Oiii my readers. Actually I have no readers because I haven't updated this in like 2 years. Hmm I'm such an arrogant person. I was re-reading this and I'm like wow this is a good story. Can you believe that? I was actually congratulating myself on something I wrote. How much more arrogant can you get. But then I was like woah I have crap grammar and writing and I think I ripped off a name or 2 from escaflowne but not the character don't remember tho. Mmmm this chapter I mostly wrote as like a sophomore so I'd like to think in 2 years my grammar's gotten a bit better. So in future chapters the grammar will be better. If you actually like this story and u want to thank someone. I suggest you thank all those authors out there who have great stories but never finish them. Not that I'm saying my stories are great. But I doing it for the ppl who actually liked reading this story. I was reading some fics and they stopped and I was like noooo where's the rest. So now I'm submitting the next part to my story.
4 Years later.
"Na-chan!" a 13 year old Kimiko yelled. Nakago poked his head out of his room. She rushed into his room and jumped on the bed, the two had moved into separate rooms when she turned 11, even though she protested like hell, Nakago had said she would understand when she got older. "What?" he asked curiously. "Maria-san said I can have the day off and Van-kun asked me if I wanted to go play with him and train and stuff." She said excitedly. "Van-kun? Again? You hang out with him so much I think you like him better than me." He said in a fake hurt voice. Kimiko threw her arms around his neck, "No way. No one could replace you Na-chan." She exclaimed. She let go and turned to him slyly, "Are you jealous Na-chan?" she said teasing him. "What if I am." He said scooping her up in a bear hug and tickling her. Kimiko started laughing uncontrollably. "Hahahah stop-stop-stop it Na- hahaha Na-chan." She said tears coming out of her eyes. He let her go and she fell to the floor. "Itaii." She said rubbing her butt. "Okay I gotta go now." She said, skipping out the door. Nakago took off his happy façade and looked wistfully at the door. "But this was our special day, our half-birthday." He said softly to himself. He was so busy carrying out the emperor's orders that he had no time for her anymore. And now she was always out with this Van boy who he still had never met. One time he had attempted to follow her, she found him 5 minutes into the spying and blew up at him for not trusting her and always butting into her business. She didn't talk to him for like a week and went out with her "Van-kun" everyday. Nakago sighed as he thought back on the memories of him and Kimiko, memories of just the two of them. A soldier walked into the room. "Ano Nakago-sama. The emperor wants to see you." He reported. Nakago nodded and stood up.
Nakago walked into his bedroom, covered in blood and sweat and dropped on the bed. He had had an exhausting day and just wanted to sleep. He forced himself to get up and looked at the now blood stained sheets. He took off his armor and washed all traces of the blood off in the basin and then he walked to the baths. He sighed as he stepped into the steaming hot bath. Good thing Kimi-chan went out today, or else she would have seen all the blood on me. He thought to himself. He frowned as his mind conflicted within, You told her you wouldn't kill anyone with your powers, but you also need to get revenge for your parents. If you don't do what the emperor tells you he won't trust you. You've already killed many people so that he could trust you and you've already risen to such a high position don't ruin it now. But I promised Kimi-chan. She'll never find out. He ended his thought with a slightly uneasy feeling but waved it off as nothing. He got out of the bath and changed into some new clothes; satisfied that he had no blood anywhere on him, he started back to his chambers so that he could remove the sheets that had the stains on them. A servant girl stopped him on his way. "A-a-a-ano Na-na-nakago-sama, the emperor wants to see you in your chambers right now." She stuttered. Nakago nodded and motioned for her to leave. He entered the royal chambers and found a slightly drunk emperor in there.
