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

Chapter 100: Another Guest

The table had just been set when Shouka arrived. He is talking with someone. They are all surprised when they saw it was Jyuusan.

''Jyuusan?!'' Both Shuuei and Seiran exclaimed. They were just talking about her a while ago and now she suddenly popped out as if sensing what they had been talking about.

''Eh? Seiran, Nii-sama, you're here too?'' she suspiciously looked at them since they are both gawking at her.

''We followed the emperor,'' Shuuei admitted as Ryuuki came to the room. He just finished helping Shuurei do the last touch of the dishes. ''What about you? You did not give a notice.''

''Don't look at me like I am not allowed here. I came to see Shuurei-chan. I just thought about coming here when I met Tou-sama (father – she is referring to Shouka) when I was about to go home. I asked him and he said it is alright,'' Jyuusan narrated.

''Tou-sama?'' Shuuei, Seiran, and Ryuuki asked in unison as they stared from Jyuusan to Shouka. Shouka smiled at them and Jyuusan did too. Ryuuki felt envious. He thought that maybe he should start calling Shouka as father too.

Shuuei wondered since when did Shouka and Jyuusan became close and why did Jyuusan suddenly call him that. 'Is it because of Seiran?' he thought as he looked at Seiran and then Jyuusan. ''Why did you suddenly decide using that term?'' he asked his sister.

''Since Shuurei-chan is like a sister to me. And don't be like that Nii-sama, I am finally able to call the famous Shouka-sama as father. I bet elder brother Setsuna (the triplets) are envious that we are around Shouka-sama,'' Jyuusan chortled.

Shuuei sweat-dropped at her logic. It would have been easier if she just said that since she is secretly dating Seiran who is adopted by Shouka, she could call Shouka as father.

''You should start calling me father too,'' Shouka said to Seiran. Shouka loved him and Ryuuki like his own sons. Seiran was at a loss of words after that. He looked so happy he almost cried. He loved his biological father Senka but he loves Shouka too. Being able to call him father made his heart feel warmth.

''Tou-sama (father),'' Seiran said in a low voice as if trying out to say those words for the first time. Shouka smiled and ruffled Seiran's hair before going to his room to change his clothes. Seiran followed him with his eyes. Then he turned to Jyuusan and complained, ''why do you get to call him father before I do?''

Ryuuki was envious.

''That's because you're an idiot,'' Jyuusan said harshly. ''Shouka-sama must have been waiting for decades for you to call him father but you never tried saying so,'' she spoke the truth. Seiran flinched at that since he knew it is a fact. Shouka always told him that he is a son to him, a member of their family.

Shuurei entered the room and Jyuusan instantly run to her and hugged her tight. ''Shuurei-chan! I missed you,'' she exclaimed like they never met for years.

''Gomen (Sorry) Jyuusan, that very bossy Seiga gave me a lot of work to do so I was not able to have tea with you for some time,'' Shuurei apologized.

''Don't mind it. Actually I was quite busy too.'' Jyuusan flexed her shoulders. ''Just a while ago I was helping to carry logs that my shoulder is now painful,'' she said and a wide-eyed Seiran turned his head to her.

''You we're carrying logs?!'' Seiran exclaimed like it was a sin to carry logs. Everyone turned at Seiran.

''It's not that heavy. The old man looked so exhausted so I helped him bring it home,'' Jyuusan said nonchalantly.

''It's not that heavy? You just said you're shoulders are painful. You could have asked nearby military officers to help instead. You are a General now,'' Seiran continued with a crease on his forehead. Shuurei, Ryuuki, and Shuuei are smiling at each other at Seiran's protectiveness.

''That's all the more reason that I should be able to carry a few logs,'' she argued.

''But even so you are woman. What if, what if you are . . .'' Seiran was not able to continue what he wanted to say. He was thinking what if she is pregnant, then she could have endangered herself and the baby.

''My being a woman is not the issue here. Even women can carry heavy things.'' Jyuusan got what he is worried about. ''What if what?'' she continued with a raised eyebrow. ''Don't be so full of yourself,'' Jyuusan challenged with a smirked. She knew what he is thinking.

Shuuei who got what Jyuusan meant and was not able to stop himself from laughing. Seiran picked up one of the displays and threw it at Shuuei when Shuurei is not looking; but Shuuei caught it easily. He knew why Shuuei laughed at him. Shusui is now pregnant and somehow it made Seiran feel defeated that he is not yet able to make Jyuusan pregnant. Seiran glared at Jyuusan with a look that said, 'I'll give you a taste of hell for saying that to me.'

Before they could tease each other, Shouka appeared from his room and they proceeded to have dinner. Shuurei was surprised when she heard Jyuusan and Seiran calling her father 'Tou-sama'. The two even looked like they are fighting on who would serve Shouka's food. They kept on adding food to Shouka's plate and he looked like he is enjoying himself.

''Can I call you 'father' too? Ryuuki asked with hopeful eyes. He wanted to call Shouka that way too.

''You can't do that Your Majesty, you are the Emperor. People would say you are favoring the Kou clan. If Shuurei would agree to your proposal, then that's the time you could call me father too,'' Shouka replied and Ryuuki's shoulders heaved in disappointment.

''Tou-sama,'' Shuurei intervened when the tone of her father sounded like he is entrusting her to Ryuuki.