Title: Pressure

Game: Suikoden 3

Characters: Yuber, Hugo

Pairings: Yuber/Hugo

Summary:  Hugo is torn between the clans, responsibilities, and his love for Yuber.

Hugo lay among the rumpled blankets on his pallet and stared up at the beige canopy.  He was mentally, emotionally and physically exhausted.  The word Pressure popped into his mind and he grimaced.  These days that was all he felt every time he woke up in the morning and when he went to bed at night.  The clans expected him to be a good leader some day, his mother expected him to be a good son, and the elders expected him to marry.  If he had known becoming a clan leader would have so much pressure then perhaps he would have rather been just a warrior.  The only bright spot to all this was his lover but then again he was another form of pressure. 

A sigh escaped Hugo and he stretched.  Yuber was demanding the majority of the time and infuriating the next.  Every time he saw him he didn’t know if he wanted to choke the man or hug him.  Over the last few years that he had been with Yuber the hatred that had once existed between them had grown into something else.

Perhaps the hatred had changed when unexpectedly Yuber had saved his life from a herd of stampeding Holyboys. Not that the Holys were evil it just there had been so many of them.  It had still shocked Hugo but not as much as it had had surprised Yuber.  Ever since then they had formed a truce and since that day they would sometimes bump into each other on the grassy plains.  It was still odd to Hugo that Yuber was wandering the grass lands but he never asked.  As time went on the two of them slowly began to talk and build a sort of friendship.  That had soon changed to something more and Hugo still didn’t understand there relationship.

 It was still hard to admit to even himself that something else existed between them especially since his lover was hated among the clans.  A grimace flashed across Hugo’s features and he pressed both hands against his eyes.  If his clans ever found out who his lover was then Hugo knew what would happen.  The clans would feel betrayed and loose there trust in him as a leader, but what was worse was the elders would demand he give Yuber up.  Hugo didn’t know if he could ever do that and that was another pressure on his plate.

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