I'll bet you were all shocked to see this? XD This is a one-shot fairy tale that came to me in a dream while sleeping over my friends house based on one of my favorite Grimm Fairytales a Princess in Disguise, and the dialect came from an old myth I read where a goddess said she was too inexperienced for sex and the dialect stuck in my head, I don't know, but it think it was a Mesopathamian myth or something, but anyway, this idea came to me in a dream and that combined with the emotional break down i had yesterday lead to the birth of this fic.

Yesterday, our dog Blaze passed away. Poor baby was ten years old and had only three legs from when he ran into my grandmother's car and he hadn't been eating for these last few days and wasn't as active as he used to me, and finally we took him to our neighbor who's a vet and he said Blaze has internal bleeding and probably had it for years from his wound but it didn't hit him until now, and anything they could've done would only last two more months and we didn't want him to be in pain. It was his time and he knew it, he kept going to his bush where he used to sleep and just lying there, but finally we had him put to sleep and as heartbreaking as it was, I know he's at peace, and though I miss him, I still have Rocky, our other dog who also knew it was coming and he's a sweety. I miss him, but i know he's in heaven playing with my first dog Sammy on all four legs, but I decided to write this fic for him.

And I'm very proud cause I wrote it in about five-seven hours with breaks for dinner and such in between and edited it in one so I'm very proud of myself.

Dedications: to my bubbala Blaze Reynolds, Rest in Peace baby. I love you.

Disclaimer: Yugi and Yami belong to Takehashi, and the fairy tale a Princess in Disguise in which this story is loosely based off of, (and i stress loosely) is one of the many awesome Fairy tales done my the Brothers Grimm that never achieved fame thanks to Disney, seriously check it out!

The Runaway Prince

It does not start with once upon a time, like most tales but, like most tales it starts with a death, a woman, and a King.

As it starts, there was once a Prince, who was the sweetest child there was to ever be born, and he was quite a beautiful child with bright eyes, rosy cheeks and his hair was the most unusual, for it was born with three colors: black like the night, red as roses for the tips, and bangs as gold as the sun. And it was that the prince had a mother who was the wife of a King, and she was so beautiful a woman that none on earth could find her equal, and like her son, her beautiful hair was of three colors. However, as it happened, the Queen fell ill. The King called for every doctor and physician to treat his wife but none could cure her of her ailment, and when it came that soon she would die, the Queen took her husband's hands and said "My King, I love you with all my heart," but her voice was low and sad with illness. "And though, I know you are a King and you will one day have to take another Queen, you must promise me that you will not marry her unless she is as beautiful as me and she has three colors in her hair."

No sooner had the King given this promise that she closed her eyes and died. So sad was the King that he vowed not to take another wife, he refused to be comforted, but as the years passed the counselors came to him and said "A King should not remain unmarried, a Kingdom needs a Queen."

At last, the King consented, but so determined was he to keep his promise to his dearly beloved wife, that he refused to marry all the women brought before him unless they were as beautiful as his wife and their hair was three colors. The Counselors sent messengers who searched and searched but none could find a woman as beautiful as the late Queen and even if they did, their hair was either red, or gold or black or brown, none had three colors in them. So the messengers returned without obtaining what they sought.

Now during this time, the Prince had been growing up, and even as a child had promised to be very beautiful just like his mother. While he grew he'd grown quite fond of playing games and so was given the name Yugi which means game. And while he had missed his mother very much, his father had been so sad and searching for a new bride, so the Prince had spent much time with the palace staff who loved him very deeply and cared for him as if they were his own. They had taught him how to cook and how to hunt and which plants could be used to eat, which to cook, which to heal, and which to harm, and how to stitch the holes in his clothes when he came in from the garden covered in mud. They'd taught him how to hunt and how to use a bow and all while he'd learned to outwit his opponents with the games. He played and learned how to read and write and how to learn from books and how to play chess, and all the while the Prince continued to grow until he was as beautiful as his dead mother, whose three colored hair he also shared.

Very soon, as it was when the counselors were called to report their failures, that the King noticed that his son had indeed grown very beautiful and how exactly he resembled his dead wife. At last the King said "Since there is not a woman who has enabled me to fulfill my promise to my wife, I will marry the Prince, for he is as beautiful as she and has three colors in his hair as she."

Now when the counselors heard of this, so shocked was their horror that they immediately protested and said "A King cannot marry his son!"

But the King protested and said "I will marry the Prince, for he fulfils my late wife's promise and he is a King's son. No other can be found to enable me to keep my promise."

Again the council protested and said "It is forbidden for a man to marry his child; nothing but evil will come of it and doom shall befall the Kingdom for such a sin."

The Prince, when the King had heard of his father's proposition, was greatly alarmed and said to his father. "Father, why do you want to marry me, for I may be a King's son but I am your son, you cannot marry me."

