《Change's》 A normal day (Prologue) I awoke to the sound of a gentle voice calling my name and the feeling of soft hands rubbing my back, I grumbled and rose my face from my pillow and looked up to see my mother smiling down at me , I could only smile back at her as she wished me good morning and told me to get up and prepare for school. I took my time getting up only to sit on the side of the bed for the next ten minutes, when I felt that I had properly woken up I made my way to my bath and showered, washed my hair and brushed my teeth, when I was finished I rubbed lotion on my skin and then headed back to my room as I dried my hair, I looked to my bed to see it had already been made and my uniform was laying neatly on it, i walked past my bed and made it to my vanity so I could style my hair and then moved on to getting dressed. I buttoned my outer jacket and stood in the mirror looking myself over, I looked well dressed in my black and red uniform, the jacket and pants were black, along with my school shirt, the sleeves and collar for my jacket were all trimmed in red, with the red insignia for the school on my jacket pocket, my tie was red, also carrying an insignia to represent the grade I was in, my black shoes were neatly waxed and ready for wearing, I would like I was heading out to work if it wasn''t for the insignia. I smiled to myself and headed out my room and down to the kitchen where I was greeted by my mother and the servants, along with my head guard, I was finished eating within a few minutes and kissed my mother on her cheek before heading outside where my car was waiting to take me to school, it was a half an hours drive from my mothers mansion to the capital where the school was located along with the Palace a place I hadn''t seen the inside of since I was five. It was clear to say that my mother the king''s third wife didn''t live with him, same goes for all the other wives and their children, aside from the first born Prince and Princess along with the Queen. I didn''t know my other siblings and mother''s I didn''t even know my father, Only knew what he looked like because he was always seen in the public eye, I had asked my mother why it was this way and she said it was for our protection, I never understood what she meant, so I decided not to think about it, I was simply the son of a mother that would give her life for me and a father who couldn''t care less.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. We pulled up to the school, and I waited for the car to pull into the entrance and come to a stop before getting out, I couldn''t help but smile at the sight before me, my best friend Daiki Ogawa the son of a Governor who I had known since I was two stood there waiting for me, along with the most beautiful woman in the world, only second to my mother, Miu Mori, the girl who had been betrothed to me on my second birthday and we had been together ever since, I loved her with all my heart and couldn''t wait for the day of our wedding which was set for after our graduation. She seemed to almost bounce over to me with her long brown hair flowing in the wind, her light brown eyes shinning in the sun light, she hugged me and I placed a kiss on her forehead, her soft skin felt wonderful against my lips, I wanted to kiss her to see how her lips would feel, but I was forbidden to do it until the day of our wedding and for her I would definitely wait, no matter how painful it was. Daiki walked over and threw his arm over my shoulder as Miu held on to my other hand and we made our way into the school, aside from the two of them, few teachers and the people assigned to protect me, no one here knew I was the third prince, but none the less I was still popular, because of my looks and my grade as the top scorer in the country when it came to the high school level and also of course because of the company I kept, everyone knew who Daiki was because he was the only son to be born to the Governor out of the seven children he had and everyone knew who Miu was because she was a daughter of the high priestess but they couldn''t really understand our connection, but it made my life better so it wasn''t a bother. By the time we had reached our class and taken our seats at the front of the class the bell wrung and another one of my normal school days began. Lock Down My day started like any other, I was awoken by my mother, took my time to get up before preparing for school, I ate breakfast in the company of my mother and my head guard, I kissed my mother good bye and headed to school, as always I passed the palace but tried to ignore it, then when I reached the school my best friend and bride to be were waiting on me with smiles on their faces that made my day a little better and soon we were sitting in our first class taking notes. I listened to the teacher as he spoke in a fast tone probably trying to throw off the students of class S but to most of us he was talking slow so it was no trouble, I glanced out the window to see the sun shinning down brighter than it normally did but for some reason it seemed like bad news, I shook it off and returned to my work, by the time the class had ended half of our note pad was filled, of course we were expected to be ahead of the other classes even class A but it seemed we were a term ahead of them which wasn''t really advised, but if our Teacher was working so hard to keep us ahead we had no complaints. The bell sounded for our break and I took my notepad for this class and locked it into my desk, Daiki and Miu waited on me to get up before we