Hell Hath No Fury
Chapter Four
Disclaimer: I do not own Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, but it would be sexy if I did.
"Get up." Yako hears Takumi say as he shoves her awake.
She looks around to see where she is. They have been driving all night and the sun is just now rising. An inn is where they have stopped. It's a run down inn and looks so gloomy it could be mistaken for being haunted.
"You are sure about this place?" Yako asks, looking warily to the inn.
"Nobody comes here. In fact it's so far out in the middle of nowhere, it's the last place even the best hunter would think to look. Trust me we are being hunted." Takumi says, heading confidently to the inn.
"Is it...haunted?" Yako asks.
"You live your life with demons and you're afraid of ghosts?" Takumi says rolling his eyes.
"I'm not afriad, I was just wondering." Yako says, stomping up to the inn enterance."
Before Takumi can knock on the door it opens and reveals a small, frail, sickly looking woman. She has wavy gray hair falling in her face and draping tangled down her back. She wares a loose-fitting plain white yukata.
"Ghost..." Yako whispers.
"Mother. You look well." Takumi says.
"Where have you been? You come to bring me your trouble, boy?" She asks.
"Not mine. Her's." Takumi says gesturing towards Yako.
The woman looks at Yako with a bored expression.
"You can do better then her, Takumi. I'm disappointed," she says, opening the front door wide to let everyone inside.
They enter the inn and unlike its horrifying appearance on the outside, the inside is beautiful. It's clean and is finely decorated with traditional furniture and smells of the finest incense.
"I know that. She is with someone else." Takumi says, disrupting Yako's observation of the inn.
"Then why do you have her?" Takumi's mother asks.
"I'm helping her...uh...boyfriend with a problem." Takumi says struggling to find the right words.
"Katsuragi Yako, nice to meet you. I hope you don't mind us popping up uninvited. Our group of friends decided on a weekend getaway and Takumi suggested the inn. My boyfriend will be here soon; he had car troubles so Takumi offered to give me a ride." Yako explains, bowing to greet Takumi's mother.
"Don't you even think about seducing my Takumi. I won't accept a flat-chested daughter-in-law." Takumi's mother says.
"Ha-ha-ha! You have no worries then, Mother." Takumi says laughing openly at Yako's expence.
"Can you just show me to my room please? I'm very tired." Yako asks irritated.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yako is pulled from her sleep by something warm and wet. It's dark and she can't see anything. but she can hear shallow breathing. She uses the light from her cellphone and carefully shines it in the direction of the breathing. In the dull blue light she sees Ippai, bloody, and like always, naked.
"Ippai! Are you okay?" Yako asks, throwing the bloodied blanket off of them and scurrying across the room.
"It's about time you noticed. It only took until you two were covered in blood." Takumi says, leaning against the door frame laughing to himself.
"And you just watched him bleed out?" Yako screams, horrified.
Takumi shrugs, walking into the room. "It was his idea." Takumi nudges Ippai with his bare foot to wake him up. Yako watches as Ippai wakes up, the movement only causes the blood to rush more rapidly.
"No stop moving so much! You're only making it worse." Yako says rushing to Ippai's side. Ippai looks devastated and won't meet Yako's eyes.
"Ippai, what's wrong? Does it hurt a lot?" Yako asks worried.
"No...I'm just upset that I missed your reaction to my prank." Ippai says, meeting Yako's eyes bringing up his shaky hand to caress her face. "Please re-enact it for me?" He asks teary-eyed.
"Don't give me that baby face Ippai! Go get yourself cleaned up!" Yako says turning to hide her blush.
"He's cute right?" Takumi asks watching as Ippai sulks away.
Yako gives Takumi a disgusted accusatory look. "That just sounds creepy coming from you." Yako deadpans. She then moves on and starts to clean. laughing to herself the whole time while she gathers the bloody bedding.
"Who's creepy now?" Takumi says, pointing out her smile.
"I was just remembering Neuro doing something similar." Yako explains still smiling.
"Neuro with a baby face? That just reeks of foul intentions." Takumi says cringing.
