BloodyPinkRoe - Wow, long time indeed, well this is definately a chapter that makes up for my absence! Very fast paced and our bad situation, well two bad situations kick in. DUNDUNDUN ! But we find out more about the children and everyone comes together again. ENJOY! I DONT OWN KKM
Chapter Eight: Baby Babble
"Why am I here?" Gwendal asked the silver haired male writing something on a little clipboard he was carrying around with him. Gunter looked back at him and smiled before he carried on writing. They had finished their inspections and yet they still weren't making their way back.
"I asked you to come" the silvette replied cheerfully and Gwendal sighed and rubbed his eye, just thinking about all the work he would have to catch up on was making him get a headache. He wouldn't be able to leave his office for years.
"Relax would you, I sent Yozak and Conrad to fulfil your work and the training program you were meant to be doing at that one place." Gunter frowned when he saw the other rub his eye, that wasn't very good.
He was meant to be relaxing not stressed.
"Are you saying there is no one in the family to protect Wolfram and the others?" Gwendal asked in that low, please-don't-confirm-what-I-just-said voice. Gunter smiled and nodded with a chirpy 'Yep'. Gwendal suddenly looked suicidal.
"What's the problem, Geika and Shinou are still there and the guards" Gunter argued and Gwendal paled further. As soon as the conversation was finished he was on the first horse back to the castle. There was no efficient protection back at the castle.
"Shinou cannot protect the whole castle AND Murata AND Yuuri AND keep his body from dying. Murata is pregnant and Yuuri and Wolfram cannot do anything without causing some sort of trouble!" Gwendal replied exasperated.
Gunter's eyes widened
"Geika is pregnant? Already?!"
When Gwendal nodded with a sigh, Gunter threw down his clipboard and stood up, grabbing Gwendal's hand. "What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" he yelled running towards the stables. Gwendal just sighed; he didn't even want to know.
Conrad wiped the sweat from his head and withdrew his sword, he smiled brightly at the soldiers he was training, they were all well trained really there was no reason for them to have come down there.
"Well done, that's great!" he complimented and the soliders all smiled back at him. Of course they were all worried about being trained by a war legend but after all they really had nothing to worry about.
"Are we done here?" Yozak asked walking up to the group of men and Conrad. He also didn't understand why they had bothered to come but neither claimed to know what went on in Gwendal's head.
"Yes, is something the matter?" Conrad asked Yozak smiled and nodded
"His eminence is with child!"
Conrad smiled, that was certain very good news for them.
"How is the word being spread?" he asked curiously and Yozak shrugged
"I just got the message from the castle now; I don't think they have thought that far yet" Yozak replied and Conrad stretched his tired muscles. It seemed that he wouldn't get to have a rest before they left for the castle.
Yozak noticed his tiredness
"We don't have to leave now, you can go and rest and we can travel tomorrow or later on today" he offered and Conrad smiled in appreciation but shook his head. He knew how his brother thought and if Gunter hadn't told Gwendal that the four had been left basically on their own he wouldn't be pleased.
When he voiced this Yozak nodded, that sounded very Gwendal like.
"Well then shall we?" he smiled
Cheri stretched and moaned, the wind was caressing her bikini clad body, the sun lightly kissing her skin. The sky blue as can be and the sea clearer than transparent colourless glass. This was the life, this was how any former Maou should live.
After being cooped up in a tiny castle day in, day out
"Anissinia come join me" the beautiful leggy blonde called out and the female inventor looked at the former Maou over the letter she was reading. She ordered one of her newest creations (that actually worked as it was meant to) to go refill the woman's glass of champagne while she finished reading.
'Dear Anissinia and Cheri,
How is your quest coming along, I hate to interrupt you so soon it is since you set off. However I have great news to tell you. Due to some obvious situations in which my beloved Azalea will not let me disclose we are now with child, we thought the two of you would like to know this and of course I know that Cheri would like to be present when we start to arrange the baby room and start pondering the names. Of course Yuuri has enforced that we name the 'baby' much to the annoyance of Wolfram. At any rate this will be happening very soon if you wish to be there.
