DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM

"Boy, that sure was interesting," Yusuke said as he and Ema walked back to their rooms.

"Well, I don't know what it was, but something about the way Cousin Robert was acting, trying more or less to force Grandfather to retire like that, it just got me so, angry!" said Ema.

"Yeah, I'd be mad too if someone like him was trying to play my grandfather the way he was," said Yusuke.

"Do you think I did something foolish? Like I bit off more than I could chew?" Ema asked timidly.

"Hardly," the pair suddenly heard Richard say. They looked over their shoulders and saw him, Masaomi and Ukyo walking up behind them.

"Yeah everything you said back there made perfect sense," Masaomi concur.

"And I'll be going with you, so it's not like you'll be all alone," Ukyo reminded her.

"Right, thank you Ukyo, I do appreciate that. I'm sorry you're getting pulled into this because of me," said Ema.

"Don't worry about that Ema," said Ukyo, "it'll be fine."

"Also I'll be there with you, so I can be of help too," said Richard.

"But don't you usually stay with grandfather?" Ema asked.

"Chrissy will be here, she's my right hand woman, I trust her to watch the king just as good as I do. Maybe even better. So, Princess Ema, shall we take you back to your room so you can rest?" Richard asked as he hurried after her, "you'll want to be at your top game tomorrow."

"Yes, please," said Ema, "good night Masaomi, Ukyo. Say good night to Wataru for me."

"Sure," said Masaomi, "can only imagine what he'll be like come tomorrow."

"Good night to you too Yusuke," Ema said to her red haird brother, "sorry I made you stay up so late."

"Don't worry about it," Yusuke insisted, "I'll always be here for you."

"Thank you," Ema said. She suddenly surprised herself and Yusuke by kissing on the cheek.

"Hmm?!" was all Yusuke was able to get out before Ema walked away followed by Richard.

"Whoa," Yusuke said to himself as he seemed to be in a daze and stumbled down the hallway.

"Wow, that was, a little unexpected," Ukyo said as he and Masaomi walked to their room.

"Yeah, something must have really developed between the two of them in that short amount of time they were alone here," said Masaomi.

When the two reached their room, they found Wataru still up and coloring. All over the floor were different types of get well cards and pictures.

"Wataru?" said Masaomi.

The boy turned and looked at them. "Oh, hi, I'm working on all the get well cards for the king!" he said with joy.

"You made quite a lot," said Ukyo as he picked up the ones on the floor, and stacked them neatly on the desk Wataru was working on.

"Well why don't you finish the one you're working on and get ready for bed?" Masaomi suggested.

"Oh, do I have to?" Wataru asked.

"You'll want to have some rest so you can enjoy all you can tomorrow, right?" Masaomi pointed out.

"Right," said Wataru, "is the king okay?"

"Yeah, he's fine, he's just old and needs rest," said Ukyo.

"Big Sister sure is lucky," said Wataru, "her new grandfather seems like a nice guy even if he wasn't a king."

"Yes, he does seem like a nice man, huh?" said Masaomi.

"I wish he was my grandfather!" said Wataru.

Masaomi and Ukyo both chuckled at that.

"I'm sure he feels the same way," said Masaomi.

Futo was laying on his bed, his hands under his head, looking at the ceiling when he heard the door to his room opening. He looked over and saw his brother stumbling into the room, still in a daze.

"What the hell happened to you?" he asked annoyed.

Yusuke barley looked his way, "nothing," was all he would reply.

"What the?" Futo said confused. However, both were soon drawn out of their train of thought by a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Yusuke asked.

"It's me, Billy, I'm here for Yusuke," said the voice on the other side.

"Billy?" Yusuke said as he opened the door to see the young body guard on the other side who was smiling slight mischievously.

"Richard sent me to let you know, I'm going to be in charge of your traing tomorrow. I suggest you get sleep, I'll come to get you early," he said.

"Uh, how early?" Yusuke asked.