But the King would not listen and said. "My promise was to marry one who is as beautiful as my wife and has three colors in her hair. You are the splitting image of my late wife! There is no else who can match her and allow me to keep my promise!"

The Prince was greatly alarmed by his father's response and instead said "But Father, you promised my mother that you would marry a woman, for I am a boy not a woman, you cannot marry me."

The King grew angry as this and said. "I promised I would not take a Queen unless the chosen was as beautiful as my wife and had three colors in her hair; you are the only one in the whole world who is as beautiful as she and has three colors in his hair. There is no law that says a boy cannot be a Queen, as long as I am still King."

The more he saw how resolved the King was to carry out his intention, the more the Prince worried, but he hoped, however, to be able to save his father and himself from such ruin and disgrace. So the Prince cleverly said "Father, I may allow you to enable your promise to my mother and I may be a King's son, but I am also your son, but if you still wish to marry me than I also have a promise to make of you."

The Council was quite alarmed when the Prince said this but the King was quite pleased and said "Very well, tell me what it is you require, for no matter what it is I shall make sure that you have it."

The Prince smiled at this and said "Before we marry I require three coats that must be fit for the wealthiest prince, but one must be as golden as the sun, the second must be as silver as the moon and the third must be as glittering as the stars, and second I must have a mantle made of a thousand skins of the softest fur sewn together and every animal in the kingdom must give a piece of skin towards it." And so resolved was the King that he accepted the requests and set out to accomplish them.

"Uh-ah!" said the Prince. "I have asked for impossible things, now my father will never marry me and he will be forced to give up his wicked intentions."

And the council, so pleased by the Prince and his clever challenge, rejoiced and hoped that their King would give up on these quests and cease his horrible plan.

However, the King was not to be diverted from his purpose and set out his messengers to find the best and grandest weavers in all the land, and once they were found he brought them to his treasure drove and ordered them to melt the gold and silver and jewels and to weave them into threads which would then be used to make the three coats that would befit the beautiful prince: one was to be as golden as the sun, one as silver as the moon and the other as glittering as the stars. And so the weavers set to work melting and hammering the gold and silver and jewels and dying their fabrics in their colors and set to work making the Prince's coats. Then the King hired every hunter in the Kingdom and promised to reward them richly if they would go into the forests and kill one animal and brings home its skin, and when it was done he promised to reward them so if they would bring home a different animal than the ones already hunted until they could find no more kinds that had not been killed and the King ordered the furs to be sewn together into a mantle for the Prince.

When they were all finished the King went to the Prince's room and laid them out before him: a liquid gold velvet sewed into a frockcoat studded with bright buttons and appliquéd with blue and green flames that curled like peacock feathers and looked just like the sun; a shiny, silver silk decorated with black buttons and trimmed with white fur that shined just like the moon; a shiny obsidian frockcoat that glittered different colors when it moved, and had black, white, gold and silver crystals sewn into the back and down the train in different constellations, ripped ruffles of purples and red and blues along the sleeves and neck like the sunset falling into the starry night, and finally a large mantle sewn with perfect patches of softened fur in one-thousand colors from every kind of animal the Prince had ever seen. At the sight of them the Prince despaired.

"Tomorrow we shall marry," the King said and left the Prince to prepare. Knowing that there was no way to change his father's heart, the Prince took the three coats and ran down to the kitchens and said goodbye to the palace hands who'd been so good to him and told them he was running away. Though they were so sad to see their Prince leave they gave him a huge and wished him luck, and gave him three things: a crystal jug, an archer's bow, and a basket of threads and needles. And so the Prince took the items, said goodbye to his family, donned the fur mantle, stained his face and hands black with walnut juice and fled into the woods.

Now the Prince decided that he would not longer call himself a prince and decided he would be called Yugi. Yugi traveled all night and into the dawn until he was very far from home and came into the woods where he suddenly became very tired from his travels. Soon, Yugi found a huge tree whose inside was hollow and warm, and he crept inside, removed his night clothes and washed off the walnut juice, wrapped himself in the fur mantle and went to sleep. When he woke up again he decided to make the tree his home and set to work gathering food to eat, water to drink, and materials to make clothes to wear. He traveled until he found a river and filled the jug with the fresh water. He used the archers bow and after several tries he managed to kill a deer which he brought home and skinned and cooked its meat and stored the rest for later by burying it underground, and he soaked its fur and tanned its hide and used it to make a shirt and pants for himself using the basket of needles and threads.

And though Yugi worked very hard and his life in the woods was very lonely, he enjoyed it so. At night his fur mantle kept him warm, and his hallow tree kept him safe from predators. He would talk to the birds in the trees, eat the berries and vegetables that grew in the woods, and played with the small creatures that came to look upon him curiously, for he always wore his mantle and they thought him to be one of them. But Yugi's life was lonely and he missed his friends, the palace workers, who were so kind to him, and missed playing games with them and sometimes he missed them so much he cried himself to sleep, but he knew he could not go back to his Kingdom, or else his father would force them to marry.

