I glanced over at him as he helped with the laundry as droplets began to fall.
"You want to come over? Well, I suppose, though we don't have alot of food to eat, our home is always open to others." I gripped up the large basket and headed inside, signaling him to follow me. The last part he said made me blush a bit and my heart race. What would he want to speak in private about? I sighed and went inside.
"Mama, we have a guest." My sister Nala looked up from her drawing tablet as she sat on the couch and she pushed her hair back a bit. "A traveler?" she asked, getting up and putting her book down to come to me and take the laundry. She smiled at him and walked into the back bedroom to fold the laundry and put it away. The boys followed and helped.
My mother stopped washing her paws and wiped them on her apron and saw him, still covered in the cloak. "Any friend of Nora's is a friend of ours. Please, take off your coat and stay for supper."

[Nala and the triplets went off to fold the laundry, Nora is still in the same room with him and Mama]

Mama looked at him with a quizzical expression, pushing her glasses up. She saw a bit of his tail at the bottom of the cloak. "What species are you, hon? You have nothing to hide." She said with curiosity. I stood beside Mother and nodded, folding my arms. "Agreed, besides, its bad manners to keep your cloak up on your head inside." I knew who he was, and he had to know it was indeed bad manners. I just hope Mama wouldn't freak out. My mother nodded in approval.
"Thank you. This home was constructed by my late husband." She said looking around. The kids came back out and ran to the sofa to sit.

(oh..sawwi Q^Q)

Taking a look at Nora and her mother standing in front of me, a bit of a worried expression crossed over my face as I heard from both of them that it was rude for someone to keep their cloak on while inside another person's home. My tail slightly swayed left and right as the tip of it began to curl up tightly, if I had removed my cloak with this entire family being of the separate clan would they end up trying to hold me hostage and threaten to kill off my other clan just to get me back. The family seemed to be very kind and caring towards everything so it was doubtful that they would do such a thing, but looks could be deceiving. Hearing from the mother asking about my species I could only continue chewing at my bottom lip for a moment. There were others like me, so I was unafraid to at least answer that question. "I am a snow leopard ma'am.." I answered with my own voice dropping lower to a near whispering tone however just high enough for the family to hear me.
"I would guess you are right..It is indeed rude to do so. Although..I must ask you to please..do not tell anyone else of this." I stated before slowly reaching for my hood and pulling it off. Finally, my face; the face of the prince was revealed to everyone in the room as my expression dropped to a more worried face. Family, I gave another and final polite bow to everyone in the home once more. "My name is Akio Daishi..prince of the Tranzvilla clan. Once more, I must beg of you..do not tell anyone that you know of where I am.." I pleaded before slowly dropping to my knees and bowing my head to the floor as a show of sincere that I meant what I said.

Mama watched his tail sway; a sign of being nervous. "Snow leopard hm?" She said, her ear twitching. The children watched from the couch. I saw him biting his lower lip. The jig was up.
"Not tell anyone? Dear, are you hiding from someone?" She asked as he dropped his cloak. Her eyes widened and her pupils dilated at the sight of him, her ears stood straight up as he stated who he was and where he was from. Her fur fluffed out and her claws emerged from her elderly paws. She bore her fangs, her ears lowered. I looked over at her. "Mama??" I said concerned. He bowed to us on the floor; a Prince, on our floor.
"You... you're from beyond the wall." She hissed. "What has your clan done with my husband?!" My eyes widened and I looked back to my siblings. Two of them were crying. I ran to them and shut them in the bedroom, locking the door.
"MOM! Stop acting like this! He has shown no sign of anger towards us!" I grabbed her shoulders and she gripped at his cloak. "WHERE IS HE?!" she yelped, sobbing. "Give... please give him back to us..." she said, falling to the floor in a coughing fit. I knelt beside her. "Mom..." my eyes instinctively welled up.

"Mama.... he was only a boy when Papa disappeared. He wouldn't know or have anything to do with it. We don't know if they took him or not.." I helped my mom to her feet where she still coughed. "C'mon mama. You need to rest. I'll cook dinner." I walked her into the bedroom where the children had calmed down, one had fallen asleep on my sisters lap. I helped Mama to bed where she still coughed and her claws were out out.
"Mama, rest, retract your claws. Papa is gone." It hurt to say them words as tears flooded down my cheeks. Nala and the boys never knew our father; Nala was too young to remember and the boys were only cubs when he disappeared. I sighed, closing the bedroom door and going back out into the living room where he stood.
"I... I'm truly sorry for how my Mother acted. Our Father vanished without a trace about 6 years ago. He was last seen near the wall that divides your clan and the marketplace." I walked to the pot of boiling water and threw the sliced vegetables in.
"Other Aura Leopards have been kidnapped and held against their will to be slaves, concubines... in the Tranzvilla clan." I turned to him. "Some would escape and tell us the horrors they had to endure in your clan."

