"Van what are you doing fighting with your father already?" She
whispered everything finally registering.
Vanel cringed at that. 'How does she always know these things?'
She had opened her eyes now. "Lord Van." She was just getting used to speaking again.
She was met with his heart melting smile. "You know you just might have to call him something else if you want us to know who you're talking to."
"No I don't think I will. I'll just call you Fanel." She teased lightly.
The woman entered into the house. "Ah I see that she has made it." The woman looked with pleasure at the beautiful woman that lay on the bed.
"Thank you." She whispered before she went into a restful sleep. - - - -
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I just like to write them!
=p- I'll cover how she tries to explain him in this chapter. We all knew that I would have to cover it soon anyhow.
Tramie- I hope to see a lot more movement in this chapter! I don't know exactly where it goes until I sit down and write it! Thank you for editing the chapter for me but when you sent it to both of the e-mail addresses it pulled the same encoded thing on me and I can't figure out how to disable it. I'm so very sorry about that? I want to cry!
Chapter 4
"Hitomi when were you planning on telling me about Vanel?" They were walking in the forest a little away from everyone.
"Van I didn't know how to tell you then that I was pregnant and when you had to leave E... the Mystic Moon so suddenly because of disaster I wasn't able to. I was getting ready to tell you when Merle called you back. I didn't want you to go." Hitomi answered with that far away look that she sometimes held in her eyes.
"What happened? You couldn't have told me through our link?" he asked his voice slightly rose at the thought of not knowing that he had a son for all of these years.
"Van I tried but after you left I couldn't contact you for some reason." She had stopped and stepped away from him.
Van ran a hand through his hair and to Hitomi it was creepy. Vanel acted just like Van. She had known that she just didn't realize how much Vanel was like his father. "What?" He asked when he noticed her staring at him.
"You know that he's just like you." She whispered.
"How much trouble has he given you?" Van asked out of the blue it seemed to her.
"What do you mean how much trouble has he given me?"
"When I was his age I was fighting a war before that however I gave my guards and Balgus a world of trouble." Van stated as a matter-of-factly.
"He's given me some but then again he is a teenager. They give trouble sometimes." He knew that she wasn't telling him the whole truth.
"You know you were always the worst liar I've ever seen. What was the last thing that he did?"
Hitomi gulped. She didn't want to tell him for fear of his reaction. "He. he" She began rather hesitantly.
"Hitomi?" He raised his eyebrows waiting on a response.
"He.." She paused. "is right behind you."
"What business of yours is what I did last time?" Vanel asked with a dangerous fire in his eyes.
"I'm your father. I need to know what to be prepared for."
"My Otousan would have come to us and not left us alone all of those years." Vanel's tone was dangerously low.
"Vanel." Hitomi warned before she stepped in between them.
"Hitomi it's alright." Lord Van tried to reassure her before she shook her head that it wasn't.
"He didn't abandon you. I couldn't contact him."
"So I heard while you were talking to him." Vanel shot to his mother.
"You talk to your Okaasan respectfully or I'll."
"You'll what! Not allow me to run a kingdom that I don't want! Throw me over your knees and spank me like a five year old? I don't think it works that way." Vanel shot back at his father. He wasn't even aware of the fact that he was speaking his native tongue or the fact that his father barely understood the language.
"Hitomi stepped in between the two. "Vanel don't you talk to your father that way. I taught you better than that." She scolded her son before she turned to the king. "He isn't going to act as one of your subjects. He hasn't had a father tell him what to do for the last 16 years. He doesn't listen to his teachers half the time." She turned around and led the way out of the forest. "Don't we have to get to Fanelia?"
Half a day later they arrived in Fanelia. "You ready Hitomi?" Lord Van whispered in her ear. She was sitting on the same horse as Van while Vanel rode the horse that the woman had lent them.
"As ready as I'll ever be." She answered. "Vanel watch what you say here."
Vanel shook his head in agreement. There was something in her eyes that said, "If you don't obey then you'll regret it." She didn't get that look in her eyes very often.
The crowds seemed to separate as the entered the city gates. Some of the older people recognized her as they bowed to the passing riders.
There were murmurs going all around the people that they passed. The young man that followed them looked suspiciously like their king. Someone in the crowd threw a bouquet of flowers to Hitomi. The arrival at the castle was a little less announced but a little more strenuous.
