9 MAY 18
Added more to make this stronger!
Three Weeks Later
"Hey there good looking… did you sleep well?" Faye was working on something on the sewing machine.
"Sure did, wasn't expecting a midnight visitor, what you working on?" He gave a kiss to her cheek and then sat on the couch.
"A little goodbye gift for you to give to Yuki." She had a wide smile after the feeling of him kissing her again.
"… how did you know?" His heart sank into his stomach as he looks down at the floor.
"Your backpack is ready to go near the doorway to your room… you know Yuki isn't going to like you leaving… right?" It's going to break the poor things heart...
"… I know… but I have to move on and finish my task with Hekapoo…" Marco didn't want to leave, the last few weeks Yuki won over his heart.
"Reaper… we understand, just try and stay in touch… it's been hard on the both of us after losing my husband..." Faye had fallen for him after the first night on a drinking contest that ended with both of them almost being found by Yuki on the living room floor.
"I will… I want to have a little girl like Yuki one day-" He stops talking hearing footsteps.
"Marco? We're late for training?" Yuki wrapped her arms would his neck as she was behind him.
"Good morning Yuki, today is a off day for us. Want me to make you something to eat?" He knew Yuki was awake when he first stepped out the bedroom.
"…french toast please?" As he got up, she held him tighter and wrapped her legs around.
"I guess you're coming along for a ride?" He laughed at the little Jinko.
"Mmmmhmmm!" She loved being close to him any chance she could get.
"As you wish little one!" He couldn't stop smiling.
"You smell like Mama?" She kept sniffing at him.
Both of the adults in the room started to sweat, "Oh well… that's because…" He looked over to Faye for help.
"Mama wants to make sure his bed linen smells good honey…" Faye was quick on her feet.
"Oh…" Yuki wasn't dumb, she knew what had been going on the last few weeks with them.
They went to the kitchen and got to work, "Marco… can we train today? I've been getting better because of you!"
"It's okay to take a rest day sometime Yuki? I guess we could go a round of two, right after this, you better be ready to get your butt kicked again!" They laughed together.
"Last time I remember… I kicked your butt!" She really came out of her shell with him around.
"Big talk for a pint-size." He reaches his hand to her head, but she jumped off and kicked him in the butt.
"That's my point, Marco zero!" She ran off to her chair at the table with knife and fork at the ready.
"You're lucky I like you Yuki" He was just about finished.
Yuki's heart skipped a beat after hearing that and her cheeks went red.
"I hope you made enough for me?" Faye walked in smelling what he made.
"Oh uh…" Marco flashed her at evil grin as he looked at her from the corner of his eye.
Faye loved the way he would look at her, "That better be a good oh uh mister…" She then sat across from Yuki.
"I guess I'll make more for myself after I server you guys…" He then walked over and gave them their plates.
Out In the Front Yard
"This long hair of yours will get you killed in the battlefield!" Marco grabbed Yuki by her long red hair and threw her.
"Didn't I tell you what The General did to Asuka the day she attacked me? He did just what I did to you, pulled her by the long hair and chucked her across the way!" The little one had to learn through pain sometimes.
"OUCH… this is only practice MARCO!" Her voice had gotten stronger with him and thier training.
"Train as you fight Yuki, the other guy won't take it easy on you just because you're cute!" Her cheeks started to get red after hearing that.
She ran at him as the little Jinko gave it all she had, "GRRRRRRRRRR" Her sword was moving faster and faster as they made contact.
"That's good, you just might… ugh!" Marco was cut off as her sword made contact with right cheek drawing blood.
She dropped her weapon and paced her hands tightly over her mouth, "Marco…"
Her eyes started to pool up with tears seeing him bleed for the first time ever, Marco just pulled her into a tight hug, "Don't be sorry… this is what we been training for! I'm so proud of you!"