Now while Yugi lived in the woods, there was a King, named Yami, of whom the woods belonged to and whose home was on the edge of the forest and because he loved the woods, and loved the animals that lived there so much he forbid anyone from hunting in the woods without his permission, but they could still gather the berries, pick the vegetables and get water from the streams, and wood from the trees. And as it was, when those who had permission to hunt in the Kings woods would go there, to pick the berries that grew on the bushes, or gather the vegetables, or fill their barrels with water from the stream, that more than once they would see the animals flocking and to their horror they would see a strange creature with fur from every kind of animal that had ever been seen. Sometimes they would follow it and see the creature shoot arrows from its fur to kill its prey, but they would also see him playing with the smaller animals, and so strange was the creature in the woods that the townsfolk would talk and rumors soon fell through the castle until even the King himself had heard tales of this creature.

Now the King of this forest was a very wise and kind but fierce King whom all his life he'd been raised by his father to rule and his mother to respect the natural world. He was a handsome King with strong eyes as red as the rose, sharp golden cheeks and his hair was like a crown of black and red fire and trimmed with gold. Though the King was kind and ruled his Kingdom justly, he was a lonely King who wished for a Queen to share his love of the forest and the Kingdom with, but there was no who satisfied him. Oh the council had brought many beautiful princesses before him but they all liked pretty dresses and jewels and did not like the forests of animals, or if they said they did the King could see that they were simply lying to please him, and so the King remained a lonely King, sharing his love with the creatures who lived in the forest. And so it happened that when the King heard of this strange creature who was larger than a wolf but smaller than a bear, and who had the fur of every animal in its pelt, and he set out into the forest with his hunters to find this creature.

Now Yugi had removed his mantle and went to the stream to clean his hands and face when he heard the sound of hounds, so overcome with terror was he, that he jumped into the river and hide in the reeds and watched. When the hounds had found his fur, they sniffed it but found not the creature it belonged to, and when the hunters and the King had found it, they too were baffled as to why this fur was here and not the creature, but so soft was the fur coat and so colorful from all the creatures who had contributed it to it that the King said. "What a beautiful fur this is, surely I cannot leave it here, so I shall take it with me to the castle and place it on my bed."

Now Yugi, who had heard everything from the reeds, had grown very fond of his mantle and did want to part with it so, thinking quickly, he swam to the side of the stream and grabbed his jug of water that he had been filling and uncorked the bottle then he swam to another side of the stream and threw the water so that it landed on the King, his hounds and his hunters. When they turned to see what had splashed them so, Yugi grabbed his fur mantle, threw it over himself, and ran into the woods.

The King had dropped the fur but he had heard the creature leave the water, but when he had turned to see the creature it had already donned its skin and fled into the forest before the King could follow. "Can this Rough-skinned creature remove its fur?" The King wondered.

The next day, the King returned to the woods with his hunters and his hounds and resolved to find Roughskin, as the creature was soon called, in the woods. Now Yugi was in the woods searching for his next meal and had killed a rabbit with his bow and arrow, but as he removed his mantle so he could skin the creature for its meat, he heard the hounds coming and so he abandoned his kill and hid in the thicket. When the hounds found the skin again they sniffed and sniffed but found not the creature it belonged to. Again, the King did not want to leave the fur behind and said "If Roughskin does not want its fur than I shall take it with me and use it for me bed."

When Yugi heard this he became very angry, for he was very fond of his fur coat and so he took his bow and he took his arrow and he fired it has far and as high as it could go and when the hounds heard it they took off after it and the hunters after the hounds. When the King had dropped the fur and turned to see the commotion, Yugi rushed from the thicket, grabbed his fur, put it on and rushed into the woods, but this time the King chased after him. "Come back Roughskin!" The King called but he would not and soon Yugi had escaped him by climbing into a tree before the King could catch him. When the King resolved to return with his hunters Roughskin was already gone.

"Can Roughskin take off his fur, but still run and climb?" The King wondered.

Finally on the third day, the King went back into the woods but this time he did not take his hunters or his hounds, instead he went on his own and resolved to find little Roughskin and bring him back to the palace. However, as he searched, Yugi was sitting on a stump fixing a hole in his clothes when he heard someone coming, and when he turned he saw the King had found him, so transfixed was the King with this strange creature with fur like every creature but a human face that he did not notice the fallen log in front of him. When the King stepped into the thicket, he stumbled over the log and cut his arm on the sharp branch. The King screamed in pain and tried to stop the bleeding but it would not. He had expected Roughskin to run away but instead he approached the King and from his fur he pulled a jug of water and poured it over the King's wound and then proceeded to use a needle and a thread to sew the King's wound as tightly as he could.

"Thank you," said the King, but Roughskin said nothing and instead he gathered his things and turned to run.

