Sakuchii: Hya! I'm back with the next chapter!

Hitomi: So, we will finally know who is this whore who's together with our beloved Atsuya-sama!

Yukiko: And, we will also know just what Hitomi wants with Kidou...

Ohiyoko: It also seems that Aiko is having a sudden quest behind her door.

Hitomi&Yukiko: WHO ARE YOU?

Sakuchii: You'll find it out in this chapter :D Shirou-kun the disclaimer please :3

Fubuki: Sakuchii doesn't own Inazuma Eleven or the charas on it... she only owns her OC's and all the other OC's belong to their rightful owners.

Yukiko: Enjoy the chapter!


Chapter Eight: Not The Real Prince

The crown prince Fubuki Atsuya II gulped as he followed the brown cloaked girl. She was leading him towards her home, but he had no clue just were they were going. "You should have told me that from the very start." the girl glanced at him with deathly glare that made the prince to shiver. She then humphed and turned away while her cheeks showed a light crimson on them. After all she had slapped him before asking what he actually wanted.

Atsuya's cheek was still hurting from the earlier slap. Luckily as he had explained everything to the girl she had apologized to him for her rude behavior and accepted his request. So now he was leading him towards her house. Atsuya was rather stunned about how the girl was acting, since in palace no one had even acted like this towards him. They usually were either all over him or they avoided him at any cost. Even Hitomi, his personal maid have never raised her arm against him, just like this girl.

As he kept following the girl, he noticed that she took him into streets that he had never been in. The further away they went from the marketplace, the more dilapidated the buildings around them became. It didn't took long for the prince to finally realize where he was. He had never visited this place before, but he had heard rumors of it. This was the part of the city were peasants lived in.

The young prince looked around as they walked into street that was known as the Death Alley. He was pretty sure that, he wouldn't have known about this place, if Hitomi wouldn't have constantly told him to never set his foot to that street. The boy was really shocked about it's condition and finally understood the meaning of it's name. He saw many rotten bodies laying against the buildings that were barely standing. It seemed as if they would break at any moment.

Little kids that were wearing only either shorts or long shirts were crying because of hunger and exhaustion. They were so thin that even their ribs could be seen trough their ripped clothes. The parents tried to calm down their crying children that were covered in mud, and their faces were completely black. They were so desperate of their bad condition that they didn't know what to do any more.

There was so little food that no one would get full of it. To the parents in was battle between two choices, themselves or their children. Neither of these were any good, since if they choose themselves their children would starve to death and their children, they themselves would starve to death and what even their children who didn't know how to get their own food would meet with the same fate.

Atsuya could only watch with sad eyes as they walked past the crying children and their parents. He didn't understand just why did his father, a king that was loved all around his country, let things get at past as this. His father would never allow to something like this to happen. The crown princes eyes widened in shock as he finally understood the reason for all this. As his father had been sick for almost six years now, he hadn't been able to look after his country and instead of him, his most closest friend Akemi Ookami was doing his work.

Akemi was, as Atsuya would describe him, a selfish man who only cared about himself and money. Of course he hadn't always been like this. When the crown prince had been a little kid he thought of Akemi and nice and really caring guy, but after he got the reign to himself it was like he had had a complete turn over. Now this person was nothing more than a bastard who only cared about money, and Atsuya hated that type of people the most.

The crown prince was so in his own thoughts that he didn't notice the young kids and adults that were gathering around the brown cloaked girl. The all seemed a lot more happier than just a moment ago. "Onee-san!" the kids shouted in happiness and hugged the girl. Adults too smiled and greeted the girl that was now surrounded by people of different ages.

"Look, I brought something really good for you guys." the girl smiled and then took a big, just baked bread. The faces of the kids brightened immediately as they saw the bread in her hands. The girl broke a piece of it and dispensed it to the kids that were almost starving to death. The kids took it gladly and thanked the girl with a hug and then ate the piece. It wasn't much, but for those kids it was their best meal in a long time. For them, bread was something special that they could eat only once in a while.

