A/N: Starring Yukina as Deidre. Kuwabaka as King Conchobor. Kurama as Cathbad, the King's Wiseman. Kuronue as Naisi. Hiei as Cuchulainn. This story is one of my favorites.
Yukina of the Sorrows
This beautiful Irish tale
Comes from a group
of
Stories known as
the Red
Branch Cycle, about
the
Warriors who
surrounded
The legendary King
Kuwabaka.
One of these was
Hiei
Who became
Ireland's most famous hero.
In the reign of King Kuwabaka of Ulster, the King's harper and his wife had a beautiful baby girl. There was much rejoicing at her birth, but Kurama, The King's Wiseman, predicted that the girl's very beauty would be the cause of Bloodshed and Grief. "Name her Yukina," he told the couple, "For it means 'Sorrowful One'."
King Kuwabaka promised his harper that the prophecy would not come true. He had Yukina taken away to be raised in a secret place, and he promised to marry her himself when she was of age.
But before that time came, Yukina met a handsome young knight named Kuronue, and the two fell in love. Knowing how angry King Kuwabaka would be, the lovers ran away to Scotland.
When King Kuwabaka found out what had happened, he sent a messenger to find Yukina and Kuronue and bring them home. "Tell them I forgive them and will be waiting with a royal welcome," he said.
When the messenger arrived, Yukina begged Kuronue not to go. She had had a dream in which she had seen birds flying from King Kuwabaka's palace with blood in their beaks. But Kuronue missed his home, and ignored Yukina's warning. He set off with her for Ulster, certain that the king would keep his word.
But instead of welcoming Kuronue, King Kuwabaka had him killed. Then he forced the grief-stricken Yukina to marry him. She was so unhappy that, right after the wedding, she threw herself from the Kings chariot and fell to her death on the rocks below.
From the graves of Yukina and Kuronue, two pine trees grew. In time the branches stretched toward each other and mingled, growing together as one tall tree.
A/N: Yeah and now you know my favorite mythological story.