Lover & Fighter ((Ryouta Basket & Pigeon))

[Kotorichan]

Ein ran a hand through the boy's hair, he held him gently in his arms. "I don't choose who I love Haru... It just happens." He smiled and kissed Haru's cheek. "I will wait, I will wait as long as I might need to. Please just tell me when you have made your choice." his gaze dropped to the floor. "And if you choose a life without me then I won't hold any resentment... Of course I will be heartbroken, but I won't blame you for your choice" he looked back to Haru and hesitated for a moment. "may I kiss you?" he asked softly

[Ryouta]

Ryou was regretted what he had said to the other boy. He didn`t want him t be heart broken. He looked away, he wanted to tell him that he wanted to be with him but he would probably thought that Ryou was making fun of him. It was a right choice too. He hadto think, since his decision would changed his destiny. He loved him but it was forbidden for him to love Ein. He just wanted to forget everything and go back to his kingdom so that Ein could lived happily with his wife and children but he couldn`t hurt his own heart. He looked at the other with his green eyes as he smiled at him, blushing brightly. "mm~" He nodded as he closed his eyes. "Aishiteruyo..." He whispered.

[Kotorichan]

Ein leaned in and pressed a soft kiss to Haru's lips. "I love you..." he murmured, tracing his fingers over the boy's cheek. He sighed softly and pulled Haru into a tight hug. "I'm sorry... But can I just stay like this for a few minutes? I've been under so much stress lately..." he trailed off, things had been going ver badly with his father and he was beginning to make some very difficult decisions. He was turning eighteen soon, but maybe not soon enough. He might have to take the throne before he was originally going to. But that might require ending his own father's life... Ein didn't know if he could do that, no matter how many lives it would save.

[Ryouta]

Ryou blushed dark when he was kissed by his master, he grabbed the other`s shirt tightly and surprised as he moved back. He nodded, let the other feel free. He hold him tightly, started patting his head gently to make him feel relaxed. He smiled as he slowly kissed the other`s hair. He started playing with the other`s blonde hair. It was soft and a bit long. He knew that one day he would not be able to hold Ein so he hold him even tighter, made him feel that he is not alone. He closed his eyes as he pulled the other on the bed and kissed his cheek. He lay his head on the pillow and put the blanket o it. He lay next to him, winking at his prince. "You should rest...I`ll do it too..." He said as he placed his head on the other`s chest.

[Kotorichan]

Ein smiled and gently held the other close. His eyes slowly closed as he relaxed from Haru's presence. "alright... Just for a little bit though... I ha e lots of things I should be doing" he murmured. He had been so busy that he hadn't had much time to rest. He finally felt himself drifting into a light sleep, his arms around Haru's waist. "I love you..." he murmured on more time before completely falling into a peaceful sleep. He ended up staying asleep for a few hours, he was so exhausted that he didn't even dream. But having Haru in his arms helped him relax.

[Ryouta]

Ryou thought that he would managed to sleep but he couldn`t. Maybe it was just his imagination but the other was holding him really tight. He was blushing and ,moving a bit so that he could calm himself down but he couldn`t. His heart was just beating so fast. He hoped that his prince would not notice about it. He looked at the other when he was asleep. He touched his cheek as he stroked it a bit. He loved the handsome face of his. He played with the other`s hair with a gentle smile on his lips. He managed to fall asleep after half an hour, using the other`s chest as a pillow. He was so tired. He was dreaming about the person who he knew well. He called her randomly. "Maria, I love you..."

[Kotorichan]

Ein had been sleeping rather lightly. The sound of Haru's voice woke him. The prince lay in the darkness in silence. He felt like his heart had been torn to pieces. 'Of course he loves someone else... He must just be afraid to reject me...' he thought to himself. He slowly pulled away from the boy without a word and left the room. He had work to do, he had to crush these selfish feelings down if he wanted to be a good king. He wanted to cry but brushed the feeling away. Haru loves someone else, that would explain why he didn't want to say anything about his past... It made sense that he wouldn't tell Ein, he must be terrified of the prince.

[Ryouta]

Ryou woke up after hours sleeping. He yawned as he tried to sat up on the bed. "Ein sama?" He called the other but he didn`t seem to be there. He sighed as he touched the part of the bed that Ein was lying on earlier. He loved the warmth. He held his pillow tightly as he sniff. He could feel his smell. He blushed as he opened his eyes. "You made me fall in love once again...thank you...Ein..." He just called his name. It felt good. He wanted to see him already. He stood up and tried to be careful not to hurt himself. He changed his clothes as somebody knocked. "Hai!" He saw a maid stand in front of him. "The king wants to see you! Please follow me!" Ryou`s heart started beating so fast. He wasn`t ready to see the king. He looked down and nodded as he followed her to the place he was, waiting for permission to arrive.