"Your majesty! Where have you been?" His guards seemed to crowd them.
"Saving my queen." He whispered and chuckled in her ear where they couldn't hear. Her cheeks were slightly singed pink.
"Lord Van where have you been?" A cat seemed to appear out of nowhere and pounce him. She was licking his face like there was no tomorrow.
"Merle I can't breathe." He gasped.
"Sorry!" She then noticed a sandy brown haired woman sitting in front of him. "Lady Hitomi?" She asked a little uncertain.
"Yes it's me Merle."
It really wasn't a surprise what she did next; well at least to Hitomi. "Your Highness it's nice to see you again."
"Merle please don't. I never did like formalities." Hitomi requested.
"Okaasan why did she call you 'Your highness'?"
"I'm their queen." Hitomi answered. She had never gotten used to that treatment before and she wasn't going to get used to it anytime soon she didn't think.
"Okaasan." Merle thought for a minute before she figured out what the young man had said.
"Merle let's go in before you do anything!" Lord Van helped Hitomi off of the horse.
-Vanel-
Vanel watched as the strange cat creature for lack of a better word tackled Lord Van. 'What is that thing?' he didn't know what to call it. It licked the king's face with little regard to where they were.
Lord Van had finally managed to extricate himself from her when it noticed his mother. "Lady Hitomi?" The thing seemed to purr and ask at the same time. "Your highness." The cat thing curtsied to her then.
"Okaasan, why did it call you 'your majesty'?" Vanel asked.
"I'm their queen." He stared at her in shock. 'Apparently she hasn't told me everything.' He followed them into the palace not knowing what to say.
-Normal POV-
"Hitomi!" The cat pounced her full force once they arrived inside out of the crowds.
Merle I can't breathe." She had forgotten what a bear hug Merle gave.
"Okaasan, what is that thing?" Vanel's head appeared over the bundle of fur that firmly held her in place.
"This is Merle. Your Otousan's friend from when they were young children.
"Merle looks weird." Vanel teased.
"I do not besides look who's talking!" She scratched Vanel on the cheek.
"Hey!" Vanel put his hand where she had scratched him. "Why you."
"Vanel don't!" His mother warned.
"Mama! Mama!" a blur flew past them Vanel.
"What the."
Merle licked the kittens that were hugging in her. "Hi sweeties." She stopped licking on them. "I want you to meet Queen Hitomi."
The little kittens looked at her as if sizing her up. "Are you sure? She looks just a little scared."
"I'm sure. Go tell her hi." Vanel and Lord Van had to step away to keep the kittens from getting them.
"Merle call off your children." Lord Van attempted to rescue Hitomi.
"Come on kids. Lady Hitomi needs to rest before she begins her queenly duties." Hitomi sweat dropped.
"Van I just arrived. I don't think I am ready to begin."
"Don't worry you'll get your appropriate rest." Lord Van chuckled.
"I will appreciate that."
"Where do you want to rest?" Lord Van asked.
"Where is our room if it is still ours?" She asked.
"Same place it was last time." He whispered. "Before you disappear though, what is his full name?"
"His full name is Slanzer Vanel Kanzaki de Fanelia." She answered proud of her sons name.
"I think you forgot to mention prince in front of that." Lord Van commented.
"I did but you will have to work with him." She paused and looked at her son standing next to his father. She would never get over how alike they looked. "You mind showing us to our rooms please?" She requested.
"I don't mind at all." He led the way out of the halls.
-The next day-
"Lady Hitomi!" Little voices seemed to say as they pounced on the bed that she was sleeping.
She groaned under the pressure of having three little kittens climbing all over her as they pulled off the covers.
Merle walked in to the rooms seeing that her children had already awakened the sleeping queen.
"Merle! Will you get them off of me? I can't seem to move." Hitomi muttered.
They jumped off when they heard their mother's name. "We're sorry Mama! We like to wake up Van. We didn't think that she would mind."
"It's no problem kids. I would just rather have one of you pounce on me at a time." Hitomi apologized to them.
"Van wanted to see you in the garden. He sent this dress up for you to wear." Merle left the room so that she could get changed.
"Thanks Merle." She took the dress.
The outside gardens were gorgeous. They always took her breath away. She walked through some trees before she felt something following her. "Who's there?" Just then she felt a familiar and dangerous presence.
