The long awaited meeting comes in this chapter! What will happen when the cryptic, mysterious prince comes to Shin Makoku for the first time? Let's take a look see!

*The 3 Acts of KKM: The Prince of Taurogo*

"Today's the day!" Yuuri said almost happily as he walked through the halls of Blood Pledge Castle, on his way to the throne room where he will meet the prince of Taurogo for the first time. "I'm excited for this. This is bound to be cool."

Immediately behind him were Sara and Murata, flanking either side of him. "You mustn't let your guard drop Shibuya." Murata spoke a small warning. "We still don't know anything about this prince, or his motives for why he wanted to come here so adamantly."

"Well I do know that Shin Makoku is 'Home of the wind in my heart' so he mustn't mean harm at all."

Wolfram scoffed (he was standing behind and between Murata and Sara so that he could see if anything happens between the king of the Shimarons and his fiancé). "There he goes again just assuming that everyone is a nice person again."

Standing behind him with Berius at his side was Conrad who was, in his typical self, smiling faintly at the current situation and the many countless of times they've been in a similar predicament. "His Majesty has the utmost trust in this prince; we should go along with the shadow of the doubt."

"How many times do I have to tell you Conrad? You're my Godfather, call me 'Yuuri'."

"Of course Yuuri."

Sara chuckled to himself. "I'm just glad that Yuuri was kind enough to let me be there with you all when you greet the prince."

"Sure Sara, it's a pleasure to have you there with us." Wolfram scowled at the back at his fiancé's head, throwing curses at him mentally. "And Gunter and Gwendal should be in the throne room already correct?"

"Yes they said that they were going there earlier." Conrad replied with a slight nod of his head.

"Cool! Let's meet this prince! I'm excited!"

"Don't get too excited Yuuri." Wolfram started. "I am you fiancé still, you know."

Yuuri smiled to himself. Yes, Wolf, I know… trust me I know. The Maoh thought as they reached the doors of the throne room. He pushed the doors open himself and was shocked to see Greta and Beatrice in the room along with Gunter and Gwendal. "Hello girls." He greeted them as he walked through the room to them.

"Hey Yuuri." The girls sounded together with a smile on their face.

"I'm guessing you two are also interested in the prince as well." Wolfram assumed aloud.

"Yep." Greta answered. "He's a far-off prince like from a fairytale!"

Beatrice giggled. "Maybe he'll find me attractive."

Yuuri chuckled. "As long as it's not my daughter he finds attractive."

Greta half scoffed half chuckled as Yuuri made his way to his rightful spot on the throne. "I'm eighteen now father. I can date."

"Hm…" Yuuri sounded, still sounding skeptical. Already there was word of an engagement possibility between Greta and Lindsey von Wincott—like hell. If anything Yuuri will pick Greta's future husband because that's just the type of overprotective father he is. Yuuri sat himself down on the ostentatious throne chair and watched as below him everyone got into position. To his left stood (in order from closest to farthest from him) Murata, Greta, Beatrice, Sara and Berius at his side; on his right was Gwendal, Conrad, Wolfram and Gunter. "We'll see. It could also be possible that this young prince is older than we assume so I apologize to you too Miss Beatrice, if that is the case."

Beatrice giggled again and shook him off with a slow wave of her hand. "That's okay. My family already has a betrothed for me, though I have never met him. But he's only a fall back really—my family is kind enough to let me have my chance at love first."

"I was just about to say…" Yuuri began as he rested elbow on the armrest and placed his check in that palm. "To not even have a chance at your age… that would—"

"Your Majesty!" Josak interrupted as he charged into the room.

"Josak!" Gwendal scolded him. "Again—charging in like this!"

"Sorry! So sorry…" Josak panted out, yet another piece of paper in his hands. "But I just found out more information about the prince."

"Just as we're about to meet him?" Wolfram reeled. "Of all the pointless—"

"Granted it's just his name…" Josak interrupted the Little Lord Brat as he walked closer to the Maoh, the doors closing behind him with an audible click. "But I thought you might want to know at least that before meeting him."

