Yo two chapters in one night!
Any one ever watched Fruits Basket? I love it. Now a small poll. Which Naruto opening and ending's do you like? I love opening 7 and don't ask me to pick an ending. I care too much about this show huh?
Ereshkigal
Her people were simple craftsmen and women. War was hardly heard of in her land, Babylon. She watched lovingly as the children ran in the street, laughing.
She watched one in particular. She had long bronze hair and brown eyes. Her skin was a rich brown, never once clashing with her soft features. She didn't know the young girls name, but had seen her birth and considered her to be her own angel.
"Did you give her a name in your head?" Sasuke muttered, squinting at the sun.
"Sunshine in Latin. Soles. She reminded me of the sun. Such a beautiful girl." Sakura was putting daisies in the boy's hair. He didn't look happy, but didn't mind either. She continued his story.
She would watch the girl and her mother weave baskets, sometimes helping out. She could never hear them from the orb, but could cast spells. The family was preparing for The Lunar Waning period was upon them. It was usually when they prayed to her, hoping she did not take away from them. She seldom did from the good, earnest citizens. Her child looked stunning in the festival clothing her mother had made. A deep purple dress with gold trimming. Her smile grew tenfold as she spoke to her mother.
"What is the Lunar Festival?" He looked up from her lap through dark lashes
"We have two." She smiled back, finally finishing her flower crown. She placed it on his head. "The waxing moon meant fortuitous living. Waning was the time to be weary."
"Because one got lighter during the full moon and the other is a new moon?" He closed his eyes again, pollen assaulting his vision.
"Aye. Keen observation. My people were superstitious in that respect."
"Continue."
With the talk of festival, Ereshkigal never thought of a war. But the warring city-states around her beautiful city thought otherwise. The first attack was the night of the festival. King Cyrus the Great of Persia had waged war, destroying half the city.
"We learned about this." Sasuke frowned.
"So you know. Soles was killed on the third night. I did my best to protect her."
She watched in horror with the city burned. Tears crashed down her face when she saw her sunshine in her domain.
"Sir." One of the Anunnaki bowed to her. "We are seeing another influx of-"
"Go check them in. Create another land apart from the West. I do not wish to see my people in the West. Go, please."
"Yes, sir."
"What is a Anunnaki?" Sasuke sat up, causing the flowers to fall into his eyes.
She laughed, replacing it on his head. "A council of my own. A court that determines the fate of the souls."
"Oh." Sasuke looked like fall and spring, dark colors with the bright yellow flowers.
"Yes."
For years she watched her city crash and burn and the souls sail in. The souls never spoke, a toll paid to allow them passage but she could see the sadness in their lifeless eyes.
When her world finally met its end at the hands of Muslin rule. Even during that rule, she watched over the land. She had asked the other Mesopotamian God's to watch over as well, but they left, starting wars with other growing Gods for their land. She was the only one left by the Greco-Roman times.
It did not take long for the council to start up. They made it their sole mission to annoy her. Continuously pestering her about her various conquests.
"What do you mean by that?"
"What, dear?"
"Conquests?"
"I will not lie. Sex was a release. Are you angry?"
"No." Sasuke's face went red, turning away from his lover.
"Jealous?"
"No..." ?" Red burned at the tips of her lover's ears. A light pink dusted his cheeks as her violently turned from her.
"Ah. Relax. For as long as you live. I am yours." Her green nails touched his cheek, pushing his face to hers once more.
"Good..."
"Breathe. Wouldn't want you to have an attack."
Sasuke calmed, looking at her. "What about the Gods in your world?"
"The three I rule with?"
"Yeah." He lay back on her lap, taking off his crown to place it on her while moving her bangs in the process.
It wasn't until she met Uranus did she feel truly alive again. He was a selfless lover, careful as well. He had cut ties with her when he met his wife and had Zeus. What he hadn't known was Ereshkigal had a son of her own: Hades.
"Son?"
"Three. Quiet, I'll tell you."
Whiro was her middle child, more creative and assertive than his brother. Ranginui, father sky, was his father. Ranginui wanted nothing to do with his son, which made it easier on the Queen.
Lucifer came last, a strange case. His father, Satan was not her usual lover. He was quiet rough and didn't care for her like Uranus did. After she had his son, she refused to see him again if it were outside of council. But he was a coward, couldn't go against her if he tried. And when he did, she humiliated him, not by killing him, but by ripping an arm off and hitting him with it.
"..."
"Do not anger me then, little one." She kissed his pale nose, smiling.
"Three children."
"Technically Gods, but." She lifted her arms in a 'oh well' gesture.
"Yeah."
"I would love to introduce you to my youngest. He may like you more then the older children."
"Oh. Okay. Yeah, sure."
"But allow me to finish my story."
The three of them were her solace, no longer needing frivolous interactions to fill her life. She raised each one with love. Then she met her human, the only human to gain her attention since that little girl. He was gorgeous to say the least. And since that day she saw him walking to the market with his family. She was in love then.
"I like that part."
"Do you?"
"Yes." Sitting up again, he kissed her, in the grass field they met in. The breeze blew their hair, mixing ash with coral. "Because I fell in love too."
Anaru
She was with that human again. How could the mother of three just leave them for a human? It was like how she left his young brother to see what he should not have seen. Ezraeil was more sensitive than he and Hades his mother knew that. She didn't even try to correct the wrong. His brother meant nothing to that vile women, and now she was with that human.
"She's terrible isn't she?"
"Yes."
"You have the power to dispose of her."
"I do."
"So you should. I shall help you."
"How?"
"We start with the human."
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I am burnt. But also a genius. Why? I found a quick way to make mini doughnuts. I love it.
Read and review, it wont be very humorous in the next chapters, sorry.
