Beauty and the Rabbit Prologue
This is the first edition of JR Fairy Tales! Banzai! *Cough* Anyway these are classic Fairy Tales adapted to Junjou Romantica. This one is Beauty and the Beast redone. This is BoyXBoy, you have been warned. Don't like? DON'T READ! I'm not a lemon writer yet so don't expect anything. Oh yeah and this is not strictly the Disney version of this story. There are many versions out there and they all have their pros and cons so don't just base everything on Disney's ver. Okay? This is just the prologue, k? Since apparently no one knows who wrote the original Beauty and the Beast, I'm just going to say it belongs to them, whoever they are. JR characters belong to Shungiku Nakamura, as do I. Enjoy the story!
Far away, in a land where magic still roamed but few still used it, there was an amazing castle. Everything in the castle was amazing and beautiful. Especially the King, Queen, and two princes. On the surface, they seemed the perfect royal family. But just beneath the surface, all was not well. The King and Queen had been forced to wed, so their marriage was falling apart. On top of that, the eldest prince was not even legit. His mother was not the Queen, but just a common woman that had died soon after the boy was born. The King was not a strictly inhumane man, so he took the boy in instead of having him die on the streets. Unfortunately, this further eroded the King and Queen's marriage. The younger prince was shocked at first to find he had an older brother but tried his best to befriend the elder but to no avail. The older boy hated the younger because the Queen treated the young one like the prodigal son and the elder like an infestation. This coupled with his parents fighting almost daily, his mother beginning to drink, and walking in on several very "disturbing" things, made the youth surly and spoiled. He had only one real friend. His best friend and advisor, Hiroki Kamijō, had been with the young prince since they were very young and was one of the only people that understood him at all, even though most of the time they spent together was spent in silence. He was also the person that brought the prince the "bad" (its actually good news but the prince had to pretend like it was bad) news that his parents and brother were killed in an archery incident. (I hate the whole Usami clan, besides Akihiko, so I decided I would just kill them off early bwahahahahaha!)
The prince rushed to the archery practice range to congratulate the young archer that had caused the accident. He was supposed to be sentenced to death, but the prince instead invited him to dinner and assigned Hiroki to take care of him. The young man, Nowaki, took a special interest in Hiroki from that day fore ward. He started to call Hiroki Hiro-san and once the prince walked in on them making out in the armory.
Since the young prince was not yet 21 when his parents and brother died (he was only around 16), he did not take the throne. A regent was put in place and the castle stayed in pretty much the same state that it had been under the King. Unfortunately, since the prince did not have to take responsibility for anything, he grew even more surly and spoiled. This would latter bring about his downfall.
On the night of the prince's 18th birthday, there was a terrible storm. Around midnight, there was a nock on the great oak doors. The prince opened the door to find an old woman standing before him. She was dressed in rags and walked with a stick. She requested lodging for the night and in return, offered a single, perfect red rose. The prince was repulsed by the old woman and started to close the door. She warned him not to judge on appearance alone, but he ignored her and continued to close the door. Suddenly there was a bright light on the other side of the door and the prince flung it wide open. In place of the old woman, there was now a beautiful young enchantress. The young prince begged her forgiveness but it was already too late.
"For your selfishness, I lay a curse on you and this castle. If you or any of your servants leave, you will die. The only way to lift this curse is to fall in love with someone and earn their love in return. I leave you with two things to help you; this rose, which will continue to bloom until your 21st birthday. If you have not found love by then, you will die." A silver hand mirror appeared in her hand. "The second thing I leave you with is this enchanted mirror. You can watch the outside world with it." She handed him the mirror and rose. Then she waved her wand over the castle. All but the most essential servants disappeared from the castle, never to return. The prince, repulsed by his actions, retreated to his room. How the Hell was he supposed to fall in love in just four years if he wasn't allowed out of the castle?
