all jaemin knew of was the rays of gold and the sweet smell of flowers. so when two souls, one of death and one of witchcraft, enter his realm of spring, he can't help but get a tad curious.
(just to avoid confusion, yes this is reposted from ao3)
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renjun said he would be back come nightfall, but how could he when he found such a beautiful being in the mortal world? his soft peach colored hair was adorned with tiny golden flowers, that glittered magnificently under the remaining sunlight. not to mention the boy's eyes, warm brown, the shade of the very earth they stood on. the way he stared down at him in such innocent curiosity, he wanted nothing more than to get lost in them. renjun was, for the lack of better words, enamored.
jeno could wait a bit more, he told himself when he was nuzzling against jaemin's hand.
before all of this, he had come to the mortal world to seek out ripe and juicy figs to bring down to the underworld. renjun had thought transforming into a cat would serve him the benefit of blending in, so that's what he did. he had only turned to his mortal form to pick the figs and store them in his satchel.
renjun was about to go back when he caught sight of the beautiful boy, walking and humming a soft tune. and who was he not to follow in wonder as to how he'd never seen the boy before.
he looked to be a son of aphrodite, but he hasn't heard about the lady having an affair with another god in ages. (she said she found mortals quite the spectacle to be around, that's why she likes to stay close to them. which to renjun, makes sense. godly affairs are more petty than anything.)
renjun followed and followed until he was in the boy's room. he didn't want to scare the boy either, so staying as a cat, it is. once he realized where he was, it was safe to assume that this boy had to be related to demeter. when did demeter have a child?
in the midst of nuzzling into the boy's soft hands, a sharp voice broke his daze, causing him to automatically sink into the shadows. renjun knew he couldn't stay for long so he made his way to the underworld using the realm of shadows.
on his way there, he could practically hear jeno's whines of him taking so long to fetch ripe figs. yet, he couldn't quite care to get annoyed as he usually would because all he could think about was the boy with peach tinted locks.
"renjun, what's gotten you so up in the clouds hm?" renjun snaps out of his daze, giving jeno his undivided attention. the god of the underworld stared at him curiously, lips pouted and awaiting his response.
the two were currently in the palace gardens (if you could really call that. renjun would rather it be called a grove since all that's there are wisteria trees along with a few asphodels and elms, but whatever.) sitting underneath the trees while eating the figs renjun has collected earlier.
"i saw a boy." renjun decided to respond honestly, as he absentmindedly rubs his thumb across the fig's skin. "a boy i have never seen before."
jeno hums beside him. "what about him has gotten you so awestruck then?"
"you would understand if you saw him. i swear, his smile is as sweet as honey and his eyes sparkled of the most precious jewels." he turns to face jeno, a smile on his lips. "i could bring you up to the mortal world to see if you'd like, jeno."
jeno would be lying if he said his gut wasn't twisting with jealousy. it wasn't everyday he'd see renjun so starry eyed about another person, and a mortal for that matter. just who was this boy and how beautiful was he to have renjun so smitten?
"i would be delighted." and renjun's smile only widened, causing jeno's heart to leap in his chest.
if this boy happened to make renjun smile so widely, he truly must be something else. at that point, jeno knew he had to see who this was.
