A/N: For this chapter I'm going to do something a little bit different, something I never done or have every done before. I'm going give a trigger warning for this chapter. I don't much care for trigger warnings, I get why people do them. I guess it's a case by case basis, you if you or someone you know has gone through a traumatic experience.
Although, it can be applicable for something that upsets you. Example, you know Post Malone? The rapper? He released a new song not to long ago (as of writing this) that featured Ozzy Osborne. Now to some of you Ozzy is probably a new name, but he's been in the music game for a long time. He's been around since what the mid to late 70s when started in his band Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath of course is often cited as one of the first Heavy Metal bands.
Ozzy also has had his known solo career. Where he's worked with many other artists in the industry like Rob Zombie, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, and had Zakk Wilde of Black Label Society played guitar on some of later albums. So anyway, Ozzy gets featured on Post Malone's new song and I've seen people say something like: "It's really great that Post featured this Ozzy guy, he's really good". Now I don't know if these people were being smart asses or genuinely sincere, but either way I was triggered.
Like I get that the younger generation don't know who Ozzy Osborne is and it's not like that time Paul McCartney did a collaboration with Kanye West (yes, that was a thing) and only joked about not knowing who he was because Paul McCartney was apart of the most famous and influential band in history. But Black Sabbath was influential too, hell the first Iron Man ends with Black Sabbath's Iron Man. It's just really upsetting to me and I'm as young if not a little older than most of the people who listen to Post Malone.
Anyway, this chapter will contain themes of domestic abuse. If this upsets you in any form be it personally or indirectly, than feel free to skip this chapter and move on to next one. Also this was a suggestion by Sandshrew master 317. I'm not saying it's his fault for this, if anything it's mine. I agreed to write this, he just made the suggestion.
Chapter 31
My name is Hoshi, when I was young a fire broke out in my parents' house. I managed to get out alive...my parents weren't so lucky. Once the fire was put out I went back to my home to salvage what I can. The only thing thing I could find in the charred ruins was a paper lantern. I made for my parents and it was surprisingly intact, a little dirty, but intact.
I spent the rest of my life drifting from relative to relative. Each one only keeping me for a year or two before moving me to the next. Each one saying how my gloomy additude was upsetting them. They don't understand or maybe they won't understand what I'm going through. The only small comfort I had was the paper lantern, which I took great care of, after all it was the only connection I had to my parents.
When I became an adult I started living on my own, and I got a girlfriend Yuzuki. I wasn't thin, rich, or even good looking so it was a miracle I got a girlfriend at all. We started dating, having sex, and I was the happiest I've been since my parents were still alive. She was charming and cute and I even wanted to marry her, however that all changed about a few months into our relationship.
She became mean, vindictive even. Often abusing me physically and/or verbally. And when she was being abusive she would go off and have sex with other men. She would say that seeing my ugly face made her sick and the thought of looking at while we had sex made her sicker.
I don't know why or how she started acting like this. She was so nice when we started dating, and I would leave but up until now she was the only person who cared about me. Though I guess that was a lie. She also used this fact as leverage to get whatever she wanted. If the beating or the verbal abuse didn't work she'd threatened to leave me.
She also wanted to move in with me. Not because she loved me, but because she wanted a cheaper place to go to have sex with all the other men she was seeing. And in case they saw me I was to pretend to be her brother. She was cleaning out the spare room I had that I was using for storage.
"Hoshi! Get your fat ass in here!" Yuzuki shouted.
"Uh, yes dear." I said timidly as I entered the room.
"What the fuck is this ugly thing?" she asked holding up my paper lantern.
"Um, well. It's a paper lantern." I answered.
Yuzuki smacked in the face.
"I know what it is retard!" she shouted.
"But then why did you ask what it was?" I asked.
She smacked me again.
"What the fuck did I tell you about talking back to me!?" she asked.
"I'm sorry didn't mean too." I said dropping to my knees and bowing to her.
"That's a good boy. Now throw this fucking thing in the trash and while you're at it clear out the rest of this shit too." she said dropping the lantern in front of me.
"But you don't understand, I made this for my parents it's all I left of them." I pleaded.
Yuzuki slammed my face into the floor with her foot.
"You listen here small dick, the only reason I'm moving in with you is because this'll be a lot cheaper than renting a room at a love hotel. Now I'm leaving for now and that thing better be gone." she said stepping off my head.
"Please you can't make me do this! It's all I have left of my parents!" I pleaded, tears cascading down my face.
"You can either lose the lantern or lose me. I'll be back tomorrow, and if that thing is still here I won't be." she said slamming the door to the room.
I sat in that room sobbing heavily. I hated how Yuzuki treated me, but I also didn't want to be alone. I took the lantern and moved to the kitchen. I was about to toss the lantern in when suddenly I started imagining the faces of my parents. My mother's bright and warm smile, my father's rough looks yet gentle demeter.
