Warnings: Norse god-ness (I have tried to explain everything in the text but there's a guide at the bottom ;D), Fenrirpairing!ness, death, timeline broken-ness, and the usual insanity that comes with any of my stories :P

Chapter Preview: Fenrir finds mortal (or is it?) love, a family member influenced by a stupidity spell appears, and Yamino learns of his stepmother's (deleted...you'll have to read to find out!) And I give another hint at who Ken is. You'll find out for sure within two chapters, methinks! For now, enjoy...

All-Out Assassin Attack

Chapter 4:

A Strange Visitor! The Eldest Son Appears

"What the hell? You want me to watch how humans interact with each other?"

Great. That was just what he needed.

"Well," the old man said (in that little kid form again), "watching them is the best way to learn how to be like them."

Fenrir half-growled, frustrated by the situation. He couldn't even growl properly in this damn new form.

Midgardsormr adjusted his glasses. "Brother, you should get groceries!"

The great wolf stared at his brother, wondering if too much time in a mortal form made demigods insane. "What?"

"Please? We need them anyway and groceries stores are wonderful places to meet people!" His younger brother's eyes were flashing with joy at the idea of Fenrir socializing.

"Ugh." Damn, the old man was giving him a look. "Fine." He muttered. "I'll go get the groceries."

"I will lead you to the store so you don't get lost!" Midgardsormr--he went by Ryuusuke Yamino on Midgard--said, taking Fenrir's hand and leading him towards the grocery store.

"Loki-sama, do not let Mayura-san destroy the kitchen like she did last time!" Ryuusuke called back to their father. Fenrir could've sworn that the old man rolled his eyes and smirked darkly.

Looking down the familiar street, Fenrir shook his head. "Everything looks different. Like...there's some weird human layer."

Yamino blinked at him. "Colors, you mean?"

The currently mortal wolf shrugged. "How should I know?"

"Dogs and wolves do not see in color, if I remember correctly. Humans do. It's odd, isn't it?" His little brother answered.

"Really weird." Fenrir agreed as he was led into a large store. He saw the food, but it looked smaller and less dull with his new human perspective. He couldn't smell it as well as usual either, and sighed with disappointment.

"Okay, you watch people and I'm going to go get food for dinner!" Yamino announced, dropping his older brother off in an aisle.

Fenrir sighed. "Great. Thanks." He replied sarcastically. Damn that Midgardsormr for leaving him in the middle of some weird Midgard mortal st--

"I'm sorry!" Okay, a girl had bumped into him. A pretty girl--he thought--who seemed familiar. Apparently she thought so too because she was staring up at him. But with the lack of smells and the new colors and the weird human senses, he couldn't tell. Who was she again...?

Daddy's woman? No, she had long hair.

Mother? No, she was the same height but he would always recognize his mother.

Maybe it was Hel...? Why the hell would Hel be in a supermarket? What did she eat anyway? Human souls? Fear? Fire? He wasn't sure, but he would ask next time.

He then realized that he had been staring at this girl for an entire minute without saying anything. As far as he knew, that was bad. Especially because she was gaping at him.

"Uh...it's okay." He finally said, trying to remember the proper mortal method for this.

"Um, do I know you?" She asked, looking at his face with those pretty eyes (he had no idea what the color was called though) and a nice voice and...

THUMP.

"Ow." He muttered, glancing off to the side. THUMP. "Okay, what the hell is that noise? Damn that thumping." He whispered to himself.

"Sorry?" The girl asked, blinking at him now.

"Something's wrong..." He growled.

"Did I hurt you?" She asked, looking around, as if expecting someone else to arrive.

"No, it wasn't you...I'm fine..." Fenrir replied, wondering if it had indeed been her.

She stared at him again with those small, sparkling eyes then sighed, muttering something to herself. "I feel really bad now. I should watch where I'm going. But if you're okay, I'm going to go now." This conversation had gone on too long. She began to walk away.

Watching her go, he began to hear the thump again. "W-wait!" He found himself saying. "Food."

She turned around. "What?"

Fenrir sighed. "Food. Dinner. Meat. Treat me and you won't have to feel guilty about injuring me."

She frowned deeply, thinking hard. Suddenly (he was pretty sure this didn't usually happen to mortals), an apple flew from the next aisle over and smacked her on the head. Glancing at it, she nodded. "Alright, pick me up at the fortuneteller's tent tomorrow at eight. I'll treat you." She began to walk away again.

"Brother, I have the food!" Yamino announced, running up to him with a large basket. He blinked at his brother. "Are you okay?"

Fenrir frowned. "I met a girl, she's buying me dinner tomorrow, and I'm hearin' thump sounds. I don't understand mortals." He growled.

"Thump...?" Yamino looked confused before his eyes widened. "Ah, no! Brother, you've become a womanizer like Loki-sama!"

"The old man ain't a womanizer!" Fenrir growled back.

