Title: Nightmares
Author: Lazaefair
Pairing: Mugen/Yatsuha
Prompt: kitchen
Warning: swearing
"Yatsuha!"
"Yatsuha!"
"Where's the RICE, Yatsuha?"
"Mummy, I'm hungry!"
"Yatsuha, the water is boiling dry!"
"Yatsuha, the fire is burning low!"
"Mummy!"
Yatsuha ground her teeth.
"Where's the RICE?"
She set the iron rice pot down on the stove, where it would probably scald and she would probably have to spend hours scraping it clean.
"Porridge AGAIN? I hate porridge!"
She opened her mouth.
"Everyone, SHUT THE H--"
"Yatsuha! Is that any way to talk in front of your child? I understand your husband is quite uncouth--"
"Don't stop there, mother, tell me how you really feel!"
"--but men are men and we women must set an example for them. Civility, my dear! You know, when I was married to your father ever so many years ago, and you were such a disagreeable, squalling infant, I said to him, I said--"
"You know what, you can keep your STUPID SQUALLING THING--"
"Yatsuha! Dammit, wake the fuck up!"
Yatsuha dimly registered silver eyes and a bristly chin, before her body caught up with her brain and she sent Mugen flying off the futon. He sprawled on a tatami with an indignant squawk.
"I changed my mind," Yatsuha announced, too rattled to calm her breathing. "I don't want to get married."
Mugen looked like he'd been kicked in the gut. "Marriage? What the fuck are you on about, woman!?"
"Nothing that concerns you," she replied, serenity suddenly regained now that the decision had been made. There would be no children, no slaving over kitchen stoves, no lecturing mothers, no marriage in her future. She had seen the danger. "Go back to sleep."
"Moody bitch," Mugen muttered while climbing back onto the futon, quite unconscious of any irony.