"Now what should I do to you two?" Haru made a 'playful' pondering expression, "I can kill you, take your powers forever, or just keep you trapped somewhere with no contact."

"Hey, what do you even need Senra for?" Yuuto asked, glaring at the black haired male.

"You'll soon learn why later," Haru placed his hand on his hip as smile appeared, "you better hope that the thief chooses the right one."

"You really think he'd listen to you guys," Shima bitterly questioned.

"Not really but who knows, people sometimes can't think rationally when they're in a desperate situation. But just be happy that for now your lives are spared."

"Oh, we're so grateful," sarcasm dripped from the teal-haired's mouth as he rolled his eyes.

"I was expecting you to be bawling your eyes out," Haru sighed, slightly unamused, "though I guess it'd make sense since you were a little suspicious of me, but when I accepted your confession you decided to have put utter trust in me."

Yuuto just glared at the male, irritated at the mock, Haru grinned at the gesture.

"Well, I guess I'll go see what's happening between those two. See ya." Haru then disappeared and the two males felt themselves able to move freely again.

"Oh thank god, I felt like my legs were starting to go numb." Yuuto said as he got up and stretched a bit.

"Oi, now's not the time to worry about that," Shima stated, "we need to find the others and tell them what happened."

"I think we should find Soraru first," Yuuto suggested as he turned around to look for the raven-haired.

"Shouldn't we try to find Senra though? He was literally just kidnapped!"

"If they really wanted to hurt Senra, then Haru would've done it now," Yuuto stated as the purple-haired crossed his arms.

"I guess...so?"

He didn't like the idea of Senra being alone somewhere where he wasn't sure if he was safe.

"I think it'd be easier if we split up, you go find Soraru and I'll find Hana, Eve, or Nqrse to tell them what happened."

Shima nodded his head, he was about to walk away before he remembered something.

"Oh right, hey Yuuto I'm sure we already know this but don't trust anyone."

"Got it," Yuuto gave the male a thumbs up.

He then pondered about something. You know, the king seemed quite nonchalant about all of this but back then he was more worried about them getting possible hurt, going as far as having knights by their sides all the time....

"Well good luck finding Soraru," Yuuto waved his hand as he walked away.

Shima smiled before walking the other way, trying to figure out where the raven-haired and others were. Well, I definitely know that Soraru and Mafu are together. Sakata and Urata, Amatsuki and Kashi, they're all with their boyfriends.

The purple-haired was kinda worried about how the raven-haired would react to the news. Just hope he doesn't rush into things, Shima thought before he nervously laughed to himself, or that he doesn't try to kill me for being bad at protecting Senra.

"Oh, Shima

The male turned his head to see Kashitaro and Amatsuki walking towards him.

"Oh thank god I found you guys, okay so here's what happened," Shima quickly said before stopping, "actually, have you guys seen Soraru?"

"He should be with Mafu," Amatsuki said, "we saw the two a while ago."

"They said they were going to join Lon and Kuro in the garden." Kashitaro said before giving the male a confused look, "why do you ask? And where's Senra?"

"That's the thing, Senra was taken away," Shima said, the two brunettes widened their eyes.

"Eh?!? What do you mean?!? Senra was kidnapped?!?" Amatsuki exclaimed while the brunette just covered his mouth.

"Shut up, do you want to cause a panic because others possibly heard you? In case you forgot, we're in a castle, how would people react to hearing their prince just got kidnapped?"

The red eyed brunette sheepishly smiled and muttered a small sorry.

"I can't tell you much cause I don't know why. Just know that Senra was kidnapped and that Haru was working with them." Shima said as the males gave him another shocked look.

"Eh? Haru?"

"I kinda thought if someone was going to betray us it'd be Yuuto." Amatsuki commented as the other two males gave him a slightly annoyed look.

"Oi, now's not the time for that."

"I was just simply saying that," Amatsuki pouted, "you guys can be rude sometimes."

"Well, it wasn't too long ago so they should still be at the garden, we should head there." Kashitaro stated as the purple haired nodded his head.

The three then made their way to the raven-haired. Shima was worried for the blonde but he couldn't do much at the moment, as he didn't know where he was.

I have to trust that wherever he is, he's doing okay.

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Senra just stayed still, his options continuously bouncing back and forth, unable to keep his focus on them.

"E-Even if I choose one of the options, w-who's to say you won't betray me." Senra finally said, the indigo-haired male was about to reply before another voice cut him off.

"We'd be more worried about him betraying us." Haru grinned as he rested his elbow on the male's shoulder, "but he knows what'll happen if he does."

"Oh, can't forget," Haru snapped his fingers, Senra felt a jab in him, "don't want you using your powers against us right now."

Riku just glared at him, the blonde was still not over the fact at the sudden 180 in the black haired male's behavior.

"Y-You just immediately switched personalities, didn't you confess to Sakata so why are you trying to hurt him?"

"It's called lying and faking." Haru said, "I wasn't going to make myself obvious, though you guys probably wouldn't even notice. After all only Yuuto seemed to doubt me, but thanks to those two lovebirds they convinced him to trust me. I guess I should thank them for making it easier to do this."

"W-What?"

"And my 'confession' to that idiot was just to see how he felt for the tanuki," Haru made a disgusted face, "I didn't expect him to still like Urata even after their sorry-of-an-excuse heartbreak story. But once an idiot, always an idiot I guess."

