Thank you for the lovely reviews! I brought you the next chapter. Sorry if there is any mistake. It was unbeta.

If you read my first fic, you will know that I like to use SIH character in the fic. Just want to explain that I don't want to put in crossover as it still focused more on Akihiko and Misaki.

And people who asking for Akihiko, sorry he did not appear in this chapter yet. I promised he will appear the next chapter.

BTW… hope you enjoy the chapter…

CHAPTER 1

"Misaki-sama, please wake up, we must abandon the castle right away." A man voice broke the silent of the night. The sleeping eighteen years old teen stirred in his sleep and opened his eyes. A pair of brown eyes greets him. Misaki groans as someone interrupted his sleep.

"Misaki-sama, please wake up. We do not have much time." The man kept waking his master up.

"What's going on Kisa…, I want to sleep. Don't bother me…" Misaki stretched his body while rubbing his sleepy eyes. Kisa was one of his servant's friends that he met two years ago. He was the only people who would talk to him and cheers him when he had a bad day. He also helped him a lot during his hell day of being torture by his own mother.

"We have to go now! The enemy is here to attack us. I must take you to safety. "Kisa immediately stood up when he heard footsteps from the room's main door. Sensing this, immediately Misaki pulled the cover off and scrambled off from the bed and stood up, following Kisa.

"Wait; don't tell me we have to use this passage…Kisa." Asked Misaki with worry when his friend leaded him to the old wooden book shelf that he knew held a secret door behind. How he knew this? He and Kisa found the door one day during their hunting to do something before they die from boredom. Although they found the door, they could not mustered courage to wander around in the secret passage scared if they lost in the labyrinth.

"We don't have any more time. We have to get out from here fast. And this is the only way I could think off. Other exits bounded to stumble upon the enemy. And I would forget myself if something happened to you"

"But… but do you realize that this passage is never being use about two decades now! And…" Misaki was cut when the sound of door clicking coming from the door.

"Sorry, but this is all I can do…" With that, Kisa pushed his master to the dark passage behind the tall bookshelves. Then, he pushed the button and the door closed.

"What are you thinking?! What if…" Immediately Kisa grabbed the boy's shoulders.

"Please listen to me, Misaki-sama. It's not safe to be here anymore. I heard that, the king of Antitheus Kingdom is here and he also brought along his subordinate, The Black Devil." Misaki was speechless. He processed the information and his mind came out with many worst scenarios.

"What! That Tyrant?! Why he's here? And what about my family? Where are my brothers, Takahiro and Ritsu? Are my parents ok?" Misaki bombarded Kisa with many question while looking into the brown orbs trying to find the answers but all he could see was the hesitation from the older boy. Why he hesitated…? Misaki narrowed his eyes trying to deduce his friend.

"I'm sorry but I don't know anything. It was so sudden and no one expect them to come especially during your birthday." Kisa let go of his hand from Misaki shoulders. Misaki bowed a little, his eyes locked on the dusty, floor before he forced his eyes to meet his friend again.

"You were lying, Kisa. Out of anyone, you should know that I can deduce the truth from you. Just… what are you hiding?" Misaki fixed his gaze to his friend, challenged him.

"You and your deduction… I don't hide anything. Anyway, we have to think positively. Maybe, they already go out from the castle." Misaki hesitated before smiled to the older boy, trying to set his heart up. Yeah… he can trust his friend. Kisa was not like other people. All he could do now was to keep alive and survived this event and then he can ask Kisa what that bothers him.

"Yeah, Right we have to get out from here as fast as we can. Let's go, Kisa" Misaki started to walk which been followed by the older boy.

They walked together through the dark and gloomy passage. Luckily they had a torch to illuminate the passage. Although it was dark, Misaki could not help to amaze by the passage. Still the passage really needed some clean up.

'It's very stink. I don't know how long that this passage had not been use. 10 years… 20 years…' Misaki was thinking about the path. All that he knows is the castle was built about fifty years ago by his great grandfather. So maybe this passage was built during that time. No one knew why his great grandfather banned the passage to be use. Some rumor said that someone had died in the passage and the ghost was haunting the place. It was very stupid. Suddenly, Kisa stopped, making the unfocused boy slammed to him.

"Kisa, why are you stopped…?

"Shussh… quiet, I heard footsteps." Kisa immediately grabbed Misaki and hid behind a pillar. Thankfully, they were small so the pillar can hide their figures.

Then, the footsteps became louder, making the two boys shivered in fear. Misaki could hear his own heartbeat pounding in every second had past. Then, they can see a light at the end of the passage.

"Hello, is anyone here…?" A boy voice echoed the dark passage. For instant, Misaki felt relief. He was familiar with the voice.

"Ritsu-ni! We're here!" Misaki waved his hands. Ritsu caught a glimpse of his little brother and immediately ran to him, feeling relief of finding his younger brother.

"Misaki, you're still here. I thought you already left the castle." Ritsu smiled, happy to see his brother.

"Oh, I on my way out now, and by the way, you make us shiver in fear. And there I thought, 'I definitely will be caught' about a hundred times" Misaki hugged his brother, relieved to see Ritsu is still alive. Ritsu just chuckled to his brother comment.

"By the way, Ritsu-ni, why are you here?" Misaki let go of his arm that slithered around his brother and looked to his brother.

"Oh, I'm trying to get out but, it's seemed I got lost. Well, I'm not really an expert in escaping." Ritsu chuckled to himself.

"By the way, do you to know how to get out from here…?" Misaki asked.

"Now, you're asking, Kisa do you know the way out?" Ritsu glanced to the older boy behind Misaki.

