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Romance Ain't Dead	By : valentine Category: Bleach > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 2013 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Breakfast
The young Captain nodded curtly to a servant who bowed before showing him the way to the princess' chambers. Of course, Hitsugaya did not need a guide, he had roamed these halls as if he owned them only a few years ago. In fact, Hitsugaya almost blushed at the thought of it, he and his princess and conspired all kinds of mischief behind these doors.
The palace, beautiful as ever, was full of rusting gold furniture and white linen drapes that swayed in the breeze that the open windows tempted in. It was calmer now, than he remembered, colder too. Coming back as an outsider was a much more daunting experience than he had thought; all these high ceilings and large rooms were making him feel suffocated; was there always so much unnecessary space? The whole place smelt like her; like warm jasmine and coconut, something you would want to taste.
Hitsugaya shook his head impatiently as though to get the thought of her away from him. He would not be pulled in by her, no matter what she did, no matter how she looked at him. She could even try that doe-eyed glance of agony, the one she would give when she was dying from the want of him but Hitsugaya would not give in this time. He would be strong, resilient, show that insufferable brat that he was no longer under her spell.
Within no time they arrived at the room where the princess had her breakfast. All her ladies-in-waiting were gathered at the doors, eating little cakes and sipping on tea. A few of them, who had been around a few years ago, quietened upon seeing Hitsugaya approach; all curious to see what would happen next. The shinigami nodded to them, avoiding the eye of the woman he knew to be closest to Mei, as the grand doors opened before him.
A room of red and gold was revealed; walls lined with thick velvet curtains, pulled aside to let in the soft daylight of the morning. Gold chairs stood impressively around a long oak dining table, glittering in the sunlight. And at the head of the table sat two people; one was an advisor to the princess, Tao, the other was Mei herself. Sat in a dress of blue and pink, her head down, reading a book on the table, undisturbed by the intrusion.
"Your highness?" The nervous servant who had lead Hitsugaya here, spoke suddenly. "The royal guard is here." Hitsugaya squared his shoulders and took a step forwards, holding himself to his full height.
"Very good." The Captain's heart skipped an uncertain beat; the advisor had spoken, Mei had not even looked up from her work. "I shall see you this evening, your highness. Come, boy." Tao spoke with an aged voice, like Yamamoto, to the servant who bowed to the princess and walked out with the advisor. The doors closed behind them, leaving only Hitsugaya and Mei alone in the room.
Usually, as Mei liked to have her breakfast surrounded by her friends, the table would have been full of food from all over the realm, the seats would glitter beneath dresses made of silk and the room would be full of music and chatter. Now, however, the room was cold and empty. The only person sat on the sixteen-seat dining table was the princess, with Hitsugaya stood, perplexed, on the other side.
Still young, still arrogant, Hitsugaya's ego was a little bruised.
"And?" He called from one end of the room. Mei sighed but continued to read.
"And?" She asked .
"Will you not look at me? Address me?" The captain was dumbfounded.
"How is it you would have me address you, Captain Hitsugaya?" Mei finally looked up. They stared at each other for a few moments as Hitsugaya tried to figure her out. How could she be so callous? She was behaving like…well, like a princess! The complete opposite of how he knew her. When had she ever called him by his title? "I shall take your silence as a chance for me to remind you that I am the royal that you are guarding. You must address me in a manner that-"
"Mei." She smiled as though she had given up when he spoke. "That's your name, isn't it? So that is what I'll call you." Mei shut her book with a sharp thwack! She stood and looked across to him.
"I am a princess-!"
"How can you have forgotten-?!"
"Forgotten?!" The princess shouted over him. "Forgotten?" She shook her head with a sickly sweet smile and moved around the table to walk over to him. "I have forgotten nothing." She spat at him and stood only a few feet away from the shinigami. "We cannot go on, Mei. We are a Captain and a Princess, that is how things must be." Hitsugaya closed his eyes as her words cut straight through him. He glanced up to her, her grey eyes brimming with unwanted tears, her beautiful face screwed up in frustration. "I have not forgotten." Mei whispered.
