(a few hours later)
It was still dark out, but Yuto wakes up upon hearing his door open. He pretends to be asleep as the someone walks up to his bed. The footsteps were light, and he quickly uses his negative emotion sensing ability to find out who it was.
'Ellen?' Yuto questions in his thoughts as it seems like some of her negatives were a little less than they were before.
"Yuto." Ellen said shaking him a bit.
"Hmm what is it, Ellen?" Yuto said with a believable drowsy tone that a person has when woken up.
"I had a nightmare. Can I sleep with you?" Ellen asks. Yuto doesn't detect any hostile movements or emotions, so he decides to let her.
"Here." Yuto said scooting over to make room for her. She climbs in as Yuto covers her up.
"Do you want me to sing a song to help you sleep?" Yuto asks causing her to think for a moment.
"Yes please." Ellen finally said as Yuto tries to think of the right song to sing before it hits him.
(Play Dearly Beloved by Amalee with a male singer singing this)
One day you will realize, the stars you are chasing
Shine bright deep inside you but will you ever let it
Shine from within and cast all of your fears aside?
You'll see the light but until that day comes
My dearly beloved, be strong, I shall be there
Always here beside you, so keep your head held high
The shadows of this world will try to steal you away into their arms
But you belong in mine
We are one within a dream
So, hold me close and count the stars with me
All our scattered memories
I will find the pieces, one by one
Ocean waves drift over me
I'll keep you in my memory
This dream that lives within your eyes
I wish to see it come to life
A thousand blades unto the sky (My dearly beloved, be strong, I shall be there)
Reach out and link our worlds, yours and mine (Always here beside you, so keep your head held high)
Let the tide rush over you and one day I know (The shadows of this world will try to steal you away into their arms)
We shall meet again (But you belong in mine)
My dearly beloved.
(End song)
As Yuto sings the last part of the song, he notices Ellen was fast asleep.
"Night Ellen." Yuto said going back to sleep.
(1 hour after the sun has risen up)
Yuto woke up and saw that Ellen was cuddled up to him and sound asleep. He looks at a hidden Clone and mouths 'pop' to it. The Clone pops and its memories are transfer to Yuto. From the Clone's memories nothing happened last night besides Ellen cuddling up to him.
'I guess I should make some breakfast.' Yuto thinks as he carefully removes Ellen from him without waking her up and leaves the room while leaving the remaining Clones in the room to keep an eye on Ellen and Zed. Yuto goes to the kitchen and starts making breakfast. It wasn't anything fancy just some bacon and eggs.
As Yuto was cooking, he senses the cat and looks at it with a curious and careful gaze. He doesn't know what it is, but he knows that the cat is not an ordinary cat or even a cat in the first place.
"I assume you want some breakfast?" Yuto asks with a raised eyebrow. The cat meows in conformation so Yuto places a plate here it.
"Eat up. Please don't touch the other plates or else." Yuto said as he went to wake up Ellen and Zed. He enters the room before mouthing 'All of you pop'. All the remaining Clones pop as their memories went to Yuto. Shaking off the memories he goes to Ellen and Zed.
"Ellen its time to wake up." Yuto said gently waking up Ellen.
"Hmm. Five more minutes." Ellen said drowsily.
"Then I guess nobody wants the breakfast I cooked." Yuto said with a sly grin. Ellen and Zed shoots up at that.
"Did you say you cook breakfast!?" Ellen exclaims in a shout with some drool running down her mouth and chin as she remembers the delicious dinner Yuto made last night.
"I did." Yuto said chuckling as he discreetly Traces a napkin and wipes the drool off of Ellen's mouth and chin causing her to blush a bit in embarrassment, but she secretly likes how Yuto was taking care of her like he was her daddy.
"C'mon." Yuto said picking her up. "You can get change after breakfast. No point in getting change until you eat breakfast and brush your teeth afterwards."
"Ok." Ellen said in response as Yuto takes her into the kitchen and sets her down on one of the chairs. He then places her plate in front of her and places a plate down for Zed. After that he grabs his own plate as they started eating.
"Thank you. That was so good!" Ellen cheers with a smile.
"No problem." Yuto said chuckling.
"I wish I can eat your cooking forever." Ellen said with a smile.
"As much as that would be nice I have to go back to my job in a few months. Not to mention my family and friends are probably worried about me by now." Yuto said.
"What's your job?" Ellen asks with a pout and puffed cheeks making her look adorable right now.
"I'm a soldier. Well to be exact a ninja." Yuto said catching Ellen by surprise.
"Wait really?" Ellen asks in surprise as Yuto doesn't look like a killer.
"Yeah. I try not to kill if I don't need to but there were times I killed someone." Yuto said as he did take some lives.