I turned around after hearing the clunk I f something being out on our table. He revealed food, and a huge raw roast. We hadn't had meat in weeks. I looked down at the food, then back to him. "Do... You take pity on us? We don't need your or your clans pity." I turned back around to stir my stew. Then he mentioned about finding my father. I whipped around to glare at him.
"Don't dare make promises you can't keep. I miss my father deeply. He may not even be alive or in your clans village." I said with a shaky voice, fighting back the emerging tears. "You... Have no idea what it's like over here..." I said, stirring and tasting, tossing in more salt. "Everything is given to you with a simple twitch of your tail.... The servants are ready...." You could hear the shaking in my voice again, and the sound of jealousy.

I sighed, pulling down the bowls for the children, myself, mother and one for him. I used the ladel to start dishing out the stew.
"Alone? Dont you have friends in that mansion of yours? You have plenty of servants, you had to have befrended at least one of them/; I said, starting to set the table. I looked to the food then back to him and smiled.
"Thank you... this will feed my family for a long while.." I said with complete sincerity. I hauld the bags off the table and put them at the base of our beat up fridge.
"KIDS! SUPPER IS READY!" I yelled. Nala came out, then the boys. The boys took their seats, as did Nala and they looked to the prince. The table was set for everyone but mom. I held her bowl in my hand.
"Please, Prince. Have a seat and make yourself comfortable. I will be out soon." I held the bowl and a cup of pills and a glass of water and headed into the bedroom. Mother lay on the bed as I scooted her bed tray beside her and placed her food down.
"Mama, I have your medicine here and some stew." I said. Mama opened her eyes and looked over at me wearily.
"Thank you Nora." She said simply, sitting up slowly to sip the water and take her pills.
"Thats it... now eat your soup and then rest. I'll be back in a little while to check on you." I smiled at her and she nodded, beginning to eat her soup.
I came out of the bedroom and sat the kids using their best manners in front of a guest. I smiled, proud of them.

(Sorry if the post is a bit bad. oxo I'm kind of lost in my own world when I typed it.)

Staying silent for a moment as I continued to stare out the window and see as how the rain kept pouring. I had listened to Nora ask how a prince of the only other clan didn't have a single friend when I had so many servants helping me out with whatever I wanted or needed. Exhaling a soft mental sigh to myself I shook my head and only turned around once to look at her. "Just because they are my servants...does not mean they are my friends..I doubt they even enjoy what they do, rather it is simply nothing more then just getting money for their own families." I spoke with my voice just above a whisper once more. Without so much as a warning, when Nora had called out to the children that it was time for supper I moved my gaze away from her and taken it over toward the table they all ate at. There was a bowl for me there as well, they were going to feed me too? Even though I was of the clan who possibility took away their father and their mother's husband? "You know..you don't need to feed me, I had only come here...to see you and your family." I stated only to notice as how the kids were staring over at me, I hadn't minded it but it was just the thought that they were probably thinking it was also my fault that their father was taken away. I wouldn't blame them to think that way, the two clans hated each other so it was to be expected that even the kids hated me. Making my way over, I had taken a seat at one of the two heads of the table, slowly looking down at the bowl I had been given. The food did look amazingly good, but it was just the fact that they were feeding me is which that bothered me.

I sat down at the table and looked to Nuka, one of the boys. "Say grace." He nodded and we all folded our hands and put our heads down, closing our eyes. The boy recited:
"God is good, God is great, we thank you for our home and food, Amen." We all collectively said Amen and began to eat. Nick looked at the Prince and smiled.
"You have a very fluffy tail. Its fluffier than ours." He smiled at him then started to eat. Nala giggled and I shot Nick a glare. "Nick, thats not very nice." I began to eat, smiling nervously at the Prince.
"So hwy did you come to our house? Do you think our sister is cute or something?" Nala said, grinning at him. I almost choked on a carrot and stared at her blushing. "NALA!"

