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Royally Screwed

Rule 1: Know Your Origin…. Princess or Pauper?

By: Endowment Maidens

A/N… Thank you guys soo much for picking our story out of those other 18,000,000 or however many fanfics there are. This story is written by us two girls, Bara Hana (lol my parents are mean!) and Umi Shingo!

Bara: How come my parents have named me Flower rose?

Umi: How'm I supposed to know?

Bara: Well… want to ask your bro then?

Umi: Um… NO!

Bara: awww. But he just got done traning for today and he's so gorgeous then!

Umi: TMI! Not to mention waaaaaaaaaaaay icky!

Bara: Sorry got carried away there. Anyway, we're glad you picked our story!

Umi: Sorry for you having to put up with us!

Bara: But we won't bother you much from now on!

Umi: In fact we might grow on you… just not icky icky fungus!

Bara: So…. Off with the story!

Rule 1: Princess or Pauper?

Once a year, in early August when the fall leaves begin to appear, he comes. Stepping out of nowhere into my woods, making me totally invisible to the rest of the world. And, for that one solid day… I'm all alone. To him, I don't exist, to my own I am no more than a gust in the wind. It's ALL because of him!

Kagome Higurashi stood outside the small shrine she lived in with her aunt Keade and her rival Kikyo. She was currently gripping the broom in a strangling manor, while she swept the front path. Today was the day when a complete stranger would sweep in like a hawk and steal the attention of the miko's trainer. Keade was making her sweep the path, so the shrine would look nice for him! For a day he totally and completely took control of her life in the most unfair fashion. Neither she or Kikyo were permitted inside the shrine at all that day, and were forced to camp out in her woods at night. Keade said it was a very special time between her and the boy. She would then always follow up with the statement that he wouldn't feel right with two beautiful girls around him all day.

The rapid movements of her broom became increasingly severe as she thought of the anger that she felt when he was around. When Kagome was born, her parents had abandoned her and left her for Keade to raise. Ever since Kagome learned what loneliness was, she had feared it. This boy was the representation of the only day a year when her loneliness came back. The terrible loneliness that welled up inside her and forced itself out. Kagome paused to cough as the dust from her movements found it's way into a massive dust storm surrounding her body. She really had to be careful of her strength these days! As the dust cleared from her vision, the blurry figure of a young man appeared before her eyes. Blinking to clear the dust from her eyes she opened them to see the boy she had been dreading standing before her. His configuration had changed much in the past year, from his height to the mysterious look in his eyes. He seemed to stand a foot taller than she, with waist length hair the color of the stars themselves. A single pair of fluffy white ears sat atop the crown of his head, and claws protruded from his finger tips. He had fangs sticking out of his open mouth, and she could see the figure below his tee-shirt was that of a well defined man. He was a half demon, but that's not what bothered Kagome about him. She could care less if someone was a full demon, a half, or purely human. All she knew was the boys most intriguing aspect was his amber eyes. The year before they had seemed to hold the mocking laughter of a child, but this year… she couldn't place what it was about them but they were so different from her own.

"Is Keade here?" his gruff tone startled her from her thoughts as she stepped back a pace. His eyebrow arched up Iwith a quizzical look at her reaction to his voice.

"No, she's out shopping with Kikyo for tonight's supper." Kagome replied trying her hardest not to stare into his eyes.

"Well then, can I wait here until she comes back?"

" I guess," she said as she accidentally swept a huge pile of dirt onto the boys clean white shoes. The boy glanced at his shoes and then looked straight into Kagome's eyes.

"You bitch! What the hell was that for!" He grabbed the broom out of Kagome's hands and proceeded to hit her over the head with it. Kagome gracefully dodge the assault in a manor that Keade would be proud of.

"Why are you here anyway?" Kagome asked sweetly batting her eyelashes in a dangerous way.

" To talk about my mother who fucking up and died when I was a child! Keade is the only one who really new my mother so just piss off!" the boy huffed as he realized he was never going to land a hit on the girl. Kagome's eyes widened when she realized the sad extent of his words. She too had lost her mother when she was little, her father too.

