Hello all…hmm let's see what should I say? Well…. This is my first fanfiction and I've always been a huge fan of loveless. So I thought to myself that I should contribute some more Loveless goodies. Since our great Mangaka is taking forever to update Loveless!… Not that I want it to end but the plot should move forward more to Soubi taking Ritsuka's ears! Lol anyways I'm getting sidetracked please read the story and review lol doesn't matter if you just put k or a smiley… review!

P.S. All the hot yaoi action will Start on Chapter 3 so stay tuned ;)

Disclaimer: I do not own Loveless its all Kouga Yuns'.

Chapter 1: Rose Castle

"Why are you scared? What have you seen?"I asked worried about the shaking boy in my arms. He refused to speak let alone look at me. I decided to let him go. What have these people done to this poor child? He only wept on the floor holding himself (not that he had any choice since he was tied up) looking at the garden where the white roses had been tainted by a deep red. His ears pressed flat against his head and his tail wrapped against his legs. Here in the banquet hall I sat in the throne that had been the throne of the previous king. The boy lay there in front of me shaking holding what remained of his torn and sullied kimono. It was a beautiful contrast to the boys pale skin. It was red like the color of the blood that was splattered on the walls and on those beautiful roses. His hair was illuminated by the moonlight that entered from the window. Though his hair was a jet black the silkiness of his strands made his hair look an almost purple or blue color. His eyes a deep purple that bore an odd mixture of longing and tragedy. They seemed to have been witnesses to all types of horrors yet they retained the innocence of his youth. He was merely 12 years old and from what I understood he was the prince to this castle that was now in my control. I couldn't take my eyes off the youth, never had I seen such Beauty. There he lay completely destroyed yet he retained his beauty his elegance. I gazed at the tragedy in its entirety and I recalled how I had gotten here.

{Flashback}

It had been a month since I had left the kingdom of Septimal Moon due to the nobles demanding that our empire take over the Rose Clan. Our empire was very powerful. We were made up of the most powerful, flourishing, and wealthy clans in all of Asia. My clan, the Butterfly clan, was the one who had most control over the kingdom. I was the prince to said clan and had been instructed by the king and the rest of the clan leaders to look into this matter personally before a tragedy insured. Many of the nobles had made threats that if the Queen of the Rose clan was not controlled that they would dispose of the royal family. The Rose clan was part of Septimal Moon but had for some time no longer attended the clan's reunion meetings. The Queen was a rather ruthless woman who had lost her mind shortly after her husband the king died and her youngest son lost his memory. Her son Beloved had taken control of the kingdom and would occasionally come to the clan's meetings. He was very intellectual, refined and spoke with such authority that it rivaled the Kings. Yet he had not ruled for so long. He had been murdered in a cathedral where he and his men had burned to ashes. Nobody had ever known how and why it had happened.

This had made the Queen all the more cruel and crazy since without Beloved there was no one else to control the kingdom that said clan reigned over. The queen would starve here people by burning the fields and refusing to send food to the villagers. She would punish people in her fit of rage severely almost to the point of death. The Rose Clan was no longer prosperous as it once had been. The people lived in decay and fear of the wrathful and insane queen. The queen had gone so far as to kill anyone who escaped the kingdom without her permission. Nobody was allowed to leave. The villager's only hope was the youngest prince but nobody had ever seen him before or knew his location. They only knew the Queen kept him locked up in some part of the castle in a secret room that only the queen had the key to. They figured the prince was a coward and an idiot who couldn't even control much less escape his mother's grasp. So there lay no hope in him. He was surely nothing like Prince Beloved who had protected everyone from the queen and who had been kind to all the villagers never letting anyone starve. The villagers had to take matters into their own hands. Kill the Queen.

It was late at night perhaps a bit past midnight when the villagers arrive where I was staying at. They had ushered me into this castle, The Castle of the Rose as it was called, saying they had a gift for me. When I arrived, I was taken aback by the violent sea of blood that seemed to cover everything. Corpses lay everywhere of what appeared to be the servants of this household. As I kept walking through the hall i saw portraits of the royal family to this clan. But the faces on the portraits had been torn. When I arrived to the garden there lay the queen's body wide eyed, torn, and stabbed entirely.

