Getting married? No way!
Yuri was sitting on his desk, doing paperwork as usual. The pile was 10 feet long, and he had already done this for 5 hours. Needless to say, he was quite exhausted. Then Gwendal came in for some reason,as if he needed another headache.
"Ohh Gwendal, will you take these for me, I'm so glad! I'm drowning to the-", Yuri started with a very optimistic tone of voice.
"I have no intention to do so. You are a maou now, and you should accept your duties. Actually, that is why I came to talk to you. You see, you are already 16 years old, which here means you have come to of legal age. That means, you should soon get married, it shows bad example for citizens, that maou is unmarried. I assume that you will get married as soon as possible"
Yuri looked Gwendal with a shocked impression. To get married? For god sake, I'm just 16 years old…And I can imagine my mother would freak out, just remembering how she acted, when Wolfram told about the engage-Hey, wait a sec, if I were to get married, the spouse would be…Wolfram??!!But I'm not gay, he has possibly some other ideas in his mind.
Yuri started to talk to Gwendal, still in disbelief:" Gwendal, you can't be serious; no-one has ever said anything like this before. Besides, Cheri-sama wasn't married. Why should I be?"
Gwendal's face turned alarming read.
"That is exactly the reason, why you should be! Just to think all the scandals she made, I don't want it to happen ever again. Besides, to be honest, we had meeting with all the noble ones, and they all agreed (without Yuri, of course). That is to say, if you don't agree with getting married, your position as maou will be threatened"
"Are you saying that I should marry Wolfram?! You know, he's a guy, not to mention he's about 70 years older than me"*(In manga wolfram says he's 82 years old)
" I didn't say, that you should marry Wolfram, but it's true that it would quite unmoral for you to abandon your fiancé, especially when he's my brother"
Then, after that, Wolfram came in to Yuri's office. He was planning to suggest a bath with Yuri, but he had heard some words from Yuri's and Gwendal's conservation.
"Marriage? Fiancé? What are you talking about? YURI! Do you have some secret relationship with a girl? I'm going to kill you with my own hands if it's true..."
"Nothing like that, Wolfram. You are stalking me all the time, so I couldn't even have a chance for that", Yuri answered.
"Then what was it? Ohh, Yuri! Were you talking about OUR wedding? You have finally admitted your feelings; I knew all along that you were just pretending to be cold"
"Erm, that's not it either, Wolfram..."
"Grhm.", Gwendal interrupted.
"That is pretty much the case. It's too dangerous for a maou to be unmarried. Soon enough, that would lead the nation under chaos, because all young ladies and lads would try to arrange marriage with Yuri", Gwendal continued.
"Exactly what I was thinking! Yuri and I are going to have the biggest wedding ever!" Wolfram cheered.
Yuri sighed, and buried his head on his arms. He couldn't believe that this was happening to him. All those pretty girls in the world…wasted younger hood, eternal life with a boy…This was like the worst nightmare ever. Like that time, when they had used the "Future revealer", and that dream after it, where Wolfram said that he was serious about Yuri…I was all coming reality now. Well, of course he knew Wolfram had some feelings for him. But marriage…This got to be nightmare, got to be.
Yuri sighed even louder, and prepared for the coming.
3 weeks later
All Shin Makoku was covered in flowers and all sorts of decorations. People were talking about the biggest event in history. Shin Makoku's heka*just a japanese way to say king*, Yuri Shibuya, was getting married. And not with just anyone, but Wolfram Bielefeld, temperament son of the former maou. They were very pleased to see Heka married, even though they were slightly disappointed by the fact those two could never have children.
Yuri, on the other hand, wasn't happy at all. Marriage ceremony would start after 10 minutes, and he hadn't been this nervous in his whole life. And that annoying Wolfram seemed to be so enjoying himself. He had fulfilled his promise to wear that frilly blouse, which Yuri's mom had given him*happens in one of the episodes*. But gladly enough, he didn't wear dress, for gods' sake. That would have been way too embarrassing. And, he had to admit, that Wolfram looked somewhat cute. Or would look, if he was a girl, Yuri corrected himself. At the same time, Yuri was wearing just plain black evening dress (yes, is called like that for men too! I don't mean that Yuri is wearing a dress. Sry for the interruption :P). He had kept his head at least in that matter. Oh, the wedding ceremony was about to begin. Yuri swallowed hard, and tried to clear his mind.
After walking the hallway, surrounded by hundreds of people, the couple entered to altar, or more closely to substitute of mazokus.
There wasn't priest, of course, because it wasn't Christian wedding, but law reader.(I seriously have no idea how it's called,sry about another interruption:p)
The crowd silenced, as he began to talk.
"We have gathered here to pronounce the delightful evening of these two people to be one. To not prolong it any farther, I will now ask from the relevants"
"Yuri, will you take this man and love him for the rest of your life?"
"I-I do", Yuri said with growing fear. But there was no rescue to be seen.
"Wolfram, do you want to take this man, and take care of him for the rest of your life?"
"I do", wolfram said with a much happier voice.
"You may now kiss the groom"
Yuri was in total panic. How could he ever face anyone from now on, if he were to kiss Wolfram? But Wolframs bride maid, Greta was watching with a big smile on her innocent face. Aww, how could he possibly betray her?
