The Love of Lord Ohno Satoshi part 15

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Satoshi was never a heavy sleeper and after going to bed so early it was at an early hour he reluctantly left Ninomiya’s bed and went in search of fresh clothing and something to wash the sleep from his face. His own bedroom lay on the other side of a door and he went into it not surprised to find Matsumoto on his bed. The boy had clearly been crying into his pillow during the night and had cried himself to sleep while he had lain with Ninomiya and Satoshi told himself that he should explain things to the boy. The cruelty that he had suffered in the hands of his captors was something that Satoshi would never likely forget and he assumed that Matsumoto thought that he was as cruel as those men.

“You are, aren’t you? Or do you think that girl is right?” His father’s voice rang cruelly in his mind forcing his eyes away from Matsumoto to turn his attention to getting ready. “Do you think that he would love you? Why would anybody love you? Weakling…Coward…”

“I am not…” Satoshi growled allowed closing his eyes and clenching his fists trying to silence the words. He knew they were in his head but he had heard them so many times that they were etched deep into his subconscious. He looked at the boy on the bed pushing aside the guilt he felt he shook him hard causing him to wake with a start and silent gasp as his mouth opened. “What are you doing in here? Get up and get to the kitchens where you belong…” He spat picking him up and throwing him over the room “Tell them that Ninomiya will be wanting breakfast…” Matsumoto stared up at him with a shocked, hurt expression in his face but Satoshi ignored it turning his back to the boy as he spat “Leave…”

Matsumoto made no sound as he hurried from the room and Satoshi sighed quietly at the guilt which gnawed a tiny groove into his heart as he stripped out of his dirty clothes and into new ones. He washed his face roughly in cold water and then swept his way out of his room. He made his way down the endless corridors into the study. Papers had piled up while he had been attending to Ninomiya and he knew that he should turn his attention to them before long.

He managed to make his way through only a quarter of the stack before growing bored and restless wanting to spend the time in the room with Ninomiya even though he knew that he was stupid and weak. Throwing the papers back down onto his desk he got back to his feet and moved out of the room again. The guards watched him silently as he walked back up the stairs and into the room that housed Ninomiya. He expected him to either be still asleep or eating the breakfast that he had had sent. What he didn’t expect was Ninomiya to be knelt on the floor picking up the scattered remains of one of his mothers’ favourite cups. Ninomiya swayed slowly almost falling forward into the broken cup. Satoshi swept forward and caught him before he fell holding him up into his body as Ninomiya breathed;

“Um…Good morning…my lord…”

“Little whore…Are you perhaps trying to disfigure yourself so I will not want you in my bed?” Satoshi asked gently as he saw that there were fragments of the cup buried into a wound on his legs.

“No…my…Lord…” Ninomiya denied his voice catching into something almost like a whimper as he pulled out a few shards that had imbedded themselves into his leg with his fingers. He was glad to see that the cut wasn’t very deep.

“The cut is not deep there should be no scars…But even if there were and you were completely disfigured you still belong to me, little whore…” Satoshi him picking up into his arms and carrying him over to the bed.  Satoshi picked up the tray and carried it over to the bed surprised to find Ninomiya blushing and looking almost happy by his words.

“I know…My lord…” The boy whispered looking at the bandage on his arm. Satoshi gave him a look trying hard to work out what he meant by that look. He clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth and then turned his attention to the wound on Ninomiya’s leg. It bled a little bit but it wasn’t anything major and it only took a few moments for him to clean it and wrap it in a bandage.

“What happened with the cup?” He asked sharply after he had finished. He could see the troubled look which passed over Ninomiya’s face and he knew instantly that it was something to do with Matsumoto. “Tell me little whore…”

“The boy…He dropped it by accident…”

“Matsumoto…” He hummed softly and Ninomiya blinked stupidly for a moment and Satoshi let out a sigh feeling another round of guilt that he had caused this by his unforgivable attitude with Matsumoto and he knew that he would have to find him later and apologise to him at least in some way. “If it was just an accident why did he not clean it up?”

“I…Um…” Ninomiya spluttered out his broken answer and Satoshi gave another click of the tongue before pouring his whore a drink of the expensive fragrant tea. They ate the breakfast together in silence and he tilted his head to look at the boy.

“I shall see you later…You will not get lonely I trust…?” He asked in a teasing tone and he was surprised to see that Ninomiya seemed to smile at his words before he whispered;

“No, my lord…Thank-you…”

Satoshi nodded at him and then left the room. Once again he made his way to his office only to be stopped by Fuwa who was coming up from the kitchens. Her face was serious and she waved him over and he found himself being led out into the garden as he asked;

“…Fuwa…Have you seen Matsumoto the younger?”

“…He was in the kitchen a few minutes ago…He was troubled and upset, my lord…” She answered and Satoshi gave a long loud sigh rubbing the back of his neck with his fingers. Again, he felt bad and of course Fuwa was the only person that he could allow that to show.

“He caught me with Ninomiya…You know of his past…I imagine that he thinks me no better than those that hurt him…He broke a cup and cut Ninomiya…” Satoshi told her and Fuwa clicked her tongue just a little “I will handle it…You don’t have to do anything, my friend…”

“I will trust you with this…But from the state of the boy I suggest that you deal with it quickly…” Fuwa warned and Satoshi gave her a smile and then allowed her to go back into the castle while he moved to the kitchen. The staff squeaked in surprise as they saw him but he ignored them all searching their faces until he found Matsumoto. The boy was sitting close to the fire doodling in the pad that he used to communicate with the rest of the world.

“Matsumoto…” He called and the boy looked at him a near wild look in his eyes before he settled for sad and scared. The eyes widened even further as they looked at him and he gulped getting to his feet and almost tripping over the hem of his clothing. “Come with me…” Matsumoto followed him out of the kitchen and then up into his study. His head was bowed and Satoshi could tell that he was trembling. Of all the people in his castle Matsumoto was one of the few that didn’t fear him but held respect. “Matsumoto…Would you care to explain what happened this morning?” He asked and Matsumoto quickly scribbled into his pad;

>I’m sorry…I tripped and I broke a cup…<

“Ninomiya said that it was an accident as well…Matsumoto…What you saw last night, between Ninomiya and myself…Ninomiya and I…” Satoshi growled and gripped his hands together tightly before saying as calmly as he could “What goes on in our room has nothing to do with you and I would prefer it if you did not take your anger out on Ninomiya in the future…”

>I’m sorry…< Matsumoto wrote again a tear rolling down his cheek. Satoshi stared at him for a moment or two and then sighed for just a moment knowing that he hadn’t achieved what he had hoped but he couldn’t find another way to express himself.

“Leave…”

TBC
A/N: He didn’t make it better ne…<.<

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Aw I actually forgot how incredibly cute Jun is in this fic, I want him to be happy with Nino soon <3