Previously:
A bit further up Loki was still holding Yui in his arms, watching their two friends before they both disappeared. "Oh my- Are they going to be alright? !" Yui exclaimed.
"Don't worry, Balder falls all the time." Loki explained with a grin.
"Not from that height! I saw him let go of his bike just before he disappeared!"
Loki started walking towards the edge. "Let's see how it went, then."
When they got there he put her back on her own two feet and looked down to see if Apollon and Balder were alright, only to find that Balder's bike was alone down there and that the two gods were actually still moving down the road. On one bike! Balder had surprisingly managed to grab Apollon around the neck as they had fallen and was now clinging to his back. They were both still screaming.
Loki on the other hand started laughing at the sight. It looked like Apollon was carrying a huge backpack as he was trying to steer the wiggling bike. "Hahaha, hey guys, get down here! You have to see this!" He laughed.
Yui was sweat dropping but was relieved they weren't hurt, yet, and turned around to see all of their friends heading down towards them. They seemed to be alright as well, just a few bruises here and there. She turned to look down at the two screaming gods on the bike again, they were almost out of sight now. "Um, perhaps we should just get the fireworks and call it a day?"
Now:
Apollon and Balder were sitting in the grass in front of the houses, surrounded by their friends. Apollon hadn't been able to carry Balder on his back for long and had crashed about 2 minutes after Balder had lost his bike. Their friends had turned back into their god forms and flown down to help them and once they had made sure everything was alright they had returned to where the houses were standing. They didn't stay in their god forms though, they had taken the human forms again once they had landed. Most of them were grinning down at their two exhausted-looking, blonde friends. "Are you two feeling alright?" Takeru asked, trying to hold back the laughs.
Loki couldn't stop snickering. "That was a sight worth seeing!"
"I'm still dizzy…" Balder complained.
"My whole body aches." Apollon added.
"You'll be fine!" Dionysus laughed and patted his brother on the back pretty hard. "You had time to rest when I carried you back here!"
"Dee-Dee!" Apollon cried out.
"That was hardly enough time…" Hades pointed out.
"Hm? Yui-chan, what are you doing?" Freyja asked when she noticed Yui was going through one of the bags of fireworks a little further away from where they were standing. When Yui had found what she was looking for she returned to the others with two sparklers and a lighter in her hands. She held them out in front of Balder and Apollon's faces. "Hope these will cheer you up." She smiled down at them.
Both of their faces lit up and they immediately took them from her. "Thank you, Fairy!" Apollon laughed and held his one out so she could lit it.
The moment it started sparkling Sif, Freyr, Freyja, Tyr, Hoenir, Vidar and Bragi jumped back in surprise. "Woah!" Tyr exclaimed.
"Ooh, so beautiful!" Sif smiled widely.
"What an interesting invention." Hoenir commented.
"Ha, if you enjoy that, then you should see the rest!" Takeru smirked.
They didn't have to wait for long because it was already getting darker and once the moon was up and the stars decorated the sky they moved to the nearest hill and took out the fireworks from the bags. This was new to the gods and goddesses who hadn't been to the academy with Yui and her friends, so when a rocket flew high up in the air and exploded they all fell to the ground and gasped at the sight. Loki and Takeru started laughing while the rest smiled down at them in amusement, they hadn't expected them to react this way. Soon, more and more fireworks took to the sky and when the newer gods had gotten used to them they joined the others in a game of tag, chasing each other with sparklers. "A-Ah, please be careful!" Yui laughed nervously. Of course they didn't listen to her and continued to try and burn each other with the sparkling sticks. Realising it was no use trying to stop them she took out a bag of firecrackers, wondering how strong they were. But she didn't have time to find out before Loki appeared right in front of her. "Loosen up, Kitten." He smirked and leaned down to give her a quick kiss on the mouth. This made all the other gods gasp and stop dead in their tracks. Yui's eyes were wide at first but then her body started shaking and narrowed her eyes at the trickster god. "Loki…!" She hissed through her teeth. The moment after she started throwing the firecrackers at Loki's feet, forcing him to jump backwards as she continued to throw the small, yet explosive, things at him. "I told you not to do that!" She shouted.
Their friends, who had stopped playing around, looked at the unusual couple as they were getting further and further away from the group. Loki was laughing the whole time, clearly enjoying it, and Yui refused to give up the chase. She could not let him win like he had when she had chased him with his own candy! "Remind me not to piss her off." Takeru said in amusement.
