Mine Chapter 4
Title: Mine
Author: hikarijournal
Rating: PG -13
Pairings: Takaki/Chinen, Yamada/Chinen, Yuto/Chinen, hinted: Ryutaro will appear too.
Genre: Romance, Angst, Love, Mystery, Suspense
Warning: Yuri is a girl here. Ryutaro will appear on the later part of the chapters.
Summary: Yuri is a girl full of wit and vigor. Even though her family is so poor and her schooling is just covered by scholarship, she is very happy already. Everything on her life is just normal until one day she meets three strangers who mess up her life in the game of love and money. After that, everything change and so her identity.
Yamada Ryosuke: You’re my Sleeping Beauty… I’ll wake you up with my sweetest kiss.
Nakajima Yuto: You’re my Snow White… I’ll eat the poisoned apple just for you to see how much I care.
Takaki Yuya: You’re my Cinderella… I’ll stop the time before twelve midnight just to have you with me forever.
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Chapter 4
Me and The Past
CHAPTER LINKS HERE~
When I was young, I’ve always dreamed to be a princess where I can spend my entire time being pleased by servants and being loved by everyone. I thought having a life like that is so wonderful since you could have everything you want. But now, I’m in doubt if I’m ready to face the reality that I am really a princess who will soon to be the most important person in my country. I’m confused, nervous and scared on what lies ahead me since every threat are now coming one after another. Now I’m asking myself… Am I bless or not?... Am I lucky or not?... Am I safe or not?... and Am I still in lies or not?...
In my new world where I’m still unfamiliar with, three persons who were once strangers are now living under me or rather working under me. The first one who arrived to become my servant is Nakajima Yuto. He was the stranger who tricked me by using an apple which was mine in the first place. I kissed him accidentally and I was so embarrassed during that time but I had forgiven him already since he was the first one who made it possible for me to meet my parents. He told me that he likes me that’s why he took the job and I’m not convinced by that because who in the earth will take a job with a reason like that?... so stupid. The second one who arrived is Takaki Yuya. The guy who stole my first kiss and the first guy who made a pinkie swear with me. He’s quite annoying and I don’t get him at all. He told me that love will definitely entangle us and he’ll do everything for that. Is that possible?... I mean that kind of relationship only happens in dramas or movies but in reality---I don’t think so. I’m pissed off everytime I look straight into his eyes because I can see how pervert he is and it makes me feel---Eeeew! But I admit that somehow he’s a good person who is willing to break a law just to make someone happy just like what he did after he kidnapped me. He brought me to my school which gives me a chance to meet my bestfriend Yuki whom I missed so much. I was thankful to him during that time but that was all an act because he just brought me there so that he can have me all alone… so stupid. The third one and hoping the last one is Yamada Ryosuke. He’s the one who kissed me in my most vulnerable state.
And the worst is I kissed back. I can’t help it because I thought I’m in a dream eating an orange which was seldom bought by my foster parents---forget this. He told me that he accept the job because he wants to make friends with me and this gives me a doubt since again who in earth is going to take a job with that reason… for the third time so stupid. I may not know them yet but little by little I notice something and I’m still uncovering everything beyond that something. These three have something in common but I hope the theories I had in mind are wrong since I’m starting to fall in love to someone who is also among them. And hoping I made a right choice…
“Head Empress… Lady Yuri is here to talk to you…” informed by the butler after giving a curtsy to the woman seated before the table.
“Let her in…” she nodded with her hands busy fixing the messy documents on top of her table.
The butler paces toward the door and opens it for the princess to enter. “Please come in Milady…” he instructed courteously while waiving a hand from Yuri to the chair situated at the table across where the Head Empress is seated.
“Thank you…” Yuri replied while striding her way to the chair being offered. “Grandma…”
“Please sit down…”
Yuri takes her seat while making an effort to straighten her back without touching the back rest of the chair. It’s the most modest way of sitting among monarchs and she’s trying her best to be like one. “Can I ask you something?...” she asked in a very polite tone.