"Can't say," said Billy, "that's one of the things about being a guard. You have to be ready for anything at a moment's notice. Good night, see you tomorrow."

"Right," said Yusuke as he shut the door.

"What was all that about training?" asked Futo.

"I just wanted some basic defense training so I can help look after Ema while we're here is all," said Yusuke.

"What's going on between you two right now anyway?" Futo asked.

"Nothing, it was just getting kidnapped like we were made me think I should know a few more moves to protect her with," said Yusuke.

"Right, that's it," said Futo, "though I don't think I would ever take you on as a guard."

"Oh who asked you!" Yusuke snapped as she jumped on to his bed and turned his back to Futo. Futo just shrugged his shoulders and return to his gaze up at the ceiling.

"Thank you Richard," Ema said as she was let into her room by the guard.

"Of course, Princess," said Richard, "and don't worry about tomorrow. You're going to be fine."

"Thank you very much," said Ema as Richard shut the doors.

She sat down on her grand bed thinking about what exactly she was doing tomorrow.

"What if I do something stupid or foolish that ends up embarrassing Grandfather and the whole country?" she asked herself. "What if I make it easier for Robert to take over fully?"

"Chi?" she suddenly heard Juli say.

Ema looked to her window where she saw her pet squirrel sitting on the still along with three other squirrels. One she regonized as King Stephon's pet Marian, but the other two weren't so recognizable.

"Juli, here you are. Where have you been?" Ema asked as she moved over to the window.

"My Aunt Marion dragged me back to the old tree that used to be my home where my old scurry still lives, including my parents," Juli said, nodding to the other two squirrels, "Alphonse and Emily."

"Oh, these are your parents?" Ema asked.

"Yes, hello Princess," said one of the squirrels in a female voice.

"Or should we call you Chi like Juli?" and the other squirrel in another male voice, that sounded a little like Juli's voice.

"You can call me Chi if you wish," said Ema kindly. She reached over and gently stroked the two parents' cheeks with her finger, "it's nice to meet you. Juli's been a great friend and protector for me over the years."

"Good, that's what we like to hear," said his mother.

"Are you enjoying yourself here in Elence so far?" asked his father.

"Yes, it's been nice so far and I'm slowly starting to accept that this was my mother's home and that I am actually a princess," said Ema, "the DNA results came back positive. King Stephon is my grandfather."

"Did it?! That's wonderful!" said Marion, "I'm sure his majesty was thrilled by the notion."

"Too much in fact," said Ema, "he fell over and hit his head."

"He what?!" Marion said in shock, "excuse me your highness!" She quickly scurried away.

"Is the king alright at least?" Emily asked.

"Yes, he has a twisted ankle and a concussion. But my brother, Masaomi says he'll be okay," said Ema, "he just needs to rest up. Which is why I'll be attending the house of council for him tomorrow."

"You will Chi?" said Juli.

"At least I'll be sitting in on some of the meetings Grandfather was supposed to so I can learn a little about the politics of Elence," said Ema.

"Don't worry Chi, I'll be with you the whole time," Juli insisted.

"That's great Juli," said Ema, "I don't suppose some of your family can try and keep an eye on my brothers tomorrow and make sure they stay safe?"

Juli's parents looked at each other and nodded.

"Not to worry Chi," said his father, "we have pleanty of family that can keep tabs on them."

"Thank you," said Ema, feeling a little better, "I need to get back to bed. I'll be getting up early tomorrow."

"Yes get some sleep Chi, and don't worry about your brothers tomorrow. They will be well looked after," said Emily as she and her husband scurried away. Juli however, jumped into Ema's room and hurried over to her bedside.

"And I'll keep looking after you, Chi," he said.

"Thank you Juli," said Ema, "I do feel safer when I'm around you." Juli nodded in satisfaction.

"Your Majesty?!" Marion shouted as she jumped into the king's room from the window. "Chay?!"

Stephon looked up from his bed.

"Oh, Marion, hello," he said calmly, "how was your evening?"

