Hime-sama
by: Bakunawa
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81. No Time
Running through the forest without panties was highly uncomfortable. She promised to pay the bastard back a thousand fold after the mission.
82. Relaxation
She was never one for flowers. He figured that the first time he met her. She loved bonsai trees though. She love lounging on her balcony, sunbathing like a cat, with a dozen potted mini trees of varying species she planted herself.
83. Pen and Paper
With a warm bowl of instant ramen and milk already waiting for him on the kitchen table, she left a small short note to start his day.
84. Sport
"I'm a ninja. Why does it matter if I know the game or not?"
"You're such a dork, teme."
"... shut up."
85. Starvation
Mikoto had been preparing more food than was necessary ever since he joined a four-man team. He also noticed his mother had been experimenting with ramen flavors.
86. Words
"I guess I've always known something was wrong with me. I heard their whispers. I saw their looks when they think I wasn't aware. They couldn't do much because of Daddy but... I've always known... I was born with something terrible inside..."
87. Rated
He would almost always have to remind her to be quiet. Almost.
88. Mirror
Eventually, she figured out why sometimes her father would give her that look when he thought she was not looking or when she said or done something incredibly stupid.
89. Eyes
It was a window to her soul, her very core. He never expected to be so shaken.
90. Last Hope
"It was her... It had always been her..."
91. Fortitude
She had more in that tiny body than he could ever comprehend in a life time.
92. Heal
He took it from every touch of her fingers, from every look in her eyes, from every movement of her hips and kiss of her lips. He will never have redemption but in her arms he found himself living again.
93. Stripes
Heaven help him, he could not decide if the tight black and orange shirt should be burned or given an award. His pants obviously had decided.
94. Advertisement
"Do I have a freakin' 'Molest Me' sign written on my forehead or something?" he asked after narrowly escaping another episode of fangirl attacks.
"No. You just have this piece of paper that said 'Pinch Me' on your back."
She never admitted she was the perpetrator.
95. Spiral
Her entire life was a whirlwind of an adventure, mischief and romance. He could not help but be pulled in.
96. All That I Have
She already had everything. She had beauty that was unique hers. She had fame that reaches across the continent (a bridge was named after her, for crying out loud) and beyond. She had the most uncanny lucky streak and with mounds of inheritance she received from both parents and a godfather, she never had to worry about being poor for at least a thousand years. She was practically born from royalty. She also had the skills and guts to defy even the gods themselves.
What she did not have was the patience to wait for three minutes for instant ramen to cook.
97. Tears
She saw the life bleeding out of his eyes. She kissed the stains away tenderly. He was home and that was all that mattered.
98. Hero
At a certain point in ever child's short life, they will come to realize that the person they worship so dearly was anything but. He learned it in the most blood-curdling, horrifying way.
99. Love
"I define it as just me and you and ev'rythin' in between," he slurred ever so slightly. For a second, she thought he was not intoxicated enough to answer her question, let alone reply with with a deadpanned expression. But for him to say something as cheesy and pathetic as that with as much conviction as a man on trial, he was flat out drunk already.
100. Dying
It was just another way to turn to the next chapter.