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I was yet again being taken to another blind date, seriously why is mother and father making me go on so much and not just leaving me alone. Stoping me from mid thought was my guard telling me we made it to the castle, I stepped out the carriage the place seemed nice well it did belong to a noble I suppose. "Let's get going your royal highness" Tsukishima said opening the gates for me, Tsukishima my personal knight that been guarding me for a year now, we both are romantically into each other but its not official yet ,were planning to talk about it later today, but I have to go to this dumb blind date first.
"why do you always make me go" I said glaring at him
"I didn't make you go the king did your highness"
"but I told you to take me anywhere but here"
"orders are orders"
the rest of the walk into the castle was silent as I angrily walked through the entrance, I was greeted by the servants before leading me to a room, this was already werid for me because the dates would be at a fancy restaurants or pravite casinos but not her castle well since the family hid their children from the public maybe thats the reason. When I entered I realized it was the girl's room she was sitting in front of a table with alot of sweets, she didn't looked over at me she was just erring looking straight forward, I slowly walk over as the maids close the door. It was something about her that was creepy, I sat down across from her which got her attention because she started staring straight into my soul.
"hello" she said not breaking eye contact
"hi"
Nothing was said after that, she was just staring straight at me it as so quiet yet so loud I could hear my own breathing i must've been scared cause of how heavily I was breathing, it been about 5 minutes of silence I thought she must want this over with as soon as possible just like me. I look away for a sec to take one of the snacks when the lights in the room all went off it was completely dark expect the tiny lights coming from under the closed curtains, terrified I looked up at the girl to see her standing up but half her body was leaned forward inches away from my face
I screamed as that was the only thing I could do my legs were to weak to stand. Not even a second past Tsukishima that was standing behind the closed door stormed in.
"your highness, are you alright?"
"no get her away from me" I screamed out
"we'll be taking our leave now" he said walking towards me putting his hand between me and the girl shielding me from the crazy date. I stood up quickly and hurriedly walked towards the door not looking back once but I still felt her eyes on me.
When I got to the carriage I made up my mind that I will not be going on any more blind dates even if my Father try to force me I will not give in, I didnt want to go home either.
"Tsukishimaaa"
"yes your highness"
"didn't I tell you to call me by my name when were alone"
"hmm isn't that inappropriate for me to do so" he teased
"fine" I said as I angrily closed the tiny carriage window so I didn't have to hear his annoying voice (I didnt know how to explain it but Tsukishima is riding the horse that controlling the carriage idk if this helped but )
"okay okay I'm sorry tobio, please forgive me" I heard a little muffled outside the window
"hmm I may forgive you" I said opening my window
"what did you need"
"lets go to town square"
"are you planning to attend the spring festival"
"yes i didn't get to last year"
"okay, but we better hurry its staring soon"
"THEN LETS GO MAKE THAT DUMB HORSE GO FASTER" i screamed sticking my head from the head from the window
We made it just in time for the festival but me and Tsukishima had to change not draw to much attention but right after we did I ran to all the tasty food I wanted to try everything at the whole festival even if my stomach will be in so much pain the next morning.
"hurry Tsukishima"
"I'm coming" he said catching up to me
It was getting late and the festival was coming to an end, I had so much fun with Tsukishima we did every activity at the festival we got to splash water all over ourselves and we got to compete against each other I even got to arm wrestle him which he won by cheating, but now everyone was standing on the edge of the street watching the parade go by, I was standing right next tsukishima watching as well, I turned and looked up at Tsukishima watched him staring at the parade for awhile admiring his tiny smile and how his golden brown eyes shinned so beautifully when light passes on them, it was the best thing I seen so far.
He must've notice me staring because he turned to look straight at me, his neutral golden eyes softened as we stared at each other, at that moment I knew how I felt about Tsukishima, I gave him a small smile before grabbing his hand and dragging him to empty ally way away from everyone else. I turned to face him while looking to see if anyone was there
"Tsukishima" I said looking straight at him
"yes"
"I love you"
"tobio..but.."
"but what I know you love me too you told me what's stoping you"
"I do love you but I'm not good enough I'm just a knight I'm not noble or part of a royal family you deserve better I want you with someone better"
"but I think your enough I don't care your not from a royal family or you're noble I just want you because you're not only a knight you're my brave, smart, kind, strong, and caring knight you're not like the rest in my eyes" I said noticing the tears forming in tsukishima's eyes I went to wipe only to be pushed into a tight hug by Tsukishima.
