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Summary: Beelzebub started a war against humanity 10 years after he came back to Demon World. Oga didn't believe Be'el would do such thing, but then he came to know that Beelzebub had forgotten him. Can Oga stop the new demon king's advances? AU. Oyako-fic.
IMPORTANT A/N, PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING
1. I promise to twist, break, and stampede your heart mercilessly in 8 chapters (yes, that's how 'short' I want this fic to be). Step back if you don't want that. You have been warned.
2. My first try with tragedy combined with humor genre. Feel free to flame if I failed to pull that. Your hate will be received with open arms.
3. The timeline of this story is before their transfer to St. Ishiyama High, so characters that appeared after that won't take part with this story. I might mention some of them, but nothing more than that. The reason? I prefer small cast of characters & I haven't read/watch beyond that point.
4. Minimum romance. Unexpected pairing.
5. DEATHS. As much as you can expect from tragedy.
6. Enjoy.
"FOR THE CHILDREN"
CHAPTER 1: BOB BRAWLER FOREVER
"Daddy!"
Furuichi smiled at the sight of his five years old daughter, Mei. The brown haired girl was sitting on her bed, playing a fighting game with her current babysitter, Natsume.
"Mei, you are not sleeping, yet?" Furuichi asked, sitting down beside his cute little girl. He vaguely noticed Natsume exiting the bedroom as unnoticeable as he could.
"I can't sleep without your bed time story, daddy," Mei said with a grin that reminded Furuichi of her mother, Furuichi (Oga) Misaki.
"Fine. I'll tell you about the genius strategist (me)."
"No! I want a story about the brawler!"
"But you have heard that seven times last week!"
Mei pouted. "I don't care. I like that story."
Furuichi sighed. These days, he seriously worried about his value in his children's eyes.
"Fine."
"Yaaaay!"
Furuichi cleared his throat and turned on his story-telling mode.
"Once upon a time, in a land far away..."
The cold wind blew, sending shivers to those who were outside. Normally people wouldn't even think to go out at this time, but these men were different. There were thirty of them, all dressed in black and carrying huge guns in their hand. One of them was carrying a bundle of white cloth in his arm, and a machine gun at the other. It looked odd, but he seemed to not mind. They were all waiting for someone in front of an abandoned port.
"...there was a barbaric, ruthless, and defiant bastard who thought nothing of his fellow man *cough* I mean, a handsome, cool, popular young man whom everyone looked up to."
All heads turned when they heard approaching footsteps. Coming from the shadows was a slightly tall, lean built young man in his twenties. He wore his suit sloppily; folded up sleeves, untied tie—but his hair was strangely tidy compared to it.
"Who are you?" one of the men in black, the ugliest one, asked with a loud voice.
"The kind hearted young man said this:"
"Shut up. You're gonna wake the baby, monkey."
The ugly man's eye turned white at his words.
"What did you say?"
The ugly man was going to make holes on the rude man, but stopped by the one holding the bundle.
"You must be the Prime Minister's man. Bring the money here or we will make a Swiss cheese out of you."
The others cocked their gun towards the man, emphasizing their leader's point.
"Keep it down," the young man growled.
The ugly man started to mock him. "What? Are you scare—UAKH!"
The young man's fist silenced him, flipping the rest's trigger happy switch. They fired at him like crazy, but none of the bullets hit the young man.
"The kind hearted young man then plant some seeds to the ground."
"I said keep it down! You're going to make him cry!" the young man hisses as he buried their heads to the concrete ground with his fist. Those who he had not reached yet immediately make a distance while asking to each other.
"What is he?"
"A demon?"
"And then..."
An ear piercing, head splitting cry split the silent night.
"The cry of a baby captured his attention."
"AAAGHHH! My ears!"
"Stop it! Stop it please!"
"The kind hearted young man stayed calm and responded to the situation like an adult."
The young man quickly took the screaming bundle from the leader, who was writhing in pain on the ground. He made a series of shushing voices like, "Sssshh, Seishirou-chan, don't cry please!" or calming attempts like, "There-there-there," which only served to make the baby's cry louder.
"Hey you! Calm him properly will you?" the leader shouted in frustration.
"Shut up! Whose fault do you think it is?" the young man shouted back, which again, made the baby cried louder.
"UAAAAHHGHH! My...head...!"
"Is...splitting..!"
"Stop him! Or I'll shoot!"
"I said SHUT UP!" The young man shouted before turning to the baby again. He gritted his teeth as if he was making a hard decision. "Grrrhhh... I really don't want to use this, but..."
