A Royal Blackmail

Chapter One

A/N: Season 2, Story 2 has begun! :3 Fun, fun, fun! Actually, not so much. X3 We have an unwanted guest as a plot device here... but I'm not spoiling! Just read!

It was the middle of Febuary, and for some reason, Belphegor had it in his mind that he wanted to go to the beach with his Froggy.

"Sure as hell I'm not going with you," Squalo muttered.

"Yeah, you are, shark trash," Xanxus growled back. "The king wants to see you wet."

"Way to totally copy Belphegor," Fran snickered. "We need to get his lines copyrighted."

"Yeah, whatever that means!" Bel agreed.

"Fufu~ The beach, huh?" Byakuran laughed. "Sounds fun~! I'm going to go tell Luss~" After all, in the past month, for some reason, Byakuran and Lussuria had more or less become gal-pals.

The Varia soon got ready and headed out to a private little cove that the Vongola had reserved. As they arrived, Squalo quickly set out chairs for himself and Xanxus, so the 'babies' could have their fun while the 'real leaders' relaxed. Fran and Belphegor proceeded to fall in the water while still dressed in their full uniforms, which earned them a severe scolding from Lussuria and Byakuran. Leviathan, to everyone's happiness, found himself swiftly buried in the sand by a wave that obviously didn't like him.

Everyone who mattered was having fun.

"You know, getting out in the sun like this isn't so bad every once in a while," Lussuria said as he rubbed sunscreen on to Byakuran's nose. "But I don't want any of my dears getting sunburnt."

"Mm hm," Byakuran agreed, looking down at his phone, where he was reading a text from Irie Shouichi.

'Tsunayoshi says I can come over in two days. That cool with you?'

After texting 'yes' with a happy emoticon to the mechanic, Byakuran stuffed his cell phone back into his pocket, and glanced back at Lussuria. "You almost done?" he mumbled.

"Yes, dear, just about," Lussuria said. "I'm going to go take care of boss now..."

"Good luck," Byakuran chuckled. He turned back to the water, and smiled at the sight of the sunlight reflecting off of the water. He loved the ocean. While in prison, he was permitted just one day a year to go out and enjoy the water. Now, however, it was much, much easier. Byakuran quickly took off his shoes, and headed in so that the waves only ran over his ankles. The water was warm, having been exposed to sunlight for the majority of the day. The albino smiled, closing his eyes. How nice.

And then, of course, he was splashed. The Sky glared over at Belphegor and Fran, who pointed accusingly at each other. Byakuran was fast to open his Box weapon behind his back, and as Bel and Fran got into an arguement over who started it, the White Dragon splashed both of them. "Aw, man!" Fran protested. "Byakuran, you darn albino trash! There you go again, making me drop my wedding ring in the water!" Bel's face turned dead serious, and, after giving Byakuran the worst water fight he'd ever experience, the prince began to search for the ring in the water. Fran watched, clearly amused, and observed as Belphegor began to swim out and search for it in the deeper water. Finally, when the prince surfaced for air again, Fran called, "Just kidding, senpai, I got it!"

The prince proceeded to stab the ocean in his rage.

Meanwhile, boss and shark were getting lectured. "Now, now, boss, you and Squalo will both get skin cancer," Lussuria said. "You know? Sunscreen is important."

"Boss is already covered in scars, I don't think he has to worry about cancer," Squalo muttered.

"Well, Squ, your skin is too beautiful for me to let it get sunburned!" Lussuria announced, coming in to slather sunscreen all over Squalo's face, when Xanxus grabbed his wrist, a mean look on his face. "Boss...?" Lussuria murmured, growingnnervous.

"Are you saying I'm not beautiful?" he snarled.

"Uh- um- well... well... that is...," Lussuria stuttered, his face quickly reddening. Xanxus yanked the other forward, and in a move that only he could pull off, he made the Sun guardian use the sunscreen on himself, before impressively flipping him.

"There. You just got Sun-blocked," he snickered.

