Inside expectations we were born
We were blessed by the church bells
For the convenience of selfish adults
Our future was split in two

To say that Izaya was surprised, was a good word, but to describe feelings inside him, you could write an essay for that.
When Hachimenroppi rushed to him, he felt good. But when he began to hug him, some idea of lonely prince struck Izaya. Did his brother stay in the castle the whole winter again?

"Hi there, Roppi." Izaya said with some anguish in his voice. Then Roppi let go of the hug and turned to his father.
"I... wanted to thank you that Izaya can live with me from now on, even though you surely had another plans with him. So thank you, father."

"There is really nothing to thank me for. This is just a tradition in this royal family." Shiki said that with some kind of hollow voice, so Roppi could sense that he shouldn't get deeper on the topic.

"Ah. I see. But I'm also grateful that you managed to be here today. After all this is our birthday and it feels great to have the whole family in one place." Hachimenroppi said that with a bit of glee.
"Well. My present to the prince is on that bunch of boxes. Good luck finding it. And now, excuse me but I must leave. I won't really want to upset your mother with my presence." with these words Shiki turned to leave, but both of the twins held him back.

"No way, father. You stay here until the party is over." Izaya said firmly. Then, with a bit of quieter and shameful voice he added "I still can't imagine living with those royalties, so help me a little bit, and be here at least tonight, will you? "

Shiki, reminding himself of when he was here for the first time had to agree. The castle seemed very steel and unfamiliar, and if not for Namie he would feel very alone. Yeah, there was a time when Namie was one of his most important persons in this world, but luckily for everyone he changed his mind.
The first reason for them to separate was that they had another ideas of their kids future. Shiki disapproved deeply the fact that only one of them could be prince, and the other would be his servant. Weren't twins equal in more that the looking aspects? Unfortunately the tradition had to be filled and thus Shiki wanted Izaya for himself. And he didn't want to have anything to do with the royal family, so he never visited Hachimenroppi.

But one day, Izaya came back from school and said that the prince is looking for his twin brother who disappeared directly after they were born. The price for finding him was over 15000 in cash.
Shiki who had trouble with money at that time admitted that Izaya was very similar to the prince.
Later that day both of them were invited to the personal audition with the prince in order to truly confirm the similarity.

And from that time, Izaya couldn't believe that he hadn't known Hachimenroppi the most part of his life. They were not only on good therms with each other but sometimes were even considered to have telepathic contact with one another. So when Izaya learned that some day he would be his brothers servant, he wasn't so disappoint as others around him. In fact he wanted it, because otherwise he should take over his fathers business and he really didn't want to.

So yes, Shiki stayed until the party was over. And he seemed to be having fun, because he met very interesting people at that party, which guaranteed him future clients.

When the time for the nomination of servants came, Izaya was pretty nervous, even though there was nothing to worry about as his brother said. It was just another passing of servants, and everybody had to say things like "I'll do my best to serve the royal family and I promise to be loyal to the castle, the Queen and the prince. I shall never leave my duty, nor get married, because that would be considered as betrayal of the country."

The last sentence was weird to anyone who listened to it. So the servants were not allowed to marry anybody? Especially Shiki was a little disturbed at the fact that his son can't have a family. Not like Izaya would like to have family, he wasn't really the type of human who would like it, but that was a huge integration of royalties into the life of normal citizens. Well, maybe not so very normal but still. And later on, Shiki learned also that Hachimenroppi is engaged with a princess from another country. Which left him with total helplessness when it came to even as little as approving the future wife of his sons. And Shiki didn't like that.

The Queen however was very proud of both of her sons. And she though that Izaya totally deserved the fate of a servant. A kid who was raised by a Mafia boss, hadn't a bright future ahead of him. So the servant duty would be very appropriate for him.
And Hachimenroppi didn't seem to talk with his father under the whole party, which meant that he was a loyal kid for her. (When Izaya and Shiki arrived, she was in her own preparation room, fixing her hair for the party.)

Of course, Namie was not a Queen standing alone. She had a second husband who was some cousin of her fathers son from his other marriage. Which made him a king, even though he was younger than Namie. The Kings name was Hibiya and he was pretty similar to Izaya and Hachimenroppi, but his eyes were those of a weak lemon tea. Namie mustn't love him, and he wasn't so good in bed as Shiki, but he was a good example to follow for Hachimenroppi.
One of Hibiya's relatives had a beautiful daughter, who lived in the neighbouring country. She was very powerful and had a strong personality, and no one in her kingdom had ever seen her cry. Vorona was her name, and she was a heir to the throne in her country. Hibiya was sure that she and Hachimenroppi would make a lovely pair, so when Namie was searching for a future wife for Hachimenroppi, he suggested her.

