So I apologize for any mispellings and WARNING! With Highschool and all it's becoming very busy so I WONT UPDATE UNTIL I RECIEVE AT LEAST 2 REVIEW! So keep that in mind...so here's chapter 11!
Chapter 11: New Cravings
Lucifer had caught up to Haku and the two enjoyed a civilized conversation about what the future held for her and potentially the bathhouse.
"Well seeing as they sent Kazuma first I'd say they're going in order from dumbest to smartest or weakest to strongest, so it'd be my gues that they're either gonna send Rokki son of Earth next. Pfft kid's got suck a dumb name." she glanced around the room to see lots and lots of whispers and watchful eyes focused on the two of them.
"Alright and when will that be?" Haku asked as he too took notice of the gossip and mumbles of the workers.
"Don't know, could be a week, could be a month, they could even send a messenger to inform me of when, but frankly that's not my main concern."
"Then what is...?" Haku asked.
"Well think about it...I've just killed a noble, one with a mother and father...who are probably pretty pissed by now, not to mention I've still got my father to deal with, and on top of that the council will probably try o press charges or something against me for killing a noble who quote on quote, "Didn't do anything wrong." and make up some more bullshit as an excuse for another punishment. Ha almost gets me excited thinking about how desperatley they'll try to make this punishment as severe as possible and scramble to make it happen. The way they'll stand on their posts above everone else and watch me blood splatter while their eyes are filled with fear because they know that it won't even phase me." She had a devilish grin as she rolled her eyes acknowledging the true stupidity of the council.
Haku could only look surprised, "How can you look forward to having your blood splattered?"
Her grin almost instently dropped and her face became almost serious with a tint of anger as she paused for a few seconds before responding while her eyes stared off to her right, "Well...when you're me this is the kinda stuff you look forward to." she spoke truthfully as she stood up and headed towards the elevator leaving her bowl for the workers to clean. Haku quickly stood catching up to her as the elevator doors opened.
She stepped in and he followed suit, Haku noticed that the elevator was heading to their floors, "Planning to speak to Yubaba?"
"Yep." she said popping the p, "I belive she'll be expecting me anyways so might as well head there first or else I'll just kill the messenger she sent."
She spoke her words...without hesitation, 'She talked about that stuff without even flinching, her eyes are unreadable...she really is mysterious.' Haku thought before he was jogged back to reality as the doors slid open with a bing letting them off into a hallway cluttered with gaudy decore.
Heading down to her office Lucifer ignored the door knocker's scratchy nagging and kicked the doors open seeing as how her hands were in her pockets. Ariving at Yubaba's actual office she entered stopping in the middle of the room while Haku stood beside her to her right.
Yubaba looked up with a "Tch, you still present yourself to me that way?" Lucifer looked down at herself, she was in her undershirt from yesterday which had a torn up hole through the center that continued in the back, on her stomache was a small mark from the blade but barely visible to anyone who didn't previously know it was there. She had on baggo red basketball shorts that reached mid knee and barefeet.
With a nod as if she was pleased with herself she responded, "Yep and I wouldn't present myself any other way!" she said with a sarcastic smile.
Yubaba glared up at her from her papers with a grumble then continued to scribble with her tacky pen.
"Well I take it you've taken care of our unwanted guest as Haku suggested.?"
"Yes as you've requested, now is there any other job that you want me to do that I proabably won't follow through?"
"Welll...there is some heavy duty work that we need done, with your brutish body I would assume you can handle it."
"So now you need my physical strength? What some heavy lifting needs to be done? Why not just tell Scaly to do it?"
"He'll be helping you, we have several deliveries today and I'll be needing you to carry them to various places throughout the bathhouse."
With a sigh Lucifer agreed stating that she had nothing better to do then turned to Haku, "Hey you mind headin out before me? I've got something to ask Yuaba."
Haku nodded curiously walking out of the room leaving the two alone. 'What on earth could she need from Yubaba?'
Lucifer remained in the center of the room as Yubab looked up at her curious as to what she had to ask of her.
"Oh it's nothing really, I just forgot to ask you if 'it' was still here."
Yubaba's brow quirked slighty surprised by what she had asked about, but replied pleasently. "Yes it's still here, perfectly fine and exactly how you left it."
With a genuine smile to herself Lucifer turned around quielty and left without a word.
Yubaba watched the doors close and remained in silence before resuming her scribbling.
Lucifer headed into her room to change her shirt only to find Sebastian's signature note on the bed,
"Sorry to have to leave so soon but as you predicted I've been summoned to the palace to enjoy a loveley talk with your relatives and the council. Be back as soon as I can but until then remember to 'take them' or you'll have me exausted after I come back. I can only go so many rounds you know! Don't take out all your anger on that Dragon kid either, he's a good kid, you shoudl treat him better even if just a little. You don't have to throw away everyone you know. Especially not him, and stop callin him Scaly, you know his name and despite your act I know you still care for him. So I'm leaving you in his care while I'm gone!"
