ENGAGED
Chapter 6
This chapter is dedicated to everyone who had supported me to write this story, especially jinleiqh slanzar andHaruka's Knight.
(Michiru's POV)
The next morning after I having a fight with Haruka. I was walking with Zakira at the town. There were so many people at the town as usual.
"Michiru, are you okay?"
I was surprised to hear that. I wasn't notice that I was drifted into my own world.
"You looked like you're so deep in your thought. No wonder you're not responding to my questions"
I felt guilty when I heard that "I'm sorry. I didn't meant to"
"It's okay. Let's go over there" he pointed at some group who performed an attraction at the center of the town.
I smiled at him "He looks very genuine" "Okay, let's go" I let myself being guided by him along the way.
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"It's a very interesting show, isn't it?"
"Yes, it is. They're so talented and…" suddenly I felt like I've been watched by someone and looked around.
"Is something wrong, Michiru?"
"Um, no. It's nothing. Let's fine a place to eat"
"Good idea, I'm hungry too. But it's so many people in that bar. I'm afraid we can't get a place"
Suddenly a group of five men walked to us "Sir, are you looking for a place to eat?"
I heard Zakira enthusiastically answered him "Well, yes. Can you help us find a place to eat?"
"Of course, sir. I know a bar that has many delicious foods. Let us escort you there" he smiled at us and gave us a sign to follow him.
"Zakira, can we trust them?I mean, we just met them here."
"Don't worry, Michiru. I'm here and I have my sword with me" he placed his hand at his sword.
I just sighed and followed them. My curiosity proved not long after that. The guys lead us to a quiet alley "What are we doing here?"
"She's right. Where's the restaurant that you toll us?"
Suddenly one of the guys who spoke to us before laughed and turned to face us "Do you really think that we'll escort you to a bar? Think wisely, we're going to take your moneys" he walked towards me. I backed away from him until my back leaned against a wall.
I shouted at him "Stay away from me, or, or…, I'll"
"Or you what? Little lady?" He grabbed my chin and forced me to look into his eyes. His friends were laughed behind him. One of them held Zakira's hands
"Or I'll do this" I kicked his 'thing' hardly
"ARGH" he yelled and fell to the ground. His friends surprised at that and two of them walked to me and grabbed my hands. While another man smacked my head to the wall, it's very hurt. My blood trailed down into my eyes made my left eye can't be opened.
"Let me go!" I squirmed and tried to break away from him.
Zakira managed to get his hands of and pulled his sword out of the sheath. He tried to fight them. But they're to strong for him. For not a long time, he's knocked down and his sword thrown away from his hand "Ugh". One of the bandits stepped his foot on Zakira's hand while one of them took the sword.
"You're useless boy. Put all of your belongings here and go away. Unless you want us to kill you, you can try to defend your friend here. Oh, I just notice, is she your girlfriend?"
"What? Of course not. I just met her at the town, I never met her before. Really, I swear, can you let me go now? Here, I'll give you all that I bring now, but let me go."
My tears want to flow out when I heard his answer and saw him put all of his belongings and then ran away.
"Little lady, looks like you're alone now" the man whom I kicked put Zakira's belongings in a bag and handed it to one of his friend. "Now we can have some fun together." He grabbed my chin again.
I tried to fight them as hard as I could, but it has no effect on them. They just laughed at me. "Looked. She's dancing." Finally I just closed both of my eyes "Let's start…"
I heard a loud thump noise and one of the guys that held my hand yelled "Who're you?" But it seems like my savior doesn't want to answer him. All I heard was swords fighting and punches. I felt the hold on my arms were released and heard a gentle whisper "Don't worry, close your eyes and sit down. This will be over soon" I nodded at his words and sat down, although I can't recognize his voice (because of the situation), but I felt safe after heard that. So I just kept my eyes shut.
The swords fighting noises kept continue and finally the fighting stopped.
I felt him knelled in front of me "Are you okay?"
I tried to open my eyes forcefully, and just in time, I saw one of the men raise a knife from his back. I just yelled "Watch out"
Luckily he managed to dodge it, although the knife still made a cut at his right hand. He grabbed his hand and twirled it, made his knife fell down and knocked him unconscious.
Suddenly I felt very tired and collapsed down. I didn't know what happened to me since that time.
