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Vanessa was giddy, it's interesting. Once she was in love with Yami, sure that there was no one but him for her. Now shes getting ready for a double date, with a princess that shes fallen in love with, her best friend, and the man she used to be in love with. Was it an odd situation on paper, sure. But was it making her feel like she was on cloud nine, yes. Her best friend was in love and so was she, she had that missing piece she felt like she might never find before back in her life. She had a bad ass girlfriend that, despite her dislike for formal events, was willing to go on a dinner date with her, though Vanessa had a feeling knowing that Yami was equally hateful about being 'stuffy' so she wasn't going to be on her own.
"Ready?" Finral asked, porting into her room.
"Aw~ You look so good~" Vanessa cooed at her best friend. He was wearing what looked like a dark green cocktail dress with a black belt adorned with a silver bull buckle,He was also wearing the same black over the elbow gloves he's been wearing for the last few months, she knew better about the reality of the dress, considering that it was the two of them that had set up the whole night. The black bulls robe settled on his shoulder the black thick healed boots that each had two charms pressed into them, a sword and the black bulls sign.
"Me? You look amazing!" Finral smiled at her, she opted for her old witches dress, the first dress she made after joining the bulls. A wine red color, slightly darker than her usual dress, a black belt that was held together with a golden lioness charm.
"Everything ready?" Vanessa asked happily, earning a nod. "Think we'll even make it to the end of the night without some kind of major fight with some idiot?" She asked laughing a little.
"I don't care either way this dress is coming off me." Finral huffed a little, making Vanessa laugh taking the offered cigarette, humming at the flavor.
"This is new, kind of tastes like Mellon?" Vanessa hummed handing it back to him.
"Good? I'm trying new flavors."
"I like it, bet Yami's gonna love it~" Vanessa giggled at her friends 'evil' laugh. Before they could continue talking, a loud bang and yelling told them both it was time to get their partners.
"Yami stop destroying the base!" Finral whined as they entered the common room.
"Whatever lets go." Yami mumbled annoyed, swiping the cigarette from Finral. He seemed impassive but Vanessa could tell that he was enjoying the outfit Finral was wearing.
"How's it going hot stuff?" Vanessa asked, hooking her arm around Mereoleona's. The ginger woman snorted a laugh, pulling Vanessa in closer.
"Fine, you pain." Finral mumbled, opening a portal.
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
The more that Yami thought about the difference in courage between a version of Finral that didn't have to deal with being a noble, even with all his memories back he was still whiny and ski-dish, but he was more... alive. They ended up at a fancy place, by the looks of it they were in the noble realm.
"Hey." Yami called making the others look over to him. "How do you even get through the border spell?" Yami asked, the green loving mage laughed nervously.
"Well, I open a bunch of super small spells to make a bigger one, it's not really a good idea to explain it in detail here where anyone can hear." Finral laughed a little sheepishly. "Anyway, come on, our table should be ready."
Finral grabbed Yami's arm, pulling him along.
"Come on love, you're gonna like this." Yami heard Vanessa say as she pulled the monster she's in love with.
Yami tuned out whatever Finral said to the hostess, following or rather being led through the fancy place. At least he gets to see Finral in a pretty dress, and a nice meal with his 'official' boyfriend. Not like they haven't been inseparable for years now, both now and then. The table they were sat at already had food and drinks, Yami was going to say something but Vanessa was already leading Mereoleona to a seat and he was being pulled to his own seat. They were out on a terrace away from everyone else.
"We thought to lower the amount of time you two had to talk to people." Vanessa smiled as she sat across from her girlfriend.
"So we pre-ordered everything, got your favorites and got your favorite drinks, and a nice place away from everyone." Finral finished the explanation as he sat next to Mereoleona, across from Yami and Vanessa.
"You two did all this?"
"The nights not over, we have something planned after dinner, so don't get too drunk." Finral smiled at Yami.
"Don't worry though, we have drinks at one of the other stops of the night." Vanessa smiled this time happily as she used her threads to pour the wine into each of the glasses.
"You couldn't have told us you did all this before telling us that we were going on a date." Mereoleona glared a little at her girlfriend, who snickered.
"Nope~ Tonight's going to show you two how great we are." The witch smacked Yami's arm a little with a wide smile.
The dinner went as planned, it was now for the reason Finral had wore this outfit-
Yami hummed making Finral look back. "It's not a dress." He sounded interested as he looked over Finral freely.
"I'm not as good in a dress as V is." Finral smiled as he looked over at Vanessa who nodded, wrapping her arms around Mereoleona. "Besides-" Finral wrapped his hand in Yami's larger hand. "-tonight's meant to fun." With that Finral opened a portal as quickly as possible under them all, making them drop though.
He could feel Mereoleona and Yami's Mana flare as they both pulled their partners into their arms, landing on the ground safely with Finral and Vanessa close to them.
"Where are we?" Yami asked, looking around. Neither of them let the two down as they looked around Vanessa and Finral snickering.
