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A time where we lived in a Grand Palace...
A story of the Royal Princess...
The sole survivor of the Lee's royal household...
On that night of the full moon...
"Yu!"
"Baka Usagi, stop calling me that." a young boy around the age of 8 hissed as he pointed the end of the broom he was using to clean the royal kitchen to the red-head's face.
"Heh calm down Yu, we are after all in a kitchen and you know what would happen if the dust gets into the food." Lavi placed his hands up forcing a grin. Kanda glared daggers at the 8 year old Lavi for a moment before placing it back down and proceeded to clean the kitchen.
"I'll get you later for calling me that." He muttered while Lavi continued to catch his breath from running.
"Y- Kanda," Lavi forced another grin at a dagger-staring-pain-in-the-ass Yu- excuse me. Kanda.
"Hey Kanda, you know about the 100th anniversary for the Lee's royal reign?"
"Who wouldn't?" Kanda grunted sweeping the floor muttering about how Lavi was such a pain in the ass and asking him such a stupid question that would mean that you're either a new-comer or a total retard with a short-term memory loss not to know every party that had, is and will be taking place in the palace.
"Yeah true... but that means..."
"You want to see the princess don't you, you greedy bastard." Kanda directed it at Lavi. It wasn't a question either. Lavi always had high dreams about getting it big and even into royalty but Kanda knew, everyone knew, even the Moyashi brat that vanished along with the... no wait. People would be dead if they uttered a single word about the-guy-moyashi-is-working-under-now-as-an-apprentice guy in simple words; someone moyashi is working for is a taboo in the palace.
"Hehe you hit the nail on the head Yu-" Lavi stopped the moment he saw Kanda's vein popping out of his temples so large it looked like it could cause the end of the world if it was popped even further.
"Royalty don't- wait, NEVER marry servants like you, me and the rest of us goons here. Especially a conceited, greedy, rude, annoying, stupid, irritating, stubborn brat like you." Kanda muttered.
"You're harsh." Lavi muttered. A shadow loomed over Lavi as he widened his eyes and turned around.
"You're supposed to be cleaning the study." The head nurse scolded harshly as she dragged Lavi out of the kitchen despite his usual whining.
"Yeah head nurse, this boy has been distracting me from my work. Please take him back." Kanda smirked for the first time in 3 years, 2 months and 13 days (the last time he smiled was when the maids forced him to so however, that wasn't meant to be counted but at least it was something).
Lavi stared at Kanda.
There was a pause.
"HOLY SHIT KANDA JUST SMILED! IT'S THE END OF THE WOR-" Lavi was in the middle of screaming when the Head nurse placed a pacifier into Lavi's mouth and continued dragging him by the ear. Kanda just looked at him for a moment, 'che'd' and got back to his duties with a straight face.
(2 weeks later, The 100th Anniversary of the Lee's reign)
"Hold on Milady!" a servant ran to catch up with her mistress who was running out of her room to where the lights, the parties, the dancers and more importantly, her brother who has arrived from Paris to see his lovely little sister on this grand occasion. As the mistress slowed down her pace, the servant took the chance to rush up to her to add the last and important touch in her mistress's hair. A satin ribbon with the color of emerald that lustred it's value and worth under the light that shone throughout the entire palace.
The young lady stopped so that the servant could help adjust the ribbon to make it's master look even more elegant.
"Thank you Linda." Lenalee looked at her and smiled.
"No matter Milady." Linda smiled back and bowed as she took her leave. "Just do your best Milady."
"I will." Lenalee laughed and looked towards the ballroom standing right under the stairs. She breathed in sharply as she picked up her dress and floated down the steps like water. Curtsying to the guest how first did so out of respect for they knew, she was a princess. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted her tutor who noticed and walked up to her with a glass of wine in one hand.
"Good evening your Highness. You look absolutely beautiful." The tutor bowed down and kissed her hand with a smile. Lenalee returned the greeting with a curtsy.
"Sebastian, could you help me to get across the hall to see my brother?" she whispered looking at the people waltzing across the ballroom and on the other side was her brother talking to a few guest.