"Why?" Ellen asks.
"Part of it is because I didn't want to prove the people who called me a demon and a monster right." Yuto starts off with.
"There is also the fact if I kill someone I would feel guilty about taking their lives. I don't want to end up taking so many lives that I become numb to it, or I start enjoying it." Yuto said with a sad look on his face.
"Is it wrong to enjoy taking lives?" Ellen asks confused as she walks over to Yuto and sits on his lap.
"If you start enjoying taking lives you become no better than a monster." Yuto said causing Ellen to look down with a sad frown.
"However, I do believe that people can change. Not everyone can change but I believe if you work hard and have the support of others you might be able to change." Yuto said causing Ellen to look at him in surprise.
"Really?" Ellen asks surprised.
"Yes I believe so though it will be a long rough road." Yuto said with a smile as he takes off Daito's visor so Ellen can see his eyes.
"You have whisker marks." Ellen said upon seeing his birth marks.
"It was something I was born with along with my ex-twin sister as the being I was holding prisoner was in my ex-mother before me." Yuto explains his whisker marks before something comes in mind.
"Ellen, I have a question to ask you." Yuto said.
"What is it, Yuto?" Ellen asks with a curious look on her face.
"Do you want to come with me?" Yuto asks gently shocking her.
"What?!" She exclaims in shock.
"You been living here by yourself and that cat for so long. You must have been pretty lonely." Yuto said gently.
"Yeah, I have." Ellen said being honest.
"Well then how about you come with me then?" Yuto asks smiling.
"I would like to but I'm bound to this house so I can never leave it." Ellen said looking down. "And I don't think you want me after what I've done."
"If you're bound to this house I might have a way to free you." Yuto said. "And what have you done?"
"I killed my parents and numerous other people." She said looking away from Yuto.
"Why did you kill them?" Yuto asks not judging her until he hears her out.
"When I was born, I had an illness that was blamed on the wrongdoings of my ancestors. At first my mother took care of me while my father doesn't bother to recognize me or say a word to me. My mother saw me as a problematic child, so I attempted to resolve this by staying inside the house and retaining good behavior, and my mother displayed more kindness towards me as a result. However, once I went outside to bury a black cat, my mother began viewing me as a sickly child that would become a burden. After the incident, she stopped coming home, and began cheating on my father for a rich man." Ellen said bitterly.
"Even after that my father still didn't give me any attention. So, when my mother returned home to pack her belongings, I murdered her with a knife and even when I told my father about what I did he still didn't pay any attention to me, so I killed him!" Ellen yells out with tears in her before Yuto hugs her.
"Shh its ok." Yuto said as he rubs Ellen's back to help calm her down while thinking at what kind of parents were they?
"I wanted a cure for my illness, so I made a contract with a demon. He devoured my parents' souls and made me into an immortal witch. He said in exchange for more souls he would give me the cure to my illness, but he hasn't done so yet even though I feed him more souls. He even bound me to this cursed house so I can't this place in my physical body." Ellen said.
"You made a deal with a demon?!" Yuto exclaims in shock as besides a few of them demons cannot be trusted.
"I did." She said with some shame.
"What were you thinking? You can't trust demons besides a few of them." Yuto gently scolds her.
"Do you trust me?" Yuto asks her.
"I do." Ellen said.
"I have a weapon that can break your contract." Yuto said truthfully.
"But what about my illness?" Ellen asks.
"Two of my girlfriends are healers and the current leader of my Village is also a top-notch doctor so they should be able to cure you. If not I know some people who can do it or know some people who can cure you." Yuto said.
"How do you know they can cure me?" Ellen asks in a hopeful tone.
"I don't know for sure, but I have hope." Yuto said.
"Hope?" Ellen said in disbelief.
"As long as there is life there is hope. I swear to you as the future King of Hope we will find a cure for you." Yuto vows to Ellen.
"Then please break my contract with the demon." Ellen asks as Yuto was about to Trace Rule Breaker when he was blown away into a wall by a huge blast of wind.
"Gahh!" Yuto said in pain.
"I don't think so." A male voice said as the wall then starts trying to devour Yuto.
"Leave him alone!" Ellen yells as she uses her magic to get Yuto out of there and places him besides her. Then she looks at the cat with intense anger and hatred.
"You will not touch him demon!" Ellen said casting ropes of magic on the cat who was actually the demon in place. The demon struggles a bit before a cruel idea came to its head.
"You want to know the truth behind your illness Ellen?" The demon asks with a cruel smirk.
"What truth?!" Ellen demands.
"The truth is your parents place that illness on you for attention. They were poisoning you stupid girl. They never loved you." The demon said cruelly as Ellen's glare turns into a pain-stricken face.
