Prompt #2: amputation of pride Series / Character(s) / Pairing: Musou Orochi / Lu Xun, Gan Ning, Sun Ce and Ling Tong (feat. Masamune) / None
Summary: In a world where everyone is freakishly tall, short people should stick together. Especially, Masamune thinks, because it makes him feel taller.

Lu Xun was quickly losing patience.

It didn't happen often; almost never, in fact. People had always praised Lu Xun for being polite and level-headed (usually while shooting disapproving looks at someone else). Being able to keep your head in any situation is a dersirable trait in a strategist, as it usually lead to being able to keep your head in the most literal sense, but if Masamune did not stop looking smugly down at him right this moment something drastic was going to be done.

Lu Xun realized that the only people shorter than him in the Wu Kingdom were female. That was okay. He was willing to accept the fact that he was short. He could deal with that.

"Hey, Shorty!"

Lu Xun twitched involuntarily.

This, he couldn't deal with.

Some people, when presented with stress and anger, imagine themselves committing acts of violence against the cause of their ire. Lu Xun's mind was not equipped to stop there and insisted on detailing the consequences as well. Lu Xun imagined that the conversation (his side of it, anyways) would go something like this:

"What did you want to speak to me about, my lord?...Masamune? Oh, I gauged out his eye with my brush...Yes, I was the one who set him on fire too...Because he kept calling me short, my lord."

It was not a conversation he really wanted to have. Ever.

So Lu Xun decided to take the high road and ignore him.

His resolve lasted until Masamune called him a, "Short, girly baby".


"Imbecile! What are you doing!?"

"Do I even want to know what the two of you are doing here?"

Gan Ning and Sun Ce turned their heads from where they were leaning against the railing. They were both grinning.

"Ling Tong!" Sun Ce waved, "You have to come see this!"

He was tempted to just walk away, but no one can say "no" to Sun Ce and mean it.

He stepped closer. Ling Tong could make out the figure of Masamune even from this distance, and...

He blinked.

"Is that...Lu Xun?"

"Ow! Have you completely lost it!?"

"Yeah." Gan Ning laughed, "It's great isn't it?"

It was definitely something. "Shouldn't we, I don't know, try to stop him?"

Gan Ning and Sun Ce exchanged a look.

"Why would we do that?"

"It's good to see Short-stuffs getting taken down a peg. Besides," Sun Ce gestured in the general direction of their current entertainment, "Anyone who could get Lu Xun that mad probably deserves it."

Ling Tong snorted before joing them at the railing, "You're just making excuses. And you're not really all that much taller than him, you know." He said with a roll of his eyes.

"Yeah, well, at least I'm not scrawny." Sun Ce said in a tone that the Little Conquerer would have described as indignant (but everyone se would say was "petulant").

Really, their lord could be so immature sometimes.

But Ling Tong supposed Sun Ce did have a point.

The bamboo scroll connected with another crack.

He'd never seen Lu Xun this angry before.

"Imbecile!!"


END


I always thought Masamune and Lu Xun were short. Then I realized that Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, who I had assumed were of average height, were actually in the 180+ cm range. Oops? Regardless, I always thought Masamune would be unbearable if he ever found someone else shorter than him (because Hanzou's no fun to make fun of, and he can't very well lord his height over his...well, lord).

When I was writing the last part, I could clearly hear Masamune yelling, "BAKAME!" in my head. Oh Masamune, why are you such a dork? XD

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