Atsuya kept staring at the girl a wondered just what was going on there. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder and when he turned around he saw an elder lady smiling at him. "She's a kind child, isn't she?" the lady asked and Atsuya turned his glance at the girl. To tell the truth his first expression of her hadn't been the best one as he got slapped by her, but now he saw her in completely knew light and understood that just maybe she hold more into her than it seemed.

The lady smirked at the lads expression and turned her eyes to the girl. "Her dad died when she was 10 years old. She was left with no money, sick mother and baby brother. Few years later they found out that her younger brother had tuberculosis. Because they had no money to cure him and her mother couldn't work because of her illness she started working at the age of 12 years. Still her earnings weren't that much that they would have been able to cure her brother. I can't believe that she's helping people are in even more worse condition than her family is, when she cannot even cure her own brother."

Atsuya's eyes widened in shock, he would have never thought that this girls situation was this bad. He had no clue that people like this were actually living in the same city as he was. The boy assured to himself that as soon as he returned back to the palace, he would surely do something about this. "You know..." he then heard the old lady continuing, "Because of her ivory-colored hair the girl has always been obtrusive and people have spread a lot of bad rumors about her. But here we don't care about her appearance. To us she's like an angel who has come from the heavens." the old lady smiled.

Atsuya glanced at the girl and smirked. Angel, huh? Maybe this girl had more into her than he had thought. The ivory-haired girl noticed that the prince was staring at her, and she answered to his stare with a cold glare. "What are you looking at?" she asked rudely and then turned back to the kids. The crown prince felt his vein popping. An angel, hell no! This girl was more like a devil.

He waited till the girl had given away all of the bread she had. Then she turned to him and asked if they should be going now. Atsuya agreed, and finally she led him to her house.

-OO-

Teikoku's crown prince Kidou quietly opened the door of the palaces library room and walked in. In there, Hitomi and Shirou were already waiting for him. Hitomi who was reading a book about flowers, looked up and closed it. "Finally here." she said and stood up to greet the crown prince. Kidou smiled at her and greeted the maid and then turned to Shirou, believing that he was the crown prince and greeted him by bowing.

The pauper didn't have any clue what to answer to him and while looking up to his example he bowed too. Kidou found this rather strange as Shirou was ranked more higher than him, he shouldn't be bowing, but our pauper didn't know about this custom.

"So," Kidou finally asked after all the forward greetings that they had done, "what do you want with me?" Hitomi's face suddenly got serious and she turned to Shirou, but then she smirked mysteriously. "I heard that you're getting married." she smiled and the Teikoku's crown prince noticed her hint on this one. He understood that the thing that she wanted to talk about was extra secret and that no one outside the library room should know anything about it. Hitomi had a habit of changing subjects when she was talking about something extremely secret.

Yet, the boy knew that he had to answer her question as his agreement to her request. "Actually no. We with Suzuki-san realized that we are not meant for each other. There's no point of getting married with someone you don't love, right?" the boy said and Hitomi had to agree with him. She didn't want something like that for her beloved prince either. Then she glanced at Kidou with smirk.

"So, have you proposed to Yoshino-sama yet?" she asked while cleaning the table around her so that Kidou would be able to sit around it. The prince started stammering as his face turned red. Only by this Hitomi knew that she had hit the right spot. "Ho- How do you know that I-" the Kidou couldn't end his sentence and he turned away from the maid while trying to calm down. The maid grinned in happiness, it was so nice to see people in love.

"Even a dumbass would have noticed that you're acting differently around her." the girl said and Kidou glanced at her in disbelieve. He was sure that he wasn't acting any different around her. He bet that the girl was just teasing him. In order to change the subject again, the prince sat on the seat that Hitomi had prepared for him. There was a moment of silence and then Kidou once again spoke.

"So, about what you wanted to talk with me?" he asked. He knew that Hitomi couldn't avoid his question for the second time and he already had accepted her request. So she would have finally to answer his question.

Yet, he - or even Hitomi - didn't know that there was a dark figure spying on then behind the door.

-OO-

The brown cloaked girl opened the door and entered the house. Atsuya was about to follow her, but she suddenly stopped and turned to him with a death glare. "I'm warning you this once. There's a beast living inside this house." the girl glared at him with her smoky black eyes and the boy backed off. What had she meant about that?

