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Love Scene	By : nekopurinchan Category: +S to Z > Slayers Views: 2061 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Slayers, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Author�s Note: ^_^ Hello hello. This actually kind of makes me blush, but there will be a lemon later in this story. This is my first attempt at one, considering the last time I wrote fanfiction was when I was in my early teens. Now that I�ve matured a bit (I think), I want to attempt to write something that is at my maturity level, and the result is this story here. It won�t get steamy until later chapters, though, so be patient with me.
This same story can also be found on fanfiction.net. I just thought the Xellina fanbase was a bit limited here, so I figured I would contribute to the cause :P.

Chapter One

�� It was an inevitable thing. With the mazoku race
weakened, it was only a matter of time before the ryuuzoku would strike. And
with the mazoku lords teetering on the brink of extinction, the world was about
to become a place of light without the dark.

�� Between Dynast of the North, Deep Sea of the West, and Zelas of the South, the last was in a position most favorable to
attack. No one knew exactly where Deep Sea resided, so an attack on her would
most likely backfire with a surprise attack on them. Dynast was shielded by a
well-built fortress to the front and a natural wall to the back--his defenses
would be hard to break through. Zelas, on the other hand, was vulnerable on all
four sides of her island; it was a much more accessible location for a surround
and attack strategy.

�� To top things off, it seemed that the second
piece of Ceipheed had finally emerged. With all their players in place, the
ryuuzoku race prepared and initiated attack in an attempt to finally obliterate
the mazoku race. They intended to push Zelas back, corner her weakened forces
along with Dynast, weaken his forces as they killed her, and finally destroy
Dynast, but the plan failed. Zelas had stood her ground to the very end,
finally sacrificing herself at the end of the battle to damage the fragment of
Ceipheed. Deep Sea�s forces then arrived with a surprise attack to finish off
the battle. There would be no follow-up war. It was over.

�� There had always been the question of whether or
not a subordinate could survive after his or her master had been destroyed, and
it was finally answered when Xelloss found himself alive even after Zelas had
perished. At a complete loss for what to do and without a mazoku lord to
directly serve (Dynast and Deep Sea both still had their subordinates alive and
intact), he turned to the only other person he respected.

�� He went to find Lina.

�� Ah, it always feels good to blow up bandits,�
the little sorceress declared contentedly as she rolled the soreness out of her
shoulder. She was twenty-seven years old, and her life hadn�t changed much over
the course of ten years. Her companions were no longer with her--Amelia was
finally becoming queen, Zelgadiss had given up on his search for a cure and was
instead serving as a secret guard for Amelia--intercepting assassins and
whatnot, and Gourry was, well, retired. The relationship between him and Lina
never came to fruition, so Sylphiel had stepped up to declare her feelings for
him. After careful deliberation, Gourry found that he, too, returned her
feelings, and eventually left his adventurous life with Lina to settle down
with Sylphiel. Lina had been reluctant to let him go, but she knew that it was
not her place to interfere.

�� The following years had been particularly
painful for her. Somehow, returning to being a lone adventurer was worse than
being lonely to start with, and she found herself forcibly covering up her
depression by strengthening her image as a Bandit Killer. That didn�t do much
good for her, since a stronger reputation meant a greater number of people who feared
her, so the rebound effect resulted in her inability to make new friends. Amelia
had sent an invitation letter to her, asking Lina to join her and Zelgadiss in
Saillune. Lina had, however, turned it down, knowing that the lifestyle didn�t
suit her. She had to be out and about, and the less responsibilities she had
that held her down, the better.

�� She heard bushes rustling behind her and whirled
around with a fireball spell in her hand. �Oops. Missed one!� she said
excitedly as she sent the magic forward. But to her surprise, she saw the
figure vanish. She stiffened. A mazoku? she wondered, dropping her sack
of treasures and preparing for what may come. She listened intently as the
breeze blew by, waiting patiently for any sign of its presence. None came, and
eventually she came to the conclusion that--whatever it was--it had
disappeared.

