(one week later)
Yoruichi's mood hadn't improved since she had been assigned to marry Byakuya. He was much younger, but her was still old enough to marry and a royal.
Sao had made many attempts to get her to feel better or even smile. She would just look up at him and give a half-hearted one.
He tried getting Kukaku's help but she couldn't do anything no matter what she tried.
Sao could only do so much more before giving up.
He even tried his mothers special cakes. That didn't do anything either.
"Lady Yoruichi?" The boy called softly to the woman sitting in the window. She didn't respond or even acknowledge him.
"Yoruichi?" He wasn't even supposed to address her in such a simple way.
But it got her attention. She turned to him with obvious surprise playing on her features.
"What's wrong with you?" He walked up to the window.
She looked down then back outside. "I just…I'm so sick of doing what that man tells me."
"Then stop listening."
"It's not that easy."
"Yes it is. You're an adult, you can make your own choices."
Yoruichi went to make another argument, Sao cut her off. "When are you going to stop making excuses and take charge?"
She stared at him with an odd expression, she slipped out of the window and walked past him out of the office.
Sao stared after her.
He turned and jumped out the window, from roof to roof towards the Shiba home.
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"Meh…he can't kick her out. So he'll just agree until she is ready to marry, and to be with someone she wants to be with." Kukaku handed Sao a drink.
Sao took a small sip. He wasn't a heavy drinker. "Why can't he kick her out?"
"No other heirs to the throne. His wife got sick of him trying to have a son and refuses to sleep with him now."
Sao stifled his laugh. Yoruichi's father sure seemed…selfish. It wouldn't be good for his health to only act for himself.
"Yeah…they had other kids…all born sick and died a few hours to days later. Yoruichi is the only one born totally healthy."
"And living." Sao muttered. Kukaku laughed and hit him on the back. Sao chuckled and rubbed the stinging spot on his back.
"It's a good thing you told her straight up. Yoruichi has a habit of making the wrong choice. She would have ended up unhappy and packed with a kid."
Sao looked at Kukaku, who was staring straight ahead with a somber expression. He understood. Yoruichi was her best friend. It would have hurt her to see Yoruichi that way.
"So I did a good thing then?" The boy asked cautiously. Kukaku glanced at him. "Why don't you go find out."
He nodded and placed his drink down. He stood and bowed to her, thanking her for her time and dashed off.
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Yoruichi was sitting out in the court-yard when Sao arrived. A small bird was on her shoulder. The goddess looked up when Sao's shadow cast over her.
"Well?" He had a hopeful expression. He prayed he hadn't made a mistake by telling her to take a stand for herself.
"It's fine. I don't have to marry Byakuya." She stared up at him.
"Did anything else happen?"
"He's just really mad at me." She jumped up. The bird flew off, Yoruichi latched onto him. "But who cares! He's a jerk anyways!"
Sao chuckled. She was back to normal. She hugged him tighter.
"Lady Yoruichi…it's getting hard to breath." Sao coughed. Yoruichi immediately got off of him. "Sorry." She smiled apologetically.
Sao laughed and rubbed his neck.
"Who is this?" Yoruichi stiffened and looked around. Sao stared, a tall man with black hair and dark skin with purple eyes stood watching them.
Sao realized Yoruichi must have gotten her features from her mother, because the simple glace he took before slamming himself to the ground told him this was Yoruichi's father.
"A friend of mine." Yoruichi muttered with a side glance down at him, she kept staring, Sao could feel it on his back.
"He's wearing the stealth uniform." Her father was speaking with obvious distaste. Sao was already starting to hate him, but by his low ranking…he had to respect him.
"Yes he is."
"So how can he be your friend?"
"He's my second so we're around each other all the time."
"And that automatically makes him your friend?"
"No, he's my friend because I know him."
"But he's a servant."
"So what? He's still my friend."
"You will not talk to this…urchin." Sao felt a hateful twinge pull at his stomach at the word, "anymore. It is beneath us."
Yoruichi turned to look him in the eyes. Sao lifted his head carefully.
"No! It's beneath you! I'm not you, I would never want to be you! Your own wife doesn't even want to look at you and neither do I!"
The man's face contorted to rage.
"Save it!" Yoruichi put up a hand forcefully. "You're a crude horrible man who everyone hates! And you try to make everyone else suffer because you do!"
Sao lifted himself up to his knees.
"I don't have to stay here, and I'm not going to. I'm sure mom would love it if you found a new wife to have a son with. That way you would finally leave her alone."
Yoruichi turned sharply, grabbed Sao's arm and walked off from her clearly shocked father.
Sao looked to Yoruichi. "You know when I said take charge I didn't mean for you to insult anybody."
The goddess laughed. "He deserved every bit of it!"
Sao chuckled and allowed himself to be dragged along.
Yoruichi chatted happily to him well into the next day.
Sao had to have many caffeinated drinks just to stay awake and listen.
When she finally passed out Sao carried her to her spare room behind the office and covered her up carefully.
She mumbled incoherently, Sao smiled and walked off to his own room far down the halls.
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About A Girl - The Academy Is
One song about a girl
Can't breathe when I'm around her
I'll wait here everyday
In case she'll scratch the surface
She'll never notice
I'm not in love
This is not my heart
I'm not gonna waste these words
About a girl
(WHOA! )
Last night I knew what to say
But you weren't there to hear it
These lines so well rehearsed
Tongue tied and overloaded
You never notice
I'm not in love
This is not my heart
I'm not gonna waste these words
About a girl
I'm not in love
This is not your song
I'm not gonna waste these words
About a girl
To be loved, to be loved
What more could you ask for?
To be loved, to be loved
Everyone wants
To be loved, to be loved
What more could you ask for?
To be loved, to be loved
Everyone...
I'm not in love
This is not my heart
I'm not gonna waste these words...
I'm not in love
This is not my heart
I'm not gonna waste these words
About a girl
I'm not in love
This is not your song
I'm not gonna waste these words
About a girl
[I love this song and it seems to fit the story perfectly. You got something to say about me makin' this chapter into a bit of a song-fic…feel free to say something']