Sebastian smiled as he heard the princess ask for the request. He took a bow.
"I would be honoured you Highness." And he took her hand to the edge of the dancing square, poised themselves into a dancing position and then smoothly proceeded to waltz across the hall and joined the performers and the guest. A few minutes later, they were across the big hall on the other side. Lenalee's heart was thumping with excitement upon seeing her brother that the dance was barely finished when she ran off into her brother's arms.
"Nii-san!" Lenalee laughed as she jumped into his open arms. Komui hugged his little sister and spun her a few times.
"Are you going to stay for a few more days?" Lenalee pleaded with her eyes. Komui laughed softly and stroked her hair.
"I'm sorry. I have to go back to Paris. I've built my home (my precious science lab with all the crazy stuff that would cause a revolution in the years to come in a big bang) there." Lenalee's face fell. Komui smiled sadly and handed her a small necklace with something like a tiny green disc as a pendant."
"Read what it says." He whispered into her ear. Lenalee took it up close to her eyes as she squinted to make out the inscription.
"Together... In... Paris..." Lenalee's eyes lit up. "Really!" she exclaimed. "Oh thank you Nii-san!"
"Oh hoho! Never underestimate your genius big brother! Here." Komui handed her a small box, took the necklace and slot the pendant into a small opening of the box and twisted it a few times. Slowly, the cover opened by itself and a dancing couple emerged waltzing to the music played by the box. Lenalee smiled. It played their lullaby. The lullaby shared only between the two...
Komui was secretly relieved...
Back in Paris in Komui's Science lab where he hung out everyday to procrastinate from the political work was a mess. Beakers broken, tables and patches of wallpaper were charred from small explosions. Papers were littered all over the place. Some rolled into paper balls while others were merely crumpled.
Furthermore, bits of metal wires, springs, sheets and a large amount of wood chips were scattered all over the place and the tables and chairs. Paint was also a part of the mess. A small can of red paint was laid on the table and the last drops of paint continued to drip out. Komui would have to clean it all up when he gets back to Paris...
Back at the party, Komui's thoughts were still drifting to his messy lab and the horror of cleaning the place.
"Nii-san?" Lenalee's voice snapped him out of his thoughts of hell.
"Huh?" Komui looked blurry at Lenalee still slightly dazed.
"Nothing you just looked strange for a moment." Lenalee said. Komui forced a chuckle.
"It's nothing. Really." Komui smiled forgetting about the messy lab. He held his hand out to Lenalee.
"Shall we dance?"
"This way Yuu!"
"You god dammed usagi, stop calling me by that name!" Kanda growled as they snuck through the corridors of the palace to get to the ball.
"Shh! Someone will hear you bastard! Don't ruin my once in a lifetime opportunity to see the princess in her gown!" Lavi hissed.
"You already saw her last year you idiot! And it's your 3rd time seeing her in one! Why do you have to drag me into everything!"
"Shut up, we're almost there! This is my chance!" Lavi's eye glinted. Kanda rolled his eyes.
"I'm leaving..." he muttered turning around. The chef would probably be getting the stove ready to cook them alive so if he report to him now, the main course would only be rabbit soup. Thank goodness. That's killing two birds with one stone! (not getting into trouble is one and having Lavi gone from the face of the Earth was another)
"Oh no you don't!" Lavi grabbed his collar and pulled him along.
"Hey! What the- Let me go!" Kanda shouted.
"Quiet you idiot!" Lavi whacked his head and turned it to look forward.
"That's her." Lavi pointed up ahead. It was Lenalee. Waltzing with her brother elegantly across the hall. Kanda looked as well. No. Wait, WHAT WAS HE DOING! But at the same time. She did look beautiful. More than the previous year... and the previous... and the previous...
3... 2... 1...
"STRIKE!" Lavi licked his lips. Kanda sighed.
"Good luck, status aside, that red-head is without doubt the most revolting creature I've ever seen." Kanda muttered. Just then the lights flickered.
