warning: if you don't like mature content, then please leave now. i mean the story is rated m for mature so why are you still here if you don't like mature content? makes legit no sense but whateva, i'm not your mother.

minitori/mustachipookie/sebasu does not own any of the content or material used in this story unless stated otherwise. they only own the storyline and original characters. serendipity - song - and ikemen sengoku respectfully belong to their rightful owners.

prologue : 00

"What do you mean she is gone?" A deep, stern and angered voice called out, his voice echoing. "Where is she hiding?" The poor servant trembled in fear, he had only just started and yet here he was, already being yelled at by his new boss. Gulping, the servant's voice trembled as he spoke. "S-She's nowhere to be found, sir. We've searched everywhere and just can't seem to-" He jumped and screeched as he barely dodged a blue flame headed towards him.

"Find her now, before I have your and everyone else's head."

"Yes...lord Hades."

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"Well isn't this just the perfect way to start off a morning?" A groggy voice said, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she looked at the mess that was her dorm room, and the one behind the problem chewing innocently on their chew toy. "I swear I'm lucky they even let me have you here...or you'll be out with my people dealing with the freezing cold." 21-year-old Lucile Delgato was your average American college student, trying to balance life and a fashion/travel blog all at once. She was majoring in fashion styling at PRATT in Brooklyn, New York. It wasn't easy so to speak, considering she rarely had time to ever really update the blog the way she wanted to, but the young, strawberry blonde still made time for it. Yawning for possibly the umpteenth time since waking up, Lucile decided to at least get dressed and look decent in case she needed to go outside, but it's not like she was actually going to go out. School was canceled for today because of the snow - though that really didn't stop her professors from sending them work and asking the students to send in said work once it was finished - so the scholar had an extra day of a lazy life to live, and gosh was Netflix calling out to her.

"Okay, so since it seems like you tore through everything, you get smaller portions today," Lucile spoke to the now sad mini golden doodle pooch, her fluffy body plopping down on the floor while she gave her owner sad eyes. "You can give me that look all you want, but ya not getting any more. Take this as your punishment for being small yet destructive Maze." Maze whined loudly, her eyes and head following wherever her owner went, watching as she made a small breakfast for herself. Little Maze wasn't giving up anytime soon, so when she saw the chance, the little pooch jumped for it and began acting cute for even a small piece of meat from her plate. Sighing, Lucile slipped the pup a small piece of smoked sausage, watching as that pup devoured it once it landed on the floor.

"Target in sight, target acquired," the college student joked while walking to her couch, plopping down, turning on both her game system and tv, and began binging her life away.

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So many years had passed, and yet here he was, alone on foreign terrain, looking for his long since dead lover. Though he had heard himself that she was no longer dead, instead she had been reincarnated and lived somewhere in a place called Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. Deciding that it would be worth the journey, Lord Hades had surfaced and gained popularity as a more-so independent fashion model - like the ones on Instagram that simply take lavish photos and post about their partnerships with certain companies. He had brought with him 5 other men who all followed the same path as him, sometimes they often posed in pictures together for the fans that gathered and for events they were invited to. Lord Hades - now going by the name of Nobunaga Oda - found himself often being called "The Devil King of the Sixth Heaven" which he didn't mind at all considering it was a name that suited him very well.

But the trip to America was a very tiring one, to say the least. Even considering the fact that the 6 men flew from their home in Kyoto, Japan on a private jet filled with entertainment of many sorts, that didn't stop the aching feeling growing inside of Nobunaga's heart as he continued to be reunited with his Persephone. "You seem pretty out of it, Nobunaga," Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nobunaga's right hand, said as he sat down in a chair not far from his lord's. "Are you that eager to meet with Persephone again?"

"Do I even need to answer that?" The ruler of the Underground retorted back as he sighed, standing to his feet and walking to the floor-to-ceiling window that looked out onto the busy streets of Brooklyn. "I can tell she's near. It's faint, but she's near. Whoever is the new owner of Persephone's soul is so close it's hard for me to stay calm, as much as I would love to."

"How do you think she'll react to seeing her past lover again?"Hideyoshi questioned, now standing beside his lord with a curious gaze in his amber eyes. "What if she doesn't remember you?"

"I'm sure Persephone's soul will, and that's what will draw the owner to me. Aside from that, I want to surprise myself on what the owner's reaction will be, it excites me to know that I'm closer than I was before to holding my love in my arms once again," the ravenette said with a sly smirk, seeing his past lover's reflection in the glass window. "But for now I should at least rest before I think about going out to find her."

"Yes, my lord."

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Lucile hummed a small tone to herself as she walked around the supermarket, grabbing a few things she needed for whenever she decided to cook and snacks for her binge sessions. Pausing to the left side of the chips aisle, the strawberry-blonde changed the playlist on her Spotify account before beginning her journey once again. Once her basket was filled with dinner things, snacks, drinks, and cute things she couldn't resist buying, Lucile made her way to the front, surprised to see the growing crowd at one of the exits. Ducking down, joking about saying to herself that it was the feds, the scholar made her way to one of the farther down registers. Not until she realized that a) everyone seemed too preoccupied with whatever was actually going on and b) that the crowd seemed to follow her. It was just a gut feeling she had, but when she watched the crowd and moved her basket, that gut feeling she had was confirmed. Gulping nervously and rather loudly, she quickly made her way to a register that was actually open and taking customers.

The student waited in line and pretended to be all on her phone, but occasionally glanced up to see what the actual hell was going on. "I was actually joking about the feds thing, man. I haven't done anything illegal...unless pirating Stranger Things when your Netflix account is being an ass counts. Oh what am I saying? They're coming to get me and I haven't even started Voltron yet!" Lucile cried internally, beginning to place her items on the conveyor belt when she was able to. However, just when she thought all was good and that whoever was the cause of the crowd didn't find what or who they were looking for was gone, when a sudden firm hand grabbed onto her wrist, the poor scholar panicked. Without a second thought, the college student pulled out and used the very handy can of pepper spray, looking up and seeing that the owner of the massive hand latched onto her wrist was very tall from her standpoint and very...handsome?

"Uh...you have the wrong girl sir-"

"That was a reaction I didn't have in mind."

"Huh?" Lucile questioned, watching as ruby eyes looked into her emerald ones. She saw the smirk grow on the male's face as he pulled her in close to him, his free, larger hand found it's way into her hair, undoing it and letting the medium length tresses fall as his hand ran through the soft locks. Soon, that smirk turned to a rather odd yet soft smile as the man's eyes shined slightly.

"I've finally found you, Persephone."

and there you have it, folks! the first chapter of a book i am in love with. not saying that none of my other books are my precious little ones, but this one makes me happy. it combines greek mythology with ikemen sengoku: romances across time - my current obsession right now like i literally cannot - together into the good ol classic tale of persephone. this idea wouldn't have really sparked had it not been for a doll recolor video i watched two days ago by hexitan - linked above if you're reading this on my wattpad - and couldn't help but love it. it's his version of fluttershy reenvisioned as a greek goddess and it's absolutely amazing. like please do check him out.

and since i plan on being serious about this story - along with another one i'm doing that is mainly posted on my quotev - i am coming up with an upload schedule. saturdays will be upload days for serendipity mainly but also let's not fall in love - i take a lot of inspiration from k-pop songs okay? - so look forward to that! something else i want to mention, i'm posting this on three sites! yep, three! wattpad and here (fanfiction/net)! if my work appears on any other site, please know that is not me and report it to me immediately!

well, this has gone on longer than i thought, but i believe it is time for us to say our goodbyes. there may be a double upload since i'm so full of energy with this series, so look out for it!

- this is al, signing off.