Disclaimer: I do not own Heart no kuni no Alice.

Hey guys. so yup an update. Since I took down my stories it seems like a weight has been lifted slightly. Sure I was upset but I did it to myself so yeah.

Um...not much to tell other than I've been watching a lot of reverse anime to get my writing spirit back. I'm working on a story with Moonlight876 where I write half and she writes half called 'For Good'.

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At least I think that the title. lol!

And thank you everyone for the pm's and your concern about this purge. I have a bit of issues where I keep on hearing rumors on what stories are being taken down and what not but really some of arguments are pretty...sound?

Like the M rating thing. Yeah, it's glorified porn if you say 'his penis went in there' and 'her pussy rubbed against his dick' and that's why some stories were removed. Do I agree with them just banning the authors? No, I do not. Do I agree that we should follow the rules? ...I agree a little because there is no MA rating anymore. They used to have it, but then they split the site into Adultfanfiction which has all the porn fics you can shake your money maker at. heh.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I understand where they are coming from. But I don't agree with the methods they are using. At least give the authors a chance to change their story before banning them. Geez.

Now for this chapter. It's all strictly Gray and Nightmare. With maybe a hint of Alice.

but just a hint. And maybe some fluff.

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Anyway Read and Review. Only thirty review left and I reach one hundred yay!

"Mother..."

I was alone. Completely alone. I curled myself into a ball and floated in my realm.

"Mother I'm scared!"

Surrounded in nothing but darkness, ever in the swirling void of ended dreams.

"...Mother..."

My tears fell one by one as I continued to cry for the succubus woman who bore me. Who died protecting me from a demon hunter.

"Why?" I asked the dark empty void. "Why did you have to die?"

So lost in my thoughts that I didn't notice the shift in the void until something warm touched my shoulder. I was so shocked by the warmth that my body moved into action, smacking the offending warm object away and quickly float, hopefully, out of it's reach whatever it was.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." a soft voice whispered and my one lone eye focused on a small female human child. Her hair was the color of golden wheat before a harvest with pale milky skin and a chubby cherub face filled with baby fat. But what caught my attention were her eyes. Those beautiful clear blue innocent and pure looking eyes.

I snapped out of my daze when the young child gave me a look of pity. Hot scalding anger burned in my veins as the demon part of my parentage hissed angrily in my head about receiving pity from a lowly human child, a female lowly human child nonetheless!

"You shouldn't be here." the inner me winced and was shocked at how cold my voice sounded. The young girl visibly winced at my tone and faced the ground allowing those golden tresses to block my view of her face.

"You were crying..." she trailed off and began to shake in her blue with white cloud pajamas.

"Still you shouldn't be here." I growled at her trying to be threatening. "Humans are not allowed here, only succubus demons. Get out."

"Why were you crying?" I blinked in confusion, my anger was slightly pushed away when the curiousness of a demon began a spider's crawl to the front of my emotions, competing to replace the burning anger.

"...Hey human. Aren't you afraid of me?" those blue eyes finally looked up from the ground towards me and I tilted my head. "I just told you that only succubus where the only ones allowed here. Aren't you afraid of your soul being taken by me? How did you get here anyway? What are you? You're not a succubus so how...?"

"For someone who was just angry, you sure do ask a lot of questions." Teasing! The little brat dared to tease me! ME! A demon! And then she asked a shameful question, "Are you a succubus? You look human?"

"HA! Me, a lowly human? Such disrespect." I huffed angrily while ranting to myself without looking at her. "On top of that you ask if I'm a succubus. Tch, I'm a man. So that makes me an incubus."

"Incubus?" she asked when I finished my self rant. "What is an incubus?"

I blinked and the remaining anger vanished entirely to be replaced with a human emotion, fear. Here I was a teenage incubus with a human female child – the first female I might add since my mother often worried if I was mature enough to feed without her help – who looked to be about eight years of age – perhaps she was younger, I don't know I never asked – asking what I was.

"Ah! Well...um..an incubus is well..." I stumbled over words and began to panic inside my head. HOW? HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU EXPLAIN TO AN EIGHT YEAR OLD THAT YOU ARE A TEENAGE SEX DEVOURING DEMON?

"It's okay Mr. Incubus. You don't have to tell me." She smiled suddenly and I only widened my eye when a small glowing hand stuck out towards me. I blinked twice looking from her face to the offered hand in front of me. Did she honestly think I wanted to shake hands?

"My name isn't Mr. Incubus kid." I growled as a sudden warmth flushed across my cheeks when her blue eyes widened on her face, making her look like a doll.

"Then what's your na-"

"Nightmare." I ground out suddenly, cutting off her question. Puffing out my chest I recited what my mother bashed in my head to say should I find myself discovered by a human. "I am Nightmare Gottschalk! Son of the malevolent and beautiful Demon Queen, Agrat Bat Mahlat!"

"...who?"

"AGRAT BAT MAHLAT!" I yelled at her, my rage returning with a vengeance. Without thinking I marched over to the little girl and towered over her with a very displeased expression. "Apologize."

