Spiritual Bonds
Here is chapter 4.
I do not own Skip Beat or Demon Sacred
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4: Training.
"Again"
"But Uncle, heavy!" Saito complained, completely red in the face, Mika had put a stack of books on his head and ordered him to walk around with them on without them falling.
Meanwhile Tatsuo and K2 were watching the session in outdoor chairs, sipping smoothie's that they made themselves.
"Mika is one brutal teacher" K2 said, Mika hadn't let the boy rest for two hours now and it doesn't seem like the boy was getting one.
" He may be harsh but at least he's trying to improve his posture" Tatsuo said, pushing down the urge to force Mika into having the boy take a break. "And you can't deny the results"
"True" K3 confessed seeing the boy posture had been corrected somewhat since they started all those months ago.
Mika said, the god sent words that Saito been waiting to hear "You may take a break"
Saito immediately slumped down. His back was killing him. Suddenly something cold was pressed against his forehead and looked up to see his daddy.
"Tou-san!" He beamed.
Tatsuo wore red fiery shorts with a belt and a white top with a Dragon pattern on its left side. He held an extra small glass of ice cold smoothie and gave it to Saito who thanked him with such a happy smile.
"Make sure, you drink it slowly. I don't want you to have a brain freeze" He warned because they would be losing valuable to time on waiting for his brain to calm down.
Saito nodded slowly and drank it slowly while Tatsuo sat next to him, waiting for him to finish.
When Saito had finished, K2 was waiting for him and looked like he was about to start their session.
"K2, I warn you. If you dare hurt him in any way that is permanent whether it's bruises or broken arm. I will kill you" putting power behind his voice and K2 refused to admit that he was intimidated.
Saito on the other hand, loved how protective his daddy had grown in protecting him and know that he was never in any danger as long as his daddy was here.
Tatsuo left the boy all too soon for Saito liking and the next thing he know, a chalk border had appeared out of thin air and K2 had graduation clothes on.
"Repeat after me. K2 is better than Tatsuo" he said in English, which was promptly followed by a glasses smashed against his head by Tatsuo.
"Oh, look. My hand just slipped" Tatsuo tried to make it look like an accident and would have work if there wasn't an evil smile on his face.
Saito laughed and K2 who was grumbling to himself.
"Fine, we'll do flash cards. I'll raise a picture up and you have to say what it is in English" He said and Mika gave him a nod of approval in method.
He first rose up a picture of an Orange with its name written in Japanese at the bottom.
Saito scrunched his eyebrow in thought, trying to remember what the word was in English.
" O..or..an..ge. Orange" heavily accent but it will disappear over time.
K2 want on with the next one which was a picture of a wheel.
"Wheel" Saito said automatically, the English name stuck to him like glue for some reason.
K2 nodded and put up a picture of a dog.
" D..dog"
Next was a picture of a building.
This was by far harder than the rest and it took him 10 minutes to answer it.
"B-building?"
"He learns fast" Mika said, looking over K2 session and had to admit, the demon was doing okay.
Tatsuo eyes sparked with pride before it was gone as soon as it had came. " Well, it makes sense that my chain needs to be smart"
Mika frowned. "Tatsuo when are you going to call him son? You know it's unnatural to appear as father and son but not actual say it out loud? even I think that somewhere deep down Saito is waiting for you to call him that."
It hadn't really occurred to Tatsuo that he never said it out loud, he always called him that in his mind, had he been subconsciously holding back? "I'll try my best in saying it. I think it's going to take me a lot of courage to spit it out."
Mika nodded in understanding, with his chain it was easy since he didn't call her anything personal like 'Wife' just her name. Saito was asking to be acknowledged as Tatsuo own son.
This was defiantly going to be harder for the older demon.
# 4 hours later#
"K2 your time is up" Mika informed K2 who looked completely wiped out and about to complex on the floor.
Who know just teaching one boy was so energy consuming.
In the end, Mika had to drag K2 away since he had no energy left.
Saito eye landed on the person that replaced his uncle and almost leapt for joy when he saw it was his daddy.
He always looked forward to father and son time, where he could have his daddy all to himself.
Tatsuo sat down next to him cross legged and took a breather before opening his eyes.
"Today, we are going to learn how to with-stand intimidation" He said and Saito looked as serious as he could be which was the equivalent to a small kitten doing 'puppy dog' eyes.
Cute Tatsuo thought before he focused on the task at hand. " Were going to start with the look before we advance to dialogue...s-ss-. Anyway let's begin" he face palmed that he couldn't say the word 'son' no matter how hard he tried.
Saito wondered what his daddy was trying to say before he gave up, suddenly he was hit with one of his daddy glares and before he know what he was doing, he was looking at his feet instead of his daddy eyes.
"S-s-saito, let's try again" Tatsuo said and Saito nodded, he was going to with stand this if it was the last thing he does today.
"Yes, tou-san"
Tatsuo tried the same glare again and Saito looked him in the eye, it didn't take 2 seconds for Saito to break away with tears in his eyes.
