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CHAPTER FIVE
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My heart was pounding fast and Van's eyes locked with mine. Gods, looking in to his eyes made me feel weak in the knees every time. "Gods, help me remain standing since everyone is looking!" I shouted in the back of my mind. "Yes your highness, I accept." With out further hesitation I felt him quickly place his lips against mine and I had to force myself to keep my eyes shut as he kissed me. For it was hard to kiss someone you had loved so much in front of a whole room with more then fifty pairs of eyes on you. I could feel so many emotions being swept through the air at that moment. I felt hatred, jealousy, confusion, frustration, those where the main emotions that I could feel through the room; however there where some other emotions as well. Happiness, joy, and what I felt from Van mostly, was love.
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Van walked me to my room after the ball that night and we where both very tired. "I'm sorry that you had to go through that." Van said to me once we where inside my room.
I was still blushing fiercely. "Van, do you really want to marry me?" I asked as I stared in to his eyes. Gods his eyes made me feel so strange, so weak, so helpless. I know that I should have been able to control myself and shouldn't have been acting so girly since I was considered a tomboy back on earth, however, around Van, I couldn't help but act the way I was acting. He made me feel so well the feeling was so hard to describe.
"Yes." Van answered and grabbed hold of my hand and held it. "I do, for the past five years I have been dreaming of marring you, Hitomi." Van said and I blushed fiercely. I was glad that neither one of us had turned on the lights by that time since my face would have been as red as Van's shirt.
"Van…" I asked embarrassedly.
"What?" He asked as he leaned his head against my shoulder.
"Can you stay with me tonight?" I asked and his head instantly jerked up and I wondered what the limit was to the whole blushing situation since I felt as if my face went two-hundred times brighter then it was already. I knew that there where a lot of different shades of red, but there couldn't have been an endless amount of shades. "Not like that Van, but I mean just next to me?" I asked and Van seemed to frown.
"Yes." Van said somewhat disappointed. "I will. Don't worry; I won't touch you in that way tonight." Van promised. "As much as I would like to; I have waited five years, I can wait to have you a while longer."
"Van…" I said and wished that my cheeks would stop heating already.
"Don't feel bad, I shouldn't have said anything." Van said now being the one to blush and I tried not to laugh. He was so innocent, so sweet, it was almost nerve recking.
"Your different Van." I said and it was my turn this time to lean my head against his shoulder.
"Different?" Van asked somewhat sleepily.
"Yes, more calm, not so hostile any more." I said. "Has peace really come to Gaea?" I asked and felt Van fall the bed and I beside him. I moved my head up on to his chest and felt his arm instantly around me. "I'm not complaining and I think I could get use to this side of you. I'm sure that if I had realized it sooner, you would have been this way to me a long time ago." I said sleepily. "You must be tired, I'm sure that you want to change out of that so…" I said and stopped myself.
"Yes, I'm tired, but it's worth loosing sleep just as long as I get to hear you speak." Van said. "I've missed that, your presence, your voice, your eyes…" Hitomi could feel his heart beat start to get faster as he said these things.
"You'll see me tomorrow, I promise." I said as I sat up. "You need your rest. At least change so you'll be comfortable when you sleep Van." I begged and he sat up and kissed my forehead.
"I don't know how I lived these past five lonely years with out you." Van said as he got up and walked to the other door that led to his bedroom. "I'll be back." Van said hesitantly and closed the door behind him, only out of habit.
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Van came back wearing a pair of pants and a shirt. I on the other hand, still had nothing to wear besides my outfit. I assumed that Van normally didn't wear pants and a shirt to bed but probably went to bed shirtless. I still blushed and was a bit uncomfortable in the skirt that I was going to sleep in and tried to hide it. I had just slept in my shirt the night before since it was long enough to cover my underwear. It was tucked in so you couldn't tell how long it was. He shut off the lights as he entered the room and laid down next to me.
"Is that what your going to wear?" Van asked.
"It's the only thing I got." I said blushing and I had just calmed down damn it!
"Sorry, well have to take care of that tomorrow then won't we?" Van asked softly. "We didn't have enough time since we didn't know you where coming."
"I didn't know I was either." I said blushing as I felt his arm around me.
"Good night, Hitomi Kanzaki." Van said and kissed me once again.