"Mei-"
"What is it you came here for?" She asked him quietly. "You are the one who told me to behave like a princess; to have a relationship with you that was fitting of a guard and a princess." The young shinigami looked away, ashamed of his rash actions. "I am merely doing as you asked."
"I-" She held a hand up to silence him.
"Address me properly." She folded her arms as though to hold herself and looked away.
"I understand, your highness." She nodded as he spoke, "please forgive me." Mei laughed to herself.
"Forgiveness?" She looked up at him, grey eyes narrowed on teal ones. "You are dismissed from breakfast, Captain." And with that, he bowed and left the room. Left the princess with her unbearable memories of how things used to be. As Mei sat down on a chair beside her, and the ladies-in-waiting came in to pour her tea and show her jewellery that had arrived from distant worlds, Mei was lost in thoughts of him.
~ Hitsguaya's first breakfast at the Palace, two years ago ~
Mei looked up as the doors to her dining room opened and smiled to herself upon seeing the handsome shinigami enter the hall. The room was a noisy and busy place, it looked a little like a jungle with all the girls wearing their brightly coloured dresses. Their laughter and chatter filled up the room with an infectious joy and as Hitsugaya's eyes found the princess, he tried not to smile. The chatter died down as the inhabitants of the room noticed the boy. Slowly, the women rose from their seats and left the room as business was about to begin; it was no longer time for idle conversation.
"Ah, Hitsugaya!" An advisor of the princess, who sat next to Mei at the head of the table, exclaimed as the soon-to-be-captain approached him. Mei mouthed Hitsguaya's name to get his attention and, when he looked at her she smiled mischievously.
"Yes, Sir." The silver-haired shinigami stood to attention as he was addressed.
"At ease, boy." The advisor almost laughed; students from the academy were always so well behaved. "I was told you met the princess last night?"
"Yes, Sir." Hitsugaya was trying to pay attention to this conversation but his attention kept being caught by the light that would catch the diamond that hung around the princess' neck.
"And you have been briefed?"
"Y-yes, Sir." The princess was doing something to her goblet of water, whispering to it, making the contents swirl until it almost spilled out of the glass containing it.
"Then I assume it is no surprise when I tell you that we expect nothing but the best from the youngest graduate of the academy," the boy almost blushed as he sensed the princess' stare on him. "But mark my words, boy," Hitsugaya snapped his attention over to the advisor who stood and pointed a finger at the boy. "You are to behave as though you are already in the rank of a Captain. No making eye contact with the princess, no addressing her inappropriately, no demonstrations of violence before her, no familiarity. Is that clear?" Hitsugaya glanced at Mei as slyly as possible but it seemed as if she was paying no attention.
"Yes, Sir." He exclaimed and bowed as the advisor left the room.
After a moment of silence, with the princess putting her goblet back down, Hitsugaya went to stand by a window and faced the room. As was the usual positions guards took when seeing over a member of the royal family. It was simple enough really-
"Do you enjoy being a shinigami?" The princess interrupted all of Hitsugaya's mundane thoughts and he looked, surprised, over to the princess. She had now crossed her legs underneath her on her throne and continued to eat breakfast. She looked at him intently; her grey eyes widening and focussing on him.
"Do you enjoy being a princess?" He asked in return. The princess smiled at him slyly.
"Yes. Very much so." Her smile widened. "There is a great degree of 'getting what I want' with this job."
"And what is it you want, your highness?" The temperature in the room rose and the princess' smile turned into a smirk. Her soft, petal lips parted gently and she blew a straying strand of hair from in front of her face.
"I asked you a question," she responded after a moment, enjoying the shade of pink that his cheeks became. "Do you enjoy being a shinigami?" Hitsugaya thought about it and the more he thought, the more he could not think of an answer.
"It is the same answer to 'why are you a princess'?" He said.
"Because I could not have been anything else." The princess said slowly, thinking about her brith right. So that was it…Hitsugaya could have been nothing other than a shinigami. She wondered why that was. But as she looked him up and down, lean and handsome in his robes, she decided it was a question for another day. Mei smiled and stretched before standing from the table.
"I want to have a bath." Hitsugaya nodded and stepped aside for her to pass him and return to her bedroom. The princess laughed and flashed him a smile as she walked past.
"Aren't you coming?"
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