- - - - Okay guys I hope that you like this chapter! It should be interesting at least.
Vanel cringed at that. 'How does she always know these things?'
She had opened her eyes now. "Lord Van." She was just getting used to speaking again.
She was met with his heart melting smile. "You know you just might have to call him something else if you want us to know who you're talking to."
"No I don't think I will. I'll just call you Fanel." She teased lightly.
The woman entered into the house. "Ah I see that she has made it." The woman looked with pleasure at the beautiful woman that lay on the bed.
"Thank you." She whispered before she went into a restful sleep. - - - -
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I just like to write them!
=p- I'll cover how she tries to explain him in this chapter. We all knew that I would have to cover it soon anyhow.
Tramie- I hope to see a lot more movement in this chapter! I don't know exactly where it goes until I sit down and write it! Thank you for editing the chapter for me but when you sent it to both of the e-mail addresses it pulled the same encoded thing on me and I can't figure out how to disable it. I'm so very sorry about that? I want to cry!
Chapter 4
"Hitomi when were you planning on telling me about Vanel?" They were walking in the forest a little away from everyone.
"Van I didn't know how to tell you then that I was pregnant and when you had to leave E... the Mystic Moon so suddenly because of disaster I wasn't able to. I was getting ready to tell you when Merle called you back. I didn't want you to go." Hitomi answered with that far away look that she sometimes held in her eyes.
"What happened? You couldn't have told me through our link?" he asked his voice slightly rose at the thought of not knowing that he had a son for all of these years.
"Van I tried but after you left I couldn't contact you for some reason." She had stopped and stepped away from him.
Van ran a hand through his hair and to Hitomi it was creepy. Vanel acted just like Van. She had known that she just didn't realize how much Vanel was like his father. "What?" He asked when he noticed her staring at him.
"You know that he's just like you." She whispered.
"How much trouble has he given you?" Van asked out of the blue it seemed to her.
"What do you mean how much trouble has he given me?"
"When I was his age I was fighting a war before that however I gave my guards and Balgus a world of trouble." Van stated as a matter-of-factly.
"He's given me some but then again he is a teenager. They give trouble sometimes." He knew that she wasn't telling him the whole truth.
"You know you were always the worst liar I've ever seen. What was the last thing that he did?"
Hitomi gulped. She didn't want to tell him for fear of his reaction. "He. he" She began rather hesitantly.
"Hitomi?" He raised his eyebrows waiting on a response.
"He.." She paused. "is right behind you."
"What business of yours is what I did last time?" Vanel asked with a dangerous fire in his eyes.
"I'm your father. I need to know what to be prepared for."
"My Otousan would have come to us and not left us alone all of those years." Vanel's tone was dangerously low.
"Vanel." Hitomi warned before she stepped in between them.
"Hitomi it's alright." Lord Van tried to reassure her before she shook her head that it wasn't.
"He didn't abandon you. I couldn't contact him."
"So I heard while you were talking to him." Vanel shot to his mother.
"You talk to your Okaasan respectfully or I'll."
"You'll what! Not allow me to run a kingdom that I don't want! Throw me over your knees and spank me like a five year old? I don't think it works that way." Vanel shot back at his father. He wasn't even aware of the fact that he was speaking his native tongue or the fact that his father barely understood the language.
"Hitomi stepped in between the two. "Vanel don't you talk to your father that way. I taught you better than that." She scolded her son before she turned to the king. "He isn't going to act as one of your subjects. He hasn't had a father tell him what to do for the last 16 years. He doesn't listen to his teachers half the time." She turned around and led the way out of the forest. "Don't we have to get to Fanelia?"
Half a day later they arrived in Fanelia. "You ready Hitomi?" Lord Van whispered in her ear. She was sitting on the same horse as Van while Vanel rode the horse that the woman had lent them.
"As ready as I'll ever be." She answered. "Vanel watch what you say here."
Vanel shook his head in agreement. There was something in her eyes that said, "If you don't obey then you'll regret it." She didn't get that look in her eyes very often.
The crowds seemed to separate as the entered the city gates. Some of the older people recognized her as they bowed to the passing riders.
There were murmurs going all around the people that they passed. The young man that followed them looked suspiciously like their king. Someone in the crowd threw a bouquet of flowers to Hitomi. The arrival at the castle was a little less announced but a little more strenuous.
"Your majesty! Where have you been?" His guards seemed to crowd them.
