Edited : 8/13/2016 –I did some grammar editing, not sure if it was good enough or not, though. Nothing was changed, I only edited the grammar here and there.

*peak out from a wall* H-hello, dear readers... It's been long, isn't it? Hehe... *gulps*

Sorry for the super late update... Both I and my partner has been busy and such, but she is still able to update hers while I... (._.)

Oh anyway, let's just move on the story, shall we?

Disclaimer : Akatsuki no Yona is not mine, I only own my plot.

Rewritten Fate

By Ld-G

ASSASINATION ARC

-PART 1-

Four years had gone by... Twelve years to go till the day it changed Yona's life completely. It made her shuddered as she realized how fast time flew. One moment she was a helpless baby that couldn't even support herself, and the next moment, she had grown to be a child. It might sound weird when she said that about herself, but maybe because she had stopped caring for her lack of strength body, time didn't feel as slow as it used to be. She had tried to enjoy the peaceful life that the little time had offered her and tried to forget that painful life. She had succeeded a little in drifting her mind into the present life, but all that effort crumbled one day.

It was another cold autumn day in Kouka Kingdom. It would be winter in another one week or so, thus the weather had become colder. As usual, Yona was laying on her back, watching the clouds drifting slowly in the sky. There were neither Soo-won nor Hak on the sight; there was only Yona alone there. It was quiet… the only sounds that she heard were the sounds of her breathing and the birds chirping.

Yona enjoyed the silence that had rarely occurred since Little Soo-won and Hak came to intrude her life. She really enjoyed it, really did… but… she couldn't help but felt a little lonely. She didn't want to admit it, but Soo-won and Hak's presence made her feel better and warmer, especially Hak's. It had been a long time since the last time she spent her day with him, it had been even longer since the last time the three of them laughed together. The truth was… she missed it, those time when they were happy without care to the world.

She closed her eyes, recalling the past beautiful memories. The three of them laughing together… or those times when she spent with the happy hungry bunch… those precious memories were her treasures; even the most expensive jewels were no match to them. She knew that she could easily relived those beautiful events again, but she was afraid of the cost, afraid that she would once again lose her precious one, afraid that those entire nightmares would eventually happened once again. She might be able to face it once, but twice? She might as well go die and vanished from this world.

Letting out a heavy sigh, she opened her eyes. She could feel that her eyes had become moist, that the tears were threatened to fall from the corner of her eyes. She had promised herself not to cry. However, at times like this, when she was all alone and had absolutely nothing to do, her mind liked to wander back to her old life. And she let it… she let herself lost into the sea of bittersweet memories. Unconsciously, she let the tears fall down, one by one, from the corner of her eyes to the ground beneath her. She didn't make any effort to wipe it, or even to stop the tears. She just let them flow, quietly and continuously.

'I'm all alone anyway, no one will see me this weak…' or so she thought. It had never crossed her mind that someone might actually be watching her from afar. She thought that since that damn cousin of hers was on his private time with the equal damn uncle of hers, nobody would disturb her. There was no way Little Hak would visit her when Soo-won was not around. She had also informed Min-soo that she wanted some time alone. Min-soo knew her well enough to not disturb her, so she was so sure that absolutely no one would come and found her in this shameful situation.

Oh boy, if only she knew how damn wrong she was… lost in her mind, she never realized that a pair of clear blue eyes were watching her closely.

As she let herself drown into those painful memories, a hand reached out to her face, slowly wiping those tears that fall down. That gesture jolted her out of her trance. Snapping her head, she widened her eyes. She felt like her heart suddenly stopped beating as she was greeted with those blue eyes that she loved so much. There, sitting beside her, was the last person she wanted to show any weakness to. The one and only Son Hak.

It was silent, neither was speaking. Both keep looking at each other. It felt like minutes before Yona break the eye contact and turn to the other side, giving her back to Hak. She wiped her tears as quickly as possible, a flush of embarrassment rose to her cheeks.

'I was supposed to be alone, how come Hak is here?!' she thought furiously. She kept her position, not wanting to show her face to him as she was too embarrassed. 'He will tease me about it, and I'll never hear the end of it, I'm sure!' she hid her face behind her hand, and felt like she want to bury herself.

"What's wrong?" she heard him asking. But she kept quiet, didn't answer that question and kept giving him her back. It was a message of wanting to be alone, which she delivered in a silent letter. She kept waiting for him to leave, waiting and waiting, but instead of leaving, he stayed besides her, putting his hand on her hair and stroked it.

It was really soothing, the gentlest gesture that she had ever received from him. She didn't remember the last time her Hak did something as gentle as this, but it felt good. He patted her hair gently, each time playing a little with her short hair. Each stroke was calming her heart down.

