Me: *sits down in front of laptop*

Ok... time to get this thing finished.

Yuuri: *storms into the room*

WAIT! Wait wait wait! *takes a deep breath to calm down* Before you continue. I have a few questions I want answered.

Me: *Sigh*

What do you want? *Turn towards him slowly*.

Yuuri:

Why the hell am I a girl?

Me: *looks annoyed*

It's my brain. Don't question my brain.

Yuuri:

I just wanna know why you made me into a girl.

Me: *rests my head in my hand*

Because, if you're a girl, I could pair you up with Wolfram without you saying anything about it being weird or wrong all the time. *Smiles mischievously*

Yuuri: *looks devastated*

So that was your plan... *slides onto floor* how can you do this to me?

Me: *laughs evilly*

Sorry, but I love Wolfram more than you.

Yuuri: *Looks up at me*

You two planned this together?!

Me: *Looks away*

Maybe...

Yuuri:

You're evil.

Me: *looks flattered*

Oh, thank you.

Yuuri:

You two are going to be the death of me... *Turns towards the camera*

Inga-san only owns Nathan White and the owner of the golden locket. (witch will be revealed in future chapters so you'll just have to continue reading to find out, he he he.)

A/N: I have many plans for this thing, like the meaning behind Nathan's existence and why the hell Yuuri found a locket in the river. All of these questions will be revealed along the story don't worry.

Chapter 4:

Shin makoko

They rode in complete silence.

Conrad couldn't help but to glance at the black-haired girl that was sitting in front of him on the horse. She looked so calm and collected. Definitely not the way anyone should be acting after they have just been transported into another world, just what the hell is going on here?

"Just go on and ask." Yuuri said. "You know you want to."

Conrad had jumped at her sudden statement, but he didn't stop to think about it for too long.

"How can you be so calm about this whole ordeal?" he asked her.

Yuuri looked up at him. Her dark eyes looking deep into his hazel ones and just stared, as if she was looking straight into his soul as she thought over her answer.

"The only thing about all of this that leaves me with questions is, why now? Why did they have to pull me from my own world when I have yet to become of age? I'm just fifteen and you plan on having me crowned now?"

"So you already know why you're here?" He was surprised beyond belief.

"Uh hu." Yuuri said, turning her attention away from the mans eyes. "My parents told me five years ago and I have been training for the position ever since."

"So your prepared?"

Yuuri looked in the ground, suddenly falling silent, even the air felt heavy all of the sudden. "I just hope I have prepared enough."

They rode for what felt like an hour.

The soldiers had rode on ahead to inform the capital of the rulers arrival while Conrad rode with Yuuri to the closest village were they would stay one night and continue on to the castle the morning after. Yuuri thought this was a good plan since she was starting to get rather sleepy.

It didn't take long for them to reach the village.

Riding down the path between the houses, Yuuri couldn't help but to notice the way that everyone kept staring at her. Some women took their children aside and hid them from her while the men just gave her a dark look that sent unpleasant shivers down her spine.

She tried not to bother about them but she couldn't stop the feeling they left behind.

Conrad guided the horse towards a bigger cottage a bit away from the village. It stood on a hill and was obviously meant for richer folk than the ones living in the actual village.

They hadn't been far from the cottage when the door swung open and yet another man stepped out.

This man was tall, well built with hip-long silver/purple hair. His skin was pale and his face held wisdom in it's features. His lavender eyes pierced her with a look a suspicion as he calmly walked closer to them as Conrad's horse came to a stop.

"Conrad, who is the lady?" the new man asked as Conrad dismounted the horse.

"Beautiful isn't she?" Conrad asked the man as he held out a hand for Yuuri to take. "You need some help down my-lady?" he asked.

Yuuri could hear the playfulness on his voice and decided to go along with it.

"That would be much appreciated." she said as she gently took his hand.

"Yes, I agree that she is quite a sight to see but you were supposed to go fetch his highness." the man said, giving Conrad an angry look as said man placed the black-haired girl on the ground carefully, the girl landing gracefully on the ground. "It's not like you not to follow orders."