She wrapped her arms around him and started to cry harder now, even if she knew he was proud of her. It did nothing to her knowing she hurt one of the only people in her life willing to push her to be better. All he could do was smile and pet her head as he kept praising her.
Later That Night
"MARCO… PLEASE DON'T GOOOOO!?" Yuki was on her knees holding him tight at the doorway to the house.
"Yuki… I'm sorry…" He didn't think it would be this bad when tell Yuki he had to go...
"I'm begging you, Marco… don't leave me and mama" It hurt his heart to see her like this.
Faye was behind Yuki with tears in her eyes.
It was breaking Marco's heart to look down at her with her big blue eyes staring back at him. He had taken a knee and wrapped her in a hug. "It's… going to be okay Yuki… I got you something…"
He pulled off his backpack and pulled something wrapped up and gave it to her. The tears kept coming out her eyes when she grabbed the gift and unwrapped it.
"It's… it's… your red cape?" She looked at the item.
"It was a hoodie a long time ago." He grabbed it from her hands and placed it around her by tying the sleeves around her neck to match his look.
"Now we match and I'll always be right behind you!" His eyes were building up tears.
She pulled him into a hug, "I won't let you go… you have to take me with you!"
Her mother reached out a hand to her, "Yuki…"
Marco raised his hand to Faye, "Yuki… I'm sorry… you can't come with me… I would give anything to take you… but this is your home…"
"NO… I WON'T LET YOU LEAVE…" Typical stubborn Jinko's.
"Okay… come with me…" He stands up and pulls her by then hand to Asuka's headstone.
They walked in silence all the way, "You see that knife Yuki?" He points to his boot knife.
"Yes…" She knew what it was from the stories he told.
"I want you to get it…" Pulling out the sheath that belong with it from his backpack.
"But…?" It wasn't her's to take… it belong to her heroes...
"No buts… this is an order!" His voice became cold as he let her hand go.
She walked up the knife and wrapped her hand around the cold handle, then looked back at him.
"Go on!" Now crossing his arms.
Yuki used all her strength to pull it out and looked over at both the names on it.
"I want you to have that… to remember us… there will be a day I come for it… and you…" Marco offers the sheath to her.
"I can't…" She didn't know what to do with it.
"You will… I know you can!" She had to have something with had deep meaning from both Marco and Asuka.
She walked up to him with her arms out to him, "Marco… I… I…"
"I'll miss you more… I'll come back… I swear it…" He pulls her into another bearhug that she will forever miss.
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Slowly the steam forms around Asuka's face while showing her left hand in the water and right on his shoulder, "I taught you well Reaper!"
"No fucking way…" Janna couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"So you're the fucking one!" Star went from shocked to pissed in 2.2 seconds.
"This is surprising…" Hekapoo wasn't as shocked as the other two.
Asuka gave a smile to show her fangs, "I didn't think he would be able to pull it off!"
Marco was holding the bowl not able to say anything, "Don't mind him, I think we should have a conversation first." The rest of Asuka's body started to form from the steam in the room.
"What are your intentions with him?" Star's anger was building up quickly.
"My intentions? Let… me… think…" With her right hand, she taps her chin a few times.
"I'm not going crazy, right? Marco's dead feline-" Janna was cut off.
"Don't you dare call me that, I'm a Jinko Warrior!" A spark of anger could be seen in her eyes.
"Right…" Janna wasn't scared, but the fact a dead person was talking to them, did make her think twice.
"Reaper has allowed me to be manifested in his mind… I decided to stick around after being called forward" After finally making sure he wasn't an imposter.
"If you loved him so much, why are you torturing him?" Hekapoo asked.
"Goddess Hekapoo, it's an honor to finally meet you… I wished it was under better circumstances. My death came so fast… there was so much I needed to tell him…" Asuka was smiling, but you could make out there were tears in her eyes.
"Like telling him you were pregnant?" Star was trying to let the anger go, she needed to know what was Asuka's plan.