"Wait!" The King called for he did not have the strength to chase the creature, but he knew if he did not speak fast little Roughskin would runaway. Thinking quickly, the King said "I wanted to invite you to a festival at the palace tomorrow night."

"Festival?" said Roughskin.

"Yes," the King smiled "It will be three nights long, will you come?"

Roughskin said nothing, but nodded his head and escaped back into the forests. Though the King was sad to see him go, he looked at his wound and said. "Can Roughskin only take off his skin at night but still climb, trees, carry water and sew?" the King wondered but he smiled and rushed home to prepare a festival, hoping that Roughskin would come.

In his tree home, Yugi wanted so very much to go to the festival for he hadn't been to one in so long, so he threw off his mantle, washed the stains from his face and hands, and scrubbed and brushed his hair so his full beauty appeared in the night. He donned the gold frockcoat, and traveled down the path, where he left his mantle, and followed the company into the palace, where he presented himself as a visitor. No one recognized him as the creature they called Roughskin, and told the King of his arrival.

Now the King had hoped that Roughskin would come but when he heard of his new visitor his curiosity grew and he went to see him. When he saw him, he received him before anyone else could, offered his hand and asked "Will you dance with me little one?"

And Yugi said "I would like to very much."

And as they danced the King thought in his heart "My eyes have never seen anyone so beautiful before, but he seems so familiar."

Then the King asked "Do you like the forest my dear, for I do love it very much."

And Yugi said "Why yes, I love the woods very much, for I was raised to know which plants were used to cook, which to heal, and which could do harm, and where was safe and where was not, and how to hunt and how to play, so yes I love the forest very much."

The King read his eyes and could see that he was no lying in them, so he said "Indeed, where are you from, little one?" But the boy would not answer, instead when the dance had ended, he bowed to the King and before the King could look around he was gone. However, the King followed him and watched him flee into the woods and when he went after him all he could find was a beautiful shiny gold frockcoat with shiny buttons and blue and green flames curled about the trail like peacock feathers.

"Could he be Roughskin?" the King pondered. "Can Roughskin only take off his skin at night?" And the King took the coat and returned to the castle to plan the next day.

The next night, Yugi prepared for the festival just as before only this time he donned the silver coat with white fur on the cuffs and trim of his tail and traveled down the path where he left his mantle, and followed the company into the palace. Again the King was told of his arrival, and immediately he came to receive him, and did so with great pleasure. While the dancing continued the King kept him as his partner.

"I missed you, little one," said the King as they danced.

"Thank you," said Yugi.

"Who art though little one?" The King asked and Yugi said "I am but a child without father or mother."

"Then how is it you came to my castle?" The King asked.

"I came with the company," said Yugi.

"And do you like this Kingdom, little one?" asked the King.

"I like it very much" said Yugi. "It reminds me of my home, where the castle workers would cook me treats, and play gamed with me, and show me to hunt, and gather, and stitch and where I was very much loved and loved in return."

The King searched his eyes but again saw no lie in them so again he asked. "Indeed and where are you from, little one?" But once again Yugi did not answer, and when the ball ended he disappeared so quickly that the King had almost missed him leaving. Again, the King followed him into the woods but again lost him and found nothing but the beautiful silver coat trimmed with white fur that shinned liked the moon. Again, the King picked it up and wondered "Could he be Roughskin? He must only be able to take his skin off at night! Surely he has been cursed to remain a beast during the day!" The King concluded and took the coat back with him, determined not to lose Roughskin again.

On the night of the King's third ball, just as before Yugi prepared and donned his glittering coat of stars, and quickly he followed the company into the palace, where the King was graciously waiting to receive him, and once again they danced all night and when the songs changed neither would change their partner. And while they were dancing the King thought he had never seen so beautiful a creature in all his life and he asked "Tell me little one, what would you do if you had found a wounded man in the woods?"

Yugi was confused by his question and said, "I would pour water on the wound to keep it clean and then I would sew it tight so the bleeding would stop and it would heal."

"And tell me, what if it was a crime to hunt an animal in the woods?"

Again Yugi was confused but said. "I would go to the King who owned the woods and say, 'My King I love animals just as you, but I need to hunt for food, so I shall take only what I need and I shall used all the animals meat, and use its fur for clothes, and I would use its bones to make soup,' so nothing goes to waste."

"And if the King gave you his permission to hunt what would you do?" the King asked.

"I would take only what I need, take all the animals meat, use its fur for clothes and uses its bones to make soup" Yugi said.

Again the King read his eyes and could see no lie in them, but while Yugi spoke he did not see the King slipping a ring about his finger whose gem was so shiny and bright they say it was made from a fallen star and that it would shine even in the darkest night.

"And tell me little one, where are you from?" The King asked, but Yugi again did not answer.

However, this time when the dance ended, the King did not let Yugi go and instead asked. "Are you the Rough-skinned creature I met in the woods who is cursed to only appear this way at night?"

