The King's Queen

Chapter 2

(A/n- btw that's my drawing of Hamako, I tried my best okay.)

You woke up before dawn to get rid off the bloody kimono. Careful not to wake up Hamako, you slowly got out of the bed. You were lucky that your aunt had to go to Kisara's child ceremony later in the day which was in a neighbouring village. You remembered one time you found a rabbit in the court yard and instantly fell in love with it. Of course your aunt found out about it and didn't like it, and the very same day she cooked for us. You were shocked to say the least only to find out that she killed and cooked your sweet beloved rabbit. When she told you after you ate a couple of bites of the food, tears filled your eyes as you ran out of the dinning area and vomited outside. Your aunt was such a witch so you could only imagine what she would do to a curse. She would probably call some jujutsu sorcerers to kill Hamako then afterwards kill you for aiding a curse.

Right then an idea struck 'she wouldn't kill a curse if she thought it was a human' you grinned at the thought and decided not to wake up Hamako instead you began to do your chores so you can finish them early. The one and only thing you loved about your aunt was that if you did all your chores perfectly she would let you go into the village because she couldn't care any less about what happens to you guys. Your sisters and you usually go into the village to do a few errands to earn abit of yen. Unlike your sisters who had lots of friends, you never really had anyone you could call friend. Most of the people you got along with were not even close to your age. And the people who knew you who were your age, would either ignore you like you didn't exist or would say that no one would want to marry you when you came of age unlike your sisters. Not that you were ugly it's just that you were too shy to even talk to a male. Plus you didn't even want to get married, you actually planned to use your saved up yen to run away to a far away village. Your sisters didn't know about this and you intend to keep it that way even though you would miss them, they would already be married. As the sun began to show over the horizon you were nearly done with your chores, today you were trying to go out in the morning. All you needed to do was fill the buckets of water, you began to feel tired just thinking about carrying six buckets of water back and forth until all were full. You let out a heavy sigh you didn't know you were holding and began to follow the path to the stream with two buckets in your hand.

"UGH FINALLY" you whined after putting the last of the buckets of water away at least with your aunt still asleep she wouldn't make your life a living hell by constantly telling you that the buckets should go there and not there. You slowly went to your aunt's room and instead of knocking quietly you began to bang on the door. "MADAM SAKURA!!!" you shouted. The door slid wide open revealing an angry tired looking aunt "WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING UP SO EARLY BANGING ON MY DOOR, THE SUN HASNT EVEN FULLY RISEN YOU IDIOT!?!" She yelled looking infuriated by the sudden and out of nowhere antics of her niece. "Oh goodness what did I want to say. Oh right i finished all my chores so i will be back before nightfall." You said sheepishly, Sakura glared draggers at you "You ruined my beauty sleep for that, FINE JUST GO AWAY!" She yelled as she slammed the door so hard a few splinters of wood flew in the air. You let out a sigh of relief 'goodness where did that confidence come from and how did I escape that without a slap to the face' you thought surprised and terrified and abit confused by what you just did. You shook it off and went to your room to find Hamako still sound asleep 'wow this girl can sleep' you thought and let out a giggle, you went to your bed and lightly shook her "Hamako" you whispered as her eyes began began to falter open "yes..." she said with sleep still in her voice. "I am going out so I need you to hide until I get back alright." You said to her, she simply nodded and went back to sleep. You weren't really worried because no one ever came into your room. You went to bath and soon after you wore your f/c kimono and left the gates of the estate. There was one place you were going to....