England Baby

England Arrivals

"Takumi?" Misaki knocked on the door of the bathroom, hearing the shower water running from behind the door.

"Yeah?"

"I need to do my hair so I'm coming in," Today, they would leave for England. But first, Misaki needed to tell her mother and as an optional, but extremely important choice, the girl's in Maid Latte. She cracked open the door and pulled open the top drawer of the bathroom cabinet, grabbing her hairbrush. She brushed all the knots and tangles out of her hair as she hummed to herself, her fiance's hand sticking out of the curtain to grab a towel as the water ceased and he stepped out a moment later, draping his wet arms around her neck as she set down the hairbrush.

"Get off me," She shook him off and poked her tongue out. "I like my clothes dry thank you very much, "

"Hmm? Sure you do," He seemed a little hurt, whether it was real or fake, but she gave him a kiss anyway.

"Go get dressed and then we can go to my old place and I can say goodbye to Mum," He gave a curt nod and strode out of the bathroom whilst Misaki stared at herself in the mirror for a moment. The longer she looked, the less she recognised herself. Gone was the young naive girl that studied until she collapsed and before her stood a young engaged woman, her cheekbones slightly more prominent and her curves in all the right places. She gave herself a little smile and prayed that the mirror wouldn't shatter, leaving her image and understanding of herself to fade rapidly as the glass rained down and caught the sunlight. With a deep breath to steady all her jumbled emotions, she walked back into her room. By this time, Usui was dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a plain black tee-shirt, holding his car keys out in front of him, the assortment of silver and bronze keys glinting and shimmering as they caught the sun's rays from where they dangled from his closed fist.

"Let's go,"

~o~

Both trips didn't take too long and before long, they were back home and packing. As sad as it was to see this place go, it wouldn't be forever, she knew that in her heart. She broke out of her reverie when a pair of shorts were thrown at her face.

"Stop day dreaming," Usui chuckled as she grabbed the shorts and put them inside her suitcase.

"Sorry. I was just thinking," She grabbed various other articles of clothing and folded them neatly inside her clothes suitcases, moving on to the suitcases that would hold everything else.

"About?" He pressed, zipping up the last of his suitcases and placing them upright. She gave a laugh.

"Life," She replied, setting her suitcases upright as well. He grabbed his car keys again and gave her a weird smile.

"Oh? That's a little deeper than I expected, but okay," He grabbed the handle of one of his suitcases. "Let's load these into the car,"

"Are they all going to fit?" She asked, grabbing her own suitcase and starting down the stairs behind Usui.

"Of course. We can use the back seats too if we need them," She nodded absently as he opened the door and unlocked the car, putting in two of his four suitcases. She opened the back door to put her two in the back and turned to grab them when Usui swatted her hand away and grinned. "Ladies shouldn't carry heavy things," She rolled her eyes and grabbed the suitcases anyway.

"A guy shouldn't be so cheesy," She poked her tongue out and he snuck in a little kiss. When they had all of their suitcases packed away in the car, Usui locked up the house and they were off to the airport.

~o~

They boarded the plane at eleven that morning and took their seats, Misaki closest to the window, staring out at the hills that stretched farther than she could see. She turned her eyes to him and smiled as he grabbed her hand, twining their fingers together, his face down and his eyebrows furrowed.

"I forget you don't like aeroplanes," She laughed, ruffling his hair as he looked up.

"I'll live," He murmured, closing his eyes as she placed a kiss to his forehead.

"I'd hope so," She mused as the intercom came to life above them. "All passengers, please buckle your seatbelts as we are about to take off," The voice faded into a slight static before fading completely and Misaki, still with one hand in Usui's, grabbed her laptop from her carry on bag.

"What are you doing?" He asked as she slipped her hand from his to type her password. "You're not working are you?" As the screen lit up, Misaki stole a guilty look at her fiance, his eyes studying her warily. She looked away quickly and pulled up a spreadsheet on her desktop, clicking on the calculator app in the bottom left hand of her screen.

"Maybe," She muttered, trying to immerse herself in her work and avoid Usui's somewhat judgemental expression. He shifted as close to her as the seats would allow and rested his head on her shoulder, staring at the screen in front of him as a blush danced across her cheeks at their proximity, and then a soft adoring smile took it's place.

"So what is more important than me, hmm?" He teased as she grabbed a small notebook from the pocket of her jeans.