Your sincerely
Shinou'
Anissinia was happy for them, the others many have believed that she only cared for her inventions and on one scale that was true. She wasn't interested in marriage or children (of her own) but she was excited to teaching this child of the inventor ways.
She crackled to her herself.
They wouldn't know what hit them.
Nevertheless she gave the letter to Cheri and relaxed on the other deck chair. Less then a minute later and the woman and launched to her feet making strange signals to the captain of the ship.
"ONWARDS! We have a baby room to create" she yelled
Anissinia almost fell out of the seat when the boat did and sharp turn and sped quickly back in the direction they had just come.
Shinou sighed and bit into kiwi, he was with the boxes again, lying on them on his tummy. Apart from being with his precious Azalea that was how he preferred to spend all his time. At that moment however he just needed to think.
And have a lone time for a while to listen to what was going on around him.
He heard the door open and sighed, obviously it was Ulrike, it wasn't that he hated the priestess, she just irritated him, whenever he wanted to be alone she would just be hovering around near him like she didn't understand the need to be alone.
"Is everything alright? Giesela told me what happened while I was gone, is your body not working properly?" she asked softly and Shinou sighed and took a bite of the skinned kiwi. Ah yes, how could he forget that little problem.
"Well it just happens to be a crystallised body, not my body and it's dying. There is nothing that can be done before you try and tell me everything will be alright. I guess this is my punishment, I fear that when this body dies my soul will not be free of it" Shinou commented.
Ulrike looked horrified.
"How can you say this with a straight face, are you aware you are implying that you are dying? Do the others know? Where did we go wrong, you told me this would work" the small woman panicked, her bright purple eyes twinkling with gathering tears.
"I am aware, they do not know and they will not, I told you it would work and it did I didn't say it would keep me alive, it was the only way to save my soul at the time that I could think of in such sort notice" he replied to her sharply.
She flinched and backed off.
"What will Daikenja say? The children-" she was cut off
"They are all in good hands, I do not fear death and you should not fear it either. I am old regardless of the fact I never had a body. My dear Azalea is not to hear a peak about this, do you understand" he ordered.
Ulrike flinched again but nodded.
"Good, leave me then"
The small woman huffed in anger and pulled up her priestess sleeves before storming out of the room, she was not letting her good work go to waste no matter what he wanted. She would heed his words but she didn't have to listen.
Shinou sighed, he hated to sound so bossy like that but otherwise the woman just wouldn't leave him alone. He really didn't mind that he was dying. He had done many a bad thing and this was his punishment.
He was just glad he got a chance to hold his Azalea in his arms once more and to have children to continue his line. Whatever happened, no one was to find out that he was dying, it would cause way more than needed.
He smiled
Good things were to come, he hadn't seen the bad yet but he knew that if there was good, bad was only a breath away. He just hoped it wouldn't speed up his death that was one thing he didn't want. He wanted to see the birth of his children.
They were so beautiful
They were going to grow into beautiful individuals and do greats things for the kingdom that never before had even been attempted. He was so into his visions and thoughts that he didn't notice the door being opened.
"Shinou what are you doing with the boxes?" Murata asked suspiciously and Shinou fell off the box in surprise. He looked up with a silly face before brushing himself down. He walked over to his longed haired double black and pulled him into a hug randomly.
"Nothing that concerns you my dear" he smiled lovingly
Murata blushed before scowling and pushing the blonde away,
"You could have said you were coming to the shrine I was looking for you everywhere, no one seemed to know where you had gone and I thought … I thought …" he trailed off, he was embarrassed but he had been scared that Shinou had disappeared again.
Shinou caught his train of thought and his heart clenched,
"I won't leave you before, well before the children are born, I won't allow that to happen no matter what is coming for us in the future" he replied pulling the other close again. He wasn't lying but neither was he telling the truth.
Unfortunately Murata seemed to catch the fact that he had sort of dodged the question, "Are you leaving me?" he demanded pulling away again and wrapped his arms around himself in a self reassuring way.
Shinou sighed
"I cannot say, I can see what could happen but not will, I haven't seen anything yet but you never know who will go or who will stay" he stated with what he hoped was a reassuring smiled, he hated lying but there was nothing he could have done at that moment.
He pulled Murata towards him again and felt his still flat stomach; it wouldn't be too long before he was showing after all with the children and not so long carrying he was going to be the size of a bus before long.
