As the kings and queens sat at the table to talk of peace, the differences between the kingdoms were visably significant.

The Kasai King, his redish-greying hair cut short and (naturally) spiked up to show his fiery temper. His wife, an elegant, green eyed and orange haired woman, had her hair long and put up in a sharp bun while two lose strands shaped her face. While the king had a sharp chin and broad physique, his wife had a petite frame and soft face. Both of them were tanner than the other royals.

The Kūki King had a soft expression adorning his face. He and his redheaded wife were somewhat opposite. His hair was long and white, while hers was short and red. Her red, curly hair framed her pale face and yellowish eyes. Her husband, having blue eyes, looked as if he should be a very serious and harmful character, but his expression said otherwise.

The Chikyū King had a more hardened complextion. He and his wife both looked business ready. Their hair was cut short, the King's brown hair slicked back and his wife's hair ending at her chin. Both had no emotion in their green eyes, unless giving loving looks toward eachother. They had yet to smile.

The Mizu King had a less serious expression on his face. In fact, his blue eyes were quite relaxed. His wife, on the other hand, slapped his hand and glared at him with her purple eyes. Both had long, blue hair. The king, begrudgingly, sat up straighter and waited for the meeting to commence. His wife grinned in satisfaction.
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Dansu, a firey redhead, sat next to the blue haired princess and the yellow eyed princess. She grew aggrivated and looked at her brother for... something before grumbling under her breath about how stupid this was. One of the servants entered the room from the peace treaty room. Dansu looked up as she knew this servant and a hopeful look adorned her expression. The servant said "the peace treaty has started. The kings asked me to send you all this message: If you princesses and princes do not talk, then the peace treaty will commence and you may not like the consequences." Dansu, hoping for good news, glared angrily. "This is a load of-" the servant looked at Dansu. "Also, Master Kasai said if Dansu does not participate, then she is not to have a choice in training with the Master." Dansu's expression grew angrier, but she stayed quiet.

Yawakara, nicknamed Waki, watched as the servant went back into the peace meeting room. Waki shrugged and stood to his feet, walking over to the girls. He smiled sheepishly and said to them, "Hello, I'm Yawakara Chikyū, but you can call me Waki."

Dansu looked at him and rose her eyebrow. She stood from her seat and said "Dansu Kasai." She walked passed him and leaned against the adjascent wall to the peace meeting. Waki shrugged it off and smiled at the other girls. He saw the small, yellow eyed girl and he suddenly had a small interest for the tiny girl. He didn't know why, but he did.

Dansu looked over at all the princes, except her brother, and sighed. None of them looked as interesting as Mother lead on. Well, maybe the blue-nette, but she had a feeling that he wasn't 'nice' like Waki made himself out to be.

Karou sat in her seat, eyes downcast as she struggled not to fidget. To keep from doing so she had her hands clasped firmly in her lap though she noticed they trembled ever so slightly. She couldn't help it though. Here she was, in a room with seven other people including her brother but she knew she would receive no comfort from him.

She raised her eyes slightly when she noticed the red-headed girl that had been seated next to her stood up. She soon wished she hadn't looked up for she saw that the prince who had introduced himself as Waki was now looking at her.

A fiery blush immediately coated her cheeks and she hurriedly looked down again, hiding her eyes behind her bangs.

Ren smiled at the prince who came over to the princesses. She stood up and did a slight curtsy, "Pleased to meet your acquaintance Waki. My name is Ren Mizu." She said holding her hand out to greet him. She has been observing the others around. 'Everyone seems to have very colorful personalities, it will be fun to become friends with all of them although I would rather not marry at my age to someone that I don't know.' Ren thought as she continued smiling happily, observing everything in the area.

Waki took his eyes away from the blushing princess and smiled softly at Ren. "It is also nice to meet you, Ren. You seem like a very nice girl." He bowed politely before whispering in her ear "do you know the girl who is blushing? I'd like to get her name." He stood back and said "I mean, I'm so sorry for disrespecting you. I didn't mean too. I'm sorry if I hurt you. Extremely sorry."

