The sunrays spread on the sleeping faces of kaurav kids, they woke up and found each other sleeping in weird poses. A faint smile spread on their lips, with lot of worry evident in it. How much they wished the sun never rose, They glanced at each other with satisfaction, that they made their last night before leaving for the war memorable. " Taatshree must be searching for us, lets hurry up " Sumasan said in between yawns and everyone nodded.

" Hush! As expected " Came a voice, all four of them turned to find surath and dushala, standing there. " When did you come jyeshth bhrata! " Sushyant exclaimed. " Morning itself, mamashree told me that all four of you were not in your chambers and as I expected you all were here " He answered. Dushala was glancing at her son, nephews and niece with admiration and worry in her eyes.

" Don't worry bua, we all would be fine " Sushyant said hugging her, followed by lakshman, sumasan and surath. " It's time to prove your strength kids " Dushala said ruffling their hair, " Bua! We all are not kids now, we have grown up " Lakshman frowned. " Matashree, everyone is searching for you all " A female voice entered with tinkling of anklets.

" Oh my god! Suvarnadhika bhabi! " Lakshmana hugged the woman and the child in her hands. She was the wife of surath and daughter - in - law of dushala, suvarnadhika, she was recently blessed with a baby boy.
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All of them hurried to their own chambers and then gathered again after getting dressed up. Lakshmans saw her brothers ready wearing armour and carrying their weapons,a sense of pride was filled in her eyes. A sting of pain stuck her heart as she felt, she may be seeing from the last time. She shook her head to get rid of those thoughts and stood besides suvarnadhika. All boys now warriors had went near the troops waiting for duryodhan's and pitamah bheeshma 's order. Gandhari stood at the main door with aarti thali in her hands, her face filled with lines of worry. Behind her stood chandramukhi, indumati and dushala along with other other kulvadhus, behind them lakshmana and suvarnadhika.

Gandhari did the aarti of bheeshma and touched his feet with utmost respect, " Saubhaagya vati bhava " Bheeshma blessed her emotionlessly.
Then she did the aarti of duryodhan, lakshmana looked at her father, bringing all life in her eyes. Duryodhan bent down to touch her feet, " May you fight with all your bravery " She said turning her face towards another direction, trying to hide her tears. She knew her sons had did wrong and they would suffer because of it, how much she longed to see her sons, maybe for the last time.

Then gandhari did aarti of her grandsons, they bent down to touch her feet, " May your names be immortal in history putron. " Gandhari blessed them. Vrushali, supriya and snigdha ( vrishasen's wife) we're watching all this from the balcony.

Bheeshma walked between the troops, inspiring them to fight with all their strength and dedication. Their grip on their weapons was tightening and eyes shining in determination.
How much that kaurav nandini wished, this war would never take place. " Hail senapati bheeshma " Came out a loud roar from the troops and they raised their weapons.
" Hail yuvraj duryodhan " Came another roar and the troops turned towards the gate.

" Are we going to fall weak? " Duryodhan asked the troops, " No " The troop roared. " Are we going to fight with all our strength " , " Yes " . The sena of hastinapur made their way towards kurukshetra. The troops exit the main gate of the palace with loud noise of Neighing of horses,trumpeting elephants and running chariots , filling the palace with emptiness. Gandhari fell on her knees crying, Indumati and chandramukhi held her by arms and took her inside. Suvarnadhika's son started crying due to the loud noise , dushala and suvarna took him inside to calm him.

The queens of anga also went back to their rooms , lakshmana stood there alone still looking at the retreating figure of the army walking towards destruction.
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" A bit more mata " Dushala extended a morsel of food in front of gandhari.
" I've lost the desire on food dushalae, don't force me " Gandhari turned her pale face away. " Bua, give it to me, pitamahi would definitely listen to me " Lakshmana took the plate from dushala's hand and extended in front of gandhari.

Gandhari smiled and touched lakshmana's hand fondly and took the plate in her hands. Gandhari loved her only granddaughter to no ends and always felt a special bond with her. " Pitamahi, may I ask you one question, please " She pleaded. " Sure putri " Gandhari said. " Why didn't you bless pitashri with vijayi bhava? " She questioned innocently.

The smile on gandhari's face again disappeared, dushala's face also turned pale. " Putri, what they had done was very bad and unforgiving.
I can't bless them with vijayi bhava , everyone pays for whatever they do and surely my sons would too " Gandhari answered with a faint smile.

Just then suvarnadhika entered there with her son. " Aww my nephew come to bua . Such a quiet kid you are " Lakshmana took him pinching his nose and smiling. The baby's face wrinkled and lakshmana felt him peeing on her lehanga. She made a weird face , " Bhabhi " She glanced at suvarna with teary eyes. All the ladies started laughing and giggling, " What is this! Just now I praised him " She said making everyone laugh more.

" You would understand this, when you yourself would become a mother " Dushala said,  " We are eagerly waiting for your child " all the three ladies smiled.
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