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Chapter 3 � Significant other

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Hoax, spring/summer 1253

The church bells
resonated throughout the whole country, celebrating the union between Hoax and
Emyra through the marriage of their heirs.
It was a bright, warm
morning in late May, the red royal carpet had been rolled out on the stairs of
the cathedral, many white rose petals fell from the sky, welcoming the to be
wedded couple.
Dressed in a stunning
white robe with a long, transparent veil covering her features and a tail
decorated with real pearly white flowers, the princess stepped out of her
carriage in front of the stone steps and immediately got acclaimed by the
massive crowd behind her on the plaza and behind the many guards the long the
stairs towards the entrance of the church. Her signature, long auburn, curly
hair laid freely behind her for once, replacing the usual braided tail, and had
small, white roses in it.

"We love you, princess Kilana!"
"Long live the princess!"
"God bless you, princess!"

A reserved smile formed
itself on her lips behind the veil and she waved to her subjects, before her
two guards came to stand next to her to escort her up the stairs.
"You look great,
princess�"
"Thank you, Ryuu�
I'm so nervous," She whispered back towards the blonde standing right from
her, while she threw kisses to the crowd and waved some more.
"Courage,
Kilana," Ryuu whispered back, taking her right hand and stepping on the
first step. "He's waiting for you."
Kilana nodded, taking a
deep breath and starting her ascent towards the opened doors of the cathedral.
This was no time for freaking out; she had been dreading for this day to come
ever since she was little and ever since she knew that she would have to marry
a man that she didn't even know. Now the day was here and strangely, instead of
the knots in her stomach, she felt butterflies flying within her�
In the brief two months
that she had gotten to talk to Soryan, she had come to realise that the grumpy
old man she always pictured him to be, actually was quite the opposite of what
she had been expecting�He made her feel quite the opposite of what she had
expected to feel for him�
Maybe it was his level of intellect that
beguiled her to him so much, or the way he could handle the sword so well or
just the way he was so different from the men she knew� Or the way he just
treated her like a woman and knew what it felt like to be of royalty;
possessing everything, but owning nothing at the same time�
Her entire life she had
been surrounded by men, seen her father, the king, had rather wanted a true
heir to his throne than a girl as his first and only child. Only
child, because queen Aelitha died when she gave birth
to her daughter, and because the king never remarried after her.
So she got raised as a
boy, learning how to handle the sword, bow, spear and
ride the horse like a man. She learnt how to read and write, but also learnt a
few womanly things, like broidery and playing the harp. But the princess had to
admit that she found sword fighting or practising with her bow more exciting
than learning how to cook.
When she was about 8,
she once ran away from the castle, wanting to escape a broidery lesson and
bumped into a young boy in the streets. That boy had been Ryuu, son of Amenon's personal bodyguard. Upon recognising her, he
immediately reported her to the castle and of course got her in a lot of
trouble.
But it was from that day
on that they became inseparable, doing most of the boy stuff together, Ryuu
always making sure that the princess never got hurt and Kilana making sure that
she escaped her broidery lessons at least once a week.
Around her 12^th year, Riku got
assigned to her as her own personal guard. He was only 14 at the time, but had
proven himself to be trustworthy in many ways.
He has been her only
true friend throughout the years that she has known him� and her first crush�

And today he was
standing beside her; her first love escorting her to the man she learnt to love
in only two months. She looked at him from beneath her veil and sighed softly.
Even though she knew that he didn't love her romantically, she just wished that
he'd even kiss her once before she was to become a married woman�
Entering the chilly,
enormous space inside the cathedral, she could feel her breath hitch in her throat
at all the faces that turned to look at her in the entrance. The organ started
to play it's marital tune and she advanced in
deliberate steps on the red carpet in the middle of the two rectangles of
guests standing in front of their seats and whispering praises to her beauty.
Raising her head to look
ahead of her, she then saw him standing in front of the altar, waiting for her
with his never dying, reassuring smile.
"Oh my god� this is
it�" Kilana whispered, slightly squeezing Ryuu's hand resting under hers.
"I'm so scared�" she then nervously giggled.
"It's going to be
alright," Ryuu soothingly whispered as they neared the altar. "Be
strong, Kilana�" He then let go of her and handed her over to her father
who took over from there and walked with her over the remaining five meters.
"Father�"
"You look stunning,
my daughter�" He whispered, smiling at her and then kissing her on her
forehead as they stood next to Soryan and the priest, "I am proud of
you."
Finally they stood in
front of each other, both nervous, but excited.
Soryan slightly bowed
his head to his wife to be and she made a courtesy to her future king. He then
gently took her left hand in his right one and walked her over to the steps
leading to the altar, where two kneeling chairs were standing.

