The One to Protect You

Disclaimer: I do not own Kyou Kara Maoh!, but the beautiful Saralegui-heika does own my heart.

Rating: K+

Pairing: Yuri/Wolfram (not explicitly romance though I do love them as a romantic pairing)

Warnings: None really

It was a peaceful day in Shinmakoku. After nearly a week of nothing but rain, the skies had finally cleared, and the sun shone brightly on the large castle grounds. The calm quiet of the day was interrupted only by the occasional screech of "bad omen!" from up above and the idle gossiping of the maids as they went about their work. Well, that and…

"Yuri, you cheater! How dare you flirt with that woman behind my back?"

"I told you, I wasn't flirting!" Yuri replied helplessly, running from his enraged fiancé, "I was just apologizing for bumping into her, and besides, she was like 80!"

"I'm 82!"

Yuri dashed around a corner, nearly running headfirst into a guard on patrol. He barely slowed down as he shouted a quick apology over his shoulder at the man who didn't seem very bothered by it, going straight back to his work with a slightly bemused expression. This was nothing out of the ordinary for the maou and his betrothed after all, and everyone in the castle had long since grown accustomed to it.

"Get back here, wimp! I'm not through with you!"

The double black cringed at how close that sounded and tried to run faster. His face brightened however when he suddenly spotted a familiar figure.

"Conrad!"

The brunette turned, seeming momentarily surprised before his features shifted to his signature calm smile as the teen skidded to a halt in front of him, doubled over panting to catch his breath.

"We already ran this morning, Heika. Don't push yourself with too much training."

"It's… 'Yuri', and… not… training… Wolfram's trying… to-"

"Yuri!"

Yuri let out a startled noise, hiding behind Conrad as Wolfram finally caught up with him. The blonde came to a stop in front of his brother, glaring daggers at the double black still hiding behind him.

"Yuri! How dare you run away when your fiancé is talking to you! Conrart, stop protecting him!"

"You weren't talking, you were yelling! And you tried to set me on fire!" Yuri shot back from his relatively safe position behind his godfather, "Conrad, do something! He's your brother!"

Conrad for his part, remained as composed as ever even quite literally caught between the rather explosive couple's quarrel.

"Wolfram, I'm sure Hei-Yuri didn't mean whatever he said", Conrad said, holding his hands up in a disarming manner in an attempt to calm his angry younger brother.

'Why do you just assume it was my fault?' Yuri thought bitterly, though he knew better then to say it out loud. He was pretty sure Wolfram wouldn't actually kill him, but he wasn't sure what the blonde's stance was on just singeing him a little and he didn't want to take his chances. Especially not when he still looked pretty damn furious.

"Stop fighting his battles for him, Conrart! Yuri needs to-" the blonde covered his mouth as he was abruptly cut off by a series of rough coughs.

"Wolf…?" Yuri, suddenly concerned stepped out from behind Conrad and tried to approach the blonde. The glare Wolfram shot him, however stopped him in his tracks.

"I'm fine!" The blonde shot back sounding annoyed, though no one had technically asked him anything, "I'm just winded from having to run after my cheating fiancé!"

He hadn't seemed winded a couple seconds ago. And now Conrad seemed concerned as well as Wolfram broke off into another short coughing fit. The brunette stepped forward, placing a hand on the blonde's forehead, despite the latter's protests.

"You do feel a bit warm", he said just as Wolfram angrily slapped his hand away.

"I said I was fine!" Wolfram shouted stubbornly, but it was obvious from the sound of his voice that he was trying to hold back another cough.

"We should take you to see Gizela", Yuri said, putting a hand on Wolfram's shoulder, and earning a glare from the blonde.

Though, Wolfram had to admit now, he was feeling a little bit bad. His head had felt kind of fuzzy, and he'd had a bothersome tickle in the back of his throat for the past couple days. He had assumed he was getting a cold, most likely due to the terrible weather, but hadn't really done anything about it, hoping it would just pass on its own. Running around the castle like that did not seem to have helped much, and on top of the cough, he was now starting to feel a little dizzy.

He didn't want to get sick though. Especially since Yuri was here. If he was stuck in bed with a stupid cold, who was going to keep his shameless flirt of a fiancé from cheating on him? And if he was honest with himself, he didn't want to make the wimp worry on his behalf. Yuri always cared too much about everyone else, and it wasn't supposed to be his job to worry about Wolfram. As both a soldier and his fiancé, Wolfram was supposed to be the one looking after him and not the other way around. Or at least that's how he saw it.

The blonde tried to protest again, but another harsher sounding cough beat him to it.

"Yuri's right. Why don't you go rest, and I'll get Gizela to come check you over." Conrad gave the rather sullen looking blonde a reassuring smile, then checked his forehead again as if his temperature would have changed all that drastically in the last few seconds.

The blonde grumbled something about not wanting to under his breath, but there wasn't really any heart in it as he knew he'd been beaten.

"Yeah, you shouldn't be running around like this if you're sick", Yuri agreed, leading him with a hand on his arm. "Mom always said that rest was the most important thing for getting over a cold."

Wolfram was slightly put off to see that Yuri had lead him to his room, and not the room they had come to- against Yuri's will- share. But then, he supposed if he was going to be sick, they didn't really need to be sleeping together. Still, he was already in a bad mood which a steadily growing headache was doing nothing to improve upon, and he couldn't help but be bothered by it.

The blonde coughed again, and bitterly hoped that this wasn't going to last long.

The second thing I've written that was lower then M rating, and the first that was under T (though oddly enough, the first one written for a legitimately shounen-ai fandom. Go figure.). It's a lot different to write then my normal wham-bam-thank-you-sir, but I kind of like it. I'm mostly trying to go for more fluffy and cute humor and less drama and angst with this for once. Please review and tell me what you think!

(one last thing) This chapter was kind of (really) short, but it's just the opening. The following chapters will be longer, I promise.

Thank you for reading! I hope you liked it!

~angel-san