"I don't know if I can handle nine months of this Arystar…" Miranda whimpered pathetically, resting her read against the side of a toilet bowl. Krory sighed, tying her short hair into a ponytail to get out of her face.
"I know I know, it hurts me to see you like this but you can do it, I know you can" he gently rubbed her back as her stomach twisted, causing her to vomit out whatever she had eaten within a 24 hour period.
Now into the first trimester of her pregnancy, Krory now fully understood what Komui was talking about. Not just about the symptoms, which Krory dedicated a week into studying into and now regretted it very much, but being a man and growing up for her. Of course this is Miranda we're talking about, of course she's sensitive and can get easily depressed, but this just brought it all to a whole new level. He's never seen her so…pathetic and it was only a month into it.
"Bleh…you think so?" she grabbed a nearby towel and wiped her mouth.
"Of course I do" he kissed her head and stood up," Are you done for today?" he asked gently, offering her a hand. She took a deep breath and took his hand.
"Ja, let me clean up, then ve can eat"
He smiled big, "I love you!" now that she was in a little better mood he hugged her close and was about to kiss her but she quickly put her hand in front of his lips.
"H-hey, come on don't do that, you'll get vomit on you"
He laughed and kissed her hand, "I don't care"
"Vell I do, come on, get out" she poked his chest playfully. He laughed, sneaking a quick peck on the cheek before leaving the bathroom.
It's been a year since they were together, longer since they've been friends, but their relationship grew stronger than ever before in the past month and a half. She practically never left his sight, the dressing excuse was no longer valid but she didn't want it any other way. Besides, who else would want to kiss her right after her morning sickness, or put up with her complaining about her nether regions being sore?
Krory waited outside of the bathroom, plopping on their all new double sized bed. If there was one thing good about all this pregnancy madness, it was the extra bells and whistles.
Komui promised to make "proper accommodations" for Miranda, this apparently meant a bigger bed for the both of them, extra comfy by the way, a new room that the two of them could stay in together and their own private bathroom. No one can really argue, Miranda wouldn't have been able to make it if she ran to the main bathroom every morning.
Krory sighed happily, looking around at the big room that they now shared," What did I do to deserve all this?" he smiled big.
"OKIE DOKIE!!!"
"Dah!" the poor guy nearly jumped out of his own skin as she hollered, he quickly sat up to see Miranda, now with a clean face and a big smile.
"Let's eat I'm starving!"
Miranda and mood swings. Krory laughed and took her hand, sure it was weird but at least she was happy today. Unlike the other day…that was bad.
"Gooooood morning!" Jerry, the greatest cook on the face of the planet according to most exorcists, waved his ladle excitedly as Miranda and Krory entered the cafeteria.
"Guten tag!"
Krory didn't respond, he was too busy trying to prepare himself for what is to come.
The moment Jerry found out about the baby, he immediately demanded that she could ask for anything she wanted, knowing full well that her weird cravings would start in, it was an excellent excuse to make new things. Krory obviously not so excited, the last dish she asked for made his stomach turn.
"And what will it be this morning?!" Jerry, now pulling out his utensils of madness.
"Hmmm.... I'm thinking pasta und dill pickles…oh und tuna vith teriyaki sauce!"
Jerry laughed as he wrote down the order, it was his first time cooking specially for a pregnant woman and he had to admit, it was pretty freaking hilarious.
"I'll have that right out!" and so he set off into the depths of the kitchen to create a meal fit for two.
"Right then!" she turned to Krory, who was pale but not vomiting today at least," I think I see Lavi und Allen over there, shall ve go sit vith them?"
"ONLY IF THE FOOD ISN'T AS BAD AS YESTERDAY" Lavi screamed over to answer.
"N-no Lavi, it's not as bad" Krory called back.
"Ok! All clear!" there was a small resounding sigh about the room.
Miranda laughed it off, guys are just so silly aren't they?
"So! What is it today?" the redhead asked as the two sat down. The weird food cravings thing became game; it even made her feel a little special. Being so sick and in pain most of the time it was nice to be around friends that made her laugh. Although most of them are beginning to suspect that she would order disgusting foods on purpose.
