"How is this mom?" Marie asked her mother who was sitting in a chair watching her daughter spin around to show her mother.

"You look like you are going to a black wedding Marie, black does not go well for a dress." Henrietta said getting a put face from her daughter.

"But black is such a cool color, ask dad." She told her mother as neither women were giving an inch.

"Try some other dresses on and we will go back to-"at that moment, Saito enter the shop with sweat running down his face. "it."

"Henrietta, we need to-"

"Dad, how does this look on me, mom says that black doesn't look good on me." She said stopping her father mid sentence, must run in the family.

"Listen to your mother Marie, she is always right." Saito said to his daughter. He knew that if Henrietta didn't get her way, no one was happy. Thankfully, she didn't ask for much other than her families love. Another reason that he went along with her is that she kicked him out of the bedroom one night and slept on a couch, although it was a joke, which was the worse night Saito had since he had to sleep on hay when he was summoned.

"But dad…"

"No buts Marie. Can you leave us for a minute dear, try on another dress." He said as the bright face of their daughter reappeared as she dashed into the dresses once more. "Henrietta, we need to talk." His serious face showed that this wasn't a laughing matter, very few times has she seen it.

"What is it?"

"Is it true that the other countries are having trouble controlling the commoners?" She knew that this would come up eventually but not this early.

"Saito, can this wait until we get back home."

"Fine, but I want a full explanation to this when we do." He said kissing the top of her head as the princess chose this time to show the new dress of choice.

"How is-"

"No." Both parents said in unison as she returned to the changing area for another one. This process continued until she came out in a sailor outfit. This immediately caught Saito's attention but more so that it was on his daughter.

"No." Henrietta said but Saito remained silent when Marie took the advantage with.

"Dad didn't say anything so that must mean he is fine with it." She said as Henrietta turned her head to see her husband undecided on it. "Dad, can I have it, it is the last piece that I have." He came back to the land of the living and moved to the Queen's ear.

"It is either this or the black dress; I am going for this over that." He voiced his opinion to her who didn't like either option.

"Fine, you can have this one only." She gave her action as the other two members of the family silently cheered. Marie once again entered the changing room and out she came into her purple and white dress.

"Mom, can I have a different dress, I hate this purple." She voiced her option to her mother.

"No." She said being the dominate woman in the family. If there was one thing that Saito has learned was the hell has no fury like a woman. Marie looked at her father who showed she wanted nothing to do with this. With a sigh, she gave up and submitted to her mother's choice. The walk back was silent as the tension grew between the two parents about the matter Saito brought up.

The King was pacing back and forth in his rectangular quarters with the window behind his desk showing the outside world as he wanting to know what has happened in the other countries. When the two actually had a completed wedding, they decided that they would split the duties between each other. Saito would deal with economics, culture and military while Henrietta would handle diplomacy and education. Saito wanted the three mainly because of the fact that he had noticed that history was repeating in a way it did back home at Earth so it was better that he handle these important things, besides, he knew nothing about either of the two jobs his wife had. Still, he couldn't get this feeling out of his body that something was happening that he should know and it drove him crazy. Knocking came from the door and it opened to show Henrietta holding a tray with tea and two cups. She place the tray on his desk and pout both of them a cup.

"Thank." Saito said taking a seat in his chair. Henrietta took a seat in the front of the desk and sipped the liquid. "Alright, tell me everything." He said getting right to the matter at hand. She put her tea down and gave a sigh.

"For the past year, tensions between the commoners and nobles have grown to a point where a civil war could break out at any moment." She took a deep breath and continued. "Every country besides ours and Romanlia are having this problem, the main thing that the commoner are fighting for are equal rights to the nobles and it is resulting to physical force."

"You said the Romanlia is not having this problem?"

"Yes, the Pope said that he would listen to the people and begin making changes that the people want, as a result, tensions have lowered to bearable status." Saito gave a breath of relief, relations between the two countries, from what Henrietta told him some time ago, have grown very well and the Pope trusts out country will information regarding themselves. "There is a problem though…"

"Of course, what is it?"

"The Pope has stated that if war does break out, he will need our forces to not only defend our own lands and his as well." This provided a problem for Saito who dealt with militaristic matters. Tristain only has enough troops to defend it own lands but too split them up would lead to disaster for both sides of the possible fronts.

"What if we shared some of our advancements with Romania and they could use it to defend themselves so we don't have to send troops away?" This seemed like a good idea on both of the parents parts.

"Saito, what is the army strength right now?"

"Currently active are 100,000 soldiers along with 20,000 mages and two teams of special forces magical swordsmen. With the reserves put into the mix…" Saito threw numbers into his head trying to get a sum up of the forces. "About 250,000 solders, 50,000 mages, 100 dragon knights and 80 magical swordsmen." Although these numbers were a vast improves meant from ten years ago, it still paled to the amount of troops either Germania or Gallia could put on the field.

"What do we do Saito?"

"We meet with the Pope and talk with him about future events and what to do with them." He said to his wife who nodded in agreement. Unknown to the parents, Marie had been listening to the whole thing as tears formed on the eyes of the ten-year old.

Author's Notes – In a sense, this could be seen as a slight Au story since this is based ten years after the events of season three. Either way, this is still in the world we all know and love from the manga/anime. Speaking of anime, the english dub… I want to cry when I heard the first few episodes. On a side note, I just noticed the I was spelling Romanlia without the L in it.