Chapter 3: A Fiendish Plot

(Morning at the Palace. Mr. Sensui walks in, quite enraged.)

Sensui: I have never been so insulted!

Koenma: (Concerned) Mr. Sensui, you're not leaving so soon, are you?

Sensui: Good luck getting rid of her.

Koenma: (Now Mad) Botan.

(Koenma walks into the courtyard and is suddenly stopped by a tiger, holding a shred of polka dotted underwear in her mouth.)

Koenma: For heavens sake, Shizuru, give me that. So this is why Mr. Sensui ran out in a huff.

Botan: Oh Father, Shizuru was just playing with him. Weren't you?

Koenma: (Gives Botan a nasty look.) Dearest, you've got to stop rejecting ever suitor who comes knocking on our door. The law says you must marry a prince by your next birthday.

Botan: That law is wrong.

Koenma: You only have three more days.

Botan: Father, I thought we went through this. If I do marry someone, it's going to be for love.

Koenma: I just want to be sure you have someone to take care of you. I won't be here forever.

Botan: Just try to understand. I've never done a thing on my own. I've never had any other human friends. I've never even seen the city from outside these walls.

Koenma: That's because you're the princess.

Botan: Screw being a princess then!

(Koenma, now enraged, storms back into the palace.)

Koenma: I don't see where she gets it from. Her mother wasn't nearly so picky.

(A shadow overlooks Koenma as a mysterious figures steps forward.)

Koenma: (Startled) Oh, Toguro. My most trusted advisor. I am in desperate need of your help.

Younger Toguro: My life is but to serve you, my Lord.

Koenma: It's this suitor business. Botan refuses to choose a husband. I'm at my wits end.

Elder Toguro: (In the form of a parrot to disguise himself.) Raack! Wits end!

Koenma: (pulls out a cracker) Have a cracker, Pretty Polly.

Elder Toguro: (Chokes on the cracker.)

Younger Toguro: (Laughs) You certainly are kind to dumb animals, Your highness. Now maybe I can find some solution to this unfortunate circumstance.

Koenma: If any one can help, it's you.

Younger Toguro: However, I would require the use of your ring.

Koenma: The royal ring? But...It's been in my family for years.

Younger Toguro: If a suitor is to be find, the ring is a necessity.

Koenma: Well...okay.

Younger Toguro: You are indeed, most gracious, my Lord. Now don't worry. I'll fix everything.

(Toguro brothers walk away from Koenma: Elder Toguro spits out the cracker.)

Elder Toguro: That's it! I can't take it anymore! If I gotta choke down on one more of those moldy, disgusting crackers, Bam! Crack!

Younger Toguro: Calm down, my brother. Soon I will be sultan not that imbecile.

Elder Toguro: And then, I stuff the crackers down his throat. Ha Ha!

(Door Closes behind the brothers.)

(Botan, dressed in a cloak to hide herself sneaks towards the back wall. Shizuru tugs on her pants.)

Botan: I'm sorry, Shizuru. But I can't stick around this damn place and have my life dictated to me. I'll miss you.

(Botan, with assitance from Shizuru, scales the back wall and looks down at her life time friend.)

Botan: Good Bye.

(TBC)