Title: Life, Love, and Chores…
Fandom: Kuroshitsuji
Author: kira
Words: 300
Rating: OT
Summary: Agni thinks about his life while going about his day…
Warnings: none

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Agni put on an apron. Walking over to the cold larder, he carefully rolled up the sleeves of his green sherwani and white kurta, and took out a chicken for tonight's dinner. Having accidentally slept in due to Soma's neediness and desire for sharing kama last night, he felt very lucky to have gotten the last one in the marketplace and for a good price too. Taking the carcass outside, he got to work, plucking it. It was tedious work at best, but Agni found a certain comfort in manual labor, work that he would have shunned in his "previous" life as the spoiled son of a rich priest. But now he had a chance to undo all the bad karma he had accrued, by serving Soma and helping shape him into a kind and respectable person, that no job was considered beneath him any more. He was even thrilled to have the opportunity to do it far away from palace life, in gloomy old England, thanks to Meena.

He paused and looked up over his shoulder at the townhouse, smiling as he thought of Soma sleeping peacefully in bed. He knew he should have woken him up when he got home from the marketplace, but Agni let him sleep. The day was grey and damp, with a promise that rain would soon be here, in other words the kind of day that made the prince terribly clingy. And with Soma hovering over him, Agni knew he would never be able to get anything done. Once the chicken was happily cooking in the pot and the smell of curry permeated the townhouse, then he would wake him. Until then, Agni would get his chores done while thinking of Soma and the fun they would have when he woke up…