" I- I…," Kagome started not sure if she should spill her past to this stranger.

"What? Are you going to apologize for my suffering? I don't need no damn sympathy! Especially from someone like you. I don't even know your name!" the boy shouted in anger.

"N-no I was just going to say I know exactly how you feel. I lost both of my parents as a very small child. That's why I live with Keade-sama. She's my aunt." The loneliness she felt when she thought of her abandonment started to seep into her, causing a chill to shoot up her spine.

"Oh-," the boy murmurs as he looks up toward the sky. His hair moved from around his shoulders and gently pooled down his back. An awkward silence soon followed, in which the tension could be sliced with a knife. Kagome stared at the boy forgetting the loneliness he made her feel, and realized he too was lonely. The boy gave a deep sigh, " I'm Inu-Yasha by the way, if Keade hadn't told you before." Kagome sighed.

"No, she's never told me. I always wondered though. I'm Kagome Higurashi." She smiled at him slightly but a huge, gaping frown spread across her face with his next comment.

" Hi-Hi-Higurashi? As in the KING's daughter?" Inu-Yasha asked his mouth the size of a water-melon.

"Um… what are you talking about?" Kagome questioned in a small curious voice. The kings daughter had the same name as she? That came as quite a shock. But she couldn't be the king's daughter, no chance at all! Both her parents were dead as dirt. Keade had told her so!

" You know, the king's daughter… her birthdays next week and he's throwing his daughter a coming out party for her sweet sixteen. The thing is, nobody knows where the princess is, 'cause no one's ever seen her. King Higurashi sent her way to grow up as a normal girl. So, I asked if you were the mysterious princess Higurashi of the High King? I mean you said both your parents had been screwed over, but maybe you are the princess… you just never know…"

Kagome's eyes grew wide in shock as every thought in her mind clicked into their troubled place. "M-my birthday, my sixteenth birthday, is next Thursday," she stated out loud. " And Keade told me my parents had been very important people. She also told me that one day I'd know how my parents were killed. What if they weren't killed at all! What if I am the princess… no! I can't be the princess because I'm a miko living with my aunt and my rival Kikyo."

"What do you mean rival?" A lifeless tone spoke out behind her. Uh-oh, she knew that voice. It could only belong to one person… Kikyo! Kagome turned around to see Kikyo striking a graceful pose.

"Don't be jealous Kagome because I bet you in all fights, good looks and personality. Don't be to hard on yourself now that we both know how the other truly feels…. Inu-Chan!" Her voice suddenly became full of blissfulness as she jumped at Inu-Yasha and grabbed him around the neck. "It's so good to see you again!"

Kagome's eyes widened in shock at this sudden show of affection. Kikyo NEVER showed affection, and if she did it was over how enchanting she looked. But, for a boy… that was unheard of! Kikyo's face glowed in a lovey-dovey way, but Inu-Yasha's looked like he would rather peel the skin off his arms and eat it then have her hung around his neck like a scarf. Kagome spun around and approached Keade who appeared shortly after Kikyo. "How come Kikyo knows his name and I don't?" Kagome questioned in rage.

"Well child, ye never asked," Keade responded gently handing Kagome one of the grocery bags Kikyo had dropped. "Now come help your poor old aunt fix super."

Inu-Yasha unhinged Kikyo from around his neck while struggling with his next words. " I think I'll come help you too Keade-san." Passing by Kagome he whispered gently into her ear, " Princess, yes princess I would say. I know your dying to ask if it's true." He chuckled and walked ahead to help Keade with the front door.

