Inhibitions

Oga Tatsumi liked to think of himself as a normal high-schooler. He was a man of good look, kind heart and extreme strength. And one more thing he was sure to be- a heterosexual guy. Although the image he had worked so hard to build didn't allow him to show his interest in the opposite sex, that didn't mean that he had no interest whatsoever. No, he was interested, mind you, very interested. He was a boy after all.

But fate wasn't so merciful to this young man. Not even a week ago his innocence, his divine purity… his first kiss was brutally stolen. Truth to be told he wouldn't mind if the one who have done that was a certain sadistic, cruel and rather voluptuous blond… he really wouldn't. But no, life just had to be a bitch and send this disgusting, perverted and idiotic green haired bastard to take his virgin lips. Oga then took the biggest shock in his life. His disturbed mind just shut down for three whole days. Of course he didn't have any intention to reveal the fact that his unconsciousness was caused from the great stress and not as everyone thought, from something mysterious that the rusty jerk had done to him. If they knew, they'll just think of him as some wimpy ass. Ever since then he's been feeling a void inside him and he was certain that it was the now empty place where his innocence had been lying. He was just praying, something he didn't do often, that he'd never have to go through such experience ever again.

So what was his horror as his brain slowly registered that before him there was yet another man that he had… been kissing? Oga's stomach turned upside-down and he felt like tearing his lips, hands and even his balls off… okay maybe not the balls. The poor young man's eyes were almost out of their usual place, which would be his head, and he was sure that his jaw was dislocated from the continuous gaping of his mouth. No matter how many words of protest he wanted to say or rather to shout at the man with the glasses, nothing but stuttering came out.

Dantalian watched the boy for a moment and then sat on a chair near the wall, crossing his legs as if he didn't have a care in the world. He continued to watch him and Oga could see that the demon didn't look amused at all. Instead his eyes showed nothing but boredom behind his specs.

"Would you calm down already?" Dantalian finally said.

"To calm down?" Oga raised an eyebrow, the initial shock on his face slowly turning into annoyance. "How can I calm down when… when I was just kissing you- a man!" he blurted and his hands quickly shot to his head, pulling hard on his hair. The delinquent's disgust was immense.

"Do you want me to switch to my previous appearance? That seemed to be to your liking." the man suggested genuinely.

"NO! Damn it, no!" Oga frantically waved his hands and the demon looked at him as if he had two heads… although for a demon that might be not so strange. "Besides, it won't change the fact that you're a fucking man." He continued.

"A man? You mean this?" Dantalian placed a hand on his chest. "This is just a temporal appearance I was asked to keep. Asmodaeus-sama says it's too confusing to change forms too often, so I just stayed like this. But it doesn't mean I'm a man." The demon explained.

At that moment Oga watched how the raven hair of the demons started to grow and turn red; his eyes changed their almond shape and turned feline, with yellow irises; his shoulders became smaller and his chest started to swell; in a moment his whole body and face turned feminine.

"A…woman? You were a woman?" Oga once again started gaping.

The demon sighed. This man was more thick-headed than he/she thought.

"That's not my point." He said. "I'm neither a man, nor a woman. I can be both. I'm young and I'm old, I'm a three in the wood and a spring in the mountain. I'm anything you humans can imagine and more." The demon explained as he switched to his first form, that of a man with glasses.

The delinquent was looking blankly at him. It was clear that the main idea had missed his brain.

"You don't get it?" the demon asked, a tiny spec of hope barely visible in his eyes.

"Not at all." Oga stated while shaking his head.

"Well, I guess it's fine even if you don't understand." Dantalian sighed once again. Why did he even bother, he wondered.

"So?" Oga sat on his bed, as he had already calmed down… a little. "What do you want from me? Why did you… you know…" he tried not to recall what had happened earlier.

The demon looked at him for about a minute without saying anything, which pretty much annoyed Oga even further. As the teen was about to open his mouth, Dantalian finally spoke.

"Asmodaeus-sama wanted to see what kind if a man you are. And if possible to show to Hilda how despicable you are and make her stay with him." The demon lied as he planed to do if the plan failed, which it did.

