Chapter 1

It was just another day at school and Yuri was bored. He longed for adventure and what he now thought of as home. His time in the Great Demon Kingdom was slowly eating away at his attempts for normalcy when he had to be in Tokyo. Although he had to admit, moving into his final year of high school was mildly exciting.

"Yuri?" Startled out of his thoughts, Yuri only barely realized that he had been spoken too.

"Huh?"

"Can you give us the answer, please?" his teacher asked him.

Now Yuri was embarrassed, not only was he caught daydreaming, he had no idea what question had been asked. Struggling, trying to remember what they had been discussing, he noticed a piece of paper hanging over the desk of the girl next to him. Scrawled across the page was the answer is fourteen. Yuri quickly gave the answer and class moved on. Relieved, he made absolutely sure that his thoughts did not wander for the duration of class.

"Thank you so much" Yuri said to the girl, whom he just noticed was actually rather pretty.

"Oh, it's ok. It's really just lucky that I happened to know the answer in the first place" she said with a grin.

"I'm sorry, I know we are in the same class, but I don't really know who you are."

"I'm Kagome, I'm out sick a lot, so it doesn't surprise me that we haven't met before. I have only been back for a couple of days, and I'm really struggling to keep up."

"Well I hope you stay well enough to stay in school for awhile, and if you ever need any help, I'm more than happy to return the favor."

"Wow that would be really helpful, thanks"

Yuri was about to say more, but then he noticed a group of girls waving Kagome to go so he said goodbye and left to go home.

A few weeks later….

Yuri walked through his front door and was immediately besieged by his mom.

"I can only assume that you walked Kagome home again considering how late you're arriving home. Oh, Yuri, you're such a gentleman."

Yuri's cheeks burned red as he ran up to his room. Although his mother's interest was appreciated, he knew that she thought there was more to the friendship than just friendship. And he had to admit, he did find Kagome rather endearing, but his lifestyle just wasn't suited for a traditional romance, something that he thought Kagome already suspected. But despite his rational attitude, he was looking forward to going to her house to study the next day. Luckily for him, his trips through the portal did not have any effect on time here, almost like he hadn't left at all. Now that he could go to his beloved kingdom any time he wished, the more he was tempted to stay. And such was his plans for after dinner.

After he and his family had finished their meal, Yuri went to bathe. As he stepped into the water, he felt himself falling through space and time and landed rather abruptly in a very well maintained pond. It wasn't but a few minutes later when he saw Gunter running in his direction.

"You're Majesty, You're Majesty" Yuri could hear him cry as he ran.

"Hello Gunter, how are you doing?"

"Oh, it just warms my heart that his majesty is as noble as to worry about me. Let's get you out of those clothes… I mean into dry clothes…not that I want you to be unclothed…but…oh the thoughts in my head."

Gunter blushed and rushed to help Yuri out of the pond and led him to the castle.