The Wall part 18

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“How should we get rid of it?” Masaki asked slowly looking at the goods that had been given.  Satoshi’s box had arrived carried by two guards. As soon as he had gotten it into the apartment he had emptied it out and now he was at a loss as to how he was going to handle it. He knew that their floor would be the first that he would share his bounty with as they all did when they came into some good fortune. But there was just so much of it that he was sure that there would be plenty to go down through all the floors. He sighed at the amount of work that he had to do but he knew just how much the people would appreciate it.

“We divide it up and take it around. As soon as possible before it starts to go bad.” He said with as much enthusiasm as he could manage. His side was starting to hurt again and he didn’t want to waste the medicines that he had been given “Get out a knife and we can start dividing the fish and the meat”

“You’ll have to do that, Nino, you know how badly I cut meat” Masaki whined slowly and Nino let out a chuckle and rolled his eyes as he shoved Masaki over to the counter top where he had stored his mother’s knives. They had been in the family for years and were dutifully sharpened to perfection even though they rarely had chance to use them.

“You can sort out the fruit and vegetables. Make sure that there is enough for a good portion for each” He hummed when he had been given the knife. Masaki gave a nod and then together they worked in silence carefully sorting out the different foods. It took a while but eventually they had around thirty parcels of food and sweets along with various gifts that had been given to Masaki. There were candles, scent, wine. The sweets that Satoshi had given him had been pushed away deciding that he and Masaki would share them later. “Done”

“Satoshi gave you a lot. Are you sure that he would be happy that you’re giving it all away?” Masaki asked leaning back against the wall and letting out a long breath pushing his hair out of the way of his eyes.

“He told me too. That’s why he gave me so much. Come on, we’ll have a drink and then head out” He mumbled taking two of the packages and storing them away for themselves later before washing his hand quickly in the small amount of water they had. “You make the drink, I’ll find something that we can put all of this into”

“He must really like you to buy you all of this though” Masaki whistled getting up to put on the kettle. One of Masaki’s gifts had been a box of tea and Nino gave a smile looking forward to tasting it. It had been a long time since they had been able to afford tea and he wasn’t so generous that he wanted to get rid of all of that.

“He doesn’t even know me enough to like, I just think that he has a lot of money to spare and he’s trying to be a nice person.” Nino sighed trying his best not to be irritated that Masaki seemed to be treating this like a courtship and not a business arrangement. He was scared that his brother was going to fool really in love and have his heart broken “Did you know that he’s promised me that for one of his conditions that he will pay for a doctor to come from beyond the wall once a week? He’s very rich, his god mother is the queen and he wants me to meet her so that I can try and convince her to change things. Me? In the same room as the queen!”

“She won’t know what’s hit her” Masaki laughed as he poured the water over the tea leaves through the strainer and Nino gave a chuckle happy for the vote of confidence from his brother.

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

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[bmanning_93]

the brothers are so kind sharing everything