LDD: The story so far is very slice-of-life. BishiWorld and domestic, that's a new one for me.
Disclaimer: See chapter one.
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The World of Songwinds Bishounen and Bishoujo:
Demoonica's Story: Home
by
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
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The place where Zander had used 'Miss Kate's' land deed stuck out from the surounding area. At the moment this part of the BishiWorld had itself covered with long sweeping expances of yellow-green grass, other than a large cluster of thick woods sitting right down... there. Demoonica looked out the window of the QT-437 'Sasori' shuttle, in the distance at this height she could see Epoh City in the far distance, surounded by it's own small area of trees. Closer to them was another such point of trees. "How much land did that deed actually ancher?" She asked Zander.
He shrugged. "I can't read techno-babble."
Demoonica looked over at him. He was leaning over, looking out the side part of the window. After a moment he banked the ship. He was a better flyer than she was... where'd he learn that? The shuttle was set down in what was from above an unseen clearing directly in the center of the woods. Demoonica was first out of her harness and back to Damia. The child carrier was still safely in place, they'd have to modify a real restraint for it before long, and the baby still asleep. Of course the flight had been smooth, but she still felt relieved.
"I'll get her, go take a look."
Demoonica paused, she was still not completely use to sharing her daughter. She'd spent the better part of eight to nine months without contact with Zander. She was still finding it a little odd with him around again. The last few weeks had been different. Before when Zander was around she... well, acted very much the girl discovering love. Then he was gone and she focused on the baby. The baby, Damia. Her little girl. Then out of the blue and right in the middle of a huge town wide... war, he'd shown back up. Then they were off to the Department, at least then they'd gotten some time together. She'd ran off again, after a few days. She'd more or less forced him to do something else, while she... followed some feeling. That had taken her miles and weeks out of where she should have been. She'd almost caused her own... well she'd hardly made it back to were she should have been.
Demoonica nodded and took a step back, it was suddenly too airless in the shuttle, then her steps quickened and she was outside of the small ship. The air outside held a chill to it that wasn't present in the Naruto Area yet. They were further south. She wasn't sure what she'd been expecting to see when she exited the Sasori, perhaps a Capsule Corperation designed house, as they seemed to make everything else she bought. It wasn't though and she would admit she was glad of that. House capsules tended to look like large spiky pillbugs. The house... no her home, their home... Oh blast this was another thing she'd have to get use to. Their home was an early twentieth-century Earth style farmhouse, two stories tall and white washed, with a porch that looked to wrap all the way around. Demoonica was reminded of her grandparents home out in the country, though she would admit the two looked nothing alike, it was the same sort of feeling. Big, warm and welcoming.
The bright new white paint stood out against the backdrop of deep brown and green forest behind it, and even more to the shiny black paint-job of the Sasori. She'd stood there stairing at the house long enough that Zander had exited the shuttle and come to stand beside her. "I admit I didn't build it ALL by myself." There was a cheeky tone in his voice. "I don't know anything about Earth, after all. The Department, well I think Wufei had a hand in it, sent out a bunch of green cadets and someone with enough background in building houses. Guy had a wierd... drawl to his voice."
"Probably a southerner." Demoonica supplied, but it didn't meen anything to Zander. He looked slightly confused. She tried again. "The continent I lived on back on Earth is called North America. The... well I guess it would be like a collections of areas, is called The United States. The spesific area is West Virginia, it's considered part of the northern half of the United States. People there have accents just like the Bishi from different areas here can have different ways of speaking. Talking with a drawl is normally a southern United States trait." It was over simplified and relied heaveyly on steriotypes, but a longer explanation would become convoluted. She would admit that when she ended up needing to explane things she found it easier to talk when she felt uncomfortable.
Zander smiled. "You sound like Prof. Steve's Washu."
Demoonica's building tention once again subsided. "Call me LITTLE Washu!" She said imitating the Bishoujo, causing Zander to chuckle.
In Zander's arms Damia roused from all the sound. "Ah." She burbled and attempted to find the souce of the sounds. However it was imposable with the thin blanket draped over her face to keep the chilly wind away from her.
"Oh, looks like someone is waking up." Zander lifted the edge of the blanket. "Did you want to see the house too, Damia?" The baby just looked at him, stuffing her hand into her mouth.
"More like someone woke up hungry." Demoonica supplied. She made her way up the porch steps and found the door unlocked. "You left it unlocked?"
Zander stopped behind her. "Uh... yes?"
Demoonica lifted a hand to her head. "Never mind right now." The inside of the house was painted a light shade of butter yellow, the woodwork a cheery shade of cherry wood, the celings white. Demoonica automatically noticed that the area at the door had been made to match a Japanese home. "Any house-slippers?"
