Chapter 4
Yukimura Seiichi's POV
"YOU BASTARD…!"
"My, Ryo-chan, what ever are you calling me a bastard for?" I said, pretending to be offended.
"How dare you buy me those… those… things you dare call clothes!" he shouted. I smiled innocently.
"So you've seen them? Great!" I chirped. "Did you like them?"
"Of course not, you pervert! I wouldn't even dare touch those atrocious… monstrous… things!" he shouted again. I laughed.
"But Ryo-chan, they suited you perfectly…" I said with a smile. I saw him turned green.
"If you intend to make me wear them, go find yourself a whore who'd be willing to wear them and put on a show for you!" he scoffed and took a bite of his breakfast.
"Oh, Ryo-chan… I've already decided I wanted to marry you…! We're going to get married and create a happy family!" I said cheerfully. Ryo-chan almost choked on his food.
"Family, you say?" he scoffed. "Too bad, prince, but I'm not going to give you any heir!"
"If you say so, Ryo-chan…" I said in a sing-song voice. He looked disgusted. I smiled at that.
"Family my ass…" I heard him mutter. I chuckled. He looked at me with a frown.
"What's so funny?" he asked suspiciously. My smile got wider.
"Nothing… It's nothing…" I shook my head, chuckling. He just continued to eat his breakfast.
"You are one weird prince…" he stated. I just smiled.
"There are some things you just don't know, Ryo-chan…" I said mischievously.
"Don't call me that!" he growled.
"But Ryo-chan, I think it's cute..!" I said happily. Ryo-chan glared at me.
"I said don't call me that!" he hissed. I thought of another nickname to call him and I smirked.
"How about Ryo-baby..?" I asked with a bright smile. He turned green. It's amusing how he changes color.
"No…! And don't smile like that! I already told you it makes me sick!" he whined.
"Alright, Ryo-baby..!" I teased and ate a bit of my breakfast. I heard him groan. I just love teasing him..!
Echizen Ryoma's POV
"On second thought, you can just call me Ryo-chan…" I sighed. He looked at me.
"I've already decided to call you Ryo-baby!" he said with that sickeningly sweet smile of his.
"Stop showing me that smile…" I rubbed my temples. I heard him laugh and he took a sip of his tea. I scowled.
"You sadistic bastard…" I muttered. He suddenly looked at me again. It seems he had heard what I said.
"Would you like to try on your maid outfit, Ryo-baby?" he asked. I went stiff.
"No thanks…" I said in a strained voice. I quickly finished my breakfast and stood up.
"Oh? Already..?" he raised his eyebrow.
"I just can't stand eating while you tease and harass me…" I grumbled. He chuckled softly this time.
"Sadist…" I mumbled. I heard him clear his throat. I quickly made my way out of the dining room.
And of course, the usual, I got lost in the castle… again.
Stupid prince and his stupid castle…
Walking while deep in thought, I bumped into someone… I looked up to see the person.
"Sanada…" I said automatically. He frowned.
"That's prince Sanada to you." he corrected me. I ignored that.
"What are you doing here?" I asked curiously. His frowned got deeper. I guess he hasn't forgotten the things I said about criminals and me beating the crap out of my enemies.
"I'm here to visit Yukimura…" he replied coldy. I flinched.
"Hey… If you're so up about that incident about me mistaking you for my fiancé, I was only trying to turn you off since I thought that you were the prince I was going to get married to." I retorted.
"Understood." he replied. And with that I was satisfied. Sanada opened his mouth and spoke again.
"But… You do have a lack of manners… I suggest you try to behave properly." he added.
"Che… You're always so serious…" I pouted. He shook his head and sighed. I snickered.
"Mattaku…You're such a brat…" he rubbed his temples.
"I am not…" I mumbled. I noticed the look on his face softened.
"You're so childish…" he remarked. I frowned.
"Am not either…" I stomped my foot and crossed my arms.
"Tarundoru…" he scolded. I just smirked.
"Mada mada dane, Mr. Stiff…" I said. He frowned.
"I believe you need more lessons about manners, Echizen. It's prince Sanada. Not Mr. Stiff." He retorted to me. I just shrugged. He sighed. I chuckled.