For his part, Keith was fine sitting where he was. It'd be so much more enjoyable to watch how things played out between all the actors. But if he didn't take active part, he would be left with the actress nobody else desired. Judging by the range of faces, that was a toss-up between Dansu and the Chikyū girl. Not that Chikyū was hideous or anything. If she could just push a smile onto her face, she'd be radiant. That was just it, though; the girl looked like she was at a funeral.

Well, maybe that wasn't far from the truth. They were all put in here to die together, two-by-two. And if Keith was going to die, he'd have an absolutely gorgeous girl to do it with. He stood up from his chair and approached the girl with brown hair, green eyes, and a face as hard as a drill sergeant.

"Can you smile? Just once for a few seconds, that's all I ask. I want to see what you look like as a girl instead of a soldier."

Utsu:

Looking at the young man right in front of me, giving him a look as I think of how to send him onto the floor. But cosidering our current position in terms of militia, it would be unwise to initiate war right now. I give a very slight upturn of the lips fir a splitsecond, and I ask, "Happy?" with no emotion in the word. I look at all the others, either naive cowards or unable to accept the grim.

Treiko:

I grin looking at the princesses, and walk over to the one
with red hair and green eyes. "I suppose you'll do, my little rose," I chuckle as I reach my hand towards her cheek, glancing at all the princesses in a way some would call 'disgusting'.

"Nope. If you start practicing for an hour every night, we can try that again in a month. Thanks anyway, Chikyū." Keith gave her a small bow to meet etiquette's demand, then turned away. Next on the list was Kūki, the blusher. She was beautiful without a doubt, and she acted cute enough to make an ordinary man blush; however, he couldn't think of her as a Queen and wife. She was more like the girl to flirt with at a ball. Still, no reason to pass up this dance. Uh, chance.

He paused a moment to watch Prince Blueberry approach his sister. Keith gave the arrogant lech a glare, but left him be. He was trying to dominate Dansu, and Flame knows that would earn him, if not physical injury, an earful of appropriate insults. He hoped she screamed them clearly into his ear--leave the little sod with an earache or, better yet, headache for being such a snob.

Still, Keith had his own work to do. He turned back to face the Princess of the Wind. For this one, he wanted to try something fun. He took a moment to prepare his face, then put on the smolder. "Fair maiden with beautiful, golden eyes, I know not if it was fate or destiny that brought us here, but may I just say," Keith opened his mouth in a wide grin, "hey. Name's Keith Kasai."

Utsu:

Sighing deliberately loud enough for the red-haired idiot to hear, I mutter inaudibly as I shuffle past him, making an effort to jab my elbow into his side lightly, and see the other red-haired young man, prince of Kūki, who hopefully is the opposite of the other red-haired man. I have no wish for marriage but if I must I wish to wed someone at least slightly tolerable. Kūki is a place known to care for their kingdom, so I figure this prince may be tolerable and not a selfish brat like the prince of Kasai seems to be. I walk over to the hopefully friendlier prince and say, "Hello Prince Kūki," with a feeble attempt at a mirthful tone. I eye my brother talking to a girl with blue hair. Mizu probably.

The silent red haired prince watched the others carefully all the time having his hand close to his dagger in case someone attacked be it the other royals or an assassin who would strike at this perfect time. He notice one of the princess approching him so he hide the dagger away before he made a small smile. His parents had told him to not show his dark side so he hide by being rather silent. "Greeting princess of chikyu" he said to her

Utsu:

As I hear the returned greeting I catch a shining glint of what could be steel, but the glint quickly disappears. Instinctively I take a small step back, but give a small bow in apology. Nodding towards the princess of Kūki, I say, "I do not envy your sister," quite matter-of-factly. "Prince Kūki, I imagine you think that peace and a beautiful princess seem to be a good deal. All the princes seem to be searching for the princesses with beauty. A shame I do not share their beauty," I add, words that should have emotion behind them but from my mouth do not. I give a barely recognizable sigh, or possibly just a longer exhale.

Karou relaxed slightly as more and more of the others stood and spread out around the room, leaving her still sitting at the table. With everyone's attention and focus elsewhere, the short princess allowed herself to looked up cautiously. Her golden eyes swept around the room, taking in all of the different looks of the people surrounding her. It was hard to believe she was supposed to marry one of them. But, her betrothed didn't seem too bad just by how he had acted so far. But...some of the other princes made her slightly nervous.

