Dlbn: I'm back with a new chapter, everyone!
Nbld: Let's skip the formalities and excuses and get going! Thank you to Paxloria, Sycocat2, and Promocat for reviewing! Cider for you all!
Paxloria: Thank you! They seem to have a similar view of being servants and serving their masters, honestly, though Eclipse is more borderline on a friendship with Raenef then Sebastian is with Ciel. Eclipse should be sued to tension, having served in the Hangma War according to the series XD
Sycocat2: Thanks! Glad it was entertaining ^^ Eclipse has a different reaction to Sebastian then I think anyone would think.
Promocat: Nope, never!
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In Raenef's room, Alois went through the Demon Lord's clothing to find something for him to use to seduce Eclipse with later that night, when the others would go to sleep. He rifled through the clothing and got rather annoyed when he saw how conservative everything was.
"Bloody hell." Alois cursed, putting a hand on his hip. "I can't find anything in here that could be suitable."
"Why not?" Raenef wondered, cocking his head to the side.
"Nothing skimpy. You're so conservative…"
"Huh?"
"Nothing revealing."
"Why would I wear something revealing? I'm a Demon Lord. I'm supposed to be terrifying, not show a lot of skin."
"You have absolutely nothing for when you have a late night visitor? If you want to sleep with Eclipse so bad, this stuff won't do."
"But…Eclipse helped me pick out most of that. I didn't have much as a thief…well…I guess I could try the clothes I came here in. I mean, I did wear shorts…" Raenef grabbed a box from his closet and set it on the floor. He opened it to show Alois the contents. Inside were his only belongings from before he discovered he was a Demon Lord; a pair of black ankle boots, brown shorts that went a little bit above his knees, a long sleeved grey shirt, a green sleeveless vest, and a couple old hair ties and clips that he didn't use anymore because they didn't go with his 'big bad Demon Lord' image. Though, honestly, that image was all in his and Eclipse's heads, since he was never and would never be terrifying. He could only fake it for the Demon Lord council.
"Still not enough…" Alois muttered. "Well, maybe the vest and shorts by themselves is fine…" he pulled out the clothing and threw them to Raenef before turning around. "I won't look."
"H-Hold on." Raenef climbed onto his bed and pulled the canopy curtains down around himself. They didn't hide much, but at least if Alois happened to see out of the corner of his eye or turned, he'd only see a brief outline of the Demon Lord behind the lush, midnight black fabric. Raenef quickly changed into clothing that he wasn't so familiar with anymore and neatly folded the clothes he was wearing to sit on the edge of the bed. He got off and cleared his throat. Alois turned to look at him.
"You're awfully skinny." The Earl informed him.
Raenef blushed. "Good metabolism, I guess." He looked down at himself. "I don't think this will do anything. Besides, Eclipse likes a powerful me, not a sexy me."
"Has he ever seen a sexy you?"
"No…"
"Then you don't know for sure, do you?"
"He looked disturbed when I said you were going to help me seduce him…"
"He looked more embarrassed then anything." Alois huffed. "Like I pointed out to him, he does have feelings for you."
"He thinks you have feelings for Claude."
"You're both bloody insane."
Raenef giggled. "Well, I wouldn't go that far, Alois…"
"I might." Alois sighed. "You might do better just showing up in his room wearing nothing but your underpants, throwing your arms out and saying 'you can have me'."
Raenef blushed. "I-I'm not about to do that!" He answered.
"You may as well." Alois sighed. "Or at least just show up in your underwear and tell him how you feel and telling him to deal with it and not give you any of that bloody 'improper' bullshit. A lot of things I do are improper, but I still do them. I'm not about to change to try and fit the mold of an Earl, and you shouldn't try to fit the Demon Lord mold that your servant has so carelessly thrust upon you."
"It's not Eclipse, it's our culture. I'm supposed to be terrifying and strike fear into the hearts of my enemies…but right now, my enemies mistake me for a girl and think that Eclipse is the Demon Lord." He sighed. "Oh, I wish that for just a day, I could be the way I'm supposed to be…"
"You are the way you're supposed to be, or you wouldn't be this way. Things happen for a reason, Raenef."
