Tales of a Legacy
I got this request a while ago, but didn't work on it until now. ;.; I'm a bad person. And here I was thinking the summer would mean more updates. Anyway, I'm going to be updating a bunch of chapters together, so I apologize if anyone has this story on alert and gets their inbox flooded with alerts.
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Title: Fight Me
Characters/Pairings: WalterxSenel
Warnings: Spoilers for the main quest, shonen-ai, and AU-ish
It was a normal day in the busy city of Werites Beacon. Well, almost normal.
"Get back here, Orerines scum!"
"What the hell do you want! I'm busy!" Senel's eye twitched as he was once again held up from his daily business. Walter was getting pretty annoying.
Walter and Senel were currently making a pretty big scene right in Will's front yard. After the whole Merines affair had been solved, everyone went back to their lives before, with two additions. Shirley, who had managed to fit in and now served as an ambassador, and Walter, who had been healed after his final fight with "The Orerines Scum", as he was still prone to calling them. At first, life with Walter had been uneasy. He was blunt almost to the point of rudeness with everyone, and usually stuck to Shirley like glue, much to Senel's disdain.
Now, however, he managed to make friends within the group. With everyone except Senel, whom he tried to beat into the ground on a regular basis.
"Fight me!" Walter declared, glaring at Senel with his bright blue eyes that were partially covered by golden hair. Senel tried to sidestep him, but Walter moved to the side to prevent him from getting past.
Okay, Senel was really getting pissed now. "Why should I? We settled this with the last five fights. If you want to be Shirley's bodyguard or whatever, that's fine. Just don't try anything funny-"
Walter cut him off, "Fool. This isn't about the Merines, it's about you."
Senel blinked, mouth agape. He then responded with a confused, "The hell have I done to you?"
Walter looked both shocked and embarrassed that Senel didn't know what he was talking about. He opened his mouth to say something, but his face turned red and he mumbled, "Forget it" before retreating. Senel was left scratching his head, having now forgotten what he'd come to see Will about in the first place.
"I think Walter likes you," a soft voice said. Senel turned and saw Grune tending to the various plants she had amassed in Will's garden.
Senel felt embarrassed that someone had witnessed his shouting match with Walter. "Did you see that whole thing?" Grune nodded. "Then what makes you think he likes me? I'd say he likes me least of all."
Grune went back to planting, and didn't say anything for a while. Senel thought the conversation was over, but Grune spoke up right as he was about to leave.
"He does like you, but it isn't easy for him to say. I can say that I like everyone, because that's how I am, but Walter just isn't the kind of person who can admit that. I don't think poor Walter has had many friends before." Okay. That made sense, in a Grune kind of way.
"Well, what do I do about it?" Senel must have been out of his mind asking Grune for practical advice.
"Oh, I don't know… try listening to him." That was surprisingly sound, if obvious advice. Senel decided to do so the next time he was Walter.
"Thanks, Grune," Senel said. Grune nodded her acknowledgement and began singing softly to the flowers.
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The next time Senel spoke to Walter wasn't until a few days later. He was running a few errands (Moses had eaten all of his food again), and was accosted by Walter as he was walking up the dusty steps that lead to the bakery. Senel saw him coming at the last second and cut him off.
"Look, if it's about the stupid fight, I don't want to hear it."
Walter simply said, "I have something to tell you." Senel remembered Grune's advice.
"…Sure." Senel said hesitantly. He stared, but Walter made no statements.
"But not here," Walter clarified after a few moments. Senel shrugged and followed him down the street and down to an empty cul-de-sac. Walter turned and stared at him, then cleared his throat.
"What I wanted to say was… er… I mean that… uh." Walter trailed off into a jumble of stutters and short sounds that were not words. Senel felt himself getting more and more agitated by the second. He would really love to listen to Walter sound like an idiot all day, but he had things to do.
"Look, can you just hurry up and tell me?" Senel snapped.
Walter glared at him, upset at having his declaration ruined (although somewhat happy as well, because, really, it wasn't going so well) and he stomped up to inches in front of Senel. He leaned forward and practically slammed his lips to Senel.
'Ow,' thought Senel. Walter really could've been gentler. Walter started to press into the kiss, obviously trying to get Senel to respond. Their teeth bumped together. 'Wait a minute; this is not upsetting me as much as it should,' was his second though. Walter finally pulled back and moved to a comfortable distance away from Senel.
"Okay," Senel said softly. "That was weird." He saw the look on Walter's face and quickly added, "Weird, but not necessarily bad." Walter looked a bit more relieved.
"I think your gardener friend is more perceptive than you think. She's the one who urged me to… tell you."
Senel nodded, the kiss having left him rather calm and lucid. Grune was weird like that. Then a thought occurred and he remembered why he had been so annoyed by Walter in the first place. "Hey, wait. If you 'liked me' liked me, then what was with you taking every opportunity to try and beat the crap out of me!"
Walter moved closer, sighed as though about to explain something simple to an idiot and answered, "How else were we supposed to figure out who is on top?"
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Senel received the title of Yaoi Fodder!
Awful title, I know. But I couldn't resist.
This chapter is longer than the others… I must have been feeling verbose. Let's hope I can keep that up. I wanted to have Grune in the background taking pictures and plotting to sell them on ebay, but I thought that would've been too silly. Clearly, there's no ebay on the Legacy.
