The Beauty of Sol (Shinra x reader)

Chapter 2

[Y/n], Iris and Maki sat on the roof of Company 8 while Maki created fire spirits with her pyrokinesis. "Here, Sputter." Maki said as the fire flowed in the air. The flames came to life. [Y/n]'s eyes sparkled while staring at the spirit in awe. "You're really something else, Maki-san, freely controlling flames at will like that." Iris praised. "I wouldn't say that. I'm only a second-generation," Maki said, "unlike a third-generation like Shinra, I need a fire starter to create my flames."

[Y/n] suddenly could see flowers made of flames float in the sky. When [Y/n] blinked, the flowers were gone, but [Y/n] can see that Iris was reading for Sputter. [Y/n] gently grabbed Iris' hand with her bandaged one. "It's hot, Iris." [Y/n] said with a small smile. Suddenly, Shinra and a blonde boy burst through the door. They got into their fighting stance. "Today's the day I'm going to settle this!" Shira announced while the three girls sat in confusion.

The blonde boy pulled the handle of his sword out. "I'm going to show you the difference between our firepower." He said, and there was silence. "Actually, who are you?" Maki asked. "My name is Arthur Boyle--the Knight King." Arthur said, and there was a weird sparkle in his hair as he smiled a bit. "Are you the princesses of this castle?" He asked, causing [Y/n] and Maki to blush a bit, but Iris gave a deadpanned look. 'Arthur is kind of...pretty.' [Y/n] thought, and she realized who he was. "Ah, you must be the third-generation Fire Solider joining us today." [Y/n] said with a bit of excitement. She wanted to see his power. "Hmph." Arthur nodded while Shinra glared at him.

"Shinra, do you know him?' Maki asked. "Yes. We went to the Academy together. I told him that knights are wussier than heroes, so midway through, he tacked 'King' onto 'Knight'." Shinra explained, "Sneaky, am I right?"

'Academy...?' [Y/n] thought and tried to think hard. Takehisa has told her that she attended the Academy to become a Fire Force solider. Only bits of memories were coming back to her. She could only remember a classroom, but neither of the two boys. "He tries to play at being tight-lipped and cool, but he's just an idiot. He's too stupid to come up with anything to say. And yet--" Shinra said and paused.

"And yet what?" Maki Iris and [Y/n] questioned.

"Somehow, he's still popular." Shinra mumbled.

"Ah, yes. That." Maki said. 

"It's definitely because of his looks." [Y/n] said while nodding and crossing her arms. 

"Eh?!" Shinra said. It kind broke his heart. He was taking quite a liking to [Y/n], despite her being a sister. His crush just called his worst enemy good-looking. "Arthur-san is really pretty. He does have the typical prince look. Blonde hair and blue eyes." [Y/n] said with an innocent smile. 

"Yeah, but you don't typically call a man 'pretty'." Maki informed with a deadpanned look while Arthur looked at Shinra smugly. "I'm the one with the stronger will, though!" Shinra said. "That's because knights are way more cool. Kings. Knight Kings." Arthur said.

"I think Shinra-kun is super cool, too." [Y/n] said. Shinra's eyes widened and blushed. "So do I." Iris said, and [Y/n] smiled at her. "We have a lot in common, Iris!" [Y/n] cheered, and Iris smiled back a little. "We do, [Y/n]nee-san." She said, which surprised [Y/n]. "If I remember correctly, I'm 17, and Iris is 16 now." [Y/n] muttered to herself, remembering little Iris at the temple with her. [Y/n] patted Iris' head.

"What are you doing?" Takehisa came in. Everyone stood up and saluted him. "Lieutenant Hinawa! The new recruit, Arthur, and Shinra have apparently known each other since the Academy." Maki informed, and Takehisa stopped walking in front of Maki's fire spirit. Then he poured his hot tea on it, putting it out. "Sputter!" Maki said with tears in her eyes. "Fire Soldiers don't play with fire." Takehisa growled. "Y-Yes, sir..." Maki said, fearfully.