BloodPinkRose- Hey everyone this is my first Kyou Kara Maou fic, I hope you enjoy it. Please note it is Yaoi so dont read if you dont like cuz thats just weird. The pairings are ShinouxMurata, Yuuram, GwendalxGunter, YozakxConrad ... and some others that i havent decided yet. I DONT OWN KKM, oh and Azalea is a type of flower, i dont own those either. :D

Sunoom

He couldn't have stopped them even if he tried

Built up pain that was felt from all over the 4000 years he remembered

The light reflected off his glasses hiding his sorrow filled obsidian eyes

But the tracks of silvery tears were not hidden.

The rain seemed to be weeping with him as it crashed upon his forlorn head

He clutched the wall desperately for support as the sobs violently shook his body, but he refused to let out more than a small amount of noise, he couldn't let them figure him out. To them he was the great sage, nothing moved him.

He couldn't let them see how weak he had become.

He failed to hear the footsteps behind him. He didn't think that anyone would follow him; it was so very late in the night, almost early morning. Before he left he had known they were all asleep so he had let his guard down in order to cry.

"What's this?"

He froze, he could feel his head pounding; sore from the amount of emotion being released from his body but the hammering of his heart was even worse. He knew that voice. Only one in all his over 4000 years had that voice.

But he didn't see how it was possible, that one person was actually now dead.

"Why do you weep my dear Azalea?"

Tanned fingers gripped his chin softly and made him look up, into those blue topaz orbs. His breath hitched out loud and his companion chuckled huskily. His precious friend may be physically different but emotionally and mentally he was just the same, if not more sensitive since all the pain he had gone through over the years.

"S...S-S...Shinou" he whimpered

The stoic looking blonde smiled kindly and removed the oval glasses covering his Azalea's obsidian eyes; he wouldn't allow such an object obscure his looking at them. Not forgetting the other had shakily addressed him he made his reply.

"Hai Daikenja?" he replied with a question, his voice smooth and his oceanic eyes half lidded

"Why" he demanded, his voice was small and weak, the blonde didn't mind as the smaller Japanese student version of his Daikenja began pounding on his chest with balled hands, he was obviously stuck between shock and despair.

He repeated it over and over like a mantra, the tears flowing stronger now and his words getting mixed up with his hitching breath and his sobs, trying so hard to be heard in the early morning around them. The original Maou was glad the sun hadn't yet begun to rise or else they would have been caught already.

"It's okay", he whispered back to the wild haired youth that just happened not to be as youthful as he looked. He wrapped his arms around the smaller and allowed him to bury his face into his strong chest and cry.

The one thing the smaller didn't allow himself to do when he was in his original form.

"Rest now, I will watch over you" the kind king smiled as he lifted the tired frame of his friend. No they were more than friends but the word to describe them was just too complicated to already be in existence

He would tell all, to them all when the time was right. Something told him that the right time would be the following day or at least later on, since they were already on that day. He would be explaining what he was doing there.

He looked down at his beauty and his soft smile widened when he noticed him changing before his very eyes. He was taller, thinner, his hair grew like miracle growth, his features changed till at last Shinou was looking at his Daikenja, exactly how he was meant to be.

He was having such a pleasant dream, he saw Shinou again, he had said he would watch over him. He bolted up and looked around madly, that couldn't have been a dream; he knew that he was outside that morning.

Said blonde was watching him from the door with a smile on his face as he munched on an apple cheerfully. He seemed to be in the highest spirits, one of his more silly moods, Murata knew he had to be careful. That smile always spelt trouble of him.

"How do you feel?" Murata looked up at him confused, he didn't see how he was meant to feel but once the king began looking at him up and down like he would a potential sexy person he saw walking down the road but didn't want to wolf whistle he automatically looked down.

He noticed two things that left him confused, hurt and embarrassed. One he was naked and two he wasn't Murata Ken anymore, he was as he was back then 4000 years ago. He glared up at the amused blonde pulling the covers up to cover his pale skin from his piercing blue gaze.

"What have you done to me?" he ordered and the other laughed he seemed to be bemused by the whole thing and how to answer the other obviously not impressed brunette. He hadn't expected him to be happy so that didn't bother him.

"I brought you back Daikenja, I had to remove your clothes, they were wet and I know you pride upon knowing you do not get ailed often. I didn't touch you in any other way there would be no point" the other replied to him moving forward.

"Turn me back, I'm not that person anymore I am Murata Ken now, I do not belong to the world where I looked like this anymore! You had the power to change me so you must have the power to change me back" Murata yelled quite out of character.

Shinou blinked before he smirked

"Iie, get dressed, I am sure that the new Maou would not be pleased seeing you walk around without any proper garments" he stated before he turned away and departed shouting the door on the way out and effectively cutting off Murata's reply.