“If this is about the incidents that happened for the last three succeeding days… you don’t have to worry dear… you’re safe…” she assured.
“I know that you’re doing your best to keep me safe but I’m here not because of that…” she justified.
“So what’s the reason of your visit then?...”
“I want to know the details of my parents death?...” she asked and the Head Empress heave a great sigh in response. “Please…” she begged.
“It’s not that I don’t want to tell you… but it’s kind of----”
“I don’t care…” Yuri cut in immediately.
The Head Empress gives a gesture to her butler to leave and after the man abides, she turn her sight back to the princess. “Ok then… but I can’t give complete details since the reason of your parent’s death is still unsolved…”
“Why?...”
“I’m afraid so that I can’t answer that…” She arises from her seat and extends a hand to the girl. “I think it’s better for us to talk in the couch…”
Yuri accepted the hand and followed the pace of the old woman until they sit on the couch.
“About what I had said a while ago… I can’t answer your question because I was not here during the time when my sister, who is your real grandmother, decided to stop the investigation… I can’t blame her because the country was on recession that time and she needs to cope up for the lost…” she pulled an album which was placed under the center table and laid it over the lap of the girl. “That was also the time when she decides to put you under the care of your foster parents…” she added.
Yuri starts flipping the pages of the album and the picture of her parents surprised her a lot. “I look exactly like my mother…” she muttered before gazing back to the old woman.
“Yes… and it scared me a lot…” she palmed the face of the girl gently while brushing the bangs that covers the eyes with her other hand. “One of the possible reasons of your parent’s death was the threat given to your mother on her wedding day…”
“What was that threat?...”
“To kill her family if she marries your father…”
“What are you doing here?...” Umika asked while gazing at the guy standing at her back through the mirror before her.
“To see my bride in her gown…” Chinen retorted. He embraced his bride from the back while staring at their image before the mirror. “I’m so glad to have you as my wife…”
“Really?...” she leans her head to the chest while holding the arm that was enclosed by the guy around her shoulder.
“Of course… I decided on you remember?...”he whispered on the ear trying to tickle his bride with his breath.
“Yeah… I remember how you kneeled on your mother just to have me as your bride instead on the one who has been decided for you…” she replied while brushing the guy away. “Stop that…”she chuckled and this excites the guy to proceed on canoodling her. “Enough!...”
“Yada~” he persists on kissing as he cuddle the girl more into his arms until someone knocks on the door. He straightens himself up, trying to clear his throat at the same time and the girl chuckled at him. “Come in…”
“I’m sorry for intruding... I’m here to send a letter to Umika ojousama…” Tanaka handed a small envelop to the bride while giving a curtsy subsequently. “It has a seal so I think it’s urgent for you to read this Milady…” he explained and the girl received it right away.
“Who send this?...” Chinen asked while gawking at the envelope being opened by his bride by now.
“Oh my God…” Umika reacted first, before the butler could tell the name of the sender. “Why is he doing this?...” she muttered.
“What’s wrong?...” Chinen grabs the letter from her bride. He read it as soon as he laid eyes on it and this irritates him. “That idiot!!!...” he throws the letter back to the butler with rage and total hatred. “Do something about that Tanaka… kill him if possible…”
“No don’t!!!...” Umika objected while clinging on the arm of her groom.
“This is for your safety… and I don’t want him to take you away from me again…”he justified.
“But I don’t want you to order stuff like killing someone!...”
“But---”
“Don’t please...” she begged.
“So who was the guy who threat my mother?...” Yuri asked after the Head Empress ended her story.
“Saitama Haruhi…” she replied while flipping the next page of the album. “He is your father’s childhood friend who happened to be his rival to everything also…” she points a finger to a guy standing beside Chinen on the picture taken in a royal ball or party. “That’s him…”
Yuri stared at the one being emphasized by the Head Empress and this gives her an impression of supremacy. “He’s quite formidable…”
“Of course… because his family is as wealthy as our family…” she clarified after closing the album.
