Me: and once again, I thank u ppl 4 reviewing 4 my story. Sadly, this is the final chapter of Ice Heart, so enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I may own this story, but I do not own Gravitation! … I wish I did, though. T-T
"Daddy!" a young feminine voice called out before some weight suddenly pushed down on Yuki's side.
"Who let the ball of energy into the room?" Yuki mumbled.
"Come on, daddy," the young girl whined. "You gotta wake up now."
"Says who?"
"Says me!"
"Says you? Serenity, you don't command me. I command you!" With that, Yuki shot up and grabbed his daughter, who was shriek laughing. She struggled against her father's grip, trying to get out of the blonde's arms.
"Daddy!" she whined. "Let go!"
"Nope," Yuki calmly said, resting his head against the headboard. Serenity turned her head around to give Yuki a small playful glare with her purplish golden eyes. Her eyes were about as strange as her hair. Around her pupils, her eyes were gold, but the rest of the irises were purplish, like her 'mother's'. Her hair was the same shade of blond as Yuki's, but she had pink bangs. A lot of kids asked if she dyed her hair when she first started school.
"Yuki," another voice came into the room. "She's going to need to breathe eventually. And besides, Aumu is here."
"That kid is a nightmare," Yuki mumbled
"That just means that he lives up to his name!" Serenity exclaimed.
"Not something to be proud of, Serenity," Yuki stated, looking down at his daughter.
"Come on," Shuichi sighed. "Aumu isn't going to wait much longer."
"Okay!" Serenity excited said as she slipped out of her blond father's arms before she ran out the door, dodging Shuichi, who was still standing in the doorway.
"She's insane for a ten-year-old," Shuichi joked.
"She's part fox," Yuki pointed out as he got out of the bed. "And all foxes that I've met are insane."
"You haven't met many," Shuichi stated.
"I live with one," Yuki pointed out as he lit the cigarette that he just put in his mouth. "At least a full blooded one. But I think you and Serenity are more sane then Hiro. What possessed him to call his son 'Nightmare'?"
"I don't know," Shuichi replied with a shrug. "Hiro's a little weird that way. He said that if he ever has kids, he's going to name his first son Nightmare. Ayaka didn't seem to happy about that, though, when we saw her when Aumu was just a month old. How old was Serenity then?"
"Barely a year," Yuki replied. "I think she was eleven months then. Or something around there. Still, I can't believe what he called his kid."
"And what would you have named Serenity if I let you name her?" Shuichi asked, stepping closer to the tall blond.
"Tenka," Yuki replied with a small shrug. "I'm not really sure."
"That's why I named her," Shuichi said with a smirk on his face.
Yuki looked down at the fox demon, locking eyes. "Funny," he said. "If I remember correctly, you didn't really give me a choice in the matter. You pulled the 'I gave birth to her so I name her' card. Remember that?" Shuichi didn't answer. He just turned on his heel and walked out the room. Yuki smirked. After living with the real Shuichi, he realized that he isn't as short-tempered as he used to act like. Nor as crazy. But Yuki liked to get the pink-haired fox even a little steamed up. And he knew just how to do that. He out a shirt on before he left the room as well, not bothering to button it up. He went into the living room to see his daughter talking with a young boy about a year younger then her.
He had black hair, but the end of it was a deep red, nearly the same shade as Hiro's. His brown eyes watched Serenity as she gathered her things that she scattered around the room yesterday. Aumu rested against the wall, resting his arm on his exposed knee. He wore baggy camouflage slacks. He tore some off, right when it reached the middle of his lower leg, and tore a hole on the spots where his knees were. He also wore a black t-shirt that said "I live in my own little world, but it's ok…they know me here." He tore away the sleeves on that shirt, and the collar, not to mention the spiked black leather choker around his neck, giving the kid a bit of a punk look. Serenity was right. Aumu lived up to his name.
Hiro even joked around about that, saying that something told him to name his kid 'Nightmare', and now he knew why. Yuki would have said that he should have named Aumu something a little more demonic, but Shuichi was there. And Yuki's dealt with Shuichi when he made his demon jokes. Wasn't that fun. "Got everything, Serenity?" Yuki asked as he walked past his daughter.
"Yes, sir, daddy!" Serenity answered. Shuichi looked over the room to make sure Serenity didn't forget anything to put in her backpack. Then he looked at what the young girl was wearing to make sure she was covered up enough. She had on her pink happy bunny shirt that said "I'm a spoiled, rotten brat." It wasn't too big, or too small. Her baggy black slacks covered enough of her lower half, barely anything was visible. Not even her black and red sneakers. Around her wrist were purple, yellow, red, and pink jelly bracelets. She always wore those no matter where she went. She said that they reminded her of her parents because of the colors. Her parents and her uncles.
"Okay, if you say so," Shuichi stated once he was done looking around the room and seeing what his daughter was wearing. "Behave. I think Yuki and I would like to go one day without your principal calling saying that you flooded the girls' bathroom or blew up something." Serenity smiled innocently as she twisted her body back and forth. "I mean it, Serenity. It's a miracle that you haven't been expelled yet."
