Author Note: I already wrote a chapter here before but only uploaded it for an hour. I decided it had really gone too far with the 'craziness' and I wanted to tone it down with a rewrite. Thank you for understanding and I hope you enjoy

Chapter Twelve – Fairy Prince

Kyoko sat extremely still in front of her husband. Part of her wanted to grab him and turn him around to force him to look at her, but there was another part too, and that part was to respect his wishes. Very gently she reached out and placed her hand between the two wings. She was moving very slowly as if Kuon would break with too firm a movement. She saw the wings flutter and nervously pulled her hand away with just the same stillness.

"Kuon?" she asked as she put her hand on his shoulder. "Kuon, whatever it is that is making you not want to look at me, just know that I love you. If you don't want me to see you, I'll respect that. Just know that whatever happens to you, I will accept you and I love you. I think you've forgotten how much time and help it took me to admit those words to you," she pressed a kiss on his back between the two wings.

She saw the shards in them. Somehow they seemed to be forming a rainbow with how colorful they were and they looked like jewels. She gasped as she put a hand to her mouth realizing how more than half were the same blue-green that the Corn stone was. It was just reflected between some blues, greens, purples, golds, and reds.

They looked almost like a mosaic tapestry of the world's purest crystal.

"Kuon," she said before he took a deep breath and she saw the subtle way that his wings moved when he did so.

"Kyoko…" she finally heard her husband speak in a much younger voice and she looked up. She needed to be very still right now and very quiet. She was scared that saying or doing the wrong thing would cause for him to shatter and the pieces to never fit together again. "If I turn around, please promise me that you will try not to get scared?" he asked.

His voice sounded different even from Corn's, it wasn't anything to do with the age or maturity of the voice. It was as if it was a different frequency. It was as if he had inherited a fairy or angel voice, it sounded almost like singing.

"I promise," Kyoko said before reaching out to hold her husband's hand.

She closed her eyes and nodded before smiling at him as she realized he had been afraid of being so much younger than her. He looked about fifteen. She had seen a few pictures of him at that age and even though this man before her wasn't even half as depressed as in those pictures, he did look afraid. She reached out to touch his cheek, finding his blond hair to be below his chin. "Hey," she said with a weak smile.

Kyoko tried to find the right words to say, she tried to think of how to tell Kuon that despite how young he was she could still only see him. She was trying to find words that sounded supportive instead of as if he was a child. Trying to find the right words, she saw him look down almost as if he was terrified and placed both hands on his cheeks.

She kissed him passionately before pulling back with a grin. "I love you, Kuon."

She saw the hope start to show in his eyes as he looked at her and she smiled. God, if this guy had grown up in Kyoto and had taken an interest in her. If they had been the same age and in the same class, she might have never looked at Shou in the same way again. This teenage boy was gorgeous. However, this was also her husband and with the amount his body was changing, the pain and stress must be hard to continue to handle.

"Kyoko," Kuon said as he looked at her. "I'm not sure what's going on? I keep trying to figure it out but…I can't find any answers. This whole encounter, this transformation. It's like a riddle to me. These wings," he said as they moved again. "I'm sorry that you have to be caught up in this."

Kyoko wrapped her arms around the now younger man and pulled him to her chest. She embraced him closely and pressed her forehead against his cheek. "That's why we're a team. We figure things out together. I'm sorry to tell you this, but I think your wings are beautiful and I don't care if you are a fairy now. I'll protect you, just for once let my strength be your strength as well."

Kuon laughed weakly, "For once?" he asked, "I always depend on you when I'm at my weakest," he smiled looking as if he might break, "I'm glad I can continue it now."

Kyoko laughed softly hearing that, as she felt a glow behind her she moved over to Kuon and wrapped her arms tightly around him as if trying to protect him. This was her husband and no matter what form of life he had become, no matter his age or his looks, this was the man she loves. Nobody could dare take him from her.

As they looked to where the glow was, Kuon felt his body being held tight in Kyoko's arms as if she was refusing anyone or anything to take him from her. Kuon wanted to reassure her that it was alright, but he was struck silent by seeing Aurora there.

Before he could even say another word, Kyoko wrapped her arms tighter around him.

