DISCLAIMER : I DO NOT OWN KAMIGAMI NO ASOBI IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM

"Yui, please let's go," Hades said, trying to pull her away.

"Hades," Persephone suddenly spoke up, "I didn't come here to make trouble. Please don't try to avoid me like this."

"It's not that," Hades insisted, "I just think it's best we keep our distance from each other, especially since...," Before Hades could finish his sentence, Demeter suddenly appeared next to her daughter with stern look.

"Hades, I see you didn't waste much time in comingredients near my daughter!" She snapped.

"Mother, please," Persephone pleaded, "it was an accident."

Demeter looked past her towards Yui, "so you finally met my daughter? The one Hades kidnapped and took away, without a care in the world for anyone else!"

"Mother, don't do this please!" Persephone begged her mom.

"Yes, you're already getting back at Hades by being the one in charge of Umeko's trials. This party was so Umeko could meet some of her father's family. Please, can we try to get along Demeter?" Yui asked as kindly as she could, bowing to her.

"To sure have some bold talk for a mortal," Demeter snarled.

Suddenly another woman walked up behind and gently put her hand on her shoulder.

"Demeter, she's right," she said softly in a real smooth voice, "come along, before things escalate."

"But Hestia," Demeter tried to protest.

"Please Sister, be the bigger person here, for everyone's sake, " Hestia said as she led Demeter away.

"Yes Mother, justdo as Hestia says," Persephone said as she followed after the two. She turned and looked one more time at Hades before walking off fully with her mother.

"Good old Hestia," said Dionysus.

"She's always so nice like that," said Apollo.

"I'm sorry Yui, I was trying toavoid those two, but my bad luck seems todecide otherwise," said Hades, "Umeko, come here." Umeko quickly ran over to her dad, "are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Umeko said, "it wasn't no big deal. I'm sure what's his name, Ares, didn't mean to shove me over."

"Oh knowing Ares, he did," said Hades.

"Well excuse me for not wanting to see our precious Olympus clogged once again with demigods," Ares called from across the room.

"Ares!" Hera snapped at him before walking over and smacked him.

"What, you're thinking it too Mom," Ares insisted.

"I may have on certain situations," said Hera. She looked towards Dionysus as she spoke. Dionysus looked away from her glance.

"Whatever," Ares muttered, "hey Didi, fill me up!" He orders holding up a wine glass.

"Sorry, I'm not too much clog," Dionysus said as he moved away.

"Hey now, don't be like that Didi!" Ares whined, "fill me up."

"Hmm," Loki said as he watched Ares trying to go after Dionysus.

"What are you thinking?" Thor asked as he saw a thoughtful and evil look appear on Loki's face.

"I was just thinking, how that guy would look with pink hair," said Loki with a smirk.

"I thought you were saving your energy for Hermes," said Balder.

"Oh I am, but I might as well practice a little," Loki said.

"Well how are you planning on turning his hair pink?" Balder asked.

"Hmm, maybe with this," Loki said, pulling out a pink afro wig from his jacket, "the question is though, how do I get it on him?"

"Glue would probably work best,"

"Huh?" Loki said turning around as a gust of wind blew past him and picked up a few minutes later, reveling Hermes holding a big jar of glue.

"This stuff should help," he said he poured the jar into the wig, "and then, we can easily get it onto his head." He snatched the wife from Loki and dissappeared.

"Hey, this is supposed to be my prank!" Loki shouted as the wind blew past everyone all the way to Ares and suddenly the wig appeared on his head.

"Hey!" Ares shouted as struggled to get the wig off. "Hermes, this is all your idea, I just know it!"

"Actually it was his idea," Hermes said, as he picked Loki and carried him over to Ares, "I was just helping." He then abandoned Loki with Ares.

"You are so dead!" Ares threatened.

"Oh please, can't you take a joke?" Loki said as he managed to reached for a glass and splash the contents of it onto Ares's face. It distracted Ares long enough for Loki to escape. He ran to a secluded part of the ballroom and took a deep breath.

