Chapter 3- A Broken Heart Is Healed
As the feast continued on around her, Misaki with drew herself from the conversations. Only her mother, Aunt and Oujirou seemed to notice. The feast began to end but she hardly took notice of it.
" Well that was lovely!" Sayaka exclaimed. Everyone nodded their heads in happy agreement.
" So as the night is still young, lets continue this marvelous atmosphere in the ballroom. We have a special orchestra visiting our beautiful town, and so they were honored to help me out with the music. Enjoy!" she said happily as she lead the group into the large ballroom. The band bowed as she introduced them and began playing.
The Queen had also taken the liberty to invite other important Ladies and Lords from the area and they began turning up soon after. After everyone began dancing and introducing themselves to the new arrivals, Shuuko took her daughter for a walk on the balcony.
" Misaki, what is wrong?" she asked softly. Misaki turned to her and smiled sadly, but didn't answer, instead she just looked out over the castle gardens.
" Is it because of what Oujirou said at dinner? About having a father again?" she asked, hoping to get an answer this time. Misaki nodded her head. A tear slowly made its way down her cheek. Shuuko lead Misaki to a bench and made her sit. She kneeled in front of the saddened girl wiping away the tear that marked her cheek.
" I'm so sorry Misaki, why didn't you tell me this was how you felt?" she asked softly. Misaki sighed.
" Because I didn't want you to think that I wanted a father because I didn't love you anymore," she whispered. Shuuko gasped.
" OH Misaki I would never think that! It's just that I've never really wanted to get close to anyone since your father died. And it's completely normal that you would want a father," she said moving some hair out of Misaki's face. Misaki smiled.
" Its ok I'm just being stupid its ok really I don't mind," she said trying to sound happy, but her mother knew otherwise.
Unbeknown to the two, they were being watched. Oujirou had come out on the balcony to get out of the crowd inside. He didn't realize that Misaki and her mother had come out here. When he heard them talking he hid and listened.
" You know eavesdropping is a bad habit," a voice said from behind him. He spun around and came face to face with Ichiro.
" What are you doing out here?" Oujirou asked. He shrugged. A knowing smile crept up Oujirou's face.
" You came out here to see Shuuko didn't you?" Oujirou asked. Ichiro leapt on him and covered Oujirou's mouth with his hand.
" Shh you idiot! I don't want her to hear us!" Oujirou chuckled as much as he could with a hand covering his mouth. Ichiro let him go. While the pair had been arguing with each other, Shuuko had gone back into the ballroom, but Misaki had stayed where she was. Ichiro had hurried into the ballroom in search of Shuuko while Oujirou had gone to see Misaki.
" May I sit here?" She looked up to see who it was, and smiled a small smile when she saw that it was Oujirou.
" Yes," she said softly. He sat next to her and the pair sat in silence seemingly forever until Oujirou finally broke it.
" Are you ok Misaki? I didn't mean to upset you at dinner," he said softly turning towards her. She smiled at him sadly.
" Its ok really, don't worry about it," she replied forcing a smile to her lips. He knew that she was lying, but could do nothing about it. They sat together not talking again. Each just looking out over the gardens below.
'How the hell am I going to ask her to dance with me?' He asked himself
' Well you could start off with… would you like to dance with me? That's always helpful. Gets the point across.'
' Oh shut up know it all.' Oujirou argued with himself.
' Just here to help my friend.'
' Yeah well you aren't making things any easier.' Oujirou thought to himself.
' Well stop being such a girl and just ask her already!'
' Fine! Now go away.' he argued again. After he finished arguing with himself, he still found that he was still too nervous to ask her to dance. So he sat there watching her out of the corner of his eyes. ' JUST DO IT!' The voice shouted in his head.
" Misaki would you like to dance with me?" Oujirou asked so suddenly that it stunned Misaki. She jumped.
" Sorry?" she asked confused. He smiled.
" Would you like to dance with me?" he asked again. She blushed. He stood up in front of her and held out his hand. Her blushed deepened. She placed her hand in his and he pulled her to her feet and led her back to the dance floor. They began dancing and Misaki could only blush more. People had begun to stare at them in awe.
Sayaka, Shuuko and Shaoran had been standing on the throne podium talking when they saw the pair move onto the floor and start dancing. They heard the ohh's and ahh's, as the pair continued seemingly not noticing that all eyes were on them.
