Chapter 7:

Confusion, Deception,

and Frogs

Bel awoke with a sleeping Mukuro sprawled over him. He gently slipped away from Mukuro and dressed. He left without so much as a single noise. He walked through the streets hoping to find a sign of his Froggy. The sun was barely in the sky and the streets were barren and walked and walked unsure of where to search. He simply wanted his Froggy back in his arms. he stopped and looked to the ground in thought, That's when he noticed the lock of hair on the ground...but not just any hair it was in fact green hair. Along with the green hair there was small blonde hair that,in a way, greatly resembled Bel's own Princely hair. Also there was a small bit of blood splattered on the ground. Bel stood and ,being the genius he was, began to piece things together.

"Fare tu avere un cattivo genelli?"Bel jumped at the voice and turned to see Mukuro looking at the evdidence.(Do you have an evil twin?)He let his features fall to being annoyed with the blue haired man"Forse lui acciaio tua principessa e sono progetto entrambi tuo morte a questo proposito momento!" Mukuro said dramtically(perhaps he stole your princess and is planning both your deaths at this very moment!)

"Oi pensato oi sinistra tu di dentro che abomin campeggio....." Bel spoke annoyed.

(I thought I left you in that damn warehouse)

"e per questo tu spalla non pensare,me amore." Mukuro spoke sweetly knowing that Bel was pissed.

(and that's why you shoud not think,my love.)

"Ushishishi, pacifico, stupido ananasso." Bel warned his insane smile playing across his lips.

(-laughing- ,shut-up, stupid pineapple.)

"Bene bene,oi appena " Mukuro smiled letting out what Bel knew to be his famous laugh.

(Okay okay,I was just trying to help.-laughing-)

"Well if I had wanted your help then I would have woken you." Bel wished that Mukuro had just stayed in Italy then none of this would have happened. He was sure of it.

"Kufufufu I know." Mukuro's smirk left his face and a concentrated expression took it's place. He bent over and picked up a small peice of hair. Bel didn't notice he was still trying to piece together the other evidence. Mukuro recognized the hair immediately. Hibari. Mukuro let the hair fall back down in realization.

"What's with you? Are you pmsing or something?" Bel asked still annoyed with his follower.

"No! I'm appalled you would say that. You're obviously the uke in this relationship." Mukuro looked up arrogantly.

"Ushishishi no I was in control and you were in such a rush like a virgin uke." Bel said smiling his normal insane smile.

"Eh!!!!Eh!!!Paifico!!" Mukuro slapped Bel.

(Hey! Hey! shut-up!!!)

"Ushishi...don't touch me with your disgusting peasent hands." Bel said wiping off Mukuro's slap.

"I am not a peasent...infact what was I to you again?...hm What was it?...Oh I remember." Mukuro wondered teasingly.

"Don't you dare...." Bel said he punched out Mukuro.

Mukuro was out cold. And Bel was ready to kill him.

Bel sat with a knife at Mukuro's throat. He knew that Mukuro would bring things up that were to far in the past. He sat waiting for the boy to wake up, give him information, and die.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Burning Memories+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Fran layed there for what seemed like days,when it was only mere hours. He layed on the cold couch naked and afraid that Hibari would come back. He wanted so desperately to go back and tell himself that it was all a lie. That Bel did love him......well at least Fran hoped he did. What if Hibari was right? What if no one loved him? He would just go back to being normal and not making out with a boy all night long, having huge meals with the one he loved and his family, or having somewhere to call home and someone to call his. The last of his tears fell as he finally got up and pulled on his clothes. He was just about to leave when he heard a noise coming toward him.

"Shshsh." Prince came running to go with Fran.

Fran sighed"Why do you keep following me anyway?" Fran said as the animal climbed up to his shoulders and wrapped itself around Fran's neck.

It purred at Fran's warmth"Shhh...growl...." The animal seemed to shrug.

Fran simply sighed and continued to leave. He made his way through the alleys and roads. people were already leaving the markets. He'd been laying on that couch all day and didn't even know. He decided to go to Bel's Castle. He walked through the forest not in any rush. He stopped to let Prince drink from a puddle. Prince got his paw muddy and started hissing at the mud. ' That's Bel alright ' Fran thought to himself. He grabbed a leaf off a nearby tree and got most the mud off. The animal thanked him by nuzzling up to his neck and giving him a lick on the cheek. Fran ignored the resemblance to Bel's gestures and continued towards the castle.