Scared out of her mind by the fact that Inu-Yasha had just called her princess, Kagome stopped in her tracks frozen to the ground. Could she really be the princess? A tap on her shoulder alerted her that she was not alone, and she glanced to her left to see Kikyo grinning mischievously. " Hey Kagome, he's mine!" The venomous statement cut through the air like a blade of a sword. Kagome looked at Kikyo in a way she hoped showed she didn't care, and then sauntered inside to help cook super

Two hours later during supper

Inu-Yasha's smooth laughter filed the air as Kagome finished her story. " And, then there was this one time when I was five and I was chasing after Keade's cat when I tripped and got my head stuck in a bucket!" Kagome added trying to get another laugh out of them. Inu-Yasha wiped a tear out of his eye and took a deep calming breath.

" Yeah, well that's almost as funny as the time my brother vacuumed over my hair and messed the vacuum cleaner up. I lost three inches of my hair that day!" Kagome gave her melodical cheery laugh as she thought of how funny that would have been. As they finished with their rice Keade asked Kikyo if she would mind helping to clear the table. Inu-yasha grabbed Kagome's arm and pulled her close to him.

" Either you ask Keade now about the princess thing, or I will!" His intimidating tone scared Kagome and she decided she had better ask soon. As she thought of her reply to Inu-Yasha's comment, she glimpsed out the window to see the sunsetting. It was a beautiful sunset to say the least, and she couldn't take her eyes off it.

" Fine, I'll ask. But, look at the sunset! Isn't it beautiful!" The yellows and oranges mixed with the reds, and shades of purple and green began to surface. She could hear Inu-Yasha gasp beside her, and felt his arm jerk to his head. When he spoke, his smooth creamy voice seemed to float from his mouth and mix with the clouds in the night sky.

"Shit…" he said and gave a heavy sigh. "Yea it is beautiful. But," she could then feel him turn and walk a few paces towards the kitchen. Before she could pull her eyes away and see what he was doing, his question reverberated through the air. " Keade-sama, is Kagome a princess?"

Keade's head poked around the corner from the kitchen, her elderly eyes edged with alarm. She heaved a considerable sigh and took the few short steps toward Inu-Yasha and Kagome. She bowed her head in thought and it stayed that way for a few moments. Hoisting up her head her reply dumbfounded Kagome to say the least. " Kagome your mother is indeed dead, she has been since you were born. But, your father is the possessor of the very land under your feet. Yes, you are indeed a princess."

The whole house became eerily silent and only the breathing of the four occupants could be heard. The abrupt caw of a crow, and the hushed vibration of a car engine outside the window alerted them that they were no longer alone. Kagome rushed to the window closely followed by Keade and Inu-Yasha. A black stretch limo pulled up outside the house, and a man in a tailored business suit stepped out. With ease unknown to most, the man sauntered toward the house and rapt on the door with a long black cane. Inu-Yasha groaned and Keade rushed to welcome in the uninvited guest.

" That's my bodyguard Eeiteen (A/N: Inu-sama's body guard's name is pronounced A-T-N , sorry for the inconvenience) Inu-Yasha hissed through his fanged teeth. Kagome could here his knuckles crack and stepped back in fear.

"Inu-Yasha has a bodyguard? Why is he so important?" Kagome thought to herself.

"Inu-Yasha dear," Keade's voice broke through her thoughts. "Eeiteen is here to pick you up. I know you don't want to go, so I was wondering if you would like to stay for a few more days. We've got a lot to talk about that has been left unsaid for a very many years, and I know you would like to be part of it." Keade looked at Inu-Yasha her eyebrows raised in question. Was he going to stay or not?

Inu-Yasha's eyes made a quick sweep from Kagome to Keade, and from Keade to the window. " I'd like that a lot." He responded and a extensive grin cracked his face. " But Keade, I need a place to sleep, pronto!" His eyes again dashed to the window again, and Keade pointed to a door behind them.

" Okay, thanks. Goodnight y'all!" He said and hurried to the door. Keade smiled and walked down the hall to where Inu-Yasha's bodyguard stood waiting for a reply as to when Inu-Yasha would be ready to leave. Kagome wondered again why Inu-Yasha had a body guard, and figured she would ask in the morning. The nest question was, why was Inu-Yasha going to bed so early.

