Against his will 145

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“Happy Winter Festival!” Their parents and brothers cried when they finally emerged into the breakfast room that was completely decorated with large candles and evergreens. It looked better than anything that Kazu had ever seen before and he couldn’t stop himself from smiling and drawing himself closer to Jun’s body. The teddy that he had decided to call Tibs was in his arms much to his embarrassment but he hadn’t wanted to leave it in his bedroom wanting to show Masaki and even his mother. Nobody mentioned the bear as he took a seat and Jun didn’t seem to mind so he sat it in the empty seat beside him.

“…Thank…Thank-you…For the gifts…” He breathed gently his cheeks flushing at the grins that he received from Ohno and his wife. His mother gave him a smile of her own reaching over the table to take his hand. Kazuko took it gently and squeezed at his fingers saying;

“Happy Winter Festival, my son…”

“…And you…I have a gift for you…” He said remembering that he had actually managed to get his mother a present. It wasn’t wrapped though and he simply pulled it out of his pocket with his free hand and slid it over the table. Kazuko smiled with interest and Nino turned his hand over and slowly moved his fingers one by one until he revealed the blue butterfly hair decoration that he had brought. There were seven butterflies of varying sizes made of polished precious stone shaped with silver and gold and linked with delicate chains. Kazuko had always loved butterflies seeing them as a sign of summer and she let out a delighted gasp reaching out to them.

“This is beautiful...Thank-you…” She breathed her eyes almost shiny with tears as she lightly touched the delicate wings of the butterflies. It was the first gift that he had ever given her and he could only hope that she liked it as much as it seemed that she did. There was very little chance that she could wear it now as it was too decretive for the mourning outfit that she was wearing but the fact that she kept touching it with her fingertips and smiling at it throughout the breakfast made him glad that he had gotten it for her.

Once they were all finished they moved through to the family sitting room with Jun pulling him and Tibs down onto the rug in front of the blazing fire and Kazu noticed that there were more presents here of varying shapes and sizes. Ohno took charge of them standing in front of the pile with a smile on his face as he read off the names. Masaki let out a strange sound when he realised that he and Sho had been included in the family gifts his face growing bright pink as he was handed a box that was almost as large as he was.

“Kazu…This is from Aurora and myself…While this one is from me alone…” Ohno told him handing him over two boxes from the stack. One was as large as Masaki’s while the other was smiler and heavier. He opened the larger one first at the same time as Masaki opened his and found that there was a thick winter cloak within. The clasp was the symbol of the Matsumoto house on his while Masaki’s was the symbol of Sakurai. The Matsumoto crest was a bush with three different coloured roses and on the clasp they were picked out with brightly coloured gold. The second gift was opened next his hands trembling slightly as a polished wooden box was revealed. It looked almost new but at the same time looked older and when he lifted it up he found a chess set that almost perfectly matched the one that he had used to play against Ohno with the only difference being that the King and Queen pieces had been changed to him and Jun. “Now we may continue our games via messenger pigeon…Welcome to the family, my son…”

TBC
A/n: I hope that this is okay ^_^