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Little Prince 6

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"Darius? Darius!"  Diana's voice was grating on his nerves as he rubs his eyes beofre looking at the agitated Mauian.  "Are you listening?"

"What?" Darius couldn't for the life of him  understand what she wanted or had even said. "What do you want, Diana?"

"Helios is here for your afternoon lessons." Diana told him and studied him for a bit, "Darius, are you alright?"

"sure, why do you ask?" He got up before heading to the doors and out into the crystal hallways towards a special door. There were only two within the castle that were deemed special. One was the Time Gate where Aunt Setsuna stood guard and the other was this one.

"You seem tired. Did you sleep well?" She was concerned for him. He had been like this for almost a month now.  As if he lacked any energy at all. "You've been listless lately."

"Nothing to worry about." Darius moves to open the door that lead to a field with a strange source of light coming from nowhere.  Elysian, the land his father's kingdom once stood on was now only a door away.  "Don't you have someone to look after?"

Diana's ears twitched slightly as did her tail. Even though she was about his age and had gain greater control of her shifts between cat and human, she still kept her ears and tail from childhood feeling better balanced that way.  Her hair had grown out surprisingly straight as her fathers-even though everyone had expected it to be curly like her mother's.   

"Oh..right." she worries her lower lip, "Please don't push yourself, Darius."

With that the cat girl was gone, leaving the prince to wander the fields until he found the priest who was over looking a herd of horses grazing in the distance.

"Alright," The prince said with a sigh and disinterest, "can we cut to the chase and not play this game any more?"

Helios looks over at the young man slightly surprised, "What are you talking about, prince?"  He moves closer to the taller boy with concern evident in his golden eyes, "What has you convinced that this is a game?"

"We both know this is bull." Darius finally said bluntly having picked up some of those terms. " I have no powers, I'm crown in name only and they're only waiting for Chibiusa to get older and inherit the Silver Crystal so she can be heir."   He blows his bangs out of his face.  "So this exercise in trying to get me to remember this stuff isn't for my benefit but hers because she won't remember any of this.  So why don't we just sit here for an hour and I pretend to get it all and leave?"

Helios studies him for a long while before saying, " That's foolishness, Prince Darius. They do care about you and you are more than name only.  You're heir to the earth kingdom and therefore heir to the Golden Crystal."  He moves closer to him until he was less than a foot away and looking right up at him. " You've seem tired, my prince. What has been ailing you so? Why do you believe these things?"

"Because it's true."  He was becoming uncomfortably aware of Helios's proximity to him. "Mother loves her more than she ever loved me. They all do. Even Diana is succumbing to it. What is there left for me that is mine and mine alone?"

"This is." Helios touches his chest sending an unexpected shiver down Darius's spine. "You yourself are a miracle. No one ever thought that his majesty would have a son. Let alone one like you. Even though Princess Small Lady will indeed inheirt the Silver Crystal, you are more important than she ever will be. Through you the Earth breathes and lives.  It is a connection only the heirs directly and solely of earth have.  Had you not been born, this connection would lie only with myself and the king.  Even Small Lady would never share this as she is of the moon so the earth will reject her."

"But I am as well." Darius says softly but he couldn't help but wonder what connection was there between him and Helios.  They  had always had a mentor and student relationship but it seemed closer than that. Almost like...  He shies away from that thought. The same thought he had when he had been old enough to feel it. "Am I not the son of my mother?  Is she not the daughter of my father? Who choses these things? Who decides this?"

Helios only stares up at him, he had grown so much over such a short period of time to the priest.  Just like his father.   He sighs softly looking away now. "I do not know who decides the ultimate fate that we all follow, your highness. I can only advise."

"Helios..." Darius felt nervous. Something was here. Something he wasn't sure about but he knew it was important.  It had to do with the priest.

When the priest looks back at him, he felt it again. This strange intanglible longing that he didn't understand or even knew was there.  Molten gold eyes that held something to them.  The longer he stared the more he could see something that was solid gold hidden away there.  What was that?

It was so close. So close...

Before Darius realized it, his lips were drifting close to the priest's who had moved but had watched him almost expectantly.  Like he had waited for this. Waited for...


"Lord Helios! Darius!" A childish voice rang out across the fields, breaking the spell that had been over the two.

Darius looks away blushing deeply and uncertain as to why that had happened. Why had he almost kissed him?  His first kiss would've been with-!

"Small Lady." Helios moves from Darius's side to greet the young princess, "Your lessons don't start for another ten minutes."

"I know." She pouts a little, "But I am really excited to know how the story ends!"

