The next morning Oboro woke up, she had slept great this night. As soon as she opened her eyes she saw Takumi laying next to her. It was like he was waiting for Oboro to wake up, because he was laying in Oboro's direction with his hand as a pillar for his face and his eyes were looking at her. He said: "Hey there! Good morning my girlfriend!"
Oboro yawned and stretched her arms and legs, and then laughed. "It sounded so odd when you call me girlfriend! I'm totally used to just 'Oboro'!"
Takumi smiled. "You really were tired... we missed breakfast because of you, sleepyhead!"
"Oh no! I never miss breakfast! This is a disaster!" Oboro said, she was really stressed and she started to panic.
When she was about to jump out of bed to get ready and hurry to the mess hall Takumi said: "Don't worry! I went downstairs already and I brought our breakfast to my room. See?" He pointed at two plates standing on a desk in his room. "It's right over there!"
Oboro looked at the desk, where indeed was fresh breakfast on top. It was still warm, because she noticed steam above the two plates, and the scent coming from it was delicious and really promising. "Oh, good heavens. Thank you! I was so afraid that people would think I'm unorganized!"
"Really, don't worry so much. It's going to be all right! Let's just have breakfast now!" Takumi said. Oboro nodded and she went to the desk to grab the two hot plates standing on top of it. Now she could smell the scent even better, it smelled kind of cute! Or maybe it was just the smile on Takumi, her boyfriend's face that she woke up with. They were eating their warm breakfast and they talked a bit: "Stop making me laugh while I try to eat breakfast!" Takumi tried to say while he was grinning with a full mouth. "I'll spit everything out if you continue like this, haha!"
Oboro smiled, they were having so much fun. When Takumi had put the plates back on the desk she looked at him and asked: "Hey boyfiend?"
"Hahah, that sounds so unusual!" Takumi said while he laughed thinking about Oboro calling him boyfriend.
"Are you ticklish?"Oboro said with a sarcastic look on her face.
"Nice try, GIRLFRIEND! But my sister Hinoka used to tickle me so much that I got used to it!" Takumi said and he gave a sarcastic look back at Oboro. "How about you Oboro? Are you ticklish?"
"Pffft... No! I'm so over that fase...!" She smiles nervously and tried to look away.
"Well maybe we should test that?" Takumi said with a teasing look on his face. He walked back to the bed and poked Oboro in her side.
"IEEEEKKK! No don't do that! Hahaha!" She yelled.
"Why not? I thought you were through the fase of..." He poked her once more but now in her other side.
"No! Hahaha! No! Please stop that! Haha! I'm not throught that face!" She yelled that hard that the people in the rooms next to them were able to hear her yelling.
"Haha, I knew it!" He started tickling Oboro and poking her more in her side, she laughed really hard and she fell on the bed.
"I surrender! Please stop!" Oboro couldn't stop laughing!
"All right, all right! I'll stop for this time! But it's great to know that you're so ticklish!" Takumi grinned. "I'll remember to use that whenever you tease me again!"
They both laughed and Oboro pulled herself up again. Then they heard knocking on the door. "Oh! Oops! I totally forgot!" Takumi jumped up.
"Heya, Lord Takumi? Ready to go into town together?" Oboro reconized Hinata's voice.
"You're going to go to town with just the two of you? Ok-kay have fun. I should get back on my chores schedule anyway, this gives me the oppurtunity to catch up with it again!" Oboro said.
"Yeah we need to do something together. It's a guys thing!" Hinata said.
"Just... make sure you don't do anything dumb!" Oboro said doubtful to Takumi.
Takumi nodded and then Hinata and Takumi left his room, out to town.
Oboro shrugged and went downstairs to inform Jakob about the chores she still had to do. "Please start with scrubbing the floor in the mess hall. It's a total mess there, as the name suggests." Jakob had said.
It was a disgusting job, scrubbing the floor in the mess hall. Especially around Rinkah's seat. "This girl just doesn't understand how to eat properly with a knife, fork OR spoon. She's such a stubborn girl, especially when you try to explain that her way isn't the right way to handle something! And don't forget about how disgusting it looks when you see her eat! Last time I had dinner next to her I threw all the potatoes up again because of how disgusting her eating manners were!" She noticed that she was talking to herself. Maybe it was better if you call it yelling at herself. She looked around to see if anybody heard her angry yelling. "Nobody is there..." She looked at the other side of the room and said: "And nobody is there either. Phew! I guess nobody heard me talking about how disgusting Rinkah eats! What a relief!"
