A/N: So I just recently discovered this anime/manga and I have to say I'm absolutely in love. King is by far my favorite character so I decided to write a cute little AU story about their relationship. My story takes place in the modern day (2016!) and all of the Sins are in college. Let me know what you think by leaving a review! If you guys like it I'll keep updating this story.
Chapter 1: A New Beginning
The warm August sun felt wonderful on Diane's skin as she climbed out of her car. Her car was an old 1994 Camry and its door squeaked loudly as she pushed it closed. She could hear cicadas chirping and the distant sound of people talking. Diane glanced around, trying to spot the entrance to the building before her.
It was the beginning of the 2016 Fall Semester at Taizai University. She had moved all the way across the country from her family's home out in the mountains. Diane had never been to any sort of formal school; all her education had been done from home. Life had been easier that way because of her own little secret. Diane was secretly a giantess. She had always longed to go to school and make friends, but her size obviously made it quite difficult. Diane had only been able to fulfill her dream of University life after her genius of a friend, Merlin, had designed some medicine she could take daily to reduce her size.
Diane nervously pulled open the door to the dorm building, the cool feeling of air conditioner enveloping her. She immediately glanced around and noticed there were a ton of people standing around and chatting, She approached the only desk she could see and hoped someone there could point her in the right direction. To her disappointment, no one was at the desk. She studied the room nervously, unsure of who to talk to.
"Uhm… excuse me?" She tried tapping the shoulder of a gentlemen chatting. Her quiet and shy voice went unheard. Diane was feeling slightly discouraged and decided to wait for someone to return to the desk. Suddenly she heard a voice beside her.
"Hey, you need help with something, Miss?" The boy was shorter than most, with blonde hair and bright green eyes.
Diane was relieved to hear a friendly voice. "Y-yes. I just got here. My dorm room is located in this building. I was wondering who I could check in with."
The boy smiled. "Sure, one moment." He boldly walked behind the desk and opened a door leading into another room. He leaned in and shouted at someone inside. "Yo! Ban! Do your damn job! You've got another freshman trying to check-in."
"Yeah, yeah, captain." The man named Ban mumbled. He walked towards the desk with a clipboard in hand. He was tall and slender with unusually blue-ish silver hair. He wore a tight red V-neck t-shirt and skinny blue jeans. His eyes were narrow and Diane couldn't help but think he resembled a fox in appearance. "Yo. I need a copy of your ID so I can get you checked in. After that, I'm giving you a list of things to check the condition of in your room."
Diane nodded, reaching into her purse and pulling out her wallet. She handed her ID to Ban. The taller man took her ID and walked back into the room behind the desk. There he made a copy of her ID before walking back up and handing it back to her. He leaned over and unlocked one of the drawers to the desk and began thumbing through some files. "Ah, here we go, Miss Diane." He said quietly and pulled out a manila envelope and flipped it open, inside was a simple metal key. He handed it to her along with the checklist.
"Mind showing her to her room, captain?"
"Just don't do anything pervy while you're up on the girl's floor." A smaller blonde haired girl emerged from the room. "I'm aware Elizabeth's room is up on the floor. Make sure you show her some respect."
The blonde-haired boy said nothing and simply gave her thumbs up. "Right this way Miss Diane."
Diane nodded and turned to thank Ban. She followed the blonde-haired boy up a couple flights of stairs before arriving at a long hallway full of different rooms. There were a lot of girls out and about, hurriedly moving their stuff into their rooms and trying to get organized. They eventually arrived a wooden door, near the end of the hallway.
"Go ahead, try your key out."
Diane stuck the key into the door, turned it and then pushed the door up.
"Oh!" A meek voice from inside squeaked. "Hello!"
Diane glanced over the figure in front of her. A skinny, almost fragile looking girl with silver hair and gorgeous blue eyes stared back at her. She wore a pink t-shirt and jean shorts. Her hair was tied up in a high ponytail.