Tatsuo eyes softened and he said. "Why don't we take a break" scoping his little boy up and Saito looked up to see his daddy not looking scary anymore.
"O-okay but can we stay like this?"
Tatsuo cracked a smile. "Of course" Saito snuggled in closer to him, enjoying the heat.
" The boy lasted longer than I thought he would" Mika admitted, to K2 who huffed.
"If it was me, I would return the glare with my own fierce glare and make Tatsuo cower." K2 boasted.
Mika rolled his eyes. "Oh really, we both know that if you were to face Tatsuo at his worse you would piss yourself and probably hide the tears by walking away."
K2 said, nothing.
#Back to T and S#
"Now are you ready to give this another try?" He asked, realising his son.
"Okay, Tou-san" Saito said, disappointed that their moment was up.
"Right, let's start again" and the glare was back but Saito summoned up all his courage and stared straight into his eyes but this time he let his mind wonder to happy thoughts like burning K2 clothing or being rescued from the orphanage by his daddy.
Tatsuo didn't want to admit it but he was impressed with how long, Saito was holding out, this was way longer than their previous attempts and when it looked like his son wasn't going to back down anytime soon, his eyes softened.
"I'm proud of you" He admitted and it took a moment for what he said to sink into the boy mind and when it did, Saito radiated a 1000 watt smile.
"Really? Tou-san!"
Tatsuo chuckled at seeing his son so happy by from one line.
"Now onto a step up" and the glare intensified and Saito started crying.
He sighed, this was going to be a long day.
#End of sessions#
All three had agreed to allow Saito to watch T.V since he did so well today so Saito was thrilled with the new experience of being allowed to watch TV like other people while K2 was grumbling on the rooftop of having to fix the anta so that they could get capable.
Inside, the TV finally showed a clear image and when it did, it showed a kissing scene.
Tatsuo quickly changed it and flicked through the channels to see if there was any age appropriate channels for Saito to watch.
Saito pouted, he wanted to know what the big people were doing on the screen but settled with watching something called 'Rugrats' which got him interested with the baby adventures.
Who know babies had such adventures?
Tatsuo had to chuckle at Saito completely absorbed face from watching the screen while Mika snuck quietly out of the room, to give the two some space, alone.
Suddenly a advert came on and it was promoting a new movie with..
Kuu Hizuri in it.
Good god. He face palmed.
"Tou-san! That person looks like you!" Saito exclaimed, looking back and forth between the two.
Tatsuo was surprised that Saito didn't seem to recognise Kuu. Does that mean, he wasn't modelled after him? Than who? "Saito before the light came, what were you thinking about?"
Saito looked thoughtful, trying to remember all the way back to the white light. "I was thinking about being a knight in one of Tou-san games and then you were there" he said.
Wow, the kid didn't even know who Kuu Hizuri was and yet he made an almost exact copy...interesting. Tatsuo thought.
Saito cheered when the show came back on.
"Tou-san, why is everything so different?" Saito asked, seeing the huge difference in the environment on screen then the one he sees outside.
"Because it's not real" Tatsuo said, Saito gave him a look of confusion.
"Not, real?"
"Yep, what is on the screen has been made up by a ton of people. Do you see the babies? They look very different to the babies in real life" Saito looked and sure enough they were very different to what babies really look like.
"But then why isn't real?" Saito asked.
"Well, this for little kids to enjoy and which is better, watching real babies go on adventures or have these one's" Tatsuo asked.
Saito thought about it. "It would want to watch these one's"
"I know you were a smart, son" Finally able to say it and it seemed it would take a couple of minutes to process what Saito just heard.
The next thing he know he was put off balance by a beaming Saito.
"Does that mean, you want me?" Saito asked, afraid to be rejected.
Tatsuo looked him straight in the eyes and said. "Of course I want you to be my adorable son. There is no question about it" getting up and drawing Saito closer to his chest while Saito was blushing.
"Tou-san"
"Yes, son"
"Don't abandon me"
"That would never happen"
Meanwhile K2 and Mika were secretly watching outside the door.
"Well it looks like, those two are going to be just fine" K2 said.
" Yes, they will but I do wonder what would happen if Saito true parents wanted him back" Mika mused.
"What? that would never happen, weren't they the ones who abandoned him" K2 said.
"Well, it could. If someone connected to his parents saw Saito and saw the resemblance and did a blood test. The parents have every right to get him back" Mika said.
"What! No way! That's not far! Does that mean, those two will get split up and Saito will go to whatever the 'parents' chose to" K2 exclaimed, he could tell that Saito was happy here and being ripped away from that might just break the boy.
"That's why, I was thinking of doing a ritual to prevent that from happening but it all depends on both Saito and Tatsuo answer if they want to become 'true' parent and child" Mika said.
K2 smirked, seeing Tatsuo kiss the boy on the forehead.
"I don't think you have to worry about that"
And scene!
Next chapter, will be the ritual that makes then both true parent and child, just what new changes will come of this? and exactly how will the Saito real parents react to finding out Saito is no longer their child but some else's?
