A/N: alright here's the deal, I'm new and really scared that everyone will hate this so please review and tell me what I can do to improve. It really confuses me when I get a lot of hits and nobody reviews. Oh, and I DO NOT own Naruto and any related characters, the setting and events that occur in this story are of my own creation and any similarities are purely coincidental.
Warning: this story will contain slash, but that will be later and there won't be any big lemons, I'm too green for that. There also might be a bit of cursing, I don't but some of the characters might have to, especially if I put Tayuya in.
Ever since I was twelve years old, I knew that I was engaged to lord Itachi Uchiha. From a time long before that, I knew that I would marry a nobleman to carry on my father's line, as was my duty as a prince who could have children. The official announcement wasn't made until I was fifteen. It wasn't until one year after that, that I realized what that meant. That was the day that changed my life forever, for I could never look my father in the eyes again and believe what he says.
The royal doctor, Tsunade, told me the biggest secret of the royal family. 'I'm going to die'
She showed me the writing on the wall, literally, that said so. For thousands of years our kingdom has flourished but this was not due to wise kings and graces from gods. It was because of a powerful mage by the name of Orochimaru. Orochimaru placed an enchantment over the royal family that in order for the kingdom to prosper, the queen must die by the hand of her husband within 24 hours of the birth of their firstborn son. I had always thought that it was my fault that my mother had died in childbirth. When I looked through the records, it seems that every queen has died in childbirth except when the firstborn was a girl. How could no one have noticed this? It couldn't run in the family because none of the queens were related. Surely someone should have figured it out that it isn't possible for so many women to die during the childbirth of their firstborn son. But then, how could anyone connect that fact the success of the realm.
It dawned on me quite quickly that, as I will be the one who will become pregnant, I will be the one to sacrifice my life for the sake of the kingdom.
HELL NO, I refused to give in to it.
Sneaking in and out of the royal palace was supposed to be impossible, and to anyone who hasn't lived there it is. As for me, I can go anywhere that I want to, I know all the secret passage ways. I can tell you how to get away from caretakers in seconds, my greatest accomplishment in evading capture, go to the kitchen. I swear that there are about a hundred secret passage ways from anywhere in the castle to the kitchen. So of course when running away from home, I went to the kitchen first.
"Ne, ne Ichiraku-san! I want ramen!" I know I wasn't very princely, but I grew up around old man Ichiraku because I always ran away from my caretakers. He and his daughter are really nice to me. His daughter's name is Ayame, she helps out in the kitchen sometimes, but she mostly works as a maid and is a junior apprentice to Tsunade.
When he didn't answer, I finally realized what I was doing. 'This isn't the time to be yelling about ramen' I thought to myself 'I have to leave'.
I gathered some traveling food from the kitchen. It wasn't technically stealing, I was the prince, it was my food. I then went straight to my quarters to pack.
I had traveled before this time so I had the proper clothes to travel in but I only brought a few outfits, hoping to buy more lower-class ones later. I had my clothes, money, food, my swords, throwing knives, and I was off. I walked out of the palace that day hoping to start a new life, hopefully one where I would live to be twenty. I had to make a choice, a choice between my people and myself and no matter what anyone has told me since then, I have never regretted leaving that day.
It wasn't anything like those stories where the princess doesn't want to get married to the cruel nobleman and runs away on a white horse in the dead of the night. I preferred to walk; it was less suspicious than a thoroughbred horse with a mysterious rider heading away from the palace. That was just stupid and would get me caught. I also knew where I was going, The small port city of Konoha.