Then she heard a noise coming from her back. "Yikes!" She whispered. "Is that Rinkah? She'd be so pissed off if she heard my yelling about her!" She quickly turned around. "Phew!" It was only Felicia who tripped and broke some teacups. "Nothing unusual." She finished Rinkah seat, but her soapy water was already black. "Must have been because of cleaning all that overcoocked Felicia-food, that Rinkah just spills on the ground and then she doesn't even think about cleaning it up. She went back to Jakob to see if he still had soapy water, if he didn't... she would have to go to the nearest well to get water out of it. Which would propably take about an hour! She saw Jakob cleaning the dishes. "Jakob?" She quietly said.
"Yes Oboro?"
"Do you still have some fresh water?" She asked him.
"No, you'll need to go to the well and get some new clean water." Jakob grinned while he said that.
"It's like you enjoy it when I have to walk such a long distance!" She was looking angry at Jakob.
"I never said I didn't enjoy..." He turned around and got scared and yelled: "The look on your face could be described as demonic!" She was looking at Jakob with a look that more people have called 'the demonic face' or 'a face that seems to be pure evil'. "Please just go away! Leave to that well already!" He grabbed his sponge and run away.
"Hahaha. I payed that jerk back!" She opened one of the kitchen cabinats, and looked for something to put the water in. She noticed a big bottle standing there were she could put enough water in and left. On her way she saw some crows, but that was the only thing that was at least a little interesting on her journey. The other things she saw was a plain road full of tiny rocks that always made a sound when you walked over it. It wasn't a pleasant noise, so at first when Oboro walked over it it irritated her, but after a while she started to get used to it. She continued walking and finally reached the well. "I guess I have been walking for twenty minutes by now... It's a good excercise though!" She filled the empty bottle with the fresh water and talked to herself again: "Now again walking twenty minutes, but this time it will be even more challenging with a fully filled and really heavy water bottle!" She took off, this time there were no crows anymore: The whole way back to the camp was an exhausting, boring plain road. All the trees seemed if they hadn't had water for a year, all dried up, and to make it even worse they smelled rotten as well.
When she finally reached the camp she yawned. Jakob was standing in the kitchen cleaning the pans. When he noticed her he yelled: "Quickly, go hide! The demon is back!"
It scared Felicia, so she dropped her plate and ran into the hallway. Jakob was laughing, so Oboro walked over to him. "Funny! Just as I expected from you!" Jakob said something back to her, but she ignored him and walked back into the mess hall, where she still had to clean a lot of dirt on the floor. She grabbed her sponge and started scrubbing again, until every spot was perfectly clean.
When she was done she stood up and went outside to throw her water away. Upon doing so, she heard the beutiful voice of her beloved Takumi at her back saying: "Hey Oboro! We're back!"
She turned around, and saw Hinata and Takumi walking towards her. "Oh, hey Takumi! Hey Hinata!. Were you able to do the guys thing?" She asked.
"Sure thing! It was even better than expected! Right lord Takumi?" Hinata said joyful.
"Yes, this was so much better than I expcted, it's beautiful!" Takumi answered. He looked at Hinata and they both smiled.
Oboro looked confused at them and asked: "What is the 'it' you keep talking about?"
"Y-you don't need to know, for now it'll be a secret that only me and lord Takumi know about!" Hinata said with a big smile on his face. "Let's get prepared for dinner tonight, we sure have some things to discuss!"
Takumi nodded and they went upstairs. Oboro kept looking at them until they were fully out of her sight. When they arrived at the stairs Oboro noticed that Takumi turned his head to smile to Oboro. When they were gone she said to herself: "It's totally lord Takumi to look back and smile once again. It's so romantic and cute. Hmmmm..." She closed her eyes and thought about how sweet her boyfriend always acts.
That until she heard a familiar voice say: "Disgusting! Stop daydreaming, you still have a ton of unfinished chores to do!" She opened her eyes and it appeared to be Jakob who had just said those words. Who Else? She thought.
"Why don't you serve the fresh cooked dishes Felicia just made that are meant for dinner tonight?" He continued. Oboro nodded and went to Felicia to grab the plates. The plates were covered with overcooked potatoes and soaked salade, which looked inedible. She thanked Felicia when she gave the plates to Oboro and Oboro started serving a dish at every seat.
When she had put all the dishes on the table, she went upstairs. When she entered the door she noticed that Takumi and Hinata had been waiting for her. Takumi nodded to Hinata when he noticed Oboro walking in the room. "Can you come over here?" Takumi said.
Oboro looked confused, first at Hinata and then at Takumi. But she nodded anyway and came standing on the place Takumi had pointed at and asked: "What has this been all about? I don't get it."