"But I have followed my orders." Conrad said as he placed a hand on Yuuri's shoulders. "This is the new queen."

The man gave Yuuri a look before he turned to glare at Conrad.

"Don't be stupid." he said. "The great one stated clearly that the new ruler was a boy, and this person is clearly the exact opposite." he crossed his arms. "Just because she is a rare beauty and just happen to be a double-black doesn't mean than she is the new ruler." he was raising his voice. "WHILE WE ARE HERE WITH THIS GIRL, THE KING COULD BE OUT THERE AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE SO GO OUT THERE AND SEARCH FOR HIM!" he screamed so loudly that Yuuri had to cover her sensitive ears from the sound.

"For your information." Yuuri said calmly, straightening her back to get a better look of the man's eyes. "I was a boy five years ago."

The bomb was dropped.

"WHAAAAAT?!" Both of the men screamed at the girl.

Yuuri all of the sudden found herself laughing her head of, falling to the ground and rolling around in the dirt, still laughing... not able to stop.

The men only stared at the girl, Conrad feeling quite worried that the girl will coach if she continues to laugh that way while the other man just stared at her as if she was insane (witch she probably was by the way).

Yuuri finally calmed down.

Sitting on the ground and taking deep breath between slight giggles she managed to say. "That was the best reaction yet." before continuing to giggle.

Conrad got down and fished the giggling girl into his arms.

"Let's get her inside." he said.

"Ok."

It took a while for Yuuri to make the two men understand what had happened to her five years before but when they finally got it, they also understood why they didn't know about it.

"I can't believe it." The man that had revealed himself to go by the name of 'Gunther Von Christ' said after a long moment of awkward silence that Yuuri found hard not to break with her favorite line of all time... "Awkward silence.". "So the king that everyone have been waiting for all this time, is actually a girl?" the young girl nodded at him.

"You want me to prove it to you?" she asked while she fiddled with the hem of her Tube-top. "Because I could if you want to."

"NO! NO! NO! I don't need to be convinced any further you majesty." Gunther said rather frantically. "I'm just surprised that something like that could actually happen to a person."

"I'm just as surprised as you are, and I had to live through it." Yuuri said as she leaned back into the chair that had been brought up to her. "But I don't really mind being a girl."

Gunther looked over her clothing.

"Why is it that you are wearing such revealing garnishments?" he asked while he wrinkled his nose in disgust... or was it to prevent a nosebleed? "They really are not appropriate for a young lady of your standards."

Yuuri looked down at her clothing, flexing out her long leg while wearing a smirk on her full lips. "Why." she asked. "Do they give you ideas?"

Gunther fainted.

"You're evil." Conrad said, giving Yuuri a smile that said he found what she did funny.

"I know." she flicked Gunther's body with her foot, making him turn around so that he way laying on his back. A trail of blood running from his nostrils. "And I'm loving every minute of it."

The sun was slowly setting over the horizon, the sky was turning orange, changing the mood in the office the two figures were currently in.

The two figures were as different as night and day.

The older of the two was about two heads taller, rather buff and his gray/brown hair was tied back in a low pony-tail that went down his back, stopping at his waist, his blue eyes held what looked like a permanent annoyed expression.

The younger figure had a more slender build but the masculine features in the body could not be overlooked either, he had golder waves of hair that was cut mid-neck, his skin resembled porcelain and his eyes were big, in the color of the shiniest and most expensive emerald. What ruined his beautiful frame was the angry scowl that seemed to be plastered to his face.

"How much longer do we have to wait." the blonde said as he tapped his finger against his folded arm impatiently.

"This matter is out of our hands, Wolfram." the older figure said, scribbling something down on a piece of paper were he sat by the desk, looking all important. "We can't afford to rush things." he looked up at the younger of the two. "Have some faith in Conrad and Gunther."

The blonde huffed.

"Have some faith on that man? You've got to be joking."

The older man gave the blonde a glare, in witch the blonde seemed to be ignoring.

