Destructive Models

"I like all sorts of your attention... Loving, concerned, adoring... Happy... Even grumpy or pouting." She giggled at the tone Masaru graced her with, sensing he was getting close to pouting. "When you get concerned its...its... I've never really had anyone concerned for me. Mama rarely was..."

It was a treat of sorts... Her smile was stilted for a moment, but she wanted him to know it was precious to her just as much. His stutter though and unexpected reaction caused a slightly confused look to pass across her features.

"...What again? You are my Lord... This is your house and one day I am to be your bride. I should treat you with honor...and I want to honor you. You deserve it." Mia's smile was brilliant as she squeezed Masaru's hand, leading him to the door to exit the room and head to the baths.

"I...I will be sure to show you...all the a-attention you enjoy...then." Masaru's cheeks tinted lightly as he spoke, but he was managing his words. Mia...enjoyed all of the attention like that...and he would give her such attention...

He would show her all of his love! All of the love he had for her with his affection, and make sure she never felt...that she wasn't concerned over or unloved...as she had somewhat put it.

T-The...My lord...stuff though...flustering...

"A-A..." Without protest, he allowed Mia to lead them towards the exit as they made their way to the baths.

"I'll accept all the attention you want to give me then." Mia couldn't stutter right now, she was too happy and it wasn't really that flustering to her! Masaru's words where what she wanted and longed for, it wasn't embarrassing to her. She glanced up to see his tinted cheeks and looked away, trying to hide the grin that would tell him she was amused and thought he was utterly adorable.

Why couldn't he say anything though? Her eyes darted back in confusion, staring up at Masaru as she opened the bedroom door and took them into the hallway. The baths weren't too far luckily, she'd gotten lost in it once a long time ago... "My lord? Are you okay?"

What was wrong?

She would...accept all of his attention then, that was good; he would...always be sure to give her attention...a-and love...

"A-Accept...the...attention, I-I'm glad...a-and...love too..." I-It was obvious she would accept that though! That was completely obvious!

Why had he attempted to say such a thing...

"H-Huh? Ah...it's simply just...a bit...flustering being called by that, aha..." Flustering... He was accustomed to it by the servants and others, but...but Mia? Not...not used to that...

He had grown so accustomed to Masa even his full name sometimes alerted him when she used it.

Th...That was it; just...a little flustering.

Mia froze briefly, stumbling in her walking as she heard Masaru tell her to accept the attention but... As he continued she unfroze and giggled even as her cheeks stayed red. "I will... I will accept your love and attention and affections. You just...have to always accept mine. M-My love and attention... all of it."

He was just repeating her words... To make sure...

"But you get called it all the time." Mia recovered quickly and smiled, still confused but also a bit amused by his response. What made her calling him it different. "My Lord, My lord~"

"Maybe its in the way I say it? My lord..." Mia's voice dropped, almost imitating her earlier sultry way of saying that.

She...She would accept...it then, good...good...

Masaru gave a nod as they walked, heading towards the baths hand in hand, M-Mia was...still keeping up with the "My lord" title though... S-She was questioning...?

"I-It...It's... Well, f-flustering...coming from you-Especially like that!" Mia...Mia had said it like...like that again! He had hardly had time to finish his answer to her before... "M...Mia..."

His hand squeezed hers as he stepped sideways, towards her, nudging her slightly with his shoulder; d-doing...saying it like that! F-Flustering...

B-Baths, he could...shower her in affection once in the baths, yes...

Mia felt laughter welling up as Masaru explained it was flustering but not why, just coming from her t was so? Well why! She wanted to know... But.. Saying it like that was especially so? His words and tone had her smiled brightly and as he stepped she laughed. He nudged her like that! That was adorable! His stuttering at her name made it so much better!

She squeezed his hand back, nudging him with her shoulder in return before just leaning against him and settling her head against his arm. Her other hand came up and she held his arm with it while giggling. Her voice dipped down into that tone Masaru seemed to like, trying not to tease him so much but he was honestly being so cute... "So...my lord gets flustered when he is called my lord..."

Masaru was the cutest man in all of existence and nothing would convince her otherwise.

Mia was amused, laughing and nudging him in return; she was smiling at least...rather brightly at that... A-At least she was happy; he could...suffer a bit of fluster for a few moments...

T-...Using that tone though!

"M-M...Mia..." He turned his head away, not letting her see the pink currently in his cheeks...not that she hadn't seen it already he was sure...b-but-!

Using...s-such a title...and that tone...

Baths...Why weren't they there yet!? Just keep walking...just keeping walking...

