A Royal Winter Chapter two
Alright, I'm really not going to blah over everyhing, but I should mention since I forgot to do so in the first chap...
I DON'T OWN KHR!
I actually don't think I've been doing disclaimers at all lately... O.o COMMENCE- Fran: Don't even say it. Just write.
Me: ... okay...
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DEC 22
"Happy birthday, senpai," Fran said, smiling at the prince, who happened to be asleep still.
"Nngg... don't push the prince," Bel complained on instinct, seeing as that was Fran's usual wake-up call.
"I didn't push the prince, I just told him happy birthday," Fran chuckled, softly caressing his senpai's cheek.
"Oh... *yawns* well you remembered before the prince, the prince congratulates Froggy for that," Bel mumbled tiredly, before suddenly realizing just how important today was. He sat up immediately, shouting out, "OHMIGOD IT'S THE PRINCE'S BIRTHDAY!"
Fran laughed happily when he saw that his senpai was back to normal. "Right, what do you want to do first? Don't suggest anything sexual, save that for tonight."
"The prince is thinking...," Bel said, "... ... ... ... The prince... ... ... hmm... Froggy!"
"Yes?"
"Tell the prince what he wants to do."
"... I can't exactly decide that for you senpai."
"Yes, you can, because the prince told you to."
"Alright... hm... I've got an idea, but you'll have to stay here. Permission to momentarily take the hat off?"
"Sure. Be quick."
"I will!" Fran called, taking the hat off and setting it on the ground before running off somewhere.
'What is Froggy up to...?' the prince murmured.
It wasn't long before Fran burst back into the room, holding two dresses, one blood-red and short cut, and one a deep blue and long cut. "Choose," he ordered.
"Uh, blood-red...?" Bel suggested, barely having time to process what was going on; he was about to ask, but Fran left again before he had the chance. After a couple confused minutes, Bel sort of figured it out.
'Where did he get those anyway...?' he wondered to himself. 'Well, I suppose it doesn't really matter, the question is whether I'll be seeing Froggy in that.'
Fran anxiously looked at himself in the mirror. 'I look like a girl,' he inwardly growled. He folded his arms and didn't look away from the image. 'Why did he have to choose the one that showed so much leg? In fact, how do the actual girls put up with this?'
'What are you talking about, Fran?' asked a deep voice in the back of his head.
'Master, not now, I'm dressing up for senpai.'
'Kufufu~, that's so sweet!'
'Master, go get in a dress for YOUR lover. Let's see if you can still call it 'sweet'.'
'Oh, I'm MUCH more masculine than you, so I really don't need to, in fact, I think the dress would suit Kyouya better.'
'Seriously, I don't have time to talk, I'm busy worrying over how I look.'
'Fran, you really do act like a girl sometimes, it makes me suspiscious.'
'Master, get out of my head! We're done talking!'
'Aww, that's not very nice, Fran. But I agree, you and your dress is more important than your Master.'
Fran cast an illusion on himself so that his Master wouldn't be able to bother him further. He sighed at his reflection once more before walking out of the spare room and back to Bel's room. He opened the door and walked in, crossing his arms and waiting for the prince's reaction.
Bel would not stop staring. It was as though his eyes were literally glued to the kouhai. His mouth was hanging open a little from the shock. "Say something, senpai," Fran said, uncomfortable with the silence.
"Froggy is really, REALLY cute today," the prince barely managed, getting off the bed and slowly approaching what appeared to be his prey.
"Okay, I put on a dress for you, I'm not going to just take it off because this gets you turned on, I really want to save that for later," Fran told his slowly approaching senpai.
"Ushishishi~, didn't know Froggy knew the prince so well," Bel giggled as he dragged Fran into an embrace.
"I don't like wearing this, so how long do you plan to have me in it?" Fran asked, "Counting out your plans to take it off yourself."
"Shishi~! That's alright, Froggy, you're pretty cute as you are already, but can the prince take a picture of you?"
"I suppose," Fran gave in. Bel happily went to get his phone. When he returned, he said 'say Varia', which Fran flatly refused, but the prince got his picture anyway.
"Shishi~! You're almost cuter when you look annoyed," Bel commented. Fran rolled his eyes and went back to get his uniform back on.
