Apollon awoke with a start, breathless. The covers on his hotel bed were in strange orientations, and he noticed that a few even had rips in them.

Hades turned over in his own bed and looked at his nephew. He blinked in the confusion, the early morning obviously casting a haze on his mind. "...did my bad luck cause you a-"

"We must go back to the shrine, Uncle!" Apollon interrupted.

Hades grunted, brought to full awareness by the sharpness of his nephew's tone.

Apollon looked at Hades with such a stricken face that Hades jolted into an upright position. "Uncle, I had a dream that Tsukito- that Yui- that they...!"

Takeru looked at Apollon from where he sat on the wide windowsill. "My brother did what in your dream?" he asked incredulously.

"Yui did what?" Balder sat up in the third bed, looking concerned.

"They did what?" asked Loki in an almost teasing voice from his spot on the floor.

Apollon shook his head as if he were too stunned to repeat it.

"Well? Speak up," commanded Thoth from his bed, and Anubis, who slept at the foot of it, repeated, "Speak up!"

Thor, who didn't sleep at all last night simply because he wasn't tired and therefore just stood propped against the door, said, "Well?"

Apollon grasped at his head, tears welling in his eyes. "I had a dream that they...they..." He could hardly get it out, and, when he finally did, it was in a loud yell. "I had a dream that they slept together!"

There was a silence...and then laughter from everyone except for the stricken Apollon.

"You're that upset from a wet dream?!" snorted Loki.

Takeru was laughingly it was the funniest thing on earth. "My brother?! Yui?! Bahaha!"

Hades let out a chuckle. "It was a mere dream, nephew."

Balder laughed softly. "Yui and Tsukito-kun? Really?" There almost seemed to be a tinge of jealousy in his voice.

Apollon was still freaking out on his bed.

Thoth left out sharp laughter. "Ha! That's rich!"

Anubis snickered behind his hand and repeated, "That's rich!"

Even Thor laughed. "Wow, Agana Belea. I didn't know that you fantasized about that kind of stuff."

The dirty joke coming from the mouth of the man of few words propelled much of the room back into laughter.

"...I'm serious...," mumbled Apollon, but his mutter was drowned out by the laughter.

It wasn't a dream, he knew. It was prophecy, but...but it was present prophecy. Apollon knew because of the

It was present prophecy, which meant that it was ongoing at the time.

Which meant that it'd actually happened.

Which meant that Yui had actually slept with Tsukito.

Which was no laughing matter.

•••

Dionysus rubbed his head and blinked as he sat up, mind fuddled with the familiar, sharp pain of a hangover. "Gah, where am I?" he mumbled to himself.

He felt grass beneath him, and when he looked up, his eyes shot pain toward his brain. He covered his eyes, knowing that he'd just seen the sun.

Why the hell was he outside?

Then again, he'd awoken in much stranger places than just outside.

He stood up, not curious at all as to what happened, and squinted so that it didn't hurt as bad to look around.

His eyes saw the shrine in the distance, and he groaned. "Why did I walk this far out? I don't have the energy this morning to walk back," he mumbled as he started to slowly make his way back to the shrine

•••

Yui was felt like a sack of garbage. She was achy, and stuffy, and crampy, and, perhaps worse of all, alone.

Tsukito had left a note on her bedside table to read when she awoke that explained what had happened:

Yui-chan,

You fell asleep after I bathed you. I dressed you and brought you back here. I laid with you a bit to make sure that you were asleep and doing okay before I left.

- Totsuka Tsukito

It helped a little, she supposed, to know that he cared enough to write her a note (he had said that he loved her, so she expected as much), but it didn't help much. She was still alone. Not to mention that she didn't even want to get out of her bed. She didn't want to.

She pressed the back of her hand to her forehead and sighed deeply. Ugh, hurry up and start already, period...I wanna get this over with...

She moaned as her menstrual cramps beat her down. She clutched her abdomen, wallowing in the double-achiness. Tsukito' and her's escapade last night left her sore to the core, and now, with the cramps, Yui felt like she was going to die.

Think, think, think. Something to get your mind off of your grossness...-

Tsukito...

She pictured him in his head, images from last night replaying in her head. She'd only barely been able to make out his features in the darkness, but she had been able to feel his muscles and the strength of his body. Gods, that body...

And then she remembered what had gotten them into the whole thing- him revealing a secret of his past.

And then she remembered what had gotten them into that- them both confessing their love for one another and then moving on in the conversation as if they they'd never said it.

Yui sighed softly. She believed that he loved her...when she was with him, at least. She knew that she loved him, but...she couldn't feel his love when she was away from him like she could Apollon's and even Loki's...

Yui told herself now that it was because he wasn't used to loving yet and that he'd get used to it in a bit...

But she had this feeling deep within herself. The feeling that he wasn't willing to fully love her.

Not because of the past experiences that he'd told her about- she knew from their intimate time that he was over that.

No, she had the feeling that it was because of who they were.

She had the feeling that it was because he was a god.

And she had the feeling that it was because she was a human.