"Oh ha ha," She rolled her eyes. "As if this is more important than you, no, rather, it's just more entertaining," She flicked open the notebook and started transferring numbers from it to the spreadsheet on the screen. "But if you must know, it's the accounting for Maid Latte. I asked Satsuki if she had any work I could do on the plane that I could send to her over email and she gave me this." Misaki explained and Usui raised his eyebrows.

"I bet you had to force it out of her. Knowing Satsuki, she probably wouldn't have wanted to give you any work. Especially since you left the other month. It's not your duty anymore y'know," He said, grabbing her wrist as she typed. He kissed her knuckles as she watched him. She let out a little sigh and rubbed her face with her free hand.

"Well, someone has to do it now. Besides, you worked for the Walker company when it wasn't your responsibility, haven't we discussed this?"

"I'll tell you what, put the laptop away for now, we have plenty of time, twelve hours to be exact. Just talk to me instead," He offered and she obliged, saving the work she'd done so far and shutting her laptop off and closing the lid, slipping it back into her bag.

"You win. What do you want to do?" She asked as the hostess with the food trolley started down the aisle. She hadn't even notice that they'd taken off, and she didn't think he had either. She peered out the window for a moment at the passing clouds and endless blue before turning back to Usui.

"You hungry?" He asked, nodding his head in the direction of the hostess who was two seats in front of them now.

"Not really but I could go for a drink," She said as the hostess reached them.

"Would you two like anything?" She asked sweetly. She looked young, maybe twenty-one, with lovely brunette hair twisted up into a bun. Her eyes were a dark chocolate colour and her smile was bright and genuine. She wore the same as every other hostess on the plane. A white blouse with tiny blue polka-dots and a plain black pleated skirt with stockings and black buckle shoes. Misaki looked at the arrangement of food and drinks on the trolley and turned to Usui, waiting for him to decide.

"I'll take a coffee with two sugars and-," He turned to Misaki who had her chin balancing on his shoulder as she peered at the food, his lips touching her cheek momentarily before he asked her. "What do you want Misa?" He murmured. She blushed as she stared up at the still smiling hostess. "I'll have the same please," And though she looked embarrassed, Misaki made no attempt to move away until the hostess had handed her her coffee.

"Here you go," She said, still smiling as she handed the coffee to Usui. "Ah- pardon my asking- but are you two married? I mean, I know it's unprofessional but you looked so cute together that I just had to ask," If Misaki wasn't red before, she certainly was now. She ran her finger around the rim of her coffee cup.

"Ah-no, it's all right. We're engaged," She answered for the both of them, Usui smiling at her embarrassment.

"High school sweethearts," He explained with a smile at the hostess who giggled.

"Well, good for you guys. You look very happy together. Oh- I almost forgot, I haven't even told you my name! I'm Ami," Ami said casually. "If you need anything, feel free to call for me." Misaki smiled up at her kindly, getting over her embarrassment.

"I'm Misaki," She said.

"Takumi," Usui said, almost professionally. He did always have that air about him. In reality, Misaki was surprised that Ami hadn't hit on him; that was usually what the girls did when they started to talk to him, but maybe that was just in high school and her past was trying to catch up and mix in with her present. Ami jumped as a passenger called out to her, telling her to hurry up.

"Ah, I better go. Bye bye, Misaki-chan, Takumi-kun," She smiled once more and was gone.

"She was cute," Misaki murmured, taking a sip of her coffee.

"Not as cute as you," Usui smirked quietly, sipping his own coffee. She set her coffee down on the little table in front of her and laid her head back, closing her eyes. Before she could react, his hands were running slowly through her hair, pushing it away from her forehead and tucking strands behind her ears. "Are you tired?" He asked.

"Mentally," She replied with a yawn. "And maybe physically."

"Mentally?" He murmured, his tone carrying an undercurrent of worry. She laid her arm across her face, her closed fist dangling near where his fingers were playing with her hair.

"Mmm, don't worry about it. I'm just thinking about what your Grandfather will say when you turn up with the poor tomboy and say we're engaged. He's never much been a fan of me,"

"Misa, we've been through this." Usui said sternly. "If my Grandfather doesn't accept you, then to hell with him. You're more important to me than he is and I will not give you up. As long as he wants me to cover for Gerald, he'll have to deal with my beautiful fiancee." The tone in his voice was final and left no room to argue. And although she wanted to try, she knew it was a waste of her breath so she kept quiet. He kissed her forehead when she didn't open her eyes to look at him and then left a lingering kiss at her lips, smiling as she kissed him back softly. "I'll wake you in a few hours for dinner." He whispered. And then it all faded to black.

