The prince and me

4 | t h e f i g h t

  Mino's POV

The fight began. The prince turned his serious mode on by how scary he looks. He has his sword in one hand and the in a position where he would unleash an attack at me.

He smirked and fire came out of his hands. Immediately my fear came to me, I froze and my mind went crazy and dropped my sword while I just blacked out.

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"Yea, she has no physical injuries, Your Majesty."

"Ok, thank god."

I opened my eyes to see Kashino, his face graced with worries and concern. He turned around and saw me awake. "Oh my god you're awake."

I nodded.

"Why did you faint?"

I looked away, embarrassed. Not able to tell him my fear.

"You can tell me, I won't judge you."

Suddenly, tears pooled in my eyes as I looked up to him.

He stared at me in shock, "Um, did I do something? I'm sorry."

I shook my head, "No." And wiped away my tears. "It's nothing."

"If it's nothing why can't you tell me whatever that's troubling you?"

"Can you not trust me?" The prince looked at me, sadness was evident in his eyes.

I waved my hands frantically, "No-no-no, that's not it."

"Then why can't you tell me?"

I refused to listen to my heart, and brushed him off, "It's really complicated."

I expected him to give up after that. after all, I'm just a commoner I reminded myself. To my surprise, his didn't, "I think I can handle complicated."

I looked at him and sighed, "You're not gonna give up are you?"

He gave me a cheeky smile, "Nope."

I sucked in a breath, "I'm afraid of fire."

Shock displayed all over his face. I knew he wouldn't understand, I thought to myself. Stupid me for thinking he'd understand.

"Don't think you're stupid, please? I'm just shocked that you were so straightforward about it." He assured me.

Well now I'm shocked, "I should probably tell you the backstory."

He nodded so I continued to speak, "Remember Aoi?" He nodded, " I said she was pretty much my sister, and it wasn't just us. We also had a bigger brother, called Ryuji." I released a breath I didn't know I was holding. "It was us three together, against the world." I smiled at the happy memories. "But then, he died in a fire. He died saving me and Aoi." Now tears were streaming down my face rapidly, as I remembered the pain, the sadness in that moment. "He died, because of the fire. The fire I started, the fire that caused the death of him, the fire-" He embraced me in a warm hug, like a warm cozy blanket in the middle of a cold night and at the moment I forgot everything else in the world except for me and him. Us, together as he embraced me, I could feel the connection. I wasn't using telepathy to hear what he was thinking, but I could tell he cared about me in his feelings and I felt overjoyed.

"I don't care if something like that happened, and I'm sorry I wasn't there for you in the past. But I can assure you that from now on, I will be here every step of the way." he comforted me, still keeping his arms around me.

At that moment, I couldn't believe it. Someone except for Aoi, actually cared about me. I just couldn't believe it.

"I care about you Mino, more than you think." He whispered in my ear, sending chills down my spine. I tried to calm the beating of my heart, I felt like it was gonna burst out of my chest.

Kashino stood up, brushed off the imaginary dust off and extended his hand out to me, "I'll help you get over your fear, I promise."

I nodded and took his hand.


"I know you don't want to hear this but, I need to train your fire powers as well."


I waved my hands frantically, "No no no, anything but that no I can't do that."


"If you're scared that you might kill someone again, I assure you we have high-class healers that can heal anyone. And actually, if you didn't know you could too."


I looked up in shock, "Teach me how to heal."


"I don't have the power to heal, but I think I know how it works."

"Extend your hand out like this." He showed me, I followed what he did. "Then I want you to feel the energy in your soul, it should feel bubbly I think." I nodded and reached inside to try and feel the energy in the soul. At the first try, I failed but I tried again, determined to succeed.

After try and try again, I still failed. I couldn't do it at all, I just felt nothing at all.

I broke down in tears, "I'm useless, I can't even heal. Then how can I even help at all? Oh Ryuji, I'm so sorry. I should've never existed."

Someone gripped my hands tight, "Don't ever say that Mino. If you hadn't existed, I wouldn't have been able to meet you. Or you wouldn't have been able to taste the amazing food that exists on this earth. Me and Aoi both love you a lot and I'm sure Ryuji does too and he would be impressed to see how you are today."

I looked up at him and rubbed off the tears. Glad I don't wear stupid makeup, cause that crap is disgusting. "Thank you so much." I replayed the words he said to me and choked, "Did you say you love me?"

He looked away in embarrassment, "Pshhhh nooo." He tried to brush my question away.

I sucked in a breath, now or never I thought. "Awww, I love you too."

Oh

My

God

I said it.

His eyes stared at me in shock, "Seriously??"

Changing into sarcastic/defence mood I retorted, "Nope, sucks for you right?"

You could see the disappointed in his eyes, as his eyes clouded. He mumbled something under in breath that I couldn't catch and stood up.

"Leave." He said coldly.

I flinched, taken aback at his cold attitude that I've heard twice. "Kashino? Are you alright?"

He glared at me, "I said to leave at once." He emphasised the 'leave' part.

"Did I do something?" I asked desperately.

He mumbled something again that I couldn't catch, then said, "No, now leave. It's time you leave."

I gave in, "I'm sorry, but I don't know the way back since you've always teleported me."

He rolled his eyes, "Right, how stupid of me. Well then figure your way back, or teleport back. You're the legend right?"

I felt the tears collecting in my eyes threating to fall, I knew I shouldn't have let my guard down. He doesn't care I felt the anger boiling up inside me. Who does he think he is? He might be the Prince but I thought to know him enough he wouldn't treat people like crap. I looked at him, and for a second I could tell that he read my mind. I sent a message to him.

"I will, and I won't be coming back."

I looked up at him, and for a second I saw the sadness but then only to be covered immediately in coldness. I glared at him with all my anger and teleported away.