"Pasta und pickles" she smiled at their twisted faces of disgust.
Krory chuckled a bit before adding, "And tuna with teriyaki sauce"
"Oh gross….that is worse!" Lavi covered his mouth, gagging a little.
"No way, Ketchup on ice cream is the winner here and forever" Allen pointed out quickly.
They all laughed, soon Linalee arrived, Miranda was always happy to see her fellow female companion, the young girl was always so excited to see how much she's gotten bigger everyday and couldn't stop asking questions about everything.
"Hello! What's for breakfast!?" she asked, while huggling Miranda tightly.
"My best yet!" Jerry announced his arrival, putting down the plates of paste pickles and teriyaki tuna special.
The boys scooted away slightly, while Linalee and Miranda moved in closer.
"…that actually looks good…you're amazing Jerry"
"I do try, and you" a small cup of sizzling clear liquid was placed in front of Krory," Here, I brought some stomach medicine for you"
He wasted no time in chugging that down, with a relieved sigh, he gave Jerry the cup back and placed his head on the table, "Bless your soul"
"…Hey Jerry can I get one of those?" Lavi asked weakly as Miranda began to devour her bizarre confection.
"Make that two" Allen piped up also.
Jerry just rolled his eyes and left to get more medicine, they can go out and kill akuma without a problem and with just a bit of food mix up they gag?
"So!" Linalee sat down next to Miranda, munching on cereal while the guys waited for their meds," How are things going?"
"Same as they have been" Krory spoke for her while she ate, she just looked so happy to have food, he didn't want her to stop, " She's sick in the morning, and wants something weird right after. But luckily that's normal, the food thing a little early, but I'm not too stressed about that"
"So everything is pretty much fine, that's good to hear" Lavi smiled a bit…then grinned all of a sudden.
This made Krory nervous. "Lavi…"
"I've been thinking…you know I read a lot of books and all…"
"Well duh you're a bookman genius…" Allen mumbled in between munched on his 14 story tall building of pancakes. Everyone chuckled lightly, earning a glare from Lavi.
"Anyway, I was thinking about the possibilities of how your baby will turn out!"
"Oh? In what way?"
"I was just thinking…maybe your baby might be a half vampire, a Dhampir!"
Allen choked on his pancake, Linalle nearly spit out her cereal, Miranda laughed and Krory stared at him like there was a pineapple growing out of his ears.
Lavi blinked, obviously confused as to why his good friends would laugh at his clearly logical and scientific hypothesis.
"What?"
"We established this awhile ago...Krory isn't a vampire"
"Well no, not a normal one anyway. An exorcist vampire!"
"Not, a vampire at all" Krory growled, holding in his desire to throw the red head off the cliff of the Order.
"R-right, but let's say-"
"No"
"Aw come jus-"
"No"
"Oh fine... Mister boring" Lavi grumbled, jamming his chin on his fist.
Suddenly, a bread roll took flight and popped Lavi in the back of the head.
The others just watched as the roll landed on the floor and rolled under the table as Lavi turned around, frantically searching for the one who threw it.
"Hey! That was un called for!"
"Yea…waste of food…"Allen whined lightly.
"Maybe if you kept your freaking mouth shut then maybe I won't waste it on you stupid red head"
It was Kanda, who was a couple of tables away and stole the roll from Marie's plate.
Lavi grumbled and rubbed his head, "Jeez what's your problem Yuu?"
"YOU ARE! NOW SHUT UP LOUD MOUTH!"
"Mind your own business!"
"What was that?!" Kanda, now standing up on his chair ready to lunge, thankfully Marie jumped up and grabbed at his comrade's coat before he could attack.
"Jeez! Don't hurt me!" Lavi yelped, putting himself in a mini fetal position.
Meanwhile, those who were watching remained still and just watched. Kanda has been a short fuse lately and no one knew exactly why, so to be safe, no one moved, like being stared down by a predator that might attack at the slightly hint of movement.
Though Miranda was automatically safe, being pregnant and all, so she took this moment to silently leaned down and pick up the fallen roll and munch on that. Can't waste food you know.
"K-kanda, knock it off!" Marie tried to coax him out of kill mode.