"The fancy food and dinner was our part of the night~" Vanessa cooed, pointing over at Finral, kissing her girlfriend.
"This part is for you two to have some real fun~" Finral cupped Yami's face leaning closer.
"Yeah?"
"There's a hot springs like the one's you know in there-" Vanessa nodded over to the morphed castle, "But to get to it-"
"We have to go though a whole lotta monsters." Finral started to leave small kisses all over Yami's face.
"No mazes, Nothing to collect unless you want to, And no having to hold back~" Vanessa purred happily.
Finral could feel the joy radiating off of both of them.
"We have drinks and snacks as well, ready for when it's time to relax." Finral patted Yami's shoulder once, signaling to be set down. Yami kissed him once before setting him on his feet.
"Go wild hot-stuff, you too captain! We'll see you later." Vanessa shooed them forward, Yami reacting on impulse when Finral opened a portal for him to catch the katana that fell thought, before he could say something Finral and Vanessa dropped though the portal he opened under them.
"What was that?" Vanessa asked with a smile, starting to set up the candles around the pool of water.
"Don't laugh..." Finral sighed a little, portalling in the bottles of multiple alcoholic drinks they had gotten for the night. "I may have gotten him a new Katana, one that, may or may not be cursed to not break under his spells."
"That's adorable, how much did that cost. He's always complaining about how much his costs usually." Vanessa started to organize the bottles how she felt was right.
"Ugh, I was going to get one here in clover. Get this, they only use one steal. I told Yami's little sister that and she started to cuss out a wall about it. Apparently, it's meant to be some kind of special steel, clover smiths wont make it, even given three times the pay they'd usually get." Bitterness filled Finral as he thought about his many arguments with the clover kingdoms blacksmiths. "BUT!" Happily Finral handed Vanessa a platter of cups and snacks. "I found this old man in the common realm, he made me help him-" Finral showed Vanessa his hands under the gloves, bandaged and bruised. "Smacked my hands every time I messed up. I made his handle and the mixture for the steel." Finral snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name, "Ah! Yeah, it's called *tamahagane* It's Iron sand and charcoal."
"That's... actually super romantic. I mean Yami's not the flowers and chocolate type, getting him a custom sword that you help make for him. You're going to be lucky he doesn't jump you the second he finds out."
Finral laughed.
"It's kind of embarrassing." Finral whined, dropping a lighter into his hand and setting it on a ledge and pulling through small tables through a portal.
Vanessa hummed, about to say something but the clashing of dark and flame mana already close made her pout. She used her threads to grab the lighter, tossing it to Finral. He quickly lit all the candles through small portals, throwing all the extra things through a portal, before opening a different Portal on the ground, Vanessa and him jumping in.
"How's it going hot-stuff!?" Vanessa landed softly on the ground, using her threads to throw two of the living-human dolls away from her girlfriend.
Finral landed in a roll rather than gently on his feet like Vanessa, he threw a small knife at the doll running at him and Yami, pulling back on the chain connected to it, causing the doll to be forced forward to Finral could wrap the chain around the dolls neck, snapping the dolls neck. It'd only take it out for a few hours.
"We got bored waiting for you two~" Finral jokingly cooed at Yami, who snapped out of whatever trace he was in.
Yami was going to marry Finral. He could feel the authentic steel rather than just the design that all his other Katana's he's gotten from clover had. If that wasn't enough to know that it was custom made for him, the handle was the same color as his magic, and the sheath was black with golden bulls intertwining with golden dragons and deer.
He got him a fucking sword, after making a date that would make it where he didn't have to interact with any stuck up nobles or snotty people but still get a fancy dinner date with him, he brought him to a place that he can fight to his hearts content, and then, when it's over, he was going to get to drink in a hot-springs with the man he's been wanting to be with for the last three years of this life.
That was BEFORE he saw Finral just fight, he's never seen him fight like that before. It was beautiful.
"We got bored waiting for you two~"
Oh, oh, so that's how he wants to play it. Yami could play that game.
"Here I thought you were patient, guess I was wrong." Yami shrugged a little.
"You have no idea how needy I can be~" Finral all but purred as he circled Yami.
He smelt like honey smoke. As if reading his mind, Finral leaned closer to Yami.
"Trying new flavors, thought you might like them~"
Something about Finral going out of his way to make things that he thinks that Yami would like makes him want to keep Finral for himself.
Finral's confidence clearly faltered when Yami grabbed him by the waist quickly, pulling him close and slicing the creepy not-human thing charging at them.
"New flavors huh? You trying to get eaten?" Yami would forever remember the way that Finral's whole face erupted red, or the way that he was shuddering out some kind of denial but his eyes betrayed him full.
"Shut-up." Finral whined at Yami's laughter, covering the older man's mouth with his hands. "Come on, all the dolls are out for a few days." Finral started to pull away, or try to, Yami kept his hold on the slightly shorter man.
"Where'd you learn that, with the knife and chain?" Yami asked, silently enjoying the way Finral settled instantly when he didn't get out of Yami's hold.
