Spiritual Bonds

Here is chapter 3.

I do not own Skip Beat or Demon Sacred.

Enjoy!

3: He is a good dad.

Saito opened his eyes and wondered where he was since this wasn't his bedroom at the orphanage. For one thing the bed he was sleeping in was way too comfortable to be his usual bed, he even wore a red dragon onesie, and everything was made out of wood. That's when he remembered that he was no longer in the Orphanage and he had a Daddy and two uncles to love him.

Where was Tou-san?

Despite the strong urge to fall back asleep, he got up and put on his fluffy dragon slippers and went to wonder around the place, trying to find his Daddy room.

Everything was made out of wood and looked like it was cut from a tree and it wasn't hard to figure out that he was in a very large tree house that his daddy and his uncles had finally finished building after a long month of hard work. He checked every passage way he could.

Uncle Mika was very much awake and currently reading on his desk.

Uncle K2 was sprawl across his bed, body all over the place including his hair, fast asleep and Saito got the strange feeling that it would be wise not to wake him up.

When he was about to give up, he saw one more room and pushed the door open. His eyes scanned the wooden room and landed on a large figure on top of a bed, eyes closed.

Clearly his daddy was fast asleep.

A mischievous smirk appeared on Saito.

Meanwhile Tatsuo was currently having a nice dream about chasing a bunch of humans off a cliff.

Saito jumped him.

Tatsuo eye automatically snapped open, having the wind knocked out of him by the hyper 3 year old.

"Tou-san, up! Tou-san, up!" The toddler hid a grinned as he continued to bounce on his Tou-san stomach.

Tatsuo groaned, "I'm up!" grabbing his son, who pouted when he stopped bouncing. It was than Tatsuo noticed what his son was wearing and know Mika had something to do with it.

"Are you hungry?" He asked, the little boy in his arms nodded enthusiastically and his little tummy let out a loud rumble which made him blush.

Tatsuo looked at the blushing 3 year old with amusement and carried him up to chest height. Saito looked quiet shocked at the action before his head rested on his daddy chest.

"Let's get some breakfast" He said, with his little boy in his arms and came out his room and tried to remember the way to the kitchen from the blue prints and it took him 10 minutes to finally find himself in the kitchen.

Mika was waiting for them while reading a newspaper and drinking his morning coffee and looked up and smiled.

"Well you guys took you time"

"Shut up"

Tatsuo sat the toddler in the chair opposite Mika. They had made the table low enough for Saito to look over it.

K2 complained but was quickly silenced by all three death glares.

"So what do you want for breakfast?" He asked his son who looked very shocked to be asked what he wanted to eat today before saying a loud excited voice.

"Coco pops!"

Mika and Tatsuo couldn't help but smile at the child happiness. Tetsuo got a small bowl and poured some Coco pops into his little boy's plate and gave it to the little boy who looked at the bowl warily before the adults in the room reassured him that this was his and he could take as much as he liked.

Tetsuo sat down, after putting toast in the toaster. The month had really taken a lot out of him especially since they had a little child with them and even K2 as immature as he was know that living a forest without proper food and shelter was not a place a little boy should live in.

So all three of them combined together and built a tree house in the forest. The location was perfect because it was granted to be invisible to anyone who happened to go into the forest.

"Hey, where is K2?"

"DAMMIT! HOW BIG IS THIS PLACE!?"

"That would be him right now" Mika said, amused when K2 rushed through the door after following his voice.

"Morning" They all said, without a care in the world, not bothering to look at him.

"DON'T MORNING ME! PUT UP SIGNS, DAMMIT!"

Tetsuo was horrified. "K2, Language! We have a child here"

"Language, Language, Language" Saito said, the new word over and over again and Tetsuo gave him a look of pride while Mika watched amused.

All ignoring the fuming K2.

"Tch, whatever" K2 pulled up a chair, pouring himself some 'Frosties' and basking in the sugary goodness.

"I swear all that sugar will eventually rot your teeth" Mika said, knowing K2 would just scrawl at him and sure enough 20 seconds later K2 was scrawling.

Saito laughed.

"So what are we going to do today?" Tatsuo asked, finishing off the last of his toast.

"Good question" Mika answered.

"I don't really care as long as I don't play Flame chicken again" giving Saito a certain look which was returned with a bright smile back, making him shift uncomfortable in his seat. "I don't want to go through the hassle of buying new clothes again because the kid keeps burning them"

"Don't you mean, I do that while you stay back and try the kill Tatsuo again" Mika mused and just as he said that, K2 flung a knife at Tatsuo head which he shifted his head to the side, making it hit the wall instead.

K2 tsked, he almost had him.

"Don't be down. Tou-san is fast" Saito said, giving K2 a pity look which pissed him off while the other two broke into laughter.

"How about we start Saito on his education? We can teach him way more than he would ever learn from observing people" Tatsuo suggested and they all thought it was a great idea.

"Of course we have to take this one step at a time. We don't want to implode the boy mind" Mika said, and they all turned to Saito who had chocolate milk dripping down his face.

Almost like instinct, Tatsuo got a wipe and crouched down, where he began to wipe his son face.