"I'm home!" the girl then said quietly as she walked in and immediately they heard someone running from upstairs. A small figure dashed from the stairs and jumped into the girls embrace. "Koneesan!" Atsuya heard the person yelling happily as he embraced the girl whose eyes widened in surprise. She took two steps back and stammered as the smoky black eyed and haired boy around the age of six smiled happily at his older sister.

"Akira, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be in your bed." the girl said in little commanding tone and the boys smile faded away. He glanced away and then turned his glance back to the older girl, who was staring at him. Akira was about to turn away to return into his room but when he was Atsuya his eyes turned emotionless and he lovered his glance as his face darkened. Then something unexpected happened.

Akira made a sudden movement, he took the knife from his sisters basket and threw it towards Atsuya. He was expecting that that wouldn't be able to avoid it, but he had underestimated the prince. Atsuya stopped the knife that was flying towards him and it felled on the floor. He saw that Akira's eyes were burning from anger. The young boy clenched his teeth and wanted to reach towards the knife that was lying on the ground, but Atsuya was faster than him.

Our prince quickly took the knife and Akira's eyes widened and as he knew that he had lost the decided to escape. Sadly the young boy didn't know that he had done the biggest mistake that you could do. Atsuya had learned this in his self-defense training and scars that he had on body were demanding him of this one you should should never forget. Never turn you back to enemy. The crown prince Akira's arm and pulled the boy back while lifting him up in the air. The wrapped his arm around the smoky black eyed boys neck and placed the red knife on his throat. Akira desperately tried to get out of Atsuya's hold, but his struggling was useless against the pink haired male who was lots stronger than the little kid.

Atsuya hold him a little but as the struggling ended he loosened up a little. Akira used this chance to snap the knife away from the older boy and now it was Atsuya who had the knife on his throat. He knew that he needed to something or the boy would cut his throat out, but when his eyes met with the younger ones his legs froze to that place. Akira's smoky black eyes were burning from anger and he was glaring at Atsuya with a murderous face. Just by this Atsuya knew that the boy was seriously intending to kill him, the boy wasn't holding back at all. So the prince didn't know that to do now.

He didn't want to go all out with the boy, because surely would have killed the boy, but he also didn't want to do things half-assed as it would surely hurt the boy's pride. Of course now wasn't the perfect time to think about prides but Akira's eyes were so angry yet so full of fear that Atsuya couldn't move his legs at all. What saved Atsuya was Akira's sisters angry yelling. "Akira! Put that knife away immediately. Is this how I have taught you to greet our guests?" the brown cloaked girl yelled in anger, making both Akira and Atsuya to jump up in startle. Akira turned his head to her and noticed that she had taken off her hood making her back length ivory-colored hair and her angry smoky black-eyes that were staring right at Akira, visible.

Akira loosened his grab on Atsuya and the pink-haired male used this chance to get away from Akira. "But Koneesan! Why are you bringing someone like him here. He will surely try to do the same things as those guys. Akira tried to convince his older sister, but the girl had already made up her mind and she surely wouldn't change it.

"Akira, don't worry. I trust him." the ivory-haired girl smiled while looking at Akira. Her younger brothers eyes gazed and the then turned to Atsuya. His death glare made Atsuya to have goosebumps, never ever had someone glared at him with such a murderous aura, not even Hitomi. Then the boy turned back to his sister, "But Koneesan! How can you say that you trust him? He's a MAN and they have always betrayed us. Even DAD did the same when he-" he kept trying to make his older sister to change her mind, but it had the completely opposite effect, bringing their father into this was a big mistake.

"DON'T DARE TO SAY ANYMORE ABOUT THAT BASTARD! HE DID WHAT HE DID AND THERE'S NO WAY WE COULD CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT THAT!" the ivory-haired girl yelled with all she had as teardrops were already forming into the corners of her eyes. She couldn't keep herself together anymore. Akira got so scared about his sisters behavior that he felled on his knees and started bawling like a little kids. Atsuya understood his feelings, after all no matter how strong he tried to be to protect his sister, inside he was only six years old little boy. Of course he would get scared of something like this.