�� She sighed and turned around to pick up her
dropped trinkets but was completely startled when a familiar faced visitor
stood there before her. Leaping back with a yelp, she barely managed to squeak
his name, �X-X-X-Xelloss!?�

�� Why, hello there Lina-san,� he replied
sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head. He hadn�t intended to scare her, but he
didn�t quite know how to approach her either, so he just waited silently until
she noticed his presence herself. The fireball hadn�t exactly been what he was
looking for, but it was a typical Lina greeting. He lightly scratched the side
of his face with his index finger in shame as she let loose on him.

�� What the hell did you do that for? Your own
sick and twisted enjoyment?� she lashed out, baring her fangs at him. There was
no doubt in her mind that he had done that on purpose--he was always doing
little things like that to annoy her. Then she spat, �Geez. I get a break from
you for a decade and then you go and pull a stunt like that. Can really make a
person unhappy to see you.�

�� He frowned. She wouldn�t believe him even if he
protested, so he held his tongue and dropped his head. He wasn�t exactly in the
right mood to bicker with her, with his lord gone and all.

�� Lina blinked at him. �Xelloss?� she called,
noticing something was a bit off about him. �Is something wrong?�

�� He resumed his normal fa�ade. �Oh, nothing.� He
saw that she didn�t look convinced, and quickly changed the subject. �So, where
is everyone else?�

�� Still skeptical of his behavior, she warily
replied, �I don�t know. Haven�t seen them in so long.� The last sentence
trailed off a bit, and her own mood dropped a couple of notches. She missed
their company terribly, but there was nothing she could do about it. And here
was Xelloss, probably popping in for only a moment before leaving her alone
again. The thought made her sick to her stomach, and she sincerely hoped that
he would stick around for at least a short while.

�� So what he said next shocked her entirely. �Would
you mind if I accompany you for a bit?� he asked. She stared at him, unable to
believe her ears and barely able to contain her happiness.

�� Sure,� she replied nonchalantly. On the inside,
though, she felt her heart skipping. If he had somehow heard her mental
request, he showed no sign of it. She felt her stomach rumble and said, �I�m
hungry. Let�s eat!�

�� He smiled at her and replied, �Sure.�

�� As Lina finished her fifteenth helping and
swallowed it down with a jug of water, she turned to Xelloss and inquired, �So what
have you been up to all this time? I haven�t seen you around.� She thought it
was weird that she even cared to know--after all, he was a mazoku, and she
definitely did not care to know what mazoku did--but somehow the fact was
easily forgotten when she stared at his cheery face. Unconsciously, the tips of
her mouth began to curve upward into a smile as well.

�� Things,� he replied, and got that upset, moody
look on his face again. Lina wanted to ask, but if he was willing to talk he
would. This was the Mysterious Priest she was dealing with, after all. Asking
questions rarely got her anywhere.

�� Instead, she began to talk about her own
experiences. �Man, things have been really boring. The last time something big
happened to me was when�� She trailed off. �was when Gourry and Sylphiel got
married, she thought. Unintentionally, she began to get upset as well. I
should be over this, she thought, but she wasn�t. It still hurt when she
remembered Gourry--when she remembered Sylphiel standing beside him in a long
white gown, hands around his arm. There were many days when she had wished it
would have been her, but those days were over. The dream had ended, and she had
ended up with the bad ending of the story.

�� It was Xelloss�s turn to stare at Lina
curiously, trying to figure out what caused the sudden depression. He could
feel it radiating from her, and as much as it filled his appetite, he didn�t
feel comfortable with her being that way. Call it a sense of duty or whatever, he
took responsibility and said, �I�m sorry.�

�� Lina blinked, coming back to reality. �What
for?� she asked.