"Iie!" he snapped grumpily, he wouldn't even consider it let alone agree to it, they had Greta so why the hell did they need another heir. Of course he did know the answer; that Greta wasn't of their blood but that didn't matter to him.

He wouldn't allow it.

"Wolf?" Yuuri tried to persuade him

"Iie wimp!"

"Wolfie??" Cheri tried

"Iie mother!!"

"Wolfram" Gwendal boomed looking down at his stubborn youngest brother; however the fiery blonde just wasn't having it. He closed his eyes and stamped his feet, not unlike a small child throwing a tantrum.

"Iie!, Iie!!, Iie!!"

Yozak looked around; the only other person that would be able to persuade him would be the Great Sage, but for whatever reason they couldn't find him. It was like he had gone back to earth or something without saying.

"Has anyone seen His Eminence?" he asked out loud curiously and everyone stopped their argument with the stubborn blonde to look at him. The blonde sniffed not caring but the others actually found it strange he wasn't there after all he had moved back to Blood Pledge Castle.

"Murata??" Yuuri stated curiously, he hadn't seen the wild haired sage either, it really was strange. Normally he would be hanging around with Yozak if he was around, which he was or he would be sitting by the pond thinking.

Speaking of which he did seem to be more subdued than usual.

"Heika, you have guests" Gunter announced loudly as he entered the main room and shut it behind him, of course he had to make sure his precious Heika and friends were looking presentable for the guests, something about them just screamed importance.

"Gunter have you seen Murata?" Yuuri asked, the lilac haired beauty blinked before he smiled and shook his head. That wasn't important at the moment; he rushed around checking everyone's clothes and placing them in proper position.

Yuuri sitting on the throne, Wolfram; who was still sulking on his left and Cheri; as the ex-Maou on his right. The other's kind of just over shadowed them. Gunter smiled looking rather pleased with the position before he motioned to Yuuri to call the guards to open the door.

"Shinou, this is a really bad idea" Murata chided his original master, he was glad for the hooded cloaks but he really didn't want to see their expressions when they saw him. It wasn't every day you saw two powerful people from over 4000 years ago.

"Maybe so but I never listen to your advice anyway" the other reminded with a cheeky smile half hidden by his hood. Murata sighed, he was still in his more stupid of moods. Something bad was definitely going to happen.

"Pronouncing er ... Guests" the guard yelled, stumbling when he realised they hadn't given their names and he didn't know them. The doors opened and Murata held his breath, this really was a bad idea indeed.

Gunter, Conrad, Yozak and Gwendal were at the side at once, hands twitching closer to their sword hilts. Shinou held up his hand in peace before walking closer to them all, Murata stayed close behind him as the door shut.

"Greetings Maou, it has been a while" Shinou stated loudly, his strong voice echoing off the walls and ringing in Murata's ears. He could see it now the moment he took his hood down the poor sap was going to be attacked at once.

"Who are you?" Yuuri asked, something about the presence of the two were rather familiar, the more nervous one hanging at the back was more familiar than the one in front and for all of them the feeling was mutual

"Forgive my rudeness" Shinou stated smoothly bowing his head and pulling down his hood, Murata wasn't stupid enough to follow suit just yet. The collective gasps were creepy enough; he didn't want to give anyone a heart attack.

"Attack!" Wolfram yelled drawing his sword and dashing forward, Yuuri didn't catch him in time to stop him and the other four oddly didn't bother to draw their swords. It was like they were waiting for something. Shinou didn't move either as the boy sprinted towards him with sword raised and a war cry.

Murata couldn't help but get a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach that Shinou really wasn't going to dodge and the others really weren't going to stop Wolfram. Moments before the sword would have hit Murata crashed into the taller blonde knocking them both to the floor winded, his hood fluttering back.

"Mu...ra...ta?" Yuuri questioned slowly and confused as he looked between the two gasping people on the middle of his main hall flooring. The other's seemed just as confused and shocked as their Maou. It wasn't everyday something like that happened.

"You baka, what were you thinking? Just standing there like a baka?!" Murata hissed trying to get air back into his lungs. Shinou smiled at him and shrugged once he had recovered his own breath, it wasn't like he was injured.

"I knew you would do something" was his lame come back

"Baka!" Murata replied hitting the other on the shoulder lightly before he was helped up by said 'baka'. The two dusted themselves down before they turned to look at the still stunned to silence group. Murata forgot he no longer had his wild locks and chuckled as he scratched his head.

Drawing even more shocked gasps from them all and a strange look from Shinou. Gunter didn't seem able to process it all and dropped like a log to the floor in shock, the other's looked like they were going to follow suit unless something was explained.