'Was Hak really this… gentle before?' she thought as she enjoyed it. It was silent, but not awkward. And she enjoyed it. If this was all a dream, then she would not want to be wake up. 'If only this dream could last forever…'

"You know…" a little voice makes Yona cracked her eyes a little, "you are not alone. You have us… you have me… if there is anything troubling you, you can tell us… we will help you." She heard him speaking. Truthfully, she had considered telling him all about herself, because what could she do alone when she was nothing but a small child?

"At least, I will always be by your side, so rest assure… I won't leave you."

Her eyes snapped.

BA-DUMP

Her heart started thumping loudly.

"Don't look so sad, Princess; I'm not going to die. This battle won't kill me that easily"

BA-DUMP

She bit her lower lip. She remembered clearly what Hak's last word to her. A promise that he never fulfilled. 'You lied.' She clenched her fist. 'You never come back… you left me, all alone…'

Quietly, she let out a sigh, letting another tear fell down once again.

'No… you are wrong… I'm… all alone…'

She closed her eyes. The hand that stroking her hair suddenly feels cold, not as soothing anymore, for her heart had frozen once again…

'In this world… I'm all alone… I have… absolutely no one on my side…'

That day, she closed her heart, not giving any opening for anyone.

Because she has a duty and a responsibility.

She couldn't afford to let herself enjoy this peaceful moment… that was a luxury that had never meant for her to reach.

She knew that she needed to prepare for the storm that had yet to come. She recalled the events that had occurred in her past life. It started from the day her grandfather King Joo-Nam chose her father as his successor, then her mother's assassination, after that… the so called death accident of her uncle, Uncle Yoo-Hong. Somehow, she felt like these three events were the starting point of all the disaster that would soon happened in her life.

She knew that she lacked of information, especially about these events. She couldn't recall when these event occurred for it happened ages ago, back into her childhood life. Too many things had happened in her previous life, far too many... it made her unable to remember all of it. There were also a lot of painful memories that she would rather forget about it.

Yona let out a heavy sigh. "How can I find information on something that has yet to happen?" she mumbled. She turned her head toward the opened window.

She gazed at the moon which shone brightly outside. The cold night wind blew slowly, causing her to shivered slightly. Gripping her haori, she leaned on the window sill. "What should I do…" she whispered. Four years had passed without her doing any meaningful things. She stared blankly on the space, at a loss of what she should do. She was never good in planning and making strategies, it's just not her forte. 'If Hak was in my position… I wonder what he would do…'

She stretched out her hand to the sky, to where the moon was shining brightly. She clenched her fist, acting as if trying to catch the moon. But the moon was still up there, still shining brightly, as if mocking her despair. She gazed sadly at the moon and let out a heavy sigh. She retracted her hands, and turned around, staring at the empty bedroom. The place that she used to think not so big has suddenly become too big, giving her the feeling of emptiness and loneliness. She shook her head, inhale and exhale deeply for a few times, trying to get her bearing back. "Should I sort out the events?" she asked to no one particular as she walked to her table.

She took one of her journal and wrote down things that she had known.

'Around this time, King Joo-Nam should be stepping down from the throne. As Grandfather descended the throne, Father will be appointed as the next king. Not long after Father ascended the throne, Mother will be assassinated. After that, it will be... Uncle Yoo-Hong's accident.'

Yona stopped writing. She trilled her brush a little. "If I remember correctly, there was that time when Hak, Soo-won, and I go to the city. Hmm… that should be around this time too… but is it after uncle's death or before?" She furrowed a little.

"Hmm… Let's just put it before then..." she started writing again.

"So it should be… Mother being assassinated, I almost being kidnaped, Uncle's accident…" she nodded.

"There… this should be happening around the age of six." She put down her brush and stared at the notes again.

"But, the question is… should I or should I not let this happen?" She narrowed her eyes and bites her lower lips.

'What will happen if uncle become the king?'

She gazed back at moon. She suddenly realized that it's snowing out there. Tighten her hold on her haori, she walked back to the window. She held her other hand out, trying to catch the falling snow. But the snow melted as soon as it came into contact with her hand. While seeing that process, her mind wandered around. One question kept lingering in her mind.

'Why did grandfather choose father instead of uncle…?'

Watching the moon, she whispered to herself. "Maybe… it's time to confront Grandfather myself."

The first thing that Yona did was gathering information. In this unknown world, information was really valuable, whatever it is. If there was anything that she learnt from living in a war time, it would be that information was as much important as life itself.

