My Revelation {Mikayuu}

Valiant. [34]

Heirs to thrones.

In the end, that was all my friends seemed to boil down to, excluding Tetsuya. Alan was destined to serve his brother who possessed no desire to rule, and wherever Alan went . . . So did Marco. Min was tied to Korea with her stern mother to hope that she shapes up by the time she ascends to the throne, Chi to lead his people with a warm smile, Yuu to rule Japan with a facade to hide how afraid he was of merely speaking to people. But it would be bearable with Tetsuya as his Shogun.

That left me. Alone with no destiny other than the blood that never turned red. I hoped that, perhaps, Lorelei may help me find the road that I had paved for me. She knew me before I was banished, after all. But she offered not even a sliver of what I once was. Corinna remained silent on anything she may know in the short time she was present with the shifter she loved. And Iris . . . Knew as much as I did of myself. "Luke never told me specifics," she murmured when I asked. "He wanted to keep me away from the scene as much as he could. But I figured most of what I know out on my own."

So I would be the supporting character in my friend's stories. Maybe history books may mention my name, as a lover in Yuu's life.

But for now . . .

"Mikaela Shindo."

Min. My head snapped to meet her narrowed gaze, my response as calm as it always was. "Yes?"

"How the everloving fuck did you manage to do the chemistry and algebra despite coming back to the dorm at eight PM," she whined, collapsing to the table. Min even gave a couple dramatic sobs, Tetsuya melodramatically patting her back with fake sympathy.

"I'm telling you," Alan began, slapping a band-aid on a crimson Marco. fencing, though neither would give an explanation on how he cut himself on a dulled blade. The Austrian prince pulled up the bottom of his friend's shirt, which did nothing to lessen the poor man's blush ("just to check for other injuries," he had insisted. Though Tetsuya was fast enough to point out the incident with the piercings). "He was a genius up there."

"No, he just lacks in the emotion department. So he got intelligence instead," Chi offered. The group all turned to Yuu, who blinked with wide eyes.

"I'm just as shocked as you are. The fact that he could even focus astonished me," he said quietly. The night before was spent working partially on my assigned work with the scratch of my music flooding my ears. The rest was spent outside of the school grounds with Yuu, viewing the land above that was my home prior to the one I now lived in.

"Oh, really?" Min asked, eyes glinting up at us. "What were you up to?"

"N-Nothing," Yuu hesitated, as if considering the option of telling her the truth. "We didn't do what you think."

"Oh, boo," Tetsuya pouted, sticking his tongue out at his best friend. "You guys are so boring."

"In their defense, their lives are quite hectic," Chi pointed out. "With Mika's . . . Albinism." Right. There were people around us. Magnus listening at a table nearby, undoubtedly, with the soon to be British Prime Minister constantly sneaking about. The group nodded and murmured words of agreement, none showing any hatred towards the truth of the word. Tetsuya was more confused by how I bled silver, Min of how I could lose my memories, Chi of how I could hide it so easily, and Marco and Alan- well, they understood it well. Especially the situation of being unable to tell anyone of my condition. As if they knew something similar. For Marco it was undoubtedly his feelings for Alan. But on the other side
all problems were secured from view.

"We can find an excuse for you guys to skip your next class," Marco mindlessly mused with a sidelong glance to Min and Tetsuya. Alan joined him in the nonchalant planning, chin propped up on the backs of his hands.

"Why would you have to do tha- oh." Yuu was cut short by his own realization, partially due to the look Chi gave him. "Then what ideas do you have?"

"Forging a pass of absence," Marco said calmly. Min seemed to prefer that idea, Alan nodding his head.

"I was going to suggest that I get my brother to charm the professors, but Mika's got Iris and she seems pretty content about not seeing anyone," he sighed. "But who knows how to forge the pass?" Heads turn to Min.

"Oh, no, I can only do passports," she said, hands raising in surrender. Then they turned to Tetsuya, who shook his head in unison with Yuu.

"I come up with the ideas."

A low, deep sound. Someone clearing their throat. We all turn to Chi, who seems embarrassed in the least. "It's me," he mumbles. "My sister taught me how before I got here. Min's the only person who used them before now."

And that, of course, was how we got out of class to try and figure out once more how the hell I shift.

"Try it again," Yuu urged with a light sparkling in his eyes. I sighed, eyes closing with the image of his excited expression imprinted forever in my mind. "I think I saw a flicker," he says after a moment. In his hand is my wrist, bracelet shimmering up at him.

"But it isn't enough."

"No, it's a start. What were you thinking about?"

"Truthfully, nothing except you."

"Really?" He said, voice squeaking briefly. It turns him to laughter, my brief chuckle joining him though my eyes remain closed.

"Yes. It's a nonstarter for me, since you're always on my mind," I respond calmly.

"Just when I was about to say I'm flattered. How rude."

"Forgive me," I apologized quickly, sincere to the bone. He laughs quietly, hands leaving to frame my face. His gentle lips skirt my cheek, then lips.

"It was a joke. Sometimes I don't think emotions reach you," Yuu murmurs, my eyes opening to meet his gaze. "But that makes everything all the more entertaining."

"I don't think I got out much up there," I sighed into his touch. "Or down here, now that I'm thinking about it."

"Min can show you around the places you haven't been. This city's her haven," he reassures me, black hair falling over his eyes. He told me once as to what their fallout was. How he hid everything from them to the point where Tetsuya had grown to believe his best friend and advocate wished to leave his company. In actuality Yuu cared for all of them, even I knew. The emotions of others were far easier to understand than my own. But he cared for me, someone who could be killed if presented as what I was born as. And that was too much. But it never stopped him. Because he truly loved me.

"I think I would like to just be the person who stays by your side," I mused quietly. He cocked a brow in confusion before he spoke.

"What does that mean?" He asked.

"Nothing."

A lie. It meant everything. What my new self- the version of me that was wholly my own person- had decided for what my destiny would be.

To love and be loved by the one boy who had a claim to the Japanese throne. Maybe, if I stayed by his side for all of his days, I could change something.

We could change the world, us heirs to thrones and those on the sidelines.