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Chapter 1 Body Guards

Sitting in her room, thinking of the war that her country was consumed in; she sighed as she hugged her pillow tightly. A slight knock came from the door, Sandra; her maid entered. "Madame, you should go out and get some fresh air." Her hair put up in a high pony tail. She turned and looked into her emerald eyes.
"I'm sorry Sandra, but I can't go out side, there are too many terrorists to go outside, I would be putting my country in risk if I went out." She put on a weak smile and looked back out the window.
"Good, I knew you would need them then." She smiled as she opened the door slowly.
"What are you talking...?" She paused as she saw two men dressed causally, with a sword buckled to their waists. One stood with his hand on his hip on had a warm smile. He had blue/grayish hair and eyes; he had a sudden calm about him. The second one had his arms crossed his chest and looked the other way. He had orange hair and darker colored eyes; and he didn't look to friendly.
She walked up to them and they quickly bowed. "We are here to protect the Queen of Kairi and give out lives in doing so. We serve only her and answer to no one else." They said together. They one at a time took her hand and kissed the face of it gently. She smiled and said thank you.
"What are you're names?" She questioned.
"My name is Yuki; I came all the way from Yruisia to serve you. I have been trained in all marshal arts, including swordsmanship."
"My name is Kyo; I came from Camen to serve you, I too have men trained in marshal arts and swordsmanship." He said gruffly.
"Well thank you for coming to serve me. I want to you to know that you can go anywhere you want and that you don't need to ask me to leave, just tell me you are going so I don't worry." She smiled. "And you don't have to call me queen; I'm still considered a princess, because of my age, but if you want you can. My name is Tohru and you can call me that too if you want."
"Do you like them Madame?" Sandra asked quietly.
"Yes very much so, thank you Sandra." She smiled and looked back at the two men. "Well dinner is soon, so I guess you guys can go to your rooms, unless you prefer to stay in my room, which I don't mind." She smiled again.
Kyo looked at her and nodded, since protecting her was his job, he decided that it was best for one to be in her room. Yuki said that he would sleep in a separate room and they would switch off on night duty.
"Okay, Yuki I'll have Sandra tell you where your room is and Kyo come with me please." She said as she walked into her room, closing the door behind Kyo. Yuki followed Sandra into the room.
"I really appreciate you coming so far to protect me." She said as she walked back to her bed. Kyo grunted as he looked away. "You really don't like me do you?" She questioned with a seriously hurt face.
"Damn right I don't, it's my job and I have no choice. But once I have a subject to protect, I have to follow the knight code." He said strictly.
"And what is the knight code?" She questioned as she sat on her bed and looked at him with curious eyes.
"It says in the knight book: You only serve for protection, you are not to like or fall in love with subject. If done, they are to be stripped from their knight duties and outcast from the world. Love is forbidden for a knight; love gets in the way of royal duties and is the cause of death." He looked at her and looked away again. "That is why I don't like you."
"You can like me, well can't you; hey I want to be friends, not enemies." She looked at his figure. "I want to have fun with you and Yuki. That is the reason you are here, is to let me do things that I wouldn't normally do by myself. I think you are very nice person really."
"How the hell do you think that you know me? You're just a stupid little girl, who has no right to the royal crown that you have. You make a queen a disgrace to all who are one." Tohru sat up and walked up to him.
She had a saddened look on her face as she left the room.
She sat in the dinning hall, sitting in her thrown, remembering her mother and how she was killed in the war; by assassination. She was just told to be herself and that how she acts. She didn't want to be a queen, she didn't want to have a country to run, and she just wanted to be like everyone else.
"Princess," Yuki questioned. "What's the matter?"
"I'm a pitiful queen?" She questioned as she looked at him with teary eyes.
"I do not think you are," He said as he bowed at her feet.
"No, please don't, I don't feel right when people do that." She raised his head up.
"But you're a queen and need respect."
"But I don't need that kind of respect. You would respect me even if I was a girl wandering the streets right?"
Yuki looked at her with unsure eyes. "Honestly we cannot talk to commoners."
"Is it true that you cannot fall in love with your subjects?"
Yuki nodded. "A long time ago there was a man that fell in love with the princess he was protecting. When the princess's father found, he had the knight stripped of his title and then executed. So, the grand knight of the council couldn't risk any more of his worthy knights being executed, so he made the knight's code. Saying that falling in love is forbidden; that a knight's only duty is to protect and serve the subjects any wishes."
"What kind of wishes?" Tohru questioned as the tears in her eyes dried and she felt better about the incident.
"If the subject told the knight to go and kill himself, the knight would do so. If the subject told the knight to give a commoner life, the knight would do so. If the subject..."
"What if the subject asked the knight to love?"
Yuki froze, confused of the question, but he knew she was right, that the knight would do so.
"Then the knight would do so." He answered.
"But you said your code forbids love."
"If the subject asks any such thing, they are not purposely sentencing the knight to death. So is the life of knight."
Tohru looked at him with sad eyes. "Could you quit being a knight?"
"Only if the subject tells him to do so," He answered. "See, we are under complete control of our master."
"You're being treated like slaves,"
"Only that we are slaves with brains." He laughed, but Tohru didn't find the humor in it.
"Why does Kyo hate me so?" She questioned.
"Because his father was the knight executed for falling in love. His mother gave birth to him and was quickly taken away from her and grown up to be a knight. He has been brutally tortured for his father's mistake. He hates you because of your rank in this world. His mother was a queen and his father's love; he doesn't want to make the same mistake his father did, because he doesn't want to leave the woman he loved and the child in which she were to bare." He finished.
"How long have you guys been partners?" Tohru questioned.
"Almost four years, we had to train together, I absolutely hate him, but no matter how much I hate him, we will still have to work together."
"Thank you Yuki," She said as she got up from her thrown. "I think I will go to bed now." Tohru entered her room and saw that Kyo was asleep against her wardrobe. She walked over to him and slightly tapped him on the shoulder. He woke with a startle as he drew his sword and had the blade held tightly against Tohru's neck. He used his other hand and punched her in stomach; knocking her out. He was breathing deeply in anger. His eyes widened when he noticed that it was Tohru. He placed his sword back in its sheath. He noticed that he had cut her slightly.
He picked her up in his arms and laid her down in bed. He drew the covers over her body and cleaned the blood off of her neck. He sat down next to her. He looked at her and looked away. "Damn father," He said as he sat down in the chair next to her night stand.

I hoped you liked it, it will get much better I promise. If you've read Second Chance then you know how sepenceful I get in my stories. Those who know me, know how many reviews I want, for those who don't, I want ten to continue.

-Sango