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Title: Rakuen Hearts
(Meaning Paradise Hearts)
Authors: DestinyHope45
Anime: Kyou Kara Maou
Characters/Pairing: Yuuri X Wolfram
Genre: Romance, Humor, mystery, family-angst
Rating: M
Chapters: 09 - ?
Summary: AU; Yuuri had always been apathetic; about everything...until now
THE FOLLOWING STORY CONTAINS MALE AND MALE RELATIONSHIPS AND OOC CHARACTERS! You have been warned.
Yuuri blinked as he turned to look at the blonde preventing him from leaving the vehicle. The blonde teen watched Yuuri's eyes fade into a darker black, light coming back to them as his eyes settled onto him. It made his heart swell knowing that he had brought that light to the double black and that no one else was than special to him to be able to. Yuuri shook his head, "I'm fine." A simple answer but not to what Wolfram had requested. The blonde slowly shook his head, his eyes never leaving the black orbs in front of him. "That isn't what I asked." Yuuri didn't understand what needed to be said, shouldn't they be heading inside? Wolfram seemed to sense his honest confusion because he sighed, letting his hand slip from Yuuri but the double black made no motion to move.
"Yuuri, earlier, on the ride here, I –" this was kind of nerve-racking, how did he say something like this without feeling stupid? Closing his eyes, Wolfram made his mind up and emerald snapped open, locking with black which caused Yuuri to jump slightly in surprise. "I reached for your mind and found your soul. I didn't sense any emotions, just shadows. It was like there was only the definition of the words but no more feeling than a transparent shadow."
Yuuri nodded once before leaning back in his seat, both knowing they weren't leaving the car just yet. "I discovered that awhile back, when I was a kid." He laid his head back and rolled it so he could look at Wolfram. "I simply assumed it was because I had pushed all my emotions away, though; from the way you describe it, as shadows, maybe the emotions aren't mine from this life's but rather my past life." Wolfram agreed but didn't like it. What did that mean? Could he not feel anything now? "I feel Wolf, hurt is ever present." Yuuri had to say it, not to get sympathy but to let the blonde know that if he had managed to feel at least one emotion, they could get him to feel them all. Wolfram nodded shortly. "Yuuri, there was something else."
"There was an emotion missing altogether." Yuuri tilted his head but didn't say anything in favor of letting Wolfram speak. "Affection; well love really, no shadow just a floating thought of when its dictionary definition is."
Yuuri was taken aback; love was just a word to him? Even now in this life as well as in his past life? He felt himself slump back, staring at the floorboard. Searching, he knew what he felt for Wolfram was more love than just simple affection…right. He knew that didn't mean he felt. Was that the reason he was reincarnated? To, or try to, feel love? Does that mean Wolfram was reincarnated because he needed to hear it and feel it from Yuuri? What happened in their past lives that caused all this? Them to be reincarnated and him not feeling what he knew he held for his lover. He jolted from his scrambled thoughts at the feel of Wolfram's body pressed to his, his arms around his neck. "I know, and knew, you loved me Yuuri. I don't know why we're back in life but we'll figure it out." Wolfram's voice was a whisper and Yuuri may not have heard him had his mouth not been next to his ear.
They remained like that for who knew how long, Yuuri's arms wrapping around the blondes waist as he buried his face into Wolfram's neck, mimicking the blonde. Something spiked in him, that same feeling that had burned him earlier and he mentally flinched away from it. Something about that feeling, or whatever it was, had him unsure, confused even. The burn increased for but a moment before vanishing, as if the burning was alive and angry. A solid knock had both teens looking out the window beside Yuuri to see a smiling woman with long blonde hair and a smile on her face waving at them as if she desperately wanted the two of them in her arms. Her eyes were like Wolfram's.
"Mother!" Yuuri flinched slightly at the sharp voice so close to his ear. Wolfram opened Yuuri's door, the blonde on his knees and hands, glaring at his mother as she squealed about happily. Yuuri felt sort of dazed until Wolfram climbed off of him and out of the car, he followed his boyfriend and soon regretted it because the woman –Wolfram's mother –hugged him breathless. The double black teen flushed, unease running though him. Not that he minded the hug but he'd only ever been hugged by Wolfram. He vaguely heard his lover call his mother again, demanding she release him at once. Laughing sweetly, she did as she was asked. "It's so nice meet you!" She squealed once Yuuri was safely out of her reach next to, slightly behind, Wolfram. He nodded as if returning the comment.
