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Hi everyone! So for me in my late timezone, this is posted on Sunday night, so to everyone like 6804329769302 hours ahead of me, this will be early! (well, now that I think about it, for like everyone).

As usual, this story doesn't not have a beta, if there are any mistakes (there probably are even though I read through it like 5 times) I'm sorry in advance!

So my midterms are THIS FUGGIN WEEK and well, I don't think I'm going to have the time to upload by next monday. I rushed to finish this one so that y'all have something to read this week (for yall still in school and taking test, this I hope will be a stress reliever). Considering the fact that I kinda rushed this, I hope (once again -_-') that this is up to par with everyone!

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Jealousy

HADESxYUI

He didn't want her to come near him, any man under his situation would've said thee same thing. He didn't want to hurt any of the gods, but since Kusanagi-san was human, even more so he didn't want her coming around.

He didn't want to hurt the person he loved.

As usual, he was sitting on his usual bench just behind the tennis courts where no one really roamed. He thought of the bench and the area to be the only place where he could hide from the rest of the school. It was a very secluded area, the only good thing about it was that he could watch the sunset and gaze at a perfectly clear sky with no obstructions. He loved astronomy and knew that the telescope he carried was forged by a few of his own people in hopes that their dearest protector would enjoy at least one thing in his dark immortal life. Believe it or not, there were a few souls that did enjoy his company as their protector and leader in their afterlife, but there were always the grand amount that have tried to send his very own soul to the Underworld's pool.

But that wasn't what he was worried about.

He was worried about his precious little daifuku. He always saw her as his little treat in a way; she was always so sweet like the strawberry daifuku she'd always prepare for him every Monday. Mondays were always the hardest day for him due to the fact that there was no other god in the world who could handle the dead as he did on a daily basis, so Zeus would send him back for a few fleeting moments to set things straight and make sure none of the souls were causing any sort of mayhem. It was hard to return to such a dreadful place when he's come to a beautiful place such as the garden,

especially when she was there with him.

He shook his head while pursing his lips, what chance did he have? He wasn't like the other gods and he would openly admit it. He even told her to stay away because he was no good. It seemed to have worked for about... Ten minutes...

A smile graced his lips as he started to set up his telescope, he couldn't run away from her, could he? He was happy that she'd always seek him out, rather then him coming to her. It was amusing and sometimes enjoyable to see his dear nephew fume when she sought for his attention. Then again, every time she was around, something would happen to her, an especially hot drink spilling into her lap, a tennis ball hitting her in the head, the seemingly solid steps beneath her would crumble causing her to fall. It wasn't a matter of theory that his curse was behind everything, it was a matter of fact. And the curse embedded on his skin would forever remind him of it.

He tried to clear his mind by focusing on the telescope; it was hard not to think that her hands were touching the same place that his were. It just made the gloomy god smile even wider.

"Hades-sempai!"

He almost knocked over the telescope off its tripod.

"Hades-sempai!"

He balanced the item and turned his head around to face his intruder, the same thief who stole his thoughts day in, and day out.

"Kusanagi-san..." He breathed out as she approached, barely audible to the person of subject. "Hades-sempai, are you going to look at the stars tonight?" She smiled brightly at him, it felt so radiant to him that he was afraid that the red on his cheeks would be visible through the dim lights of dusk. He couldn't stop but help looking at her wonderfully, full, plump lips, they seemed to be drawing him in like the voices of a siren or the alluring charms of a succubus. For a moment, he thought she was surreal. Until he remembered that he was becoming unusually silent after her question.

"Ah, yes I am going to, according to the astronomical books specific to the garden's skies in the school's library, there'll be a meteor shower." He pointed out to the general direction where it would take place in a few moments. "That seems so interesting!" She sincerely gushed over it, although none of the other gods really took an interest in what he was interested in, she seemed to be supportive and excited in whatever he was doing. He couldn't help but think that her sweet disposition made her look so young and innocent.

He's been living for far more millenniums then the human mind could comprehend, so he knew when there was pure innocence in a person's eyes, and she definitely had plenty.

"Would you like to take a look?" He surprised himself by the sudden outburst; it was an outburst for him, albeit it was so quiet she probably should've missed it. The shock on her face was evident from a blush that slowly crept to her round cheekbones.

She nodded her head and took a few steps forward passing him along the way. He could almost guarantee that she wore strawberry scents just for him, she always smelled like vanilla strawberry daifuku.

He knew because it drove him to no ends how crazy and—dare he say it—obsessed he was becoming with just her scent, nonetheless the mere thought of her.