"You still haven't told me how many I'm having" Murata complained and Shinou sweat dropped, he really didn't want to answer that, he feared if he told the other then his sweet would faint for a few hours.
"Don't you want to know the surprise?" he asked and Murata glared at him
"Of course I would but the pain of giving birth to one is bad enough that I don't care much apart from getting the child out, I would like to be mentally psyched for that moment in time, I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from"
Shinou sighed
"What would you say if I said quadruplets?" he asked curiously
When Murata grew very pale he was quick to change his tune
"I was only joking Azalea don't look so worried" he chuckled nervously
Murata looked up at him, face unreadable. Shinou suspected that he had seen through his little lie and he wasn't sure whether to be happy or to be sad. Sad at the fact the pain would be unforgettable but happy at the fact he would be surrounded by children for at least a little while.
"You aren't joking at you?" he asked quietly and Shinou sighed and shook his head. There really was no point in lying to the double black; he would only suspect when he started to grew so very big when normally the male pregnancies were small.
"You need to increase you meal size and how many times daily, you are feeding five now. We need to be careful how far away from each other we are. You may be housing them and feeding them but they will need my Majutsu" he told the other quietly.
The other was still in shock and he really didn't want to scare him anymore than he had already, he was wondering what the other was thinking but despite his powers that was the one thing he didn't know, reading minds wasn't one of them.
"Dai? Speak to me" he asked quietly
Murata looked up at him and beamed brightly, sure he was scared as hell and thinking the pain would be mental but he was excited beyond belief, he had never even had twins before and now he was being gifted with quads.
"Do you know what gender?" he asked excited and Shinou smiled gently and nodded, he really didn't want to say but they did have to come up with names together. In the very worst case that he did pass away before their birth he wanted them to already be named.
"Yes do you wish to know?" he asked, still giving his precious the choice.
Murata nodded violently
"We need to start thinking of names and where their rooms will be and colours and clothes and toys and books and all the accessories. So what is it two boys two girls?" he asked barely containing his excitement.
Shinou grinned and shook his head
"Three girls and One boy" he replied
Murata looked dazed, "Three girls and one boy, wow. Which would be the Maou?" he asked, he didn't want them to hate each other when they came to learn one of them would be Maou. He wanted them to be close to each other.
"Well all of them of course" Shinou chirped
Murata looked at him eyes wide, mouth open. He turned pale again but this time he didn't calm down, his eyes rolled back into his head and he fell like a sack of potatoes. Shinou scratched the back of his head with one hand and caught Murata with the other.
"Maybe that was too much at once?"
"I say silver"
"No, no black, Heika it has to be black"
"Why, because he will be a double black, no way I say gold"
"How do you know he will be a double black"
"Don't even suggest that"
"What its true!"
"Are you trying to tell us something Shinou"
"Of course not it was just a suggestion I have blue eyes"
"Yes but the black hair and eyes should be prominent"
"Not necessary in this case"
"That is true he is the Original king"
Murata's eyes fluttered, was on earth were they all talking about. His eyes opened and Shinou smiled at him brightly, "Ah Dai, you're awake, come join the conversation" he smiled brightly. They were in one of the bigger bedrooms.
Gwendal, Gunter, Shinou, Yuuri and Wolfram were sitting in some chairs in front of the bed he was occupying. "What are you all saying?" he asked and of course Wolfram was the first to tell him what was going on.
"We were discussing the colours for the boy, Yuuri says silver, Gunter says black because he will be a double black apparently, and I say gold. Shinou suggests he won't be a double black and Gwendal tells him not to joke about that" he informed the other.
Murata looked at Shinou who shrugged.
"I have to go with both Shinou and Yuuri. I think silver is a nice colour for the boy and we really don't know if he will be a double black or not. We don't know if any of them will be a double black or not" he commented when Shinou winced he was confused.
"Wait. What do you mean any of them?" Yuuri asked curiously and the others nodded.
"Shinou said you were having a son nothing else" Gunter added.
"Hey Shinou can I told to you for a moment, alone?" Murata asked dragging the blonde from the room and slamming the door behind them both. He couldn't believe that he hadn't told them, what was he playing at.
