Spirited away part 8
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Nino stared into the fire, the flames licked up from the crackling wood. The food had been mediocre but it had filled his stomach and he was starting to feel sleepy. His head was nodding back and forth and he could barely focus on the conversations that were going on around him. An arm wrapped around his waist tugging him into a warm comforting body and he smiled breathing in Satoshi’s familiar scent as his eyes fell closed.
Nino blinked as he was suddenly in a golden coloured room. Confusion filled him, he had been in the woods a moment ago, hadn’t he? Had that been a dream? He shivered moving towards the door he could see in the distance hoping that somebody would come and find him. A noise behind him made him turn and he gasped to see somebody in a heap beside a floating bed. He moved towards the figure wanting to help until its head snapped up and beady eyes stared unblinkingly at him.
“I will have you...You are mine...” The emperor growled his voice coloured with hate and ownership.
“I will have you...You are mine...” The emperor growled his voice coloured with hate and ownership.
Nino tried to scream but his throat seemed to be sealed shut. His legs were like stone as he tried to move away from the hideous form of the emperor crawling towards him. Blood was flowing from the large open wound in his stomach as well as flying out of his mouth like spit. His gnarled hands were reaching out to him and just as they scraped over his face he did let out a scream.
“Sparrow, wake my little sparrow” A voice from the distance called and at the sound the body of the emperor faded into dust with a near blood chilling howl. A brightness came into the room and a warmth unlike anything he had felt before filled him. He basked in the glow before his eyes opened and he found himself wrapped snugly in warm animal skin blankets with a warm body pressed at his side. “Sparrow? Are you with me?”
“Yes, sorry...Just a dream...It was a dream...” Nino whimpered turning into the warmth and clinging to the folds of cloth breathing in Satoshi’s scent trying to get his heart to stop racing and his tears to stop flowing.
“My sparrow” Satoshi whispered into his hair holding him close as he cried. He cried silently not wanting to wake the other three in the camp though he wasn’t sure if he hadn’t already woken them with his scream. He could barely remember the dream that had just plagued him but he knew that he had been terrified. When he had finally calmed down enough to stop crying he wiped his eyes with the pad of his hand and then looked at the man that had saved him...Twice.
“I’m sorry”
“Don’t apologise, little sparrow, are you okay to tell me what you dreamt”
“I...I don’t remember...The emperor...He...He was bleeding...He was crawling to me...He said...He said that I was his and that he was going to have me...” Nino choked out as the dream came back in waves and fragments. Satoshi looked at him with his one eye and then smiled in an understanding but not pitying way.
“It is normal to be afraid, my sparrow, you had prepared yourself for so much...You had been told and beaten until you had accepted your fate...” He said in a soothing tone and Nino frowned hating being weak but enjoying the gentle way the lord was speaking to him.
“But nothing happened, not truly, he didn’t get the chance...You stopped him...” Nino pointed out with a huff only to be stopped by Satoshi pressing the lightest of kisses to his lips.
“It is true that he did little to you physically, my sparrow, but hurt can come from many things. Your family betrayed you first. They have done so since you were a child, I failed you also when I did not take you from your father sooner. The stress you have had coupled with my actions...It was obvious that the dreams would come...”
“I don’t blame you, at all, I have never blamed you. You were always so nice to me. Even when you lied...” Nino smiled remembering the admission that had come with Satoshi’s first letter. He hadn’t really been a friend of Sho’s then. He had been his captain and had grown interested in the rather flowery descriptions Sho had given of his brother but it was only after Nino and Satoshi had met that he had become friends with Sho. It was a rather roundabout way of doing things but Satoshi had explained that he had had a sister when he was young but she had been killed early on and something about Sho’s descriptions of him had made him want to meet him.
“It was only a half truth that I soon owned to, but it is now true, I am a friend of your brother” Satoshi smiled in return the scars around his eye wrinkling a touch more and Nino lifted his hand and pressed his fingers to them. He had always long to do so, he had always imagined them to be rough against his touch but in fact the opposite was true. The white skin was as soft as new born baby skin, or silk, it was also warm.
“Does it hurt you?” Nino asked uncertainly as Satoshi seemed to flinch away from him but the lord shook his head taking his hand and holding it to his face again.
“It is an old wound, one of many, I am not a whole man...I have more than a dozen or so such scars. Can somebody as young as you be happy with such a man?”
“Humm, such a man...Who would betray his emperor and save me from a marriage that would have been worse than death, a man who scowls at the world but smiles when he sees me, who has known war and pain and yet...Has the heart of an artist and the delicate hand that can make birds from paper...Your scars are you, my lord and I am more than happy with such a man” Nino said knowing his cheeks would be burning at the passion of which he spoke and he was glad that Satoshi didn’t say anything more but instead claimed his mouth in a sweet kiss pushing him down onto his back to he could slide himself on top of him. Nino moaned at the weight but not because it felt bad, it was a happy sort of weight and one he delighted in.
TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay >.<
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