"Oh yes very foul, chains were often used." Yako says in a daze. "And fire." She continues.
"Sounds kinky." Takumi says simply.
"Very kinky." Ippai chimes in walking into the room soaking wet fresh from the shower.
"Says the naked man." Yako says turning away.
"Ippai... what did she do to you?" Takumi says chillingly serious all of a sudden.
Yako turns around quickly to see what is wrong. Both Ippai's arms and legs are a smoldering pink color, the color of fresh grown skin. But that's not all; more of the same pink skin wraps around his abdomen in a jagged line all around to his back. The bleeding wounds had already begun to clot and heal.
"Amanozako, I don't like that woman." Ippai frowns and looks to his pink skin. "She started by ripping my arms and legs off then tore me in half." Ippai explains. Yako looks to the pink skin with a new horror.
"Aw, don't look like that Yako! I liked the part where I could see my insides!" Ippai says smiling. "Then she ruined it by beating me with my own legs." Yako rushes to the nearest bathroom to relieve her upset stomach.
"And I thought I had a wicked curiosity." Takumi says withholding his own gag reflexes.
Takumi hands Ippai a pair of boxers and a T-shirt. Ippai reluctantly takes the clothing from Takumi and watches him silently as he dresses in the simple clothing.
"We will not be safe here for long, I was lucky to catch Amanozako in a playful mood, Yako will not be so lucky." Ippai says quietly, listening to the awful sounds coming from Yako in the bathroom.
"It sounds like Yako realizes this too." Takumi says, also listening to Yako.
It gets quiet after that as the men wait for Yako to come out of the bathroom. Once she does come out, she looks exhausted but exhaustion is immediately replaced with embarrassment.
"We should get some sleep, especially you Ippai." Yako says pulling out a fresh futon and fresh blankets.
"I'm alright, you're the one who's really torn up about all of this." Ippai says faking concern.
"Bu-wa-hahaha! I get it...torn up...he was torn-Haha!" Takumi struggles to say through his boisterous laughter. Ippai blows a kiss to Yako as he goes to leave the room. Takumi follows behind him still laughing.
"Once the skin completely heals it'll be hard to tell that you had to regrow arms and legs." Takumi says admiring Ippai's new limbs. Yako closes her eyes and despite her worry she is too tired to dwell on her unhappy thoughts and quickly drifts to sleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yako is once again woken up suddenly but this time by a strong grip around her mouth. It's still dark in the room and she can see nothing. She tries to scream but the grip on her mouth only tightens muffling her voice even more. She then feels a hot breath against her ear.
"Keep quiet, Louse." The deep voice growls quietly. Then releases her mouth.
"Neuro..." She whispers.
His hand clamps back around her mouth.
"We will be surrounded very soon." Neuro whispers in her ear.
Yako grips his face and pulls him towards her. She kisses him gently at first. When Neuro does not respond to her kiss, she becomes frustrated and kisses him harder, almost violently. She pulls away looking him in the eyes. He looks bored. With a slight smile on her face, she smacks him with all her strength. The sound of her hand impacting with his face echoes through the silent room. The bored look is gone replaced with a smile. Yako is suddenly thrown on her back. Neuro forces her wrists above her head and locks them there with a strong grip. He hovers over her, looking at her wrist, then slowly moves down to look at her face. He then looks her in the eyes. She is pissed but not enough to fight him. He looks at her lips and inches his own closer to hers. Her breathing picks up, silently urging him to kiss her, doing everything but puckering her lips to him. He gently places his lips to hers, but that's all he does. When she begins to squirm under him, he smiles against her mouth.
"Neuro..." she whimpers.
Neuro quickly licks her lips then begins to slowly lick down her chin, and continues his slow torture to her throat where he stops briefly to kiss gently, then he releases one of her hands to gain one of his own. With his newly freed hand he inches her yukata to the side; exposing her bare shoulder. He traces her collar-bone, following it's structure with his tounge. When he reaches her shoulder he lightly bites. He chuckles at the shudders that run through her body in that moment. He suddenly pulls away and before Yako can even process the lack of heat, he is already standing; completely composed.
