A Royal Spring Chapter Five

I'm sorry for late uploads! I GOT A STUPID VIRUS ON MY COMPUTER AND IT WAS TAKING OVER! Thank goodness for my dad. That held me off of writing for at least two days! It was shutting down every time I got on the internet! And on top of that, it was MY FAULT that I got it! And then after that, there was an update that was taking FOREVER, and that, honestly, kept me off of writing for two MORE days! I hate it! Besides, I live off of my laptop, so I was like, "Oh, well at least I can write- oh, no... I can't do that... oh, but I can watch anime- oh, no no, I can't... oh, at least there are youtube videos I can- oh... right... ... I'll just play with Cat again..." So yeah. I'm sorry!

BED IMPLICATIONS IN THIS CHAP. Just a warning.

Right after I left off- Present Time

"Senpai~," Fran hummed as he knocked on the door. Bel welcomed him in, and the kouhai smiled. "Good evening, my prince."

Bel just nodded and hopped onto the bed, before discovering something that froze him. 'What if Froggy wants to...' The thought sent a chill up the prince's spine. 'Oh, no. It can't happen... there's no way...'

"You okay, senpai?" Fran asked, a hint of concern in his voice, "You've turned pale."

"No, no... it's nothing," Bel said, but his voice cracked with his worry. Fran sat down on the bed beside the prince and embraced him, rubbing Bel's back soothingly.

"You can tell me anything and everything," he breathed against the prince's ear. Bel shuddered.

"Froggy... now that you're older... did you... were you gonna... try to... play... seme?" he asked, summoning up his courage.

"Seme? Oh, that IS very possible now, isn't it?" Fran realized, "I hadn't thought of it, but you do have a point..."
Bel's eyes widened. 'Oh HELL no...'

"Well, I've, to use your words, been the uke since the very beginning, so it would probably be a little awkward... all the same... would you... let me?"

"I- I dunno about that, Froggy..."

"Wouldn't it be nice to try it? Trust me, it isn't that bad," Fran pressed, his eyes starting to brighten, "Please, senpai?"

Bel gulped, shuffling nervously, before saying in a small voice, "Won't it hurt?"

Fran smiled. "I promise you, it won't. I'll make sure it doesn't."

The next morning...

Bel yawned tiredly, using the wall to support himself. He made his way into the kitchen and looked up at Lussuria. "Hi, commoner," he greeted, before going to take his seat.

"Bel-chan~?" Lussuria hummed.

"What?"

"Tell me what happened."

"What do you mean, nothing happened," Bel mumbled, plopping down in his chair and sighing.

"Something MUST'VE happened, you seem so down!" Lussuria argued, walking back over to where he was cooking breakfast. "Don't tell me... you and Fran-chan got into a fight?"

"Shishishi... something like that," Bel breathed, watching a fly land on his hand before stabbing it. He wrinkled his nose at the bug juice on his knife and, once Lussuria came back, the prince was fast to wipe it off on the Sun guardian.

"Bel-chan," Lussuria protested, but he let it go, in hopes of cheering the prince up. "You know, you can talk to me, we're both men."

"Like I'll ever consider you a man," Bel snickered. Lussuria pouted, crossing his arms and pointing at himself.

"Of course I'm a man, Bel-chan, I've always been a man."

"You're a little teenage girl under all that muscle," the prince muttered.

"Oh, Bel-chan, you SO understand me~!" Lussuria gushed, before realizing that he'd just agreed with something he shouldn't be agreeing with and frowning. "Hey! Don't push your luck, Bel-chan, I might hurt you," he growled. Bel looked up. Lussuria... growled? Ah, well, it was beside the point. The point was that he was talking to Lussuria way too much. He'd become one of them if it continued for much longer.

"The prince is done talking to you," he dismissed, waving his hand, "Thanks for cheering him up."

It took a second for the remark to sink in, but eventually, Lussuria had smiled wider than ever and gone back to making breakfast, as sunny as a Sun should be.

"Morning, Bel," Mammon greeted, floating in. "Huh? Where's Fran?"

"Still asleep," Bel told him.

