Usagi walked out of her room, changed and refreshed. Her hair was tied back
into a long ponytail, almost like Seiya's. Usagi just couldn't resist . .
.She walked down the hallway, humming softly to her self, the fabric of a
red dress swished behind her gently. She went to Seiya's room and knocked
on the door three times. Usagi waited patiently a moment, and then she
opened the door, Seiya wasn't in there, surprisingly enough.
Usagi was a little bit curious about his room, so she went in and started looking around.
*'Seiya . . .your room is so bland.'* Usagi looked at all of the furniture, the same that she had in her room. There was barely even any decorations in his room, 'How long has he been in this room?' Usagi thought to herself as she opened his closet to reveal several of his princely suits. Finding nothing of interest in his closet, she walked over to his wardrobe and opened the top drawer. It only contained more clothes and Usagi sighed in boredom. She slowly slid the drawer shut when a glint from inside of it caught her eye.
*'What's this?'* Usagi retrieved a small, silver book from under the clothes. It was small, and when she opened it up, it revealed a little message.
Destiny, it binds up like chains,
We are but servants to it.
Please, someone free me!
Usagi sighed, partially in sadness. Her poor Seiya, he felt chained to his destiny, something he should not have felt. Suddenly her conscious kicked in and Usagi realized it was very rude to be poking around in his stuff, so she put the book back that shut the drawer. She turned around and looked out Seiya's window. It was a nice view of the palace grounds and Usagi smiled a little to herself.
Suddenly she heard a knock on the door. She spun around in surprise as the door opened and Yaten walked in.
He looked at Usagi in Seiya's room and his eyes grew wide in surprise. "I'm not in the wrong room, am I? You can't really tell, they all look the same . . ." Yaten started to blush a little.
"No, actually this is Seiya's room, I had just come in here to see if he was here." Usagi nervously played with her hands.
"Okay . . ." Yaten brushed a few strands of silver hair away from his eyes.
"Yaten-kun?" Usagi asked, suddenly remembering Kuzuko's request.
"Hai?" Yaten obviously was a little annoyed.
"Do you . . .dance?" Usagi tried to creep into the question.
"You mean, like at a ball?" Yaten wondered if the alien girl even knew what a ball was. *'I hope she doesn't ask me if I can teach her,'* Yaten shuddered, if he hated learning things then he would definitely be a bad teacher.
"Hai," Usagi felt a little stupid. *'Of course he would dance, he's a prince!'*
"Hai, I dance." Yaten sighed.
Usagi decided to change her tactic, maybe she could ask him if he could dance with her and then be a very bad dancer and then pair him off with Kazuko. She giggled internally.
"Do you think . . ." Usagi blushed a little, "We could dance at the ball?" Boy, did she sound dumb.
Yaten raised an eyebrow at Usagi, *'Doesn't she like Seiya? Well, I guess she can't dance with him all night, otherwise people might get suspicious.'*
"I mean," Usagi added. "I don't know any of the other men here, and after that incident with . . ." She trailed off a moment, "I'd rather not dance with anyone I don't know." Usagi smiled internally. That made it sound totally believable.
"Whatever," Yaten sighed. "I think I'm going to try and find Seiya," He started to leave and then turned back around. "Want to come?" He added, trying to be friendly.
"Sure!" Usagi smiled and went over and stood near Yaten. "I'm sure that two of us working together can find him for sure!" She winked.
Yaten sighed to himself. *'This is going to be a LONG trip . . .'* He thought about spending the entire time with Usagi.
Yaten and Usagi went through the palace, seeking Seiya. Finally, they found him, he was yelling at some guards near the guard's quarters.
"An ANOTHER thing! How is it that you guys 'do your jobs' when one of our guests almost got RAPED!!! By one of your OWN no less!" Seiya's face was red from yelling.
Usagi and Yaten saw this sight and Usagi immediately turned beet red. Yaten placed a sympathetic hand on Usagi's shoulder and then walked up to Seiya. Seiya was still lecturing the guards and his back was towards Yaten.
Yaten tapped Seiya on the shoulder, gently, at first, and Seiya whipped around quickly and spotted Yaten.
