DISCALIMER I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM

Rintaro Hinta was looking himself in a mirror as he adjusted his bowtie and dusted off his tux jacket one last time in a hotel bathroom.

"Darling, are you ready?" Miwa asked as he came up behind him dressed in an elegant dress. She glanced past him into the mirror at her own reflection.

"I think so," Rintaro said sounding nervous, "I hate these things, I always feel out of place and that everyone's judging me, that I don't belong at a place like that."

"Oh you're making a big deal about nothing," Miwa assured him, "You'll be fine. You want to know how I know? Because I know what a great man you are and can adapt to almost anything. Besides this silent auction is all for a good cause."

"Thanks," said Rintaro, "Well let's get going. You know how Italy traffic is."

"Mmm-hmm," Miwa said, giving Rintaro a quick kiss before the two walked out of their hotel room.


"So what do you think you'll want to bid on at this thing?" Rintaro asked as they drove through down town Rome.

"I'm not sure, I'm thinking some art work. I like this one portrait of an old time princess. She almost looks like Ema!" said Miwa looking over a brouchure of the charity auction they were on their way to.

"Hmm?" Rintaro said casting a glance at brouchure himself, "I guess she does a little."

"I could see betting on this and sending it to Ema. She'd like it I think. She already is the family's princess as it is," said Miwa blushing.

"That's true," said Rintaro, "Who donated that picture anyway?"

"Oh it says here it, along with a lot of other pieces up for auction are from the small country of Elence," Miwa read from the brochure.

"Elence?" Rintaro said in slight surprise and sounding a little nervous.

"Mmm-hmm, they even said they have a special guest from the country there as a VIP," said Miwa, not noticing her husband's nervous face.

"Do they say who the special guest is?" Rintaro asked.

"No, I guess they're saving it for a surprise," said Miwa.

"Hmm," Rintaro muttered as he tried to focus on his driving.

Soon the couple finally arrived in front of huge art museum where several other people were arriving as well, walking down a big red carpet to enter the building.

"This looks exciting, we haven't got to do things like this much since we got married," said Miwa as the two walked down the red carpet and entered the museum, already full of guests walking around and looking at the different art exhibits up for bid.

"Miwa, Miwa!" the two heard someone calling over to them.

"Aniko! I didn't realized you were here in Rome too!" Miwa said as she hurried over to her friend and began to socialize with some of the other guests. Rintaro did her best to keep up with her, while also trying to stop and take a good look at some of the art works.

He stopped when he saw a particular picture of a big tree in full blossom.

"Maebe Trees, and a spring one none the less. I haven't these in a long time," he said under his breath.

"What did you say dear?" Miwa asked.

"I was just admiring these trees from Elence, Maebes, they're really unique," Rintaro explained, "depending what time of year you plant it, their blossoms will be a certain color. The ones in here, the light pink ones are a result from the seeds being planted in spring times."

"Oh, interesting," said Miwa, "Pretty. Maybe you should bid on this picture."

"Uh, no, that's alright," Rintaro said as he walked away from the picture as fast as he could.

"Dear?" Miwa said following after him concern.

"Hey look at this vase, it's beautiful huh?" Rintaro said looking at another piece.

"Sure is," Miwa said, deciding to try and put her husband's odd behavior over the picture of the tree.

The two kept mingling and admiring the art work through out the rest of the evening, even managing to bid on the picture for Ema and even a few other pieces that really caught their interest.

Soon everyone could hear the announcer over several loud speakers calling everyone into main hallway.

"Thank you everyone for coming," the host said as he stood on a stage behind a glass podium talking into his mike, "I hope you all were able to enjoy yourselves and able to enjoy the art work up for bid. We will be announcing the winners here soon, but first, I'd like to take this chance to introduce you all to our special guest of honor. He is not only from the famous country of Elence, but he happens to be a member of the royal family."

"Hmm?" Rintaro spoke up. Miwa looked over him, once again looking slightly uncomfortable for some reason.

"Not only that, but he happens to be the crown heir to the throne itself," the announcer kept saying, "Please help me in welcome our honored guest, Lord Robert Spencer of Elence!"

"No way!" Rintaro said out loud, though it was hard to hear him over the thunderous applause as a middle age man, not much older than himself walked onto the stage.

"He's the heir? He's the fucking heir?! No way! Oh my god! It can't be! It just can't be!"

"Rintaro, what's wrong?" Miwa asked a little concern,

"I just, can't believe they have an actual heir to the throne here as a special guest," Rintaro said quickly.

"Yes, it is a little unusual they managed to get such a guest. I assume he's not that bad of a guy, like's not so stuck up and stuff," said Miwa.

"Yeah right!" Rintaro muttered.

"What?" Miwa asked.

