Rules to Live By (1/1)

Leo POVAs a part of the Jung household there are many things you must do. You must be enrolled in at least one school until you are 23. You must taken an exam every year testing your knowledge until you are 40 and allegiance must be pledged to the Jung Household when a child is born. Of course the Jung household was fair and if you married into another household you could either chose to go or to stay. However these are just the normal rules.I was an Alpha. A leader. Which meant I had a whole other set of rules to live by. Of course I went to school and did the tests but I was required to study more than the other kids. I had to learn how to become an Alpha, how to take care of an entire household and my father wanted to make sure that I learned well. I was placed in schools for etiquette, Management, Investing, Managing and more when I turned 8. Of course Jaewhan, was also put in the same classes (but he was seven).But Jaewhan had many troubles adapting to the classes. While he was better than me at etiquette he had the most problems in Management and Fighting classes. He simply was not fit to rule over others nor was he physically fit. Of course it was not something to worry about, however it made Ken feel very insecure. He would always beat himself up if he was not able to do something that I was, or did not learn as fast as I did."It's okay- Your not like me- Your unique." I knew I had said the wrong think when Jaewhan pushed me away and glared at me with tears brimming over."I'm unique? Is it because I'm only a HALF BLOOD?"I opened my mouth wide in shock. How did Ken know about this? I mean I remember my father telling me to keep it a secret from him. And I knew that if he knew that was the reason he was not like the rest of the main Jung Household that he would be hurt.Scoff* "Are you wondering why I even know this? Well the fact is I know now- I've known for a while..."Is that why Jaehwan has been beating himself us as of recent? Because he was a half blood? Rubbish. Before Jaehwan could do or say any more I hugged him tightly. Making sure he could not escape my grasp. I spoke to him in my alpha voice."You listen to me Jung Jaewhan, you are a member of this family. You are my little brother whom I love with all my heart and I never want to hear you put yourself down like that." I squeezed him as I heard him let out his cries.I let him cry until he tired himself out an carried him off to my bed room and that night we slept together.From then on I became very protective over Jaehwan. It was bad enough that he felt this way on his own but I did not want the whisper of the ignorant to affect his judgment as well. He calmed down and went back to his ever so joy filled self. I made sure that he never ever felt like he was less than a Jung. I had even told mom and dad about how Jaehwan felt which led to father being forced by mother to take Jaehwan out of said classes. instead he was put in a private lesson for Art. Now that he was out of those classes he excelled in what he was good at and the matter of him being a "Half blood" went out of the door.As we grew up Jaewhan found his own thing, not needing to feel equal to me any longer- he was not as strong as me but he was fast. While I lacked a sense of humour, he had picked him wit up from our mother. That was one thing I was jealous of (but will never admit)- how easily Jaewhan could control a room and set it's mood.Our childhood was filled with events. When we were 5 we met Wonshik and his brother Sung Woo. At Jaewhan's sixth birthday party our household was asked to fight with the Lee Household against the Choi household. however the Lee household had been neutral for decades. So of course my father refused.When the Lee Household came over we met Hongbin. He was in a bad mood so I chose to ignore him. For all I knew he was nothing more than an entitled brat. While I went in my little space to play video games Jaehwan easily befriended the moody kid."I...I heard it was your birthday." Hongbin spoke up and I kind of listened in."Yeah! Daddy and Mommy cut my party short today~" There was no doubt in my mind that Jaehwan was pouting as he jumped up and down on the bed."H-here..." 'OOOooHH~~ Hyung! A card!!" I paused my came and walked over while an excited Jaewhan showed me. Hongbin was blushing, embarrassed. Even though this was a trip for our parent to discuss the war he even made Jaewhan a card. He didn't need to and it made me like him a lot more than I originally did. This kid was softie."I see... Who's the second signature?" I looked at the card. Below Hongbin's clean writing there was the signature of a small kid."Uhh...my little brother..." Hongbin looked elsewhere but Jaewhan grabbed his hands together"You have to bring him next time!""N-next time?" You could tell that Hongbin was not used to all this attention- the poor kid looked as if he had been without a single friend his whole life. I spoke up"Yeah, Next time- make sure you bring-" A bulky man walked into the room."Master Lee, we're leaving." He respectully said and after bowing goodbye to us Hongbin hastily left.""Let's go eat cake." I pulled Jaewhan up cause I saw that he was bummed over Hongbin leaving so soon. He perked right up however at the sound of sweets."Me first!" He ran to the kitchen and I laughed while running to the kitchen as well."Wait up!"The whole house (including staff) gathered around the pies and tarts all over the table."Does the birthday boy have anything to say?" My mother toasted to him"Uhm...Let's all dig in!" We all laughed at his gluttony but began to dig in as he said.The next major event happened when I was ten. The Choi's had stopped fighting the Lee's but not without consequence- the Alpha of the Lee's, Hongbin's father had died in battle."So who's going to be the Alpha then? Surely not Hongbin-he's way too young!" My mother