"You're so loud and obnoxious…I'll cut out your mouth one day I swear it!" with that and one last strong tug, Marie got the crazy Japanese swordsman back into his seat.
Lavi sighed and sat back in his seat, "Sorry guys…I can't keep my mouth shut sometimes…"
"You think?!" Allen screamed.
"Hee hee, you guys are funny" Miranda giggled, now finishing the roll. Krory laughed and wrapped an arm around her waist, gently stroking her small bulge.
"You're so cute" he smiled.
She blushed and turned to give him a small peck on the cheek but he quickly turned and backed away, "H-hey none of that until you wash your mouth"
Miranda's face fell into a rather annoyed expression, "Oh, you had no problem kissing me after I threw up but now you can't stand teriyaki tuna?"
For a moment forgetting that there were other people present, Allen, Lavi and Linalee quickly made themselves known by their small whines and complaints of disgust.
"Ugh! Krory! Seriously man!"
"Wow…"
"What? It's called love. I don't see the problem"
"I don't see a difference!"
"Ugh they all piss me off so much…" Kanda grumbled.
"Don't get upset with them because of me"
Kanda's scowl fell as he faced his friend, who was intent on listening for other sounds than her laughter.
"…He doesn't deserve her"
"Yes he does"
"Man…I hate missions…" Krory whimpered, watching a small group of akuma make their ways towards him and his partner for the day, Lavi.
Lavi stretched like he was getting ready for a marathon, "I thought you loved missions? Getting to travel and all?"
"Well yes of course but Miranda's back home…and I'm not there…can we hurry up so we can go back faster?"
"Sure thing Kro-chan!" Lavi grinned with a big thumbs up as he grabbed his hammer," First one to 50 gets that last piece of pie back at the inn"
With this new challenge of delicious food on the line, Krory's eyes dilated and his white bangs went up, "You're on"
Just your standard mission, retrieve the innocence, fight off a horde of akuma, go home, nothing special. Fortunately most missions have been like this, good thing, if Krory worked harder he could get home sooner and be with his emotionally unstable pregnant wife.
Just…your normal mission.
Too normal…
"Hey…Lavi…are you noticing a pattern here?" Krory called out after devouring one unfortunate akuma for dinner.
"…Yeah…this is kinda…spooky…"
The two met up in the middle of the road, back to back, and watched the army of akuma before them…for whatever reason was coming at them in two single file lines, one for each exorcist.
"…what are they doin?"
"…I don't like this…"
"Rock a bye baby on a tree top…"
Krory's head snapped up and looked around, "Did you hear that?"
"huh? Hear what?"
"When the wind blows the cradle will rock…"
Krory paled. "Lavi…please tell me you can hear that?"
"When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall..."
"Kro don't go crazy on me, we have bigger problems!"
"And down will come baby…"
"Lavi this is serious!"
"Cradle and all!"
The moment the mysterious lullaby in his head ended, it felt as though someone took a metal pipe and bashed the back of his skull open with it. Krory fell forward on his knees and cried out, holding his head and groaning in pain.
Lavi jumped up in surprised and whipped around to see his partner practically on the floor.
What started as groans slowly turned into screams of pure horror, why were images of Miranda lying in her own blood suddenly appearing? Why were the villagers who despised him so much back home here? And taking away his child? Why was he not there to stop it?
"Oh man now what, c'mon Kro snap out of it!"
"Aw…how cute…" a voice called out playfully," He doesn't his deepest and darkest fears to make themselves known…I thought exorcists were suppose to be strong"
That voice.
Lavi turned back around to find the young girl Noah sitting on the floating pink umbrella, looking down at the two with much amusement on her face.
"R-road? Oh crap…What did you do to him?"
"It must be tough, to be a father and an exorcist…or…at least that's the plan right?" she grinned evilly," Too bad she won't live through it or the child for that matter, would you like to know why?"
Krory whimpered pathetically, his body was shaking on the floor, now tears streaming down his face.
"Sh-shut up! Don't listen to her Kro!"
"Ever you ever heard…of exorcist parents successfully giving birth to a child?"
Lavi froze for a moment.