"Ha…ha…ha…, now you're asking, it's makes me realize that I never used this passage before, so…" Kisa answered the question with a realization. He was so eager to save his friend, but in the end, he put him in other worst situation.

"What?!" The two other boys shouted in harmony.

"So, why you decided to used this passage in the first place, Kisa!" Misaki yelled in frustration. 'I should know him…'

"Oh, sorry, Misaki-sama. I was really hurry to take you out and went I heard the footsteps, I just thought to take you out from there." Kisa was really regretted. Sometime he really liked to decide without thinking the consequence.

"Footsteps… do you meant about a half an hour ago…" Ritsu asked the boys.

"Emph…wait. Oh yeah, about a while ago…" Misaki answered.

"Oh, that… It was me…"

"What?! So it's you. Ritsu-ni. We thought it was the enemy. If we now it was you, it will be better to used the door instead of this smelly path." Misaki sighed.

"Yeah, I went to your room, and seeing the empty bed, I assume that you were already escaped. Anyway, we have to find our way out from here. The enemy doesn't know about this passage so we can take as much time as we need to find the way out." Ritsu tried to calm down the situation.

"Yeah, you're right, Ritsu-ni. It's really good to have someone smart here not like that person…" Misaki huffed.

"Misaki-sama…!" Kisa yelled.

"Ah anyway, let's start walking. Although we have some time to search for the way out but we need to get out from here as fast as we could. You don't want to die here, starving right?" Ritsu started to walk. Then, the two boys silently followed him.

"Ne… Ritsu-ni, do you know what had happen actually? All I know that we were attacked by the other kingdom." Misaki asked his older brother, searching for any data that he could deduce to made sense of the situation.

"Sorry… but I don't know, Misaki. I hoped things will not go even worse than this." Ritsu answered.

They searched high and low for the exits. Along the way, they had been arguing to take detours or to turn around the corner. After an hour of bickering and arguing, eventually they found the exit. They were beaming with joy as they finally found the so-hard looking exit. It's a wooden door, with a scary skull knob. No wonder this place is scary.

"Ok, here it's go… one, two, and three…" After three, Misaki cracked opened the wooden door. They were greeted by the sound of breezes and the bright moonlight.

"Waa~, finally, fresh air…" Misaki danced in joy.

"Where are we anyway…? Do you know Kisa?" Ritsu observed the surrounding.

"Wait, this … oh, no! This is the path to the main hall." Kisa answered in worry. 'Please don't meet with anyone.'

"What?! So you meant we still in the castle. Oh damn it!" Ritsu cursed the bad luck.

Then, they heard scream of pain coming from the main hall. Misaki who heard that ran towards the main hall, followed with Ritsu. 'Oh no…' Kisa scream in his mind in horror. He had to drag Misaki out of this castle.

He ran towards Misaki and pulled him back.

"Kisa! What are you doing? My parents were there! Let me go!" Misaki struggled to free from the older boy but failed.

Why do you care for them? They were better dead than alive!" Kisa yelled to Misaki, trying to knock some sense in the thick head.

"They still my parents…" Misaki mumbled under his breaths. He knew he was stupid to think that they eventually will come to love him but…

"Why are you so kind…? I could never be like you…" Kisa released the boy, covering his face. His eyes at the brink of spilling his tears but he held up. 'They were not worth my tears…'

"Let's go." Changing his mind, he dragged the boy towards Ritsu ad together they walked in fast pace towards the main hall.

"Please stay safe….please" Misaki murmured in his breath.

However, it is seem the situation already become worst. Before them, two men with black outfit were already waiting with bloody swords.

"Looks like we have some prey to entertain…" The black hair guy with golden eyes uttered to the man beside him. Misaki deduced him that he was a high rank officer as he clearly could see years of training and dueling as well as the air and aura around him told him the massive magic and strength around the man magic coil.

"Well, Takano-san, it's not boring day after all…" The prince like figure smiled sweetly to the three boys. Misaki, Ritsu and Kisa stood frozen in their spot, thinking how to avoid the situation. They certainly knew that they never will win if fighting the two men as literally lacked in combat skill and strength. Maybe Ritsu could hold it for a while in the fight but Misaki… well he not really like to fight.

"Well…what we have here… I assumed you have some business here… so can I know what you want?" Takano asked the boys. The silent last for about a minute before Ritsu answered the question.

"We heard scream coming from there so we want to check it…"

"Oh, that... Jeez Akihiko, I already told him not to be harsh on them… it's nothing you to worry about. It's just a little negotiation." Takano smirked evilly while swinging his sword to rest it on his shoulder.

"Yeah, it's better for you to go away, although we will catch you after this. Go enjoy the fresh air before you will be caught again." The other man spoke while smiling to the boys.

"What, don't joke with us! We will never turn away from our family." Ritsu yelled to the men, feeling irritate.

"Ah! Why you tell them, Ritsu-ni, now they know who we are…" Misaki grabbed his brother arm and pulled the boy closer. Sometimes his brother temper can be a troublesome. He narrowed his eyes to observe and truth to his word, a flicker of recognizing crossed both the men face in second. 'Well, they apparently not stupid.'

"Oh, it's seemed we had found the lost princes… Yukina go and tell Akihiko that we had found the princes…" Right away, the other guy entered the hall.

"For you three, don't ever wish to escape…" In a split second Takano draw his sword and grabbed Ritsu. He swiftly pointed the sword near the boy's throat.

"Ritsu-ni!" Misaki screamed in horror.

"Now, follow me and don't do something unnecessary…" Takano pushed Ritsu to walk toward the main hall. Misaki and Kisa followed carefully behind the man.

AN:How do you think? Please review! Any idea is very welcome.