"Don't worry about me! What about you?! I heard you fell and hit your head!" said Marion.

"Oh, that, yes," Stephon muttered, "don't worry, one of Ema's brothers is a doctor and he was able to treat me. I'll be fine, just fine."

"You can't be too careful Chay," said Marion, "you know Robert would try any excuse to take over."

"Oh he did, somehow he found out and came over to try his luck. Fortunately for me, Ema was present and took a stand. She's going to be representing me tomorrow at some of my meetings," Stephon said with pride.

"Your granddaughter said she's going in your place tomorrow?" Marion asked.

"Yes, she volunteered," said Stephon, "it was amazing how she stood up to Robert. It made me so proud."

"But, will she be able to handle it?" Marion asked.

"Maybe not at first, buf Richard and another one of her brothers, Ukyo I think, who's a lawyer, will be going with her. And actually, why don't you go with her?"

"Me?" Marion asked, "why me?"

"You've gone with me to meetings before. You know how that stuff works, you can give her some more insight into what she should do. You can even take your nephew with you, her little companion, Juli. He can at least be a form of comfort to her," Stephon insisted.

"Very well, if that is your wish, your majesty," Marion promised. "But I'm having my sister stay with you personally."

"Emily? Sure, she's always fun," said Stephon, "oh, I should make it a point to talk to that other lad, Ema's brother Louise. I'm very eager to talk to him."

Yusuke moaned happily as he dreamed. In it he and Ema were in fact prince and princess, standing together above all his brothers, even their parents.

"They love you Yusuke, the people of my country love you!" Ema said, "I know choosing you as my prince was the right choice."

"Well of course, they love me the same way I love you!" Yusuke said as he turned to look at her. He started to lean in closer, prepared to kiss her.

"Oh Yusuke," Ema cooed, as she prepared to accept the kiss.

"Oh Yusuke!" Billy's loud voice suddenly boomed over Ema's gentle voice.

"Huh?!" Yusuke shouted as he sat up. He looked over to see the guard next to his bed smirking. He tossed a black jump suit at Yusuke.

"Get up, let's get going!" he ordered in a no nonsense voice.

"What?" Yusuke sputtered as he tried to adjust his still waking eyes to figure out what time it was on the small clock on the table next to his bed.

"Huh?!" Yusuke shouted as he tried to rub his eyes to make sure they were in fact focused. "It's 4:30 in the morning!"

"Yeah, I decided to let you sleep in for an extra hour," said Billy, "you're welcome. Now come on, no more leniency! You want to get trained or not?"

"Okay, okay, I'm going!" Yusuke insisted as he jumped out of bed and started to change as quickly as he could.

Futo moaned as he slowly sat up. "What is going on? I need my beauty rest here! I need it if I am to stay at my peek!"

"Oh shut-up and go back to sleep!" Yusuke snapped. "I'm going to train!"

"This early?" Futo asked, looking at his own clock, "since when have you ever been interested in getting up before the sun rises?"

"Shut-up I said!" Yusuke snapped again, "go get your beauty girly sleep!" He hurried out of the room.

"Hmm,"Futo smirked, "this actually sounds a little more interesting. And I think a few of our other brothers would agree."

Yusuke ran as fast as he could out after Billy.

"You shouldn't run so fast right now. You'll just wear yourself out before the real workout begins," said Billy.

"Sorry," said Yusuke.

"Don't worry about it," Billy said as he and Yusuke walked out of a random back door and walked across a long feild to what looked like a huge hanger. When Yusuke enetered with Billy, he saw a huge layout of exercise equipment and machines with all sorts of different men and women using them. Some were also training together on mats, flipping them over and stuff. They even had a basketball court that a few were playing quite an intense game. All the guards, even the women looked big and a little scary.

"Yusuke," Billy suddenly said, distracting him.

"Uh, yes?" Yusuke sputtered, looking at him.

