Kyo Kara Maoh.

A fan fiction by Aoi Kitsukawa.

Something that I did not know.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kyo Kara Maoh, but I own this story. Only borrow the characters …

Chapter 1: Sudden illness.

"Haa chiu!"

Everyone looked at Dagaskos as he sniffed his nose. Shibuya Yuri, the 27th Maoh of Shin Makoku looked at him worriedly as he said, "Are you alright, Dakoskos? You seem not very well."

"It's alright Your Majesty, it's on…ly…the…cold…Haaa…Chiuu!" Said Dakoskos, sneezed loudly.

"AAHH! Dakoskos, you're totally sick!" Said Wolfram as he looked at the red face Dakoskos.

"You there, send Dakoskos to Gisela right away," Ordered Gunter to the soldiers who worked at the palace. Both of them nodded their head and quickly took Dakoskos to Gisela.

"Gees, for a past these days, many people fell sick," Said Yuri.

"I wonder why these things happened recently," Asked Wolfram.

"Maybe because the season is changing right now," Said Murata Ken, the Great Sage. Yuri and the others looked at their surrounding and realized that it was true. The season was changing from summer to autumn. And due to this changing, many people fell sick, not to mention the ordinary people but also the soldiers.

"I bet you guys need to take care of your health, or otherwise we will end up like Dakoskos," Said Murata.

"You're right. Hey, where's Conrad and Gwendal anyway?" Asked Yuri.

"Gwendal at his room, while Conrad goes on patrol. Both of them will be alright, You Majesty," Said Gunter.

"Well, I hope you're right Gunter," said Yuri. He looked up to the sky, wondered if the situation was not as bad as he thought.

"Even Greta is sick after all."

"Don't worry about it, Your Majesty. She will be alright," Said a female voice. All of them turned around and saw Lady Anissina stood in front of them.

Gunter's face quickly turned into purple when he saw Anissina. He was totally forgot that Anissina might be tried to find him if she did not find Gwendal and used him for one of her crazy experiments. He waited for her action but despite that, she only looked at him and asked to him.

"Gunter, have you see Conrad today?"

"Eh?" Said all of them.

Gunter looked at her, while Wolfram suddenly felt something is not right.

'Why suddenly Anissina ask about Conrad? It's kind of weird…'

"No, I haven't. Why suddenly you ask about him, Anissina?" Asked Gunter.

"No, nothing at all. Just his voice…"

"His voice?" Asked Murata.

"It's sound a bit different. I talked to him this morning and realized that his voice change a little. But I'm unable to ask him why because he quickly go away for patrolling," She said.

"His voice change?" Asked Wolfram. "Hey, Yuri, what's that means?"

"I don't know. Maybe he is sick or something?"

"It can't be Your Majesty. Conrad is strong, he can't be easily fall sick," Said Gunter, a bit shocked.

"It might be, but even a strong Mazoku can fall sick as well," Said Yuri as he glared at Wolfram. Wolfram saw his action and quickly choked his neck.

"What do you mean by that? Are you referring to me or someone else, you wimp!" He said angrily.

"Arrgghh…Wolfram, stop that…!"

"Wolfram, stop that! You are hurting His Majesty!"

Both Anissina and Murata just looked at the three people's fight. Murata looked at Anissina and asked, "Anissina-san, are you sure that Conrad's voice is change?"

"I'm not sure actually. But I heard that time, his voice a little bit slow. Are you thinking that he might be affected by the recent situation now, Geika?" Asked Anissina.

"It might be. I just hope that we can meet him today. I also worry about what happened these days," Said Murata as he looked at the blue sky, with his black eyes that shone mysteriously…

Conrad sat against the wall, breathed slowly but warm. His eyes and head were aching, and he felt like everything was spinning around. He placed his hand on his forehead, wiped away the sweats on his face. He felt his whole body was burning, and his breath became warmer than before.

After he returned from the patrol, he went into the warehouse and placed his horse there. He actually can asked one of his people to take his horse, but as he went for patrol that morning, he felt that his body suddenly became pain from his waist up to his back. Besides, his throat felt pain and it made him hurt to talk. It became worse when he bumped into Anissina and talked to her a few things.

Conrad closed his eyes, as he felt sleepy. He felt like he also affected by the recent illness that happened in Shin Makoku, and he had no exception with it. Then he opened his eyes and rose, walked out from the warehouse.

"Yuri must be wonder where I have disappeared to."

With that, he walked away, suppressed the heat and pain that spread through his body.

"Conrad!"

Conrad turned around and saw the Maoh came to him with Gunter, Wolfram and Anissina.

"Heika," He said, but a bit slow.

Yuri heard Conrad called him, but realized that it was a bit slow. He also realized that his voice was change.

Anissina was right after all. His voice was change!