He brought his perverted subconscious back to the present moment as he saw his sweet little strawberry look through the telescope's eyepiece, resting her hands on its neck. He thought about how soft her hands were when he saved her from the river all those weeks ago. She was a frail little thing and he seemed to feel protective of her. At first he tried to brush off the odd feelings of protectiveness and forced himself to see her like Apollon, another niece, but that thought only lasted for so long after she started to seek out his attention more and more.

It took many restless nights and cold showers to finally convince himself that he had done something a god of his position is forbidden to do; fall in love. He had made mistakes in his younger years with past lovers, but he couldn't let go of the fact that she was different from the rest them in a way he couldn't comprehend, even to this day.

"Wow! It's absolutely breathtaking, although, I can't seem to focus in on Tsukito's home..." He refused to grimace when she stated the moon as Tsukito's home. After they had the moon festival, she started to see the night's source of light differently. Tsukuyomi was the protector of the moon and the guardian of the selfless rabbit, Usumaro. Ever since, she started to see Artemis's source of energy as Tsukito's home, for his temple remained there awaiting his return from the garden.

"I can help you with that..." He closed the space between them in two quick, swift steps and reached around her to adjust the focus to her preference. He could feel his chest brush against her back and he resisted the urge to flinch away, not wanting to cause her harm, for any wrong movement on his part could cause serious damage to her frail body.

He was surprising himself how much time he was allotting her to stay, usually by now, he'd brush her off and tell her to leave due to the immense amount of misfortune he would cause her. Maybe he finally realized that he couldn't push her away any longer because his heart wouldn't let distance form between them any farther then they're now.

"Is that better, Kusanagi-san?" He looked around the back of her head to search for her caramel chocolate eyes brushing a few strands of her indigo hair behind her ear. He could see her immediately return her attention towards the telescope as she bent her neck over to catch a quick glimpse through the glass. "Y-Yes, it's much better now, th-thank you Hades-sempai..." She stumbled on her words not making eye contact with him, but instead facing the telescope once again.

It turned quiet, but he refused to move away from her, she was just too addicting. She continued to look, was it just him or did she stay plastered to the telescope for just a minute too long?

He took a step back when the sky became dark with the overhanging thunderclouds, he didn't have to think twice where they appeared from. "I'm sorry Kusanagi-san, but my misfortune has once again ruined your evening." He was disappointed, usually by the time his third misfortune hit, she'd give up for the day exhausted. "No worries, Hades-sempai, we can walk around, I had brought an umbrella!" She picked up a large black umbrella off the ground. Why hadn't he noticed it earlier? Maybe it was because he was too busy watching her.

"Oh, ok." He was a man of very few words, so his answer must've been sufficient for her. "Let's go!" She grabbed his hand and started to skip away with him in toll. He followed her slowly, she seemed to let loose when she was around him, he enjoyed watching her playfulness because it reminded him when he was a young immortal. He always felt different around her.

They ran around the garden, Yui holding the umbrella with one hand and dragging him along with the other. He had a light smile on his lips as they ran around in the rain. However, their alone time abruptly came to an end when she realized what time it was.

She immediately stopped running and turned around to face him, finally letting go of his hand. He was reluctant to release his intertwined fingers, "Hades-sempai, it's almost midnight! We've been out here for hours, and on top of all that, it's two hours past curfew! I'm surprised that Thoth-sensei or Zeus-sama haven't come out to tell us to go back to our rooms..."

He just nodded his head in agreement, he didn't want to give any type of response to her, and he didn't want her to leave him just yet.

"Well, I guess I'll see you in class tomorrow morning, Hades-sempai!" She almost ran off but something in his mind told him to stop her, his hand moved itself and grabbed her wrist. She turned around in surprise, "Hades-sempai?" He snapped out of his oblivion, "I'm sorry..." He quickly released her wrist and turned to leave not wanting to see her face until he's slept a solid few hours.

He lay in bed, mind occupied by one particular human female that has invaded his subconscious. He tossed and turned in bed, sweat trickled down his forehead from his restlessness. He was became frustrated with his thoughts for he couldn't dispose of the mere scent of the woman he fell in love with.

Then he had to remind himself that he was forbidden to fall in love...

Nightmares resumed themselves as if they hadn't disappeared when he came to the garden.

He woke with a sweat, wiping the drops off with the back of his hand and turned his head to face Apollon's bed. Of course, as usual, his nephew was up and out of bed, fully dressed and halfway out the door. "Uncle Hades! I was surprised you didn't wake up early this morning, usually you report to father on Monday mornings." Apollon made a confused face while Hades finally comprehended what his nephew had relied to him.