"Ah Nakago, I've been waiting for you." The emperor said stumbling onto him. The emperor pushed him onto the bed. "Ch-ch-chotto what are you doing?!" Nakago yelled. The emperor had done this when he was younger, but since he had come back his highness had not touched him. He was torn by blowing the emperor into tiny bits or… he didn't finish his thoughts as Kimiko walked into the room. She blushed bright red and dropped something on the floor, seeing the emperor with Nakago on the bed. "Aaaano uhh uhhh I saw you come into this room and uhh I was going to tell you something." She stuttered almost incoherently. The emperor got off of Nakago and strode toward Kimiko. "My my you've turned into quite a beautiful girl, he said grabbing her chin and forcing her to look up at him." Kimiko winced at the suddenness and force of the action. "Kimi-chan nigete!" Nakago shouted as he slammed into the emperor. Nakago was thinking ahead and he knew that if he blasted the emperor he and Kimiko would be hunted down and killed, but if he just hurt him a little just enough for Kimiko to get away, only he would be punished. "Demo, Na-chan!" she said reaching for him. The emperor got up and grabbed her arm, pulling her towards him. "You really are beautiful, in time maybe more so than the girls in my harem, and I like your innocence. Maybe I'll have a taste of you after I'm done with Nakago." He said grinning. "Let me go!!" she yelled. Nakago grabbed her from the emperor's clutches. "Guards!" the emperor shouted, at Nakago's sudden disobedience. Nakago saw the door to the room open and a stream of guards come in. He looked around violently, looking for an escape route that did not involve blasting the emperor and his soldiers to bits. His eyes fell on an open window and without a word dragged Kimiko out there and looked down. There was a canopy of trees, maybe even enough to break her fall. He saw the guards approaching them out of the corner of his eye and promptly threw Kimiko out the window. Kimiko screamed as she fell, a shiny object caught the light of the moon as it fell with her.
Nakago felt the whip hit him for what seemed to be the hundredth time. He winced as it hit him again and again. "Don't blame me for this Nakago." The emperor said, coming into the room. Nakago bit his lip and looked away. "By the way your little friend is dead." The emperor said with a laugh. Nakago froze, he didn't feel the next whiplash, he didn't feel anything. "Dead, Dead, Dead", it kept echoing in his mind. "It's your fault, actually. You're the one who threw her out the window. I mean no one could survive that. Especially a kid." The emperor said, leaving. Nakago clenched his eyes shut as tears threatened to fill up his eyes. Only a single tear rolled down and fell to the floor as the next lash hit him. Her death, his fault. Her death, his fault. He felt pain, but it wasn't from the whip, it came from his heart, as if it had just been shredded to pieces. He let out a tortured roar, vowed that he would never care for someone again, it hurt too much to lose them. He lifted his eyes to where the emperor had just exited. He would do whatever it took to rise to the top of this empire, and then not only would he kill the emperor he would totally and utterly destroy the man, and everything he loved. His eyes turned cold and unfeeling, almost emotionless, but if you looked deep into his eyes, past his barriers and into his soul there was sorrow, pain, and hatred.
The emperor nodded in satisfaction as he heard Nakago's tortured scream. He now had Nakago in his grasp. Hopefully this would break the stubborn man and make him into an obedient servant with nothing in his mind but serving the emperor. "Go find the girl's body. Order some other men to help you too." He ordered one of his guards. He had lied earlier about the girl being dead, but he was sure she was. What he wanted now was to present her lifeless body to the broken blonde inside the dungeon and take pleasure in the man's agony. The guard nodded and took off.
Kimiko got up from the grassy field where she had landed, and winced as she sat up. She was sore all over and had various cuts and bruises. Her hand brushed against something as she braced her palms on the ground to help her stand up. She looked down and found a small ring. It was intricately designed and very beautiful. She looked up to where the window she had just fallen out of and remembered him talking about it.
Earlier Conversation A few months earlier
"Na-chan!" she exclaimed barging into his room. She saw him staring at a ring, which he quickly tried to cover when he saw her eyes latch onto it. "What's that?" she asked curiously. "It was my mother's ring." He said gruffly. "You're okaasan's?" she asked. "Can I see it?" she asked. "Iie." He said holding it away. "Come on, Na-chan." She wheedled. "No, I said no. This is the only thing I have left of my mother." He exclaimed. "Mouu Na-chan you're no fun." She said pouting. "It's very special to me." He said. "I'll be very careful with it. Plleeeaaaasseee" She whined. "No, I already said no." he repeated, stuffing the ring into a pocket. "Fine fine." She said pouting.