"She's ten," Yuki stated from the kitchen. "I don't think they're going to expel ten-year-olds, Shuichi."
"Whatever, Yuki," Shuichi said, giving the blond human a small wave of his hand. "And Aumu, don't help her."
"Fine," Aumu groaned, hitting the back of his head against the wall. Serenity skipped over to her friend, who stood up before the young half-demon even made it to him. With a wave of her hand, Serenity and Aumu walked out the door, racing down the sidewalk to school.
"What do you think the principal will call about this time?" Yuki asked, letting the cigarette dangle from the corner of his mouth as he carried a cup of coffee in his hand.
"I'd say firecrackers during lunch, making everyone think that there's gunfire."
"Didn't she do that one a couple weeks ago?" the blond asked, sitting down at the table.
"I found more firecrackers in her room yesterday," Shuichi replied, sitting on the table, next to Yuki. "And plans for today."
"Did you take them away?"
"I took the ones I could find, but something tells me that Aumu brought some in case Serenity's were found. I am seriously starting to think that letting those two near Splinter was a bad idea."
"Do you trust anyone else to baby-sit those maniacs without losing their mind?"
"Good point," Shuichi groaned. "But you're a stay at home novelist dad."
"I still go places to meet with my editor," Yuki pointed out. "And I'm not taking Serenity with me. Last time I did, she got bored and ran off."
"Then you found her ten blocks away, with Aumu, picking a fight with some thugs. She's still half fox demon, Yuki. We foxes can get bored easily."
"Yeah, I found that out a few years ago."
Shuichi just gave a low chuckle before he got off the table. "I'm going to the studio now. We gotta record some more songs."
"Whatever, I don't care."
"You would if something happened to me."
"You can take care of yourself."
"Now you just made me feel unloved," Shuichi joked before he went out the door before Yuki said anything else. The hybrid fox ran to Hiro's house, just to make sure Hiro was up and ready to get to the studio. When he reached the house, he knocked on the door and waited a minute before Ayaka answered it. "Morning, Ayaka," Shuichi greeted with a small smile on his face.
"Morning, Shuichi-san," Ayaka returned the greeting.
"Is Hiro up and about?"
"Why are you asking my wife like you're asking my mother?" a voice behind Ayaka asked, making Ayaka step to the side while Shuichi just grinned.
"Because she acts like your mother, Hiro," Shuichi pointed out. "Only she's too young to be your mother. And way too pretty."
"Okay, fox boy, stop hitting on my wife," Hiro said, giving Shuichi a playful shove in the chest.
"I'm not hitting on her. I'm telling the truth."
"Quit flattering her then."
"Why?"
"Because then she's going top be expecting that kind of stuff from me!" Hiro joked, laughing a little from his statement.
Ayaka playfully hit his on the shoulder as he went out the door. "Well, it wouldn't hurt you to complement me from time to time," Ayaka stated.
Hiro looked at her, a smirk on his face, before he gave her a peck on the lips. "I shouldn't have to tell you how beautiful you look," Hiro chuckled. "You should know. Are you wearing make-up again?"
"No," Ayaka replied, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I can never really tell with you, you know that?"
"Come on, lover boy," Shuichi said, pulling Hiro by the back of his shirt away. "See you later, Ayaka."
"Bye Shuichi," Ayaka said, waving a little. "Bye, Hiro."
"Don't get too bored while I'm at work," Hiro yelled out as he and Shuichi got on his motorcycle. He started the engine before they sped off down the road. About half way there, Shuichi jumped off if the motorcycle, landing on the sidewalk, before he quickly changed into his fox form without anyone seeing him, running at the same speed of the motorcycle that Hiro was driving. "Got restless?" Hiro asked, chuckling a bit before he turned his attention back to the road. "Last one at the studio has to buy lunch," Hiro yelled out to the pink fox, who smirked in return before both picked up their speed. Hiro had to stick to the roads, but Shuichi knew some shortcuts to the studio. Shortcuts he didn't tell Hiro about.
Shuichi turned into an alley, running through a lot of them before he made it to the studio about a minute before Hiro stopped his motorcycle at the entrance. The hybrid fox transformed back into his human form, giving Hiro a little victorious grin. "You buy lunch," Shuichi triumphantly said as he turned and went into the recording studio.
"Not fair," Hiro yelled out when he caught up with the fox demon. "You took a shortcut."
"One I never told you about, yes," Shuichi stated with the same grin on his face. "But you never said 'No shortcuts'."
"Quit being a smartass."
"But Hiro, I'm a fox demon. If I'm not a smartass, than I'm not a fox demon."
"Whatever, Shuichi. I still say you're a smartass."
"And you are nuts, calling your son Nightmare."
"One: it fits him," Hiro said, holding up one of his fingers. "Two: I said I was going to name my first son that. And three: I get enough of that from Ayaka. Don't need it from you. Besides, who are you to talk about insanity?"
"Remember who saved your ass ten years ago?" Shuichi asked, giving Hiro a normal grin as he raised one of his eyebrows.
"Geez, drop it, will ya?"
"Bow down to your savior and I shall!" Shuichi dramatically commanded, jokingly.
