Author's Note: I have been waiting forever to come up with the rightKare Kano story idea, and I've finally come up with it! Hurray! Staying up late really does help getting you to write faster! (let's just say it involved some chocolate chips, and a cup of coffee, and a night of extreme boredome) Please enjoy Their Storybook Romance!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kare Kano. Masami Tsuda does. I wish I did own Kare Kano, cause then I'd be rich and famous, but I don't.
"Yukino, Yukino!" A sheer voice shrilled, "Miss Yukino wake up this instant!" Yukino rolled over on her straw bed and groaned as the voice said, "You've got chicken duty this morning, so get up right away!" The person walked briskly out the room, mumbling under their breath as Yukino rolled out of her bed. She stood up and looked in the bucket of water next to her and sighed at the sight. A poor, unimportant girl with a boring life ahead of her. She changed into her light blue peasant dress and left with a bag of chicken feed.
"Come on you lazy chicken butts! Move it! I've got things to do!" Yukino yelled at the defenseless chickens, kicking a few in her rampage. A few girls walked by before seeing her do the chicken abuse and Yukino immediately turned into calm, respectful, Yukino. The minute the girls passed though, it went straight back to chicken abuse.
After a few, grueling minutes of chicken feed and angry chickens, Yukino was on her way into town, a shopping list in hand. She hummed a happy song as the girls and boys of the village waved and admired her. Sure, she was just a poor peasant girl and could not be compared to the excellence of the royal family, but she was still popular for her class of people.
"Miss Miyazawa, glad to see you again, do you want the regular?" The bartender asked getting a glass of water ready for her as she nodded her head. She chugged the glass of water down before putting her head down. The bartender shook his head and asked, "So Miss Miyazawa, popularity not living it up for you? You want more out of life?" Yukino sat up and sighed dramatically, "I love this popularity! Being admired, getting all the attention the world, what could be more fun?"
"Well, I can name two things better than popularity. Love and money," A girl next to Yukino said drinking rum. Yukino turned to see a small girl with long brown hair and said, "Well, young lady, aren't you a little too young to be drinking that?" The girl knocked over Yukino's water and yelled, "I'm not little! I'm sixteen! What part of sixteen doesn't anyone in this town understand?" She kicked over a few stools and tables before huffing and puffing back to the table, oozing with rage.
"Miss Shibahime, I'm going to have to ask you to leave the bar now, I'm sorry," The bartender said gently before the girl went screaming out. Yukino placed some money onto the table and ran out after the girl, finding her in an ally.
"Makes me get mad, who does that woman think she is? I, Tsubasa Shibahime, will not be brought down by something that wench has said!" Tsubasa muttered kicking an empty bottle back and forth with her toes. Yukino looked at the girl and said, "Well, if I say so myself, you have the mind and temper of an eight year old, no matter how old you may be." Yukino turned her back to Tsubasa, and promptly walked toward the food market.
"Fresh eggplants! Get them while they're garden fresh, only three silver pieces an eggplant!" a vendor called. Yukino bought the eggplant, some bread, cheese, milk, and other various foods and spices before sitting down exhausted near the castle gates. She took a bite out of the bread as she gazed at the beautiful architecture of the ancient castle.
"You know, I should be up there," Yukino said to a raven sitting next to her. Yukino pointed up to the castle and said, "You know I should be a princess in that castle! I mean, I have the popularity to be queen!" She stood up, throwing the rest of the bread at the raven in a fit of histrionic behavior.
"I'm so beautiful; I should be queen of the world! My intelligence far outranks Prince Soichiro's looks and smarts combined! But why start at queen of this kingdom, I could start here and grow to country, then continent, then world, then universe!" She called out spinning around in joyful glee, "Someday, my day will come and I will succeed in ruling this world!" Yukino then proceeded to gather up all of her food and belongings and skipped the path home, thoughts of world domination in her mind.
Little did Yukino know, however, there was a lonely prince watching her through a window inside the castle, and this prince knew what he liked. He smiled to himself before clapping his hands.
"Yes, Prince Soichiro?" A man said bowing before his prince.
"I want a meeting with that girl, the one skipping down there," He pointed to Yukino as she danced away.
"But, Your Highness! She's just a common girl! You should have no business with her!"
"I am your prince and you shall do as I say,"
"Yes, Prince Soichiro," the man bowed and left. Soichiro smiled to himself and said, "I'm very interested in meeting you, my lovely flower."