Wishing Lake

Prince of Hiko Kingdom

Gentle wind blew across the vast field of land. Children ran around the field playing catching, farmers happily harvest their crops. In the peace era, commoners were contented with their present lifestyle. However, it was such a contrast to the war era back in a few years time.

For years, the two biggest kingdoms were in the midst of war. Troops of innocent young men and boys were forced to go into the battlefield to protect their beloveds. All those sufferings were just because of a simple word, greed. Makoto Shishio, the king of Makoto kingdom, wanted to conquer the Hiko kingdom to have the immeasurable amount of their resources under his hand. To fight for his people, Hiko Seijurou, the king of Hiko kingdom, fought bravely against Shishio for years. Though he was the master of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu style, time was against him. King Hiko felt tired; enough of fighting and his only heir had volunteered himself to fight for his behalf. Just merely in one-year time, he won the battle and a notorious title of 'Battousai'.

Prince Kenshin, an adopted child of King Hiko, was quite a mystery to many. No one knows anything about him except the fact that he has fiery red locks and amber eyes. It was such a sudden when King Hiko was celebrating thirty-five, the whole kingdom was being announced of the arrival of their new prince. Rumours said that the new heir was not even a human as there was none in the world with fiery red hair and amber orbs. Some even continued saying that it was a gift from dragon god, as it left its own son to King Hiko to help him in future times of need.

Though there were many of these rumours, none really seemed realistic but still carried some weight of truth. All happened on that night…

"Bring sake here!"

In the huge chamber room, one was standing by the table side next to the chair looking through the window at outside. Long greenish black hair left untamed over the shoulder. Lengthy white cloak with red collar covered the well built body. King Hiko stood at there, ordered a servant to deliver a bottle of sake.

Thunder roared. Purplish clouds gathered in chucks outside. Reddish amber lightning flashed across the horizon. Mist steadily started to spread around the chamber. Ignorant of his surrounding, King Hiko continued to drink his sake that his servant had just brought. He slowly felt drowsy. Eyelids gained its imaginary weight, yearning to close. Body unconsciously lean backwards and sat on the chair. His breathing became shallower each time it breathes and heartbeat slowly became in a slower yet steady pace.

Reddish amber lightning flash in the chamber and brighten the whole area. Mist began to produce an eerie glow and temperature decreased to a colder degree. Although the temperature dropped, it was still warm as a gentle gust of wind blew from the window giving scent of the sea.

Mist gradually dispersed and gathered on the ground level. Two shadow figures appeared. Fiery red locks framed a rather charming face. A flame symbol shone brightly in its forehead just above the pair of amber eyes. Golden red cloak enclosed the whole body showing not much detail about his figure. Next to the male, long violet hair with amethyst eyes showed a feminine figure cradling a small bundle on her hands. Silvery purple cloak framed the petite body. Same symbol shone on her forehead but was in a smaller version.

The male figure glanced at the sleeping figure on the table and flicked his finger. Golden light glow surrounded King Hiko's body. He stirred, blinked his eyes and slowly sat straight. Confused about suddenly drowsiness, King Hiko moved around and was stunned upon finding two intruders came into his chamber without his knowledge. However, before he could do any, he was frozen to his position. He couldn't move a bit even his lips. He stared fiercely at the intruders but was confused by their words.

Son of the heaven, I'm here for a favour to ask. Raise son of mine under your care. He done too much in the past life and destined to be suffering in this life. However, hope will come. Treat him as your son; he will come in handy in the need of time. A deep voice rang across the chamber.

Soft gentle but yet sad voice followed after the deep voice. Please take care of my dearest. He is still young, oblivious of his fated destiny. Too much too much demise lay on his future path. All I want to ask is to help him to pull over to avoid the same things happen all over again…

King Hiko jerked up his head, looked around and realised was just a dream. There were no clouds gathered outside the window nor a couple in his chamber…but wait! There was a basket on his table. He looked inside and found a sleeping baby with a flame symbol, like the couple in the dream, on his forehead shone brightly. The baby show signs of recognition as the male figure in the dream but when the baby opened his eyes, same amethyst eyes displayed happiness as they looked at King Hiko. King Hiko carried the baby out of the basket. As soon as the baby being carried, the flame symbol shone disappeared.

King Hiko raised his left eyebrow upon discovering and mumbled to himself. "Well well, seems to me that it was not a dream afterall. Since this brat will be useful in time, ok brat, I, Hiko Seijurou will be your father. Hmm… what should I name you as… heart of sword… Kenshin… brat your name will be Kenshin." The baby, Kenshin, clapped his hand and grasped King Hiko's hair to play with. King Hiko rose up Kenshin with his hand and said, "Kenshin, the son of mine, new heir of Hiko Kingdom!"

a small figure sneaks in...

PoPAr: Erm...hi... I am back after disappearing for almost 1 year . Dodge into a cave Don't kill me for not updating... well school work is kinda of tough to cope with... finally done with my programming project... Now I can find some time to continue my fics.

Babo: hehe I will certainly update.

Cherry Chibi: I got watch the drama before... It was so nice...I nearly sob when I saw the ending. As for the Spring of Sun I will twist the story from what I originally based on, hope I can come out the chapter soon .

Nigihayami Haruko: hehe I like the idea of Saitou having a raccon as his daughter.

MissBehavin: Yap! Saitou as dragon, a nice protraying his dangerous air when people mess with his family

SilverLightning177: Thankz, I will try to update soon.