A/N: Here we go with the forth chapter and my longest one to date. As always, I do not own Beelzebub or its characters. Just this plot.
Note: I edited the first chapter to fix all the grammar errors and changed it up to make it sound better and make more sense. Check it out if you got the time.
Beta read by jneth1lary88.
Recap:
Hilda buried her face in the crook of his neck. Oga pulled the blanket over them both and wrapped his arms around her waist just a bit tighter than before.
They got comfortable in each others arms and for the first time in a while they both had a smile on their face as they fell asleep.
Back to Reality... Almost
It was early Monday morning. Oga lay in his bed staring up at the ceiling after he had just woken up. He usually never got up this early, but something was bothering him. He glanced over to the clock that was siting on the bed side table. It read quarter to seven. He would have wondered why he was up this early but he already knew the reason, it was what Yolda had said last night. It wasn't that he didn't want more Demon's trouble. He knew that he would eventually go to the Demon world and get back Baby Beel back, weather the Demon Lord allowed it or not. It was just he never thought that other Demons would start seeking him out for their own bidding, and so soon as well. Not that he would agree to it. He had other things to worry about.
His thoughts were interrupted when he felt Hilda shift in her sleep. She seemed to have staked a claim on him as she was sleeping snugly on his left side with her head resting on his chest just under his chin. Her left arm was resting across his chest, and her legs were entangled with his own. He glanced at her face and noticed the smile she had on her lips. He smiled. This was the first time since the incident, eight days ago that she looked at peace. His thoughts drifted back to last night. He felt his cheek heat up as he recalled the kiss they shared. He really didn't know what came over him but he just wanted to feel her lips on his own. It wasn't the first time he had ever had this urge before either.
As he was lost in his own thoughts he failed to notice Hilda start to stir. Blinking the sleep out of her eyes, she lifted her head and looked up at Oga who was lost in thought.
"You're up early." she stated. Oga jumped a little, startled by her voice. He craned his neck to meet met her gaze.
"Wasn't really my idea." he responded. "But since I'm already up I might as well get ready for school."
"Your going to school?"
"Might as well seeing as everyone will start to wonder where I've been."
"True."
They lay together in the bed for a bit longer before they both got up out of the bed and headed to the kitchen for breakfast. Oga's mother was already up and had breakfast ready when they entered the kitchen. After finishing up their breakfast they both headed back upstairs. Oga headed for the shower and Hilda went and got dressed, having had a bath the night before. She had just finished fixing her hair into her usual bun when a thought floated through her head. She decided she should make a bento for the both of them for lunch. Quickly finishing getting dressed, she headed down to the kitchen. Oga's mother was still in the kitchen when she entered and she turned to address Hilda when she noticed her.
"What can I help you with dear." Oga's mother asked.
"Well I was thinking of making Tatsumi and I something to eat but Tatsumi is not very fond of Demon world cuisine. So I was wondering if you could help me make some human world food?" Hilda asked with a hint of a blush on her cheeks.
"Of course." Oga's mother said happily.
With that Oga's mom helped Hilda make something for both her and Oga to eat for lunch. As she was making the food her thoughts drifted to what Yolda had said last night. She knew something like that would happen sooner over later. Tatsumi had shown he was a worthy contractor more than capable of bearing the power of any Demon, from what he had shown with Beelze-sama. Many, if not all of the Royal families of Hell would kill to have a contractor like him. As she mulled over this in her head she started to wonder what it would be like if Tatsumi was her contractor. The thought made her blush and she immediately pushed that thought aside and tried to focus on the task at hand. But as she tried to concentrate, thoughts of the kiss that they shared last night floated through her head. Her blush intensified by five different shades and she felt her breath hitch in her chest, but she couldn't stop from wondering why she felt the urge to kiss him. It felt odd yet familiar at the same time. She shook her head and composed herself before trying to focus on making the food.
When they finished making the food, Oga's mother helped Hilda place it into a bento box before Hilda neatly wrapped it up. Hilda noticed Tatsumi getting ready at the door and she rushed over to join him with the bento box in hand.
"Whats that?" he asked pointing at the nicely wrapped box in her hands.
"Its a surprise." she stated with a smirk. Know he wasn't going to get a better answer, he just shrugged his shoulders and opened the door, allowing Hilda to go through first before he followed, closing the door behind him.
