Nathanniyelhs - Thank you and I'm glad to see you enjoyed it well. More secrets and truths will be shown later on the chapters so stay tone. It's fine with mistakes, English is not my first either but I'm learning.

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The Place Where I Belong

Chapter 1 : Faces of People

It been a few minutes since the two escaped with the former prince. They stopped somewhere in a forest to rest near a river. Hakuryuu went to get some water so Judal was left alone to watch over the sleeping blond.

"We're almost home." He said as he strokes the boy's left cheek. "You will be back to where you belong." The boy was still sleeping and hadn't woken up since Judal made the boy faint. The sleeping spell would take in for some time, it was good since this way the blond wouldn't struggle so much.

"I made a mistake that time. I'm not going to make the same mistake and let you leave."

Hakuryuu had come back from the river. He sat down and took a break as well, he stared at the boy that they had kidnapped from his own home. Hakuryuu knew about the boy but never met him, since people in the castle just love to gossip. Alibaba used to be a prince but an accident rubbed him of his parents and after that he heard the boy was wandering alone. To think this boy was the same one that Judal was looking for.

"How do you know about him? Because it seemed that he doesn't even know about you."

"It's because he forgotten all about me. He lost his memories about me and everybody. I should have gone and took him away when the king took him in but I couldn't since he always had a guard around him."

"You've known for a long time."

"Yes. I have been with Alibaba when we were just kids. We both didn't have parents and had to reply on each other. We build a place that we could always come back to but that night I made a mistake and he didn't come back."

"You must've have such a life."

"Why did you go against your family? I'm shocked that you agree with me."

"They are not my real family. My only family member that is left betrayed me and sided with them." Hakuryuu had anger in his eyes and the way he spoke as well. He had a lot of hate for the Kou Empire,

Judal was empress that a prince would go against his own family like that. You don't really see something like that so often. When Judal met the prince he had amazing skills and thought he could use him but never thought that the prince would agree.

Everybody knew the faces of the Kou Empire princes and that was the only reason he went up to the guy. Hakuryuu was a bit distance at first just like how Alibaba used to be when they were little but when he told him his plan the prince agrees since they had the same kind of a goal in mind, just his was getting his child hood friend back from those damn royal families.

"I think we should start heading back before it get late." Hakuryuu got up from the ground.

Judal did the same and picked the sleeping prince up and onto his back. He was still sleeping without making a sound, the sleeping smell would be gone but it would last until they go back, that was for sure so he didn't have to worry about a thing.

The blond was still light as he remembered him to bed. Well Alibaba was a bit older now but still he was the same boy he knew, he wasn't going let him leave his side ever again.

Alibaba's golden eyes opened and he found him inside a room that was unfamiliar but at the same time he felt like he had been here before. He saw he was laying on a huge bed; he then recalls what had happened. The boy that was looking for him had come for him and he wasn't alone, Aladdin had gotten knocked down.

"Aladdin?"

"Where am I?"

Alibaba got out of the bed and saw there was a door so he decided that he couldn't wait for somebody come in and save him. He wasn't some helpless princess like in those days that always needed a prince that needed saving, or the other way round, in this case a prince needing a knight to save him.

Once the door opened he looked around to see if anybody was there or not. He was lucky but something was strange why was it so quiet, he couldn't hear anything, not even a sound of a mouse.

"I don't have time to think about this." Alibaba hurried out the door, he saw some stairs but as he ran down he realize how slippery it was that he lost his balancing and fell, he closed his eyes for the impact but he didn't feel, he felt something or someone was carrying him. The blond opened his eyes and saw the very man that had stolen him away from the Kou Empire.

"I see making trouble the moment you wake up. You sure haven't changed one bit."

"Huh?" Alibaba was confused by Judal's words. It sounded like the boy knew him but Alibaba doesn't recall ever meeting this guy. Judal saw the confusion in Alibaba's face but he just smiled.

"Let me go." Alibaba said.

"I'm afraid I can't do that. You were thinking of escaping here but I can't do this."

"Why?" Alibaba asked. What did Alibaba deserve to get kidnapped by some unknown person?"

"Because you always belonged here with us."

"Us?"

"Yes. There are others who have missed you but I doubt that you even remember them let alone remember me. I can't blame you for not remember since it was partly my fault to begin with."

"I don't understand a thing you're saying."

"Now isn't the time to explain such things to you. I can't let you leave even if you did leave there is no way you can escape such a place on your own."

"What do you mean?"

"This place has many traps and doors that you won't know where everything is. This places changes the way everything is."

"What kind of place is this?"

"We are underground, we build this place so nobody would ever think of attacking us and also that we can live in peace without any troubles."

