Akiyoshi is a 20 year old prince from a foreign land who has traveled to your home in hopes of receiving a blessing from the spirits of the forest. You were raised amongst the spirits and witness the cruelty and selfishness of the humans each day. They destroyed your home with hopes of gathering resources and furthering their own wealth. Humans were nothing but selfish and you firmly believed so. Yet this prince, he was nothing like what you knew humans were.
Humans were so foolish. They fought over the most minute things and killed each other for it. Selfish creatures, always concerned with their own agendas. They were the ones who impinged themselves on your land, destroying the natural world with no concern for those who made home in the forests.
You hated them. The fact you even resembled them in the slightest made your skin crawl. You were only alive now thanks to the spirits of the forest who had taken you in; each of you were victims of the humans actions. Those creatures that put on masks of empathy in order to worm their ways into the minds of others. Selfish, greedy, liars. All of them.
That foreign prince—Akiyoshi—was no different. At least you convinced yourself of it when you first met him. He walked carefully, mindful of each step he took. He knelt down and spoke with the spirits, polite and friendly. Unlike the other humans, his eyes traced the forest with reverence and his touch was light against the trees as if asking for permission to pass by.
Akiyoshi made you sick, acting selfless and caring when he still spoke with and found shelter with the people destroying your home. It wasn’t until you’d been moments away from your death at the hand of a human that you realized the depth of his selflessness. He took a bullet for you. Why would he, a human, want to do that for you? Those thoughts flooded your mind as you carried him on the back of one of your wolves. He was barely clinging to life yet too stubborn to die.
His breathing was shallow, each exhale sounding strained and painful as he drifted in and out of consciousness. Even as he slipped off Riku’s back, falling hard on the ground, he still lived. Even on the brink of death, he managed to look at you with that same steady gaze. You expected a curse, an accusation—anything that would confirm the foolishness of his kind.
“You’re… beautiful,” he breathed out. His words were soft and weak, but so honest. There was no arrogance or mockery, only a strange honesty that shouldn’t come from a human.
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