The Charming Demon

Yliel stares at Sakura and he is lost for words, just like a beautiful painting, Sakura was a sight to behold, the clear blue dress fitted so well with the girl that Yliel couldn't help but want to hide this atractive little rabbit and just keep her to himself, but obviously he would not force her to love him since he wanted it to be natural.

"My dear, you look stunning." - as he comes to her.

"Thank you, Yliel." - she blushes at his compliment.

Yliel grins widely as he takes Sakura's hand and guides her to the table, he pulls the chair for her to seat and push it closer to the table after she sits down and he goes to sit as well right be next to her.

"Today the chef outdid himself just for you, as a welcome for being here." - he said as he picks up the fork with a bit of the food in it and tried to feed Sakura. - "say aah."

Embarrassed she blushes and slowly she opens her mouth, since he already offered might as well just open her mouth, as soon as her mouth was open enough he fed her the food and to her surprise it was so good that she forgot about her embarrassment, she looked at him with her surprised face making him chuckle. - "this is so good, I have never eaten anything so delicious in my life."

"I'm glad you liked it... this is roasted chicken with asiago polenta with truffles mushrooms... and I bet the chef will be delighted when he hears that you loved his food." - he says as he cleans the corner of her mouth because there was a bit that dripped out, not expecting what he did she blushed like a tomato but without giving her the time the calm he licks the finger he used to clean the corner of her mouth, after seeing him doing that Sakura blushes to the point of looking like a neon red bright sign, the only thing missing would be smoke coming out if her head.

Sakura hides her blushing face with her hands ant thought to herself;

'see no evil... do no evil... why are you getting tempted by him?'

She avoids looking at him and continues eating, after the subtle flirting from Yliel's part the left Sakura extremely flustered the dinner went great, she didn't think even once about him, like he never existed in the first place, Yliel made her laugh so much that her heart felt so light, like all her worries sailed away. After dinner they moved to the living room and spend some time talking before he lead her to her room to end the night, as they reached Sakura's door Yliel holds her hand and gentle pulls her to turn to him.

Being caught by surprise Sakura's heart beats like crazy when she sees his alluring face.

"Did you have fun, my dear?" - he asks as he looks intensely into her eyes almost making her legs into jelly.

"Indeed, you have a knack to making people focus on other stuff, I'm sorry for whoever marries you, haha..." - she says as a joke.

"But what if I marry you, do you think you would feel sorry of yourself?" - he says as he kisses the back of her hand without breaking is eye contact with her.

"Err.... well, I don't think so..." - she says in a extremely low voice but he was still able to hear her thanks to his enhanced hearing making him give a tiny smirk that she didn't notice.

"Well I will leave you to take a rest now." - he turns around to leave but stops before looking at her from over his shoulder. - "I will be on the room next door if you need anything." - after saying his piece he leaves, leaving a blushing and surprised Sakura behind.

"This guy... seriously." - she sighs as she enters her room with a light scoff soon after, she walks to the window and looks out to the garden downstairs, it was a well treated garden but there was only roses plated in it.

"Sakura I came to help you change to your nightwear." - Alea enters the room with a freshly ironed gown.

Sakura looks at her maid and smiles while taking the nightgown from Alea's hands and started changing her clothes behind the folding screen, while she puts the nightgown Alea picks up the blue dress and arranged it into a basket, probably dirty clothes basket, and she heat a basin of water using magic so Sakura could wash her face.

As soon as Sakura finished changing Alea calls Sakura to sit in front of the vanity, after Sakura sits Alea does her hair and make a comfortable braided hairstyle so its easier to sleep.

"All done." - Alea says as she finishes doing Sakura's hair.

"Thank you, Alea." - Sakura turns to the maid and smiles.

"Just doing my job, my lady." - the maid genuinely smiles at her new master.

"I really liked it, I will sleep now so you may go." - Sakura says as she awkwardly dismisses the little maid since she wasn't used to the formal talking.

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As she found herself alone in the room she remembers the reason she ended in this beautiful bedroom inside a magnificent castle, such a terrible reason to end in a great place, a lone tear slips down her face as she lays down on the massive bed.

After a couple hours later crying...

'I should move on'

she thought to herself as she wiped her face...

'Yliel was right, the more I mope around about what happened, the worst I will feel because of it, Sakura be smart and forget him... you can do it... you don't need him to have a good life.'

After setting a new goal for herself, she finally falls asleep but unfortunately she had a bad night of sleep which make her wake up in a extremely grumpy mood but since she woke up by herself nobody suffered from her bad mood.

With the help of Alea, Sakura gets ready for breakfast, this time the dress she wears is more casual, in a mediaeval fashion but still elegant and comfortable.

As she arrived in the dining room she didn't find Yliel to her surprise, from the few times she had to meet him, he was always waiting for her.

"Where is Yliel?" - she asks Alea but the maid didn't have time to answer when Sebastian answers back to her.

"Master is still sleeping, lady Sakura." - like usual he appear out of thin air, startling poor Sakura.

"Why nobody woke him up? It's already 11 and he is still sleeping?" - Sakura says while frowning her brows not happy with the handsome demon still being asleep.

