Disclaimer: I don't own KKM

A/N: Sorry if the characters seem kind of OOC, but I was in a playful mood and couldn't stop myself from writing like I did. Try to enjoy!

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Conrad had woken the Maou up with his usual knock and entrance.

"Good morning, Heika. How's your shoulder?"

Yuuri's shoulder was already better, thanks to Gisela's healing and herbs. Still he was told to take it easy and stop whatever he was doing if his shoulder started hurting.

"It's a bit stiff at the moment, but that's probably from sleeping."

Conrad approached the bed, "That's usually the case. It'll get better once you start moving your arm and get the blood flowing." And what better way to get blood to rush all over the place than a kiss?

"C-Conrad!"

A blushing Yuuri was really one of Conrad's favourite views, "Yes, Heika?"

"Yuuri!"

"I thought your name was Yuuri." Conrad tried to look innocent, but that only earned him a pillow to the face.

"You're so mean!"

"And you look adorable when you pout and blush." Yuuri scrambled out of bed, turning his back to Conrad to hide his even redder blush. "Do you need help getting changed?"

"When did you get that perverted?"

"I've always been like this, but I kept it from you so that I wouldn't scare you off before you fell in love with me."

"…evil genius…"

-o-o-o-

Noon found the young Maou in his office doing paperwork with Gwendal while Conrad was visiting Shinou's Temple to get caught up on everything that had happened.

Yuuri shifted his shoulder slightly, which did not go unnoticed by the stoic man in the room, "Does your shoulder hurt, Heika?"

"No," Yuuri looked slightly surprised that Gwendal had noticed, "I can still write."

"But if it hurts you shouldn't be pushing yourself; you should take at least a few minutes' break." The advisor's eyes were trained on the paper in his lap to hide his concern.

"Thank you, Gwendal."

"Conrad left me in charge of your health and safety and I don't want to face his wrath if anything were to happen to you."

Yuuri just smiled, "Do you mind if I open the window for a bit?"

"No."

"Thanks."

The wind that blew in was warm and carried the sounds of birds and kohis. The double black gave a sigh as he closed his eyes.

"Shouldn't you be getting back to work?"

"Eh?" Yuuri turned to face Gwendal, "But I've only been here for—"

"Almost ten minutes."

"Really, eh heh, I should get back then shouldn't I?"

"Yet I don't see you moving away from that window." The teen sprang into action when cold blue eyes lifted from a paper.

-o-o-o-

"So what did Ulrike have to say about everything?"

Conrad had returned for afternoon tea and the two decided to have it outside.

"Apparently Shinou was just in the midst of transporting you here as a 'surprise' when Wolfram burst in asking if Shori could accompany you. So then Shinou got another idea and tried sending you back, which is why you ended up being transported to human territory."

"So he made a mistake?"

"Yes."

"Hmm," Yuuri sat back in the patio chair, "I was wondering why it took such a long time to get here; I spent longer in the water than normal."

"Well Shinou was reprimanded by many people so I doubt he'll do that again anytime soon." Conrad looked into his teacup, "I'm just glad everything wor—"

"C-Conrad…"

"Yes, Yuuri?" Conrad looked up from his tea at his king.

"C-Che—and An…?"

He turned to look at what Yuuri was staring at, "Oh, didn't you know that mother and Anissina were a couple?"

Yuuri's black eyes took up almost half of his face, "Since when?!"

"Since Anissina declared that they were both 'independent, strong women who were in no need of men.' And it happened at least two weeks ago, I'm surprised no one told you or that you didn't notice."

"Conrad, I wasn't here for most of those 'two weeks' and when I was I was busy with other stuff."

"Do you mind?"

"No," Yuuri tore his gaze from the new couple, "No I don't. I was just surprised to see it since no one told me."

"Would you like more tea Heika, Weller-kyo?"

"No thank you, Sangria."

Conrad nodded, agreeing with the Maou, "I think Heika should return to do some paperwork now."

"On second thought, more tea would be great!"

"We're done, thank you Sangria." Conrad said with a slight edge that was directed at the lazy king sitting opposite him.

"Fine, but if Gisela complains that I overexerted my shoulder I'll pin the blame on you."

"Fair enough." The two left Sangria to clean the table, which she did in record speed and was then off to feed the gossip loop.

-o-o-o-

Yuuri had been doing his work patiently for almost two hours and Conrad was about to suggest a break when the king spoke.

"I've been wondering," Had he actually gotten any work done? "How did those humans know that I was there?"

Taking a bookmark from the table coffee table, Conrad closed the book he had been engrossed in. "I'm willing to bet that they didn't know it was you in the forest. I don't think they even noticed when they caught up to us, but they did know someone had invaded their forest."

"But how?"

"It's their forest, Yuuri. We have a number of ways to tell if anyone enters our forests, so why shouldn't humans have methods of their own?"

"So there's like an alarm system or something."

"Or something."

Yuuri pondered this for a moment, "Interesting…"

"How so?"

This seemed to snap the king out of a daze he was in, "Oh nothing really, I thought that once things get more peaceful people might be able to walk into another territory without setting off alarm bells."

"That might take a while, Heika, but we are making progress."

Black eyes shot brown a playful look, "And we made such good progress until now."

"Yuuri."

"Too little too late; you can't undo the past, Weller-kyo."

Conrad tilted his head with a challenging look, "Role play?"

Yuuri 'eep'ed as Conrad chased him around the room, neither noticing the figure in the doorway…

Gwendal sighed, he really should know better than to walk in on these two...

-o-o-o-

That night Conrad and Yuuri were standing on a balcony overlooking Cheri-sama's garden.

"Do you suppose Shori and Wolfram would work out?"

"Better than you and Wolfram."

Yuuri shot him a 'no really' look, "Anyone would work better than the two of us, but…"

"Well Wolfram would need someone who orders him around and Shori seems to be capable of that…"

"Is that a yes?"

"It's not a no…"

The conversation was left at that, both deciding that Shori and Wolfram would sort their relationship out and they would be the ones to say if it would work or not.

"Do you think Shori did it on purpose?"

Yuuri looked as his soldier, "Did what?"

"All the things he said and made us do to get us together."

"I didn't even know he wanted us together…"

"And he said I was impossible to figure out…"

A moment of silence.

"We never did figure out why Shori was at the lake, did we?"

Conrad shook his head.

-o-o-o-

Shori froze at the door to his bedroom, "Shinou? What are you doing here?"

"I can't maintain this form for long, so I'll get right to business: how much of last night and this morning do you remember?"

"Not mu—wait, that blank in my memory is your fault?"

The Original King just smiled as he began to fade.

"Wait! I demand an explanation! Come back, Shinou!"

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