Hello everyone I'm Lilypad125 this is my first fanfic story, my bestie got me into this! Please treat me nicely! *Bow bow bow* Sorry if the format is annoying I have trouble reading stuff too closely spaced and I had to submit this three times before I got the hang of it...
AHHH Shoot I forgot to add disclaimer! I do not own Hetalia or its characters!
Long ago youkai and fairies were bitter enemies. Fairies were not silly pixies or insect winged creatures but elegant proud creatures that ruled the land of the West. Youkai lived in the land of the East, they were ruled by kitsunes because they follow those who are strong and none could withstand the fiery flames of a kitsune. Youkai and fairies fought in a long war but in the end they grew tired of fighting and decided to have a truce. To ensure the peace between them, they decided to have a member of the royal family to go and live with the opposing family for they curled their lips in disgust at the idea of mixing their royal bloodline. Unfortunately the youkai king only had one son whom he loved dearly; the fairy emperor had three sons and only one daughter so the fairy king had no choice but to offer his only daughter MeiMei…
Kiku's brow furrowed in annoyance,
"They're late…" Kiku hissed, his soft black ears were laid flat against his head. The King of Youkai just laughed good naturally
"Ah don't worry, they'll come… The fairies did promise to come this time."
Kiku's fang popped out involuntary and curled his slim tail around himself
"Taking a year long delay… Rrr just thinking about the amount of money we spent on the opening ceremony going to waste makes me so mad, father!" The
king smiled and waved a small hand "It was only a thousand gold pieces…"
Kiku's black tail bristled "Only a thousand gold pieces?! That's more than some of the nobles' salary!" The king calmly smoothed his long bushy tail
"It is quite cheap for the sake of peace and friendship…" He closed his eyes remembering the price of war was his beautiful wife.
"Father… I don't think I can get along with that frivolous fairy princess! Just because she has a tantrum they make us wait 1 whole year for them!"
Kiku complained but the king just countered with
"Well we don't know they just said personal problems… Besides I've heard that the fairy princess is quite beautiful and well versed in the ways of noblewomen."
Kiku frowned "I couldn't care less about ways of noblewomen and besides I highly doubt she is as beautiful as…" Kiku blushed and trailed off; the king smiled lewdly "As Ayami-san?"
Kiku kept his face neutral but his blush gave him away suddenly a white masked messenger appeared before them announcing the arrival of the fairy princess from across the west sea. Kiku quickly put both his feet down and smoothed out his tail before placing it neatly over his lap.
"From the Celestial Plains across the Eastern Sea…" Kiku's eyebrows twitched, Western Sea he thought. Those pompous fairies need to get that across their thick and pretty skulls that it's WESTERN sea not Eastern sea. Why are they even bothering to be nice to those flies?
"The only most gracious daughter of the almighty Fairy Emperor, whose whisper is like thunder and lightning, whose roar is like the earth shaking I present you his daughter who, by the way, so beautiful the flowers turn their heads in shame and the very moon hides behind the clouds before her most lovely overwhelming presence…"
Kiku's eyes began to glaze over as the messenger of those silly fairies goes on and on about the Fairy Princess' beauty
"I now present you…!" The messenger suddenly raised his voice to a squeal that rivaled a pig's squeal when it's being bitten on the butt; he probably noticed everyone was spacing off. Even his father's eyes was dull with impatience.
"The princess: MeiMei!" Kiku sat up straighter and blinked in shock, he didn't even notice the carriage was finally in the throne room after all the parades of dancers and musicians came floating in. Just when the messenger shut up, the ladies in waiting parted the red door cloth from the side but the carriage was empty. The messenger sat there gaping before stopping his frog feet in rage
"Damn! The Princess ran away again! Find hi-her! I don't think she's gotten that far!"
Kiku stood up like the seat was on fire, he quickly left the throne room while his father sat there in shock as the fairy servants ran around the throne room.
"Father, I apologize for my rude behavior but" Kiku flashed a smile from the exit "I feel faint, I believe I need some time alone…"
With that Kiku ran in an un-princely out of the palace into the royal court yard to famous gardens of his home. Though kitsunes are masters of fire and illusion they are quite good at gardening and rumor has it they all have OCD and Kiku was of no exception. Once he arrived to the private gardens, which are marked by a ring of pure white stones that ward off anyone with evil intentions, he sighed and looked around the private gardens, no, his private garden of blooming flowers. He walked through the maze of flowers until he reached the inner garden where the most secret of his feelings laid hidden.
"Acacia for secret love, red carnation is for aching love, Jonquil for 'please return my love'; Magnolia for love, Mallow is for consuming love, Moonflower is for dreaming of love, Morning Glory is for loving in vain, Primrose for eternal love and red roses for true love… Ayami-san this is all of my feelings… I lov... I lo-"
Kiku whispered holding the bundle of flowers to his chest; he blushed, someone as beautiful and intelligent as Ayami-san would not like a plain kitsune like him. Kiku began to think of better words to add spice to his love confession but he'd always stumbled on the three forbidden words: I love you, Kiku blushed again and buried his face into the bouquet of love flowers. Then Kiku noticed that there was someone in the middle of HIS gardens!