Your Loyal Servant, Sebastian
She crumpled the note in her hand and tossed it into the air igniting it into a small ball of flame, small embers fell to the floor as she headed over to the closet to grab a black sleevles T. She quitley mumbled to herself, "Still care for him...tch..." she irritatedly pulled off her white shirt over her head and replaced it with the black before heading out of her room and down the stairs hustling out of anger.
The bathhouse was bustling by now as the guests started to arrive and uniforms of various colors intertwined thoughout the bathhouse's floors.
Lucifer made her way outside to head towards the boiler room where the deliveries would be made. Ducking down to head through the small gate by the enterance sh sood up in the small garden. Glancing down to her right towards the ground she looked for a moment at where she and a small boy had sat all those years ago. "You should treat him better..." the words of Sebastian rang in her head, shaking her brain back into place she walked down to the stairs and headed down remember how she had intentionally broken that step just so someone would have to fix it. She could only screw with people so much when she was faking a 10 year old.
She reached the bottom of the thousand step staircase and opened the large metal door. Steam rushed her face warming her exposed skin as she walked in avoiding the hot pipes heading towards the warmly lit room. 'They wouldn't hurt me anyway...' she thought as she still dodged the many dripping pipes.
Soon being consumed by the yellow tinted light she founf Haku talking with Kamaji.
She soon caught his eye and Kamaji warmly greeted her to Haku's surprise.
"Aaaaaahhh Lucifer it's been a long time, though this old brain of mine can't seem to remember how long."
"About 2000 years, when I was that 10 year old for a while remember?"
Kamaji scratched his head a bit before it hit hi old brain, "Ah yes Sen my dear grandaughter. Yes it took me a while torealize it was you, you made a very convincing little girl you know."
"Yeah, and I let your disrespect slide only for that reason. And I also thank you for playing along even after your recognition."
"Anything for an old friend, how old are you now? 17, 18000?"
"Turned 19000 a few months ago."
Haku then joined in, "What! You're the same age as me yet you call me "Kid" all the time!"
"Well yeah in case you didn't notice that huge gap between not only our statice but power I think I can call you kid every once and a while. And beside it's Scaly now...kid." she said with a shrug of the shoulders and a smirk.
Haku held up a ball of water above his hand threatening to throw it while smiling playfully.
"Hey hey..." Lucifer held up her hands in an "I'm innocent" manner, before holding up a ball of flame as well.
The two eyed eachother while Kamaji thought to himself on the sidelines, 'Ah young love, even after all this time...' or at least he thought he was thinking it but had actually said it quielty.
Both Haku and Lucifer insantly dropped their ammo and looked at him with innocent "Huh?"
"Nothing..." Kamaji responded before grabbing his small mallet and wacking the bell yelling at his little soot balls to "GET BACK TO WORK!"
"Welll...anyways so what deliveries have I got to carry and where the hell am I pittin um?"
Haku then sighed before showing her to the small sliding door in the back of the room.
"See ya later Kamaji." Lucifer said before crouching under the door.
"Good Luck." Kamaji responded and Lucifer slid the door shut.
Haku was waiting for her over on the other side of the room filled with elevator cords and contraptions.
Behind him were several boxes and packages of various sizes and shapes.
"So you and Kamaji are good friends?" he asked before getting down to buiseness.
"Yeah...he's helpd with some herbel remedies and medicine for Sebastian and me, you know for when shit happens."
"YOU HAVE FRIENDS!?" He cried out jokingly.
"YEAH SHOCKING RIGHT!?" She responded and they both chuckled slightly.
"Alright well this is all the deliveries that need to be taken up to the main floors, most of it's just general supplies that the workers will put away you just need to get them up there."
Lucifer looked at the tall mountain of boxes and nodded, cracking all of her fingers and rotating her shoudlers she responded with a, "K then which on first and where?"
Haku pointed tothe stacks on the right and said, "These to the first floor, then those to the second and these to the third etc..."
"Alright got it, you can go do whatever." Haku gave her a questioning look, "But this is my job as well..."
"Yeah but have you forgotten that I get to order you around for a day well that 24 hours starts now, go do whatever, visit Zeniba or bug Lin or whatever. I got this, it'll be done in an hour or two tops."
Haku looked rather shocked but before he could reject he was being shoved into the elevator.
He arrived at the main floor and stood blankly for a moment, "Do whatever huh?" he then walked off heading for the upstairs floors that held thir rooms.