So shocked was Yugi by his question that he pulled his hand away and sprang so quickly among the people that he vanished from the room, but again the King gave chase and followed him into the woods. Yugi stumbled and ran out of breathe into the woods, but he knew the King was close behind and did not have time to remove his glittering coat, so he threw his fur mantle over it and fled into the woods, but he had forgotten to cover his face and his hands and so the ring on his finger still shined brightly. When the King followed into the woods he saw no coat but instead he saw the shine of the star-ring and instead followed it deeper and deeper until it vanished from sight.

It was here the King came upon an enormous tree, and he investigated it, searching for away inside. At this time Yugi, who had hid inside his tree, removed his mantle and took off his coat, but before he could put back on his fur clothes, the King had found the knothole in the tree and climbed up its roots, just in time to see Yugi cover himself with his mantle and was so full of terror he cried and hid "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

And so the King stayed still not wanting to scare the little creature, and so now he could see that the fur little Roughskin wore was not but a coat, and that the boy was not but a boy more beautiful than any he has ever seen, with pretty purple eyes, rosy cheeks and hair that was three colors just like his.

"I mean you no harm, little one," said the King smiling. "I simply wanted to see if you were the little Rough-skinned creature who saved me that night and outwitted me the two days before, but now I see you are not a cursed creature but a boy more beautiful than any I have ever seen."

Yugi blushed at this and saw that revealed in all his splendor, he felt he could no longer conceal who he truly was so when the King asked "Where do you come from little Roughskin," he said "I was a prince from a far away kingdom, raised and taught by the castle hands. I ran away because my father made a promise to my mother on her deathbed that he would not marry unless his new queen was as beautiful as her and had hair was three colors just like hers, and when no woman could be found who could enable my father to fulfill his promise to my mother he decided that I, who was the splitting image of her and possessed her three-colored hair and was the son of a king, shall marry him, and though I tried to thwart him of is wicked quest with impossible tasks, he completed each one and finally I learned I could not change my father's heart and so I was forced to flee. I traveled all day and all night, until I came to your forest and made a home for myself here in this tree and hunted the creatures, but only what I needed for food and their fur, and gathered the berries from the bushes and vegetables from the ground and water from the river and made this place my home."

And the King listened to his story and as he did his heart yearned more and more for this brave and clever creature who had struggled so much and fought so hard to free himself from such a disgrace as being a bride to his father.

"You are so very strong and very brave, little Roughskin," said the King, "Tell me why did you not come to my Kingdom then?"

And Yugi said "This is my home and I like it very much."

And the King asked "Then why did you come to my festival, though I had hoped you would for I've wished to meet you since I first saw you by the stream."

Yugi blushed and said "It is lonely living in the woods, I missed having friends to talk to and play games with, and I wanted to see you again, since you tried to take my fur which I am quite fond of."

The King frowned and said "I am sorry, little Roughskin, I did not know it belonged to you." Yugi nodded and the King smiled that he had been forgiven and asked "Tell me, little Roughskin if you were lonely than why did you flee from me so?"

Yugi did no answer and wanted to run away but he could not and instead said "You looked at me the way my father looked at me when he said that I would marry him, and I did not want to marry him, but so resolved was he that my wishes did not matter to him."

When the King saw the tears in his eyes and the fear in his heart, so shocked was he that he wanted nothing more than to hug this little creature and sooth his tears, but he did not for fear he would scare him away. Instead, he told him firmly. "I would never do that to you, little Roughskin. I would never force you to marry me if you did not wish too, but please tell me, do you truly dislike me?"

Yugi looked at him and saw how sad the King looked and remembered how kindly he's been to him when they danced and when they spoke and said "No, you have been very kind to me, I do not dislike you, but I do not know who you are."

That made the King smile but instead he added "Forgive me little, Roughskin but the nights I questioned you I wanted to see if you were the little creature who saved me and outwitted me in the woods, and I wanted to see if you truly loved the woods, and loved the trees, and loved the animals, and loved my Kingdom as much as me, for I have not found anyone else who has."

Yugi smiled and said "You know quite a bit about me, but I know not about you,"

The King nodded and said "I am the King who owns these woods, I was taught to rule by my father and by my mother to respect the forest and I loved it so much that I forbid hunting in the woods without permission, but I live a lonely life as a just King. For I try to make my people happy and protect my woods but I've always longed to find a Queen to share my Kingdom with me, but all the candidates brought before me prefer jewels and dresses to walks in the forests and so saddened was I that I would never find one who was my equal until the hunters told me stories of a strange creature who lived in my woods and so curious was I that I thought I must see this creature but all my hounds found was his fur, and so beautiful was the fur I could not leave it behind. But twice I had been outwitted by this very creature so I thought surely he must be a cursed being who can only remove its fur and night and again when I found the creature so transfixed was I by its beauty, that I could not see the log and so when I cut my arm, it tended to my wound and so grateful was I, I invited him to my festival so that I may meet him, but instead I met a beautiful being who so similar was he to the creature I met and oh, behold my heart he loved the woods and the kingdom as much as me and I knew I'd found my equal, and I wanted nothing more than to find him and so maybe he could fall in love with me as I have fallen for him."

