-One month later-
"You could've just said no."
"I'm not going to say no, Eien, that would be rude."
"But I don't even want to go!"
Sasori sighed as he and his son walked to the Moon Inn. Natsuko's parents invited Eien and Sasori over for dinner, along with Aki and his family. The Devil had heard enough about what a 'jerk' Aki was and thought that his son was over exaggerating. He had sent Yoru away to do what he wanted since Eien didn't need him at the moment.
"We're still going, Eien, as you can see. Besides, you need to be more social."
"I already met her parents," The younger redhead mumbled.
The duo continued to walk, the sun just beginning to set. Eien really didn't want to be anywhere near Aki for obvious reasons but he was also avoiding Natsuko because of his little episode. He almost groaned when he thought about it.
A few minutes later they arrived at the Moon Inn and they both entered. A woman with dark auburn hair walked up to them, smiling. "Hello, Eien." She looked over at Sasori. "And you must be Eien's Father?" Her hair was in a bun with a few strands in her face and she seemed to have been working hard. She was wearing a light green dress and Eien thought it matched her eyes well.
Sasori smiled, took off his hat and shook her hand. "Sasori Akasuna," He greeted charmingly. Eien rolled his eyes and took off his hat as well.
"It's nice to meet you," Natsuko's Mother said, her pale cheeks turning pink. "I'm Mai, Natsuko's Mother."
"Pleased to meet you." Sasori let go of the woman's hand and she cleared her throat.
"We will be having dinner in the dining room, just around the corner." She led them both to the dining room. It was just a long room with some paintings and tapestries, and a long table with chairs.
Eien saw Natsuko setting the last of the plates down and saw she was rather dressed up. In a dark red dress that had layers of ruffles and her hair was curled. She looked up with her grey eyes and smiled when she saw Eien. She walked up to the redhead and gave a mock curtsy. "Do you like it?" She asked, twirling her dress a little.
Eien gave a small smile. "Well I don't wear dresses, but I'd say it's rather nice."
"Oh, Sasori, you'll be sitting here," Mai said, gesturing to the right seat right next to the head chair. "when dinner starts." Sasori nodded and let his son converse with his friend.
"Is your husband here?"
Mai nodded and smiled. "Yes, he's in his study at the moment. Would you like to meet him?"
"Yes, please," Sasori answered and the woman led him to the study. He had gotten a letter asking him to expand The Moon Inn and that was one of the reasons that they decided to have this dinner; to talk about business. Sasori came to an oak door and Mai knocked. There was a muffled reply and she opened the doorknob to let Sasori in.
The owner of the Inn stood up from his desk and smiled, his face permanently red from drinking so much. He had red rosy cheeks and he smiled. He walked over to Sasori his beer belly jiggling with each stride. "Sasori Akasuna," He greeted cheerfully. His hair was a pale black along with his large beard, which had some white streaks in it.
The redhead smiled. "You must be Ko Iki," Sasori said, shaking the man's hand. "Pleasure to meet you."
The man guffawed. "Yes, nice to meet you, too!" He boomed. His eyes showed only kindness and Sasori could tell that he already had a kind soul. "Well, we should get to dinner, then!"They both walked towards the dining room and they found the room now semi-full.
There were six more children and one more man. The man looked slightly intoxicated but it seemed he had a high tolerance. His dull brown hair was made with cursory detail and his clothes looked like they had been only washed once. There were three other children that looked similar to him, though youngest and only girl had blond hair instead of brown. Sasori spotted Aki talking to Natsuko who was giggling and blushing and Eien looking like he wanted to kill himself.
The other two children were obviously Ko's and Mai's children because of their black hair and green eyes. Both of the children were girls and looked to be twins.
"Dinner's ready, sit down everyone," Mai called, ushering the children to their chairs. Sasori was on Ko's right side while the man who's name he did not know sat at his left. Aki sat by his Father, like how Eien sat by his. Then next to Eien was Natsuko then her sisters. Then by Aki was his only sister then his two brothers; Mai sat at the other end of the table, across from her husband.
A servant brought out the food and Aki's sibling smiled cheerfully, Sasori noticed. Once all the food was served they said grace and began to eat. Ko began talking about all the work he wanted to get done and if it was possible, while Sasori gave different conclusions about costs and suggestions.
"Yori here used to do building but stopped when his wife got pregnant."
The brunette looked up and smiled, showing his yellow teeth. "Ay, I did but I got tired of it. I was a master builder myself once." Aki grinned smugly at Eien who gave him a stoic expression.
"What happened?" Sasori asked.
"My wife got pregnant and she died. So I stay home now and take care of my kids. Aki's nice enough to work a little more now to bring in some money." Yori continued to smile. "Your son work?"
Sasori shook his head. "No, though he does help around my building sites." He took a sip of his wine and found it rather sour.
"What about your woman? Is she working now?"
"No, sadly she passed away eight years ago."
Eien sighed and began to eat his soup, now ignoring the conversation. Everyone was eating, except for the three men in the room. Natsuko's sisters were chatting with Aki's brothers and Natsuko herself was talking to the little blond girl, who appeared to be four.
"So where's your butler, Eien?"
"Butler?" Yori looked at the redheads in interest. "You have a butler?"
Sasori gave the man a modest expression. "He's not a butler, just an old friend of mine who watches after Eien when I'm gone."
"Why would Eien need a babysitter?" Aki asked, smirking at the younger redhead.
"He's not my babysitter," Eien protested.
"Well you're spoiled either way. He does whatever you tell him to do."
"Now, boys," Mai interjected weakly. "There's no need for a squabble."
"That's right," Ko said sternly. "Though's who fight have to go to the timeout corner," He warned, mockingly.