[Kotorichan]

The king had summoned Ryou to his private chambers. Ein's father almost never left his room anymore, he had gone completely mad. One of the maids lightly knocked on the door. "come in" the king called out. The maid opened the door and stepped back to allowed Ryou in. The king looked up at the door, he seemed to be very old. "You're Haru aren't you? I've heard that my son has been spending a lot of time with you... Why is that? You're just some servant! A prince shouldn't waste his time with you, he's far too weak to rule over anyone... You see, I called you here because I'm going to make Ein strong... He'll be here in just a few moments" the crazy old man chuckled.

[Ryouta]

Ryou walked inside, not daring to have an eyes contact with king. He bowed, tried to calm down but he was trembling badly. He said in a low voice, hoped that the male understand what he said. "It`s an honor to meet the king of the Eoth kingdom! Do you have something to tell me?" He stood straight, looking down, he stock his hands together, hoped that nothing bad happen. Hoped that he would not notice. He was silent all the time he spoke. He didn`t know what to say! He was right. Sure Ein spent a lot of time with him. He was the prince and instead of doing his works, he was wasting his golden time for him. He squeezed his hands together as he heard the last sentence. He was scared. He hoped that it would not make trouble for Ein but he wanted him to come soon because he couldn`t take being alone with the old man. It scared him.

[Kotorichan]

The king laughed loudly and leaned back in his seat. "my stupid son has never killed before, he doesn't know that when he's king everyone will want to stab him in the back. He can't have silly fantasies holding him back..." Ein lightly knocked on the door before entering. "Father? You called..." he frowned when he noticed Haru in the room, but didn't say anything. "Ah, yes, Ein... You see, I want to teach you something. Many years ago I thought I could trust our neighboring country, Harakouyu, but now I know that their king has used black magic to curse me! if I hadn't been so trusting this never would have happened" Ein's father grinned madly. Ein knew that the curse was something that the king had made up. "So, I don't want you to be so weak... I've noticed that there's this servant that you seem to like, but you can't let those silly feelings control you... so I want you to kill him."

[Ryouta]

Ryou shocked as he heard that. He walked back, his eyes started shining in fear. He grabbed his shirt tightly as he looked his eyes. He knew that this day would come. He looked back at the other with a smile on his face. He shook his head, pointed at him to not do something stupid. He had to do as his father wished. He walked to him as he sat in front of the other, on his knees. "It is the honor that my life would be taken my my prince!" He said in a low voice, bowing at the other, waiting for him to pull out his knife and end him.

[Kotorichan]

Ein stared down at Haru. It broke his heart to know that the boy thought that he would do that. He let out a soft sigh and pulled out his long dagger. He took a deep breath before swiftly pushing Haru out of the way and lunging towards his father. The king only had rime to let out a shrill cry of confusion before Ein's blade slashed through his throat. Ein took a step backwards, watching with wide eyes as his father fell to the ground. The prince's hands shook as he realized what he had just done. He felt like he was going to puke as he dropped the bloody knife

[Ryouta]

Ryou was ready. At first he felt at ease when the other didn`t complain and pulled out his knife. He smiled, tried hard to hold his tears. He wanted to live after a long time since Ein came to his life. Now that Ein was going to take his life away but no..Ryou saw it took a bit long. Ein wasn`t in front of him, he turned around as his eyes widened. He put his hands on his mouth fast to not scream not he was shocked, his tears fell one ny one, tried hard not to sob. He started shaking, he couldn`t believe that Ein did such a thing. He wanted to run away but he couldn`t move at all. He stared at the king that now was dead, collapsed on the floor, he felt dizzy after a while and his skin color turned white.

[Kotorichan]

Ein slowly turned his gaze to Haru, he felt an overwhelming feeling of self loathing for making the boy see something like that. "Haru..." He didn't know what to say, Haru no doubt thought he was a monster. Ein had known that this was the only way to stop a full scale war... His father was about to make the final decision to send in the troops. Ein's eyes filled with tears and his legs gave out under himself, he buried his face in his hands and let out a choked sob. Somehow he just wanted Haru to tell him that it was okay, to say that he had made the right choice. But he knew that the boy would be too scared to do anything like that.

[Ryouta]

When Ryou saw him like that, his heart felt like that it was breaking apart. Ryou couldn`t just believe it. Ein did this to safe his life. He thought that it might be good since there would be no violence but his beloved to kill him father, it must have been hard. Ryou couldn`t tell. He could have never killed his own father even if he was a real man king like Ein`s. Ryou hated to see Ein crying and sobbing like that. He moved closer to the other as he put his hand on the other`s shoulders, crying in silence himself. He threw himself on the other. "I told you to kill me but you..." It wasn`t the time to say that. He had to comfort him. He put the other head on his chest as he started stroking his blonde hair, calming him down. "Shhhh....It`s okay..." I`m here!