But she shouldn't worry, there were more beautiful girls in the room than she so their attention would most likely be on them and not some shy, plain girl from the Air Kingdom. She snuck a peek over at her brother and saw that the Earth Princess had walked over and was talking to him. She felt a pang of worry, her brother wasn't the most social of people.

Her attention was distracted however when she noticed a shadow fall over her. She looked up, meeting the eyes of the Kasai prince. A blush immediately coated her cheeks at his words and she stammered, not having a clue what to do or say. "H-Hello, My name is K-Karou Kūki." She said in a quiet voice, shyly looking down.

There was just something about the girl that made Keith want to bully her. Just a little. "Kokoro Kūki? Or did I mishear you? Try looking up at me and stating your name firmly." Keith rolled his shoulders back and clasped his hands behind him, letting the front of his vest open a little wider. Because the girl was staring down already, the first thing she would see raising her eyes would be the tanned skin stretched over his abdominals. Then his chest, and then she would reach the self-assured grin on his face.

Samuel growled a little as he saw the fire prince trying to force himself toward his sister so gathering up quite a bit of cruelness he had. He put himself between them effectively moving the fire prince away from his little sister as he said "I would rather you back off from my sister, moron. I don't like it when someone forces themselves near my sister".

Utsu:

I give a shrug at the ignorance I receive, and stand away from everyone else, figuring the most desperate prince will eventually come over to me. I feel both irritation and respect towards the Kūki prince, irritation for acting like I don't exist and respect for defending his sister. I see similarities between us in this short time, we both don't like to mess around, we are both the mentally firmer of our siblings, and we both are irritated by the Kasai prince. He'd work, but he's not interested.

"What's this? Kūki actually wants to start a conflict? What's next, is Mizu going to face up to their murders?" Keith didn't like being interrupted, and the ginger opposite him angered him more than he should have. Keith couldn't say what it was, but he disliked the guy even before this meeting had started. "I was wondering how such a cute girl could have had so little experience with men, but I guess it's because you keep her all to yourself, huh?"

Samuel poked him in the chest and said "How are you any different to other men? She been abused and used by Men before because of who she is. You think a punk like you is any different to other men. I love my sister more then anything which honestly seems like a hell load better then you could ever do"

Keith scoffed at the sob story. "Please. You've never given another man the chance. If you're going to start throwing out lies, you should make sure they won't hurt your sister. You speak as though she were a broken doll. I can really see the love there," Keith declared with dripping sarcasm. He glanced back and forth between the two for a moment. "So you want to drive all men other than you away, right? Then she'd be all yours. You know what that makes you? A siscon."

Samuel was close to snapping at the fire prince unless someone stop him from knocking this guy out. Samuel instead revert slightly into his cruel ways and spoke in a dark and emotionless tone "You should shut your mouth Fire prince, unless you want these peace treaties to go up in Fire and air. She is not broken and I am not a siscon, What I want for her, is for her to find a man that actually deserves her. All your little flirts and teases with her make you pretty much one of the worst people to talk to her. I would trust the earth prince far more then I would trust you"

"I'll give you a tip, mate: stop lying to me. You don't want her to find a man. There's not a man in existence that matches whatever standard you've set up in your wonderfully airy brain. I'm going to step over to the wall here and watch, and I bet you a home-cooked meal that you can't stop yourself from confronting the other princes when they approach your sister." True to his word, Keith withdrew to the wall opposite his sister to watch the scene unfold.

"It is fine, I will let you know once I find out." Ren said before turning towards the two people fighting. "Will you two please not fight, if we are to make this treaty work it requires everyone to get along. I know brothers can be protective of sisters and everything but you need to get used to the idea that marriage is inevitable in our futures. It is just meant to be. So please start acting like the princes you were raised as so we can create peace." Ren said her voice charming, smooth, and meaningful. She looked at the two with her light blue eyes, no glare or anything, just a look of concern and desire for the kingdoms to be at peace.