“Why did you close it?...” Yuri asked seemed surprise to the sudden action of the old woman.
“Because you’re here to know the reasons of your parent’s death…” she returned the album back to where it was placed and grabs some old newspaper in exchange. “And not to look at the pictures in the photo album…” she continued.
“I’m sorry…”
“It’s ok…” she smiled while flipping the pages of the newspaper this time. “This is the other reason that most of the people believed in…” she showed the text on the paper entitled ‘Emperor Chinen Committed Suicide with his Wife’ “And this is the reason why I’m quite hesitant to tell you about their death…”
“This can’t be possible…” Yuri protested, narrowing an eye to the newspaper. “Why would they commit suicide?...”
“Many say because of the downfall of the countries’ economy and lot of business and political problems…” she rolled the newspaper and put it out of sight just to calm the girl a little. “I don’t believe them of course because your father is not that weak to commit suicide and your mother is so worried about you that she can’t even leave you alone with your nannies…” she clasps the hand of the girl and pull it toward her lap. “Your mother always dreams to be with you until you grow up and that is already a proof that suicide is not the cause of her death…”
“So grandma… I mean your sister… asked someone to do the investigation?...”
“Yes…”
“So what did they found out?...”
“They can’t conclude if it was a suicide or a homicide… because there are no certain evidences to prove either of the two… that’s why until now the cause of their death is unclear…”
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Yuto has been leaning at the door of the car since the princess entered the main palace. He was instructed to stay there together with the other guy---the bodyguard. “This is your fault…” he uttered out of the blue.
Yuya smirked after hearing the blame being thrown at him by the boy. “Are you saying that because of me you can’t flirt with her anymore…”
“I’m saying that because of you she lost her trust on me!...”
“Why?... did she ever trust you?...”
“Stop mocking at me…” he warned, pulling the collar of the guy toward him and this heated them to an argument again.
“Why don’t we finish the fight that was halted by the princess then?...” Yuya grabbed a handful coat and pulled the boy closer to him. He aimed a pointed object coming from his pocket to the stomach which clicks the moment he moved his fingers inside. “Ooops… I forgot he’s a bodyguard so absolutely he has a gun…” he tipped off, sounding himself like Yuto as he expects the boy to say the same thing.
“Don’t underestimate me…” Yuto countered, slipping a small blade from his sleeves to his fingers before aiming it to the neck of the guy. “I’m a butler… so absolutely I have a knife to cut something…” he grinned, pinning the sharp edge of the blade into the jaw. “And it is not a simple blade Mr. Bodyguard… it has something on it…”
“Oh really?... then bring it on…” he nudge the gun more further but before he can position his finger to the trigger and before Yuto can cut a flesh on his jaw someone intervened.
“What’s this?...” Yamada interrupt while munching an orange he just peeled. “Are you two hugging or about to kill each other?...” he asked while approaching the two who seemed to be too focus on their own businesses. “Ne! Ne!... why are you ignoring me Ni----” he was shut when Yuya covered his mouth with a hand. “Mmmmmm!!!!...” he tried to struggle but Yuto restraint him from behind while twisting and pinning his arm on his back. (in his thoughts----“Why am I always in this situation?...”)
“Shut up!!!...” exclaimed by the two while gazing everywhere, looking for someone who could have overheard them. Fortunately, only street dogs and cars that are wooooshing before them are present.
“Shut your mouth and don’t you dare!!!... if you still care about your life!...” Yuya forewarned before freeing the boy from his hand.
“And don’t butt in!!!...” Yuto added after pushing Yamada on the ground.
“Why are you two such a meanie!!!...” Yamada whined while stretching his tormented arm.
“Because you’re annoying!!!...” replied by the two.
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“Milady… allow me to accompany you until we reach the gate…” the butler of the Head Empress offered.
