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Celena looked up at the mansion she had called home for twenty eight years, and now finally at the death of her husband it was time for her to leave.  Her four boys stuck their head out of the carriage window whilst Hikari remained sulking in her carriage seat, her arms crossed over her chest and her nose stuck proudly up in the air in the opposite direction from her uncle who was sitting next to her.

'Now, now Hikari it's not very lady like to sulk now is it?' Allen said chiding her gently.

'Well I wouldn't be sulking if you stopped telling me how to behave like a lady and make me wear this which takes up half the room in the stuffy old carriage anyway.'  She pointed down at her red and white Austurian style dress with a square neckline which was brought together by a v-shape at the end; it just rode on the borders of modesty, being saved by the lace fringing it had around it.  The bottom of the dress however belled out slightly larger than an average Austurian dress as Allen had insisted on getting the largest hoped skirt under dress he could find making it difficult for Hikari to sit down.  The sleeves widened towards her hand, so when ever she tried to do anything there was excess fabric in the way rendering her helpless.  The carriage however was anything but small; it was able to fit four people per bench and had mahogany and cream interiors and a shiny blue and gold exterior.  Hikari, Allen and Yuhei sat on one bench in that order, Hikari's dress taking up room for two people, Allen there next to reprimand her every time she was behaving undignified and Yuhei who was content because he was sitting next to his idol.  Celena sat on the other bench with the two twins next to her and Sanosuke sitting proudly in her lap.

'The colours accentuate your eyes and your hair, which I have to say, is long enough to put mine to shame.' Allen said with a slight chuckle.

'I'm meant to be wearing black, I am in mourning after all, I stick out like a sore thumb in comparison to everyone else in their dreary gear.' Hikari yelled at Allen who remained calm, however trying his best to stifle a laugh.

'And you can shut up Gaki.' Hikari spoke menacingly upon catching a smirk upon her younger brother's face.

'Hikari, don't speak to Sanosuke like that! Your mother may allow you to get away with things but that doesn't mean you can forget your place, you are a girl!' Replied Allen with anger rising in his voice, he swallowed and smiled returning to his calm demeanour 'As for the dress black isn't an ideal colour for courting the King's son.'

'I don't want to court King Van's son, last time I saw him he was extremely spotty, I couldn't even see his face it was just one giant spot and he couldn't even talk properly his voice was squeaky and then low.  I am not courting that; I could do so much better.' Hikari responded haughtily, her nose once more returning to the air.

'It's called Acne, his voice was breaking, you are lucky you didn't go through it your self, It's cleared up by now I saw him a month ago he's quite the handsome young lad just like his father, as proof he has a horde of girls chasing after him, and no you can't do any better then him he's the only male ruler old enough for you to marry.'  Allen gasped his lungs starved of oxygen after that long rant.

'My father has just died and you want to get me married so I can be part of your Schezar Gaea domination scheme.'

'You know you were never close to your father, you used to cry in his hands as a baby and as soon as you could run you ran away from his arms.  For heavens sake Hikari you spent hours trying to avoid him and you went five months without ever laying eyes on him once, and don't tell me you weren't trying to avoid him you lived together in the same house!.' Allen reprimanded his temper rising once more.

Every one in the carriage fell silent.  They all knew that Hikari hated their father for no apparent reason and it hurt them especially the twins as they had been so fond of him and they had loved him dearly before he died.  An awkward silence descended on the carriage, and all eyes fell on the now departing mansion, every one was sorrowful even Hikari who knew as soon as they left Van's palace for Austuria she would be under the ever watchful eye of her uncle.

'Anyway' Allen broke the silence, 'Never insult the Schezar Gaea domination scheme.'

Hikari laughed at her uncle's child like voice.

Allan was spurred on by her laughter.  'Seriously I have it all planned out, Yuhei, Sadhura and Tsuyoshi will marry the evil Ziabach pri…ur I mean Ziabach princesses and the Schezar's will have Zaibach, you of course are marrying Yusuke…'

At this remark Hikari 'hmphd'

'That makes you Queen of Fanalia, and I have Austuria; the whole of Gaea will fall at our feet.'

Everyone laughed at this remark including Celena who had been behaving like a statue.

'What about the Gaki…I mean Sanosuke?'

'Oh he can get off marrying a rich lady, I have one in mind actually, she's in Ziabach too but she's a baby now; I think she's a tad bit too young for courting yet.'

'Oh great your global domination means everyone marries beautiful people except for me!' Yuhei complained

'beauty's only skin deep.'

Hikari looked like Allen had just turned in to a frog, finding this impossible coming from Allen's mouth; she promptly raised her hand against his forehead to check his temperature.

'In that case the problem gets even worse, she's a real bitch.' Yuhei complained.

'Why are we going to the palace first? Why can't we go straight to Austuria? I want to see aunty Millerna.' Sanosuke complained knowing how his aunty doted on him.