"Saving my queen." He whispered and chuckled in her ear where they couldn't hear. Her cheeks were slightly singed pink.
"Lord Van where have you been?" A cat seemed to appear out of nowhere and pounce him. She was licking his face like there was no tomorrow.
"Merle I can't breathe." He gasped.
"Sorry!" She then noticed a sandy brown haired woman sitting in front of him. "Lady Hitomi?" She asked a little uncertain.
"Yes it's me Merle."
It really wasn't a surprise what she did next; well at least to Hitomi. "Your Highness it's nice to see you again."
"Merle please don't. I never did like formalities." Hitomi requested.
"Okaasan why did she call you 'Your highness'?"
"I'm their queen." Hitomi answered. She had never gotten used to that treatment before and she wasn't going to get used to it anytime soon she didn't think.
"Okaasan." Merle thought for a minute before she figured out what the young man had said.
"Merle let's go in before you do anything!" Lord Van helped Hitomi off of the horse.
-Vanel-
Vanel watched as the strange cat creature for lack of a better word tackled Lord Van. 'What is that thing?' he didn't know what to call it. It licked the king's face with little regard to where they were.
Lord Van had finally managed to extricate himself from her when it noticed his mother. "Lady Hitomi?" The thing seemed to purr and ask at the same time. "Your highness." The cat thing curtsied to her then.
"Okaasan, why did it call you 'your majesty'?" Vanel asked.
"I'm their queen." He stared at her in shock. 'Apparently she hasn't told me everything.' He followed them into the palace not knowing what to say.
-Normal POV-
"Hitomi!" The cat pounced her full force once they arrived inside out of the crowds.
Merle I can't breathe." She had forgotten what a bear hug Merle gave.
"Okaasan, what is that thing?" Vanel's head appeared over the bundle of fur that firmly held her in place.
"This is Merle. Your Otousan's friend from when they were young children.
"Merle looks weird." Vanel teased.
"I do not besides look who's talking!" She scratched Vanel on the cheek.
"Hey!" Vanel put his hand where she had scratched him. "Why you."
"Vanel don't!" His mother warned.
"Mama! Mama!" a blur flew past them Vanel.
"What the."
Merle licked the kittens that were hugging in her. "Hi sweeties." She stopped licking on them. "I want you to meet Queen Hitomi."
The little kittens looked at her as if sizing her up. "Are you sure? She looks just a little scared."
"I'm sure. Go tell her hi." Vanel and Lord Van had to step away to keep the kittens from getting them.
"Merle call off your children." Lord Van attempted to rescue Hitomi.
"Come on kids. Lady Hitomi needs to rest before she begins her queenly duties." Hitomi sweat dropped.
"Van I just arrived. I don't think I am ready to begin."
"Don't worry you'll get your appropriate rest." Lord Van chuckled.
"I will appreciate that."
"Where do you want to rest?" Lord Van asked.
"Where is our room if it is still ours?" She asked.
"Same place it was last time." He whispered. "Before you disappear though, what is his full name?"
"His full name is Slanzer Vanel Kanzaki de Fanelia." She answered proud of her sons name.
"I think you forgot to mention prince in front of that." Lord Van commented.
"I did but you will have to work with him." She paused and looked at her son standing next to his father. She would never get over how alike they looked. "You mind showing us to our rooms please?" She requested.
"I don't mind at all." He led the way out of the halls.
-The next day-
"Lady Hitomi!" Little voices seemed to say as they pounced on the bed that she was sleeping.
She groaned under the pressure of having three little kittens climbing all over her as they pulled off the covers.
Merle walked in to the rooms seeing that her children had already awakened the sleeping queen.
"Merle! Will you get them off of me? I can't seem to move." Hitomi muttered.
They jumped off when they heard their mother's name. "We're sorry Mama! We like to wake up Van. We didn't think that she would mind."
"It's no problem kids. I would just rather have one of you pounce on me at a time." Hitomi apologized to them.
"Van wanted to see you in the garden. He sent this dress up for you to wear." Merle left the room so that she could get changed.
"Thanks Merle." She took the dress.
The outside gardens were gorgeous. They always took her breath away. She walked through some trees before she felt something following her. "Who's there?" Just then she felt a familiar and dangerous presence.
- - - - Okay guys I hope that you like this chapter! It should be interesting at least.