“No thanks… I can walk alone…” she refused while striding her way out from the office. “Don’t worry… I’ll be fine…” she assured the man one more time before she bid her curtsy which was returned by the butler graciously. She walks slowly, buying more time to see the view inside the palace and also to avoid the two scumbags waiting at her outside the gate. Thinking on all the information she had surmised from the Head Empress, her mind wondered if there is a connection between the threats she had experience for the last three days, to the threat received by her mother. “Why am I the only one who can see that boy?...” she muttered, thinking that maybe the boy is a ghost or something, but she is also hoping not. “Is he stalking me?...” she questioned herself.
“I’m not stalking you!...”
Yuri turned around, looking to where the answer came from and found the boy who’s always present everytime a threat is happening to her. “You!...” she points a finger and the boy run away immediately. “Wait!...” she exclaimed while catching up from behind. Her high heels are killing her feet thus she take them out and just leave them somewhere. “Stop running and face me!!!...” she ordered.
The boy ignored her as he keeps on running while glancing behind from time to time just to check if she is still following. And she is really just behind, trying to catch up. He lures Yuri to the pool where there is no one around to hear and see them. He turns around to face her properly for the first time since this is the moment he has been waiting for. “Yuri…” he muffled.
“Who are you?...” she asked while panting to her knees.
“No one…” he replied conceitedly.
“I’m not playing at you!!!... now answer me!...” she is now totally pissed off.
“It’s not important for you to know me but it is important for you to know them…”
“What are you talking about?...”
“I don’t want to see them suffering because of you…” he voiced out while approaching the girl slowly.
“Who are you referring to?...” she asked while keeping herself from where she is standing at.
“They will end up killing each other because of you…” he stopped after establishing a feet away distance from the girl. “And I don’t want that to happen…” he gripped her arms with his hands tight enough to cause her pain. “That’s why I need to get rid of you…” he dragged the girl toward the pool and struggling between them starts.
“Get off me!!!... I don’t understand you!!!... why are you doing this to me?!!!...” Yuri protested while keeping herself away from the gutter but the boy is too strong for her. She tried to maintain her balance but the more she struggle, the more she is pushed toward the water. “Ah!...” she screamed when one of her foot slipped at the edge of the gutter and all the way to the water. She tried to cling on the boy but her abdomen was kicked hardly that her entire body smashed on the surface of the water. Yuri has no idea on how deep is the pool--- and she has no desire to find out because she is not a good swimmer in the first place. “Help!… help!...” she tried to scream everytime she can push herself up but waters are gushing inside her throat and it stings like hell. Slowly, her strength wanes and all she can do is to keep her mouth shut. Waters are now splashing on her eyes and she can see that the boy is talking at her but she could not hear them at all. Gradually, her consciousness starts to shut and air rushed out everytime she opens her mouth. She is now a few meters away from the surface and the figure of the boy is becoming wavy and hazy. After sinking a few more meter, the boy left her and this makes her feel hopeless. She wants some air but her legs are too tired to kick thus she closed her eyes and drift her mind on the memories she had with her foster parents and with Yuki. (in her thoughts---“This is just a dream Chi… the moment you open your eyes again… Mama and Papa are they’re smiling at you… and Yuki will visit you for some assignments…”) After thinking those thoughts, she opened her eyes and to her surprise, a finger was wrapped around her wrist and there is someone trying to pull her up to the surface.
Yuri has no single bit of breath left and the person who is pulling her noticed that. More air is gushing out her mouth and she really needs to breathe in. The guy pulled her up in a jerking motion and the moment she opened her mouth again, he pressed a lips into her. Warm breath rushed into her throat down into her lungs and somehow she managed to push the air back to the person’s mouth. While doing the resuscitation simultaneously, the guy kicks his legs to pull her up to the surface until their head stick outside the water. She was pulled by the guy toward the gutter where she coughed to spit some water she had drunk.
“Are you ok?...”
Yuri looked at the guy while catching her breath in a very fast pace. Her vision is still hazy but she is very sure that the guy who saved her is no other than him, since the resuscitation made her remind of one thing---the kiss. “I’m fine…”
“Yugatta…”
Author: hikarijournal
Rating: PG -13
Pairings: Takaki/Chinen, Yamada/Chinen, Yuto/Chinen, hinted: Ryutaro will appear too.
