A Kiss Makes It All Better---Physical Pain
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Harukanaru Toki no Naka de or its characters. They are property of Tooko Mizuno and Koei. If they were mine, I'd have Yasuaki and Eisen fall in love with each other.
Four year old Eisen was running around playing tag with his older half-brother. He ran really fast to escape from being tagged 'it', but because he was going so fast it was hard for him to watch where exactly he was going. He accidentally stepped into a little pothole and tripped over.
The soon-to-be emperor rushed to his brother's side. "What happened?"
Eisen looked up at his brother, sat up and held his knee before bursting into tears. "I fell down!!!" he wailed.
The older male didn't know what to do…but Eisen's mother would. He carefully picked up the smaller boy and carried him to where his mother was.
"Oh my, what happened?" the woman asked when she saw her stepson carrying his younger brother.
"Eisen hurt himself," the older boy replied as he sat Eisen down. For such a little kid he was a bit heavy. (I feel that way about infants at times…)
The woman knelt down and had a close look at the sore area and smiled sweetly. "Why, it's just a little scratch…" she assured her son. She then pressed her lips to the scratch and kissed it silently. When she pulled back, she assured Eisen it would stop hurting. "A kiss makes it all better," she'd added.
Eisen saw his partner had placed a couple of fingertips to his forehead. "Yasuaki*, is everything alright?"
Yasuaki turned to the young monk who'd recently become his lover. "For some reason I am feeling pain right here."
"Do you have a headache?"
"Is that what this pain is? It is rather different being able to feel pain."
"How bad is it?"
"I did not say it was bad, I said it was different."
"No, I mean the pain level. Does it make your stomach feel ill or is it just a very slight, hard to notice pain?"
"How many different pains are there?"
"They range between the pains I listed."
"My stomach does not feel strange, so it must just be a slight pain."
Eisen smiled gently and walked over to his partner. "Could you please sit?"
"Why do you ask?"
"I learned a wonderful treatment for slight pains but I cannot reach to administer it to you."
Yasuaki sat on the ground where he was. He wondered what this treatment was and why the physician hadn't used it in the past.
Eisen knelt in front of his partner. After stretching up slightly, he was able to press his lips to the spot Yasuaki had indicated the pain was located. He pulled back after a few seconds. "The pain should fade very soon."
"You said you knew a treatment to heal slight pains. Was the kiss you just gave me the treatment?"
"Yes. Hahaue used it on me when I was a child and had hurt myself slightly."
"A family remedy?"
"Not quite, though it is advised you only use it on someone you care about."
Yasuaki felt the pain had faded. "Your mother's treatment worked."
Eisen nodded. "A kiss makes it all better."
The End
*Note-No honorific is being used because they are intimate with each other.