A Rough Beginning

Apologies

Onto chapter 8! Enjoy!

Chapter 8

It was the middle of the night, when a lightning storm hit the kingdom. Karin was in her room sleeping when she was awaken by the lightning. Sitting up in her bed she brought her knees close to her chest. Karin only had a few fears and one of them was in fact lightning storms. Karin hated thunder, and lightning. It was one of the few things she hated.

Torshiro had also woken up from the thunderstorm. He headed down stairs to get drink from the kitchen before heading back upstairs. As he came back stairs and got closer to his room. He saw karin come out of her room holding a pillow.

"Karin? What are you doing?" Torshiro asked coming closer to her. She looked away embarrassed. "Are you scared?" he persisted. Karin didn't answer again. Sighing he opened the door to his room and went in, holding the door open he looked at her. "Would you like to come in?" At first Karin shook her head, but as thunder roared through the sky she jumped and hugged onto Torshiro. Torshiro ran fingers through Karins long black hair. "Karin it's okay" he tried to calm. He lead her to his king size bed and she got in before him. She cuddled closely into his chest hiding away from the thunder. Torshiro watched her as she shivered scarldly. He wrapped his arms around her waist drawing her closer. "Karin, I have something to say, can you look up at me?" he asked. She nodded and looked up into his teal eyes. "I'm sorry, I was inconsiderate of you when we were at the seriti kingdom looking around. I bought all that stuff for my cousin, who i actually loved up until a little while ago" Torshiro felt Karin stiffen, "But I promise I won't do that anymore, my attention is on you, my love is for you, and nobody else" Torshiro promised. "Karin I love you"

"I love you too, but you are dumb sometimes." Karin answered. She put her head down and snuggled deeper into Torshiro's chest as he laughed about her calling him dumb. The two fell asleep like this and woke up in the morning in a similar position. Torshiro was awoken by commotion in the hallway. Karin was still trying to sleep in bed, so Torshiro got up and went out the door.

"What's the commotion about?" he asked. Matsumoto stopped in front of him,

"Well I went to check on Karin and, discovered she wasn't in her room, and none of us know where she is at!" she told him. She was prepared for an explosion, but instead he laughed and smiled.

"Come on here I'll show you something" he said leading Matsumoto to his room and opening up the door. She peeked in to see Karin sleeping in the large bed.

"Why is she in your room? I thought she was mad?" she commented.

"Fear out rules madness, Karin got scared of the storm last night and found me when I was returning from getting a drink of water. We made up and I told her some of the stuff. Than she kind of fell asleep there" Torshiro explained.

"Oh, I see than I will leave you to your day of rest, since it is sunday" Matsumoto said leaving and telling all the servants that everything was fine. Torshiro returned to the bed, laying down. Kain's eyes fluttered open as he layed back down.

"What was that about?" she asked facing him. Torshiro faced her brushing her hair out of her face before answering.

"They were searching for you, I guess we should probably get your stuff moved in here soon, so they don't do this every morning" he suggested.

"Okay" Karin agreed. Torshiro grabbed Karin by her waist and brought her closer to him. Karins hands were on his chest as she blushed. The shared a tender kiss before breaking apart. They laid there in bed resting until they had to get up. Karin went back to her room to get dressed, before meeting Torshiro in the hall. The two walked down stairs talking.