"Xanxus, easy with the funny lines, they aren't like you," Squalo murmured.

"I've got a small cold, don't worry," Xanxus muttered back.

Levi glared at Byakuran from a distance, before finally growling, "Hey, albino trash. Come here and help me out of this sand."

"Why should I~?" Byakuran giggled. "Everyone's content with you right there." Leviathan scowled, and looked away, silently plotting his revenge. Byakuran had been as much of a jerk to him as the other Varia, and Levi didn't think that Byakuran deserved that privilage. It was about time he told the albino that he knew about what had happened in January.

"Hey, Froggy," Bel murmured, his arms laced around the illusionist's slender hips. "I love you."

"Yeah, love you too, you sopping wet psycho," the illusionist mumbled back, reaching up and wringing out Belphegor's bangs, grinning at the sight of his beloved's legendary gaze.

SNAP.

The couple turned, to see that Byakuran had snapped a picture of Prince the Ripper's blood-red gaze. "Fufufu! I did it! I feel like I've photographed a unicorn!" With that, the albino ran off, Belphegor slowly blushing.

"F-Fran... he just...," the prince stuttered. "W-what do I do...?"

"It's okay, Senpai. Froggy the Magnificent is on the case." Fran ran after Byakuran, and after chasing him in circles for a few minutes, he leaped, and managed to tackle the albino into the sand. After making his wavy, white hair take a sandbath, Fran took back the camera, and deleted the photo that captured both his smile and Bel's eyes. "Just be glad you saw them," he growled, before standing up and turning back. He was faced with a very frustrated mother Luss. "Uh, Luss? You have a little... sunscreen," Fran said, pointing to the other's face. Lussuria clicked his tongue.

"Apologize," he ordered.

"... No."

Lussuria turned him around, and repeated it, more firmly. "Apologize to Byakuran."

"Sorry, albino," Fran growled. The Sun released him, and proceeded to help his white-haired friend up.

"You okay, hun?" he whispered.

"Ah, m'fine," Byakuran answered. Lussuria suddenly brought him into a small hug.

"I'm glad you're okay," he murmured.

"It's okay, Luss," the albino insisted. "I'm fine." This was one thing that kind of bothered him. While he appreciated Lussuria's motherly nature, sometimes, the other was just a little too... persistent.

"Hey, babies, can we leave soon?" Squalo muttered. "It's too hot out here."

"Squalo's feeling like a fried fish," Xanxus mumbled, before grinning. "Heheh... heh..."

"Jeez, boss, you really are sick," Fran sighed. "Yeah. We should go home soon. But someone needs to dig Levi out first. ... Not it!"

"Not it!" shouted the other Varia quickly, and Byakuran looked up, confused.

"Not what?"

"Ha! Byakuran, you have to dig the 'trashy trash' out," Fran said. He and the other mobile Varia left at that, and Byakuran sighed as Fran tossed him an illusionary toy shovel. The Sky sighed, and walked over to where Levi was stuck, before starting to dig around the Lightning guardian.

After about five minutes, though, he stabbed the shovel into the ground and stood back up. "Ugh, this is dumb!" he protested, starting to walk away.

"... I know you almost killed Xanxus."

Byakuran froze, shocked, and looked back at Levi, before grinning. "Did you say something, trashy trash?"

"You heard me," Levi growled. With this, Byakuran became serious. He walked back to Leviathan, and knelt down beside him.

"What are you going to do about it?"

"If I told the boss, he'd get rid of you," Levi answered. Byakuran was visibly growing nervous.

"Oh, come now, Levi," the Sky murmured. "He's more of a 'shoot the messenger' type, don't you think?"

"So then, I should tell him," the Lightning guardian said slyly. Byakuran bit his lip.

"What do you want?"

"First, dig me out," Levi began. "But I won't officially let you off until you do me a tremendous favor."

"What favor?" Byakuran pressed. The older man smirked.

"Break up boss and Squalo."

-End Chapter

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