"Girls do a lot for their appearance," he informed Bel before leaving.
"Shishi~, well so does a prince, Froggy."
December 24
"You know, senpai, it's Christmas Eve," Fran pointed out, lazily drawing circles on the prince's chest with his index finger. Bel sighed and looked at him.
"Christmas? What's that?"
"... Nothing...," Fran lied, moving a bit closer into the prince's side and letting his hand just rest where it was, "I'm sure you always thought it was late birthday presents, seeing as your birthday is the twenty-second."
"Ushishi~, and if you forget it, you get stabbed," Bel chuckled, rolling onto his side to face his kouhai. "Ne, is it bad to just stay in bed for the rest of the week?" he asked.
"Master told me to make you feel loved, and as far as I know, this is your favorite pass time. But yes, it's probably really unhealthy to just be in bed, not eating, just doing certain romance-related events."
"Aw, whatever happened to the shameless little Froggy who would've said flat-out that he was just being raped?" Bel asked.
"Well, now it's the shameless prince, for one, and two, it's not rape if I don't mind."
"Good point, shishishi~"
Fran yawned and stretched. "Let's eat something before we both starve, though..."
The prince giggled and ruffled Fran's hair. "You'll have to cook."
"Knock it off," Fran mumbled, lazily batting the prince away from him, "I know that..."
"Shishishi~! I'll be shocked if you actually manage, you're usually all tired after..."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm working on my lazy problems, now move over so I can get out of the bed." Bel rolled over to let Fran crawl over him, and watched the kouhai walk, or limp, towards the door.
"I'll be right there, just let the prince- hey, wait, why are you dressed anyway?"
Fran shut the door instead of answering, leaving a very confused prince behind him. 'Okay... wierd moment...,' the prince thought, before getting out of bed to get dressed.
Fran supported himself with the counter. 'Okay, last night and this morning was a bad idea,' he thought, gingerly rubbing his side. 'But what else do I give, really?'
'Hey, Fran!'
The kouhai almost fell over upon hearing Mukuro's telepathic voice. 'Master?'
'I forgot to tell you something.'
'What's that?'
'After doing a bit of research with the clips from our Hell ring training together, I made a discovery,' Mukuro told him.
'Don't play coy with me. Just tell me, I'm in a bad mood.'
'Well, that's not my fault,' Mukuro mumbled indigantly, 'I wanted to tell you that you might have a bit of Storm flames in you.' (A/N: I'm making it up for the sake of the story, okay? Don't ask about it, it will help the plot, hint hint.)
'Do I really?' Fran wondered, holding his hand out in front of him.
'And hear this, this is the cutest part.'
'I don't think I've heard you say cute before.'
'Just listen, it's your right ring finger.'
Fran raised a brow. 'Is that so? Prove it.'
'Don't have to. Tell your prince charming to give you a ring.'
'Master!' Fran protested, blushing, 'he'd think I want to marry him!'
'Do you not?' Mukuro asked, 'You can tell him the reason, he'd understand.'
'Then we'd never get breakfast,' Fran inwardly sighed, 'leave it to Master to come up with the craziest things...'
'Fran, not while I can read your thoughts, please.'
'Then get out of my head, I'll talk to him.'
'Alright, thanks~!'
Fran heard the echo of his Master's chuckle before he felt the older illusionist's presence disappear altogether.
"Froggy?" called Bel, walking into the kitchen, "Hm? You're a bit pale, what's up?"
"A-actually senpai, Master just reached me through his telepathic thing that he does, and he said..."
"... What? What did he say?" Bel asked.
"... Would you mind giving me one of your Storm-class rings for a second?" the kouhai asked. The prince did so, handing Fran one of his spare rings. The kouhai slipped it onto his ring finger on his right hand, and the prince watched, grinning widely when he saw the Fran do so. "Take a sudden intrest in the color red?" he asked the teal-haired assassin. "Or do you feel really close to the prince now? It's only been a few months-"
"Senpai," Fran cut off, "look."
Bel looked closely at the ring, and gasped when he saw the smallest Storm flame dancing on top of the red gem that was set in the ring. "Fran, you...," he whispered.
Fran nodded slowly, "I have a wave of Storm flames."