...It really affected him that much...?

This...tone?

Was that bad? Masaru's pink cheeks confused Mia though she smiled brightly again after a few moments, squeeing softly and rubbing her face against his arm. Her voice, luckily for Masaru, had gone back to normal by the time she could reply to his words. "M-Masa you are too cute! T-Too cute, forever the cutest!"

This...was a hallway in the mansion, but Mia's outbursts could not be contained any longer. Where ever the baths had gone she did not know because she was too busy adoring Masaru's cuteness.

C-Cute!?

"M-Mia..." His voice continued to give away his fluster, even if he was looking away from her as he spoke, though obviously he couldn't turn his head away for long.

They were still walking down the halls, in his fluster he'd just been walking...not really paying much attention... The baths should still be...

He slowed to a stop for a moment to open one of the doors they were about to pass... Ah, a storage one for guest robes and such... this... Scratches on the edge of the shelves...three of the-

Alright to so they were going the right way, just a bit further down the hall and then they'd turn. Now he knew where they were.

"You keep...saying my name like that. It's making it hard not to think of you as cute... Its...not helping your case." Mia whined softly, not in the least deterred by those name sayings of Masaru's. He was so cute. Impossibly cute! How was he so cute!? A mystery of the Shirakawa, that their head was the most adorable person in this clan... Sorry Nozomi... Her cuteness was powerful but not Masa levels.

As they slowed to a stop, Mia who was leaning against Masaru's arm peeked over as he opened the door. Was he looking at shelves? She noticed a marking on the edge of one and blinked as he then closed the door and they continued on.

"...What was that just now?"

N-Not helping his case...?

Masaru continued on, now that he knew which way they were going, but Mia's question... That...well, he supposed it wasn't that hard of a thing to miss, he had stopped them completely.

"A-Ah...well, I was...just checking where we were... I almost thought we'd gotten turned around, so...I just checked to make sure..." He explained, though...just opening a door didn't necessarily answer her question...there were...plenty of storage closets around. "I marked the edges of the shelves...that is...s-so I...learned to navigate the mansion that way..."

Mia waited as Masaru explained, wondering how a closet would help. There were tons of closets... How would it help id they got turned around... Making a small sound as he spoke, she nodded encouragingly while staring up at him.

She blinked though as he finished with that rather interesting information drop. He had...marked the...shelves? Made...markings on the shelves...

Mia had conflicting images in her head of teen Masaru just sneakily marking the closets when no one was looking... and also an imagined Baby Masaru who also marked when no one was looking...

She squeaked and froze in place, before letting go of Masaru and moving to the wall to hunch down. Mia blushed as she poked her fingers together, the cuteness too overwhelming... "So...cute..."

W-Well...he'd planned to keep on leading them to the baths, but...

Mia had stopped and...and let go to...to hunch down at the wall!? W-What!? Was...was something he said really all that odd or something!? W-What...

C-C...Cu... She'd thought...

"I-It...It was the easiest...method..." Masaru muttered, looking towards the wall himself for a moment; "E-Easier than memorizing a whole map at first..."

Obviously, he knew his way much, much better now...but...when one wasn't thinking it was still easy to get turned around in this place...

"It was also the cutest method. The absolute cutest... The only way...would be if you had made little animal symbols... instead..." Mia's imagination took those images and ran with them, now she was picturing little bunny symbols or kitty... Or puppy... or... fish or...

She squeaked, her head turning side to side as she attempted to push those thoughts away. Bath... they had to get to bath... Bathing...

Cute Masaru lost in the halls marking places to find himself again...

"Aha...a.." It would have been too obvious had he done something...something like that, he might have gotten caught by someone if they saw obvious markings like that so he'd made them scratches.

A-A squeak?

Masaru watched as Mia attempted to compose herself, waiting patiently on her. W-Was...it really that cute to her...that he'd done...that?

"I'm...done..." Mia muttered as she stood up, attempting to push away the cute...cute thoughts...

And promptly crouched back down again.

No!

Mia stood up again and took a deep breath, patting her cheek before turning around and reaching out to grab both of Masaru's hands. She looked insanely determined as she stared up at him, eyebrows scrunched up and face set in a slight frown of concentration.

"...Masaru you are the cutest man alive. I love you."

She... She did not look done as she had claimed...

Masaru blinked as Mia had once again crouched down...and then stood up again. M-Mia...she was...trying to compose herself.

!?

There was no time to speak up before Mia had taken his hands into her own, looking up at him with...d-determination...