"Hm? That's a first. Heh, it must be an old man thing."

"VOI! MAMMON, I'VE TOLD YOU THOUSANDS OF TIMES NOT TO CALL XANXUS AND I OLD!" Squalo roared as he made his dramatic 'just-walk-into-the-room' entrance.

"I wasn't talking about you this time," Mammon protested, "I was talking about Fran."

"... Oh, well that's a first," Squalo said, coming in, Xanxus close behind him.

"I know," Mammon giggled, "Little brat Fran is our oldest member. Isn't it creepy?"

"Very," Bel agreed.

"What's creepy?" asked Fran, walking into the room. He looked up and saw Bel, and his eyes brightened. "Good morning, senpai," he said softly. Lussuria looked back and forth from the two, puzzled.

'Hm? Bel-chan was upset, but Fran-chan seems perfectly fine...,' he wondered, 'Maybe it was a different sort of situation... Perhaps Bel just misses adorable little-'

"LUSSURIA! IS BREAKFAST READY YET?" asked/screamed Squalo, holding his fork up as though it was about to be used as a weapon.

"Just about," Lussuria replied, dropping his thoughts. He hurried back to the counter.

Fran walked over and took the seat beside Bel, smiling. He leaned in close to the prince and whispered into his ear, "Thank you, senpai."

"Don't ask for it again," Bel mumbled, "okay?"

"Haha, I won't senpai," Fran laughed lightly, "but the experience was nice. I'll remember that moment."

Bel remained silent, but he leaned against the kouhai a little, showing that he was alright.

And Lussuria got a nosebleed for reasons unknown.

Later...

"Voi, you trashes!" called Squalo. Bel and Fran turned around, simultaneously asking 'what?' "You've got a mission with me. Don't hold me back!"

"Shishishi, then why don't you just do it on your own?" Bel asked.

"Because I need YOUR tracking skills, and FRAN'S illusions. Now come with me, we're leaving in an hour."

"Where are we going then?" Bel asked.

"Fran needs a weapon. He doesn't have his box weapon on him."

"I have my illusions, Captain," Fran said, "and I garantee that's more than enough."

Squalo still looked concerned, but, seeing as this guy had ten years more knowledge than himself, he decided to let it slide and allow the frog to use his illusions.

"Alright, fine. But be careful, and don't get too cocky," Squalo mumbled.

Fran laughed lightly, before telling the shark, "Trust me, I have every reason to be overconfident."

"You can't use stuff from the future though, right?" Squalo pointed out. Fran held up his hand, displaying his Hell ring.

"I'm sure... you're all familiar with THIS," he said, smirking, "THIS has brought down hoardes of my opponents. It's impossible for me to lose, in this time."

"All right, Froggy, that's enough bragging," Bel muttered, nudging the illusionist to emphasize his annoyance.

"Heh, sorry, senpai."

Ten years in the future...

"That's it... just a little more," Bel said, smiling. There was a loud, metallic groan as the demon struggled against the cuffs, its strength impressive. Just a few seconds later, there was a loud snap that rang in the silence of the room, for Fran had successfully broken both his shackles and handcuffs in one moment. Fran reclaimed his soul once he was free, his demon features vanishing. The younger man was panting heavily, and he massaged his sore wrists, while Bel clapped for him. "Wonderful job, Fran," he praised, "especially that you managed to get your sense back so quickly!"

"Th-thanks... sen...pai...," Fran breathed, leaning against the Storm, "but can I get some sleep now?"

"Sleep? Aw, come on, I wanted to meet up with everyone for dinner," Bel complained, though he still grinned. "I imagine you want to skip out on the dessert of this world?"

"Yeah... for tonight," the Mist whispered, closing his eyes.

"Wait, what? Seriously? Aw, man, I was seriously hoping that would get your attention," the prince protested, but he didn't lose an ounce of his smile when Fran began to doze on his chest. Bel carefully picked the Mist guardian up and began to carry him to their room.

'Oh, Fran, it's the nicest thing I can do to let you sleep while you can...'

-End chapter

Okay. Now for the next chap. of The Prince and His Pet! ... Ugh... so tired...