AN: I do not own Beelzebub. Hello, anyone who decided to click this link, this was just an idea that I've had for a while now, but am only just now posting.
Also, I do not post regularly as this is a hobby and not a priority, and honestly, as I'm sure other authors feel, reviews that just say "Update please!" or "I hope you start updating again" (yes it has been a couple months but that comment still peeves me) actually make me less motivated to update.
Other than that, I hope you enjoy :)
"Ara, Tatsu-kun, aren't you done yet?"
Pausing in the middle of drowning one of the fools stupid enough to attack him in his sleep, Oga Tatsumi lifted his gaze to the girl on the other side of the river. One of his best friends and longtime secret (from his crazy family) girlfriend, Suzuru Aki was a beautiful woman with shoulder-length black hair, electric green eyes, and a lean frame earned through many years of both dance and fighting.
"Oh, Aki-chan, come to join the fun?" With a demonic smirk, he offered the leg of the guy he was torturing to her. Rolling her eyes, she threw the poor sap down river where his friends were quick to fish him out and run off.
"Actually I was gonna tell you that I'm joining your family for dinner tonight and to warn your mother."
His brow twitched and a frown pulled at the corner of his mouth. "That isn't how you ask somebody for a favor ya know."
Her lips twisted into a mocking smile as she easily jumped across and came to stand in front of him, glaring up into his eyes with equal ferocity.
"Ah, but I wasn't asking, Tatsu-kun."
Eyes darkening at her challenge, he opened his mouth to reply but was interrupted by a large man floating down the water past them. With an unconcerned expression, he easily lifted the man out.
"Oi, homeless guy, you alright?"
The man didn't respond. Instead, he seemed to split in half, right down the middle. Aki's eyes grew wide in surprise when a naked, green haired baby popped out of the man and landed in the grass gently. Not noticing the man's exit, Aki watched as the baby seemed to stare Tasumi down as if assessing his worth.
"Maa~ isn't he cute Tatsu-kun? Can we keep him?" she asked, pulling a blanket out of nowhere and scooping the babe up into her arms. It seemed to take a moment to realize his change in position, but soon the baby stared into her green eyes intently before squealing and erupting into a series of happy babbling, hands reaching up towards her face and tugging on her hair playfully.
Oga sneered at the baby, unhappy that he had pulled her attention from him, and unknowingly attracted the baby's gaze back to him. At the demonic look on his face, he seemed even more excited at the expression and reached his arms out to him. Aki slid up to Oga and peered up at him through her lashes.
"I think he likes you, Tatsu-kun, won't you hold him?"
Oga groaned and reluctantly reached out to take the baby from her, holding it with one calloused hand carelessly. Aki rolled her eyes at him and started dragging him off towards the road.
"Come on, Tatsu-kun, we should go tell your parents that they now have a grandchild!" she chirped happily.
"Woah! No way in hell!" he yelled, trying to give the baby back to her, only to find that he seemed to be a demonic leech, and refused to let go.
Aki's lips turned into a pout and she pulled them to a stop. Looking up at him with feigned innocence, she pressed every single one of her curves to his side, ignoring the babe who was looking between the two of them with rapt fascination, sparkles in his eyes.
"Are you saying you're ashamed of our child, Tatsu-kun?"
Oga felt sweat falling down his neck as he tried to turn his head away from her enticement, only for a cool hand to grab his jaw and force him to face her once more. Growling, he jerked out of her grasp and threw an arm around her waist. Forcing her to walk with him, he dug his fingers into the curve of her hip warningly.
"We're not showing him to my parents, maybe we can dump him with Furuichi?" he redirected. Aki smiled indulgently and merely hummed, threading her own arm around him so she could fit her hand into his front pocket on his opposite side
"His parents wouldn't be terribly surprised that their hormonal, teenage son managed to create a child without telling them he had knocked up some poor girl." she agreed. Her partner was oblivious to her scheming, otherwise, he would have tried to run. As it was, she continued to expand on her plot, only the intended victim was not Furuichi.
"And that's how we got him." Oga finished his explanation, mentally bracing himself against Furuichi's vehement rebukes as he watched Aki play with the strange green-haired babe.
Legs crossed and baby laying in the middle, Aki easily entertained him with her hair and funny faces that anyone else would run from in fear.
