CHAPTER TWELVE.
The next day, she was able to spend it with Van who had taken off part of the evening hours to spend with her. She was surprised that he was able to fit time to spend with her in his busy schedule. She on the other hand was bored half out of her mind and was trying to find things to do to fill her time. She had already went to the city and looked around. She of course got strange looks because of her foreign cloths but that didn't bother her, she had gotten use to it the last time she was here. She rested her head boldly against Van's chest who just wrapped his arms around her which made her feel like dancing like an idiot but thankfully she didn't. "I had a strange dream before I came here Van." Hitomi said which made Van look down at her. "It was strange but sad, my family on the Mystic Moon had all been killed in a carriage accident…" She lied not feeling like describing to Van what a car was, this was easier and it would take the confusion out of things. "I had managed to come back here and you and I where finally together like we are now." Hitomi continued leaving out the poisoning, she didn't want to tell him about that since it would upset him. "Then as we where about to be married…" Hitomi said blushing brightly. "I was taken back." She finally finished.
"That is a strange dream." Van said trying to keep himself from blushing as Hitomi brought up the marriage part. "But dreams are only dreams, you're here now. Though it was sad that you're family was killed in it."
"The strange thing about the dream is, is that it felt so real. When I woke up to find it only just a dream, I didn't almost believe it at first. I thought that I was still dreaming and maybe still am." Hitomi said to the young king. Hitomi was surprised when Van managed to move her to face him with out hardly any trouble and Hitomi looked up in to his red-brown eyes. "You're here now Hitomi." Van said. "That's all that matters, and you're not dreaming." Van said which made Hitomi's heart skip beats every once in a while. "I'll even prove it to you." Van said grinning which made Hitomi wonder what he was planning and before she knew it, he pulled her close to him and was kissing her!
Hitomi stared at him for a few minutes wide eyed as she let him kiss her and then she finally closed her eyes and enjoyed the kiss. When Van broke the kiss, they stared in to one another's eyes for a few minutes, each one of them blushing. "I don't think that you could feel a kiss like that in a dream, Hitomi." Van said bashfully which made Hitomi smile as she ran her fingers through his wild raven black hair. "No." Hitomi answered smiling. "I don't think that you could." Even if she had been kissed by Van in her "dream" it didn't feel like that, it felt different then it did in the dream, and she liked this version of their "first kiss" better then the one in the dream. She leaned her head back on Van's chest and the two watched the sun set together.
Van groaned as he woke up that next morning not wanting to get up since he knew that he would be forced in to another one of his boring meetings with the council and that they would just talk about things he already pretty much knew. He wondered what was the point of having them anyway? King's always had them so he had picked one of his own as well. He did trust them but he didn't trust them as near as much as he had Balgus when the man was alive. Balgus was the only man who ever had his full trust. Balgus was his council, teacher, adviser, protector, and friend. Balgus would never be replaced in Van's mind. Van especially hated it because they always seemed to pressure him in taking a queen. He got dressed and quickly grabbed a bite to eat before heading down to the meeting room. Today the meeting was being held in the library, it was a nice changed compared to the usual stuffy throne room.
"King Van." Reiling, a woman member of his council said as he entered.
"Council Reiling." Van said acknowledging that he heard her and then closed the door.
"You do know that after you turn you're twenty first year that we choose you're wife for you correct." Reiling asked. "You are the last member of the royal Fanelian family, and you need a heir to reassure Fanelia's people that their future will not be passed to some unknown hand after a long battle once your gone."
"What are you getting at Council Reiling?" Van asked knowing already what she was getting at but since they always seemed to like to talk, he let them talk even though it aggravated the living crap out of him.
"We will choose a wife for you if you do not choose one for yourself by…" Reiling started to say but then Van interrupted her.
"Have you not read the law council?" Van asked making sure that Reiling remembered the law that his father had put down before he married his mother. "The law about the royal family marring? The one that my father had rewritten before he married my mother during his time as king?" Van asked and Reiling became silent. "Since you seem not to remember the law I shall remind you what it is." Van said somewhat coldly. "It says that the King or Queen of Fanelia is allowed to marry who he or she pleases to." Van trying to keep his annoyance out of his voice. His father had also been the one who made it possible for a daughter of the royal family to take the throne if needed and that her husband could not take her place with out her permission or sell Fanelia's lands or anything that belonged to Fanelia with out her permission. There where a lot of other laws that his father changed to where in case there was a daughter as the heir instead of the son, that the daughter would have full responsibility as Queen. The reason why his father did this is because his mother had told him when he was little, that they thought he was going to be a girl.
"And that even if the council decides to choose the ruler's husband or wife, that the one ruling can over rule their decision. The old members of the council agreed to this." He tried to hide a grin that he wanted to show.
"We know that you fancy this Lady Hitomi, but…"
"But what council?" Van asked, his eyes glaring at them. "Is this the only reason why you called me here, I have a busy schedule to keep. I am not marrying someone for political means, and that the Lady Hitomi should have your respect. You see, she is the one who had saved Gaea after all."