Bel walked up into the courtyard only to be greeted by the silent Queen who had not yet acquired a name that Fran knew of. He walked by her and nodded only to be stopped by her sorrowful face.

"If love were true then he'd come back,wouldn't he? If she was important to him then he'd chase her around the world and into the stars,wouldn't he? ........" She said solemnly to the dark purple and black flowers she was watering.

"...But if love her he did not he would simply love the girl from his past,would he not? And if she was unimportant to her then he wouldn't give a damn where she was....." Fran said pulling one of the stripped flowers from the garden.

"What is trust if not knowing in faith that what you know as truth is truth and what you know as false is indeed false." She looked up still sad but with a question and knowledge in her eyes"If truth is false and false is truth then there is nothing left and the world should give up on existing,true?"

"What is true is not false but what if all the truth she has been told is falseness? And all that is love is simply lie?" Fran looked at her desperate for her answers. She simply shook her head.

"Then truth is false and love is lie but she will never know unless she believes in his words and trusts his actions. For in truth and in love he was a genius and chased her only to find that he could not explain the lies she sees." The woman smiled not insanely as her children and not tricky as her husband but kindly.

"She saw too much and she knows not what to think of his actions nor can she trust him for he's not genius but simply a fool." Fran looked down and pulled a petal off the flower.

"He's not a fool and his love is true and his truth is not false but she must become him and chase him to the ends for he is lost trying to chase foolishness is nothing but genius too complex for those who do not know his love to understand." She smiled and walked slowly but surely to the castle door.

"Wait! Your name......I just want to know your name...so quiet and wise and yet I have not but to call you queen."

"Bell...." She smiled and entered the castle.

Fran was shocked he was named after his then two things hit him:"Wait....was I the girl referred to in this!?"He asked to no one in particular mad that once again it was proved he was the uke."Wait,Bel's a genius!?" No he was insane and lucky but a genius? There was no way in hell.

Fran sighed and went back to town. He sat against a wall in an opening alley to the market. The streets were dark and dimly lit. He sat there and pet Prince while deciding what to do. He got up and wandered the streets wondering where Bel would be. He walked by the warehouse and found Chrome there.

"They aren't here...."Chrome said as Fran approached her. He saw the bruises and swelling. all over her as well as the blood.

"Are you alright?" Fran said he noticed that lately his bored composure wasn't exactly around. He would work on that when everything was back in order.

"Hm? oh this,no I'm fine it's just a couple bruises." She smiled with her swollen face. Fran could see that it hurt her by the way her hand clenched at the smile.

"No you're not...here let me help." He found the first aid supplies that were obviously already set for Chrome as if the Pineapple knew that she would be hurt."Did Mukuro do this?"

"No...of course not...."She looked down."He would never hurt me." She looked so hurt but when she spoke of Mukuro it seemed to lighten her so he subdued his suspicions.

He bandaged her up within a few minutes" should be ok just don't over exert yourself." She nodded.

"Thankyou....Fran san...." She smiled at him and he smiled back. He'd made a connection with this girl now officially and he knew he'd remember it later. Right now he just needed to find Bel.

He walked out of the warehouse and just kept going. He walked for at least an hour it was almost midnight and it was misty out. He was just about to call it a night and find somewhere to sleep when he saw two dark figures up ahead. He walked to them. One was on the ground the other was sitting on him holding a really creepy knife to the others throat. He got closer and was silent and behind them when then scene began to unfold. He recognized the two at once. Bel was about to kill Mukuro.

"I don't know where he is Moi Amore."The Pineapple said truthfully.

"Then I guess you are of no use." Bel said. Fran recognized the flat look on Bel's face...he was going to kill Mukuro and it wouldn't be pretty.

"You may have knocked me out but I still remember what I used to be to you...you won't kill me...you won't kill your true love.....your Prince." Bel dug the knife into the ground barely scratching the side of Mukuro's sat up,Bel still sitting on him, and leaned into Bel's ear"I told you you won't kill me Moi amore."