With a single information, you could change someone's course of fate. Information could make you stayed alive, or it might killed you, as not every information was true. It was a daily practice for a tactician to spread a hoax, any fake information to trap their enemy.

Yona knew this all too well as she had done that plenty of times. Not to mention, there was also a few times she fell into enemy's trap because of the false information. Those times made her realize that nobody could be trusted except oneself. It was after all in human nature to save oneself when they are facing with danger. And she learnt it the hard way.

That was the reason why she kept sneaking and spying on the soldiers, as they offered a vast amount of free information. She might get something about military situation—

soldier A : "man…, today is cold as well, wish that our shift can finish early"

soldier B : "yea, want to go inside and get warm"

soldier C : "ugh… one of these days, we'll freeze to death."

—or not.

She gave them a deadpanned look. "Soldiers nowadays are so weak that they'll die from guarding gate, huh?" she scowled while turning around and left her post. "wait until the time when you need to fight in the middle of freezing ocean. Whose ideas is it to spy on the soldiers?" she grumbled hotly as she stomped back inside.

She changed her plan into spying the servants. "Well, gossips are also information." she thought she would gather at least some information about the outside situation—

servant A : "hey, hey! Have you heard?"

servant B : "what is it?"

servant A : "the neighbour town's barb is visiting the capital!"

servant C : "For real?! That handsome one?! Oh my! I need to go to capital!"

servant B : "we cannot lose this chance to meet him!"

servant C : "KYAAA! I'm going to ask for his autograph!"

servant B : "My god! What should I wear?! I don't have enough dress!"

servant A : "We need to do shopping!"

servant C : "Yea! Come on!"

—But the content was all useless… Yona let out a dejected sigh. "What the heck is going on with these workers…?"

So, her best bet was the Council Meeting—

Minister X : "Your Majesty, I think we should import more rice from our neighbour kingdom, we don't have enough stock for the rest of winter."

King Joo-Nam : "And how, pray tell, could the rice not enough when we have imported twice the usual amount in the early winter?"

Minister X : "t-the consumption has increased, My Lord."

King Joo-Nam : "I think you have known the fact that I despised liar and thieves."

Minister X : "y-yes, my lord."

—which surprisingly not informative at all.

She looked up to the clear sky and grumbled. "The god hates me."

So far, she hadn't found anything useful and that made her really frustrated. She had been searching information for two whole months, but she was still empty handed. 'I, who was once one of the best spies Kouka have, cannot even find single information on my own territory? What a shame...' she huffed. Being able to find any information that she needed had always became a special pride that she had. That was one of the reason why she was both respected and feared in her old life, since she had the knowledge which was unknown to the others.

But now, not only that she had no information, she also didn't have any lead on this case. She had exhausted every single idea that she had. 'I already knew that this will be pointless. It is not possible to find information on something in the future, no matter how skilled someone is.' She huffed.

Still, she hoped that somehow, miraculously, she could get some information around the assassination. Surely those people, whoever did the assassination, would make a plan, a perfect strategy to kill the Queen.

She sighed again. It seemed like she had been sighing a lot lately. She also got headache a lot since she had been burning her brain in the past few months. Not to mention, this year's winter was really cold that it became harder to bear each day passed. It was hard to move around in this cold weather, it's also hard to sneak out from the servants. Min-soo was such a worrywart that it had gone passed tolerable.

"Ugh... I gave up..." she muttered. She let herself fall inelegantly on the ground full of snow. It was cold, but she could still handle it. She had gone through much colder days, one without a roof or a tent to block the cold wind, rain or even snow. Without anyone to hold her, to embrace and cradle her. She still remembered those feeling, the feeling of emptiness… the longing of feeling someone's heat.

It had been four years since she came back, but she couldn't just let go the past. She was afraid, afraid that if she let go the past, she would eventually forget it… afraid if she were to enjoy her life, she would forget about her purpose here. The guilt was what driven her to keep focusing on her task, because this was her responsibility as a princess… and as someone who already gone through this life once.

'I cannot let them face the same future… I cannot let them undergo the same fate as I did… no matter what, I must protect them… even at the cost of my own life.'

-To be continued-

Okay... A little short, I know. But rest assure, the next part will be longer. And the good news is that I'm on my school break! So, I'll be able to update more frequent, let's say... every two weeks on Saturday or Sunday. :D

Oh, and another news... Both I and my partner has decide that the wattpad version will only cover the first four years of Yona's life, which was told in the first chapter here. The rest will only be post in here, although, depends on the situation, we might post it on wattpad. But, till now, that is the decision that we take.

By the way, Thank you for those who have review the first chapter! :D

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