Lucifer lifted up one large crate the was more long than wide and held it on her shoulder with one hand then held up her hand, palm facing the large mountain of crates and items and mumbled a few words in an ancient language before everysingle one dissappeared due to arrive in their arranged floors. She then carried the one crate that she hadn't transported up to the main floor. She headed towards the forman to give him the large package that was apparently filled with new tokens and clapped the dust off her hands.
"Aaaand done." She smiled to herself in a victorious manner that she had sort of cheated her way out of actually working.
She walked through the main floor observing the many workers and guests who frantically hustled throughout the many floors.
It was rather boring...and as a result she was rather bored. "Sigh without Sebastian here I can't get away with anything...well I could but it'd be boring in the long run..." Her thoughts were cut off by the screams of several workers.
Looking up nonchalauntly she noticed that a latter was going to fall apon a few workers and some really hot guest and out of boredom she made her move.
In merley a millisecond she was under the ladder holding it up above her head with one hand by a rung and above the really hot guy.
"You ok?" she asked monotonley.
"...yeah..." he was eyeing her with a pleased grin that such an atractive woman was above him.
"Well...then" she said as she stood up with the ladder, "My boredom still remains so I'll be taking my leave..." she propped the ladder up against a divider while recieving the shocked expressions of the workers. "What it was only 600 pounds at the most, and I only saved them cause I was bored nothing more nothing less. And in the end I'm still bored." she then felt the very man she had saved behind her whisper in her ear, "Perhaps I could relieve that boredom you speak of..." Lucifer felt a slight temptation but quickly pushed it away before she felt the man suddenly being pulled away and Lin step inbetween them.
"Hold it there Blondy! She already belongs to someone so hand off!"
"Really WHO!"
Lucifer turned around to see several Yunas holding on to the man and Lin, 'Lin and her infinite team of Yunas again, Seriously she's got an infinite number of Yunas at her desposal.' "Yeah Lin WHO is it that I BELONG to?"
A slight shiver ran up Lin's spine but she held her cool and responded.
"Well you don't technically yet but you two belong together!"
"Lin WHO!?"
"HAKU DUUUUUHH!"
Lucifer was slightly taken aback...'Haku?...'
"And why is that a "DUUUUHH!" ?"
"You two are perfect for eachother you always have been ever since you were Sen."
"Wait I never told..."
"Dragon boy blabs a bit... "
"Hmmm well I still don't see your reasoning." The entire bathhouse including the guests, 'Jeez seems like everyone around here loves gossip.'
""Well...you've saved him! 3 TIMES!"
"I...was bored ok!"
Lin had finally broke some ground! And she could see it on Lucifer's face that she had no REAL comeback. At least not one that would prove anything. Lin's lips quirked into an evil smile ready to break Lucifer's walls down one by one.
"You also didn't kill him when you had the chance."
"OK That's because Sebastian showed up and ruined my fun!"
"Hmm seems like a legitiment answer but why haven't you even so much as threatened him since?"
"Cause it's a pain that's why." she responded plainly while rubbing the back of his head.
'Guess I'll have to dig deeper...' Lin thought to herself.
"Well then why did you save him from Kazuma yesterday!? And don't say "My bodu just moved." Lin said making quotation marks with her hands.
"Well...That Why! I DONT KNOW! My body just moved. Probably cause I didn't wanna have to deal with Yubaba later..."
Lucifer was struggling a bit to come up with good reasons, 'Just keep calm and carry on Lucifer she can only g com eup with so many...'
"Well then explain why you slept with him...literally speaking of course.?"
"I already told you HE slept with ME and it his bed was comfortable, he was warm and I was to tired to shove him out of the bed." 'And it his scent smells nice, and his embrace was gentle...'
"Then why did you Blush out the wazoo!?"
"Cauuuuse...I was still recovering from the injury and I had a slight fever." 'Heh it'll take a lot more than that Lin'
Lin was running out of ideas...'Think Lin think!...There's gotta be something that she's hiding that I can use...' Lin's eye was suddenly caught on a second necklace's cord that wrapped around Lucifer's neck. 'Wait she only wore that res stone I thought...wait a minute...'
"Then What's THIS!?" Lin grabbed the string around her neck and pulled towards her pulling Lucifer closer and untucking the charm on the end from her shirt. The bathhouse went silent...
Lucifer swallowed thickly...'SHIT I forgot to place the invisibilty spell this morning! See this is why I need Sebastian!'
Dangling at the end of the long necklace, for everyone to see,... was a single purle white scale
A/N And that's it for this one. Oooooh didn't see that somin did ya. or rather didn't expect it. Again I apologizr for an errors I may have missed and for the long wait. UNTIL I RECIEVE 2 REVIEWS THEN! BYE!