AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Text - Yuya's good conscience
Text - Yuya's bad conscience
"Text" - Yuya's neutral conscience
"Text" - Obviously, what the characters are saying, DUH!
Text - Kyo's positive conscience
Text - Kyo's oh-so-negative conscience
"Text" - Kyo's neutral conscience
Text - Other characters' thoughts (if any)
From the last chapter...
Yuya was looking at the skies, thinking of something else better than that – but she found none. Her married life is just half bad and half fantasy that became interim reality.
Chapter 4 – Whimpering Heart
"Mother." Natsumi spoke.
Yuya snapped back to reality and looked at her daughter, "Yes?"
"For you." Natsumi handed her mother a festoon of carnations, "Aunt Okuni and Aunt Mahiro taught me how to make this. So, I'll give it to you, since you are the best mother in the whole world!"
"Aww..." Okuni said to Mahiro while they're looking at Natsumi and Yuya, "Isn't that the sweetest?"
"Hey, why don't you get tied up with Yukimura?" Mahiro teased.
"Oh please, shut up. I don't like him." Okuni said, curling her bangs with her index finger.
"Sheesh. You don't have to deny it, Okuni. You are head over heels for him."
"I really don't!" Okuni retorted, with a slight blush on her face, "A-and besides! He's a gay, why should I fall for a bisexual guy?! I fall for a real man!"
"Oh really?" Mahiro teased, "Well, he's not a gay, that's for sure. He said he only looks like a gay to deceive his enemies but he's really not."
"H-he's not?" Okuni mumbled.
"See, you like him. You're blushing."
"Hmph. Whatever!" Okuni turned away, crossing her arms and pouted a little.
"Natsumi-chan, thanks." Yuya smiled at her daughter as she took the flowers.
Natsumi hugged her mother and ran back to Okuni and Mahiro.
That night...
"Kyo, I am doing my part as mother to your children. Why don't you be... A... Why don't you be more like a father to them? You barely talk to them, they might not even recognize you as their father." Yuya explained.
Kyo and Yuya are already in their rooms, and the kids are already asleep in their rooms.
"I don't need to. You accommodate their needs, and I watch them grow, isn't that enough?" Kyo replied to Yuya, giving her that death glare.
Yuya clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, "KYO, YOU JERK! I SHOULDN'T HAVE AGREED TO MARRIED YOU! YOU NEGLECT YOUR OWN CHILDREN AND YOU DON'T DO YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITIES TO THEM AS A FATHER! DO YOU THINK I'M HAPPY WITH MY NEW FAMILY? NO! KYO, PLEASE UNDERSTAND!"
"HEY YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHTS TO TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, WOMAN!" Kyo retorted, pointing his finger at Yuya, closing in at her.
"OH YES I DO! I AM YOUR WIFE, THE MOTHER OF YOUR CHILDREN. DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE CHILDREN WITHOUT ME?!"
"SO WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE YOU?! I SHOULD HAVE MARRIED A WHORE, NOT YOU!"
"So you're saying that I'm nothing to you?"
"ISN'T IT OBVIOUS?! YOU'RE JUST A PROSTITUTE TO ME, THAT'S ALL!"
"IDIOT!" Yuya was now in tears and she raised her hand to slap him but Kyo held it and he slapped her.
"You can't touch me, woman." Kyo scowled.
The next day...
Yuya was wearing a longer sleeved kimono this time. Kyo left her that night, after battering her with his fists.
Insensitive jerk.
"No, I'm fine. I can understand him... I guess... And who am I to fight back to him anyway? He did say that I'm just a prostitute to his eyes..."
And you're defending him still? You're out of your mind!
"I love him, don't you understand that?! I love him although he doesn't love me! That's why I can't fight back..."
And it's just better to cry.
"Yuya! Yuya!" Mahiro and Okuni shouted, entering the house without permission.
"What?" Yuya asked.
"Hey, what's with the cover-all-my-skin kimono?" Okuni asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Uhm-" Yuya tried to explain but Mahiro interrupted her, "KYO'S AT THE TOWN SQUARE! BENITORA DECLARED DEATH PENALTY TO KYO RIGHT NOW!"
"Wh-what?! Why?" Yuya asked in disconcert.
"YUYA, YOU HAVE TO GO! YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PROVE BENITORA THAT KYO'S INNOCENT!" Mahiro shouted.
Yuya, don't back out now. You love him, right?
Go rescue that insensitive jerk.
Hey.
Fine, go save your husband.
"Okuni, Mahiro, could you please take care of the kids right now? I'll be there." Yuya wasted no time and ran out of the house, on her way to the town square.
Can't you run faster?
Kyo also gave her bruised legs remember?
So what?! She has to run faster! Choose: bruised legs or eternally bruised life?
"Bruised legs! Huh? Where did that come from? Kami-sama, what am I saying?"
Yuya can hear Benitora's voice – she's near. Yuya was now making her way through the crowd, just to get to her huband.
Author's Notes:
So far, this is a short chapter. This is a cliffhanger chapter. So, you need to proceed to the next chapter. Reviews, if you don't mind. Thanks! -Smiles-