Kagome crept toward his bedroom door and knocked on it lightly. She figured the only way she would know was to ask him face to face. When no reply came from his side of the door, Kagome opened it to see a black haired boy crouching in pain in the corner. His hands were on his head pulling at his hair, and his eyes were screwed together. With the sound of the door, the boy turned, eyes wide, and looked at her.

Thought everything about this boy was different; his eye color, his hair color, his ears, and his nails, Kagome knew it was Inu-Yasha She wandered over to the other side of the room where Inu-Yasha sat and stooped down beside him. With a sympathetic hand placed over his shoulder Kagome whispered as tender as possible, " Hey Inu, what happened to you?" She hoped the look on her face was friendly and sat down expecting a long wait.

Inuyasha's heart seemed like it could be herd from thousands of mile away, when in reality it could only be heard right there, in the tiny room the half-demon took shelter in. His head bowed slightly and his breath became more shallow. "Shit…Kagome please don't tell anyone! If anyone knew they'd tell the press… And I'd be ruined! Promise me that no one will know! Please!"

"I promise Inuyasha-…But what happened to you?" Kagome said her voice held a twinge of remorse.

"Once the new moon appears I become this way… Human… Because I am a half demon." Inuyasha's eye's held what seemed to mountains of sorrow. And as Kagome held his eyes with hers, she felt she had know the boy for years. She felt the similarities between them were loneliness, or mostly loneliness. They both had felt so alone. Her loneliness was because she had been abounded by her father. His was because he kept this secret.

"Don't worry Inu-yasha, I wont tell a soul! Wild dogs couldn't drag it out of me!" Kagome said in determination.

"Thanks…. And Kagome…?

"Yeah…"

"Some of my family members are wild dogs!" Inu-yasha smirked as he sat up straight, in a impudent manor.

"Sorry, Inu…" Kagome said with a hint of laughter.

"S'kay," the hanyou replied, "Thanks…for sharing the burden, I mean…"

Leaning gently against the door of Inu-yasha's room, was the semi-mirror-image of Kagome. Kikyo smiled in a impish way. "So the little hanyou I'm in love with is a human for a day…? Now that's what I call interesting!" the evil whisper was heard only by Kikyo.

Thursday, 9:00 a.m

"Hey princess, look out!" Inu-yasha tossed a soccerball he had found while rummaging non-stop through out his room, while Kagome sat on his bed munching a piece of Birth-day cake.

"Hey!" shouted the newly sixteen year old girl, as she dogged the ball. The end result of that was her cake in the hanyou's face.

"Kagome!" he shouted abruptly!

"Not my fault!" Kagome said. "It's yours for throwing the ball at me!"

"Keh"

"Right back at you rich boy!" Kagome giggled. After having a long conversation with Inu-Yasha on how he was half demon, Kagome had gotten around to asking him why he had a body guard. His initial response was total shock before he told her that he was a king. King of the North was his official title. You see even if Kagome's father was king of all the land, the whole land was a very large, very big burden to carry. So, King Higurashi had divided his land up into four huge sections which were all ruled by their own king. The lord of the West was ruled by Inu-Yasha's older half-brother Sesshoumaru. The South belonged to the Taijia family, the East to Naraku, and the North to Inu-Yasha himself.

" Hey, you address me as "King Taisho II!" He laughed heartily.

" Well then, you will address me as 'Princess Higurashi the Most Beautiful Goddess in the World!' okay?" Kagome stood up and struck the most royal pose she could think of, which ended in her tripping over her hakama. Falling flat on her face, she not only heard Inu-Yasha's laughter, but the cold hearted laughter of Kikyo. Ever since the night when she had discovered Inu-Yasha's secret, Kikyo's eye's had held an even more menacing look behind them.