"How is it that we know that she is the Lady Hitomi and not some imposter?" A middle aged councilor named Taine asked.
"I know." Van said fiercely and now on the verge to letting his temper get the best of him. "This meeting is over." Van said angrily and then left the room. What the hell would they know about Hitomi or my past? Van asked himself. They might have heard of it but that means nothing.
Hitomi was being dragged shopping by Merle. Actually Van had asked Merle to take Hitomi to a seamstress or a seamstress to Hitomi so that she would fit in more with the Fanelian culture. Then again, Van never said which part of the Fanelian culture and at the rate that Merle was going, well Hitomi wasn't use to such clothing.
"Merle, I think that's enough. I never liked shopping at home and now we've been out since early this morning!" Hitomi protested as they where picking out more material again.
"Yes well I'm just doing as I've been asked." Merle spat. "I don't like baby sitting you any more then you do." Merle spat. "Besides, since you've actually decided to live here, you have to have something else to wear besides the cloths on you're back right?" Merle asked and Hitomi sighed. "It made due the…" Before Hitomi could protest, Merle cut in. "I think that we're done today." Merle interrupted before Hitomi could finish her sentence.
"Yes Lady Merle." The seamstress replied and Merle paid for it.
"What was it hat you where picking out in there anyway?" Hitomi asked having had been told to wait outside.
"Just the style of the dresses." Merle replied. "I know a lot more about the Fanelian culture then you do so I decided that I would choose them."
Hitomi sighed and shook her head. It was going to get some taking to get use to this way a life. She had lived a pretty easy life compared to what these people had to go through. With all of the technology at Earth's fingertips life was easier by a long run. She wondered what it was that she would do here as a job since she didn't want to have to rely on Van all of the time. She knew that they where a couple, but she wanted to try to do something on her own with out only needing Van's support. "Damn, another one of those fake seers!" Merle groaned as they walked by a place where a few people where gathering around.
"They have those here to?" Hitomi asked Merle who nodded. "Especially since after you're first visit." Merle groaned. "Not that it's your fault or anything, but well there have been more of them trying to claim that they are the Wing Goddess."
"It's not so great." Hitomi said quietly which made Merle look at her. "Seeing all of those things, it's not so great."
Merle watched as Hitomi's smile turned to a frown which made Merle just want to hit Hitomi at her reaction. "Yes well who would want to copy a baka like you anyway?" Merle asked which made Hitomi glare at her.
"What do you mean by baka? Baka!" Hitomi asked.
"Like I said, you're a baka!" Merle said a little louder which made Hitomi just want to punch Merle. "I'll show you baka when I get my hands on that tail of yours!" Hitomi shouted back and started to chase after Merle. Hitomi couldn't help but smile, it felt just like old times, almost like old times anyway besides the fact that they where usually running for their lives most of the time and that she liked Allen-San, not Van.
When they got to the castle, Merle was tired out and Hitomi wasn't. She was use to running since she use to run track every single day and she still ran, but not as often. Hitomi watched as Merle collapsed on to the castle's steps which made Hitomi laugh. "It seems as if I win neko." Hitomi said trying not to let her humor get the best of her. "It seems as if I get to get that tail of yours." Hitomi said about to pounce Merle and then looked up at Van who happened to be there.
"What are you two doing, or should I be afraid to ask?" Van asked and as soon as Merle heard Van's voice, Merle jumped up and clung to him. "She's trying to take my tail off Van-Sama!" Merle whined to Van who just raised an eye brow at Hitomi who shrugged. "Actually I wasn't going to." Hitomi admitted to Van. "I wouldn't want her blood to stain my cloths, do you know how hard it is to get blood out of an outfit?" Hitomi asked.
"Yes, I do, or do you not remember how many times I as wounded during our time together?" Van asked which made Hitomi smile. "Of course Van-Sama, how could I forget?" Hitomi asked and used "sama" at the end of Van's name just to piss off Merle.
" I knew I should have picked out the ugly ones!" Merle thought to herself as she glared at Hitomi. "Maybe I'll just use her as a scratching post later instead." Merle thought which brought a smile to the neko's lips. "That will work."
This'll have to last you a while peoples, I'm beginning to get writters block which is a pain in the ass and I'm at the moment loosing interest in this story. I'll probably come back to it once I get some more ideas, I mean I have ideas, but their all up in my head and it's difficult to get them written down if any other writers know what I mean. I'll try to update sometime with in the month and if not before February I can't make any promises but I will try if I don't then oh well, I hopefully won't be one of those people who doesn't update in like a year. : coughs coughs : One of my friends for example, and at a cliff hanger to. Well this isn't too bad of a spot so until next time
-Darkia-
The controller of fire, friend to dragons,andcat youkai, andowner of many swords and other pointy objects