"I don't think we need to worry, the only one she would try to hurt like that is Loki." Sif giggled. "...Right?"
They turned to look at each other in uncertainty.
"... Let's not push our luck, just in case." Hades stated.
"That was all we had." Dionysus said, holding one of the empty bags in his hands.
"Already?" Freyr asked.
"Heh, you aren't satisfied yet?" Takeru grinned.
"It was just so funny!" Sif laughed. "Too bad it's over…"
"This was not the first and last time, we can always do it again another day." Yui informed.
"I definitely want to do this again, I had a really good time today." Tyr said. "I've never felt so relaxed."
Some of them looked at him as if he was insane. "Relaxed? !" Balder, Hades and Bragi exclaimed.
"Speak for yourself, I'm exhausted." Freyja giggled. "But yes, I had really fun today, too."
"Should we think about going inside to rest and then sleep?" Vidar asked.
"Good idea, there are many houses here." Hoenir agreed.
"Well then!" Loki grinned and put his arm around Yui's shoulders. "See ya tomorrow, Kitten and I are going to sleep alone!" He called as he led the confused girl towards the houses.
"Not so fast!" Balder and Takeru shouted after them.
Freyja and Sif were quick to pull Yui away from Loki. "As if we'd let you do that." Sif smirked. "We're all going to sleep together in one house."
"What's the fun in that?" Loki asked, disappointed.
"Won't it be too crowded?" Bragi asked. "I was informed there are four bedrooms in each house and we are 16 people."
"Then we will bring mattresses from the other houses and sleep on the floor. And there's a couch we can sleep on too, right?" Apollon suggested.
"Good idea, we've spent the whole day together, so why stop now?" Balder agreed.
"Damn it…" Loki complained. He didn't like this idea at all. But he didn't have a choice, so he just went along with the others to get the mattresses. It was then decided that Yui, Freyja, Sif and Bragi could take the bedrooms and the rest could sleep in the living room, so after they had eaten they all prepared to go to bed. But Loki wasn't about to give up and walked up to Yui from behind as she was taking care of the dishes and the others were occupied with other things. "Hey." He whispered in her ear. "Don't lock the door later."
"H-Huh?" Yui stuttered but Loki had already left, not giving her time to ask him why. She could feel her cheeks turn red and quickly turned to focus on the dishes to distract herself, if the others saw her face now they would definitely figure out something was up. 'W-Why am I getting nervous?'
"Yui, we're ready for bed now, are you?" Sif asked from the entrance to the kitchen.
"Ah, yes, I'm almost done!" Yui smiled, trying to hide her nervousness.
"Great, goodnight and see you tomorrow!"
"Goodnight, Sif-san!"
When Yui was done she said goodnight to the ones who were still up and walked up the stairs to her bedroom and closed the door behind her. She hadn't planned to lock the door, even before Loki had told her not to, because she was pretty sure her friends wouldn't walk in. But now that she knew Loki would come the thought hit her, not that a locked door could stop him anyway… It wasn't like she didn't want him to come to her, it was just that she was afraid their friends would hear them if they took things, um, far enough. 'We… We just have to be quiet…' She thought and stepped away from the door, leaving it unlocked and moved to sit on the bed.
She had waited for almost an hour in the dark room when she heard the door open slowly. She waited to say something until the door was closed again. "What took you so long?"
Loki smirked as he walked up to the bed where she was sitting. "So eager to be alone with me?"
"Don't tease me, I was just wondering where you were."
"Balder wouldn't stop talking and he fell asleep like 2 minutes ago." Loki explained and offered Yui his hand and pulled her up from the bed. He kissed her immediately after that and Yui wasn't about to resist him and hugged him around the neck. "The others will hear if we're not quiet." Yui whispered through the kisses.
"And that's why we're escaping." Loki grinned, took her hand in his and walked towards the window.
"Loki?"
Loki changed into his god form before he opened the window. "Alright, let's go."
"Bu- But where?"
He pulled her towards him and picked her up, then they flew out the window and left their unsuspecting and sleeping friends behind. When they landed they were several houses away from them, there was no way they would be able to hear them now. Loki put his girl down and opened the door to another house. "After you."