I didn't want to lose that, but I didn't want to lose Yuzuki. Maybe I could hide it...no, she'd rip apart the whole house and then beat me for being disobedient. As much as it pained, I guess I'm losing Yuzuki. I laid down in bed crying myself to sleep while holding the lantern. I wish tomorrow would never come.
I woke up the next morning feeling something soft and warm pressed against me. It was a comforting feeling, something that I haven't felt in a long time. I cradled this feeling and it...giggled? I looked down and saw a girl sleep next to me. I jumped and fell off my bed, the noise awoke the girl.
"Master, are you alright?" she asked.
"Who are you!? What are you doing in my house!?" I shouted.
"Master, what's wrong? Are you hurt?" she asked getting out of bed and examining me.
I noticed she was wearing a small yellow yukata only being held by a single piece of string. She also wore a pair of black puffy bloomers. Her hair was a sandy blonde tied with two pig tails with some kind of hook and a string attached on the top of her head. But the one thing I noticed about her was a flame, a literal flame inside her stomach.
I touched her bare stomach and could feel a gentle, comforting warmth coming from her. She responded by giggling causing me to pull my hand away.
"Master, that tickles." she said.
"Who are you? What are you? Why did you keep calling me master?" I asked.
"My name is...uh, I don't have a name. I was hoping master can give me one. As for what I am I'm known as a Chochin-Obake or lantern spirit, and master has always been master ever since he made me." she answered.
"Made you? What are..." I looked over at my bed.
I rushed over and found that my paper lantern was gone.
"Where is it? What did you do with my lantern?" I asked grabbed her.
"What are you talking about master? I'm right here." she said.
"What, that can't be. That's not possible." I said.
"But it is, you were the first thing I saw and on that tragic day, I was scared I'd never see you. But I was so happy that you found me. I enjoyed the time we've spent together. Except when she showed up." she said.
"She? You mean Yuzuki?" I asked.
"Yeah, I don't like her. She mean and hurts you and makes you cry." she said the fire in her belly burning intensely.
"You must also know what she wanted me to do, what I almost did." I said.
"Yes, but you didn't do it. That's why I'm here, your love and care brought me to life." she said.
"And you don't have name huh? How about...Sakura. It was my mother's name and you remind me of her." I said.
"Sakura, I like it. Thank you master, thank you for naming!" she said hugging me.
I hugged her back still feeling that warm comfort inside of her. It was the first time I felt any type of comfort from anyone ever. And the funny thing, she was being sincere about it. I lifted her face up to mine and I had a compulsion to kiss her. If Hiroaki was going to leave I might as well have someone who makes me feel good.
I kissed Sakura passionately, it felt so good to be able to feel something while kissing someone. Sakura kissed me back and hugged me as we did. I felt the flame inside of her growing warmer. It felt not just soothing but hot and passionate. We parted lips, nothing connecting them but a thin trail of saliva.
"I wanted to do with you for so long." Sakura said.
"I haven't felt this happy in awhile." I said.
"I'm glad I want to make you happy master. I won't treat you badly like that other woman." she said.
"I...I think I'd like that." I said.
We kissed again and the flame burned hotter inside her. It didn't hurt to touch it, in fact it felt good. I moved her over to the bed still kissing her. My hands began to exploring her body. Her skin was soft and smooth, as I touched her she moaned into my mouth.
I wanted to touch more of her, I started to untie the string holding her yukata together. Once untied I moved my mouth from her's and kissed down her body. I reached her navel and started circling my tongue around it. She giggled a bit as my tongue moved around her navel.
"Master stop that, that tickles." she said.
"It's not supposed to ticklish silly." I said.
"Shouldn't I be making master happy?" she asked.
"Do you want to?" I asked.
Sakura nodded and undid my pants. I flipped us over and she removed my pants and underwear. Once she saw my flaccid she seemed to be in awe of it.
"Master you're so big!" she exclaimed.
"Really? Because Yuzuki says I'm pretty small." I said.
"She's wrong! You're perfect the way you are." she said.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing, Yuzuki never said anything like that. Even when we started dating, I think she was being sincere about what she was saying. This caused my penis to become erect, which made Sakura even more wide-eyed. She wrapped her tiny, warm fingers around my shaft and started to stroking.
"Does it feel good master? Am I doing a good job?" she asked sweetly.
"Yeah, it feels...nice." I said.
She continued stroking and then started gingerly kissing the tip. Once she finished she started sucking on it. I moaned, Yuzuki never did this for me. Well, she did once and she say she wasn't "comfortable" performing oral sex on me. At the time I just thought she really wasn't comfortable doing it, but how often she cheats on me I wouldn't be surprised that she does indeed like sucking dick...just not mine. But Sakura was gladly going down on and she looked like she was enjoying herself.
She bobbed her head faster and faster. I was so close to cumming; so much so that I unintentionally grabbed the back of Sakura's head, forced her down to the base of my member, and came down her throat. I released Sakura from my member; she was cough and whatever semen she didn't swallow she coughed out.
