Yamato remains against the wall, with his cheeks red and his nervios smile.
Taichi pressed himself against the warm body, the injuries of Yamato were still fresh and the King found himself ashamed to hurt his lover.
His lover.
The thought plays circles into Taichi's head.
"I'm going to get married" Taichi said over Yamato' ear.
"And I'm going to be your guard"
The hands of Yamato were clinging all over Taichi's clothes.
"We need to… we must to… maybe…"
The options die on his throat. The beautiful blue eyes of the wolf knight looked at him since the shadow of the room.
"Be discreet, it's what we need, to be discreet"
Taichi looked at Yamato. So pretty and certain, a silent resignation.
The touch of his hand was still on his skin when he opened the door and left him. The taste of that lips, the echo of his voice, the heat.
All was spinning around Taichi.
At some way he arrived at his own room. Here, on the center, was his sister. Small Hikari with the biggest smile that he ever had seen her.
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The merchant saw the King left the room of his son. His majesty left fast, with a smile and shame on his face that the merchant recognized very well. The old man get at the door and when he was just to knock, Princess Ritsuko appeared in the hallway. She had seen the king left too.
The princess has no business with his son, but he has some. He must check how Yamato was, he must congratulate him for his new position, be by his side, as a good father. Even then, when the beautiful woman passed behind him, he followed her in silence, until her room.
"I thought it would be funny" The merchant said.
His words kept floating on the room, without an answer.
That woman doesn't talk to much. No, she did, just not at him anymore. They do this thing when they throw the words into the space between them, without calling it a conversation, it was more like a list of announcements, of feelings that cannot kept for themselves but that cannot full sharing neither.
"funny is maybe not the word" He said. And as it helps to be listen he touched the smooth skin of her naked torso.
"I'm going to need more poison" She said between the kisses.
He had been worried about the hurry. Maybe an encounter on the palace would be dangerous, it wasn't her house on the valley or his boat over the calm sea. The palace was the territory of someone else, on other rules and other lords. Even then, she take her time, and he, as always, play on her terms, taking what he can, as a sad thief.
"funny, as a bad joke, if Yagami had lost" He said.
"Poison, I'm going to need some more" She insisted.
"Kings and princesses, your father, your husband, your enemies, I don't care at who you would used it Ritsuko. But not Yamato, not our son"
"He must to stay with you, he has no business in the palace" she said with a cold voice.
The merchant take a depth breath. How many years had past since they had talked about his son.
" it was his decision, I didn't know he was going to stay" he answered.
"just a few more poison good sailor, for a noble dame in need" she insisted tangled her fingers on his blonde hair.
"come on, princess. We had past that. What do I win by giving you poison? "
She stayed by his side. The promises between they don't last.
"It's not for your son, the new king had to gone" the princess said as she raised her voice "so my son could be king, as he always has to be"
He hugged her again, between the malevolent plans. And she stayed over him, filling him with kisses and cares until he had to left her room with a smile and shame on his face.
She got the poison, a rare substance from lands across the sea. The healers of the Honest Islands can´t trak it, neither the light sisters can heal its effects. She can kill Taichi, as he had kill the king before him. But she get something else. The words "not our son" kept floating on the bedroom. His older son was here, committing the same crimes than she, only god knows what they both would be capable to do to get what they want.
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On Taichi's bedroom Hikary' smile shine, unfortunately the light of her sister wasn't enough to enlight Taichi.
"Hikary, what are you doing here?"
" I'm here to congratulate you, my dear brother, I never had a doubt about your victory"
"Thank you"
"The true god of light had give us the throne"
"If that's how you want to said it"
"What do you mean?"
Taichi turned to face his sister, Hikary´s eyes were waiting the best of him, probably not his political unconformities. Was your light conspiring with the nobles? but the question die before been pronounced.
"It's nothing, I'm just overwhelm with everything"
"I know how you had to feel"
"Hikary…" Taichi said full of hope.
"The light had given you the power of a nation, a perfect wife to love, subdits and a purpose bigger than you; you had to had so many doubts and concerns"
"Hikary…" Taichi said full of fears of the words that are coming.
"But is in the light where are going to be the answers too, you had choose at your biggest rival to be your guard, a compassionate gesture; but you need someone illuminated to whisper you advices"
"Do you want a position, little sister?"
"Oh god no, I still had a lot of studies to do to become a true sister of the light; but I had to recommend you the summont alchemist of the order, Koushiro Izumi is the man that you had to look around"
Taichi remembered at the summon alchemist for his own time on the monastery. Koushiro had been nice to him, but he always look like he knows more than he said, Hikary and him looks closed by their devotion at the light.
"I will think about it"
"You had too much to think about, brother" Hikary said as dancing around all the room "The new churches to built on the far lands, the light trained for the soldiers, the lessons to incorporate at the schools, the charity for the ones on need, all the work that the light has to do now, brother, all thank to you"
All thank to him. All the power that the light is going to had. And over the voice of his sister the new king listen the echoes of Yamato's words "The light would never touch someone like me". His lover, a bastard who doesn't live accord the light rules. Neither he does, no anymore.
"I'm also give you your wedding clothes" Hikary said.
"What is wrong with my armor?"
"Oh brother" Hikary said laughing "now you must be elegant, the standards of the light has to shine over a King not over a Knight; also your bride is going to look so beautiful on the dress that I embroider, you must to be at the same level"
Taichi stayed in front of his sister, wishing he could tell all his real doubts, about princess Sora, about the light, about the promises that he and Yamato did.
"Your highness" Hikary said with a reverence before she left.
"Hikary" Taichi called her " Do you know that now that I'm King, it's your duty to take a husband, to bare children and take the position on our family place as Queen of the mountains when father will die, right?"
"The light will found a way, brother" Hikary said sadly as getting out of the room.
Taichi stayed knowing that neither both of them had shared their real worries.