Wolfram directed him towards the front door while his mother –Lady Cheri – grabbed their school bags after demanding that she would carry them. He noticed that along the walkway from the drive way there sat four Giverny Rose Umbrella's spaced from the door to where the car was parked, all had rich red flowers winding around them and at the door was more of the same red flowers but instead they were wound around a Portofino Roman Garden Arch that stood against the wall in front of the front door. Yuuri wasn't surprised by the size of the house or the elegant designs throughout the building or even the flowers overflowing outside; no, none of it was a shock to him because his house was decorated as richly, minus the flowers.
What caught him off guard was that there were flowers, live flowers, nearly everywhere. There were Geo Window boxes below the large stair cases, vines winding up around the poles holding the railing up, blue flowers in full bloom decorating the vines. Along the walls were Garden Trellises where Oakleaf window boxes sat, although the vines that wound up the Trellises were covered in bright yellow flowers. Yuuri looked up to see ledges near the ceiling that held yet another set of Geo window boxes and hanging from the high ceilings were upside down Umbrella Tuteur's, that were he assumed bolted to the ceiling and were connected to each other by thin poles, thick vines traveled across the provided structures, flowers spread across the vines that looked to be some shade of green. Three rectangular Sky Lights allowed plenty of sun for the flowers.
Yuuri was utterly amazed. "My mother loves gardening, creating her own flowers are what she does." He could only nod mutely, the plants were well kept and were not overpowering.
"Yuu-Chan, you can pick out any room to sleep in or are you going to stay with Wolfie?" Cheri chirped happily as she tossed their bags onto the sitting chair next to the door. Her voice as she said that nickname echoed in his head, Yuu-Chan, she had called him that at the party where he had first met Wolfram. It had sounded familiar back then too. Yuuri tried to answer but couldn't form verbal words, he knew she wouldn't ignore him but he still couldn't get himself to set himself up. Luckily his emerald eyed bishonen came to his rescue; "He can use the room that adjoins to mine." Yuuri blinked, wondering why the blonde hadn't offered his own room until a blurred imaged flashed though his mind, it was of his past life, he awoke to the blonde in his head and fled, taken over by uncertainty and maybe even fear, those feelings had overpowered another feeling, that same burning feeling he had been feeling recently.
Cheri nodded with a large smile on her face. "I'll have the room prepared for you then Yuu-Chan; in the meantime, I'll show you around!" She clapped her hands together as if she were a school girl with a crush. Wrapping her arms around his upper arm, she pulled him to her side as if she were set on flirting. "Mother!" Wolfram pulled his lover from the woman's grasp, glaring at her as he wrapped his arms around Yuuri's waist. Cheri laughed in good nature, announcing that Wolfram had done similar possessive actions when he was younger, becoming upset when someone hugged her which had Wolfram glaring hotly and wrapping his own arms around her leg.
It wasn't long before Yuuri had been pulled back outside to the side of the mansion where a large garden grew, the entrance was a large lush green bush sculpted into the form of an archway. Not only did the garden have various flowers, it had a trees and bushes with many different fruits. There was a path laid out throughout the garden in Sunflower Step Stones, when Yuuri asked about the stone choice, he was told Cheri had chosen them for a reason even she wasn't sure of. She had said something about them made her think of someone but couldn't remember who. They walked past a few trees that were surrounded by Regency Tree Benches, a glass bar table stood at two of the benches Yuuri noticed.
They soon reached the center of the large garden where a Marble Gazebo Fountain stood tall. A large round marble pool surrounded the gazebo; the pool looked deep enough for young kids to swim in. Allowing access to the gazebo was a stone-arched Japanese Garden Bridge that had two steps just outside the pool and at the gazebo entrance. The water flowing was gentle, allowing the fountain to be housed by fish. As Yuuri followed Wolfram to the gazebo he noticed many Koi fish and a few shinny fish that were small but left alone by the bigger fish. Wolfram informed him they were called Glowlights. He thought the two fish had different needs but perhaps Cheri had something special about the pond. Lily pads floated and Yuuri could hear the sound of frogs and caught sight of a few turtles. "I like it here. The garden, it's nice."
"It's peaceful too." Wolfram agreed, resting back on the railing of the marble gazebo to look at Yuuri who had to suppress the shiver that ran down his spine. Wolfram found it endearing, at times the double black could be so confident and other times he was a blushing wimp. "Not a wimp." Yuuri murmured softly, turning his head to the side. At the side of the fountain-pond he hadn't yet seen, the view of butterfly feeders caught his attention. There were three, each other shorter than the first although not low enough for the fish to reach, they looked as if they were made of hand-blown glass, the tallest was colored green, the second was a blue color and the shortest was a bright gold, similar to the flowers at the house. The thin, sturdy poles were wrapped in those rich red colored flowers that also lined the drive.
