~Shizuka: Hi everyone…

~Misaki: What's wrong Shizuka?

~Shizuka: Been to the hospital the other day. So, technically, I couldn't write… (Add up the holidays… Ugh…) so everyone, practically wants to sue me! *turns to readers* I know you guys are waiting for my updates for "Bear House" and "War of Roses". The files of my computer became corrupted thanks to my brothers.

~Misaki: So you're not updating?

~Shizuka: -_-" Yes… But I'll give a three chapter preview of my new creation (from the hospital)

Everyone, I hope you forgive me… But I'll update soon enough my three stories.

Disclaimer: I do not own Junjou Romantica.

~Shizuka Usami

1st wave:

"Ship Wrecked"

Dark clouds filled the sky as larger waves reigned in sea. It was certainly a gloomy day for a voyage but it did not stop a twenty eight year old gentleman with silver colored hair to board the ship. He put on his cloak as he sat on the side of the ship. The man pulled out his journal and brush to start writing. A smile played on his lips, "I wonder if Aikawa already saw my letter…" he chuckled as he looked up the grey sky.

"WHERE THE HELL IS HE?" the red haired lady cried out as she hastily scanned every nook and cranny of the palace. The herd of servants were also following her and searching for their highness.

"Aikawa-sama, we couldn't find his highness! We've searched everywhere!" the guards reported with the servant girls who searched the Queen's quarters. "His highness didn't go to the Queen!"

Aikawa pulled out her hair, "WHAT? That's impossible! The Prince has got to be around here somewhere! He cannot leave the palace! Not now!" she panicked and paced. The prince was missing since early in the morning. When the prince's second assistant, Aikawa Eri, checked the prince in his room, he was nowhere to be found. He normally takes a walk if he gets up early (which he seldom did) to clear his mind and look for inspiration in writing. However, when the clock struck ten in the morning and the prince was still missing, the assistant panicked. Aikawa decided to look for him thoroughly in the palace. That was when she found out that the rest of the servant who usually goes with the prince did not see the prince since morning. Half of the palace panicked, the servants, guards and officials near the Prince's quarters were alarmed.

"Should we report this now to his majesty?" one of the squad leaders asked.

The assistant looked at him and cried out, "WAAAH! I'm finished! If the King finds out that the crown prince is missing, they'll chop my head off!" she covered her face with both hands and sobbed. "What did I do to deserve this?"She mumbled.

"Aikawa-sama! We found a letter for you!" a young servant girl ran towards them, holding a piece of paper.

"W-What is it?" the red-head took the piece of paper after wiping away her tears with the sleeves of her long red sakura patterned kimono. Aikawa opened the letter and read it.

Aikawa,

If you're reading this, I have already boarded a ship and am sailing the vast sea now. I have decided to see and explore the outside world in order to widen my understanding of things and write more. I no longer want to be trapped in a cage where all my actions are watched by the prying eyes of sordid royalties. I am not destined to stay there. I hope you are not fuming and cursing and wanting to have your hands wrapped around my neck to kill me. Even though you always shout at me and order me around although I'm the prince, I still CONSIDERED you as a friend…

By the way, tell Hiroki that he can have all the books that I left behind. You can take the BL ones…

Akihiko

"Aikawa-sama? What's wrong?" one of the servants asked, trying to peek into the letter.

"That man…" Aikawa gritted her teeth. "I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!" she shrieked and tore the paper in her hands into tiny million pieces like the future of her reputation as future Court lady and Vice chancellor in the main palace.

"Achoo!" Akihiko sneezed and quickly wiped his nose. 'I bet someone is talking about me…' he chuckled as he thought of Aikawa roaring and turning the palace upside-down and inside-out, just to look for him.

"Your payment Sir?" the collector asked the silver haired man.

Akihiko pulled out two pieces of silver coins and gave it to the other, "Keep the change…"

"Thank you gracious sir!" the old man smiled and left.

The prince sighed and put his journal back on his bag, 'Now… What should I do first after getting off this ship?' He was not quite sure about it. When he escaped through one of the old passages of the palace, he didn't make a plan of what he will do first. Well, the prince didn't really think that he could escape the platoons of guards patrolling and also the sentries in their towers.

He pulled out a cigarette from his yukata; it was a gift from foreign merchants who wanted to sell goods in their lands. The prince kept some of it for himself despite the ban of King Fuyuhiko. Akihiko found smoking as a stress reliever.

Akihiko blew a faint cloud of smoke in the air, 'Well… Like they say, it's better to go unprepared than make plans and fail…'

"I sense that you have no particular course… But it will just be revealed in the right time." an old lady smiled at him. She had brown hair with a few white streaks and green eyes and was carrying a small bag and wearing an old ragged kimono. "May I sit beside you?" she asked.