"what if you're kicked out the royal family because your in a relationship with a man"
"Than I will be with you forever I don't care" I said pulling away from the hug to face him, we stood there in silence just looking at each other,our faces getting closer by the second,I felt my heartbeat race as his face came closer, we were so close our nose were touching before our lips met.
It was a slowly and sweet kiss his gently lips on mine wanting more I hooked my arms around his neck and pushed him deeper into the kiss, I could feel him smile into the kiss than snaked his arms around my waist pushing our bodies closer.
We broke the kiss sooner than we wanted to because we heard a group of people coming in to the alleyway, we scooted away from each other awkwardly looking around like nothing happened has the group passed by before breaking out into laughter.
"were together now right" I said smiling ear to ear while holding both of tsukishima's hands
"I don't know lemme ask" he said teasing "Kageyama Tobio would you take me your humble knight as your boyfriend"
"Hahaha yes I do" I said laughing before clearing my throat and asking "Tsukishima Kei would also take me as your boyfriend"
"how can I refuse such an offer" he said kissing my forehead gently "now come on the festival ended lets take you home"
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I woke up the next morning by the maid telling me my father wanted to see me urgently, it as my chance to end this blind date bullshit,
when I freshen up I went to see my father, I knocked on his door
"come in"
"yes, father you called"
"I did"
"well what did you need"
"come sit"
I walked further into the dark office the only light coming from the window behind my fathers chair, I sat on the chair facing my father,
"you ran from your date"
"yes becaus-"
"no I don't want to hear about it, this is unexpected of you I'm disappointed in you tobio"
"father I don't want to go on dates anymore I'm sick of it"
"TOBIO" he said slamming his hand on the the table "you are next in line for the throne, that's an important role these dates are for you to choose your queen to rule with and make the new king, I'm giving you the choice"
"but father"
"*sigh* tomorrow there's a ball at our castle, I expect you to find a girl you like"
".."
"I will take your silence as a yes, now leave my office at once I'm extremely busy"
I just got up and left without a word I felt horrible I dont want to get married with anyone that isn't Tsukishima, this was all unfair, tears started to blur my vision as I walked through the halls not knowing where my legs will take me but hopefully far away from father. After awhile I calmed down and found my self in the garden where the gardeners grew beautiful flowers but most importantly roses my mothers favorite, I know she wouldn't like what father was doing and made a stop to this already, only if she was alive, I sat next to the flowers just admiring them the soft grass brushing against my fingers the harsh wind hitting against my bare skin, I must've been there for awhile cause I heard Tsukishima calling out t me.
"your highness there you are" he said slowly jogging towards me, breathing very heavily"I been looking everywhere for you"
"why were you looking for me" I said looking up at Tsukishima
"were you crying?"
"what no I wasn't" I said quickly getting up embarrassed and whipping my cheeks for any leftover tears
"Tobio.. are you okay?" he replied walking closer to me with worry painted all across his face
"I'm fine really"
"was it your father?" he said putting both hands on each sides of my cheeks,I lean my face on his hand while nodding slowly.
"he's so persisted on me getting married and having kids, and I don't want to" I said breaking out into tears
"shh sh, its okay" he said pulling me into a hug
"its not okay i feel like just running away I hate this, this is not fair"
"running away is not a good decision just calm down" he said running this fingers through my hair, which calmed me down he always could.
"come you need to have breakfast" he said pulling away and smiling "they made your favorite"
"reallyy" I said before bolting to the dinning room
"hahaha"
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A few days went by and today was the day of the day of the ball I was not looking forward for it but Tsukishima said I should go and try to socialize, but I don't want to go but I will do it for him guess, I'm getting ready because the ball is in a few minutes, (I'ma show a picture of what he's wearing because I don't know how to write it out lol)
The suit was kinda tight and heavy but its just for an hour or so.
The party started and I already made my way to the ball room, I was just standing around awkwardly not wanting to be bothered but I felt fathers gaze on me which was probably because I wasn't talking to any girls, I did get approached by some people but when they noticed I had no interest on what they were talking about they left me alone. After some time I got bored and left the ballroom to go look for Tsukishima, it didn't take long to find him since I knew he was guarding the entrance because of the party.
