Title: Cultural Surprise
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: G
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Set in the manga universe. This was written in about twenty minutes.
Summary: Ferio gets a surprise when he asks Fuu about a certain tradition in her world.



Ferio had been thinking about a certain subject for months. When at last he felt he had found a good way to approach it, he brought it up with Fuu during her next visit.

“What’s the most common way to propose, ah, I think the term you use is ‘marriage’, in your world?” he asked her.

Fuu looked at him in surprise. “What brought this up?” she asked.

“Well, I’ve wanted to propose a union to you for a while,” Ferio said, “but I didn’t think it would be appropriate to say anything before your family knew about Cephiro. I’ve been thinking about this ever since the three of you finally told your families about here and I decided that I want to do things properly by your traditions.”

“I see,” Fuu said. “As it happens, you’ve already done it.”

“I have?”

“You have,” Fuu said, an impish grin appearing on her face. “Twice. Once during our first visit to Cephiro and once during our second visit.”

“You mean…?”

“Yes,” Fuu said. “The most common way of proposing marriage is to offer the other person a ring.”

Ferio was stunned. He hadn’t known there was such significance to the gesture.