AADHYA'S POV
On our way there I asked "bharata do you think avyukt was giving us hint? as even yesterday night he asked me a weird question about what would I do if a place I live in wouldn't have a rasoi ghar" bharata looked at me for few seconds and said "maybe, maybe not, we never know what going on madhav's head and now I know when you started calling him "avyukt" so what else did you talk about last night?" he asked me teasingly and I said "I was awake thinking about varnavat and wondering if this is an evil plan of some people and got hungry and went out of the room and met avyukt and we went there together, we just decided to dropped the formalities and that's it we talked nothing else and if you done gossiping brihannala jiji then let's go faster." bharata screamed "you!!!! wait!!!, if it's a race you want it's a race you get!!" and went ahead of me and I said "where is the 1! 2! 3! bharata!!" and started going fast.
NEXT MORNING
YUDHISHTHIR'S POV
We all were waiting for nakul as he was just busy admiring himself in the mirror and bheem said "nakul! who is there to stare at you and I have heard that there are rakshas more in the van" making me and sahadev laugh and then nakul said "well then even you look at your face bharata bheem you never know if a rakshasi falls in love with you" making bheem angry and he was about to go hit nakul but I stopped them saying "stop it you guys, let's go mata would be waiting."
We all were outside for the puja and mata said "let's wait for arjun and aadhya" and I said "let's start they will come soon as the murat is going to start" we were about to start the puja but two hands were added on the pot making us looked up to see us arjun and aadhya making us smile at them and we started the puja. After the puja everyone present here with us cheered our and pitashree's name and we all went toward to pitashree's statue but then we saw two soldiers coming towards us with a sack and then a messenger came greeting me and mata said "maha mantri vidur has sent you this gift" I wondered why would kakashree do that and asked the messenger is there any message for us? and he said, "yes there is yuvraj, when one seed is buried in the ground it grows back as hundred grains of rice."
AADHYA'S POV
we all were going towards pitashree's statue but two soldiers came towards us holding a sack and a messenger came and greeted mata and jesth bharata and said "maha mantri vidur has sent this gift" making me wonder "a gift right now, why would kakashree send us a gift now?" and then jesth bharata asked "is there any message for us and the messenger replied "yes yuvraj, when one seed is buried in the ground it grow back as hundred grains of rice" and bharata bheem said "he only sent rice? If only he had sent gud and ghee I would have made delicious Kheer with it!" making us smile and then bharata arjun said "there is something inside it" and saying that he move towards the sack opening it and turns out there was a mushak inside and I started wondered why would kakashree send a mushak with the rice and bharata sahadev jokes "look bharata bheem's kheer became ashub even before he could make it" and bharata nakul holding the mushak said "no sahadev only humans have the right to make things ashubh animals are pure and innocent" after this we all started to give daan to the people of varnavat and we went inside the palace.
Going inside I asked "why are there so many mirrors? bharata nakul I get you like to admire yourself but isn't this too much?" when I asked that everyone laughed and bharata Nakul said "one mirror is more than enough For me and I don't admire myself that much" and I replied "yeah yeah bharata whatever keeps you handsome" making bharata nakul pout and he said "it was better that you were in dwarka" everyone giggle at our little fight and Bharata sahadev said "no aadhya it's not like that actually the Mirrors are placed in such a way that the palace only needs rays of moon light to light up and there is no need of diya's"
We all went to eat and I started narrating our journey to dwarka about how we met kalyavan and how he died our first impression on avyukt and then told them how me and sakhi went out for a day to enjoy dwarka. After eating we all sat in the common room and I told them "are you guys ready? even if you are you better make your heart strong because the story i'm going to tell you is not for weak hearted people" bharata arjun said "stop fooling around just tell them and end this!" and bharata bheem said "yeah aadhya just tell us we can't wait anymore and seems like it's related to arjun so it's making me more excited" and I cleared my throat and said here I go, with that I started narrating the story and told them everything about avyukt's marriage and how bharata arjun helped him as brihannala and how rukmini jiji said he walks better than us and how mesmerizing he looked as brihannala, when I finished everyone was laughing their heart out and poor bharata arjun was blushing from embarrassment and everyone teased him for sometime then mata came to bharata arjun's rescue and said "bas bas now don't tease him anymore, I will be going to tell the Dasi about what should be made and no more teasing him, when I came back you all should be sleeping this is your punishment for teasing my arjun so much" we all pouted and nodded and I said "well whatever the punishment is, it was worth the laugh" and me and bharatashree's laughed more but then stopped when we saw mata glaring at us and we all went to take a afternoon nap as we had nothing to do anyways.
EVENING
It was almost time for dinner and we all were just relaxing doing nothing and then bharata arjun asked "jesth what are you thinking?" and jesth replied "just thinking why would kakashree send us a mushak" and bharata bheem said "well I'm sure he sent it to tell nakul that no matter how long a mushak looks at himself in the mirror he will always be a mushak" making us all laugh then bharata nakul replied "yeah I look at the mirror but even you look at yourself when you have free time so don't tell me anything" and bharata bheem said "well I look at my muscles" and bharata nakul said "that's okay, as people only look at things which are lookable" making us laugh more then bharata bheem changed the topic by teasing bharata arjun about brihannala and bharata arjun sassily replied "I'm sure mata is disappointed as her most strongest son cooks just like what a good daughter in law would do" after hearing things bharata bheem attacked bharata arjun making us laugh and then jesth bharata stopped bharata bheem saying "bheem stop this, go check if the food is ready or not" bharata bheem surprised asked "jesth aap bhi!" and jesth said "it's nothing like that, it's just time for dinner so I told you to check if food is ready or not" bharata bheem sighing said "let's go sahadev and aadhya" and we went towards the rasoi kaksh.
On the way I noticed we are going outside the palace and I asked them "why are we going outside the palace? weren't we going to the rasoi kaksh?" and bharata bheem said, "yeah we are going to rasoi kaksh only!!, this purochan has made the rasoi kaksh outside the palace and haven't built one inside even though I told him to, just wait let me meet him!" I started thinking "why would he make a rasoi kaksh outside the palace then suddenly what avyukt said rang in my mind and then I looked around and saw how not a single diya is lit up I got shocked and was praying that whatever I'm thinking please not let it be true" I stopped my tracks and bharata sahadev asked "what happened aadhya, why did you stop?" and I replied "nothing bharata I just remembered I had to do something you guys go ahead I will join you guys at dinner" and I ran away saying this.
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