anywhere, this book has to be the most likely. Unless...she is not a noble...'
He flipped through the book endlessly searching for the family of Takenouchi with a few pauses when he reached the family of Kido and Koushiro checking out if there is any more surprises from the Izzy and Jyou. But the biggest surprise came when he finally reached the Takenouchi family tree, nearly everyone on the line had a small portrait to accompany their name. 'This is incredible!' Yamato thought to himself. 'Only nobles with band three magic has portrait accompanying their names in this book. But on the Takenouchi line, there is a portrait for almost everyone!'
However, this was not the only surprise he got from this "unique" family, as his finger ran down the family tree, he found the name Sam Takenouchi. But the picture of Sam Takenouchi looked nothing liked the Sam he knew. Then suddenly, his mind clicked, as he went back and traced another route until he found the picture he has been searching for...
'Hey! Who is there!' The voice of the librarian alerted Yamato as he quickly blown out the candle and hide behind the think book shelf. He crouched there until he was sure the librarian had left. Restricted section of the library are only allowed to enter when the permission was granted from the king. 'But sometimes, rules are meant to be broken.' Yamato thought to himself as he went back to the book.
Without the light from the candle, he only has the moon to aid him. But the light from the moon is enough to confirm his suspicion. He found what he is looking for, a portrait that resembles the "Sam Takenouchi" he knows. Under the portrait, he found "Sam's" real name; he is she who called Sora Takenouchi. Yamato sighed, if he remembered correctly, Sora Takenouchi is also the woman who is betrothed to him.
'Complication and more complication,' he muttered to himself. 'Right now, I would rather do 100 calculus questions than get involved with this mess.' He silently placed the book where it belonged and crept out of the library.
Meanwhile in Yamato's room, Sora woke up after the long rest and sat on the bed and began to practice her magic. 'Let's see what I can do...' Sora whispered as she wave her hands around in frustration not knowing where to start. 'If I am to surpass Hsien, I must know how to harness my power. I think I will start with the something simplet', she pointed at the pillow and concentrated on levitation. Strange enough, the pillow actually followed her command and lift itself up into the air.
'Wow!' Sora stared in awe, 'I wonder if I can make it fly across the bed?' With that determination, she concentrated harder in making the pillow fly. And slowly, the pillow started to move towards the other side of the bed. She blinked, hardly believe what she has achieved. Then, a wicked idea came upon her mind and before she knew it, she levitated every object possible in the room and flew them around. As she enjoyed herself with the her abilities, little did she know that outside the door, a nervous Yamato paced back and forth unable to decide how to react.
'Okay, so he is a she who is called Sora Takenouchi,' Yamato began to review the situation. 'She is a band 3 sorceress and she knows how to handle a sword. She seems to be able to edge herself through any stick situations and god damn it! She will be my wife one day.' He tried to look at the situation at many different point of view, but neither of them made her less dangerous nad none of them puts him in a good position. He inhaled the freezing night's air and decided to stick with his original plan. Not to mutter a word until she decides to tell everyone the truth, at least that seemed to be in the best interest of everyone. He gathered up his courage and decided to face the woman in his room laying on his bed. Yamato groaned at the thought of that. "This is going to make me look bad." he thought to himself.
Inside the room, Sora has gotten the hang of her levitation commands, she was able to make everything in the room fly to whatever direction she wanted. The thought of in control pleased her, although she desired the excitment of chance, that is the reason that she choose to become a knight in the first place. "What ever Hsien has being able to do, I shall do better!" She smiled at herself proudly feeling rather confident. Suddenly, the door banged open and startled Sora, her shriek accompanied with a wave of her arm sent most of the things that were flying directly towards to door.
'AH!' Yamato didn't even have the time to scream before the vase flew straight at him, he instinctively raised his arms to protect his head and waited for the shuttering sensation of pain. But that feeling never came and slowly, he took a peak. The view in front of his shocked him, half the objects in his room which included chairs and tables were afloat on air, not only that, their motion has been stopped. Yamato frowned, he can very well guess who's doing is this but what troubled him is what he should do. As he slowly edged his way across the room towards Sora while keeping his eyes on the objects just in case they decideds to start flying again.
'What on earth was that!?' He demanded. 'Can you please explains this and in the mean time, I rather like my table and chairs firmly on the floor not half-way floating in air.' Just as he said it, he could not help regret his rashness.
'I..uh...I' Sora stumbled. She did not expect Yamato to be back so soon and neither did she expect him to be able to catch her redhanded. 'I was was practicing.' She was telling the truth, at least part of it.
'I can tell you've been "practicing".' Yamato tried to soften his tone a bit. 'Ahem, now would you mind "unpractice"? Please?'