"Sleipnir, Fenrir, Midgardsormr, Hel, Narfi, Vali..." Yamino began to list Loki's children.

"Hey, the old man is Sleipnir's mother. So he's a manizer and a womanizer." Fenrir explained with a glare.

Yamino sighed. "I try not to think about Sleipnir much..." After all, his half-brother was a flying horse. Loki-sama had an odd love life...

Meanwhile, in the next aisle over, Skuld and Verdandi were dancing around their big sister. "Urd has a boyfriend! Urd has a boyfriend!"

The blonde rolled her eyes. "I don't go for his type. I'm just treating him to dinner. Besides, we have business on Midgard that does not involve men."

"Urd's gonna get married! Urd's gonna get married!" The other Norns chanted and Urd wondered if it would be so terrible to kill the present and future.

X

"I just fainted?" Mayura asked Noriko as she sat on her desk with the blonde at the seat below her. "How mysterious..."

"Yeah. You just fainted. A real mystery." Noriko muttered, glaring at Koutarou. Narugami seemed confused.

"What's wrong?" He asked his wife quietly.

"Later. It's about our hometown." Noriko answered, twisting a strand of hair.

Koutarou sighed and approached them. "Daidouji, you were talking to Higashiyama and then just passed out. You were running around a lot yesterday." He explained.

"Oh, wow! Did Higashiyama-kun say anything?" Mayura said hopefully, eyes glittering.

"I don't remember." Koutarou lied easily, glancing at the suspecting Noriko.

Ken gave a large sigh, drawing their attention to the boy. Mayura had nearly forgotten that he was present!

"It is one strange mystery." Ken agreed, tapping his desk. "I don't really like that kid."

Narugami sweat-dropped. Even the mortal boy recognized that Heimdall was evil!

Wait, was that kid mortal? Why did Sif know him anyway? He glanced between Noriko and Ken, confused.

"Higashiyama-kun is fine, Ken-kun. He's friends with Loki-kun!" Mayura explained.

"You sure?" Ken asked, giving her a look of uncertainty.

"Well...I guess not..." Mayura admitted, glancing at Noriko.

"Class!" The principal walked into the room, and everyone rushed back to their proper seats.

"Yagami-sensei was in a car accident last night. Fortunately, she is in stable condition at the hospital." Everyone gasped and began to gossip about it.

Mayura's eyes glittered at the new mystery.

"Your substitute here is Ishida-sensei, and I'm sure she will treat you well. Enjoy." As he walked out, a tall woman with blue hair in a bun walked in. She was wearing a skirt suit and a low-cut shirt, with black heels and large glasses.

"Hello, class. I'm Ishida Ran." She said, and Mayura couldn't help but shiver at her cold voice. "Your new sensei. I hope we have a wonderful year together!" She smiled warmly. "Let's start by introducing yourselves to me!"

As the students began to talk, Noriko exchanged glances with Ken. The black-haired boy frowned at the new teacher, tapping his desk nervously.

"Sif..." Narugami whispered to Noriko, not letting his gaze leave Ran Ishida, "Isn't Ran the name of the goddess of water?"

"Yes. And she wants Loki dead...under Odin's orders." Noriko said, clenching a fist. "And everyone else close to him, too. She will stop at nothing."

"Great." Narugami sighed. "Just what we need...WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"

His last words were directed at the face smashed against the window next to Ken's desk. The person moaned something that sounded much like "nabrolosomgard" and fell to the ground outside.

"Oh my! You should get away from the window. I heard about an escapee from a local asylum." Sensei said, growing pale.

"Nah." Ken said, opening the window and looking down. "It's my idiotic relative. Don't know how he found me, but he's not insane." He blinked. "Well, no more than the rest of us. May I be excused to take him home so he doesn't scare anyone else?"

Ran sighed. Damn mortal kid messing everything up. "Fine. Go."

Koutarou watched Ken leave the classroom and sighed. Things could still turn out to his advantage...as long as Ken didn't notice.

But knowing that man, he had.

X

"Midgard's really pretty!"

Viewers gasped as a boy with short black hair escorted a taller man down the street. Said taller man had long blonde hair tied back in a ponytail and was wearing a black suit.

"Yes, it's lovely." Ken replied, pulling the older man towards Loki's mansion. "Why are you here? You, of all people..."

The man blinked at him. "I'm not allowed to visit my mommy? O-or my friends? Or Uncle Thor?!" He began to sob, clinging to Ken.

Ken frowned. "You're acting really weird, you know. You're usually so serious. Plus...aren't you supposed to be loyal to Odin?"

The blonde man pouted. "I like Odin, but I'm not loyal to him anymore. I don't approve of people hurting my mommy."

Ken sweat-dropped. "Right. Well, will your mother even recognize you like that? It's been years you know."

"Mothers always recognize their children! No matter what." The older man explained, now walking beside the shorter boy.