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When Van woke up that next morning, he was still somewhat tired, but didn't care. He felt the woman he loved and was going to marry next to him when he finally realized that it wasn't just all a dream. He wanted to groan at the thought of having to go to work today, but as a king, work was never ending, even at night people would come running in and knock on his door for him to wake up and come to do whatever it was that was needed done before he finally was able to fall back asleep. He had wondered when his obsession over Hitomi started and he had asked himself this question many times in the past. He always figured that it was when Hitomi had told him that she liked his wings. No one besides Merle had told him that before and he thought of Merle as a little sister and nothing more even though he had known that Merle had feelings for him. His eyes narrowed at the spot to where he had seen Celena smack Hitomi on the cheek and could barely keep himself from lashing out on to the girl in public. He hadn't said anything to Hitomi yet since he knew that she most likely didn't want him to know. He had known that Celena liked him as much as it grossed him out he still had to be nice to her when he was around her. Celena, Dilandau, both had shared the same body but not the same personality. Dilandau had been the crazy blood thirsty man who destroyed his country and Celena was completely different; or at least to what he had seen the few times he was around her. Anyway, both had an equal obsession over him, or at least Merle had told him that Celena had an obsession over him. Dilandau just wanted to kill him and Celena wanted to love him, it made his head hurt thinking about it.
He moved slightly to get out of the warm spot in bed but felt Hitomi's arms clutched around his waist. "Van…" She said. "What is it, Hitomi?" Van asked Hitomi quietly and could feel Hitomi nuzzle against him and realized that she was still asleep. Van sighed as he managed to carefully pribe Hitomi's fingers off of him with out waking her up and slid off of the bed. He would have liked to stay there a while longer, but that wouldn't be happening today. No, he had things that he had to do, and one of them was most likely picking an argument with the counsel since they most likely didn't approve of him choosing Hitomi as his future bride. He didn't care, he had waited too long and if they didn't approve, then the hell with them.
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"You can not do this to us my lord; do you know what it is that they say about the people from the Mystic Moon?" A man protested as Van had expected that they would as soon as he arrived, the doors had barely closed behind him and they where already protesting.
"SHUT UP!" I shouted and everyone just looked at me in shock. "I don't care what you say or think about her. As cursed as she is, and as cursed as I am, we where the ones who saved Gaea, where we not?" I asked and every one just looked at me in silence. "Has she not proven worthy enough to be Queen of Fanelia?" I asked and felt at least five pairs of eyes on me as I walked toward the front of the room. "I am cursed as well remember? Unless if you have forgotten my mother already." I said and the whole room was silent. "Say as you wish but I am going to marry Hitomi Kanzaki."
"Your affections for her are clouding your mind my lord." A middle aged man said which made me turn my already angry eyes at his direction. "We could have allies with…" He was silenced once I had pulled my sword out and moved it to his throat.
"I was the one who has put you on this counsel, councilor." I said and the man looked at me with frightened eyes. "I put you since you once appeared trust worthy and loyal, you saying such words are considered treason against your future queen." I said with out emotions. I then put the sword back in its sheath and started to walk back up to the front of the room. "Was it not your idea, counsel, to have the ball for me to choose my wife?" I asked. "Marrying for politics is only done in times of war and uncertainty Damien, remember that."
"Yes my lord." Damien said nervously and I looked to the other five who where currently in the room. "If you weren't going to be happy with my decision in the first place, you should have arranged a marriage before I could. You had five years to do that, this is your own fault. If I hear any more words of treason then you will be sorry." I promised. "Does everyone understand me?" I asked and there where no protests this time. "You all said that my mother was cursed once, and every one of you had grown to respect her or acted like you respected her." I said and everyone was quiet. "At least give Lady Hitomi a chance before you say anything, she is the Messiah of Gaea, after all. That alone should deserve some respect, no matter if she is from Gaea or not. Then again technically, none of us are from Gaea originally." I said and everyone looked at the floor. "You seem to forget that my mother's people had created this planet and that we originally come from the Mystic Moon."
Everyone became quiet then, they all just looked at him with strange looks on their faces. "I am King of Fanelia!" I said reminding them. "My own father has even chosen his wife, my mother out of love, and not politics! Do not forget that. He picked Varie after what everyone said about her. My mother proved you all wrong!" I had won this fight, the argument that Hitomi would be queen was over. I sat down in my chair and looked at them. "What's next?"
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I woke up to find Van already gone and sighed having had wished that he would have woken me up before he left. At least, I was still on Gaea that was all that mattered to me right now. Van would be my husband once the wedding day came, and hopefully it would be a happy marriage with out any war. That is what I hopped for at least. A woman entered my room and I looked at her as she placed a tray of food in front of me. "Eat." She ordered and I just stared at her. "Huh?" I asked.
"I said eat!" The woman repeated, it was the same woman from yesterday. "Aya-San…." I said remembering her name.
"You lied to me, Lady Hitomi." Aya snapped and I wished that I had something to hide beneath. "You said that you would eat later and you did not eat until late that afternoon!"
"How did you find out about that?" I asked nervously and she gave me such a strange look that it gave me chills down my spine.
"I asked the cook that's what, he said that you never showed up for the morning meal. You will not leave this bed until you eat, do you understand? His highness would not like it if his future queen's strength demolished since she was not eating!"
"Yes ma'am!" I said quickly and picked up the silver wear and began to eat. "Everyone knows about that already?" I asked blushing and stopped eating for a moment and then felt those strange eyes on me again and began to eat.