headed pout to the cafeteria, the line was a bit long but being the top three students of the school and country we were given special treatment and jumping the lines was one of those, which we were thankful for because from the halfway of the line wouldn''t be able to buy anything before the bell, we said nothing as we bought what we needed and made our way out of the cafeteria to return to our class. Unlike the other students that had to move about to go to the assigned classes for each subject, S class had one room they always used and so the teachers would have to find their way to us, we sat down eating in silence, Miu doing her best to eat small bites, because there were others in the class if it wasn''t so she would be stuffing her face without a care in the world and oddly that was one of the things I loved about her, she wasn''t afraid to show me the real her, that probably came from our years of being together but I still loved it. We finished eating, tossed our trash in the class in and pulled out our books for the next class, the teacher walked in and greeted us before immediately turning to the board and begun to write, when she was finished writing for a good ten minutes she stopped to explain everything she had written and when we all confirmed we understood she continued, she was everyone in Class S favorite teachers, she didn''t spend the whole class just spitting out words and expecting us to get it because we were class S but she took her time with us, I asked her once why she did it that way and she simply smiled at me and said "if all I did was read from a book without ensuring my students understood everything I thought, I would have failed as a Teacher and that would just make me feel horrible." I smiled remembering that and that made me work even faster, we sat in silence, continuing with our work, the sound of pen on paper was all that could be heard, the class was about to come to an end when I realized I would need a new notepad, the class kept it fully stocked at the back of the class, so I asked permission to get another one and was given a go ahead as the teacher paused and waited on me, I returned with a new one and some glue, sticking the older one on top of the current one and then moved to place back the glue when there was a knock on our class door, with a sigh the teacher got up and went to the door, she unlocked it and pulled it open only to be shoved to the floor when about ten men rushed into the class. I just stood at the back of the class watching as she scrambled to get up off the floor and ran to the desk, the men tried to grab her but she slammed her elbow into one of their faces, and in high heels threw herself into the air and kicked one of them in their solar plexus, this sent him backwards so she ran and jumped of his slumped form before the other men could grab her, she looked triumphant as she slammed her hand under the table and an alarm went off, one that would summon all the guards for the respective students in the class all children of government officials, high class family''s and in Miu and another girls case, daughters of the temple. We could hear the thundering foot steps of our protectors coming for us but I looked to the men who had entered the room they didn''t look panicked at all, in fact they moved calm as they slammed in the door and bolted it, everyone knew that couldn''t possibly keep our guards out, but one of the men moved forward with a large case raising it to the center of the door and pressing a button, everyone watched in horror as the case split in half and from it came a see through glass like material that started to spread over the door and once it was finished it began to spread to all the walls and windows of the class room, even the ceiling was covered.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. I looked over to the front when the teacher screamed, she started to fight her way through the men we could see she was trying to get to the button, but just as she was about to reach one of the men called out to her and just as she stopped in her tracks I felt my heart stop, the man that called her stood holding Miu with a gun pointed at her head "teach I commend you on your actions to try and save your students but if you don''t move away from that box, this young lady would see the after life long before her mother the High Priestess, now unless you don''t want to be blamed for her death, come over to me." My eyes darted to the teacher who had anger written all over her face, but none the less she turned around and made her way to the man only to be grabbed by two men who forced her hands behind her back and placed a small orb against her skin, the minute it touched the orb swelled and swallowed her hand up to her wrist and just like that she fell back falling onto her ass, she looked surprised, but didn''t have time to react as they did the same with her feet, one of the men took a sliver strip and placed it on her lips and soon her mouth was locked off keeping her quiet, they shoved her desk aside and placed her down to lie on her stomach, where she stayed motionless. The men seemed pleased with themselves as they turned to us, the man with the gun to Miu''s head called out "okay kids, now that your teacher is like that you can clearly see I''m not messing around, so one by one I want you to make your way to the front of the class, starting with you." he said as he pointed at me, I looked at him and then Miu who shook her head she was about to speak when he flipped the gun and slammed it on her head, a