"Tsukishimaaa" I said rushing to his side
"your- Tobio, what are you doing here" he instantly smiling when he saw me jump up from behind him
"to come and see you, do like my outfit"
"I think I seen it before, hmm oh yeah the thrift store" he said teasingly
"to let you know this is a custom made by a well known designer!"
"haha, I'm just kidding you look amazing my eyes cant take it" he said covering his eyes
"you're not funny, anyways come to the ball with me I'm so bored without you"
"I can't I have to gurad the gates its literally my job"
"then I'm gonna stay with you and guard with you" I said facing straight
"whatever you say but I'm gonna tell you now youre gonna get really bored"
" I wont, now see my first suspect" I said pointing at the man approaching the castle
"hand in you're invitation" I said in a serious tone
"here your royal highness"
"hmm can you identify your name sir"
" William Arden, with all due respect can you hurry this"
"hm, take a look Tsukishima does this look right to you" even if everything looked fine with his invitation I just wanted to annoy him which Tsukishima caught on
"hmm doesn't look right"
"what do you mean it doesn't look right I was invited"
"sir if we find out this invitation is fake you will be in serious trouble you know that" I said closely looking at the paper
"what but I'm sure I got invited"
"alright welcome to the king's ball" as soon i said those words the man rushed in when he left me and Tsukishima busted in uncontrollable laughter, we seriously bad humor.
I stood there with tsukishima until his shift ended which didn’t take that long, but my legs felt like they were gonna rip off how does he do this,
“my legs” I cried out
”you’re not use to standing for so long or something”
“no of course this is a nightmare”
”haha well thank you anyway for standing with me” he said kissing my forehead than my lips
”well of course” I said looking away I was a blushing mess the kiss made it all worth it “but I want a longer kiss that was too short” I said turing back to tsukishima hitting his chest.
”ok ok”
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A few days went by and me and tsukishima spent more and more time together, to be honest I never been so giddy and happy my entire life, I'm glad I have Tsukishima in my life he makes it more live able, I woke up this morning excited to see Tsukishima because today we were going to town square together to see the horse race.I looked everywhere for him but I couldn't find him, I decided to look in the garden when I heard someone yell out to me.
"your royal highness where are you off to" a random gurad said
"I'm looking for my guard"I replied turning around the face the guard
"I will be your guard for today, Tsukishima is home sick today"
"what?"
"he'll be back tomorrow"
"take me to his house at once"
"your highness, do you have business with young Tsukishima"
"I do, now lets get going get the cariage ready"
"yes your highness"
On the way to tsukishima's house I was worried sick, he didn't show any signs of being sick the other day what cause his sickness, he must be in a lot of pain all alone by himself, I brought some medication from the town doctor on the way to his house, I want to take really good care of him because of how much he means to me.
Once I got there it was a Plain brick house it was quite small but looked very cozy with a garden with every type of flowers, I went up to the door after telling my guard to stay outside, I nervously knocked on the door I never been to his house before.
After awhile the door started to open, then Tsukishima appeared in front of me.
"what- what are you doing here" he said looking really pale and exhausted, my heart shattered seeing him in this state.
"what do you mean what am I doing here, of course I came as soon as I heard you were sick, why didn't you tell me"
"it was very sudden and come in its gonna rain soon"
"I brought medicine and Rice Porridge for you now go to your bed so I can take care of you"
"thank you tobio, really" he said leading me to his bedroom while holding my hand, his house didn't look like my castle it looked like a home even if it was basic it was just as cozy as the outside looked I would say this is 100 times better than any castle, we got to his room I wasn't expecting a lot of dinosaur sculpting ones were made from wood and some were made from iron and they were all over his room,
"waohhh that's so cool, did you made theses" I said walking over to the biggest one that was half my size
"I did, do you like them" he said walking behind me but I was too distracted by the tiny dinosaur sculpting to noticed but he soon got my attention by snaking his arms around my waist while laying his head on my shoulder, I stood there not knowing what to do before i ruffed his hair with my free hand while leaning my head on his head, I wanted this moment to last forever everything seemed so perfect I wanted to stay with Tsukishima forever.
