Haven't beta-ed. But still review please~
Dedicated to : All of my readers.
"Hey." Serah patted the man beside her sister's bed. He was asleep, with his head on the edge of the bed while he sat on a chair. The man just groaned as he snuggled more onto his hands ; trying to find a more comfortable position. "Hey, wake up. Don't you need to go to the office today?" Serah shook his body softly.
"Uh... What time is it ?" Noctis sleepily asked with a rough voice as he got up from his position from the bed and leaned up to the chairp as well as rubbing hi eyes.
"It's half past eight." Serah answered as she offered a glass of water, which Noctis took gratefully.
"It's already that late?" Noctis yawned as he strecthed a bit and stood.
"You should take a proper rest at home, Noctis-san. Onee-chan has gone through her critical state, so you don't need to worry." Serah said.
"Yeah, but it's not my reason only." Noctis simply answered. He took his coat on the sofa near the window as well as his things on the way.
"You don't need to feel obligated just because you're my sister's husband. You sure don't act like one before, so, no need to. Beside, you only be her husband because of that damned arranged marriage." Serah sneered. Noctis mentally sighed.
"Are you still angry at me, Serah ? I do it because I want to, not because I feel obligated."
"Yeah yeah, says the man who want a divorce with my sister. To be blunt, I'd rather to see my sister gets hurt right now and be able to achieve a true happiness rather than forever having pleasure-pain relationship with you. I respect and admire you for your skills personally Noctis-san, but if we're talking about you and my sister, due all of the respect, I dislike you." Serah said rather icily.
Ouch, that touched a nerve.
"Why is everyone from Lightning's side go against me? What's your problem?" Noctis frustatedly said.
"You'll know soon enough. Let's just hope that the Luck Goddess is still by your side since in my opinion, you're starting to fight a losing battle." Serah said. "Anyway, you're running late." She pointed out to the clock, a silent warning to get out.
Noctis sullenly and grudgingly went out from her wife's hospital room. If it's not his duty as the CEO of CC (*), he will definitely sit by his wife side until she wake up from her coma and quickly fix their problems. Noctis sighed mentally. His marriage was a mess, his father was a pain with how he was displeased with their marriage issue, Lightning's unrelated blood little brother, aka Hope was constantly after his neck, his Lightning current status didn't help either, and especially-
"Why the hell is Cid here ?" Noctis thought edgily as he roughly jerked his steer around; making a loud noise of friction between the asphalt road and his tires after he saw –again- an all too familiar white sleek BMW. It has been a month after Lightning's rescue mission and a week after Lightning finally passed her critical condition for three weeks.
And it was a simulation of the definition of hell for Noctis.
Flashback
As the plan, Noctis along with his team and Hope's, went straight into the core of the building, where Lightning was suspected to be. An truth to be told, ta da, here they were, along with the cursed big boss to kill. His and Hope's team dealt with the guards around the man
But there's no Lightning in sight.
"Ah, you're finally here, Noctis-kun."The man said with false kind voice as he sat on a sofa in the middle of the room, as if he was having a nice chat with his potential client.
"Where is she ?" Noctis cut to the point as he gripped his favorite swords with the others weaponry behind him, ready to strike at his command.
"Ah, your petite lovely ex-wife ?" he said easily as he took a sip on a glass of red liquid; unperturbed to the fact that he was facing a fully armed Noctis alone as his subordinates were busy with their own enemies.
"Don't you dare to say that." Noctis snarled. His eyes kept flicking between red and black; signaling his rage.
"Ah, why not ? She was a lovely company. Very lovely, if not the fact that she was very intent of protecting you, I must say." He took another sip. "Do you want to know what I did to her ? What she endured because of you ?" he stood and walked slowly to Noctis.
Noctis grip tensed. Ready to strike anytime.
"And you have to know, my dear Noctis," he stop right in about one meter in front of Noctis with his still slightly full glass on his right hand . "that what you saw in the little gift I made for you was just a kids play to compare what I did to her every seconds as she waited for you."
And he poured the red content of his glass to the ground.
Time felt like slowing down as Noctis watch the red liquid spilled to the ground. As the first drop touched the ground, his eyes widened ridiculously as he realized what it was.
Blood. A freshly taken blood.
And,
With how he pronounced it, everything clicked in Noctis mind.
It was Lightning's.
A glass full of Lightning's fresh blood.
A glass full of-
Screaming in rage, Noctis lost control as he unconsciously freed his inner beast. His eyes turned black with tint of white. His dark blue hair changed into pitch black as it longed a bit. A powerful, black and menacing aura surrounded him, making all the battles around him stop to see what happened. A strong power filled his body as a red tattoo appeared on his neck. He stared right into the scared eyes of the man in front of him as he seemed shocked at Noctis change of form.
"Then I'll just have to pay you double of what you did to my mate, then." He smirked maniacally as his blood lust intensified insignificantly at the thought of his injured mate.
"Oh, shit!" Prompto yell break the tense atmosphere around the stopped battle around his best friend slash crown prince and the man who started all of this bullshit.
The last thing he remembered was Prompto's yell of curse before he finally succumbed to his demon instinct to take over and let go of his rational mind.
- A glass full of Lightning's life line. –
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The next time he woke up, he was being awaken from his state by his father command. And when he has taken a hold of his body once more, caging his demon once again, he realized that his Lightning already in his arm with her head leaning onto his chest and her wounded legs were supported by his right hand.
"Wha-?"A half conscious Noctis said before he was cut down by Aerith shrill command.
"Noctis, give Lightning to Zack so Serah can treat your wounds and I can treat Light's." Aerith commanded, her voice was demanding but still a bit hesitant as she could see that her crown prince's demon hasn't exactly went back to the depth of his heart, but rather, still watching from his conscious for his mate's safety.