(End of Michiru's POV)
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Michiru slept at her bed peacefully. Her head were bandaged and there's a cloth placed at his chin. Yoshimitsu were standing at her bed's side while Honoka take the cloth and changed it with a wet one.
"She is still unconscious."
"Yes, she is. But don't worry milord. I'm sure she'll be conscious soon"
Suddenly Michiru's hand stirred and she tried to opened her right eye "Ugh, where am I?"
"Michiru, thank God you're awake" Yoshimitsu smiled very broadly at Michiru.
"What's wrong with me?" She rubbed her head's back "I felt dizzy"
"You're unconscious for one day. When you're unconscious, Zakira took you here. He already told me what happened and I already sent several guards to search for them at the town and capture them."
"I see. Um…, where's Haruka?"
"Haruka…, well, he went to a small house that he and Kanbei built at the mountain. He said he doesn't want to disturb you and Zakira and he will be stay there for a few days. Are there something wrong between both of you?"
"What? Oh, no. There's nothing wrong" "So, he thought that I wasn't to have a relationship with Zakira. Haruka, you're stupid"
Yoshimitsu were watching Michiru's reaction and broke Michiru from her thoughts "Since you're conscious now. I'll call the doctor to come here and check your condition. Rest well, Michiru"
"Thank you so much, sir"
"You're welcome" He walked out from his room and sent a guard to call the doctor. He stood there and thought for a moment and then went to his room. He were writing a letter, after he finished, he called one of his guards. "Take this to Haruka immediately"
His guard bowed at him and walked away immediately. Yoshimitsu whispered and grinned as he went back to his room "Good luck, Haruka"
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"Ah, I'm feeling very refreshed. It's so nice to take a nice hot bath after the day." Michiru sat down at her chair while her bandage was changed by Honoka.
Just before Honoka answered her, there's a knock on her door.
"Who is it?"
"Excuse me, milady. I'm sorry to disturb you this late, but Prince Zakira wished to meet you. He asked me to call you to the chamber room"
Michiru surprised to hear that, but she answered "Okay, tell him I'm coming right away."
After her hair combed, she walked to the chamber to meet him.
"Michiru, you're very beautiful a usual."
Michiru smiled at his comment "Thank you. What do you want at this noon, Zakira?"
"It's hard to talk here" he glanced around; there are a few soldiers at the room "Why don't we take a walk at the garden?"
"Sure, let's go" he escort her to the garden and they sat down at a bench.
He placed his right hand at her hands "I'm glad you're okay, Michiru. You're lucky that I save you just in time"
"Really? I thought you escaped that time"
"What? You're wrong. You see, I just ran away for a moment, and then I came back to save you"
Michiru looked at his right hand and asked again "Zakira, how about you? Are you having any injuries?"
"Of course not, I'm to strong for them. I won't have any injuries" Michiru stood up from the bench and backed away "Michiru? What's wrong?"
"You lied to me, Zakira. My savior has an injury at his right hand. You're not the one who saved me"
He sighed and stood up to "I don't expect you would figure out my lies this soon. Well I guess I had to have you in a traditional way" he stepped forward and grabbed Michiru's shoulders. He tried to kiss her lips forcefully.
"NO, Let me go…"
"What are you going to do? There's no one will help you here"
"Wrong" suddenly Haruka was stood behind him and punched his face hard. He fell to the ground and touched his bleeding nose.
"Ouch, what are you doing here?"
"That should be my question. Now, go away before I kill you here" Michiru hid herself behind Haruka and held Haruka's right arm.
Zakira held out his hand at Michiru "Michiru come with me, I'll make you happy at my kingdom"
When Haruka felt that Michiru was shivered and grabbed his right arm tighter, he lost his patience and shot a death glare at him "I said, go away"
Zakira ran away at his shout and shouted back "You'll be sorry for this"
Haruka turned and held Michiru there; he just let her cried at his chest. When she finally calmed down, he escorted her back to her room without a word.
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Zakira arrived at his own kingdom at the night on that day. His prime minister welcomed him at the gate "Is it a nice trip, sir?"
He snapped at him and walked in to the castle "I would rather be in a war than be there"
The prime minister followed him in "Something wrong, sir?"
