Authors Note: well this is the end of it. I had difficulty with the ending of this, just trying to figure out how to end it. So I decided to make it simple and quick. Enjoy.

Chapter 10: The Ending

The next morning

Yuri sits at his desk in the office; he had been alone all night in his room barely getting any sleep. He slugged himself into his office early in the morning and quietly did some paperwork. He then finishes up his work and dismisses himself from the room. He hadn't seen neither hide nor hair of his blond ex-fiancé and wondered if he was with Murata again. The thought of that didn't particularly anger him, but it did worry him. What worried him even more was what Lady Cecelia told him "she seemed really angry at me over wolfram, did I really hurt him that much? Am I the bad guy here?"

Conrad enters his room with a tray of tea and snacks for Yuri, he placed it on the table and looks up at him "you missed breakfast; I thought you could use this".

Yuri smiles at him and takes the tea "thank you Conrad". He's about to take a sip, when he notices that Conrad was about to leave "uh…Conrad?"

Conrad turns and smiles a bit "yes you're majesty".

Yuri looks at him seriously "give me your honest opinion. What do you think about the situation between me and wolfram?"

Conrad looks at him for a moment "I try not to interfere with matters such as these, but in my opinion, Wolfram has become too vengeful and you have become too selfish".

Yuri's eyes widened "Vengeful? Selfish?"

Conrad closes the door and walks up to Yuri's desk "yes, I suspected what wolfram was doing from the very beginning, but I decided not to get involved, I wanted the two of you to resolve everything on your own, I became concerned though when I heard what happened during your training session a few days ago. But by that time I was away and couldn't be here to intervene".

Yuri looks away sadly "well don't be too mad at him, it was partly my fault, I got upset and manhandled him a bit without realizing it. So he beat me up".

Conrad looks at him "he beat you up? Did he say anything to you?"

Yuri doesn't look him in the eye "nothing that should have surprised me, coming from wolfram that is".

Conrad analyzes him for a moment longer before speaking "I felt he was being too harsh, you said you don't want to marry him but I couldn't understand why the two of you couldn't be friends. To make someone your enemy simply because they don't love you the way you love them just seems a bit over the top to me".

Yuri smiled a little "well you know wolfram; it's either one way or the other when it comes to him".

Conrad looks at him seriously "you aren't exactly innocent in this whole thing either, I told you from the beginning to treat this matter as delicately as possible. You in turn brought up the letter that wolfram wrote resigning as your fiancé and practically used it against him. You seemed to have forgotten that he resigned as your fiancé in order to keep his uncle from forcing you out of your throne, so you can't blame him for wanting to beat you up". Yuri looks down on the ground shamefully as Conrad continues "everyone has been watching the two of you and they are all worried about you including me. But what concerns me the most is that I have noticed you trying to get wolfram back for all the wrong reasons".

Yuri looks at him a bit taken back by that statement "what do you mean? I really do love wolfram".

Conrad sighs and sits on the edge of Yuri's desk "just answer a couple of questions for me. Can you see yourself in bed with him? Consummating your marriage to him?" Yuri paused and thought for a moment, he hadn't considered this before, having to sleep with another guy. Conrad continues "can you even see yourself kissing him romantically?"

Yuri looks up at him "well we did kiss once, he initiated it though".

"How did it feel" Conrad inquired

Yuri thought for a moment "well, uh…. It was certainly something new; I have never experienced that before so I didn't know how to feel about it". Suddenly gets frustrated with Conrad's interrogation "look there's more to love then the physical act".

Conrad nodded "yes there is but if you were truly in love with him, it wouldn't feel like an awkward moment for you to kiss him, it would feel right like something you would always want to do with that person. It should feel natural to the both of you". Yuri frowns a little, he was beginning to doubt his own feelings, did he love wolfram? Conrad saw the confusion in Yuri's eyes "you don't want wolfram to leave you, your afraid that if he gets married off or if you didn't marry him he would leave and then you would never see him again. That's very selfish of you, your denying him his happiness so you could have yours. Do you really think it's right for you to be able to marry the one you love and have him stand there watching you move on with your life without having a life of his own. He would be forever trapped as your bodyguard destined to be lonely".

Yuri frowned sadly "I honestly hadn't thought of that". He started feeling awful for not being more considerate of wolframs feelings "but I just… I mean if he leaves then……"

Conrad looks at him compassionately, he was glad that he was finally getting through to his godson "I understand you've come to see him as your most valued ally and closest friend, almost like a second brother. I understand that you don't want to lose that ally but if you really love him, and if you were really his friend, then you will understand that his world does not always have to revolve around you, his happiness does not always have to involve you, once you can come to terms with that, then you can let him go". He gets up from the desk and walks over to the door finished with his pep talk, he then turns one last time to Yuri "one more thing Yuri, I want to let you know that Lady Celli is not mad at you, and she certainly doesn't hate you, she simply feels that you are misguided, and does not want to see her son hurt because of it. She cares for the both of you, we all do, but in the end we must look out for wolframs best interest even if that means having to go against you in the process". He smiles then walks out the door.

Yuri nods a bit even though he couldn't bring himself to smile, he had to admit that Conrad was right "I understand now Conrad, none of you hate me, I did something wrong so you all have to administer tough love and punish me to protect wolfram". He understood because that is what his family would do for him if the roles were reversed. Still that didn't make letting go of wolf any easier on him. He then walks toward the door and then opens it to step out, when suddenly he sees wolfram standing there.

