"Oh…I'm so bored," a little girl at the age of 7, said all lonely. "Maybe I'll go ask my dad if he would play with me…" the little girl got up and walked to his father's room or as he was called, the king of Japan. The little girl walked through the long kingdom hallway and finally reached his father's room.

The little girl opened the door slowly and spotted her father looking outside the window.

"Hello Father," The little girl greeted as she came in his room.

Her father turned and gave her a bright smile. "Hello Akane," the king said with a smile.

Akane walked to her father and asked, "Father, will you play with me?"

"Oh Akane, I can't, I have many things to do…"

"Oh," Akane said a little disappointed.

"But I'm checking on the kingdom's soldiers, would you come along and see what do they look like?" The king asked with a smile.

Akane returned a smile and nodded. The king took Akane's hand and together, they walked outside where the soldiers were practicing their moves for the war that is going on for years.

"So Akane, what do you think of the Japanese soldiers?"

Akane looked at the soldiers, her eyes were full of amazement, she loved the way the soldiers trained, it made her feel like she wanted to be one of them, to save Japan than to be a fancy, well behaved princess.

"Wow father, they're amazing!" Akane exclaimed still looking at the training soldiers. "I want to be one of them when I grow up!"

The king chuckled. "I'm sorry honey, but you are a princess and princesses don't fight in wars." The king said with a smile. "Come on, let's head back shall we?"

The king started walking away but Akane still stood in her same spot still watching the amazing soldiers.

'I will become a soldier someday…I will…' Akane thought.

….

Akane opened her eyes from the memory she just thought of now.

'This is the day,' Akane, now 16, thought to herself. 'Today, I'm going to ask my father if I could join the Japanese war.'

Akane looked at her father's big, golden door before her and took a deep breath. Akane walked in and saw her father sitting at his desk probably doing some work.

"Uh father?" Akane said nervously.

The king looked up from his work and smiled when he saw his daughter. "Hello honey," The king said with a bright smile.

"Uh, father?"

"Yes Akane?"

"Well uh, I've been thinking…for a while now and I was wondering if I could…well, join the war?"

The king stared at Akane intensely and stood up from his desk and walked to her. "Honey, remember what I told you?"

"Yes I know, princesses don't fight in wars, but I just want to give it a shot, I want to be more than a princess, please give me a chance."

The king sighed. "I'm sorry, Akane, but I can't allow that, I can't allow my little girl to go to war and get hurt."

"But dad, I'm not a little girl anymore; I can handle it, please!"

"No Akane, I forbid it."

"But dad,"

"I said that's enough, end of discussion."

"Dad, if you would just-"

"I said end of discussion!"

Akane couldn't take it anymore, she said something that she would never forget, "I hate you dad!"

Akane ran out of her father's room and ran to her room. She shut her door and locked it. That night, she went to bed without talking to her father and without eating dinner. Akane cried into her pillow.

'Why is my father still treating me like a baby,' Akane thought. 'Well I am not a baby!'

Akane slipped out of her bed and looked out of her window.

'Tomorrow morning, they will be leaving for war…' Akane thought. 'What am I suppose to do, if I do go as a princess, the soldiers will soon recognize me and immediately send me back to my father…' Akane thought for a minute then thought of something that would work.

'I know, I will disguise myself as a guy and go to war…' Akane smiled at the idea she has.

She walked to her drawer and looked inside. She found her scissors to cut her dolls' hair.

She carefully cut her long beautiful hair and made it short (The hair style from the show Ranma ½). She tied it in a pony tail. Then she quietly went outside and inside a shrine that had so many armor. After she put on armor, then she went inside her room again and wrote her father a note. Then left in the morning with the soldiers to go to war.

'I'm sorry father…I hope you can forgive me…' Akane thought sadly.