All the kids laughed but Eien just narrowed his eyes at Aki. Once everyone began talking and eating again Eien heard Aki whispered something. "I win." The redhead saw the older boy smirking and he smirked back, feeling his anger rise. His eyes turned red intentionally and the older teen looked at him in shock. He opened his mouth to eat some food, showing off his fangs.
Eien felt a hand smack him behind the head, almost making him choke on his food, and he turned to his Father who had his eyes narrowed. "What?"
His Father gave him a sharp look. 'You're asking for it, Eien,' He warned in his head. Ah, telepathy; it was very handy at times which Sasori had taught Eien in the Underworld.
'I didn't do anything,' The teen thought back.
'I'm warning you, Eien. Try something and you will not even be able to leave your room till we go to the Underworld.'
The younger redhead sighed. "Fine," He actually muttered.
Dinner continued and now Aki was flirting with Natsuko, making the redhead want to beat the older teen to a bloody pulp. He could always order Yoru to do it one night and Aki will think it was a random person.
As dinner ended they all went to the living room to have desert and to interact with each other some more. Eien was in a corner, not wanting to be there and he saw Aki inconspicuously kiss Natsuko on the cheek. The teen giggled and whispered in his ear and he gave a nod. They left the room swiftly and Eien followed, wanting to know what they were up to.
There were many things his Father taught him to do with his power but Eien was still trying to make it work correctly. He tried to teleport once and ended up going one foot. Another time he tried to manipulate the temperature by trying to warm up a cold bowl of soup which in turn exploded all over the place. Though one thing he had practiced in the Underworld, besides telepathy, was invisibility. He concentrated and he literally felt his Father in his head.
'I know what you're doing and I am telling you to stop. You are using it for all the wrong reasons.'
Eien scoffed. 'What will I use it for then? Just let me see what they're doing, okay?'
'Be back in five minutes.'
'Alright.' Eien almost pushed his Father out of his head as he concentrated again. It felt like a sheet of darkness covered him and he felt numb. He continued to walk, knowing that the shield would hold up now that it had been set up.
Eien walked till he found Aki and Natsuko in a room with their lips locked. He looked at them disgusted. Sure he saw his parents kiss but this was just sloppy and unattractive.
"Natsuko... I think I'm ready," Aki whispered huskily.
The auburn-haired girl froze. "We're still too young."
"But I love you so much!" The brunette said full of faux passion. "Why won't you do this for us?"
Eien almost gagged but got closer to see what Natsuko was going to say. "Yes, but I'm only fourteen, and you're fifteen. It's wrong."
The older teen groaned. "You're being a prude! It seems you don't really love me, do you?" He pushed himself away from Natsuko who started at him with wide eyes.
"Of course I love you! It's just where?"
"Right here, right now." Aki claimed the auburn-haired girl's lips once more and the teen submitted.
Eien felt his anger boil. She was being played and she didn't see it! Eien's fingers twitched and his invisibility was gone. "What're you two doing?" He asked innocently. The two teens jumped apart and Aki's cheeks flushed in anger and embarrassment. "Ready for what? Marriage?"
"Eien!" Natsuko whined before stomping out of the room, her eyes full of tears. Eien looked as the girl left and turned back to Aki.
"Well-" He was cut off when Aki's fist slammed into his stomach, causing him to double over in pain as the breath was knocked out of him. When Eien was on the ground, Aki went to strike his face but was stopped when a hand caught his own. He looked up to see a man with black hair and gleaming silver eyes.
"I'm sorry I couldn't get here before, my prince, but I tried my best-"
"I don't care for your excuses, demon," Eien wheezed.
"I am sorry."
"Hey! Let go of my hand!" Aki exclaimed, trying to pull his hand out of Yoru's closed fist.
"My prince?"
Oh how much Eien wanted to say, 'Beat him within an inch of his life', or 'Torture him until he stopped screaming for mercy', but he didn't. The redhead stood on shaky feet and gestured for Yoru to let go of the brunette's hand. Once he did Aki tried to run but Yoru stopped him.
"We should make a deal," Eien suggested, resisting the urge to rub his aching stomach. "You don't tell anyone about this and I don't tell anyone what you were going to do with Natsuko."
Aki looked enraged. "No! I'm going to tell everyone what a sick freak you are! Trying to spy on us?!" It seemed he didn't catch Eien's or Yoru's titles or that the demon appeared out of no where.
Eien sighed. "I didn't want to do this. Yoru." In a second the demon had his hands over the brunette's ears and the teen froze. A few seconds passed by and Aki collapsed in a heap. "Good." Eien left and Yoru followed. One thing he did not master yet was erasing memories; very difficult and could be very complicated. Eien had trouble dealing with other peoples' minds but his Father said he would soon learn. "You better go since you aren't supposed to be here."
"Yes, my prince." There was a gust of wind and Eien continued to walk, bumping into Natsuko. The redhead hissed as his forming bruise was touched.
"Where's Aki?!"
Eien sighed. "He passed out on the floor for some reason. I think he had too much of his Father's wine and I was going to go tell the adults that he's sick."
"You're lying!" Natsuko ran past him and Eien rolled his eyes. She was still so blind.
Oh, Eien you're such a brat XD Just like yo Mum!
Yeah, my inspiration for writing is at zero ^_^" Though I have eight more chapters till I have to start new ones, but I'll be writing within then!
The reason why my inspiration is dead is because I'm watching Fairy Tail again and I remembered just how obsessed I was with it XD FLYING CATS! *Looks at my cat* "Why can't you fly and talk to me?" -_-
Cat "..." *Rolls over cutely*
Me "You're effing cute!" OwO
Yes, Fairy Tail is awesome but I'll have to read the manga soon ^_^" Runnin' outta episodes!
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