"The baby was crying so pitifully loud, but the kind hearted young man was not taken aback by fear, and all by himself, stop the baby's cry!"
The young man took a slip of paper from his pocket and waved it in front of the baby while speaking in a cutesy voice that sounded so very wrong on him.
"Here here, Seishirou-chan. A photo of my ex-schoolmate, Kunieda Aoi, in a cute swimsuit."
The baby's cry stopped suddenly, as if someone pressed a mute button on him.
"How is it, Seishirou-chan? Isn't she cute in that kiddie style swimsuit? Check out her boobs!"
Somewhere not so far away, Kunieda Aoi felt a shiver down her spine.
The men watched the exchange in awkward silence. Was this guy trying to turn this pure, untainted soul, into a dirty pervert?
The young man, feeling their judging stare, thought in his head, Shut up! I'm the one who's being tainted here!
"After that, the baby..."
"Da~!"
To their surprise, the babycried happily and snatched the photo from the young man's hand. Then he made cute noises as he snuggle the photo like it was a fluffy teddy bear.
"Geez, getting really attached to a pretty lady's photo... You really are that pervert's son, aren't you?"
"No! I just like ladies! Wait, why am I talking like this when he's not here? *cough* Anyway, the baby loves beautiful ladies so he could only be calmed by the sight of one...or something like that. But there's another problem!"
Now that the baby was calmed, the rest of the men could think straight again. They started pointing their gun to the young man again.
"What are you monkeys doing?" the young man asked with a deadpanned voice.
"You don't seem to bring the money so we will take the boy back," the leader said, gesturing his men to come and take the baby from the young man.
The young man only sighed and place the baby on a baby back carrier which just appeared out of nowhere.
"You monkeys are slow learners. You think you can handle him? What if he cries again?"
"You just showed us. We are going to do the same as you did."
The young man snorted and strapped the baby carrier on his back. That was when everyone froze.
"You...that appearance... You can't be!"
"Yes... The young man, standing tall with a baby on his back, looking calm even when he seems to be outnumbered..."
"You are that famous guy from Ishiyama!"
"Oga—"
"—Tatsumi—"
"The BoB Brawler!" "The Rampaging Demon Ogre Babysitter!"
The cold wind blew again, filling the silence that came after the exclamation with its noise.
"You monkeys," Oga growled, suddenly looking ten times scarier with a cute, white haired baby on his back.
"Y-yes?" the leader asked, feeling more fear than intimidated.
"Do you really think that plan of yours will work?"
"He?" the leader asked stupidly.
"Are you seriously thinking that you can calm this brat?" Oga rephrased the question as he advanced to the leader. The others were too afraid to act, so the leader was forced to face Oga alone.
"Well, yes of course! We just need to buy some *beep* magazine and—"
Oga punched his face before he could finish.
"Boss!" the henchmen shouted in horror and cringed when Oga turned to them. His glare was everybody's cue to get the f*ck out of this place.
"You slow-flea-invested-hairy-brained-lost-cause-of monkeys!" Oga growled as he started to turn the kidnappers into strawberry jams.
"Kuakh!"
"Guh!"
"It turns out that this Oga Tatsumi is actually a hero..."
"If only this brat can be satisfied with those cheap magazines from convenience store—"
"Help! Somebody help!"
"...who protects babies from kidnappers..."
"My life will be much simpler!"
"Nooo! I don't want to die!"
"Mamaaa!"
"...who know nothing about babysitting."
"Take this! Oga '100-Years-of-Frustration' Ultimate-Combo Strike!"
*PUNCH* *PUNCH* *KICK* *CRUSH* *PUNCH* *PUNCH* *PUNCH* *STOMP* *STOMP* *HEEL* *THROW* *THROW* *SMASH* (repeat 100x)
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHH!"
"The kidnappers then sent across the atmosphere,
"To the space where they become the trash of the universe," Furuichi finished, enjoying the wide eyes gaze of wonder he received from Mei.
"Woooooowww... Uncle Tatsumi is so awesome!"
Hearing that brought Furuichi back to his inferiority complex. Damn, I got carried away... "Not really. I lied about that part."
"Eeeeeh? Then what happened to them?"
Furuichi glanced sideways. "Probably the usual."
"The usual?"
An evil looking Oga appeared in Furuichi's mind.
"Everyone grovel before me!"
"...Never mind. Now sleep," Furuichi said as he ruffles his daughter's hair.
"But you haven't tell me what happened to them! What do you mean by the usual?" Mei protested, but didn't fight back Furuichi tucking her to bed.