"-why don't we just take him to the police and let them find his parents?" Furuichi was ranting. Oga rolled his eyes at his friend and absently caught the baby with one hand when he nearly toppled out of Aki's lap and onto the ground.
"Ara ara~," Aki sang, a dangerous smile on her face as she looked up at their friend. "You wouldn't be trying to part me from my child, would you?"
Furuichi and Oga both flinched back at the deadly aura she was emitting, while the baby squealed in excitement, his eyes shining and arms reaching back for her.
"Oh? I think he wants you, Aki-kun." Furuichi said, picking up the baby and holding him out to her.
"Idiot! If you do that-" Oga didn't finish his sentence as the baby started crying, sending electricity across the roof and shocking the people around him.
Stumbling down the halls, slowly working off the shock their systems were just subjected to, Oga paid no mind to the baby clinging to the back of his jacket, much more interested in keeping an eye out for the creeps who would undoubtedly try to come on to Aki once they realized she was at school today.
"Man, why did all the other girls have to leave, it's more dangerous when they aren't here," he complained, arm tight around her waist. Aki smiled up at him and leaned back to peer at the baby.
"Oh? He's sleeping," she commented.
"LET'S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE YOU BASTARD!"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME!?"
Oga flinched at the yelling and quickly tried to quiet the two idiots, only for it to be too late.
"Shut up you idiots, you're going to make him cry again!"
The baby popped out from behind Oga's shoulder and started to wail, electricity once again flaring out around him and destroying a good portion of the walls.
In their classroom, the others cowered beside the blackboard, looking at the burnt Oga and Furuichi with fear, especially when the Ogre's deadly glare landed on them any time they so much as twitched in the direction of Aki.
"I don't get it, how are you not burnt like us?" Furuichi whined to her. She rolled her eyes at him and continued to entertain the baby, flipping her hair over her shoulder and unknowingly regaining the attention of the rest of the room.
"Furu-kun, it's going to take more than a little electricity to ruffle me."
Ignoring their conversation, Oga plotted on how to keep the kid distracted.
"Oi, Oga brought a kid with 'im!" one of the crowd whispered. Another suddenly shot forward, yelling in disbelief and scaring the baby.
"Oi oi Furuichi do something!" Oga cried in a panic as the kid jumped from Aki to latch onto his shirt. The woman in question shot him an amused smirk and calmly walked from the room before the kid blew up. "Aki-chan! Get your ass back here!"
Their attempts to calm the kid down failed, and yet another room was destroyed.
Aki met them out in the hall with a bottle of water and a carton of milk.
"Oi, woman, why didn't you help us!" demanded Tatsumi. She rolled her eyes at him and plucked the baby off his back, wrapping him in a blanket and feeding him the milk. Pecking Oga's cheek, she nudged him forward.
"I don't think I can take much more of this." Furuichi groaned.
"Then there's only one thing to do!" Oga decided. "We'll put him to sleep and stuff him back in the guy who split in half before he can wake up!"
"Do you really think he's still split open?" Furuichi wondered hopefully, before covering up his rather callous comment. "I mean, can we really leave him alone?"
Oga threw him back down the hallway in his irritation. "Do I look like such a cruel person?"
"I think you look like a very attractive person, in fact, I wouldn't mind if you would split m-" Aki laughed against the lips that silenced her, Oga pulled back to look down at her crossly.
"Knock it off woman, or I'll make you." he threatened. Aki smirked up at him invitingly.
"How do you know I wouldn't like that?"
The rest of the delinquents in the hallway suddenly found themselves running or pissing themselves in fear when Oga realized what they were witnessing, and turned his ire onto them. The baby cheered excitedly from Aki's arms at the chaos that ensued.
They went to Furuichi's house after school. Aki entertained herself with sneaking strawberries off Oga's plate while the two men fought to push the baby on each other.
"It's no use, he's totally attached to us!" Oga cried, plopping down next to Aki on the bed and nabbing the food on the fork she was about to devour. She pinched his cheek in warning and smiled her version of gently at the baby who rolled off Oga's shoulder and into her lap.
"Attached to you? Don't make me laugh. The young master would never take to the likes of you!" the four occupants of the room turned to see a blonde woman in a maid's costume had come in through the window. "Die, filth!"
