The Tattoo chapter seventy-three
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krystalkatzficz"Tiger...Are you…A stupid question of course you’re not okay…” Ohno whispered finding him curled up on the floor beside his own vomit unsure how he was going to muster the courage to be able to continue doing what he had to, never in his life had he met anybody as disgusting as the emperor. After he had stopped throwing up the tears had started and now his eyes felt swollen and his mouth dry and raspy as he tried to speak. Even Ohno’s hand sliding up and down his side didn’t help in soothing out the swirling emotions that his stomach was going through. He hated feeling like this, like anything the careful work that his lord had done in preparing him was destroyed he was weak.
“I hate that man…” He mumbled wrapping his arms around him ever more tightly as held his head in his hands shuffling away from Ohno “Everything about him repulses me…And I hate you for making it so I felt like this…Before you…Nothing he could have done would have made me feel this way but now…He touches me and I want to stab him so many times that he wouldn’t even be recognisable to the people that he has tortured…”
“My tiger…I…Do not know what he said to you or did…But…”
“When I first when into the room there was two boys no older than Masaki on the bed, they were nude, bruised, and covered in semen…He fondled them making comments about your manhood before I showed my displeasure and then he sent them away forcing them to walk naked from his bedchamber…” Nino felt more bile come to his throat as he told his story but there was nothing left inside to come out and instead he gave a shudder biting hard on his bottom lip while playing around with the wound on his hand allowing the pain to calm him as it had done in the garden “…Then…While we were having breakfast he spoke of your sister, my love, he once again implied that you harboured unnatural feelings towards her while growing steadily more aroused at her memory…I am a tool…I am used by my lord to kill those that he tells me too…There has never been feelings behind it before…Even with the most loathsome it was never personal I never felt hate…Your father…This monster that should only exist in the minds of small children who know that the hero will come and vanquish them…I want to kill him…I want to see him suffer violently in a way that I have only ever felt for the shadow before…”
“My tiger…”
“It is your fault…You and your love…” Nino mumbled hardly knowing what he was saying as he was scooped up into Ohno’s arms and held against his chest like a rag doll. He tried to fight but Ohno was stronger than he was and all of his movements were countered easily. He could have stuck him with a needle but as he actually enjoyed the soft touches that he was being given he relaxed fairly quickly his head flopping against his chest as he whispered in an almost hiss “I would never care…I would never be so affected…You lie…This is my weakness…And I will do everything in my power to get rid of it…”
“…No you will not…I will not allow you to remove something that I treasure so…You are human, my little love…You are not a tool and, although I am sorry that I caused you so much distress, I am happy that I woke you to that knowledge…” Ohno breathed into his hair rocking him gently back a forth his arms tight around him. “…You will be that hero the children wait for in the story…”
“…The poisoned spider…I am not the stuff that heroes are made of, my love…” Nino laughed bitterly knowing that he was already the stuff of nightmares to children and adults alike. In some houses he was sure that children were told to behave or else he would sneak into their rooms and punish them.
“But the tigress can be…Nobody will ever know that it is you my tiger…But they will suspect, they will look at you and wonder…” Ohno breathed saying it like it was a good thing “And those that know my father that have been touched by his cruelness they will thank-you…”
“They will look at me with the same fear they look at me in the house of my lord…They will believe that my skin alone is enough to kill…”
“Sho fed that image to them and you played it further to keep the wandering eyes from your boy but soon you will need no such protection…You’ll both be free tiger nobody will look at you like that again…” Ohno whispered kissing the top of his head “…But I must ask you…Do you believe that I had…Unnatural feelings towards my sister…?”
“Did you?”
“No! I did not…I loved her as anyone would love their sister…Perhaps more so because she was an innocent but never did I harbour feelings…”
“I believe you Satoshi…” Nino cut in sorry for even saying his thoughts out loud but the emperor had been so insistent that he couldn’t help but let a small trace of fear into him but now that was gone. “I hear the truth of it in your voice and…The more that I am here the more I believe I remember…”
“You remember my sister?” Ohno asked with such a hopeful ring to his voice that Nino was almost guilty when he had to disappoint him saying;
“I…See snatches of her…I believe but they may be false memories based only on what you have told me…When we were in the garden…I thought that I had sat there before in the rain with gentle hands touching my hair…But I could be wrong…”
“…That…That was not my sister, tiger…that was me…” Ohno whispered in disbelief and Nino jerked looking up at him through his hair that had escaped his eyes wide with surprise.
“You, my love?”
“Yes…I told you once that we had little interaction…That was the truth but there was one time that…You were in the garden crying…I had no idea why that would be the case but you refused to enter the palace even with me coaxing but I didn’t want you to catch a cold so I carried you to the small shelter and dried you the best that I could…I…You fell asleep in my arms and I carried you to your mother…” The prince told him his hand moving over his hair in the same way it has in his sort of memory and Nino finally felt calmer though the sour scent of his own vomit was turning his stomach again. Luckily Ohno either sensed that or it was making him sick as well as he kissed his forehead and helped him to his feet “Come my little tiger…I am sure you will wish to wash and make yourself even more beautiful than you are…I hope with everything that is inside me that you will kill my father…It is wrong of me to wish that you put yourself through that but he is a man that is not worth sympathy, Tiger…I will not be the only one that celebrates when he dies…”
“Then I will make sure that he suffers…I promise you…” Nino smiled the best that he could aware that they were going to have to continue their pretence, from now, no matter how much it turned his stomach, he would have to spend more time with the emperor “Later I will walk alone in the garden…I do not wish to but…”
“We are starting to be at odds…I understand Tiger…But please know that I love you and if it becomes too much for you that we will figure something else out...”