He bolted up out of the sheets running past Apollon, Hermes would've been proud. He ran all the way to the other side of the school where his brother's throne room was located. He burst through, slamming the double doors open with as much force as he could find in his human form. He was panting, salty body fluid running down his bare stomach and back while his sweat pants clung to his legs. "I'm sorry, brother, my thoughts were misplaced this morning, I forgot about my duties..." He bowed his head as he stood in the doorway with only pants on.

"Ha-Hades-sempai?" His head shot up, Kusanagi-san was standing before his brother, and alongside her was Tsukuyomi. He refused the urge to grimace at the Japanese god's presence.

"Naive brother, don't ever forget again or your throne will be lost. Anubis was able to control most of the dead for the time being and I have exiled most of the rebelling souls to nonexistence."

This made Hades boil, just because he couldn't get the girl out of his mind, hundreds, possibly thousands of souls will never have a life again. He was the ruler and he had lost innocent lives because of his own disposition. "I will not forget again..." His hair dropped in his eyes as he could feel Kusanagi's gaze on him.

The sensation of letting her down hurt his heart to no end. He quickly turned around and left without so much as a glance.

•

She had fun the other night with Hades-sempai, he was always so quiet and mysterious. She wanted to get to know him for he wasn't an open book like Apollon-san or Balder-san. He was intriguing and fun when she was with him, she felt she could be open around the guardian of the Underworld.

But the fun couldn't last all night; she had to remind herself that her regular school duties would take place once Monday morning rolled around.

She woke up early that morning for she knew that Tsukito needed her assistance with the second semester moon gazing festival. He had enjoyed working with her during the first one, so he requested her time once again during the spring, she happily obliged and decided to talk to Zeus-sama with him the next morning.

She threw on her uniform quickly and hopped in to her boots while stumbling out of her room. She ran down a few doors before she knocked softly on Tsukito and Takeru's door. A few seconds later, Tsukuyomi answered with a straight face, "Good morning, Kusanagi-san." She smiled pleasantly at his soft face which held very little emotion.

They made their way to Zeus-sama's throne room in silence, to no surprise on her part. They spoke to the ruler of the garden and he agreed to grant their wish.

"May I propose we have the gazing to be private to only the gods and Kusanagi-san?" Zeus raised a questioning eyebrow at him, but nodded. As if on cue, the doors swung opening hitting the walls with force,

"I'm sorry, brother, my thoughts were misplaced this morning, I forgot about my duties..."

She whipped her head around and saw the god of the Underworld bowing his head. At first she couldn't understand what he was speaking about until it hit her that it was Monday. She felt guilty, since the night before they were out all night in the rain, he probably came down with a slight cold and slept in.

"Ha-Hades-san...?"

The words slipped through her lips before she could stop it. He averted his gaze from the ground to her eyes for a split second before turning away to face the pillar closest to him.

"Naive brother, don't ever forget again or your throne will be lost. Anubis was able to control most of the dead for the time being and I have exiled most of the rebelling souls to nonexistence."

She couldn't quite understand what Zeus-sama was talking about, but she knew by Hades-san's reaction that it was terrible news.

She wished that he would look up so that he could see the apologetic look on her face. She felt terrible for doing this to him, he already had the curse of death, and to have this done to him, it must hurt.

"I will not forget again..."

And with that he left.

She left soon after with Tsukito by her side, he was good company if you didn't want to talk to the other person. He was usually unresponsive, and if he did respond, he'd give a fact that he read in a fake romance novel or state something someone related to him in the past. He was probably as close to humanity as a rock was.

However far away from humanity he was, he's still a being with a consciousness, "Tsukito-san, if you were to disappoint another person-"

"Had I disappointed you with my failure to become a better man?" He had cut her off assuming that this person she was referring to was him.

She quickly raised up her hands and shook them back and forth, "Oh no, no! Tsukito-san, you were wonderful! It's-It's just that-"

"According to these books, the next step in seducing you is to guide you to my room?" He was looked down at a very false romance novel teaching men how not to get women.

She wanted to face plant into the wall, "No, no, Tsukuyomi-san, it's ok, I was just wondering if-" she couldn't finish because she no longer felt his presence next to her, she turned around and he was sitting cross legged in the middle of the hallway. "Tsukito-san, what are you doing?" She was a very patient person, especially when she was with this certain god. "I once read in a book that when humans want to talk about their feelings, they sit down together and discuss. It seems that you want to talk about your mishaps with me, so we shall sit and talk."