"Yes, I would actually. Go ahead Josak." Yuuri said his interest peaked (more than it was originally by this point).

Josak bowed slightly, remembering his manners at that moment. "His name is Kasimir Ziegler, Your Majesty."

Something snapped inside of Yuuri's head at the mention of that name. "Did you just say 'Kasimir Ziegler'?"

"Uh… yes?" Josak replied back hesitantly.

"Where have I heard that name before…?" Yuuri asked himself as he dug through the deepest fathoms of his memories.

"Yuuri?" Wolfram asked concerned about the Maoh's sudden change in attitude.

Yuuri's eyes widened as stark realization hit him. "No… it can't be. There's no way in hell."

"What Your Majesty?" Gunter exclaimed. "What is it?"

Yuuri stood and practically ran down the steps and halfway down the room, stopping only when that audible click of one of the doors opening was heard. "Yuuri!" The Maoh heard his fiancé call out to him but he was frozen with the thoughts and memories rushing through his brain.

When the door opened fully, a tall man, probably six feet three, came through the door first. He had medium brown hair and amber eyes and wore a cutoff sleeves shirt and a scythe was attached to his back. He bowed to those in the room before standing straight again. "Please allow me to introduce my master, His Highness Kasimir Ziegler, crown prince of the Kingdom of Taurogo."

The man stood off to the side and in came the prince, his mid back dirty blonde hair loose and flowing behind him and a unique looking sword at his side (it have silver tendrils curling up to a little under a third of the way of the blade itself, it was so unique looking just by the top of it that it had a custom sheath to hold the sword). When he stood next to his protector it was blatantly obvious how short the prince was since he only came to a height of five foot five. The prince smiled at the people in the room, his eyes closed as he smiled. Yuuri blinked and his mouth gaped a bit. Before he had any thought process a single name slipped out of his mouth. "Kasey?"

The prince opened his grey eyes and his smile turned into an 'o' shape as he and the Maoh stared at each other. While this was happening everyone else in the room donned on confused expressions and watched the interaction between the Maoh and the prince. Kasimir's eyes narrowed as he thought back before quickly widening as he suddenly remembered. "Yu-chan?"

There was a stark moment of silence where the air was thick with confusion when suddenly… "OH MY GOD! It's you!" The two royal males rushed towards each other, their hands joining when they met up.

"Oh my God! Kasey!" Yuuri was yelling as both men were grinning widely. "You—you're here! Here-here!"

"Me? You're here! Oh my God man! You're the Maoh! Holy shit! Damn it!"

Yuuri laughed and shook his head to make sure he was seeing and participating in this moment and it wasn't a dream. "God… Kasey it's been years!"

"I think sixteen years actually… maybe less…"

"Less, remember; you left in second grade."

"Oh that's right." There was another moment of silence. "But shit man! Yuuri Shibuya! My fucking God. You-you know what? I heard that the Maoh's name was Yuuri Shibuya and at first I was thinking 'Why does that name sound familiar to me'? Then I realized that I knew a kid in kindergarten to second grade with that name but then I'm thinking 'Nah… he was a human, not a Mazoku. There's no way'. But then here you are! Holy mother of fucking shit!"

"Here I am? Fuck man, here you are! All this time you were royalty?"

"No shit man."

"And you knew?"

"Well duh. I was raised by a Mazoku mother whose sole task was to get me prepared for the day I'd come back home."

"… Shit… that's so fucking awesome. I knew a prince when I was a kid."

"Knew a prince? Goddamn you! I knew the fucking Maoh! Shit!"

"Well I wasn't the Maoh yet… at that time. Hell I didn't even know there was a whole other world nonetheless that I was the demon king—well am."

Kasey and Yuuri finally released their hands and the prince dragged a hand through his hair and shook his head, mostly to himself. "Well damn… my childhood friend is the Maoh… that sounds like a sitcom."

