DISCLAIMER : I DO NOT OWN KAMIGAMI NO ASOBI IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM
Umeko held her phone confused.
"Mom, can you say that again?" She asked.
"I said, said, just come straight to the airport. We're leaving!" Yui sputtered again.
"But why?" Umeko asked, "we're not done with my trials." She looked back at Demeter as she said that.
Demeter turned her attention towards the girl and her friends curiously.
"Something wrong?" She asked.
"Hold that thought," Loki said holding his finder up, right before snatching Umeko's phone away.
"Yo, what's up?"
"Loki, not right now please," Yui pleaded, "I just want to come home. I never even wanted to come here for Umeko's trials in the first place!"
"Did Hades do something? Or one of his stupid family members?" Loki asked.
"Just make sure Umeko comes to the airport!" Yui shouted as she hung up.
"Hmm looks like I gusset right, " Loki shrugged, handing Umeko back her phone.
"My dad did something to my mom?" Umeko asked confused.
"Or one of your cooky god relatives," said Loki.
"Well I'd better go back to the hotel and find out. I don't want to leave yet! I want to finish my trials!" Umeko insisted.
"Is there a problem?" Demeter asked.
"You might know, being a crazy Greek chick and all," Takeru sneered at her.
"You really shouldn't say things like that to her you know," Tsukito muttered, right as a vine slither up and wrapped itself around Takeru's leg and yanked him up, dangling him above the ground.
"Hey, hey, put me down!" Takeru shouted loudly as he thrashed around.
"You gods from Japan sure can be a nuisance sometimes," Demeter said before turning her attention to Umeko again. "Is something happening? Are you possibly leaving?"
Umeko glared at her, "no!" She declared, "I'm not leaving until you say I pass!"
"Hmm, well that's going to be a while," said Demeter as a taunt.
"We'll see!" Umeko retorted, "I got to get back to the hotel and check up on my mom! Now put Takeru down!"
"My, getting bold aren't we?" Demeter said. She snapped her fingers and immediately her vine dropped Takeru to ground.
"You could have told her to put me down gently!" Takeru muttered as Tsukito and Balder both helped him up.
"Sorry, can we just go?!" Umeko said as she ran down the hill, followed by her friends.
Demeter watched as they ran and finally drove off.
"I will give the girl this, she is loyal to her mother, and her father for that matter," she said to herself. She walked back inward in her temple before coming back to her real home on Olympus. She thought about her own parents and how strain of a relationship she had with her own father. Of course the same was true for Zeus Hades and Poseidon. She wondered if that's what made her so protective of Persephone, she wanted to be a good parent to her.
"Persephone?" She called out, suddenly having a huge urge to see her daughter, "Persephone? Let's go do something together dear." Persephone didn't respond. "Persephone?" She called out again, "where is that girl?"
"Oh Olympus, what have I done?" Persephone asked herself sadly as she and Hades hurried to his and Yui's room where the door was shut and locked.
"You made my bad luck rub off and put me at odds with my wife that's what!" Hades muttered as he tried jigging the handle of the of the door and pounding on it. "Yui, Yui please let me in! Please let me explain!"
"Please Ms. Yui, hear him out! He's innocent in all of this! It's just his bad luck!" Persephone also pleaded to the door.
Yui was a little surprised to hear Persephone's voice along with Hades begging her to open the door and face them.
"It's not just," she paused, "catching you two together! I can't take all the woorying over Umeko getting killed by either some crazy animal or one of your all too powerful relatives!"
Persephone and Hades looked at each other a little ashamed.
"Yui, please, running away like this isn't going to help solve anything. I can't loose you or Umeko," Hades pleaded.
Persephone listen to Hades's heartfelt plea to Yui.
'This is all my fault!' She thought as she removed herself from behind Hades and the penthouse all together.
Yyikes sat on the bed as she heard Hades's plea, "I can't loose you or Umeko!"
'We just might though. At the rate things are going, one of us will be lost from this family,' she thought tearfully.
"Fae!" She suddenly heard Apollo shout as she just as suddenly found herself in a big embrace, "Fae don't leave. Please Fae don't leave! I don't want you to leave! I like having you here!"
"Apollo!" Umeko shouted as she tried pushing Apollo away in an attempt to free herself, "what are you doing here?"
"Trying to keep you from leaving! I want to keep you from leaving!" Apollo said.
"But, how did you know I was leaving?" Yui asked.
"So you are really leaving?"
Yui turned around and saw Dionysus standing on the other side of the bed looking quite surprised.
"What are you both doing here? And did you find out exactly that I was leaving?" Yui asked.
"Persephone showed up out of nowhere and asked us to come down to and talk to you about. Said she screwed up worse than when Kong Midas asked me for a golden touch," Dionysus said.
"Persephone?" Yui said, "Persephone came to you?"
"What did Perdy- Perdy do?" Apollo asked.
"I cought her kissing Hades," Yui said softly.
"Kissing?!" Apollo gasped.
"Oh for the love of!" Dionysus muttered.