"That's right, you're a parasitic type, your child will kill the love of your life!" she giggled happily.
"That's not true! It's never been heard of! It's never happened before in the first place! Don't listen to her she's lying!"
"Oh…you bookman, what makes you think the Order hasn't contorted history? To never let the world know of the possible monsters they can create?" she grinned, "Did you hear of the time when another pair lost their child just a few days after? Two innocence's fighting each other for dominance? Just ripping the poor baby part from the inside ou-"
"SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP."
Lavi then remembered, don't piss Krory off when he's in attack mode.
Though still in blinding pain, Krory followed her voice and lunged in the air, swiping at her. Road just laughed and jumped away but her umbrella wasn't fast enough and was bashed into a building next to them, landing somewhere two rooms later.
"L-leeerrrooo…."
The Noah gracefully landed on the street without a scratch, "Oh wow, you're pretty fast but just not fast enough" she giggled, waving a finger at him.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD DAMNIT" he screamed, falling back on his knees and grasping his head.
"…h-holy crap…Kro's gone nuts…"
"….aw your wife…she's a pretty little thing, that time exorcist right? I wonder what kinds of madness will that create?"
"SHUT UP"
"Maybe the baby will come out 10 years old!"
"STOP IT"
"Or maybe it will arrive back in its fetal stage! Shriveled, pathetic and die out" she giggled at the thought.
Now, Krory's pain was being drowned out by pure rage, his pupils dilated, looking more cat like and taking on the color of blood. Slowly gathering strength to his knees, he stood up panting heavily and keeping a deadly eye lock with the playful evil child of Noah. Lavi gulped and stood back, despite wanting nothing more than to help his friend get rid of Road, go home, Krory looked more like a vampire now than ever before.
"I SAID SHUT THE HELL UP"
With that and a cry that sounded more like an animalist roar than anything, he lunged at her, hissing and clawing. Road laughed at his futile attempt, dodging him with dance like grace.
Though slowly, her laughing died out the moment she saw him rip out a large chuck of solid concrete from a building.
"Interesting…"
He hissed at her dangerously and tried again.
This time, now that she saw what he was capable of, Road summoned a few akuma, who quickly floated in front of her blocking him.
Krory growled and jumped into the fray without hesitation, clawing and biting his was through, tearing through the unfortunate akuma like wet paper. Although, only to find that she wasn't there.
Krory stood there, panting heavily and looking around frantically. But there was nothing, she disappeared while he was busying ripping apart her minions.
He growled at himself and screamed into the dark night, "WHERE ARE YOU!?"
A small child like giggle was heard throughout the cold air.
"You're an interesting one aren't you? Let's play again sometime, Vampire of the Order"
And with that, the akuma were all gone and her presence faded, as did his intense mind headache. But somehow, that only pissed him off even more.
With a cry of frustration into the abyss, he fell to his knees and proceeded to pound whatever was left of the akuma into the cracks of the pavement.
All this while Lavi stood on the sidelines, watching in complete awe.
"…U-um, Kro?" he weakly called out, but went unheard.
"H-hey! Kro c'mon it's over now! Calm down!" he tried again, stepped out into the street this time. Again, he was ignored.
Now Krory was just pounding the stone cobble street and the blood, nothing was left of the akuma now.
Lavi growled and clutched his hammer tight, bringing down the size of the hammer to a relatively normal size and lifted t above his head.
"Krory! Stop!" with one good swing, he brought the hammer down on Krory's head, hoping it was enough to knock him back into reality.
Luckily it was just enough, Krory froze before slumping over on his size, his bangs gently falling into his face. Lavi sighed and put his now small hammer away, before kneeling next to his friend.
"Hey man…are you ok?" he asked gently, poking his shoulder once he noticed his body was shaking lightly.
"I…" he whimpered," I really hate…" he sniffled, " that girl…so very much"
Lavi peaked over his shoulder.
Krory didn't look up at him. He just laid there, letting his tears stream down his face, not caring that he was surrounded in Akuma blood.
"Yeah, I don't like her either" Lavi smiled weakly," C'mon buddy, let's go back, I think you deserve that pie more than I do"
"Arystar? Is that you?"