"..." she tilted her head to the side cutely and replied, "I'm sorry I don't know who your mother is."

"..." I sighed as, once again, my demonic rage left my body feeling drained. "You...really are an idiot aren't you?"

"Nope!" she yelped cutely and I couldn't help but smirk when she gave me a big smile. "I'm an Alice!"

"..."

Sighing again, I finally offered my hand to her and gave her a small smile.

"Lord Nightmare." Gray's golden eyes narrowed dangerously as a certain silver haired and silver eyed half breed slept with his head on his work desk on top of some important document drooling. Sighing in defeat, Gray muttered, "My Lord."

Nightmare gave a small laugh in his sleep before whispering a soft, "Alice."

"It's time to wake up Lord Nightmare." Gray growled angrily before using one hand – since the other had tons of paper work held on it – to find an object in his pocket. A triumphant look crossed his face and his hand produced a small silver whistle, the kind that you use to train a dog with. He brought the silver whistle to his lips and blew softly into it.

Two seconds went past before Nightmare jolted up in his seat with a pained scream, so much was the force of his jolt that it sent him flying backward down to the ground. Gray removed the whistle from his lips and put it back in his pocket before holding the large stack of paperwork with both hands with a smile directed in Nightmare's direction.

"My Lord, I have more work for you to do." his smile seemed innocent and you never would have guessed that he was the one that had made Nightmare upset.

"Gray..." Nightmare's growl echoed around the office as the half breed peeked over his desk at his shikigami. "How dare you!"

"It is almost noon My Lord." Gray scolded before placing the new mountain of paperwork on another mountain. Golden eyes closed in disappointment when they saw the same documents that had been on Nightmare's desk for weeks. "Some of these documents are way past due Lord Nightmare."

"They will send new ones with the same request." Nightmare waved his hand in a dismissive manner. "I swear I see the same request from old Ryuuga every few weeks on end."

"That is because Lord Ryuuga wishes to know if you have considered marrying his daughter." Gray opened his eyes and gave Nightmare a piercing stare. "Forgive my ignorance in such matters, but why do you not simply say 'no' to his request?"

"Old demons are hard headed and prideful." Nightmare explained huffily. Sitting back in his seat, he began re reading the document he had been drooling on with a dark expression on his face. "If I simply sent a 'no' or 'I'm not interested' he would take offense that his daughter does not meet my standards, which she doesn't if you remember Lady Amaya."

"She was very beautiful My Lord." Gray answered with a confused look. "Her breeding and status were almost about the same as yours."

"You are almost right except when it comes to breeding." a dark smile appeared on his face and his silver eye narrowed in amusement towards Gray. "Sometimes I wonder if the old demons wish to kill me and that's why they are sending in marriage requests."

"Marriage will kill you?" Gray asked with a frown.

Nightmare sighed sadly before turning back to his documents. "Sometimes I wish mother had used more of your assassin soul to shape you."

"If the Lady had done so, I would be a horrible companion. I would be out killing anything that I would have perceived to be a threat to you, My Lord." Gray answered wisely. "I am grateful for the your Lady mother to allow me to live as I do now, with your interests and health in mind."

"So I've noticed with my poor sleep being interrupted every hour or each day." Nightmare gave Gray a kicked puppy look. "Maybe I'm anemic and need the rest."

"Or perhaps you spend the night using your powers to enter Alice's dreams and 'play' with her." Gray shot back smoothly and seemed a bit irritated when Nightmare flinched back a bit.

"You make it sound like it's something it's not." Nightmare pouted, "I am merely watching out for Alice since I have known her when she was a child."

"And you, a teenage incubus in the height of his hormonal years, have had no ill intentions of using a sexual act against Alice to steal her life essence?" Gray narrowed his eyes when Nightmare again flinched. "If you were not My Lord Nightmare and if I was not instructed by Lady Agat to watch over you, I would have used force to keep you away from Alice."

"Why is that I wonder?" Nightmare smirked slyly at a now blushing Gray. "You are a shikigami created by my mother, the Demon Queen Agat. I am your master, you are my servant. If I wish to devour Alice's sexual essence, then I shall do so. And you Gray." He looked at the now angry shikigami. "Can do nothing about it. ~"

"..." Gray clenched his fists and looked down towards the floor allowing his bangs to shadow his eyes. All the while Nightmare kept his smirk on his face before clapping his hands suddenly, startling the poor shikigami servant.

"Be grateful Gray that I like Alice enough not to devour her...yet." Nightmare smiled happily before leaning back in his seat enjoying the incredulous look on his servants face. He laughed loudly before exclaiming, "You should see your face! Did you honestly think that I would devour a friend?"

"My Lord," Gray deadpanned before giving Nightmare a look. "you have yet to explain to me why you simply can not say no to Lord Ryuuga's marriage request and why marrying any demon lords daughter will kill you."

"Tch, sometimes I wonder why my mother chose you to be my life long servant." Nightmare complained before hunched over his desk with his arms supporting his head. He looked out straight in front of him with a calculating look before asking, "Tell me Gray, with what little assassination techniques that you remember, what is the best way to get rid of an annoying enemy?"

