BloodyPinkRose - Heya, here is the next update, slightly strange I admit and may be out of character but there is a good reason that should be explained either next chapter or the one after. Chapter Five WILL be a lemon but I dont think the whole chapter will be so even if you want to skip the lemon you may have to read what happens before or after but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Well enjoy DONT OWN KKM!
Chapter Four: You spin me around
Murata narrowed his eyes dangerously, Shinou had been his normal annoying self but he seemed to have toned down a lot more and he was acting like Murata's shadow. Greta had told him that the original king had been moping but it had just never clicked what she had meant by that.
Also whenever he tried to bring up the subject of getting this baby into action Shinou would either smoothly and skilfully change the subject or there would suddenly be a fire or something in the shrine and he would have to run to put it out.
It was funny how Shinou had suggested the idea and tried to push him towards it and then when he was finally ready to do it, Shinou seemed to back off and not want to do it anymore. Murata pulled his long drooping sleeves up and readied himself.
No more mister nice Murata, he would get to the bottom of the matter and he would do it that very day because no matter how smart the original king thought he was Daikenja was always hours ahead of him!
Shinou sighed and carefully stroked the petals of the beautiful growing flower; this was a delicate reddy pink one, with small carefully dotted hot pink spots on one side of the flower. This flower was no other but the red Azalea.
It beauty was astounding but compared to his own double black Azalea it was but a pile of animal dung on the floor. He let the flower go and got to his feet carefully brushing his clothes down. It was almost pathetic how he was hiding from the other.
Or at least always being in sight of him but never letting the other see him.
"So here you are!?"
Shinou winced, the plan might have worked before but he knew without turning around that Daikenja wasn't impressed by his rather skilful (if he did say so himself) ways of hiding and avoiding him.
"I wasn't aware you were looking for me, is there a problem?" Shinou asked turning around with a bright smile hoping to throw the other off long enough to make a quick exit before he started to question him.
"I was looking for you actually; I have been for quite a while now. The last time I saw you was this morning when you were talking with Wolfram, we have to leave for dinner with the others pretty soon" Murata smiled sweetly walking further into the shrines gardens.
Shinou backed away slightly, "Of course we better get on our way then" he chuckled before speed walking past Daikenja. He smiled, this was definitely going to be an eventful dinner, he knew the others had known he was on Earth.
He also knew that they did not exactly know why he had gone, Shinou had once manipulated them to get Murata to agree to something and now it was his turn to get a little pay back from the king. Shinou would never see it coming.
"Better watch out Shin" he grinned evilly before turning and exiting after the flustered king humming a rather jolly theme.
"Murata you're back!" Yuuri grinned at the head of the table and Wolfram cuffed him around the head in annoyance. "I told you about that when I came to see Shinou this morning wimp!" he chided the other with narrowed eyes and Yuuri laughed and scratched his head in remembrance.
Murata grinned, that was his cue
"Shinou? What did you come to see him about?" he asked curiously and he noticed Shinou shift in his seat looking rather uncomfortable. It wouldn't have been Murata's first choice to force the original king to tell him what was wrong but he had tried privately and it wasn't working.
"It was nothing really" Shinou replied with his normal grace and elegance but Murata knowing the king as well as he did, could detect the high level of nervousness and anxiety in his voice. The others didn't seem to notice it.
"I asked when you would get our heir for us" Wolfram told him completely ignoring or missing the desperate pale look coming from Shinou. Murata nodded feigning interest; he didn't really care about all that he just wanted to know what was wrong with Shinou.
"He replied within six months" Wolfram continued flatly, the others looked mildly confused and shocked, most of them turned to look at the rather ill looking king. He had seemed to enthusiastic earlier and now he didn't want to.
"That is too long" Gwendal commented offhand and Gunter and Conrad sent him a rather heated glare. He shrugged off their looks, "The people would never wait that long, they continue to stir restlessly, it is not unknown that this ruler is somewhat reckless but they like his bloodline and wish to pass the throne onto another with it if he has an unfortunate accident" he continued.
"That makes sense" Murata replied temporarily thinking about the situation as Yuuri spluttered and Wolfram chuckled and whacked him upside the head again.
"There would be a reason right, Shinou led us to the boxes surely there is a reason for him waiting" Yuuri stated naively. Murata hid his scowl, as much as he liked Yuuri the other male was constantly saving people from their early graves.
"Yes, you see with Ulrike gone until further notice getting the preparations ready is taking longer than expected" Shinou replied, his eyebrow twitched slightly and Murata almost fell out of the chair. He knew Shinou had a lot of balls but he didn't expect him to lie point blank out to the Maou and his family.
"You lie" he blurted before he could stop himself, the room went into complete silence and Shinou blanched slightly. "Excuse me?" he asked, his voice wavering just slightly and Murata smiled, the smile looking sinister on Daikenja's face.
It may have been an accident to call him a liar but seeing how panicked he looked and the calculating looks Gunter and Gwendal were giving him, well it seemed he had just dug his own grave. "Your eyebrow twitched, you . are . lying" he repeated with a smile.
