It was an early spring day and Hung min just got out of bed." what a lovely morning huh? I've never seen such a view in so long. The beautiful flowers can make someone's day, hmh" He got up and went to the kitchen to boil some water for bathing. As he was waiting for the water to boil he sat down and admired the amazing day the universe brought to his door. After his water boiled he took a shower and got dressed in a crimson montsuki and tying his hair in a pony tail.
It's around 10 in the morning when Aoto is done and begins his journey to the centre. This is where he works as a doctor in the local hospital built by his family . "good morning everyone " Aoto greets them with a warm gentle smile," good morning Aoto the group replies before his assistant informs him about his scheduled appointment with a government official . He goes to his office and grabs his medical kit and sets his journey to the palace.
After an hour he finally arrives at the golden gates of the Northern Emperor 's palace. The emperor held a reputation for being a cold hearted yet an amazing leader. He was previously married but go to divorce after his wife had an affair with his prime Prime Minister. After the divorce his wife took the kids who agreed to stay with her and left the empire never to be heard of again. Back to reality Aoto greets the palace guards and informs them about his purpose of coming to the palace, they let him in and one of the idle palace guards sitting in a corner escort him to the room of the official he was meant to treat.
This official wa none other than the emperor's father who had injured their hand in a fall. Aoto was requested to help the former emperor to have a quick recovery. Aoto spent almost an entire day treating the old man's injury. It was heavy work but he managed to get it done by sunset and gave the old man some medicine for the wound. The emperor's assistant informed him that the emperor requested that he comes more frequently for checkups on his father who was frequented by diseases in this season. Aoto agreed and bid get farewell and went his separate ways. He didn't go home directly but instead passed by his hospital and went home through a different route.
For at night that route would be frequented by spirits due to the bridge that was situated on a big mountain. Many locals refused to cross that bridge at night because they did not want to become the next victim of these spirits. Although the route was long Aoto made it just in time to take a. bath and read before going to bed. He slept in his bed which is in the centre of the room.
Aoto woke up early as usual and took his regular bath and prepare himself for the day, it was raining heavily that day and most of the roads were very slippery so he had to use a different route. He was walking fast and the fog made it impossible to see who was in front of him, the suddenly he bumped into a tall figure with long hair. The figure turned around and saw Aoto before asking him what he was up to in a deep and sadistic voice. Aoto scared they did notanswer and instead apologised before attempting to get out of there but before he could do anything the tall figure grabbed his waist and whispering in his ear said,"what is a small guy like you doing in a dangerous forest like this, huh? "
Aoto couldn't move he was too scared until the figure let go of his waist and Aito used the opportunity to run. The figure just watched and in a deep voice he said, "it's pretty rude to run from your friend, "with a smirk he added, " alright lets see how long you'll run for". The figure started walking and got on a carriage leading to the castle. This was none other than Emperor Kenichi, and he was in the forest looking for a little girl who got lost the previous day." Your highness did you find anything" "nope not at all "with a low voice."Let's hope the troops will find something right". With that the carriage sped if and they reached the castle in no time.
Aoto was taking care if the the emperor's father when the emperor arrived .The emperor walked in to check up on his father when he found Aoto cleaning his father gently ,the emperor immediately recognised the face from before but they did notsay a word ,he instead asked for a minute with his father.Aoto agreed and went outside waiting for the time they'll finish talking so as to continue his job.That was when he bumped into Takezo and Miwa walking when they greeted hin ,Takezo was the chief of security within the empire and Miwa was the main maid .It so happened that these two were good friends with the emperor himself ,mostof the times when they're free they'll sit up in the emperor's office and talking long never ending stories.
They greeted Aoto and asked what he was doing infront of the former emperor's room .Aoto explained that he was the new personal doctor of the former emperor and that the emperor was talking with his father . Takezo and Miwa offered to sit with him and talk for the meantime ,Aoto was really shy and oblivious to making new friends but hesistantly agreed ,the tree sat down on the bench outside and conversed although Miwa and Takezo were the ones talking the most.They chatted and they did not realize time went by,until the emperor left the room to his office .As soon as he went through the door his eyes met with Aoto's and they glanced deeply into eachothers eyes but Aoto broke the eye contact being how shy he was ,got up and went inside the room completely ignoring the emperor and going to care for the emperor's father . He gave the former emperor some medicine and the prescription to Miwa before he left to his office in the town .As he left the emperor's eyes followed him from the view from his office,chuckling he says ,"i did say well meet again and turns out i was right ."
It was a normal spring morning, flowers dancing in the wind with the horizon stained with a purplish hue that mixed with an orange hue to welcome the sun. On this particular day it so happened that Aoto was having a dayoff from work, so he decided to get up before the crack of dawn and begin his travel to a market a little far from his residence to get some vegetables that he'd use to prepare himself a fancy dinner. On his journey he encountered a man dressed in red clothing from top to bottom. This initially was odd as in Japanese culture red was mostly a bad color mainly associated with death . So this was more or less of a sign for Aoto to get out of there. But as he was about to leave the stranger dressed in red turned to face Aoto leaving Aoto no choice but to run as the figure watched as a smirk slowly appeared on his face as he watched Aoto run away.
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After running for a while Aoto became tired and stopped ,he took a small break and sat down on a rock on the banks of a crystal clear lake . As he rested he enjoyed the amazing view as the clear waters met the vibrant sun rays.Eventually he got up amd resumed his journey and within half an hour he was already there. He walked from stall to stall buying the best vegatables that he could spot . After what felt like eternity he concluded his little shopping trip and began walking home via a different route to avoid being spotted by the stranger in red . It so happened that the emperor was taking a stroll but as he did not like publicity took off his crown and dressed up normally . As Aoto neared the opposite end of the lake he passed by earlier which had a cross section between two routes he bumped into someone . As he was kind Aoto began apologising prefuesly at the stranger until he looked up and then he froze in shock. The man before him was the emperor of Japan. Scared he immediately bowed dowm but was stopped by the emperor telling that it was not necessary. He explained to Aoto on how he was on a little stroll and that he did not want any publicity.
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Aoto being understanding assured the emperor that he would not tell aanyone about their encounter bit remarke if the emperor was really going to go to the busy city center he'd have to lose the jewelry that made him stand out from the crowd and as he was desperate the emperor did just that. And so just like that a small conversation was sparked up between the two in which the emperor asked Aoto for his name, Aoto replied rather happily, " I'm Kishimoto Aoto,". Though his expression was colder than the Arctic in his mind the emperor could not overcome how cute Aoto was this led to a very gentle kiss to Aoto's forehead before the emperor bid Aoto goodbye. In shock Aoto walked slowly home in confusion on why the emperor would kiss him. This question remained in Aoto's mind for the rest of the day up until he went to sleep.
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The emperor who was reflectimg on his day's events could not help but smirk amd say ," Aoto huh what a cute name."
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