"Who are you calling filth? And get down from there!" Oga raged. The blonde ignored him but did step down from the desk, reaching out for the baby who was now perched back on Oga's shoulder.
"Come now, young master, Hilda is here to bring you home!" her voice was much warmer than before as she tried to coax him into her arms. The baby considered her for a moment before turning away in a clear dismissal.
"Ha! Looks like he doesn't like you!" Oga gloated.
Flustered, the maid tried to hide her embarrassment as she resorted to physically pulling the baby from the human. "Come now, it's time to go home!"
The baby clung hard to Oga, eyes wide in alarm. He started to squeal in protest when Oga made no move to save him.
"Oh my, what should I do?" the man in question pretended to ponder smugly.
Furuichi shot him an unimpressed look. "Maybe I'm missing something, but won't giving him to her fix your problem?"
Struck by the realization, Oga started to aid the woman in detaching the babe from his person. "She came to pick you up!"
The baby seemed even more distressed at being pushed away and fought even harder to stay with him.
"Furuichi, you bastard, help!" Oga demanded.
Furuichi went to touch the baby, only to find himself on the floor as Aki dug her heel into his skull. Everyone else seemed to pause and look at the young woman, whose eyes were shadowed by her hair.
"I can't believe you would part a mother from her child." Oga paled rapidly at her tone, especially when she finally turned her face up, exposing the tears running down her face. "How could you be so cruel, Tatsu-kun?"
'They're not real, she's just messing with you, don't let her get in your head!' He yelled at himself internally. But damn it, he was weak to her and she knew it.
No longer resisting the baby, Oga caught him when the maid let go of his legs in surprise.
"Jeez, don't pull out the waterworks, it's weird." he deflected, face turned away from her, handing the baby over to her-unknowingly stepping on Furuichi as well as he did so-and failing to suppress his blush when she beamed up at him with the baby squealing happily in her arms. Her tears dried up immediately he noted crossly, he knew she was just messing with him again.
"Forgive me, I am the demon Hildegarde, and I am this baby's maidservant demon." the blonde woman finally introduced. "That child is Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, also known as our future Demon King."
While the males looked at the baby with dread, Aki merely beamed at him and scooped him up into her arms.
"Maa~ you manage to get even cuter without trying!"
Furuichi started to laugh nervously. "Aha, thanks for the exposition and all Hilda-san, but it's really okay if you want to take him back…"
"Impossible." Hilda denied. "The master has chosen the two of you to be his parents. As such, it is your responsibility to raise him to become the destroyer of humanity.
"Oh I knew it!" suddenly a large, muscled man with a large mustache and questionable fashion sense burst onto the scene. "I am Alaindelon, a dimensional transference demon!"
"Ohh, you're the strange fellow from the river," Aki commented.
"Yes! I floated down the river to bring the master to this world, and that's when I saw you!" sparkles seemed to be in his eyes as he got up into Oga's face, "Standing there and laughing heartily as those humans groveled before you, I was convinced I could leave him in your hands!"
Then he turned his attention onto Aki, taking her hands in his, and ignoring the glare Oga sent him.
"And then you appeared, seemingly taming the beast within him, when in reality you make it so much worse, and a darkness within you to match! It was like a dream come true!"
Aki gave him a polite smile and reclaimed her hands as Oga sulked over his life choices. Suddenly he sprang up with renewed energy.
"Hold on, just because he likes me a little...I ain't gonna do it!"
Hilda gave him a smile that was eerily reminiscent of the ones Aki gave before moving in for the kill. "You mean you refuse?"
"Duh!"
"Then please die!"
Aki chuckled as her two friends ran from the house, Hilda in hot pursuit, and turned to the strange male demon still beside her.
"Do you have anywhere to stay, Alaindelon?"
"No, do you have an idea?"
Aki's smile was sharp and too sweet as she eyed the family photo Furuichi had on his desk.
"Maybe a few."
Aki didn't see Oga for several days after that other than a short trip to his house to get Hilda a place to stay while she was in the human world. Apparently, he had fallen into some sort of power coma. The next time she did was at school.
"Why are you even bringing him to school, shouldn't you leave him at home?" she heard Furuichi saying.
"My place has been taken over by a demon, and I can't be more than 15 meters away from him or I get shocked!" Oga snapped.
"Ara? You didn't like my explanation to your family?" she interrupted. Oga's eyes darkened when he saw her.
