Chapter 38

The uneasiness in Yui's belly had finally subsided and she was left to soak up all the love that Azusa was pushing onto her. Admittedly, she wasn't used to this sort of treatment and half expected that she would never see it come from him. He had scooped her up swiftly off of her feet and carried her bridal style right past his own bedroom and straight to her own. He used the side of his hip bone to quietly open up the door as his lips pressed onto hers, drowning Yui in a sense of haziness and pure delight. She hadn't even noticed how the bedroom had changed, yet again, before he had laid her down on the bed and was laying beside her on a propped up elbow and stroked down the length of her swollen belly.

"This is your bed," Yui said suddenly. She sat up and stayed still in confusion at first; she could have sworn between the kisses that he had carried her to her own bedroom. Her puzzlement increased further until she noticed Noah's crib, right where it had been before, and that everything else was also untouched. "Why?" She peered up back to Azusa, whose eyes were warm and inviting. He spoke with a crooked smile, "I'm willing to live... with the pink and the frills. But that old bed... far too soft." His smile remained and only grew when he watched the bright light spread across Yui's expression, pure excitement that he rarely saw in her eyes. "You mean it?" She choked. She didn't even realize she was nervous until feeling the frog in her throat whenever she tried to utter a word. Her nerves subsided when Azusa's gentle fingertips skimmed upwards through her breasts and he laid his hand directly over her heart. He chuckled a bit and said in a low tone, "I suppose you shouldn't be the only one waking with the baby every night... of course... I mean it."

Azusa's bed held many secrets, memories, and marks that wrote the story of both his own history but mostly their experiences together. To be laying in it and knowing that her head would fall there every night before and as she slept was comforting in a way that Yui didn't ever think a simple mattress could symbolize. Soon his clothes and possibly even his 'collection' would be in the room as well, and some day the room that they shared some of their most precious memories in would belong to Noah one day. If they stayed there. The lump in her throat remained despite her excitement and she attempted to keep her mind at ease; it was racing at an unthinkable rate to the point of just pure anxiousness. Before being introduced to this world, she had no interest in boys (though the girls around her couldn't keep their hands off of them) and before she could comprehend it all, she was starting her life with not a boy- but a man. A man and the child they had created together.

Azusa's arm scooped around the small of Yui's back and lifted her up into his arms, her back arching up from the mattress and pushing their bodies together. His crimson lips pressed onto the base of her neck, earning himself a soft sigh in response, and he kissed it with the most delicate of touch. Even in the strongest of vampire form, Yui's body still instinctively melted in her lover's arms and she would never have it another way. The piercing of her skin this time barely felt like a paper cut, never mind the usual pain that would erupt from the wound, and was welcomed willingly by Yui. She tilted her head to the side and closed her eyes in a peaceful bliss as Azusa drank from her hungrily, soaking up the last of her human juices and absorbing her into his plump veins.

The taste in his mouth was no longer bitter nor salty, but rather a sweet aching sensation that even Azusa himself had never experienced before. "You.. are so. Precious..." he gasped between gulps before burying his fangs deeper into her and stirred them around teasingly. He was clearly pushing her limits that had shockingly strode further than ever before and she hadn't even flinched. Yui simply smiled and allowed her lover to bask in the bliss of her blood. His hands were slipping lower down her back until it was gripping onto her backside and digging his nails deep into her flesh. The girl slowly opened her eyes like window shades and couldn't help but smile as she whispered through the suckling, "B-but Azusa-kun, we can't wake the baby." It was odd for her to defy him and surely Azusa had noticed, for he sunk his teeth in as deep as they could go and jammed himself even harder onto her. Finally Yui had jumped and she giggled before using her new found strength to flip the couple over and swiftly place herself on top of him. He gazed up at her with wide, velvet eyes and she smiled back at him; seating herself right onto his groan and quickly taking his hands into hers. He could feel her force and welcomed it. "A nice... change of pace," he sighed with a grin playing on his lips. Yui could see that he was amused and couldn't help but smile herself, for she rarely saw herself on top of him in their past. She intertwined their fingers innocently and squeezed his hands tightly, repeating softly, "We can't wake the baby, Adam." Azusa instantly raised an eyebrow and first paused before easing back into a playful smile and saying in his soft tone, "'B-but I d-don't... like when you call me A-adam." Together they laughed before joining together in a quick kiss and collapsing back onto the mattress.

It was only twenty minutes later when Azusa was the first to hear Noah stirring in his new crib. Silly babbles left the newborn's lips and when Azusa turned to tell Yui, he could tell she was fast asleep and quickly turned back towards the crib. For the first time, he felt his heart skip a beat and came to the realization that he was nervous for some reason. It would be the first time they were alone together. The babbles continued on before they began to grow into the beginnings of howling cries, which Azusa had no choice but to jump up from the bed and approach the baby. When he reached the crib, the crying suddenly stopped and he found himself looking down into the widest and more pure eyes he had even laid his own on. Noah gazed up at him sleepily and opened his small mouth to yawn, exposing his gums along with two barely peeking fangs. He had never seen such a thing but somehow, he wore those fangs in the most adorable and innocent of ways. Without a second thought, Azusa awkwardly leaned over the edge of the crib and slipped his hands underneath the baby's warm pits, lifting him up slowly and rising him up among the bars of the crib. He and Noah stared at each other for a moment, though it felt like hours, as Azusa held the child in the only way he really knew how for the moment. Those beautiful eyes swirled in Azusa's mind and he couldn't help but ignore the horrible intrusive thoughts that came along with them. "Azusa." The voice was enough to make Azusa jump in his skin and drag the child to his chest, smothering it with his utmost protection and snuggling him up into his arms. Yuma looked back at him with bored eyes and said, "He's coming. I wanted you to know."