And a pure blooded demon in his alert for his mate's safety was the most terrifying thing that Aerith ever saw, if the recent event was anything to go by.
"Why? You can just treat her with me holding her." Noctis hissed as his eyes flickered back between his usual golden into black-red.
"Bingo.." Aerith thought with a small sigh.
"Well, we need to treat your wounds also, if you haven't notice it." Aerith said with a huff. "Beside, if you don't put her to the mattress, how on Earth am I going to heal her ?" Aerith twitched.
"I'll be fine. My wounds will regenerate soon." Noctis growled, when he saw Lightning's current state, for the first time ever, his demon agreed with him.
'Let the flower girl treat our mate…..'
Noctis sighed before he, albeit a bit grudgingly, put Lightning onto the mattress Aerith was talking about. Right after he put her and assured that she's safe within his comrades' guard, Noctis finally felt the nagging feeling of pure exhaustion, and before he realized it, he stumbled down with the gravity.
"Noctis !" Prompto managed to support him with his uninjured left shoulder before his stubborn and idiotic excuse for a best friend really kissed the ground silly.
"All of you should go back to the headquarter to get a proper medication. We'll take care of the clean up." Rufus said, earned a nod from Reeves.
Noctis only remembered after that decision, he was helped by Prompto with Zack walked to the helicopter and put down on a seat. The rest of it was a big blur to him, including when he was in the hospital.
.
The time he really woke up, fully conscious with his demon nowhere within his conscious mind, Noctis bolted from his bed with one thought in his mind, Lightning. With a small hiss, he forcefully tore the syringe from his wrist and bolted out from his hospital room. He noticed that he was put in the VVIP's section in Aerith's hospital in his hazy mind, so that means-
Noctis took a turn to the left and jogged around some more, before the glass room on his left caught his attention.
There she was, laying so pale yet beautiful with her pink locks around her head like a halo. Many wires were attached to her. So many….
His shock didn't last for long as suddenly a hand was squeezing his injured shoulder with a bit too much power; snapping him out from his thought.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you still asleep like a fucking princess ?" A snarl came out from Hope.
"That's none of your business." Noctis growled, from both the burning pain on his shoulder and from his irritation.
Fortunately, a demanding and all too familiar voice interrupted them, before both of them managed to tear each other throat.
"NOCTIS, HOPE! WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU BOTH DOING OUTSIDE OF YOUR ROOM?" she yelled as she put her hand on her hips. Her yell boomed around the empty corridor.
"YOU! I've told you to not wander here until your legs are fully healed !" Aerith pointed to a pale as a sheet face of Hope.
"AND YOU!" Aerith pointed her hand to Noctis. "You tore your stitch again, not to mention you should've laid on your bed and not walking around!"
"I just want to see Lightning."
"I just want to see Light-nee-chan."
Both of them shocked at what they said together, soon, both of them growled to each other again.
Aerith face palmed at the both young adults with the personality of half of their shoes size.
"She's in comatose. So there'd be no use of wearying yourself out when she's in that state. Both of you have to fully healed to be able to visit her." Aerith said a bit softly, not knowing how both of them would take the news.
"What's the catch ?" Noctis said back to Aerith. His face betrayed nothing but cold façade.
"Her body was unable to take any burden anymore, be it from physically and mentally, and her wounds were far too great than we predicted. If she managed to overcome her critical condition, then she would definitely life, even though we wouldn't know how long she'll be in comatose state then, with her body recuperating from the trauma. But if not… Just let's pray that she'll overcome it, okay?" Aerith sighed deeply.
"Of course she will, she's our Lightning, right ?" Hope said with much confident he could muster that time. It felt like he was trying to convince himself, and other occupants in that corridor as both Noctis and Aerith couldn't said anything as the bitter truth was served naked in front of them.
"If she didn't manage to survive, then she'll die for real."
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And after that incident, Noctis always went into his wife's room at least for an hour or two in day after he was allowed to visit her. Sometimes he really grateful for his fast heal abilities for he could visit his lithe lover, but he was discharged from hospital a few days later because of this also; making him unable to visit Lightning as frequent and as long as he was in the hospital, with his duties as the CEO and all.
So he opted with staying overnight in there.
And there's his annoying, little sister in law.
Noctis sighed as his exhausted figure sat on his comfortable seat in his car as he waited for the light turn green. He let his thought wandered to the three suspicious people around his wife, Hope, Serah, and Cid.
"Were they conspiring something ?" Noctis thought as he smashed his hand on the steer with enough frustration to kill an elephant.
AN
So yeah… Please don't kill me with you killing intent… *fiddling*
My reason for lateness ? The usual songs, school, some school's projects that were left to me, my job as the designer in my school's, working, balancing between family and friends and special friends time *ahem*, some troubles with my father, some emotional break down *and it happened again recently* I even don't have any proper time to actually hang our with my friends or watch a movie .. *deep sigh*
Dear quasi una fantasia, this is the update you wanntt~ XD
And I also found my "twin" recently.. we share the same love for vocaloid, utaite/utattemita, anime, seiyuu, and all… even our crush's first name are in the chronological order, so example, my crush name is BBB, then hers is CCC… even we have the same first letter for our call name, my name is Rahma, and her is R*** and we even live in Asia also… COULD YOU BELIVE THAT ? I almost fainted in shock when we found these out. LOOOOL she's also an amazing and successful authoress in fanfiction in SasuSaku pairing :3 wanna know her ? ;)
And please, if any of you have the same interest with mine, please PM me or tweet me so we can squealing together~
Anyway…. anyone loves hakuouki here ? anyone ?
Oh, just a question *not that I'mma delete it or something…* is suffocation that bad ? :\
R&R guys !