Sora blushed and quickly turned everything back to normal. 'I uh..I..I think I am well enough to return to my own room.' She quickly pulled the blanket higher instinctively. Yamato certainly felt her discomfort and frantically tried to think of another reason to leave his room.
After a long search, he finally came up with one. 'I have to go and check on Jyou to see if he is alright, you neet any help?' He offered politely although quite certain she won't accept his help.
'I think I can manage fine.' Sora replied rather bashfully, imagining Yamato helping back to her room the way he carried her here turned her face even more scarlett. 'Thank you the offer.' With that she carefully picked up her clothing and began dressing. Hearing his cue to exit, Yamato walked briskly out of his room. It is way too late to visit Jyou anyway, the healers would never let him in at this hour of the night. He decided to take a stroll in the garden under the moonlight and cool his thoughts.
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"She is certainly much prettier than most of the women I've seen." He thought to himself as he leaned against the willow tree and stared at the stars. "With that deep mesmerizing eyes, and the full rouge lips any men would've attracted to her." Out of curiousity, Yamato tried to picture her dressed in a way that maidens would and thought of Sora in low cut dress gazing at him adorely made him blush. He quickly wavered the image out of his mind but somehow, the image kept on coming back to haunt him.
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Sora ran back to her room and banged the door tightly behind her before sinking down to the floor and letting out a sigh of relief. She really didn't know how to react around Yamato anymore, the thought of him carrying her back to his room was bad enough, but when he placed a kiss on her forehead, the sensation was strange. She found herself desiring for more.
Only there is a problem with that. 'He probably did it out of friendship.' She muttered to herself. 'And here I am daydreaming like a love sick puppy and hoping it was something else.'
'And anyway, he did not know I am a girl...' As Sora argued herself to sleep.
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I really never knew how to write a love story... so I hope this will turn out fine. I think the story will turn quiet mushy after this chapter and the Sorato stuff are going to be really heavy and dominate a big percentage. This story is also coming to the climax, I have been working quite hard on it. Thank you to all those who reviewed. Thank you very much.
Raie
Hi~! I know I should update more frequently, but I seems to have writer's block recently... please excuse me. I am trying very hard to finish this story and it seems to be taking a while. Thank you everyone for reviewing, I really appreciate it. ^^
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Yamato practically ran all the way to the library, he felt as if his question would be able to be answered in the library. He stormed towards the restricted section of the library and pulled out one of the thickest book in that section. The book titled "Family trees of Nobles of Kilka", Yamato nodded to himself. 'If he is going to find an answer anywhere, this book has to be the most likely. Unless...she is not a noble...'
He flipped through the book endlessly searching for the family of Takenouchi with a few pauses when he reached the family of Kido and Koushiro checking out if there is any more surprises from the Izzy and Jyou. But the biggest surprise came when he finally reached the Takenouchi family tree, nearly everyone on the line had a small portrait to accompany their name. 'This is incredible!' Yamato thought to himself. 'Only nobles with band three magic has portrait accompanying their names in this book. But on the Takenouchi line, there is a portrait for almost everyone!'
However, this was not the only surprise he got from this "unique" family, as his finger ran down the family tree, he found the name Sam Takenouchi. But the picture of Sam Takenouchi looked nothing liked the Sam he knew. Then suddenly, his mind clicked, as he went back and traced another route until he found the picture he has been searching for...
'Hey! Who is there!' The voice of the librarian alerted Yamato as he quickly blown out the candle and hide behind the think book shelf. He crouched there until he was sure the librarian had left. Restricted section of the library are only allowed to enter when the permission was granted from the king. 'But sometimes, rules are meant to be broken.' Yamato thought to himself as he went back to the book.
Without the light from the candle, he only has the moon to aid him. But the light from the moon is enough to confirm his suspicion. He found what he is looking for, a portrait that resembles the "Sam Takenouchi" he knows. Under the portrait, he found "Sam's" real name; he is she who called Sora Takenouchi. Yamato sighed, if he remembered correctly, Sora Takenouchi is also the woman who is betrothed to him.
'Complication and more complication,' he muttered to himself. 'Right now, I would rather do 100 calculus questions than get involved with this mess.' He silently placed the book where it belonged and crept out of the library.
Meanwhile in Yamato's room, Sora woke up after the long rest and sat on the bed and began to practice her magic. 'Let's see what I can do...' Sora whispered as she wave her hands around in frustration not knowing where to start. 'If I am to surpass Hsien, I must know how to harness my power. I think I will start with the something simplet', she pointed at the pillow and concentrated on levitation. Strange enough, the pillow actually followed her command and lift itself up into the air.