The prince captured Fran's lips in a kiss as soon as the words were spoken. It didn't last very long, but it was enough. Bel hugged Fran tightly after that, cheshire grin fixed in place. "Does this mean you can open Mink's box?" he asked.
"Yeah... probably," Fran agreed, not tearing his eyes away from the ruby flame. He felt Bel hand him the box weapon, and held it before him. "Sure you're going to let a peasant open the prince's weapon?" he questioned.
"The prince has told you, Froggy is special," the prince murmured. Fran smiled and hit his own flames into Bel's box weapon. Mink exited casually, materializing on Fran's hat. However, the mink recognized that Fran wasn't its master rather quickly, and hopped onto Bel's shoulder instead, nuzzling into the prince's cheek. "Shishishi~, bummer, he still doesn't like you," Bel giggled, before leaning down to kiss Fran again. As soon as Mink understood what Bel was about to do, he leapt off the prince's shoulder and began to explore the house once more. The kitchen was particularly intresting because the scent of Lussuria's cooking was always lingering on the air.
The couple parted once again. "Hey Froggy, the prince just got an idea," Bel said.
"Hm? What's up?" Fran asked.
"What if Froggy took Mink on his mission?" Bel suggested. Fran's eyes widened slightly.
"But senpai, you'd be left totally alone," Fran pointed out, "wouldn't you get lonely?"
"The prince is used to having to entertain himself," Bel replied seriously after a pause. Fran frowned.
"I really hate leaving you here, senpai," he whispered. The prince held out his arms, and Fran obediently hugged him. "I promise, if I'm not back within a ten day period, you can stab as many knives into me as you want, and I'll wear the frog hat in my sleep, and-"
"Shhh," Bel hushed, "Just be back soon."
Fran quieted and sighed lightly. "I guess I'm going to miss you more than I thought," he breathed.
"If you take Mink, you'll have a part of the prince with you," Bel reminded him, "and it's not like I haven't been left alone at the base before. But they usually did regret it when they did that- shishishi."
"Mink doesn't even like me," Fran reminded the prince.
"Well, he'll have to learn. Plus, he should help you if you get into any fights. If there's something he hates more than you, it's an enemy."
"That's comforting," Fran said, a hint of sarcasm in his voice. The prince giggled, before looking at the refrigerator.
"Hey, do you want the prince to cook? You still look pretty tired," he suggested.
"If you cook, we'll both die," Fran muttered.
"Well then, let's both die, there's probably instructions on the boxes or something," the prince said with his usual grin.
"Nope, you'll have to figure it all out yourself," Fran told him. Bel's grin wavered slightly.
"The prince is a genius, he can do it," he insisted.
"Alright, fine," the kouhai gave in, moving to take a seat at the table. Mink hopped up onto a chair beside him, then onto the table. He sat down in the center of the table, waving it's flame-covered tail around in the air. It grinned manically and gave a high 'shishishi' before leaping off the table again to crawl up to Bel.
About an hour later, and after MANY failed attempts at a decent meal, Bel finally managed to set some food on the table. He sat down next to Fran with a sigh of defeat. "Cooking is hard," he complained.
"And after all this, you manage to make instant noodles. Nice, senpai."
"Shut up."
-End Chapter
(This has been reuploaded 'cause I [rather stupidly] got the day of Bel's birthday wrong the first time. Biiiiig mistake.)
Yay~! Chapter two!
Bel: What kind of ridiculous chapter ending is that?
Me: I'm sure people love it when I end with something funny.
Bel: *glares*
Fran: This is soooo boring.
Me: It'll get better, just wait!
Mukuro: You make me look all cute and then you have me refer to myself as 'masculine.' Nice.
Me: You're reading too much into this, Mukuro.
Hibari: I'm not jealous of Fran. I've had Mukuro for how long now?
Me: Idk, a month?
Hibari: *rolls eyes* Leave it to the author to forget important details.
Me: Stop being such a downer.
Hibari: Hn.
Byakuran: I want to be in this.
Me: No.
Byakuran: X^X Me: Too bad!
Mammon: Hey, you peoples, what's up?
Bel & Fran: *runs*
Me: Dude, you scared away the main characters. Mammon: Whatever. Hey, am I going to be in this?
Me: Possibly. PLEASE REVIEW~~!
Hibari: Better, but I still like my version.