MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS

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Had ever felt awkward? Never?...........Just get stuck with your enemy and might curse it on your whole life, then it will awkward, guaranteedly.

"maybe we should look around here, more" Nakula said scratching his head as he glance towards the Yuvraj of Hastinapur who is looking anywhere but at them as he hear his third brother mutter in the cold silence "it doesn't seem like the rain is going to stop soon nor is going to slow down" making bhima says "do we have food in here?"

Hearing a annoyed Sigh from near, they all understood from whom it is as they hear light footsteps fading away before the five brother look at each other silently until sahadeva broke the silence "we should look around more" making everyone nod.

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"this looks good"

Duryodhana murmer looking at the big royal bedroom after wandering around from a while as he go inside the room, checking the beautiful shinning yet dark decorations, finding it completely unusual to see the whole palace neat and clean like there are people who live here yet there is no presence in here nor near this palace.

Walking towards the closed glass window, duryodhana touch the window lightly as he sees the window wet from the rain pouring while the pattering of rain fills the silent bedroom until he felt waterdrop on his shoulder, realising that his hair is still wet, duryodhana shook his head, ruffling his hair to get rid of excess water so that, hair can dry fastly.

Sighing internally, he look up at the ceiling before walking towards the bed as he laid down on it, unknown to whatever happening downstairs, closing his eyes for a while, already knowing he won't get a blink of sleep.

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"the palace seems like as if someone lives but yet there is not one" Arjuna says looking at the dry woods for fire and fruits, grains, and some spices stored inside the containers in rasoighar.

"I think.........ghosts are real" Blinking stunnedly, they all look at nakula who just said murmered this sentence as he grinned sheepishly while yudhishtir said "I think, we are going to stay here for a while, these are important for us, though where will we sleep?"

"judging by the condition of Palace till now, surely the rooms must be good enough for staying too" Arjuna says as everyone walk towards the corridor, opening the door of room one by one as they all take one more for themselves.

"you can take this one"

"it's okay nakula, you can take this one"

"ok, this is mine"

"then this one is mine"

"I will take this one"

"this bed is big enough for me"

The four room, two by two opposite of each other, got taken by the four brothers leaving yudhishtir to take one as he open the door in from of him only to find duryodhana sitting on the left side of bed while his back is leaning against the Headboard as his lightly wet hair is open while the eyes unmoved from window.

Yudhishtir is sure, duryodhana knows that someone just open the door of his room but already knowing who are the person in the palace except him, he didn't drag an eye to the door as yudhishtir sighed internally.

It might had been different before but now, knowing that from starting it was all lie, that it was conspiracy of Gandhar Raj, that Gandhar Raj is using duryodhana, that duryodhana's health has become very weak and all above the incident of this bracelet................even if he want to, the mind is not letting him forget all these.

Hesitantly stepping inside the room, yudhishtir tried to speak out in low town as the silence is too loud with pattering of rain.

"Duryodhana"

The dark brown eyes look at him from the side of bangs, sharp and alert, calm yet are saying many words and yudhishtir is sure none of them are nice words. Might duryodhana is also short tempered but he knows when to open his mouth and when not to, if Gandhar Raj wouldn't had come then maybe he and duryodhana would had been much closer but it seems the bridge has completely broken by now.

Coming closer to sit on the edge of bed, yudhishtir noticed his bracelet and duryodhana's bracelet sparkling lightly but duryodhana's alert eyes being stuck on him, didn't notice the sparkle as he sees................what should he say? Eldest cousin? Or..........husband?.................

Duryodhana sudden turning of face made yudhishtir come out his thoughts as he look at the window, completely covering in pouring rain as take a deep breath before saying "there are some fruits and food downstairs, stored in the containers with spices and dry wood for fire..............enough to utilise until the rain strops or slow down.

Yudhishtir notice duryodhana's intertwined hands squeezing lightly before duryodhana nodded lightly, still not looking towards duryodhana nor saying as yudhishtir get up, leaving the room while closing the door.

Duryodhana hear the door closing sound, realising that yudhishtir is staying in the opposite room of his own as he leaned his head against the headboard before whispering "Hope no one is worried in Hastinapur"

AT HASTINAPUR

"why did you told him about my location?"

"I didn't wanted to lie to him, I have never did it beside I definitely didn't thought he would went to Maaya sarovar just to find you"

"I know, that idiot just couldn't wait one more day. Do it for him and bear the burden for him too. God!" Both the best friends of Yuvraj of Hastinapur, grab their head in pain as they sighed simultaneously while karna continue muttering "it took me whole month to find the path to come out of it and he........went without any thought. Sometimes I don't know, hug him or beat him"

"beat him is a better option but for that we have to find him" Ashwatthama says as they both look at each other nodding as they get up, ready to bring their best friend home until he hear chaos from outside as they went outside only to hear "my sons went to Maaya sarovar, jiji! Tatshree!. What should I do!? How will they come back!?"

Rajmata? And Pandavas went to Maaya sarovar? Why? Forget about it, what is their use even there?

"guess, we have to bring them back too"

Rolling his eyes, karna groaned, annoyed as they both went towards the chaos before saying "we will bring them back. Duryodhana has gone there too"

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