"Pardon me if my
hand is shaking in yours, my prince� but my heart is beating so violently
inside my chest and I cannot control it�" The princess whispered as they
both kneeled down in front of the priest.
"Just between you
and me, princess, I think that it is my hand shaking beneath yours and not the
other way around�" Soryan whispered, looking at her with a smile.
A soft chuckle escaped
her and she felt reassured, like she always felt when he was around. It was a
good thing to know that he was as nervous as she was or maybe even more.
"Shall we start
your highness?" The priest asked softly, standing before them with his
bible in his hands.
"Ready?"
Soryan then asked, giving her an encouraging look and lightly squeezing their
hands together.
"Yes," She
whispered back, giving a light squeeze back.
"Please precede,
father," The prince whispered, turning his face towards the priest and
nodding.

"Dearly beloveds;
we are gathered here today�"

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As the now royal couple
shared their first kiss, an eruption of acclamations had place in the grant
cathedral, the sound of rejoicing spreading itself outside to the crowd that
was waiting outside.
The newly wedded couple
smiled at each other before turning and smiling at the crowd inside the church.
Soryan suddenly grabbed
his wife's hand and she nodded as he gave her a questioning look.
As if they had planned
it all along, they both ran down the small way in between the seats as a rain
of white rose petals fell down on their heads.
All members of the
Emyran and Hoaxian court all let a surprised gasp before bursting out in
laughter at the delightful expression of young and carefree love.
The church slowly
started to empty, everyone still clapping after the new heirs of the recently
joined kingdoms of Hoax and Emyra.
Ryuu was one of the last
ones to exit the establishment, staying behind as he stared at the large cross
of the crucified Christ hanging above the altar.
"I've let him go
and thought that it would make me feel better, but seeing him with the
princess� he was so happy�But it's for the best that I did what I did..."
He then lowered his head and prayed silently in himself, "What I feel for
him is wrong and I ask of you to give me the strength to forget these
sentiments of lust I have�"
The tapping of feet suddenly
resounded in the abandoned church and Ryuu slowly turned around to find an old
monk standing behind him, leaning on a walking stick. A pilgrim�?
"Can I help
you?" The young blonde kindly offered, walking over to the fragile looking
old man with his brown cape and rosary hanging around his waist.
"It's seems like
you are the one who needs the help, child." The old man chuckled,
shuffling passed him.
"I beg your pardon,
father?" Ryuu whispered, taken aback.
"Oh, no, I'm no
priest. Nor a monk either..." The man said, stopping in front of the grant
crucifix, "Beautiful piece of craftsmanship�"
Ryuu frowned, folding
his arms on his chest, "Will you tell me then who you are?"
"No need to be so
prickled, soldier�" He turned around to face Ryuu again and this time took
off his hood, revealing the face of indeed an old man, but with stunning,
youthful blue eyes. "You're in for quite some trouble� ah yes, yes�I can see it�"
Now unfolding his arms
and resting his hands on his hips in annoyance, Ryuu chuckled, "Look old
man, no one is supposed to be here anymore, so whoever you are looking for, you
will have to come back tomorrow when the cathedral is open again."
"Denying that you
love someone won't make the feeling go away�" The old man said, grinning
with his crooked, yellow teeth. "Especially not if that
person is your significant other." He shook his head,
"Definitely not..."
"What are you
talking about?!" Ryuu exasperatedly said, rolling his eyes.
"I think you know
very well of what I am talking about, Ryuu, son of Ryun," He calmly said,
giving him an honest look. "Or more specific of someone�"
"How do you�?"
The blonde frowned and took a step back in astonishment, "W-who
are�?"
"Accept your fate,
or it will be doomed to repeat itself into eternity�"

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New Xillion City, spring 2004