Their engagement ceremony didn't take place, but both of them knew and hopefully accepted the fact that their marriage was arranged.
But Hachimenroppi didn't seem to think about Vorona so much. Not when he finally could live with his brother after years of separation.

The party was almost over and the royal family was escorting the guests to the exit and bid farewell to every one of them. Because Namie didn't want to talk to Shiki, Hachimenroppi had the privilege to say goodbye to his father.

"Thank you again for coming all the way and staying to the end. I hope you had fun. And I checked my present from you. It's great, but I don't know where to wear it..." Hachimenroppi said with uncertainty in his voice.

"I hope that you won't stay in the castle this winter too, Hachi. So when you would ever wish to come to the town in winter, wear that coat so I can recognise you between all those royalities." Shiki said with a sudden little glee in his voice. But that happiness didn't reach his eyes.

"Yeah, I guess...then... good bye. And thank you for coming." Hachimenroppi said. After Shiki was a pretty long line of people that wanted to bid farewell to the prince.
After everyone got out, Hachimenroppi saw his mother making her way to him. He looked after Izaya, but he was nowhere to be found.

"So you talked with your father anyway, am I right?" Hachimenroppi heard a glint of venom in her voice at the word father.

"Well, all guests deserve to be farewelled by at least one of us. Shiki is no exception." Her face didn't show any emotions as she heard those words.

"Hmm, at least your wish is granted. Xavier won't be fired... yet. His agreement with the towns school turned out to be a fake one. So you will not change your servant, in at least three months." she said decisively.

Hachimenroppi was stunned. How was that possible? With the day of Izaya coming here, he would be his servant right? So... why?

"And why would that be? Shouldn't Izaya be my personal servant from now on?" the disappointment was very clear in his voice and expressions, but Namie kept her poker face.

"You can thank your father for that one. He came to Hibiya and complained about the idea how a brother could be a personal servant to the prince. So we will give him a three months trial in the castle. He must learn all his duties too, and know where everything is. You wouldn't like him to get lost when he will prepare breakfast for you tomorrow, would you?" Namie said that with a tone so firm that Hachimenroppi heard all these words loud and clear.

"Oh... yes. You are right. But after these months, he will become my personal servant, for real, right?"

"Well, if he will manage the trial period so, yes. If he would be very incompetent and disloyal, then he would go back to where he came from. And you may not see him then. Ever. You wonder why? Because I say so. And now, go to sleep, Roppi-san."

Hachimenroppi wasn't pleased. It shouldn't be like that. But if it's only three months, then he will wait. With bitter thoughts he went to sleep.

After the party, Izaya was called to the staff room. In there, was the most of the service in the castle.
On a pedestal stood a long blonde man with blonde, messy hair and a butler clothes. He seemed to be the leader.

"Okay, peasants. So the dinning hall must be clean and shiny until the morning. Tomorrow the royal family will eat brunch there with the ministers, so if I see even a little disorder there, the newcomers will be punished, with prolonging their trial period to the double. So off to work now. You may not go to sleep until I approve that the hall is clean."

Izaya listened to him half heartily. Why would only the newcomers be punished? And should he really be here? When the blonde ended his speech, he went to him and asked what should he do.

"Ugghh? Didn't you hear me? Clean the dinning hall. NOW!"
"But, like I said, I'm here to be a servant of the prince. I should be somewhere else, now shouldn't I?"
"But aren't you a newcomer? If so, then off to work. All newcomers here have a trial period of three months. After you pass it, you can be send off to the place you are destined to, UNDERSTAND? NOW OFF TO WORK YOU DAMN PEASANT!"

Izaya directed himself to the dinning hall. He hasn't heard of such a way to toy with people. And weren't that tradition supposed to say that he will serve his brother directly? He didn't understand why that blonde was so angry at everything.
But he went to the dinning hall and checked what should he do there. From the list by the counter he read his name under the task "Brush and wash the floor so I can see the red pricks on my teeth when I look at it." He wasn't alone on it, but from the description and an overall unpleasant feeling he had, he knew that this will be a long night.

A/N: So here is the second chapter of this little story I wrote. I hope you enjoyed reading and that I didn't make so much mistakes here. So yeah, if you read please review because I'd love to read some feedback on this