Yuuri scoffed. "Please… the whole 'Demon King from Today!' sounds like a sitcom… or a really kinda messed up anime/manga series…"

Kasey nodded his head while he shrugged his shoulders. "I agree… it'd still be interesting, I'm sure. And even humorous."

"Quite." The two stayed there, nodding their heads like idiots until suddenly Yuuri remembered where they all were at. "Oh shit! Formalities!"

"Fuck!" Kasey cursed loudly. "You go back there and I'll walk back in."

"No time—just turn around walk a few paces then turn back around."

"Right."

Yuuri raced to his seat, zooming past his confused and slightly reeling friends, before falling into it with a loud thud. Meanwhile Kasey walked back to his protector breathed out and turned back around, now newly composed and more regal like. Together the prince and his protector walked up the carpeted section of the floor and stopped in the middle of the reception on both sides (Josak is standing on one of the steps at this point in time); the protector gave a bowed at the waist to the Maoh while the prince only bowed his head in respect. Yuuri bowed his head back in response before standing. "Welcome to Shin Makoku, prince of Taurogo."

"Thank you for the invitation and the warm welcome Your Majesty." Kasimir responded with another bow of his head. "Allow me to begin the introductions."

"You may."

"I am Prince Kasimir Ziegler, and this is my protector Riscard Tio." At the mention of his name Riscard bowed again in acknowledgement, he the less fazed by the Maoh's and the prince's earlier display than everyone else who was watching.

"I am Yuuri Shibuya, the twenty-seventh Maoh of Shin Makoku. To my right and closest to me are members of my inner circle, Gwendal von Voltaire, Conrad Weller, Wolfram von Bielefeld, and Gunter von Christ. To my left in the same order are Ken Murata, Princess Greta, Princess Beatrice and King Saralegi of the Kingdoms of the Shimarons. And this man standing off to the side of me is Josak Gurrier." At the mention of all the names, each person gave their own little head nod to signify who they were, but they were all still pretty shocked despite how much they have come to terms with the earlier show to the best of their abilities.

The silence dragged on again and for a moment there seemed to be no path forward, only backwards to the whole 'Hey, I haven't seen you in almost 16-x years!' moment. It was, of all people, Beatrice who seemed to move the whole event forwards. "So… you obviously came from Yuuri's home world… how is that possible?"

"Oh, yes." Murata spoke, seeing as that finally clicked in his own head. "Only Shibuya and Shinou have the abilities to move between worlds, and well, Shinou can't now but before he—"

Shinou's voice then rang loudly and clearly in the double black sage's head. "Oh, nothing Murata. It'll be fine."

"… Oh I hate him… so much."

Kasimir grinned and chuckled softly. "It's kind of a long story…"

"Perhaps we can continue our reunion over tea?" Yuuri asked as his mold of the Great Maoh dissolved into his normal self.

"Yes, let's. I've wanted a cup of tea since I got here."

*The 3 Acts of KKM: The Prince of Taurogo*

At the table outside, overlooking the courtyard, Yuuri, Greta, Wolfram, Beatrice, Sara and Kasey (all in that order around the round table) all sat at the table with their tea and an array of desserts before them. Murata stood the closest to the table, along with Conrad, Berius and Riscard, while Josak, Gwendal and Gunter stood a little bit further away, but still close enough to hear the table and their current conversation.

"I should probably begin at the beginning." Kasey began, taking a small sip of tea before he continued. "When I was born my father was still alive and at war, but during that time mother and I stayed in the castle and were treated not adequately for we did have Mazoku blood through our veins but it wasn't too horrible. Unfortunately when father died so did any 'good will' that was tossed our way. I at that time was ten-ish and still looked like I was five—demon blood, yay. Mother and I escaped from the castle and went to the Temple of Shinou, where he was gracious enough to hide us away on Earth in a country called Japan."

Murata groaned and rolled his eyes. "I can't believe he didn't tell me this."

"I can't believe it either Murata." Yuuri agreed with him. "I mean you were the Great Sage."

"… Still have his soul you know…"

Kasey smiled at the other double black. "So you have the soul of the Great Sage? That is amazing. I'm truly honored to be in your presence sir."

