Chapter 2: Hello
"Princess!" A young girl, about 10, hid behind a tree, waiting for her attendants to pass by, "Come on, Princess. It's time for your lesson."
The girl sighed as they left, happy for a quiet moment without being hovered over. It didn't matter that she was the princess and heir to the throne. She was only 10 and didn't get a chance to actually be a kid. It was always lesson after lesson. She was tired of constantly being told to be proper and to stop daydreaming. She stood up and shook out her skirts, ready to sneak over to the stables to visit with Bella.
"Hiding?"
She turned with a gasp, upset that she was caught, "Who are you and what are you doing here? This is the Royal Garden. It's off limits."
"The Queen gave me permission to be here." The boy, about 14, smirked as he held up a key with a white flower on it, "Apparently, my mother told her about my own gardens and thought I would enjoy a walk through hers. Considering how bored I was getting."
"Oh." She eyes the key with interest, "She must like you." She looked back up, "Don't pluck anything without permission, stay on the paths and don't go into the silverhouse. It's not a regular greenhouse. It grows very specific flowers with special properties in them. She's very picky about who goes in there. Don't even try." She started to turn, "Oh," she looked back, "and don't even think about going into the Nook."
"Nook?"
"Off limits." She stomped off, anxious to visit her horse.
"Got a temper on her, doesn't she?" He looked over as his parents walked over with the Queen, "She gets it from her father. You'll meet him tonight. He's on Mars at the moment, overseeing some new training procedures."
"That was the Princess." He looked back as he caught the last site of blonde pigtails, "She certainly acted like a royal."
"She doesn't always. She gets irritated because she spends more time on Royal Lessons than getting to be an actual kid. I've lost count of how many times she's snuck off to the stables to visit with Bella. That's probably where she's heading now."
"Bella?"
"Bella is a winged-unicorn. We breed them here. Her father gave her to Sere on her 6th birthday. It seems that all she wants to do now is ride."
"All Sesshomaru wants to do is train. He hates paperwork and meetings." An Inu Daiyoukai, InuTaisho was Lord of the Western Lands of Feudal Japan and one of the Four General Leaders of the Youkai, "He finds them tedious and boring."
"They are." His son rolled his eyes, still looking in the direction of the Princess, "May we see these winged-unicorns? They don't exist on Earth."
"Of course." The Queen nodded and gestured forward, "How do you like the gardens?"
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Once Upon a Moon
FanfictionA wish and a choice collide to create a new timeline. With new friends and old, Youma and Youkai, two worlds will collide. A silver-haired Lunarian and a silver-hair dog demon. New destinies. New soul mates. The past and the future merge in this new...