Burn swam to Gazelle and pulls him out of the water.
"Daijubuka, Gazelle!"
Gazelle cough out some water and opened his eyes.
"Burn.." Gazelle tried to speak. Burn heaved a sigh of relieved as he helped him sit up.
"Where am I?" Gazelle asked with a weak voice.
"At the beach where you and I meet."
Gazelle looked up at him and blushed. Burn was chest bare! He quickly looked down as his face turned red as the some colour as burn's hair.
"You ok?"
"y-yeah." Gazelle still could not lower down the heat on his cheeks. Out of the blue, he remembered something, he was naked! Gazelle turned to burn,
"Get me some clothes!"
"huh?" Burn stared at him with one eyebrow up. Obviously he did not noticed that gazelle was naked.
"What are you staring at! Get me clothes!"
"Huh?" Burn still did not get what gazelle was saying and slowly looked down his body and-.
"Oh! Oh! Ok! I'l be right back!" Burn blushed bright red. He dashed back to the ophange without forgeting to wearing his shirt and came back with clothes for gazelle to wear.
"Here!" Burn shoved the bag of clothes into gazelle's hands, lookign away from him avoiding to see his body.
"Took you long enough." Gazelle hid himself behind a huge rock and started wearing the clothes, but the clothes were not to his expectations.
"Why did you get me girls clothes!"
"Because the boys clothes are too big for you!"
"I don't believe you! There should be some boy's clothes who could fit me!"
"Stop complaining and wear this first. You'll follow me to a shop that sells clothes and you can pick the clothes that are suitable for you!"
Gazelle stopped complaining. He had already wore the girly shirt that burn stole. He was just too embrassed to show himself wearing girly clothes. People will mistaken him for a girl. Burn's voice snapped him out of his thoughts.
"You've done!"
"y-yeah. Yeah!" Gazelle came out from behind the rock and showed himself to burn. He was wearing a white shirt with a cute cartoon monkey face on it, matched with a bright orange mini-shorts and peach flip-flops.
"wow..."
"i-i know I look weird and-"
"no, you look very pretty."
Gazelle looked up at burn, his blush disappeared. "i look-"
"Let's get going!" Burn shouted as he turn around and started to walk. He did not want gazelle to see him droll. It will look awkward.
"Hey! Wait!" Gazelle shouted at him as he ran and stopped beside him.
"Burn-sama!" A familiar voice shouted. The two turned around. There stood an orange hair girl panting away. She looked up. Her aqua eyes met gazelle's teal eyes. She was the cutest girl he had ever seen. Probably burn's girlfriend. Girlfriend? Gazelle thought. His hand clenched into fists, until his knuckles turned white. His eyes filled with jealousy as he glared at rean. Gazelle was jealous. Jealous at a cute girl who he thought could be burn's girlfriend. He crossed his arms and looked away.
"Rean!" Burn ran towards her. Gazelle stared at burn wide eyed. Burn cared about her!
"You alright?" Burn asked as he bent down beside her.
"Daijubu, burn-sama." The girl, rean, said with a weak smile. Rean looked from behind burn's shoulders. "Who is that girl?"
"huh?" Burn looked at gazelle. "oh, this is my friend. Gazelle. He's a boy not a girl." friend? Gazelle thought. I thought you lov- "Anyway, gazelle doesn't have a place to stay. Could he stay at the ophanage?" Burn questioned rean. Gazelle could see hatred in rean's eyes. She's jealous! Rean said with a smile, "ok!" liar. She hates me. She too, has a crush on burn. Gazelle thought. He looked away.
"Minna! I've brough back a new friend who I've met at the beach!" Burn shouted to get the children attention. They were back at the ophanage. Gazelle did not have a good time walking back with rean's glare behind his back as burn chatted with him.
All the children stared at gazelle.
"uhm..." Gazelle blushed with embrassment. "I'm suzuno fuusuke. Everyone calls me Gazelle. Nice to meet you." Gazelle said with a bow.
The children stared at him for a few seconds and shouted. "Nice to meet you too! Gazelle-sama!"
"eh?" Gazelle looked up. "Gazelle-sama?" This reminds him of back at the palace where all of his friends greeted him. He missed them. "oh." Gazelle smiled. He likes this place.
Midorikawa was showing the place to gazelle. They stopped in front of a door and opened it.
"and this is your room gazelle-sama." midorikawa said as he stepped aside to let gazelle look at his room.
"wow...it's looks simple."
"what do you mean. Simple?" Midorikawa asked.
"nah, my room is really grand. This is simple. I like it!"
"This is not what you'll expect from a rich person."