Yugi listened to the words and smiled and felt tears at how, like he the King had been so lonely and searching for an equal who would be kind to him and loved all that he did and so happy was he when the King said he would not force him to marry that Yugi crept closer to him, holding his mantle tight to cover his skin that he said "Such kindred spirits are we I think fate has plaid a trick on we."

And the King laughed and said "Little one, will you let me earn your heart as you have earned mine, I will not make you come with me, but oh it would make me so happy if I would so I could see you more."

Yugi smiled and crept closer to the King, and the King could see his eyes held a special gleam, and he could recognize the game in his eyes. Yugi said "Are you sure you want to see me, My King? I am but a rough furred boy living in the woods, a King's son I may be, but I am no longer a prince."

"It matters not to me if you are the son of a king or the son of a beggar, I would love you anyway so long as you truly loved me, and the woods and my kingdom as much as I do" The King said stroking Yugi's cheek.

"Are you sure you want to see me, My King?" Yugi asked again "You said you would not force me to marry you, would you wait for me to say yes?"

"I would always wait for you" said the King.

"Even if you waited for years and years?"

"I would wait a hundred years if it took that long for you to fall in love with me," said the King and Yugi could see no lie in his eyes.

"Are you sure you want to see me my King?" Yugi asked again. "I like my home in the woods, if I married you would you let me live in my hollow home."

The King paused but said "I would be very sad that you did not wish to stay with me, but I would only want you to be happy, if staying in the woods made you happy, than I would rule from my castle during the day, but I would come and stay with you at night." Again Yugi read his eyes but could see no lie in them, he could see that the King would be sad if he could not be with him, but he would be happy only if Yugi were happy and so overcome was he that Yugi snuggled closer to his King and kisses his cheek.

The King smiled and rubbed his cheek in Yugi's hair and admired the three pretty colors and asked "Will you come with me, my little Roughskin? Will you be my dear bride?"

Again Yugi smiled but in his eyes there was a gleam and he said. "Are you sure you want to marry me my king, my lips are small they know not how to kiss."

At this the King smiled and tiled his little one's chin and said "If you will let me, I shall teach them how to kiss," and he asked "Will you let me teach them how to kiss?"

"Yes." Yugi said and closed his eyes and the King leaned forward and enclosed his lips over his little one's and pressed a gentle kiss to his lips. Deeper and deeper their kiss became until his little one's arms wrapped around his neck and his wrapped around his little one's sides and he they held the other close, and each time they broke away they would kiss each other again never being apart for too long.

And when they broke away the King asked "Will you come with my little Roughskin? Will you be my dear bride?"

Yugi smiled at the King and lowered his mantle with a gleam in his eyes and said "Are you sure you want to marry me, my King, my hands are small, my chest is thin, they know not how to touch."

At this the King smiled and removed his coat and his shirt and took his little ones hands and said "If you will let me, I shall teach them how to touch," and he leaned forward, pressed his forehead to his little one's, and asked "Will you let me teach them how to touch?"

"Yes," Yugi said and closed his eyes and let the King move his hands to his chest while the King's own rubbed and ghosted up Yugi's side, and Yugi broke the kiss and moan and laugh when they touched a ticklish spot. Yugi copied the King's hands and rubbed his hands up the King's sides and over his strong chest and massaged his biceps and smiled when he heard the King moan and smile at him. Carefully the King laid him down upon the fur mantle and his lips moved to kiss Yugi's neck, then his collar, then his chest and down his stomach but never going lower than the mantle, not without Yugi's permission. Yugi giggled at the touches and laughed. He rolled up and ran his hands up and down the curve of the Kings' spine and pulled himself up so they were closer to each other and when their hands had moved around their bodied they clasped together and the two laughed and kissed again.

And Yugi asked "Are you sure you want to marry me, my King," and he pulled his hands and removed the furred mantle from his form revealing himself in all his naked splendor and said "My body is too small, it knows not how to copulate."

And the King smirked and removed his remaining clothes and held his little one in his arms and said "Then if you wish I shall teach you how to copulate," and he kissed Yugi's forehead, looked deep into his eyes and asked "Will you let me teach you, my little one? Will you let me make love to you?"

And Yugi smiled and said "Will you tell me your name?"

The King nodded and said "My name is Yami, little one. Will you tell me yours?"

Yugi smiled and said "My name is Yugi." He leaned up and kissed his King and returned his hold and said "Will you teach me how to make love, my King?"

"Yes," the King said, and laid his little one down on their blanket of furs and wrapped themselves in its soft splendor and continued to kiss and hold all the while Yami's hands strokes Yugi's sides and kissed his hips, and petted the gentle curves of his legs and thighs, and smoothed the junction between his pelvis and thighs, and kissed his stomach, all while Yugi giggled and moaned and massaged the King's arms and back and pulled him close.