"Alright it worked!" Hermes said appearing next to him, "good idea for a prank!"

Loki reached over and grabbed Hermes by his shirt.

"Listen here you little annoyance! I was the one that was supposed to do that prank, me! I didn't need your help!"

"Well sorry, I just thought that since we both wanted to get Ares, we should work together. But I guess that partnership is out," Hermes said he dashed off leaving Loki alone.

"A partnership? Really? I don't need no partnership," said Loki.

"Suite yourself," he heard Hermes voice taunt as Loki suddenly realized an afro was stuck to his head.

"When I get that guy, he's going to wish he never did this!" Loki shouted, as he tried to get the wig off.

"Yui, Umko, I would like to apologize on behalf of Ares," Zeus said.

"Me as well," Hera said, "even though he was right. I used to hate most demigods."

"Now, now,paying let's not worry about that right now," Yui insisted, "this is supposed to be a happy occasion, right?"

"Yes," said Hera.

"Which reminds me, there is someone we would like to introduce you to someone just like Umeko," said Zeus.

"Oh yes, Umeko should meet him, " said Hera, "I'll go get him."

She soon return with a huge, bulk of a man.

"Hercules," said Hades, "hello."

"Hello Uncle Hades," said the man. He bowed to Yui and Umeko, "I feel honored to have met the two of you."

"This is the first of the demigods that to endure the trials of the gods and in doing so was granted godhood," Zeus said, "my son Hercules."

"Wow, you're really Hercules?" Umeko asked.

"Indeed I am, and let me just say, I hope you do your best in these trials," Hercules said.

"Thank you very much," said Umeko smiling at him.

"At least yours will be for a more honerablereason the an mine were," said Hercules.

"How is that? Weren't they set up to see if you were worthy of godhood?" Yui asked.

"No," Hera answered sounding ashamed, "I did something that made him in turn do something most awefu. So the trials were set up by me so he could atone for his wrong doings."

"It still helped me gain godhood, so I am still grateful to you for that," said Hercules.

"Did you reallyhave to face a hydra during the trials?" Umeko asked.

"Indeed I did," said Hercules, "but they're all gone now, luckily."

"I hope so," Umeko said. She looked towards Demeter where Hestia and Persephone were trying to comfort her and keep her calm. "I just wish Miss Demeter liked me so I knew the trials were fare."

Demeter cast her an angry glare.

"Mother," Umeko heard Persephone mutter, making her mother look away.

"Maybe I should try talking to her," Hera said walking over to the group.

"Yui," Hephaestus said as he finally came up to him with his robots. "I finally caught up to you. I have something for you." He held up the tiara, "I made it myself."

"Oh my, thank you," Yui said accepting the gift.

"Just look at it as my way of welcoming you and Umeko to the family. We're all really happy Uncle Hades has found love, especially without the help of Eos."

"Eos?" Yui asked.

"Most mortal know him better by his Roman name, Cupid," said Aphrodite coming next to Hephaestus, "he's my son, the God of love. He's known for shooting arrows of love making people fall in love with the first person they see."

"Oh," Yui said, "but what does that have to do with Hades and me falling on love?"

"The day Hades first saw Persephone, I may have encouraged Eos to shoot an arrow at him which made him fall immediately for her," Aphrodite said sheepishly.

"I'm sure my bad luck also played a part in it," Hades said.

"But look at you now Hades, you have a woman, a mortal woman who loves you for you!" Aphrodite, "be happy for that."

"Yeah Hades," Yui said, taking his hand in hers.

"I'm trying to be," said Hades.

"Well anyway, Hephaestus, you gave them their gifts, now where's mine?" Aphrodite asked.

"Right, I'm on it, let's go boys," Hephaestus said, as his robots walked him off.

"Why does he have those robots anyway?" Yui asked.

"He once fell off Mt. Olympus and as a result his legs were forever damaged so that he could never walk again," Zeus explained.

"How does that work? He's a god isn't he?" Yui asked.