"I wouldn't bow down to you if you were the ruler of the world," Hiro laughed out.
"Than you shall be the first to go!" Both Shuichi and Hiro laughed loudly, managing to calm themselves down before the walked into the room where everyone else was.
At school: with Serenity and Aumu
"This is boring," Serenity groaned as she laid her head down on her desk. "Why do we come here? The only things they do here are suck out everyone's childhood and turn them into mindless zombies like everyone else."
"I don't know," Aumu replied with a shrug of his shoulders, completely ignoring the teacher giving his lecture. "Got the firecrackers?"
"I think mom found them," Serenity stated, rolling her head to the side a bit so she could stare at her friend. "Got yours?"
"Yep," Aumu replied with a grin. "I'm just waiting for when we should set them off."
"Lunch would be expected," Serenity pointed out. "We need a different time."
"How about in the middle of the hall? When everyone goes to lunch."
"Close enough." Aumu looked the half-demon and smirked. The year older girl returned the smirk as she pulled out a lighter. "How about now? I'm bored and need some excitement." Aumu gave a small shrug as he tossed a few firecrackers to Serenity, who lit a couple before tossing them to the other side of the room. They were about to land on one of the school's bully's desk before they exploded, making everyone jump up and scream. Aumu and Serenity were trying to hold in their laughter as the half fox handed Aumu the lighter. He lit a few more with it before he quickly tossed them in a random direction of the room. They exploded, making everyone scream and jump up again. The two couldn't hold their laughter anymore. The burst out laughing, their faces turned slightly red from the lack of oxygen.
They stopped when a shadow loomed over them before they looked up and saw the teacher glaring at them both. They gave him a sheepish grin before he sternly said, "Principal's office, the both of you, now." Serenity and Aumu walked out of the room with their hands in their pockets. When they were out of the room, they started to laugh loudly again. They thought it was the funniest thing in the world.
"Man, we need to do that more often," Serenity laughed out.
"Yeah," Aumu agreed. "You know, you don't live up to your name."
"Then where's the fun in life?" Aumu laughed harder when Serenity said that with an innocent face. "What? I'm serious."
"Yeah, whatever. Want to light a few more?" Aumu asked, holding out the lighter, which Serenity took with a smirk on her face. They lit a few more before they ran down the halls before any teachers could spot them. Eventually, they made it to the principal's office. They caused mischief, but they never went against a teacher's orders. It was better then getting caught skipping school by their parents.
With Yuki
The phone rang a couple times before Yuki picked it up just to shut the annoying thing up. "Hello?" he said into the phone.
"Hello, Mr. Eiri Yuki," a very familiar voice to both Yuki and Shuichi greeted.
"What did Serenity do this time?" he asked, knowing that the principal was calling because of the little half-demon. He looked over at the clock, looking at the time. "It isn't even lunch and she got in trouble," he mumbled to himself.
"Well, Serenity and Aumu set off a few firecrackers in the classroom."
"I thought they were planning for lunch," Yuki stated, a little confused as he got rid of some ash on his cigarette.
"We were, but we got bored!" Serenity's voice stated.
"Am I on speaker?"
"Yes, sir," the principal answered.
"You are in trouble when you get home, Serenity. I'm not going to bother talking to Aumu since he isn't my kid."
"Well, we can't get a hold of either of his parents."
"That's probably because Ayaka is shopping or something and Hiro is at work. I can get a hold of them. Serenity, Aumu, no more trouble today." He chuckled a little when he heard both the children groan in disappointment. "Bye," Yuki said before he hung up the phone.
With Shuichi
"You lost, so you buy lunch," Shuichi stated with a smug grin on his face.
"Fine, okay, okay," Hiro finally gave in. "I still say you cheated."
Shuichi laughed a little before his phone began to play 'Things I'll Never Say'. "That's Yuki," Shuichi answered the phone. "Yeah, Yuki?"
"Apparently, half foxes bet bored faster then a full fox," Yuki's voice said through the ear-part of the cell.
"She got in trouble already?" Shuichi asked, a little shocked. "Wow, that was quick."
"That's what I said. I just got off the phone with her principal. Nightmare helped out."
Shuichi looked over at Hiro. "Aumu got in trouble again," he casually said, acting like it was a normal thing. With the kids, it was. They had a daily tradition of causing trouble in school. "What was it this time, Yuki?" he asked into the phone.
"Firecrackers being blown up in class," Yuki's reply was heard.
"I thought they would do that at lunch," Shuichi pointed out, stunned. Barely.
"They got bored."
Shuichi hung his head as he slowly shook it. "Should have known. Did they get detention?"
"Didn't stay on the phone long enough to find out. But if they aren't home when school lets out, then they got detention."
"Okay. Hey, I gotta go now. I'll see you later on, Yuki."
"Whatever," Yuki said before Shuichi heard a click that told him that Yuki hung up.
"You know you two still act they way you did before everyone found out you were a fox demon," Hiro stated. Shuichi just grinned.
Me: ending the chapter and the story there. I will not make a sequel unless I feel like making one, so don't ask me 2 make 1. sorry 2 disappoint every1 that reads and enjoys this story. Good-bye!