Wolfram also sensed the same thing. But he saw something that he really felt weird.

"Conrad, why your face are red?"

"Eh?" He said.

Everyone looked at his face and realized what Wolfram said was true. His face was red!

"Conrad, what happened to you today? You look weird," Asked Yuri.

"I don't know, Heika, maybe because of…"

"Ahhh…! Gwendal! It's glad to see you here!"

Anissina who saw Gwendal walked to them cut off Conrad's words and walked to Gwendal. His face was pale when he saw Anissina but when he looked at his brother Conrad, he realized that Conrad's face seemed no energy at all.

"Conrad, what happened to you?"

"I'm alright, big brother. It's just the weather," He smiled.

Gwendal was shocked. Conrad rarely called him big brother. But he seemed not realized it at all, as well as the others. He looked at Wolfram and realized that his younger brother sensed it too.

Something not right happened to Conrad.

All of them walked along the hallway, talked about the recent illness that spread among the people and soldiers. Conrad walked at the back of the group, walked silently. While Wolfram was word fight with Yuri, Gwendal watched his brother with his eyes.

He realized that Conrad's face was red and sweats. He also seemed to suppress pain and heat of the weather, as he closed and opened his eyes several times. His eyes also turned red as well.

Conrad tried to focus his attention and listened to His Majesty's opinion. He smiled a little when suddenly he realized that his vision became blurring.

"It can be healing…Takes time…Of course long…"

Conrad tried to focus but failed. Gwendal looked at his brother worriedly as he seemed tried to walk properly.

Conrad's vision became blurry and spinning around. In the end, all he saw was a black sight before he lost all his conscious.

"Well, I don't think that will be a great idea. Right Con…"

DUMB!

Like an instinct, everyone turned around and saw CONRAD lying on the floor, unconscious. Everyone ran to his side and the first person who got there was Gwendal.

"Conrad! Conrad! What happened? Answer me!" Shouted Gwendel.

There was no respond from his brother. Fear spread through his body and he quickly cradled him in his arms, Conrad's head hung limply on his chest. His eyes were closed, and he seemed in great pain.

"Oh, Conrad," Said Yuri, worriedly.

Gwendal unbutton the high collar of Conrad's uniform and placed his back hand on his neck. Conrad groaned a little and Gwendal quickly took off his hand.

"His skin is burning!" Claimed Gwendal as he was in shocked.

"What!" Said Wolfram, in shocked.

"It's seems that he has a high fever," Said Murata.

"High fever! Murata, is not good! If we just let him like this it might be affected him badly!" Said Yuri towards Murata.

"His Majesty's right. High fever is dangerous if we let it like that," Said Anissina.

Gwendal looked at Conrad worriedly, as his brother just leaned against his chest weakly, eyes closed. He felt the same feeling when he got the news about his brother's betrayal not a long ago. He quickly kicked his mental up; this is not the time to remind back what had happened before!

But what if there were some people who felt the same feeling?

Wolfram looked at his elder brother worriedly. Actually, it was the first time he ever saw Gwendal like that. Maybe he did not realize that his elder brother sometimes felt the same feeling; worried about him. But, maybe because of his unemotional face, he unable to read his brother's feeling.

Wolfram slowly raised his hand, placed it on Conrad's forehead. His brother made a small sound, a sign that he was a little shocked when his skin touched his. Wolfram looked at him sadly; he felt his heart was aching when he saw Conrad like this. Gwendal only looked at him, and then looked up to Gunter.

"Gwendal, I think we should take Conrad back to his room and let him rest. I'll get the soldiers to carry him to his room," Said Gunter as he was about to walked away but Gwendal stopped him.

"No need, I'll carry him," He said as he lifted his brother up in his arms and rose, started to walked away.

Everyone was so shocked with his sudden act, but then Yuri started to run after Gwendal, following by Wolfram. Anissina, Murata and Gunter looked at each other before they also went to catcher up the people in front of them.

"Gwendal, you take Conrad to his room. I'll search for Gisela now," Said Anissina as she went to other way.

"Thank you Anissina," Answered Gwendal.

"Big brother, is Conrad will be alright?" Asked Wolfram as they went to the way where Conrad's room was located.

"I don't know. We have to wait for Gisela for sure," He said.

"I see," Said Wolfram.

Both Murata and Yuri were looked at each other and wondered, when these recent illness will gone? At first Dakoskos, and now Conrad…

All of went walked as fast as they could, with Conrad that still unconscious in Gwendal's arms…

I wonder if I had made some boring introduction and story? I wonder why I was easily lost many ideas? I'm sorry if the story did not satisfy everyone, I just wonder if I lost my ideas because of the fear of my final exam? Please pray for me (if you can)…-Aoi Kitsukawa.