"I demand to know who is responsible for this?! It is against the law of the Septimal Moon Empire to kill the royal family of a clan that's part of our kingdom! Even if your Queen was mad she would have to be taken to the Ancestral Court to be judged by the clan leaders!"I scream barely capable of containing my anger.

Not because I was sympathetic towards the Rose Queen in all honesty she had deserved this. I was surprised that the villagers had taken so long. Yet I still couldn't stand for anyone breaking the law regarding my empire it was like a slap to the face for me. I looked at every single man that stood there. Everybody looked scared and I could tell by the blood that covered them that everyone was guilty. Suddenly a man stepped forward.

"Prince we know it is against the law but we were on the verge of death. Our whole families have not eaten in weeks. Our children are dying!" the man burst in tears. Another stepped forward. "We had to do something… Isn't a Clan leader suppose to take care of its people?!" he said. This caused everyone to start yelling screaming out like "yea!" "We were treated like dogs!" "She deserved it!" "Why should we be punished?"

"ENOUGH!" I said. "This does not excuse what you have done! This was why I had come with my man to settle this with the Rose Queen. The empire had decided to put me in charge of your clan and I was to rule here! Now what do I find? The whole royal family killed?!" I screamed I could hardly contain my anger again and was sure if anyone spoke out again I would punch them in the face.

"We haven't killed the whole family! The prince is still alive!" said an old man sighing. He spoke again, "Once the queen was dead we found a key that was around her neck and we started to look for the young prince since we were sure he would be in a secret room like the maid had said." So the prince was still alive? I started to groan mentally if the young prince was half as crazy as his mother had been I don't know how I'll be able to handle him. I can't just kill him I would have to take the trip back to the empire with the prince to have a trail with the leaders of the ancestral Court to resolve the situation of who would rule the Rose kingdom and to see if he was even capable. That would mean another month of traveling back. I growled "where is he?! Bring him here!" and with that a couple a man ran to a room and retrieved what appeared to be a cage with a large black cloth covering it over. One of the man said, "this is our offering to you prince. Please spare us! We just wanted our families to be okay again."

"Your own prince you offer him to me in a cage and what shall I do with him!?" I said to the people. "Leo!" I called out to my general. "Get the prince out of the cage and let me speak with him in private. Take these people outside and let no one escape. If they try they shall be hanged. Until the prince can decides their fate. He is after all still the heir to this clan." With that order Leo ordered my man to escort everyone out the room and to hang anyone who tried to escape. He then went to the cage and removed the cloth.

There he was. The prince was crying inside the cage holding his legs close to his chest and burying his face in between his knees. He was pulled out by Leo and brought forth to me. I sat In the throne and I ushered Leo to place the boy in my lap. He tried to run away but was caught by Leo and pushed to the floor.

"Leo don't hurt him just tie him up so he won't try to run away" I said not wanting the prince to hurt himself further. Once Leo was done tying him up He brought him to me and placed him in my lap.

{End of Flashback}

I tried to ask him again about what he had seen but since he did not look or respond to me. I got up and got a hold of his chin lifting his face so that I stared into his eyes. "Will you at least tell me your name my prince?" he blushed slightly. I couldn't help but chuckle and I reached out trying to scratch his ears to try to calm him but he flinched. "My name is Soubi and I am the prince of the Butterfly clan. I have come to help you," I said. His ears twitched slightly and I could tell that he knew about my clan. "What is your name my prince?" I whispered into his ear. To this he blushed and stuttered in an almost whisper like way. "My n-name is… R-Ritsuka" he said. He looked away slightly while his face flushed an even deeper red. I couldn't help but smile. This will be fun…

P.s. Well most of the story is a flashback explaining the current setting and well me just trying to give you general information about where I want the plot to go lol if you have any questions just ask hopefully I put another chapter up tomorrow . and just incase you don't know or haven't noticed this is in Soubi's point of view. Hopefully next chapter in Ritsuka's but I will clarify this at the beginning of the chapter so you won't be confused lol Please review!