"We have no choice but to have faith in him." go got up from the desk and walked over to the blonde. "The new king is bound to be confused about this whole ordeal and the best way is to send a neutral source to help him get here."

The blonde huffed yet again, walking away from the man.

"Why do we need a ruler from another world anyway?" he asked, looking even more annoyed with each minute that passed. "He knows nothing about our world and he will just bring this country to ruin." ok, so he wasn't annoyed... he was pissed.

"We need the one with the right soul to be the ruler Wolfram." the older one said.

"NO!" The blonde yelled. "What this country needs is a ruler." he turned towards the older man. "Fourteen years with no monarch is starting to take it's tool on the kingdom." he marched straight towards the window with angry steps, he placed his pale hand against the glass and gazed over the town that was laid out in front of him. "I don't want to see our kingdom crumble." the last sentence was more of a whisper but the older caught it anyway.

"As long as I'm alive, I won't let it." he said, looking at the younger one, for once letting his features soften.

The two of them fell silent. Not saying anything to the other for a long moment.

"It's here." the blonde said before calmly opening the window.

There was a fly-bone there, flying right outside of the window and there was a piece of parchment in it's hand.

The blond held out his hand to the scary-looking creature, letting it drop the parchment in his waiting hand. He didn't even bother to close the window as the creature flew off before he tore the seal of of the parchment and started reading.

It didn't take long before he looked up at the man before him.

"Aneue..."

"I know." the older man said. "So he's finally arrived, eh?"

Leaning her elbow on the windowsill of the carriage. Yuuri looked out over the scenery with a bored expression plastered on her face.

"Why do I have to ride in this thing?" she asked the one that was riding next to the wobbling prison on weals. "Why can't I just ride on a horse like you do? Carriages are boring." she complained loud enough for the whole world to hear.

"That is out of the question your highness." Gunther said from the other side of the carriage. "The people still doesn't know about your gender and we have to keep it a secret until we know exactly how to break the news to the rest of the world."

Yuuri singed, turning towards the other side of the carriage were she met the eyes of the man that was supposed to be her teacher in politics and language.

"Then tell me one thing." she said. "Isn't it better for them to see me immediately instead of just letting them believe that it is a man riding in the carriage and then after some time telling them that the one ruling is a woman?"

The man stared at her wide eyes.

"I didn't think about that."

Yuuri sweat-dropped. "It's the most logical thing to do! How could you not think about it?"

From the other side of the carriage, Conrad gave of a silent chuckle.

Yes, she was going to be a great queen indeed.

Yuuri had changed ways of travel. She still hadn't gotten her wish in riding on a horse but now she had been placed in a fancy-looking carriage without a roof, dragged by two midnight-black stallions (to show the status of the one riding in the carriage). so now she had a better view of the world around her and she was loving every minute of it!

The green fields, the blue sky, the strange creatures that kept sneaking peaks at her from behind treas and boulders.

Even though the road they were traveling on was rather bumpy, Yuuri was currently having the time of her life. With her bag laying on the floor of the carriage she sat with her sketchbook and tried desperately to capture the insane beauty of the scenery around her, witch she would have succeeded in if the scenery hadn't been way to beautiful to capture on paper alone.

"Your majesty." Conrad's voice made Yuuri look up from the papers. "Your kingdom."

Just how bloody beautiful can something be?!

The city was located in the center of a valley, and they were currently standing on top of a smaller mountain, giving Yuuri a perfect view of the city that she was going to rule over. The castle stood tall on a hill right next to the city, the roofs shimmering in the sunlight, almost blinding her.

"Wow..." for once in her life. Yuuri was speechless.

"A beautiful sight isn't it?" Gunther asked her.

"Uh hu." She nodded.

"We welcome you to Shin makoko, the capital of the demon kingdom." Conrad said from the other side of the carriage. "We have been waiting for you. Yuuri."

The smile never left Yuuri's face as the carriage continued to carry them down the mountain and closer to the city itself. Yuuri had to hurry up in her sketches in order to capture the view before they reached the bottom and the magnificence would be gone from her eyesight. Shore she could always go back up there and have a more permanent view of the city but the second time is never as good as the first one, she knew that very well.

