Love & Betrayal

~ Everything perfectly settled

Karan showed his palm stopping the old lady from saying anything further. He was shocked yet violent with what revelation he just faced. She was his real mother? He wasn't a sutt but a kshatriya yet faced those humiliations for practicing archery? She was always before her but spoke nothing? Was it all a joke?

Questions ran in his mind. He had known with the fact that adhirat and radha weren't his real parents but it was shocking to know that kunti was his real mother. And was it the reason behind his divine kavach and kundal? He was suryanarayan's ansh. His father was none other than the suryadev himself. But what was his mistake? Why did he has to go through these situations? Suddenly the flashbacks of those humiliations came in front of him. She knew it from kalapradarshan still stayed silent. The pandavas are his younger brothers, he should have protected them but instead he sworn to kill them. He always competed with arjun for proving that he's the best but instead he should have show the world that they both brother are equal to an army. Yudhishthir who needed a elderly figure to guide him through every ups and downs but what he did? He plotted against him. He tried to harm him so that duryodhan could become the yuvraj.

"Putra, please trust me! I didn't know what to do at that time. Whatever came in my mind I did and my maid priyamvada also suggested me. I had tried to find you. I told Arya about you and he had accepted you as his first child, we did every possible effort to find you but we never got you and after that arya's sudden death shocked everyone. Till that time I had lost the hope that I will ever get you but you came back. Please forgive me son. I will accept whatever punishment you will give." She pleaded joining her hand and sitting on the floor but karan was too shocked to understand anything. He turned to leave only to face draupadi and yudhishthir.

"Jyesth bhrata!" Yudhishthir whispered as his eyes filled with happy tears. Karan now could understand his strange connection with yudhishthir. The same blood flows in their body, they were unknown with each other's identify but their hearts knew. He was happy to have brothers and have the real identity but at same time he was feeling betrayed from his own birth mother.

Karan wasn't able to stand there and so ignoring yudhishthir he left the chamber. Draupadi kept her palm on yudhishthir's shoulder asking him to look at his mother and till then she will talk to karan.

"Please forgive me putra! Please!" Kunti sobbed uncontrollably. She had thought that he will hate her but never knew that it will be do painful. She couldn't bear her son's hate. First yudhishthir and now karan. Yudhishthir there seeing his mother's condition felt like someone has stabbed him directly in heart. He reached near his mother and hugged her to his chest. "Maa! Please calm yourself. I promise bhrata karan will come back and accept us. Please you don't stress yourself." He said kissing on her head.

"I didn't know this would happen. I__i" She could speak due to the crying. Yudhishthir made her sit on the bed and wiped her tears. He calmed her and then made her eat something.

Besides draupadi was chasing karan. He had sped up a lot but she got him and blocked his way. Furious would be understatement, he was mad and raged up that anything came in his vision will burn out but she being the fireborn was fearless. She dared to stand there and like a regal queen ordered him to listen her words and then decide.

"Jyesth, whatever maata did was wrong I accept but why can't you see the circumstances. Society had their rules, anyone going against it will have to suffer. Some people faces it but everyone is not strong bhrata. Did you forget how everyone used to look at me? They always used to taunt me and question on my character. I bore it because you were with me, you were there to answer them but who was with maa? If she had accepted you and kept you near herself then what would had happened, do you know? She would had been banished from her own home, she had to live commoners life alone with her newborn son. None would had married her and still if anyone dared then the society would have made it hard for them to live. And you, now you are just facing the humiliation for taking weapon in your hands but if maata had accepted you then you had to bear the taunts of being an illegitimate child. Do you think these all things are normal for any woman?"
Draupadi's each and every word was making him think. He could now understand the depth of situation. She was right, he didn't think all this.