So, as an apology for being so late on updating this fic...another chapter! I really hope I did this well, since the meeting is a big part of the actual story! Warning: Bunch of fluff! I hope that's okay! :) Enjoy! And please review your thoughts!

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Wolfram couldn't believe Yuuri was here in front of him. Staring at him, eyes wide with disbelief. How long has it been since he saw him? Too long, Wolfram thought. Yuuri really has grown up. Not only physically, but also mentally. He has to admit that he isn't as wimpy and naive as he once was.

Wolfram only nodded as Yuuri whispered his name, silently telling him that it really was him. But then he gasped in shock because his arms were suddenly full of a fearful Yuuri, and he realized that the wimp he knew was still in there, and maybe he hadn't really changed as much as he thought he had.

"Stupid Murata," Yuuri murmured. "Couldn't he have warned me?"

Wolfram blinks and then demands. "Murata? As in the Great Sage? Why are you on a name basis with the Great Sage?"

"More like the Great Annoyance," Yuuri murmured. "We are friends of sorts. What are you doing here anyway?"

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here?" Wolfram asked with narrowed eyes. Because what was he doing here? Shouldn't he be in Shin Makoku with his family?

Yuuri pulled away from him, but before he could respond, Yozak came up to them. He sent a glare towards Yuuri.

"Hey!" Both Wolfram and Yuuri turned to face him. Yozak gives Wolfram a pointed look. "Are you going to tell us what's going on?! Who is this?"

"Oh, right," Wolfram glances at Yuuri. "This is Yuuri. He was my best friend when I was a child."

"Friend?" Yozak says with a look of disbelief. "Well, your friend just tried to kill us!"

"Yozak!" Conrad said, giving him a stern glare.

Yozak just glares back at him.

"I'm really sorry about that!" Yuuri said apologetically and a bit guiltily. "It's just that I had to learn that you can't just expect people aren't a threat to you. I was never going to kill you though!"

Yozak snorted, "Yeah, right! You can use a sword like that and weren't planning on killing us? It's what Mazoku like you do anyway."

Wolfram suddenly sends Yozak a cold glare. Because this was Yuuri. And no matter what may have happened to him he could never have become that prejudiced. And he hadn't the right to speak to him that way, but before he could snap at Yozak for it, Yuuri beat him to the punch.

"My kind? And what exactly is your kind? If you're suggesting I'm prejudice, it seems to me that you are more than I am. You don't know me. And I was only protecting myself," Yuuri snapped with a glare. "And for the record, I haven't killed a person in my life."

Yozak's teeth clench, but before he could respond, Conrad grabbed at his arm. Wolfram was relieved by this. If Yozak had kept talking to Yuuri that way, he would be threatened to burn him. Again.

"That's enough, Yozak." Conrad said, before turning a gentle smile onto Yuuri. "I apologize for my companion. I am Conrad. It's a pleasure to meet you, Yuuri."

Suddenly Yuuri froze next to him. He turned to give him a look of confusion. Yuuri swallowed before glancing up at Conrad.

"Did you say Conrad?"

He gives him a frown in return, "Yes. Why?"

Yuuri shakes his head. "Nothing. Nevermind."

"Wait," Yozak says, looking Yuuri over. "Yuuri? As in the one you were calling out to in your sleep?"

Yuuri blinked at him before laughing as Wolfram sends a dark glare over to him. Yozak was slowly wearing his patience.

"I was not!" Wolfram declared.

"Yeah, you were," Yozak said as he rolled his eyes. "You were going Yuuri, Yuuri..."

"Shut up!" He yelled as his face turned red. Which was just from anger. Not at all from embarrassment, Wolfram told himself.

Yuuri continued laughing. Wolfram turned to glare at him.

Yuuri just shakes his head as he calms his laughter. "Are you both half human?"

Yozak glares at him. "Maybe. Do you have a problem with that?"

Again, Yozak was slowly starting to tick Wolfram off, but again, Yuuri responded before he could say anything.

