Disclaimer: J.K. does not belong to me. However, these stories do belong to me.
Authors Note: I've decided to write drabble for 31days community on live journal. These are the stories that I've came up with for each of the themes.
Title: Stories of Change Series
Author: Fuji S. Yuki
September 1: Here we are
En-Koku
It has been almost five hundred years that they had been together. A pair that has never been seen before of all twelve kingdoms; one dark as night the other bright as day; an unusual pair this emperor and his Kirin of En.
They had been through bloodshed, arguments, and even through it all they stuck together like two pair of birds married for life. There cannot be harmony without one or another and so they stay. Sometimes one would flock away and the other would stay but always the other would come back. That was the way it worked and that is the way it would remain.
September 2: Cat
En-Koku
En-ou never would admit to anyone that he watches his Taihou sleep. He would never let Enki know that he would watch over him either for if he did he knew that the other would yell at him for being such a pervert.
However, since that disaster during his 20-year reign where his Taihou was taken, as prisoner there would be certain unrest in his body that anything shall befall his golden mate. Yes even though he would not admit to anyone for five hundred years that he and Rokuta have been together they have been mates. Not in the sense of mates as in the full bonding of rakish sexuality, but rather a companion of sorts that would watch and comment on his humanity.
Therefore, as the years passed on he would find peace in watching the five hundred years Taihou of his sleep. Sometimes Shouryuu thought that Rokuta was more of a cat one with feline grace and the compulsory to snuggle and stretch awake like one.
It reminded him of the neighbor hood girls that would call for their pets and in a split second, one would pop up with a meow and come toward them in greetings. Yes, that was how he felt when he watches Enki and the behavior between him and his co-partner of this kingdom.
Youko one time mentioned to Keiki that she did not understand how a five hundred year courtship could still be in exists. This drew questionable glances from her faithful Kirin as he too watches the En-couple banter and argue.
September 3: Being as yet but a girl
Kei-koku
Even though the Kingdom of Kei had its turmoil's Keiki had confidences that his Empress would be able to muddle through and create order and peace among her kingdom. At first he did acknowledge that he thought she would be like the previous empress falling into a mindless doll role but as he watches the red headed Queen of his.
He learned that she had grown from a timid shy girl into a powerful leader. As each day passes he watches her interact with her ministers bring about change while struggling to better herself on the throne of her kingdom. Keiki knew it was a harder job being a ruler and that it wasn't all easy. Each Kingdom had seen its share of rulers and Kirin's; they had seen the bustling and workings of each kingdom and how much it must have taken to achieve their goals.
The same could apply to watch all that richness and prosperity vanish within corruption, greed, and cruelty. Such is the fate of rulers and kingdoms no matter how glorious a kingdom was it could vanish within only a few weeks. Crumbling into dust of nothingness and that was how events turn and no one can stop it.
Rulers could rule for a while centuries even but over all it just amounts to one thing, one way or another it would fall for people change, even with time they still change and no one can prevent that from happening.
So Keiki watches his Queen finding her footing of this place and slowly hopes that it would be a while before he watches his kingdom falls. He had live through one ruler he surely did not want to chose another if Youko should fall.
For even though Keiki didn't admit his reasoning on the outside he knew that Youko was still just a girl and that he didn't want another to replace her.
September 4: I wish
Tai-koku
I wish that you were near me.
I wish that I could remember.
I wish that I could hold you.
Most of all I wish that you were here.
Years had past since Taiki had disappear and only thoughts presented in the once proud King of Tai was that he wanted his little Kirin back. Gyousou misses Kouri with excruciating pain but only consolidation he did have knew that Kouri was alive.
Gyousou knew that if Taiki was killed that it was only a matter of time before he too passes between the veils. Yet even though he was trapped and locked up in this stone prison he still lived. This helped him go on waiting for the one that his mind, body, and soul long for.
Kouri.
September 5: A winter morning just like any other
Tai-koku
Tai-koku was a cold kingdom filled with ice and snow. Even the palace was freezing but the beauty of crystal litter the frozen land. People had to create certain doom buildings to grow anything in this harsh climate. Frozen waste land some people would call it with disasters like flooding to other periodical problems.
Nevertheless it was home to Tai-ou and his Taihou. One that cannot abandon or get rid of for it is their duty. Yet for the Kirin of Tai he still felt glum with his inability to help out in the politics of his kingdom. However, those around treat him as a child telling him it is fine to just grow up at a pace and worry about it later.
Usually Taiki's duties reside in several trusted officials of Tai-ou they made sure that paperwork that the youth still had to learn about would be in this world of foreign rituals and concepts so different from Hourai.
So like any other day Taiki would awaken to a winter morning and just like any other he would get up dress and head off to check up on his King. It became regular practice for him to go and watch Gyousou at his work behind a mountain full of paper. Sometimes Taiki would think that if the world were made up with paperwork then surely it would topple from sheer winds.
If he was such a bratty child he would have just done that create some form of gusty wind and blow away all this paperwork for he felt that even though it was important documents. Gyousou should mind his health and take a break once in a while.
Feeling eyes glancing at him the King paused in his writing to glances in welcome. "Kouri…" Placing down the brush he open his arms, "Come here."
Obeying Taiki went to his master's arms even though he couldn't stop Gyousou from doing paperwork. Like all winter mornings the silver white hair King would stop in welcome. Even though Taiki could never tell him to work he at least was reassured that the other would greet him and talk to him a bit before going back to work.