A Weapon of Kinship

New friends and enemies

''Well....this was eventful.' I thought to myself, tossing my head from side to side to shake the dizziness away.

 Looking up at the third floor, I could hardly believe the fall that I survived with only a few cuts and sore muscles. The puppy that I held  wriggled itself out of my arms and licked my cheek happily causing to chuckle and pet the adorable canine.

"Ha, stop it Brownie. I'm fine." I said as I pushed myself out of the bushes while holding the puppy in my arms. Taking a quick look at myself, I found twigs and leaves crowning the top of my head and most of the material of my dress was ripped.

"Gosh I look like Lady Cornelia." I murmured to myself.  slit that run from my hip to my leg.

'If everyone were to find me looking at like knew I was going to be trouble. I'd better go back to my room and change.' 

Shaking the leaves off my head, I started walking with Brownie through the bushes back to the mansion.

"Laito! Kanato where are you?" I heard a childish voice call out causing me to crouch down to the ground and hiding within the bushes. The sound of leather shoes crushing the ground alerting me how far the person was from me. The eager dog wagged his tail excitedly and started walking toward the person, but I quickly grabbed the him.

"No, stay boy!" I whispered to the dog and listen to hear the person stop close to the bushes and stomp their foot in frustration.

"Ahhhh!! Where are they! This is not fair!" I made an annoyed sound as I realised the voice belonged to Prince Ayato. The image of the mischievous prince, laughing evilly made me cringe at the thought of him finding me. Lifting myself slightly from the ground, I started crawling through the bushes trying to avoid him.

"Aha, there you are!"my eyes widen as I looked to up to see the candy curled prince look down with satisfied grin. I curses under my breathe as he walked toward me, my palms became sweaty and my face tun red with embarrassment and humiliation.

"Well? What are you waiting for, come out?" He ordered, taking a breath I mentally prepared to rose from the ground.

"You're mean, Ayato. You didn't even count to ten." the bitter sound of Kanato spoke from behind . I turned to see purple haired prince appear out if no where causing to remain hiding from him. I tucked my legs under so that I was completely concealed within the bushes.

"I did so. 1 to 10, any way lets go find that pervy bum ."Ayato said rudely before walking away, the purple haired triplet grumbled silently to himself and followed his sibling.

I waited for them to walk away from me before letting out a sigh of relief. Getting up from the ground i was planning to continue walking back to castle until the puppy started sniffing around and wagging his tail looking in the other direction.

"What is it boy?" he looked at me jumped up and down before running off into the distance. I debate whether to follow the puppy but shook my thoughts and ran after him. I followed the eager puppy to the front of the mansion where the stables were. He run to the entrance of the stables and turned around urging me to follow him inside. Going into the stables I saw the a couple horses in their pens eating hay.

"Brownie, why did you...." as I turned around, the puppy was busy exploring in haystack and jumped out chewing on leather strap. Smiling amusedly I chuckled the adorable sight of the puppy and started to wonder the pens curiously. On the floor, I found there a cap, shirt and pants that were neatly folded in the other of end of the tables. My face turned sour as I held them up in front of me, they reeked of sweat but were in better condition then my dress. Sighing in defeat I removed my dress and started to change into clothes. I also swirled my hair into a bun and tucked into cap, turn around to I examined myself carefully. The clothes were baggy and stuck uncomfortable to my body but were durable.