"Don't worry about these other guards. Don't let them intimidate you. You'll just be doing solo training with me," said Billy.

"Right," said Yusuke.

"So, with that said, start running 20 laps!" Billy ordered in a much louder and intimidating tone.

"Right! Right!" Yusuke said as he hurried over to the race track and started to run. There were a few other guards also running around the track as well. They all passed Yusuke as he started to run as well. Yusuke couldn't help but feel a little timid as they passed him with ease.

'I bet I look pathetic to them,' Yusuke thought ashamed.

"Don't slack already Yusuke!" he suddenly heard Futo's voice from over the entire hanger.

"What the?!" Yusuke shouted as he looked around. He looked up and saw a small room with a window where a few of his brothers were all looking down at him, some of them were smirking evil.

"Why are you guys up there?!" Yusuke shouted.

"Yusuke no slacking off!" Billy ordered.

"But my brothers!" Yusuke said.

"You can't be distracted easily Yusuke. Get going!" Billy maintain.

"What are they even doing up there?!" Yusuke asked as he started to run again.

"That's the royal skybox, so the royal family can watch the progress of their guards. Now hurry!" Billy barked.

"Oh god, tell me they're not going to be up there the whole time watching me!" Yusuke whined.

"Don't worry Yusuke," Tsubaki also called down, "we'll be cheering you on the whole time!"

"Cheer, right," muttered Yusuke.

When Ema came to the dinging room, she was surprised to see only Natsume there eating.

"Natsume?" she said out loud.

"Morning," Natsume said glancing her way.

"Good morning," Ema said as she started down towards a chair near Natsume.

"Here you are Princess," Ami said, pulling out the chair of the table.

"Oh, no, I don't need to sit there," said Ema.

"But," Ami sputtered. She looked a little intimidated and confused, "I was told royalty, especially the higher ups, always sit at the head of the table."

"You should probably keep with protocol," said Natsume.

"Right," said Ema as she reluctantly took the place.

"Um, my lord, if you wish, I can move you closer to the princess," Ami offered.

Natsume thought about it. "Sure, if she's alright with it."

"Yes please," Ema said, "I'd like to have a little company for breakfast."

Ami bowed her head and took Natsume's plate and placed it next to Ema's seat.

"Thank you," Natsume said as he sat back down.

"Did you sleep well Natsume?" Ema asked. "You're up a little early."

"Futo woke Tsubaki and Azusa up telling them something about Yusuke training and wanting mock him. Naturally Tsubaki wanted to join in and Azusa went along to keep him out of trouble. It's just, you know how excited Tsubaki can get over things like that and in the process woke me up. So I decided to get some breakfast and then see about that work area the king had set up for me."

"Oh, good," said Ema.

"What about you? Shouldn't a princess be getting her beauty rest?" Natsume asked.

"Oh, I had to get up early. I'm representing my grandfather today at the house of council today while he's recovering," Ema explained.

Natsume looked a little shocked to hear her say that. "You're representing your grandfather, the king in politics?"

Ema nodded, "I felt I should at least know how this country is ran, so that way, maybe I can do what's right."

"And what is the right thing to do?" asked Natsume sternly.

"I don't know yet," Ema admitted, "but knowing by ganging the knowledge, I'll helpfully find out."

"Well just don't let it get too overwhelming," said Natsume.

"Don't worry, Ukyo and Grandfather's gaurd Richard are coming with me for support," Ema said.

"Just the same, I doubt politics are much different anywhere you go. I'm sure they'll be people who will want to work against you and or pretned to be your alli simply to use you for their own agenda," said Natsume seriously.

"Oh, right," Ema said softly, coming to the realization herself. She rubbed her forehead in frustration. "What have I gotten myself into?"

"Uh," Natsume said, suddenly backing down, "well it's like you said. You're doing this for your grandfather and to see what's the right thing for you to do."

Ema nodded slowly. "Yeah, I'm doing this for Grandfather and I'm doing this my mother and Elence. I can't forget that!"