looked sad over it."Apparently Hongbin's mother is gonna be the alpha's replacement until Hongbin turns 16 and takes his rightful place as Alpha of the Lee household.""I feel bad for the boys I mean Hongbin was guarded pretty tight before- now I don't know if he'll ever escape." I know my dad was joking but it wasn't really a joke. Hongbin wasn't allowed to play with us until we all turned for the first time and we had never seen Hyuk. Heck we only knew he existed via Hongbin. Jaewhan was bawling over Hyuk and Hongbin and I had to coax him to fall asleep to get him to shut up.A treaty between the Choi and Lee's was signed in order to unify the children (us) once more. And Hongbin was 'allowed' (forced more like it) to play at the Choi household with Wonshik, Sunwoo Jaehwan and I.Sanhyuk, the mysterious brother also came too. At first he seemed so shy but Sun Woo and Jaewhan got him to open up completely. Of course because of my cold demeanor he often avoided me but he was also mischievous. He reminded me of Jaewhan and I would often catch myself smiling his way or at the things he did that were foolish.Soon after we were able to revisit the Choi's, the incident happened. We were all by the Choi's-in the garden house. While I was highly annoyed with Min Gi, Zitao was still okay in my book- we played chess on the side as Hakyeon kept score. It was a slow game but it was my kind of pace- while Ken was busy playing with Min Gi, Hakyeon and Sengyeon."Excuse me for a second." Zitao excused himself from the game and bowed to me as an apology."It's cool. Go." I said to him while looking down and resetting the clocks timer."Where are you going?" Min Gi was asking Zitao rather loudly."To the bathroom." I looked at Zitao and nodded before focusing my attention to the board.I was left alone with Hakyeon, who looked like he was trying not to breath in my presence. Hmmm, I wonder? I coughed loudly which make Hakyeon jump pracitally off his seat and I had to try and not laugh became he looked paler than me.When Zitao returned we continued our game, currently I was winning, while Zitao was taking his turn the conversation between Min Gi and Jaewhan caught my attention."...Halfblood!" That was all I heard before getting up in anger. Both Hongbin and Zitao stood as well trying to prevent me from advancing towards Min Gi and Jaewhan. I was really angry, yes, but Jaewhan had told me before to be kinder to others so I did not push Zitao as he stood in my way. I asked him kindly to move but he refused. Used to the presence of an alpha."Zitao. MOVE." I ordered him using my alpha's voice. Usualy it would have no effect on a beta however Zitao was not from my pack nor was he used to my strong alpha presence. He timidly and grudgingly stepped aside as I went to Min Gi- holding him up by his collar. I specifically warned him not to mess with my brother ever again before grabbing Jaewhan and leaving."Turn.""Why?""Were going home. Now. Turn." I ordered him while I pulled him outside. The other came running behind us shortly. I think that was the last time we went to the Choi household- any of us. Of course Ravi was on my side with the whole thing agreeing that Min Gi had taken things to far he was quick to remind me however that I needed to control my anger a little better seeing how I almost ripped Min Gi's collar off his shirt.The next time we saw one another was at the meetings held for the four households. We were all 16 and finally we were allowed to attend the meetings which our parents held according to the original wolf code.Hongbin was already an Alpha at this time. Since the Lee Household was deperate the very day Hongin turned 16 they performed to ritual for him. I tired to get him to tell me about it (because dad wouldn't tell me) but he said that 'I would find out'. Urgh.When I saw the Choi household I really could not take my eyes off of the twins who were servicing Min Gi and Zitao. I remembered them and they had grown up really well. I wasn't the only one who noticed though- Ravi did too. So we tried to gain her attention almost like a competition; however early on it was obvious to me that she was interested in Zitao. I was not one to trample over love so I let it be. Wonshik however is really slow and hadn't caught on her- well I'll just leave him be- he'll discover it on his own.After we became 15 it passed by so fast: I mean the time. Before I knew it I was turning 17 and the official day in which i would be the alpha of the Jung Household had arrived. I was preparing diligently for the ceremony. It was a secret to the outsiders- no one could know how the ceremony was to take place except for the Immediate Royal families and the Household Scribes. The day before I was to become an official alpha Wonshik came to my house, hand in hand with Jaewhan and they announced that they wished to be mated."Why tell me first???" I kind of sat there wide-eyed looking at Jaewhan ad he grinned widely and as Ravi looked kind of embarrassed."I want to~ Your gonna do the ceremony for mating as Alpha any ways~~" I sighed and put down the scroll I was previously reading."You go tell this news to mom and dad- I need to talk a little with Ravi here." Jaewhan happily skipped away and I made sure the door was closed to the study before addressing Ravi. I grabbed onto his shoulder and looked into his eyes intensely."If you hurt Jaewhan Ravi, best friend in the world or not I will kill you." Ravi put his hands on my shoulders this time and smiled at me."I have no doubt you will best friend in the world. Plus, you know I'd never hurt Jaewhan." If there was one thing I could be sure of it was how much of a softie Ravi was. Especially for those he loved- he was a total love-sick fool for his brother, it was only going to be worse for Jaewhan.The next day I had my ceremony and it lasted until the night, in the glow of the full moon