Murata smiled and blushed faintly because he was so greatly complimented. "There's no need for the formalities childhood friend of Shibuya."

Kasey nodded and decided to continue his story. "So anyways, being a look-alike five year old means I go to kindergarten where I meet the ever adorable five year old version of Yuuri Shibuya, affectionately known as Yu-chan."

"Yes… yes." Yuuri agreed.

Across from Greta Wolfram glared at Yuuri and then scowled at Kasey. "In fact," the prince continued, "he even thought I was a girl (since I did kinda look and dressed like a girl) and had a little puppy-love crush on me."

Yuuri laughed (so did Kasey) as they pictured a young Yuuri (forced to dress by a girl by his mother) and a younger Kasey (who had long hair back then too which he kept braided over his shoulder and in feminine clothing) in grade school together, Yuuri following around Kasey constantly. "Yuuri…" Wolfram growled as he practically launched from out of his chair to attack the Maoh (with his hands on Yuuri's shoulders, shaking him violently). "How dare you have crushed on him when you were children?"

"Wolf! Listen to yourself! We were children! Children!" Yuuri defended himself.

Kasey immediately jumped in to protect his old friend. "He's right Your Excellence. We both shared a mutual crush on each other but it wasn't even a crush-crush it was more like utter respect for the other."

Wolfram momentarily slowed his attack but Yuuri, being an idiot, said with a slight blush… "You-You had a crush on me too?"

"Ahh!" Wolfram yelled as he began his attack again.

The prince laughed at their interaction. "You guys fight like an old married couple."

The blonde lord released the demon king and proudly said… "Well are fiancés so I would suspect our love for each other shows whenever we are together."

Kasimir, who was sipping some tea, then choked on said tea when he heard those words come from the lord's mouth. Riscard came up behind the prince immediately and Kasey waved him off and looked at Yuuri with eyes that said it all. Yuuri sighed and brought light onto the situation. "He insulted my mother, I slapped him on the left check unbeknownst to me on what it meant here, and we became engaged."

"Ah." Kasey sounded. "That makes perfect sense." He then grinned. "Well I must say you two are a cute couple. I support this! All the way."

With that Wolfram smiled warmly at Kasey and went back to his seat. "Why thank you Prince Kasimir."

"Please, call me Kasey."

"Alright, Kasey." The two smiled at each other from across the table and Yuuri groaned.

"Please continue the story Kasey." The Maoh pleaded softly with the prince of Taurogo.

"Ah, yes, of course. Where was I? Oh, yeah… so after three years in Japan mother was contacted by some family she didn't know she had on Earth. Apparently when demons began to move to Earth a long time ago, her family spilt into two branches and one went to Earth and the latter stayed here, but sadly the ones that stayed here were all killed during the war…" There was a tense moment of silence before Kasey continued once again. "Anyways, they live in France, even now, and are actual decedents to the royal family of France so they were the ones who taught me the values of being royalty since my mother could only teach me the traditions and so on about the Mazoku clan. They taught me how to lead, what was acceptable, what wasn't acceptable, how to fight… overall pretty awesome family… but then mother died due to a car accident and well…"

"Oh my God, Kasey, I'm so sorry." Yuuri said, his hand reaching out to grasp his friend's hand in a show of sympathy. Kasey squeezed back and gave the Maoh a small, sad smile of gratitude, before releasing his hand.

"Yeah, but you know, life goes on."

Murata then walked up between Yuuri and Kasey and placed his hands on the table so he can lean on it. "So since you lived in France, do you know how to speak French?"

"Mais bien sûr. Qui vit en France et ne pas apprendre le français? (Why of course. Who lives in France and doesn't learn French?)"

"Oh oui, je vois votre point. Je sais français aussi, comme vous pouvez le voir. (Oh yes, I see your point. I know French too, as you can see.)"

"Très bon mon ami. Très bon. (Very good my friend. Very good.)"

"Okay! Stop speaking French—I can't understand a word you are saying." Yuuri said interrupting their slight side conversation.

