My Husband is the Emperor : I Woke Up With a Husband

Haru wrapped closer toward Hyuga and the man’s eyes fell at her through the dimmed room. He cannot help but to feel useless. Haru had to take place as her elder twin and for that sake, she had to sacrifice a lot of things. This was her last mission. The most dangerous so far and the deadliest one.

"We cannot see the future," Hyuga said, his words caused a frown on Haru’s forehead but also garnered her attention.

"Are you saying we have to accept the outcome if we loses? I wanted your encouragement."

"Not at all," he answered, smiling, "I am saying that if we cannot see the future and neither could our enemy. No one knew the future but if we try for it, I am sure we could shift the future to our wish. Even though we need patient and sacrifice, this is war. Are you that afraid of losing?"

Haru thinned her lips. It wasn’t fear that came to her now, something similar but different. She pulled Hyuga closed, kissing his lips, tasting him and pulled away with a tougher expression. The question seemed to have lit something in her and Hyuga could tell it was her will of fighting.

"No. I am not afraid to lose. There is nothing in me that I could lose, right?" She replied with a smile that was small. "And you know I am lying. I can lose anything but you. Li Lian’s emotions. No one knows it better than me and likewise she must understood my fear."

"But we are different," answered Hyuga after giving her a silence. "My life is less of worth than yours, unlike how Li Lian and Li Jun Wei regarded each other as. I am a pawn, your pawn. If I die it matter—"

Haru’s eyes narrowed a blaze took over her eyes, "If you die it does not matter? Is that what you are about to say?"

The question slapped to him wasn’t to ask answer but rather an order so he should never repeat those words again. Others in Akasaka group would never cross over Haru’s order, obeying every breaths she uttered as their loyalty lies on her. But Hyuga.... Hyuga was different. He was her aide, lover, and lifeline. He could speak as much as he wanted and he hadn’t abuse that title of his except for this time.

"Yes."

Haru’s lips parted with a shock and a gasped came deeper from her throat. Having taken the approach to live as a man for years, the habit of having a short-fused temper caused her eyes to set fire with anger at once over the disagreement of words shown by Hyuga.

"You are joking," she said, her smile falling, the warmth they shared turned cold again as she pulled her shoulders away. "You will not die. You should not die. Change your mind! Your life is the priority!"

At once Haru’s neck clutched on Hyuga’s neck, her anger knew no bounds as it wasn’t only rage that rode her mind now.

"Say it to me!" Haru demanded, watching how bleak, how clear, and empty Hyuga’s eyes were as his mind had been made.

"My apologies," he answered, his words turning polite as if he was trying to put distance and reminded her that he was beneath her and unworthy for her to care— that his life could be use at her pathway at least that was what he could sacrifice for her. Haru didn’t take his word kindly.

Out of all, she cared about her life lesser than her care for him.

"I-"

"Leave." Haru’s words were right, hardly slipping from her gifted teeth, causing it harder to be heard. Hyuga didn’t move immediately and Haru who had stood up slide her hand on the cupboard where the liquor and glasses were kept. A harsh slide of her arm caused the remaining glass to fall from the cupboard.

"LEAVE!" She yelled again and Hyuga stood up only after that. He took a step closer and Haru was taken by his concern that only irked her when he knelt in front of her after looking whether wounds were on her palm before leaving the room.

Haru stood in her bathrobe alone after Hyuga had left. She held one hand on her head and the other was bleeding due to the amount of fragile items she had threw across the room to curb her anger.

Recalling Hyuga’s words brought volcanic anger to her again and she raised her hand, the same bloody hand to crash the rest of items on the cupboard only to stop when her eyes caught sight of the picture frame hanged on the wall behind the cupboard.

Her eyes hardened at the view, staring at it where she saw two children of identical features. One was a boy who wore a tidy clothes while the other child was hiding behind a pillar. Another boy was standing between the distance of the twin.

Now that Haru stared at it, she found it laughable how it appeared as if she feared getting caught in the picture when in truth that day, she had been the one who forced herself to be taken a picture for at least once in her life and her wish was granted with Hyuga’s help.

And this was her only picture. As well as proof that she had a twin. Her lovable twin, as well as her most hatred sibling.

She rolled her sleeve where her eyes subtly studying the horrible wounds that covered her arm. Sadly she wasn’t the boy who Li Lian was searching of. Her wound was caused not by glasses but whips— a constant whip punishment that her father, mother, aunts, and maids did to her arm. Looking at it, enkindle her anger and she calmed herself by recalling about their glorious death, as well as the day where she enjoyed herself the most, watching the people she hate and the people who hit her lose their life with shock when they found out it was her who had stabbed them in the back.

A knock came across the room, Haru sighed, "What?" Her voice came sharp and deeper before. As her voice was already deep, she didn’t had to lower her voice to make it sound like a man. Her brother had the same pitch which why she didn’t had to care about them finding it out by her voice.

"We have found a variable," it was Hyuga’s voice, and it shake her heart. She didn’t want to open the door.

"Continue," she demanded.

"There is a possibility that Li Jun Wei have a weakness. A terrible weakness," Hyuga said, causing more frown to mar her face. She stood next to the door, opening it just enough to give a slit for their face to be revealed and met each other.

"What weakness?"

"An illness that was caused by the accident that happened years ago in Japan," Hyuga reported. "This could be our most dangerous flaw in the plan."

Haru’s eyes enlarged but then it turn to laughter. She pressed her hand on the crown of her head, "So there is still a weakness that man have, huh? Does Tsui Lan know this yet?"

"Currently we are suppressing the information," answered Hyuga as though they didn’t fought earlier.

"Which mean soon enough he would know, tch, we need to change the plan."