Title: The Backhanded Slap
Pairings: Wolfram/Yuri
Rating: T (Rating may go up)
Summary: So we all know what happens when you're smacked on the left cheek in the Demon Kingdom. But what happens if you're hit on the right check, or even better, hit with the back of the hand on the right cheek?
A/N (Thanks!): I want to say thanks for all those who have read and reviewed this story, I am so thankful and appreciate the feedback, ~Hugs~
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After I walked Greta to her room, so she could change out of her wet and into her dry ones, I walked towards the royal study. Something in my gut told me I had to see what the wimp was up to, and it didn't sit well with me that he and Geika were all alone and getting chummy in his office.
As I walked closer I heard Murata's and Yuuri's muffled voices and it sounded as if Yuuri was freaking out about something, but I wasn't sure what. I quickened my pace so I could be by the wimp's side. Although whatever Yuuri was talking about was far too muffled and faint to actually pick up, and hear the actual words, I knew they were talking about something important.
I raced over and stood on the doorway and saw Yuuri sitting in one of the chairs facing the window, so his back was facing me, and Murata leaning backwards on the desk. Murata turned his head and his eyes got comically wide before worriedly interrupting whatever Yuuri was talking about, "Eh, Shibuya, I think you should—"
The wimp, however was undeterred, "I'm serious, how do I tell him—"
Tell who, and what? I furrowed my brow in concern. What did he have to say, who did he have to say it to, and more importantly, who was he?
More importantly why do I have a bad feeling about this?
The sage shook his head as he continued to stare at me, "Seriously Shibuya, I really think you should—"
Why in the name of Shin Makoku was Geika staring at me with a mix of worry and apprehension? I don't like that look. Especially coming from him.
Yuuri completely ignored what Geika was saying, shaking his head side to side, "how do I tell Wolf that the whole slap, baby thing, was only an accident?"
Geika slapped himself in his face and shook his head in disbelief. I, on the other hand, ground my teeth in anger, I could feel all the muscles in my body tense and tie themselves into knots, my hand gripped the doorway so hard my knuckles turned white, and I saw red. Without thinking I loudly growled out an angry, "WHAT?!"
The wimp whipped his body around and looked at me with a surprised look on his face. His mouth was slightly open on disbelief.
I furiously stomped into the study, "So this is what was so important that you had to talk to Geika, about?" I angrily gestured ignoring the wimp wince. Completely forgetting, for a moment, that Yuuri and were not alone and that the sage was still present, I grabbed a hold of the arms of the chair and leaned down so Yuuri and I were both at eye level. "How could you tell Geika about this and not me?" I continued bitterly, but refusing to show how hurt I was.
The wimp recovered from his shock and opened his mouth only to be cut off by Murata, "well, this has been fun but I think I'll just go." He smiled as he tried to make his way to the door.
I turned my head to glare at the double black who calmly, but quickly, strode across the room. Did he really need to announce he was going to leave? Was he just saying that so the wimp could use the pause to collect his thoughts? My eyes narrowed at the thought and turned my head back to Yuuri and glared, watching him watch Murata exit the study, making my maryoku spike angrily.
"Look, Wolfram," the wimp determinedly replied after Murata shut the door. "I've been trying to figure out the right way to tell you—"
"And you figured me overhearing you and Geika talking about me was the best way to go about it?" I glowered, feeling my maryoku angrily rise again.
"Of course not!" Yuuri argued as he pushed my arms of the chair's arm rests and stood up so he could face me. "I tried to tell you, a lot, but every time I tried to tell you the truth it would just complicate things even more."
"When did you try to tell me this?" I growled grabbing the wimp by the shoulders, and the wimp's eyes widened in surprise. After the wimp recovered he opened his mouth to most likely tell me when he did try to explain things to me. Instead I released his shoulders from my grasp and cut him off, "on second thought don't tell me. I don't want to know!"
"Wolf," Yuuri sighed sympathetically, and I hated it. I hated that tone. That tone meant he was honestly trying not to hurt me, and I wasn't ready to hear that just yet. Instead of allowing him to continue, I turned my back towards him and ran my fingers through my hair. Yuuri, however, just had to lightly grab my shoulder and continue in that tone, "Wolf I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to hurt you. I just didn't know how to tell you about the baby… thing."
Shinou, do I hate that tone.
