Summary: Len never asked for this sort of failure in his love life. He only wanted to be able to say "Father, I don't want a woman." He was too weak...Lyserg/Len. Yaoi! Not sad! Lemon! Please read note! I don't own SK or it's characters!
NOTE: Ren and En's names have two different spellings and I use them both! En and Yuan are the same. Len and Ren are also the same person. Anyone who has not watched the original Japanese will probably not understand the jokes in this! (For instance, the pronunciation of Lyserg's name.) If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask! I don't use the Bailong name from the manga. I'm pretty sure it's Pailong somewhere else...I just can't remember where!
Rea: My writer friend, Len, who I named after Ren because of his huge attitude, probably won't be joining me on this one because he doesn't like the Len fans hitting on him like they did on his old account. Sorry to those who like to read the work Len and I do together! I did this one! Thanks for reading! You will be rewarded with a lemon at the end of the story! This pairing isn't used enough, and I simply had to cover this issue in Len's life. Naturally, Len is seme. Can't imagine this any other way! Might put a lime in as well...This starts right when Len got back from Yoh's.
Chapter One: The Marriage
"WELCOME HOME, LEN!"
"Morning, Father." Len replied blandly, throwing his cape to a ready servant and dismounting his horse.
"You seem depressed." En was in big oversoul form to greet Ren.
"Should I be happy or something, father? The Shaman Fight ended early. I've nothing to do now and I didn't achieve my goal. And I'v had a hard journey here from Yoh's."
"It will start again, Len." Jun pipped in. "You could deliver something to Yoh's for me-"
"No more of that, Jun!" Len said angrily. "I'm not going all the way back to Yoh's! I just came from there! Just send it!" Jun sighed.
"You'll join everyone for dinner tonight, right, Len?" His mother asked.
"I suppose I've nothing better to do." Len replied, eyes closed as if he didn't really care.
His grandfather laughed. "Now, Len, you must do training while you're here as well."
"I know that!" He began to walk down the main corridor, on his way to his room. Bason followed him in ball form silently, as if he knew better than to talk to the young master when he was angry.
"Let's hold a dinner party for all your friends from different countries!" His sister exclaimed.
Len paused and looked at her. That was a good idea. He thought, but replied with "Whatever you want...I'm not writing invitations."
"I'll write to Yoh and Anna!" Jun volunteered. She kept silent about one thing, though. Lyserg wouldn't be a good name to mention if Len was just going to blush and stutter the way he did about crushes. En would surely notice.
Len began to walk from the main hall in the direction on his room again. "Come, Bason." he said nonchalantly.
"Yes, Bacchamus." Bason replied, and began to float after him.
"Oh, Ren." En said suddenly. Len kept walking, but nodded in response. "I'm setting Jun and some others up on sending invitations to different Shamanic Families that have competed to join the Tao family in the past to send their most beautiful and talented family girls around your age here. You'll be selecting your wife, so you WILL be busy."
Now Len stopped again, and he turned around. "Hm?"
"You know...wife...So you can have a son?" En urged.
"Oh, that. Of course." Ren said coolly, despite the look of concern Jun cast Ren, then En. "Tell me when I have to choose if I get to choose at all."
"You might." En said. "We'll see. If any are of the same talent, I'll let you choose by beauty of the most talented. Usually there are less than five but more than two to choose from. Not many. I'll let you know."
"Then it will be simple. That isn't much to do, Father." Ren opened the door and went out.
"He took that better than you did." Ren's Grandfather told En.
"I was ten! I wasn't interested in girls!" En replied to his father. "Besides, Ren's been training. Once it comes around, he not only won't argue- he'll choose the prettiest and actually be in a good mood about it." he said confidently. "Len's almost eighteen now, after all." He said. "All that teenage stuff and stress from the Shaman Fight- he'll be happy to have company in that big room of his!" En and his wife laughed.
Jun stared at the ground. "Miss Jun?" PaiLong asked. "What's the matter?"
He was, of course, not happy. As soon Ren was on the other side of the door he began to run as fast as he could through coutyards and halls and into his room. "Bacchamus!" Bason said, shocked as Len slammed the door to his large room shut.
Bason hadn't seen such a tantrum from Ren in all his life. Even at a young age, the first time he tried throwing himself on the bed and just screaming and flailing about his grandfather had beat him half to death with Kung Foo. Bason was sure he'd never get away with it, but ten minutes later he was still screaming just as hard in frustration. Of course, he wasn't crying. He was just throwing a general fit.
