Title: Lessons in Life
Fandom: Kuroshitsuji
Author: kira
Words: 300
Rating: G
Summary: Soma realizes what a good teacher Agni has been…
Warnings: none
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Soma sat in the townhouse's window seat, watching the world go by like he always did. Instead of focusing his thoughts on the random passersby, he found himself thinking about Agni. Not that that was a bad thing, in Soma's humble opinion. Agni had become a mix of mentor, lover, and older brother with a hint of father thrown in, or what Soma supposed a father was supposed to be like, since his own barely paid any attention to him. Now that they had been living in England for a year, Soma was sure his father had no idea he was gone, or if he did, he probably did not miss him, unlike his grandfather.
Soma recalled how he first met Agni and how his only interest in him had been for his skills as a fighter, so that he could teach Soma how to defend himself. But those lessons somehow turned into lessons in how to share kama and little tricks that brought the ultimate in pleasure to both partners. While it had been for all the wrong reasons at first, Soma was just as eager a pupil as Agni was a teacher. The prince smiled as he recalled all the lazy afternoons, they had spent back home in India, while Agni tutored him in the arts of love.
Now his lessons were more mundane and more befitting a servant than a prince, but Agni had a way of making polishing silverware fun, and Soma looked forward to learning how to run a household. The fact that boredom was a big motivator as well as loneliness, for if Agni was busy he had no time for the prince, was immaterial. Soma absorbed those lessons just as eagerly as he had others and he wondered what today's lesson would be…