Kimiko took off an intricately carved necklace from her neck, something she had never done before and put the ring on it. She looked at the two objects remembering the 2 most important people in her life. She had found the necklace with her clothes, with a note from Tamahome telling her happy birthday, soon after she had left her home. At first she had been mad because she was still mad at him and the rest of her family, so she had stuffed it into her bag at the very very bottom, but after a while she began to miss them and one day while going through her bag, found it and had never taken it off since. Now, she was alone, she didn't have Na-chan with her anymore. She heard voices off in the distance. "Why are we supposed to find that little girl? No one could have survived that fall." One man said. "The emperor wants to teach Nakago-sama a lesson and show him her dead body." Another man said. Kimiko's eyes widened. She lay quietly in the overgrown grass, hoping that the men wouldn't see her. They passed by, talking to each other. She breathed a sigh of relief and got up quietly. She stole across the field and found her secret hiding place that was her and Van's secret. She curled up against a tree and fell asleep, the moonlight glistening off her necklace and ring.
"Kimi-chan. Wake up! Wake up!" a voice said as a hand tried to shake her awake. She sleepily rubbed her eyes. "Nani?" She asked sleepily. Her eyes flew open as she remembered the night before's events. "Van-kun?! What are you doing here?" she asked. "You have to get out of here. The guards are checking everywhere. They might even come in here." He said urgently. "Where's Na-chan!" she said grabbing his shirt worriedly. "He's in the torture chamber. Otou—I mean the emperor is punishing him." He said. "What?! I have to go help him!" she said running towards the door to the secret garden. Van grabbed her. "No I won't let you. It's to dangerous!" he said, not letting go. "Let me go!" she said. "No. I can't!" he replied sternly. "Now be quiet the guards will hear you." He said lowering his voice a bit. "No! I have to save Na-chan!" she cried, tears streaming down her cheek. "Please I have to help him." She said again. "Don't make me hurt you Van-kun. Let me go. I don't want to hurt you." She said desperately. "I can't let you. Please understand. I'll help Nakago." He said. "How did you know his name was Nakago? How can you help him? You'd be going against the emperor! Only I can help him." She said still struggling to get away. "I'll help him. Just trust me. I hope you forgive me and I hope you understand why I'm going to do this. Kimi-chan daisuki." He said as his arm flashed down and his her on the back of her neck. She went limp and Van caught her. He held her delicately in two hands and stole out the side of the garden, evading the guards by going through the swamp that was on the other side of the wall of his secret garden. He stopped at the side of the road and hid in the underbrush until he saw the wagon that he had prepared beforehand coming. He whistled and motioned for the wagon to come over. Van carefully placed Kimiko into the back of the wagon and covered her up. He poured a bag of gold into the driver's hand. "Get her out of the country. If you get her out of the country I'll give you another bag of gold when you come back." He told the driver. "But if I find out that you did any harm to her I'll have you executed." he said threateningly. The driver nodded frightenedly and drove off. He sighed, staring after the wagon that was carrying off the only girl he had ever liked and who had ever liked him for himself, not as a prince. He turned back towards the castle contemplating on what he could do to calm down his father enough to let Nakago go.
