Pairing: Yuuri/Wolfram, Yuuram, probably Wolfyuu

Warnings: Yaoi, Boy x boy love,

Summray: Yuuri wasn't all that stright guy after all. In the end it was actually easy to love Wolfram. They lived in a world without prejudices. A world where two boys could be together and noone finds it strange.

Chapter 1 – The Trouble Comming

It wasn't all that late evening yet, but the whole of Blood Pledge Castle had been already inside their bedchambers and preparing themselves for bed. Well not the whole castle, but most of the important occupants was. The ones, that were tomorrow early morning expected to leave for another of their needed adventures in the countryside. As their young double black king said, well is saying everytime, they all needed some time to relax outside the castle and as a good king should do, it is preferable and profitable for their country and their people, if the king knows as much as he can about said country, her people and their lives. But only one person was as always sure their king thinks as he says and that was Günter von Christ. The Royal advisor and teacher of the current maou Shibuya Yuuri, who was currently putting into bed his twelve years old human daughter Greta.

"Good night, Greta."

"Good night, daddy." Whispered the little princess as her daddy pecked her gently on her forehead and affectionately run his fingers trough her curly hair. "You know you don't have to do this, Yuuri." She protested tiredly. "I'm not a child anymore."

"I know you're not a child anymore, but you're not all grown up yet either." Objected Yuuri almost whiningly. The outside looker would have to think hard who is really the child here. Because Greta looked more mature than Yuuri right now. After all there wasn't all that big age gap between them even thou he was her father.

"Whatever." Growled the young princess. "You should get yourself a baby, you know." She knew it was futile to argue with the young maou, when he was like that and so she just sighed. Before anyone got to say anything else, there was a knock on the door and then they heard the soft voice of the maou's godfather and the princess's uncle.

"Your Majesty? Are you in there?"

"I am, Conrad..." Sighed the young king. He knew it was absolutely futile to remind Conrad he was to call him by the name the soldier himself gave him, but he still did it anyway. Their arguing was more of a habit and to keep Yuuri smiling, then ignorance for Yuuri's wishes... "...and call me by the name you gave me!"

...because Conrad always answered with a smile and the soft "Of course, Yuuri." That said with his brown haired head already between the doors. His smiling face absolute opposite to what he was looking for the young maou for, but Yuuri didn't know that.

"What is it, Conrad?" Asked the black haired now nineteen years old maou. He was a bit taller, but didn't change too much. Since on his sixteenth birthday he decided he wanted to live his life as mazoku and be a true Maou, he started to age as a normal mazoku would, as every half demon which decided to live as mazoku did. Conrad, Yozak and many others.

"There is something that you should be aware of, Your Majesty. Please come with me, Gwendal and Gunter wish to talk to you." Answered his trusted solider.

Yuuri sighed. "All right." He turned back to Gerta and kissed her on the forehead again which caused Greta to sigh. Then with "Good night" on his lips he followed Conrad out of her room. The soldiers standing guard closing the heavy doors behind them.

***Yuuram***

They were currently sitting in the Maou's office. They means Gwendal, Gunter, Conrad, Murata and of course Yuuri. The Maoh was leaning against the back of his chair, sitting behind his dark wooden desk. Everyone in the room looked as if someone dear to them had just died and he really hoped that wasn't the case. He was starting to get a bit uncomfortable, which wasn't anything new since Gwendal was in the office with him, but he didn't get this scary feeling form the man for years. Now he just wished that anything they're about to fire at him won't have anything to do with death or a war, anything else sure will be acceptable. Of course he didn't know the half of it...

"So Heika, there is something we need to discuss with you." The Chief of State started. His voice chilling the young maou to the bones. Before Yuuri could ask anything, Gwendal continued. "We need to discuss with you your engagement to Wolfram." He stated stoically.

Yuuri sighed. "That again?" He asked not knowing what his idiotic question will cause. If it were even possible, Gwendals' eyebrows got so high it couldn't be spotted anymore and his frown deepened to the point Yuuri was afraid, that if it was to stay embedded into his face, he wouldn't want to meet him in the dark hallways alone. He was sure the children would cry to see him like that...not that they weren't afraid of him now anyways...

Yuuri cringed. "Guess I shouldn't say that?" He asked sheepishly. "But you know...I thought we were alrea..." he didn't get to finish, because Gwendal interrupted him angrily.

"You thought what, heika? That this could continue like this forever? Sure you are not that stupid." He frowned again.

"Gwendal...you are talking to his Majesty." Conrad tried to calm his older brother.

"Yes of course." Yuuri could swear he heard Gwendals' teeth crush together and he couldn't help it, but felt his heart drop just a bit lower. "Then His Majesty..." He stared pointedly at Yuuri and the said monarch wished his chair could swallow him in that moment. "...should be aware that there are rules concerning the courting, engagements and marriages of nobles and kings in Shin Makoku."

"Yes, I'm aware of the customs concerning these." Yuuri countered. He learned of all the customs regarding all these things and more years ago, so he wouldn't do any stupid mistake again.

