Hi guys! This is something I suddenly came up with. Do enjoy!

Specially dedicated to Sue-chan (suenethakchan)

DISCLAIMER; I DON'T OWN G.A.

PRINCESS ?!

CHAPTER 1

"Mom! I'm home." An auburn haired girl; Mikan called out to her mom, tired from working all day for the Nogi family.

"Honey, how was it?" her mother chimed in.

Mikan Sakura and her family were ones from the lower class who were bonded to serve for high class men. The community she lived in had different castes and the simple rule to maintain peace and a living was; the lower castes had to serve the higher ones. It was one crappy rule and she'd do anything to change it if she could.

"Okay, I guess. Well, I accidentally broke one of their vases." She said while shrugging as if it was one of the normal things anyone would do.

"Mikan! Don't you dare do something like that again! Thanks to Mr and Mrs Nogi, we can have our meals without any trouble now. And if you keep on acting like this, they'll make sure to have someone else working for them!" Mikan's mother scolded.

Mikan's family have been serving the Nogi's for years. Mikan who was the eldest of her family, had to work hard for her mom and little brother Yoichi, after her dad died in a mine accident that happened a couple of years ago.

She was mostly the feeding hand in her family while her mother did all the house work while looking after the four year old child.

"Mom, tomorrow I won't be coming home, because there's some party at their place. I think they expect me to be there the whole day." She said in a sad way because it meant that she'll have to work all day without a break. The Nogi's having a party was like having someone shooting you non-stop.

"Honey that would be okay. So what is the reason for this party their going to have?" her mom asked while beaming at her. Her mother was always so fond of the Nogis.

"Mom, do they need to have a reason? They almost always have parties. There's no doubt that their probably having a party for their rabbit's 4th birthday too." Mikan said while rolling her eyes in annoyance.

Her mom scowled at her angrily for the fact that her daughter hated working for the Nogi family.

Mikan dressed herself in her favourite pink dress which practically was the only good dress she had.

"Oh my, you look lovely in this," Her mom said while braiding Mikan's long silky hair.

"Let me tell you one thing for sure, there will be a huge line of young men waiting to take your hand in another one or two years." Her mother continued in her very proud tone, which made Mikan blush a new scarlet shade.

"Mom, that wouldn't happen in another million years. I mean, who the hell would marry me?! I'm a slave mom. A slave who's meant to serve the upper class." It didn't take her long to regret what she said, after seeing her mother's hurt expression.

"no, I mean I-"

"Honey you're right. But this mom of yours will marry you off into a good family and that's a promise." She said in a determined voice. Mikan felt all guilty for ruining her mom's good mood.

She hurriedly went out of her house, because she was late…..if Mrs Nogi saw her coming late, she would be dead meat.

"Anna, for how many do we have to cook for?" She asked as she entered the kitchen of the Nogi house.

"Oh Mikan, they said that someone very special was coming today. Mrs Nogi practically gave us maids' uniforms to wear" this also meant that her pink dress was of no use.

Seriously?! She made a face unable to hide her disgust.

Working for the Nogi family was something that Mikan hated each and every day of her life. Well it wasn't because she didn't like them; she just couldn't tolerate her young master Ruka Noji's girlfriends' insults, which made her hate the whole high class clan for looking down on them even though the Noji's didn't do much to deserve her hatred. Well yes, Ruka Noji had a lot of girlfriends, hanging around him like kittens.

Mikan of course wasn't into guys, because she had no time to spend, flirting with another person because she knew that two important people in her life depended on her, which meant she had a huge responsibility that no other girl in her age had.

"Girls! Do you know who our guest for tonight is?!" Mrs Nogi asked fondly while she kept twirling in her long blue dress, dreamily as if she was ball room dancing.

"Mr. Kokoroyomi Yome?" Mikan offered, without even bothering to think. Kokoroyomi or as he would like to phrase himself; Koko was Ruka Nogi's closest friend who often visited them. Mikan kind of disliked him too, because he once told Mikan that she was pretty when she was covered in cinder. Well it was pretty obvious that Mr Koko kind of adored her. But of course she took it as an insult that said, she would look better off with a load of work in the kitchen.

"Pretty close," Mrs. Nogi sang in Mikan's ear in absolute pleasure, for the fact that her maids were even interested in this whole thing when truly Mikan didn't give a damn for whatever's happening.

"Well, who is it madam?" Anna asked humbly. Surprisingly she too sounded annoyed with all this as well. Mikan who noticed this gave Anna a slight punch, while Mrs Nogi kept on twirling with her eyes closed.