loud cry erupted from the class mine was the loudest, the man held her close and squeezed her neck "I won''t ask you again." It was as if my body moved on it''s own and I found myself making my way to the front of the class, I stood in front of him and within a second he had moved Miu to the side and used his knee to hit me in my solar plexus which sent me to the ground gasping for air, I heard Miu scream as she tried to get away from the man to come to me only to receive a slap across her face, I moved to push myself up only to be grabbed by two men and forced down on the floor, they held my hands together behind my back and instead of using the orb that they used on the teacher, they locked my arms together using thick steel cuffs, that hurt like hell. They pulled me off the floor and dragged me across the room, Miu was screaming the room down and once again the man slapped her across her face causing her to fall to the ground, I cried out only to be hit in my stomach once again only this time with the back of a very large gun, causing me to choke on the sudden air that burst from my lungs, I felt my body slump down against a wall they had placed me against, I watched as the man pulled Miu off the ground and held her against him again "now unless you want to end up like the both of them I suggest you all do as I say, so move it." It wasn''t long before all the students were cuffed and placed on the side of the room where I was, without realizing it I was leaning on Daiki as I looked across the room at Miu who laid on the ground her hands cuffed and her eyes closed as she slept, I felt a bit happy to see that she wouldn''t suffer any longer, watching her made me feel drowsy and my head fell into Daiki''s lap who yelped and looked down at me with worry, I wanted to calm him down so I gave him a crooked smile which for some reason made him even more panicked and that drew the attention of the men. The one that seemed to be in charge made his way across the room, shoving students aside he reached and grabbed me up from the ground and dragged me across the room putting me to kneel in the middle, he grabbed my face and looked me in my eyes "you seemed very attached to the little priestess, so I want you to kneel here in silence and stay awake, the second I see you drifting off or falling or doing anything but kneeling here in silence she is going to be awoken with a bullet to her knee, okay?" I nodded and he smiled before releasing my face and making his way back to his men. I knelled in silence as he asked,I felt tired and I was in pain but I would do as he asked the lest thing I wanted was for Miu to be hurt any further because of me, I wanted her to remain in her peaceful sleep until this whole ordeal had ended, so I would hold out no matter what, I lowered my head focused on the ground this would keep me from getting dizzy. We heard the sound of a phone going off and one of the men answered "Oh I''m happy to see that you finally called us, I was wondering how long it would take for you to get onto us, I was really about to start shooting all of these beautiful children with bright futures ahead of them, thank god you called before that, but that aside I have a few demands to make and if you can''t do what I want, I will start killing them, starting with the Daughter of the High Priestess." Speak The Truth I had no idea how much time had passed, but my knees were numb, my body was shaking, I was breathing raggedly, and sweat was pouring down my skin, I felt dizzy and sick to my stomach but I forced myself to keep going, I looked to the side and Miu was still asleep, I looked the other way to see Daiki and the other student''s watching me with anger in their eyes, I made an attempt at a smile but it turned into a grimace, my body shifted on it''s own and I almost fell but I pulled myself back and bit into my lip. I heard someone from the group stand up and looked to see Daiki staring down the men the main man walked over to him "You got something to say shrimp?" "That''s enough, you''ve had him that way for more than five hours, his body is fatigued he''ll collapse soon and if he isn''t treated he would most likely die, I have no idea of your motives but I''m sure getting killed is not one of them." Daiki looked so angry and his voice commanded respect as he spoke, I''ve never seen him so determined to do something. The man just watched him for a few minutes before nodding "you''re right, I should try to keep my losses to a minimum, don''t worry I''ll let him rest now, so sit down, now." Daiki sat down and the man gave him one last look before turning on his heels and heading over to me, I looked at him as he stooped down to look me in my face, he gripped my jaw and looked me in my eyes "I just wanted to see how long you could last, you exceeded my expectations, kneeling here for nearly eight hours and I was going to let you rest in five minutes, that was going to be in five minutes at the start of another hour, but because your friend has a bi mouth I''m going to make you suffer for the next five minutes until the time is at it''s end, you have your friend to blame for what is about to happen to you." My eyes widened as he placed his hand on my heart and all I felt was pain, sheer pain, that had me screaming like I was being butchered, I felt as if my flesh was being ripped from my bones, my bones were breaking and being crumbled to nothing, my nerves shocked me and I felt that I could collapse any second but I didn''t, I prayed that I would black out but it never happened, I stayed conscious