"For that, Mei has to use her own imagination. You can do that, right?"
Mei pouted. "I can, but..."
"That's my daughter. Now sleep, it's already late."
"Okay..."
Furuichi kissed her forehead and said, "Good night, Mei."
"G'night, daddy," Mei replied, sounded sleepy already.
Furuichi exited the room as quietly as possible. At the same time, Oga appeared from the hallway, with Seishirou now sleeping in his arms.
"I'm home," Oga greeted with a low voice.
"Welcome home. Is Sei-chan alright?" Furuichi asked, looking at his second child worriedly.
"He's fine. He slept so fast after I gave him my trump card, so I couldn't beat those bastards to my hearts content. I'll have to visit Kunieda again to make him drink vegetable juice."
"Sorry for the trouble, Oga," Furuichi apologized, his head hung low.
"Nah, say that to Kunieda. This little guy may be high maintenance and troublesome, but he's my nephew. I do this because I love him."
That's what you say, but I think you're doing this because he reminded you of baby Be'el, Furuichi thought. "Anyway, I think you can go to sleep now. I'll put Sei-chan to bed."
"But we sleep in the same room," Oga pointed out.
"I know, but please, let me be a father for him too."
"I get it I get it. You don't have to be so emotional about it," Oga said as he handed Seishirou to Furuichi.
"Thank you, Oga," Furuichi said as he extended his arm to receive Seishirou.
"Furuichi-kun."
Furuichi's hand stopped centimeters before Seishirou.
"What is it, Natsume?" Furuichi asked without turning around.
"Jinno-kun is here for you."
"I see," Furuichi replied, trying so hard to keep his voice steady as he withdrew his hands. When would he be able to spend time with his children without getting interrupted like this? "I'm sorry, Oga. I have to leave Seishirou in your care again."
"Don't mention it. Just do your best to stay alive," Oga said with an underlying threat: don't you dare leaving your children fatherless.
"Got it. Natsume, take care of Mei."
"Sure, Furuichi-kun. But you better hurry, they said the number is quite big this time."
Furuichi frowned but nodded anyway. "I'm going now."
"Have a safe trip," both Oga and Natsume said.
On his way out, Furuichi met Kanzaki and Shiroyama, the guards of the house.
"Going out again, Prime Minister?" Kanzaki asked, mocking him as usual.
"Stop calling me that, Kanzaki-san. I leave Oga and my children in your care."
"Hmph. If only that brat is willing to fight demons," Kanzaki said, leaving the sentence hanging to slurp his Yogurty.
"Then you will lose your job," Furuichi countered and left before Kanzaki could respond.
Jinno was waiting outside the house with a sleek, black car Furuichi usually used. Both of them exchanged salutation before getting inside the car.
"How's the situation?" Furuichi wasted no time to ask.
"About 100 werewolf type demons appeared in Kamogawa. General Toujou is heading there as we speak," Jinno replied as he handed a file to Furuichi. Furuichi opened it and skimmed the contents. He frowned when he reached a page.
"Silver bullets are not working against them? Is it because of the full moon?"
"Perhaps not."
"Perhaps?"
"We have received a report about the werewolves covered by some kind of gelatinous substance that repelled the bullets. But we haven't confirmed yet if it's from their own power or not."
"I see," Furuichi replied, his head immediately filled with theories and strategies he could use to fight against those demons.
No other words exchanged beyond that. The car continued its journey to the headquarter of Special Demon Elimination Unit, MISAKI, without the riders noticing a small dimensional tear appearing on Ishiyama's sky. From the tear exited a tall, green haired young man, with a garb fit for a warrior king. His green eyes swept across the electrically lightened neighborhood, brows furrowed as he did that.
"So this is the human world..." the young man said to himself. His voice was light, but strangely suited his tall, well built body. He was staying afloat in the air with nothing but his power.
"What a nostalgic feeling place. I should take a look before Hilde* find me."
After saying that, the green haired man disappeared, gone without a trace like a smoke blown by wind.
To be continued...
*Hilde is not a mistype.
A/N: And that's chapter 1. I hope you like it. I ended my hiatus because I need variation in holiday, and this story just itched my plot bunny in the right way.
For your information, Furuichi's children names are derived from a pair of siblings in a PSP game called Senritsu no Stratus. I love it so much that I wanna do fic for it but so far, no inspiration kick. So I decided to name Furuichi's children after the main characters (especially Seishirou, who has a white hair). Check it out, it has a very good story and I hear the soundtrack when writing this fic. And it deserves a lot more love.
See you next week!