What can I say? After I watched an historical Korean drama and read some stories about Medieval Ages, I really wanted to write something, too. If any of you think that the story sounds too plagiarized, then just tell me in a review and I think I'll delete it. I won't mind because I know this is not the most original idea. The title of this chapter is inspired from a show that had an episode titled so.

Chapter 1: Winning a battle, losing the war

"Your Royal Highness! Your highness!" the maid yells at the top of her lung, running through the huge imperial palace. She stops for a little to pant while another woman ran to her.

"Did you find anything, Hong?" she asks. The maid shakes her head.

"You're good." Hikaru says panting. Kyoya smirks and attacks her with the sword. At seeing that, Hikaru parries with the speed of light. The two swords stay crossed, in X shape for a moment so the two 'swordsmen' can address each other cocky words.

The blades of the swords flash. "Good!" Hikaru protests, "That's all I am to you?"

Then both retreat their swords and continue fighting, now Hikaru attacking him. "If you still think that, because I'm a princess, I'm one of those worthless bimbos that need to be saved by men and are good only at looking pretty, like Madoka, you're wrong!" Hikaru yells while attacking.

She tries to reach for his neck, but, extremely fast, he lowers his head and spins in circle, then lands a few meters away from her.

The fight keeps going on with the speed of light, that fast that you can't even follow all of their the movements in detail.

They spin, jump, attack, defend.

Both for them start stepping around an imaginary circle. After some moments, they are in exactly opposite positions of how they had been. She throws him a cocky look, but he smirks and attacks.

Hikaru parries, but his attacks are violent, forcing her both parry and retreat with parrying. Catching a moment when she's not attentive, he lets his sword cut her left arm horizontally through her light blue outfit of swordsman.

The cloth colors in a reddish color due to the blood flowing from her veins, making her growl even more and attack violently because of anger. Kyoya tries to parry her attacks, but she jumps, then rolls above him, so she is now behind him.

Lastly, she puts her sword at his neck from behind and smirks. She won the fight. "You're not that brave now, right?"

Kyoya chuckles in satisfaction. "Really?" he whispers.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!" Hong yells, but the battle continues.

I don't know how, but Kyoya's sword is now threatening Hikaru's neck. Hikaru's expression is a surprised and confused one. He won the battle.

"Your Highness, your father will be angry if he hears that you fought again!" Hong tries to win Hikaru's attention. Kyoya smirks but retreats his sword from her neck.

"Hah." Hikaru mumbles, then looks at Hong. "I'm coming." Then she puts her sword in the sheath and walks to her maid, wiping away the drops of sweat on her forehead. Kyoya chuckles in satisfaction and picks up his sheath from the ground, then also inserts his sword, which was a little painted with Hikaru's blood, in it.

Hong's eyes go wide at seeing that Hikaru's arm, nearly her shoulder, was bleeding. "Your Highness, what happened here?"

"If you chirp a word, I'll cut your neck!" Hikaru yells.

Hong looks to be scared. Actually, she saw Hikaru fighting so many times with men and winning that she is terrified. If she could defeat the bravest knights, she'll probably transform a simple maid into dust.

But, although Hikaru's so skilled, Hong never saw her winning against Kyoya. Never, but never.

Kyoya's the son of the premier, and a part of the nobility.

Hikaru's the only daughter of the king. She hates dresses, pendants, flowers and jade rings.

Madoka is a girl from the nobility, the third and youngest daughter of a minister. She's also the only kid in the family who's unmarried, having two elder sisters. Madoka comes to visit Hikaru at the palace very often because the relationship between their parents is very good. But, even so, Hikaru kinda dislikes Madoka because she is a nerd who likes girly thingies.

Hong is a maid of Hikaru and she's the only one who knows about Hikaru and Kyoya.

Kyoya taught Hikaru to ride, to handle the sword, to drink side by side with men, and to fight. The problem is that, because Hikaru's the only child in the royal family and also a girl, her parents want her to be feminine and want her to marry. Normally, she isn't allowed to act like a man. Hikaru doesn't want to marry because this would mean to leave the world of swords.

The relationship between the premier and the king isn't really the best one since Hikaru refused to marry premier's first son [Kyoya is the second]. But it wasn't just her fault, because the premier's son also refused due to the feeling he had for another girl.

Even so, Hikaru and Kyoya are very close. They drink together, they ride together, they fight together, they are kind of sidekicks. They treat each other tough, not like they are friends or something, and Kyoya is perfectly conscious that Hikaru is the daughter of the king.

Men tend to treat Hikaru easily because she's a girl, but Hikaru always shows them that this discrimination is wrong. Her body is marked with many scars due to the fights she had, but she always endures pain bravely.

"Hm... See you next time." Hikaru says cockily, looking at Kyoya over her shoulder.

Eh? What do you say? Too plagiarized? Should I delete it?