Kasey chuckled (as did Murata). "So anyways then I heard from Bob, I think you know Bob right? The current Maoh of Earth?"

"Yeah, my brother's taking his spot this year actually."

"Oh, so that is your brother. I met him at Bob's HQ and I didn't think anything of it."

"Yeah, that Shouri; my brother and the next Maoh of Earth."

"And he's the governor of Tokyo, an amazing guy."

"Eh… that's debatable."

Both laughed at the brotherly love when Greta spoke up. "So the Earth Maoh helped you get back here?"

"Yes, actually." Kasey confirmed. "I ended up right at home, in Winds Castle in a pond of all things."

Yuuri chuckled and nodded his head. "I get the feeling. I usually arrive in the fountain inside the Temple."

"So you travel to Earth often?"

"Every so often. Not as much as I used to since I finished college."

"You finished college? Congratulations. What did you major in?"

Yuuri scoffed. "Leadership, government and politics—not me at all but I was able to get into Tokyo University on a baseball scholarship and I really didn't have anything I wanted to get into so I decided that since I'm a king you know…?"

"Oh I understand. I would have gone for that major too though I never went to college—I was already neck deep in royalty training by my French family. Anyways back to the autobiography… I came here—well to Taurogo—and said, basically, 'Hey, I'm your crown prince, I heard that your current king is sick and/or dying so I'm here to assume his place when the fat, dictatorial asshole dies'. Then I came here! Hey, guys, what's up?"

"Pretty good story Kasey." Yuuri commented. "Kind of rough though, wasn't it?"

The prince sighed heavily. "My life's always been rough—from the moment I was born. Being a half Mazoku son of a human king in a Mazoku-hating human kingdom is kind of the recipe for a shitty life."

"I hear you. I got that kind of lip too—though on my end it was somewhere along the lines of 'I bet she's just a cheap hussy, some streetwalker that came from a dubious pedigree'—about my mom by the way."

Wolfram flinched and then tensed up, knowing that those words exactly were the words that caused the accidental engagement all those years ago. Kasey hissed. "Ow… those words are harsh. I mean I get all the lip myself so I know the sting. I mean I don't approve of insulting me but when you cross the line and you mention my family—oh, someone's getting an ass whopping."

"Oh…" Yuuri chuckled with that indication of that 'deeper meaning' that has to do with himself and Wolfram. "Trust me… it bore some whopping… probably more mine than anything…" Yuuri whispered that last part to himself.

Kasey, being as smart as he was, got the 'deeper meaning' and giggled to himself. "Oh God, Yuuri my boy… that's not the way you should engage yourself to someone—and still remain engaged to them." Yuuri only scoffed in response while Wolfram blushed (both out of embarrassment since he really liked his future mother-in-law now and anger since they were talking about him in such a manner—like he wasn't even there) and covered his eyes with his blonde locks. "Unless… you actually love your betrothed Your Majesty."

Both Yuuri and Wolfram straightened up in their chairs and their faces were both beat red. "Haha…" Yuuri nervously chuckled. "S-s-so… Kasey you like baseball? I like baseball! You know I made baseball the national sport here? There's even a diamond—let's go play—we can be on the same team! Let's go!" Yuuri jumped out of his seat and began to head towards his room to go get his baseball clothes. "Come on guys! Let's go play some baseball!" The Maoh yelled from the distance as he turned the corner and disappeared.

The blonde lord too stood (quite abruptly) from his seat. "I-I'll go tell Dacascos to get the horses ready." He then proceeded to head towards the barn.

Kasey laughed to himself. "They really are in love with each other… that's good. I was wondering why Yuuri was engaged to Little Lord Brat if he didn't actually like him."

"How did you know his nickname?" Gunter asked, the long hair tutor coming up to the table quickly.

"Oh no way, I just was insulting him, sort of."

Conrad moved up to flank the prince. "Yes, well, would you actually like to play?"

"Oh yes of course." The prince replied as he turned in his seat to look up at the other half-Mazoku. "I love baseball, though I like soccer more—it's more popular in France you see."