Yui smiled at him and walked inside, stopping when she heard Loki close the door behind them. But she didn't turn around, instead she closed her eyes and waited. It didn't take long before Loki's arms sneaked around her from behind and started kissing her neck. Yui had nothing to complain about, they were alone, no one could hear them, the house was dark and she was ready. His hands were moving all over her body and she responded by leaning closer against him and giving him more access to her neck.
They continued like that for another minute before Loki stopped and whispered, "Shall we continue upstairs?"
Yui, with her back still turned to him, nodded and allowed Loki to pick her up in his arms again and take her up the stairs to the bedroom, closing the door behind them with his foot as they disappeared inside the dark room.
When morning came and it was getting brighter outside the gods were starting to wake up, a little annoyed with the sun for disturbing their sleep. It wouldn't have mattered if they had been in their god forms but since none of them had turned back yet they felt the need to sleep in and tossed and turned on the mattresses as they tried to go back to sleep. It wasn't until they heard footsteps coming down the stairs they decided they should try and wake up. "Morning guys!" Sif greeted and walked up to Thor, who was still sleeping, and nudged him with her foot. "Rise and shine."
A moment later Balder, Takeru, Apollon and Tyr sat up and stretched their arms. "Good morning." Apollon said with a yawn.
"Damn, I wanted to sleep more. Human bodies are so weak…" Takeru complained.
"Now I know how Yui-san feels when she's not getting enough sleep." Tyr added and stood up from the floor.
Balder looked like he wanted to lie back down but stopped himself when he noticed the mattress beside his was empty. He took a look around the room before he asked the ones who were awake, "Where is Loki?"
It got very quiet as eyes turned to him and then to the spot where Loki was supposed to be. Then they looked at each other with wide eyes when they realised what must have happened and hurried up the stairs and stopped by the closed door to Yui's room. "Should we knock?" Tyr asked. "Of course we have to!" Balder exclaimed. "Just open the door!" Takeru shouted. "We can't do that, what if they're doing something in there?" Sif frowned. "You really think Loki-Loki went into her room? He would do that?" Apollon asked. "Yes!" They all exclaimed and Takeru immediately moved to open the door.
"T-Takeru!" Sif shouted quietly but it was too late to stop him and the door flew open. Takeru was just about to open his mouth and shout something at Loki but quickly stopped himself and the rest had to hold their breaths so they wouldn't make any noises. Inside the room on the bed Yui was sleeping, alone! And they slowly backed out of the room and Takeru closed the door very quietly. "Well, um…" He said in shame.
"He wasn't there." Sif pointed out.
"No, it appeared he wasn't…" Tyr spoke.
"I feel bad now, I feel bad!" Apollon cried out.
"Agana Belea, please be quiet." Balder said, trying to calm him down.
"But, where is he then?" Takeru asked.
"What are you all doing?" They heard Hades ask them from downstairs.
"Ah, um, nothing!" Apollon laughed awkwardly.
"We're coming down now." Sif said and pushed the boys towards the stairs.
Once they were down again, Hades and Dionysus were waiting for them. "You disappeared fast." Dionysus pointed out.
"Ehehe, guess we jumped to the wrong conclusion." Apollon said and rubbed his head in embarrassment.
"I thought for sure they had done something." Takeru commented.
"Who?" Freyr asked as he pulled himself up from the mattress.
"Loki and Yui-san." Balder answered. "Loki wasn't here when we woke up."
In that moment, Loki's grinning face appeared from inside the kitchen. "Good morning~" He sang. "Ready for breakfast?"
"Loki?" "Loki-Loki?" Balder and Apollon exclaimed in surprise. "You were in the kitchen the whole time?" Takeru asked.
"Where else would I be?" Loki asked innocently. "Come on before it gets cold." And then he disappeared into the kitchen again. Thor, Vidar, Hoenir and Tsukito followed him without question, leaving the others to wonder if Loki actually hadn't done anything suspicious.
"I wonder what he has made? Loki has always been a good cook." Sif smiled and followed them, forgetting about their earlier conversation.
"I love Loki's food!" Balder agreed and ran towards the kitchen.
"Weed and the other two are still sleeping upstairs, should we wake them?" Takeru asked.
"Let them sleep." Tyr answered.
"They'll come down when they're ready." Hades added.