"I should think not," Yuuri murmured, giving Wolfram a worried look. Wolfram frowned at him in bemusement. "Since...since I also am."

Yozak practically gagged at that. Conrad just looked at him gently. And Wolfram stared at him with wide eyes. What? Did Yuuri just say he was half human? But that didn't even make any sense!

"What are you talking about, Yuuri? Of course you're not. We wouldn't have aged the same if that were true. And both of your parents are Mazoku."

"No," Yuuri said, slowly shaking his head. "My...mom. She wasn't."

"What?" Wolfram questioned with narrowed eyes. "She didn't age the whole time I knew her." Wolfram paused. "Did you say wasn't?"

Yuuri looked away from him. "She...she told me the truth about a week ago. Your parents gave her a necklace so it didn't look like she was aging. So then she could live amongst the Mazoku without their prejudice. But on the inside she was still aging. She told me right before...before she died."

Wolfram froze. And then he felt remorse for Lady Miko. The one he would refer to as Mama when he was a child. She was like a second mother to him. Wolfram shakes his head. "But...you're not like other..."

"I know," Yuuri said with a small smile, glancing back at him. "Typical, isn't it? No one really knew why that was. I'm still aging at the same rate as other Mazoku and I have the element water. They just assumed it was because I was a double black. But who knows."

Wolfram shakes his head, but smiles. "Well, I'm glad that you're aging this way."

I don't have to worry about you dying long before I do this way, Wolfram thought. Because I don't know what I would do if that happened.

Yuuri glances at him hesitantly. "You mean...you don't care?"

Wolfram frowns. Yuuri thought he would think of him differently? He's grown out of those prejudices, and even if he didn't, he would always made acceptations for him. Because this was Yuuri. It may not have made much sense, but his logic rarely ever did.

"Don't be a wimp, Yuuri. Especially since I thought you had grown out of it. Of course I don't care." The first part is a lie. Don't ever change, Wolfram thought.

Yuuri smiled at him and Wolfram felt as if he melted. Is this what he's been missing so much? There was no reason for him not to like it here. It was perfect. A paradise. But for the longest time he felt as if something was missing. Like there was a hole inside him that couldn't be filled. But Yuuri seemed to fill it with one look.

"I just can't believe you're actually here! Just wait until everyone finds out! They'll be so relieved. And your mom..." Yuuri was saying with a grin.

And suddenly that happy feeling leaves as his heart sinks inside of his chest. No. That couldn't happen. He has to make Yuuri understand. He frowns at him.

"No," Wolfram states instantly. "She doesn't have to know. And no one else does either."

Yuuri frowns back at him. "Of course they do, Wolfram. Everyone thinks you're dead."

What?

"They do?"

Yuuri nods, sadly. "Adelbert told us about...about the assassins..."

Wolfram's eyes widened. If he told them that then...

"What else did he say about it?"

Yuuri shakes his head with a laugh, "What else matters, Wolfram? You're alive! That means Adelbert isn't the king. You are."

"What?" Yozak said through a laugh. "This little brat? A king? Are you kidding me? Of course he's not a king!"

Wolfram glared at him. One more comment out of him and he's sending a fireball at his face.

Yozak suddenly pauses and glances back at Wolfram thoughtfully. "Are you?"

Wolfram narrows his eyes at him and says sternly, "No."

And he's not lying. He's not.

"Wolfram," Yuuri says with narrowed eyes, and Wolfram flinches slightly at the look of disappointment on his face. But he stood stern as he turned away from them.

"No," he said again. "I'm not the king. Maybe I was going to be, but that was a long time ago."

Yozak blinked. "Wait. Hold on a minute. You're the king? Seriously? And you never said anything?"

Wolfram turns to glare at him. "It's not like I'm any different!"

"But you have power." He grins and looks at Conrad. "We are friends with the Demon King. Can you believe it?!"

