Chapter 13: Sweat- because it's not fair to expect a girl not to stare when provided with the right amount of naked perfection.

Huh, what is this? Another update on the same day? I must be ill or something… Aaaanyhow, this is just a small, silly little thing I concocted in the middle of the night.

Although I am careful with not putting a timeline on my oneshots I imagine this one taking place much further in the future than the manga is currently up to, when she finally starts to notice hak, not just as a guardian and friend. But as the man he actually is.

One day it will happen!


The summer heat was almost unbearable. The grass around them withered and the sun glared relentlessly down at them from a cloud free sky. They had all stopped counting the days since they last felt the blessed feeling of rain against their faces. Though something as trite as a small heat wave alone would never allow him to neglect and disregard his training. Nothing was more important than keeping himself in the best shape possible.

The only slack he had allowed himself while exercising in the heat was to remove his heavy robe and the tunic beneath so that he was only dressed in his usual black trousers and boots. Even the normally shy Kijah and Shin-Ah had given in to the unbearable heat and followed his example. Not that it helped much though. Clothes or no clothes, the sweat poured from all three of them as they repeatedly attacked each other.

…..

Trails of sweat worked themselves down his muscular chest and upper body and reflected the afternoon sun in an enchanting display of raw, masculine power.

Attack,

Parry,

Thrust,

Block.

The swift movements when he shifted from one battle position to the next, in combination with the rare sunbeams that hit the perfectly shaped muscles of his back and shoulder blades when he moved in and out of the leafy shade of the trees as he lunged forwards to deliver the deadly blows created a kaleidoscope of colours that she found she could not take her eyes off. Not to speak of the perfect abs that steadily rose and sunk as he breathed heavily from the strain of the work out…

Yona's ears pounded and something she could not decipher stirred in her stomach when her gaze lingered on those scuulptured abs and she accidentally caught a glimpse of his lower back and… what was below it… as he swirled around and the fabric of his dark pants stretched when he made another lunge forward. The long robes he usually wore covered everything thoroughly and she had never really thought of what could hide beneath. Even though she has seen him half naked before, when he had been injured and in situations alike, it was definitely not the same now…

"Errrrhm."

She had not even been aware that she was staring until someone behind her very indiscreetly cleared his throat and nearly made her jump out of her skin in pure fright.

"You know, if you like looking at him so much why don't you tell him so?" The green dragon enquired with a smirk that reached all the way to his ears.

Yona felt her cheeks burn, and only half from being caught staring at her body guard while he, the white and the blue dragon had engaged in a war dance of sort to keep themselves in shape.

"Erhm. Um… I, I don't, I didn't… I was just…"

"Yes yes yes, I know exactly what you were doing my princess. Now if we don't head back with the fire wood soon Yoon and Zeno are going to get worried and start looking for you, and eventually find you here, hiding behind a bush gawking at the Thunder Beast, and we would not want that would we?..."