"Finger cut-off, ten thousand fist-punchings, whoever lies has to swallow thousand needles."

It's been two days since Akari came to Blooming. She had hid herself in a disguise, she tied her hair Sena came to give her food everyday secretly. Akari had changed her name so no one would know her real name, Akari. Her fake name was Ozora. She had made three new friends, Jeri, Non and Rii. (Juri, Nono and Risa)

"Jeri-chan, Non-chan, Rii-san! How about we go fishing today?", Akari suggested smiling.

"That would be exciting, Ozora-chan!", Jeri said excitedly and did a flamenco pose.

"Hey, hey! Have you heard? Our neighboring town, Rosing's fresh news is that Luminas went out to adventure as usual but never came back!", a fairy said to another fairy as three fairies were passing by.

"Really?! I haven't!", one fairy replied. "Yes I have. Rumor has it that they went to the mysterious Forest of Magia! That's what they get by disobeying our rules!", another fairy said and they were no more in sight.

Akari heard this and felt a bit sad. "Sumi-chan... Hina-chan.."

"Ozora-chan, are you okay?", Non asked Akari.

"U-Uh! I'm fine, so let's go fishing! Yay!", Akari tried to fake smile. Rii noticed it but Jeri and Non didn't. She decided to talk to her alone one day.

Then with excitement all four girls reached a beautiful lake.

"Hey! Look, a swan! No, two swans!", Non said excitedly. The swans posed into a heart shape with their bodies.

"Those two are couples..", Rii said.

"One is a prince and the other is a princess! How nice! I want to be like them!", Jeri daydreamed.

"I wish I could have a prince one day too..", Akari thought admiringly. The expression on her face was noticed by the other three girls.

"Maybe there's really nothing wrong with Ozora-chan.", Rii thought, "But asking won't harm me, will it?"

"Ozora-chan! I can see right through your eyes!", Jeri said which surprised Akari.

"Eh? What what?", she asked.

"You want a prince, don't you?", Non replied with a smile.

With this Akari blushed redder than a tomato. "W-Wait what.. why would you think that?"

"It's your face that's telling us! The light blush, the dreamy smile.. it all screams the fact you are thinking about wanting a prince..", Jeri explained with glee.

"Well, let's get to fishing, shall we?", Akari tried avoiding the topic. Jeri and Non giggled and so did Rii.

Meanwhile, on Sena's side...

"Sena-kuuuuuuuuuun!", Mado came opening the door with rush and hugging Sena.

"Get off me.", Sena demanded and pushed Mado backwards.

"Oh come on! Can't I hug my own prince?", Mado said snobbishly.

"Your own prince? Who told you that?", Sena asked while staring at Mado.

"We're getting married, remember?"

"Well I do remember. But you remember this too: Maybe I'm your prince, but you're not my princess!", Sena declared.

Mado pouted and said, "Well like I care. We're still getting married anyway, Sena-kun."

Sena heard this and stormed out of the palace in anger. He went to find Akari in her temporary residence. Once he arrived he realized she was out as there was no reply. He figured she's with her friends. He sighed and was about to go back to the palace but Akari came along.

"Sena!", Akari waved at him. Sena looked back and saw her.

"Oh, Akari. Where have you been?", he asked.

"I went out fishing with my friends! It was really fun! I caught a fish too though it isn't that big, it's just medium length. Oh and we saw swans too~ they filled me with an urge to have a prince for myself one day!", Akari replied with glee.

"P-Prince?", Sena asked a bit blushing.

Akari suddenly thought she shouldn't have told it and said, "O-Of course! It isn't you or something!"

"Oh...",Sena thought a bit disappointed and he had no idea as of why he felt sudden pain by her sudden reply.

"So, let's cook the fish and eat it...?", Akari suggested.

Sena tried brightening himself up, "Yeah, sure. It would be fun cooking together."

After cooking and enjoying the meal together Sena had to go back to his palace.

"Well, see you at night.", Sena said and headed back. When he arrived, his parents were waiting for him.

"Sena, I see you've been going out a lot nowadays. Why is that?", Nao, his father asked.

"I-It's nothing.", Sena said as he expressed boredom.

"Sena-kun, if you are hiding something, just tell us. We are there for you.", Ichi the queen spoke kindly.

"It's nothing!", Sena yelled at them angrily.

Seeing the tension rising up, Ichi fell in tears and spoke,

"When are you going to learn to be a proper prince? After your father, you are going to be the next king. You also need to be a good husband to Mado-chan. We heard from her what you said to her. She said you disrespected her and also said you don't want to marry her."

Sena sighed in anger and declared, "Yes I did. What she said was true. Father, Mother. I don't love her. All she wants is be the next queen. She doesn't care about me, she just pretends to love me! I don't want to marry a girl like her! I would rather stay single instead of marrying her!"

"SENA!", Nao yelled at him strictly.

"No more word from you! Go to your room!", he ordered Sena.

Sena rolled his eyes and went to his room. He found Mado outside his room there.

"What are you doing here?", he asked her.

"I just wanted to say, you can't escape our marriage now.", Mado replied and went away with a smirk. Sena yelled at her,

"Don't cross your limits!", and went inside his room.

Meanwhile on Ichi and Nao's side...

"Nao-kun, you didn't have to be so strict on him. Besides we both know the true nature of Mado.", Ichi tried calming him down.

Nao clenched his teeth, "We know! I know! But we still couldn't avoid accepting their marriage! What kind of a father am I?!"

Ichi spoke, "In that case, I'm a bad mother too.", and went to her room. While Nao sat there crying.

TO BE CONTINUED

And this was it for the chapter, I hope you enjoyed reading it. The next chapter will probably be short and mostly a flashback, so to erase confusion beforehand, I'll explain the family tree of Sena and Mado. I was a bit confused writing the family trees myself. So here goes..

SENA

1) ? (mother of Nao, grandmother of Sena) = Asu (mother of Nao, grandmother of Sena)

1.2) Nao (son of Asu, father of Sena) = Ichi (stated below)

2.1) Sena (son of Nao, cousin of Mado, grandson of Asu) = ?

MADOKA

1) Tai (father of Ichi and Rai, grandfather of Mado) = Rin (mother of Ichi and Rai, grandmother of Mado)

1.2) Ichi (older daughter of Rin and Rai, older sister of Rai) = Nao (stated above)

1.2) Rai (younger son of Rin and Rai, younger brother of Ichi) = Noe (younger sister of Sei, mother of Mado)

2.1) Mado (daughter of Rai and Noe) = ?

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Okay this was really confusing for myself too, I hope you understood. Tai is Taichi Hoshimiya, Rin is Ringo Hoshimiya, Rai is Raichi Hoshimiya, Noe is Noelle Otoshiro, Sei is Seira Otoshiro, Asu is Asuka Amahane. And of course, Nao is Naoto Suzukawa and Ichi is Ichigo Hoshimiya. Even though this is not Ichigo and Naoto's love story, I still put them together ;) and don't be worrying about Tiara, Naoto's sister. She'll appear later as well, but just not as Nao's older sister. Enjoy!