"What do you want?" Seiya's gruff reaction was.
Yaten just smiled. "I had to talk to you about some things, and so did this young lady."
He motioned towards Usagi, who was looking at the ground, still beet red.
Seiya turned back around. "Expect this to be finished at a later date, you are dismissed!" Seiya turned back towards Yaten as the guards left.
He smiled at Usagi, and then looked back at Yaten. "Gomen for snapping at you, Yaten."
Yaten shrugged. "Whatever, I didn't expect to find you in the nicest of dispositions anyway, especially about what I'm sent to talk to you about."
Seiya let out a sigh and then looked at Usagi. "How are you doing?" He asked quietly.
"I'm doing okay," Usagi smiled a little through her blush.
"That's good." Seiya smiled sweetly.
"I have some matters that I'd like to . . .wait, *have to* discuss with you," Yaten sighed. "About your *wedding*." He turned the word into such venom in his mouth, that Seiya was surprised.
"Do I really have to attend to this matter now?" Seiya sighed.
"Under the Queen's orders." Yaten rolled his eyes.
"Okay, I'll go and talk with you in a bit." Seiya nodded at Yaten.
"I'll be in the conference room, then." Yaten nodded and left Usagi and Seiya alone.
"Are you feeling okay?" He took a step closer to her and smiled.
"I guess," Usagi sighed and looked up at Seiya.
"Don't worry, that man that . . .touched you, he is going to be punished by the highest set of Kinmoku laws." He winked. "No one will harm my Kirro Maiden and get away with it." He laughed. "But I'm sure he did get the butt end of it when you blasted him." Seiya obviously enjoyed seeing the man get his just desert.
"Hai," Usagi sighed and looked at the ground. "I really don't want to talk about that, is that okay?"
"Of course it is, Kirro Maiden." Seiya gently pulled her chin up and looked her in the eyes. His eyes peered into her eyes and Usagi got goose bumps just feeling the love her had in his eyes.
"Did you ever get your costume tailored for the ball?" He smiled.
"No, I was going to do that after I talked with you." Usagi smiled.
"What will you be going as?" Seiya's eyes glimmered.
"I can't tell you, it's going to be a secret." She giggled.
"Fine, I suppose you'll be very hard to find." Seiya laughed and grabbed a hold of her ponytail. "Especially with hair that color." He tugged on her hair gently. "I can tell that you tied it up like me," Seiya winked.
"Maybe I'll just have to dye my hair." Usagi took her ponytail back from Seiya's grasp.
"I dare you, Kirro Maiden." Seiya's eyes showed playfulness.
"You just watch you, Mister." She poked him hard in the stomach. "I just might do that, and then you'll never be able to call me 'Kirro Maiden' again." And with this she turned around and started making her way to the palace tailor's.
Seiya just shook his head and walked off to the conference room, ready to deal with Yaten.
Usagi walked towards the Tailor's and hummed quietly to herself. It was a jolly little tune, one she almost felt like dancing to. Usagi smiled, for some reason she felt very happy. She walked into the Tailor's and she was then occupied with getting measurements and explaining what she wanted in her costume.
***
Seiya sighed. *'Why does this have to happen to me? It's not like I'm even going to marry her, if it was up to me, I'd just leave right now.'*
"All right, the question that would choose the fate of the world: Should we have red napkins or white ones?" Yaten held up two different colored napkins.
"Red," Seiya was so very bored, he had spent hours with Yaten going over wedding plans, he just wanted to go back and spend more time with his love, his Usagi. He was going to firmly disagree to marry Kakyuu. This was something he believed in heart and soul.
"Seiya?" Yaten had put the napkins down and was looking intently at his brother. Seiya sighed, his hand was on his chin and he was staring off into space.
"Seiya, will you listen to me?" Yaten said this a little louder.
Seiya shook his head and looked at Yaten. "Gomen, what was it?"
"If it were up to me, I'd just say that you should leave Kinmoku right now. You can't hide your feelings for her very well, Seiya. You're transparent!"
Seiya had a confused look on his face. "Yaten, you know very well that I can't do that, it would hurt my honor,"
"What kind of honor do you have if you are planning on NOT marrying YOUR own princess and running off with some alien girl? I'd say that even if you try and talk to Kimiko that she'd say no and force you to marry Kakyuu, she might even have Usagi killed."
