Chapter Text
*Growl*
"Uuugghhhh"
Today Akihito didn't wake up to the beautiful birds singing this morning. Instead he woke up to the pain of hunger and he loud roar of his stomach.
Stretching, and pattering off out of his small bedroom, his pure white ears twitching to the sensation of morning.
Long ago, Akihito was found barely at the age of 1, deep in the middle of the forest. There he was found by an Old man by the name of Takaba Fukumoto, who lived in the deep wonders of the forest. Ever since he could remember the forest was Akihito's home and Fukumoto was his family. Because of his abnormal skilled blond hair, his blue bright eyes, and let's not forget, his pure fluffy white ears and tail, many wanderers of the forest would shriek and attack in horror at first sight of him. Due to this, Akihito never left the forest. He believed that the forest was his home and will always be. However the time came where his world would have to grow wider. Starting with the death of Fukumoto. After the death of his only "family" Akihito knew he had to tend to himself and sooner or later go out of the forest. That day happened to be the day his Stomach disagreed with him having berries from the forest for the millionth-so time.
"Alright! Hood? Check! Money?Check!Tail tucked in? Check!"
Akihito took a breathe. This was the first in a looooong time since he last left the forest. Ever since his curiousness led hint is stray out of his comfort, he was almost killed and skinned for his unusual ears and tail. Because of this Fukumoto only went out for food leaving Akihito alone. When he came back, Fukumoto would tell the young blonde of the outside world beyond the forest. He heard so much about the neighboring Kingdom, Sion who held high promises to its people.
Today Akihito was set out to visit this wondrous kingdom he heard so much about and to get food. Food. FOOD. That was the only reason he wanted to go. NEEDED to go. 'Pshhhh it's not like I wanna go see people cause I'm lonely.' Akihito silently denied this thought as he pranced out towards woods.
As Akihito walked into the gates of Sion he was awed by the amount of people and tents and FOOD everywhere in his sight. He could feel his tail wagging in happiness and he urged it to stop to make it unnoticeable. As he strode glancing from stall to stall he became absent minded about his hood. And so right when he had found an alluring scent, he was knocked back by the crowd making him hit his bottom to the ground.
"Ow!"
Akihito was to distracted by the pain that he didn't notice his hood had slipped off until he had put his hand to his head.
"Shit"
His ears twitched at the frozen people around him.
"A...a...A MONSTER! THERE'S A MONSTER!"
At that shriek the crowd of people started to panic. Some running in fear and others gathering around a frightened Akihito. Akihito whimpered down at the shrieks and panicked to get out of the crowd and out of sight. However he was blocked by the men who had swords pointed at him.
"What are you. And what do you want with our town!"
Masked with fear Akihito stood by being able to say anything. He had been traumatized by people and only felt safe with Fukumoto.
"Uh-ahhh...I’m-"
Akihito tried to reason with the angry crowd gathering closer to him, until he was interrupted by the loud gallops of horses pushing through.
"What's is the matter here?"
A deep board voice spoke out over where Akihito cowered. Looking up, Akihito's blue eyes met the gold eyes of a man sitting on a pitch black horse. He had a cold glare towards the town's people with swords. "Put away your swords." At his command, all the people dropped their swords. Within seconds they had been transfixed by the man before Akihito. Confused, Akihito slowly willed his feet to stand him up. As he looked back up to his "savior" (Akihito wasn't sure at this point) he noticed the man had gotten off the horse. The man wore a black kind of suit that stood out with a short black cape outlined with yellow that lay on one shoulder tied across his chest with metal golden emblem.. As the man made his way towards Akihito, Akihito noticed the people that had gathered around him had kneeled. Shocked and the sudden change of stance, Akihito did not notice that the golden eyes man had come close enough to him and had touched his ears. Startled by the sudden touch, Akihito flinched and jumped a whole two feet back from the tall man. The man did not seem happy about this and had whispered something to the man with glasses beside him. Once he had finished what he had said to the weird glasses man, the tall man had quickly grabbed Akihito and tossed him over the his shoulder. Out of all the things that had happened that day, Akihito did not expect to be hoisted onto a handsome man's shoulder (yes Akihito thought he was handsome) and carried off (on a horse too) towards some place he had no idea was where.
