Oboro and Hinata X Takumi

This is the story about the Hoshidan Royal Takumi and his two retainers. Who both honestly have a secret crush on their liege!

It was the bright morning of a new day in the middle of the war between Hoshido and Nohr, when Oboro woke up early to take care of the breakfast for the camp. She had to cook for a lot of people, and it's not Oboro-like to do that sloppy. She also wanted to make one's breakfast even better than all others, Lord Takumi's.

"Ohhh! No! This egg isn't perfect either! This one will be for Hinata then!" Oboro said to herself. "Lord Takumi's egg has to be perfect! This time he'll notice how much I care about him!"

While she said that Hinata came in and said: "Nyaaaah, morning Oboro! I see you got up early today as well?"

"Yeah, I did…" she answered.

"Hmmm, that smells good! I want one of those!"

As he reaches out for the egg Oboro punches him and tells him to back off. "That egg is perfect! This one is for lord Takumi! And you'll have to wait until the others wake up. Don't be so selfish!"

Hinata looks down and says: "Yeah you're right, our liege deserves a perfect egg after all he did for us…"

Oboro continues to cook breakfast for the rest of the camp, while Hinata goes outside to practise his skills with the katana some more. More and more people woke up and Oboro almost finished cooking all the breakfast. Then Takumi came downstairs. Immediatly after Hinata spotted him he raced inside to have a seat next to his liege. Oboro noticed him doing so, and she wanted the other seat next to Takumi, so she quickly finished the cooking and Jakob went to serve everybodies eggs. Oboro got the other seat next to him and everybody started eating.

"Hmmm, love these eggs Oboro! You did a really good job!" Takumi praised Oboro.

"Ohh, well lord Takumi, i-it is a great pleasure to hear you say that! I really did my best on this!" said Oboro while she tried to hide her blushing.

"Well," Takumi said "I'm really full, I'm gonna get my weapons so we can train some as I promised to Hinata."

"Oh yeah! I've been waiting for this!" Hinata responded.

Takumi went upstairs and so did the others, while Jakob and Felicia stayed to clean the table. Oboro and Hinata were the only ones left sitting on the table.

"Why didn't you invite me too? You know how much I love training with Takumi… and you…"

"Well, I thought it would be nice to have some one-on-one time with Lord Takumi, it has been a while since we were together without you."

"Then I want some one-on-one time with lord Takumi as well!" said Oboro a little angrily.

"Jeez.. try to keep calm Oboro! You don't want to have your secret crush too obvious!"

"What?"Oboro said "How do you even know that?"

"Oh! So it is true! I didn't even know but now I do! That's why you're so jealous of me all the time when I train with lord Takumi!"

Oboro didn't know what to say, so she stayed silent for while. After a couple of deadly quiet seconds she said: "Well yeah… I really do like him…Is it so obvious?"

Hinata ignored her question: "Well anyway, your crush is waiting for me so we can spend some quality time together, so I gotta go.

Hinata runs outside while Oboro screams "You jerk!" as loud as possible so that Hinata would still hear it.

Hinata arrived at the place where they were gonna train, and Takumi was right on time.

"Hey Takumi! Ready to train some?" After he said that they started to train a bit, give eachother hints on how to increase the impact of the weapon and sparred to finish their training. They both were very sweaty.

Hinata asked: "Hey lord Takumi?"

"Yeah Hinata?"

"We're best friends, right?"

"Of course we are! We have been for a really long time now!"

"So you're happy with me as your retainer? And how about Oboro?"

"Yeah Hinata, I'm happy with both of you! You fight bravely and are really good friends! I'm proud to call you my retainers!"

"Hey thanks man! S-sorry I meant lord Takumi!"

"Haha don't worry my friend!"

"So… we all have favorites, and I'm your favorite retainer right?"

"W-why do you ask me? I'm not gonna tell you, if I choose one of you two as my favorite, the other will be sad! I don't want you two to fight any more than you do right now!"

"Yeah sorry lord Takumi, I shouldn't have asked that…"

They both went inside where Oboro stood.

"Hey lord Takumi!" She said with a happy face. "Hey… Hinata" She said with sarcasm in her voice. "I have polished the armour, washed your clothes and sharpened your weapons lord Takumi!"

"Well thank you Oboro! You're a good help!" Takumi said.

Oboro blushed, like she did with every compliment Takumi gave her.

Hinata quickly said: "You're totally red! You never blush that much when I give you a compliment? It's like you're in love with lord Takumi?"

Oboro fake laughed really hard, so hard that it made Hinata's whole statement awkward.

"Well, I'll see you guys later…" Takumi said while he left upstairs.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?" Oboro said furious.

"Just asking something…" Hinata replied.

"IN FRONT OF LORD TAKUMI? You shouldn't have done that!" Oboro grabbed her Naginata and ran towards Hinata.

"Wow! Oboro chill!" as soon as he realized she wouldn't stop he ran away from Oboro and Oboro kept chasing him.

After that Oboro had chased him for twenty minutes she gave up.

"Phew… that was close…" Hinata said. "Why don't you go tell him the truth anyway?"

"That would be… embarrasing… I'm his retainer remember?"