'Ga…Sanosuke, don't you listen to a word, we can't Allen and Millerna have peace talks to attend to in Zaibach tomorrow and they last six weeks, mind you Allen will only spend the first week talking about peace and the rest of the time he'll try and get Yuhei, Sadhura and Tsuyoshi married to the evil princesses, he's not carrying around their pictures for fun you know!'

Sadhura and Tsuyoshi sighed in unison.

 'Anyway that would mean we go and sit in the castle alone for six weeks.  Allen seems to think however we are all porcelain dolls and break if we are alone so he arranged it so we stay with King Van for six weeks instead.  He also thinks we are so fragile he needs to accompany us to central Fanalia and stay for tonight to get us settled in; but he's actually most probably here so he can get me and Prince Yusuke off on the right foot and that I make the right impression on Queen Hitomi and King Van.'  Hikari finished looking smug.

'Hikari, I don't think of you as a porcelain doll at all!'

'Really? Are you sure because you sure had me fooled?'

'No, of course not, you are far too boisterous, outlandish undignified and are gravely in need of some manners. For a lady to be called a doll is a wonderful complement which you are not worthy of.'

'Sexist pig.' Hikari mumbled under her breath, unfortunately Yuhei heard this and she received a quick slap at the back of her head.

'We're here.' Tsuyoshi replied eager to get out of the family bickering.

'Allen look, twenty minute journey and we haven't broken yet.'

The seven stepped out of the carriage, Hikari being the last as she tripped over her dress whilst trying to get up.  Sadhura laughed when he saw the porter try to cope with all ten of Hikari's suitcases whilst the other God knows how many were redirected to Austuria.

'I'm sorry,' one of the palace guards greeted them, 'The king and Queen were expecting you to arrive in two hours time and are not here at present, would you like to take seat in the castle.'

'Told you we would be to early Allen.'

'I know we would, I wanted to give you a quick etiquette lesson before hand.'

Hikari groaned.

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Hikari jumped on the oak four poster bead in her new sleeping quarters.  The room was white and pink; the carpet was white whilst the curtains were pink with white pleats and they adorned the windows which were opposite the bed, which was in the middle of the wall where the door was, the bed covers were pink along with the pillows however there were a few diamond shape white pillows for decoration, there was an oak dresser with a chair as well as an oak wardrobe, in the corner of the room there was a door leading in to the en-suite bathroom.  Hikari sighed and threw her shoes on the floor collapsing on the bed glad for some peace which was quickly shattered by a knock on the door.

'Who is it?' Hikari said in between clenched teeth.

'Time for your lesson' Allen said in an all too cheery voice.

'Boy I can't wait until he goes.' She mumbled under her breath.

She grudgingly opened the door and let Allen in.

'Right first thing, do you know how you should curtsey when you see a rich noble man?'

'Isn't that obvious?' Hikari curtseyed daintily with a smile on her face.

'No, wrong.'

'That's how everyone else curtseys.'

'But you're getting married to Yusuke.'

'I haven't even courted him yet and I don't intend to; and what pray tell was wrong with my curtsey?'

'I couldn't see any of your cleavage.'

'I should hope not! Mind you, one does not have to look very hard if they want to see a great deal with the dress you have given me.' Hikari blushed.

'The dress is teasing as well as the curtsey which I'm going to teach you know. Right curtsey and hold it.'

'Yey! Ballet lessons all over again.'

'Now stick your bent leg further to the right so you can go lower and I can see directly down your chest. Focus don't loose eye contact with me, now try to look seductive.'

'That's disgusting, you're my uncle!'

'Fine then imagine I'm Yusuke.'

'That's even worse.' Hikari mumbled.

'Don't talk about your fiancé that way…right that's the perfect curtsey, bordering on the lines of chastity.'

'Allen how do you know all this?'

'I have spent many a time with many a women.'

'Obviously.'

'How about eating?'

'Yes Allen I know what one of the twelve spoons, forks and knives are for what, I know how to use my napkin, I know not to slurp my soup and I definitely know not to eat with my mouth full!'

'No, no do you know who to eat seductively?'

Hikari slapped her forehead.

'Right always play with your food at the entrance of your mouth before you eat it, but not with all foods and especially not with meat…'

So the lesson continued with how to be seductive at dinner, how to be seductive in conversation, how to sit seductively and how to get lost seductively, torturing poor Hikari to the brink of her sanity.

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'Right now that concludes how to drop a fork seductively and in fact the whole of 'Allen's how to behave seductive guide for dummies' any questions?'

'You bothered to name that? Wait no, *please* don't answer that.  Allen I still feel uncomfortable.'

'Wait was it the 'how to sprain your ankle seductively?' because it's hard to explain ideally I need to be able to demonstrate it to you.'

'No, everyone else is wearing black and I'm in colour.' Hikari sighed.

'Ah well your mother will have to stay in black obviously but I don't see why the boys have to. I will go and see what I can do.'

Allen darted off to round up the boys in his room.

~Owari

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