"YES, there's something wrong" he walked into the chamber room and sat down at his chair "That, Michiru is bih (I censored it, haha), she chose to be with that Haruka than me. She'll see who I really am."
His prime minister smiled at that, surely there's something in his mind "Sir, I have a plan. Why don't you attack Maizuru kingdom? You can have several advantages from it, you can have their resources, their zone, and also… Lady Michiru" when he looked that Zakira started to consider his offer, he tried to persuade him even more "You can ask Delzeba kingdom to join us. We can't ask Langrengh and Kouryou because Langrengh never want to join any war while Kouryou still have a brotherhood relationship with Maizuru. From our informant, I know that now Delzeba have strong armies. They have increased their troop's amount; it's even more than Dedina's troops. We surely can rely on their force."
Zakira rubbed his chin and finally decided "Okay, I agree with you. Write a letter to Delzeba and send it there right away. I want to attack Maizuru as soon as possible. Get all the things prepared, prime minister. I'm counting on you" he walked out from the chamber and went to his room to rest. He can't wait for tomorrow to come.
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Michiru just woke up when Honoka came in and opened the curtain. "Good morning, milady. It's a bright day today and…, Milady, are you injured again?"
Michiru confused at her question "What do you mean?" she looked at her hand when Honoka pointed at her hands "A blood? Where did it came from?" she tried to remember it, and finally she remembered what happened last night. She squeezed Haruka's right hand that time. She quickly got off from her bath and went to her bathroom to take a bath.
After she dressed, she combed her hair and changed her bandage on her head. She went to the dining room to find Haruka, but there are only Yoshimitsu and several guards in there.
Yoshimitsu stopped his breakfast and looked at her "Michiru? Is something wrong?"
Michiru was blushed "I just looking for Haruka. Um, do you know where he is?"
"I think he is taking a walk near the lake"
"Thank you" she stormed out from the room after heard his words.
Yoshimitsu continue his breakfast again after saw her leaving "Teenagers. Never can guessed what's in their hearts"
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Michiru ran around the lake but she couldn't found him. She were already too tired so she sat down near the lake and leaned against a big tree. "HARUKA! You're stupid. Where are you?"
Suddenly some of the leaves from the tree fell down and there's a loud crack and Haruka fell down from the tree; and a bench fell down too and hit his head "Ouch, That's hurt" He rubbed his head and tried to stand up.
"Haruka? What are you doing here?"
He walked to her and sat down beside her, he leaned against the tree. "I was sleeping up there when you screamed and made me surprised. I lost my balance and then I fell down"
Michiru tried to suppress her giggled, but she couldn't hold it anymore and she busted her laugh.
"Hey, what are you laughing at?"
"I'm sorry, it's just too funny. Your expression when you fell down, it's cute"
Haruka kept look at her and then he smiled "I'm glad that you're smile again"
Michiru blushed at his comment; they kept silent for a few minutes "Haruka, thank you for saving me last night. And thank you for saving me at the town too" she looked at Haruka "It was you, right? My savior has an injury at his right hand" she pulled his sleeve up and it showed a bandage with some blood stains I'm sorry I made you hurt like this. I didn't mean to. But why you ran away after you saved me? Why Zakira was the one who brought me here?"
Haruka looked at her "An injury at the body can be healed, but an injury in the heart, can't be healed. It's true; I was the one who saved you at the town. Actually I followed you since you left the castle, I was worried about you." He turned to look at the lake and had a sad smile on his face "I was not the one who brought you to the castle because he came when I want to took you. I thought you would be happier if he was the one who brought you here."
"No, Haruka. You were wrong. I'm not in love with him. The one that I love is you"
"But…"
"No buts, Haruka. Listen Haruka, I wasn't meant to hurt you. I know that I was wrong, please forgive me"
He sighed and looked at her again "Okay, I forgive you. Let's start it from the beginning again"
"Yes, thank you. Um, Haruka?"
"Yes?"
"Why you came back last night? Your father said you will stay at the mountain for a few days with Kanbei."
"Hm, you see, my father sent a letter to me yesterday."
"What letter?"
(Haruka's flashback with Haruka's POV)
I was cutting some woods for the fireplace and Kanbei was taking water from the well when someone knocked at my hut's door.
