Bretby Hall part twenty

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Nino sighed sitting up in his bed and watching his father smoothing out the bed sheets. It wasn't something that he was particularly good at but it did make for interesting watching, or it would have done if he wasn’t too reminded of the time when he was a child and gotten sick. His father had barely come to visit him even then but he was sure that he woke up one night and saw the man there beside the bed holding a blue teddy bear in his hands with a sheepish looking smile on his handsome face.

“I’m not dying you know…” He grumbled breaking the tight silence that was surrounding them “You can go back to Japan and tell mum that…”

“…I’ve already told her…She wanted to come…”

“But family commitments kept her away?” Nino finished for his father a line that he had heard so many times that he suspected that it was tattooed on his brain. “I know…I’ve heard that line so many times…”

“Kazunari…My son…You have to understand that…”

“We’re royalty…Even though I’m only sixth in line…” Kazu pouted wondering why so many people wanted to be royalty when it sucked wholly and completely in his opinion. It wasn’t that he didn’t like his grandfather because he did. He rarely saw him in private but at all the public functions that he had been forced to endure until he had become too wild the old codger had seemed alright. His father sighed heavily again shaking his head as his hand ran down the line of the bed slowly saying the well-trod line of;

“Your grandfather is still the emperor of Japan…”

“We’re just branch family…So…Why are people so interested? When Yui and his pug of a wife have a kid I won’t even be sixth…I’ll be seventh…?”

“…You’re too cruel on Yui’s wife…” His father said almost choking on the laughter that he was trying not to let out ad Nino felt his own lips twitch at the way his father’s eyes sparkled “She might not be the most fortunate looking woman in the world…”

“She looks like a pug eating mayonnaise…” Nino said bluntly his nose wrinkling as he thought about his cousin’s unfortunate looking wife. Her face looked scrunched up with a snub nose that was pointed to the ceiling making both her top lip lift to show off her top teeth and cause her to look like she was looking down on everyone. Nino might have been more generous to her if she didn’t act as if she was a super model “I feel sorry for Yui…”

“Her family is an old one…She has grace and pose…Something that you lack…”

“Be thankful then that I’m not a woman…You can’t ship me off…” Nino said before stopping and giving a thoughtful expression that he knew his father had picked up on before he rolled his eyes and gestured around the room that he had actually gotten used to “Oh wait you can…I was shipped off to the middle of no-where…”

“Kazunari…I told that the choice wasn’t mine…I kept telling you that you were acting recklessly…”

“You told me? When?” Nino barked with sarcastic laughter trying to remember one time that his father had sat him down in the living room and told him face to face that his life style was reckless. There wasn’t one ever since he had started the club scene and been snapped with all the idols it had been either his own mother or Aiba’s never his father “As far as I can remember it was Aiba-san that told me…Oh she said that you had said but it was always her…”

“Kazunari, I’m sorry that I might not have always been the father that you wanted me to be but I have never…” The older man paused his head cocking to one side as he tried to recollect his thoughts before continuing “I haven’t said anything no about your choice of bed partner…”

“I don’t know the family should be delighted, Satoshi is set to become the second richest man in the world…I think that I have made a fortunate match…And he’s the son of your best friend…”

“He will be here tomorrow…” Akio said pulling him up short and Nino frowned in confusion for a moment trying to work out who he meant before realising that he must mean Ohno’s father.

“What? Why? Does Satoshi know?” He hissed and Akio nodded slowly pulling troubled expression.

“Yes…He asked the same questions that you did…” He mumbled in response not losing the troubled expression as his eyes flickered to the door “And I’ll give you the same answer…I don’t know he didn’t say…But I imagine that he wants to talk to Satoshi…”

“Is his wife pregnant?” Nino asked trying to think of all of the possible reasons that somebody who saw his son less than Akio did would suddenly fly around the world to talk to him. None of it really made sense and his head was starting to ache just thinking about it though it wasn’t helped by the worry that was clawing its way up inside of his chest cavity.

“Not as far as I’m aware and I’m sure that’s something that I would know about…”

“Where is Satoshi now?”

“He took your tray…I think he might have needed some time alone…My news shocked him as much as you waking up to see me here…He really doesn’t like my old friend…”

“No…He doesn’t…”

“Something that you bonded over I’m sure…” Akio smirked just a little, clearly trying to lighten the mood, but Nino shook his head.

“I think you were an angel compared to his dad…” Nino mumbled biting hard on his bottom lip and staring at the door hoping to see Ohno walking through it with the same kind of confidence that he had always shown but knowing that that wasn’t going to happen. “At least I know that you and mum wanted me…Even if you didn’t have time for me…But Satoshi…He has always been unwanted…”

Akio looked like he wanted to protest but in the end he stayed silent annoyingly smoothing out the bedding again before he got back to his feet and headed for the door.

“I’ll go and see if I can find him…You should probably try and get back to sleep…I’m sure he won’t be happy if he comes back to see you wide awake and worrying about him…He’ll be fine…”  The prince said before vanishing out of the room and Nino had to admit that he was once again surprised. He would have thought that Akio would have simply told him to stop worrying, not go after him. He flopped back into the pillows staring up at the old look canopy that was above his bed wondering what he would do if Ohno’s father was coming to take him back to Japan. He was only just starting to accept his feelings for the head boy and they had promised each other that they would go on a date when he was better.

What did two guys do on a date, anyway, was it the same as a man and a woman? And would it mean that Ohno was going to kiss him? Or something more…Suddenly an image of Ohno and the waiter Thomas came into his mind and he wondered if Ohno would want to do something like that. Would it be possible? He didn’t think that he was ready for that kind of thing. A burning blush broke into his cheeks as he thought about that his heart doing a strange kind of flip inside his rib cage. He was still trying to get it under control when his bedroom door was unceremoniously opened with a bang that rocked it in its hinges.

“Wha-? Aiba…What’s wrong?” He asked in a rush seeing the panic in his friend’s eyes. Aiba huffed and puffed loudly his chest rising and falling so much as he breathed that it looked like he was having an asthma attack. “Aiba calm down and tell me what’s wrong!” 

“Fight! Ohno…Fight! Thomas!”

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