�� I don�t know. Everything? Not being there?�

�� She gave him a sad smile. �It�s okay. It
couldn�t be helped,� she replied. The tears were coming to her eyes now, and
she fought back valiantly to keep them from falling. No one had sympathized
with her since that time, and Xelloss was the last person she would have
expected to console her. But the truth was the truth, and it had caught her so
off guard that all her buried emotions came rushing back out to the surface. She
clutched her chest beneath the table so he couldn�t see; her heart had begun to
ache again--so much that she was finding it unbearable. She dropped her head
and awkwardly tried to hide her eyes from him, hoping he wouldn�t notice when
she began to cry.

�� Xelloss watched silently as Lina wept. It broke
his heart--or whatever he had that resembled a heart--to see her so torn.
Perhaps his troubles did not compare to hers, and perhaps she needed the most
comforting between the two of them. He stood up, walked over to her side of the
table, sat down next to her, and placed a hand reassuringly on her shoulder. As
soon as he touched her, it became readily apparent that she was
trembling�somethng he would not have noticed if he hadn�t been so close to her.
In an attempt to cheer her up, he squeezed her shoulder, then began to rub her
back gently, hushing her sweetly with his voice. She hesitated before turning
around to face him, with streams of tears falling down her cheeks, and gazed at
him helplessly. He reached out to wipe the tears from her eyes, an act that
actually made her cry more rather than stop, and offered his shoulder to her. She
took it willingly, sobbed awkwardly into his chest for a moment, then
reluctantly wrapped her arms around his midsection, embracing him tightly,
desperately. He hugged her back and softly put his chin on top of her head so
as not to bother her, then whispered soft words of encouragement as he stroked
her hair.

�� And through this he, ironically enough, gained a
new respect for the little sorceress.

�� He struggled with the knob on the door for a
while before giving up entirely, teleporting through the wall instead. He held
Lina�s sleeping figure in his arms�the poor girl had cried herself to
exhaustion. Xelloss looked down on her face to find her eyes puffy and red; her
face still shone with the remnants of tears. He walked over to the bed and
gently laid her down, then he brushed back her bangs and quietly pressed his
lips to her forehead, so as not to wake her. Fortunately, she did not stir in
the slightest, and he stepped back to let her sleep.

�� He walked quietly over to the windowsill and lazily
sat upon it to gaze out the window. There was a beautiful moon in the sky�the
same moon that he often gazed at late at night on Wolf Pack Island. He swallowed. The lonely feeling invaded him again, and this time he didn�t fight it
off. He needed to let loose like Lina had�only then would he gain freedom from
his woes. He continued to stare at the moon, and sadly enough, found that he
was unable to cry as she had. His emotions as a mazoku were not strong enough
to force such a reaction out of him. But so strong were his ties to his former
master that he certainly felt he was missing a fragment of his existence�a
fragment he needed to fill. That was why he had come to Lina, but he didn�t
know how to go about asking the question. Be mine? Order me around? Somehow all
the questions he came up with seemed absolutely ridiculous, so he continued to
dance in circles, getting nowhere.

�� He heard a groan come from her direction and
turned around to see what happened. With a sigh and an endearing smile, he saw
that she had been talking in her sleep. One of her arms hung awkwardly over the
edge of the bed; he figured it couldn�t be comfortable. He hopped down from the
windowsill and landed soundlessly on the wooden floor, then made his way to her
side. Taking her hand into his own, he placed it atop her stomach where it
would be more comfortable, but then he realized she wouldn�t let go of him. He
blinked, unsure of what to do, but his thoughts were interrupted by her
whispers.

�� Gourry��

�� Xelloss was hurt more by the pained tone of her
voice than he was by the fact that she had whispered the name of another man. He
grasped her hand a bit tighter and bent over to kiss away the forming tears
from her eyes. Then he knelt next to the bed and laid his head atop the sheets,
watching the little sorceress as she slept.

�� He had hoped that what he had seen would be the
last of her tears. Any more and he might burst from all the sorrow he was
ingesting. He wasn�t really looking forward to that.