and well aware of every second of pain, I didn''t even realize he had moved his hand away but all I felt was pain and all I could do was scream until my voice gave out and then all I could do was whimper as the pain started to subside and the man released my face letting me drop to the floor, where I just laid there with spasms going through my body. "Now you look all of you, the next time one of you decides to tell me what to do and how I should survive this, I''ll make that boy scream ten times worse than he just did, so shut up and don''t try to play hero." I could see a look of horror on all the students faces and then I heard crying and it took everything for me to glance the other way, my screams had awaken Miu, she looked distraught as she cried and cried without stopping, she moved to try and get to me, only for the man to pick her up and walk across the room stepping over me, he placed her down next to the rest of them "Now I decided that hurting the young lady was too much, so now if any of you miss behave and think that you have a say in anything going on here then he will pay the consequences, so shut it." I watched him as he made his way across the room to his men that were just continuing with what they were doing as if nothing that just happened bothered them, I watched as he walked back over to me and knelled down by my side, I was just preparing for what he would do next, he grabbed my arm and I flinched, he took out a knife and used it to cut the sleeve of both my uniform jacket and shirt, he ripped it off completely, he squeezed my arm and I whimpered trying to pull away, only to panic more when he suddenly shoved a needle in my arm, I felt nothing at first but then it was as if my body was lit on fire, I wanted to scream but all hat came out was a horrible screeching sound, my back arched and I found myself kicking and trying to pull away, he let me go and just stared at me until the heat went away and I just laid there panting. I watched as he gripped my jacket and just ripped it open, he used his knife to rip the rest of the jacket off of me, when he was finished he loosed out my belt buckle and pulled my shirt from my pants and then got up and moved away from me, I laid there feeling numb and oddly well rested but I couldn''t find it in me to move, the whole room became quiet but I knew everyone was watching at me, I felt pathetic, I couldn''t turn towards them and try to bare a smile so instead I turned my back on them and remained silent, there was nothing to say. Time passed and I could hear the men speaking over the phone, making their demands, from what I heard the entire school had been cleared out, we were all that remained, of course our parents had been notified and that made it easier for them to get what they wanted, from what I could tell part of it was them trying to get some persons released from prison, maybe it was their family members, that made me think of my mom, maybe she was at my father''s home bombarding him to do something to get me out, maybe soon it would all be over and I would get to go home to my mother, she would hold me and sing me to sleep.Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. More time passed and I could hear them making demand after demand, they were getting everything they wanted, their list couldn''t be that long and maybe in an hour or two everyone would be able to go back to their parents, Miu''s mother must have been preparing a bath for her, one filled with senses that would wash her pain away, I smiled or at least I thought I did, everything was going to work out fine, is what I kept telling myself. I heard one of the men move suddenly and they all begun to speak loudly, the main man laughed "so that''s why it''s so easy to get what we want, I thought that girl was the most high ranked person in this room, but it turns out that one of the great hidden princes of our country is in this class right now, I wonder who It could be?" I watched as they walked over to the teacher who had been sitting there for the longest while with a blank look on her face, the main man pulled her up in the air like it was nothing "which one is it, tell me and you''ll be the first person we send out of the room when we leave." The teacher spat in his face "I would die before I tell you anything you shit eating scum!" she gritted her teeth and continued to stare at him with hate in her eyes. "I admire you, this whole time you''ve done nothing but fight us only stopping when one of their lives were at stake, you would make a great mother if you ever have children, so I''ll give you the chance but I can''t say the same for them." he threw her against the board but she refused to cry out, just slid down to the floor and continued to stare at them with a heated stare. He moved across the room to the other students and I heard them as they tried to scramble away while screaming and making other sounds of panic, I tried my best to move my body and was able to sit up facing in their direction, I watched as he pulled up a girl from the class and held her high pulling out his gun he said nothing as he shot her in her arm and caused an eruption of screams. He moved the gun to her leg "The prince whoever you are you have till the count of five to reveal yourself or this girl is going to be crippled for the rest of her life and it would be your fault, one, two, three." he counted as he looked around the group and continued counting in a slower pace "two..." before I knew it IO had shot up to my feet. "Stop!" he turned and looked at me with his brow