"I'm the simple type." Gazelle smiled at midorikawa. Both of them laughed.
"What's soo funny?" Hiroto said as he walked towards them.
"nothing. I'm just showing Gazelle around." Midorikawa replied.
"So you like it here?" Hiroto asked gazelle.
"It's really not bad. Not like my house. Too grand. I prefer things to be simple." Gazelle said.
"Anyways, what are you doing here hiroto?"
" It's almost lunch time midorikawa."
"EHH!" With that, midorikawa dashed to the dinning room. Gazelle sweatdropped.
"Is he that hungry?"
"He's always hungry. Let's go."
Gazelle nodded.
That night, gazelle just had his bath and was sitting on his bed reading a book when there was a knock on the door. Gazelle place his book at one side and said,
"Come in." The door opened and burn walked in. He closed the door, grab a chair and sat down beside the bed.
"How was today? The place alright for you?"
"It's fine by me. Everything seems fun. Back in the palace, everyone is enjoying themselves but to me everything's too grand." There was sadness in gazelle's eyes. "I have to learn quite a lot of things. Like how to speak fluently, cooking royal dishes and things like that. Here, everything seems calm. We play, laugh, joke and have fun. I love it here."
Burn smiled at gazelle. All of a sudden, there was a knock at the door. Gazelle and burn looked at the door. Hiroto opened it and poke his head inside,
"Burn, oto-san wants to speak to you."
Burn turned to gazelle, "sorry, but I can't spent that much time chatting wiht you."
"It's ok. Just go to whatever you have to do."
Burn grined and walked out of the room. Hiroto closed the door and lead burn down the hallway.
"It's about me getting the job isn't it?"
Hiroto did not lift up his head when burn spoke to him.
"Gran!" Burn was getting impatient.
Hiroto looked up. "It's worse. "
Burn stared at hiroto wide eyed. "What is it?"
Hiroto looked at burn with a sadness in his eyes. "You like gazelle don't you?"
Burn blushed and turn his head away. "s-so."
Hiroto smiled and soften his eyes. "demo, you can't marry him."
Burn looked up shocked and turned to hiroto.
"Father arranged something for you. I bet you'll hate it, but please don't argue back." Both stopped in front of the kira's door. "I'll be waiting for you outside. Good luck." With that, burn in entered the room.
"I'm glad you've come, Haruya." Kira said as he slipped his tea. The bald man sat on his chair in front of his office table. His back on Burn. Burn furrowed his eyebrows, he knew what the man was going to say next.
"I've called you to tell you about the wedding." Burn could not believed what he had just heard.
"Wedding!"
"You're gonna marry rean. You're teammate." ream came out of the shadows.
"Burn-sama. I'm glad father allowed this. We're going to have a great time together!" Rean smiled.
"Tsch. I'm not gonna marry someone who I don't love!" Burn could not hold back. I wanted to spent the rest of this life with gazelle. Not a girl who has a crush on him.
"I've done the wedding preparations. You're gonna marry her on the following day."
Burn gasped. "You're- I can't believe you'll do that!"
"What is done is done. You can't change it."
"Is this because of me bringing gazelle here!"
"If it haven't for rean telling me. You would have destroy my family pride." he stood up and turned to burn. " You can't marry a boy! I've allow you to take over the family business and you don't even want it! Many people wanted this opportunity and you don't appreciate!"
"This is for your pride! Not mine!"
"Burn-sama. Listen to father."
Burn turned his head to rean. "no I won't! Why did you tell him that! Can't you leave me alone!"
"I love you burn-sama! I won't allow anyone to interfere with our love."
"I was never in love with you."
"I'll make you mine! Gazelle-sama can't have you!"
"Tsch." Burn clenched his teeth.
Kira looked out the window"I want Fuusuke to leave this place before the wedding. I don't want any interfere! Is that clear!"
Burn bented his head till his eyes can't be seen. "hai." With that, he left the room.
"Rean."
"Hai oto-san."
"We're going out tomorrow to try your wedding dress."
"Yes, father." Rean said. You can't beat me gazelle.. she thought with a wicked smile. Burn-sama will be mine!
Burn closed the door behind him.
"Well?" hiroto leaned against the wall looking at burn.
Burn laughed bitterly, "I'm gonna marry rean. Isn't that great."
"Burn." Hiroto eyes softened.
"You said that you want to see me?" Burn looked at him.
Hiroto stood up and smiled. "I think I have a plan to stop this wedding."
Burn grined, "let me in."
Hiroto smirked.
Well that's it! Thanks Ichimai and flo again! The little marmaid is also my favorite stories when I was younger.