Genre: Romance, Angst, Love, Mystery, Suspense
Warning: Yuri is a girl here. Ryutaro will appear on the later part of the chapters.
Summary: Yuri is a girl full of wit and vigor. Even though her family is so poor and her schooling is just covered by scholarship, she is very happy already. Everything on her life is just normal until one day she meets three strangers who mess up her life in the game of love and money. After that, everything change and so her identity.
Yamada Ryosuke: You’re my Sleeping Beauty… I’ll wake you up with my sweetest kiss.
Nakajima Yuto: You’re my Snow White… I’ll eat the poisoned apple just for you to see how much I care.
Takaki Yuya: You’re my Cinderella… I’ll stop the time before twelve midnight just to have you with me forever.
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Chapter 4
Me and The Past
CHAPTER LINKS HERE~
When I was young, I’ve always dreamed to be a princess where I can spend my entire time being pleased by servants and being loved by everyone. I thought having a life like that is so wonderful since you could have everything you want. But now, I’m in doubt if I’m ready to face the reality that I am really a princess who will soon to be the most important person in my country. I’m confused, nervous and scared on what lies ahead me since every threat are now coming one after another. Now I’m asking myself… Am I bless or not?... Am I lucky or not?... Am I safe or not?... and Am I still in lies or not?...
In my new world where I’m still unfamiliar with, three persons who were once strangers are now living under me or rather working under me. The first one who arrived to become my servant is Nakajima Yuto. He was the stranger who tricked me by using an apple which was mine in the first place. I kissed him accidentally and I was so embarrassed during that time but I had forgiven him already since he was the first one who made it possible for me to meet my parents. He told me that he likes me that’s why he took the job and I’m not convinced by that because who in the earth will take a job with a reason like that?... so stupid. The second one who arrived is Takaki Yuya. The guy who stole my first kiss and the first guy who made a pinkie swear with me. He’s quite annoying and I don’t get him at all. He told me that love will definitely entangle us and he’ll do everything for that. Is that possible?... I mean that kind of relationship only happens in dramas or movies but in reality---I don’t think so. I’m pissed off everytime I look straight into his eyes because I can see how pervert he is and it makes me feel---Eeeew! But I admit that somehow he’s a good person who is willing to break a law just to make someone happy just like what he did after he kidnapped me. He brought me to my school which gives me a chance to meet my bestfriend Yuki whom I missed so much. I was thankful to him during that time but that was all an act because he just brought me there so that he can have me all alone… so stupid. The third one and hoping the last one is Yamada Ryosuke. He’s the one who kissed me in my most vulnerable state.
And the worst is I kissed back. I can’t help it because I thought I’m in a dream eating an orange which was seldom bought by my foster parents---forget this. He told me that he accept the job because he wants to make friends with me and this gives me a doubt since again who in earth is going to take a job with that reason… for the third time so stupid. I may not know them yet but little by little I notice something and I’m still uncovering everything beyond that something. These three have something in common but I hope the theories I had in mind are wrong since I’m starting to fall in love to someone who is also among them. And hoping I made a right choice…
“Head Empress… Lady Yuri is here to talk to you…” informed by the butler after giving a curtsy to the woman seated before the table.
“Let her in…” she nodded with her hands busy fixing the messy documents on top of her table.
The butler paces toward the door and opens it for the princess to enter. “Please come in Milady…” he instructed courteously while waiving a hand from Yuri to the chair situated at the table across where the Head Empress is seated.
“Thank you…” Yuri replied while striding her way to the chair being offered. “Grandma…”
“Please sit down…”
Yuri takes her seat while making an effort to straighten her back without touching the back rest of the chair. It’s the most modest way of sitting among monarchs and she’s trying her best to be like one. “Can I ask you something?...” she asked in a very polite tone.
