Being the Priestess of the Dragon God is no easy task. When it comes to keeping the peace it can be hard. Usually I just lay around with nothing to do. The people expect more from me than I can give. The demons aren't attacking the land, yet. So I am here kept locked up inside the palace shrine for safe keeping. This way if I am needed I will be safe, hopefully. I don't understand why I am kept locked up. I have trained for many years and have basically mastered my powers. The only thing I am used for is to decide to whom a horse belongs to between two neighbors. How I wish I could quit. Too bad being a priestess isn't a job you quit. So here I am sitting in my room looking hopelessly out the window wondering what I should do now.

Crashing came through the hallway towards my room. The door flung open. Fuji-hime was at the door with Tomomasa behind her. "Michelle-sama it's awful! Tachibana no Tomomasa is bullying me. He said no prince with any sense would ever consider marrying me. That I will be a lonely maiden for the rest of my life."

"My dear Michelle, you look wonderful this afternoon. How come you did not visit me during breakfast?"

"Don't change the subject you horrible man." Fuji-hime said pulling his ear so he would back away from me.

"Odd how a man with no wife or even a potential marriage partner says that you will never be married." Fuji-himes face lit up from Michelle's defense for her. "Unless he speaks from experience." As soon as the light came to Fuji-himes face it went. Fuji-hime yelled as loud as she could and stormed out of the room with several maids chasing after her because of her threat to run away and to calm her down. Tomomasa had finally calmed himself down from wanting to burst out laughing.

"I find it amusing when you tease people. There is something about the way you do it that speaks for itself."

"I have to do something in order to entertain myself around here." A guard showed himself in the doorway facing away from the entrance meaning he was a low level. He announced to Tomomasa that the emperor wanted to see him for military matters.

"By the way, how would you that I don't have someone I am interested in?" He meant that more of a question he didn't want answered because with that he left. I left my room in search of something to do. I headed for the library hoping that it would have a book I have not read yet. Chances were good that it didn't. As usual I found Fujiwara doing his work diligently. It was like that guy never took a break. He lived for work.

"I take it by your constant note taking that you haven't got a book in here that I haven't already a thousand times."

"Nice to know you are so full of enthusiasm." He said to me without looking up from his notes. I covered his notes with my hand forcing him to look up at me. I asked him if he ever thought about taking a break. And that as Priestess of the Dragon God, I demanded he take a break for the Dragon God told me so. Fujiwara just chuckled; he knew that I was just a replacement for the priestess. I was not actually the Priestess of the Dragon God but actually just a face for public appearance so that the people would feel safe. I told him that he could laugh all he wanted and that the wrath of the Dragon God would catch up with him one day. Again he just chuckled. Lastly I told him that he did seriously need to take a break. After that I left.

What do I want to do with myself? I thought as I walked the long halls of the palace. Surely there must be more than this. I know what I want. I want… "Oh, excuse me emperor. I was not paying attention to where I was going." He motioned for his servants to leave him, so they backed away slowly then retreated around the corner.

"It has come to my attention that you are not very happy at your stay here." The emperor said to me while we were walking and talking.

"It is not that I am unhappy. It is just that I have nothing to do. I have been doing nothing for so long that I would be happy to clean the floor of the entire palace."

"Ha! We cannot have our famous priestess doing maid work. That is nonsense." As his voice softened to its normal tone he asked, "Have you considered being a match maker? My daughter could use a good husband. I haven't the time or the patience to find her one. He has to have come from a good family meaning rich mainly. I leave it up to you, with the Dragon God on your side I know that you will not let me down." No problem I thought to myself. I just find some rich guy halfway decent and then problem sloved. I went through some records of bachlors for Fuji-hime to marry. It seems that every good man has sent in a request for marriage. But of course she is daughter of the emperor. I picked out all the best looking and best connections. I wrote them all an invatation to come to the Shrine of the Dragon God in reguards to their proposal to Fuji-hime. When I will hear from them again I cannot say.

I was going through the files of the bachlors when in walked Tomomasa. He always had a talent of annoying me. He sat down at the other end of the table and grabbed a paper right out of my hands. With a surprised face he said, "I had no idea that you wanted to get married. If you wanted to settle down so badly all you had ask. I would take good care of you."

"If only I could trust you to leave those other women. Then I would gladly give my heart to you instead of selling out to these better men."

"I would give up everything I have for you." He said staring at me handing me the paper.

"Michelle-sama! Don't be fooled by the shameless flirt. He will say anything to you in order to get what he wants!" It was Tenma. He had came out from his hiding place. He follows me around to protect me in case something happens.

"Good work Tenma. I didn't sense you at all today. Your hiding skills are getting much better." Tomomasa stated and I nodded my head in agreement.

"It's true. I thought that you had taken the day off to try to fool me." I said to him putting the paper that Tomomasa took from me among the other papers I had gone through.

"Stop changing the subject!" He demanded. "Would you really consider marrying someone like him. He has no morals when it comes to women. He only plans to use you in some evil scheme he has created."

"Tenma please stop yelling. We were only joking. These papers are not a marriage for me but for Fuji-hime. Why must you take everything so literally?" Tenma turned bright red and Tomomasa just laughed. Tenma was yelling at him to stop laughing and of course that made Tomomasa laugh harder.

"Dancing with myself" Billy Idol