"Akira, I'm sorry..." Atsuya heard Akira's sister apologizing and then she took him into her embrace. The boy slowly calmed down and the sobbing stopped, but then the boy suddenly started to cough. The girl noticed this and quickly loosened her embrace on him, only to find her cloak covered in blood. He eyes widened in shock. No, not this, not now!

"AKIRA!"

-OO-

Yoshino was listening closely Hitomis and Kidous conversation behind the library rooms door. She accidentally had been passing by the door and seen the two of them with Shirou talking about something. Curiosity had won over her and now she was closely listening to their conversation. They were talking about something that Hitomi wanted Kidou to do for her.

"Actually," Hitomi was now speaking and the cinnamon-haired maid walked to Shirou. "This person is not the real crown prince," she said in tone mixed of carefreeness and seriousness. Both Kidous and Yoshinos expressions changed immediately though it couldn't be seen as one had goggles covering his eyes and the other one was hiding behind the door.

Yoshino opened the door a little as she couldn't see Shirous face very well, but she didn't know that the library door was really old. It let out a really loud creak and Hitomi and Kidou noticed that there was someone eavesdropping them. Yoshino knew that she had no where to run so while sighing she stood up and walked into the room. "I'm really sorry, but I accidentally overheard your conversation." she apologized while nodding to Hitomi, who bowed as she walked in. The maid then glanced at Kidou if this had been his plan and Kidou answered to her with a glance that he hadn't known anything about Yoshino being behind the door.

Hitomi sighed as she knew that she would have to tell everything to Yoshino too, but first she had to know just how much she actually had heard them talking. As she asked this Kidou gulped and Hitomi smirked as she saw light crimson appearing on his face. After all for him, it was really bad if this girl had heard about the proposal thing. Yoshino was confused about the air in the room, but answered without thinking.

"The first thing I heard about was Kidou asking what did you want with him and then answered that this guy is not the prince." she said while pointing at Shirou, the pauper who was wearing princes clothes on him. Kidou sighed of relieve and Hitomi smiled. For now, his feelings were still secret from her. "That's good enough." Hitomi smiled and once again turned to Shirou. The boy glanced at her and smiled shyly.

"So as I was telling you, this guy is not the real Atsuya-sama. I don't know just how he did it, but he somehow managed to switch places with Atsuya-sama and now Atsuya-sama in wandering alone in the city." Hitomi explained and her tone was hinting that them that she was really about the crown prince. Kidou was about to ask just what she really wanted him to do, but the maid was faster. She answered to his question before he could even ask it.

"Yuuto-dono, I want you to create something that would change this persons hair color to pink," Hitomi said referring Shirou as this person. By this Kidou and Yoshino knew that she had no respect for him because she always addressed people by their names.

"It's already miracle that he looks almost like Atsuya-sama, but people will notice the change if their see that his hair color in gray instead of Atsuya-sama's pink one. And we cannot lie to people that the dyed them because everyones know that Atsuya-sama would never do that. After all his pink hair is the only thing left to him from his mother Akeno-sama." Hitomi explained and smiled as she remembered her queen, the pink-haired kind to everyone and loved by everyone her majesty Fubuki Aneko.

Kidou understood how serious Hitomi was and grinned. If things were like this he would surely accept anything the maid would ask him to do, after all it was getting interesting. "I'll what I can do." he answered and glanced at Yoshino telling that they should be going now. The girl nodded and they started to walk towards the door. Hitomi bowed while thanking Kidou. The boy told her to leave everything to him.

"Remember," the maid then added and Teikoku's prince glanced at her while stopping. "N-O-T A W-O-R-D!" Hitomi smiled, but she had this evil aura around her. Kidou smirked while waiving his hand as a sign of a deal. Then her left with Yoshino following him and they left Shirou and Hitomi in the library room.

-OO-

Aiko was having an afternoon nap, when she suddenly heard someone knocking on the front door. She to her other side hoping that someone would open the door, but no one did. Only after the knocking was getting faster and louder she dashed out of the room and was about to yell that someone should open the damned door, but stopped as she found the house completely empty.