“No…We will stick to the plan, I have ideas that I wish to do to your father my love…” Nino said feeling a lot calmer about his desire to kill the man now and he knew just how he wanted it done. “And I will do so where it hurts him the most…”
TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^
“I hate that man…” He mumbled wrapping his arms around him ever more tightly as held his head in his hands shuffling away from Ohno “Everything about him repulses me…And I hate you for making it so I felt like this…Before you…Nothing he could have done would have made me feel this way but now…He touches me and I want to stab him so many times that he wouldn’t even be recognisable to the people that he has tortured…”
“My tiger…I…Do not know what he said to you or did…But…”
“When I first when into the room there was two boys no older than Masaki on the bed, they were nude, bruised, and covered in semen…He fondled them making comments about your manhood before I showed my displeasure and then he sent them away forcing them to walk naked from his bedchamber…” Nino felt more bile come to his throat as he told his story but there was nothing left inside to come out and instead he gave a shudder biting hard on his bottom lip while playing around with the wound on his hand allowing the pain to calm him as it had done in the garden “…Then…While we were having breakfast he spoke of your sister, my love, he once again implied that you harboured unnatural feelings towards her while growing steadily more aroused at her memory…I am a tool…I am used by my lord to kill those that he tells me too…There has never been feelings behind it before…Even with the most loathsome it was never personal I never felt hate…Your father…This monster that should only exist in the minds of small children who know that the hero will come and vanquish them…I want to kill him…I want to see him suffer violently in a way that I have only ever felt for the shadow before…”
“My tiger…”
“It is your fault…You and your love…” Nino mumbled hardly knowing what he was saying as he was scooped up into Ohno’s arms and held against his chest like a rag doll. He tried to fight but Ohno was stronger than he was and all of his movements were countered easily. He could have stuck him with a needle but as he actually enjoyed the soft touches that he was being given he relaxed fairly quickly his head flopping against his chest as he whispered in an almost hiss “I would never care…I would never be so affected…You lie…This is my weakness…And I will do everything in my power to get rid of it…”
“…No you will not…I will not allow you to remove something that I treasure so…You are human, my little love…You are not a tool and, although I am sorry that I caused you so much distress, I am happy that I woke you to that knowledge…” Ohno breathed into his hair rocking him gently back a forth his arms tight around him. “…You will be that hero the children wait for in the story…”
“…The poisoned spider…I am not the stuff that heroes are made of, my love…” Nino laughed bitterly knowing that he was already the stuff of nightmares to children and adults alike. In some houses he was sure that children were told to behave or else he would sneak into their rooms and punish them.
“But the tigress can be…Nobody will ever know that it is you my tiger…But they will suspect, they will look at you and wonder…” Ohno breathed saying it like it was a good thing “And those that know my father that have been touched by his cruelness they will thank-you…”
“They will look at me with the same fear they look at me in the house of my lord…They will believe that my skin alone is enough to kill…”
“Sho fed that image to them and you played it further to keep the wandering eyes from your boy but soon you will need no such protection…You’ll both be free tiger nobody will look at you like that again…” Ohno whispered kissing the top of his head “…But I must ask you…Do you believe that I had…Unnatural feelings towards my sister…?”
“Did you?”
“No! I did not…I loved her as anyone would love their sister…Perhaps more so because she was an innocent but never did I harbour feelings…”
“I believe you Satoshi…” Nino cut in sorry for even saying his thoughts out loud but the emperor had been so insistent that he couldn’t help but let a small trace of fear into him but now that was gone. “I hear the truth of it in your voice and…The more that I am here the more I believe I remember…”
“You remember my sister?” Ohno asked with such a hopeful ring to his voice that Nino was almost guilty when he had to disappoint him saying;
“I…See snatches of her…I believe but they may be false memories based only on what you have told me…When we were in the garden…I thought that I had sat there before in the rain with gentle hands touching my hair…But I could be wrong…”
“…That…That was not my sister, tiger…that was me…” Ohno whispered in disbelief and Nino jerked looking up at him through his hair that had escaped his eyes wide with surprise.
“You, my love?”
“Yes…I told you once that we had little interaction…That was the truth but there was one time that…You were in the garden crying…I had no idea why that would be the case but you refused to enter the palace even with me coaxing but I didn’t want you to catch a cold so I carried you to the small shelter and dried you the best that I could…I…You fell asleep in my arms and I carried you to your mother…” The prince told him his hand moving over his hair in the same way it has in his sort of memory and Nino finally felt calmer though the sour scent of his own vomit was turning his stomach again. Luckily Ohno either sensed that or it was making him sick as well as he kissed his forehead and helped him to his feet “Come my little tiger…I am sure you will wish to wash and make yourself even more beautiful than you are…I hope with everything that is inside me that you will kill my father…It is wrong of me to wish that you put yourself through that but he is a man that is not worth sympathy, Tiger…I will not be the only one that celebrates when he dies…”
“Then I will make sure that he suffers…I promise you…” Nino smiled the best that he could aware that they were going to have to continue their pretence, from now, no matter how much it turned his stomach, he would have to spend more time with the emperor “Later I will walk alone in the garden…I do not wish to but…”
“We are starting to be at odds…I understand Tiger…But please know that I love you and if it becomes too much for you that we will figure something else out...”
“No…We will stick to the plan, I have ideas that I wish to do to your father my love…” Nino said feeling a lot calmer about his desire to kill the man now and he knew just how he wanted it done. “And I will do so where it hurts him the most…”
TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^
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