"Those flowers, back inside, what kind were they? I couldn't match them to any other I've seen. The blue looked like bellflowers but different too…" Yuuri's words drifted off as his eyes wondered slowly from the pond to the blonde. "Mother creates her own breed of flower and names them herself." Wolfram walked over to Yuuri, turning to face the butterfly feeders. "Those red flowers are a cross of roses and clerodendrum thomsoniae's, Mother calls them; 'Celi's Red Sigh'." Yuuri nodded, they were beautiful flowers, a deep red, almost blood colored. "What about the others?"
The blonde nodded, pulling on Yuuri's hand to lead him out of the gazebo and through the large garden, stopping at the green colored flowers he has seen in the house. "These are called 'Secret Gwendal', Mother made these from combining Begonia with snowdrops," Yuuri tilted his head as he examined the flowers from a close distance, noticing the details that indicated them as snowdrops. They looked amazing. "How are they green?" Yuuri felt rather than saw Wolfram shrug. "Mother has her ways."
"The blue ones?" Yuuri asked, turning to look at those that stood across the way from the green flowers. "Hoya carnosa and Blue Dawn make this one. Mother calls them 'Conrart Stands upon the Earth'." Yuuri repeated 'Conrart' but still had no luck pronouncing it as easily as Wolfram managed. He soon gave up when he heard Wolfram stifle a laugh. The flower was shaped as a star, in the center was another star that looked as if it were a gummy snack and the flower fell like a bellflower. Something flashed into his mind, the flowers withered and dead and then another image of a bouquet of them.
They walked further down the path toward a patch of bright yellow flowers. Kneeling before them Yuuri smiled, lights in his eyes. "What?" Wolfram looked down at him as he lowered himself to sit next to the other boy. "I said they're 'Beautiful Wolfram', am I wrong?" The blonde blinked his eyes wide, his mouth in a small 'O'. It was so adorable Yuuri had to hug him, laughing as he did so. That innocent look was soon replaced by a look of playful anger. "You're right. How'd you know?"
Yuuri looked back at the flowers, how had he known? He shrugged after a while, figuring he would find the answer sooner or later. "Mother combined Tacca Chantrieri with Blue Bonnet." The three wide petals flared out to reveal Blue bonnets settled in the center, but rather than the flower being blue or black, as were the colors of the flowers used, Beautiful Wolfram was a glowing yellow. "They're as brightly colored as your hair, glowing." He murmured, running the tip of one finger across a petal while his eyes were on Wolfram. The blonde blushed to his ears, narrowing his eyes in embarrassment.
"Excuse me." A young girl stood not far from where they sat and she simply waited to be spoken to. Wolfram looked up and greeted her. The young girl – Effe – announced dinner would be served in thirty minutes and the room for Yuuri was prepared. She left with a bow and only moments after she retreated from the large garden did Wolfram and Yuuri stand and proceeded to the house themselves. "She looks familiar…" Yuuri mused as they left the entry archway. He felt Wolfram's hand tighten around his own. "I mean from the past," Yuuri stopped in his path and pulled the blonde, who had continued walking, back and into his arms. "You get so jealous so easily." Yuuri whispered before moving his own lips over the blondes.
Despite being insulted vaguely, Wolfram decided to kiss the boy in return; wrapping his arms around Yuuri's waist, mirroring Yuuri. Their mouths opened slightly, their tongues running across each others lips but never met each other. Yuuri felt that burning sensation deep within himself, in his soul, but it felt stronger than before, no so much a fleeting thing as it had been. His arms tightened around Wolfram's waist as he tried to reach out to the burning. Ending the kiss, Yuuri lowered his head to rest his forehead in the crook of Wolfram's neck. The feeling faded from his grasp but didn't leave. "It's progress." Yuuri smiled, their mind – or soul –link wasn't as strange or uncomfortable as they had first thought.
They ran the rest of the way to the house but where a minute late and received a glare from Gwendal, Wolfram commenting it was because his brother was trying to teach him the 'time is money' lesson for when he went into the family business. At least he got some form of attention from his family; Yuuri thought it but didn't say it. Whether the blonde heard his thoughts or not he didn't know but Wolfram made no comment if he had. Instead of a long, large table like his family had; they say at an oval oak table that sat six. Yuuri and Wolfram sat beside each other on the left, Gwendal at the foot of the table, Conrart across from Wolfram and Cheri at the head of the table.