Darius for the moment remained silent and confused. Why? Why was there such an attraction now? Almost as if he was compelled to do that?  And why was he so angry with his sister this time?  She had ruined his solitude before with her ridiculous questions and such but this time it almost seemed as if she had stopped something vastly important to him.

Like his life had depened on it.

"Darius?" The pink haired girl's eyes looked up at him curiously, "What's the matter? Are you sick? Diana said you might be because you looked so bad this morning and I thought this could cheer you up."   She holds out the rolled up picture to him tenatively.  Lately she had been unsure of his feelings regarding her.  He was always so short and tempermental and well..silent.

Darius wasn't sure if he should trust himself to speak. He wanted to yell at her for interrupting-whatever it was- and that she wasn't wanted.

But that wasn't true.  He was the one that wasn't wanted.

With that thought, it grounded him back to his earilier thoughts as he took the paper from her and plastered a smile on his face that he didn't feel. "Thank you, Chibiusa."  It sounded cordial even though he was using her nickname that only the family used, "I'll look at it in a bit."

"Hm." She nods but looks over at Helios confused. What was that look? "Lord Helios?"

"Ah, yes, this way princess. We'll begin with the reign of King Darien." He said but his gaze lingered on the prince as he left. "Darius is named after him you know.  King Darien was a very wise man, a good man but.."

Their voices faded and Darius walks back to the door that looked as if it hung in mid-air.   He opens the picture and his hands shook a little. His mouth twisted a little at the image there.  Her drawing had improved greatly, but was still childish.   He could only picture her taking up his last sanctuary with Aunt Michiru.  She had praised him well on his pictures and artistry.  Will she take that too?  Of course she would. She was Princess Small Lady Usagi Serenity. Of course she would.

"All hail the king, indeed." He mutters the words written there as she had drawn him as king of earth.   He balls it up and walks out into the palace before throwing it away.

He'd never be king.

--

It was dinner and he sat at his usual place close to the head fo the table where his parents and sister sat. Though his sister sat acrosse from him, Darius wished she was further away.  Beside him was Rei and the others that lined the rest of the table.  Hotaru sat next to Chibiusa of course. She always did and seemed especially attached to the young girl. Diana was on the other side of her and was looking right at him.

He looks away and picks at his food like he always did while his sister chattered on about the day's events.

"And then Lord Helios told me all about King Darien and the knights!" She said excitedly, "It sounds all so cool! And I gave Darius a picture because he didn't look ok- Ne, Darius could you show it to them?"  She turns her ruby eyes on him smiling expectantly.

"Oh yes, do show it." Serenity said smiling a little, "She's becoming a little artist just like you."

He stabs a carrot and ate it.  He knew his sister and mother hated them, but he found them oddly sweet to his taste. "I can't."

"Oh is it in your room?" Michiru inquired curiously. She loved the fact that both the royal children were becoming very good artists in their own right.  Chibiusa's art was so cheerful and lively as you would expect from an eight year old and Darius...well she frowns at that moment having not seen much of his art.  She would have to make it a point to see it.

"No." Darius looks at them with oddly angry eyes, " I threw it away."

"what?" Chibiusa looked like she was on the verge of tears, "why? I worked so hard on that!"

"Darius that was so mean. Why would you do it?" His mother asked him as Hotaru comforted the girl but his father's face was expressionless.

Or rather Darius couldn't read it.

It didn't matter.  

"Gee, Mother, why would you continue to pretend to care what I do?" He looks towards her. "It's obvious who your favorite child is."

Serenity blinks at that as she hadn't expect him to say it, "Darius what are you talking about? we're talking about how mean you're being to your sister. Apologize right now."

He stood up so fast his chair fell over and he glares at her full of resentment making the woman flinch at it's intensity, "I'll apologize when you apologize for even giving birth to me."

"Darius that's enough." Endymion finally spoke.  "Why don't you go to your room to cool off, son?"

Darius was going to snap back but the tone in his father's voice held him from doing so. Instead, the sixteen year old teenager left the room.

Diana was quick to excuse herself, but her mother stopped her.

"Diana, finish your dinner." Luna looks over at her.

"But- he needs me, mother." Diana's eyes pleaded with her.  

It was enough for Artemis to simply give in, "Go on head. We'll hold leftovers for you. "

"Artemis!" Luna looks over at him once their child left, "She needs to learn-"

"She's being a good friend, Luna." Artemis ate a shrimp,"That's a good quality."

Chibiusa sniffles a bit, "He hates me!" She rubs her eyes even as Hotaru tries to dry them. "Why does he hate me so? What did I ever do to him?"