" I really love you tobio" he said under his breath
"I love you too" before he stood up straight and turned me around to face him
"I wanna kiss you so bad" he whined
"what's stopping you"
" I don't want to get yo-" before he could finish his sentence I closed the gap between us and kissed, we kiss all the time but this time felt different it was like we were devouring each others faces, he bite my lip which made me gasp, he quickly slipped his tounge in the kiss,before I knew it we moved to the bed, I pulled away from the kiss when I remember that Tsukishima was sick.
"what are we doing you're sick"
"you started it"
"no I'm supposed to be taking care of you"I said standing up and pushing Tsukishima on to the bed then covering him with a blanket
"but I'm really fine"
"not in my eyes, now wheres the porridge"
"its right next to your foot"
"oh" I said picking up the bag that had the porridge and getting a stoll to sit on while I fed Tsukishima"say ahh"
"you know I can feed myself" he said while opening his mouth
"this is part of taking care of you"
"should I be sick everyday"
"I can do it even if you're not sick"
"why did you not go to the race today?"
"I only wanted to go with you, I rather miss out than go without you"
"hmm lets go next time"
"yeah next time,and woah u finished the porridge"
"mhm it wasn't so bad"
"you're saying even after you lick the bowl clean"
"I did not"
"not a single drop is left but that's alright because it means I'm taking really good care of you"I said getting another bag"now take your medicine"
"ughh"Tsukishima said rolling his eyes making me giggle after he took his medicine but as I was getting his second medication I was pulled into bed by Tsukishima he put the covers around me and pretend to sleep while I tried to get up but soon gave up, I will give him the rest of the medicine later.
"you're so warm" he said
"and you're so cold geez were you at Antarctica" I said snuggling closer to Tsukishima
I stayed at tsukishima's for awhile before I had to go I really didn't want to leave but the carriage was waiting down the street and father would lose his mind if I stayed over at anyone house, before I left I gave Tsukishima a kiss on the forehead wishing a goodnight he replied with see you tomorrow.
The next day I woke up t the maids shaking me violently awake,
"YOUR HIGHNESS PLEASE GET UP YOUR FATHER NEEDS YOU THIS SECOND IT CANT WAIT"
"what what happened"
"please please just go to your father"
I ran to my fathers office wondering what in the world is going on, I didn't even knock when I entered my fathers office.
"there you are young man"
"what did you need father" I said, my father stared walking towards me before slapping me across the face I well backwards to the floor holding my cheek in pain, my father never hit me before
"fa father why did you hit me"
"get back up"
"wha-"
"I said GET BACK UP"
I slowly started getting up only to be slapped back to the floor once again I started tearing up because of the pain.
"father what did I do"
"you know exactly what youve done"he said pulling me up from my collar and punching me right in the eye, he kept punching me until some spoke up.
"Your Royal highness, you should at least explain to him what he has done before beating him half to death" I man spoke by those words my father let me go, I fell straight to the floor, I looked up to see who the man was and it was
"You're right, William Arden" my father
"hey there your highness do you remember me, I think you do when you and you're little boyfriend kept questioning me" William said
"FATHER I DONT KNOW WHAT HES TALKING ABOU" I said desperately trying to get up
"but I'm sure I seen you kiss him by the gates and you went to his house yesterday and left really late, what were you to up to" William said
" I should've known when you were declining those girls left and right, you were with that stuipid guard"
"HES NOT STUPID-"
"stop there I don't want to even look at you right now you're getting an arrange marriage if you like it or not and for that guard would you like to attend his execution oh wait you wont probably make it"
when i heard the last part my world stopped, my ears toning out the laughter of the two men, everything felt unreal I was losing vision but despite that my legs started getting up despite the pain, despite the yelling from my father, I ran out the castle and out the gates even without shoes I ran through the forest, all kind of things stabbing my bare feet
but I didn't stop with tears in my eyes I kept thinking this cant be true my father would never do this, Tsukishima is alive hes alright he's alright.
