Story One

~*Miyako*~

.:Miyako:.

It's dawn. The sun is just peeking over the horizon; it's cold, misty, and just overall beautiful.

I wake up and stare at the snow white ceiling. The whole room is colored lavender, a sleepy kind of color. I slide out of bed, not the slightest bit tired, and change out of my silk pajamas, a silky dark grey nightgown with white frills at the bottom, into my plain shinigami uniform. I step onto the soft fuzzy white and grey mixed carpet. I fold up my pajamas and put them in the light colored wood dresser that matches my bed. The pillows are white and they feel just as fluffy as clouds look. The sheets are a matching color to the walls and they have purple flower patterns in a darker purple all over the blanket.

I look out the window cautiously to see if anyone's there. Then I jump out the window, flash stepping before I even touch the ground. I always wake up at dawn to get out of the palace for two reasons. One, I got caught sneaking out at night, and two, I haven't been allowed outside the freakin' palace for ten years!

I'm the princess of the Hamasaki clan, Hamasaki Miyako. The Hamasaki clan is one of the four noble soul society clans. We're a much respected clan in the Seireitei, even above the Kuchiki. Our connection with the 13 court protection squads is that my parents are the new Captain and Vice captain of the third division. Think what you want but my mother is the captain and my father is the vice captain.

Despite being a princess, I have no arranged marriage, I'm already fourteen and past the "usual" engagement stage. I mean other princesses are engaged usually before they are born to when they're 13.

I'll tell you more about myself. Again, my name is Hamasaki Miyako. I have very dark brown hair that flows down to my waist and looks black, but you can tell it's brown the way the light hits it at dawn or at dusk. I'm about 159 cm. tall (That's about 5 foot 2) and I have silvery violet eyes that you can only see at midnight during a full moon.

As I'm leaping through the forest to the left of my house, someone catches me right on my path and starts bringing me back to my palace.

"You really shouldn't do this," a familiar voice sighs.

I cross my arms and turn my head away from him pouting. "Shut up, Toshrio."

"Captain Hitsugaya."

I give him a playful smirk and shout, "O.K. Shiro-chan!"

A vein visibly throbs on his forehead as he glares at me. "Why you!"

Toshiro is one of my closest friends and now my bodyguard. He is in charge of coordinating and planning large missions, it's probably no sweat for him to figure out exactly where I'll be trying to sneak out.

We reached the palace and he put me back in my room the same way I ran out.

"Don't keep running out like this. It's annoying and I have other work to do you know."

I cross my arms and turn around. "Then do your work! I just wanna get out then I'll come right back!"

He sighs again and leans on the window frame, ruffling his hair. "Miyako c'mon, stay inside the palace, you'll be let out eventually."

I drop my arms and spin on my heel lazily towards him. I let out my breath, "Oh fine. When you put it like that..."

"Thank you," he says, pulling himself off the window, "The next time I see you I don't wanna see you running out again you got that?"

"I refuse to take orders from a captain who's shorter than me!" I exclaim loudly and sarcastically. I know he's clearly annoyed so I glance over my shoulder saying, "Alright, Captain Hitsugaya."

He finally leaves and I drop myself on the bed.

I blow my hair out of my face as I think, "Damn I hate being a princess."