"She wouldn't do that . . ." Seiya's eyes were open wide with surprise.
Yaten sighed. "If anything, she is close to killing Usagi now,"
"What are you talking about?" Seiya pushed the chair back that he was sitting in and stood up.
Yaten stayed sitting in his chair, and he looked at his fingernails. "She suspects that Usagi is trying to break you away from Kakyuu. Why should she trust an alien girl who has seemed to steal you away from the rest of your world? For all she knows," Yaten licked his lips and stared at Seiya. "She was sent here to steal you away from your destiny."
"How could you say such a thing?" Anger was boiling up Seiya's veins.
"I didn't say it, Kimiko did . . ." Yaten still played it cool, and cleaned a little bit of dirt from out of his fingernails.
Seiya put his hand into a fist and raised it up in the air, and brought it down upon the conference table with a smash. His fist had put a large hole in the table, and Yaten looked at Seiya, wide-eyed.
"Why did you . . ." Yaten was speechless, "You're going to have to . . ." He kept staring at Seiya's hand in shock.
"I never wanted to marry Kakyuu . . .EVER!" Seiya's voice was quiet and intense.
"Seiya . . ."Yaten's emerald eyes were still wide. "I've never seen you this angry before."
"She didn't steal me away, this was a destiny I never wanted, EVER! I didn't ask for this, I don't want to be a slave to the crown any MORE!" Seiya took a deep breath, trying to keep his anger from spilling out.
"Calm down . . .I wasn't saying that, Kimiko said it to me . . ." Yaten was suddenly worried that Seiya was going to do something drastic. "Please, Seiya, calm down . . ." Yaten stood up and was trying to calm Seiya down.
"I need to see her, I need to see her right now." Seiya pushed Yaten off of him and ran out of the room.
*** {A/N: Yes, it's that time again, time for another chapter and another A/N! *coughs I know. Uhm. what can I say about this chapter? I tried to make it long-ish. Again, I haven't been writing much on this story, I'm writing on my new story, which I will be posting soon. I hope that all of my readers like this chapter, and it you don't like it, please tell me what you don't like! Okie, Ja!]
Usagi was a little bit curious about his room, so she went in and started looking around.
*'Seiya . . .your room is so bland.'* Usagi looked at all of the furniture, the same that she had in her room. There was barely even any decorations in his room, 'How long has he been in this room?' Usagi thought to herself as she opened his closet to reveal several of his princely suits. Finding nothing of interest in his closet, she walked over to his wardrobe and opened the top drawer. It only contained more clothes and Usagi sighed in boredom. She slowly slid the drawer shut when a glint from inside of it caught her eye.
*'What's this?'* Usagi retrieved a small, silver book from under the clothes. It was small, and when she opened it up, it revealed a little message.
Destiny, it binds up like chains,
We are but servants to it.
Please, someone free me!
Usagi sighed, partially in sadness. Her poor Seiya, he felt chained to his destiny, something he should not have felt. Suddenly her conscious kicked in and Usagi realized it was very rude to be poking around in his stuff, so she put the book back that shut the drawer. She turned around and looked out Seiya's window. It was a nice view of the palace grounds and Usagi smiled a little to herself.
Suddenly she heard a knock on the door. She spun around in surprise as the door opened and Yaten walked in.
He looked at Usagi in Seiya's room and his eyes grew wide in surprise. "I'm not in the wrong room, am I? You can't really tell, they all look the same . . ." Yaten started to blush a little.
"No, actually this is Seiya's room, I had just come in here to see if he was here." Usagi nervously played with her hands.
"Okay . . ." Yaten brushed a few strands of silver hair away from his eyes.
"Yaten-kun?" Usagi asked, suddenly remembering Kuzuko's request.
"Hai?" Yaten obviously was a little annoyed.
"Do you . . .dance?" Usagi tried to creep into the question.
"You mean, like at a ball?" Yaten wondered if the alien girl even knew what a ball was. *'I hope she doesn't ask me if I can teach her,'* Yaten shuddered, if he hated learning things then he would definitely be a bad teacher.