Yuuri rolls his eyes, along with Conrad. And then gives an exasperated sigh, before glancing at them. "Can I talk to Wolfram alone for a few minutes?"

Conrad instantly nods, "Of course you-"

"Yeah, right." Yozak says, with a roll of his eyes. "Whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of us too."

Wolfram watches as Yuuri narrows his eyes. But he jumps in before Yuuri can say anything. "I think it's best if you go."

Yozak narrows his eyes, "What?"

"Yozak," Conrad said with a roll of his eyes. "Let them catch up. Leave them alone."

Yozak grumbles unintelligently as he follows Conrad away from them.

"Yozak," Wolfram hissed lowly. "Don't ever talk to Yuuri like that again. Or I won't hesitate to burn you again."

He watched in satisfaction as Yozak's face paled. That rarely ever happened. He must have gotten his point across. He watched as they walked away before turning back to face Yuuri. Only to find him facing the other way, leaning against a tree.

He frowned as he started walking towards him. "Yuuri? What is it?"

He looks at him, eyes filling slightly with tears. "I just can't believe you're here. When Adelbert told us you were killed I..."

"Yuuri," Wolfram interrupts him. "It's okay."

"It's just that I really..." Yuuri trailed off and looked at him.

"What?" He asked curiously, trying to figure out what was going on in the wimps head.

Yuuri bit his lip, before throwing his arms around the blond and hiding his face into his neck. He then mumbles into it, "Missed you."

And once again that warm feeling was in his chest. And he never wanted that feeling to leave. He slowly wrapped his arms around Yuuri and placed his hands on his back. Whispering more openly than he had in a long time, "Me too."

Yuuri hummed as he smiled into his neck and pushed himself closer to him. Wolfram relaxed into his touch, not ever wanting to let him go. He had to hold himself back from pulling Yuuri back towards him when he pulled away. And he also had to fight down the disappointment at the action.

"What exactly is this place?" Yuuri asked curiously.

Wolfram smiled. "Nothing, really. It's just a jungle in between Mazoku territory and the human one. That's why I found Conrad and Yozak here. They were in hiding."

Yuuri nods as he murmured, "It must have been difficult. Neither place really wanting them."

Wolfram hums in agreement before grabbing his wrist and pulling him away. "This is a new place that we have yet to explore together."

Yuuri laughed as Wolfram pulled him before teasing. "We wouldn't want to break tradition."

Wolfram showed Yuuri the beauty the whole place had to offer. And he couldn't help but smile at Yuuri's look of awe at the place. They were at the waterfall now, and though Wolfram agreed that it was beautiful, Yuuri looked as if he had never seen anything more beautiful in his life. Which Wolfram knew couldn't be true, because he lived in a place that Wolfram would argue was the most beautiful place in the world.

He knelt down next to Yuuri, who was gazing into the water with soft eyes. Wolfram frowned again. What could he be thinking? He looked so amazed by what was in front of him and Wolfram didn't understand it.

"So," Yuuri said as he turned to grin at him. He then said in a teasing voice, "What exactly were you dreaming about when you were calling out my name?"

Wolfram suddenly flushed and Yuuri laughed. He just sent him a glare before crossing his arms and pointing his nose up in the air. A slight "Hmph" coming from his mouth.

"Aw," Yuuri said smiling. "That's the signature Wolfram pose that I remember. I missed that."

Wolfram gives him a confused look. "Missed what? Most people wouldn't. They were probably glad the Little Prince Brat was gone."

"I don't think so," Yuuri disagreed. "But, for me, I would rather you be here to do that then not be here at all. And, besides. You wouldn't be you if you didn't. So of course I missed it."

Wolfram suddenly felt warm again. How did Yuuri do that?

"So...?" Yuuri stressed.

"What?" Wolfram blinked in confusion.

"You didn't answer my question," Yuuri stated. "What were you dreaming about?"

"Nothing," He stated as his face grew warm. "It was just the time when I took you to the haunted house. And you ran away screaming like a wimp."

