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Birthday Mathoms, Return of the Sequel!
chichiri_no_da wanted "Reishin/Kouyuu + Shuuei -Shuuei being protective when he really doesn't need to be" for her mathom. I. I don't know; I kept reading the prompt and my brain would go "...but I already wrote that one?" So instead you get another attempt at my being funny.

Consider this the silly omake ending to "A Most Enlightening Tea".



“So…your foster-father, hmm?” Shuuei greeted him the next time they met, tucked behind the window-desks in the Emperor’s outer office, leering. “I’d always thought you were unusually …close.”

“It’s not—He’s, that is, how did you…?” Shuuei broke into a long slow smirk. “You know what? I don’t want to know. You’re a pervert, and whatever you’re thinking is probably horrible and wrong, and if you don’t stop thinking it right now? I will get you back so hard you will NEVER BOTHER ME AGAIN.”

“Hey!” Kouyuu glared; Shuuei’s vague attempt at innocence crumpled beneath his smirk. “And here I was only admiring the necklace he gave you! Not many children receive such extravagant birthday presents, after all.” Kouyuu’s hand flew to his throat, where the heavy links of gold chain supported a single garnet, safely hidden—he’d thought—behind the high collar of his tunic. ‘A matched set,’ Reishin had purred into his ear as he’d fastened the locking catch, and reached down to stroke over the other piece… Kouyuu closed his eyes against the memory and drew a shaky breath. Slowly, he set aside the proposal he’d been working on, and drew out a fresh sheet of paper. “What are you doing?”

Kouyuu smiled evenly, and began to read: “To my dear friend, Ran Ryuuren--” And Shuuei’s look of pure horror as he lunged after the paper was entirely satisfying.