Gandiva.

The bow which was made by the creator, Brahma himself, was gifted to Arjun for his valor by Agnidev. Arjun single handedly destroyed all the naga forces, their king, and even his father, Lord Indra, without taking a single persons help. Vaishnavi knew that this would happen, and also knew what her husband is capable of doing, but seeing all these in live was something else for her. Soon enough, the Naga forces and their king were on Arjun's feet, pleading for him to spare their lives, which he obviously did as a man of distinction himself. For some reason, She found her husband hot in an unconventional situation like this.

They all went towards him and stood beside him, with Draupadi and Vaishnavi on either side of his. Indra became very happy at his son's valour and blessed him, along with Agnidev. Both the celestial beings blessed him and also looked at Vaishnavi, ever so slightly directing their blessings towards her as well. Arjun and Vaishnavi looked at each other, as they understood that they just got blessed as a couple. Indra told him, "Son, I'm very much pleased by you. Thus, I'm appointing the great engineer Viswakarma to build a palace for you! That palace will be one of a kind in this whole Aryavart! No one has ever made, or no one will ever be able to make a palace like that, again! And Arjun! You will be the Commander in charge of this city!".

Vaishnavi continued, "As Lord Indra suggested, after the palace gets completed, this place will no longer be called as Khandava Prastha! From here on, This place is called as INDRAPRASTHA!".

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Indraprastha.

Heaven on land. Never have anyone seen something like this, and not sure anyone will ever see something like this. That palace instantly became Vaishnavi's and everyone else's favourite. She was roaming around, checking out all the rooms by herself. As soon as she saw a very huge room, she was fixed that it will be Draupadi's room from hereon. Every year, her husbands has to come to her room, not the otherwise. She did not want to compromise on her sister's comfort. As she was making everything ready for Yudisthir and Draupadi's first night together, she saw a bow being kept on the slab there.

She went there and picked up the bow out of curiosity. She inspected it and smiled to herself, "Gandiva, huh? Well, Hello Gandiva! Ishwari this side. Why are you alone here? Huh? Not gonna lie, your owner looked very hot with you in his hand! By the way, What is your careless owner doing leaving you all alone?", she spoke to it in a cutest voice.

"Haa! He is admiring his beloved wife in a very careless way!", she heard Arjun's voice and turned around to see him leaning to a pillar with one hand near his heart. She immediately dropped the weapon, But, Arjun caught it from falling and caressed it, "Hey Senapati of Dwaraka!, be careful with my Gandiva! This is the weapon of the Senapati of Indraprasth", he threw her an accusing look.

She side eyed him and said, "Oh hello! I wasn't trying to do anything to your GANDIVA! Okay! Cha, always thinking negative things! Atleast, think something positive Mr. Always pessimistic!", and turned around folding her hands. He came infront of her and said, "Hmm... Something positive huh? I just heard you calling me hot! That is positive enough i guess", and continued to admire his bow, while she had her eyes wide open.

"I- I didn't say it like that. What I meant is that bow was looking hot in your hands!", she managed. He looked promptly at her and smirked, "Both means the same ma'am! Weird girl!", he scoffed and looked back at his bow. She looked at him with her mouth open and threw hands at him, "Haaww! What did you call me?", making him go back near the slab. "Hey! Hey! Don't!", he deliberately wasn't trying to stop her attacks, as he was enjoying it. She finally got hold on both his hands and smiled widely in victory, "Haa!! You lose! Against me!!".

He looked at her intently and slowly got hold of her hands, pretty easily. "I am lost long back to you!", and pulled her towards him. For some reason, he was still appearing hot and irresistible to her, so she just obliged to whatever he was doing to her. He sneaked his hands around her waist and lifted her up, "If I should not call you weird, what else should I call you?", he made her sit on the slab, and raised his head asking, "Huh?".

