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Twelve Kingdoms Fanfiction

Title: Sweet Greens

Written by: enki-sama

Rating: G

Pairing: Well... not really yaoi, but Taiou Taiki if you want to see it that way... (which I did)

Disclaimers: Twelve Kingdoms and all its characters belong to Ono Fuyumi. I am merely borrowing them to have some fun.

Summary: Mealtimes in Tai-koku...

Gyousou frowned.

Recently, he noticed something.

Kouri doesn't touch his greens.

Pausing in the middle of lunch one day, he said simply, "Kouri, eat your vegetables."

"No," the black-haired kirin replied just as simply.

The servants around them gasped. They didn't think that their Taiho would defy their Ou-sama, especially not over something as trivial as eating vegetables.

"Kouri..." Gyousou started warningly, chopsticks pausing in mid-air as he stopped eating to talk to his kirin.

"No," Kouri said calmly, putting a mouthful of rice into mouth after that.

"Why? Vegetables are good for you." Gyousou insisted, waving his chopsticks in the air animatedly.

"I hate them, they taste yucky," Kouri explained briefly before putting another piece of food into his mouth.

Gyousou was about to start a lecture on the important of greens in one's diet when Kouri turned to him with a pitiful, wide-eyed look.

'Don't... Don't make me do something I don't want to...' The Look seems to say, and Gyousou could feel himself giving in slowly, as always.

Luckily, he managed to get a hold of himself in time. Gyousou might give in to Kouri on certain matters, but when his well-being is concerned, Gyousou is putting his foot down.

"Kouri, come here." He requested, beckoning him over to his side at the other side of the table.

Kouri looked at him with a puzzled look on his face, but still went over anyway.

Standing beside him, Kouri asked, "What?"

Gyousou swiftly picked up some vegetables with his chopsticks and stuffed them into Kouri's mouth.

Kouri chewed slowly, crunching his face up at the taste that he dislike so much. He then swallowed the mouthful of much-hated vegetables down in one dramatic gulp.

"There. You are eating them now, aren't you?" Gyousou said smugly.

"Hmph. You cheat." Kouri sulked, crossing his arms over his chest.

Gyousou laughed heartily, then reached down to lift Kouri up onto his lap.

"Well, to make up for it, I'll feed you myself for the rest of this meal then, Taiho-sama," He said teasingly, then reaching for another helping of food.

Kouri nodded.

"Now, that's more like it... Hey, stop giving me veggies!!!"

End

Author's notes: I hate eating veggies. Yuck! . But I eat them anyway, because my mom says that vegetables are good for me. (sigh) It would be nice to have my own Taiou to feed me veggies... (daydreaming)