Author's Note: Since this will be "jossed" as soon as someone posts an English summary of the latest Saiunkoku Gaiden, I thought I'd better put it up. Three short snippets, written for a random three things meme on my livejournal. It is possible that my brain is imbibing in various illegal substances without informing the rest of me, because I don't know how else to describe some of the things it gets up to.


"Who took my comb?"

"Just look at this mess!"

"What do you mean my shoes have been glued to the ceiling?"

"Ow! Who left that in the middle of the floor?"

"All right, who put raw eggs under all the seat cushions?"

"I don't know who clogged the drains with our family history, but it is not funny!"

"AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEE!! WHAT IS THAT THING?!!"

"You're kidding me, everyone's underwear is hanging out in the orchard?"

What he really hated about Reishin, Kurou thought as he scrubbed at the makeup painted all over the wall of his mother's room, was that he always got away with it.


"Reishin? Where is that boy? REEEEEIIIIISHIIIIN!!"

From where he rested at the top of the high doorway, feet braced against one side of the door frame and back against the other, Reishin suppressed as snigger as his father walked directly beneath him. They never did think to look up.


"REISHIN! What do you think you're doing?! Get out of the moat and put your clothes back on this instant!"

Reishin was only taken to visit the palace once as a child, with good reason.