Chapter Two: Trouble

As fast as he could he got dressed and he rushed to the room of the princess. There he knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

Ryan opened the door and saw a very angry saiyan girl sitting on her bed, her tail hitting agitated on the bed. Quickly he bowed his head regretful.

"That was about time!" she told him. "Where were you!"

"I´m terribly sorry, your highness, I was just taking a shower, I-I" He took a deep breath. "I´m truly sorry, it won´t happen again."

Princess Bra ´hmpf´-ed. "You´d better make sure it won´t happen again indeed. I don´t like to be kept waiting." She stood up. "I will forget about it this time, but only this time and only because this is your first day! Next time you will be punished."

"You know you should teach low-level scum like him their place right from the first day." A male-voice said.

Bra and Trunks turned towards the door where they saw King Vegeta standing. "Daddy!"

Vegeta smirked at his daughter. He glanced at Trunks and at that moment he shot forward, landing his fist in the boy´s face. "DON´T YOU DARE LOOK ME IN THE EYES AGAIN, WORM!"

Trunks stumbled backwards a few steps and quickly bowed his head. He did his best to fight the urge to rub his hand over his face in order to ease the pain. He would not show them that kind of weakness. "Yes, your majesty, my apologies." He said quickly as he bowed to one knee.

Bra walked between her father and her slave. "Daddy, please. How will I ever learn if you keep making decisions for me? Once I´m queen I need to be able to be independent too. And besides, mistakes are to learn from, right?"

Vegeta narrowed his eyes on the still kneeling boy. "Fine. But don´t spoil him, he doesn´t deserve that and it will only make him more trouble." His eyes left the boy. "Make sure he knows his place, way down there."

"I will, daddy, thank you."

King Vegeta left the room and princess Bra turned to Trunks, who was now standing again, his head still bowed.

"You should consider yourself lucky! He´s never that easy on his own slaves." Trunks didn´t say a word, afraid he might make it even worse. "Now, the maids are all busy so you will be cleaning my room. And do it quiet! I have to be ready to leave in an hour and I must have my work done by then so I need time to concentrate." She said. "Any questions?"

"Eh just one please, your highness."

"What?"

"Where are the things I must use for cleaning?"

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Bra was sitting at her desk, trying to concentrate on her homework. She had to write an essay about ranks of people and what gave them their rank and their rights. She wasn´t doing a very good job though, all she did was chewing on her pencil.

Her new slave was quiet, yes, but she just couldn´t stop thinking about what happened earlier that day. Why had she been so nice to him? It had been almost like she knew him. Like they´d met before or like they were supposed to meet before. Whatever it was, she couldn´t explain it. Asking the lowlife about his hair, what a disgrace! She wasn´t supposed to care and even if she did, which she was trying her best to deny to herself, she should never have showed it. He was a slave, a lowlife, a worm, the lowest rank one could have on Planet Vegeta. Nothing, not even a pet, had sunk as low as a slave. The boy had no rights at all BUT to serve his master.

She still didn´t know what hit her earlier that day, but she was determined to make up for her mistake and to make sure it would never happen again.

Still lost in thoughts, she put down the pencil. But while doing so, she accidentally knocked her notebook off her desk. Within a second Trunks stood next to her desk and he caught her notebook that had opened while falling. Bra looked up at him wearily, still lost in thoughts, and grabbed the notebook. "Thanks." She murmured as she put the thing away, not even caring to see if Trunks had read something important.

A moment later she looked back, realising she´d just thanked a slave, but Trunks wasn´t standing next to her anymore. Bra looked around her room but he wasn´t there. Then she saw the light in the bathroom and she heard the soft sound of water running. He was already busy cleaning the bathroom

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Trunks saw how the princess put her pencil down and he could already tell she was going to knock her notebook off her desk. And indeed she did. He hurried over there and caught her notebook right before it hit the ground. He wasn´t planning on taking a look at it, but the first page just stared up at him and, quick as his eyes were, he couldn´t help reading the note:

A slave is the lowest rank one can have on Planet Vegeta.

Slaves have no rights but to obey their master/ mistress.

They have no other goal that to make their owner(s) happy.

That is their only will.

A little bit beneath that the word ´slave´ was written with blood-red letters. The word was encircled and an arrow led two lines downward. There a name was written and encircled in purple. ´Trunks´.

Slaves have no other goal than to make their owner happy? That´s what kids learn at school these days? That thought really made him angry. He gave the notebook back without a word and he didn´t reply to her thanks. He quickly went to the bathroom to clean it, knowing that if he´d stay with her in the same room now he´d probably do something stupid out of anger and it would only get him into trouble.

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About twenty minutes later he heard someone knocking n the door. "Princess, are you ready?"

"Almost! Bra replied as he heard her shove her chair backwards hastily. "Come in."

The door was open and footsteps came in. Trunks was still working in the bathroom. He had finished it already but he didn´t feel much like seeing the princess yet so he started to do it over again. The girl was way too lost in her thoughts anyway.

Then he heard the princess calling him. "Trunks, come out here a sec!"

Trunks mentally sighed. Looked like he wasn´t going to stay away from her today after all. He put down the stuff he was working with and walked into her room. There he saw a beautiful saiyan female standing next to the princess. She had long, black hair held together in a ponytail. Her eyes were deep and her eyebrows were soft. She was taller than he was and she wore long red dress with matching shoes. She looked somewhere in the middle of the twenties.

"Trunks, meet Sissy, she takes care of me." Princess Bra said "Sissy, this is Trunks, the slave I told you daddy would get me for my birthday."

"Nice to meet you, ma´am." Trunks said, bowing a little."

She smiled. "Same here."

"Well," Bra said, "We´re leaving. I want you to finish cleaning and then you can go back to your room. If I don´t call you before, I want you outside my room tomorrow morning at 7.30."

"As you wish, your highness."

Princess Bra and Sissy left the room. "So, princess, where do you want to go" was all Trunks could hear before their vices were too far away.

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Trunks finished cleaning up the room and he was just about to leave when he heard the door open. He turned around to see who it was and bowed immediately. It was King Vegeta.

After realising his daughter wasn´t there he walked up to Trunks, who still stood there bowing, not knowing if he should kneel or say something.

"Where´s my daughter!" The king commanded.

"Sir, she´s out with Sissy, your highness."

King Vegeta ´hmpf´-ed. "And what are you doing here in her room?"

"I just finished cleaning, your highness, I was about to leave, sir."

"Stand up straight."

Slightly confused, Trunks did as he was asked, still avoiding the king´s eyes. Slowly, Vegeta started walking around the boy who kept his gaze on the wall in front of him.

"You are my daughter´s first personal slave and I wish to give her a chance to find out how to deal with them herself. However, I will interfere when I think that is necessary. And believe me, you wouldn´t want that to happen." Trunks didn´t move a muscle. "Why she has chosen you is beyond me, but the truth is that you don´t differ much in age. She will start talking to you and I wish that you forget whatever she said as soon as you set a foot outside this room. Understood?"

"Yes, your highness."

"My daughters safety is the business of the Royal Guards. However they might not always be around. Anything happens to my daughter, no matter what, and YOU will pay the price. Is that clear?"

"Yes, your highness."

"It´d better be." King Vegeta turned around to leave the room. But when he reached the door he turned back one more time. "One more thing. YOU are a worm and your mistress is not just any mistress. She is a princess, a Princess Royal, and someday she will rule this planet. But above that, she is my daughter. Make sure you don´t forget who you have against you. Directly AND indirectly." And with that he left the room.

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