Kunieda was standing on the sidewalk in front of Oga's house, waiting to see if Oga was going to be coming to school today. Well she was more like hiding behind the telephone pole that was in front of Oga's house. She hadn't seen Oga in a week and was starting to worry about him. She wanted to know the reason why he hadn't come to school in a week. It wasn't that she wanted to walk to school with him she just want to see if he was alright, or that's what she kept trying to tell herself. She also hadn't seen Hilda in a week as well and when she thought about it, her mind would always come up with some crazy idea that Hilda was just manipulating Oga into skipping school and making him do her bidding.
She was startled from her reverie when the front door to the Oga household opened. She turned to look just in time to see Hilda walk out with a bento box in hand. As she continued to watch as Hilda waited for Oga to make his way out the the door, before closing it behind himself, and walking along side Hilda on their way to school.
Hilda spotted Kunieda hiding behind the telephone pole and stopped. her visible eye narrowed visably. She knew the reason why she was there and that thought irritated her for some reason she didn't understand. She always felt like this when Kunieda was around but she always thought it was because she didn't want Beelze-sama to change his mind and choose Kunieda as his new mother, but now that Beelze-sama wasn't here she wondered why the feeling persisted. Oga noticed that Hilda had stopped and appeared to be glaring at something, so he followed her gaze and saw Kunieda hiding behind a telephone.
Kunieda noticed that Oga was looking at her with a questioning look, knew that she had been seen and jumped out of her hiding spot. "H-Hey Oga, Hilda. N-Nice to see you guys here. I-I was j-just well... I was just wondering where you two have been the past week?" Kunieda stuttered asking sheepishly.
"We've been busy... " Oga responded but he gave her a look as to say 'Please don't ask about it'
"W-wait... busy with w-what?" Kunieda stuttered.
"I believe that's really none of your concern." Hilda said coolly. Kunieda felt agitated when Hilda replied. Thoughts of her manipulating Oga coursed through her head and she had to hold back from retorting. Hilda on the other hand want fuming on the inside. She could feel the hand that was holding her pink parasol, twitch. The gull of her to need to know everything about Tatsumi and herself. Oga noticed the rising tension between the two and decided to defuse the situation before anything happened.
"It's a long story that I don't really feel like repeating more than once. So I'll tell everyone about it later." He said before they both continued on towards school, leaving behind a confused and somewhat hurt Kunieda. Oga was about to ask Hilda what that was all about when he was cut off by someone shouting.
"OGA!"
Oga turned to look at the noise only to find Furuichi running towards him.
"How could you!" Furuichi shouted.
"What are you talking about." Oga question totally confused.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about. You stayed at home all week just to be with Hilda-san. Admit it, you want to have Hilda-san all to yourself don't you." Furuichi weeped. Before Oga could retort Furuichi took off. "Damn you OGA!" he shouted as he ran off, leaving Hilda and Oga starring deadpanned at the retreating form of Furuichi. They both turned to look at each other, then shrugged and continued on their way to school as if nothing happened.
When the couple got to school, most of their classmates were surprized to see them and asked where they had been the entire week. Hilda just ignored their questions, while Oga ended up planting a few people into a wall or ceiling. The day went by like any other day, though Hilda noticed that Kunidea was glaring at her thoughout the class, while Oga ignored Furuichi, who was glaring at him and before they knew it it was lunch time. When the bell rang the couple made their way to their usual spot on the roof. As they reached the roof Oga walked towards a shaded spot and sat down, Hilda taking the spot right beside him. Oga notice Hilda pull out the wrapped box and watched as she carefully started unwrapping it.
"So what in it." He asked pointing at the box.
"Lunch." Hilda stated simply. Oga was expecting to see her regular cooking, which usually consisted of burnt everything, but when she unwrapped the bento, he notice that all the food looked like, well like regular food. He gave her a curios look before she gave him a pair of chopsticks.
"Try it." She said indicating towards the bento filled with food. Oga hesitantly grabbed a little bit with his chopsticks and brought it toward his mouth before he paused. He eyed it critically before finally taking it into his mouth and chewed it a few times. Hilda looked at him expectantly, waiting for his opinion on how it tasted. He finally swallowed the food then looked towards Hilda.
"It's... good. I mean like really good." He stated almost in disbelief. Hilda's eyes widened a bit and she took a bite of her own to see if he wasn't lying.