"Oh Fae!" Apollo said, hugging her, "you can't judge Perdy-Perdy too harshly. Love is something, even if it hasn't even been shown for a long time, that never really goes away. When love that hasn't been shown for a long time suddenly comes back to surface it can cause a person, god or mortal, to do crazy things, things they don't even understand otherwise."
Yui pushed herself free before finally sitting down on the bed. "It's not just Hades and Persephone. I don't want to keep going on day after day worried that when Umeko leaves in the morning if that's the last time I'm going to see her alive!"
Dionysus and Apollo both looked at each other concerned. "I know how much Demeter hates Hades and would love nothing more than to see her die! I know about the ceraste from the other day or when she had to save us from the storm! A child shouldn't be put to such a task!"
"Yeah, you're probably right," Dionysus agreed, "you'd think Demeter would ease up a little."
"And what's the point? To be given immortality and I can live out my life always worried another woman, a woman who was born immortal just like Hades, will take him away from me! I love Hades, I love him so much! I'm almost certain that if I had been born the way he was I would have been more willingly to be his wife, no fuss!"
Hades could hear every word Yui spoke, especially the part of how she felt she would be with him had she'd been born an actual goddess rather than a mortal.
"Yui," he said softly. He couldn't take it anymore. He had wanted to not use any god abilities during this fight to be fair to Yui. But now he couldn't take it.
"Hades, good news, I" Persephone started to say as she appeared behind Hades. However, right as she did, Hades himself dissappeared.
"Hades?" She said softly.
"Fae if you feel that way, then you shouldn't give up on Hades so easily," Apollo started to say, only to suddenly be pushed aside by Hades appearing in the room.
"Oh sorry Apollo," he said quickly.
"Hades?" Yui said surprised.
"About time you showed up," said Dionysus.
Hades quickly raced over to Yui and pulled her up from the bed by her arm.
"You're not going anywhere, not without me! I won't let you leave me! If you leave me, I'll just follow. I'll follow to the ends of the earth if I have to! I won't let you leave! I won't!" Hades declared as he held Yui tight. He was hugging her so tight she almost couldn't breathe. However she didn't complain or say anything in protest.
Outside Persephone listen again to Hades declaration. He had never said anything like that to her, even when the time came for him to let her go of her commitment to being his queen of the underworld.
'I wonder, I wonder what would have happened had Miss Yui really been born immortal and she could have been with Hades instead of me ever being with him,' she thought sadly.
"You!"
Persephone jumped and turned around to see Umeko had returned along with her usual group, including Hermes.
"Should have guessed you had something to do with this," Loki said with a smirk.
"Did you do something to my parents?! To my mother?!" Umeko demanded to know.
"Don't you have anything better to be doing?" Takeru shouted at her.
"Especially given how much your mother dislikes your ex-husband," Tsukito said.
"I, I honestly didn't want to cause harm," Persephone insisted.
"Well, it looks like you failed unfortunately," said Balder.
"Persephone, they're all right, you should go, now! Before your mother finds out!" Hermes insisted.
"I just wanted to know if the situation resolved itself. I don't want to just up and leave without first making sure everything is going to be alright!"
"I'll let you know, personally, " Hermes promised, "now go!"
"But I," Persephone sputtered.
"Fine, we'llfind out together, then you leave!" Umeko said mad as she brushed past her and poundedon her parents' door. "Mom, Dad!"
Hades turned his head at the noise Umeko was making, loosing his grip on Yui, who also looked towards the door.
"Well, looks like things just got serious," said Dionysus as he went and opened the door. Umeko came running in only to stop suddenly at the sight of her parents in their embrace.
"Now what's going on?!" She demanded to know, "first Mom calls me to tell me to meet her at the airport, and then I come here to see you two being all lovey dovey?!"
"I see you didn't follow my directions though," said Yui, as she managed to turn herself around, still in Hades's arms.
"Of course I didn't! I'm not leaving like that, not without my trials still going!" Umeko insisted. She marched right up to her parents and looked her mother in the eye, "I'm the daughter of Hades, Mom. I won't back down until I prove myself! One way or another!"
"Good for you Little Fae, good for you!" Apollo praised.
"You really want to do that huh?" Yui asked her daughter, slightly amused.
"I don't think I could look at myself in the mirror if I didn't keep trying," said Umeko.
"I'd never thought I'd hear a child of mine declaring something like that," Hades said, also amused by his daughter's words.
"So, I guess here for the time being," Yui said. She pulled Hades's arms around her tighter.
"Oh yes you are!" Hades whispered.
"If you try leaving again, you'll have to eat a pomegranate seed," Umeko said.
"No young lady, we're not going that far!" Hades quickly said.
Persephone sighed as she leaned up against the wall.
"Sometimes I wish I could just throw myself into a tarterus pit or go some place where I never have to see Hades again so both of us can live in peace forever."
"I'm sure you'll find a way to allow him and yourself to live in peace. It'll just take time," Balder said as as means of comfort.
"Thank you sir," Persephone said, saying a silent prayer in her heart that Balder's words came true.