The Jinko lifted her head just a little to look down at Star, "That was one of the things, the other was finally being able to say I love you the proper way."
"And seeing Marco happy now pissed you off and you wanted him to be miserable?" Janna was now getting pissed.
"Not exactly, this is how I've always been with him. Towards the end I soften up a little, you're the ones making him miserable!" All three of them jump a little at the comment.
"Don't act surprised, he's the happiest on the battlefield. You all might know this side of the Reaper… but he was a different man with me!" She looks down at the top of his head and pets it.
"That's not his name…" Star spat out with anger though her teeth.
"Soon you'll see the true Reaper, mark my words" Something big was going to happen soon...
"What are you planning Asuka?" Hekapoo didn't like how the sound.
"I'm not planning anything… there's a war coming, and he'll be the center point of. It's best that you let him go before you get hurt." Asuka's facial expressions turn to anger.
"We won't ever let him go, he's going to move on with his life with us. YOU… should be the one leaving!" Janna got over the fear quick.
Asuka smiles as she pulls out her hand out the bowl and walks beside Marco. He looks at her face as she takes a knee.
"Asuka…" He started to regain movement.
"Reaper… your lovers seem to be angry with me." Can you blame them?
He snaps his head back at them with a confused look, "Why?"
"Marco… she's hurting you and you don't even see it!" Janna told him as she felt scared by the way he looked at them.
"Janna… she's…" Marco didn't know what to say.
"She's a psychotic bitch that is trying to make you snap and finally be with her again!" The words flew out Star's mouth without a second thought.
"Princesses don't talk like that tst, tst, tst." Asuka didn't take her eyes off him.
"Star… she has always been my psychotic bitch!" He smirks at Asuka.
"Marco… this isn't something to joke about!" Hekapoo sure as hell didn't like that 'my' part… hell, all three of them were ready to kick his ass.
"Out of everyone here, I truly know how MY Reaper thinks. Goddess Hekapoo, you might have known him by your game, but he showed me a side you'll never see" She placed a hand on his face as he closed his eyes enjoying the feeling.
The women felt like they were losing him with the smile on his face growing bigger.
"He doesn't belong to you… or anyone else!" Janna tightens her fist.
"Auska… tell me the truth…" His black eyes opens.
"You knew I was in love with you… after that first night, we had with each other… I gave myself to you. I would have given anything to be with you till our ending days… but fate had other plans for us… I love you Reaper." The tears that had been pooling up in her eyes finally falls.
Marco closes his eyes again after hearing that, "You died before I could say it back… Asuka, I love too."
"Marco…" The women said together.
"Are you happy with your life… Reaper?" If her heart wasn't beating already, that comment would have surely done the job.
"He looks back at her with sadness, "I happy with my family, you know how much I love my kids… and I would die for each one of my lovers if need be… but I'm not happy with how things ended between us… now answer my question!" Marco gave her a harden look not enjoying the game she was playing.
"Yes… I was pregnant… you were too dumb to see the truth. How many times did I leave the meeting to throw up? How many times did you have get me something weird to eat? I… I… didn't know how to tell you… I was afraid you couldn't see a real life with me… but I did plan to tell you after the war…" Her bottom lip was quivering.
The women eyes damn nearly pop out with how shocked they are to hear this.
"You wouldn't believe how many dreams I had of us together after you… it always hurt to wake up without you next to me…" There were so many...
"How do you think I feel Reaper?" She only wished she could have one with him.
"Asuka… you need to go… this can't go on anymore." Star didn't want to hear this anymore.
"Star… I know-" She cuts him off.
"No Marco, you have a family now and she needs to know this isn't right. You guys might love each other but this will end badly if you go down this road" The blonde stands up and looks down on them.
"She's right Reaper… it's about time you got over me… but not today!" In a puff, she's gone…
We just hit 50K words in the story guys!? So happy right now. Nameless Dude 13 was a huge help on the first part of the chapter!