"Yes, or at least everyone in the palace knows." Aya replied. "I heard that he kissed you to, in front of all of those people." Aya said just edging at something.
My face blush a bright red and my hand stopped moving. "Everyone knows about that to?" I asked rather embarrassed and could feel my cheeks heat up.
"Yes Lady Hitomi they do. I was instructed that I should get the tailor to get you some cloths made today." Aya said. "This means that after you eat and bath that I take you to where she is."
I wanted to see Fanelia, how it looked now. It must have looked wonderful since it had to be almost completely done built not. I finished and took a bath and dressed in to the only outfit that I had. I wondered if they did something for underclothes that was different then Earth since I would go insane if I had to wear the same pair of underwear for another five days! I hate to hand wash them and hoped that they quickly dried and walking around wearing nothing more then a skirt wasn't a very pleasant site, no it wasn't my friends, I tell you it was horrible! How did I live through this the last time I was here? Oh yeah, I remember now, I was too busy running all the time to even care. I sighed. I just hoped that I didn't start my monthly soon that would be really gross!
I would have rather gone to the woman's shop, but Aya had already called her to the palace; I was pretty sure that that was Van's doing. Van probably didn't want me to go running off just yet, and I couldn't figure out why, if Fanelia and Gaea was at peace then I should be able to go where I wanted right?
"What about this material Lady Hitomi?" The tailor asked me as she pulled out a beautiful red silky type of material. I just gapped at it like an idiot.
"I don't think so Sakura, she would just ruin it." Merle said and I just glared at her. "What makes you think that I would ruin it Merle?" I asked, my eyes glaring at her.
"Because it's you baka, you where the one who ripped off half of the dress that Hime Millerna gave you the last time you where here, or do you not remember that?" Merle asked.
"That's because it was difficult to run in such a long dress! If I hadn't done that then you want to know what would have happened to you know who?" I nearly shouted. Merle fell silent. "Whatever." The catgirl said and seemed to remain quiet in her seat.
"Merle, what do you think, do you think that he'll like it?" I whispered in Merle's ear.
"Now you want to be nice to me!" Merle said.
"You're the one who started it!" I protested and she sighed again.
"Yes, I think so." Merle replied and I just looked at her strangely. "You don't know anything about this type of thing do you?"
"Normally at home they already have the cloths made and you just pick out the ones that you like and fit you." I explained. "Their not specially sown. The last time I had a specially sown outfit was when I was nine and my mother made me a Halloween costume." I explained. That seemed to have Merle help me a lot after that. We picked out a few, enough for at least six outfits or so even though I didn't think I needed that many. Sakura said that this would be enough for now so she would have time to work and get them done. She took my measurements and asked me to get undressed which made me uncomfortable so she could measure my waist and chest sizes properly with out the skirt and blouse on.
"What's this?" She asked and pointed to the bra.
"It's for support." I said blushing fiercely. "Can't you do this with my cloths on… I don't like people looking at me naked."
"Yes well your cloths are kind of poofy." Sakura explained. "I also need measurements for your undergarments as well." Luckily for me, Merle and Aya where waiting in the next room. I gave in and let the woman do her work. "Next time I'll have your measurements so you won't have to do this." Sakura explained. "If you wish to continue to use me of course."
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Merle entered my room once Sakura left, taking the measurements and the types of material that we have chosen out. "Thanks." I finally said once we where alone.
"For what?" Merle asked.
"Helping me pick out the material." I said. "I'm sure that you have to do that more often then I do so…"
"Yeah well you would have probably taken all day to pick them out anyway." Merle said snickering. "You really don't choose your cloths like that on the Mystic Moon?" Merle asked.
"No." I replied. "We don't."
"Weird." Merle said. "Anyway I also know what Van-Sama would like or have an idea to what he would like on you anyway. You owe me." The cat girl said. "Twice now."
"No, we're about even now." I said slyly and she looked at me. "For as many times as I saved you the last time, I think we'll call this even."
"Done." Merle said instantly not wanting to remember those few times. "Van-Sama still doesn't know about Celena slapping you." Merle explained. "I won't say anything unless if word gets out. Besides Van-Sama would be pissed if he found out at you for not telling him, me for not telling him, and Celena for touching you in the first place, and Allen for not controlling his sister." Merle sighed. "Gods I hope he doesn't find out."
"He didn't say anything last night, unless if he was too tired to or too happy to." I suggested. "Hopefully he doesn't know. He hates Allen-San enough already."
"Can you really blame him?" Merle asked. "You and Allen where so groggily eyed it was sickening!"
"You don't have to remind me. I regret all of that now." I snapped and Merle grinned. "The only reason why I'm letting you have Van-Sama is because it's what Van-Sama wants." She said slyly. "I won't let someone named Celena have him or anyone else. If you do something, I'll use you for a scratching post."