"So you surely know that your engagement can't continue forever, don't you?"

"Well, I don't know there are time limitations to this." He stared pointedly to Gunter.

"There aren't any limitations to engagements in Shin Makoku, your Majesty." Answered Gunter and successfully cut wherever was Gwendal about to say. "But because you are a Maou, there is a bit more pressure put to your case. It's just that being engaged for four years is a long time even for a mazoku and it is a very long time for a maou."

Gunter was then cut by Gwendal again. "If you didn't want to be with Wolfram, you should annul the engagement long time ago and spare all of us the trouble now."

"Trouble? I don't really know what you are talking about, Gwendal. What is or isn't between me and Wolfram isn't anyones business." Yuuri was starting to feel a bit angry. His privacy was his own and the only one he was willing to consult it with was Wolfram, which their engagement concerned as well, anyone else though should mind their own.

"That is where you are wrong, Your Majesty. Sadly, it concern us as well as tomorrow morning the ten nobles start to arrive. They send us a note to inform us about wanting to meet with you tomorrow in the evening. They wish to talk to you about the engagement. You are a King...you are not your own, you belong to the whole country, to all of your people. You have no privacy."

Yuuri was shocked to say the least. Why are the ten nobles interested in his engagement now? Before they didn't give a damn. So why now? Sure they meddled in his affairs all the time, but that really always concerned the country not his private life. They were never interested in his private life before. Could it be that his trusted advisors just misinterpreted something?

"Why would they be interested in my engagement now. That seems a bit..."

"Lord von Voltaire is right, Shibuia." The Great Sage spoke for the first time.

"Murata?"

"Shibuia, because you are a king it is as Lord von Voltaire said a moment ago, you are not your own, you belong to the country and you need to do whats best for your country. That is what you chose when you decided to become a king years ago."

"I know that, I always do the decisions that are best for my country."

"Of course you do, but sometimes it will concern your private life as well. Because you are a king, you have to be an example for your people. You need to be a king, that isn't afraid to make a decision. That isn't hesitating."

"I'm not scared to make a decision, not am I hesitating in making them. Not anymore."

"Really?" The Great Sage fixed the young maou with a meaningful stare. „It's been four years, Shibuia and you're saying you're not hesitating? Then why are you waiting?"

There was an uncomfortable silence after that question. Everyone eager to know the answer, the one asked not knowing the answer.

"So what should I do? What the nobles wants?" Yuuri asked after a while.

The answer come form his godfather this time. "Unfortunately there are not that many opinions. They would want you to marry him or break the engagement."

"Well, I thought they would want me to marry him."

"No, they don't care as long as you will do something about it. Of course they wouldn't care if you break the engagement...their daughters and sons will have a chance at you. It's the reality, your Majesty." Answered Gunter. „They will start to send noblewomen and noblemen to Blood Pledge Castle in hope you will choose one of them. All of them wants to have maou in family."

"Oh God." Grunted Yuuri as he slumped in his chair. There was a pregnant pause. Then Yuuri spoke again. „But the decision is up to me."

"Yes." Answered Conrad. „But don't worry. If you cancel the engagement, you don't have to marry anyone. They can't make you. Even if you died unmarried and childless, they can't do anything. They can speak their opinion, but that's all. So don't worry, noone will push you into anything."

Yuuri nodded. "Wolfram knows about it?"

"I didn't talk with him about it yet, but I think he was prepared for this from the beginning. He knew the nobles won't stand for engagement forever."

"When are they coming again?"

"Tomorrow evening, heika."

Yuuri sighed, he really didn't want to deal with them so soon. He wanted to make the right decision and would like to have a bit more time to consider everything. He knew it will be a long night.

"Well, I'm going to bed then, if it's all." He was already standing and slowly heading for the door. Noone said anything so he assumed it was alright for him to leave. "See you in the morning."

"Goodnight, heika." He heard Conrad and Gunter say as the heavy doors closed behind him.

Then the loud impact with something hard came and wood of the table cracked under it. Yuuri stiffened for a moment and before he quickly headed down the corridor he heard "I hate him for what he's doing to our brother, you know?" He even didn't want to know the answer.

-TBC-

A/N: Hello Everyone, I hope you liked the first chapter of The King's Prince. This is not my first story, but it's my first story written in a foreign language. So if there is someone who liked this and wold like to beta this, it would be perfect, I would really appreciate all of your help. So don't froget to comment. But please no flames, it took me really long time to conceive myself to post this story translated.

A/N: I'm so sorry I had to repost this chapter, but when I read the review form sakuravalkyrie, I was like: It couldn't be that bad, I corrected the grammar mistakes...but when I opened the story I posted, I found out I posted an unsaved version with all my mistakes. I'm still red from shame. I was so nervous about acctually posting this, that I uploaded the story before saving it in my PC. When I uploaded the corrected chapter, I corrected the quotation marks too, we acctually use the quotes belowe at the begingng of the conversation and I didn't realize, that in English the quotes are used above. So I'm sorry for that too.

sakuravalkyrie: Thank you for the review and the problems you pointed out. I will try better next time.