"What's the name if the castle?" she found herself asking.

"Blood pledge castle." Gunther answered, pride clearly heard in his voice.

The breath caught in the throat.

"I don't have to do that, do I?" she asked, her voice shaking a little. "A blood pledge I mean."

The two men looked over to her, both noticing how she was trembling ever so slightly when she said "blood pledge" making one question pop into their head at the very same time. "is she afraid of blood?".

"No you don't." Conrad said.

"The castle has that name because the first king made a pledge that he would be dead before he let any harm befall the ground that the castle is built upon." Gunther explained, trying to make the new queen feel better by telling her the story behind the name, and it seemed to work for she stopped trembling and the color returned to her cheeks.

"If the meaning behind the name is so meaningful and pretty..." she said, shivering at the name once again. "Why is the name so hideous and scary?" she asked, sending a look at both of the men at the same time (how is that possible?).

The two men shared a look. Neither of them had actually thought about that before.

"We don't know." Gunther said, making a mental note to research it later.

"Maybe it's to ward of criminals or something." Conrad guessed.

Before anything else could be said between the three of them, they had reached the castle walls.

"Are you ready you majesty?" Conrad asked.

"I have been preparing for this moment for five years, I shore hope I am."

They rode through the city gates and were immediately met by loud cheers enough lift a roof if they had been inside one. They died down for a second when they spotted Yuuri but they soon got louder again, apparently they didn't care that their ruler was that beauty in the carriage that now rolled slowly over the road. Apparently, as long as they got a ruler, they didn't care what gender he or she had, Yuuri concluded as she watched the people around her.

She couldn't help but to allow a smile to creep up on her lips as she watched how happy they were. But there was one thing that she really hadn't expected.

Two children ran up to her, one girl and one boy, they were both holding something white.

Bending down towards them so that she could get a better look at what they were holding, the little girl jammed something on her head... a flower-crown of Lillie's.

Yuuri smiled at her.

"Thanks you."

The girl giggled before running back to her parents.

"These are for you." the boy said shyly before reaching up a bouquet of flowers to her.

"There beautiful." Yuuri said, taking them out if his hands. "Thanks you."

She couldn't held but to notice the small blush form on his cheek as he stopped running all together, just staring after the carriage as it carried her away.

The flowers smelled wonderful.

Yuuri smiled at the small bouquet before placing them in her bag for safe keeping.

"I'm gonna like it here." she whispered softly as she fingered the hand-made crown on her head. "I'm really going to like it here."

Her smile disappeared when she all of the sudden had this unpleasant feeling that someone less pleasant was watching her with an ill-intent.

She found him.

It was a man with short blond hair and green eyes. He was standing next to a man with sort of blue-ish black hair. Both of them were handsome (just like every other damn demon man around her), but there was something in the way that they were looking at her that left her with this strange feeling that neither of them were good news.

She moved closer to were Conrad was riding on her right.

"Who's the blonde fella?" she asked him.

Conrad sent one look in said man's direction before his face turned sour. That mad had done something terrible, she could clearly see it on his face. "I don't like that man." she decided in her head.

"That is Stoffel Von Splitsberg." Conrad said, Yuuri took note of the venom that dripped from his voice as he said the mans name. "He used to be the former queens regnant."

"He wasn't a very good one was he?" Yuuri asked.

"Not even close." Gunter suddenly said from his side or the carriage. "And ever since the last queen abdicated he's been trying to worm his way back into power, not that anyone has allowed him to." Yuuri gave a disgusted expression.

"Don't worry your majesty, we will do everything we can to keep that man as far away from you as possible." Conrad said, the hard look in his eyes not leaving him for a second.

Yuuri was just about to ask what he did when all of the sudden, the two horses that were pulling the carriage broke into a run. Making the carriage shoot forward.

The citizens screamed in terror as they watched the carriage speed towards the castle faster than anyone had ever seen a horse run before.

