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Title: Dragons.

Pairing(s): Reborn x Luce, and Luce ships dragons and princesses.

Prompt: Cuddling.

Timeline: AU, they're kids.

Summary: "Sure, why not?"

"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess with a kind heart and a strong soul. She was showered with love by her parents and all the kingdom. The princess lived happily until one day, an evil witch hired by a rival kingdom kidnapped her and made her live in an old castle that a vicious, dark dragon guarded it.

The king, wanting his daughter back by all costs, offered for the person who'll manage to succeed his daughter's hand in marriage. A lot had tried then but to no avail. But one day a-"

"Yes, Luce?" the teacher asked the the six year old girl who raised her hand, interrupting the story along with it.

"The princess shouldn't marry anyone who came to save her," Luce said.

"Why?" the teacher inquired curiously.

"If I was in her place, I would've married the dragon instead!" The young girl explained cheerfully.

Before the teacher could reply to Luce's answer, the bell rang signalling for recess, making the children run out of the class excitedly.

"The dragon, huh?" the teacher mused, "strange girl."

I like the way she thinks, though.

"Who's that?" she asked her playmates curiously.

"Oh, that's the gate keeper's son. You're new so you don't know anything about him, but he's so scary!"

Confused about how could that seemingly older boy be so scary, Luce asked again, "Why would you think so?"

Her playmates then started to tell her unbelievable tales about the gate keeper's son and how utterly terrifying he was. "He ate a boy once! I saw it with my own eyes!"

Needless to say, Luce didn't think about approaching the boy anymore.

But she was still very curious about him.

Even if he was scary, shouldn't he have friends? Luce thought every time she saw the fedora wearing boy leaning boredly over the fence.

She didn't realize that she spent her entire school days observing him until it was the time for leaving.

Why are they saying that he's scary? He's just quiet.

"Where are you, Mom?" she asked over the phone, an adorable pout was on her features.

"I'm so sorry, honey. But the road is currently closed, it'll take a while to get to your school. Wait for me, okay?"

"Okay…" Luce replied and handed the phone to the principle after she finished her call.

She stayed at his office for a while but she grew bored without having anything to do, so the moment the principle got busy, she immediately went out.

"It's cold," she noted when upon reaching to the school playground. She really regretted refusing to take a jacket today.

"What are you doing here?" an unfamiliar voice questioned her.

When Luce turned around and saw who it was, she immediately started pleading, "Don't eat me! I don't taste that great, promise! Mom will get sad if you do!"

The Scary Monster of The Playground merely raised an eyebrow and pointed towards the school building. "The principle is asking franticly about you, so do me a favor and go to him before he gets a heart attack."

"You're not going to eat me?" She looked at him with disbelief.

"No," The Scary Monster of The Playground replied, "I prefer to eat coffee cakes instead of human flesh."

A sudden cold breeze caused her to shiver before she could sigh in relief.

"Here, take this." And the next thing she knows, she was engulfed by the warm presence of a jacket a kind of large for her. And that the owner of it went quietly to his usual spot over the fence.

He's… nice.

Reborn was surprised when the girl from yesterday came to him, dragging a plastic bag along with her. He thought that she would pretend they didn't talk and treat him like all the other kids.

"Hello," she greeted.

"What do you want?" he asked in return, frowning with confusion.

"Your jacket, I'm here to return it to you." He watched as she got his jacket out of the bag she was carrying earlier, neatly folded and smelling like daises, along with a huge jar.

"What's that?"

She looked embarrassed then. "I looked for coffee cakes at my house but I didn't find any, so I took the coffee cookies my mom made yesterday."

"The whole cookie jar?" Reborn asked, looking throughly amused, "You don't do things lightly, do you?"

Before she could defend herself (her face looked very adorable, blushing embarrassedly like that), he opened the jar and took a cookie from it. "It taste good, thank you."

The girl looked utterly ecstatic at that. Offering a hand, she asked with a bit of hesitance, "I'm Luce, can we be friends… uh?"

"Reborn," he answered and shook her hand.

"And sure, why not?"

They became really good friends after that. Luce continued to steal cookie jars from her house and Reborn continued to shamelessly accept them (why deny what his heart desired?) Even Leon, Reborn's pet chameleon, took a liking towards Luce, seeing as the lizard abandoned his owner the moment she was in sight.

Reborn couldn't blame him though.

He told her the reason why he didn't attend school along with the other kids was because he's home schooled, his mother was kind of paranoid about public schools for some reason so she took the job of teaching him. Luce found out that Reborn was a hidden genius with some seriously bizarre quirks.

She told him that she was the only daughter to her widowed mom and that she moved into this town recently. And Reborn found out that Luce was the nicest and friendliest person he ever met on his quite the short life.

"You're really warm," Luce noted cheerfully.

Reborn though, wasn't going to be swayed by her adorableness. "Where's your jacket?"

Ever since the time she really forgot to wear her jacket and he decided to hug her as an attempt to get warm (he forgot his jacket that day himself), Luce decided that she'll hug him instead of taking her fluffy jacket.

"A flamingo took it." She gave him a toothy grin that said 'believe me, I'm being totally honest!'

Reborn sighed and held her closer when she shivered again.

"Reborn and Luce sitting on a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" The other kids around them would chant upon seeing them in that way.

They really didn't mind it much.

One day, Luce came to him crying.

Reborn already planned several painful ways to get even before she uttered a word.

"What's wrong?" he asked her while mentally discussing with Leon on when will they take their revenge.

"M-My classmates laughed at me when I said that I wanted to marry the dragon today again…" Luce sniffed.

They'll pay. "You can marry whoever you want, Luce." That's if I didn't kill him. "Now wipe those tears, they make you look ugly."

Luce then smiled that pretty smile of hers that always managed to get his stomach flipped and asked happily, "Does that mean that I can marry you?"

What?

Is this a dream?

Reborn sighed, stroked her hair as he held her and smiled fondly.

"Sure, why not?"

End.

What do you think?