It seemed that Osamu and Yukiko had left shopping and taken Hiroto and Ruyyji with the,. So the only ones in the house were Aiko herself and Haruya and Fuusuke who were both sleeping in the living rooms floor while snoring loudly. It seemed that they had fallen asleep in the middle of playing chase. The indigo-haired girl sighed at the sight of seeing two little kids sleeping on the floor. Haruya was probably seeing a dream where her was fighting with some kind of monsters as he kept kicking at hitting Fuusuke non-stop while in his sleep. Fuusuke instead tried to catch every single kick and hit that Haruya made towards him.

With a smiling face Aiko took them into her lap and carried them into the kids room while trying hard not to wake them up. She placed them on their beds and covered them with their blankets. "Aiko-neesan is an idiod!" she then heard Haruya mumbling in his sleep while turning to his other side. She glared at him angrily but when she saw his read animal ears and fluffy tail that was waving from side to side she sighed. If only everything would get back to normal, maybe then... Aiko sighed, maybe then the kids would be happy.

She then left the kids sleeping in the room and walked to finally open the door. It was obvious that the person behind the door was getting impatient as he was already slamming the door. "Hai, hai I'm ope-" Aiko said when opening the door, her veins popping hard but stopped as she saw the person behind it. Her eyes widened in shock and her mouth dropped as she saw familiar figure smiling at her, "You..." the indigo-haired girl stammered not believing her eyes.

"Good to see you again, Aiko-chan." the blond male with red eyes, also known as The Zeus kingdoms crown prince greeted his old friend and walked in.

-OO-

Atsuya was sitting around the table as the girl placed a dish with with food on it before him. It was a mushroom soup and Atsuya glanced at it with strange face. The food didn't look so good, but as the girl was staring at him, he had to at least try it. While gulping he put the spoon filled with the soup into his mouth and to his surprise the food was really good. Of course it wasn't as good as the food he used to eat everyday in the palace but right now it was good enough to fill up his stomach.

"You like it?" the girl asked worrying if her cooking was really bad, since Atsuya hadn't said a word. The crown prince nodded and stuffed another portion into his mouth. The girl smiled and a light crimson appeared on her cheeks, this was the first time that someone other than her mother and younger brother had complimented her cooking. Akira told to her every single day that her food was the best, but as he was her younger brother it was only natural for him to say it.

Then the girls eyes saddened and she looked down. "I'm sorry." she said and Atsuya stopped eating. Well, she had brought him into middle of a chaos so it wasn't strange at all for her to be apologizing. Akira suddenly had had an attack and he had calmed down only a while ago. If course the girl hadn't explained anything to Atsuya but he didn't care to ask for her explanation as he had already heard everything from the old lady, and he didn't want to listen to it for the second time. He knew that Akira had tuberculosis.

The pink-haired boy stared at her for a moment and then turned his glance back to the food, while telling her that it was nothing. Then he continued to eat the soup and there was a complete silence in the room. As he was full, Atsuya placed the spoon on the table and glanced at the ivory-haired girl. "But there's one thing that you could do for me." he smirked and the girl raised her head in surprise. She was wondering just what had he meant by that.

Atsuya stood up, "I'm Fubuki Atsuya II," he said while formally introducing himself. The girl glanced at him while raising her eyebrow. Again with the prince thing, she though and sighed. "May I know your name?" the pink-haired prince then continued asking.

The girl smiled at stood up. She had been right, letting in a boy who thought that he was a prince hadn't been so bad idea after all. "I'm Konoe Ohiyoko. Nice to meet you." she introduced herself. This girl didn't know in what kind of mess she had got herself. This meeting with the prince would completely change her future, it was the future that she had never thought of.

But on the other hand, it had been her fate since birth to meet up with the prince. It had been her fate as the child of thousand generations and there was nothing that could suddenly change her fate. Atsuya smiled happily.

"Nice to meet you too, Ko-chan!"


Sakuchii: DONE!

Aiko: So Ohiyoko was the one with Atsuya all this time, huh?

Ohiyoko: Thanks for the compliment...

Sakuchii: Dunno what to say, the next chapter will be on someday, somehow, sometime soon hopefully as I have first uploaded the other stories.

Atsuya: See you guys then and don't forget to review... We all want to know what you guys think!

~ deshii