Whipping around so I was facing Yuuri again, and grabbing the hand that was on my shoulder tightly in my own I spat, "the, as you put it, 'baby thing' isn't what I'm so mad about!" True, I am disappointed and a little angry that that was a misunderstanding, but I can deal with it. Yuuri tilted his head in confusion as if he was not expecting that. "I'm so angry because you didn't tell me! Yuuri, I'm your fiancé! You're supposed to tell me these things! Not tell other people, like Geika, first and have me overhear it!" I huffed.
"Wolf," Yuuri winced, and my eyes narrowed dangerously.
"You're still fighting the engagement aren't you?" I growled out in disbelief, tightening my hold on the wimp's hand. "After all we've been through the past couple days, the date, you allowing me to kiss you, and you feeling comfortable enough to lean on me during that movie, and fall asleep on my lap!?"
The wimp pulled his hand out of my grasp and stared defiantly at me, "listen Wolf—"
"No," I interrupted grabbing a hold of Yuuri's shoulders tightly causing the wimps to wince. "Get it through you thick head. You're my fiancé, and I'm not going to let you go!" Yuuri was about to open his mouth to retaliate but I stopped him growling, "And no, I don't care that we're both guys!"
"Well I do!" Yuuri argued, trying to pry my hands off him but that only made me tighten my grip. Yuuri then scowled, "plus you're only going along with this because you don't want embarrass yourself, or whatever, by breaking the engagement."
It felt as if I was hit in the gut and all the air was knocked out of after he said that. How could he not know my feelings? My maryoku flared dangerously and Yuuri opened his mouth, probably to ask if I was okay, instead I took the opportunity to cover his mouth with my own. The wimp squeaked in surprise and hurriedly closed his mouth to prevent my tongue from entering. I moved one of my hands that were gripping his shoulders into his hair and held his head close. I lightly bit and moved my lips across his, savoring the taste of orange juice that was still lingering on his lips from breakfast. I then released his head and moved away from Yuuri's lips, and the wimp's face was flushed red and breathing heavily.
"Listen Yuuri," my voice rumbled low in my throat, releasing the wimp from my grasp and stepping away from him before heading towards the door. "I would never do that to someone I didn't love, and you shouldn't let people you don't love kiss you." I warned, not even looking over my shoulder to look at him, before I exited the study completely.
I know I should have stayed and talked this more out with the wimp, but I just had to get out of there. I was pissed off beyond reason, my maryoku was fluctuating dangerously and if I wasn't careful I was going to accidentally burn the royal study to cinders. Plus, I just had to get away from the wimp before I said, or did, something stupid that I would regret later or cause me to hate myself in the morning.
I just have to take my mind off the wimp and his….his wimpy ways for a bit and cool off. I just have to take my mind off him and work off this…this…frustration!
Now that I think about it, my troops are in need of some training.
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I stalked over to the training grounds and ordered one of my soldiers I saw in the courtyard to gather up the rest of my soldiers. It must have been evident that I was not in a good mood by any means and the soldier gulped a quick yes sir before rushing off to fulfill his task.
When I reached the training grounds I saw all my soldiers standing at attention, and the solder I sent to fetch them must have forewarned them about my mood. Some of the soldiers masked the fear better than other who were trembling. My eyes narrowed, I hated when my soldiers showed their weaknesses. Other soldiers; however seemed to be more curious and anxious to see why they were called to the training grounds.
I looked at my soldiers scrutinizing them one last time before barking out, "You all may be wondering why I called you all here. Well today we're going to go through a 'Surprise Intensive Training' exercise to see where you all stand."
At that I heard some of the men in my battalion groan lightly in protest. Narrowing my eyes angrily I growled out, "you know originally I was just going to have you run laps around the designated training area, but if some of you are going to be that way we're going to run laps around the castle." I saw many of my soldiers wanted moan and groan in protest but they all wisely kept their mouths shut this time. On my command they all took off full sprint with me running with them to set the pace.
We just started to run our fifth lap around the castle, and early afternoon started to give way to early evening, many of my soldiers were already exhausted. I don't what I'm more angry about at the moment. I don't know if I'm annoyed that my soldiers couldn't do this simple task, or that after all this physical exertion I'm still as furious with Yuuri as when I left him in the study. Completely annoyed, I dismissed my soldiers for the rest of the day.