Shinou blinked
"My eyebrow didn't twitch I am not lying" he replied
"Yes you are" Murata shot back with barely any hesitance
"No I'm not"
"Yes. You are"
"No really I'm not"
"Really, I think you are!"
"Why would you think that Dai"
"Why I don't know, why don't you tell us Shin"
"I would but there is nothing I am lying about"
"Is that another lie Shinou?" Murata teased and Shinou looked at him innocently but there was definitely an air of panic around him. Luck for Murata their arguing didn't have to go any further, he as glad. He really disliked going down to Shinou's childish level.
"Why would you think Shinou is lying Murata?" Yuuri asked, even though he knew his friend had changed appearance he refused to refer to him as Daikenja, to him it just seemed really wrong. Murata smiled.
"Well I know that there is no preparation needed for the consummation, all I need is his "fluid" and his majutsu" Murata grinned and Yuuri nodded with a small neat flush whilst Wolfram sniffed, he didn't believe Murata over the original king.
"And how would you know?" he asked without really thinking about his words. Murata smiled sweetly and stood up, "Why Sir Von Bielefeld I have been doing this for over 4000 years. Come on Shinou we have a long way back" he said deciding to spare Shino the embarrassment.
"Please do tell, are you insane?!" Murata asked pacing backwards and forwards in front of the fountain, they had reached the shrine and the other was being strangely quiet. He really couldn't believe Shinou, he really did have a lot of nerve.
"What in the world possessed you to lie to the Maou AND his family?!" he continued his hands resting on his head and his elbows facing the skies
"That's treason; after all these years I thought you would be happy to live again that you wouldn't try such things. Shinou sighed looking conflicted and placed his long slender index finger against Murata's mouth.
"Please. I happen to be possessing a headache, could you just turn it down a bit",
Murata bristled, only Shinou, only that annoyingly childish man could get him so riled up like this but he didn't bother to shout. He was somewhat concerned to see the other looking so pale.
"Is everything aright?" he asked quietly sitting down next to the blonde once he had removed his finger. Shinou nodded and looked up towards the heavens, how he longed to know what it would be like to go there, people like himself and Daikenja seemed to be trapped in permanent purgatory.
After all New Makoku was the Mazoku's waiting room just as Earth was the Earthling's waiting room. He just didn't understand what the two of them had done so wrong that they had to wait far longer than anyone else had to.
"Are you even listening to me? Are you sick Shinou? Can you even get sick in that body?" Murata asked placing his palm on Shinou's head, his forehead was cool and he certainly wasn't sweating or shivering so it couldn't have been a fever or anything.
"Maybe I should contact Ulrike, maybe not everything went well with the transfer" he muttered to himself and at the mention of the priestess Shinou seemed to snap back to his senses and he shook his head wildly.
"Everything is fine, Ulrike transferred me fine, yes I can get sick but I'm not, I was listening to you vaguely, no you don't have to contact her:" Shinou replied weakly, he was starting to feel slightly dizzy as memories that he had previously tried to block at hit him.
It seemed that being in solid form meant that he had to carry all his worries and memories in that solid form like all entities whereas before he could just place his worries on the wind and forget about them when he was just a spirit. He also had forgotten feelings bombarding him, all the times he had put people in trouble to get his motives done when he was a spirit he didn't feel them but now they all rushed him like a tidal wave.
"If that is everything I think I will go and rest now" he stated standing up, he was both glad and annoyed when Murata decided to follow after him because he found a few moments after he began walking towards his chambers the room began to spin and he was vaguely aware of Murata calling him before everything began to go black.
'Azalea ...'
"Tell me again slower what happened" Gisela repeated once she had closed the grand double doors that housed the unconscious blonde. Murata glared at her, he just wanted to get in there and make sure for himself that Shinou was alright.
"I told you – we were talking he told me he had a headache and then he got up to leave and just collapsed down unconscious" Murata snapped and Gisela frowned at him not appreciating his tone, she was only trying to understand.
"Did he say anything or look unwell? Did he complain about any pain?" she asked
"I told you, he said he had a headache, he was a little pale he muttered something as he fell but it was too quiet for me to catch" Murata bit out trying not to take out his bad mood on the woman, it certainly wasn't her fault.
Oh Ho, he was going to make Shinou pay when the idiot woke up.
"Okay well nothing physical seems to be the cause of his sudden collapse perhaps it's something psychological? Maybe you should talk with him when he wakes up" she suggested and Murata gave her a dirty look.
Gisela almost shuddered, Daikenja's form already looked stern and with that dirty look on his face he looked like an extremely pissed off demon.
"I would talk to him if the baka would actually stay still long enough for me to do so" he told her seething with anger before billowing past her, his robes flowing and pushing open the door slamming them shut after him.
"Well he certainly seemed to be in a bad mood" Yozak commented leaning against a nearby wall with a small amused smile on his face. Gisela nodded her head before she spun in the opposite direction to go check on her other patients.