"Um ... what is going on?" Yuuri asked and as Murata opened his mouth to reply his stomach growled quite loudly reminding him that he hadn't had dinner the night before and he had skipped both breakfast and lunch that day.

Shinou chuckled and shook his head, "How about we talk over lunch?"

"So you have come to help Heika with his problem of not having an Heir?" Gwendal asked looking at the blonde rather suspiciously; he was acting a lot different compared to when they met him before, maybe that was because of him being under Soushu's control.

"Hai, of course that is if you don't already have an idea or a surrogate mother to do so for you" Shinou smiled and Murata noticed the knowing smile that screamed that he knew they were still in argument over the fact.

"Iie, we would like to hear your ideas, er ... Heika??" Yuuri stated confused at what to call the original king and Shinou waved a dismissive hand. He wasn't really Heika anymore and besides he preferred being called by his name.

"Shinou will suffice" he corrected, "I don't suppose any of you are able to give birth to children even though you are male are you?" he asked and Murata paled, he knew it was a bad idea and he knew exactly where this was going.

"Iie and even so wimp is enough of a cheater as it is, he isn't allowed to get someone else pregnant" Wolfram sniffed and Shinou bowed his head slightly in apology. Murata wanted to slap his head; they were walking straight into his trap.

"Don't call me-" Yuuri was cut off.

"Well then I happen to have a very good idea, I happen to know a certain someone who can have children and if mated right can make the child very much like the two of you" he smiled slyly behind his hand. Murata clenched his fists under the table.

Gwendal looked between the slyly smiling Shinou and his sage who was looking both pale and angry. His eyes widened and a small gasp escaped him before he could even help it. He knew exactly what the other meant now.

"You couldn't possible-" he was cut off

"Yes that very fact, Heika is very lucky to have such an observant commander on his side" Shinou complimented him and it took every ounce of Murata's strength not to march over to Shinou and punch his lights out.

Slowly the other's started to get it too, Gunter, and then Conrad, then Gisela even Greta seemed to catch on as she giggled at Murata's face. The ones who didn't get it seemed to be in the dark still. Wolfram started to get irritated by the amused faces.

"What the hell is so funny?" he yelled shaking his fist. Yuuri's eyes widened as he thought about it, Wolfram and Shinou almost looked like twins despite the fact that Wolfram was smaller, thinner and had strong blazing emerald eyes.

Sure he didn't look too much like Murata but their hair and eye colour were the same and if they were lucky the child could take after Shinou and therefore that wouldn't matter. He only wondered would Murata do it?

"Ah Heika, I see you have caught on too. For those who do not understand, Daikenja is able to do such a thing with a little bit of majutsu to help along. Since Sir Von Bielefeld doesn't seem happy about anyone procreating with Heika it would be rude for him to then do the same. We happen to look very similar so I think we could pull it off" the sly man explained.

He grinned when he looked over at his sage and saw the look of fury on his face; Shinou let his laughter bleed out through his eyes just to further taunt him knowing that he couldn't do anything to stop it. If Yuuri ordered it, he had to do it.

Wolfram smiled, that was a great idea, the answer to all their problems. Yuuri still didn't seem to be too convinced however as he watched his friend's unimpressed expression darken even more at the taunting from his original master.

"Shinou, how did you come back? If you don't mind me asking" Cheri asked curiously and Murata was relieved to see that attention had gone away from him and his particularly annoying gift of being able to bare children. That trait had caused problems in the past, he would have done it without any problems but the pain of remembrances was hard to get over.

"Well there is the question I have been waiting for, not even Daikenja has yet asked me" he winked at Murata before focusing his attention on the ex-Maou. Who seemed to actually be rather interested in something for once.

"Surely you have noticed that your Murata Ken, couldn't use his sage powers very well or often?" he stated rhetorically and Murata's eyes widened as he realised why that was, he couldn't believe he hadn't got it before.

"What about it?" Wolfram asked impatient at all the stops, he wanted to hurry get out of lunch and go talk with Yuuri and get him to agree to the whole Heir thing. That way neither of them had to worry or speed up their slow working relationship.

"Well I had guessed that much of what has happened would come to pass so I have, since Murata Ken was a baby, been taking his majutsu in order to create a crystallized physical body. Not as good as the real thing but it certainly does the job" he explained.

"But ShinShin how did you get there? Didn't you use the last of your power to get MuraMura and Papa Yuuri back home?" Greta asked cutely and they all turned their attention to the girl. Shinou nodded in slight respect to her.

"That again is a good question little one. I had Ulrike capture my soul before I dispeared then using her powers she placed me in the body and gave me enough majutsu to jump start and here I am" he smiled and they all seemed to understand that.

In the month he had been 'gone' Ulrike had been rather busy, though she had said that it was simply the time when she had to help the priestesses get over certain urges they had so they would continue to look after the shrine.