"I'm Elizabeth!" She stuck a hand out towards Diane. Diane gladly shook the hand of the smaller girl.
"Diane! I guess we're going to be roommates then." She smiled widely, excited to make a friend.
The blonde-haired boy who had shown Diane to her room pushed between them and entered their room. He silently admired the bras laid out on the bed.
"Kyahhhh! MELIODAS! Stop!" Elizabeth shrieked, shooing the blonde-haired guy out of their room. Meliodas swiftly headed down the hallways, Elizabeth following. Elizabeth turned back towards Diane. "I'll be right back!"
Diane tilted her head in confusion at the weird display. The one called Meliodas was certainly an interesting character. She glanced down at her checklist and slowly worked her way around the room, carefully checking over each item. When she was finished, Elizabeth had still not returned. She headed back downstairs to the front desk. She handed Ban back her checklist and began to walk out towards her car to start the task of gathering her things.
"Excuse me, Miss?" A very polite voice spoke behind her.
Diane turned back and locked eyes with a shorter boy with reddish-brown eyes. He was short like the Meliodas character but with flushed cheeks. Matching his eyes he had reddish-brown, short and slightly messy hair. His expression was borderline bored looking. Diane couldn't help but feel he looked very familiar.
"Yes?" She responded.
He must have felt the same feeling of recognition because momentarily he was silent. His eyes widened and his cheeks flushed to a deeper pink. He quickly cleared his throat, turning away shyly. "Do you need any help carrying your stuff up to your room?"
Diane couldn't help but wonder what such a frail-looking boy would be able to help her with but decided it would come off snooty to turn down his help. "Sure! I'm Diane." She stuck out a hand.
"King." He quietly replied while shaking her hand.
"King, huh? That's an interesting name."
He gave her a half-smile. "It's a nickname. I prefer to go by it instead of my real name."
Diane nodded, deciding not to pry. They approached her car and she popped open the trunk of her car then handed him a smaller looking box. She would save the larger boxes for herself. Although she had lost her size from the medicine, she still maintained a lot of her strength. "Everyone here is so friendly!" She exclaimed, scooping up a large box. "I've already had two guys named Meliodas and Ban help me out. You guys are all real life savers."
King smiled. "We're just glad to help out. We're all fraternity brothers and we know how stressful the first day of freshman year can be."
"Wow! You're not a freshman? What year are you?"
"Senior." He smiled.
Diane's jaw almost dropped, King didn't look like he could be a day over sixteen, let alone old enough to be a senior in college.
"Meliodas is a junior and Ban is a sophomore." King added.
"Wow!" Diane repeated.
"So what will you be studying?" King asked, trying to make conversation as they headed back into the building.
"Geology." Diane winked, sticking her tongue out at the older boy. "It may be a bit silly, but I love the earth and minerals. It's all so interesting to me."
King blushed, perhaps in response to her wink. "That's not silly at all. You should definitely find something you enjoy. It's also great that you already know what your major will be. Not many freshman have a clue what they want to go to school for."
"Really?" Diane said thoughtfully. "How about you, King? What's your major?" The two of them stepped back into her room.
"Botany, actually. I enjoy the natural and simple things in life." He leaned over and set her bag of personal belongings down gently.
Before their conversation continued, Elizabeth reentered the room looking slightly out of breath. "Hey King!"
"Hey Elizabeth." King nodded towards her.
"Don't worry about helping Diane anymore. I can take it from here." Elizabeth mockingly flexed her arm.
"Sure. Just let me know if I can help with anything." King smiled towards Diane. "It was nice to meet you." He exited the room, leaving the two girls alone.
"Thank you Elizabeth. So, are you a senior too?"
Elizabeth shook her head. "Nope, actually I'm a freshman!"
"Oh, well you don't have to help me if you're busy unpacking your own things!"
Elizabeth shook her head again. "Nope, let me help. Meliodas already helped me carry my things up here. We now need to get you situated so we can bond while decorating our room together!"
