The Tale Continues (Saiunkoku Monogatari Fanfiction: Ryuuki x Shuurei lemon)

Chapter 89: Unexpected Visitor

Jyuusan and Seiran had just finished taking a bath and they have decided to cook breakfast together. But they ended up kissing and hugging again. Jyuusan is pinned down on the bed by Seiran's body. Jyuusan's arms are wrapped around him and they are hungrily kissing each other when they heard a knock on the door.

''My lord, you have a visitor,'' one of the servants spoke.

''Who is it?'' Seiran asked with an irritated voice. They just got disturbed. 'Why so early in the morning and without notice?' he thought.

''Lord Setsuna, the head of the Ran clan,'' the servant said. The triplets of the Ran clan had remained as the clan head and other Ran clan members came back six years ago to work in the administration. Shuuei was also welcomed back as the Head of the Ran Clan recognized and supported Ryuuki as Emperor.

Seiran and Jyuusan's eyes widened. He saw Jyuusan's face turn pale. ''Why is brother here?'' she said in a weak frail voice. She wondered if the triplets are all here.

Seiran kissed her as if to say 'it's alright. I'll handle them'. He dressed appropriately in clothes that dictated his authority. Jyuusan saw Seiran change in front of her. His air suddenly turned to that of the formidable Prince Seien who perfected everything. ''Stay here,'' he said and went to meet Setsuna. Only one of the triplets came.

Feeling the air around Seiran, Setsuna said, ''you never change Prince Seien.''

''I am Seiran,'' he replied in an icy voice with no emotion at all. Jyuusan who had soundlessly followed and stayed far enough for them not to notice her presence silently listened as she held her breath. A lady in waiting served tea.

''I have often wondered what it would feel like serving under an emperor like you,'' Setsuna said with a playful smile.

''Is that all you came to tell me? I can have you beheaded for what you just said. I have no desire for the throne. And I have vowed loyalty to my brother. Stop messing around with me with your games,'' Seiran snapped coldly.

''I heard you're getting along well with my little sister. Have you deemed her more useful than my younger brother Shuuei?'' Jyuusan gulped when she heard Setsuna say that.

''So you haven't change either. You still meddle with you sibling's lives. I haven't forgotten what you said when I did not accept Shuuei to serve me,'' Seiran countered. He would not lose to this person.

''Oh, that's long gone in the past. I see that you have deemed my sister useful to be your plaything,'' Setsuna said with a smile and Jyuusan's eyes widened. ''I haven't forgotten that her orders when she first came to Kiyou is to choose between the emperor and you. I thought she had chosen to marry the emperor and yet again I'm wrong. I see that she haven't forgotten why she came here in the first place.''

Seiran was surprised at that but did not let it show. He thought Jyuusan came to be the wife of the emperor but Ryuuki did not take her. Seiran did not know that Jyuusan was made to choose. ''You ordered her to seduce me? How much more would you play with their lives?''

''Don't be like that. My sister is good at playing games too and I know that you are too. I wonder who's winning between the two of you,'' Setsuna said and Jyuusan gulped.

''So she's just a piece to defeat me? Your way of loving your siblings are really warped. Don't tell me you just came here to inform me that I am being played around,'' Seiran said in an unyielding cold voice.

''I'm saying don't play around with my sister if you have no plan to marry her,'' Setsuna revealed his purpose.

''That's not for you to decide. You married your wife with your own volition. Why force your siblings to marry someone they don't like?''

''Oh, I gave her choices,'' Setsuna said and stood up to leave.

When Seiran went back to his room, Jyuusan is no longer in his room. He weakly sat down on his bed. 'So I am just being played around then. She had instructions. Is that why she refused to marry me? Since she was just forced to follow orders and did not really like to be with me?' he collapsed on his bed thinking of possibilities. His chest hurts again. He remembered Shuurei saying that Jyuusan is very perceptive.

'Did she just play with my feelings since she noticed it?' He noticed that too. She is very observant so she must have noticed that he liked her. He recalled when he first saw Jyuusan. He was talking with Shuuei then and Jyuusan fearlessly told him to stop bullying Shuuei. Perhaps she really disliked him due to that kind of meeting.

He recollected how she perfectly aims when she threw her blades at him. She could have really killed him several times. 'Does she despise me?' He thought that she must loathe him since she got stuck with him against her will. He recalled the blush he saw on Jyuusan's cheeks when Jin called her Hotaru. 'Is he the one?' he thought.

He sighed deeply and decided to cook breakfast to distract himself from his depressing thoughts. But even as he cooked, he was thinking of Jyuusan. 'She haven't had breakfast yet,' he thought and packed food for her. After eating, he quickly followed her to the training grounds.

Jyuusan was instructing her soldiers of what to do for training. The others are to patrol around Kiyou and other parts of the palace. There are four new women who joined so she had to focus on them. One of her closest soldier whispered something to her ears. She hid her blush when she saw Seiran intently looking at her. He has something in his hands. She immediately recognized the different aura surrounding him.

''Here, have this.'' he said and placed it in her hands.

''What's this?'' Jyuusan questioned.

''You did not eat breakfast. You'll collapse if you don't take care of yourself.''

''No I'm fine,'' she said but her stomach growled. ''Haha, I guess I'll take it.''

''I'll do training today. Take some rest,'' Seiran commanded. He would not accept a no. She had no choice but to immediately eat.

'It really tastes good,' she thought. 'He should give a raise to the servant who cooked this.' she silently watched as he trained the soldiers and wondered why he is being so kind even after hearing what Setsuna have said a while ago.

Next Chapter: Jyuusan's Real Feelings