T-That!? That's what she wanted to s-say!?

"M-M..." His eyes shifted to the side...and then the other as he worked through himself to speak up...but in the end failed to and instead stepped closer, pulling his hands from hers to pull her to him.

H...He was lacking right now in...in the giving affection...department, he... this was good...

"I love you, Mia..." He could at least say that!....after a few moments.

Was...Masaru looking side to side? Did he want to escape? From her? Mia blushed brightly as she felt she had...overstepped some boundary when he let go of her hands. O-Oh no... he had... Wait was he stepping closer?!

Mia eeped as she felt his arms go around her, too shocked to say anything for a moment as she was pulled against him. Her arms slid up around his neck as she broke into another bright smile, trying not to laugh happily and failing miserably. As he finally responded to her I love you, she nodded and tried to tug his head down for a kiss. "I know... I accept...your love..."

Masaru gave a small nod against Mia's head as she spoke, continuing to hold her close after she returned his embrace. Feeling her attempt to pull him down, he moved enough to allow it, letting her kiss him as she pleased; he would respond.

After this they could get to the baths as needed, it would be a lot easier for them in there where they could relax and sit close.

She was accepting of...a-all his affection, and l-love...

Mia smiled briefly against Masaru's lips before kissing him sweetly. She couldn't do it for too long really, the odds of someone seeing made her only able to make it a shorter one but Masaru had responded... That was all she needed.

Her hands slid to his cheeks from his neck and hair, caressing them softly before she smiled. "Let's go bathe, My Lord."

Stepping back, her face was carefully composed of utter innocence as her hands dropped from his face to be clasped behind her back. She then turned and hummed lightly, as if she hadn't just intentionally teased Masaru like that.

A smile was gained after Mia pulled back from the kiss, a soft, but warm smile as he felt her hands moved to his cheeks.

They could go a-

Again!?

Mia's words caused him to freeze there as she separated from him, Masaru stood in shock with growing fluster... A-Again with...with the...

Slowly he turned his head, seeing Mia walking along as she headed off towards the baths as if she hadn't just done what she had. H-Humming even...?

"M...Mi..." He managed to sputter, but...

Mia's giggled were stifled as her hand came up to her mouth, she couldn't die laughing in the hallway... She couldn't! Masaru's stuttered reply and obvious lack of immediate following just made her want to though and she hurried up her steps as she recognized where she was now. The baths were just over there!

There! Once she was inside...

Her face held a hint of a blush form her actions, but Masaru couldn't see it. He just... just stuttered... he had just stuttered at her!

Reaching the bathing room, she opened the door and hurried inside before plopping to her butt and bursting out in uncontrollable laughter. He was so cute!

Masaru stood there for a good few moments, his fluster stunning him rather fully as Mia held back her laughter and headed into the baths.

"A..a..." She... Just... Doing that-! That wasn't! It...

"Is something wrong?"

"Eh!?"

Masaru jumped, noticing Shizue with a pile of guest robes in tow, looking at him with a brow raised. She had been going about her duties getting the mansion properly cleaned when she'd noticed the Clan Head standing there rather...foolishly.

There was a sense of formality in her words, but more so than master and servant they did have a friendship of sorts between them, so it was fine for them to lack some formalities at times.

"E-Eh, a..."

"...?"

"N-N...Nothing!" Saying that, Masaru quickly turned on his heel and rushed to the baths like an embarrassed schoolgirl.


Masaru stepped into the room, almost completely composed aside from the red in his cheeks...which he was ignoring with as much strength as he possibly had within him.

"Sorry, I took so long, M...Mia..." L-Laughing... Was she laughing!? He had meant to keep composed!

Mia couldn't stop laughing, she couldn't! It was impossible for this woman's laughter to stop right now and Masaru's lack of joining her in the bathing room was just impossibly funny right now.

He...was he still frozen? If he was it would be amazing... Mia wished she had stayed to see in fact. How long had he stood there in shock? How did she have this power? Where was it coming from... Did her love give her these abilities?

If so it was a heady power she should respect and yet here she was laughing quite hard at the silly man she adored instead. Moving to where she would wash off first, the woman untied her sash before letting it fall, her robe slipping off of her shoulders as the door opened and closed.

"H-Huh!? Oh..." She turned, her laughter immediately stopping as her face turned red in anticipation of someone else only to find Masaru there instead. His apology caused a head shake and a smile, her hand reaching out to beckon him closer.

"Come get washed Masa." My Lording was powerful, she should save it for other occasions and did so as she let her robe fall to the floor.