When the remaining gods walked into the kitchen the others had already started eating. The food Loki had made stood on the table, consisting of pancakes, eggs, bacon and bread. A lot of it. "You had time to make all this?" Dionysus asked in disbelief.
"We didn't even hear you move around in here." Apollon pointed out.
"But it smells so good!" Balder smiled widely as he filled his plate with bacon.
"Eat as much as you want, Balder." Loki grinned proudly at his best friend beside him and handed him some eggs as well.
As time passed they were starting to wonder if they should wake the remaining 3 people upstairs since they were almost done.
"How long are they planning to sleep?" Balder asked. "We're returning home today."
"The beds are probably too comfortable." Hades answered.
"They are." Sif confirmed and smiled in satisfaction. "You should have joined me, Thor." She joked.
Thor blinked at her and then looked down at the food in front of him. "Remind me next time."
Silence ~
"Wohoo~ Are you actually accepting her invitation?" Dionysus grinned.
"... I am."
Thor's answer made Sif's eyes wide in surprise but she quickly looked away. "T-Then I will tell you next time…" She didn't have time to be embarrassed for long because screams from upstairs caught their attention.
Apollon, Balder, Loki, Hades and Takeru rushed up the stairs to see what was going on just in time to see Freyja and Bragi pulling themselves up from the floor in the doorway to Yui's room. "What are you doing? That's Yui-san's room." Balder asked.
Bragi just rubbed his head, embarrassed about the situation as Freyja seemed to be helping the person inside the room up from the floor. "Sorry, sweetheart." She apologized.
"It's alright, Freyja-san." They heard Yui say right before she and the goddess stepped out of the room where they were waiting. Yui looked at them in surprise. "What's going on?"
"That's what we were going to ask." Takeru said. "We heard screams."
"Oh, that…" Freyja laughed nervously. "When I came out of my bedroom I wanted to see if Loki had sneaked into Yui-chan's room and pressed my ear against the door."
"And I noticed her and told her to stop." Bragi continued. "But Yui was obviously on her way out and opened the door when Freyja was still leaning against it. When she started falling I tried to grab her but lost my balance and fell down with her."
"And then we, sort of, landed on her. Please forgive me, Yui-chan, I shouldn't have tried to spy on you." Freyja told Yui.
Yui just smiled sweetly at her. "I forgive you, Freyja-san, I was just surprised."
"My god… Here we thought something bad had happened." Hades sighed in relief.
"Something bad did happen." Loki said with a small smirk and made his way over to Yui. "You should be careful with a woman in her condition." Yui's cheeks turned pink and she looked away from Loki and down to the floor.
"Condition?" Their friends asked in unison.
"Ah, it's nothing!" Yui exclaimed, remembering what had taken place last night. She was feeling sore, yes, but had hoped she could hide it so the others wouldn't notice. Loki on the other hand wasn't about to keep the secret. "Of course it is, you should rest your body."
"Loki…!" She exclaimed through her teeth.
Freyja had figured it out by now and smirked at them. "Alright, what did you two do last night?"
"N-Nothing worth mentioning!" Yui stuttered.
Takeru and Balder crossed their arms as they turned to Loki.
"I took her to another house after you had fallen asleep." Loki explained.
"You-You-You-! ?" Takeru shouted.
"Lokiiiii…" Balder warned.
"Don't worry, I was really gentle with her." Loki grinned.
Bragi placed a hand over his face, feeling sorry for Yui, and Apollon looked like he was about to faint.
"In the beginning at least." He added.
"That's it! You're dead!" Takeru screamed and sprinted towards Loki, who jumped to the side to avoid him. Takeru continued to chase him and the whole thing ended with both gods running down the stairs, passing their surprised and confused friends who had stepped out from the kitchen to see what was taking so long, and then out the door. Balder and the others followed them down the stairs, leaving an embarrassed Yui alone outside her room. She could hear their shouts and laughter both downstairs and outside and started smiling once she had calmed her nerves. "So, this is how it's going to be." She said to herself. 'A life with Loki is definitely going to be interesting. I should have known he wouldn't be able to keep his mouth shut and I believe it's going to take a while before our friends get used to this and stop trying to hurt him the moment he lays his hands on me.' She thought with a small giggle. "Oh well." She said and started walking towards the stairs. "Let's see if I can help him out of this mess."
A/N: One more chapter left! And it will be out in about 6 - 8 days!
