Chapter 5 Ogre Princess

As the shout was heard everyone rushed to the room, first to open the doors was chief's wife with her husband and son in tow. Master Ryujin and his brother were with them but stood at the back. All of them were witnesses of a...situation.

Currently Shiva was shielding his face while chief's daughter was hitting him with her pillow while shouting. Shiva didn't want to do anything to her just after healing her so he just tried to talk this out.

"Hey! Can you stop?!"

"Where am I?! Who are you?! Where are mine parents?! Where is mine brother?!"

She was shouting while still attacking Shiva with the pillow, small tears began to trickle down from her eyes as she was scared of Shiva. She wanted to see her family and friends not knowing that they were there.

"Honey!"

Chief's wife shouted before running towards her daughter and hugging her tightly. Princess's eyes widen and she lets go of the pillow, she immediately hugs her mother back

"Mother!"

Chief's son joins the hug and three of them start to quietly cry. Shiva stands back up and smiles a little when he saw this family reunion. Chief closed his eyes and shakily breathed in trying to hold his tears. He walked up to Shiva and tried to place hand on Shiva's shoulder but due to the height difference he just patted him on the back. Chief's wife looked at Shiva while still hugging her daughter and smiled with tears in her eyes.

"Thank you..."

She said to him while Shiva simply nodded. He then decided to walk out from the room not wanting to leave the family alone. He, Ryujin and others walked out from the room and headed outside. It was already night and moon was high in the sky, village was sleeping by now.

After saying his farewells, Guard Captain left to his house leaving two Kijins and an old ogre alone. They spend few minutes sitting on the porch of chief's house, in silence before Ryujin decided to break the silence.

"We also want to thank you. Me and my brother both. We are close friends of the chief and we treat little princess as out granddaughter."

Brothers nodded their heads towards Shiva who scratched his head and sighed.

"It was nothing...It's not like I didn't do it for the pay."

Old Kijin nodded his head with an amused smile and a chuckle.

"Yes, you are right. But nothing is free this day. That is why we are thankful either way."

Shiva looked at Ryujin and noticed old man's smile. It was genuine and warm, like his grandpas. Four armed Kijin sighed and was about to say something back before doors to the chief's house opened and chief's son walked out from the house. He walked past them and stopped in front of Shiva.

"Father asked me to lead you to the house where you will be staying."

Shiva nodded and stood up, he stretched a little and walked up to chief's son.

"Lead the way then."

Chief's son nodded and began to head further into the village. Shiva was about to follow him when Ryujin asked him something.

"Could you visit me when you have time? I want to show you something that might interest you."

Shiva raised eyebrow while looking at the smiling old man behind him. He then nodded and without a word followed chief's son. After a few minutes of walking they arrive at the outskirts of town where a small house is standing. It's smaller then most houses but it's ceiling is high enough for Shiva.

Chief's son stopped in front of it and turned to Shiva.

"This is the house that mine father wanted me to lead to. I hope it's good enough..."

"It's perfect."

Chief's son nodded his head and began to walk away but stopped.

"Thank you for helping mine sister. I am in your debt..."

He then walked away not letting Shiva to say anything back. Shiva sighed and walked into the house. It resembled him those houses from old movies about feudal japan, while not the same they had close resemblance. There was one big room with a fire place in the middle where you could cook and smaller room in the back where you can sleep. Shiva laid down on the futon that was there already and closed his eyes finally realizing how tired he was. He slowly drifts away into the dream lands...

Next Day.

After finally having a good sleep after many nights of sleeping on the ground, Shiva wakes up and yawns. As he looks around an amazing smell gets into his nose, he sniffs it few times before standing up and slowly approaching the doors. Before he opened the doors however he put on his wolf cape quickly, he still needs to hide his bonus arms.

He then slowly opens the doors to the main room and his eyes widen as he sees, chief's daughter, princess cooking a meal. She adds some herbs to the stew while stirring it up with wooden spoon. Shiva looks at her in confusion before finally asking.

"What...are you doing here?"

Princess jumps a little and let's go of the spoon, making it fall into the stew. She looks at Shiva widen eyes before smiling with slight blush.

"G-Good morning! I-I am making some breakfast."

"Why?"

"Because mine father asked me to do it. And b-besides! I need to repay to you for what you did! So for as long as you are in our village I will make sure that you eat tasty meals!"

She stood up and smiled with determination in her voice, she really wanted to repay the kindness. Even thought this 18 year old ogre girl could kill many human soldiers without any issues, her smile is still very bright and innocent. Shiva blushed slightly and sighed, seeing that he can't real do anything about it he sat down before looking down into the cauldron.

"So what are you making?"

Princess sat down on the opposite side and took hold of the spoon again.

"Some warm stew with rabbit meat, it's very tasty."

"I bet it is. This smell is amazing!"

Shiva complimented her cooking as his mouth began to water as he focused on the food in front of him. Princess giggled slightly.

"Thank you for those words. And don't worry, you will taste many more things like this on the feast today evening."

Shiva looked up at Princess and raised an eyebrow.

"Feast?"

"Yes! Mine father decided to throw a huge feast in your and mine name!"

Shiva just looked at her confused.

"What...."

"Oh! I also brought you new clothes. The ones you wear now must be very uncomfortable and must stink. So why don't you go take a bath and then put them on? I hope you will fit in them as this is the largest me and mine mother ever made."

While Princess was talking about how she, her mother and few other female ogres are making clothes for whole village, Shiva was in thinking.

'She is sweet and all but...She behaves like mine wife or something...I hope that old ogre doesn't try anything...'

Shiva sighed and stood up before taking the clothes from her hands.

"Thank you for them. I will go take bath in the nearby river then."

"O-oh! Of course! As you like but....C-Call me if you have any problem with putting this clothing on. All visitors have problem with putting them on."

Shiva raised eyebrow before he left to take a bath.