" Whoops!" Kagome attempted to laugh at herself while scratching the back of her head in a totally ditzy way. She was allowed to be ditzy today because she had turned sixteen! Sixteen was supposed to be the age when everything in your life either changed for the better, or worse. Kagome had a feeling deep in her gut that it would be worse, but she wouldn't let her fear be spoken out loud. Keade had informed her that today was the day that she would find out for certain that she was the princess. The King was supposed to be sending guards to pick her up, and Kagome was nerves as hell. All she had known her entire life was that of a Miko in training, and now she was going to become a princess! She knew she would have to learn how to dance, how to eat properly, how to act around rich society, and how to present her to public in a way that would not embarrass her family.

All Kagome wanted today was to laugh and have a good sweet sixteen that she would always remember, but try as she might she could not get those facts out of her mind. Inu-Yasha must have noticed because his voice suddenly filled her thoughts, as his hand encircled her wrist yanking her onto the ground next to him. " Are you okay Kagome? You seem really down and out today? You need to smile… your sixteen know! Practically an adult!"

" I don't know…" Kagome whispered more to herself than anyone else. " I'm trying so hard to put stuff out of my mind, but I can't. I don't know if I want to be a princess or not. I mean it comes with so much responsibility and my whole life I thought the only major responsibility I would have would be collecting herbs and healing people! Inu-Yasha…"

" Yeah what is it Kagome?" Inu-Yasha murmured soothingly. His hand moved from around her wrist to her shoulder.

" Will you promise me that you'll still talk to me the way you are now after I've become a princess?" Kagome asked meaning every word she uttered.

" I promise I will as long as you promise you'll talk this way to. You can't expect me to be the only one to talk normally." Inu-Yasha assured.

"Ok, I promise. The same to you Inu-Yasha." Kagome smiled as a little of the weight on her chest fluttered away.

" And Kagome," Inu-Yasha added, " Being royalty isn't as hard as most people take it. I mean yea you have a lot to learn, but most of the time you sit around doing nothing or preparing for festivities and other shit. At least when I was just a prince, that's all I had to do. Now that I'm king the work has quadrupled and it's so fuckin' annoying!" Inu-Yasha moved his hand from Kagome's shoulder and proceeded to stand up. His ears on top of his head jerked around wildly, and he started sniffing the air.

" Somebody's here," came his gruff voice. " And I'd say that somebody wants something of ours." Kagome's eye's widened to the size of dinner plates and her heart beat louder then a locomotive. Running threw her mind, like a high speed chase on COPS, were the words: the time has come for me to be a princess. Inu-yasha raised eyebrow and smirked in his usually proud way. "There heeeee-re" he said in a eerie tone.

"Yeah, I know…" Kagome said.

"Aren't ya gonna greet your bastard of a father?" It's not like Inu-yasha hated Kagome's father… He respected him a great deal in fact. But he didn't like the way the king abandoned his young daughter like he did.

"I-I'm a bit nervous…" Kagome replied. Her her heart still beating at a super-fast pace.

"Get yer fat ass out that door and go meet the king, wench!" Inu-yasha grabbed Kagome's wrist and dragged her out of his temporary room, and into the kitchen where a very tall man who looked very similar to Kagome stood. On top of his head there was a dazzling noble crown.

A/N Yo what'cha think? Ye, ne? Please r/r! Umi and I (this is Bara speakin') have been writing fanfics for a while and most of them turn out like 10x worse then this one, so please give us feed back, this is our repentance for our sucky stories and we really hope you enjoyed this chapter and will read further!

A/N: Hey, this is Umi-Chan at your service! Yay! So happy I finished this! And hey! Bara! What's with calling my stories suckie? Their semi-decent!….I just never finish them…Okay….Anyway….it's like way late and my head is spinning from eating so much Ramen…( to write about Inu-yasha, you must think like Inu-Yasha, therefore you must eat like inu-sama!) so tired… kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Now nap like inuyasha night night!

Bara: That's like waaaaay to may …'s for me Umi!

Umi: So what… I like…'s got a … problem… with that…?

Bara: Never mind XX

Umi: KK

Bara/Umi: Baii Baii

Chapter Two Coming Soon….

Rule 2: Learn To Kick Ass…. How Not To Greet Royalty!