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Chapter 3: The Bachelors
- Hyuuga Mansion-
Mikan's P.O.V.
I never thought although I'm the heiress of Sakura Enterprise, that I would inherit this huge antique mansion, and take note once belong to a courtier, it's an honour for me to live here.
-End of P.O.V-
"Whoa this mansion is sure big! Yuriko-san is this for real, cause I don't want to wake up anymore" mikan asked childishly
"Hahaha…don't worry mikan-sama it's all yours" Yuriko answered the question gladly
-Central Building-
A/N: The mansion is really big, so they decided to put division in every hallway. Central building is the main building of Hyuuga Mansion
" This is the Central Building, the main building of Hyuuga mansion. Before, Hyuuga household often used it as a court for holding important announcement and sometimes use it for a large banquet. This mansion is quite big for the two of you, so you can invite your friends to come here and visit you or if you want let them stay here for a week, perhaps a vacation will do."
"Yeah, that would be a great idea, I'll call, Anna,Nonoko and Iinchou to come here and take a vacation from their schools, I'm sure they will be really glad!"
" But, you have to watch them, they shouldn't go far beyond the limits" yuriko reminded
"I know"
" If you really have to do something, that you aren't suppose to do, you have to do it, and human called it responsibility. So if you really going to take them here, you should know the consequences mikan-sama."
"You don't have to remind me, I'm already sixteen, I know what I'm doing and I'll take the responsibility if anything happens, so stop lecturing me for being lack of responsibility, you really like oji-san when you talk like that, if you don't stop I'm really going to call you oji-san! Neh Ojisan!
" Hnn…" yuriko replied irritated
"This mansion is mysterious, it was too big and old and the owner who sold this mansion to your grandpa said to be disappeared after he sold it, and no one really knows where that man went or what happened to him, there are rumours spreading in town that the owner of this mansion is not human"
"Haha…Hey Oji-san don't overstate it you really look an old man when you're telling those stories. Well it's not our fault if you don't get married." Mikan said teasing the young man
"Waaaaahhhh… you little brat" he chase the poor girl and hit her w/ his book of files. While mikan bit his right hand and got the chance to kick him in that 'part', and she run and got caught all the way and vice-versa.
A/N: Where's Hotaru? Well she's in her caterpillar type of sleeping bag, she always bring it, Yeah, she reminds of someone. She opened her caterpillar and watched the two idiots wrestling and exchanging their blows.
"Wawaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh hotaruuuuuu…sniff. Sniff" reaching Hotaru w/ her arms
Begging for help…but Hotaru ignored her, what do you expect from the ice princess while eating her favourite ramen.
"Why you… get back here, I'm not yet done…" yuriko stated furiously
"It has been two hours since they started running, aren't they tired playing w/ each other?" Hotaru thought, but suddenly she heard something rustling coming from the bushes
A/N: Hey, the mansion was design like: there's a mini quadrangle in the center, and when you look at the top, there wasn't any ceiling it was open-air type, and they put some plants there like an open-air mini garden they really put it on purpose, a place like heaven.
Hotaru noticed that there was moving behind the bushes, she dragged her caterpillar, and when she was about to open it, a boy with silver hair, a chubby face, rosy cheek, and in his 3 yrs. He noticed that a young lady was staring at her, as a kid he didn't care whether the people he's accompanying is good or bad.
He looked at Hotaru intently and gave her an innocent smile, that make our ice princess raised a brow knowing Hotaru she just still wearing those cold expression, but suddenly she noticed a man wearing plain white shirt and not so good black slack and a hat.
Looking in his expression he seems tired looking for something but more exactly someone, she walked towards where the man is, and she asked " are you searching something?" w/ this question the man turned and found our little ice princess in front of him? "Blink blink" and looked at her
"Waaaaahhhhhh…." The man shouted with shocking expressions that caused him step backwards "BAKA…you don't have to shout me" as she pulled her famous BAKA gun, and shoot it
"Bulls eye" all she muttered and the poor man sent flying and land on the other side of the mini garden, and the other two idiots are still chasing each other.
The two suddenly stop playing and noticed a man who is in sixties crawling on the ground, he didn't take the action he got from our ice princess, the two who are playing stop doing their business instead they watched the old man who is dying in agony and crawling toward the near bench, and mikan, knowing our protagonist she dashed towards the old man's direction, mikan looked the old man w/ her worried expression "Hey what happened to you Ojisan?"