"We have guests." Neuro says confidently.
"Seriously?" Yako bunches the sheets within her fists, throwing a temper tantrum. Neuro looks to her smiling sadistically.
"It's good to see you missed me Yako." Neuro says smugly.
"More than you know." Yako says, covering her naked shoulder.
"I think I can guess." Neuro says, never taking his eyes from her as she covers up. There is a knock on the bedroom door.
"Are you two done now? We kind of have a situation on our hands."
"Come on in." Yako says embarrassed.
Takumi and Ippai enter the room, Takumi is dressed in a form fitting black suit with beautiful ruby red formal shoes and his dark hair is perfectly combed and his dark eyes are stern with consentration. Then there is Ippai; the complete opposite. He is dressed only in boxers; is wearing no shoes and his shoulder length white hair is messy and sticking out at odds, and his light blue eyes are unfocussed and dazed.
"How many are here Neuro?" Yako asks.
Neuro sends a few hundred of his tiny eye-ball servants off to survey the inn and the surrounding land.
"Hundreds and not just the woman." Neuro states in a quiet just above a whisper tone of voice.
"We have to go now!' Takumi exclaims.
"Wait! have to change!" Yako panics, rushing to her clothes.
"There is no time for that! If we don't leave now this inn will be destroyed along with my mother we need lead them away!" Takumi yells.
"The whiney Non-human-human is right. Stay as you are." Neuro says smirking at Takumi.
"Neuro! I'm not wearing anything under this!" Yako yells.
"Yes, I'm aware." Neuro says, smiling sadistically.
Ippai looks off, focusing on nothing in particular but instead listening to the outside movement.
"We're running out of time. What's out next move?" Takumi whispers.
Neuro watches Yako try to discretly an quickly slip her clothing on while never reavealing herself to the others in the room.
"Neuro." Ippai prompts.
"Ippai, you will come with me, while Takumi stays inside with Yako." Neuro instructs, never taking his eyes away from Yako. "Do not let anybody enter." Neuro says finally tearing his eyes away from a now fully clothed Yako to meet Takumi's eyes with a treatening glare.
"And if they do get inside? Kill them or you'll kill me?" Takumi asks getting excited.
Ippai moves fast tackling Takumi to the ground splintering hard wood floor from the impact.
"You will not harm a single one of them." Ippai hisses close to Takumi's shocked face."
Takumi unconsiously nods in understanding at the furious snake demon trying to defuse his anger, though still very confused at what envoked it in the first place.
"Demon females are quite rare now a days. Killing any of them is considered the worst offense to an unmated demon male like Ippai." Neuro offers. "Expect the male demons outside to have a reaction much similer to Ippai's. They are only here to protect the women."
Ippai releases Takumi seeming to have regained his composure, offering a hand to Takumi.
"Makes sense. I guess not every demon has a human fetish." Takumi says taking Ippai's outstretched hand using the demon's steady strength to pull himelf from his crater in the floor.
"Quite so, most can't compare to my way of thinking and are so patheticly unevolved that they can't understand why a mortal has bested them." Neuro says, smiling pleasantly. Hisses and screaches of outrage can be heard from outside the inn.
"what in hell have you brought to my doorstep now boy?" Takumi's scragglly looking mother yells bursting into the room wearing surprisingly cute bear footsy pajamas.
"Exactly that mother, Hell." Takumi sighs rolling his eyes at the sight of his mother.
"well, make it go away. I'm watching my dramas!" She says looking Neuro up and down. "Who the hell is that?" She demands.
Windows shattering can be heard from the other room a little ways away from the room the group is currently occupying.
"Takumi. Nobody enters." Neuro demands, then dissapears with Ippai.
"Every single time you visit me boy, I swear. I never get to watch my dramas." Takumi's mother says.
"Mom...just stop talking please." Takumi says.
So, this is the first step to a better story. Please review and let me know how you like it so far. I hope this is a start so something better!