I walked over to the shed that housed the training equipment. Entering the shed I angrily snatched a gray towel laying on a crate and wiped the sweat off of my face. It was at that moment, when my body and mind weren't being occupied by something, the earlier events of the day flooded my mind replaying the argument the wimp and I had over and over in my mind. Gritting my teeth I threw the towel on the dirt floor before I sat down on one of the wooden boxes.
Light footsteps broke my concentration and I looked up and saw Lord Weller standing in the doorway with his usual smile. I snorted to myself before resting my head on the wall. I was content to ignore the brunette and just try to calm myself down.
"Ahh, Wolfram I thought I'd find you here," Lord Weller smiled. I turned my head to glare at him and the man chuckled before sitting beside me on the box.
"I take it you talked with the wimp," I bit out ignoring his annoying chuckle.
"I didn't have to," Lord Weller smiled, "The whole floor, where the royal study is, heard you two arguing." Groaning, I rested my head in my hands. So the whole castle knows about my fight with Yuuri, wonderful. "If it makes you feel better, Yuuri appears as exhausted and upset as you." The brunette tried to soothe.
As a matter of fact, Lord Weller, it does not help knowing that Yuuri and I are both upset by our fight.
"Wolfram," Lord Weller sighed.
"What do you want, Lord Weller?" I demanded glaring at the man. I know where this is headed, he's going to say I was too hard on the wimp, and that's the last thing I need to hear from him right now.
Without losing that damnable smile of his, he replied, "I just want to help."
"You want to help?" I ground out before reaching over and grabbing two practice swords and tossing one over to Lord Weller. He caught the dull practice sword easily and looking at me with a confused look on his face. Rolling my eyes I growled, "You said you want to help, and I want to practice my sword skills with someone who is competent."
"Ohh," Lord Weller answered as he realized what I meant. Standing up he smiled, "So you're soldiers didn't help alleviate your anger, am I right?"
Without dignifying that with a response, I walked out to the middle of the training ground and took my stance. Lord Weller stood across from me confidentially holding the sword waiting for my attack. Without warning I lounged forward and attacked Lord Weller, but he easily blocked my sword.
"You're being too rash," Lord Weller said easily deflecting another of my attacks, "You're letting your emotions get the best of you." He continued calmly and I couldn't help but wonder if he was talking about our little sword practice, or how I was with Yuuri earlier, or perhaps a combination of the two. Either way, he was being too cryptic for my liking.
Grunting in response, I swung my sword for a heavy blow but mush to my surprise not only did Lord Weller deflect my attack once again, but nearly knocked my sword out of my hands. I quickly tightened my grasp around the swords hilt and dodged his attack.
We continued sparring until the sun started to set, and I was proud to say that I was able to get a Lord Weller a little tired by the end of our little match. I can still remember a time when he used to train me and the brunette wouldn't even break a sweat. So I couldn't help but feel good about myself despite the ache and soreness in my body and my shortness of breath.
"Feel better?" Lord Weller smiled and I mulled over the thought in my head. Better? Well my anger and rage have been replaced with tiredness and fatigue so I guess it's an improvement.
"I'm fine," I nodded carrying the practice swords back to the shed.
Lord Weller smiled and was about to walk to the castle before he turned his head, and called over his shoulder, "are you coming to dinner Wolfram?"
I paused and wrinkled my nose in thought. If I went to dinner I'm sure there would be questions asked that I'm sure neither I or the wimp will probably want to answer. If there weren't any questions being asked then I'm sure that things will just be uncomfortable between the wimp and I. Nodding my head I answered, "No, I believe I'll just retire for the evening." Weller nodded his head and walked towards the castle.
After my bath I walked down the hall ignoring the maids, butlers, and other servants scramble out of my path. I was far too tired to care, and too tired to act out the rage that plagued me all day by my fight with Yuuri. With a yawn, I approached our bedroom but stopped before my hand actually touched the door.
Did I want to see Yuuri right, now? No, no I didn't, and even though my sparring match with Lord Weller drained most of my anger out of my system, I'm sure my fury would come back with vengeance if I was in the same room as Yuuri at the moment. I scrunched up my face in annoyance; I really didn't want to get in another argument with the wimp, but I also I wanted to sleep in our bed in our room.
You know maybe just this once I'll take Lord Weller's advice and not act rash. I'll just sleep in another room and give both of us several more hours to cool off. Then, sometime tomorrow, we could try to talk the rest of this thing out. With a huff, I turned around walked into one of the rare spare bedrooms for the night.