"Oh no way! I like baseball and soccer too but soccer is better in my opinion as well!" Murata commented.

"C'est incroyable! (That's incredible)."

Within moments the table and the surrounding area was being emptied out of people as they all went in every each way to get ready for the sudden spur-of-the-moment baseball game that was going to occur. King Saralegi and Berius were the last ones to leave the table, Sara standing slowly as his mind made sense of the conversation at the table. "Your Majesty?" Berius called for his king in a questioning of his master's behavior.

"I'm trying to decide wither or not the prince of Taurogo is really worth my interest Berius." Sara responded. "He is certainty close to the Maoh, without a doubt. Not even so many years could lessen their relationship with each other." And Yuuri ignored me the whole time—in fact he ignored practically everyone.

"…Shall we prepare to go to this 'diamond' the Maoh was talking about?"

"Yes. I want to take in more of their interaction."

*The 3 Acts of KKM: The Prince of Taurogo*

"This is so exciting Riscard! My old childhood friend who I used to crush on silently is the Maoh! Amazing!" Kasimir sounded when they were lead to the prince's suite and the doors were closed shut behind his protector.

"It may seem like it now, Your Highness, but later…"

Kasimir stopped dead in his tracks and a shadow fell over his eyes. "Damn… that's right. It makes it worse…" The prince sighed and ran a hand though his hair. "Well… I guess I can't really change the track of our relationship now. It'd be too confusing for him and everyone else around him." There was a slight pause where the prince was thinking about all those around the Maoh, all of whom seem really close to him in their own special ways. "He's just got so many people Riscard…"

"I know Your Highness… I understand."

"Yeah…" Another sigh. "And that King Saralegi. I got a weird vibe from him."

"So did I Your Highness."

Kasey untied his sword from his side and placed in carefully under the bed. I suppose it'd be safe here for the time being… "The Shimarons… they were the ones going through unification right now correct?"

"Yes, going on for eight years now."

"Hm… I see…"

Knock, knock.

"Come in."

Conrad appeared in the doorway and in his hands was a baseball uniform, courtesy of the Shin Makoku seamstresses. "You said only you would be playing correct Your Highness?"

"Yes, I'm afraid Riscard doesn't know any of the rules."

Conrad bowed his head and handed the prince his uniform. "We luckily found a few in your sizes, though I had to have alterations happen because of your—"

"You don't have to say it." Kasey said with a grin. "I know… I'm short. It's a curse I'm afraid."

"Perhaps you'll grow some more Your Highness."

Kasey laughed and shook his head. "It's a nice gesture but I doubt it though. I mean, I'm already like twenty-eight in human years, in my early forties already… maybe in like another forty years I'll have grown another inch—if even."

"At least you can joke about it Your Highness."

"I suppose you're right. Thanks for these Conrad."

"No problem Your Highness." With that Conrad took his leave.

The prince groaned softly once he was sure that the other was long gone. "This is going to be tough… why did the Maoh have to be my childhood friend? Why did we have such similar personalities?"

"Perhaps you rubbed off on him when you were children sir. He did look up to you, am I right?"

"Yes, but still…" With one last final sigh the prince moved to the changing area of the room and stepped behind the screen to change into his altered baseball uniform.

*The 3 Acts of KKM: The Prince of Taurogo*

Yay! Prince Kasimir "Kasey" Zeigler! Welcome to the cast! Who would have thought you knew our good old Yuuri in grade school? Oh wait that's right… I did. Anyways if you're wondering Kasey stemmed off the fact that Yuuri did in fact crush on a kid in grade school that was blonde and dressed like a girl (hence why he crushed on him on accident). More info will be reveled about their relationship when they were kids in the following chapters of Act I.

On the other hand, this steady stream of uploading? Don't expect it forever. I'm currently on a long weekend and my last day (tomorrow) will be spent working so this will most likely be the last day of this steady uploading of this fanfiction. We will all miss you dearly steady stream of work…

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