Authoress Notes: Wow! I got six reviews! That makes me so happy! ((Does a dance)) Well anyways, there are so many ideas for this story swarming in my head I'm afraid I won't be able to get them all down before the float away! LOL! Well, school for me is going to start in a week and a half; so when it does start, I'm afraid my updating will be limited. Why? Well simply because I have to get up earlier for High School and I'll have homework. So If I do update it'll be once a week or two weeks, depends on how much energy I have. Well enough of my rambling! I'm going to reply to some of my reviewers!
Reviews:
Llamachick – Thank you for reviewing! I'm glad you like my plot! Hehe, I will keep going (I hope!) I'm updating! Wee!
Reminiscing Moonlight - I'm glad your think my plot has a very interesting concept! I'm glad you thought it was written very well. And I will keep up the great work! I hope your review for this chapter! Well, Thanks for reviewing!
KrysOfSorrow – No, I don't think this plot has been used before (on any other TMM stories either) Zakuro x Pai is your favorite couple? Their my second favorite, Kishu x Ichigo is my first. Well I hope your review again! Thank your for you nice review!
Mew Lizzy – I'm updating! I'm glad your liked it! Thank you for your review!
Mew Peach - I know what you mean, Pai x Zakuro is very hard to find, if you find a Pai x Zakuro Fanfic, it's either their in character but the writings horrible or the writings really good but their out of character. I'm really glad that you think my plot idea is original! So thank you so much for your review! It was appreciated.
Ickiakki - Thank you! I'm so glad you thought it was nicely written! Your review was deeply appreciated
And thanks to everyone else that read my story but didn't review…
Disclaimer: Still own nothing. Also in this chapter the sentence that has a (1) behind it, I don't own that sentence the Manga-ka of 'Bleach' does!
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Plot: Zakuro Fujiwara is the lonely Princess of the kingdom of Ookami. A powerful stone resides in her body, The 'Ookami Shugyoku' it's know as. It is only to be in the possession of the Princess but Pai intends to kidnap the princess and rip the powerful stone from her body only the 'Ookami Shugyoku' stone has a secret even Pai isn't ready to face.
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¨ My Heart: Ookami Shugyoku ¨
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A Zakuro/Pai Fanfic
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By: Daisuke-fan-gurl
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Chapter One: Akai Misu
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A tall woman carefully picked up a bow and arrow. She positioned the arrow neatly on the string of the Bow and carefully pulled back. Aligning the arrow with the target she let it go. The arrow soared through the air swiftly hitting the target right on the dot. Smirking to herself the women pushed a loose strand of her lavender hair behind her ear. Grabbing another arrow, she positioned it on the bow's string once again and prepared to shoot when a timid voice interrupted her.
"P-Princess Za-Zakuro?" The voiced asked timidly from behind her, "I h-hope I'm not interrupting anything b-but…"
Turning around Zakuro glared at the girl with her icy azure orbs, "No. Your not interrupting anything, Go on…" Zakuro replied as she set her bow and arrow on the ground, and walked towards the girl, "You did come to tell me something didn't you?" She asked icily as she continued to glare at the poor girl.
The girl nodded quickly, avoiding the princess eyes, "H-hai…" Gulping the girl continued, "Your father, t-the king … he r-requests you presence."
Zakuro nodded, "You're excused." Waving her hand Zakuro motioned for the girl to leave, complying the girl did. Sighing Zakuro looked at the giant castle that loomed over the garden, where she resided in at the moment.
It was her prison.
Not her home.
Not her safe haven.
Her prison.
How could she considered it her home when everywhere she turned someone was giving her suspicious looks, murmuring curses about her or shaking in fear? Quickening her pace Zakuro continued on her way to the throne room; the castle was extraordinarily empty that day but Zakuro couldn't figure out why.
'A holiday maybe?' Zakuro wondered as she neared the throne room, 'I wouldn't know, time doesn't seem to matter to me…'
As Zakuro turned the corner, the guards guarding the throne room entrance jumped out of her way and let her pass. Pushing the huge door open Zakuro entered the throne room, and looked up at her father, the king.
"Ah, Zakuro. Welcome." Her father, The king, said kindly as he motioned for Zakuro to take a seat in her mother's old throne, soon to be her throne. Walking up the steps Zakuro sat in the throne and turned to face her father, "What do you want father?" Zakuro asked, aggravation evident in her voice.