And Yami laid him down and pressed his strong, hard body against Yugi's soft and pale one and kissed his lips so deeply they were lost in their love, and gently, ever so gently, the King slid his hips into his little Roughskin's thighs. No. Not Roughskin, Yugi, his little Yugi, he realized and carefully he merged his body with that of his little ones. When came the sharp ache that followed one's first entering, Yugi screamed and cried and held fast to his King, as Yami held him tight, and rubbed his back and kissed his cheeks and whipped away his tears and promised him pleasure if only he would relax and hold his King. And Yugi did relax and loosened his grip on the King and lied down and let Yami kiss him, and the King held still and hugged Yugi tight and waited. And only when Yugi moved his hips and asked the King to continue what happened next did the King kiss his cheeks and move his hips.

Carefully and slowly, he pulled himself free and pushed deeply into his little's one's warmth. Oh, how he loved it when he heard his little one relax into each thrust and sigh in pleasure with each touch. Deeper and deeper he pushed and Yugi lifted his hips and pushed against him two and the more they moved the deeper their love-making become. The deeper it became the faster they moved, and oh, the King loathed to pull away from his lover, for he missed the gentle warmth and completion he only felt when fused with his lover, and oh, how Yugi whimpered when the King pulled back and freed himself from his body, leaving him feeling empty and unsatisfied, and oh, how they screamed and moaned when they found one another again and how they rejoice as they became one. Faster and faster they moved, wanting so desperately to keep the distance between them as limited as possible.

Together they made love, they pushed and pulled, moaned and screamed and whispered their sweet nothings and screamed their love to the heavens, all while they pounded away, making love again and again wrapped in the warmth of their fur blanket and in the safe seclusion of their forest tree. And when they finally become one, they cried and came together with a cry and oh, how Yugi jumped when he felt the essence of his King filling his insides, but the King held him fast and soothed him with promises of love and stroked his skin and assured him that he was now a part of his little one just as Yugi was a part of him, and he gathered Yugi's own essence and drank every drop, making them equals in every way. And so happy were they to have finally become one that they fell asleep like that, still conjoined in a way that only lovers can be and wrapped in their warm blanket of fur.

The next day when the morning came, they slept wrapped in the other's arms and still conjoined, until at last the noon sun peeked through the cracks of their tree and Yugi awoke and found himself resting in the arms of the slumbering King and so happy was he that he could not resist but kiss his King in his sleep. With that one stolen kiss, he stole another and another, kissing his cheeks, his neck, his collar, until finally Yami's arms wrapped around his waist and so shocked was he that he yelped in surprise. Yami rolled them over and proceeded to litter his little one's face with kisses. Yugi giggled and laughed and hugged his King.

"Oh my little one, will you marry me? Will you be my dear bride?" the King asked again, but this time Yugi did not hesitate, and said with tears of joy "Yes, my King I will marry you and be your bride and you shall be my loving husband."

Again they shared their promises of love, and petted the other's skin and stroked their backs and kissed their lips and again they rolled over, until they found they were still fused as one and carefully, little Yugi lifted his hips so King Yami's pride all but slipped out and pressed himself back down again. Yami moaned and smiled and held his nervous little one and whispered his love in Yugi's ears as he bobbled up and down in his lap, wanting to make love to him again, but when their passion grew deeper and stronger and Yugi screamed from the pleasure and found he could not keep himself up right, his Yami was there to catch him and rolled them over and gave his little one a proud and encouraging smile and proceeded to push his pride between the folds of entering his little one's body and oh, how Yugi missed the feeling of them being one and moving against the other. They made love again and again, moving in a special dance the only loves knew: a King coupling with his Queen, a new bride granting her groom the gift of her virtue, two lovers making love and sealing an ancient promise of unity through the most powerful and bonding of ways.

Again they laughed, they screamed, they moaned, they cried and rolled over and proceeded to make love to each other again into the night. Quicker and quicker King Yami thrusted and deeper and deeper Yugi pushed and pulled. They made love again and again and when they came together again they screamed, but they did not want to stop and instead made love again until well into the night when their strength had finally left and when they found each other a final time, Yami drank every drop of his little bride's seed and Yugi held fast not letting a drop of his King escape his body.

They kissed again and fell asleep in the other's arms, lips smiling in pure bliss, wrapped in their blanket of fur.

And when the morning came it had been nearly two nights and a day since the King ventured into the woods and the people were beginning to worry, and so the Hunters and their hounds fled into the woods to find their King. But when the morning had come the King was already awake with his new bride, and so happy were they that they quickly dressed: Yami in his ballroom costume and Yugi in his glittering coat. Together they left the tree wrapped in their coat of furs, and Yami scooped his new bride into his arms and started back towards the castle, and they laughed and smiled and that was how the Hunters had found them.

