Chapter 4: sudden doubts

It had been a week since wolframs plan had gone into action and Yuri felt as though he would go insane. Since he had last spoken to Murata he had not received not one invite from any of the female heirs he had requested, not knowing that Murata had never made the requests in the first place. Yet Wolfram was seeing a different suitor each and everyday. "What gives?" Yuri thought as he traveled down the halls of the castle by himself "I should have gotten some word from someone by now", Yuri sighs, for the first time in a long time he felt neglected and unimportant, like nobody liked him. He had sought out Wolframs Company when he felt really lonely, but each and every time the blond would be preoccupied with a love letter or a visit from a noblemen, even Murata was seeing him frequently lately. Upon thinking about this Yuri suddenly became agitated "I can't believe he's trying to date wolfram, some friend he turned out to be, I didn't even know he liked guys". Yuri sighs again, he found himself missing Wolframs Company more and more each day. Yuri passes by the courtyard and looks up outside "speak of the blond devil", he notices wolfram leaning against a stone pillar reading a letter and smiling fondly. Yuri decides to make his presence known "hey wolf". The blond didn't respond he didn't even look up. Yuri walks up to him and stands next to him "hey wolfram I…" He stops when the blond raises a finger at him to hush him up while he finishes reading the letter. Yuri frowns at the rude jester and taps wolframs shoulder roughly "ahem… think you can spare to second off your busy schedule to talk with an old friend?"

Wolfram rolls his eyes and gives Yuri a "what now?" look "yes Yuri what is it?"

Yuri ignores the second rude gesture and looks at him "I just wanted to talk to you, that's all; I thought we could have a decent conversation".

Wolfram folds the letter he was reading and puts it in his pocket "can't, I have tea with Murata in a few minutes".

Yuri just stared at him for a moment "again, that's the fifth time this week, what exactly is going on with you two?"

Wolfram frowns at him "why do you care?"

Yuri frowns back "I don't I'm just concerned that's all".

Wolfram turns to him fully "well don't concern yourself, cause it's really none of your business".

Yuri gets annoyed "he's my best friend wolf, so therefore it is my business, besides what exactly do you see in him anyway?"

Wolfram looks at him directly in the eye "a lot more then I ever saw in you".

Yuri finally gets pissed "alright that's it. What's your problem anyway? You've been taking shots at me ever since that day I broke the engagement. If you're that pissed at me just say so and be done with it".

" I have said it before and I'll say it again" Wolfram said unfazed by Yuri's anger "I don't care, I'm done with this engagement and I'm done with you, your not that important to me that I am going to put my life on hold just because you can't decide whether to love me or not, that's pathetic. So could you please whine about you lonely existence to someone else who cares, I have a date with a sage". He begins to walk away from Yuri.

Yuri's head is casted down to the down as wolfram walks away "you know something wolf, even though I broke off the engagement, I would never be this mean to you". Wolfram stops for a moment as he heard all the hurt in Yuri's voice, Yuri then continues "I thought that maybe even despite the fact that we will no longer marry, we could at least be friends because regardless of whether he were engaged or not I still like you wolfram". Yuri looks at wolframs back and continues "but it's seems like everyday you become more and more cold towards me, I never meant for us to be enemies because of this", Yuri then turns and walks away slowly "I just want you to know that even though you hurt my feelings on a daily basis, I never meant to hurt you, please remember that".

Wolfram stands there until Yuri disappeared before he continued on his way to Murata's, all the while thinking about what Yuri said to him "perhaps I've gone too far, I didn't expect him to react like that". He actually expected Yuri to have tons of women at his beck and call. But he noticed that literally no one has sent Yuri any invites. "Perhaps I should ease off of him, I mean he hasn't seen any debutants or noble women since we broke up, maybe he is realizing his love for me". Wolfram couldn't tell whether that was a good thing or a bad thing. Something was happening to him, he just couldn't tell what that was, and his resolve to torment Yuri was slowly dissolving. As he pondered all of this he realized that he was already at the temple of the great one. He walks in and makes his way to Murata's personal chambers; the letter he was reading was an invite for him to join Murata in his private chambers for tea. The letter specified that he wouldn't have any resistance from the female guards there, so the blond was more then able to walk right in. He walks up to Murata's room and knocks on the door. He heard a couple of rustling noises inside before Murata opens the door for him.

Murata smiles at him and stands by the door "ah that was quick; nobody gave you any problems getting here did they?"

Wolfram smiles back as he enters Murata's room "no it was fine". As Murata closes the door wolfram looks around the room, it looked very lavish and comfortable "I guess it's good to be the wise one". His eyes fall on the small table with two seats on either side of it and a tea set in the center.

"Please have a seat" Murata said escorting him to the table. He pulls out the chair for wolfram awaiting the blond.

Wolfram takes the pulled out seat and sits allowing himself to be pushed in, he then looks across the table as Murata sits down "thank you".

Murata takes his seat and gently picks up the tea pot "no problem". He then pours out some tea for wolf and then for himself "so what's on your mind?"

Wolfram stares at him mildly surprised "what makes you think something is on my mind?"