"YOUR MAJESTY!" Conrad and Gunther screamed after her.

Yuuri clanged onto the carriage for her dear life. Like hell was she going to get thrown of like this, that would be against the womanly code that her mother had taught her.

"A woman must always be graceful in everything she does, even when getting thrown of a speeding carriage."

Now that Yuuri thought back at it, how the hell did her mother know this was going to happen? But then again, her mother has always been weird.

The carriage has just passed through the castle gates, now speeding straight towards the main entrance. Yuuri closed her eyes, waiting for the crash that probably would send her tumbling to the ground, but all that happened was that the carriage stopped with a violent jerk that sent her tumbling to the carriage floor, but nothing else.

"What the hell...?" Yuuri wondered as she stumbled to her feet.

A tall man in a pony-tail stood by the horses, petting them to calm them down.

Upon seeing Yuuri, the man left the horses and opened the door of the carriage, the door that Yuuri just so happened to be leaning against for balance.

The tumbled down, right into the mans arms.

"Are you alright young lady?" the man asked as he helped her regain her balance.

Yuuri held her hands on the mans upper arms, she still found her vision blurry but not enough to make it impossible to stand, it was just a little wobbly.

"Yeah... just a little shaken up." she managed to say after a short moment of silence.

The man carefully let go of her after he had made shore that she would be able to stand. Noticing that she had black eyes to go with that black hair of hers he was left staring at her wide-eyed, was this really...? no it wouldn't be... could it?

"YOUR MAJESTY!"

His fears were confirmed.

Gunther and Conrad galloped through the gates. Jumping of their horses in mid jump and running towards the girl in front of him as fast as their legs could carry them.

Conrad grabbed hold of her shoulders worriedly, making her turn towards him.

"Yuuri, are you ok?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said. "It just came as a shock that's all."

"Thank god."

The man looked at Conrad with a thoughtful look. Since when did Conrad care so much for a total stranger? Well more about later.

"YOUR MAJESTY!" Gunther yelled, throwing Conrad away from the fragile looking girl. He threw his hands on her shoulders, making her legs buckle under her for but a second, she managed to regain her balance before she tumbled over. "Are you really alright?" the girl nodded. "I shall have those horses put down immediately, making her majesty go through with such an ordeal." oh dear god he was rambling again, when will this nightmare end?

"Gunther!" the man said, earning the attention of the three in front of him. "You said you majesty?" he needed to know for shore.

"Of course." Conrad said as he pried the girl away from from the frantic noble. "This is the new Queen, Yuuri Shibuya." he made the 'queen' nice and long as if to make the man register the word properly.

"Queen?" the man asked.

"Yes, queen." Gunther said, joining the conversation. "The king had an unfortunate accident that turned him into a woman."

The man looked at the girl, studying her from top to bottom. He didn't like the way she was dressed, but there was something in the way that she carried herself that told him that she was not what she seemed to be, he just hoped that his deduction was correct.

"May I ask for your name?" Yuuri suddenly asked, making the man pull out of his thoughts.

"Guendal." he said. "Guendal Von Voltaire."

Why did she look at him with those eyes.

Yuuri had her finger on her chin as she walked around him, studying him as she did this. Now and then she said something. "Strong, tall, broad, dark voice..." all of the sudden she was silent, her eyes were closed for a long moment before opening them and said. "Let me guess, you're supposed to be my Advisor?" she asked.

Guendal looked shocked. "How did you figure?"

Yuuri smiled.

"Are you kidding?" she asked. "The knowledge hidden in your features, the marks of a leader hidden in your eyes and the way that you carry yourself shows that you're used to giving orders and the way that you stopped those horses and didn't let go of me until you were shore that I would be able to stand shows that you really care even though you look so scary and stern." all the while she was saying this, the three men stared at her with disbelief written all over their faces, she just met him ans she knows all of this? "Those are two signs that show you're a great leader, I just guessed that you were going to be my Advisor. I'm a good guesser."

It was official, this girl was going to be a really good queen.

"Welcome to 'Shin makoko', your majesty." Guendal said with a small smile playing in his mouth.