"No, not yet. Socks are fine for now." He closed the door.
Demoonica nodded. "Mn." She kicked off her shoes and stepped up onto the hardwood floor. "What's all in here?"
"Okay, from here. The archway to the left leads to the living room, the archway to the right leads to a study. Back through the hall the door under the stairs is for storage and the door to the left is to the bathroom. You can't see the door to the laundry from here. The archway at the end of the hall opens into the dineing room, that in turn leads to the kitchen through another archway on the left. There is a door in the kitchen that leads outside to the celler and in the dineing room is a sliding door that leads out onto the porch." Zander kicked off his own shoes and joined Demoonica who was looking into the left room.
"It's... empty."
"Of course it's empty. We didn't have time to furnish any of it before I got the call to head to the Naruto area..." He paused. "Besides, we didn't know what you'd like."
"Tomorrow is shapeing up to be a big trip into town."
Zander unwrapped Damia. "Yeah, the baby supplies from the hospital will only last a day or two, also. Plus restocking your capsules."
"Right, I did that... almost two weeks ago. I'm probably nearly out of everything..." Demoonica began to mumble. "Being in town, we couldn't suplement anything through monster battles... augh. What does my bank account look like now?"
Damia began to fuss then. Zander wrinkled his nose. "Igh, De... diaper, please."
Demoonica rolled her eyes. "I'll change her." She took the baby and moved into the empty living room, settling onto the floor. Zander held his nose.
"I'm never going to be able to stumoc that."
Demoonica didn't even pause in her work. "I told Kagome the same thing. She taught me to change Inu-chan, so I wouldn't be calling her out of her ball every time."
"Isn't that wierd, you know, now that he's a teen?"
"Not really. He grew and changed so quickly it's hard to assosiate the baby Inu-chan I changed with the Yasha who is my friend."
Zander sort of nodded, sort of shrugged. "Okay."
"What's up staires?"
"Hm? Oh, bedrooms, another bathroom, another storage closet. There is a section at the end of one hall for you to set up the door to the Pocket Dimention space, can't remember who sugested that, but a good idea."
"You said it was mostly cadets." Demoonica stood up holding the freshly changed Damia and handed her back to Zander. "I guess 'cadet' doesn't meen 'young' or 'new-trainer' though." She cleaned up the floor and was left holding the soild diaper. "First item on the shoping list, a trash can."
"Keep that thing away from me."
Demoonica snickered. "Alright. So where is the bathroom again?"
"Door on the left."
Demoonica nodded, heading down the hallway. After a moment she called out. "There's no shower in here!"
"Shower?" Zander mumbled. "It's a bathroom." He called out.
Demoonica reappeared in the doorway. "Yes... I know that. Why isn't there at least a shower, then?"
After a moment of silence Zander looked like he finally understood. "Oh, you thought the toilet and bath would be in one room like in hotels."
"Yes, that's the way most common American homes are."
"Ah. Yeah, no, this bathroom and the bathroom upstairs are just toilet and washbasens."
"Sinks."
Zander rolled his eyes. "The main bedroom has a shower included in it's bathroom."
Demoonica headed upstairs, Zander following shortly behind her. "Point me." She said looking at the amount of doors on the second floor of the house.
"First door on the right."
Demoonica finally dropped the diaper in the far corner on the tiled floor. "I can't believe there isn't even a waste-basket in one of these bathrooms." She grumbled. "I'll disinfect it tomorrow, when we get back from shopping."
"Why not... just get a trash bin from one of the Bishi-rooms?"
Demoonica stopped. "Why didn't you remind me of that sooner?"
"I had no clue what you were doing."
"Promis you'll never speak of this to anyone." Demoonica picked up the diaper and then opend up a PD Sphere. "Kagome! I need your trash can for the night."
Kagome came to the door carrying the basket. "We arrived?" She asked.
"Yeah, about half an hour ago, maybe."
"Oh, good." She lit up. "Let's look around." She stepped out of the PD room. "Where are we?"
"Bathroom of the main bedroom."
Kagome paused. "You know, I'm not even going to ask. " And out of the room she headed.
Demoonica sighed. "I think I want a shower. Hospital baths don't really ever leave you feeling like you actually got clean." She looked at Zander. "You going to be okay for a while?"
He looked a little unsure. "I think so... Kagome will change a soiled diaper for me if I ask, right?"
Demoonica smiled as she closed the bathroom door, just as the lock clicked she replied. "No."
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TBC...
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