"er ..." Yuuri started but then stopped, he was back on the subject of the child, he had an important question but it was rather rude to ask. There wasn't any way to ask it without sounding crude and rather rude.

"Hmm? If you have something to ask Heika you can, I will not mind whatever it is?" the man smiled knowingly and Murata narrowed his eyes at him in suspicion he was planning something either that or he knew what the boy wanted to ask.

"How ... how would you get it to work?" he asked looking at his plate, a blush spotted on his cheeks, the others looked at him strangely not following and Shinou chuckled and decided to help him out, there was no use waiting for him.

"You are wondering how I would ... how to say 'get it up'? So that this pregnancy can work?" he asked amused and the others fell off their chairs in shock when Yuuri blushed darker red and nodded shyly. Murata himself was also bright red.

"Have no worries Heika, that part of my anatomy works perfectly well" Shinou replied cheerfully and finally Murata could take it no more and he hit the original king upside the head for such an answer in front of the king and all his friends.

"Yuuri!" Wolfram yelled also smacking his king upside the head hard and Shinou laughed and shook his head dismissing it.

"No worries that was a perfectly competent question since this body is crystallized majutsu however everything works fine so no one has to worry. Do you feel happy with this idea?" Shinou asked curiously and they all looked at each other.

"Yes, the wimp and I like that idea. It would save a lot of trouble" Wolfram smiled and Shinou caught Murata's whispered "it would also start a lot others". He still had some convincing to do on the others part but that would have to be left for another time.

"Are you okay with this Murata?" Yuuri asked still worried at the expression his friend had had before when they first talked about it. He was up for the idea but he wouldn't order it unless he was sure that it was okay for both sides.

Both Shinou and Wolfram were okay with it, Yuuri too but if Murata wasn't there was no point. If Murata didn't want the child and got too stressed about it, he might injure the child and cause a lot of problems from himself and themselves.

On the other hand he had to be emotionally stable enough to actually folk the child over, he was sure it would be hard for any mother to give over their child after carrying them for nine months. He didn't want to pressure the other.

Murata was ready to say no straight away but he snuck a look to Shinou and when he saw his expression he sighed, it was like he had just already been given a silent order from the other and he could imagine the disappointment if he said no.

He covered up his worries and allowed a huge sparkling smile to show through, "Of course Yuuri, no problem at all, I would be honoured to do so for you" he hoped his sugary tone and smile weren't too fake.

Yuuri seemed to agree and so did Wolfram, Greta, Conrad and Gunter. Gisela, Yozak, Cheri, Shinou and Gwendal were watching him with an 'I really don't believe you' look. Somehow he was expecting it was them out of them all that would see though the look.

He wouldn't be surprised if Gunter knew he wasn't happy but was trying to help convince the others that he was, the man was a lot smarter than he gave off. He knew that no matter what he said Shinou, Gwendal, Cheri and Gisela wouldn't believe him.

Cheri and Gisela were women, Cheri had already had three children so she knew what he was going to have to go through, Gisela was a healer and she certainly most likely had seen something like this even though she claimed to be a military physician.

Gwendal, well he was a lost cause, there was nothing that went past the man and that was part of the reason he was the commander. As for Shinou, if that bonehead had believed him Murata would have gone back to earth and refused to come back.

They had been together for so long that if Shinou didn't know him well enough to know when he was lying then there really was no hope for this.

Shinou watched the play of emotions on his face and sighed, his Azalea was having a lot more doubts than he was hoping he would be having. It seemed that talk he was going to wait to have, needed to commence as soon as possible.

"I really think that Daikenja and I should get back to the shrine now, Ulrike may start to have a seizure if we are gone too long from her clutches" he stated and the others nodded in agreement. It was good that she didn't have to be so lonely any longer.

When they were gone the others retired to their place of work, having spent half the day talking with Murata and Shinou they had a lot of work to catch up with. Yuuri froze when he saw the look Gunter was throwing him.

"Er ... Wolfram and I have a lot to talk about" he yelled quickly before grabbing the other's hand and charging down the corridor leaving Gunter in his dust, holding a book of yet more history the other had to learn.

Greta giggled and pulled Gwendal off to see his collection of cute toys. Conrad smiled and shook his head opting to train some of the soldiers and Yozak followed him. Gisela shook her head and made her way back to the infirmary.

Cheri looked left and right before deciding she was going to put a pause on her quest to find true love, she really didn't want to miss anything because things were sure going to heat up now. She sauntered off toward her room.

Gunter looked around his bottom lip trembling when he realised he had been left behind once again, his quest to teach the king was surely going to take many years if he didn't stop running away from him. Looking up as tears burst forth from his eyes.

Near by sleeping birds fell out of their trees and off roofs as they heard the wailed yell

"HEIKAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"