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Just Friends

Two masked servants were polishing a statue of a past royalty, when shouts and crashes were heard. Finally after the arguing was at its end, a girl stormed out of the study, with angry tears in her eyes. King Kaito, two servants and a few suitors run after him.

"Rin, wait PRINCESS RIN!" the middle aged man called out.

The servants and the suitors hurried after the King and the Princess, "KING KAITO! KING KAITO!"

When the troop was out of site, the black haired servant sighed and said, "I guess things are back to normal then eh Len?"

Len stayed quiet and continued to polish the statue and Taito shrugged to himself. After they were both finished polishing the statue, Len gathered up the cleaning supplies and went on to the next statue with Taito following close behind. Finally after an hour or two, Len finally spoke.

"She's not happy is she?"

Taito stopped polishing. "Well Jaysus Len, I thought you were never going to open yer trap!"

Len didn't respond, but continued thinking. Taito sighed again and replied, "Well if you're talking about the unmarried princess, then yes, she is not happy."

The blonde servant boy didn't comment and only stayed quiet.

Taito continued, "I mean, whenever she is with you, secretly that is, she seems happy. After that long episode of her feeling guilty after turning you down wasn't her being happy at all. The Princess is just…I don't know…content maybe?"

Len remembered that month she would not meet his gaze, and how painful it felt. He sighed now, knowing that the month had come to past.

Taito noticed the young boy's sigh and smiled at him, "Well now stop sighing, all the joy in your heart will escape!"

Len nodded and moved on to polishing a window that looked out onto a small patch of the castle garden where Rin was painting. She looked angry, like she was ruining some of her brushes. He noticed that the princess looked up from her painting, and turn quickly feeling Len's gaze on her back. The servant boy flushed and jumped behind a curtain, knocking a marble bust of King Kaito over which fell to the floor breaking off a part of his rock nose sending it skidding in front of Taito's feet.

Taito looked down and bit his lip. "I'm not fixing that," he pointed at the marble mess. Then pointing his finger at Len's red cheeks added, "And you need to fix that, I know you still fancy the princess."

Len waved his hand at Taito like waving off a pesky fly, and peeked behind the curtain to see if Rin was still looking at the window. She was gone.

Taito sighed, and picked up the marble mess. "Well if you won't fix it…I'll at least help you put some pieces back together…"

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It was spring time and King Kaito had now issued breaks for the servants for their hard work. This was good thing, yet Len found himself bored out of his mind during the day and often went in the library disguised as a citizen; he was mask less.

This had the opposite effect for the Princess, since she was almost always doing something, which usually revolved around her finding a suitor, and it was hard for Rin to see her best friend.

Today was not one of those days, as a group of servants managed to disguise themselves (they were mask less) and convince the King of her diminishing childhood and how it was important to keep her allies (friends) close by to her.

Rin sat under the gazebo doodling and muttering to herself as usually with a few of her servant friends sitting around her, Len, Taito, and Gumi.

Len sat closely to Rin, watching her doodle; amazed at the quick sketches of a small boy she drew….he looked familiar….

Taito leaned back on the bench and grinned, "Hey Princess, Gumi and I had a great idea. We servants are always the ones with the mask; you should give it a try!"

Len sat up, his thoughts interrupted, and Rin looked up at Taito skeptically, "Seriously?"

Gumi looked down; her shyness had increased without the mask on. "W-well, it was only a suggestion we had."
"Hmm…..I don't know…when would we do it?" Rin quickly closed her sketchbook as Len was looking through some pages. He scowled at her and listened.

"How about tomorrow morning? It would be fun! You can see what it's REALLY like behind the walls." He looked at Len and winked.

The blonde boy blushed and shook his head and cleared his throat. "I don't think what's behind the walls are so important, it's what's OUTSIDE that Rin has to see…"

The princess looked up, "Outside? I've only ever been outside with escorts …"

Taito patted Len's back, "Good idea mate! We can go with disguises! In pairs even, like dates!" He wiggled his eyebrows at Rin and put his arm around her, "Princess and I will be a pair, and Gumi and Lenny boy will be another."

Len scooted away from Taito, "Who you calling Lenny?"

The Princess looked away from Taito, "I'd rather go with Len then!" She ducked under Taito's arm and playfully hugged Len.

"Um…."Len looked around not knowing what to do.

"Then it's settled then!" Gumi shot up out of her bench, full of energy.

"Gumi, we're off-duty! GET THAT MASK OFF!" Taito stood up facing the excited girl.

"Heh-heh, I've grown used to it I suppose." Gumi admitted sheepishly.

Rin giggled while Len's thoughts were somewhere else.

Why is Taito suggesting this all of a sudden though…what is he planning….it's suspicious…

"So tomorrow, let's meet outside the castle gates! Dress in common folk garbs, and NO MASKS OR CROWNS! ESPECIALLY MASKS!" Taito instructed.

"Aw…."Gumi sighed.

"This will be interesting…" Len looked at Taito, still unsure of the whole plan.

"It will be fun!" Rin smiled at him.

But what is he planning? Len could only wait for the next day to find out.

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