arched I could feel my body shaking as I found myself speaking quieter "it''s me, I''m the prince you''re looking for just don''t hurt her any longer, please stop the bleeding." the man shook his head and moved to pull the trigger "wait what are you doing?!" The man looked back at me "I don''t believe you, maybe if you had someone confirm it then I would be happy to help keep her alive." I looked at the teacher "Tell him!" she looked at me and shook her head "Tell him or that girl dies and it would be your fault!" she shut her eyes. Her head nodded and she looked at him "That''s Prince Kiyoshi Arai, third Prince of the kingdom, son of King Arai and Lady Arai the king''s third wife!" "Hmm, I need something a bit more solid." I looked at him with wide eyes and then back at the teacher who had tears running down her face. "My pocket has the key for my hidden draw that''s under my desk, in their holds a file containing, all the information you would need about him, all carrying the signature of the king." mmm the man signaled to one of the other men to go ahead and do it, the person pulled the keys from her pocket and went under the desk, I heard a click and then they came forward with a file and handed it over to the main man who passed the girl to him as he went through the file. I watched a wicked smile spread across his face "so you speak the truth." he looked at the man "patch the girl up and make preparations for us to leave, our list has been cleared and now we have the leverage we wanted on them." he walked over to me and held my face "that was brave, very prince like, but it was stupid, your country would have been ten times safer if you had just allowed her to die, but now that we have you, no one''s safe, I''ll make ure to send your father a present as a show of thanks for putting you in this school." He walked past me and over to the table that had the phone that they were using to communicate to the outside with, he turned and faced me as he pressed a button and someones voice came through asking for the rest of his demands to which he responded with a chuckle "I have no further demands, I just want you to pass on a message to King Arai, let him know we found his son, Kiyoshi Arai I think his name was, tell him to take the tracers off of my people and the other packages let them go in peace, don''t try to retake them after I leave the school because the prince will be coming with us, if you try to stop us as we leave all you''ll find is his dead body, no we''ll be taking our leave." He hung up the phone and dropped it to the ground stepping on it, he walked over to me and grabbed my arm, I felt a sharp pain and then everything around me went black as I slipped into unconsciousness. Consequences I woke up when my head was banged against something metal, my eyes flew open and I let out a tight gasp in pain, I looked around to see people I hadn''t met in my life standing around me, I begun to panic and tried to get up but I was unable to move my arms and feet very far, I looked down to see they were bounded by leather cuffs that were attached chains, I started to trash and tried my best to get away only to stop when someone grabbed my face and slammed my head back on the metal table I was lying on, I yelped in pain and felt tears fill my eyes, the same person grabbed my jaw and made me look at them. My brown eyes met their dark orbs and I instantly recognized the person, it was the man that had came to our class and held all of us hostage, he was the one that beat our teacher, he was the one that threatened and Hurt Miu physically and there was nothing I could do about it, he was the man that made me kneel down for hours in order to keep Miu alive and then went on to cause me a pain I had never felt in my life when Daiki tried to stand up for me and then he was the person that forced me to reveal my true identity in order to save another student and just looking into his eyes made me feel frightened caused me to want to curl into a ball and never move. "It''s good to see you recognized me, I have to admit I was a bit worried that your memories would be toast, because one of the side effects for the drug I used to put you to sleep was memory loss and if you had lost your memory then I wouldn''t have been able to tell you what I wanted to." I watched as he pulled a chair and signal the other person''s to leave the room, I watched as they walked away and shut the door behind them then my eyes went back to the man that sat there staring at me intently. "My name is Katsu" I gave him a puzzling look why would he tell me his name was he insane, he laughed and shook his head "don''t give me such a strange look, I''m just telling you my name because we seem to be in a bit of a pickle, it seemed the dosage for the drug I gave you was a bit too high so you were asleep for a little over twelve hours and in that time a lot has happened, so I wanna tell you everything so as you understand fully why I''m about to do these things to you." I just stared at him with wide eyes and he sighed "Of course after I knocked you out we were able to get out the school and your friends were able to get back to their parents, of course that''s where everything took a turn for the worst." he paused for a second and I could see his body tensing until he released a sigh "you know I thought the king would be a smart and trustworthy person, I thought that he would be very protective of his children, but I guess I over estimated the man, apparently he doesn''t care for your life and well being, he doesn''t care if you live, if