Chapter 35


She relaxed in her chair, not even realizing her body had tensed up during the first part of her tale. "Of course, he was grumpy at first, being put in charge of keeping me 'in line', yet I quickly became just another one of his brood, or so you said." She shot him a small smile before looking away, not wanting to stoke the fires of Diavolo's anger to life once more.

"I quickly grew close to Lilith, she was excited to have another female around, not counting Asmo, and of course with Lili came the twins. The four of us were almost always together, it was nice. I felt like I had a place to belong again. Friends, family, to call my own." Her words were soft, light with warmth and affection.

Yet the light in her eyes was dim, hiding a pain that would never go away. "Until I ruined it." The words were bitter, full of self hate. "Lili and the twins wanted to know about my life in the human realm, I told them...glossing over the less than pleasant parts of it...I was so stupid. I painted them a picture that I thought they would want to imagine...it was the beginning of the end." She shuddered, the guilt churning around her.

Diavolo frowned, reaching a hand out to loosely grasp her trembling hand. His grip was light letting her know should she wish it she could shrug out of his light hold. She merely cast him a smile, absorbing his comfort, the Diavolo from yesterday and this morning once again taking over and replacing the enraged and possessive Diavolo she had seen but hours before.

"Soon Belphie began sneaking down there and of course Beel and Lili began trailing after him...it was there that Lili met and fell in love with a human man. She fell hard and fast, willing to throw away everything in the name of love." She gave a small bitter chuckle. "Word got out, rumors spread and God found out, he warned her, ordered her to stay away yet she was in love...she ignored him and as such God was going to make an example of her..."

Her grip on Daivolo's fingers tightened. "Though, I guess I need to back track a bit." She opened her eyes, her gaze on the table as she tried to figure out how to broach the subject without setting off any of the men in the room. Finding no other way than to just get it over with she let out a low sigh, a light flush dusting her cheeks as she looked at Lucifer. "Look, I know what I'm about to say isn't fair...not to you or anyone in here but I need to get it out in the open. During my time under your care, I fell for you, it was something that everyone seemed to know but you. Lili and Asmo loved to tease me about it."

Her cheeks darkened as she recalled their playful teasing. "Asmo, he developed this horrid hobby of trying to make me so embarrassed that I would turn redder than his favorite shade of lipstick. Well one night he decided to suggest ways to catch your attention...and keep it...looking back it was silly of me to rise to his bait but I stupidly let it slip about my marriage and less than stellar sexual experiences with said husband before we gave up. Asmo didn't consider it real sex and offered to show me what real sex was. I thought he was joking, I mean up until then he showed no interest in me like that, no one had, so I took the bait..." She trailed off her face red as Diavolo's grip on her hand became a bit too tight.

Diavolo wasn't stupid, anytime Asmo was involved with a woman, man, or anything in-between it almost always ended in sex. He was not ashamed to admit he had shared a bed with feminine male once or twice in the all time that he had known him, yet to know that Asmo had lain with his bride to be, it made him bitter towards the feminine male.

He knew it was stupid, childish of him, this was before he was even a blip on Kagome's radar and vice versa...that for him to hold it against her or even Asmo himself was as silly as getting mad at Lucifer for Kagome's once upon a time crush on him...yet he couldn't help it.

Kagome sighed through her nose at the low growls that fell from Diavolo and Satan, so low that most normal humans wouldn't be able to hear them let alone feel them. "Look, it happened once and while it was the opposite of what I experienced with Inuyasha it was just as hollow, there weren't any emotions...it was just sex and it only happened that once. We didn't let it make things weird between us but we vowed to never mention it again. I'm only letting you guys know out of respect for what we have."

She glanced at Satan before flicking her gaze to Diavolo, her fingers wiggling as if asking him to loosen his bruising grip, which he did. "Or plan on trying to build and the fact that whatever curse is on Lucifer is also on the others. There's a chance Asmo might recall that night and I want us to be ready for that. I don't enjoy seeing people I care about at each other's throats. I get it, it's a demon thing but that doesn't mean I want to see it every second of every day."

She paused, letting her words sink in, she hated seeing it, let alone being the cause of it. "You were all very close before I was dragged here and I don't want to be the reason you are ripped apart. I won't allow it."