"Hell no! You gave my parents the wrong idea!" he shivered in fear just remembering the embarrassing scene.
Flashback Start
"My name is Hildegarde, and I will be staying with you from now on, please just think of me as the sister of your daughter-in-law!" Hilda greeted.
"Hey, that's going to give people the wrong idea!" Oga protested, pointing to his parents and sister who were frozen in shock.
"Oh? But I heard that was customary in this country?" she asked.
"You're assumptions are wrong! Besides, I keep telling you and Aki-chan that I haven't accepted being the father yet!"
"Tatsu-kun, you're so cruel," Aki spoke up, drawing his family's attention to where she was kneeling next to Hilda. Pretending to lean on her for support, she turned away from him as tears fell down her cheeks. "Even after all that you did to me that night…"
"Tatsumi you bastard! You dare knock up our sweet and beautiful Aki-kun and you refuse to take responsibility!?" his father cried.
"Ha! You owe me 3000 yen! I told you they were in a relationship!" Misaki crowed, unfazed by the glare her mother was sending her at her loss.
"You got it all wrong!" Oga denied, eyes wide in alarm. This entire mess was getting out of control.
"What's wrong? He even has your eyes!" his father yelled.
"Yes, he's the spitting image!" his mother agreed.
Aki beamed up at them like a proud mother and pulled Beel into her lap, an arm around Hilda's shoulders. "He has the same coloring as our grandfather." she confided. Beel blushed at the attention.
"Oh, where are you from?" his sister asked Hilda, but she mistook her answer as Macao.
"I'm so sorry, Aki-kun! I'll make sure he is a good father and raises Beel right!" Oga's father promised, doing his signature sliding grovel.
Aki smiled at him innocently.
"I had no doubts Oga-san, my dear cousin Hilda-nee is here to help take care of him since we are so young."
Hilda and Aki smirked when Oga was forced to bow to them.
"In that case you are more than welcome Hilda-san!"
Flashback End
"And that's what happened," Oga concluded for Furuichi. Aki pressed a quick kiss to his cheek and ruffled Beel's hair before running ahead down the hallway.
"So you get an attractive demon staying in your house when mine only gets destroyed!? How is that fair!" Furuichi demanded.
"Hey, my life is on the line here! If I exceed the 15-meter limit, I get fried!" Oga retorted, ignoring the baby when he moved to cling to his front instead.
"Anyway Oga," Furuichi began, moving onto another topic entirely. "More importantly, where did Hilda-san sleep last night?"
Oga had no mercy as he punched his friend clear across the roof, fury pouring off him in waves.
"You idiot, do you really think I'd disrespect Aki-chan like that?"
While he was beating up his best friend, Oga didn't notice until it was too late that Beel had wandered off and was now in the grasp of several thugs.
'Shit! He's already at 14.5 meters!' he thought. If he looked closely enough, he could see Beel's entire body vibrating with nervous energy as he eyed the distance himself.
"Oi Oga, you really gotta watch your kid close or else…" The ringleader taunted.
"Don't move an inch!" Oga yelled out desperately, channeling every bit of darkness he had to root the trio in place. "Move and I kill you!"
Trying to keep up their false bravado, the trio still sweated profusely. As four second years also joined the fight, Oga was careful in his distance as he took the punks out, Beel's eyes growing wider and filling with more awe as he watched his father work.
"Daddy's home!" he said, punching the last of them, and catching Beel with an outstretched arm.
"Mommy's been waiting."
Turning on his heel, he swallowed nervously at the glare Aki had fixed on him. She stalked forward and snatched Beel away, putting a pair of pants on him.
"Honestly, not even getting our son dressed, I can't trust you at all." she sighed, rubbing Beel's back soothingly while the baby snuggled against her, squealing happily.
"Hey, he refused to wear any clothes, even Hilda couldn't do it!" he defended. Aki pat his cheek a little harder than necessary and started for the stairwell.
"The next time you let some punks take our baby, I'll skin you alive myself." she threatened. Oga was quick to follow her before the 15 meters could be exceeded.
His lips twitched up into a lascivious grin as he wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, pulling her flush to his chest. Nibbling at her ear, he whispered with a slight growl, "Is that a promise?"
He found himself shocked that day anyway as Aki threw him down the stairs.
