Another actual short story, only 900 words.

I know it is taking a long while to get the next main chapter, but I promise that it will come in between 1-2 weeks.

So please enjoy this fic I got the suggestion from Wattpad, free leave to in suggestions.

Revelation

"Hey, Shu I just realised something…" Ikeda spoke as he popped his head out from a newspaper where it titled at front page, 'Another woman found strangled!' And there was a small list of confined victims, from where Gakushu could see were Kitoaji Kin and Nakadan Kanjioro.

He sat in front of Gakushu at one of the Department's many busy food courts as the boy eat his dinner. Today's meal is a slow-cooker Coq Au Vin, and for dessert is Andes chocolate cake. He decided to eat there because it had been a while since he eat at a reaper's food court.

He had just completed a retrieval shift earlier and Ikeda was sticking around because he had nothing else to do. But Gakushu was on better terms for the time being because Ikeda gave him a sighed Yuri Plisetsky jersey. So nobody had to worry about Ikeda's having his ribs being fractured, yet…

"It's Gakushu, what is it now Ikeda?" Gakushu muttered with a hint of annoyance, he already did this in the afternoon and he certainly didn't want to repeat it again. Instead of wearing his black reaper uniform, he changed out of it and decided to wear something both casual yet classy suit as he was about to go to France soon.

Another reason why Gakushu was being civil with the light haired man was because he was munching on his cake, after finishing his dinner and Ikeda had promised to take him to eat Cédric Grolet's desserts later on for a quick snack. Thank god for time-zones as Japan was 8 hours ahead of Paris, and he need his fix of sweets. Again.

"You been in the Department for four years." Ikeda casually explained, as he folded up his newspaper and setting it on his front of the table. And Gakushu rolled his reaper eyes.

'What a stupid question.' The strawberry blonde thought to himself. He held onto his tongue from saying, 'And you have ten years of experience, yet you have a mentality of a 5 year old who always wants to have An's full attention if you are not focused on stealing my fucking sweets.'

Ikeda has an odd obsession over his main senior that stemmed back to his beginning years, which still continued to this day. Although Gakushu would admitted that this side of Ikeda was pleasant and adorable, if only that this side of Ikeda was more common than the title of 'pudding thief' or 'goddamn it Ikeda!'

Ikeda would say as he rushed to hug his main senior, lifting her up in the air in his arms "Praise me! Praise me!" Or a "Pat me! Pat me!" And he would be like this more often if Johnny was around, ten points if Johnny was jealous and grumpy for the rest of the day at the end of it.

That and because Ikeda has many ways of hugging her, his favourite is when he was at the side of her, his body crouched and lowered as he wrapped his arms around her torso. Pressing his face at the side of her breast. An never seemed to be troubled or even bothered by this, she would smiled back and started to pat him like a puppy. And he relished this.

Gakushu pushed his black framed glasses back, tying to focus on the now than the adorable relationship. "Tell me something I don't already know." Gakushu spoke, prying his eyes chartreuse phosphorescent downwards and attention to his cake.

Ikeda scoffed, but he continued to explain. "So when we cast away our human bodies after we committed our unforgiveable sin, we are reborn as Grim Reapers."

Why Ikeda was explaining this was beyond Gakushu, this was common sense in the world of Grim Reapers. He learned this on day one, he had no idea where Ikeda was following at with his train of thought. Unless he wanted to take about the process of it, the transfer of the soul from a body of a human to a body of a reaper in a tube-like setting that came straight out from a sci-fi movie.

An once recounted that she vaguely remembered being immersed by a numbing feeling, the bubbles floating up and reapers cladded in white lab coats did their usual work to make sure the process went as smoothly as possible.

"Shush, go back to sleep." A voice called out, and the blurry vision slowly closed and the next time the Australia girl woke up. She was in a room of white, everything was white, the bed, the ceiling, the wall, and even her hospital gown.

But knowing Ikeda, it was a 10 out of 10 chance that the light haired man wouldn't talk about something that deep.

Gakushu lifted his eyes up and adverted his attention back on Ikeda, with a smug look. "Your point?"

That and cursing Ikeda for looking so fine in his tailored and fitted dark European suit set, along with the dark trench-coat. Gakushu long came into terms with his preferences but it didn't help that he was finding Ikeda, goddamn fucking Ikeda attractive!

"So, wouldn't that technically you would be four years old?"

"…"

Gakushu found that his words were stolen, ripped out from his mouth and stuffed with silence.

"…."

The strawberry blonde dropped his fork, his jaw gaped opened as he stared back at Ikeda's reaper eyes with bewilderment.

'Oh my god…'

"I know right! I would mean I'm ten!"

A sneak peak

Ren couldn't believe that Noct actually slept through the entire train ride and he was still sleeping soundly, he knew that the male liked to sleep after learning bits and pieces of the character from the school visit. 'But this is ridiculous…'

'How many hours does he need?'

He watched at the older and taller male, carrying the boy on his back walked off to the side and to where a gathering of La Morton students huddle together. Ren could see that everyone was getting checked off, as soon presumably the two were signed off, they walked back to Gretel, Gakushu and Ren.

"Okay, I'm assuming that I have no choice of the matter." The taller male sighed and Gretel pouted.

"Iggy-kun, it has been months since we are all like this together. And Gakushu wants to catch up with Noct." Although they already did that with last night's shift but that was beside the point. "Right my Strawberry?"

"Yes." Gakushu nodded as they all walked out of the station.

"I prefer you calling me in my actual name. You have done it before."

"Stop being like the Strawberry when Ikeda calls him Shu, he was just being selective."

"Hey." Gakushu called out however Gretel walked off.

"Okay, let's have that Korean BBQ." Noct mumbled, his eyes still closed, "I'm going to skip the kimchi."

Ignis sighed and yet he held a soft smile, "You can walk there, you have been sleeping for almost the entirely of the train ride."

"But it smells nice here…" Noct sleepily muttered.

'What…?' Ren blankly stared at the pair, how on Earth was he supposed to react to that? He turned to Gakushu and hoped to mimic his expression, however Gakushu offered a smile and a pat on Iggy's shoulders.

"I'm sorry but the ship has sailed, if anything it left the port decades ago." Gakushu spoke with a cheek, smiling of how pink the male's pink was becoming.

"Quiet, you are going to make Gretel more serious."

"This is Gretel we are talking about."

"I will go down with this ship!" Gretel yelled over from a distance.

And we are done! Prepare for more short stories this year!

Thank you for 125 reviews, 75 favourites and 87 follows! I cri every time I look at those numbers.