Murata places the tea filled cup in front of wolfram "you didn't look all there a minute ago, don't tell me your starting to lose you momentum".

Wolfram sighs and takes a sip from his tea "I spoke with Yuri today; he looked kind of lonely and hurt. I didn't show him any mercy or anything; it's just that well…."

Murata sips his tea regarding wolfram with an understanding look "you're starting to feel sorry for him, so now you're rethinking your plan".

Wolfram looks up from his tea "I need some advice, should we really keep going with this or maybe I should go up to him and ask him to give our engagement another try? What do you think?"

Murata frowned at that idea; the truth was he was starting to like these frequent visits between them. He was also starting the develop feelings for the blond. At first he was just simply curious, wolfram looks so much like shinou, he had to see what wolf was really about, but as time went on he began to see the differences between the two more and more. He knew that he was growing fond of him but he didn't know if the feelings were mutual so he was holding back. He takes another sip of his tea and looks at wolfram "I would advice against it; you're at that point that you really can't go back, if you confess now, he'll know that you were playing him all along, so he might get angry enough to not talk to you at all. Stick it out to the very end, make him feel like he has to work extra hard to win you back".

Wolfram had a doubtful look on his face but nodded in agreement anyway "well you've got a point there, but still".

Murata changes the subject; he had a tendency to do that whenever he was tired of talking about Yuri "you won't believe what happened to me yesterday when I went back to earth".

Wolfram sits still and listens to Murata's latest story, he liked listening to Murata's stories, the great sage always has something interesting and inspiring to say and he enjoyed Murata's company. The two conversed with one another for hours, laughing and talking about everything under the sun. All of his past ponderings melted away when he was with Murata. By the time wolfram left the shrine he was in good spirits, he walked down the path back to blood pledge castle happy "I know Ken said to keep moving forward with the plan but perhaps I'll just ease up just a bit on him, I think he has more then learned his lesson, besides my goal is to get him back not drive him away". He casually makes his way to the castle relaxed and had made up his mind on what he wanted to do next.

Meanwhile

Yuri walks into his throne room along with Gunter and Conrad; He had recently received news that King Reginald from the Armada kingdom requested his presence for a meeting to join his alliance. The Armada Kingdom had been on neutral grounds with both the demon and human nation for centuries. When they heard that there was actually a demon king that shared their views of pacifism and world peace they had to meet him. Yuri walks towards the tall older man and extends his hand "welcome to my kingdom, I hope the trip wasn't too much for you.

King Reginald looks at him oddly and smiles "oh my no, it was fine. But if you don't mind me saying, you are a lot younger then I expected". He takes Yuri's hand and shakes it, from behind him a young women looking around the same age as Yuri stepped out and gave Yuri a flirty smile, this is when King Reginald refers to her "oh this is my daughter, Alexandria, Princess of Armada".

Yuri takes the beautiful woman's hand and kisses it gently "pleasure to meet you Alexandria".

Alexandria bows a little to him, She was a beautiful woman with tanned brown skin and long flowing black hair, she wore an ice blue dress and matching shoes. She was very attractive but Yuri couldn't help but wonder if there was some sort of ulterior motive as to why she came with her father. She looks at him with crystal blue eyes and gives him a charming smiles "no your highness the pleasure is all mine".

Gunter walks in with a small pillar and a contract resting on top of it. He then puts the feather pen and ink well next to it. Yuri then addresses King Reginald "this contract states that all those who enter the alliance will make a pact of peace with one another, we help each other in this alliance against any apposing nations that might threaten that peace, feel free to look it over for a bit if you'd like". As Reginald looks over the contract, Alexandria looks over Yuri, she makes eye contact with him giving him a sexy look. Yuri immediately blushes and turns away a bit avoiding her gaze "now I definitely know why she came here with him". He then began to think for a minute and began to reconsider avoiding her advances "well I was considering a female bride and she is really cute". Reginald finally signs the contract and the two kings shake on it, afterwards the king and his daughter are given a tour of the castle. During the tour Yuri became more and more interested in what Alexandria was all about, her exotic looks and mysterious allure made him very curious about her.

Yuri stops for a moment and addresses every one just remembering that he still had work to do in his office, the woman and the recent activities caused him to forget his work "if you will all excuse me I have some business to attend to, your majesty it has been an honor", he shakes the other kings hand then he turns to Alexandria "it has been most pleasant". He kisses her hand again before walking away to his office "damn Gwendale will kill me if I let the paperwork pile up again". He walks inside and takes a seat at his chair, sighing he picks up a paper and is about to write on it when he notices another person walks in and saunters slowly toward his desk. He suddenly raises his head and sees a big pair of breasts covered by the top of an ice blue dress. His eyes wandered on those boobs for a minute until he raised his eye level and looked at her smiling face.

Alexandria chuckles and looks at him with seductive eyes "did you like what you see, your highness?"

Meanwhile

Wolfram reaches the castle, refreshed and fully resolved he decided to give the lonely king a break, not knowing what he was about to walk in on.

Author's end note: Don't worry wolfram is going to quickly change his mind once he sees what's about to happen in the next chapter. Yuri's going to be in a lot of trouble.