Smol King

4: Learning the Necessities

Izuku woke up to gently nudges to his shoulder and those vibrant blue eyes.

"Mm?..knight?" The boy mumbled, eyes blinking slowly. "What is it?" He whined softly.

"Morning." He stood, motioning to clothes he laid out. If anything he seemed rather tired but spoke nothing of it.

Izuku just gave him a look and held his hand, trying to pull him into bed. "Too early, sleep more." He said and laid back down.

"They made french toast."

"....with blueberries?"

"Mhm."

And just like that he was up, dressing with the help of Touya and climbed up on him. "To the dining hall!~" he said and pointed onward.

Touya felt like a horse at this point but said nothing, this was his king after all, leading him to where he wanted to go.

This time there were a lot more people as they had dinner a bit late, nobles all around getting different types of food though most did have the sweet meal of french toast. When Izuku came in, bows were sent his way, smiles and good mornings too.

Izuku got into his chair with the help of Touya, sitting up and dug right into his breakfast. Getting syrup all over his mouth but didn't seem to mind much.

The biggest debate through everyone at the moment was, is Izuku even old enough? Is this the right choice? It was.. worrying to say the least on how little he cared.. and well, how little he was..

And his new bodyguard, or knight or Izuku seemed to like calling him, gave very mixed signals. He put up with everything Izuku wanted but he didn't speak much or even smile and they knew nothing about him but his first name. Not even his full name! This man could be much more dangerous then they thought, but he seemed to be doing a good job at the moment..

"My king.. you'll have to take lessons today on proper etiquette since you're old enough to learn now." One of the nobles reminded him as they had all collectively decided this despite Izuku being kinda against it.

Of course the boy groaned in annoyance but nodded, finishing his food and looked up at Touya. "You'll be there right?"

"Mhm." The man hummed to him. He was where Izuku was, no question about it.

This made Izuku more relaxed, having the male take him back upstairs to get dressed before coming back down to all the silverware laid out. He made a sour face but sat down with crossed arms.

Touya was stationed by the wall, watching from a distance.

A maid came in, smiling gently and opened the door as a noble walked in, though he was with his wife, First Lady of the man, Sorahiko Torino, one of Izuku's father's most respected person. That's mainly why he made it into the court. His wife was gentle and kind, elegant and graceful, so she was here to teach Izuku. They were both old folks but their age didn't seem to weigh them down.

"My name is Chiyo Torino.. it's a pleasure to meet you, your majesty." She curtsied, smiling kindly.

"The pweasure-pleasure is all mine ms." Izuku said.

She giggled slightly at how cute Izuku was and gracefully brought herself over to a chair to the right of Izuku but across since the little king at at the end of the table where she too had silverware set out, that and plates and bowls, a napkin, and two types of cups.

"Shall we begin then?"

"Yes!" Izuku said in that cute high pitched voice of his.

They went over what spoon or fork to use in certain situations, how to hold a class properly, a certain posture he needed to sit in.. then they moved on from the dining etiquette when Izuku started to get a bit frustrated and moved on how to walk properly, of course Izuku stumbled quite a bit from having to keep his legs together more then he was used to which threw off his balance quite a bit, though Touya managed to catch him a lot of the time.