Nick smiled. "You will?! That would be awesome!" He exclaimed excitedly. I shushed him.
"Mama is resting." Nicks ears folded down. "Sorry." He sat back in his chair and continued eating. I had blushed and looked to the boys who had erupted in laughter; even Nala was grinning.
"C'mon now kids, thats enough. Eat your supper." I said, trying to act like an adult.
Nala smiled and looked over at me. "He thinks your 'truly beautiful, Nora." She looked back at the prince and said to him "Shes single. Any guy that comes near her she pushes away. None of us really know why..." I slammed my empty bowl down on the table and stood up.
"Thats enough!" I said, putting my bowl in the sink and going outside onto the porch, the screen door slamming shut behind me. I placed my paws on the railing and stuck my face out into the rain, closing my eyes.

The kids nodded and finsihed their dinner in silence, then Nala took their dishes and washed them in the sink while the boys worked together to clear the table.

I heard the door open the close again as he stood beside me.
"My relationships should be none of their business, nosy kids." I said, keeping my face in the rain. "I push men away because I have to, for them." I said simply. "I can never be dedicated to a mate until mom is better, or Father is back. Until then, I am their guardian and nothing will take me away from that or distract me." I said simply.

"No male wants to take on the burden of caring for cubs that aren't his own. Any male I tell my situation to simply changes his mind. So I stopped paying any males any mind. They all have only one thing on their mind and I simply cannot do that with my family in jeopardy." I glanced over at him and stared into his eyes.
"How can you help? You're a Prince. You need to go back to your side of the wall before they start burning our city down searching for you." I said sighing. I looked back out into the rain.
"I dont know what brought you here, but I can simply say is, thanks for the food. I can rest for a day or two now that we have that. I havn't had a day off in 6 years. Im exhausted."

I shook my head a giggled a bit. "They're gonna find out sooner or later about you leaving, but I dont mind you coming back. Thank you, and stay safe, Prince." I waved to him as he stepped off the porch under the shelter of his cloak. I sighed as I watched him walk off. "I hope that fool knows what hes getting into... Nick doesn't forget a pinky promise," I whispered to myself and watched his figure disappear.

The guards roaming the streets searching for the Prince were called back to the Tranzvilla city and were scolded for not finding him. All bowed their heads in apology, but could say no more about the missing Prince or his whereabouts.

[I can play his Mother or Father if you want]

(er..which do you prefer playing? i could play one and you play the other, if you want.)

Once I had walked away, I slowly made my way throughout the poor clan. The rain still pouring all over my body, I kept my head down so that none of the other people within the clan could see my face and figure out that I had actually been the prince walking around their clan. Throughout the entire time I walked even til I had reached the market area once more, my thoughts couldn't seem to get off of Nora and her family. They really were happy with each other even with their problems, but it seemed as though Nora had the most hard time with her emotions considering she and everyone in her family missed their father dearly.
It had only taken a matter of time for me to reach the other wall that separated my clan from the market area. Taking a look up at the large wall, I took in a deep breath before sighing to myself heavily. 'Mother and father..are going to be so mad at me..' I thought to myself as I opened the gates to the wall and began to make my way into my clan. Immediately two guards stopped me at the entrance to my clan with their large swords. "Halt. What business do you have to come here peasant?" One of the female guards spoke up as I pulled off my hood to reveal my true face, only to have both guards gasp sharply and stand aside to let me by. They wouldn't dare say a single word as I passed them and made my way into the kingdom.

(Ill play the queen)

I returned inside and got the boys washed up for bed time, then my sister. Once they were asleep, I took a shower myself, enjoying every moment of peace and relaxation. It was nice to look forward to sleeping in the next morning. I wrote mama a note asking her to let me catch up on sleep and that we're ok on food for a while. She will be most pleased to have a roast to cook. I snuggled into my pajamas and climbed up the ladder that led to my private loft. I snuggled under my covers and sighed, excited to finally go to bed early.


In the ballroom, the Queen and King Sat at a huge long table and consumed their meals. One at at the one end, the other on the opposite. The servants stood close by, in case they were needed. It was silent except the occasional clanging of silverware. A guard burst into the ballroom and the queen quickly turned her attention to him.
"Yes what is it?" The guard bowed. "My apologies your majesties for the intrusion during your supper, but the Prince has returned." The queen frowned. "Send for him. We need to have words with him at once." The guard bowed and scurried off into the hallway.

The queen used a napkin to dainty wipe her lips. "Akito... You had a schedule to keep today. All of your female suitors had to be put up in rooms until you were ready. You not showing up was a complete embarrassment to us, and the Tranzvilla clan. If you are to rule this kingdom some day you need to start acting like a Prince." She said calmly looking over to him.
"You need to stop your sudden disappearances. Its getting irritating, dear. What is out there that has you so fascinated? You have everything you could ever need and more right here in the palace."