"The guest for tonight is-" before she could finish the sentence, his son Ruka came in and took her mom's hand and twirled with her as if they're couple dancing.

"Mom, please let me have the honour in saying this to my maids." The last words he said made both the girls flush. Mikan might not have time for dating, but it didn't mean that guys had no effect on her.

"People! Today my friend….," oh so it is Koko, Mikan heard her inner goddess saying while pouting.

"…..the PRINCE himself would be coming to have dinner with us." He said proudly as if he's announcing that he has the ultimate power to destroy the whole world.

Anna gaped at this news while Mikan gave a weak smile, because she didn't have the heart to show her grim face and make him sad. Of course the prince was her main subject of her un justified hatred. Because she always thought that, even though she has an okay life, all the other families having a hard time is all because of their king and his son. She didn't like the caste thing that divided the society. Anyone who has any connection with this subject becomes one of her pones of hatred. Well, of course she didn't do anything to them. Heck, she couldn't do anything even if she wanted to. The only thing she could do about this was just let her harmless hatred grow within her.

"So, I hope you girls would make us proud." God, Mrs. Nogi sounds just like my mom.

After Mrs Nogi left, Ruka took Mikan's hand and continued twirling her as he did to her mom. Mikan went along with it, because she knew her young master is good at heart even though he kind of had that playboy aura in him.

Mikan, Anna and the other maids spent all their day in the kitchen where they were assigned to do their work, cooking different types of dishes.

Mrs Nogi of course who had a hawk's eye kept on ordering them around, because she wanted everything to be perfect when her son's new friend the prince arrives.

It was in the evening that all the family members were anxiously pacing around the living room waiting impatiently for the prince's arrival.

Mikan was putting all the courses into the dishes when she saw a young man walking around the garden. She couldn't help but stare at that handsome person whom she assumed as one of the palace guards. He had deep crimson eyes and messy raven hair. Mikan practically saw sparkles around him.

"Um…sir, may I help you? Are you the prince's personal guard? Has the prince arrived?" Mikan loaded the stranger with question after question.

"I guess so." He finally replied hesitatingly.

"You must be tired after working with him. He's a pain right?" once she found a guard who was working for the palace she couldn't control herself from criticizing the royal family. She knew it was dangerous, but she never backed away from the opportunity. Well the guards kind of liked Mikan, so they weren't that harsh to stop her from doing so.

The stranger kept on staring at her with a look that said what-the-hell-are-you-talking.

"I know, you must be afraid of him. But feel free to express your feelings. To tell you the truth I've known the prince for like years. Haven't you seen me in the palace talking to him? He acts all charming, but I've seen his inner beast a lot of times. He loved me, but I of course rejected him because he wasn't my type. You know, who would marry that piece of crap?"

Mikan couldn't stop herself. Well, she was just expressing her disgust towards the prince in her own sarcastic way; like she always did and at the end saying that it was just a joke. But before she could tell that it was all a joke, Anna her maid came in and dragged her towards the kitchen without giving her a second to bid good bye to her new friend who wore a perplexed look the whole time. Maybe he really didn't like to see me saying those things about his master, Mikan thought gingerly.

She was in the basement finding some vintage wine bottle, when Anna came running towards her.

"Mikan! Did you see the prince?! He looks like an angel sent from above." Anna melodramatically put her hand on her chest as if she's madly in love with him. Mikan couldn't help but giggle by seeing her friend's reaction.

"Anna, I think he's a complete looser who knows only to eat and laugh."

"Correction. I think he only knows how to eat. Because he didn't laugh at all! Just smirked over everything Mr Ruka said. Some friend." Anna said while rolling her eyes, but in complete delight.

"Anna, stop it. You suck at it." Both the girls burst into laughter.

"Oh I completely forgot! Mrs Nogi, asked you to serve them wine. Hurry!"

Mikan dashed out of the basement with the wine bottle in her hand.

I hate you, you mindless thing! She ran while cursing her maid's uniform, which made it hard for her to run.

"Mikan darling, go out there and serve this wine, the perfect one to add a little bit of …" she hurriedly walked out of the kitchen, not bothering to listen to what Mrs Nogi was saying.

She stepped into the front of the dining room and curtseyed. Then as she lifted her head to curtsey his majesty the prince, she stopped dead. The perfect vintage wine bottle which was in her hand slid out of her grasp hitting the ground making a loud scattering sound. Yet, she kept on staring at him in utter bewilderment, because that guard she met a while ago was none other than the prince himself!

Damn it!

Hey, Hope you guys liked it. Thank you for reading xoxo

-Niv chan