AN: please don't flame unless you read the story. All reviews welcome. The more reviews, the faster the update. This won't be more than three or four chapters, by the way, and I should get it all up pretty fast. I don't own Fire Emblem by the way. Just obsessive addicted.
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It had never really been a big deal to them. Being together was as essential as eating or sleeping. There had always just been a part of their lives that simply belong to the other. It had sort of evolved along the way, never really becoming distinct to them. Until they had joined Lyn in searching for her father, that is.
The incident that had started it had been simple enough. When Kent and Sain had first begun training as knights, they were all each other had for a while. When a severe thunderstorm had upset the camp during their second year of training, Sain had requested Kent's presence in his bed. He wasn't scared, or anything… He just felt this was a unique opportunity for the two boys to know each other better. Ever since then, the boys had moved their beds together and would often spend their nights talking about nothing, and everything. In certain situations, these sessions would include bodily contact, and as time passed them became closer physically. Nothing more happened, though, past sleeping in each others arms. It didn't seem strange or awkward at the time, and as their relationship matured neither of the knights really understood what was happening to them.
When Lyn had come, though, and they finally had left their home, they were unsure how to act. Each wanted desperately to fit in, to be normal, while still being connected so intimately with the other. In the end, it simply turned into a secret life, deceiving others while still not. The deception began with Lyn.
"What is this figure of beauty that stands before me?" Sain approached the blue haired woman. He really had never meant anything to come of it, other than a façade to imply he was a normal knight. Which he was, obviously.
She turned to look at him, raising her eyebrow. Apparently she had never been complimented in such a way. Kent watched the situation, jealously rearing up as it usually did when Sain met another one of his women, but his face remained unchanged. Maybe their relationship was friendly and nothing more, like the red-haired knight had always feared.
"Excuse me-" Kent stepped in before the blue haired beauty could do anything to his friend.
"Pardon my friend, fair lady. He has a fetish that he cannot keep under control," Kent smiled while Sain glared at him, but Lyn seemed to like the red head better.
They had a short conversation that consisted of Sain volunteering them for an adventure, and Lyn telling the two knights of her father's search for her. They took a short trip back to the knight's quarters so that the two boys could get their miniscule belongings, and took off immediately. They didn't speak much, and Lyn seemed to travel as far from Sain as she possibly could, which drove him into a pouty mood.
"At the moment, I only have one tent," Lyn began, a few minutes later. The troupe had just left the town's borders, when they finally realized that the only supplies they had where what they had carried before they left. It wasn't like they were out of the reach of all civilization and they had plenty of food, but it would be a good twenty miles until the next merchant, and the sun was ready to set.
"We should have waited the night out back at the castle…" Sain suggested. , when they had finally found a clearing off the well trod road to camp for the night. It was rather small, and the dirt was moist to say the least. On top of that, Lyn insisted that they all should sleep in the tent together.
"We could not do that, milady… The tent is yours. Sain and I will sleep out here on the ground," he motioned to a space in front of the small fire his friend was beginning to start. She shook his her head in disbelief.
"There is enough room in this tent for all three of us! You two should not have to suffer here on the ground. It could rain, or a beast could come- so many dangers…" She argued while unpacking the bag Kent had carried on his saddle.
Sain stood up and smiled leeringly at Lyn and said in a low voice "I wouldn't mind sharing a tent with her, Kent. Just give it up."
Lyn's eyes opened quickly, and she gave Sain a horrified look. "Fine. Sleep out here," she choked, turning back to the tent she had just wiggled out of dirt covered sack. Kent smiled sadly, trying not to show his emotions and went to help Lyn set up the tent.
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"What's the matter?" Kent looked up from his soup when Sain asked his question. He raised his eyebrow and looked at his friend with a confused look on his face.
"Nothing. Is something wrong with you?" His attempt to dodge the subject was rather pathetic.
"Kent, I think I would know if something was wrong. Tell me."
"Nothing. I'm fine. Really," Kent said, trying to give his friend a convincing look. Sain shook his head and went to his pack to get his sleeping gear. He prepared his bed in silence, not looking at Kent, but with a disgruntled look on his face. The red-haired boy finished his soup quickly and rinsed his bowl out before diving into his pack.
Sain had set his blankets up across the fire from where the other boy was eating his dinner. Kent wasn't sure whether he should set his bed up beside him or not. He had obviously made a point of not sitting by Kent at dinner, and now he felt about the same. In the end, Kent had set up his sleeping pack opposite Sain, but closer than where he had been sitting. He laid down before Sain had finished setting up, and turned over to fake sleep. Kent laid that way for a few minutes, almost half an hour actually, and he was right on the verge of sleep when Sain snuck over to lay down by him.
Kent's eyes opened slowly, and turned over to where Sain was beginning to replace his things. Their eyes met for a moment, the only things really glowing in the faint firelight, and Kent scooted over to where the second bed was placed. Sain threw himself back onto to ground, as close to Kent as he could be with the layer of covers between then. Each stared at the other's face a few seconds before Kent threw his blankets back and laid exposed while Sain quickly crawled in beside him.
The brunette wrapped his arms around Kent's torso and pressed his head against the other knight's neck. Kent returned the embrace, pulling his blankets back over the two and also pulling Sain's blanket close. Sighing, he tilted his head down into Sain's hair and ran his fingers through the short hairs at the bottom of the brunette's neck. Sain's eyes raised up to look at Kent's face. The proximity and the longing he had felt all day pushed him to take a risk, and he reached up to place his lips on Kent's. He pulled away quickly, feeling blood rush to his face. He covered up his blush in Kent's chest, and the other boy smiled widely, the first time that day.
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Sain was the first to wake up the next morning. He woke up far before sunrise, just when the sky became blue instead of black, because he couldn't sleep. Sain laid with Kent a little longer before climbing out of their sleeping cocoon, afraid of being discovered by Lyn. He wasn't sure about her sleeping habits or what time she usually woke up and he definitely didn't want to take any chances on her finding them…together.
Sain first spent his time watching his friend sleep, wondering what he was dreaming about, but he quickly began getting paranoid again and decided to start another fire and cook breakfast. First, he trekked into the surrounding forest to find wood for the fire, and by the time he got back Kent was awake and replacing his armor. He looked up as Sain reentered the clearing, but no words where exchanged. Nothing had happened the previous night.
While Sain started the fire, Kent pulled out the leftover soup and three biscuits from underneath the food packet, placing them near the fire. Finally, when the sky was the color of the ocean, Lyn immerged from her tent. She seemed remotely surprised the two knights had already started breakfast, but accepted the bowl Kent shoved in her hands with a light air. They ate in the same silence that had accompanied the group the previous day, and packed up all their things and where ready to head off before the sun had broken the horizon.
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