"Well, then… See ya…" I said and smirked at his expression. He bid his farewell and we parted our ways. I stopped and suddenly remembered that I didn't know the ways in this castle.
Damn…
Marui Bunta's POV
Talking to Jackal, we were planning on how to make the prince's fiancée fall for him considering that he doesn't really like the prince at all. Seeing that the clothes the prince bought for his highness, I wasn't really surprised since he does torture us with a bit of cosplaying. Anyway….. Back to topic, I was talking to Jackal.
"I thought it'd be easy…" I sighed. I was pretty confident in making the kid fall for prince Yukimura so I told the prince to get him a new room and new clothes. The plan didn't actually work.
"You were being too naive, Bunta…" Jackal said to me sternly. I pouted.
"Thanks, that helps a LOT." I said sarcastically and rolled my eyes.
"I only said what was true…" he looked at me with a whining look.
"But that's not really helping…" I frowned and averted my eyes away and when I averted them away, I saw his highness walking in the corridors. He looked like he was lost. I can't blame him. He's not really familiar with this place.
"Your highness..!" I called out to him and waved my hand at him. Jackal just looked at who I was waving at. He looked my way and I saw relief on his face. He walked headed towards us.
"What's the problem, your highness?" I asked him. He sighed.
"I want to go home…" he whined. I smiled sadly.
"But your highness, you're getting married to the prince next month." I told him. "You can't leave. Not until you get married."
He groaned. I knew he never wanted to get married to prince Yukimura, but I hope that he'd at least reconsider…
"We hardly even know each other… and we're getting married?" he said with the tone that I knew he thinks it was absurd.
"Can't do anything about that, your highness…" I said sadly. "The prince has made his decision… Like I said, you can't back out…"
"I'm 12…" he frowned. I smiled widely.
"Ages 12 and above here can get married, your highness." I stated. His expression turned into an incredulous one. I laughed nervously.
"You've got to be kidding me… That's illegal!" he exclaimed.
"But it is…" I said with a confused look. "Isn't it, Jackal?"
I looked at Jackal questioningly. The look he showed me meant that he understood what I was thinking.
"The laws in his world and our world are quite different. If it's legal here, and he says it's illegal, then it is clear that it is illegal in his world." Jackal explained to me.
"Thank you, Baldy." his highness said in a breathy voice. I snickered. Jackal's expression was priceless. Jackal looked at me and frowned. I just grinned.
"I quite understand now..!" I said happily and clapped my hand. "But your highness, no matter how many times you object, your wedding still goes on!"
"But I don't want to!" he stomped his foot.
"Don't worry! Don't worry! Everything's going to be fine!" I reassured him with a smile and slapped his back. "Once you marry the prince, you'll find life is better than it was before!"
"I'd rather die…" he said deadpan. Jackal and I were shocked.
"Y-Your highness… Don't say something like that…" Jackal said in a worried tone.
"It's true though…" his highness sighed. "I'd rather die than marry the prince…"
"B-B-But your highness, think of all the things you can do, buy, and everything! With the prince, you'll have everything under your control!" I insisted. He scoffed and rolled his eyes.
"Nice try. But the prince already tried that with me and that's not going to work on me…" he huffed and crossed his arms.
He's really hard to deal with… Is there any way to convince him..?
"At least try to get to know the prince, your highness…" Jackal insisted this time. His highness' look on his face already tells us he doesn't want to.
"Whatever…" he muttered with a tone of irritation. "This castle is boring… There isn't a single thing to do here."
I thought of something quickly and thought about taking him to town. His may be different. And since ours is different from his, maybe he will change his mind once he realizes how awesome it is in our world…
"If you think it's boring here, then… Why don't we go outside the castle?" I suggested. Jackal grimaced.
"Oi, Bunta… I don't think that's such a good idea…" Jackal said warningly.
"Why not..?" I raised a brow. "I mean… His highness hasn't gotten to visit the town yet, right, your highness?"
"Yeah…" he said slowly, unsure of what I have in mind.
"Then let's go outside!" I declared. Jackal still looked unsure. I saw his highness smile.
"Yeah, I'd like that…" his highness said while nodding with a smile.