Oga's eyes narrowed with his growing anger. So it was all about Hilda after all? He felt a strange heat boiling in his chest and stomach. It wasn't his usual anger and agitation; it was something way stronger. All he wanted was to stomp on Asmodaeus' head while he had impaled his body on a pike. The bastard would never take Hilda away from him, even if he had to destroy Hell itself.

He suddenly heard baby Beel whining from his cradle and his darkened face lit up a little. He stood up, went to the baby and started rocking the cradle, whispering to the child to go back to sleep. Dantalian watched the scene with visible interest, something that he rarely felt. Being an existence that knows everything and anything could be quite dull at times. But then again there were people, be it humans or demons, that somehow managed to escape his knowledge and whose existence would entertain him from time to time. And it seemed that Oga Tatsumi was one of them. The demon had read the boy's mind once this evening, but decided against doing it ever again. It was going to be much more amusing waiting for the future events, than knowing them.

As Beel was lulled back to sleep, his father turned to the demon in the chair.

"Why don't you be a good servant and tell your master that he'd never get what he wants. Hilda will never abandon Beel… this woman is just too damn stubborn." He snickered.

"It looks like you're misunderstanding something." The demon said after few seconds. "It is true that Asmodaeus-sama is above me in hierarchy, but that doesn't mean I'm his servant." He explained calmly. "I'm not obeying orders, but just giving my prince a hand in an important matter."

Oga squinted and it wasn't hard for the demon to guess what he was thinking, even without peeking in his head.

"So it wasn't the royal shithead that told you to mimic Hilda and come here?" Oga raised his eyebrows skeptically.

"No." the demon said simply. "It was your true desires that I showed you. After all, a person's desires are one of his biggest weaknesses."

"How did-"

"I read your mind. And not only it wasn't particularly vast, but also most of it was filled with thoughts of a certain blond demon maid." The demon couldn't hold his snicker as he watched Oga's face turn from confusion, through embarrassment and then anger.

"What do you mean by that?" the boy asked while glaring at the demon. The guy's smug face was not to Oga's liking, not even a bit.

"I mean…" Dantalian said as he stood from the chair and stepped a little closer to the human. "… that the woman I showed you was entirely a result of your own cravings." He added and walked pass him only to stop by the window.

"Bullshits!" Oga hurried to deny. "There is no way I'd want a Hilda who'd just neglect baby Beel. The Hilda I know loves this little guy more than anything." He said as he pointed to the sleeping baby.

"That might be what your inhibitions are telling you, or at least what has left of them, but truth is: what you really want is different." The demon said while calmly watching through the window. "Deep iside you actually wish to be just the two of you." He continued without giving Oga a chance to interrupt him. "No babies, no other demons, no spells… Just you and her. Am I wrong?" he asked as he suddenly turned to the human boy.

Oga didn't answer right away. He stood there, his eyes wandering between the man at the window and the green-haired sleeping child.

"You're wrong." The father said finally. "It might be true that I'm fed up with all the demons, shitty spells and your annoying games, but… If there is anything I won't give up at this point of time, it is this guy and his bitchy maid." He looked at Beel.

The human's words left the demon wide-eyed and silent for a moment, but then his face softened and his thin lips curled into a hint of a smile. Dantalian walked pass Oga and headed for the door, halting just in front of it.

"Just don't let go of these thoughts, boy! Not even after you get out of here." The demons said without turning back and then quickly left the room.

Oga stood there dumbfounded. Why had this guy came anyway? What was the point in telling him all this? He thought that demon was one of the bad guys… but now it made no sense. As he realized that he didn't get the chance to ask the jerk about all this "what has left of his inhibitions" thing, Oga stomped to the door. . He wasn't gonna let him just walk away like that. At least he could punch him once or twice for all the crap the guy had done.

As he opened the door and walked into the corridor, he looked around frantically. He quickly spotted the familiar blond figure of the demon maid. Damn the fucker, to actually keep pretending to be Hilda… This guy was asking for a kick in the head. Oga started stomping in the direction of the demon. He could hear his name being called in Hilda's voice, but like hell he was gonna fall for the same trick twice! He grabbed the shoulders of the… thing (he didn't even know what to call this guy anymore) due to the lack of much cloth he could grab instead, and hissed angrily.