"Sh-shut-up....."Was all Bel smiled and pulled Bel into him and kissed him. Fran was ready to go and kill Mukuro himself when he saw Bel's hands go up to Mukuro's head and tangle in his hair.

Fran walked right up behind Bel"If love were true then he'd come back,wouldn't he? If she was important to him then he'd chase her around the world and into the stars,wouldn't he?"

Bel turned around "Frog-"Fran interrupted him "Don't call me that, my name is Fran......and all truth is false......and all that is love is simply lie..." He recited his words from his conversation with Bell.

Bel recognized the his mother words "Froggy........." He pushed Mukuro away and stood up walking over to Fran who had a single tear forming a path down his face.

"simply....a lie...." Fran repeated backing up. He dropped the purple and black flower that he'd acquired from Bell's garden. He ran away and To Bel's surprise Mukuro went after him.

"I know where he's going...do you?"Mukuro said before disappearing.

Bel stood looking at the flower. "Stupid Froggy......" Bel took off. He ran for miles to get to the Castle.

He knew that Fran would ask his mother for more advice and he knew that once Fran left the castle Mukuro would be waiting for had to save his Froggy.

****************************** Damned Pineapple *******************************

Fran ran as fast as he could tears forming and falling at a steady pace. He wasn't sure where he was going, just that he needed to get away from Mukuro and Hibari....and Bel...especially Bel. He ended up at the castle and ran inside only to be greeted by the king.

"What you two aren't coming in to go upstairs and make-out?" The king said chuckling.

"Bell...Where's Bell?"Fran said desperately

"I thought he was with you." he king said.

"No I'm looking for Queen Bell..." Fran said in a hurry.

"What do you want with the queen? She almost never speaks even to me you know." The king told him suspiciously.

"She talked to me before....I-I just need to see her,please!" Fran said about to take off and look for her himself.

"Garden." The king said now bored.

Fran nodded and ran into the garden. He searched through the trees and ended up inside the maze. Yes he was in a maze and unfortunately this was one huge maze. Fran ran for a few minutes then began to walk. He had forgotten how to get out of the maze. He hit one dead after another,turned corners after corners, followed path after path. Bel had built this thing years before he'd come after Fran as teenagers. He'd been bored as usual so he built a maze with concrete walls that were layered with bushes so one may think they could simply go through the walls but if the tried they would surely have a bruise if nothing more from the impact. He and his brother would go into town and find some poor peasant and offer him money if he could get through the nearly impossible maze. The fool would try and go mad trying and then Bel would release his two starving dogs on the was cruel and disgusting what Bel enjoyed,Making out with boys, Making people go virtually insane then murdering him, and cheating on Fran. All just simply disgusting to Fran.

He made yet another turn and followed the straight until he found it was a dead end made to look like it led somewhere. He sighed and turned around only to find mismatched blue and red eyes staring into his green ones from only inches away.

"Hello Signora Fran." Mukuro smiled. He had beaten Bel to the prize and Fran was his for the taking.

"What do you want,Pineapple." Fran truly didn't care but he asked anyway.

"Tu,Moi amare,Tu."Mukuro smiled and stepped forward to claim his prize.

(you,my love,you.)

"Ushishishi too bad."Fran smiled insanely and his green hair fell over his eyes.

"Wh-what?"Mukuro stammered "I'm confused!"

Fran's green hair turned blonde and his normal attire turned to princely clothing with his polished tiara upon his head and a purple and black stripped shirt hanging off one shoulder appeared along with tight black pants and white and black boots."What? It's just me."Bel said.

Mukuro looked at Bel in total amazement. Then a frog hopping on the path let out a croak scaring him out of his shock."Fran!!!"He screamed running out of the dead end and trying to find a way to get to what he wanted which was Fran.

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I am sooooo sorry I've not updated in awhile I've been so busyyyyy. Christmas shopping and for awhile before I had NO MUSE!! -suicide-, anywho the next chapter has a couple sad parts but I'm not quite done with it yet. So Imma go cry and finish the Chapters. Thanks for reading my followers and new followers.(it sounds as if I'm addressing my colt OTZ -shot-)