lostmoonchild: I come bearing chapter six for all to read! Should I be at work now? Yes I should. Am I? Clearly not. The boss man and boss lady haven't gotten things out of my way so I can finish what needs to be done so I can't really do anything until they're done with what they're doing. Okay, so here's chapter six and the temporary end of my rambling.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kyou Kara Maoh! so don't sue.
Chapter Six
Her gut said to run as fast as she could and find a place to hide but some other part of her said to stay where she was. Yuri wouldn't let anything happen to her. No, he'd protect her from whoever it was that he had taken her visions away for. He wouldn't have warned her that he was going to block her visions if he wanted to do her harm. He knew how much she hated being without her visions, how terrible it felt for her.
Crimson eyes flickered over to Gwendal and Gunter's forms, watching their body language. They knew that somebody was coming and they were uptight about the whole thing. They were certain that something was going to happen and yet they still wanted to do this. What was it that they had planned?
Nieve felt her stomach tighten in anticipation as she watched carriages begin to enter the castle grounds and suddenly it made perfect sense. Somebody had called the nobles to Blood Pledge Castle and Yuri had known about it. That's why he blocked her visions. He didn't want her to see so she could have a day or two's chance at escape.
The sneaky bastard was going to get it.
Anger filled her being as she began to run, desperately hunting down her brother. He'd be outside now and probably sparring against Conrart. If Greta was with them then she'd have to take care not to pull Greta into the fight too. Wolfram didn't matter much but Yuri would be upset if he got pulled into the fight anyway and the same went for Conrart. No, her only objective was to get her hands on her brother.
"YURI SHIBUYA, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
A chill went down Yuri's spine upon hearing his sister's furious scream, a sense of dread overcoming him. She had spotted the nobles. Shit. "Nie-chan, you need to calm down." Yuri said as he raised his hands to show he was defenseless.
"I need to calm down? You blocked my visions for the past three days for the sole reason that nobles were coming?" A low growl left her lips as she began swinging at her brother.
Yuri dodged his sister's punches, careful to stay out of kicking distance. She wouldn't use her maryoku on him yet but that didn't mean she wouldn't think about it and currently wasn't considering it. "I know how you get with some people." Yuri tried to defend himself.
A grunt left his lips when one of Nieve's fists came in contact with his jaw, sending him back a couple of feet. "Heika!" Conrart exclaimed, immediately starting towards the black-haired Maoh.
"I'm fine." Yuri answered as he got up, rubbing his aching jaw. "Nieve, you need to settle down. The last thing anybody wants is you to be upset."
Her eyes darkened slightly in anger and the wind began to pick up slightly. "You know that I hate him." Nieve snarled dangerously.
"I know."
"You didn't tell me that he was coming."
They had never heard Nieve say that she hated anybody and from how Yuri was trying to get her settled down, her hating somebody was not a good thing. "What if I had, imouto-chan? You would have done something really stupid that would have had even Shori scolding you." Yuri tried to reason. "You would have done something that I'd be forced to have you punished for. Just because you're my little sister doesn't exclude you from following the laws."
"You bastard!"
Yuri twisted away from his sister's punches, keeping his dark eyes focused on her furious crimson ones. He knew full well that she wasn't the forgiving type but also knew that she would always forgive him for whatever he did to her. Their relationship was strange to everybody but it made perfect sense to them. No one belonged in their little world. Shori hadn't even been able to understand their relationship and not even their mother with all of her imagination couldn't understand it. "She looks more like a wild animal than what we were under the impression of." A voice commented.
Yuri inwardly flinched upon recognizing the voice. Stoffel von Spitzweg. Shit. Nieve was going to go ape-shit. "Nieve, don't." Yuri whispered as his sister slowly turned her head.
"I'm going to kill you!" Nieve screamed as she attempted to get to Stoffel.
The young Maoh grabbed his sister and threw them both onto the ground with his legs wrapped around hers while his arms pinned her arms to her sides. "Apparently she doesn't appreciate being referred to as a wild animal." Lord von Gyllenhaal commented lightly as the wind picked up around them.
"It's not that. Ouch!" Yuri felt something warm start to flow from his nose when Nieve hit him with the back of her head. "She's just very- Nieve, don't you even think about it! -spirited."
As they watched the crimson-eyed woman struggle to escape Yuri's grasp, they could see that none of the soldiers dared get too close. From the looks of it, they had each had some kind of encounter with the young woman and understood that Yuri was the only one that she wouldn't kill. "Let me go! I'm going to kill the son of a bitch!" Nieve screeched.