Present"That's such a sad story, Kimi-chan. I can't believe you ran away from home when you were six." Suboshi said incredulously. "Well you better believe it." Nakago said walking into the little clearing. "Nakago-sama?!" "Na-chan?" they both exclaimed simultaneously. "You must have all four gods watching over you to have so much luck." He said, sitting down beside the two. "I wouldn't exactly call myself lucky." She replied making a small face as she thought of all the heartaches and hardships she'd gone through. "Well to survive in the world when you were six, not many people could do that, even after they'd grown up. Your lucky that you didn't die from that fall and you're your lucky I found you when you were little." He said a bit playfully at the end. "Mouu. What are you talking about? I found you." Kimiko replied emphasizing the last part. Nakago looked up into the sky, laying down on his back, grinning a bit at her statement. His grin faded, "I always thought you were dead. When I saw you in that bar I couldn't believe it was you, I was amazed by the resemblance, but I figured it couldn't be possible." He said, sounding reminiscent. "When that ring came flying past me I couldn't believe it. I couldn't accept that you were still alive. I had based all my life on getting revenge for you and my parents and now… I don't know. But now your back and that's all that matters now." He said turning his head towards her. She nodded. "I've never seen you like this Na-chan." She said sort of surprised. "Maybe this just isn't me." He said in a joking sort of tone as he sat up. "But, Suboshi if you ever tell anybody about this, you'll regret it." Nakago said, letting his ki flare for a second and glaring at the younger seishi. "H-hai. Nakago-sama I won't tell anyone." Suboshi stuttered. Nakago turned towards Kimiko, "Kimi-chan do you remember when the day you left was?" he asked. "Of course baka. It was our half birthday. We celebrated it every year." She said bopping him on the head lightly. Nakago turned his head and moved his hair back to show her his earrings. "You're wearing the earrings I gave you!" she exclaimed. "I never thought you would find them after I had dropped them on the floor." She said. "I grabbed them on the way out of the emperor's room." He replied. "I always meant to ask you, if you remembered it was our special day why did you go out with Van-kun?" he asked, a bit jealously. "We were planning a party for you. I made him come with me to all your favorite food places and carry the stuff for me." She said matter of factly. "Really?" Nakago asked his face lighting up slightly. She looked suspiciously at him, "You didn't think I forgot about it di you?" "N-n-no no. Of course I knew you wouldn't forget that day." Nakago said, trying to cover up his suspicions. "Usotsuki. How could you think I ever forgot!" she asked hurt. "Ano Nakago-sama aren't those the earrings that you gave Yui-sama?" Suboshi asked curiously. "Iie. I gave her a copy of one. But the originals I've always kept with me no matter what." He said. "Waahhh sugoii! I never knew if you'd like my present or not Na-chan!" Kimiko said happily, throwing her arms around him. He cracked a slight smile. Suboshi blanched at this face. It was very rare to see a real smile on Nakago-sama's face and it still scared him.
"Do you know what day is coming up Kimi-chan?" Nakago asked. Kimiko looked at him confused. "What day?" she asked. "You're such a baka." Nakago said affectionately. "It's your 17th birthday of course." He said. "Oh yeah! I forgot all about my birthday." She said. "Where do you want to go for your birthday anyways? We can go anywhere you want." He said. "Hmmm what about go to Hokkan (north). I've never been there before." She said. "It's in the middle of winter!" he said. "You said anywhere." She said pointedly. "Hai hai. Ojo-sama." He said holding up his hands in surrender. "Yeah! I always wanted to go to Hokkan." She said happily. "I just hope we don't get stuck in a blizzard." Nakago muttered to himself. Suboshi grinned at the two. Kimiko brought so much life to their little group, and Nakago-sama, well Nakago-sama was acting more like an average human and actually had a compassionate look about his face some of the time. Nakago always had had this untouchable air around him, and it always seemed like he was always uncaring of others and only wanted to achieve his goal, not bothering with how he attained them. Suboshi had always thought something had happened to Nakago-sama that made him like this, now that he knew why, he could understand Nakago's sadisticness. Now Nakago was starting to open up, little by little. He grinned happily as Kimko and Nakago bantered back and forth.
Umm some of the ages might not match up with the original story. As I have stated before. O yeah. One other thing. Kimiko never mentioned tamahome's name in her story to suboshi. So like he juss knows she has a bro. Hmm I really don't know where I'm going with this story since I'm making up the next part as I go along since I forgot what I had originally planned. I have decided no suboshixkimiko it just doesn't seem right for some reason but that is subject to change on whatever whim I have next. Please excuse the crappiness of the previous chapters. Off I go now. O also I know I didn't quite develop her past that well. So please forgive me. Too lazy to go back and flesh it out.