Her hands found her way on his chest, and slowly towards his shoulders. Seeing this, he smirked and whispered, "Should I call you Love? My wife? My everything? Huh?", and was drawing circles on her back with one hand, while the other caressing her thigh, making her have goosebumps all over her body. He was just a centimetre away from her lips, and his every breath was touching them. She was trying hard to resist the temptation, but unfortunately to her, the husband of hers was irresistibly attractive to her today. Controlling a little, She looked at him hesitantly and stuttered, "A- Arjun! T- This is not the right place! This- This is for Jyesth and Draupadi-", but he leaned more closer to her and whispered, "This place could also be for, me and you! Love!". She looked up at him, who winked at her.

She opened her lips to say something, but he caught them and locked them with his, with one hand tightly holding her waist and the other pulling her hair. She wanted to protest, but the proximity they were having was not at all helping her. Soon, she gave in and let her hand go inside his hair. The kiss soon turned into a passionate one, each other trying to dominate. This reminded her of her first kiss with him, and she smiled while kissing. She vaguely remembered how his beard was poking her, and her hands instantly went on search of them. As she couldn't find the beard, she frowned, and all the memories started to kick in. Him marrying her sister. She couldn't hold those thoughts anymore and pushed him away harshly, making him go bewildered.

"What happened?", he came forward to hold her shoulders, but she stopped him by raising her hand, and looked at him with teary red eyes. He couldn't tolerate the sight in front of him as well, his wife crying. "Don't, Arjun!!", and started to leave the place. Arjun has had enough of her cold shoulder, and he did not want to give up on her. So he shouted, "Why are you so ruthless, Ishwari?", making her turn back at him.

"Wha- You broke my heart, Arju-", she said, but got cut off by him, "Really? You really think that I broke your heart deliberately? Have you ever tried to see from my perspective, Ishwari? Put yourself on my shoes once, you'll know! I-", he started breaking down at this point, which made her feel bad for him. "I'm trying to amend things between us and you,- you are always trying to go far away from me!! And I'm unable to handle that, Ishwari!".

She slowly walked towards him, while he continued, "I- I did not want this marriage, at all! I was pulled into it! Yeah, such a dumbhead i was! I agree! But, I- I tried to deny the princess, but as soon as you told me to put the Garland on her neck, I- I died then And there, Ishwari! I even tried to send the princess back to the palace by rejecting her, but,- but she took this holy decision that er- I couldn't do anything!".

She came near him now, "I- I'm tired, Ishwari!", he cried out and got in his knees. "My brothers tried to kill me! The princess I won has gotten married to all my brothers! You know how terrible that feels? I had to share her with them! All of them! And you! You were also not talking to me, giving me cold shoulder! You could have killed me instead!", she immediately hugged him tightly to her chest, while he couldn't hold himself back anymore, and he cried his heart out into her chest. She shook her head while wiping her tears, "No! Don't say that! Ever again! As long as I'm alive, you are not going to die!", and kissed his hair rubbing his back.

He fell totally upon her, making them fall down with him on her, hitting the table near them making the bowl of milk fall on both of them. He got up from her chest and saw that they both were drenched totally in milk now. Suddenly, Nakul and Sahadev came inside the room with flowers and immediately turned back, "Ohh woah!!! Guyss! Seriously?", Nakul asked faking annoyance. Sahadev said, "Get a room guys!", but Nakul interrupted, "Sahadev, they are in a room!", and hit his brothers head.

They both soon got up from their compromising position and she ran out of the room. Nakul and Sahadev soon left the room as well with Arjun cleaning himself up, keeping his bow on the slab.

Vaishnavi took a bath in the pool for almost an hour, trying to bring down the heat she was feeling for her husband. She caressed the places where he touched and smiled to herself. She immediately remembered how he cried like a baby in front of her. That boy would always keep everything to his heart, and will never show anything on his face or open up to anyone. But, she felt happy that he trusted her enough to open up to her and cry his heart out, which held many unspoken emotions. She decided to give him a chance and stop with being rude towards him.

