Title: Books
Author: Blue Demon
Warnings: Worksafe

Pairings: Slight Kenren/Tenpo

A crimson haired man was sitting in a sakura tree, drinking his sake that he always carried with him. Once again he was skiving from his duties; and once again Marshall Tenpou looked for him. The Marshall had dark brown hair and hazel eyes; however he knew exactly where to find the crimson haired man.

"General Kenren, your men are looking for you…….. Again," The Marshall said with a slight smile; "And here you are just drinking by yourself, that's rather unsociable of you,"

"Please, like I would want to those old timers, going on about how things were better then rather than it is now," The General spoke with slight annoyance, and took a drink of his sake.

"You really should be more respectful to your elders," Tenpou admonish the General

"You do realize that they will always be older than us?" Kenren reminded the long haired man; "They'll never die, unless someone kills them,"

The Marshall became silent, thinking over that the crimson eyed man said; thus worrying the General.

"Don't," Was all Kenren said, deadly serious and when the Marshall looked into his eyes, he saw that the seriousness was still there.

"I'm fine," The Marshall told his subordinate.

"Of course, if the General isn't there," The crimson haired man went back to the topic they were originally on; "Then it is the Marshall's duty to attend in his place,"

"Heh, unfortunately, I have other things that I require to do," Tenpou declined and saw a smirk on the General's face; "What are you thinking?"

"How's your library?" Kenren finished his cup of sake, and climbed down the tree to be level with his superior.

"It's not changed, why do you ask?" The Marshall inquired, only to have Kenren grab his arm and pull him towards his quarters; or to be exact, his library.

"I believe I have an excuse to decline the 'gathering'," Kenren stopped pulling Tenpo once they were out the library.

The Marshall unlocked the door and went in, revealing an unkempt room with books piled high on the floor, though the shelves on the walls were partially empty.

"I now have an excuse to decline all those boring events for the next, say hundred years," The General looked at Tenpou's library with surprise; "How do you read so much?"

"Well, it's mostly books from below, all about there wars mainly," The brown haired man informed him.

"That's hardly surprising….." Kenren began to pick up some books and try to get some sort of order to the books by alphabetical order with the author's last name. Tenpou began to follow suit, and thus the tedious job of referencing all the books began.

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"Well, that's the hard part over," Tenpou said with a slight smile, looking at all the books that were piled around them.

"A day later," Kenren muttered, unable to believe how long the process took.

"We might as well finish….." Tenpou began to put the first pile of books on the shelf, when he saw the crimson haired man shake his head.

"First, we get something to eat. Then we'll finish it," The General told him and walked towards the door.

"But….."

"Just go," Kenren forced the Marshall out the door, and followed; "Damn books……."

The break that Kenren called for didn't last as long as he had hoped; as Tenpou wanted to get back to organizing the library again. Luckily for him the rest didn't take very long to do, since; as Tenpou had said, the hard part was over.

"You know, this has been fun," The Marshall commented, putting the final book into place; "We should do this more often,"

"We do this every month………" Kenren muttered, shaking his head and he watched his superior look over his books with satisfaction; "You're a weird man, Tenpou,"

"Why do you say that?" The crimson haired man just shook his head and waved goodbye to his friend; deciding that he earned a cup, or two of sake.