Wolfram stood there a bit shocked, he was going to open the door when it flew open to reveal Yuri on the other side coming out. The blond only had his white shirt on and the blue uniform pants from his usual outfit. He didn't notice he had left the jacket in Murata's room, "Yuri, we need to talk".

Yuri noticed wolfram wardrobe malfunction but chose to ignore it. He also didn't feel like staying in the office "follow me". He steps out and walks toward the library, with wolfram following close behind him. They entered the library which was very ironic to wolfram seeing as how that is where everything began, he suppressed a chuckle as they found a seat, sitting opposite one another looking at each other before Yuri spoke "what did you want to talk about?" Wolfram grins at him "I think you know". The two sat there and talked for the first time in months, they talked with one another for hours about everything that had gone on for the past couple of days. They also spoke about their future and what it had in store for them both. The next couple of days went by uneventfully, and the two got along with each other. It was like old times again before the engagement was broken between them. Everyone at the palace was glad that the two reconciled, and everything at the palace went back to normal. As the days turned to months the two became close again, and everyone knew exactly what would come next in their relationship.

One year later

Its wedding day for Yuri and his fiancé, they had been planning for this the entire year with the help of Lady Cellie of course. Lady Cellie is in wolfram's room preparing the bride's wedding dress putting in the fine details of the gown while the bride wore it. She then puts the veil on the brides blond head and walks around to look at the front of the dress "oh my, you look positively stunning. Everyone's eyes will be on you".

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Greta walked in with her flower girl dress on smiling, "Grandma Cellie, the ceremony is about to start".

Lady Cellie smiles back at her "alright we will be right out honey". She then looks back at the bridal dress and is satisfied with the last minute changes she made to it "well dear it's time". She hugs the bride "oh dear child, I am so happy for you, you've finally found love". She finally leads the bride to the door and they walk out towards the temple.

In The temple of the Great One

Yuri stands there at the Alter looking into the eyes of his beautiful fiancé, he remembered how rough things were in the beginning of their relationship, but ever since that talk in the library he knew that everything was going to change for the better. Now here they were half way towards the end of the ceremony, ready to be together forever. Murata his stood on his side with a worried look on his face, he had been a bit on edge all day, trying to avoid Yuri's eyes along the way to the ceremony. Yuri stole a glance at him wondering if Murata had a problem with this. The part where they exchange rings came and Yuri snaps out of it to check his suit, he pushes his hands into his pockets and instantly turns pale. The bride across from him frowns knowing instantly that this wimp must have forgotten the ring; Yuri whispers a little to Murata "uh… you have the ring?"

Murata nervously looks at him "uh… yeah well you see it's on its way".

Yuri gives him a shocked looks "what? You mean it's not here? Well where is it?"

Suddenly the doors to the temple open and wolfram stands there out of breath holding a black box in his hand "its right here". He runs down the aisle towards Yuri and his bride and gives the box to Yuri, he then smiles at the bride "the wimp wanted it engraved, and his wimpy best friend forgot to pick it up". He then gives the bride a hug "good luck with him Catherine you're going to need it".

Yuri glares at him "hey I'm not that bad" and Catherine simply chuckles. Wolfram goes to stand next to Murata who was blushing from embarrassment. Murata whispers to him slightly "thanks you got here just in time; I was avoiding him all day so that he wouldn't ask about the ring".

Wolfram gives his lover a playful grin "what would you two do without me?"

The rest of the ceremony went on without a hitch, when it was over everyone threw rice at the happy couple as they went off to their horse drawn carriage. Catherine then stops and turns around ready to toss the bouquet, as she flung it in the air all the ladies there scrambled with each other to catch it before it lands. But they were no match for wolfram who jumped straight up in the air and snatched it before it hit the ground. All the ladies pouted and separated from each other but wolfram looks directly at Murata and points his bouquet straight at him grinning playfully, it was clear who he wanted to marry. He walks toward Murata and kisses him on the lips.

Murata smiles and kisses back as Yuri and Catherine go into the carriage "nice catch".

Wolfram smiles back at him, his eyes raking over the sage's body "I know". He then looks back at the carriage as it rode away. Wolfram then looks at Lady Cellie, "Mother, I thought that they would be traveling to the other world".

Lady Cellie dabs her eyes with a tissue, weddings always made her cry "we decided it would be best for Catherine if they spent their honeymoon in an atmosphere she is more familiar with". The two blonds watch as the newly wed couple disappear in the distance "one boy down, and one to go". She looks at wolfram and Murata who came to hug him from behind "well when's the date for you two to be wed".

Murata smiles at wolfram then looks back to answer Lady Cellie "well we decided to wait for Yuri to come back from his honeymoon before preparing for our wedding. We want him to be there for our ceremony". He then looks back at wolfram smiling "that's if you're ok with spending the rest of your life with a wise man".

Wolfram hugs the bouquet he was holding to him and touches foreheads with Murata "I think I can manage". He and Murata kiss each other passionately as the guests started to disburse and leave.

Murata separates from wolfram and takes his hand "until then why don't I show you this time exactly how much you mean to me". And with that he leads wolfram away from the departing guests and to his private chambers.

Lady Celie smiles in their direction and eye's Conrad for a moment thinking to herself. "You know if my letter was able to get Yuri a bride, I wonder what it will do for Conrad". She grins and walks off along with everyone else back home, thinking of her next match making adventure.

The End