"You didn't tell them? I think we both know that now the question is why the hell didn't you?" he asked anger bubbling up deep inside him. What the hell was the blonde playing at, he was acting so weird lately.
"No I didn't tell them, I wasn't going to, I was going to let them have the boy and keep the three girls, and perhaps run away with you" he muttered. Now that he admitted it out loud it sounded ridiculous but he couldn't do it, wouldn't do it.
It wasn't fair, yes it was their duty but it wasn't fair and he wouldn't allow it.
Once again he didn't have the power to grant the two the ability to have their own children and it drove him mad, he was angry at himself for suggesting it in the first place but at the same time if he hadn't then they wouldn't be together.
Murata searched his eyes before he sighed, his anger deflating.
"It's our duty Shin, we have to do this. There is no point lying. We both know I will be the size of a bus one child couldn't be that big. You cant expect Giesela to keep a lie and hide three babies until we take them away, if we run they will chase us, we will be charged with treason, no matter who we are and they are quads, they need to be together" Murata told him softly.
Shinou's eyes flashed and he slammed his fist into a nearby wall, he didn't even blink when a rainbow of colours burst from his hand in the moment of impact, he didn't care of the huge rumble of the castle it made, he was too angry.
It just wasn't fair!
"Shinou if it hurts so much we can always try again afterwards" Murata smiled in reassurance and Shinou shook his head, it was almost impossible, by the end of those five months he wouldn't even be able to use his Majutsu without killing himself.
He may get to last a couple of years as long as he didn't use it after those five months but he knew as well as anyone the chance he wouldn't have to use it was so very slim. Especially if he was having sporadic bursts of anger like the one he just had.
"That isn't possible for reasons beyond me" he sighed
Murata narrowed his eyes, he was getting that feeling again, the one that said Shinou was hiding something from him again and he didn't like it. He didn't linger on it however because he could see the other was hurting.
"Something will happen, we will be rewarded I know we will" he smiled lightly and Shinou looked at him unhappily. That too was impossible there was no one else to reward them, it would have been him that rewarded them but he couldn't.
He plastered a smile on his face, "Well then let's go tell them" with that said he turned and went back into the other room, his shoulders tense. Murata noticed and knew that something seriously wasn't right, there was only one way he would find out what he wanted.
He would go and see Ulrike and no matter what it took he would get the answer from her.
The sun was setting now, she could feel the orangey light from where she was sitting, the light was pouring from the window from her side.
Ulrike knelt in front of the box and sighed
Murata was coming to see her about Shinou and she wasn't sure what she was going to tell him, she wanted to tell him the truth but at the same time she knew it would ruin him and he would withdraw. Shinou would know it was her and that he knew.
No
She shook her head
She had to tell him, she owed him that much.
She didn't see the shadow behind her, the moment that she saw it, it was already too late for her to do anything about it. A hand covered her mouth and the other grabbed her around the waist and dragged her back.
Acting like her resistance was nothing.
"You're coming with me little one!"
Shinou gasped and sat up sweating, it was past midnight. He didn't know why it had taken so long for him to see that, normally he saw things like that a few hours in advance not a few hours after it happened. He threw back the covers and dressed quickly.
He was glad that Murata had spent the night in his own room. He rushed to the door and made his way to the shrine. What he found there shocked him, all of the priestesses in training where unconscious on the floor. He checked a few of them over and once sure they weren't actually hurt just sleeping he let out a breath. He couldn't move them of course since he was on his own but since they weren't hurt he would leave them.
He didn't know how long they had been that way but with the fact that he hadn't seen it still bothered him. He made his way to the box room and noticed a scroll in the middle of one of the boxes, he looked around before he picked it up and fled the shrine for safety.
Back at the castle he sat at the dining room table and opened it, he closed it angrily and grit his teeth angrily, oh no he bloody well didn't. He looked down at the note again before crushing it in his grasp and incinerating it.
Knowing that it wasn't a big threat at the moment he sighed and made his way to his Azalea's room. Entering and slipping into the bed. Murata did little but moan softly and snuggle into his side. Shinou smiled softly and closed his eyes.
The words burnt in his mind.
'Hello little brother'