"Bacchamus! You shouldn't do that!" Bason said. "Please don't take your anger out in such a way!"
"YOU'RE NOT THE ONE GETTING MARRIED SO JUST SHUT UP! HOW THE HELL DO I GET OUT OF SUCH A THING!?" Ren screamed. He picked up a few fragile things and threw them. He grabbed his spear and sliced his pillows and mattress to pieces. He kicked every piece of furniture, leaving huge dents in each. In the end, he stood with his spear in both hands and his head downcast, panting hard at all the waisted energy and close to crying, even if he would deny it, just out of frustration.
"I am sorry I cannot be of more help, Young Master, but if you do not wish to be married, why not tell-"
"Bason, have you forgotten him?!"
"Ah!? No! I was going to say Jun, not Master En! Of course you wouldn't want to tell Master En, but Jun could do something, couldn't she?"
"How would she do anything about it?" Len asked. "My father's word is final until I am the Head of the Family, and I am not head of the family until I am married. It's a loop. I have no way out of this."
Bason nodded. "I am sorry...Bacchamus..."
Ren stared out his window. "Not more sorry than I, Bason."
"There. That's all of them, Mother." Jun said, giving the last letter of invitation to the messenger. "We begin in one month." She seemed sad to Pailong, but her mother didn't seem to notice.
"Jun, you should tell Len that he will be selecting soon." She said.
Jun stared off into the sky. "I hope he's happy." She whispered.
"May Lonno, you are hereby invited to Tao En's house to take place in a contest of will and talent..! Do you know what this is, darling?"
"No, mother. What is it?" May asked, peeved.
"This is the fight for the heir to the Tao Family!"
"What? I'm only fifteen. He's got to be older."
"It says here 17."
"Wow, he's young?" May asked.
"Look, they sent a picture!"
May took the picture from her mother and looked at it barely two seconds. "WOW! He looks mean, but he's really good-looking too!" She blushed. "Can I go?"
"Tsuno Yami, you....contests...heir to....yes!" Tsuno cried after hurriedly reading her letter. "Look at this, Father!"
"Tsuno, what are you so happy about?"
"This man wants to marry me, and he's rich and a shaman!"
"Is he handsome?"
"Who cares, mom. Here's the picture, though...He's alright. That doesn't matter! I'll be a princess in his house!"
"Tsuno, you have to compete..."
"It's what I do best! I'm going to go pack now!"
"Carolyn! What's the matter?!"
Carolyn Paw's food was all over the floor because she stood up too fast, but the look on her face was of great need. "Mom, look at this invitation!"
"It's the Tao Family!?"
"They've invited me to compete for the hand of Tao Ren, their heir. It's my chance, mother!"
"You'll be in a Shamanic Family like ours!"
"I'll be taken care of!"
"You'll have Shamans as children!"
"They'll be trained from birth!"
"He'll compete in the Shaman Fight when it starts again!"
"I may be FIRST LADY!"
"Oh, Carolyn!"
"Manny, I don't care whether or not you WANT to go!" Manny's father screamed. "You will go, and if I find out you tried to drop out on purpose, you will be punished!"
"I've never even met this man!"
"He's seventeen, and he's handsome! Look at the picture." Her mother waved it in Manny's face. "He's a powerful Shaman from a long line of other Shamans. You'll be rich and powerful!"
"I'm....not....going! He looks like a complete jerk!"
"Seeda."
"Yes, Master?"
"Escort Manny there. You will have to have her show off both your powers there anyways."
"Yes, Master."
"What is it, Morphine? Oh, a letter. Thank you." Lyserg tore his letter open and took out the invitation inside. "Dear Lyserg, I know about you...and Ren?" Lyserg looked at Morphine. His spirit looked just as concerned as he felt. He read on. "Ren is soon to be...married?" Lyserg struggled on with tears in his eyes at the news. "But I have a plan to reunite you two...If you come to the Tao family as another young girl with a Shamanic Family (your own history will do, but come as a female)....you may enter a contest to win the place at Ren's side...No one will know but me...I will protect you...." Lyserg paused for a long time before looking at Morphine, who had big shocked eyes now. "It's signed...Tao Jun, Morphine."
Rea: I really hope you liked it! It's not my best work! Grown so used to Len's hand in my writing! But please review! Thank you!