"But of course, your highness, we are going to keep watch on you." I added with a big grin on my face. His smile faded.
"I don't need to be kept on watch…" he said with a frown. I clicked my tongue.
"Oh, your highness… I know what you're trying to do." I chuckled. He tilted his head slightly.
"I don't know what you're talking about…" he narrowed his eyes in confusion.
"You're thinking of escaping!" I uttered. Jackal looked at his highness and spoke.
"W-What..? Then I don't think we should, Bunta…" Jackal declared. I grabbed his ear and whispered.
"If his highness sees that our world is better, then he'll really think of staying here." Jackal still didn't look like he agrees with me. Then he slowly opened his mouth to speak.
"Fine… We're going outside…" Jackal finally said. His highness smirked.
"Oh, don't even think about it, your highness!" I smiled at him widely because I knew exactly what he had in mind.
"What are you saying?" he suddenly frowned. I pointed my finger at him.
"Just because we're going outside doesn't mean you can make your escape." I smirked. He groaned. I chuckled at his face.
"Whatever… Let's just go…" he muttered. I nodded and then looked at Jackal.
"You coming with us, Jackal..?" I asked him. He nodded. I smiled.
"Well then… Ikuzo!"
Echizen Ryoma's POV
Bunta's just made the worst mistake of his life of letting me go outside the castle…
I thought of my ways to escape the two idiots and finally go home. But the only problem is how? That, I don't know. I also don't know how the heck can I even go back home to my own world. The feeling of getting out of the castle was exciting. Of course, how could I not be? Being stuck inside a stupid big castle with nothing to do, I was going to die of boredom… Finally, I was out…
"Your highness, we shall go use the flying limousine!" Bunta said excitedly.
A flying limousine..? Are you serious?!
The thought of being able to ride on a flying car but a limousine..? It was beyond my imagination. I've always thought it can only happen in movies but this I got to see…
Bunta, Baldy, and I went inside limousine. It was spacious and definitely looked expensive. Why the heck does that prince Yukimura have so many big and expensive things?
As the car left the ground, to the sky, and reached the clouds, I looked outside the window. The whole kingdom was big itself. There were so many malls, markets, buildings, and everything. The people looked like little ants.
It was hardly believable. I felt as if I were in a dream. It felt like as if I were in a movie scene. The feeling of thrill and adrenaline rush through my veins. Could I possibly just stay here and live the good life?
No, Ryoma… You're going married to the prince, remember? Snap out of it!
I tried to keep my mind off of staying here but I'm still curious of what lies in store for me in this world. Kevin and Ryoga would be so jealous of me right now if they knew. But they wouldn't even believe me if I tell them at all.
Kevin and Ryoga are totally missing out…
Marui Bunta's POV
I was looking outside the window, looking at the scene. I took a glance at his highness and saw he had a big smile on his face. A real smile… It was the first time he smiled like that. I nudged Jackal and cocked my head to his highness' direction. Jackal looked at him and looked amused. Jackal then looked back at me. I winked.
"Told you…" I whispered with a smile. He nodded slowly.
"Your highness, you're looking awfully happy today, aren't you?" I asked teasingly. He looked at me and frowned.
"I don't know what you're talking about…" he said and looked back outside the window. I chuckled. I saw his frown got deeper.
"If you really think it's so cool, your highness, don't be embarrassed." I said to him.
"It's not… bad I guess…" he shrugged. I laughed nervously.
This will take more than this to convince him to stay…
Echizen Ryoma's POV
If they think I'm going to say compliment their little kingdom of theirs, I wouldn't dare let them have hopes on convincing me to marry the prince and stay here…
I could feel Bunta and Baldy's gazes at me. What do they have in their minds right now? Whatever they're planning, I cannot afford to make them succeed with the little plan of theirs.
After the limousine has landed, we all got out. The town was full of busy people walking and running around. The way they were dressed weren't really any different. Just about the same. I noticed they were looking at me and all that.
Could it be that they know that I'm Yukimura's fiancée?
I just ignored them. I didn't really like the attention coming from a lot of them…
"Your highness, please stick with us… We wouldn't want you to get lost…" Baldy said to me with a smile.