It didn't matter if she was a man or a woman, as long as she would be able to tell witch people meant trouble and who didn't, she at least showed the traits of good leadership.

"Good to finally be here."

"Were is he?" the sudden voice echoed through the court-yard, making the four people standing there turn towards the stairs leading up to the main entrance. "Were is the new kind?"

Yuuri's eyes went wide.

How the hell was this possible?

How the hell can the one man that has been occupying her mind for the past month, the same man that has been appearing in her dreams, be standing right in front of her?

"Oh my god..." she didn't even realize she was speaking.

"Who's this lousy dressed woman?" the boy said as he walked straight over to the girl.

Yuuri lifted her hand, placing it in front of her chest as her hearts began to pound even harder than it had ever done before. What the hell was wrong with her? Since when did she begin to act just like every other girl out there in the world?

"Wolfram!" Gunther scolded the boy. "Do not approach her majesty like that."

The boy jerked his head towards the older man, his green eyes shone in the light. "What did you just say?" his voice held a hint of anger, she could feel it.

Guendal approached the blonde, making him back away from Yuuri slightly.

"Our information was a little outdated Wolfram." he said, glancing at Yuuri out of the corned of his eye, she was acting a little stranger than she had done just a few moments ago, just what was it? "Turns out that the King we were waiting for was actually a Queen."

The blonde pierced his eyes on Yuuri.

"This is our new ruler?" he asked, once against approaching the already trembling young woman. "But she's so... so... female."

Now that snapped Yuuri out of her trance. Straightening her back she stared up into his green eyes. (he was about half a head taller than her).

"What's so wrong with being female?" she said, her voice a little too loud.

Wolfram backed away ever so slightly. "You girls care more about appearance and men to even care about politics." he said, obviously believing every word he said himself. "If it wasn't for your bodies you wouldn't get anywhere in life."

SLAP!

The sound echoed through the court-yard as the blonde pretty-boy tumbled to the ground. Three scratch-marks decorating his not-so-pale-cheek-anymore and his eyes wide open, along with every other pair of eyes around them, cept for the black ones that were dangerously narrowed.

Yuuri had her right hand raised, blood dripping from her nails.

"Don't you EVER! Say something like that in my presence again, you understand?!" her voice dripped venom as she spoke, making everyone around her back away from her.

"How... HOW DARE YOU?!" Wolfram was on his feet and yelling in her face. "WE JUST MET AND YOU JUST GO ON AND... URGH!" He was not happy.

Yuuri blinked.

Slowly she turned around, trying to make her ears stop ringing as she did.

"I just did something stupid didn't I?" she asked the one that was standing closest to her, witch happened to be Guendal.

"Yes, yes you did." he said, nodding.

"What did I do?" she asked, nervous about the answer.

Guendal gave her an apologetic look. "I know you come from another world and all, so I'm sorry to say that here, a slap to the left cheek with the right palm of your hand, is a proposal between nobles."

Yuuri just stared at him.

"A what is a WHAT?!" It was now her turn to yell. "THAT IS THE MOST STUPID THING I HAVE EVER HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!"

Wolfram stared at her, studying her from top to bottom until he walked up to her.

He grabbed hold of her hand, making her turn towards him as he seemed to study her hand closer than the rest of her body. Finally he gave a deep sigh and let go of her.

"It's a good thing you're beautiful." he said. "That way my reputation wouldn't have to be soiled." he didn't say anything else, he just walked back up the stairs towards the main entrance with his back turned towards the girl that was now his fiancé.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Yuuri's voice once again rang over the court-yard.

Me: *leans back into chair*

Weiw... finally finished!

Wolfram: *pats me on the shoulder*

You worked really hard. You did good.

Me:

Thanks.

Yuuri: *pulls his hair*

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TWO! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?

Me: *gives and innocent look*

Because it's fun making you suffer.

Yuuri: *turns his back away from me*

I hate you.

Me:

You know you love me.

A/N: I am compensating for the time I left you waiting. Once again, I am truly sorry.