The king smiled sadly, "I'm afraid that the news about the 'Ookami Shugyoku' leaked out to the public…"
Zakuro's gaze hardened, "Oh really?" She asked as she shifted her gaze to the ground, "When?" turning to face her father again Zakuro cocked an eyebrow waiting for his response.
"A few days ago…" The king paused a moment almost hesitating, "I wasn't able to find out who told, so I fired all the maids, and I hired more guards, for your safety."
"I don't need to be protected father, I'm perfectly capable of handling myself." Zakuro said icily as she scowled at her father, "I'm no longer a child who needs her fathers protection." Swiftly Zakuro stood up and power walked down the steps, and out of the throne room, her long white dress dragging as she did so.
The king sighed, "You have no idea how much you need my protection my dear Zakuro … No idea …" The king whispered softly after his daughter.
Zakuro was angry.
Very angry.
She was seventeen, yet her father still treated her like a child, a child! How in infuriated her. She was very capable of protecting herself, just because she was a princess everyone looked down on her. She wasn't a delicate princess, which was for sure, yet because of her 'Condition' she was thought of as delicate.
How she loathed that word.
Delicate.
That was something she was not, she was anything but that.
Stopping at a door Zakuro turned the knob and pushed the door in, and entered the room. Closing the door behind her she walked over to the lavender bed and threw herself on it. Burying her face in her pillow Zakuro sighed, she was so angry at her father and at herself. Why did she have to have the damn stone in her body? She didn't ask for it.
So why?
Why her?
It was a question she found herself asking herself a lot, why did it have to be her? Out of her whole family it was her that had to suffer. To add to it she had no idea what the stone was even capable of. The priestess had refused to tell her and not only that when she asked her she SMILED at her! What would she have a reason to smile about it?
Millions of questions were always present in her mind and she often found her self thinking about the 'Ookami Shugyoku' Stone. What was it really? And why had her ancestors never able to figure it out?
It didn't make any sense.
Zakuro rolled over on her side so that she was facing her window, "One of the maids must've opened it before they got fired…" Zakuro sighed as she gazed out the window, "I wish I were the wind …" She whispered as she watched her purple curtains ruffle slightly in the wind, "Maybe if I were the wind I could be free … free …" Her eyes softened, "How I envy the wind …"
Sliding her legs off her bed Zakuro stood up and pulled a plain wooden chair up to her window seal and sat down in it. Folding her arms Indian style she laid them on the window seal and rested her arms on top of them. As she gazed out of her window she became entranced with the dark clouds that hung sluggishly over the castle. The clouds soon grew to heavy to hold any more water, allowing small droplets of water to trickle form the sky.
Rain.
As Zakuro watched the rain pelt down on the earth she wondered aloud, "If I were the rain … that binds together the earth and the sky, who in all eternity will never mingle … would I be able to bind the hearts of people together?" (1)
Zakuro smiled to herself, sort of a self-assuring smile, 'Mother, father said you used to always say that when it would rain … and some how your words have given me strength … to live …'
Standing up Zakuro walked over to her bed and laid down on it, "I should get some rest …" Zakuro mumbled to her self as her azure eyes slowly started to close and the world of sleep consumed her.
"P-Please Si-Sir! T-Take any-anything you want! Anything a-at all! Ju-Just don't hurt my f-family!" A man blubbered as he stood in front of his wife and two children, "Ple-Please don't h-hurt them!"
The man opposite of him smirked evilly, "Why should I?" He asked as her swung his dagger and pointed it at the smaller of the two children, "What difference would it make to me?" The man cast his emotionless gaze down on the smaller child, "Why should I care? Hm? Why should I?" The man took his dagger and gently pushed against the fathers chest, "Don't worry I assure you it will be painless …" The mans smirk widened, "Really."
"W-Why!" The father shouted, fighting the erg to let tears escape his eyes, "W-Why are you doing this to my family!"
The man seemed amused by this, "What do I want with your family, you ask?" The man asked his voice dripping with bitterness, "Nothing, I want nothing from your family. You, However, have something I want."
The father's eyes widened, "Wh-What?"
"Power."
The father sent a confused look to the man, "P-Power? I-I don't understand what your s-saying…"
Chuckling the man answered, "Stupid people who aren't aware of how much power they have should have never been granted it. And You, I'm afraid, are one of those people."
