Choices

By: Asagi Tsuki

Another Kyou Kara Maou story from me, hoping you'll enjoy this too. I make this story for my own satisfaction, and also, to show fellow writers (especially those who write Mary Sues) that OCs can be added to a story without disturbing it, or becoming a MarySue. I know this is a bit sensitive, but, you can just read this as "just another story"

Summary: Yuuri was transported to Shin Makoku, but, by an accident, a classmate of his was brought along with him. Since she only knew Yuuri and Murata, they are her classmates, they are her only way home, and Yuuri is the one who usually is available, she sticks by Yuuri's side. Will she be selfish and satisfy her own want, or will she relent and see her friend be happy?

Warning: shounen ai, OCs, fluff (maybe), OOCness (hope there isn't any) and some others I can't think of right now

Disclaimer: I don't own Kyou Kara Maou

Chapter One

Yuuri was back in his own world, and he was enjoying what little time he had there. He never missed practice, and he tried to attend every class diligently, talking to his classmates more and all.

Of course, they were curious about his whereabouts when he didn't come for a few days, so he just told them that he had a certain illness that is not so serious but lasts for a few days. One of them didn't quite buy it, but he didn't mind.

This afternoon, like any other afternoon, he was walking down the path towards the school gate from the backyard. He had an appointment with the school's nurse—it was asked by his teacher since he seemed to get sick so easily lately—and he was just walking home.

Along the way, he walked past a big pool. He was very careful when he walked through it, not wanting to fall down and be summoned to the other world just yet.

Heck, he even showered instead of bathed to prevent being sucked up in a whirlpool and thrown to the other world. Surely they're kind enough not to let him be flushed through the small waterhole?

Unfortunately, the Goddess of Luck wasn't with him today. A student of his school ran past him, and accidentally bumped his shoulder, causing him to lose his balance and fell right into the pool.

Carefulness never goes well with coincidences. That's awareness to surroundings.

"Oh sorry!" a boyish girl exclaimed in surprise when she realized what she had done. She rushed towards him to haul him up out of the pool, but found herself being pulled into the pool.

"Uh, surely he's not this heavy, right? He looks so skinny," she thought right before she fell down into the pool, and instead of coming back up to the surface like she always did, she was put through a tunnel of water, and ended up somewhere else.

Somewhere she had never seen, been to, or hoped to visit.

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The two of them ended up in the small lake near Blood Pledge castle. No one knew of their arrival just yet, and for this once, Yuuri was hoping that Gunter would find them soon. But clearly not Wolfram. He didn't need the you-should-be-more-loyal speech. He was upset at her already for hitting him and making him fall down, though he felt a bit sorry for her for dragging her with him to this world.

"Hm, where is this?" she asked, wiping some stray strands away from her face, and trying to peel her wet skirt from her thigh. Of course, with little to no success. She gave up and sat down on the grass patch instead, not caring whether the grass and dirt would stick to her skirt or not.

"Don't tell me this is the world beyond the pool. I've been to the pool multiple times, but not to here," she commented further, and Yuuri shook his head.

She either read too few fairytales, she was just blunt, no imagination whatsoever, or she was sarcastic. He didn't know which one is true, though.

"Well, let's just say that this is the world beyond water that you can't get to all the time," Yuuri gave her a smile of sympathy, and sat there with her. "Let's just wait until someone from the castle found us."

And like a magic spell or something, a cry was heard at a distance, followed by a sudden gush, and then a man with long indigo hair clung to Yuuri, hugging him with the large towel in hand.

"Oh Your Majesty! I've missed you so much!" he wailed a little. "Ulrike told me that you avoided pool of water, so it was hard to bring you back here."

"Uh… well… the bathtub in my house broke," he lied while laughing uneasily. He took the towel in his hand, and this gesture made Gunter let go.

Of course, added with the fact that Wolfram was seething in anger right behind him.

"Who is that girl, wimp?" Wolfram asked, glaring at the girl who seemed so oblivious to his glare.

"Hey Yuuri, you never told me someone called you a wimp! Now I can call you a kid!" the girl exclaimed happily, and Wolfram stared strangely at her. Now he wasn't sure if he needed to be jealous at her or not.

But of course, being careful is a must.

"Name's Yamashita Shinku. I'm Yuuri's classmate," the girl introduced herself, standing up to bow at the others who stood before them. "Oh, so you guys are the inhabitants of the world-beyond-water?"

Conrad blinked at the question, and Yuuri sighed, defeated. Conrad raised an eyebrow, but decided to reply. "Well… if you put it that way… yes, we are."

"Oh… I see," Shinku thought for a while. "So, is there any mermaid here?"

Yuuri looked at her strangely. He never knew his friend was so much like her mother. So the option of her not getting enough fairytales is totally wrong.

After approximately three seconds of silence, Conrad decided to break the silence by clearing his throat. "Well, I guess we should get Your Highness and Miss Yamashita to the castle first."

"No!" Wolfram protested right off the bat. "She's a human! A pure human! We can't let someone like her come into the castle!" he stated his points, and huffed.

"But we can't leave her here, either," Conrad remarked. "It would be unwise to let a friend of His Highness here. She might get sick or something."

"Like I care!" Wolfram added.

"Well, I do care," Murata butted in. "She's my classmate as well, so I'm for the decision of getting her to the castle. Or at least, to Ulrike's shrine."

"The shrine is for women with high spiritual energy or women who are skilled in martial arts. She can't be someone who has a high spiritual energy—taking the fact that she is pure human into consideration—and she doesn't look like she can wield swords and lances perfectly," Conrad commented.

"It's out of question," Wolfram added. "Ulrike had never let a human step into her shrine before, as far as I remember," he explained, closing his eyes for a moment, as if trying to remember something.

"I'm not trying to be impolite here, but may I ask why you guys talk about human? Aren't you human beings?" she asked. They didn't look like an ogre or a troll to her.

Yuuri looked martyred at this point, and could only sigh as he covered his face with his free hand which wasn't holding onto the towel wrapping him.

Conrad cleared his throat again. "Well, it's a bit different here," he started. "There are three races in this world, the human, the half-Mazoku and the Mazoku."

"Oh, and those Mazokus are the mermaid?" she asked excitedly. Yuuri now looked like he was torn between choosing to dive into the lake and die drowning or run back to the castle and jump off the roof.

How can someone be as dense as that?

He would certainly ask that to his mother when he got back.

"Why was she transported here, in the first place?"

Chapter One

That's all for the introduction. I'll get on more details later. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. And if you do, please leave a comment.