you die or if I use you as a way to get back at him for what he sis to my people." I gave him a puzzling look and he sighed "I honestly thought having you as a prisoner would bring security for my people but I was wrong, having you made everything worse than what it would be if we had escaped and left you with your friends, do you want me to tell you what happened to my people after we escaped safely?" I just stared at him not sure whether I should say yes or no, he stood up and went to a table, picked up a book and came back to me "It doesn''t matter if you answer or not because I''m going to tell you, so when I start to return the favor you won''t hate me after all the son must pay for the sins of the father, so what goes on after we''re finished talking you only have your father to blame for it." It was as if fear just shot through my body and froze me solid, I didn''t know my father personally but it said over the news that he was a brutal man when it came to punishing his citizens to keeps them in line so people would not repeat that person''s mistake, before I realized it tears had pooled in my eyes and was running down the side of my face, the man reached for my face and I moved to pull away only to have him grab my face, he was being more gentle than before but I felt more afraid of him than I did in that classroom, he reached his other hand and used it to wipe my tears giving me a sad smile. He moved away and just looked down at his lap "The reason we had held your class hostage in the first place was because we knew elite children of top families would be in there and your parents would do anything to get you back, we had no idea you were in there in fact no one even knew which school you were in, almost everything about the King''s first born Son and Daughter was public knowledge, their likes ,dislikes what work they were doing, where they were going and coming from even the poppers knew this but for the rest of you, all we ever knew was that you were born and that you were the king''s children but a few years after your birth you vanish like tin air and it''s like you don''t even exist, and I guess I understand that, your father wanted to give you a normal life a life you couldn''t get if you were known children of the king, but it was also stupid."Stolen story; please report. I just stared at him blankly with tears still running down the sides of my face "It was stupid to think that something wouldn''t happen to you if you were hidden, it put you in more danger because even if you were close to people they wouldn''t fight to protect you like they should, I truly feel sorry for you all but you most of all, you''re just really unfortunate." he chuckled and raised his head to look at me and the anger he had on his face made me shoot back only to be held in place by the chains "I just ran my mouth and didn''t tell you the reason we took your class hostage, but that aside, the reason was because your father had imprisoned some people I held dear to me and I wanted to get them back, I also wanted to be able to provide for them so they wouldn''t have to go into the public and be taken from me again, but like I said taking you only caused them pain, it brought them death, your father used us taking you as an excuse to show his true colors." "The laws in this country is beyond ridiculous, it''s as if we''re still living in the stone age while the rest of the world runs away from us, My brother was locked away because of a ridiculous law that said he couldn''t love who he wanted, it had to be of the opposite sex or he would be locked away, my brother thought that the person he loved and himself could be happy if it were only in secret, but someone told on him and then next day my brother was dragged down the streets in nothing but a ripped shirt and then thrown into a pen so he could be transported to the prison, the person he loved, my childhood friend was beaten and then taken away and I could''t do nothing but watch." "My sister was a kind curious girl who only loved to experience different things and the things she wanted to learn and devote herself to were seen as horrible things for a Lady to try and learn so she was sent away to some reform school for women like her and every time she wrote to me I just wanted to break into that place and take my sister away from there but once again I couldn''t and then her letters begun to get smaller and smaller until she just stopped writing to me all together, they broke my sister and then assigned her to be married off to someone neither of us knew." "So many of my friends, family and so many other people were locked away simply because the things they enjoyed to do was taboo, many good people suffered because of those stupid laws and all I wanted was to get them back, I needed to get them back, even if they had to stay hidden for the rest of their lives I would have preferred to have them by my side happy and healthy." I could hear the pain in his voice as he spoke "I arranged for them to be released and sent to places where we would be able to pick them up, I arranged for money to be dropped at certain locations for food clothing and everything was going so well until I got cocky and told them I had you, they let us get away and when we reached, no one else came then I looked on the news and my heart stopped." "My sister, my baby sister a girl I''ve known since the day she was born, was stripped naked and thrown into the streets those people took advantage of her, she was beaten and raped and no one tried to help her then they just left