Not a fairy story part 4

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Sho found himself staring open mouthed at the boy prince in shock even though he didn’t mean to be rude. He had seen Masaki a few times in the palace but that had been a few years ago now, when he was small and childish and in his mind he was still thinking of the boy like that but nothing could be further from the truth. Masaki had grown since the last time he had seen him and filled out like any boy in his teens would. He wasn’t overly muscular given his many illnesses but he was toned around the shoulders and the thighs. He looked a lot like his mother the queen, a woman so beautiful that many wars were said to have been fought over her in her youth, with almond shaped eyes and a perfect heart shaped lips that should have looked foolish on a man but on Masaki with his soft oval face looked perfect. His teeth were white and perfectly straight when he gave a bright and cheerful smile his head tilted to one side asking;

“Is everything okay?”

“Ah! Yes! I’m sorry your highness…Please forgive my manners!” Sho said bobbing his head up and down frantically as he tried to pull himself together his cheeks flushing a warm and happy red when Masaki gave a giggle. “I am Ninomiya-Sakurai Sho…I am to be your personal guard and…Tutor…”

“You have already said that, Sho…And I have told you to call me Masaki! We are going to be together a lot, ne?!” Masaki said lifting himself gracelessly from the comfortable looking sun chair that he had been sitting on and coming over to him his hands hitting against his shoulder so he was knocked to one side “We should call each other by our first names!”

“Your highness…I…That…That I can’t do…You are a prince and I am a proud member of your father’s kings guard…” Sho spluttered wondering why his adopted father hadn’t warned him about the cheerful boy in front of him more so when Masaki gave him a very Nino like smirk and asked;

“And you have to do everything I say?”

“Within reason…” Sho responded weakly knowing what was coming before it came and triumphantly Masaki bashed him on the shoulder a few more times saying happily;

“Then you have to call me Masaki! I was surprised to know that Nino has a child, he doesn’t look old enough to have a child as old as you Sho!”

“I was adopted, your…”

“Ah…Nope…” Masaki laughed cutting him off with a hand over his mouth and Sho was able to catch the overly sweet scent of apples clinging to the young prince’s skin before he was released with the boy saying “Say my name first!”

“Masaki…” Sho sighed strangely liking the way the name rolled off of his tongue “Nino adopted me, the same day that you were born…”
“…Wow! What a coincidence! Nino is very proud of you! He talks about you all the time…He said that you could read when you were only five!” Masaki hummed heading back to his sun chair and sitting down beside a pile of books that seemed to be untouched given the amount of dust that had collected on their fronts and Sho gave a nod his chest almost puffing out with pride as he answered;

“Yes, y-Masaki…My mother taught me…Before she died…” Sho read the question in the prince’s eyes and sighed slowly “She…She had been injured…There was some complications and…She died…”

“I’m sorry…” Masaki said immediately but Sho gave him an attempted smile shaking his head a little as he said;

“It is okay your…Masaki, I have very few memories of my mother but I remember that she liked to read as have I ever since, it keeps her memory alive…”

“That is good…My father is hoping that you will rub off on me…” Masaki said chewing on his bottom lip his eyes going to the books at his side looking at them doubtfully for a long time “I like stories but…I prefer to be read to rather than read them…And my penmanship is non-existent, I’m afraid…Oh…And mathematics is a no go...In fact I’m pretty useless at everything…”

“I doubt that that’s true…” Sho hummed though it did match what he had heard from his adopted father about the boy. Masaki flashed him a pained smile and poked hard at the books causing them to wobble dangerously from side to side while emitting a very small and thin puff of dust to circle around him which he waved away with his hand that very clearly had musician’s fingers. Long and graceful things they were like Ohno’s and Sho could imagine them running over the keys of one of the many pianos that he had seen in the palace. Nino had shown him how to play saying that as a gentleman he had to learn and that in turn caused Sho to think about his adopted father’s family. Nino never spoke of them but he always sensed that there was a scandal and that brought him back to Ohno and Jun. Clearing his throat he smiled at the prince who was watching him expectantly saying “We just have to find something that you are good at then we can start from there!”

“Good luck with that…”

TBC
A/N: Sorry about the Jun/Nino/Ohno hints I just think that Sho would be curious J

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Poor Sho!
It seems like he will have loads of work to do!