Raenef shrugged as his faint blush began pooling down his neck to his chest. He closed his vest around his chest and shuddered.
"Cold?"
Raenef shrugged. "A little, I guess…"
"Hm…do you have any robes?"
"Um…I have my demon bone cloak." Raenef grabbed the item from his closet. It was a long, brown cloak that was held around his neck by little red buttons. "But this is it…"
"Put it on."
Raenef sighed and did as he was told. He clasped it shut around his neck and put the wrap he had for his hair back on the hook.
"Hm…" Alois dug through the closet a little bit more.
He found a long baby blue coat that was held shut by three strips of dark blue fabric with little gold clasps to secure it across his chest. A pair of gloves that went from just above Raenef's elbows and ended on top of his hand with a point facing his middle finger were hanging on the coat hanger as well. They were held to the short sleeved coat with black clasps that were sewn on the inside of both the cap sleeves and the top of the gloves. A black outline covered the collar and spread down the middle of the jacket to embroider the edges in black as well.
"Hm…take off the cloak and the vest and try this on, but don't button it shut on the front."
"S-Sure…" Raenef did as Alois suggested. The jacket fit him perfectly, but looked a little strange without being buttoned shut on top like it normally was when he wore it. "Well?"
"Not bad…though you may still want to go with my 'only your underwear' idea. Underneath that, of course. And you don't need the gloves either."
Raenef detached the gloves. They looked like they were sewn into the jacket, but the fabric that connected to the gloves themselves was hooked in a loop that was sewn into the underside of the sleeves. He handed them to Alois and looked down at himself. Although he was skinny, there was a faint outline of abs on his pale body, but it was mostly to show that they existed under the surface.
"Something still isn't right…" Alois muttered. "Hm…I got it!" He snapped his fingers. "Put your hair down."
"But…but I always wear my hair up. Unless I'm asleep…" Raenef stated. "Eclipse only sees me like that when I first wake up or if he checks on me in the night."
"Are you embarrassed?"
"I look more like a girl when I do that…"
"I doubt Eclipse will care if you look like a male or a female. It's you he likes. Not your hair style or gender. Do demons even have preferences for what gender they prefer? I wouldn't think so…"
"I don't know…Eclipse doesn't really show that he likes anyone, unless you count that one time Chris gave us too much to drink and Eclipse and I went at it in his room…"
"I thought you were a virgin."
"I am." Raenef nodded. "He snapped out of it pretty quick and stopped us before we even lost any clothing." He sighed. "Come to think of it, I think he took my hair down that night…"
"So he has seen you awake with your hair down, and you two had a nice time together?" Alois wiggled his eyebrows.
"Yeah, I guess…" A goofy grin stretched across Raenef's face as he remembered the night in question. He reached up and grabbed the clip that held his hair up. He pulled the bobby pin out of the fabric and unwound it from his hair. The bun fell apart to leave messy strands of blonde hair behind. Raenef threw the band onto his bed and shook his hair out. His hair fell a little past his shoulders when it wasn't up. His bangs hung in his eyes, but he brushed them away to frame his face and gave Alois a small smile.
"Well?"
"Much better." Alois nodded.
He walked around the young Demon Lord to look him over. He ran his fingers through Raenef's hair and tussled it a bit so it was slightly messier, as though the fourteen year old had just woken up. He parted Raenef's hair to the left and let more hair hang on the right side.
"There we are." He gestured to Raenef's vanity mirror. "Go have a look."
Raenef did as told. He smiled at his reflection and brushed more loose bangs out from his line of vision. "Thanks, Alois…"
"Any time." Alois shrugged. "Just do remember to give me the details later, no?"
"Alright." Raenef nodded and turned to hug the other blonde tightly.
Alois stiffened in his grip but recognized the gesture of affection and hugged him back. "You're…you're welcome, Raenef." He patted the Demon Lord on the back awkwardly.
When Raenef pulled away, he was grinning like an idiot.