her in the streets to die, my brother was treated much worse than that, someone actually posted a video of him being beaten to death, I could still hear his screams and I could do nothing about it, do I even have to tell you what happened to the rest of the people I wanted to save, one of us was able to get to my sister but now she''s nothing but an empty shell, just sitting in a corner of her room saying and doing nothing!" I watched as he dropped to the ground and started sobbing, I just stared at hi unable to do or say anything, but I understood, I wouldn''t be leaving this room alive and my death was going to be painful. All I could think was that I didn''t want to suffer, I didn''t want to feel pain, I didn''t want to die, I didn''t want the blame for what these people did to his people, I didn''t want to be blamed for the actions of my father, I just wanted to go home to my mother and forget this ever happened, my body moved on it''s own, the tears poured down my face and I sobbed as I begged him to forgive them, I begged him to not hurt me I screamed that I wanted to go home, that I wouldn''t tell anyone anything about him, where he was, who he was what he looked like, I told him I would forget everything, but he just stood up held me face and whispered that it was too late and I had to face the consequences and all I could do was cry. Scream It hurt''s, make it stop, please it hurt''s... No more, I can''t take anymore, it''s too much Please, stop! My eyes flew open, my heart was racing, my shet was heaving, my body was covered in sweat, I jumped up only to feel something hook my kneck and made my body slam back down, I felt myself choking for air, I wanted to throw up, I trashed and trashed as my body fought to take in air, my eyesight began to fade and all I could hear was the pounding of my heart, my fingers began to go numb and soon I wasn''t able to move, I was going to die after everything I just went through. That was what I though before I felt someone''s hands on me, no it wasn[''t just one person it was too many, I felt hands all over my body, I wanted to make them move to stop touching me but all I could do was lay there, I felt their hand on my face and then I felt a tug something was pulled from my throat and my body moved on it''s own I jolted forward and acid rushed from my stomach straight up my throught and I vomitted everything I had in my stomach, even when it was empty I was still gagging. I started to suck in as much air as I could, my body was sking and sweat was pouring from my pores, I blinked a few times and my vision came back, my skin was no longer numb and I began to hear more than my heartheart pounding, I looked around to see people watching me, one of them stepped forward asking if I was okay, but I couldn''t feel his concern all I felt was fear, so Ishot back only to be yanked on I looked down to see wires and tubes going into my arms, I screamed and yanked on them pulling all out, it hurt so I screamed loudly. I heard footsteps and looked to see all off them coming towards me and it only sent me into a frenzy so much so that I moved back to get away from them only to fall of the bed and hit my head, I groaned as my vision started to fade and the last thing I heard was my mother calling my name. **** I was awoken by the sound of someone singing, a gentle voice, I felt delicate fingers run their way through my hair and I felt so calm, I just wanted to drift off back to sleep but I couldn''t now when my memory of those people surrounding me came to mind, I immediately jumped up and looked around frantically, I was no longer in that room, it was small the walls were white and the bed I was on looked like a hospital bed, but this room was grand it was maybe three times the size of that room, the walls were designed with gold and red flowers, the bed I was on sat in the middle of the room with a canopy hanging over it, there was way more furniture in this room than the one I had originally woken up in. And instead of having a lot of people standing around me, I looked behind me to see my mother sitting on the bed with a smile on her face, I felt tears well up in my eyes and then I was jumping into her arms, I held on to her as tight as I could and she returned the gesture, tears poured down my face and I sobbed, I heard her sniffle before breaking out into a sob as well, I didn''t want to let her go I feared that if I did I would go back to that place with that man and he would... I felt my body go fridged and my eyes widened, everything that happened begun to flash through my mind and I begun to scream holding onto my head, I could feel all of it, my body hurt, everything hurt, I felt my mother touch my face and raise my head to look at her, but it was as if something nasty crawled on my skin, I wanted it off, so I shoved her away and moved back into a corner, i gasped for air as I held my pounding chest, I curled in on myslef hiding my face and blocking out my mother''s worried voice. I just wanted her to be quiet to stop calling my name, to stop reaching for me, I felt her hand bruh my hear and the next thing I knew I had slapped her hand away "Don''t touch me!" she backed away and looked at me with wide eyes, she opened her mouth to tell me something but I couldn''t bear to hear her "Shut up!" I heaved for air as mychest tightened "Shut up, just leave me alone, don''t come near me, don''t you fucking touch me!" I continued to scream at her unable to control myself I told her nasty things and I could see the tears running down her face, but she most certanly wasnt crying because she was happy to see me.