"Apparently not. I'm not having any luck at all."

The taller man paused to stare at the boy. "Oh...maybe you aren't trying hard enough?"

"He doesn't know."

Ken sounded disappointed.

"He? Daddy's here?!" The blonde man looked around rapidly, having a minor spasm.

"No, your father isn't here!" Ken groaned. "At least I don't think so."

"Oh...but my mother is?"

"Hel and Angrboda aren't present. The others are." Pause. "Well, except Sigyn. But you know..."

"KYAA! A house!" The blonde man announced, pointing at the mansion.

"Yeah...that's Loki's house. You should go in." Ken sighed. Man, he was stupid right now...was there a spell on him?

"Yay! I'm going into a Midgard house!" The man almost shrieked in joy as he began to skip towards the house.

"Don't mention me."

"Huh?" The man turned back around, blinking.

"Please just...don't mention me. I haven't worked out what to do yet." Ken explained, not meeting the older man's gaze.

"Okay...but you be careful! Keep Aunt Sif safe!"

"She isn't..." There was no point in explaining. "Yeah. Fine, I'll keep her safe." With that, Ken turned around, heading back to school.

"Hihihihihihi!" The man said, knocking on the door to the mansion. When no one answered after five seconds, he began to twitch. "WAHHH NO ONE LOVES ME..." He whined, leaning against the door.

Yamino opened it at that moment, and the blonde man fell to the ground in the parlor.

Looking around, the man snapped back to attention. "Oh my, how shiny! Midgard is shiny!" When Yamino closed the door, the visitor noticed the butler. "Who're youuu?"

Then he gasped. "Mommy's lover?!"

"What? Who are you?" Yamino was really confused. "Um...Loki-sama is not present, and I'm not anyone's lover..." Loki was currently visiting Reiya.

The man blinked. "Oh. Not good enough?" He gave him a pitying look. "Mommy is very picky!"

"Um...who is your mother?" Yamino had no idea what to do. This man had been screaming about Midgard, so it was obviously a god. And apparently a dumb one.

Which gods were dumb?

Sigyn was kinda ditzy, but she was his stepmother and most definitely not a blonde man. Sif and Freya had their moments...

Frigg sometimes bashed in people's heads with rolling pins, but generally she was okay...his mother was fine...

Why was he thinking of women? This guy was a man...

Who was mommy-obsessed?

He blinked. No one. Most didn't even care--except Loki's kids. Wait...was this Sigyn's son? She had twins just before they had been banished...

"Vali? Narfi?" Yamino suggested.

"They're in--" The man tensed up. "They'reDEADbecauseOdinisabigmeaniebuttandhealsoputsomeshinydustonmeandIfeltwheewhenIwokeupanditwasbad."

"What?" That definitely hadn't gotten through.

"The twins are dead. With their mother." The blonde man explained, looking less than distressed.

"No...that's not..." Stepmother dead? Both of the twins? How was...Odin. Odin had done it. Or perhaps Baldur--possessing the king of the gods.

"Yamino!" Loki-sama! He was home! Thank (well, themselves, he noted) that he had arrived to save the poor middle son from the stupidity of this god (whoever he was).

Opening the door, Yamino nearly hugged his father for saving him but froze. "Loki-sama?" He asked nervously, looking the person up and down.

The blonde woman standing before him sighed. "Sleipnir's here, isn't he?" She asked in a voice only slightly higher than his father's.

"S-sleipnir?" He glanced at the blonde man. Ooh. That made sense.

After all, Sleipnir his half-brother. And a horse--a magical horse--born of his father (on some crazy distraction mission while posing as a mare). So his mommy was...?

No, but Sleipnir was intelligent. Quiet, thoughtful, intimidating. He never called ANYONE "mommy".

"Loki-sama...why?" Yamino didn't understand his father's current form.

"A spell my brother--Odin--thought would be amusing. It's revenge for a prank gone too far." She smirked darkly. That had been worth it. "Whenever Sleipnir calls me 'mommy', I turn into a woman." Loki rolled her eyes. "That was eons ago, of course, back when my brother wasn't trying to kill me. And Sleipnir hasn't called me that for years..."

Walking inside, she sighed. "You're human, too? Is someone after all my kids? I should contact Sigyn...I'm not sure how though."

"Mommy!" Loki was nearly knocked over by the blonde demigod. "Midgard is scary."

"Not as scary as our family..." Yamino sweat-dropped. "Loki-sama, I should also mention that big brother"--he ignored how Sleipnir's ears perked up--"has a date. With a woman who I suppose is mortal."

"Good for him! One of you better get those genes." Loki muttered.

Noting his father's expression, Yamino frowned. "Is something wrong?"

"Freya molested me again, and now my oldest kid's reverted to being a three year old. It's been a bad day."

"I'll help you fix Sleipnir. Plus, Mayura-san should be by this afternoon."

That always made his father perk up.

X/

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