Takumi smiled at her. "Don't worry. It will all make sence very soon!"
Hinata randomly said: "Awww!" But Oboro still had no idea why he would do that right now.
Takumi said: "When we went to town this afternoon, I had a very special intention. But before I explain everything. I want you to have this!" Takumi opened his had and Oboro saw a ring in it! "I wanted to buy you a ring, so I asked my personal retainer Hinata, if he would like to join me. He agreed, so we went to the town market together." There appeared a big smile on Hinata's face. Takumi continued: "They had amazing rings! But it missed something... Just buying you a ring at the town market wouldn't express how much I love you, so Hinata suggested that I'd make a ring myself. So I did that."
Oboro was amazed, she knew what was gonna happen but she was still so exited and nervous! Takumi continued again: "We travelled far and I used the prettiest ore I could find. Then I made it into a proper shape, and put it in a ring. Which is this ring!"
Oboro looked at the ring and thought: This ring is so beautiful! And the thought behind it is even better! It would totally fit with my favorite top!
It was a purple diamond shaped ore in the middle. She held it in the light that came through the window. It shined! It really was a beautiful handcrafted ring. If Takumi would have said that it was professionaly crafted by a smith, Oboro would have believed it!
"Honestly I'm speachless! This is such a pretty ring! Can I try if it fits?" Oboro asked.
"On one condition!" Takumi said and he kneeled. "If you will marry me?" He tried to smile as cute as possible.
"O. MY. GODS! Yes! Of course I will! I love you and I wanna be with you for the rest of my life!"
"This is why I was adored so much! You guys really deserve each other! I'll go for now. So you can be romantic together...""Hinata said and he was about to leave.
But then Oboro said: "Wait Hinata!" Hinata turned around. "Thank you. For everything! I know... that you will find that person that will make you as happy as Takumi will make me! If that is gonna be a boy? Or a girl? I don't mind. I just wish that you find happiness, because, after all, I still feel a little bit guilty about 'stealing' lord Takumi away from you..."
"Thank you too, Oboro. But no need to feel guilt! Really. I'll happily serve lord Takumi for the rest of my life whenever he needs me. And if I could find my perfect partner, that would be awesome! Haha!" He left to his own room. He said to himself: "I'm totally fine with this couple, and I still think this all eventually is gonna be all right!"
Back in the room Oboro and Takumi were still chatting a bit.
"Takumi?" Oboro said.
"Oboro?" Takumi said.
"I love you..."
"I love you too... I do..." He smiled at Oboro, is fiancee!
"Sooo... we're gonna have a wedding! I always dreamed of this, It's gonna be perfect! Hinata will be our witness, since he actually witnessed your proposal. Haha. And I'm gonna make my dress disign all by myself! Don't worry I promise it will be stunning!" Oboro was so exited to marry, she couldn't stop about her ideas for a perfect ceremony.
As expected the marriage happened! Oboro disigned her own dress, it turned out as a white with one with a little orange, but she knew what she was doing, so it really was stunning. Oboro gained something she didn't even think of when she dreamed about her future with Takumi, royalty. She was a good princess, and she and Lord Takumi lived a happy life in the Palace of Hoshido after the war had ended. The couple also had a child which they raised in the royal palace, with the aid of the other Royal siblings.
Felicia and Jakob got a job in the palace, after all they had discovered about the darkness and cruelty of Nohrian history, they preferred staying in the peaceful capital city of Hoshido. They were able to happily serve the royal family there. Even though that Felicia always stayed a little clumsy here and there and jakob was still being called a real jerk.
Hinata fought bravely in the war against Nohr. He was such a popular Samurai that he made it into the history books. Children started to admire him and see him as a true Hoshidan hero! Until this day he hasn't found a partner. Some don't think he'll ever find one, but himself, Takumi and Oboro still have a lot of fate that he will find his special one and start a happy family, maybe even with a child. Even after the war had ended he still servedhis lord Takumi as a royal retianer until this day.
Sometimes on evenings like this one, after Oboro and Takumi brought their child to bed, they went to a place that they both call very special.
"Sitting here at the town scare eating caramelized peanuts, and watching the sunset will propably never get boring!" Takumi said while he putted some of his caramelized peanuts in his mouth.
"I know right? It always reminds me of that one special day..." Oboro ate her last peanut and yawned. "I'm tired... May I?"
"Haha, of course you may!" Takumi said. The whole square was orange coloured because of the beautiful sunset.
"Hmm... Just like that one special day..." Oboro said and she layed her head on Takumi's shoulder.
