A/N: I don't own any of the Saiyuki nor Aladdin characters

Tentei is just too funny as the Sultan... XD

Chapter 1

A Morning in Shangri-La

"STOP THIEF!" the palace guard roared as he and his fellow guards chased a young man on the rooftop. The young man stopped in time at the edge of the roof, his gold-blue eyes scanning the ground below.

"I'm going to have your hands for a trophy, street rat!" the guard growled, brandishing his sword. The other guards followed suit.

The young man looked down on the loaf of bread, which he obviously did not pay for, on his hand. He just wanted to have a nice breakfast when these annoying dumbos appeared.

"All these for a loaf of bread?" he wondered out loud. He spotted a clothesline and grabbed the laundry that hung on it to serve as his slide. But he lost hold of the cloth and fell to the ground, buried in a few clothes. But he was more concerned of his loaf of bread.

"You street rat! You won't get away so easily!" the guards angrily sneered from the rooftop.

"Heh! You think that was easy?" the young man taunted when he heard giggles from a group of women at a doorstep. The young man found a long cloth and draped it all over his body to serve as a purda so as not to be seen by the guards. He hurried towards the group of women, his purda securedly cloaking his head.

"My, my. Looking for trouble early this morning, aren't you, Homura?" the elder woman giggled with her girl friends. The young man named Homura chuckled.

"Trouble? No way!" Homura shook his head, "The only trouble is when you get caught!"

"GOTCHA!" the burly palace guard yanked Homura's arm so hard that the purda fell off.

"I'm in trouble!" Homura yelped.

The guard raised his sword, ready to chop the young man's head off, "And this time-OOF!" his turban covered his face when it was pulled down by a monkey, who was laughing at the sight of the guard having a hard time pulling it up.

"Perfect timing, Goku, as usual!" Homura said, "Come on! Let's get out of here!"

Homura and Goku made a run for it in the market, narrowly missing some guards hidden at some stalls. They climbed the construction site and managed to avoid the guards shooting their arrows at him.

"Oh , come on! Just a little snack, guys!" Homura called out to the guards, showing the loaf of bread. But the guards were now taking an effort in shaking Homura off the wooden construction site. He had no choice but to jump inside a window where a group of women with an angry den mother looked at him with askance.

"What do you think you're doing here?" the den mother asked angrily, trying to hit Homura with her broomstick.

"Sorry, Madam Gyokumen!" Homura smirked, sitting on the window sill, "Gotta eat to live, you know!"

"Oh, get out!" Madam Gyokumen shoved the young man of the window sill and he landed on a soft mattress. Then he spotted four guards running towards him from four different directions.

Luckily, a snake charmer named Zenon who was also his friend witnessed Homura from his spot. He played his flute and the guards were distracted. Homura escaped in time as the guards collided with one another.

After a day of hiding from the guards (and eating the bread loaf which he shared with Goku), Homura returned to his home at an abandoned old building. Tucking his friend to sleep, Homura sighed as he looked out at the window. For him, they had the best view in all of Shangri-La. They may have no money, food, or a humble home, but he and Goku had the best view of the Jade Palace.

"Someday, Goku, things are going to change." Homura said, oblivious to the fact that Goku wasn't listening, "We'll live in a palace, sleep in a comfortable bed, and have no worries about food."

But being royalty had its own problems.

The Sultan was trying to arrange a prince to marry his daughter, Princess Rinrei, on her birthday, which was three days away. The Sultan checked on the latest prince when he was bowled over by the prince's rapid exit. The prince's clothes were tattered and the Sultan knew that his daughter had introduced him to her pet tiger, Hakuryu.

"Good luck marrying her off!" the prince said angrily before storming out of the palace.

The sultan sighed and went in his daughter's room.

"You shouldn't reject every prince that comes in!" he said.

But Rinrei was more preoccupied with her pet tiger than listening to her father. Her father shook his head.

"The law says…"

"That I must marry a prince." Rinrei finished her father's sentence. She knew that law too well and did not like it even one bit. "The law is wrong!" she protested, but she softened her tone, "If I do marry, it will be for love."

"But Rinrei…" her father began but Rinrei cut him off.

"I never had real friends. I never even went outside the palace and venture the world." She said sadly, "All I do is sit here in my room and just watch the world from my window."

"You are a princess and should be treated like one." the Sultan said in justification.

"Maybe I don't want to be a princess." Rinrei said.

Now this was too much for her father. Seeing that Rinrei will never listen to him, he turned to Hakuryu and shouted, "May you never have daughters!" With that, he stormed out of the room.

Rinrei sighed and looked out at the window. 'Someday," she thought, 'I'll be out of this place venturing the world and eventually, I'll meet my true love.'

She fell asleep moments later. Hakuryu just stayed awake, watching his master.

(TBC)

Sorry for the short chap. I promise to make it up next time!

Signing off ~Dory