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Chapter 3- The picnic and the spies!!!

"Oh no!!! I'm late!!!" Yuuri whined as he dashed across the lawn like a madman holding a basket of questionable equipment.

"Conrad must be bored with waiting all this time…" Yuuri thought to himself with a sigh. It was early morning around 10:30 when Yuuri woke up, completely oblivious to the fact that he had forgotten about his lunch date with Conrad and that he was 30 minutes late for it. He had only remembered when Wolfram asked him about his brother's whereabouts.

Yuuri sweatdropped as he remembered the blonde's reaction.

He vaguely remembered running into the kitchen to cook while Wolfram followed him with disbelief written across his face.

"You wimp!!! You forgot that you were going to have a picnic with him after you set the whole thing up?!" Wolfram exploded, utterly astounded by Yuuri's memory, or there lack of.

"I forgot!!! I'm sorry alright!! I'll make it up to him I promise!!!" came Yuuri's hurried reply as he switched from stove to stove.

"You better!" Wolfram threatened then stomped away muttering something about irresponsible x-fiancés.

"Oh no… I hope he's not mad…" Yuuri bit his lip in worry, but of course, this was Conrad we were talking about, he's never angry.

He ran quicker as he neared the promised area of the picnic, there he saw Conrad leaning against a tree, obviously asleep.

Yuuri's guilt gathered in his chest as he thought that Conrad fell asleep waiting for him. He silently put down the basket and walked over to the sleeping knight.

"Conrad?" he called out softly, putting his hand on the sleeping man's shoulder, not sure whether to wake him up or not.

He reluctantly pulled his hand away and debated with himself about what to do, not noticing that Conrad was already waking up and staring at him with drowsy brown eyes.

"Your Majesty?" he voiced out softly, unlike the usual deep baritone voice Yuuri normally hears.

Yuuri almost jumped out of his skin as he heard Conrad's voice. "Conrad! You're awake! I'm so sorry I'm late! I didn't mean to forget! I was just preoccupied with Gunter's assignment that…" Yuuri trailed off awkwardly, looking at his protector with cute pleading eyes.

Conrad nodded, shaking off the after effects of his unintended nap. "It's alright Yuuri, I understand." He reassured the young king, smiling his regular smile.

"No it's not ok!!! I made you wait out here for almost one hour!" Yuuri's mind shouted, as if it wanted Conrad to be angry, because if he was angry… then it would mean that Conrad cared.

"I'm really sorry Conrad! I'll make it up to you I swear!" Yuuri promised the now fully awake knight.

"It's really alright, Yuuri. There's no need for you to go through all the trouble--" Conrad started only to be cut off.

"Conrad, just this once, let me do this. Ok?" Yuuri looked at him with determined black eyes.

Conrad sighed in defeat. "Alright then, if that's what you want."

He took in the pleasure of seeing a full fledged smile blossom on his King's face, he was just too adorable so he couldn't help but smile back.

"Good! Now, let's eat! I hope you like Japanese style food!" Yuuri said, carefully unfolding the blanket and bringing out the bentos.

"I'll eat whatever you make, Your Majesty." Conrad replied softly, helping Yuuri prepare the food.

Yuuri blushed to the roots of his hair. "It's 'Yuuri'. One would think you'd know my name by now nazekuoya!" Yuuri teased the tall brunette.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty" Conrad apologized, deliberately emphasizing the title Yuuri was so annoyed with.

Being called 'Your Majesty" was necessary for Yuuri he was the king after all. But it seems that he was developing a strange sort of loathing for the title.

He pouted at Conrad's teasing. "Conrad!!! That's not funny!!!"

Conrad just chuckled and proceeded to sit down beside Yuuri. "What will we eat first?"

"Hmm… What about this one?" Yuuri offered, opening a small bento with small pieces of sushi inside.

"Alright then…" Conrad agreed, taking the small box from Yuuri then looked quizzically at the chopsticks in his other hand. "Yuuri?" he called out questioningly.

"Oh!!! You don't know how to use chopsticks do you?" Yuuri smiled sheepishly at his forgetfulness.

"It's alright. I'll just get some utensils from the kitchen." Conrad proposed moving to stand up but was held back by Yuuri's hand on his arm.

"No need! I'll just spoon feed you!" Yuuri compromised, not really knowing how his proposition sounded.

"S-spoon feed!??!" Wolfram whispered in shock at Yuuri's bold declaration.

Wolfram sat in the bushes with Yosack and Murata, seemingly spying on the two 'lovebirds' as so lovingly named by Murata.

"I have to say, he's getting a lot more courageous." Yosack commented.

"That's Yuuri for you; you don't really know what he's planning." Murata added with a knowing smile.

Wolfram sweatdropped. "But will brother agree? He's way too proper to agree to something like that."

"I have to second that comment." Yosack's brows furrowed in thought. "Captain would never do that, especially in public. He wouldn't even let me spoon feed him when he was sick."

"That's a different case." Murata replied calmly.

"How so?" Wolfram asked the great sage.

"Because that was Yosack and this is Yuuri." Murata simply said.

Yosack and Wolfram fell down at his offhanded response.

"That's not a good enough answer!!!" Wolfram whispered angrily.

Murata just shrugged as Yosack tried to calm Wolfram down.

"We'll just have to see." Murata winked.

"Yuuri--"

"Don't worry about it! We would just be wasting time if we go to the kitchen." Yuuri told him pointedly.

Conrad looked at him blankly for a second before sitting down again. "As you wish."

Wolfram and Yosack's jaw dropped at the sight of Yuuri feeding Conrad.

"He actually agreed?!!" Wolfram whispered aloud in disbelief, pinching himself on the arm just to see if he wasn't dreaming. "Ouch!"

"Whoa…" Yosack murmured flabbergasted while Murata just smiled.

"Yuuri can do things normal people can't, that's for sure." Yosack whistled appreciatively at Yuuri's talents.

"How is it?" Yuuri inquired after giving Conrad a piece of sushi he made, wanting to know if what he cooked was delicious for Conrad or not.

"It's delicious." Conrad said smilingly, complementing Yuuri's fine work and then continued to eat what Yuuri gave him.

After that, Yuuri couldn't stop grinning all the way throughout the picnic.

"Well, it worked out somehow." Wolfram sighed in relief.

Both of the men beside the blonde nodded as they walked away from the pair having their small picnic.

"Why are we leaving them again?" Yosack asked, wanting to see more of the lovebird's progress.

"Because we need to give them some alone time, besides, Lord Weller was already on to us. If we stayed longer we would have met the edge of his blade, and I still want to live a few more years, thank you very much." Murata concluded with a long sigh.

Wolfram looked up at the bright blue sky with a satisfied smile. Maybe things will work out faster than they thought.

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