�� Lina awoke the next morning to find Xelloss�s
sleeping face next to her. Had she been feeling better, she probably would have
done something to him, but she felt so bad after the previous night that she
simply groaned and attempted to roll over. Her intentions were thwarted,
however, by the hand that still clung to her so strongly.

�� She glanced down and noticed that she was
holding Xelloss�s hand, and their fingers were intimately intertwined. She
glanced back at him, this time with a touched look in her eyes, and wondered, Did
he stay beside me the entire night because he was worried? Now that she
thought about it, didn�t he have somewhere else to be? A mazoku of his status
was undoubtedly a very busy being�staying at her side must have been a
tremendous sacrifice.

�� She rolled back over so that she faced him. Mazoku
sleep? she wondered, but didn�t think too much about the answer. He looked
so peaceful that she unknowingly reached out to touch his cheek.

�� His eyelids fluttered open at her affection. She
withdrew her hand quickly, embarrassed, but he caught it with his free hand. She
froze, not knowing what to say, and stared at him wordlessly as he eyed her
curiously, mind attempting to focus as he arose. His eyes were open, and she
felt herself being sucked into its violet depths. They were so beautiful; she
didn�t know what else she could look at.

�� But when his mind finally registered where he
was, he resumed his usual smiling face and released her hands. �Good morning,
Lina-san,� he said cheerily. She looked better than she had the night before,
and that relieved him. He didn�t know what else he could do for her if she was
still feeling down, so it was good that she wasn�t.

�� G-Good morning,� Lina shyly replied, and a
blush crept up across her nose. She didn�t know what was up with her
behavior�staring into his eyes and tenderly caressing his face like that. It seemed
like a nightmare to figure out, too, so she dismissed the thought as soon as
she had begun to contemplate it. �Were you here all night?� she asked.

�� Mm, yes,� he answered as he muffled a yawn with
his hand. This time she turned a bright shade of red and had to turn her face
away to hide her embarrassment. Receiving affection wasn�t something she was
used to doing, and it showed.

�� A soft rumble brought her back to reality. �I
wonder what�s for breakfast,� she said, and hopped out of bed. He watched as she
nearly skipped over to the washroom to freshen up, and he came to the conclusion
that he much preferred her when she was acting like her old self.

�� As she swallowed one breakfast platter after
another, Xelloss deliberated how he should approach the topic he had been
meaning to talk to her about. He needed someone to need him�he needed someone who
would rely on him for things, assign him duties, and put him to work. Without a
master, his life held no meaning. It also had to be someone he could respect, and
that list was a short one. The only people on it were the three remaining
mazoku higher-ups, and then there was Lina.

�� Lina gazed at him quizzically. It was improbable
that Xelloss was just tagging along for no reason at all, but she couldn�t
figure out what the reason could be this time. She hadn�t been involved in
anything particularly major for a number of years, so she doubted that it could
be some catastrophe waiting for her. But then again, Xelloss never
showed up unless there was trouble. He was usually at the forefront of it.

�� He caught her gaze and smiled at her in
acknowledgement. She blushed and looked away, embarrassed that he had seen her
staring at him. She waited for some smart-ass comment, but he never made one. Instead,
he went back to contentedly sipping his tea.

�� Lina felt a bit annoyed by this. If he was
there, he might as well make himself useful and give her the attention she had
been yearning for. She swallowed a chunk of beef and cleared her throat, hoping
to catch his interest, but he was completely lost in a world of thought. The
behavior was very unlike him, and she began to get sincerely worried for his
well-being. �Xelloss?� she asked.

�� She saw that she had startled him. He turned to
her questioningly but remained silent.

�� What are you thinking about?�

�� He raised a finger. �That-�

�� Is not a secret,� she interjected,
catching him at his own game. She couldn�t help but laugh a little when he
pouted at her and lowered his finger, pride crushed. He looked like a puppy
when he made that face, and she almost wanted to tell him that he didn�t have
to answer, but then he did.