"What?! Th-that can't be?!" Ellen screams in shock as she loses control on her magic letting the demon freed.
"And you know what else? I was helping them! I gave them the poison! All for my plan!" The demon said laughing cruelly.
"What plan!?" Yuto demands with a glare.
"To turn Ellen into a witch so I can eat more souls and for my amusement!" The demon gloats angering Yuto, Kurumi, Daito, and Zed.
"You bastard!" Yuto yells in anger as he went into his six-tailed state and slashes the demon's host body into pieces causing the demon to quickly exit his host body as the cat corpse falls over.
"You bastard! How dare you do this to me?!" The demon said in his true form bring a ghostly purple haze.
"So, this is your true form. Pathetic. You're not more than haze." Yuto comments on the demon's true form insulting it and causing it to get angrier.
"I have more than one trick up my sleeve!" The demon said as he merges together with the spirit of the house and becomes a Summoned Skull lookalike with black bones and four arms.
"Now that's better though you are pretty ugly." Yuto comments with a smirk angering the demon even more.
"This coming from a nobody who doesn't have a reason to fight!" The demon screams as he slashes at Yuto who dodges the slash.
"You're wrong. I do have a reason to fight. There are people who have supported me beyond measure as well as for the sake of Ellen. That is who I am fighting for as well as my ideals and dreams!" Yuto shouts at the demon with anger.
"Yuto." Ellen said softly in surprise.
"Trace on!" Yuto calls out as he Traces a copy of Victor's sword Soul Calibur. The demon's eyes widen in shock, surprise, and dread as he senses the aura the sword was emitting.
"What the?! A Holy Sword?! How!?" The demon shouts in fear.
"Take this you damned demon! Set! Trigger off! Nine Lives: Blade Works!" Yuto shouts out as he slashes the demon eight times with the Traced Soul Calibur simultaneously at "godspeed", faster than the speed of sound before performing a lance-like thrust through it as the ninth strike.
"No!" The demon lets out a death scream as its body turns into nothingness.
"He's gone now." Ellen said in surprise and a little joy as Yuto dismisses Kurumi's Chakra.
"Yeah, he is. So, what are you going to do now?" Yuto asks her.
"I don't know." She said looking down.
"I see. In that case do you still want to come with me?" Yuto asks her.
"But I killed so many people and even my own parents! So, why?! Why do you want me?!" Ellen shouts crying her eyes out before Yuto hugs her.
"From what you told me about your parents and what we found out about them they deserve it as far as I'm concerned and as for the other people you killed you were manipulated by that demon into doing so. Not to mention you are or were a 7-year-old girl who barely knew what she was doing when you were signing the contract with that demon. While that doesn't excuse you or gives back the lives you taken you are not completely to blame." Yuto said comforting her. "Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human."
"But it doesn't take away the fact I still killed them." She said quietly.
"People cannot change the past. All we can do, is accept our own actions. If you still wish to be burdened by your sins, then let it showed in your future actions by atoning for your sins. It is your choice how to perceive something that has already happened." Yuto said.
"But how can I atone for those sins?" Ellen asks looking at Yuto.
"Try by using the power you have to help people from now on. I'll even help you on that path and keep you from going astray." Yuto said.
"Really?" She asks with a hopeful tone.
"Yes really." Yuto said with a gentle tone and smile.
"Do you promise?" Ellen asks.
"I promise." Yuto said in a completely serious tone.
"Thank you, daddy." Ellen said hugging Yuto tightly with a smile shocking Yuto, Kurumi, Daito, and Zed that she called him daddy.
"D-daddy?" Yuto questions in shock,
"You act like someone I want for a daddy so that's why I called you daddy." Ellen said smiling before it turns into a frown.
"Do you not want to be my daddy?" She said about to cry.
"No, It's not that!" Yuto said panicking a bit.
"Then why are you not happy about it?" She asks.
"I'm just surprised you called me that. Are you completely sure you want me to be your dad?" Yuto asks her.
"I do!" She shouts as she retightens her hug. Yuto hugs her back.
'Yuto are you sure about this?' Kurumi asks her boyfriend.
'Why not?' Yuto questions back. 'It's not like I can be any worse than her birth parents. Besides you, the rest of the girls, Zed, Tenten, mom, and dad might like having her.'
'Good point. Besides I killed lots of people back then so me and her are kinda the same.' Kurumi said softly as she stares at Ellen through Yuto's eyes.
Here is the second and final part of the Witch's House. Next chapter is going to be a Kubutori Sarasa chapter and maybe a chapter where we see Ellen bonding with Yuto, Zed, and the girls in Yuto's harem. After the Kubutori Sarasa or bonding chapter I will go ahead and skip to the end of the Altered Beast arc in Team Light.
