Only with Your Heart

-The next morning.

Feeling the gentle fingers touching his back, Chizuru woke up softly mellow.

"Mmm..."

When I try to move my body lying between the waves of white sheets, I feel mild pain and feeling like I'm saving money.

It seemed like a time when the night was about to shift into the morning, with the lukewarm lights of the sky plugged in through the window, starting with the whites.

Wanting to see the face of his beloved knight with his hands on his back, Chizuru tried to turn around again, twisting his hips. Then Luklov stopped Chizuru's movement along with a gentle voice that seemed to come out of between his teeth.

"You're turning red"

and whisper in a low voice that vibrates the air. "I keep hurting you."

Not immediately knowing what it was about, Chizuru tried to twist himself around.

Luklov holds his hips from behind to block it and mouths on Chizuru's back. In contrast to the cold lips and the hot exhalation emanating from them, Thousand Cranes' backs shook and bowed.

Ruklov's lips moved further down.

Slowly mouth and descend around the center of your back, your spine floating. Reaching his glutes, Ruklov finally let go of his lips.

At the same time, last night's memory comes back into the midst of a thousand cranes.

Last night...... when I was past midnight, Luklov held me hard.

With the stone wall on his back, as if to swallow all the very existence of the thousand cranes, he was even asked, and the thousand cranes desperately responded (to it).

Luklov blamed him even more for the interior of Chizuru, who was deeply and deeply rampaged and swayed like a toy doll. The act lasted a long time, and by the time Luklov was finished, Chizuru had almost lost his mind.

Even now, there are nights like this.

He tried to overlap with Chizuru, not always, but with the intensity of the time fold, when he tried to punish Chizuru and Ruklov himself for his constant orbit.

I know why... Chizuru knows exactly why.

"Sorry, Luklov"

As Thousand Cranes pounded and crushed, Ruklov raised his torso abruptly, grabbing both shoulders and spinning Thousand Cranes. My body lying on my back, lying on my side. Ruklov tried to cover it and looked down at Chizuru.

"Why do I need you to apologize to me?

Ruklov's manly voice was badly compelling when he became emotional even in this way.

"You had a nasty dream, didn't you? Because it's my fault..."

"It's not your fault"

Ruklov affirmed in a harsh tone. "Even so, that doesn't make it a good reason to hurt you. Sometimes I get scared that I'm gonna break you."

The two stared at each other quietly for a while and looked behind their eyes to confirm each other's thoughts. Ruklov's regrets were so obvious that his chest was tightened that he couldn't breathe.

Lucrov doesn't want to hurt a thousand cranes.

Sometimes, however, only with so much passion that it hurts a thousand cranes, can we open up the fear of coming from rough emotions and past loneliness.

Even if it wasn't, he was a fierce man, a trained samurai, formerly known as the "Horseman of Fiery" and the best knight in the country.

Still, nights like this are definitely dwindling with time.

"It's okay, don't look like that"

Thousands of cranes don't think they need to rush. In fact, regular Lucrov was sweet enough to make up for it. When a thousand cranes are sweet, they always, whatever they put down, make that wish come true.

Chizuru smiled.

"Hey...... I did a lot and I'm hungry. I want to eat here this morning, just the two of us. Can I get you something?

Ruklov also smiled back quietly. Just like teasing a thousand cranes, raising the edge of your lips just as sarcastically.

"There is no one else who can do that to the Lord of the Castle. You know what I mean?

"But will you bring it?

"I have no choice."

Ruklov quickly missed and dropped the gentle mouthfeel of Chizuru's hibiscus. The expression seemed to make me happy behind my back with words.

"If it's my wife's hope, there's no way it won't come true. Wait for me."

That was just one winter in their first year of marriage.

Upon finishing their two sweet breakfasts on the bed, Ruklov went somewhere to train the castle and knights.

The remaining Chizuru had begun to prepare for the day with Alde, who appeared in the room instead of Luklov. Put on your own moveable dress that will take care of the kids next to Alde, who will get your bed ready.

Fu, seeing Alde smiling meaningfully, Chizuru snapped his neck.

"Alde, what's wrong? Was something strange?

"No, Master Chizuru. I just... I thought the sheets weren't so messy this morning. Were you both tired last night?

"Ah, uh..."

Soon his face turns bright red and his strange voice leaks.

Sure...... the sheets wouldn't have messed up. Because they were doing things in places that had nothing to do with the bed. Alde looked back at his mistress, who dyed her face red and stood up, clenching her neck in wonder.

"What's going on?

"That's... that's..."

For Chizuru, Alde was already like a family.

Maybe it feels like my sister. Though the actual Alde is a servant of Chizuru, Chizuru has not grown up in an environment that would make a person look slight in the first place. My sister, who bakes me worthy of care. That was Alde for Chizuru.

So it was customary for Alde to talk without covering up his stupidity or worries.

It was just rare to get into the naked affair between a man and a woman, but still, sometimes we talk to other people - even to Ruklov himself - about not letting them reveal themselves.

After all, she's the one who cleans up the act with Ruklov. There's nothing I can hide.

Chizuru glanced at some details and told Alde about what happened more or less last night.

As soon as I vacated the room to get the hanging cloth, it seems that Luklov was attacked by a nightmare that he took a thousand cranes violently.

That, so desperate that it can be called crazy to death.

And his regrets I showed him in the morning......

Alde had always been silent and had listened to Chizuru's story with little pinching of his mouth.

When Chizuru finishes his talk, he smiles gently and pitifully, gently taking one hand of Chizuru.

"That was tough...... Do you want to take the day off in your room without going to the kids? I'm sure Mr. Ruklov would like that, too.

Thousand cranes thought for a while, but shook their heads in denial.

"Yeah. It's not that painful to be able to move. I want to see the kids' faces too... But sometimes, I don't know how I can ease Luklov's grief..."

Nodding with a serene face like he understood everything, Alde slowly lowered the hand of Chizuru. Hold Chizuru's shoulder close so that his true sisters will do so instead.

"The fact that Master Chizuru is by his side... that's the best medicine for Mr. Ruklov. Time heals him slowly. Remember that."

"Yeah......"

Alde's tenderness made Chizuru's anxiety lighter.

Then Alde returned the pillow, cleaned the dust and replaced the vase of water, including continuing to get the bed in order. And then, just before I tried to leave the room to go out to the kids, I stopped as I remembered.

"Alde?"

"But I have a good idea, Master Chizuru."

Alde's water-colored eyes glowed with pleasure. It was like the light of hope was going to overflow from my big eyes. Chizuru exhales his chest in interest.

"You just have to have kids. Any resilient and stubborn knight melts his heart if the little ones roam at his feet. In the first place, you won't have time to be depressed......!

Alde was proudly whispering in Chizuru's ear.