Judal introduced everybody to Alibaba and they greeted him like they knew him but Alibaba couldn't recognize a single face. They spoke to him like they were close. Did he know these people? Even so his mind when blank.

And then he came face to face with Hakuryuu the picture of the boy he had found in the library, in fact he still had his picture in his pocket. He was sure the guy was part of the royal family of the Kou Empire but what was he doing here and helping Judal but his questions wouldn't be answer and asking would be really hard.

Judal let Alibaba wander around the halls since he knew the fact that the blond couldn't escape and even if he did the black-haired boy would find a way to find him again.

Just like Judal had mention the place did change every time, sometimes he would get lost in their underground home since it was hard to know how everything worked. The blond would still wander around so he could find a clue to get out but it was impossible since the home didn't really have any route that will change

At one point he found himself in an unfamiliar room. A room that he has never been before, it had a lot of things in it and it was a bit messy but something was familiar about that room. As he wanders inside he saw an auburn book on the table in the room. Curious got hold of Alibaba and he went and picked the book up and he turned the first page and a picture dropped but the blond manage to catch it before it fell to the ground.

"Isn't this me?" There was a picture of him when he was a bit younger and there were two other kids with him. A boy and a girl but he couldn't recall who they were.

The blond wanted to know more but then he heard footsteps and voices.

"Alibaba, where are you?" It was Judal's voice, it looked like he had been looking for him. The blond didn't have time to read the book. The door to the room opened but before that the blond took the picture and hid it inside his pocket.

"There you are." Judal smiled. "I'm sure you're a hungry so let's go have something to eat." Judal took hold of the blond's hand and dragged him to where the kitchen was.

Aladdin was still blaming himself for the events that had happened. He shouldn't have let his guard up and because of it Alibaba was taken. He was sure he could take care of it and protect his best friend but it didn't go that way. When Kouha explained to him about Hakuryuu he was a bit confused to why a prince would turn their back on his own people and kidnap somebody that had nothing to with him.

Kouha had explained to Aladdin that Alibaba and Hakuryuu have never met yet the kidnapped him. Plus, the black-haired boy seemed to know of Alibaba.

"You look like you're thinking about Alibaba again."

"I can't help it since it was my fault."

"Don't blame yourself because I am sure in fact that he wouldn't like it." Aladdin was still giving that sad look that it was making Kouha really mad that he took his right hand and hit it on top of the blue-haired boy and which he winced in pain.

"What's the big idea?" He glared at the prince.

"I am sure in fact that Alibaba would have done the same thing." Kouha wasn't wrong and he was right so Aladdin slapped himself on the face.

"Sorry about that." He said getting himself back to his regular self.

"I've been thinking about something that is related to Alibaba's kidnapping."

"What's that?" Aladdin asked.

"Maybe the boy did really know Alibaba."

"What makes you say that?" Aladdin asked, he was unsure where Kouha was getting at.

"We both know Alibaba but we don't fully know him. We don't know about he used to live like and the friends he made and so on."

"But Alibaba didn't seem to recognized that guy at all."

"When do you think it was the last time he saw the guy or maybe I'm just making this up but maybe he lost his memories of that time with him."

Kouha made a good point but still why result to kidnap instead of going straight to him and saying they used to be friends or something. Anyway when he gets better he would go looking for the former prince. They had sent guards but they weren't able to find Alibaba.

Ren Hakuei was in her room doing some paperwork. She couldn't concern on her work ever since that meeting they had. Kouha had mention that Hakuryuu was part of it, her younger and real brother. She couldn't believe how much that boy had changed, maybe he she had done what a sister would do and help her brother somehow so he couldn't have turn against them.

"I'm a failure as a sister. If father, mother even my brothers were here I'm sure they could have done a much better job then I could."

Hakuei's father and two older brothers had died when they had gone to war to save their people and that left Hakuryuu, herself and their only mother but shortly after their mother got an illness and died as well leaving only the two sibling alone.

Hakuryuu said he was leaving the country, that time Hakuei should have stopped her younger brother in way that he would stay but he wouldn't listen instead he got angry at her for siding with Kouen. Hakuryuu left and to think he would come back and do something horrible.

"What should I do?"

"Hakuei." Ren Koumei entered the room. He has been worried about Hakuei ever since they heard the news about Hakuryuu and he was sure she would be here worrying about her younger brother then doing her work.

"What are you doing here?" Hakuei asked.

"I was right to come see you." Koumei saw the work she had been doing that was untouched. It was just like last time when she had an argument with her younger brother.

"You need to take a break." He said. "I see that you can't do any work of now." Koumei was right about that but she didn't move. Koumei grabbed Hakuei and helped her to her room so she could rest.

"She should say when she needs help."