You are my tomorrow part 119
“Untie my hands…” Nino said slowly trying to ignore the body being taken from the room or the pool of blood that was seeping into the expensive carpet. Koichi Matsumoto was gurgling on the bed his skin a pasty sheen and from here he was gifted a view of the wound. It was mattered, caked in poultices that were doing nothing to fight the infection that the healers had sown into him when closing the wound. He was the enemy, the man that had attacked his lover and disfigured his own brother but at the end of the day he was still a healer and as such it was his duty to make sure that he tried to save him. “If you want me to save him untie my hands and then open a window…The room needs airing and I will need light to see…”
“If you try anything…”
“You’ll kill me…I know…” Nino whispered trying his level best not to sound afraid of that threat his eyes going to the red blood that was still staining the floor before going to the other old man that looked as though he was about to faint “What have you already done to lord Matsumoto? I need to know…So I don’t kill him…”
“We…We stitched the wound…Applied poultices…Bled him…” The man whispered and Nino was genuinely surprised that Matsumoto was hanging on as well as he was. “The devil’s work…”
“Maybe, maybe not…” Nino huffed as his hands and legs were unbound and he could move towards the bed his stomach twisting as the stench of decaying flesh got worse. He looked at the kidnapper who was staring at him with his knife still in his hands the tip pressed to his finger. “I…Need a knife…”
“No…”
“If you want me to save him you’re going to have to trust me…I need to reopen the wound and cut away the infected flesh…” He said as carefully as he could, wishing more than ever that he had some kind of genuine experience in medicine. He was just a kid playing at doctor but he could only do what he could. “But before anything I will need boiled water…Now…You…Get open these windows…” He barked at the old man determined to have him help him if that was the only way that it would keep him alive. “My hands and clothes are dirty if I mess around with your lord I will just do more damage to him…”
“I am no servant…”
“Nor am I…I am the person that you kidnapped to save your lord…What is it to me if he dies? He is the enemy of my lord…I would be remembered as a hero if I left him to die and you killed me now…” Nino whispered hoping against hope that that wouldn’t happen. His mind going to his lord who was only just recovering from the loss of his brother and letting go of the guilt that surrounded him. He didn’t want to become a flower in his lover’s garden to be remembered only as a painting “…But I want to save him…Not because of your threats but because that is what I do…So fetch me some boiled water and get me the things that I ask of you or get out and fetch somebody that will…”
“Fine…Have it your way…”
TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^
“If you try anything…”
“You’ll kill me…I know…” Nino whispered trying his level best not to sound afraid of that threat his eyes going to the red blood that was still staining the floor before going to the other old man that looked as though he was about to faint “What have you already done to lord Matsumoto? I need to know…So I don’t kill him…”
“We…We stitched the wound…Applied poultices…Bled him…” The man whispered and Nino was genuinely surprised that Matsumoto was hanging on as well as he was. “The devil’s work…”
“Maybe, maybe not…” Nino huffed as his hands and legs were unbound and he could move towards the bed his stomach twisting as the stench of decaying flesh got worse. He looked at the kidnapper who was staring at him with his knife still in his hands the tip pressed to his finger. “I…Need a knife…”
“No…”
“If you want me to save him you’re going to have to trust me…I need to reopen the wound and cut away the infected flesh…” He said as carefully as he could, wishing more than ever that he had some kind of genuine experience in medicine. He was just a kid playing at doctor but he could only do what he could. “But before anything I will need boiled water…Now…You…Get open these windows…” He barked at the old man determined to have him help him if that was the only way that it would keep him alive. “My hands and clothes are dirty if I mess around with your lord I will just do more damage to him…”
“I am no servant…”
“Nor am I…I am the person that you kidnapped to save your lord…What is it to me if he dies? He is the enemy of my lord…I would be remembered as a hero if I left him to die and you killed me now…” Nino whispered hoping against hope that that wouldn’t happen. His mind going to his lord who was only just recovering from the loss of his brother and letting go of the guilt that surrounded him. He didn’t want to become a flower in his lover’s garden to be remembered only as a painting “…But I want to save him…Not because of your threats but because that is what I do…So fetch me some boiled water and get me the things that I ask of you or get out and fetch somebody that will…”
“Fine…Have it your way…”
TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^