"What are you doing here?" Kyoko asked protectively. "What did you do to Kuon?" she said as Aurora glanced her up and down.

"You really do love him don't you, well he is gorgeous I have to admit," she said before placing a hand on Kuon's cheek as he flinched away. Kyoko took a deep breath in. She had always promised herself that she would not become one of those foolish girls who would fight so desperately over a man, not since she had 'been with' Shou. She had never thought it would be Kuon and she definitely had never thought it would have been in this way.

"Of course I love him," Kyoko said as she tried to be mindful of her belly where there daughter was definitely showing now. Kyoko felt the tears in her eyes, "He is gorgeous, he's god like, but he's my husband, my Kuon."

Aurora smiled, "It would be easier for him to be in the fairy world, he is destined to become a fairy prince of one of the elements," she said as Kyoko frowned. "My element is air, I am the fairy princess of the wind and the sky. It would be a fantastic life where he would soar higher than anyone el-"

Kuon shook his head, "I refuse to go into your world." He said before looking down, "Where is the element of earth?" he asked as Aurora blinked whilst looking at him.

"That would be a fairy hidden amongst your people, but without a fairy princess there can be no fairy prince," Aurora said honestly. Kyoko could tell by the expression on the princess's face that she hadn't wanted to say that. She could tell that Aurora was scared about not being Kuon's princess. Well sorry, but that role had already been cast some time ago.

"You mean that…Kuon would be here but a secret fairy?" Kyoko asked not wanting to show how happy she was about that thought, "Is there a fairy princess of the earth?" she asked again as Aurora shook her head.

"There isn't," she said, "a human would have to volun-"

Aurora paused as Kyoko had her hand in the air as if asking a question in class. She blinked before hearing the woman speak clearly. "On the grounds that nothing happen to our child, I would like to become a fairy," she said with an incredibly straight face.

Kuon glanced at her, his eyes showing his shock at her just asking like that. He didn't think that things worked like that, you couldn't just become a fairy…right? Oh hell, what was he even arguing about, right now he had wings.

"Alright," Aurora smiled, "however if you are to become a fairy, we will need Kuon to be your teacher which means that he has to be put in true fairy form so he can rediscover the world of the fairies." She put Kuon's hand on Kyoko's and then pulled back. "I want to transfer some of his fairy magic to you," she explained before chanting some words and Kyoko froze as she felt a power grow inside of her and the next thing she knew, she was looking at an eighteen year old Kuon. She grinned as she looked at him.

"Do I look older?" she whispered as he quickly shook his head. At least right now she didn't.

Before Kyoko could say another word, Aurora had her palm to Kuon's forehead and Kyoko didn't know what to do as she saw the man she loved shrink and fall unconsciously against the blankets. His body was glowing a rich golden color and Kyoko could swear that by the size of his body she could put him in a teacup.

Kyoko nervously reached for him, holding the fairy version of her husband in her hand extremely carefully. She was scared to touch him when he was this small. She looked up at Aurora, "He won't stay like…"

"The size is only for three days, just enough time for him to remember his past and his connection to my world," she said. "You can expect your own wings to grow within a few weeks," she said before conjuring up a marble slab with a glass dome. "You can put him here," she said as Kyoko looked at her.

"Like a pet?" she scoffed before going over to her vanity table and pulling out a small silk and velvet jewelry box that Kuon had once given to her. She had always said it would have been perfect for a bed for Thumbelina. Now it was going to be a bed for her fairy husband.

She took a very cotton balls and then a powder puff and made something soft for him to be placed on before placing a handkerchief over him as a blanket. She looked up at Aurora before going over to the marble and glass container. "He'll be okay in here, right?" she asked. "He has enough air? He won't be too cold?"

"It'll be safe in there for him," Aurora said. "I'll return when he'll be ready to wake up," she said and before Kyoko could ask more questions, she had disappeared. Kyoko nervously placed the glass dome over Kuon. She was terrified by how small he was, but she had hope that he would be with her again soon.

One thing was for certain and that was that she would not leave him unattended. She also knew that she desperately wanted her daughter checked over. Hopefully Julie would be able to watch that tiny fairy prince.

Author Note

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