"My son…" that's all he muttered and lost his consciousness, mikan panicked and didn't know what to do, Yuriko-san who's sipping his teaA/N: sit like Japanese styledashed off to where the old man, Yuriko brought the old man in a VIP roomA/N: yuriko already familiarized the placemikan look very worried
"Don't worry he's just tired he'll wake up soon" Yuriko comforted the young lady
After an hour:
"Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh" the two idiot said unison, the door suddenly opening slowly with a creaked sound that sent the three with a chill which made them shiver. It was the ice princess the two jaw dropped watching the ice princess making her way while dragging her caterpillar.
"Oi Hotaru, where have you been, we thought that you lost somewhere We were really worried" mikan muttered making a concern façade on her angelic face
"BAKA you left me" Hotaru mumbled giving a death glare to mikan with it's –your-fault-Baka look.
"Hahaha" while laughing nervously afraid of what Hotaru can do to her. Mikan noticed Hotaru's caterpillar moving by itself
"Eeeeeeehhkk…" mikan screeched while pointing the moving thing
"what?"
"It's…it's moving"
Hotaru opened the zipper and land in her face a cute boy smiling at her "tou-san…tou-san" while pointing the man lying on bed, Hotaru take the boy and put it besides the man who's unconscious until now, mikan looking with disbelief where did her best friend find it " where did you get that?" waiting Hotaru to reply but she suddenly
"Eeeeeeehhh…don't tell me it's your kid?" with shocking expression pointing the kid, Hotaru gave mikan a death glare and of course being Hotaru she took out her famous Baka gun and shoot our poor protagonist.
"Say it again and you're dead" and our poor mikan sent flying for ninth time.
-After a while-
The old man gained his consciousness and looked at his side and found his little so called "son" tapping him happily while seeing his tou-san already awake "tou-san…tou-san" the three people who are chatting stopped and went to find if the old man was already awake. The boy who is now laughing while happily playing with his tou-san abruptly noticed the three who are already present at their side.
"How are you Ojisan? Are you feeling okay now?" mikan asked smiling at the old man
"Hai… arigatou gozaimasu mikan-sama"
"Eeeeeeehhhh, you know me" the auburn girl asked pointing herself"
"Hai…"
"Shuichiro Yamamoto, 62 years old, blood type O, job: gardener" yuriko inform the two while flipping his book of records
"Hai… namae wa shuichiro desu mikan-sama"
" Hey Yuriko- san, where did you get those infos?" pointing the records he is holding
"Eto- concerning about that matters, I decided to get all the information of every members of sakura household, so we will know who are living here and who are trespassing.
whereas on the other hand the kid who is already tired of watching to the conversation cling into his tou-san insisting that he already want to sleep "tou-san…sleep…sleep" while rubbing his eyes in a cute manner.
"kawai…"mikan giggled
" Ojisan is that your kid?" the old man sigh and gave mikan a warm smile
"I'll be really glad if I become his true father"
"eh? What do you mean? giving the man a quizzical look
" the truth is we're not related"
" ehh why he's calling you like his own father?"
"It was a year ago when I found him near the fountain; I don't know how he got there"
-Flashback-
(Central Building, Mini Garden)
"Yosh! I have to work hard" he noticed a small thing sleeping near the fountain " I already told them that this place is already sold and touring is banned" but what he saw was unexpected before his eyes. A kid in his 2 years. With silver hair, chubby cheeks, sleeping under the fountain, whispering while sleeping "tou-san…tou-san" and a tear drop roll in his cute face. And so after that no one claim to be his parents so I decided to raise him as my own child.
End Of The Flashback-
"But the way he get here is too way mysterious after all" Mikan mumbled w/ suspicious look in her face.
"Well I guess that part must remain hidden for our own sake"
"Eh? What do you mean by that Yuriko-san?"
"Nothing, it's just that this mansion is too creepy"
"First impression last. But this mansion is near to my heart , so I'm really sad every time I hear those gossip thing about this mansion" the old man muttered w/ a sad expression?
"Ojisan, is there something you don't want us to know about this mansion?"
"Well I suppose I have to tell it with you then besides you're going to live here anyway, the secret of this mansion"
"Secret?"
