Author's Note: Yes, another Demon Diary fic.  Aren't we all happy?  *celebrates*  ^_^.  Of course it's Raenef x Eclipse.  It was inspired by one line in book three: "My only concern…is my master's desire," said Eclipse.  My friend said that was totally leaving it open for corruption.  I agreed.  And voila!

-The fic will be a multi-chapter one…how long in total, though, I still don't know.

Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue, don't ask, don't tell.

Warnings: yaoi, lime or lemon in future chapters, fluff…all that good stuff

My Master's Desire

Erutis was bored.  Chris had asked her to help him practice swordsmanship but he had run off again, as usual.  After she had chased him down and pounded him into the ground, Erutis realized found herself with nothing to do now that Chris was too injured to train.  Well, nothing she particularly wanted to do anyway; Eclipse had earlier suggested, deadpan, that she learned to cook.  She'd glared at him and muttered something unflattering about jerky demons under her breath but the memory of his powers and the last time he'd set Chris's impetuous mouth on fire kept a firm rein on some of her finer insults.

Wandering through the vast halls of the castle, Erutis kicked her boots against the floor until she realized Eclipse would probably force her to wax said floor if he found out.  Sighing, she stopped kicking and turned idly, pushing open a set of large doors and stepping into an enormous library.  Erutis blinked.  Wow.  She'd never seen so many books before in her life.  Her mouth hung open slightly in awe.  Hundreds of shelves lined the walls from floor-to-ceiling and even more marched in neat rows from one end of the room to the other, their tall, mahogany magnificence offset by scattered desks and cushioned alcoves.

Hmm, she thought, an idea popping into her head.  Maybe they have something on How To Poison Jerky Demons Without Them Finding Out It Was You And Thereby Murdering You In Multiple Torturous Manners.  See how Eclipse would like her cooking then.  She smirked a little.

"Let's see," Erutis said, going to the nearest shelf.  Eucalyptus Leaves and Their Uses in Potions To Energize and Enlighten the Erudite Demon.  Well…fascinating.  She moved on to the next shelf, hoping the books were in alphabetical order.  Dairy Fairies and How To Capture Them.  She raised an eyebrow.  Well, time to go the other way.  As she turned on her heel to find the "H" shelves, a title caught Erutis's eye.

Demon Diary?

Now that actually sounds intriguing.  She fished it off the shelf, standing on her tiptoes because, yes, okay, she was short!  Hmm…number three?  It must be part of series.  Erutis flipped it open and was surprised to find it illustrated…rather like a comic book.  And, wouldn't you know, it chronicled Eclipse and Raenef's story!  Demon lords were quite renowned for their up-to-date chronicles of their lives, for they were very long lives, but most tended to be dry and long and in very small print.  Erutis had never known demons could illustrate their lives rather than detail them in long-winded passages where each sentence took up half a page.

Fascinated, Erutis sat down on the floor and continued to read.

…Five minutes later she leaped to her feet, eyes wide and bright with excitement, her cheeks a little flushed from where her thoughts had wandered (into the gutter, if you couldn't guess), and with the book still clutched in her hand, she ran out of the library, yelling at the top of her longs, "Rae!  Raenef!  I have something to show you!"

-x-

Raenef looked up in surprise as the auburn-haired knight crashed into his room, waving something in the air frantically.  "Erutis?" he asked, tilting his head to the side and blinking at her.  "Did a spider crawl up your arm?"

"What?!" gasped the knight, staring at him, still breathing hard.  "Why would you think that?"

"Well you were waving your am like you wanted to shake something off…" To Raenef, it seemed perfectly logical.  "And I hate it when spiders crawl up my arm!"

Erutis stared a while longer then decided she would never understand the blonde.  "I wanted to show you something," she said instead, approaching the young demon lord.  He was seated at the desk in his room, the bright sunlight streaming in through his windows and illuminating the room, highlighting especially the textbook lying open in front of Raenef.  Erutis guessed that he had been studying—well, what would pass as studying for Raenef, in any case—demon laws and magic and such.  Erutis wasn't interested at the moment.

"Look!"  She thrust Demon Diary 3 at Raenef, flipped open to the page that she'd discovered half an hour ago (unlike the demons, who conveniently could transport to any room in the very large palace that wanted to in an instant, Erutis was very mortal and very bad with directions).

Raenef looked at it.  "A picture book!" he said happily.  "I like those!"  He took it from Erutis and beamed happily down at the pages.  "They're a lot easier to read than the rules of demon lord etiquette!"  Erutis made an exasperated sound.

"Read that page!" she ordered.

"Okay!" Raenef said meekly…then he remembered himself and arched a superior brow at the knight.  "How dare you admonish me vermin?"  Then he returned himself cheerfully to the book.  A moment later— "Hey!  This is about me and Eclipse!"  He looked up, confused.  "Who wrote this?  How do they know me?  Hey, Eru," his eyes lit up, "did you write it?"

Erutis slapped a hand to her forehead. "No!" she exclaimed.  She pointed at the second page.  "Did you read this part?"

Raenef nodded.

Erutis stared at him.  "Do you know what that means?"  She snatched the book back and read aloud, "Eclipse said, and I quote, 'My only concern is my master's desire.'"  She looked up.  "Rae!  Do you understand?  Eclipse will do anything for you!  He has to!"  She clutched the book to her chest and drifted into a daydream, "You could get all sorts of yummy food and gold and jewels and…"

"Uh, Eru?"  Raenef had drawn a leg up onto the chair, resting his chin on his knee.  "Don't I have that already?"

The knight blinked, coming out of her reverie.  "Ah, well, there's a lot more you could wish for!"  She extended her arms and waved them enthusiastically, apparently demonstrating the extent of all Raenef could demand from Eclipse.  "Anything you desire, Rae, and Eclipse has to get it because he said so right here!"

The blonde demon lord's lids lowered, lashes casting shadows on his cheeks.  "Anything I desire?" he asked softly.  A tentative, questioning idea gleamed in his green eyes even as Erutis prattled on, listing all the cool stuff they could get, like, Chris, the maid, or even better, Chris, in a duck costume!  Anything…thought Raenef.

More notes: Review!  The next chapter will be up…soon.  I'm working on it! ^_^;;  You know it will be RaexEclipse…how could I pair anyone else? o.O