transformed and took a bath with pure water given to us by the Elfven from their magical springs. At the end of that year Ravi also became an Alpha and I had the privaledge of giving away Jaewhan to Ravi myself.Soon after Ravi officially gave away Baro to Sandeul. It was really funny to see him give his speech while trying to hold back his ugly sobbing. I congratulated them with a valuable art piece that Jaewhan had made but I was a little sad as well.Now everyone but I was mated or at least on their way to being mated.Ravi had JaewhanBaro had Sandeul and just recently Hongbin asked Hyuk to be his mate (It was a grand event- balloons everyone's families were there- the works)There was even Min Gi who Ravi had told me was to marry the daughter of a high ranking officer within the Kim army.Years passed again, a little slower but because off all my alpha responsibilities, In a flash I turned 20. Now at 20, I was way over the age where I should be able to find my mate. Usually the older you got the harder it was to find your mate. The prime age was 14-17 but some people found mates even in childhood. Meanwhile I had looked while I was younger, tried to look while I was an alpha and nothing. I visited all four households but no one struck out to me in any way.My mother seeing how I lonely I was becoming asked me if she could set me up with someone. "It's not healthy for such a fine young man to take on such a responsibility on his own. Your father, your grandfather- even his father- they all married before becoming Alpha's to the Lee Household."Yeah... your right. Maybe it is time for me to look for a marriage partner. I'm getting older and it's getting near-impossible to find my mate- I might as well find someone I love and have some children to carry on my lineage.""So I can set you up then?" My mom smiled. She set me up on a couple of dates- with both men and women. They were all the children of people who worked directly under me. However I felt attraction to Yura.I had not seen her in quite a while and she had grown up so well. Her body curved in all the right place plus having a conversation with her was refreshing. Even arguing with her was like a breath of fresh air.I was not long after that I asked her to marry me."Yura, will you marry me?" I bent on one knee on the cobble stone path. We were taking our usual walk in my house's garden and I felt like it was the perfect time to propose to her."Your probably the most important woman to me. I can't imagine marrying any other woman and I love everything about you-" I stood up and cupped her face"Your hair, your eyes, the way you fit perfectly between my arms. I couldn't imagine my life continuing without you by my side- will you do me the honor of marrying me?""Yes." She leaned into my hand as I cupped her cheek. I brought her face up and bent down to kiss her until the breath had left her small frame. I was beyond happy- so happy I wished to whisk her away now as if we were truly married.However my mother refused to let us simply sign the marriage forms. She laid out and elaborate plan that would take 7 months to plan. Of course Yura was all for a fairy tail wedding and who was I to say no? Just her son AND the groom of course.Of course after about two months in I was feeling beyond frustrated and when Yura came to me in secret on night I could hardly resist claiming her on her on the spot. Of course I would have to continually mark her since only the marks of real mates could last forever.Four months later we were to have our wedding- of course Yura's wedding dress had to be resized ever month because she was pregnant with our first child. My mother scolded me when she initially found out but our parents were just excited to know that they would be grandparent's soon enough."I can't believe my precious first son is getting married." My mom had used up a god amount of tissue papers crying over me."Come- let's go see the bride now." Yura's mom ushered her to the room Yura was in and winked at me. I sighed in relief. Just then the guys came in.Jaewhan came in with Ravi first."What are you doing here? Ravi what is he doing here?" I stood up and helped Jaewhan to a nearby seat and frowned at Ravi. Before he could explain himself Jaewhan spoke up."No baby is gonna stop me from attending my big brother's wedding!" I rolled my eyes. Of course- Ravi had probably been crying and begging for Jaewhan to stay at home."So what is it?" I asked Ravi giving up because  I knew that once Jaewhan made up his mind he was set. And stubborn."Twins apparently." My eyes got wider."Twins? So I'm getting twice the nephews then?""Actually twice the headache." Ken signed rubbing his belly. I shook hands with Ravi and hugged him.  I asked Sandeul about Baro but he said that he absolutely refused to bring Baro outside of the house while he was pregnant. It was interesting that both brothers were having children around the same time. This was Sandeul's second child however- the oldest being 3 years of age. He was with Baro at home."Stop it!" Hongbin walked in holding onto Hyuk's waist and hyuk blushed and pulled away."Congradulations Hyung." Hyuk bowed to me and Hongbin smiled at me all proud."Were ready Alpha." A boy came into tell us and we all took our places at the alter. My best men were Ravi my beta Kyungsoo and Yura's brother.When Yura was walking out I saw Jaewhan start crying really hard which made my mom start up again and i fought the urge to roll my eyes at their drama. Instead I focused on Yura, who shone in her dress.The white fabric was like a halo and illuminated Yura's naturally breath-taking beauty. While we stood their, saying our vows and exchanging the rings, I felt at peace. Like nothing could so wrong with such a perfect thing.I felt like the three of us could take on the world.

AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPY EVER AFTER THE END.