Monday
evening, 9.26 pm

My eyes flew open and I
gasped, sitting up so fast I didn't see the person looming just above me. If my
headache had disappeared before I came in collision with a skull that was made
out of stone, then it sure came back full force after that.
I literally saw stars.
"Ouch!" I gasped
in pain and held on to my poor forehead.
"Didn't you see I was
there?!"
I recognised that voice and
cracked one eye open carefully to make sure that I was not still dreaming. Soryan. No, Sora� Soryan� whatever, I was officially crazy
anyway. Where was I?
"Riku! You could at least say that you're
sorry!" He then whined, covering his own forehead with a hand. Had I been
silent for that long?
"What?! You're the one who was standing
just above me! How was I supposed to know you'd be gaping at me while I was
unconscious?!" I immediately protested, the throbbing pain in my head
miraculously ebbing away. "What's your skull made of anyways, steel?"
I groaned and then looked at my surroundings; I was on the couch in front of
the TV in my apartment. "How did I get here? What happened?" Well, I
knew what happened; I made a trip to lala-land again,
which meant I either got unconscious or either fell asleep right there in
Cloud's office. Somehow the latter sounded weirder than the other. When did I
become a narcoleptic?
I gazed at the wall just
above the TV and read 9.29 pm. There was this nagging feeling I felt inside
of myself, but I quickly dismissed it, there were too many feelings flooding
through me at that moment and I really didn't need a new one to add up to the
mess that I already was.
"We took you to the
nearest hospital after you fainted in Cloud's office," Sora explained, now
sitting next to me on the couch and giving me a worried look. "They
diagnosed you with a severe lack of sleep and told us that your body probably
fainted because you've been overdoing it. We brought you back home, since it
was okay with the doctor."
I felt like laughing and I
didn't even know why, "So, I guess they advice me to get some sleep,
right?" I smirked, pushing the blanket off of my body and moving myself to
stand.
Sora semi-nodded, "You
don't agree with them? It is true that you look tired, Riku."
I shrugged nonchalantly,
"Why should I not agree with them? They're the ones who know what's wrong
with me, right? Who am I to tell them wrong?" I felt like yelling
suddenly, of course they had it all wrong! Two days ago I was fine! Perfectly
fine! How can someone have a severe lack of sleep by sleeping badly during one
night?! I've been exhausting my body?! With what, dreaming?
"Riku," Sora
followed me into the kitchen as I went in to make myself some coffee, "I
do believe there's something else here than just a sleeping disorder."
I chuckled at that, nodding
my head, "Yeah, I'm crazy� That's what it is�"
"No," He
whispered, now standing next to me and looking at me with a hesitant expression
on his face. "I've been sleeping badly too for the last two nights�"
I put the coffee machine on
and then turned to look at him silently, I knew he was telling me something
rather personal at the moment, but I just really, really couldn't give a damn
right now. "Does this have a point?" I needed someone to give me
clear explanations, not some shit about what other people were going through!
I was being selfish and I
knew it. It felt bad, made me feel worse, especially when he gave me a hurt
look before averting his eyes from mine sadly.
God I could slap myself� he
was only trying to help. "No, I'm sorry, continue�"
"Nah, it's okay,"
Sora then whispered, shrugging as he leant with his back against the working
table, "I mean, you're tired and probably confused with everything that
has happened and here I am starting to talk about my shit�" he shook his
head and walked over to the small, round kitchen table to sit at it.
The kid sure knew how to
make me feel real bad� I only met him today, but he took care of me while I was
unconscious. Why did I have to be so vulgar to him?
I sighed in annoyance at my
stupid mind and scratched the back of my head, trying to find something to say,
when the phone back in the living room rang.
"Hello?"
"Riku? What are you doing up, you should
be sleeping."
I rolled my eyes and
laughed, "Are you my mommy now? I just woke up. Where are you?"
"At
the restaurant."
"Restaurant?" I frowned before realising what she
meant, "Oh! Restaurant!"
That had been that nagging