“If this is about the incidents that happened for the last three succeeding days… you don’t have to worry dear… you’re safe…” she assured.
“I know that you’re doing your best to keep me safe but I’m here not because of that…” she justified.
“So what’s the reason of your visit then?...”
“I want to know the details of my parents death?...” she asked and the Head Empress heave a great sigh in response. “Please…” she begged.
“It’s not that I don’t want to tell you… but it’s kind of----”
“I don’t care…” Yuri cut in immediately.
The Head Empress gives a gesture to her butler to leave and after the man abides, she turn her sight back to the princess. “Ok then… but I can’t give complete details since the reason of your parent’s death is still unsolved…”
“Why?...”
“I’m afraid so that I can’t answer that…” She arises from her seat and extends a hand to the girl. “I think it’s better for us to talk in the couch…”
Yuri accepted the hand and followed the pace of the old woman until they sit on the couch.
“About what I had said a while ago… I can’t answer your question because I was not here during the time when my sister, who is your real grandmother, decided to stop the investigation… I can’t blame her because the country was on recession that time and she needs to cope up for the lost…” she pulled an album which was placed under the center table and laid it over the lap of the girl. “That was also the time when she decides to put you under the care of your foster parents…” she added.
Yuri starts flipping the pages of the album and the picture of her parents surprised her a lot. “I look exactly like my mother…” she muttered before gazing back to the old woman.
“Yes… and it scared me a lot…” she palmed the face of the girl gently while brushing the bangs that covers the eyes with her other hand. “One of the possible reasons of your parent’s death was the threat given to your mother on her wedding day…”
“What was that threat?...”
“To kill her family if she marries your father…”
“What are you doing here?...” Umika asked while gazing at the guy standing at her back through the mirror before her.
“To see my bride in her gown…” Chinen retorted. He embraced his bride from the back while staring at their image before the mirror. “I’m so glad to have you as my wife…”
“Really?...” she leans her head to the chest while holding the arm that was enclosed by the guy around her shoulder.
“Of course… I decided on you remember?...”he whispered on the ear trying to tickle his bride with his breath.
“Yeah… I remember how you kneeled on your mother just to have me as your bride instead on the one who has been decided for you…” she replied while brushing the guy away. “Stop that…”she chuckled and this excites the guy to proceed on canoodling her. “Enough!...”
“Yada~” he persists on kissing as he cuddle the girl more into his arms until someone knocks on the door. He straightens himself up, trying to clear his throat at the same time and the girl chuckled at him. “Come in…”
“I’m sorry for intruding... I’m here to send a letter to Umika ojousama…” Tanaka handed a small envelop to the bride while giving a curtsy subsequently. “It has a seal so I think it’s urgent for you to read this Milady…” he explained and the girl received it right away.
“Who send this?...” Chinen asked while gawking at the envelope being opened by his bride by now.
“Oh my God…” Umika reacted first, before the butler could tell the name of the sender. “Why is he doing this?...” she muttered.
“What’s wrong?...” Chinen grabs the letter from her bride. He read it as soon as he laid eyes on it and this irritates him. “That idiot!!!...” he throws the letter back to the butler with rage and total hatred. “Do something about that Tanaka… kill him if possible…”
“No don’t!!!...” Umika objected while clinging on the arm of her groom.
“This is for your safety… and I don’t want him to take you away from me again…”he justified.
“But I don’t want you to order stuff like killing someone!...”
“But---”
“Don’t please...” she begged.
“So who was the guy who threat my mother?...” Yuri asked after the Head Empress ended her story.
“Saitama Haruhi…” she replied while flipping the next page of the album. “He is your father’s childhood friend who happened to be his rival to everything also…” she points a finger to a guy standing beside Chinen on the picture taken in a royal ball or party. “That’s him…”
Yuri stared at the one being emphasized by the Head Empress and this gives her an impression of supremacy. “He’s quite formidable…”
“Of course… because his family is as wealthy as our family…” she clarified after closing the album.