�� Lina-san, have you been aware of the war that
has been going on?� he asked.

�� She nodded. It wasn�t anything she cared to be
involved in, but a powerful sorceress like her had to know about a huge clash
between the gods and the mazoku. �Is this related to that?� she asked.

�� Instead of answering, he said, �Well, if you
know then that�s good enough.� She gave him a puzzled look, but he really gave
off the vibe that indicated he didn�t want to elaborate, so she left it alone. She
went back to finishing her breakfast, wondering what on earth could have
happened to him.

�� Afterward, Lina and Xelloss went back to the
room. Lina hadn�t gotten a chance to fish through her treasures the night
before, so she took to the task first thing. She had heard that a group of bandits
in the area held a rather priceless item, and she sought to find it for her own
collection. As she laid the treasures out atop her cape, she went through each
piece, separating them into a pile to keep and a pile to discard. Sadly, the
pile to discard grew at twice the rate of the pile to keep, and Lina cursed in
disappointment.

�� Xelloss monitored her choices as she made them
to be sure that she didn�t make any incorrect ones. He saw her toss away a
couple of old manuscripts and walked over to see what they contained. He
crouched down behind her and reached around her to take the old sheets of
parchment to read.

�� Lina felt her face flush as he neared her. His
body was so close to hers that she could feel its heat on her own skin. She
watched him out of the corner of her eye but pretended to continue sorting
through her treasures, unconcerned.

�� He glanced over the papers, found them to be
useless, and tossed them back into the ever-growing discard pile. As he did so,
he noticed that she had incorrectly sorted a couple of expensive gems. He
reached forward to take them back and said, �Lina-san, I think you missed
these.�

�� He had literally breathed that last sentence
into her ear, and Lina stumbled away from him with a very crimson hue to her
ears. She covered the ear he had spoken into and stared at him with the half
startled, half scared look that was reminiscent of a deer. He gave her a
confused look, not understanding her reaction right away, but realized that she
was indeed blushing. Was it me? he wondered, and a mischievous grin
overtook his face.

�� He moved towards her slowly, capturing her with
his violet eyes. She didn�t move as he made his approach and swallowed as he
came very close to her. She stared at him with slightly parted lips; her heart
began to quicken its pace.

�� Lina�s eyes closed as his face neared, and she
could feel his hot breath on her cheek. She felt his lips come to a distance of
only an inch from hers, and she swallowed in anticipation, but then nothing
happened. Instead, she felt something cool around her neck.

�� She opened her eyes and looked down to find an
amethyst dangling from her neck. She took it in her hand and inspected it,
finding it to be a really high quality gem. She raised her head and asked, �I
tossed this one?�

�� Yes,� he replied, and chuckled playfully. She
blushed, remembering her actions from a moment before and the feelings that
went along with it. She had really expected him to kiss her, but what was most
astonishing was that she was sorely disappointed when he hadn�t kissed
her. I couldn�t be developing feelings for him, she told herself, but she
somehow felt less than convinced.

�� She reached behind her neck to unfasten the
necklace, as she had no particular desire for fancy gems or trinkets, but
Xelloss reached out a hand to stop her. He gently pulled her hand forward and
said, �Keep it. I�ll reimburse you for the cost if you want, but I really think
you should wear it. It looks good on you.�

�� She blinked at him, to which he winked at her
with one eye open. That was when she noticed that the gem was the same hue of
violet as his eyes, and she agreed to his request. Looking into his enchanting
eyes was a treat, but the gem would be a nice way to remind her of them while
he had them hidden behind his usual mask. She rubbed it between her thumb and
forefinger as she murmured a soft, �Thanks.�

�� He smiled at her. �Let�s see if we can sort
through the rest of your things more quickly now, shall we?� At least this way
he would feel more useful to her. He was quickly growing tired of sitting
around doing nothing.
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