[Kotorichan]

Ein held onto the front of Haru's shirt, letting out broken sobs. "why? why did he have to...? he used to be fine... but... he wanted to kill all of them... even the ones that live in our country... I couldn't... I couldn't let him..." He pressed his face into Haru's chest, tears streaming down his face. He just wanted to go back to when he was younger, when his father seemed like the greatest king in the world. Before he had lost his mind. But it was too late now, he didn't even know if he had made the right choice.

[Ryouta]

Ryou could understand, when he was a child, his father played with him and he seemed kind and nice but a few years afterward, he started to get busy with the war and his bigger brother was the other one who he payed attention at. He felt hurt and sad. He felt jealous towards his own brother. He didn`t have anyone to talk to, his finance was killed by some enemies attacking her family mansion. After that he had no one to live for. Ryou tried to put away his tears. He held him even tighter as he stood him up. He looked at the body as he looked away fast. "What are you going to to with it, my prince?"

[Kotorichan]

Ein took a deep breath and wiped his eyes. "I'll have to say that he attacked me... That it was self defense..." he shakily crawled over to his father's body, trying to hold back tears. He pulled the king's dagger out and carefully cut his own cheek and then his own arm before dropping the knife by the man's hand. He took a deep breath and looked over at Haru. "Please support what I say..." He slowly stood up and held out a hand to the boy, hoping that Haru would agree to help him convince the guards.

[Ryouta]

Ryou bit his lips, he hated lying although he lied to the other himself. He had to do it. For his love`s sake. He looked down and fist his hands. "Hai!" He felt hurt and his heart was going to stop beating when the other cut his own body that others would believe. He held out his hand to tell him to stop but he couldn`t help it. He took his hand back as he waited for a other to finished. He saw a knife next to the bed. He walked to it. He cut his left shoulder as he looked back at his prince. "Then I can`t say that I was standing there and watched, my prince!" He smiled, felt the pain from the wound.

[Kotorichan]

Ein hurried over to Haru, a pained expression on his face. "I'm so sorry Haru, I didn't want you to be here when this happened..." he lightly touched the boy's cheek. "I hope you can forgive me..." he pulled his hand away and quickly walked to the door. He stumbled out into the hall and went to one of the guards, quickly telling them everything. He was truly convincing, especially since he was always known to be a peaceful man. As he spoke he began to cry again, he really was sad to have lost his father.

[Ryouta]

Ryou followed Ein to the guards, when he was explaining everything, he tried his best not to act strangely and make the others suspicious about him. He agreed all that his prince said and explained a bit himself that he tried to protected his master but he was injured by the king and then his prince was. Fortunately, they believe what they had said. Ryou asked them to bring a doctor immediately as he tried to comfort the other, pushing him weakly to his room. "The doctor will come soon so please lay down a bit until he comes." He put his hand to the other`s forehead as he made a pale face. "You have a fever!"

[Kotorichan]

Ein managed to sit down on the bed, his whole body was shaking as he looked up at Haru. "I'm sorry Haru... I'm sorry that I'm such a horrible person... I don't know why you don't just leave" he felt dizzy from the fever. "I love you so much, but you must hate me... I hate myself so much... I just want to help people but I- I- I killed my own father, what kind of person have I become? I just- I just don't-" His breath quickened in panic, he couldn't even speak normally anymore. "I'm a murderer Haru! I should be executed! How am I supposed to be a king?"

[Ryouta]

Haru didn`t know what to say, well sme parts of what he said were right and some parts weren`t. He looked him with sad eyes as he held the other`s hands and lift them up. "I don`t really know what to say...It must have been hard but...One think that I know is that I love you..I was in love before and I never thought that I would fall again..so thank you..I love you so you should love yourself too, okay? And I won`t ever be afraid, since what you done was for mine and people`s sake, I am grateful!" He said in a gentle voice as he stumped and held the other into his arms lightly. He was smiling, wanted to see him smile bacl at him. He wanted to make him happy.

[Kotorichan]

Ein managed to smile shakily. "thank you... he murmured. he gently pulled the boy into his arms and closed his eyes, trying to breath deeply to calm himself down. "I... I don't know how you seem to know exactly what to say..." he tried to hold back tears as he clung to Haru. A doctor came in and carefully started to treat Ein. The prince struggled against the doctor as he was pulled away from Haru. He looked up at the other with desperate eyes, as if he thought that Haru would leave at any moment. The doctor firmly made Ein lay down despite his struggling.