"Thank you, thank you everyone," Lord Robert started to say, "I am truly honored to be here today, on behalf of my country and my uncle, King Stephon of Elence. who unfortunately couldn't be here in person today due to his declining health."

"Oh no," said Rintaro concern.

"Yeah, that is too bad huh?" Miwa said.

"Now let us get what you are all here for, to see who are the winners for tonight's auction," Lord Robert said as the different items and art works were brought up on stage.

"Darn, we didn't get the vase!" Miwa said after one of the other items they had betted on had been announced.

"Don't worry, it does a look a little tacky now that you really look at it," Rintaro tried to comfort his wife.

"Next up is something my uncle personally had put into this auction," Lord Robert suddenly said as the painting Miwa had originally had her eye on was rolled onto the stage, "This painting is of my uncle's late wife, Queen Wilma's grandmother at the age of 17."

"Ema's age," Miwa whispered giggling.

"Her appearance has been present in almost any female decedents up through Aunt Wilma. If you were to hang a picture of any lady from her family, you could most likely not be able to tell who was who. The king loved his wife so much and admired her beauty as well that he wanted to share such beauty with the world starting with the woman who started it all."

"That's so sweet," said Miwa.

"And the winner of the grand piece of art is," Lord Robert was handed an envelope and opened it, "Miwa Asahina for her bid of 26 million."

Miwa gasped.

"Oh Rintaro did you hear that? We won the painting!" she said with delight.

"That's great, I'm sure Ema will appreciate it," said Rintaro. He looked straight towards Lord Robert with both an uneasy and angry look.

"Dear, seriously, what is wrong? You seem so upset and annoyed ever since we first arrived," said Miwa.

"Well, you know what I said, I don't do well at these things," said Rintaro.

"Yes, but you've never been this cranky at one," said Miwa.

"I'm sorry, I'll try explaining everything later back at the hotel," said Rintaro.

"Alright," said Miwa confused.

Soon the auction was over and the guests went back to mingling and admiring the art works and pieces.

"Do you want to go now?" Miwa asked her husband.

"Sure, once we've taken care of your painting," said Rintaro, "who do we talk to?"

"Oh, one of the directors of the museum should be able to help us," said Miwa looking around. Then she noticed a certain person heading her way. "Honey, look, Lord Robert is heading our way."

"He's what?!" Rintaro shirked. He grab his wife's arm. "Come on let's get going, we can call the museum in the morning about the painting!"

"What?!" Miwa said, "Now what's wrong?"

"Let's just go! We have to go now!" Rintaro insisted.

"But honey," said Miwa said, right as both noticed Lord Robert closing in on them.

"Oh shit!" Rintaro muttered. He let go of his wife's arm and bolted away.

"I'll go get the car ready, met at the front asap!" He called out to her as he all but ran from Miwa as fast as he could.

"What the?!" Miwa said in confusion.

"Excuse me?" Lord Robert said as he approached Miwa.

"Oh, yes hello," said Miwa turning around and smiling politely at the man.

"You are Miwa Asahina right? The winner of the painting of my aunt's grandmother?" Lord Robert asked.

"Why yes, yes I am," Miwa said, "It's a pleasure to meet you. I love that painting. I actually bought it for my daughter, who actually looks a little like the woman in the painting."

"Oh really?" said Lord Robert, sounding a little amused, "She must be precious for you to spend 26 million on it for her."

"Oh yes, considering she's my only daughter out of 12 boys!" said Miwa.

"13 boys? Oh my!" said Lord Robert with a chuckle, "You and your husband have been busy!"

"Well, actually he's not their birth father, he's my boys stepfather and I'm actually his daughter's stepmother," said Miwa confessed.

"Oh I see, sorry," said Lord Robert, "was that your husband I saw running away when I was coming up by the way?"

"Yes, I don't know what's gotten into him exactly! He's been acting all nervous and on edge ever since we've arrived," said Miwa, "I mean, I know he's not really into this sort of thing, but I've never seen him like this."

"What does he do?" Lord Robert asked.

"Oh he's a famous adventurer, Rintaro Hinata," said Miwa.

"Rintaro Hinata?" Lord Robert said back, "That was Rintaro Hinata?" he asked pointing after the way Rintaro had run.

"Oh yes, you've heard of him?" Miwa asked.

"Yes, I'm familiar with the man," Lord Robert said, starting to sound a little annoyed, "So who's this daughter of yours you were talking about?"

"Oh her name's Ema," said Miwa as she pulled out her phone, "Here, want to see a picture of her." She flipped through her different pictures until she came to a single image of Ema, "Here she is. Isn't she just beautiful! I so love her!"

"Hmm," Lord Robert said as he looked at the phone. His eyes widen at her image, "This is Rintaro's daughter?"

"Oh yes, his pride and joy!" said Miwa.