This time it was Yuui who flushed and Wolfram felt some pride in that.

"Don't make fun I me Wolf!" Yuuri argued as he fidgeted. "There was a ghost! Of course I was scared!"

Wolfram couldn't keep the happy grin off of his face. Yuuri called him Wolf. How long has it been since he heard that?

"Wimp," Wolfram spoke, and he couldn't keep the affection he felt from seeping through in the one word. "There's no such thing as ghosts."

Yuuri huffs, "Yes there is! I saw it!"

Wolfram rolled his eyes at him. But on the inside he felt so much happier than he's been in a long time. Because, he's missed this. There's no other words for it. He's missed this so much it hurt and left him feeling empty. He was always a brat and a spoiled one at that. But being around Yuuri seemed to make him better. The best version of himself. He always seemed to know how to make things feel okay. Even if they weren't.

Yuuri quickly got up and decided to walk around the lake, curiously looking at it from every angle. He smiled so brightly it was contagious. And, God help him, he's missed that.

Wolfram suddenly frowned as he watched Yuuri. He knew Yuuri wouldn't let the whole king thing and going home go so easily. But how was he supposed to explain to him that he just couldn't? Tell him about his past? What he did?

No. Wolfram shakes his head, disregarding the thought. He could lose Yuuri for good if he knew the truth. And he decided he isn't going to risk it. He can't.

"Wolf!" Yuuri whispered excitedly. "Look!"

Wolfram quickly got up and walked towards him. He blinked at what he saw. "They're just deer, Yuuri. There's tons of animals here. And I know they come into Shin Makoku from time to time."

"Not anymore," Yuuri mumbled as he watched them. "Not that I blame them."

Wolfram frowned. What was that supposed to mean? He shook his head and thought it best not to bring up Shin Makoku right now. As that would bring up other topics he wasn't ready to discuss.

He quickly grinned and grabbed Yuuri's wrist, "I know something you'll love."

He pulled Yuuri along as he walked towards the mountains.

"Wolf," Yuuri complained. "Where are we going?"

"You'll see," He told him with a smile.

Wolfram brought him to the top of a mountain, with a whole inside that let you see into the deep abyss it made.

"You want me to look in there?" Yuuri asked with wide eyes. "Are you crazy? I could fall!"

Wolfram rolled his eyes. It looked like the wimps fear of heights hasn't gone away either.

"Don't be ridiculous, Yuuri. I wouldn't let you fall." Wolfram stated, and then flushes as his mind went back to the day they were kids and Yuuri was hanging over the edge.

"I would never let you fall!"

He remembers his younger self saying. He supposes some thing's don't ever change.

Wolfram shakes his head, "Just look. It'll be worth it, I promise."

Yuuri hesitates, before squeezing into the hole, his eyes shut. Wolfram rolled his eyes and crawled in so he was right next to him.

"Yuuri," he whispered. "Look."

He watched as Yuuri slowly opened his eyes and then gasped in astonishment. "Is...is that really a...?"

"Dragon?" Wolfram murmured. "I suppose they found safety here too."

"Amazing," Yuuri breathed. "They're practically extinct."

"I love coming up here to watch them," Wolfram explained. "I thought you might too."

"They're beautiful." Yuuri agreed. "Let's get closer!"

Wolfram rolled his eyes, "You're out of your mind if you think I am bringing you closer. They're beautiful, but also very dangerous."

"Oh, come on, Wolf!" Yuuri was practically whining. "Where did your sense of adventure go?"

"No where," Wolfram said dryly. "I'm just not a big fan of death. Specifically, yours."

"Don't be so overprotective! I made it this far without getting myself killed!" Yuuri said strongly.

Wolfram nodded with a smirk, "And that's a wonder in itself."

Yuuri rolled his eyes and huffed. "You're still as mean as ever, though."

Wolfram narrowed his eyes at him, "What?"

"Er," Yuuri says nervously. Then quickly squirms away from him. "Nothing!"

