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This story's got SAD parts. It also includes things I don't condone and do not advise you to do like- cheating, drinking, keeping secrets, holding onto silly angst, or mixing whiskey and rum. If you do it, I hold no responsibility.

So. Enough of that, more importantly,

This story is DEDICATED TO kurono-aijin!

This is all for you Kuro, who wanted long fics from the sentences challenges. (Sorry it's such a crappy fic) K. Shutting up now.

ENJOY!

P.S. So sorry! I know this chapter came in late, but an unexpected someone showed up and all sorts of events came into play because of that person showing up and yeah- Shutting up now.

P.P.S. Please don't kill me after this chapter. If you do, you won't know what happens next! There's 11 chapters in total, you know!

#07 - Whimsy

"-And that's why I can't, Neuro. It wouldn't be right. I can't cheat on him. You understand, right? What we did.. I won't let it happen again. I'm sorry. I don't want to hurt your feelings, it's just-"

His fists clenched. Neuro took another look at her, this girl he had somehow developed feelings for and then-

He smashed her head into the wall. He didn't want to see her face. Her eyes. Her lips.

She had spoken earnestly. He knew it. She had meant it, what she said, with all her heart. Shockingly it hurt. Every word hurt, the look in her eyes hurt. This was betrayal. Of a sort, anyway.

Neuro laughed grimly to himself, shocked. This is what became of a daemon with feelings, a daemon who had developed a heart.

His heart was broken, his feelings hurt. By a human, no less!

What had happened to him? He had been feared over the whole of the Daemon World, second only to the Daemon Emperor himself.

And he was reduced to an idiot, a being too daemon to be human and too human to be daemon.

By this girl, no less. How very...devolved of him.

The louse lifted her head. She opened her mouth to speak and Neuro immediately cut her off, kicking her across the room. She landed on her backside, legs sprawled.

Neuro bent down until he was in her face and then he grinned his very best 'evil' grin.

"Stupid Louse. How could you ever believe a daemon, such a highly evolved being like myself, could care less? Last night was simply another torture. A whimsy of mine. You moronic bug. The only reason I participated was because I was curious what humans found so very engrossing about it. Hmmph. It's ridiculous, that your species' lives revolve around such a disgusting and boring activity. If that's all you can offer, it's amazing that mate of yours bothers to stick around, Louse."

She stared up at him, shocked. Tears began to roll down her face.

His eyes glittered. He enjoyed this. This was retribution for her, denying him, for turning him into a pathetic creature stuck between daemon and human.

She deserved it.

And that's what he kept telling himself as she ran out the door, quietly sobbing.

She deserved it.

But all the same, as he watched her leave that night, running to her car with one arm flung up to cover her tears, he found that the sight of her tears stung more than he would ever say, and for the rest of that night and days after, his mind was constantly filled with the image of her, running out the door.

The image of her leaving him.

Of her crying because of him.

It was surprising how much it hurt.

P.P.P.S (The P.S. are getting rather ridiculous, aren't they? Something funny about seeing that many in a row..)

I am hurt that that many of you would think Yako would keep cheating behind her husband's back. She's a decent and mostly honest person, you know!

(Or at least I thought she was.) She always tries to do her best by everybody. SO! There will be no more extra-marital encounters.

Oh hang on, I take that back.. But the later ones don't really count... ANYWAY- The earlier part is my reasoning for her not continuing to be an adulterer. I hate people like that and I don't condone it, so she's going to be a good girl and stop. For now, anyway.

Sorry for all the weird cryptic-ness, it's just I hate giving away future plot points.

Going to hide in a trash can now so you readers (and Neuro) can't track me down and kill me!

Qrzi.