She came out of the pool and wore her skirt and Blouse. She was buttoning up her blouse in the front and looked at herself in the mirror to notice how beautiful the love bite mark was sitting on her neck, almost fading away. She smiled at that and caressed it, and continued to button her blouse. But, one of the hooks was not listening to her, and she got pretty annoyed at that. Suddenly a pair of arms sneaked around her waist, tightly hugging her, which had taken her aback. Arjun saw her from the mirror and tightly back hugged her, with his hair totally wet. He looked like he just got out of the shower and water drops were falling on her shoulder from his messy wet hair. The hands slowly went up and started to button up the last hook, which was near her bosoms. He tightly hugged her again, pressing both her bosoms together. She closed her eyes and Breathing heavily, she turned around to look at him.

She smiled and kissed between his eyebrows, then his cheeks and at the corner of his lips. He smiled happily, as his wife is back to him. She held his cheeks and was about to say something, but a loud bell was heard. They both looked towards the direction and Arjun sighed, looking at her apologetically. She just nodded her head smilingly and he kissed her on her forehead before leaving.

She turned around to put her dupatta on, and smiled to herself. Just then, she heard an announcement, which said, "All the Brahmans be careful! Prince Arjun took his mighty Gandiva and is coming to rescue you!". She frowned at that statement and sensed something was wrong. Instantly, she remembered where his Gandiva was, At Draupadi's chamber. She held her head and fell back on the bed, "H- How can I forget to tell him?".

She immediately ran outside her chamber and encountered Nakul and Sahadev. She immediately asked them, "Sahadev, where is Arjun?", to which he just looked down with guilty written all over his face. She understood what this meant and went backwards slowly. "This- This is inevitable!", she said out, making them confused. She continued, "All- All the marriages are inevitable! And I can't stop them!", she said and looked at them both, who were looking at her worriedly. She soon ran towards her chamber and started to cry her heart out. She was trying to come to terms with the fact that all his marriages were inevitable, and what is meant to happen, will happen. She lied down on her bed and closed her eyes thinking,

'Why Kanha? Why is this happening? What should I do?'

'Let whatever happens happen, and come to me, Sakhi!'

She opened her eyes and saw that it was morning already, and she slept crying all night. She wiped her tears away and got up of her bed, only to face a crying Draupadi. "Ishwari! Aarya Arjun-", she started to say, but got cut off by Vaishnavi, who was in a hurry, "Where is he, Krishnaa?", Much to her surprise. Draupadi composed herself back and said, "In his room, Changing to saffron clothes", and hugged her tightly. Vaishnavi held her and caressed her, as she understood how embarrassing it must be for Draupadi, as Arjun might have seen her in a compromising position with his brother. "Shh! Shh! It's okay! It's okay Krishnaa!", she consoled and wiped her tears away. "Let me just go talk to him once, okay?", Vaishnavi said to which Draupadi nodded obediently.

Vaishnavi came out of her chamber and immediately ran towards her husband's chamber. She entered the room and stopped near his bed, unable to move a single inch from there. He took his Gandiva and was about to go out, but stopped as soon as he saw her. She looked at him with tears in her eyes, with millions of emotions being conveyed in them. He smiled sadly at her with tears in his eyes and started to go out.

She closed her eyes as he crossed her, and tears were continuosly falling from her eyes. He stopped suddenly and sprinted towards her. Keeping the Gandiva on his bed, he tightly hugged her, which she almost immediately reciprocated. Both of them felt their heartbeats against each other's chest, with their hearts bleeding with pain. Not wanting to leave each other, They stayed like that for a little longer. After some time, they broke the hug and locked their eyes.

He looked at her for her permission, and she nodded her head sadly. He then kissed her forehead and sprinted out of the room taking his bow, as he knew if he stayed there longer, he wouldn't be able to go away from her. She covered her mouth and fell on her knees holding his bed, meanwhile her heart was getting ready to face the separation from him.

For 12 years.

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