Party Time

Cast: Sakura & Takumi
Prompt: The younger Hoshidan royals bond during a party.

Takumi sighed.

Here he and his sister were at yet another banquet. He hated it, she hated it, it was one of many things they could agree on. Though they were optimistic at first- they had personal stake in this banquet. Today was their oldest brother's wedding to Princess Camilla of Nohr.

But no. This party proved just as boring as all the others.

Sakura nervously walked up to her brother. "This isn't g-going any better than usual, Takumi…"

"I know, I know." The prince run a hand through his hair. Then he paused. "Hmm… hair… I've got it. We'll light Prince Leo's hair on fire, and maybe we can sneak out in the mayhem."

"Takumi!"

"What? I was kidding, sheesh." Takumi shook his head, but then paused. "Oh wait… you still like him, don't you?" Sakura blushed. "Heh… But seriously, this is boring. At least the nobles aren't flocking to us like they usually do."

The princess nodded. "I wouldn't know what to say if they wanted to talk ab-about the couple… We've seen Ryoma and Camilla together for so long, I'm just used to it."

"Yeah, she's already acting like she's part of the family." The prince looked around the room. "What are our retainers up to, anyway?"

"They've been making sure that nobody gets in uninvited…"

"What? Who's gonna break in? Besides, we could handle it!"

Sakura blinked. "Takumi, you don't have Fujin with you."

"Well… I could improvise." This made his sister giggle. "What? I could!" He sighed and looked around. "Wait… Isn't Princess Elise here?"

"Oh, no…" Sakura frowned. "She and Odin l-left for Odin's homeland. Camilla said that Elise had p-previously sent her regards in a letter."

"I see. So I guess we can't have any more Koto/violin performances?"

The priestess nervously gripped the side of her dress. "No… But, I really don't want to be put on the spot, Takumi…"

"Well, you could just do the Koto by yourself."

"But… I just said I don't-"

"Aw c'mon, you're great at it! At least you have a talent!"

The princess gasped. "Takumi, don't say it like that! Y-you have talent!"

He let out a sigh. "Okay, okay… Ryoma and Hinoka have both been over this with me… I didn't mean for it to sound like that. 'I am an amazing person' after all… I was just saying, you're good at music."

Relief went over Sakura's face. "Well, thank you, Takumi. But... I don't even have it with me."

"We could probably get Subaki or someone to go grab it for you."

"You know we haven't asked our retainers for tiny things like that."

Takumi shrugged. "Hey, I'm sure they'd love to hear it too." He smiled. "Haha, I can already imagine Camilla cooing over her 'new little sister' providing music at her wedding."

"S-stop."

"Hahaha! Remember when she first joined our group, and she just thought you were the most adorable thing she'd ever seen?" Sakura's response was to blush furiously. "So that's what Corrin had to deal with growing up!"

Then Sakura stopped blushing, and began to chuckle a little. "You know, heh, that reminds me of the time I showed Camilla one of your old dolls, heh."

His eyes went wide. "…You didn't…"

"Heh, I d-didn't mean to, but… but it still happened, heehee." Takumi groaned. "One time Camilla was visiting my room, and she liked the dolls on my shelf. But one of them was y-yours. I corrected her when she thought it was mine, without realizing…"

Takumi groaned even more loudly. "That explains why there were a few days in a row where she'd keep looking at me and snickering. And here I thought it was Nohrian haughtiness. I'll have to apologize later… That'll be an awkward conversation."

"Hmhmhmhm!"

The prince raised his eyebrow. "Oh now what?!"

"It's just… I'm actually having fun, just talking to you! And we were so worried about being bored," Sakura said. To that, her brother smiled.

"Hey, you're right. We've just been shooting the breeze the last few minutes, and honestly? It wasn't bad at all. You'd think that after so long together, we'd have run out of things to talk about already."

Sakura kept smiling. "I'm glad we still have each other, Takumi."

"Yeah. We make a good team."

A/N:

This was written a little over a month ago on the blog. Why did I take so long to put it up here? Procrastination, plain and simple. I admit that Gray Whirlpool has been taking precedence. And the new Paper Mario game, which was surprisingly good.

Originally this was written for another mod as their birthday gift. On this website, she's known as Lovelylori. Read her stories.

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