Time to Become King

PG

When one Emperor dies, a successor will take his place, but right now there is a little problem.

To say that he was bored was putting it lightly, if anything the newly crowned Emperor of the largest kingdom in the world was just tired. It wasn't that he needed to sleep more, his sleeping pattern was the same as normal, but there was nothing to do.

The moment he had been crowned Emperor he found himself dealing with paperwork and he had been trained for it, he knew what it entailed, reading through the documents and then, if he felt it was good enough not only for himself but for his people, then he would put his wax signature to it. His advisors however had taken the majority of the paperwork onto themselves, believing, just because he was still a teenager; he couldn't cope with it or would make mistakes. If his father trusted these men so much he wasn't going to argue with them yet but he would. He wasn't an idiot as they appeared to think he was, he knew he had to make them understand that he was the Emperor and he would take on the Royal duties.

Right now though he was still restless so he went to the Royal stables to see L Drago, one of two Royal dragon's.

Inside the large stable the long, almost snake like body of the red scaled dragon with golden fur rested happily, looking up when he sensed the teen come towards his stable and moved towards the large door, seeing the familiar golden gleam of his crown and the white hair with the little lock of red at the front.

"L Drago," The human opened the door and the dragon slowly left its home to be outside, leaning down to let him onto his back and he sighed; "Let's go outside… the countryside,"

The dragon slowly nodded, walking out and leapt out letting his magic rise his body take them into the sky as the human leaned onto his back to look at the landscape below as he always did.

As usualy they flew in silence, until the human spotted a large fire and gently pulled at L Dragon's fur to land near.

They saw a red haired boy quickly moving with buckets to try and put the fire out, his face covered in dust and cinders.

"Ginga!" A young voice cried out from the burning farm and the red haired boy cried out;

"Kenta! Don't worry…" Ginga tried in vain to put out the fire with the other buckets near and the Emperor looked at L Drago who nodded, without needing to be told shifted it's own body size to enter the house; "Wha… No Stop!"

"Don't presume to tell a dragon what to do boy," He finally spoke and picked up the buckets by Ginga's feet; "He'll get that kid out,"

Ginga just stared him before moving to get more buckets of water before he heard; "Ginga!" And felt a pair of arms wrap around his waist and he looked down to see green hair and dust covered face,

"K… Kenta…" He knelt down and hugged him; "I'm… I'm sorry, I didn't think they would do that, I thought they would have done what they normally…"

"Who did that,"

The two boy's looked at the tall man, Ginga glared at him while Kenta looked at him in amazement;

"You're… You're the Emperor," He said childishly; "Emperor Ryuuga!"

Ryuuga tried not to wince, he still couldn't get used to that title, after all it had been his father's title for his life, to now be called it by his people, it just sounded so foreign; "Yea, now, who did this?"

"Who did this?" Ginga glared at him.

"Yes, that is what I just said," Ryuuga wondered for a short moment if the red head was rather slow, but from that poisonous glare he knew that wasn't the case.

"You ordered this," Ginga hissed at him, showing his the paper that appeared to have his signature on it.

He snatched the paper off him and smirked; "Those idiots," He looked at L Drago; "I think we need to put our foot down," He looked at the two, then at the burning barn; "I will deal with this,"

"No you won't, you'll be like all the others, you'll say you will do something, but you won't," Ginga asked and Ryuuga could hear the venom from his voice so clearly and began to wonder how long this had been going on.

"I don't go back on my word," He told them, matching his glare with his own, refusing to turn away from this boy, even if he was underneath him in status.

"Yea right,"

Kenta just looked at the two in confusion; "But Ginga…"

"No, they always lie, just because they have money," The red head glared at him; "I bet that's why your brother disappeared… Everyone said that he was kidnapped, but I bet it was…" Before he could finish, before Ryuuga could move to punch him, L Drago whipped his tail back and pinned him to the ground, growling out a warning.

"No, no!" Kenta began to pull at the dragon's scales; "Please…. Please stop…."

The red dragon turned to look at him, his forked tongue gently licking his cheek, almost to reassure him.

"L Drago," Ryuuga said in a commanding voice and the dragon leaned down to let his own onto his back once more; "You Ginga are an idiot. You should know the Emperor was sick for the past two years, but nothing was passed on to me until after his death… Although…" He grinned as he thought of what he would do to those so called loyal advisors to the crown; "You'll get a sign,"

Kenta bowed; "Thank you,"

Ginga just glared at him still and Ryuuga laughed, liking the fact that the boy wasn't cowed by the fact that he was of Royal blood as L Drago took to the sky again.

Those Advisors… I'll need to assert myself now.

He knew he shouldn't look forward to the confrontation; after all they were the men who had been loyal to his father throughout his reign;

Had they been loyal? Truly loyal? Or have they slowly been doing things like what I saw for myself throughout his reign? He amber eyes narrowed; They will learn quickly that I am not going to let some words sway me, I want action too. I will be a different Emperor compared to my father.