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The Tattoo chapter eighty-one
“My love…” Nino whispered softly walking into his and Ohno’s shared bedroom surprised by the dark. There were no lamps lit but he could see a dark form sitting in the centre of the room. His eyes were taking longer than normal to adjust to the darkness and he supposed it was due to the stinging in his eye. Clearing his throat he gave a smile and took another step towards him saying again “My love? Is everything okay?”
“My spider…” The figure spoke and Nino felt his heart drop like a stone inside of his chest landing somewhere in the very pit of his stomach. After the conversation he had had with Satonori he had wanted something, a brief moment that he could be with Ohno before he had to allow the pig of a man to climb on top of him and take his body. There was the sound of a match being lit and a lamp soon flickered into life causing the room to glow and the figure of his lord to show clearly. “…My love?” Sho mimicked softly causing Nino’s breath to catch his eyes going to the figure that was laid out on the floor. It was turned away from him but he recognised the tie that was around his hair and he also saw the blood that was clinging to the robes. “Spider…”
“My lord…I apo…” He said dropping to his knees pressing his nose into the floor as Sakurai rose to his feet and came over to him. His face was expressionless but Nino could tell that he was angry inside.
“Silence, I have no desire to listen to false apologies…You have given so many over the years and I have always fallen for them, time and time again…And I am tired of it…” Sakurai growled his foot coming to rest on the centre of his back pressing him down even further into the floor and Nino gave a whimper “I have given you everything spider, your training, your skills, the clothes that you are wearing, even your very life…They have all come from me…”
“I know…My lord...I…” Nino whispered stopping only when his face was slapped hard knocking him sideways into the floor blood spurting out of his mouth. Sakurai stood over him his hands resting on his hips as his eyes narrowed into slits like a cat. Nino shivered violently images of what could happen swirling through his mind wondering if he would have to endure rape from his lord before he was raped again by the emperor.
“…When this mission is done…” Sakurai growled his breath warm against his cheek “You and your boy have no place in my castle…”
“My…My lord…? You…” Nino spluttered in genuine surprise looking up at him through wide eyes unable to believe what he was hearing. It sounded cruel and harsh but…It was the best thing that the man could ever have done for him. “What…What do you mean?”
“…I mean that you have out lived your usefulness…You are now more trouble than you are worth…” Sakurai spat kicking him hard in the side before he turned on his heel and marched towards the door. Nino managed to scramble to his knees staring at the retreating back not knowing what to say or how to express the feelings that were racing around inside of him. It felt too simple, too clean, he half-expected Sakurai to turn back around and laugh saying just kidding before attacking him but he didn’t he just walked away slamming the door closed on his retreating back.
“Tha-Thank-you” he whispered to the door before his ears twitched as he heard a moan coming from his lover. “My love…” He breathed hurrying over to him and dropped down onto his knees beside him shocked to see the state of his face. It was a patchwork quilt of bruises and cuts with his eyes looking so swollen that he wanted to cry. “Did your father do this?”
“…Some…Some…Was…Sho…” The prince answered with a wary laugh and a gasp struggling to sit up though Nino was trying to hold him down. It wasn’t the romantic clasp that he had been picturing but he supposed that just being able to be in the room with Ohno was more than he could have hoped for in this situation “He thought that he would beat me while he could…But…In fact he helped…I think if it was left to my father…I would have been dead by now…”
“…He…He released me…He released me from his service….” Nino whispered still with more than a trace of disbelief in his voice unsure how to react “When this mission is over I am free…”
“I…I was going to set…I was going to set you…Free…” Ohno groaned with a chuckle and Nino slipped his arms around his body cradling as he stroked a finger along one of the bruises on his cheek before kissing his nose.
“You and I will be free…Soon…” He breathed his heart fluttering against his ribs as he thought about how they were going to have to obtain that freedom “Tonight I am giving myself to the emperor for the first time…”
“The last time…Nino…I know it isn’t the plan but…I need you to kill him tonight…I refuse to let him have you for more than this one night…” Ohno breathed and Nino felt his blood running cold inside of veins.
“My poison is not yet ready…I have others but they will not be as strong...” He whispered. He would happily kill the man tonight but he wouldn’t be able to make him suffer as much as he deserved to suffer.
“Please, my tiger…” Ohno gasped clutching at his hand holding it as tightly as he could and Nino could see the fear that was in his eyes shining clearly through at him “I do not care how he dies but I need you to be safe…The things that he wishes to do to you…He…As he beat me…He said what he would do to you when he got the chance…I will not let him have that chance…Kill him now and let us be done with this…”
“But my love…If they see the beatings you have suffered and if he dies this night…” Nino whispered terrified of the threat that was being presented but even more scared that Ohno could and would be arrested for patricide. “They will make the connection…You…You have not got the power in the court to protect you…”
“But…Sho does…He…He has played this game far longer and more skilfully than I ever could have…My father thinks of him as the son that he should have had and, in his way for my father’s less insane ideals, Sho is fond of him in return…The same cannot be said of Sho and myself…Everybody knows that we hate each other…So if he were to give me an alibi in the night…”
“And…What of me? I cannot make an escape…” Nino whispered fearfully his eyes widening a little as he chewed on the inside of his cheek “But…I can dose myself with poison…It is not idea but if I say I too was poisoned then…I can convince them…”
“My brave tiger…Do nothing that gets you killed…Be only safe…” Ohno smiled stroking his face lightly now and Nino gave a strained smile a tear forming in his eye as he realised that they could never be together…He had played his part well over the week that he had been awake, the farmer’s boy, his arguments with Ohno, and his interest in Satonori…It had all been created perfectly but he could never be himself here in the palace he could never be with his love as there would be no doubt in his mind that they would make the connection between him and the death of the emperor.
“My love…” He whispered blinking slowly and allowing the tear to roll slowly down his cheek and off of his chin until it landed on the back of his hand. “I love you…With all of my heart…”
“…And I love you Kazunari…My incredible tiger…” Ohno smiled clearly not realising the truth that Nino had worked out in his mind. The assassin gave a smile of his own and decided that he had no desire to bring it up tonight. Instead he pushed Ohno back down into the bed and laid down beside him with his head rested on his chest trying to be as careful as possible. It might not have been the passionate embrace he had come for but it went far in smoothing out the fear he was feeling at the task that was in front of him.
TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^
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pls let them together.. TT____TT
and I'm quite curious about sho's desicion..
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Oh-chan is indeed suffering a lot, but I wouldn't like to let anyone I'd love to be close to this monster as well.
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Please Krys do not separate Ohchan and Nino they need to be together. He can pretend that was attack by the emperador killer and then be saved so he can stsy with ohno the future king. I hope the emperador dorsnt touch him and nino kill him before that.
Now i am confused about Sho..what happened? Why he let Nino and his boy go? Is yhere a secret agreement with someone. Is the person who did the tattoo coming from Nino???? I am so confused
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I worry a lot these days and,I'm nauseaous too much these days reading the Emperor and plus adding Sakurai in it. How much more do they have to endure to be truly and freely happy? It seemed everything just want them to be miserable. *terribly sad*
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i dont know what will happen next~~~
thank you for sharing.