" Oh don't they just look so beautiful together?" Sayaka asked the pair standing with her. Shuuko and Shaoran nodded their heads in agreement.
" I didn't even know Misaki could dance," Shuuko said, her eyes not leaving the dancing pair.
" That would be because I taught her," a voice said from behind and Shuuko turned around to see Hikaru coming towards them.
" When? I mean I didn't even notice she had time," Shuuko asked the smiling guardian.
" Well I thought it would be a good idea that she learn. I wasn't sure how this meeting would go and I know that the queen likes having balls and dancing so I thought it best that Misaki learnt just in case," Hikaru said smiling.
" I hope you don't mind," she added her smile dropping. But Shuuko smiled back.
" Well thank-you for doing that Hikaru, I didn't even think of that," Shuuko said smiling in appreciation.
" Oh it was my pleasure."
The group smiled at each other and continued to watch the young pair move around the dance floor. Everyone else had stopped dancing and moved to the side to watch as the pair floated across the floor. Oujirou's eyes were on Misaki and he was smiling happily at her. Misaki however was staring at his chest. A deep blush permanently gracing her cheeks as she realized the closeness that they were staring. Yet she still couldn't help but smile at the way they were dancing together. It was like they had danced this way for many years yet she had never met him before.
" May I have the pleasure of this dance?" Shaoran asked Sayaka, bowing before her.
" Why yes good sir of course," she said curtseying and taking his offered hand. He led her to the floor and the two began dancing. Shuuko stood where she was and smiled at her daughter.
" Excuse me ma'am would you care to dance?" a voice asked from behind her. She turned around and came face to face with Ichiro. He bowed to her and held out his hand. She began to blush, but took his hand and let him lead her to the dance floor beside the other two dancing couples. The crowd smiled as they watched the three couples dancing around the floor.
" Doesn't Misaki look so beautiful?" Hatoko said sighing happily as she watched her friend dancing beautifully.
" Yes she does. And the two look so happy together. I think this could be the start of something special between Misaki and Oujirou," Sai said from behind her. Kaede smiled happily as Hatoko turned around to look at them.
" Oh yeah! go Misaki!" Tamayo yelled out.
" Tamayo stop yelling you'll distract her," Kotarou said as he tried to settle his girlfriend down.
" Your just jealous because you cant dance like Mr. Oujirou," she said locking him in a head lock. The group laughed as Kotarou struggled to get out of her grip to no avail.
The song finally ended, thus stopping the dancing couples. Oujirou bowed to Misaki who in return curtsied, still blushing furiously.
" Thank you for dancing with me Misaki, you are quite a good dancer," he said smiling at her as they walked to the side of the dance floor as the orchestra struck up another song. She blushed.
" Thank you. Hikaru taught me to dance before we came just in case your mother decided to have a ball," she explained. Oujirou laughed. Before Misaki new it she was engulfed in a hug.
" Wow Misaki! That was great. I'm so glad I decided to teach you. You looked so beautiful out there!" Hikaru said as she continued to hug Misaki who began blushing even more.
" It was all thanks to you though Hikaru," she said smiling sheepishly. Oujirou just watched as the pair kept talking. After Hikaru finally let Misaki go she looked at Oujirou and smiled blushing.
" Hikaru I would like you to meet prince Oujirou. Oujirou this is my guardian Hikaru," she said introducing the pair. Hikaru quickly remembered her place and curtsied to the prince.
" I'm so sorry, that was rude of me to just cut in," she said apologizing. Oujirou just smiled.
" No no that's quite alright," he replied.
" Wow Misaki! You're the best! I have never seen you dance before but boy you looked good together," Tamayo said as she bounded over to her friend and promptly slapped Oujirou on the back, everyone guessing to congratulate him. He just looked back at her astonished. The rest of the group followed her over.
Misaki began introducing the rest of the group.
" This is Kaede and her guardian blanche. Then Sai and her guardian Shirahime. Hatoko and her guardian Suzuka. The only boy is Kotarou and lastly that is Tamayo," she said as she pointed each person out to him. The all greeted him with hello's and curtsied or bowed. At that point wizard had come over.
" Everyone I would like you to meet my guardian wizard, he said introducing him to the group in front of them.
" Its nice to meet you all," he said in a soft voice. In return he got a round of happy hello's and had soon found himself being dragged of by the other guardians. The group just laughed as he turned back and mouthed the words 'help me'.
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