"It is." Hilda stated. They continued to eat the food in silence, enjoying each others company.
"You made this?" Oga asked after they finished the bento.
"Yes but I asked mother to help me. Was it really that good?"
"Yeah it was." He was silent for a while before he spoke."Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you go through with this." He saw her confused look. "Making us lunch I mean." He watch her look away and he could see a hint of a blush on her cheek.
"Well I just wanted to thank you for well, for helping me last week when, you know..." She whispered the last part and she felt her cheeks heat up a bit more.
"Don't mention it. We're family after all. Family helps each other out." He said as he scratched the back of his head with his hand.
Hilda starred at him wide eyed. She could feel her cheeks heat up and she had not doubt that she was blushing. She was about to say something when she heard someone shouting in the distance.
"Hilda nee-sama!"
The both turn to look in the direction that the shout came from and they saw Lamia running towards them. She came to a stop in front of the couple and took a moment to catch her breath.
"What is it Lamia." Hilda ask.
She took a moment to compose herself before finally shouting out. "It's Beelze-sama!"
"What? Is something wrong?" Hilda had a sense of foreboding before Lamia spoke.
"He's been kidnapped!"
"By who?!"
"We don't know. I went to check on him in his room and he wasn't there."
Hilda could see the tears forming in Lamia's eyes and she had to fight back the ones threatening to leave her own. One of her worst nightmares was playing out and she could do nothing about it. Lamia ran towards Hilda and buried her face into Hilda's shirt. She returned the embrace as Lamia started to sob uncontrollably. She glanced over at Oga and noticed him clenching his fist. Their gazes met and she could see the fury in his eyes.
He. Was. Pissed.
"What do we do." Lamia asked Hilda
"There's nothing we can do but wait." Hilda stated.
"What do you mean Beel's been kidnapped."
Both Oga and Hilda look over in the direction the new voice came from and they saw Furuichi walking towards them.
"Just like she said, he's been kidnapped." Oga said coldly.
"How could you let him get kidnapped! Isn't it your-" Furuichi's outburst was cut off when Oga punched the ground beside himself.
"I wasn't the one who let him get kidnapped" He hissed. Hilda could see he was closing in on his breaking point, fast.
"But how... I though Beel could only be within 18 meters of you at all times." Furuichi stated confused.
SNAP!
Oga felt like something snapped inside of his head and all he could see was red. Before Furuichi could react Oga had him by the collar. "BECAUSE I'M NO LONGER HIS FATHER!" Oga had to restrain himself from throwing Furuichi through a wall. He finally let him go after a while.
"Wait you meen to say-" this time he was cut off when Hilda spoke.
"The Demon Lord came and took him back to Hell."
"If the Demon Lord took him back why are you still here?" Furuichi asked her.
"Because" Hilda paused "He kicked me out of the palace. I am no longer a maidservant to him." Her voice cracked as she said the last part and she had to hold back the tears that welled up in her eyes once again.
Furuichi stood there in shock, before he silently started putting the pieces together in his head.
"So that's why you two weren't at school last week." He stated mostly to himself. He continued musing to himself before an idea came up. "Lamia, was their anything left in Beel's room when you went to check on him.?"
"What do you mean?" Lamia lifted her head to look at the silver hair teen.
"Were their any clues left behind to indicate who it was that took him."
"Now that I think about it, ya there was." she reached into her bag and took out a letter. She handed it to Furuichi and he opened it. He read it's contents out loud.
"Sorry to have to do this, but it must be done to fulfill the task handed to us. Signed Solomon Company. Wait, wouldn't this be the same company that Kugayama was talking about."
"Yes." Hilda nodded her head. " One of the Rayal families must of hired them to kidnap Beel, buy why?" Hilda questioned. Then it seemed to click in her head. "They're going to use Beel to get Tatsumi to do what they want him to do."
"I don't care what it is they going to try to get me to do but they're not going to stop me from getting Beel back." Oga said with his classic demonic grin.
Hilda smirked. "Don't forget that your not alone in this."
The bell rang signalling the end of lunch. Oga and Hilda headed home, seeing no use in staying at school any longer, to further discuss how they were going to go about getting Beel back. Both of them felt nervous as they walked home, not knowing the challenges that were in store for them in the few days to come.
And there you have it. Note that the rating probably will be going up in the next chapter because of what I have planned.
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