Yozak shook his head and left, going in the opposite direction to Gisela.
When Murata entered and looked at the blonde the first thing that he noticed that his breathing was too fast for him to be asleep. He smiled wryly, "I know you're awake Shinou, if this is a plot to escape talking to me or anyone else it isn't working".
The blonde opened his brilliant blue eyes and grinned sitting up, "Fiddlesticks, I was sure I had you for a moment there, it worked with everyone else" he stated with a wink and Murata rolled his eyes and moved closer to the canopy bed.
"I'm not just anyone you should know that your tricks do not work on me" he replied sitting in the single seat besides the bed. The blonde didn't seem to look as sickly and pale as he did before but his eyes did hold some sort of sadness.
"Oh hmm that is true but I remember when you first came with me they worked like a charm" he winked again and Murata narrowed his eyes, some of those pranks had been down right cruel but at such dark times they did give the soldiers a chance to laugh and let go.
"Is everything alright? It isn't everyday that a person collapses" Murata swiftly changed subjects not wanting to dwell on those dark times. Shinou sighed sadly and shrugged before looking towards the huge window.
"I'm sorry Azalea, I haven't had the chance just to say how sorry I am" he whispered quietly his brilliant blue eyes dulling with the weight of the memories and the pain of the people that he carried. Murata's eyebrows furrowed at he looked at the king.
"There is nothing for you to apologise about Shinou" Murata replied confused, if it was about the heir thing, he was well over it. In fact he was kind of excited about being pregnant again from what he remembered it was a great joy in his past lives.
"I resent that, I have lots of things to apologise to you about. Not just to you but to the people and to Yuuri and his family. The pain I put you all through, I never did know until now" he continued, turning to face the great sage but averting his eyes, feeling to ashamed and inferior to look him in the eye.
He didn't deserve the wondrous way he was treated.
Murata's eyes hardened, the day he would let Shinou believe he was lower than the original king was the day he took his own life. He didn't know what had brought it on but if someone had said something they wouldn't be able to procreate for at least another twelve lifetimes.
He grabbed Shinou's chin between his thumb and index finger and lifted his chin, he was heartbroken to see tears in those crystal oceanic blue eyes, screw not being able to procreate for twelve lifetimes he would just rip the useful parts out and shove them down the person's throat.
"Who have you been talking to?" he demanded furiously looking at the blonde but the blonde just shook his head wildly. "What in the planets is that meant to mean? I don't speak head shaking, open your mouth" Murata ordered.
When once of the crystalline tears slipped down his cheek Murata frowned and wiped it away gently. He had only seen the blonde cry once or twice and he surely didn't want to see it again because when the blonde cried, he really let loose.
"No one is perfect Shinou, not even you, we all make mistakes and if you hadn't put us through the pain you did then we wouldn't be here all together. Soushu would probably be running around in your body right about now. Now tell me what this is all about" Murata murmured softly eyes locked with the blonde.
Shinou still had watery eyes and sadness deep in the depths of his eyes however he now held a small smile and his twinkled, trying to cover the sadness. Looking at Daikenja then, the light from the window coming in at just the right angle and the right concentration.
"I beg to differ Azalea, right now you look perfect, better than any fruit" he whispered like it was a secret so sacred even to let the wind and air hear it was a felony. Murata blushed furiously, they hadn't talked about their feelings for each other but Murata wasn't going to lie to himself.
He cared about Shinou so very much and if this heir brought them even closer together, Murata knew he wouldn't be able to stop his heart from falling in love with the mischievous blonde. Nevertheless he cocked an eyebrow.
"Better than any fruit you say?" he asked and Shinou nodded, eyes wide like an innocent child and in some ways that was just what he was. A young innocent child trapped in the body of an adult that was forced to grow up.
"Better than apples?" a nod, "Oranges?" nod, "Melons?" another nod, "better than coconuts?" a hesitant nod, "How about plums? Do I look more perfect than a plum?" this time Shinou looked up at him with a shy smile.
"Better than any fruit, even plums and coconuts" Shinou flushed scratching his head nervously and Murata grinned cheekily, it was rare to see Shinou look so embarrassed so it was his turn to get his own back.
"Well if I'm so perfect do I get a reward?" he asked struggling to keep a straight face, Shinou looked alarmed for a moment and then before Murata could take back what he said he leaned forward and brushed his lips against the other.
Murata was shocked frozen solid for a few moments until he subtly pinched himself to bring himself back to life. When Shinou didn't show signs of stopping he let his eyes slide closed and leaned into the kiss grabbing hold of Shinou slightly trembling hands.
He didn't know what was going on with the blonde but all he knew was that each time he thought he understood what was going on Shinou just had to spin him right round in a circle and leave him feeling disorientated and lost.
blackangel () - I totally agree! Daikenja and Shinou are one of the best couples and there simply aren't enough fics about them! Thanks for reviewing!