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I stalked down the halls of the castle bitterly. Not only did I not get any sleep since I've grown accustomed to sleeping in the same bed with him when we're at the castle, but somehow rumors were going around about Yuuri's and my argument. So far the rumor says that we were arguing loudly, which was true, before I actually started to beat Yuuri, which wasn't true at all!
Don't those maids have anything better to do than meddle?
Now I don't know who I'm more angry with, Yuuri and all his wimpiness, or whomever made up these rumors! You know some idiot might actually believe that I struck Yuuri, and yes I was beyond angry with his-still am actually-but I wouldn't start beating him!
Whoever started those rumors are going to pay.
Then to top it off, it looked like it was going to rain today. Looking at the clock, it was late afternoon, and I realized that the wimp was still stuck in one of Günter's lectures. The energetic man was probably suffering from Yuuri withdraw and was purposely prolonging our fight so he could get more alone time with the wimp.
Deciding to spend some time outside before the rain started I walked to the stables so I could visit and see how my horse was doing. I walked outside and grabbed a hold of the jacket of my uniform bringing it closer towards my body. Even though it was still technically summer, the autumn months weren't that far away, and the weather would sometimes get surprisingly chilly. I growled to myself, and continued walking to the stables not letting a little bad, or cold, weather stop me.
I entered the stable just as the first drop of rain hit the ground and a light drizzle of rain was starting to fall. I couldn't help but smile at my good luck before I took off my coat and hung it on a hook so it could dry. I then turned to my horse and softly pet it's forehead and the steed 'neighed' contently, and I couldn't help smile. This horse's eyes are like Yuuri's, they're both soft and kind looking eyes.
Maybe I was too hard on Yuuri yesterday. After all, a vegetarian shark doesn't change its food preferences overnight. So it should be expected that a wimp acts like, well…a wimp.
Shaking my head in frustration I turned my head away from the horse and instead concentrated on the sound of the rain bouncing off the stable's roof, and it sounded as if the rain was coming down really hard now. I shouldn't let the wimp get off this easy, I shouldn't have to swallow my pride and apologize. He should be apologizing to me, I shouldn't be treated like this!
I'm a Belfield, after all, damn it!
The horse's braying caused me to look at him and I sighed out in defeat as the horse moved its head forward rubbed it against my arm. Fine, I get it! I'll stop procrastinating to talk to Yuuri. Swallowing what little pride I had left since I met the wimp, I grabbed my semi-dried coat off the hook, and turned around to go back to the castle and talk to the wimp once and for all.
What I wasn't expecting was to see Yuuri standing outside the stables.
I paused mid-step and my mouth hung open wide in shock. Yuuri wasn't doing any better. When he saw me turnaround he stopped in his tracks with a sheepish grin on his face. The rain was bouncing off his body and his black clothes were soaked, dripping wet, and were clinging to his body. The wimp had his arms wrapped around himself, and he was visibly shivering.
What was the wimp thinking?! What about his lesson? I highly doubt Günter would of let the wimp out of sight considering last time I helped Yuuri completely ditch lessons! But here Yuuri was, standing out in the rain-no scratch that- in the middle of a down pour , soaked to the bone! He's going to catch a cold if he doesn't get into some dry clothes soon! I was about to voice my opinions before Yuuri gathered back the rest of his nerve and jogged into the stable with a fierce look of determination on his face that caused me to lose my train of thought.
"Wolf," the wimp said breathily, grabbing onto my arms. "I have something to say to you, and I want to you listen, okay?" He continued softly but that determined look was still in his eyes.
My eyes widened slightly is shock, wondering what it was that the wimp wanted to discuss, but I quickly recovered and disguised my anxiousness by huffing out, "Then talk, Yuuri."
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Holly Mollie! I don't think I've ever updated this quick before! I also promise this is the last cliffie for a long time, promise! This Chapter was a challenge because I wanted to keep the same tone/ writing style I used throughout the story so far, but I didn't want to take away from the necessary drama that needed to be here.
Oh, the rating has been brought to my attention and one reader said they would like to see this eventually turn rated M,and have a lemon, I honestly never thought of writing a lemon, maybe a mild lime, and just hinting that sex scenes took place. But if others would like to see that eventually happen just PM me! Read and Review please!
