In the knight's quarters, "Taiki are you in there?" Yaten asked as he knocked on his head for a response. Taiki only stared at his food as he kept replaying the day's events.' Guess not,' he muttered as he left for the door, but only to find "Princess Mizuno is there anything wrong?" Yaten asked concerned and confused why the princess was at the knight's quarters. "Oh no nothing is wrong I just wanted to thank Sir Kou Taiki for saving me today," she blushed as she twiddled her fingers in front of her while looking for her rescuer. Grinning at the idea of surprising his brother he led her to Taiki who was still staring at his plate untouched, that is until he looked up to ocean blue eyes. "Princess Mizuno!" He stumbled out of his chair as he hit the table with a bang. Ami who waited for him stifled a giggle. "No Sir Taiki nothing is wrong, I just wished to thank you for saving me today…" Ami looked at the floor blushing. "So thank you…" she said as she turned to the door and left leaving Taiki staring after her, his mouth hanging open as if to reply. After that embarrassing scene, the elder knights and captains filled the room with laughter at his stumbled reactions. Taiki realizing himself beat red and embarrassed, excused himself from the table, heading to his chambers for the night. Walking down the hall he could still hear the others laughing their asses off as he heard Seiya and Yaten perform a different version of his embarrassing scene. "Oh my darling princess Mizuno!" Seiya expressed towards Yaten while Yaten imitated the shy princess, "Oh Sir Kou Taiki!" They embraced then broke into another fit of laughter.
"Oh please Minako it wasn't like that!" Ami pleaded from the far end of the castle. "Oh give it up Ami you were so comfortable in his arms!" Minako chirped as she made kissy noises expressing that Ami fancied the young knight, "Oh Sir Kou Taiki!" Minako acted dramatically as she held on to Serenity's hand that imitated the dashing knight. "Sweet Princess Mizuno…" and the girls made kissy noises making the blue haired princess blush crimson as she stated that it wasn't anything like that! However the two sisters goaded her until she decided to leave for the night. Bidding their sister good night they kissed each others cheeks and left making kissing noises before closing the chamber doors. "YOU GUYS! IT WASN'T LIKE THAT!" The blushing princess yelled at them through the door as she doused the lights. Changing into her night gown she sat at her dresser facing the mirror, brushing her luscious blue hair. Finally being able to freely dream, closing her eyes she imagined the dashing knight on his horse, 'Thank you… Sir Kou… Taiki…'
Sitting in his chambers Yaten imagined the lovely princess Aino on her horse, her hair in the wind as she laughed happily into the air. Drifting into a daze he began to draw in his journal. After snapping out of his thoughts he looked down to see the image of Minako! Right where he was writing about how his day went! Where several of them were of her face laughing and smiling, and others were of her riding her horse and another was beginning to sketch her balcony performance of her harp. Frustrated with his own lack of concentration he went to bed.
On the opposite wall where the handsome young knight resided, Seiya was busy reading his love letters from the local girls, smiling at the last letter of his many fans pledging undying love to him, he thought back to the odango haired princess and her cheerful smiles. Putting down the letters he continued his thoughts on princess Serenity. "Such a beautiful princess… I wonder if I can get to know her better like Yaten and Taiki are doing…" Smiling to himself he turned out the lights and went to bed.
At the end of the hall Taiki laid on his bed and thought of the beautiful blue haired princess. Not being able to sleep he began writing in his poetry book describing the blue haired princess.
Hair like pure blue drops of rain
Eyes the color of the ocean
After two lines he stopped and shook his head, 'What am I doing? I can't allow myself to get attached to a princess!' Then putting down his quill and book, he doused the candles and turned in for the remaining night, dreaming of the blue haired, blue eyed rider…
In the dark room of the royal chambers, one princess was having a hard time drifting into sleep due to her problems with sleeping. Rising herself from bed, grabbing her robes she left the chambers and out to her balcony. Feeling like having a sip of her favorite wine, she went to her cabinets and took out a blue bottle and a glass and sat herself down in one of the balcony chaises. Looking out into the night sky she let out a soft sigh of gratitude over her wine. Her long golden hair rippled and shone in the cool night, her gown blowing in the gentle breeze as the night air cooled her ivory skin. 'I wish I can sleep during the night like everyone else…' complaining to herself as she poured another glass of wine. 'I'm not tired yet…' she thought as she sighed. Glancing over to where her harp was she smiled, 'Maybe I'll play for a little while…' she concluded as she walked over to her harp, sat down and began playing. Closing her eyes she struck the harps cord as each beautiful note was played, lulling the world into slumber.
In the dark of night, Yaten suddenly stirred awake from the beautiful melody that he heard the other night. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he quickly dressed and left to follow the lulling music out of the Knight's Quarters, and into the gardens. Feeling the night air his eyes focused as he shook himself awake. Tuning his ears to direct him, while looking around just for caution, he found himself near the same balcony where he saw the golden haired princess. Keeping to the shadows of the night he crept closer, hearing the melody clearer he stared up to see… her.
In all his years he felt like he was staring up at an angel in the night fore he has never seen such beauty as the princess he sees now. The stars made her hair shine as she plucked away on her harp. Hiding behind a large tree he continued to watch her as he tried to control himself from calling out to her. As he watched he felt his heart flutter and dance wildly inside. Holding his hand on his heart to slow or even relax his heart beat, he began to wonder what the princess's real self was like. Thinking back to his first meeting with her she was every bit the royal brat that he claimed her to be, yet here she was showing her true beauty to the night while she lived as the strict, calm, bossy beauty that has a sort of dislike towards him in every which way thinkable, just because he accidentally raised her voice to her and rudely grabbed his notebook out of her hands without a thank you. And the weird thing is, he felt so compelled to tease her, to act like he disliked her each time she speaks to him. 'So she's beautiful and pretty talented… but she's still a bossy brat that can't even take a joke!' He reasoned to himself, though his heart says another, 'You fancy her…' Feeling like kicking himself for thinking of such things he turned away into the shadows, back to his quarters to rest. 'Even if I might fancy her for her beauty, we're nothing alike! I can't stand her screeching, or her bossy composure!' Tuning out his inner war with himself he entered the halls into his chamber.