I do not own Saiunkoku Monogatari.
It belongs to Yura Kairi.
Dedicated to Nishitamachi
pairing: Ryuu/Shuu, Kijin/Reishin, Kouyuu/Shuuei (?)
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Lessons In Love
Lesson 2 - Things Go Downhill
"This is pretty easy," Ryuuki smiled at Shusei.
Turning up the lamp higher, Shusui looked at her student's handiwork.
"Your Highness! It's beautiful!"
"It - it - it is?"
"Oh yes!" Here, she blushed. "Even better than mine."
"Oh... this is only practice. We hope to give Shuurei a handkerchief in return for the one she gave us."
"Sakura blossoms?" Shusui asked.
"Well," Ryuuki blushed. "We thought red roses would be good..."
"What a wonderful idea, Your Highness!"
"You think so?"
He looked so excited sitting there, sewing in hand. She smiled softly.
"Oh yes."
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"He's got dark circles under his eyes..." Kouyuu muttered. "Are you being a bad influence on him again, Shuuei?"
"I wish," Shuuei sighed, watching the emperor snore on top of a still-wet inky scrolls. "I wonder though... if it's not the harem, what's keeping him up so late?"
"Daydreaming about Shuuei, maybe?"
"You sound like you hate her."
"I don't. It's just everyone's behaving -"
"Foolish?"
"Wellll... yes..."
"You just haven't fall in love yet, you woman-hater. But then... perhaps it's for the best. You'd get lost on the way to the honeymoon suit!"
WHAP!
A book hurtling at his hand was easily fielded.
"SHHHUUUEEEIII!!!!!" screamed Kouyuu. "How can you say that, you bastard! You'd be the type to find another woman's bed on YOUR WEDDING NIGHT!"
"Hey, hey! As long as I keep 'em all happy..."
"ARRRGGHHH!"
"I thought that the other day was an aberration. I guess... not..." Kijin muttered.
"Shuuu-rreeeiii???" Ryuuki muttered blearily as he raised his head from the desk - his face tattoed with kanji across his forehead and cheek.
"Come, Kijin," rapped Reishin, leaving the room in a huff. "The longer we stay here, the easier it will be to get infected with this stupidity."
"Stop calling us stupid!" barked Ryuuki. However, his sternness was severly undercut by the ink on his face.
Kouyuu and Shuuei cracked up. Kouyuu dropped his paperweight.
"What?" asked the young Emperor crossly.
"I-i-i-i-idiot!" gasped Kouyuu.
"Emperor!" Shuuei shook his head. "I suggest... a m-m-m-mirror!"
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