There is a spelling error here, and I know it. Word Perfect and my beta were unable to detect it, but I know its there. Please hunt it down for me. I'd be ever so grateful. Anyways, this one was particularly hard due to personal bias against Saionji. However since he is one of my best friend's favorite character I did try to respect him, really I did. I hope I didn't utterly fail at that.
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They had met in passing years before. Back then, only one of them had been rich. Back then, he at least had that to hold himself over the other.
Secretly he was glad when his friend's parents died. It meant he had bettered him once again. Even as an "innocent" child he was aware that his chances to better the other were slim and few between.
The smile on his face when he discovered they had been adopted into a family far more powerful than his own disguised the nauseous feeling in the pit of his stoumage. He wanted to be glad for him, he really did.
But did he really have to lose to him at everything?