"Sure!" Diane gave her a wide smile, very excited about having such a sweet roommate.
After a long day of unpacking and decorating, Elizabeth and Diane were beginning to get hungry. They decided to check out the cafeteria on campus. The line to get in wasn't long, and Diane's student ID doubled as a meal card.
Diane had learned a lot about her new friend Elizabeth. Apparently she was the youngest daughter of the state's governor. The giantess had been very surprised to learn that fact, for Elizabeth didn't come off as the wealthy and snobby kind. She was very kind and soft-spoken. Diane had felt slightly guilty for being so quiet about her own past but it wasn't exactly normal that she was secretly a giant. If she had disclosed this information to Elizabeth, even the sweet silver-haired girl would think she was crazy. Giants just simply didn't exist, or at least, according to most people's understanding of the world.
As she glanced around the room, she noticed they had many different kinds of food. Pork, beef or chicken, pizza, soup, hot dogs, burgers, salads, etc, it all looked so appetizing. "Wow, I can't decide what I'm going to eat! I'm starving!"
"Well, the good thing is that it's an all-you-can-eat buffet, Diane. Go crazy! We definitely need the energy after all our hard work today." Elizabeth happily smiled towards her taller friend.
"All-you-can-eat-buffet?! College is awesome!"
Elizabeth chuckled. "I'll meet you at the table, okay? I'm going to grab some soup."
Diane made her way around the room, grabbing many different food items to sample. She made her way back to the table where Elizabeth and the blonde-haired girl she had seen with Ban earlier sat.
"Diane, this is Elaine." Elizabeth introduced the other girl as soon as she sat down.
"Nice to meet you, Diane!" The blonde-haired girl chirped sweetly.
"Nice to meet you too, Elaine."
The two of them did the normal get-to-know each other speech. Diane found out about Elaine's major, what year she was, etc. Elaine was a sophomore like Ban.
"So how was your move-in this year?" Elizabeth asked Elaine.
"Fine, King was being super protective of me though. He wouldn't let me carry anything! I think between him and Ban I didn't get to handle a single one of my boxes!"
Diane recognized King as being the guy she had met earlier. "You know King, as well?"
Elaine nodded. "That's my overprotective older brother."
"Oh wow!" Diane replied. Now that Elaine mentioned it, her and King had an identical sort of appearance. They shared the same flushed cheeks and reddish-brown eyes.
"And Ban is her boyfriend." Elizabeth added.
Elaine chuckled, "Much to my brother's dismay. He would definitely prefer if none of his fraternity brothers dated his sister."
Elizabeth giggled as well. "Oh come on, King wouldn't be okay with anyone dating you. You're his baby sister."
"Very true. I guess he'll have to get over it though."
"So is Meliodas your boyfriend, Elizabeth?" Diane asked before taking a bite of pizza.
"N-no!" Elizabeth quickly stammered while blushing profusely. "Just a friend. His family members are good friends of ours so we sort of grew up together. He's always being a pervert towards me though."
"You can say that again, even I'm shocked by the stunts he pulls on you." Elaine quipped back, sticking a piece of fruit in her mouth.
Diane couldn't help but be silently relieved that Meliodas wasn't Elizabeth's boyfriend. She had secretly thought he was pretty damn cute. Maybe he was still on the market for a girlfriend then.
The girls chatted it up for the better part of an hour before Elizabeth finally yawned. "I think we're going to head back to the freshman dorms, Elaine. I'm dead-tired after all that lifting and unpacking. I will see you tomorrow, though?"
"Of course!"
The three of them cleaned up their area and headed back to their respective rooms. Diane had to admit she was feeling quite sleepy herself. It had been a long day of meeting a lot of new people. She couldn't get over just how kind everyone had been.
Her first day at Taizai University had been amazing and she couldn't wait to see what would come next.
I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of Flourish! Let me know if you would like to read more. Sorry for any typos and grammar errors.