Innocent Moves - Diluc X Reader

chapter 20 - A polite suggestion

"No peeking y/n!" Diluc hummed, while guiding her out of the winery.

Spring had finally arrived and the soft breeze kissed y/ns face as she relished in the sounds around her, her eyes were closed but she could hear the workers singing in the fields going about their daily lives, everything felt like home here.

Diluc left her side and after a few seconds of strange rustling sounds he finally spoke again, she could tell he was smiling through his words.

"Okay you can open them now my love."

She gasped when she opened her eyes  because before her stood something she never thought she'd see.

Behind Diluc was a beautifully dressed up Razor, wearing a white suit and his hair tied up, he wore a toothy grin mixed with slight discomfort at his new attire, and held his hand out towards   y/n, wriggling his nose at his newly found cleanliness.

Y/n laughed as she saw the boy she had grown to adore stumble towards her in this unusual state, and her curiosity got the better of her so she took his hand.

"What has the evil Diluc done to you Razor!" She giggled while ruffling the boys hair to its usual state, earning a smile from him and an eye roll from her partner.

"Secret, don't tell Y/n. You follow" He tugged on her hand and lead her away from the winery, down to a decorated path which had become covered in spring flowers and ribbons.

"What the hell is going on Diluc?" She turned to her boyfriend, who had his arms folded with a smug look across his face, he was definitely planning something, what it was she had no clue. Everything today had been very suspicious.

When y/n had awoken, she found a beautiful floral dress draped over the bedframe with a note that said "wear me" on it. And next to that was a tray of pancakes and coffee which Diluc only brought her in bed on her birthday. Which she was 99% sure wasn't today.

When she went downstairs, even the head maid was nice to her, which was something that never happened, especially after the incident that occurred when she found her and Diluc in the cellar that one time...

Y/n brought her attention back to the boy infront of her, then lifted her eyes to find herself in Springvale. Where a crowd of people gathered by the water front covered by a gazebo.

Their were lights and flowers covering the area, beautiful yellow and green ribbons hung from the gazebo and there was a group of musicians playing together inside it.

She could see Amber and Kaeya laughing together with Klee, Lisa and Jean were there too. Albedo was stood by the water front trying to conduct an experiment on bennet which seemed to be failing. Everyone was dressed unusually formally.

"Friends, here, for you" Razor smiled, and let go of her hands so he could run off to Bennet and Albedo.

Diluc had not been following them for a while so she had no idea where he had got to, so she decided to go see Kaeya, maybe he knew what was going on.

"Well if it isn't Lady y/n, welcome to the party" the blue haired man grinned, placing a kiss to her hands as he bowed to her, "we were just talking about you actually."

"Good things I hope master kaeya, anyway, would you mind telling me what the hell is going on?"

There were tables of food layed out and music had been provided by Venti, they're was clearly some kind of celebration going on, which made her feel incredibly paranoid that she had forgotten somebodys birthday. She hoped it wasn't Diluc's.

Something that did catch her eye however was on the bridge to Mondstadt, it seemed Eula was restraining an angry Donna from making her way over. Whatever was going on over there y/n didn't want to involve herself, so she just picked up some food and went to join Kayea at the table.

"Well It was you're boyfriend who organised it, perhaps you should ask him." Kaeya answered with a smirk, taking a sip from his wine glass.

Klee was sat beside him drinking grape juice, y/n presumed that since Klee and Kayea got on so well, he was on baby sitting duty to make sure none of klees bombing accidents occurred.

"Would you look at that here's the man now." Kayea pointed up at Diluc, who was walking towards the tent, his hair was down and his cheeks flushed pink, if y/n didn't know any better, she's say he looked nervous.

Venti played his music louder in order to drown out whatever Donna was shouting on the bridge as Diluc approached Y/n's table, nodding to Kaeya as he did.

"Y/n my love, I hope you don't mind all this fuss." He hung his face as he spoke, perhaps she was right... maybe he was nervous.

She giggled and reassured him that everything was okay by kissing his cheek since he had now bent down to meet her eye level. "it's beautiful Diluc, but I'm sad to say I have no clue what's going on - did I forget someone's birthday?"

He only laughed and took her hands in his, resting his knees against the floor and looking up at her with all the love that he had in him. Shaking his head softly.

"Y/n you are the most beautiful person I have met, you make me want to be a better person myself. I love how you scrunch your nose up when you laugh, how you pretend you're cold just to hug me, how you help me even when I don't deserve it-"

She noticed how everyone had gone quite, even Ventis strumming had slowed down, a while back she saw a blue flash on the bridge so she could only hope Donna and Eula were okay since she couldn't hear either of them anymore. 

She watched as Dilucs hands shook in hers, his eyes glazed slightly and his voice shaky, she placed her hands on his shoulders and leant down to kiss his four head for comfort. She wasn't sure what was wrong, but it seemed important, and she wanted to support him the best she could.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is, y/n- will you- uh."

There was heavy silence for a few moments before it became remarkably awkward in the tent, Diluc seemed to have frozen in time and everyone around them was waiting for him to continue.

"For God's sakes brother, Y/n, Diluc wants to know if you'll marry him." Kaeya laughed aloud, before he even thought about it. Getting a hard glare from Diluc.

Y/ns mouth fell open, and her grip on Diluc's shoulders tightened. Marry him? She hadn't even thought about it before, she supposed it wasn't that far out of the question they were both old enough, both very much in love. She hadn't even considered that Diluc would want to marry her.

But looking at him now, his face all flustered, his eyes searching hers, his hair draped over his shoulders, she couldn't think of anything she wanted to do more.

"So? Will you?" Diluc asked getting visibly more anxious by his girlfriends lack of response.

"Of course I will you idiot!" She smiled, and jumped off her chair into her fiancé's arms kissing him as gently as she could in all her excitement.

"Sorry I don't have a ring for you, that was Razor's job, and well, he's asleep in the bushes." Diluc pulled her in for another hug. Then ushered everyone to enjoy themselves.

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