"You bastard, don't think you can just walk away like that!" he said to the face of the one he had caught, but found a rather angry expression. A sudden realization hit him as he saw the unique glare of the woman before him. There was only one person he knew who could make the mighty delinquent shiver as a preschooler only with her look.

"H-Hilda?" he stuttered. "Are you really Hilda?" he asked just in case.

"No, douche, I'm the Tooth-fairy. I came to take all your teeth." She said with an icy tone, never ceasing her death glare. "Now, say Aah."

Oga quickly let go of the nurse. Yeah, there was no doubt this sadistic bitch was his Hilda… his Hilda?

Meanwhile in the Human World

"So that's what had happened. I thought it was strange for this idiot to skip school." The black-haired man exhaled the smoke of his cigarette.

"Saotome-dono, what do you intend to do?" Alan Delon asked the teacher.

"Well, to be honest, that Yolda girl came before you and told me everything, so I've been thinking about it."

"Then, please don't act like you heard it for the first time, it's quite misleading." The transdimentional demon pouted, although it wasn't cute at all and instead almost made the spell master puke.

"Well, still… you know I'm not supposed to get involved in these matters."

"I realize that. But I'm afraid my connections alone won't be enough to settle things favorably for Oga-dono and Hilda-dono."

"Your connections? Don't tell me you went to your old general?" Saotome raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't have much choice." Alon Delon explained.

"That bad, huh? And what did that old dog Furfur say?"

"He actually didn't look surprised. It looks like there's been an accident involving the new mother-candidate."

"An accident?"

"Someone tried to kill her. Probably to intervene with the incarnation of prince Leviathan. The general didn't reveal much, only that the demon who has attacked her is still being questioned."

"And why do I have the feeling who is behind all this?"

"Saotome-dono?' the demon tilted his head in question… again it wasn't cute at all.

"Ugh… That girl, Yolda… she said they were attacked on the way to Daeus-kun… by hell dogs."

Alon Delon understood immediately.

"Aah, it's been ages since I went to Hell." Saotome stood from his chair in the dark classroom and stretched his hands over his head. "Why don't you take me to your former general, huh?"

"I just hope we won't be late." The mustached man worried.

"They'll be fine. They're my students after all!"

A light smile crossed Hilda's face as she looked at her sleeping master. Her hand went to caress the baby's chubby cheek ever so lightly. It crinkled its small nose at her touch, earning another soft smile from the nurse.

Oga was propped against the near wall and watched the scene with hands crossed on his chest. He definitely still hadn't noticed the smile that had crept over his face too. Not until Hilda turned her gaze away from Beelze and looked at him.

"What are you grinning about, idiot?" she hissed at him as the earlier softness of her features disappeared for milliseconds.

She still was angry with him, he thought. Despite the fact that he had already explained her everything about Dantalian's visit, she had just nodded and said something about "getting closer".

"The one who was grinning just now's you!" he smirked and pushed up from the wall.

He walked to her, inwardly smiling at the pinkness that crossed her cheeks. Damn, she was beautiful in that night-gown, in that light. It took almost all of his willpower not to just pull her on the bed besides them and take her right there, right then. He stopped inches away from her face and looked at her. He knew he shouldn't get so close, not until the stupid spell was off; not until they were out of this damned place. He knew it, but his legs were dragging him towards her on their own.

Hilda started to back off as she saw him getting closer and closer. She could see the familiar glint in his dark eyes and she knew exactly what he wanted. After few more steps her back met the window and she found herself trapped between the cold glass and Oga's warm body that was already dangerously close to hers. She put her hands on his chest in an attempt to push him away, but it didn't seem to work.

"Oga… stop it. We can't do this." She tried to sound convincing, but her voice came more like a whimper, making her angry with her own weakness when it came to him.

"Yeah…" he said as he was already leaning towards her lips, not tearing his eyes away from them. "We can't do this." he repeated her words and the next moment he was kissing her.

I'm being a troll... sorry. xD Truth is I'm starting to doubt if I will ever finish this fic... I just hope I don't drop it. Hang on my willpower! Hang on...

Anyway, let me know what you think... or don't, I don't know anymore... Till next time :)