"Hai," Usagi felt a little stupid. *'Of course he would dance, he's a prince!'*
"Hai, I dance." Yaten sighed.
Usagi decided to change her tactic, maybe she could ask him if he could dance with her and then be a very bad dancer and then pair him off with Kazuko. She giggled internally.
"Do you think . . ." Usagi blushed a little, "We could dance at the ball?" Boy, did she sound dumb.
Yaten raised an eyebrow at Usagi, *'Doesn't she like Seiya? Well, I guess she can't dance with him all night, otherwise people might get suspicious.'*
"I mean," Usagi added. "I don't know any of the other men here, and after that incident with . . ." She trailed off a moment, "I'd rather not dance with anyone I don't know." Usagi smiled internally. That made it sound totally believable.
"Whatever," Yaten sighed. "I think I'm going to try and find Seiya," He started to leave and then turned back around. "Want to come?" He added, trying to be friendly.
"Sure!" Usagi smiled and went over and stood near Yaten. "I'm sure that two of us working together can find him for sure!" She winked.
Yaten sighed to himself. *'This is going to be a LONG trip . . .'* He thought about spending the entire time with Usagi.
Yaten and Usagi went through the palace, seeking Seiya. Finally, they found him, he was yelling at some guards near the guard's quarters.
"An ANOTHER thing! How is it that you guys 'do your jobs' when one of our guests almost got RAPED!!! By one of your OWN no less!" Seiya's face was red from yelling.
Usagi and Yaten saw this sight and Usagi immediately turned beet red. Yaten placed a sympathetic hand on Usagi's shoulder and then walked up to Seiya. Seiya was still lecturing the guards and his back was towards Yaten.
Yaten tapped Seiya on the shoulder, gently, at first, and Seiya whipped around quickly and spotted Yaten.
"What do you want?" Seiya's gruff reaction was.
Yaten just smiled. "I had to talk to you about some things, and so did this young lady."
He motioned towards Usagi, who was looking at the ground, still beet red.
Seiya turned back around. "Expect this to be finished at a later date, you are dismissed!" Seiya turned back towards Yaten as the guards left.
He smiled at Usagi, and then looked back at Yaten. "Gomen for snapping at you, Yaten."
Yaten shrugged. "Whatever, I didn't expect to find you in the nicest of dispositions anyway, especially about what I'm sent to talk to you about."
Seiya let out a sigh and then looked at Usagi. "How are you doing?" He asked quietly.
"I'm doing okay," Usagi smiled a little through her blush.
"That's good." Seiya smiled sweetly.
"I have some matters that I'd like to . . .wait, *have to* discuss with you," Yaten sighed. "About your *wedding*." He turned the word into such venom in his mouth, that Seiya was surprised.
"Do I really have to attend to this matter now?" Seiya sighed.
"Under the Queen's orders." Yaten rolled his eyes.
"Okay, I'll go and talk with you in a bit." Seiya nodded at Yaten.
"I'll be in the conference room, then." Yaten nodded and left Usagi and Seiya alone.
"Are you feeling okay?" He took a step closer to her and smiled.
"I guess," Usagi sighed and looked up at Seiya.
"Don't worry, that man that . . .touched you, he is going to be punished by the highest set of Kinmoku laws." He winked. "No one will harm my Kirro Maiden and get away with it." He laughed. "But I'm sure he did get the butt end of it when you blasted him." Seiya obviously enjoyed seeing the man get his just desert.
"Hai," Usagi sighed and looked at the ground. "I really don't want to talk about that, is that okay?"
"Of course it is, Kirro Maiden." Seiya gently pulled her chin up and looked her in the eyes. His eyes peered into her eyes and Usagi got goose bumps just feeling the love her had in his eyes.
"Did you ever get your costume tailored for the ball?" He smiled.
"No, I was going to do that after I talked with you." Usagi smiled.
"What will you be going as?" Seiya's eyes glimmered.
"I can't tell you, it's going to be a secret." She giggled.
"Fine, I suppose you'll be very hard to find." Seiya laughed and grabbed a hold of her ponytail. "Especially with hair that color." He tugged on her hair gently. "I can tell that you tied it up like me," Seiya winked.