Conrart struck up a conversation with Yuuri as the cooks filled plates and drinks and placed them before them. Yuuri listened as he always did; learning that they had a much larger dining table, or course they never used it unless hosting something with many people. Gwendal was silent the majority of the meal, he was looking over sheets of paper than Yuuri assumed to be work. Yuuri kept silent though; unable to get himself to understand this wasn't his family he was with and these people would listen and respond to him. He only spoke to Wolfram and only when the blonde spoke to him first. "Yuu-Chan, have you been tested for the blood thinning?" Yuuri felt as if his entire body pulsated in that moment, his vision seeming to turn black around the edges but as sudden as it happened, it was gone. "I had Wolfie go get tested, no thinning in him." Yuuri smiled, his body relaxing, maybe his reaction had been to the fleeting thought that Wolfram might have had the thinning.
"Yuu-Chan?" Yuuri opened his mouth to reply before snapping it shut. What was wrong with him? Just speak up and he would be heard. He knew that, so why can't he get himself to do it? Wolfram shifted beside him, moving a bit closer and that helped Yuuri. He shook his head. "I haven't tested." A simple answer that had Cheri gasp, Conrart simply looked at him with surprise while Gwendal glanced at him before returning to whatever it was he was reading. "Why the hell not, Wimp?" Yuuri muttered he wasn't a wimp, taking another bite. "It would be wise, and safe, to do so." Conrart spoke, his voice low but concern clear. Yuuri only shook his head again, finishing the food from his plate. "But why?" Cheri looked nearly heartbroken; she looked as if she were ready to force the test on him.
He turned his head before he leaned back in his seat, looking around the table, seeing everyone's eyes glued to him, even Gwendal's from behind those papers. "You heard my father; people with the blood thinning barely survive to sixteen, and I'll be seventeen in just a week." Gwendal interrupted when Cheri would have, explaining that the max age for someone to survive was nineteen in females and for males they only survived to sixteen. "And those with the thinning die before they reach that age or in the first few months of being that age; in other words, Yuuri will be fine." After that Cheri seemed to relax fully again and resumed being the life of the room. Wolfram managed to get them away after an hour of Cheri explaining all the details she had planned for their wedding, to which they both, at the same time, pointed out they weren't even engaged. She had then gushed over them eloping and that was when they made their escape.
Wolfram led him to his room; it was as large as Yuuri's own room, the same type of bed even though the colors were different. His room was made up of greens and blues. His bed had deep green pillows and blue blankets; the canopy was a thick dark blue. That was the color theme of the room, two bookshelves stood to the left of the room against the wall, between them was an office like area, risen up on a stage that seemed to have been made as a part of the room as if in the house blueprints. To the right was a large window, no, two double window doors that led onto the balcony. Two oak doors where on the right wall. One led to Wolfram's own bathroom and the other led into the adjoining room Yuuri would use. That room mirrored Wolfram's, the double doors on the wall connecting to the wall separating this room from Wolfram's, looking out the windows on the doors Yuuri saw that it was one large shared balcony. He turned back to the blonde who was placing a door stop in front of the doors adjoining their rooms. Yuuri waited for the blonde to notice his gaze. "Thanks." It was barely a whisper but Wolfram heard but didn't question because he knew what the double black meant. He meant thanks for inviting him here, for being with him, for loving him, for everything.
Smiling, Wolfram nodded, whispering "your welcome" to the other before heading back to his room to change, Yuuri changing into the clothes Cheri had somehow gotten but how he wasn't sure. "She probably sent a maid to go buy them for you." Yuuri turned toward Wolfram, his eyes widening to the point they felt sore. Wolfram stood in the doorway dressed in a pink frilly nightgown; long sleeves that flared at his fingertips, the same flare around his ankles. The neck of the gown was wide; it nearly fell from one pale shoulder. "I don't understand."
"She likes you, Stupid." Yuuri shook his head, walking over to Wolfram to lift the tail of the ribbon tied at the neck of the gown. "This. Why are you wearing it?" The blonde smiled, tilting his head before stepping back, twirling once, his arms spread near his sides as if offering a death; an innocent yet evil smile gracing his lips. "You don't like it?" Yuuri smiled, suddenly remembering his reaction to the pink nightgown in their past life. Smiling his own seductive smile; "Offering to sleep with me?" Yuuri asked in a low voice, Wolfram tilted his head before walking over to Yuuri, placing a quick peck on his lips before retreating back to his own room. "Goodnight wimp." Couldn't blame him for trying, although Wolfram only declined knowing Yuuri wasn't fully sure he wanted to share a bed yet.
A/N::: The flowers aren't as they were in Shin Makoku because Earth and Shin Makoku have different flower breeds, so what Cheri had there can't be found here on Earth. I looked up flowers and had the best of help from ayam3112, if she hadn't helped this may not have been up as quickly as it was. So special thanks to you.
Special Thank you(s) to both ayam3112 and Elle von Werner for your willingness to help me to the best you could on discovering the color of Secret Gwendal.