The prince nodded and let the old lady sit beside him. He watched the other curiously; he was certainly bewildered by the other's odd greeting.

"I believe you are a first time traveler…" the woman added as she opened her bento, "Here, please have an onigiri…" she handed the other a rice ball, which the prince took gratefully.

"Yes, it is my first time… But I am curious. How did you read my mind?" he asked through his cigarette.

The old lady giggled, "Well, let's just say it's an old lady's intuition… but to tell you the truth…" she paused and looked around before leaning closer to the prince, "I'm a seer…." She whispered and backed away with a smile. "You can never tell whom you will meet in this life, your highness…"

Akihiko's eyes showed interest. He always heard about seers, oracles and priestesses whom the earlier kings consulted but he never saw and met one. But now, like a dream came true, here she was in the flesh.

Seeing the young man's reaction, the old lady laughed, "My, my… You know, your highness; this is the first time that someone believed me the first time I said that…"

The woman smiled, "Well, may you grant me the honor to read your fortune, your highness?" she asked.

Akihiko blinked and smiled gently. He was surprised that the other called him 'your highness' although he did not utter a word that he was a prince. "If you please…" he nodded.

The old lady smiled and touched the prince's forehead with her index finger. She saw a stream of memories, all of them took place in the palace. Memories of loneliness and melancholy but some of them had a tinge of happiness in them, memories with friends.

"What are you seeing?" Akihiko asked.

The old lady smiled softly, "Nothing yet, your highness… but please be patient…" she spoke and felt a sudden new wave. A new batch of memory panels, "I can see someone… with short brown hair…"

The prince's eyes narrowed in disinterest, 'That's probably Hiroki…'

"And bright green eyes…" she continued.

"Green eyes?" the prince asked. 'What an unusual color…'

"This person will be your guide in your voyage" she smiled sadly and took her hand away from the prince. "And you will never feel alone and sad again…"

Akihiko was puzzled, "How will I meet that person or when?" he asked.

"Soon enough" the old lady nodded.

Suddenly, a huge wave hit the ship, making it tremble and cause panic in the passengers. A guerilla downpour fell upon the vast sea, followed by flashes of lightning and roars of thunder. "EVERYONE! GET IN THE BARN!" the captain exclaimed. "WE GOT A STORM WITH US!"

Akihiko looked up the sky, "Why all of the sudden…" he turned to the old lady, "We should go with them…" he trailed off when he noticed that his old companion was nowhere in sight. 'Where is she?' he thought and looked around. He quickly stood up and went to the crew members who were calling the passengers, "Excuse me, did you see an old lady?" he asked and described the woman.

"Huh? We didn't allow any elders to board the ship due to the captain's orders! Now, please sir, get in the barn!" the crew answered as he called the rest of the passengers.

Akihiko's eyes widened upon realization that he talked with a ghost and remembered the old lady's words, you can never tell whom you'll meet in this life, your highness. Indeed.

A loud crash was followed by the sudden flash of lightning. The ship trembled with great force after hitting a large coral. The captain rushed out of the barn, "We're sinking! ABANDON SHIP!" he exclaimed.

The people quickly panicked and rushed to the smaller boats. The elegant and huge ship turned into a large pandemonium as the passengers battled for dear life just to board the smaller boats. In their rush, some of the passengers were being pushed off board and into the raging sea. As Prince Akihiko made his way to the escape boats, a large man who was running toward the boats in frenzy, pushed a little girl off the railing, "Michiko!" the mother of the child cried out.

In a snap, the prince managed to pull the girl up back to the ship but as soon as the girl was saved, another colossal wave hit the ship. The prince lost his balance and got pushed off the sea vessel. Akihiko closed his eyes as his body hit the water. The impact was not that hard but it was enough to make the prince's body ache. He held his bag close and started to swim up but the current and waves of the sea were too powerful for him.

Akihiko, after a long time, felt his mortality again. It was back when he was a child when the prince almost lost his life after another water related accident, which was more like an incident.

'Shit… Don't tell me that it will all end like this?' He felt his consciousness slowly slipping away as more bubbles escaped through his nose and mouth. 'Well at least I didn't die inside the cage I lived in my whole damn life…' he let out another bubble. 'But if you will reincarnate me in another lifetime… I want to have a normal commoner's life… I want to have a family who will accept me… and love me' the prince let out the last bubble of his breath, his life, his hope. At least he called out to the God whom he never talked to before in his life, wishing that God will save his soul and give him another lifetime, a new start.

But before Prince Akihiko lost his consciousness, he saw something that was either pitch black or blindingly bright white engulf him and ate him away like his life.