Wolfram rolls his eyes before following the wimp out. Sometimes, he really was more trouble than he was worth.

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"How can you be okay with this?" Yozak said angrily. "You know what's going to happen. I know what's going to happen. They probably aren't very sure what's going to happen. And we can't let it happen!"

Conrad was losing his patience with Yozak. And he was losing him. What was he talking about? "I don't know what "it" is Yozak. What are you talking about?"

"Them!" Yozak states angrily.

"What about them? Yuuri seems nice."

"He tried to kill you! And you're defending him?"

Conrad rolled his eyes, "I don't think he was going to kill me. Believe me, he had the chance. But he didn't. And besides, it's not like he knew what to expect from us."

"Whatever," Yozak said as he glared out into the woods. "There still out there together and you know what's happening."

"What?"

"They're falling in love!" Yozak stated with narrowed eyes.

"So?" Conrad still wasn't following. Love is a bad thing in Yozak's mind?

"He's going to take him from us! All these years it's only been the three of us and we've been just fine. Now this "sacred" double black is going to ruin it!"

"Wolfram has obviously not forgotten him, even after all these years, so it's not like it's one sided. Why don't you want him to be happy?"

"He was happy before! We all were!"

"Not like this. If Wolfram falls in love with him, you would want him to just give that up? Is love really like that for you?"

Yozak paused and looked at him with wide eyes, " Of course it isn't!"

He grabbed Conrad's hand and squeezed it.

"I just...I really don't want things to change."

Conrad nodded as he squeezed his hand back. "But if you do care about Wolfram at all, then you should be happy for him. And change isn't always a bad thing."

Yozak nodded as he glared at the ground. Then he pulled Conrad close to him, "Fine. But I still don't like that kid."

"You don't have to," Conrad said as his lips twitched upward. "But I really don't understand why."

Yozak glares back at him, "No one tries to hurt you and then earns my forgiveness so easily."

Conrad's eyes soften, "He didn't hurt me, though."

"And he's lucky," Yozak agreed. "Because then there would be no chance of my forgiving him."

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"Isn't this a great place?" Wolfram murmured. Because it really was.

"It is beautiful." Yuuri agreed. "But, Wolfram- I have to know. Why are you here? Why did you never come back to Shin Makoku?"

Wolfram froze. He knew this was coming. What was he supposed to tell Yuuri to make him understand?

"I just needed to be on my own. I couldn't go back after what happened."

Yuuri looked at him with sad eyes that made him flinch. "We really needed you at home."

"No you didn't. And I found happiness here, despite of...what happened."

Yuuri looks away from him, "That makes one of us."

Wolfram frowns. Yuuri was unhappy? Why? Losing your best friend so young probably wasn't a very memorable experience, but this was Yuuri. He had many people that loved him. The thought of him being unhappy all these years brought a heavy weight into his chest.

"What does that mean?"

"Wolfram," Yuuri spoke with a frown. "Haven't you heard what happened after you left?"

Wolfram frowns back before shaking his head. "No, we don't really hear much of anything out here."

"There was a war," Yuuri told him. "Adelbert wanted control over all of the other territories. Thousands died-no side was able to get an upper hand. Finally, they agreed that our territory would just be separate from the rest; so Adelbert had complete control. The war ended, but not before my father was enlisted. And he was killed."

Wolfram felt cold at that. Both of Yuuri's parents were gone? But there had to be others in his life, right?

"After that, I lived with both of our mothers. I tried the best I could to take care of them, but all of these years it felt like I had lost them too. They both never left the house and rarely ever spoke. It was...lonely." Yuuri whispered.

Wolfram clenched his jaw before whispering, "My mom, too?"

"Yeah," Yuuri nods. "Losing both her husband and son in one day...it broke something in her."

Wolfram looked away from him. He didn't want to hear this. He's been trying all these years not to think about them. And now all he's hearing are these terrible, awful things that happened to them. He doesn't want to hear it.