"Hmm, oh, my mom taught me a bit when I was young. Lin and I have been training more with the knife bit-" As Finral was unfocused, Yami was able to dip down a bit to wrap his arm around Finral's knees, lifting the mage up, despite how much he's made Charmy put on the younger's plate he's still annoyingly light. "-I learned how to use a chain to snap bones when I was in the Spade army, old man taught me, never knew his name."
"I hate you're family." Yami said with-out thinking. Finral hummed in confusion, he seemed unbothered by the way he was being carried. "You should have been able to be like this before, you should have been able to be all witchy and confident, to be-" Yami looked up at Finral who was looking down at him, he froze at the look in the others eye. It was nothing short of amazement and love. "Free."
"I got to be free before. I had you, didn't I?" Finral smiled at Yami softly, then let out the squeakiest scream Yami's ever heard when he was dropped into the water. "ASSHOLE!" He yelled when he resurfaced, the two women that were already in the hot-springs laughing.
"That was getting to emotional for my health." Yami said starting to strip, smiling a little at the way Finral looked like a soaked cat when he got out of the water.
The night went on with both couples talking, drinking, and soaking. At some point, the two very drunken women were portaled home, leaving the two men alone.
"Here." Finral said, handing Yami a bottle.
"Is this?" Yami looked over the bottle, the smell strong.
"Sake, Mellon flavor. It's one of your favorite flavors right?" Finral sighed a little as he relaxed onto the side, his eye's fluttering closed as he rested his head on his folded arms.
Three things made Yami stop to think, One was the fact that he was being given another gift, the next was the way Finral's hands were slightly bandaged and bruised, the last was-
"Is that a tattoo!?" Yami laughed, he knew the other would blame the hot-springs for the blush on his face at being called out.
"Shut-up..." Finral whined.
"No, no, it's cute-" It was- "It's the black bulls." Yami ignored the feeling of serenity he felt when Finral barley flinched when he ran his hand over the younger's upper back.
"What? Am I not allowed to get tattoos?" Finral huffed in a fake defense.
"With how squeamish you are, I'd never think that you could sit still long enough to get a tattoo."
"I almost fell asleep, it was oddly soothing."
Yami's first thought was 'trauma' but rather than kill the mood.
"Sounds like you're a masochist." Finral swatted at Yami blindly, Yami laughed as he pulled the other closer to him from under the water. Finral huffed a little, laying his head on Yami's shoulder, the older rubbing his hands over Finral's sides. "When do you want to have a baby?" Yami felt the small hitch in Finral's breath and the way his heartbeat started to increase rapidly. Finral was going to be a little out-of-it for a bit.
It wasn't a surprise that Yami liked the date, Finral and Vanessa had made this date with their partners in mind. Good food, a little work-out, a nice soak and a good drink. It wasn't unbelievable that Yami liked his gifts, Using the arm that isn't wrapped around him to pour the Sake on the small floating table, waiting for Finral to reply.
"What?" Finral asked softly.
He knew they talked about it, they talked about how he wanted kids. How Yami knew about the spell, and how he wasn't bothered by it.
"You said you wanted kids," Finral could feel the vibrations from Yami's voice as he spoke. "The spell only works for a few months right, so it's still a baby. I was asking when you wanted to have the baby." Yami offered the glass to Finral, shrugging slightly when he didn't take it, setting it on the small table.
"Baby."
"Yeah, a baby."
Finral felt stupid, but Yami never said anything bad about him when he was like this, when he couldn't get his thoughts to think properly or things to be lined up as easy as they usually are.
"You want the baby?" Finral asked, he could barely hear himself speak.
"I do." Yami took a sip of his drink, looking over the small floating table with some snacks. He grabbed one of the mochi-balls, offering it for Finral, he ate it without thinking.
Finral felt himself start to focus more, not sure how long they were both in silence, Yami feeding him every once and a while as he waited patiently for Finral to be back to himself.
"You really want a baby with me?" Finral asked, "You're ready for that?"
"No one is ever ready to be a parent, but I doubt we're going to do any worse than either of our parents did. All I can do is hope they don't become more of a piece of shit than our own brats."
"They'll be nicer than noble raised children."
"That's a low bar." Yami snickered a little.
"True. You really-"
"Yes." Yami interrupted him. "Yes I want to have kids with you, yes, I want you to be stuck with me for the rest of your life."
Finral kissed him with everything he could. Yami smiling agents his lips as he kissed him back.
"So about that baby~"
Finral yelped as he was hoisted out of the water.
"We are NOT doing this in a cave for the first time." Finral huffed, smiling at the fake discouraged look on Yami's face.
"Where's your sense of adventure?"
"I never said I wouldn't, just not now." Finral opened a portal to his room, yelping when he was thrown onto the bed.
"You can't make promises like that and not expect me to just ignore it."
Finral smiled as he shifted around on his comforter.
"Is the idea that appealing?" Finral asked, blushing a bit when Yami hovered over him, suddenly becoming very aware both of them were naked.
"You have no idea."