Title: Keeping secrets…
Fandom: Fushugi Yuugi

Bonus: None
Team: Fire
Challenge: Secrets
Rating/Warnings: T for implied cross-dressing as well as implied sex
Summary/Other Info: For those who are not familiar with the fandom, Nuriko after the death of his little sister, starts living as a woman in order to keep her memory alive. He realizes her dream of living in the emperor's palace as one of his concubines and wants to become his bride, in much the same manner his little would have. It is a lonely existence until fate steps in and reveals him to be one of the seven Celestial Warriors of Suzaku.

Nuriko contemplates his lonely existence as one of Emperor Hotohori's concubines…

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Nuriko stared at himself in the mirror. He had come so close to finally meeting the emperor today, and suddenly pretending to be his sister seemed harder than he had once thought. While he did have practice living as woman, he knew his secret would be out the minute he shared the emperor's bed.

Oh, Kourin-chan… He sighed. If only there was someone here I could trust…like a real friend, and not a temporary ally who'd betray me in a heartbeat…

Nuriko smiled sadly at his reflection.

Perhaps some secrets are best kept by oneself… lonely as that is, eh?