She concluded that Tsukuyomi needed a lot of her human attention.

•

He had left in a rush not wanting to see the look on her face, what was she thinking of him? Was she disappointed? He wasn't sure, and now more then ever he wanted to know what he had missed. He checked the grand clock in his bedroom. He still had another half hour before classes started.

Maybe this time, he could seek out her attention, just this once.

He was, after all, sucked into the mischief of the gods.

He had wandered the hallways for a solid ten minutes before stumbling on Tsukuyomi and Kusanagi-san. He couldn't ignore the twinge he felt when he turned the corner of the hallway and saw Tsukito resting his head in Kusanagi's lap. 'When had they become so close?'

That was all his mind could comprehend.

He might've been the outcast, the dark one, the recluse, but for her, he'd come out, he'd risk everyone else's health so that he could be near her. Everyone else's except hers.

He continued to watch them, he said something to her and she lightly giggled, clasping a small hand to her lips. She was like an angel in the Underworld.

He saw Tsukiyomi's face graced with relaxation, there was an expression on his stone features, her aura wasn't just addictive and overwhelming for him either. He's never seen the guardian of the moon this open and thus sensitive to any one, nonetheless a human girl.

She was special, special to him, special to everyone else too. He didn't fail to notice the way everyone's attention was averted from their work to her eyes the moment she walked into a room. He was an observant man, and sometimes staying on the side was to his advantage and most of the time, to his disadvantage.

And in his case, winning the heart of a human girl, his priorities as the god of the Underworld and his misfortune of forever staying at a faraway distance was not to his favor. He realized that more than ever when he felt the burn of the scar etching itself into his bloodstream sending its poison into his heart.

He wished that he could make her laugh and giggle and smile the way she did for the other gods. He felt his disadvantage weighing on him like the weight of the world on Atlas's shoulders.

He turned away and decided not to put a lot of thought into it.

Class had been excruciatingly slow for him; he sat in his usual seat by the window and stared a hole through the glass, not bothering to pay attention to Thoth's useless lesson. He was only interested if it was concerning Yui-chan.

He blinked a few times at his thoughts, 'Yui-chan'? Where in Mount Olympus did that come from? He shook his head and continued to stare to the garden outside.

As usual, he waited for the rest of the class to file out before he left; he hadn't averted his gaze away from the window since the beginning of class. The sun was in an off position for it was around three o'clock when everyone dispersed. He got up from his seat and proceeded out of the door when someone came crashing into him. He stumbled slightly, dropping his school case to the floor.

He looked down to see Kusanagi-san latched to his chest, he couldn't suppress the ferocious blush coming on him. "K-Kusanagi-s-san?" He could barely relay a message to her. "Gomenasai, Hades-san!" She dug her face into his chest, his cheeks were redder then the center of his beloved strawberry daifuku. He didn't understand what she was apologizing for, but whatever the case, he loved the close contact. However, he didn't know how to respond to her... affection? He pat her head as she pulled back, clinging to the front of his shirt as if it was dear life.

"I'm sorry for causing you to miss your duties in the underworld..." He didn't understand, "Kusanagi-san, I-I don't understand..." She looked up at him with those sweet, sweet caramel eyes, "I thought that you missed your duties because we were up all night."

The way she stated her last sentence made him flush completely. "It's-It's fine, I simply forgot." He tried to reassuringly smile at her, and in return, he received a gleaming Yui.

"I hope I didn't disappoint you..." He let his thoughts out before he could stop them, and now it was her turn to become confused, "I-I mean, I hope that you weren't disappointed that I-I had... I-I had let the souls-... I-I mean-"

He was silenced by the small kiss on his embarrassed flushed cheeks; she had tiptoed to the balls of her feet to reach his face. "I understand, and making mistakes and forgetting is all apart of being human, Hades-san." She smiled, her perfectly white teeth showing.

Something in the pit of his stomach leaped and he could feel his heart beat for the first time in his immortal life. The way she called his name without seeing him as an upperclassman made the darkness become brighter.

He could feel her small hand in his as she dragged him around the school like any normal day. He knew that his future wouldn't look so bleak if she was there by his side, teaching him her ways.

He still could feel the warm touch of her lips on his cheek and he realized that even if he had to spend the rest of his life as the observer, he'd live a thousand immortal lives just to see her warm smile that could light up the dark caverns of his cold heart.

"Thank you, Yui-chan..."

"Your welcome, Hades-kun."

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