"It's been four hundred years ago, this Mansion was known by its beautiful name on it, great reputation, envied by the courtiers, and once home by a king. This mansion was owned by a great courtier…
-Flashback-
-400 years ago-
"I now present to you the majestic and honourable ruler… Your excellent Lord Shinji Hyuuga"
Enormous claps, cheers where present, and amazing compliments where offered to the ruler. This Old man, who has the power to turn the world upside down, make anyone his slave, a rival, a partner, a friend, and a lover, was destined to withdraw from its own battle because of his incurable illness, from this matter he will make a decision that will overwhelm his own title by his own name and by his own blood…
-Lord Shinji Hyuuga's Chamber-
"…(cough)…(cough)… you came" the old man mumbled w/ a weak smile
"Hnn…"
"I thought that you are still mad at me because of what I did to you… (Cough)… (Cough)"
"You're too noisy…it might get worst"
"You still care for me (cough) even (cough) I cast you away"
"Don't be stubborn old man…"
"I'm sorry my son"
"Hnn…"
-S I L E N C E -
"Why did you call me?"
"(cough)…(cough)…" the old man removed the ring from his hand and hand over to his son.
"What do you want me to do with this?"
"Take that, it symbolizes that my authority has been given to you"
"What? Thanks, but I don't want anything coming from you"
"You have to keep it, it's a charm from our ancestors, and anything you wished from it will come true"
"Have you been reading your collection of Arabian Nights lately?" not believing what his father's talking about
"I'll be glad, If I have time for it"
"Just keep it, I'm not giving this to you just to force you to replace me and continue our business, I'm too tired, all I want is to rest."
" I want you to keep it like there's no tomorrow, I know that you are mad at me, they said I'm the world's greatest ruler, everyone adores me, everyone envied me, everyone wants to know me, but they never know that the true person they adored was hiding behind his own shadow… the true me is never been good with others and most was being hated by his own son."
"Are you done?"
"Yes I 'am"
"I have to go"
As the old man watch his son leaving him, parting with his own blood who never felt the love he's looking for…
"Wait…"
"What?" he stops but never looks back
"I didn't kill her…"
"…"
"I send her to the future"
"What do you mean?" as he looks back and confronted the old man
"I'm sorry but I don't have time to tell you everything, my time in this world is no longer running… but the ring, the ring will reveal everything, everything you want to know… just believe and it will make everything possible… goodbye my son" as the old man closed his eyes, and shut his ears from the world he once homed"
"wa—wait…"
-Three Days After the Burial -
"So… what are you going to do with all this inheritance? Want to go to the town, you're rich, you're smart, you're good looking… aBachelor, if I we're you I'm not going to waste my time, mourning w/ that kind of person" koko muttered
"Why you … insolent brat, you don't have right to talk to him like that!" the corn yellow haired guy yelled
"But it's all true, Natsume could've been happy now with his son and his wife, but what that old man does? He parted away the three, and forced his own decision. And after that day we've never seen natsume smiling again, never! He didn't even bother to talk to us."
"But you don't have to say it bec—"
"Yuu, koko stop it, you guys won't help" interrupt by a yellow haired guy with emerald eyes.
"but Ruka, koko doesn't have any right to talk like that"
"Yuu stop it already, and besides Natsume will not care anymore"
" a young man in his formal black attire w/ serious crimson eyes stand from where he is and look towards his companions…"
"I want to go to the future" commanded by this young man looking at the ring w/ seriousness in his words.
His friend who's looking at him went dumbfounded on what they heard…
"Haha. Natsume's sometimes act like a weirdo neh?" sweat dropped
"shut up koko" contradicted by a young guy w/ glasses
"Natsume, daijabou?" asked by his bestfriend
"I want to go to the future."
"Huh-?"
"Father told me, he didn't kill Yuria, he sent her to the future"
"Well, if that's true, how?"
"With this" Natsume whispered as he raised his hand holding the ring
and a massive light enveloped the whole room-
"hey, what's happening?"
"I don't know…."
"hey wait… where are you?"
"I can't see…. It's too bright"
"what's going on? I don't want to die…."
"hey wai-."
And they hear something…
Something like…
A voice….
" Fly high….."
"sleep tight…."
"when time comes…"
"your heart itself…"
"will never lie…"
"when time comes, my heart will never lie" repeated by the ravened haired guy. As he welcomed his ceaseless slumber with its sweet curse.
-End of the Flashback-
And after that incident no one see them again, and only a piece of painting that the cops found, was only the evidence they find, and after so many years the court trashed the case about the missing bachelors and jump to the conclusion that they are already dead…
"but the truth was.." asked by the auburn haired girl
"they'aren't my lady, and when the time comes that his heart found the girl, they will wake up from their own slumber, and free from the curse…
The place was covered with silence and only the auburn haired girl confidently broke it w/ a question . . .
"It's hard to believe, but I really don't get it ojisan…can you repeat it again form the start?" and in one blow, the girl sent flying…..again…!
"BAKA…"
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