“Why did you close it?...” Yuri asked seemed surprise to the sudden action of the old woman.
“Because you’re here to know the reasons of your parent’s death…” she returned the album back to where it was placed and grabs some old newspaper in exchange. “And not to look at the pictures in the photo album…” she continued.
“I’m sorry…”
“It’s ok…” she smiled while flipping the pages of the newspaper this time. “This is the other reason that most of the people believed in…” she showed the text on the paper entitled ‘Emperor Chinen Committed Suicide with his Wife’ “And this is the reason why I’m quite hesitant to tell you about their death…”
“This can’t be possible…” Yuri protested, narrowing an eye to the newspaper. “Why would they commit suicide?...”
“Many say because of the downfall of the countries’ economy and lot of business and political problems…” she rolled the newspaper and put it out of sight just to calm the girl a little. “I don’t believe them of course because your father is not that weak to commit suicide and your mother is so worried about you that she can’t even leave you alone with your nannies…” she clasps the hand of the girl and pull it toward her lap. “Your mother always dreams to be with you until you grow up and that is already a proof that suicide is not the cause of her death…”
“So grandma… I mean your sister… asked someone to do the investigation?...”
“Yes…”
“So what did they found out?...”
“They can’t conclude if it was a suicide or a homicide… because there are no certain evidences to prove either of the two… that’s why until now the cause of their death is unclear…”
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Yuto has been leaning at the door of the car since the princess entered the main palace. He was instructed to stay there together with the other guy---the bodyguard. “This is your fault…” he uttered out of the blue.
Yuya smirked after hearing the blame being thrown at him by the boy. “Are you saying that because of me you can’t flirt with her anymore…”
“I’m saying that because of you she lost her trust on me!...”
“Why?... did she ever trust you?...”
“Stop mocking at me…” he warned, pulling the collar of the guy toward him and this heated them to an argument again.
“Why don’t we finish the fight that was halted by the princess then?...” Yuya grabbed a handful coat and pulled the boy closer to him. He aimed a pointed object coming from his pocket to the stomach which clicks the moment he moved his fingers inside. “Ooops… I forgot he’s a bodyguard so absolutely he has a gun…” he tipped off, sounding himself like Yuto as he expects the boy to say the same thing.
“Don’t underestimate me…” Yuto countered, slipping a small blade from his sleeves to his fingers before aiming it to the neck of the guy. “I’m a butler… so absolutely I have a knife to cut something…” he grinned, pinning the sharp edge of the blade into the jaw. “And it is not a simple blade Mr. Bodyguard… it has something on it…”
“Oh really?... then bring it on…” he nudge the gun more further but before he can position his finger to the trigger and before Yuto can cut a flesh on his jaw someone intervened.
“What’s this?...” Yamada interrupt while munching an orange he just peeled. “Are you two hugging or about to kill each other?...” he asked while approaching the two who seemed to be too focus on their own businesses. “Ne! Ne!... why are you ignoring me Ni----” he was shut when Yuya covered his mouth with a hand. “Mmmmmm!!!!...” he tried to struggle but Yuto restraint him from behind while twisting and pinning his arm on his back. (in his thoughts----“Why am I always in this situation?...”)
“Shut up!!!...” exclaimed by the two while gazing everywhere, looking for someone who could have overheard them. Fortunately, only street dogs and cars that are wooooshing before them are present.
“Shut your mouth and don’t you dare!!!... if you still care about your life!...” Yuya forewarned before freeing the boy from his hand.
“And don’t butt in!!!...” Yuto added after pushing Yamada on the ground.
“Why are you two such a meanie!!!...” Yamada whined while stretching his tormented arm.
“Because you’re annoying!!!...” replied by the two.
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“Milady… allow me to accompany you until we reach the gate…” the butler of the Head Empress offered.