"H-hey!" Kiku bristled but then he stopped when he noticed the attire of the intruder, she wore a long flowing red robe decorated with golden butterflies and underneath Kiku could see many layers of silky robes of rich and various colors. Kiku heard of the famous silk weaving of fairies but none of the descriptions did any justice to the beautiful flowing, smooth and elegant sea of silk before him, the butterflies seem to flap their delicate wings and dance over the red fabric. But the clothes didn't make Kiku pause and gape.
He's a guy for Pete's sake, not interested in clothes! It was the girl who blinked slowly as she turned her delicate head with smooth controlled movements to Kiku, he could tell that the robes she wore was heavy but somehow she was able to make her movements a work of art. Yes kitsunes were known for their grace too but she was far more graceful and more elegant, her movements were like a fluttering of a butterfly ready to take flight.
"W-Who are you…?" Kiku asked getting flustered but he kept his face still, she parted her ruby red lips as though to speak but she seemed to catch herself and covered her mouth with a long flowing sleeve and coughed to clear her throat
"I-I am Y-MeiMei…" She stumbled; though she was composed by her stuttering voice she was obviously just as flustered as he was. Kiku noticed her voice sounded a bit strange, like it was forced to sound light and high pitched; his sharp ears could detect the softer rougher tones of her voice. He blinked; well the blusterous frog messenger never said anything about her voice being sweet, after all.
All he said was her beauty itself was a blessing from the heavens. Kiku narrowed his eyes
"Why are you here?"
MeiMei clasped her hands together, causing the bells on her butterfly robe to twinkle sweetly
"Oh I'm quite sorry! I just wanted to enjoy my freedom a little longer before I-I…"
She pursed her luscious lips together and drew her eyebrows together in an unladylike manner; Kiku snorted. So much for the 'well versed in the ways of noblewomen'. When she realized she was messing up the white powered on her face she quickly composed her face into a blank mask of quiet beauty.
Then Kiku heard whomp whomp and he turned with a glare at… A panting frog messenger with a bunch of ladies in waiting trailing elegantly behind him without a drop of sweat on their perfectly composed face. The Princess quickly covered her face
"Ah!" She exclaimed cutely for a moment Kiku's acute ears heard the rougher but smoother tone over the false like high pitch voice. She brushed a stray hair out of her face and bowed a little,
"Eryong I apologize for my rude behavior, I-I j-just suddenly had a panic attack…"
She blushed deeply while shivering from embarrassment, Kiku's eyes widen wow she really was innocent and sheltered. The frog messenger thumbed his short pudgy beard with a superior smirk while keeping his eyebrows down in disapproval
"MeiMei!" The princess winced and seemed to cave in on herself, it looked like the frog messenger was going to say MeiMei just to make her shrink more but once he caught Kiku's glare he quickly lectured the bowing princess
"Oh you don't need to apologize to me! You should apologize to the only prince of this kingdom. He was with the Youkai King waiting for you in the throne room, when he heard you left he felt faint and immediately left the throne room with a rage."
Kiku felt blood go up his cheeks, now he seemed so weak and pathetic! Who gets faint from a no-show but then again someone gets a panic attack and ditches everyone… Hmph.
"Um… I shall go and make the amends now!"
The Princess straighten up and was about to bolt out of the gardens just to be free, the frog messenger just plopped his fat self in her way, Kiku winced as his sticky skin crushed some of his prized flowers, the frog shook his head and pointed at Kiku.
"This milady is the Youkai prince: Kiku."
Kiku arched an eyebrow at the frog messenger, no long title for him? The frog continued to ignore Kiku but the princess turned her teary, glittering eyes on him and bit her bottom lip
"I-I'm so sorry… I…"
Kiku waved it off
"I accept your apology just don't speak in that fake high pitchy pitchy voice again it sounds terrible."
The princess grasped in her real voice which was smooth as honey but deep, Kiku realized the roughness was from her forcing a higher pitch voice than she could handle, Kiku ears curled up in pleasure, it sounded so sweet… She blushed and looked away and the frog messenger looked like a horse carriage had run him over. Kiku turned to them
"Please follow me, this garden is my private garden and non-invited guests are forbidden to venture in."
Kiku curled his tail by his side and walked through the familiar paths, he could hear the princess conversing with the frog messenger furiously, and he turned his ears back so he could listen in better.
"Oh no Eryong! He knows it's not my real voice aru!"
was viciously attacked by
"I told you to practice to be a better lady during the one year delay they gave us instead of wallowing in despair and acting all manly!"
Was followed by
"I'm not even lady like at all! How was I supposed to learn everything in 365 days aru?"
Kiku smirked so for all her beauty and elegance she was a just tomboy princess.
This might take me awhile to update but I'll do the best I can! hint hint the princess is a boy, yes I know it's similar to 'boy princess' theme but it's kind of different... Yeah I'm super embarrassed right now AHHHH! Oh constructive criticism is welcomed!