feeling earlier�
"Yup darling, but
you couldn't have got helped it, so it's okay."
"I'll make it up to
you?" I said in a small voice, wincing.
"First make it back
on your feet and then we'll see."
"That's lame, Kai!
You're talking to a sick man here!"
"Yeah, yeah, but
you're not dying so I can talk to you anyway I want."
I grunted, "Whatever, did you call to
tell me you're, by any chance, not coming home? Ever?"
"What, and leave
you with that gorgeous Sora all on your own? You wish!"
I snickered, "He's
gay, Kai."
"That's just why, I
don't want to miss out on the action!"
"Ack!" I held the horn at a safe distance from my ear, looking at it with a
mix of disgust and strange amusement. When I was sure her hysterical fit of
laughter had ended, I put the horn back against my right ear, "So when
will you get home?"
"I might sleep over
at my parent's place; my dad is taking me to the fair later, you know to try
and bond with me more�"
I chuckled; I knew she
really didn't want to go, "Well, I guess I will have to ask Sora to
massage me tonight. Do you still keep that vanilla scented massaging oil in the
drawer next to your bed?"
"How do you�?"
"Thank you, Kai, have
fun. Bye bye." I smirked, hung up, and turned
myself around to the kitchen to see Sora coming out of it with two mugs of
coffee in his hands. He gave me a brief smile as he walked towards the dinner
table and it was then that I found out that next to the beauty and
expressiveness of his large, deep blue eyes and the childlike features of his
face, he was beautiful. Yes I said it; I was thinking at how beautiful Sora was
at that moment. I think that I had already given up believing in the way my
world used to go around and had started to admit to myself that this blue eyed
guy had awakened something in me and that I was not fighting it.
"Was that Kairi?"
he asked me and I simply nodded, watching him sitting at the table and putting
one of the mugs a seat next to him. "When is she coming home?"
I shrugged and took a seat
next to him on the table, pulling my mug of coffee to me, "I don't
know," The silence that followed felt awkward to me, I felt uneasy and I
could sense that he felt so too. I know I had already apologised earlier, but I
wanted him to be sure that I was being sincere, which is strange since I've
only known him for approximately 6 hours. "I think she thought that I was
in good hands."
His eyes lit up at that and
he looked up at me in mild surprise.
I chuckled and smiled at
him before taking a sip of my coffee, "And I feel the same way too,"
I saw him frown in confusion and I shifted my eyes to the black surface of my
coffee, another smile tugging at the corners of my lips at the reaction,
"You stayed with me, even though you didn't even know me. You could've got
easily gone back to Cloud or anywhere else you liked, but you decided to stay
with me when Kairi left for her appointment and I really appreciate that. It
wasn't really needed, but I still appreciate. It's not everyday that you meet
someone who inspires you trust."
He was absolutely glowing
by now and if I was not mistaking, slightly blushing. I don't know, but I think
that is was from then on that I just loved to see him smile. He had such a
beautiful smile�
"I'm glad you feel
that way," Sora then whispered with a shy expression, his eyes directed to
his hands resting on the table, "And I can admit that I feel the same way
about you too."
I grinned, "Odd, isn't
it?"
"What is?" He
questioned, looking up at me curiously.
Our eyes locked and I just
let myself dragged into his ocean blue ones for a moment before smiling at his
now very reddened face, "That we trust each other like that already,"
I continued, sipping from my coffee and closing my eyes.
"Maybe," He
hesitantly started, now looking at his hands encircling his mug, "Maybe it
was meant to be�?"
I chuckled and put my drink
down, "You believe in that sort of stuff?"
Sora briefly looked up at
me and then timidly chuckled, looking back at his hands on the table,
"Don't you?"
I didn't need to think the
answer over twice, "Eh, no?"
He sat back in his chair
with his warm cup and chuckled again, closing his eyes, "I believe in it�
because it is everywhere, I'm sure you've felt it."
I raised a sceptic eyebrow
and just looked at him slightly worried, "Right, first off; what is
everywhere and second; what am I supposed to have felt?"
"Fate," He
whispered to me and opened his eyes.