'Wow!' Sora stared in awe, 'I wonder if I can make it fly across the bed?' With that determination, she concentrated harder in making the pillow fly. And slowly, the pillow started to move towards the other side of the bed. She blinked, hardly believe what she has achieved. Then, a wicked idea came upon her mind and before she knew it, she levitated every object possible in the room and flew them around. As she enjoyed herself with the her abilities, little did she know that outside the door, a nervous Yamato paced back and forth unable to decide how to react.
'Okay, so he is a she who is called Sora Takenouchi,' Yamato began to review the situation. 'She is a band 3 sorceress and she knows how to handle a sword. She seems to be able to edge herself through any stick situations and god damn it! She will be my wife one day.' He tried to look at the situation at many different point of view, but neither of them made her less dangerous nad none of them puts him in a good position. He inhaled the freezing night's air and decided to stick with his original plan. Not to mutter a word until she decides to tell everyone the truth, at least that seemed to be in the best interest of everyone. He gathered up his courage and decided to face the woman in his room laying on his bed. Yamato groaned at the thought of that. "This is going to make me look bad." he thought to himself.
Inside the room, Sora has gotten the hang of her levitation commands, she was able to make everything in the room fly to whatever direction she wanted. The thought of in control pleased her, although she desired the excitment of chance, that is the reason that she choose to become a knight in the first place. "What ever Hsien has being able to do, I shall do better!" She smiled at herself proudly feeling rather confident. Suddenly, the door banged open and startled Sora, her shriek accompanied with a wave of her arm sent most of the things that were flying directly towards to door.
'AH!' Yamato didn't even have the time to scream before the vase flew straight at him, he instinctively raised his arms to protect his head and waited for the shuttering sensation of pain. But that feeling never came and slowly, he took a peak. The view in front of his shocked him, half the objects in his room which included chairs and tables were afloat on air, not only that, their motion has been stopped. Yamato frowned, he can very well guess who's doing is this but what troubled him is what he should do. As he slowly edged his way across the room towards Sora while keeping his eyes on the objects just in case they decideds to start flying again.
'What on earth was that!?' He demanded. 'Can you please explains this and in the mean time, I rather like my table and chairs firmly on the floor not half-way floating in air.' Just as he said it, he could not help regret his rashness.
'I..uh...I' Sora stumbled. She did not expect Yamato to be back so soon and neither did she expect him to be able to catch her redhanded. 'I was was practicing.' She was telling the truth, at least part of it.
'I can tell you've been "practicing".' Yamato tried to soften his tone a bit. 'Ahem, now would you mind "unpractice"? Please?'
Sora blushed and quickly turned everything back to normal. 'I uh..I..I think I am well enough to return to my own room.' She quickly pulled the blanket higher instinctively. Yamato certainly felt her discomfort and frantically tried to think of another reason to leave his room.
After a long search, he finally came up with one. 'I have to go and check on Jyou to see if he is alright, you neet any help?' He offered politely although quite certain she won't accept his help.
'I think I can manage fine.' Sora replied rather bashfully, imagining Yamato helping back to her room the way he carried her here turned her face even more scarlett. 'Thank you the offer.' With that she carefully picked up her clothing and began dressing. Hearing his cue to exit, Yamato walked briskly out of his room. It is way too late to visit Jyou anyway, the healers would never let him in at this hour of the night. He decided to take a stroll in the garden under the moonlight and cool his thoughts.
* * * * * * * * * * *
"She is certainly much prettier than most of the women I've seen." He thought to himself as he leaned against the willow tree and stared at the stars. "With that deep mesmerizing eyes, and the full rouge lips any men would've attracted to her." Out of curiousity, Yamato tried to picture her dressed in a way that maidens would and thought of Sora in low cut dress gazing at him adorely made him blush. He quickly wavered the image out of his mind but somehow, the image kept on coming back to haunt him.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Sora ran back to her room and banged the door tightly behind her before sinking down to the floor and letting out a sigh of relief. She really didn't know how to react around Yamato anymore, the thought of him carrying her back to his room was bad enough, but when he placed a kiss on her forehead, the sensation was strange. She found herself desiring for more.
Only there is a problem with that. 'He probably did it out of friendship.' She muttered to herself. 'And here I am daydreaming like a love sick puppy and hoping it was something else.'
'And anyway, he did not know I am a girl...' As Sora argued herself to sleep.
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I really never knew how to write a love story... so I hope this will turn out fine. I think the story will turn quiet mushy after this chapter and the Sorato stuff are going to be really heavy and dominate a big percentage. This story is also coming to the climax, I have been working quite hard on it. Thank you to all those who reviewed. Thank you very much.
Raie