"You're not doing anything to them," Riku bluntly said in a harsh tone as he glared at the male, "although it's pretty stupid of me to trust you guys to do your part of the deal."

"Don't worry, if this thief here agrees then there's no need for us to be violent." Haru walked towards the blonde, who flinched, a 'cheerful' smile on his face, "so what will it be? Pick wisely~"

"I-I...." Senra didn't know what to say.

What could he say?

Anything he chooses could lead to him and the others being hurt.

Shima will get hurt....

The blonde glanced at the indigo haired male, he really does look like he doesn't want this. If anything it's more like they're the ones controlling him rather than him controlling them.

Senra kept bouncing his choices back and forth, at this point he couldn't tell which one was the best option.

The silence was getting longer and longer as each minute passed by.

Senra thought back to the others.

They'll hurt them if I disagree, who's to say they won't hurt them even if I agree.

"If you really think I'll just give up on my friends then you're wrong," Senra bitterly said as he glared at them.

"How predictable, then I guess we'll overthrow and riot," Haru's grin became sinister, "how will people react when they learn that one of the princes, the one that was a thief before, one that he had hated from the start, had threw them away all for his pathetic feelings."

Senra flinched as the black-haired male continued to speak in a taunting tone.

"They'd feel betrayed and blame you for their suffering. You could end up causing the other two to get killed, making them resent you even more. You robbed them from their beloved princes."

"Oi, Haru shut—"

"You'll be hated by everyone," Haru gave him a fake pitied expression, "such a terrible fate, huh."

"S-Stop trying to convince me to betray my friends!" Senra angrily shouted, wishing he had just shocked the male before his powers were taken.

"So you'd rather betray your kingdom than betraying your friends," Haru smiled, "wouldn't that make you similar to us?"

"I'm not the same as you!"

"Well Riku, you had your chance," a wicked smile that reach from ear to ear appeared, "sorry it had to come down to losing the only two close friends you had."

Riku widened his eyes as Haru formed a knife in his hand. The indigo haired male took a step forward before vines wrapped around him, immobilizing him.

"O-Oi! Haru!"

"I'll start with this one~"

Senra was frozen, unable him to move, he closed his eyes awaiting the impact.

A few seconds passed and nothing happened.

He slowly opened them to see a figure in front of him, stopping the male. For a brief second he thought it was the purple-haired or one of the guys but realized that that wasn't the case.

"Even if he doesn't want to comply it can still work out for us so we still need him alive."

"How'd you even find us Maya?" Haru said as the light purple haired rolled her eyes.

"I'm a witch, of course I have my ways."

So she's one of them too.. Senra tensed up when the female turned to look at him.

"After all, we can use him to lure out Soraru, same with Sakata."

"Oh~ I see," Haru 'cheerfully' said, "just like the first time. Except this time we get to kill them for real after doing so."

"Either way, he's our hostage, they wouldn't do anything that could lead to him being hurt," Maya gave the blonde a mocking look, "though, he was a thief so I don't think anyone would mind his disappearance."

Senra flinched as the female laughed, realizing that he was able to move freely now.

He could try to run away if he wanted but, knowing that he wouldn't get too far without being caught again, he figured it was best to stay put.

Despite how dumb it was and how much he wanted to go back to the others.

"Well, either way I want to ask you something," Maya said as she grabbed the blonde's arm, "do you really want to risk losing your family? All because you didn't want to hurt your precious boyfriend's feelings? I didn't think you'd be so selfish."

I...don't want to lose Shima...but I also don't want to lose the others....

"But it's no fun if he agrees~" Haru whined, "cause then we can't do anything."

"Who cares if you're not having fun," Maya stated, causing the male to frown, "there's really no point in killing them, if he agrees then it just makes it much easier for us."

"But just exiling them is boring–"

"Shut up, you're starting to sound like that familiar and I hate it."

"Well your fault for making me spend time with him," Haru pointed out in a bored tone, "though I guess it wasn't that bad."

"Well, what's your answer thief?" Maya gave the blonde a teasing smile, "Are you going to be the cause of your brothers' tragedy?"

Senra stayed silent, wishing he had his powers to help him but for now they were just useless.

"The worst we can do is exile your friends and possibly imprison the ice prince, oh and your boyfriend too." Haru suggested, "See? We can be nice at least."

"Yuuto's personality definitely did rub off on you for a bit." Riku muttered, the black haired male just stuck his tongue out childishly.

"I....." Senra began to say before falling silent again. This is stupid, why am I even debating over it?

"I figured guilt tripping you would've worked," Maya said as she let go of the blonde, a wicked, teasing grin on her face, "but I guess you're even colder than your brother. I'm sure Soraru would've immediately picked the option to save you even if he had to lose his love life."

Senra stared at the floor, waves of guilt and unease crashing into his troubled heart.

He wanted to just flee from here and run into the arms of the purple-haired, feeling his warmth and comfort, forgetting about everything.

But doing so would mean his friends, his kingdom, and more importantly his brothers, would be at risk of dying.

Just for his selfish wish.

I'm sorry...

I can still possibly see him and at least make sure he's okay but.... he'd be crushed at the fact that I can't be with him anymore...

Senra sighed as he looked at the light purple haired female, a troubled expression on his face.

"Fine, I'll do it."

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A/n

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Hope you guys look forward to the chapters~