Krory smiled big.
"Yeah, I'm here, how are you two?"
He could practically hear her whimpering, desperately trying not to cry, another mood swing of the day.
"I-I'm….o-ok…ven vill you be home?"
"I don't know yet, Lavi is in the next room talking to Komui. Hopefully soon, I really miss you"
Finally the dam cracked, she whined pathetically and did her best to speak through her tears.
"I miss you so much…I've been hurting…everyvere…und this bed is too big vithout you und there isn't anyone to tuck me in und und…"
Krory smiled sadly, it was cute and heart wrenching to hear her like this.
"Oh….I hope I'm not complaining too much…but but….I just miss you…a lot!"
"It's ok honey, I miss you too. But…I have to go now ok?"
She sighed, "Ok…come home soon"
"I'll do my best, rest up ok? I love you"
Krory waited for a response but heard a small smooch instead.
"….Did….did you just kiss the golem?"
"Ja? und is there a problem?"
Krory laughed.
"You're adorable"
"Ok ok flirt, it's naptime for mommy"
He just couldn't stop smiling.
"Sleep well, love"
"Ich Liebe Dich"
With that, the connection was gone. Krory sighed and put his golem back in his pocket. Just in time to hear Lavi screaming in the other room.
"Are you nuts?!"
Krory's curiosity got the better of him, he quickly jumped up and slid against the wall, putting his ear to the door where Lavi was talking to Komui.
"No no no! We are not going anywhere! You didn't see him, the Noah know about Krory and Miranda and they're going to keep attacking him and you know that!"
...whatever they were talking about, it was about him and her, and it wasn't good.
" Komui…yes of course I…but…wait…who? …why? What do you mean I can't know?!"
No, not good at all.
"…Fine! You know what? Fine! If I have to come back with an emotionally psychotic vampire, it's on your head!"
With that, Lavi slammed the phone down and let out a frustrated sigh. Krory quickly bolted when he heard Lavi's footsteps coming towards the door, he jumped back on the bed and pretended like nothing happened, looking innocent as ever. Lavi came out, looking very worried. "Hey Lavi, what's going on? Are you ok?"
"Komui asked us to go to Spain there's a horde of Akuma headed that way and we're the closest"
"H-huh? W-wait, but I need to get back home! Miranda is going crazy over there!"
"I know I know, that's what I said. That…and I have a feeling Road will be waiting…for you…"
Krory paled.
"Lavi…I don't think I can take another attack like that…" he shuddered.
"I know but orders are orders, he won't take no for an answer…personally, I think something fishy is going on…" Krory gulped, Lavi put his hands up in his defense and smiled," Don't worry! I'll call bookman later, maybe he can clear things up, so let's pack and catch the next train, hopefully after this one then we can go back!" Even with a big smile on his face, Krory couldn't help but worry.
He sighed and watched Lavi pack until finally he called out weakly.
"W-wait…Lavi…Um…I have a question"
"What's up big guy?"
"About what Road said…about two exorcists parents…was any of that…true?"
"…"
"Lavi, please I need to know"
"…I…don't know…two exorcists parents…it's never been done before. Ever."
Krory felt his stomach turn upside down and inside out.
"You and Miranda…are the first…so…I don't…no one knows what will happen"
"Did you tell them?"
"Yes…I did, he will be in Spain first thing tomorrow morning" Komui didn't look up at those who were speaking to him, he continued to stare at the phone.
"Good, we will now proceed with our observations. Thank you Supervisor"
He didn't respond and they didn't wait for him to do so, the small group left the office, though leaving an aura of ill intention in the room.
"…Chief?" Reever called out gently," What's going to happen? To her?"
"…I don't know"
Sorry that took so long. I hope you enjoyed it as much as i did writing it! :3 madness is afoot! are you ready?
Cry emo Marie cry....so....yeah I couldn't think of a good bash and stay in character at the same time.
BUT! I was successfully able to bash Marie, Tyki and Kanda and explain why they don't belong with Miranda :3 I am quite proud of myself. (lol what makes it even more awsome, is that I did Tyki and Kanda without even realizing it.)
Review please and I'll do the best I can to update soon!
~Swd
