Chapter One

A peek into the tension

Chapter One

The days grew shorter and shorter.

They would walk, eat, and sleep. Walk, eat, and sleep.

Daichi would have other things on his mind.

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Ayumi grew tired and would start to lag behind. Daichi would pick her up, staring down at her as if he were his bride.

 “Let me carry you my princess” He said, his deep voice lingered in the air.

Ayumi would lay her head on his barrel chest and close her eyes. By the time she was awake, she would be lying in a tent, her kimono taken off her body and she would be mixed around in a mess of blankets. She wouldn’t know whether or not to feel like it was normal, or feel as if she were a puppet. His puppet.

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It was apparent his feelings for her.

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“Ayumi, I need to tell you something” He said walking behind her, chewing on his lip ring as they moved forward.

Ayumi got shivers, but tried not to show it, and kept walking. Her hips swayed side to side. Daichi couldn’t help but stare, it was hypnotizing. “Yes Daichi” She answers hesitantly.

“I love you…”

Ayumi knew it was coming but it still came to shock her. It almost startled her to a stop but her feet moved sluggishly. A moment like this, Daichi would pick her up and catch her, but this wasn’t the case.

“I said I love you Ayumi…”

“I know…I love you too” She said staring forward. ‘1…2…3…4…’ she counted in her head, keeping herself distracted.

“It’s what the shadow clan prophesized. Do you see? You and I are supposed to make the next village.” He said and smiled and grabbed her wrist, not knowing his own strength.

Ayumi stopped and turned her head looking up at him blushing. I was hard to believe he was still the boy that ran around with mud on his feet.

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“IT’S A BABY GIRL!” a man with ebony hair that slicked back said holding her up. Her eyes were closed tight but he knew they were going to be blue. Just like everyone from the royal family.

The small hut was just on the outskirts of town, nobody could see the new Princess be born.

“H-Hikame…” the woman said hoarsely, reaching out for her baby. Hikame looked at her, she was beautiful, curvy, with long wavy black hair and sapphire blue eys. Her only imperfection was the freckle on her neck, which he loved.

He gave her a concerned look, “What is wrong…” he said and looked at the ebony haired Queen coughing up blood.

“Lord Hikame…what is wrong?” Daichi had said opening the cabin door. Only in a pair of baggy shorts, his small teen body covered in mud at the feet, and drenched in rain. “Take the princess Daichi, and get her to Kida!” Hikame shouted in distress as the woman who gave birth started to breath shallow.

Hikame cried out loudly, his hands glowing in blue but he knew in the back of his mind, anything he would try wouldn’t work. She was dead. Now the curse was passed on…

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Ayumi looked up at him. There was no doubt that he cared for her, but everything was all over the place. Her mind wasn’t straight. She ripped her hand away and expected him to leave her be when he grabbed her by both her shoulders. “You can’t run from me…I was given orders to be with you forever…” He said.

Every time he spoke watched the ball on his tongue piercing move with his tongue and gave a small noise. “Daichi…I don’t want to be your mate…” She said making fists trying to make herself talk. She could feel him get tense.

“Why not…I am loyal…and I do everything for you, why don’t you love me” he said choking out grinding his teeth.

Ayumi shouted loudly, tears pouring down her face, “I CANT CAUSE IM AFRAID OF YOU!” She said ripping away from him.

You don’t know what it’s like.

Everywhere you turn you see somebody who is staring at you.

Who always follows.

His love was suffocating.  And she was too submissive.

“I want things to be the way she used to be” She shouted back at him and before she knew it he was in front of her, his thick arms around her tiny body.

“Ayumi, if you only knew what all I have ave you rom…then maybe you would love me” he said almost through tears.

Ayumi closed her eyes, why couldn’t he just tell her.

“If…I cant have you…” He said quietly in the chilled air.

There he was again, everywhere she turned.

“Then nobody can”

Choking her again.

“Cause your mine”

With his love.