Yuri ignored the blood that poured from his nose and pressed his chin against her right shoulder. "Hush, Nieve." Yuri murmured softly. "You're okay."
Slowly her struggles began to decrease until they were both panting on the ground from sheer exhaustion, both coated in Yuri's blood. Concern appeared on her pale features as she touched Yuri's face, careful not to hit the dark purple bruise on his jaw or his nose. "Yu-nii-sama?" Tears began to gather in her eyes.
Yuri grinned slightly as he ran his fingers through his sister's dark hair. "Don't worry about it. It's a price for being your favorite." Yuri said with a grin. "Ne?"
Her eyes lit up with joy as a smile spread across her face. "Hai!" Nieve responded as she hugged her brother.
Conrart pulled the two to their feet, a small frown appearing on his face as he looked at Yuri's nose. "It doesn't appear to be broken but we'll have Gisela look at it just incase." Conrart said with a small frown.
"You dare to attack the Maoh!" Waltorana demanded as he glared at the crimson-eyed woman.
"Yeah."
"That's a crime, you know!"
Nieve stared at him with absolutely no fear before shrugging. "I broke his arm once when we were kids. Fractured his ankle another time. Nearly drowned him the first summer we were near each other. Ruptured his eardrum another time."
"When was that?" Yuri asked, clearly not remembering the event.
"When I shoved that pencil in your ear."
She had hurt him four separate times as children and yet their Maoh still let her near him? Then the little display earlier happened and he still wanted her near him? What in the world was going on? "Don't forget the concussion." Yuri reminded her.
"Oh, right."
Six times as kids, maybe even more? Was their Maoh some kind of masochist or something? What was it that Yuri had said? "It's a price for being your favorite."? Yuri was her favorite person? Was that honestly how she treated people that she liked quite a bit? "I'll explain as soon as I get cleaned up." Yuri said with a grin. "Until then, it'd probably be a good idea to leave Nieve alone."
Grinning at them, the dark-haired woman took off running as quickly as her bare feet could carry her.
"She continuously attacks you and you still refuse to do anything about it?" Stoffel demanded. "Yuri-Heika, we all understand that you're a very forgiving man but surely there must be limits!"
Yuri knew full well that almost everybody was upset and was grateful that Gwendal and Gunter hadn't gotten too upset. They had been around her longer than the rest of the nobles so they understood her temperament a little bit. "Nobody's been able to teach her how to be gentle with people she likes. The only time I've ever seen her gentle with anybody is when it's somebody younger than her." Yuri explained. "If you see how she treats Greta then you'll see that she's not a complete monster."
"It's true." Gwendal confirmed with a small nod. "She does care about Greta enough to be extra cautious with her movements and speech."
Despite Gwendal's assurances, Yuri could still see the concern. Nieve was too wild to be completely controlled by anybody and the fact that she didn't know how to be careful with people was an indication to some that she couldn't be trusted. "The point of the matter is that she could be viewed as a threat." Stoffel told Yuri with a solemn look. "Yes, it's a shame that one of her… coloring is dangerous enough to be seen as a threat."
"Her coloring? You mean her eyes? They're nothing special just like she is. All she is to me is my little sister. It's not her fault that she's the way she is."
"Yuri-Heika, surely you realize that those with her coloring have a higher tendency for madness."
How could he convince them that she wasn't going to hurt anybody unless provoked? "Stay here for a few days. Watch her. Talk to her at least." Yuri told them. "Don't condemn her based on that little tantrum of hers or on the color of her eyes. Believe me when I say that once you can see past all of her crap then you'll see who she is."
"From her actions earlier, Your Majesty, she doesn't appear to be anybody that any Mazoku or human would want to be acquanted with."
"They hated me when I was a boy. I could see it in their eyes and when they see me as a girl, that hate's still going to be there. They'll just hide it because you're my brother." "Just talk to her. I know it doesn't seem possible but Nieve is capable of holding a civil converstaion as long as no one tells her what to do." Yuri tried to reason with them. "If push comes to shove, ask her if she'd be willing to cook up her favorite food for everybody to try."
If curry could make the world a peaceful place in his mother's views then surely the same concept would be appliable with Nieve's cooking. He just hoped that it would work.
lostmoonchild: Well, I think that chapter was fairly good of course what you think probably counts more. Let me know what you guys think! Love it? Hate it? Think something needs to be changed? Curious what happened during the time Yuri and Nieve were apart? Leave a review and let me know! Ja ne for now!