"You kill them." Gray answered suddenly before blinking in shock as Nightmare began to laugh.

"That's right, you kill them." Nightmare sighed loudly. "Since I worded the question wrong your assumption is correct. However!" his silver eye locked on to two golden orbs. "the best technique to get rid of an annoyance is simply to kill silently." looking at the marriage request form one more time, Gray noticed that Nightmare's gaze turned to disgust. "Lord Ryuuga wishes to have my position of being a high ranking demon lord, which I inherited from my mother's position of being Lord Samael's long time lover."

"The rumors of you being Lord Samael's son are not true, My Lord Nightmare." Gray tried to comfort his lord to the best of his ability with this sad fact. "It is well known that two demons can not mate for the sake of a child, but for the thrill."

"Indeed. But that still doesn't help the fact that I am near a position of power to take over Lord Samael's place should he die as his only heir." Nightmare looked up at the ceiling wistfully wishing for his beloved hooka to make an appearance so that he could have a smoke. "For Ryuuga, If I marry his daughter it not only gives him a way to slither up the ranks in the demon hierarchy but it also gives him a puppet, should his daughter and I have any children, to use as they surely would be high ranking demon lords."

"But isn't Lord Ryuuga simply the fourth demon lord next to Lord Malachite for Lord Samael's power, even though he isn't is heir either?" Gray asked confused.

"Another reason or theory I have is that Lord Ryuuga has gathered enough strength to overcome Lord Malachite's forces and will be able to kill him. But in doing so will inflict my own wrath upon him since I like Lord Malachite as a brother." Nightmare paused and brought a hand to his chin in thought. "So the plan Ryuuga would have to do is to get me to marry his daughter. He would then instruct her to kill me on our wedding night, where we would be alone to consummate the marriage, and then to kill Lord Malachite. This would allow him to take my place as Samael's heir and allow his daughter to take the title of Demon Lord since we do not discriminate what a lord is."

"This is all very confusing and sounds like a bad drama Lord Nightmare." Gray sighed dramatically as Nightmare nodded his head sadly. "So, in light of possible assassination from future brides, what is it you intend to do to avoid this type of situation?"

"Do?" Nightmare asked before turning his attention to Gray startled. The gears shifted in his head and a sudden thought stood out in his brain. "Why, I intend to marry Alice!"

"...please don't say that even as a joke." Gray sighed before turning to leave the room.

"I'm not joking! I'm going to marry Alice and there's nothing those old stupid demon lords can do about it!" Nightmare proclaimed before Gray walked out the door.

"We shall see Lord Nightmare." he smiled a bit as he calmly shut the door.

Alice shivered suddenly and hunched down on the ground in front of Julius.

"Alice?" Julius asked in concern before abandoning the dead body he was preparing before crouching down to Alice's form. "Are you okay?"

"Julius...I think..." frightened blue eyes blinked up at Julius. "I think...I'm going to die..."

"..." Julius sighed a bit before bringing his large hand on top of a shivering Alice's head. "Don't even joke like that, okay?"

"...okay."

"So you're a demon lord?" little Alice asked me innocently and I couldn't help but nod my head in answer.

Three weeks. It had been three whole weeks since the first time we met, and I felt that I was becoming more and more attached to her each night when she fell asleep. From then on we talked about anything and everything. Alice would go on for hours at a time about her sister Lorina and how she wanted to be just like her, about how she loved school and what subject interested her.

And me? I told her about how boring it was to be a demon lord. How my servant Gray was always mean to me by making me do my own type of 'homework' and how I wished that I could meet her in real life face to face.

"So...now that we are friends will you finally tell me why you were crying?" she asked and I didn't have the heart to deny her anymore. Every night after we talked about different subjects she would bring up my sadness. She didn't bring it up to be mean, she just wanted to help. At least, that's what her mind kept telling me.

Yes I was also telepathic, but I tried not to read Alice's mind too much for two reason's. One, my mother always told me it was rude and two, her thoughts are just so loud.

"When we first met, my mother had just died. So I was very sad." simple and to the point. That was my explanation. I was still sad to lose my mother, but now I had someone who would help me cope with my sadness, Alice. She held my hand and I smiled back at her gratefully.

Yes, I found someone who I could see myself staying with for the rest of my long life. Forever and ever.

So some notes:

Agat Bat Mahlat is an actual name of a succubus. And she is one of four. Aren't I smart for looking up names?

Lord Ryuuga, Lord Malachite, and Lady Amaya will probably not make an appearance. probably.

Oh! And I also added some Julius to mix it up. Just a hint though.

Also a request! If you loved me you guys would do this! So I've been watching and playing Hakuouki and was wondering if anyone knew of one where a person time traveled back into shinsengumi times but wasn't an oni? If you guys don't know then maybe I will write one. heh. or maybe you guys will write one, neh?

I ALSO LOVE TOMOE FROM KAMISAMA HAJIMEMASHITA!