""There are some things even we are not immune to," said Zeus, "please don't threat too much about it."

"Sure," Yui said. She looked towards Hades, "I hope you don't think it's was your bad luck that caused that."

"Hmm sometimes," Hades said.

"Not everything is your fault," Yui said as she kissed Hades's cheek. "I must say, your family is very unique. Most seem pretty nice."

"Most usually are," said Hades, "but they can get angry sometimes, so be careful."

"Like Demeter?" Umeko asked.

She suddenly noticed oneof goddess with Demeter, Hestia, walking towards her.

"Hello Little Umeko, I'm sorry I didn't get to introduce me to you properly. I am Hestia, Demeter and Hera's oldest sister. I'm sorry Demeter was so mad at you, but I'm sure once the tests are over, she'll be nicer to you," she said.

"I hope so," Yui muttered.

"If anyone knows about kindness of the gods, it's Hestia. There us no god kinder than her, and that includes Apollo," said Hades.

"I wish you were the one giving the trials," said Umeko.

"Don't worry, Demeter may seem mad and mean now, but I can already tell her heart is warming up to you and your mother," Hestia said before walking back to Demeter.

"Do you think that's true?" Yui asked.

Hades studied Demeter. He noticed Persephone sneaking glances at him. He couldn't tell what Persephone was thinking, but something told him Hestia maybe right about Demeter.

"If anything, she'll just get board with the whole thing and move on," he said.

"However long could that take?" Yui asked.

"Maybe a few decades," Hades said.

"Yeah, not too long at all," Yui muttered.

"It's okay Mom," Umeko said.

"Lousy, stupid Hermes!" The pair suddenly heard Ares complaining as he walked past, trying to take his wig off. He managed to finally pull it off, making him scream loud in pain. Everyone gasped at his scream.

"What's everyone looking at?!" Ares shouted.

"Your hair still has a little," Umeko tried to say pointing to the top of Ares head.

"Shut-up, demigod," Ares snapped at her.

"I could make another afro appear on your head and you wouldn't be able to take it off!" Umeko threatened.

"Umeko!" Yui scolded.

"Oh really? Your powers that great demi?" Ares taunted, "I think we need to see just what the big fuss is."

"Ares, leave her alone!" Hades warned.

"Shut up, your threats of bad luck don't scare me!" Ares said. He pushed Umeko to the center of the room. "Hey everybody! Let's see what this little demigod is made of! Come on, show us your trick!"

"Ares!" Athena shouted running at him, "leave her alone!"

"No it's okay, I can handle it!" Umeko said quickly, "I just need to figure out which emotion to focus on."

"Anger, focus on the anger Kid!" Takeru shouted from wherever he was in the room.

"No, your amusement, focus on that!" Loki called out instead.

"I'll try focusing on both," Umeko said, closing her eyes, while facing Ares. She suddenly pointed at him and Ares appeared to suddenly be in a pink dress.

"What the?!" Ares shouted mad at the dress.

"Yeah, that's not your color Ares," Artemis taunted.

"Umeko, that's a very unique power you seem to have," Athena said walking over to her, "I would love to see more of them some other time."

"I'm sure you can join in on one of our training sessions," Tsukito said moving towards her fast.

"Thank you, I'd like that," Athena said.

"Perhaps you can offer some insight to her training as well," Tsukito said.

"We shall see," said Athena.

"Oh brother," Takeru muttered as he watched his brother and the goddess of wisdom.

"How long do I have until the trials start?" Umeko asked.

"I won't say, I'd rather see you taken by surprise," Demeter said with a smirk.

"How is that fair?" Yui asked.

"It's not, but that's how it is," Demeter said smugly.

"Great, so she can keep us here for years before she starts," said Umeko walking back to her parents.

"I doubt they'll wait that long," said Hades, "even with my bad luck."

"Do you think she'll start tomorrow?" Yui asked.

"I hope not," Hades said, "because tomorrow, I'm going to do something against my own rules and invite you two, my wife and daughter to visit my kingdom of the underworld."