"Accept your fate,
or it will be doomed to repeat itself into eternity�"

Those words suddenly echoed
inside of my mind and I frowned. What? Not again!

"I've had these
dreams�" Sora continued, taking my frown as a silent query for an
explanation, and looking ahead of him,"I know it
will sound strange to you and you maybe won't believe it, but I dreamt about
meeting you almost two years ago�"
If this had been a normal
situation and I had been functioning correctly, I probably would have laughed
at him and told him that he was crazy or something like that, but this wasn't a
normal situation and I wasn't functioning correctly.
"Each time I dreamt
about you, you were different in a way�You had a different name, or you had
another hair colour, another stature�" he softly whispered, the tone of
his voice a little dreamy as he kept staring at nothing in particular,
"It's only been lately that I've been dreaming about the same you every
night�"
I kept staring at him
without saying anything. I felt like a weight was being lifted off my shoulders
and something clicked inside of me.
"You think I'm crazy,
right?" He then suddenly whispered, chuckling and bending his head,
"You must think that I�"
"I've been dreaming
about you too," I interrupted him quietly, still staring at him. I wasn't
functioning correctly�
He gasped and put his cup
back on the table, sitting up, "You're not just saying that because you
want to make me look�"
"No," I shook my
head, smiling at him. In a sudden impulse I took his left hand in mine,
"Would I ever lie to you, my prince?" I
wasn't functioning correctly and I now knew why�
His eyes grew wide as I
approached him, "I thought that I was going crazy� these dreams� they were
really wearing me out� I was starting to see things, hearing voices�" My
right hand reached up to brush a strand of his chocolate locks behind his ear.
Our lips were now inches apart when he closed his eyes and I saw one tear
escape a closed eyelid.
"Ryuu� you're not
crazy� you just need to accept what is happening and not fight it. You went
unconscious because you were fighting it�" He whispered, now looking into
my eyes, his right hand sliding up into my hair, "I knew it was you from
the moment I held the ring in my hands�"
I pulled him closer, my
heart beating furiously in my chest, my body feeling empty and longing to feel
his juicy lips against mine. I understood now, I had felt the weight being
lifted off my shoulders. "Soryan�"
I then pressed my lips
against his slightly separated ones, officially throwing my beliefs of my own
world to the side and sinking deeper into this feeling I had dreaded to feel�
I wasn't functioning
correctly because� I fell in love with the man of my dreams�

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Tuesday morning, 8.01 am

I could slowly feel myself
waking up, feeling completely rested. I remembered falling asleep in front of
the TV with Sora leaning against me. I recalled that he had been sound asleep
for a while, his head resting on my right shoulder. A smile formed itself on my
features as I felt a small, warm form lying next to me on the couch.
I opened my eyes and they
immediately rested on the sleeping face of Sora. His pink lips were slightly
parted and he slightly moaned in his sleep, indicating that he was probably dreaming.
About what, I wondered�
My night had been spared
from strange dreams; the explanation as to why I felt completely rested
probably lying there.
Last night we just talked
with each other, telling each other about our present lives, our interests and
the goals we'd like to achieve. I learned that Sora was nineteen and that he
had just moved away from his tropical island in the Destiny Islands
Archipelago. He was only child and had always had a creative talent that
manifested itself in his puberty with his love for the camera. He won a
national photography contest two years ago and has wished to become a
professional photographer ever since. With the job Cloud gave him, he was
hoping to make himself known in the photography world.
When he was fifteen he
discovered his preference for boys, but has never had a real sexual
relationship with anyone. He told me he was waiting for someone who'd really
love him to give his body to.
As I watched him stir in
his sleep, I felt the urge to kiss him again, just because his lips seemed to
beg me to and because he was so adorable sleeping.
No one ever made me feel
the way he made me feel back then and I could hear the words of the old man
from my dream in my mind.

"�that person is
your significant other."

Was it so? Did something
like that even exist? Was it meant to be, like Sora told me? Were we reliving
our romance of over 750 years ago again?
"I started to dream
of Ryuu two days ago, and these dreams have been disturbing me� I'm positive
that it's a warning of some sort� Something bad is coming our way�"
He told me those words
right before falling asleep last night and right now I could feel my heart grow
with worry. Something was wrong.
Sora told me that our souls
lived thousands of lives and that each life is connected to the other, the
fates in each live resembling the other.
I could vividly recall that
dream of me being locked up somewhere, far away from my lover Soryan� What had
happened back then? I had been sentenced to death and I could understand what
had happened, but Soryan� what had happened to him?
If that life was connected
to this present one, I needed to find out what happened. And I realised that we
clearly did something wrong in every life previous to it if that one ended with
me dead and separated from Sora. The old man at the market and the one in my
dream both said the same thing; fate would repeat itself if it wasn't accepted.
I knew there was a part
that I was missing, a very important element. How many lives had we lived since
the one I kept dreaming about? Did we mess up ever single one of them?
If Sora and me were
reincarnated and back together, then so were the people who surrounded us back
then. And if I understood his explanation about karma and stuff, then� then
their lives were connected to ours too and� it would be possible that the evil
that was done to us back then would come back�
But how were we supposed to
fight back, if we didn't even know from were the threat was coming from?

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for the continuation of the story.

To be continued�

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