"My King," they called. "Are you alright?"

"I am blissfully happy," said King Yami and he held his Yugi up in his arms so he was on Yami's shoulders and said "I have found my bride who I love with all my heart and who loves me and we shall be married on the 'morrow."

So happy was the Kingdom to hear this news that they flocked for miles around to see their beloved King and his new bride, who was as beautiful as his heart was kind. Their wedding was met with joyous celebration, and when the priest had read them their vows and asked if there were any objections to the union, the crowd gasped in horrified shock when one stood up to protest the match. And the courtiers turned to see and old man, who donned the crown and costume of a king, come forward and stared at the angry couple and said. "That boy is my bride, who ran away on the eve of our wedding even after all the gifts I promised him were met: a coat as golden as the sun, a coat as silver as the moon, a coat as glittering as the stars, and a mantle made from a thousand furs. The morning of our wedding, I came to his room and found him gone believing he did not want to marry, and here I find him about to marry someone else, well I will not have it, come now, little one, we will go home, for if you are to marry anyone it shall be me your first and true groom."

Horrified by these words the court began to talk and rumors quickly spread and so terrible they feared this runaway bride had tempted their King into a forbidden love when he was promised to another. So angry was King Yami that this man would come and ruin their wedding day, for he saw the truth in Yugi's eyes and had no doubt who this man was, but before he could, it was the bridegroom Yugi who raised a hand and looked at his King.

And the room went silent, as Yugi, in the coat as glittering as the stars, stepped down from the isle and glared at the man and said "I'm afraid you have not spoken the whole truth, Father." With that final word the church roared with gasps of horror. "Yes, you demanded that I marry you, and I fled because I did not want to marry you but that is not why I fled. I fled because when I gave you those tasks I thought them impossible and hoped in time you would come to your senses and see the sinfulness of your requests to marry a boy, who while beautiful as your wife and whose hair was three colors, was the son of your wife and therefore your son and that even God himself would not allow such an evil as for a Father to marry his son. But you saw not the error in your ways, only of fulfilling your promise to my dead mother, but never once did you stop to realize that your wish, however, noble in your intent to fulfill your wife's deathbed promise, was a horrid corruption of her words, but I did and that is why I fled. I fled because I knew that if you truly pursued your intent to make your son your Queen, even if he fulfilled your obligation, that your wife, for whom is his mother, would never forgive you."

Struck by the words and by the terrible fear of his late wife hating him for his marriage, even if it kept his promise to her, that the old King could not speak.

And so Yugi continued "I will not marry you father, I was never to marry you, it is forbidden for a father to marry his son, and I love the King Yami, and I have already promised to be his bride and we are married and if you still continue to pursue this sinful act than I will not have you!" So fierce was his tone that the old King could not speak and instead he turned and left the church with no other word.

And Yugi, who was so relieved it nearly made him sick as though he would collapse. Instead, the King lifted him into his arms spun him around and said "You were brilliant my little one," and kissed his lips. The priest completed their vows and all the church and Kingdom erupted in cheers as they were finally married and returned to their castle where they proceeded to consummate their love once more and where they kissed and held the other close and kept the furred mantle that had sparked their fateful meeting upon their bed, and kept it close when the nights were cold, and the days were rough and their health waned, but together they stayed, and close they kept the other in their hearts, even when parted and through the fruits of their love, they ruled their Kingdom justly and happily and protected their woods and there was not one member born in their kingdom who did not know their tale. The tale of their brave and clever Queen who cured the lonely heart of their King, and of their strong-willed and determined King who never gave up on finding his lover and who loved and treasured his bride more than anything else in this life.

And in the morning after celebrating their wedding night, they promised to live happily and love the other until their deaths.

And they did.

I am so proud of this story ^-^ Obviously, its done in a different style than my usual stuff, but I wanted to keep to the traditional fairy tale style but I still wanted to keep my own personal style, and I think I pulled it off ^-^ I'm so proud!

I love Grimm fairy tales, they're dark and weird and bizarre and they have so many strong female characters (the original Cinderella was a total badass, not the week crying girl locked in a room waiting for a fairy god mother to granter her wishes like in the film and the Cinderella and a Glass Slipper made remake) and there are so many of their fairy tales that would make awesome stories and movies, but sadly they never get the attention they deserve, the Princess in disguise is one of my favorites so i wanted to give it some attention, but being the hopeless romantic and emotionally driven young woman I am who still believes in true love with all her soul, i sought to expand this story and make it as true love as a i could and the ending, where Yugi talks back to his father is of my own invention, it didn't happen in the original tale but I strongly believe that it should've and let's face it how awesome was Yugi?

As always read, review, comment critique, ask questions, comment and go nuts. This is a One-shot by the ay and the first thing i ever wrote that was less than 20 pages outside poetry! XD (13 on Microsoft word in Font 12 Times New Roman) Woohoo!

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