"Well who would have thought, THE red dragon could make a good father" K2 taunted and Tatsuo throw a fork at K2 pinning him to the wall.

Saito laughed at the pinned K2 who was trying to get the folk that seemed to be glued to his shoulder blade out.

"So, we're all finished?" Mika asked, looking around and finally putting down the newspaper where Tatsuo got a good picture of a person who looked similar to him in this form who just won award.

Ren Tsuruga.

All three of them exchanged looks, knowing that couldn't be the man's true name since he bores a resemblance to Kuu Hizuri if they were to stand side by side.

Which leaves them with one question.

Who is he really?

Since they were demons they felt compelled to answer that question but managed to push down that urge so they weren't going to butt into that man personal life, they would push their curiousness to the back of their minds and hope they never meet the man in the flesh.

"So who's going first?" K2 asked and they all exchanged glances while Tatsuo carried Saito up.

"I think I'll go first" Mika said, and they gave him a strange look. "What? I got something to teach him, too. Like I can teach him how to act like a proper man and fix him speech, unlike this thing over here" pointing at K2 who looked offended. "And also the art of deception, since he's going to need it so do you Tatsuo" who couldn't deny that.

"Fine, Mika goes first but only for a couple of hours, each day while I'll teach him, the sweet art of intimidation and combat. I seemed to remember that your chain was kidnapped and she was useless in trying to escape" pointing the finger to K2, again.

"Seriously! What is this! Insult me, day!?" K2 exclaimed, Saito cracked an evil smirk and said. "It's not fault, that you're slow"

Making K2 cheek's glow red and he muttered something along the lines of 'cheeky brat' until Tatsuo silence him with a glare.

"Well than I'll take him for the last half of the day for….for" K2 was trying to think up of anyway skills that he has up his sleeve.

"This may take a while" Mika said and K2 glared at him.

"I've got it. I'll teach him different languages." Switching to English and they looked at him in shock.

"Since when did you learn to speak, English!?" Mika exclaimed in surprise, he didn't know K2 wasn't completely useless. He needs to re-exam his judgement on the demon.

"When your left alone for so long, you start finding new ways to entertain yourself and of course I'll be glad to teach you, If you can admit I'm the better demon" K2 said, slyly before Tatsuo grinned.

"Ha, I don't need your classes. How old do you think I am brat and how long I have stayed in this realm? I know languages that I highly doubt you've heard of" Tatsuo smirked, knowing he was punching a hole in the younger demon ego.

Saito looked at his daddy in surprise. "Tou-san, is amazing"

"So it's settled on what we are going to teach him." Mika said and they all nodded even though K2 looked a little deflated. "So you're coming with me first" Mika said, taking Saito out of Tatsuo arms. "But first let's get you changed."

Since they didn't have a shower, they had a huge river instead at the back that goes out into the ocean.

"Hey, we could all use a good wash. Let's together" Saito seemed to beam at the idea of bathing together.

"Fine but the kid stays at least 30 cm away from me" K2 said and Mika and Tatsuo both exchanged looks that said, they're going to dump the kids onto K2 head.

# River#

They all took off their clothes and all three demons had to stop a bit when they saw Saito burses and all exchanged looks that said, they are going to heal those if it's the last thing they do.

Saito seeing the water, run into the river with childish energy only to run back because it was too cold.

Making them laugh.

Saito hung onto his daddy legs and Tatsuo picked him up and said, "You have to get used to it one step at a time or you won't be able to get in at all" He said, walking to the river and taking one leg after another into the river were Mika and K2 were waiting.

Saito shiver when water touched him and Tatsuo didn't advance any further until Sato had gotten used to that little bit of water and had stopped shivering before going forward and taking it slow until the whole of Saito lower body could handle the cold.

"There. That wasn't so bad" Tatsuo said, ruffling his son hair. "Now let's get some soap on you" grabbing the soap and scrubbing his son while Saito got closer to daddy who he liked the heat that always seemed to radiate off him, no matter what the weather was like.

Saito wondered if this was what it is like to be bathed by your own parent and couldn't help but smile at the care that Tatsuo was showing in bathing him.

Tatsuo raised an eyebrow wondering why Saito was smiling randomly. "What are you smiling at?" Flicking Saito nose and putting soap on it making Saito laugh before splashing him with water.

When Saito realised what he just done, he froze afraid to be hit, only to be splashed back with a small wave of water, when he looked up, he saw Tatsuo had a play full smirk on his face that told him, he wasn't mad and it was okay to play once in a while.

Saito then began to splash back and before they know it, Tatsuo and Saito were in a splashing battle with each other.

K2 and Mika watched their interaction with a smile.

K2 smile dropped when he realised that he was smiling and Mika smirked.

"Okay, stupid unicorn, he makes a good dad"

"I told you so"

"Shut up!"

And scene!

Oh, a little bit of fluff with Tatsuo and Saito. Next time while be Saito lesson since the main arc has yet to arrive, the three years will be quick to make way for the main development so sorry if the three years are only like eight chapters or something. However there is a special something in those years that would be very interesting especially when you finally find out about where this story is staged in the manga skip beat timeline.