"Well Yeah, but he is kind of cute so I do understand that you have a crush on our liege…" He tried to avoid eye contact with Oboro while saying that.

"Yeah, he totally is cute!" Oboro said.

"Especially when he smiles… that bright smile…" They both said at the same time.

"WAIT! WHAT?" Oboro said. "You're looking at his cute smile as well?"

"Well, yeah it's hard not to notice! I see him every day remember?"

"But you just said his CUTE smile! You think he's cute too?"

"Well yeah! One day when we were younger I had lost a friend in battle. I was so sad, and lord Takumi noticed it and he came to me, telling me it's okay. He even let me hug him and cry on his shoulder…"

"WAIT, lord Takumi gave you a hug? How did it feel? Was it warm? Is he good at cuddling?"

"Keep your calm Oboro, and yeah, it was the best hug ever. I'll never forget that moment of us together!"

"Ugh! I'm so jealous! I always dreamed of hugging lord Takumi! I knew it would be warm!" Oboro got lost in thoughts while thinking about it. "Does this mean that you have a crush on him too?"

"…"

"Hinata?"

"Well I don't know… I would love to hug him again…"

Then a long silence came. Everybody making up their minds, thinking about what the other just said. Then they suddenly both said: "LORD TAKUMI WILL BE MINE!"

They stared in eachothers eyes, furious, fighting for the heart of their true loves.

"I have been cooking every morning for lord Takumi!" Oboro said.

"I helped him when he almost fell off a cliff, I got to hold his soft hand!" Hinata said.

"I have designed his clothes for the Royal feast!"

"I got the seat next to him at that Royal feast!"

"And I asked him for a dance, and we danced for almost 3 minutes!"

"We have had sleepovers when we were younger. We stayed up whole night, but that morning he fell asleep in my arms!"

"Ugh! I want lord Takumi to fall asleep in MY arms!"

"Not gonna happen! I'm his best friend!"

"Looks like someone is gonna get friendzoned then! He never called me his best friend, so maybe he thinks of us more as friends!" Oboro said highly of herself.

Hinata kept quiet. He didn't know what to say. Then he said: "Well if he would have a crush on YOU, then why didn't he ask you out yet?"

"Nghh, I could ask the same to YOU Hinata!"

"Well, you know how lord Takumi can be shy sometimes!" Hinata said back.

"That means both of us have no idea who lord Takumi loves! He doesn't even look gay, he just looks cool and very cute, unlike you!"

"Hey that's not nice to say! You never know! At least I don't make my feelings so obvious!"

After some more brawling they split up. Hinata went outside, and Oboro went to her room. Hinata thought about what Oboro said.

"I don't even know if I have any chance, Maybe he isn't even interested in a GUY at all… And if he even were, then I still wouldn't know if he was interested in me…"

After saying that to himself he went into the woods to go for a walk.

While Hinata was walking Oboro thought about what Hinata said.

"Well IF he has feelings for me as well, then why wouldn't he have told me… I mean, it's not difficult to notice my feelings for him. If I knew he had feelings for me and I had feelings for him… I would at least have flirted some…" She said to herself.

When Oboro had stopped being said she went downstairs again. After a minute she noticed that Hinata came inside again. Hinata noticed Oboro, and they had eye contact, but they both knew it was better to not say a word.

Then Hinata thought: Well, I have feelings for him, and I may not be sure if he is interested in me, but I'm not sure he doesn't either! Ha, I could just try! What could go wrong?

Oboro was cleaning the table while she thought: Pfft, Maybe he is just shy. Or he's playing hard-to-get! I still have a chance! I could at least try it!

Hinata said to Oboro: "Hey Oboro? Do you know for sure that lord Takumi isn't interested in guys?"

Oboro looked up and said:"Uhh, no. I never heard him talking about guys, nor about girls..."

"HAHA! So I still have a chance!" He said happy. "I should ask him if he wants to go on a... you know... date?"

"Yeah, haha... a date with lord Takumi..." said Oboro dreamy. "Wait what? You're planning to ask lord Takumi out?"

Hinata answered: "Yeah, why not. I'm just gonna see if I have a chance at all! I wanna ask him to climb a mountain with me, just us, together!"

"Is that truly the most romantic thing you can think of Hinata?"

"You know how much lord Takumi likes to train, it will make us fit... and alone..." He puts his dirty hands on the table Oboro was just cleaning and he started leaning over the table to look more intimidating.

"Ohh stop it! Your plan is one big failure! I'll ask lord Takumi to go to town with me for shopping and we could have a drink there. Much better for such a warm day!" Oboro gave a nasty look and started leaning over the table as well.

"Wow Oboro! I gotta admit that's a good idea! But I'm gonna ask lord Takumi out!"

"No way! He's mine today! This weather is perfect for a day in down, just me and lord Takumi...!"

Takumi and his older brother Ryoma come downstairs together. Takumi notices his retainers. Hinata and Oboro both look back and try to wave at him as cute as possible. When they turn around again they stare in each other's eyes. They knew exactly what the other was thinking by the way the look in their eyes. The only thing they thought was: Takumi is coming with ME today!