"Master has a bad temper in the morning so no one cares to wake him up, last time someone tried they got turned into ashes." - Sebastian explains the reason to Sakura as if it was the most common thing in the world.

"In that case can I try waking him up?" - now she was curious if that would really happen, she wasn't scared since her soul belong to him already even if she died it didn't matter.

"I wouldn't recommend my lady, too dangerous for you." - quickly Sebastian refused.

"I will still do it, it doesn't matter if I die anyways..." - she said as she walks back to the hall she come from since his room was next to hers.

As she arrived at his door, she takes a deep breath and quietly sneaks into the room that was dark but she could see the silhouette of the furniture in the room, she slowly walks to the bed so she wouldn't trip in anything, she looks at the man in the bed and he looked pure and nothing like a demon, he looked so comfortable she felt bad for having to wake him up, gently she caresses his hair which was silky and soft, he frowns at the touch but didn't wake up, soon after he gives a little smile enjoying the caresses.

"Yliel, time to wake up." - she quietly but gently whispers into his ear while still gentle patting his head.

Half-sleep Yliel opens his eyes thinking that he's still asleep, he looks at the girl as she continued patting him, he almost jumped from his bed like a scared cat, he looked at the girl in daze since he was not expecting her to come and wake him.

"I see that you are awake." - she says at she stops what she was doing. - "get up, its 11 already, I want to eat breakfast with you..." - she whines in a tearful tone while her stomach growls.

Yliel looks dumbfounded to the girl, he didn't expect her to show such a cute side of her, she come to wake him up just cause she was hungry and didn't want to wait for him to wake up by himself.

"I usually wake up at 1pm." - the demon says as he stretches himself before getting up.

"Since you up I will go back to the dining hall and wait for you there."

Just as she was about to get off the bed Yliel pulls her and pins her down on the bed and whispers in her ear. - "how about you help me bathe? I need help washing my back."

Sakura blushed so hard she looked at him lost for words.

He gets off her after a while and burst into laughter. - "I was just joking with you, my dear... I don't really need to you to come help me... unless... you DO want to help." He gives her a flirtatious look.

"N-NO THA-THANK Y-Y...YOU..." - the girl burst out of the room at the speed of light blushing so hard she looked like a red sun.

The demon looked at her disappearing figure and headed to the toilet to get himself ready.

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After having breakfast, Yliel took Sakura outside for her to see the bustling town of demons and monsters, I was so lively that Sakura couldn't help but stop all the time to look at everything.

So a month went by and Sakura was completely out of her head, she was enjoying her holidays on a "exotic" place, had great company as all the people working in the castle were nice to her and her host Yliel made everything as enjoyable as possible, what she loved to do the most was going to town and see all the different types of races and monsters she have never seen in her life.

After dinner as the both of them were having a leisure time in the living room, Yliel looks at Sakura with a sad face, she noticed his mood and asked him if he was alright.

"Oh yeah, I'm alright my dear, however I just feel like I don't want you to leave here, your presence makes the castle so much more happier than before." - he says is an exasperated tone.

"But I won't be leaving in about 2 more months." - she says not understanding what the red headed demon meant.

"I know but you won't be able to stay... I will be sending you to meet your grandmother in a few days." - he says with a sigh catching Sakura by surprise.

"I... I have... a grandmother?" - she stammer at the thought.

"Yeah, she is a scary woman, her name is Tsunade." - he answers her back, not wanting to reveal to much to her, he would prefer Tsunade to tell her all the truth. - " I will be sending you to her place next week."

"Wait a moment, I don't get it, if I have a grandmother why did she not come to pick me up when my parents died?" - Sakura asks with tears slipping down her face.

"From what I know, she probably has no idea that you exist... your parents and her cut ties a few years before you were born." - He says as he uses a handkerchief the dry her tears. - "that is why I want you send you to her, so you can reconnect with her and have a family once again."

"Why didn't you tell me about her before?" - she looks at him in short breath a bit mad that he waited 1 whole month to tell her.

"That's because even is I told you about it, you wouldn't be able to find her without my help... she lives in the mount Everest after all." - he says with a amused laugh.

"How is that possible?" - she asks in shock.

"That's for you to ask her yourself." - flicks her forehead smirking.

"But how i'm I going to survive going up that mountain?" - she asks not believing she would be able to survive the journey.

"Not need to worry, I already prepared a proper outfit for you, it will protect you for the cold and I will be sending you directly to her door so no worries."

"If you say so then I will believe in you... well I'll head to bed now." - she says as she gets up to retire herself but Yliel grabs her hand and gently pulls her to himself making her fall onto his lap and his embrace.

"You forgot about my goodnight kiss, my dear." - he says in a teasing manner while gazing into her eyes and curling a strand of her hair on his finger.

Sakura blushed at the intimate touch, he have never been this bold, usually is light teasing here and there but this was full on ikemen aura, the type of gaze makes the ladies drop their panties.

"N-n-no kis...sses for you." She feel a knot in her throat as she tried to speak, she get out of his embrace as soon as she could and ran to her bedroom with out looking back, leaving an amuse demon who was enjoying her reaction behind.

"Never going to get tired of teasing her." He says as he slowly walks back to his room in a relaxed manner...