Chương 113: Chapter 109: Calmness Before the Storm (Part 1)
"Does ojisan like aniki?"
Jin snapped out of his reverie. He swallowed, emptying the lump in his throat, and immediately brought back his poise to avoid any speculation from the young boy's sight, though the rich and vibrant redness on his cheeks already made it additionally obvious. "I wonder."
I wonder how much your uncle like me, too.
He reaches to hold Haru's hand, then faintly spreads his fingers open and runs his thumb across the smooth and soft surface of his palm, fascinated at how it turned pinkish red right after.
'Hiro likes you,' his subconscious floats in his head with a pleased and dignified smile on his face while paddling himself in the air.
Jin can't help the sheepish grin on his lips to widen, baring his set of straight and white teeth with his eyes squinted closed, the halo of his loveliness now in full glow.
Haru nervously flutters his lashes, blinking at such beautiful sight and forgetting what to say.
"I was thrilled to have found another handsome visitor of mine today. What brings you here, young master?"
Pouting his lips, Haru shies away from his gaze upon hearing the word handsome, and Jin notices the round corners of his lips quivering to a suppressed smile.
And this brought both surprise and realization to him.
My, my, aren't the Woos conscious of their extremely good visuals?
It is still a mystery to him whenever he is greeted by their bashful face and embarrassed smiles after receiving nothing but truthful comments—precisely the same reaction he received from Hiro.
Haru glimpses up at him through his strands of long and healthy lashes, "Ashiharu . . . My name is Ashiharu." He says politely with his big bright eyes meeting his.
"But aniki can call me Haru."
"Haru," Jin muttered his name in practice.
It truthfully does have a matching ring to Hiro's name. "I'm Sae-sang Jin. But little Haru can call me however he likes."
Haru pauses, "Then . . ." He grabs Jin's hands. There was a flash of utter resolution inside his eyes. "Nini!"
Jin blinks. "Nini?"
Ah. It's a word abbreviated from Aniki.
"Nini. Nini. Nini!"
Haru's loud laugh and chant echo throughout the room as he sways their arms together side to side.
"Mhmn." Jin nod while his softened amethyst eyes and bright smile were touched by the warm rays of the sun from the bedside vanity door.
Allegedly, it is okay to let him have his way this time. Haru is after all too irresistible to bear.
And another sense of motivation impulse struck him. He doesn't ever want someone to hurt these precious people—both Haru and Hiro. And he is more than committed to protecting these lovable and gentle men all his life.
"Breakfast. . ." Haru lifted their linked hands together in the air, way above his head, while oblivious to the flinched figure a few meters away from them.
"They said breakfast was ready, nini."
Jin chortles sweetly upon hearing the endearment. So Haru heard breakfast was to be served, but he sneakily found his way to find his uncle to inform him instead.
Haru does care for his uncle, and he's glad he had grasped against that little hope until now.
What a loving child.
"Do you want to have a meal together?"
If he is this persistent to invite his uncle over for breakfast, then maybe he should help these two grow closer together.
Jin cheers on, failing to see how Hiro paled from his statement, another subject yet to be misunderstood.
Ah, yes. He could already envision it. Jin breathes. The sight of them both smiling in one picture undoubtedly will be the last masterpiece he would like to see before closing his eyes for eternity.
How lethal would it be for him to witness their beauty combined?
Haru springs out of bed on his own two feet and comes to hug Jin's knees together.
"Can we really?!"
Huh?
"Can I really have breakfast with nini?!"
Didn't he mean to come with his uncle?
"Pretty please?"
Haru's face was the brightest, with his short arms securely enclosed tightly around him. Jin breathed and placed his trembling hand on top of Haru's head, patting him while the other held his mouth in surprise. Aigoo. So cute!
"Alright." He whispers in defeat, abiding to his irresistible invitation. How can he not accept?
Refusing Haru's request while his spellbinding and innocent face comes to his mind would certainly torment him to sleep.
"Yay!" Haru threw his little hands in the air, his loud giggle bouncing through the thick walls as he ran in circles and hops around the room like a baby rabbit on loose.
It was a pleasing and satisfying sight.
How he loves children so much.
Unconsciously, his mind took him to the gloomy image of a young boy with cold midnight-black eyes.
He controlled himself from dwelling on that unforeseen vision and glanced at Haru's butler. His brows rose to attention seeing the old man standing outside the door with his head down. He thought he had followed them inside completely.
And he is shaking.
Hiro on the other hand, was leaning against the door, hands deep in his pockets and seemingly undergoing silent warfare while staring daggers at the ceiling.
Did he make him wait for too long?
Concerned, Jin rose from the bed and fetch Haru's hand. He ushered Haru to his butler while not taking his eyes off Hiro.
He only looked away when Haru suddenly tugged his fingers. He looks down to his right.
"Don't worry nini if ojisan doesn't like you." Haru confidently put a hand to his chest, gesturing to himself as a heroic smile and blooming pinkness spread across his face. "Because Haru likes nini."
Jin bites his lip and nods warmly at him, feeling his subconscious completely bleeding out from visual attacks. He's too adorable!! And how much has he repeated that in the past minutes?
"Why don't you prepare first and promise to meet me after?" He says to Haru, and he's surprised when the boy did not argue back and just nods his head in compliance.
"Will I get to play with you after?" Haru chases to ask, eyeing him expectantly and obviously unaware of the big event the adults have been preparing.
Jin traded glances with the butler, and he can read the apologetic expression on his face.
He shakes his head and smiles at him politely when he looked so worryingly troubled. He looked like he was carrying every problem in this world.
He can't blame him though. With such an immense and complicated family to serve, who wouldn't help but worry?
"We will when we can, Haru," Jin answered, and he oversaw how Haru walks to pull his butler willingly.
"Goodbye, ojisan." He shyly says before dragging his butler away and telling him multiple times to hurry up.
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Author_Z Updating again today. Slowly making progress to my promise to fix my update schedules since midterms are over<3
Hoping I would get to update agian tomorrow. See you then everyone. Thank you for supporting Jin and Hiro's story. I love you guys.
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