Kanbei put the bucket down and went to the front door "I'll go to check it, master"
"Yes, please do" I wiped my sweat with my shirt and continue cut the woods.
"Master, there's a letter from your father"
"What?" I put my axe down and went to the front door too. There's a guard stood in front of the door "Is something wrong?"
"Your father sent me to give this letter to you; he said that this is an emergency"
Kanbei handed me the letter and I looked at it "Okay, you look so tired. Go tie your horse over there and take a rest for a while"
"Thank you, your majesty" he bowed and went out.
"What letter is it, Master?"
"I don't know, let's see" I opened the letter, there's my father's writing in it.
Dear Haruka,
Come back to the castle as soon as possible there's something wrong with Michiru. I'm afraid that she's having a big trouble. Please come back soon. You're the only one who can save her.
Peace
Your father
Note: Good luck, Haruka ( a smile face drawing - I want to draw it, but I'm afraid that it'll become a symbol)
Kanbei laughed when he looked at the letter "I think your father is funny, Master. But, I think he's joking. There are many guards around the castle. How Lady Michiru could having some trouble?"
"No, I think my father won't joke about this. It may seem like a joke, but it's not. If the guards can't handle it, then maybe it's some personal problem." I walked around the room and finally decided "Kanbei, get our things ready. We'll come back to the palace right now. I have a bad feeling"
"Yes, Master. Right away"
After we packed our things as fast as we could, the three of us hoped on our horses and went back to the castle as fast as we could.
When I came back to the castle, I tried to look for Michiru, but she was not at her room. Honoka said that she went to met Zakira, I tried to suppressed my jealousy and decided to look for her. When finally I searched around the garden, I found that Zakira tried to kiss her.
(End of Haruka's flashback and POV)
"So that's what happened?"
"Yes, it is. If it's not because of my father, I won't be at the garden last night"
"I guess I should thank him too"
Yes. Michiru, I'm sorry, I let my jealousy won over me so I leaved you with Zakira. I…"
"Don't say that Haruka. I do some mistakes too; besides, you did come back and saved me. As you said, let's start it from the beginning again. Shall we?"
"You're right." He stood up and offered his hand to her "Let's go back to the castle. I'm starving, I haven't eat anything"
"Me too. I'll change the bandage on your hand after the breakfast"
"Sure"
They walked back hand in hand to the castle with smiled faces.
They spent the day together, walking around and talking together. Neither one of them knew what could be happened tomorrow.
Author Notes :
Hi everyone, thank you so much for reading. I'm sorry if it took me so long to post this chapter, I had to help my mother re-typed her documents because the documents were lost when the computer formatted. And I also thinking about the plot for my next story (with Haruka as a female in it, as I already promised), I already have some plot in my head, but it's not really completed imagined yet. I'll write it after I finished the last chapter of this story. Finally Ican post this chapter; I hope its worth to be waited, haha
And please don't forget to read and review, I really appreciate it..
Freaky-icefairy : Well, I'm really sorry for that. It's just that I wanted to write a story like this since long time ago and I want to accomplish it now. Actually I almost stop this story not long after I posted the first chapters, but I had received some supports from a few people, so I decide to keep writing this story. I'm sorry if you don't like the concept in this story, but please let me write until the last chapter, after that I'll write a story with Haruka as a female in it (as I already promised in the author notes on the second chapter)
Jinleiqh slanzar : I'm really happy to know that you always read and gave your review to me. It's become my biggest support to write this story (bowed deeply), thank you so much. Sorry if this chapter come so long, but I hope you enjoyed it.
Haruka's Knight : (laugh)Maybe you have became some psychic so you can know it before you logged on. You're welcome for the reviews; I really like to give reviews to you because you're a talented author to me. And thank you so much for your reviews for me as well. It's really an honor to me.
YuLing : Thank you so much for the review and the compliment. I really appreciate it. No, I don't play Tekken 4 (grin), as I already said in the previous chapter, I have the names from my friend, when I want to wrote this story, I asked for his help to give me some names, and the names in this story (other than Haruka and Michiru of course) are from him. I just bought PS2 a few months (maybe about two months) ago, I haven't play tekken, I really attached to dynasty warriors 5, the characters are really cool, haha.
Special thanks : To K.R, thank you so much for your help. If it's not because of your support, I won't write this story until this far.