"Maybe I'll just have to dye my hair." Usagi took her ponytail back from Seiya's grasp.
"I dare you, Kirro Maiden." Seiya's eyes showed playfulness.
"You just watch you, Mister." She poked him hard in the stomach. "I just might do that, and then you'll never be able to call me 'Kirro Maiden' again." And with this she turned around and started making her way to the palace tailor's.
Seiya just shook his head and walked off to the conference room, ready to deal with Yaten.
Usagi walked towards the Tailor's and hummed quietly to herself. It was a jolly little tune, one she almost felt like dancing to. Usagi smiled, for some reason she felt very happy. She walked into the Tailor's and she was then occupied with getting measurements and explaining what she wanted in her costume.
***
Seiya sighed. *'Why does this have to happen to me? It's not like I'm even going to marry her, if it was up to me, I'd just leave right now.'*
"All right, the question that would choose the fate of the world: Should we have red napkins or white ones?" Yaten held up two different colored napkins.
"Red," Seiya was so very bored, he had spent hours with Yaten going over wedding plans, he just wanted to go back and spend more time with his love, his Usagi. He was going to firmly disagree to marry Kakyuu. This was something he believed in heart and soul.
"Seiya?" Yaten had put the napkins down and was looking intently at his brother. Seiya sighed, his hand was on his chin and he was staring off into space.
"Seiya, will you listen to me?" Yaten said this a little louder.
Seiya shook his head and looked at Yaten. "Gomen, what was it?"
"If it were up to me, I'd just say that you should leave Kinmoku right now. You can't hide your feelings for her very well, Seiya. You're transparent!"
Seiya had a confused look on his face. "Yaten, you know very well that I can't do that, it would hurt my honor,"
"What kind of honor do you have if you are planning on NOT marrying YOUR own princess and running off with some alien girl? I'd say that even if you try and talk to Kimiko that she'd say no and force you to marry Kakyuu, she might even have Usagi killed."
"She wouldn't do that . . ." Seiya's eyes were open wide with surprise.
Yaten sighed. "If anything, she is close to killing Usagi now,"
"What are you talking about?" Seiya pushed the chair back that he was sitting in and stood up.
Yaten stayed sitting in his chair, and he looked at his fingernails. "She suspects that Usagi is trying to break you away from Kakyuu. Why should she trust an alien girl who has seemed to steal you away from the rest of your world? For all she knows," Yaten licked his lips and stared at Seiya. "She was sent here to steal you away from your destiny."
"How could you say such a thing?" Anger was boiling up Seiya's veins.
"I didn't say it, Kimiko did . . ." Yaten still played it cool, and cleaned a little bit of dirt from out of his fingernails.
Seiya put his hand into a fist and raised it up in the air, and brought it down upon the conference table with a smash. His fist had put a large hole in the table, and Yaten looked at Seiya, wide-eyed.
"Why did you . . ." Yaten was speechless, "You're going to have to . . ." He kept staring at Seiya's hand in shock.
"I never wanted to marry Kakyuu . . .EVER!" Seiya's voice was quiet and intense.
"Seiya . . ."Yaten's emerald eyes were still wide. "I've never seen you this angry before."
"She didn't steal me away, this was a destiny I never wanted, EVER! I didn't ask for this, I don't want to be a slave to the crown any MORE!" Seiya took a deep breath, trying to keep his anger from spilling out.
"Calm down . . .I wasn't saying that, Kimiko said it to me . . ." Yaten was suddenly worried that Seiya was going to do something drastic. "Please, Seiya, calm down . . ." Yaten stood up and was trying to calm Seiya down.
"I need to see her, I need to see her right now." Seiya pushed Yaten off of him and ran out of the room.
*** {A/N: Yes, it's that time again, time for another chapter and another A/N! *coughs I know. Uhm. what can I say about this chapter? I tried to make it long-ish. Again, I haven't been writing much on this story, I'm writing on my new story, which I will be posting soon. I hope that all of my readers like this chapter, and it you don't like it, please tell me what you don't like! Okie, Ja!]