"I-I don't have any idea what you're talking about." The father replied, panic ridden.
"I think you do, and, if you don't give me what I want-" The man chuckled as he pointed his dagger at the oldest child, "I'm afraid he won't live to see another ray of sun light."
The father glanced at his son, and the son looked at him, wide eyed. His son was shaking in fear. Gulping the father turned to face the man once again, "A-Alright, I'll give it to you, but please spare my family and I …"
The man nodded, "Give it to me first, then I'll decide."
"I-I need some p-parchment…" The father said shakily as he looked at the man nervously.
"Very well." The man said dully as he pulled a folded piece of parchment out of his pocket, "I assume you need a quail feather also?" The man asked as he set his icy gaze on the father, "And ink?"
Nodding the father accepted the parchment and began to write something on it. Every now and then he would lean over to dip the quail feather into the ink, then continue writing. The man tapped his foot impatiently as he watched the father write on the parchment, "Are you done yet?" The man growled.
"Sir, Um…I n-need to know y-your name to gi-give your I-It…" The father said slowly as he pointed at the Parchment.
"Pai." The man replied as he glared at the father with his cold purple gaze, "No last name."
Scribbling down something else the father stood up and hesitantly handed the piece of parchment to Pai.
The man scanned it, it read:
I, Namki Arou, Herby declare my position, possessions, and anything I own of value to immediately be placed in Pai's Possession.
"Good, Good."
"C-Can we go now?" Namki Arou asked as he stared at Pai in fear, "I gave you what you wanted, can my family and I go now?" Namki looked at his two sons and wife then back at Pai, "Please."
"Tsk. Tsk. Now why would I do that?" Pai asked as he glared cruelly at the family, "I wouldn't want to leave you alive to expose me, now would I? It would be incredibly stupid on my part don't you think?"
"B-But you said-" Namki Arou was cut of when he felt a sharp pain in his chest, he looked down fearfully before falling to the ground blood pouring out of his chest, "W-W-W-W-Why?" Namki Arou asked as blood began to fill his mouth, "Y-You … Said…"
"You should have known by know that I'm not a man of my word." Pai said icily as he bent down close to the man he purple hair swaying as he did so, "So I'm afraid that you and your family will be meeting with your god sooner than you planned, no?"
"B-Bastard…" Namki Arou choked out.
Pai wrapped his fingers around the handle of the dagger and forcefully pulled it out of Namki's chest causing him to scream out in pain, "Maybe I am, but you, my friend, are dead."
"Daddy-!"
Pai glared cruelly at the smaller boy, "I'm sorry little boy but you father's dead, and so will you be in the next ten seconds." Pai prepared to swing the dagger at the defenseless boy when he heard a feminine voice cry out.
"Wait-! Oh please wait!" The wife to Namki Arou, mother to the children cried out as she grabbed Pai's shoulders, "I-I-I Know of someone who h-has a huge a-amount of power, and I-If you spare my boys and I, we won't tell you killed my h-husband, and I'll tell you who has this great amount of power!" The wife said as she looked shamefully at the ground.
Power?
"Really?" Pai asked as he scanned the woman's face, looking for any sign that she was bluffing, "Well then, if you tell me, I'll let you and your two kids go, but if you ever tell on me, I will kill you."
The wife nodded.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Tell me!" Pai growled
The woman stepped back wide eyed, "The king's daughter, Princess Zakuro. She was born with the 'Ookami Shugyoku' stone in her body, it has wondrous powers, they say that she can read minds and kill things at will … I even heard she could bring people back to life! It's very powerful!"
Pai nodded in interest, "You may go now."
As Pai watched the mother and her two children run off in the distance, he couldn't help but let his thoughts be consumed by this 'Ookami Shugyoku' that resided in the princess body. Pai chuckled coldly, that stone would be his.
To Be Continued …
Ending Authoress notes: Yay, I finally finished this chapter. I'm sorry if Pai seemed a bit OOC, but you'll understand why he's so evil in the later chapters. Well if there is any grammar error or misspelling of a word, I'm terribly sorry! Well I have no idea when the next chapter will be up! I'm currently working on four other stories so it might take a while, then again it might not because I have lots of ideas for this fic and I might decide just to work on this fic for a while but I don't know. So I guess I'll see you in the next chapter! Nine pages! That's a new record for me!
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- Daisuke-fan-gurl