Through the ride Akihito had stopped struggling so the man had put him don't to sit in front of him as they both rode on the black horse. Because of the rocking and unnatural warmth behind him, Akihito instantly dozed off during the rest of the ride. The man smirked upon finding the little cute kitten he had caught sleeping in his arms.
The next thing Akihito knew he was carried down from the horse onto a red carpet. Rubbing his eyes from the sleep he had just woken up to, he felt a board arm go around his shoulder. Lightly startle (but not as much as before) he quickly looked to the man that he had fallen asleep on. Blushing at the thought he quickly broke his stare and moved a distance away from the man and turned to face him.
"Who are you and what do you want with me!"
He tried his hardest glaring at the man in front of him. His ears and tail had shot up showing his white beautiful fur to everyone in the room.
The man smirked and took a step forward. At that step Akihito alerted himself and jumped back with his ears and tail still high in the air. At this, the man did not seem happy. However instead of grabbing the young boy like he did in town, he put his hand across his chest and lightly bowed.
" My name is Asami Ryuichi King of Sion. May I ask who are?"
Shocked by the sudden politeness Akihito slowly relaxed. It was the first time anyone had asked him "who" he was and not "what" he was. At that moment before he could answer the man, he suddenly was hit with an enormous amount of pain. Holding his stomach Akihito crouched bending over. Noticing the pain Akihito was in Asami quickly went to his side just in time to catch a fainted Akihito in his arms.
“Hmmmnnnnm…” *sniff* *sniff*
‘Hm? What…that smell…’
“FOOD!”
At the delicious scent of food overwhelming him, Akihito jumped up from the fluffy bed he was placed in and launched himself at the direction his nose took him.
“Woah there..”
At the familiar voice Akihito snapped his attention to Asami, with a tray of a grilled seasoned steak.
Forgetting that his mouth was watering, Akihito suddenly alerted himself. But quickly relaxed at the remembrance of how the man treated him. ‘He saw me as a person...not a thing.’
Smiling at the blonde boy relaxing his body with his mouth drooling, Asami placed the steak in front of the boy making the boy’s white adorable ears stand up and his tail wag in happiness.
Chuckling at the most adorable image he had just seen he finally asks the boy,
“So my little mysterious kitten, now will you tell me your name?”
Eyebrow raising at the weird nickname that he was given, Akihito took to eating the steak, replying in each chew.
“Takaba..Takaba Akihito.”
“Hmmmm… so. Akihito, what makes a “wondrous” person like you come to my kingdom Sion?”
‘His Kingdom?’
Akihito finished the steak in a matter of seconds and had remembered that the man had named himself king.
“King?”
“Yes, I am the King of this kingdom. Is there something wrong with that?”
Akihito had heard stories of the ruthless king of Sion. However he did not imagine the king to be a young handsome being as Asami.
“I thought you would be a wrinkly old man.”
“Well I’m sorry for not being one.”
At this moment Asami had sat next to Akihito on the bed leaning in on the boy.
At this sudden close contact Akihito turned beat red and squirmed trying to make distance, but was stopped by Asami’s hand that had grabbed him and pushed him down. Frightened, Akihito shut his eyes and trembled. Akihito had his eyes closed tight until he felt a relaxing feeling on his head and back. Slowly and carefully opening his eyes, he saw that Asami had pulled him up onto his lap and was feeling his ears and was stroking his back. Feeling suddenly relaxed and spent, Akihito slowly drifted off into sleep with the wonderful feeling of warmth around him.
“Looks like I found something interesting.”
“Yes indeed.”
As he was pulled into a deep sleep, Akihito faintly heard the small conversation, but paid no mind to it.