Why does everybody keep on refraining me from escaping? Do they really need me as their… princess that badly? Why can't they pick another one as their princess than me?
I sighed and went with Bunta and Baldy. We went to different kinds of shops and I saw a lot of interesting things. I just wish I had the money to buy some... I'd rather die than ask money from the prince. He might even think of the wrong way… He's not my boyfriend or anything.
"But I know you'll end up falling for me…" he said with all confidence
The sudden flashback made me feel sick. He's such an arrogant bastard. A spoiled rich kid who thinks he can always gets his way.
"When I want something, I always get what I want."
Yes, he is… He says he always gets what he wants. I wouldn't allow him to get what he wants this time. Not ever. I would never give up and admit defeat to him. Never…
While I was walking, something caught my eye. It made me stop for a moment and look. I saw a Nintendo DS on sale. I've always wanted a Nintendo DS… But I never got one…
I went close to take a good look. When I saw the price, my eyes widened. It was too expensive… I don't have the money to buy it…
I felt my heart sank. Maybe someday I will… But when I wonder? I sighed and continued on walking. Lost in thought, I bumped into someone. I muttered an apology and stopped when I heard the person spoke.
"Echizen…" the voice sounded familiar. I looked up and saw it was none other than Sanada.
"Mr. Stiff…" I muttered. His face suddenly had a stern look. I smirked.
"We meet again, huh? Done visiting Yukimura?" I asked. He nodded.
"Yes… But what are you doing here and not inside the castle?" he asked me suspiciously.
"I'm just exploring the town." I replied with a mutter. He looked like he didn't believe me.
"But I have 2 servants with me." I quickly added.
"I see… But where are they?" he said. I looked around to see if Bunta and Baldy were around. They weren't.
"It seems I've lost them…" I sighed. This was definitely not a good place to be left alone in… Especially since I'm unfamiliar with the whole place…
"You seem to always lose yourself…" Sanada remarked. I frowned.
"How would you know?" I glared at him.
"It's obvious… You always look so lost." he stated.
"Che…" I mumbled. He narrowed his eyes.
"I see that you're still rude as ever." he remarked. I just shrugged.
"So what are you doing here in town?" I asked him.
"I'm looking for the perfect gift for a friend…" he replied while looking at the things that were on sale.
"Oh? Who..?" I asked curiously. He cleared his throat.
"Just… Someone… It's nothing…" he muttered and shook his head.
"Let me guess… Yukimura..?" I asked and then smirked when I saw his cheeks had a tint of red.
"Does Mr. Stiff have a crush on prince Yukimura?" I teased him. He frowned at me.
"It is none of your business, Echizen…" he replied to me so coldly.
"But Mr. Stiff, I'm Yukimura's fiancée…" I said to him and my smirk got even wider.
"I'd like it if you'd stop being so nosy…" he narrowed his eyes at me.
"Don't worry, Mr. Stiff. You still have a chance with Yukimura. I mean… I'm not planning to marry him anyway…" I teased him and chuckled at his blushing face.
"Mattaku…" he sighed. I tried to stifle my laughter. I suddenly heard Bunta's voice.
"Found you! Come on, your highness, let's get going now!" he called out to me.
"Coming..!" I shouted back at him.
"Well, Mr. Stiff, I shall be seeing you again." I smirked at him. "It was nice seeing you again."
"Same here, Echizen…" he nodded. I walked headed to Bunta but then I stopped to say something to Sanada one last time.
"Oh, and don't worry, Mr. Stiff. I won't tell anyone about your little crush on Yukimura." I said to him in a teasing manner. He blushed and glared at me. I laughed, shaking my head, and went with Bunta.
I've made a new discovery today… Maybe I shall get Yukimura and Mr. Stiff together…
I smirked at the thought of planning to make those two into lovebirds. I might be able to get back home too… And then after, I can forget about everything that has ever happened here and everyone from here and live a happy single life with my virginity safe.
Perfect…
END OF CHAPTER 4
TheBitterMoon: Finally… Again, I am sorry if I made any mistakes… I can make a lot of mistakes sometimes… Especially when I'm editing… _ But anyway, I hope you enjoyed~! Chapter 5 will have to wait! And like I said, be patient! ^_^