"Sakura I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that! It just felt so good...please don't hit me!" I said.
"Why would I hit you? If anything thing I should be sorry. I couldn't hold down your seed, I'll do better I promise." she said.
"What do mean?" I asked.
"To take master's semen in anyway is something I've always wanted. To make you feel good and happy also makes me happy." she said.
"Oh Sakura!" I cried grabbing her.
"Master please make love to me! Fill me with all your semen! Make me your's!" she begged.
"You make me so happy...yes Sakura I will make love to you!" I said.
I grabbed her bloomers and ripped them off with ease. I was now staring at her smooth, glistening vagina. I grazed the moist entrance causing her to moan. My still erect member throbbed, begging to enter her. I probed the opening with my tip, it was slick from the amount of fluid that she produced. I slowly penetrated her and I was halfway through when she grabbed suddenly. I noticed that blood was pouring out of her vagina.
"Sakura are you alright? I didn't hurt did I?" I asked with concern.
"It hurts a little, but I don't mind. Master took my virginity and he did, that makes me happy." she said giving me a light kiss.
I waited a bit and started to thrust slowly into her. She winced a little, but kept encouraging me to continue. I haven't had sex with woman in a while, Yuzuki would occasionally have sex with me to keep me in line, but only did so when her usual "boyfriends" were busy. But this was a million times better.
Sakura was soft and warm, she wanted to make me happy and I in turn wanted to make her happy as well. I moved faster, Sakura crying out in ecstasy as I continued thrusting. I felt the walls of her vagina tighten around me and the flame inside her grew bigger and brighter.
"Sakura, I'm so close! I want to cum inside you!" I moaned.
"Do it master, fill me with your seed!" she cried.
I kept thrusting and thrusted until I coated her insides with my semen. Once that happened she screamed and the flame inside her became so bright I was almost blinded by it. Her flame died down and she held me.
"I love you master, I'm so happy to be with you." she said.
"I love you too Sakura, I'm so glad to have you in my life." I said.
We were about to bask in the afterglow of our love making, when there was some banging on the front door. I almost completely forgot that Yuzuki was coming back I got out of bed and started to put my pants back on.
"Master don't go! I know that she'll hurt you." Sakura said.
"Don't worry Sakura, I'm just going to finally tell her off. I have you now and I'm not going to let her take advantage of me." I said.
"Just...be careful." she said.
I left my bedroom and went to the front door. I took a deep breath and opened the door. Yuzuki came in and pushed me out of the way.
"Took you long enough, did you get winded taking to get to the door?" she asked sarcastically.
"Hello Yuzuki." I said bitterly.
"Yeah, you get that room cleared out like I told you?" she asked.
"No I did not." I said.
"And why the fuck not?" she asked.
"Because it's over you...bitch! I'm sick of you manipulating me, gaslighting me, and abuse me! And what you out of my house right..." I shouted.
Suddenly she smacked me so hard I felt to the floor.
"Listen here you limp dick retard, I started dating you because you were easy. Seeing your ugly, miserable face told me how vulnerable you were and that made you an easy target," she explained. "Do you honestly think that anyone would love a fat pathetic loser like you?"
"I would!" Sakura shouted running into the room and standing between me and Yuzuki.
"Who the fuck is this slut!?" Yuzuki exclaimed.
"I'm Sakura, I'm Master Hoshi's girlfriend! And he doesn't want you here anymore!" Sakura shouted.
"Is that right midget? Tell you what once I'm done with this idiot, how about I introduce you to some friends of mine? I'm sure such a cute little thing would love being a personal cock sleeve for them." Yuzuki said.
"Don't you fucking touch her!" I growled.
"Shut up you fat fuck! I'm having a talk with your 'girlfriend'." Yuzuki said kicking me in the face.
"I'm not going to let hurt master!" Sakura screamed.
The fire inside Sakura burned intensely. She inhaled sharply and blew a jet of fire out of her mouth right in Yuzuki's face. Yuzuki screamed and rushed to the front door. Sakura kept blowing the jet closer to Yuzuki until she ran out the door. Sakura stopped blowing her fire and rushed over to me.
"Master, are you alright?" she asked hugging.
"I-I guess I am." I said as blood gushed out of my nose.
"I couldn't stand to see her hurt you. I wanted to protect you!" she said crying into my chest.
"Thank you Sakura, even though what you did was dangerous, I'm glad you helped me." I said patting her head.
"Will we see her again?" she asked looking up at me.
"I'm not sure." I said.
We never saw Yuzuki after that. I'm not sure where she went and frankly I don't care. I had Sakura and that's all that mattered. As for Sakura and I, we lived happily after that. She never hit, insulted, or cheat on me. All she wanted to do was love and care for me, and that was the kind of woman I wanted. So much so that on the fifth year anniversary of when we met I asked her to marry me. She of course, agreed and we spent even more happy years together.