“No thanks… I can walk alone…” she refused while striding her way out from the office. “Don’t worry… I’ll be fine…” she assured the man one more time before she bid her curtsy which was returned by the butler graciously. She walks slowly, buying more time to see the view inside the palace and also to avoid the two scumbags waiting at her outside the gate. Thinking on all the information she had surmised from the Head Empress, her mind wondered if there is a connection between the threats she had experience for the last three days, to the threat received by her mother. “Why am I the only one who can see that boy?...” she muttered, thinking that maybe the boy is a ghost or something, but she is also hoping not. “Is he stalking me?...” she questioned herself.
“I’m not stalking you!...”
Yuri turned around, looking to where the answer came from and found the boy who’s always present everytime a threat is happening to her. “You!...” she points a finger and the boy run away immediately. “Wait!...” she exclaimed while catching up from behind. Her high heels are killing her feet thus she take them out and just leave them somewhere. “Stop running and face me!!!...” she ordered.
The boy ignored her as he keeps on running while glancing behind from time to time just to check if she is still following. And she is really just behind, trying to catch up. He lures Yuri to the pool where there is no one around to hear and see them. He turns around to face her properly for the first time since this is the moment he has been waiting for. “Yuri…” he muffled.
“Who are you?...” she asked while panting to her knees.
“No one…” he replied conceitedly.
“I’m not playing at you!!!... now answer me!...” she is now totally pissed off.
“It’s not important for you to know me but it is important for you to know them…”
“What are you talking about?...”
“I don’t want to see them suffering because of you…” he voiced out while approaching the girl slowly.
“Who are you referring to?...” she asked while keeping herself from where she is standing at.
“They will end up killing each other because of you…” he stopped after establishing a feet away distance from the girl. “And I don’t want that to happen…” he gripped her arms with his hands tight enough to cause her pain. “That’s why I need to get rid of you…” he dragged the girl toward the pool and struggling between them starts.
“Get off me!!!... I don’t understand you!!!... why are you doing this to me?!!!...” Yuri protested while keeping herself away from the gutter but the boy is too strong for her. She tried to maintain her balance but the more she struggle, the more she is pushed toward the water. “Ah!...” she screamed when one of her foot slipped at the edge of the gutter and all the way to the water. She tried to cling on the boy but her abdomen was kicked hardly that her entire body smashed on the surface of the water. Yuri has no idea on how deep is the pool--- and she has no desire to find out because she is not a good swimmer in the first place. “Help!… help!...” she tried to scream everytime she can push herself up but waters are gushing inside her throat and it stings like hell. Slowly, her strength wanes and all she can do is to keep her mouth shut. Waters are now splashing on her eyes and she can see that the boy is talking at her but she could not hear them at all. Gradually, her consciousness starts to shut and air rushed out everytime she opens her mouth. She is now a few meters away from the surface and the figure of the boy is becoming wavy and hazy. After sinking a few more meter, the boy left her and this makes her feel hopeless. She wants some air but her legs are too tired to kick thus she closed her eyes and drift her mind on the memories she had with her foster parents and with Yuki. (in her thoughts---“This is just a dream Chi… the moment you open your eyes again… Mama and Papa are they’re smiling at you… and Yuki will visit you for some assignments…”) After thinking those thoughts, she opened her eyes and to her surprise, a finger was wrapped around her wrist and there is someone trying to pull her up to the surface.
Yuri has no single bit of breath left and the person who is pulling her noticed that. More air is gushing out her mouth and she really needs to breathe in. The guy pulled her up in a jerking motion and the moment she opened her mouth again, he pressed a lips into her. Warm breath rushed into her throat down into her lungs and somehow she managed to push the air back to the person’s mouth. While doing the resuscitation simultaneously, the guy kicks his legs to pull her up to the surface until their head stick outside the water. She was pulled by the guy toward the gutter where she coughed to spit some water she had drunk.
“Are you ok?...”
Yuri looked at the guy while catching her breath in a very fast pace. Her vision is still hazy but she is very sure that the guy who saved her is no other than him, since the resuscitation made her remind of one thing---the kiss. “I’m fine…”
“Yugatta…”