"And you are probably wondering what happened to me," Yuuri whispered. "The things I saw-" Yuuri paused. "Adelbert proceeded in having the humans take over everything. And then he made the decision that he would have no one weak in his kingdom. So that led him into killing many children and old people. And, of course, he came for me."

Wolfram was shaking his head. Adelbert wouldn't do this. He couldn't have. And he didn't want to hear about the hurtful things Yuuri's experienced because it hurt and he couldn't leave and he would never get the images out of his mind.

"My mom begged him to spare me, because I was all she had left. Adelbert agreed, but I needed to become stronger. So he made me watch as he killed the rest of the children and the elderly. And that's also why I had to learn how to use a sword."

Wolfram had to shake his head as the images of a young, innocent, naive Yuuri experiencing those things. Yuuri had to stop. He couldn't bare to hear more. It was awful, but-

"And now Adelbert is going to war! He wants control over all the other territories. He's been building an army. Thousands are going to die-"

"There's nothing I can do," Wolfram stated. And it was true. One person couldn't stop this.

"But you're the king," Yuuri stated.

Wolfram glared at him. "I have already told you I'm not the king. I have nothing to do with Shin Makoku anymore."

A look of hurt passed over Yuuri's face, "So you're just going to let thousands of people die?"

Wolfram turns away, "It isn't my fight."

"What's happened to you?" Yuuri looked at him with a hurt expression. "The Wolfram I knew wouldn't act like this."

"Well, I've obviously changed." Wolfram told him with a cold look. "If you don't like it, then I won't stop you from leaving."

Wolfram knew he shouldn't be saying these things. He didn't want to lose Yuuri. But his heart and brain were at a war and were not going to agree on anything anytime soon. And his anger usually won out in the end.

But this wasn't the same Yuuri he left behind all those years ago. That Yuuri would flinch back with a kicked puppy look on his face and wait to speak until Wolfram cooled off. This Yuuri was different. He stood tall and glared at him for his words (though he could still see traces of hurt etched into his features, he didn't back down.)

"Wolfram. You are the son of Queen Cheri and King Shinou. That makes being king your birth rite, and I'm sorry if my being here and sharing that with you makes you so miserable, but that doesn't make it any less true. It's your responsibility. It's your kingdom and your people."

Wolfram narrowed his eyes, "You have the right to say that? You left."

Yuuri glares at him, "I've done everything I could to help them. And I left to find help. And I was sent here to bring you back, apparently, but it looks like Murata was wrong. I won't be able to convince you. But he knew it would be difficult, but he sent me anyway. Don't you see? You're our only hope."

Wolfram knew Yuuri was begging. And as much as he wanted to help him- this was one thing he couldn't do.

"Sorry."

He turned away.

"Wolfram," Yuuri sounded as if he was about to scold him.

"Stop it." Wolfram looked over at him over his shoulder.

"What?" Yuuri asked with narrowed eyes.

"You're sounding like my father."

"Good," Yuuri says, anger clear in his voice. And Wolfram's sure he's never heard Yuuri use that tone before. "At least one of us does."

And that's when Wolfram sees red. He doesn't care at this point if it's Yuuri. He had no right to say that to him. He quickly turned away and spat out at him angrily, "You can't just come here and tell me how to live my life! You have no idea what I went through. And I don't care about our past, don't ever insult me using my father again."

"Wolfram," Yuuri says softly, guiltily. "I didn't mean-I'm sorry...if you just told me..."

"Forget it!" Wolfram seethed. "You shouldn't have come here, Yuuri. It would have been better for both of us."

Wolfram ignored the look of hurt that passed over Yuuri's face and the stinging sensation in his chest at the sight. This was different than the other looks of hurt. Because this time Wolfram hurt him directly; which was the first time in all of their history of knowing each other.

Wolfram turned his back on him and walked away. Ignoring every instinct telling him to turn around. Because, again, anger won him over in the end.