"And then I'll serve you coffee! And..." Lenalee and Komui were chatting happily while they danced about what they would do when they both get to Paris when the lights flickered before going out all at once. All at once, the activities stopped. The musicians stooped playing, the dancers halted through their waltz; the guest's conversations quietened down and turned into murmurs. Lenalee looked up and a terrible presence swept through the ballroom. Komui gritted his teeth and held his sister closer to him as she trembled. A few gasps were heard from the entrance and then it crept through the crowd as it parted in the middle as more gasps and whispers came. A glass broke to break the confusion for a moment as the fear continued to spread like the plague. It reached until the other end of the room where the throne and where the King himself frowned in disapproval.
"Cross! I though I banished you from the palace." The king seethed through his teeth and a small white haired boy scurried behind Cross.
"But I'm here ain't I?" Cross smirked carrying his cigarette in one hand as smoke came out from his mouth into the King's face.
"Yuu... Isn't that..."
"Stop calling me by that name... I know... It's Moyashi." Apparently the two had snuck through the crowd when the lights went out and now their two small heads popped out through the parted sea of dresses and suits. They were now staring in shock at the small figure behind Cross who was clinging onto his coat and pressing his face against it to hide from the stares coming from the crowd.
"After all I have done for you and your family, YOU tried to kill ME!" Cross spat. More and more smoke began to cover the floor as Cross pulled out a small vial which made the sound of death moaning digging even deeper fear into the hearts of the crowd as the vial began to glow an eerie green and the contents swirled.
"I just love the fear in their hearts. Don't you? Allen." Cross chuckled. The small white-head figure looked up with eyes that were confused.
"It's really Allen." Lavi whispered.
"He has the scar. It means he already pledged to Cross that he would be his servant until..."
"Death..." Lavi finished the sentence.
"You and your family shall die in a fortnight!" Cross shouted so that all could hear. Gasps came and even more murmurs followed. The King immediately scanned through the crowd frantically for his family.
"NO!" a scream came from the crowd.
"Lenalee!" Komui held his sister back.
"WE'RE NOT AFARID OF YOU!" she continued screaming trying to run forward in vain as her brother held her back as tight as he could.
"ALLEN! GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Lavi took the chance and shouted as he ran out from the crowd.
"Baka! Get back here Usagi!" Kanda shouted. Allen looked back at them to meet Lavi's pleading eye's and Kanda's angry face.
"I'm sorry. I can't" he whispered. Tears rolled from his eyes. Lavi was taken aback.
"DO YOU EVEN KNO-"
"SHUT UP BOY!" Cross hissed and swept his hand. Suddenly, Lavi was swept back by an invisible force and landed on the cold hard marble floor.
"Lavi!" Allen shouted more tears coming out. Kanda looked more pissed off than he ever was as he glared at Allen for making the stupidest mistake of his life when he was just 5 years old. He 'che'd' and looked away. The trio were friends weren't they? Lavi would always get them into trouble, Kanda would try to pull them out of it (while he still could) and Allen would always follow those two around. So why? Why did it become like this? Kanda gritted his teeth in anger as he looked on the floor avoiding any eye contact with anyone who wanted to.
"Well, well, how touching." Cross smirked, "but we have to go now, remember, THIS IS THE END OF THE LEE'S - FOREVER!" and smoke engulfed the two and vanished not leaving a trace.
Lavi looked forward breathing heavily with one arm stretched out towards where the two had been. Kanda continued to look down on the floor gritting his teeth even harder. Silence filled the air. Lenalee broke down into her brother's arms and started crying and that was the only thing they could here. Lavi clenched his fist.
"Shit."
First chapter. Basically, to clear a bit of doubt, this is Anastasia DGM style... I forgot how on earth I was inspired... Allen is 5 in this chapter, Lavi and Yu- *ahem* *cough cough* Kanda are both 8 Lenalee is 6 and Komui is.... er... early twenties? Hehe I dunno... The King is just someone... I don't know who to put in the King's place... I dun wan anyone in the anime/manga to die so I gave random names... *sniff*
Anyway, this is 100% NOT YAOI AS IT MAKES ME PUKE (ok so I AM exaggerating...) and erm... yeah you know what to do...
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