"Yes, of course," said Rintaro, "so, who's the girl birthmother?"

"Mmm, well," Miwa sputtered, "This is a little personal, but Ema's actually Rintaro's adopted daughter. Her real parents died when she was a baby and he took her in since he was such a good friend of them."

"Oh I see, I'm sorry," said Lord Robert, "uh I don't mean to pry but who were your daughter's real parents' names?"

"Uh, Kenji and Yukie Nagami I believe," Miwa tried to recall.

"Kenji Nagami?!" Lord Robert shouted, "your daughter's real father was Kenji Nagami?!"

"Uh yes, did you know him too?" Miwa asked a little scared of the man's sudden outburst.

"I am familiar with the man," said Lord Robert, "Now you're certain Kenji Nagami was your daughter's birthfather?"

"Yes," said Miwa.

"And the mother's name was Yukie?" Lord Robert said.

"I'm pretty sure," said Miwa.

"Hmm, a little on the nose there," she heard Lord Robert mutter, "Uh, I have to actually go. Excuse me, enjoy your painting." He turned to leave but stop before he got too far, "Uh, one last question, what was your daughter's name again?"

"Oh, Ema," said Miwa.

"Ema?" Lord Robert said, "How do you spell that?"

"E-m-a," said Miwa confused.

"Huh, add an extra M to that you have the name Emma don't you?" Lord Robert asked.

"Uh I guess, I never thought about it," said Miwa.

"Yes, I guess that wouldn't be something you'd dwell on huh?" Lord Robert said as he bowed and walked away.

Miwa watched him walk away, more confused by her conversation with him than her husband's strange attitude. Suddenly being reminded of him, she headed to the exit to see if he was waiting for her.

Sure enough, Rintaro was sitting in their rental car, looking nervous.

"Hello dear," she said as she got in.

"Hi, ready to go?" Rintaro asked as he started up the car.

"Sure," said Miwa as she sat with her hands in laps trying to look calm.

"I was able to talk to someone in charge and got the info we'll need to send the painting home," said Rintaro.

"Oh good," Miwa smiled.

"Sorry I was acting a little weird back there, I'll explain later I promise," Rintaro assured his wife.

"That's fine, but believe it or not you weren't nearly as weird as Lord Robert's behavior," said Miwa, "especially when I brought you up and Ema."

"Wait, you told him about me and Ema?!" Rintaro said in shock.

"Well, I was explaining to him why I wanted the painting and we sort of got into conversation about you two. I actually brought up how Ema was adopted."

"You told him Ema was adopted?!" Rintaro said, getting more and more anxious, "You didn't saw anything about her real parents did you?!"

"Well, I did tell him their names," Miwa confused.

"Oh no!" Rintaro shouted as he slammed on the breaks to the car.

"Rintaro?!" Miwa said in confusion.

"I got to call home now! I got to make sure Ema's alright!" Rintaro said in a panic as he fiddled with his phone.

"Why wouldn't she? We spoke to her and the boys about three days and they all seemed fine! And besides it's like five am over there right now! Do you really want to risk waking everyone up?" Miwa said.

Rintaro took a deep breath as he tried to calm down, "Maye you're right. Maybe nothing will happen. I'll try calling them later when she and the others will are up. I just want to know for sure she's alright."

"Rintaro, let's just go back to the hotel, I think you have some serious explaining to do," Miwa said sternly.

"Yes dear, I do," Rintaro said as he started up the car and drove onward.


Lord Robert walked out of the back of the museum and straight to his waiting limo, not even looking towards his driver opening the door for him.

He also didn't really look at the man already sitting there. He waited until the car had started before he finally spoke.

"We may have a problem, Henry."

"Yeah you seem pretty anxious back there when you were talking to that one lady," said his companion, "Care to share?"

"We may found a so called link to the," he started talking a mocking baby tone, "long lost princess."

"Yeah?" Henry said, "What's that?"

"She may have had kid!" Robert shouted mad.

"What?" Henry said, "Oh shit!"

"No kidding! This could change everything! Everything! And right as the old fart is so close to death! I am so close to being king! Why did this have to happen now?! I haven't done all that work, gotten my hands dirty, to just let some dumb high school bimbo suddenly show up and ruin everything for me!"

"Relax, I'll handle it. Just tell me where she is and I'll take care of her for you," said Henry, "What do you want to do with her?"

"I want you to find her and bring her to Elence, I want to see her in person. Then we can decide if it's better to either kill her or keep her alive," Robert instructed.

"No problem, your wish is my command," said Henry.

"Just don't let Richard find out, if he does it'll really fuck things up!" Robert, "And I am not going to let anyone, Anyone! mess this up for me now! I am going to be king, one way or another! No matter what that old SOB says. Once he's dead, the throne will be mine and this possible bitch will not get in my way either, no matter who she is!"