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. I couldn''t stand the look of hurt on her face so delt the last blaow "Get out!" her eyes widened and she turned her back on me and ran from the room, the way she looked at me hurt and there was no other way for me to get rid of the pain so I just screamed, I screamed through the tears, I screamed through the sobs, I screamed only stopping to gasp for air, my chest hurt and my body shook, my eyes were shut tight and my body suddenly felt damp but all I did was scream and scream till I couldn''t scream anymore. I had no idea how long I had screamed but I felt better my body felt light now all I wanted to do was sleep, I looked up and hissed when the light from the windows met my eyes, I forced myself to get up, my body felt weak but I pushed myself to make it to the windows and shut al the curtains until my room was nothing but darkness, when I was finished I made my way back to my bed and curled up on it pulling the comforter to cover me completely and then I fell asleep. **** I could feel hands roaming my skin and pain assaulting every part of my body, I could feel the tight grasp of hands around my neck and I gasped for air kicking out my feet as I tried to pry the hands from my neck, I felt tears run down my face prickling my sensitive skin, I could feel my body going limp from the lack of air, but then someone shouted my name and my body reacted on it''s own jolting me forward. My eyes opened and I continued gasping for air, I got on my knees as I felt like throwing up only to have the acid from my stomach burn it''s way up my throat and onto my bed, I gagged a few more times before sitting back as I was finally able to breath I looked around and jumped when I saw someone standing at the side of the bed watching me, my room was dark so I couldn''t recognize the person until they spoke in a soft voice. "Kiyoshi, baby are you okay?" my mother''s voice rang through the room and I grimaced at how loud she sounded even though I knew for a fact she was speaking in a soft voice. I looked away from her and simply nodded, she came around the bed and reached out her hand that was holding a glass of water, I carefully took the glass and made sure her hands didn''t brush mine, when I finally had the glass in my hand I guzzled down the water, I choked but nothing came up so I let out a sigh and handed the glass back to her, she collected it and just stood there string at me. I shifted and pulled up the collar of the loose sweater I was wearing and looked away, she seemed to understand and turned her back walking out the room and closing the door behind me, I went to lie down back but remembered I had vomited on the bed and my mother would probably send the servants in to replace the sheets. I turned putting my feet off the bed nearly pulling them up back when they touched the cold floor but refrained from doing so, I pushed my body up off the bed and nearly fell but leaned on the wall to support my weak legs, I slowly made my way across the room to a chair the size of a small bed that sat in the corner of the room, when I reached I dropped myself on to it pulling my feet off the ground, just as my room door opened and three servants came walking in. None of them looked at me as they were ordered by my mother because the last time one of them had came in I felt her just staring at me the entire time instead of doing her work and it made me sick to my stomach, I had thrown up on the floor, but some splashed on the clothes I had been wearing and I collapsed into a crying fit which my mother had to try and comfort me out of without touching me and it only upset me more so I spent a long time just crying. I shivered at the memory and pulled my feet up to my chest, I looked at how my arms easily wrapped around them and touched my sides, I had lost a lot of weight, but what else would be expected, after all I had been in a coma for a year. The day I arrived and ended up throwing a fit at my mother, the Queen herself had came to my room, which I learned was now in the palace, where the king had moved all his wives and children after my kidnapping. I learned that they had found me a few days after my kidnapping, she refused to tell me how I was found but I guessed I must have looked horrible with the way my mother reacted, the man that had taken me, Katsu, had killed himself just before they arrived and I was rushed to the hospital and they barely managed to keep me alive, inducing my coma to save my life but they hadn''t expected it to last that long. I was told that when I finally woke up I was a mess and they decided that while I was unconscious they would move me to the Palace as to not cause me any panic, so I woke up here and since then it''s been a little over a month, a fact that I knew only because my mother would remind me of the days once in a while, not that it would do me any good, I had no plans to leave the room, even though my mother had brought in a wheelchair and tried to encourage me to get in it. I felt someone''s eyes on me and looked to see one of the maids who quickly looked away when I scowled at her, they were finished with my bed and picked up everything quickly scurrying out the room, I tried to move my feet so I could get back to my bed and sleep but I couldn''t, they seemed to me stuck, so I sighed and shifted into a comfortable position, I looked around the room for a few minutes, until my eyes grew tired and I was slipping into slumber one that wouldn''t be very peaceful for me.