I never made it to town square so fast but all my hopes on it being all a lie dropped when I seen a crowd around the place where the execution are held, I shaken came closer pushing people out the way then my legs came to a stop,
I seen Tsukishima, my Tsukishima's head in a guillotine, I stopped breathing everything seemed like a nightmare I couldn't wake up from, I felt nauseous from all theses feeling I was feeling but I couldn't do nothing, I started shaking uncontrollably I didn't know what to do I couldn't even move it felt like I was frozen in place I couldn't hear what anyone was saying everything snapped back when I heard a guard yell,
"TODAY'S EXECUTION IS A ROYAL GUARD A YOUNG BOY NAMED TSUKISHIMA KEI, HE HAS BETRAYED THE KING'S TRUST, THE KING WOULD NOT SAY WHATS THE EXACT REASON BUT IT MUST BEEN REALLY BAD" the man yelled to the crowd I tried to get one stage but was grabbed by the king he grabbed my arm and held my head up facing the stage, I was shaking with anger I screamed only to be silenced by a hand covering my mouth
I bit his hand and violently tried getting out of his grip but nothing worked, I felt useless I couldn't help Tsukishima of a situation caused by me, its all my fault I was the one who kept trying to push our relationship further, I should've listened, I felt tearing covering the dried tears,
"SHOULD WE GET STARTED" The man yelled, I managed to bit off the king's hand and scream out tsukishima's name, he looked up and over at me and smiled, he still looked pale and tried.
"3"
"2" I fell to my knees I couldnt watch anymore, but only to be held up to watch again, even with the countdown Tsukishima was still smiling at me
"1"
I felt all the oxygen in my body leave when I seen tsukishima's head roll to the edge of the stage, the king dropped me to my knees and whispered "pathetic"
I got up quickly and ran to tsukishima's head while the crowd was leaving, I hugged his head tight I didn't care that blood was getting all over me
"Tsukishima noo please" I sobbed out
I tried getting on stage to attach his head back so he could be alive again but I was dragged back from the guards,
"no no wait let me put the head back please"
"your highness please let the head go your getting blood all over yourself" one of the guards said trying to get the head out of my grasp
"NO I CANT PLEASE STOP" I sobbed out, but they got his head off of me and dragged me to the carriage
They put me into the carriage despite my begs and cries, its all my fault its all my fault I killed Tsukishima I did, it hit me that it was my fault I was the reason why Tsukishima was killed I killed him the more I thought about it the more I felt numb ,I felt like crying but no tears came out I felt like screaming but nothing came out my mouth, everything left numb I didn't know what I was feeling or if I was feeling anything was I going crazy, what's wrong with me why cant I do something. I felt disgusted of myself for not helping Tsukishima and being the cause of this death I'm the murderer. I hit my head a few times trying to punish myself for what I have done but i couldn't feel anything no pain or feeling I was like a doll on the shelf with no use.
50 years went by and now I'm in my death bed awaiting for my death,even if years gone by each and every one of those years I haven't forgotten about Tsukishima, even after I gotten marriaged 2 months after his death or would I say our death the day he died I also did well not physically but mentally and everything else, I didn't forget about him when I had kids, three boys, I been a good dad since that's what he would wanted right?, I didn't forget about him when the king cried and begged to see me before he died why would he want to see me I'm not his son he lost his son the day I lost him, I didn't forget Tsukishima because he was the only one who loved me and the only person I could go to or cry to or be myself to. But now I have no one but his sculpting, I took really good care of them for him its the least I could do, I closed my eyes knowing I was dying soon. I hope we meet again in my next life........
{modern day, aka their next life}
Kageyama woke up late to work and was basically running through the subway trying to make it to his train, he wasn't even looking where he was going he was busy looking at the time and if the train was here.
he suddenly bumped really hard into someone almost losing his balance but catching himself in time.
"omg I'm so so sorry" he said bowing
"nah its fine dont worry about it" Tsukishima said when kageyama looked up at the man he just bumped into the both stared at each other confused they both thought that the other looked familiar, they started wondering where they saw the other from, maybe from high school or elementary.
"LAST CALL TRAIN 203 WILL BE LEAVING IN ONE MINUTE" the intercom said
"oh shoot I gotta go" Kageyma said rushing past the boy
"hmm that was werid" Tsukishima thought putting his headphones on and not giving it another thought
once kageyama got on to the train, he wondered where he seen him but just brushed it off thinking his mind was playing tricks on him.
THE END :))