Yuri made his decision. He leaned to Wolfram, but didn't actually kiss him; he just touched his chin with his own. Wolfram looked quite mad after that, but he would deal with that later.
And that was when the crowd burst to joy. Everyone was cheering, throwing flowers, and whistling to them. Even Yuri's loyal Morgif, which he had taken with him, was singing in his own, weird voice.
If only he could be happy. It's true that he cared for Wolfram, wanted to protect him, but love? Yuri considered himself as straight, even with the little crush to Saralegui. Besides being boy, there wasn't any major problem concerning Wolfram. Well, expect that he's selfish, extremely jealous, and racist in some ways, short-tempered and spoiled little brat. Heck, there were actually a lot of things. But he had his good sides, too. He's loyal, determinate and brave. Not to mention his good looks…
While thinking about the last statement, Yuri blushed deeply. What was he thinking? He was a boy after all, no matter how girly he may look.
Beside the fact they were married, Yuri still considered Wolfram as only his friend. The marriage was held only out of duty, to satisfy Gwendal and the other nobles.
Later on they had enormous number of dinners and parties. Wolfram seemed to forget his previous disappointment, or was saving it for later. Yuri counted at least 200 congratulations. Only one was missing, from Gunter.
"I can't believe he really married that-that little kid! He can't possible be responsible enough to stay on his majesty side. This is unforeseen! If only Yuri could have made a more sensible choice"
"What are you saying Gunter?? How many times have I saved Yuri from all sorts of troubles, and you do nothing expect sit here giving good night kisses for horses", Wolfram answered angrily.
This continued for a while, tension gradually growing larger between them.
In the mean time, Yuri talked with his best friend, Conrad.
" I feel so worn out…All these duties, huh even thinking about it makes me tired. I'm starting to doubt if it was right decision to become a maou", Yuri complained.
"I can imagine how you much feel now", Conrad said, "But shouldn't you be happy now that you can marry the man you love?"
"Eh heh, maybe that *love* part was little exaggerating, you know. I can't imagine myself as Wolfram's lover or other way round, but of course I like him- in some ways"
Their conversation ended to Gunter's and Wolfram's argument.
"Are you saying that I have no right to marry Yuri?" Wolfram shouted.
"Yes, a man with no special qualities what so ever and that don't even have a serious attachment to his majesty", Gunter shouted back.
"What do you mean, of course I love Yuri! He's the meaning of my life", Wolfram said.
And that's when it hit Yuri. Wolfram really, truly loved him. He felt pretty guilty for marrying him, even with no actual feelings. Of course Wolfram had his faults, but who hasn't? At least he had honest feelings. For the rest of evening, Yuri was uncharacteristically quiet and seemed to be flying somewhere else.
Finally came the sleeping time. Exhausted, Yuri was changing his pj, when he noticed something weird. Where was Greta? After all, she had slept for months in the same bed as Yuri and Wolfram (no dirty thoughts, thank you xD).
"I go to search for Greta", Yuri said.
"But she is- "Wolfram didn't have to chance to continue, Yuri was already gone.
Where on earth she could be, Yuri wondered. Maybe she's still listening one of those Anissina's stories… I should warn Anissina; those aren't proper things for a little girl to hear.
Yuri searched for Anissinas room, kitchen, even garden, but she was no where to be seen. Finally, when he had surveyed almost the whole castle, he found her sleeping in a small corner room. She seemed to be sleeping very peacefully, but Yuri was concerned about her so he waked her up.
"Greta, why are you sleeping here? Is something the matter? I was worried about you, you know."
"Umm. Anissina-sama said that I can't sleep in the same room as you two, now when you are married", Greta said in a voice still full of sleep.
"What? Why would she say something like that? Of course you can, you're my little girl after all"
" It's okay Yuri, I think it's fun to have a own room", after saying that Greta was already in sleep.
Yuri felt little uneasy, and sad too. How could see grow up so soon? Now she slept in her own room, the next day she would marry someone and leave the castle. Grr. Even thinking about made shivers go down his spine.
When Yuri came to his room, Wolfram was still waiting for him.
" I'm sorry for not telling you Greta. I knew you wouldn't like it,, so I kind of skip that thing", Wolfram said.
" It's okay, just let me sleep now. Gosh, I'm so tired. Good night, Wolfram"
"Ok, if you give me a good night kiss first"
" Are you crazy?! Ok, I just pretend I didn't hear that. GOOD NIGHT, Wolfram"
" I understand about the earlier, I don't like to do things in public, too. Hmp. If that's so difficult for you, can't we at least have a hug?"
" Most certainly not.. No please, won't you let me sleep, please?"
"Yuri! We WILL hug! Beside, that shouldn't be anything new for you. We've hugged before"
Yuri gulped. This is what he's feared for a long time. But, what harm could a single hug possibly do? If that would keep him quiet, it was worth it.
So, as shivering as ever, Yuri gave him a hug. It was suppose to be short, but… His smell hypnotised him. It was something like flowers mixed together. A boy shouldn't smell like that, came to his. With his smell, and warmness, it was almost too much to bear. When Yuri finally realized what he was doing, he quickly pulled out.
What was that? Yuri was so shamed, and astonished, hugging a boy like that… Could it become any worst?
"Good night For the third time", Yuri managed to say at last. But he didn't sleep at all during the night.