"It's ok, Chibiusa-chan." Hotaru cooes, "He's just...at that stage in life. He doesn't hate you."

"Are..you sure?" the child sniffles "I think he hates me. He dodn't ever want to be around me any more."

Endymion shared a look with his wife, who looks down feeling a bit guilty.  Had she been showing too much favoritism to her daughter and nelglected her son? No, she treated them equally.  Besides Chibiusa needed the training since she would one day weild the Silver Crystal.

That's all.

She picked at her food. That was all.

--

Diana managed to arrive at Darius's room just in time to see the body dressed in civilian nightclub clothing leave.

"where are you going?" Her eyes widen in surprise, "Your father said-"

"Screw what he said." Darius replies moodily passing her, "I'm going out."

Diana turns and caught him by the shoulder, "But it's too dangerous! You know you and your sister aren't allowed out without a proper guard."

"You know what Diana?" Darius turns on her, "Why don't you take your prime and proper attitude else where? I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being second best and being here. So why don't you go back to dinner and devote yourself wih the 'real' heir, alright? " He moves to leave again, "I'm going to go somewhere where it doesn't matter who I am- there will be someone that wants me."

"But Darius!"  Whatever else Diana was going to say died on her lips as the prince left.  She had a terrible feeling.  "Something will happen if this doesn't stop."  

--

The music, the beat reverberated throughout the empty warehouse as he wanders through the withering mass of bodies sways as he finally made his way to the fringes to breathe a bit.

However he didn't count on a pair of crimson eyes smiling at him, "Well, you're back again. Daisuke isn't it?"  The man asked with a cocky smile.

"Uh, yeah." Darius blinks, "How did you know my name?"

The red haired male only smirks before moving closer, "Emi has a big mouth when she drinks. She thinks you'll be her latest conquest."  He laughs a bit.  

That laugh made Darius shiver a bit. It made things tingle and he couldn't help but smile back at him. "Well you know my name, what's yours?"

"They call me the Duke, but my name's Ryou." He told him.  "Come on, you look like a bit of dancing could let off some steam. Ever mash-pit before?"

"What's that?"

Darius blinks curiously as Ryou laughs again and drags him to the center, "If you're not afraid of getting hurt and wanna shove some people it's right up your alley!"


For the first time in Darius's life, he shoved people and simply went all out even though it earned him a black eye and a bloodied lip, he couldn't feel any more alive than he did then with Ryou as his partner backing him up.

Nothing was confusing any more and no one cared if he was anything other then another body to dive into and shove around.

They laughed and drank and had so much fun that Darius forgot the time.  He didn't mind or cared anymore other than that his new friend hung out with him and helped him curse out the royals when they had stumbled out and wandered the street in a drunk stupor and laughing raucously at crude jokes they told.

A friend outside of all that stuffy politic stuff and he was just happy to feel normal again.

As they made their way to the bluff that over looked the city with a few less drinks in them and both collapsed to the ground out of breathe and feeling some what happy.

Ryou laughs a bit more as he said, "And the look you gave that guy for the black eye? That was classic man. Just classic.  Hope you didn't break his ribs."

"He deserved it if I did!" Darius counters poking him in the chest noting that the man actually worked out it seemed.

"Man, you're a riot. So wanna join our club?" Ryou asked amused, "I think you'd do nicely there."

"Club? About what?" Darius lays against his side. "Fight club or something?"

"Nah nah, man." Ryou shook his head but decided that wasn't a good idea before stopping, "I mean, like private clubs and parties and stuff.  Cool shit you know?"

"Heh, hell if it sounds as cool as you make it out to be sign me up." Darius  smirks but found it odd.  He looked good- Ryou that is. Almost as if...

No, he wasn't like that. Even if he was close to kissing Helios, he wasn't...was he?

Emi's words came back to him. "You don't know what you like do you?"

Again another moment was on him and he didn't know how to break this tension. The more he gazed into those eyes the more he wanted to know.  Was he like that? Or did he just like girls?

Or did he like both?  Can you even like both?  

That was a puzzling thought in his head but it went out of his mind as Ryou only draws him closer roughly against his body and kisses the living daylights out of the Prince of Earth, not caring to be gentle at all with him.

For the life of him, Darius didn't mind this one bit.
More adventures with Darius and his troubles.


Why yes the 'duke' ie Ryou is to become Rubeus later.

Ah, drunkeness. Fun times fun times.

Part 7: [link]

Darius/Story-mine

BSSM: Naoko T.
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puff222001's avatar
Poor Darius and ChibiUsa. I mean, it's certainly not ChibiUsa's fault that Serenity favors her. That sort of situation is always murder on a family--I should know.