~o~

By the time Misaki awoke, it was dark outside. Unlike he had promised, Usui had not woken her but rather was asleep beside her, his head angled towards her. As she stared at him, smiling fondly, she didn't notice Ami coming up with the dessert trolley.

"Hi, Misaki-chan," She smiled as Misaki looked up at her and then scanned the food on the trolley, realizing it was past dinner.

"Hi Ami," She replied as Ami held out two plastic containers filled with sushi, and rice balls. "Oh Ami, you didn't have too-,"

"But I wanted to," She said as Misaki hesitantly took the containers. "The sushi is teriyaki and the rice balls are just plain. I thought you might want some dinner so I grabbed these. Stop looking at me like that," Ami laughed as Misaki opened her mouth to argue. "They were leftover, it's okay."

"Thank you," Misaki managed, setting them down on her table.

"Would you like anything else?" She asked, gesturing to the dessert trolley. Misaki spied the last piece of chocolate cake at the back and pointed to it, holding a finger to her mouth and pointing to Usui.

"He'll probably kill me for eating this without him but it'll be worth it," She laughed quietly along with Ami as she took the chocolate cake and handed it to Misaki.

"Guilty pleasures aye?" Usui mumbled, though his eyes were still closed. Misaki set the cake down beside the sushi and shrugged.

"I don't know what you mean honey," She said sweetly as Usui opened his eyes, reaching behind her waist to grab the slice of cake, bringing it back to his mouth and taking a bite out of it. "Hey!" She protested as he grinned lopsidedly.

"Well, I'll leave you two be," Ami grinned and made her way down the aisle. Usui set the front of the cake between his teeth, holding the bottom left corner to keep it upright, and raised his eyebrows at her in challenge. Her cheeks reddened.

"You can't be serious," She said, watching his eyes. He made no attempt to move and she let out a frustrated groan. "Fine!" She huffed, leaning over to bite the end of it, her face bright and burning. She swallowed her part of the cake and crossed her arms over her chest. "You are so cruel." She grumbled as he finished the last of the cake.

"Hmm? Weren't you planning on eating it without me?" He asked as she handed him his sushi. She poked her tongue out and munched on her sushi as he let out a laugh. "Oh Misa," He shook his head with a grin and began to eat his own sushi.

~o~

They arrived in England at 3pm and they loaded their suitcases into one of the limos that had come from Raven Castle to collect them. They slipped into the back seat and Misaki blinked.

"It's so big," She murmured. 'And spacious." Usui looked rather uncomfortable sitting in a limo again, even though it suited his looks perfectly, Misaki knew it didn't suit his personality.

"Start the car William," Usui said to the driver, looking out the window as the car started to roll forwards. Their drive was mostly silent until they stopped at the gate of the Raven Castle and Misaki buried her face in his shoulder as the guards opened the gate for them.

"I'm having second thoughts," She whispered, her arms wrapping around one of his arms. He turned his head to her. She'd never much shown her weaknesses to him and it was an understatement to say that this surprised him.

"I know. I'm sorry I dragged you here,"

"But you didn't. I came here out of my own leeway to be with you so I'll just have to deal with it." She said determinedly, smiling down at him. "We can do this together, can't we?" He nodded and gave her a kiss.

"Of course. Now come on, it's time to face the beast- I mean, my Grandfather,"

"Oh joy," They stepped out of the limo as William parked it and made their way up the wide marble steps, holding hands as they stared at Richard who was standing at the top of the staircase.

"Not another step Takumi, you or your girl. She's not welcome here," Richard said gruffly, the end of a cigar dangling from his mouth, the fire dulling. But Usui proceeded to walk up the steps, Misaki following in his wake.

"Hello Grandfather," Usui nodded as Richard stepped in front of them.

"I told you not another step you ignorant child," He stared at Misaki with a scowl. "She is not coming into my property."

"Well too bad. That's not your choice. I own as much of this castle as you do and she is my guest. I'm taking her in whether you like it or not. You wouldn't want to loose Gerald's only replacement would you? I heard it could only be a Walker that can work in his position. Wouldn't it be bad if there was no one here to fill that space?" Richard's eyes twitched and he huffed a cloud of smoke from his cigar.

"If she so much as puts one foot out of place, she's gone, no exceptions." And with that, he stormed back into the house. Usui turned to Misaki with a smile.

"Welcome to Raven Castle, Misa."

Thank you guys so much for reading chapter two of England Baby and I hope you enjoyed it. I will update ASAP. And as always, please R&R, it means the world to me.

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