Eventide

Chapter XXX

The Kishins were gone, and not just gone for the rest of the day, they were gone-gone. They didn't return that night or even that night after. We all scouted in search for Kishin but we found none. Soul even contacted the other group Meisters and they hadn't seen any Kishins either.

The Kishin race had completely been destroyed.

Now when we didn't have to bear the duty of protecting the innocent from the Kishin's wrath, we were left without anything to do, well, sort of. The reality slapped us hard at the face, we had to go back to being students at Shibusen High and fix our grades as well as we could. Mine were a lot easier to fix than Soul's or the others who had done this for a much longer time.

While I went to the local college after graduating with… well, decent grades, Soul had to go an extra year at high school in order to get his grades high enough to become what he had always dreamt of; a carpenter.

I was a little bit surprised when he told me of his dream job as a carpenter. I thought he would rather want to fix vehicles or join the army. That always just seemed more Soul to me, but when he told me how he had always fantasied after finding the meadow in the middle of the Death Forest (that is what we named it) Soul had always dreamt of building his own house there.

After a year of intense high school, and a three year long course, he finally graduated and become a carpenter.

What about me then? I just couldn't leave Soul. My dream college was across the country, but I couldn't go there without Soul and he had to stay in Death City due to his brother residing there and the whole group of ex-Meisters was there. So I chose love over my dream college and I couldn't be happier. The local college was a good one, but it wasn't like my dream college. Since my passion had always been toward education and teaching things, I of course became a teacher in English and Social Studies.

We were very lucky we lived in Wes's apartment since he took care of the bills and we only had to pay for a small bill or provide some groceries, which made it very cheap for us to live there.

Although, my father wasn't pleased when I moved into their apartment, said something about me being raped and used and other crazy stuff. The insurance went through nicely for my father and he moved into a small two bed apartment in hope that I would return home, which I never did, but we did grow a very good relationship now when my father knew about the real reason of my mother's death. He was actually very nice being around when he wasn't drunk and sulking in the past.

I had still one year left of my education to become a teacher when Soul started the project of our dreams. He took a job at a carpenter business when he was learning how to build houses properly. With the money he stashed it all until he had enough money to buy the land in the Death Forest, including the lake and the meadow for a very cheap price. The seller had said something about never managing to sell it due to the ghostly environment and bad soil to grow things on. She had obviously not seen the meadow of fruits grow there or else she would have a better chance of selling the land. The seller had been very overjoyed when she finally got to sell the "cursed" land.

Every night and weekends, Soul went to the meadow to build our dream home. We had worked on the blueprints together since we had plans of staying there for a very long time. I took most care of the looks of our house and Soul drew the blueprints. It was so perfect. We would have a porch we could sit on and we would get a hammock we could cuddle in. In the summer we would have access to large delicious apples, berries of various kinds along with other kinds of fruits.

Since the forest was so dense with branches and trees, we had to work on a road up to the meadow first. With a help of a few machines, trucks with gravel and some super spiritual form powers, the road was quickly made, and we all did it by ourselves, well, Soul did most of it. I could only help him out when I wasn't studying, which he respected highly.

When I finally graduated and got my teaching degree, I got a job at the junior high in Death City, which allowed me to help Soul more often with his project, although he didn't seem to need it that much since he cheated a lot of times and used his Spiritual form, I guess we would still have a good use of that part of our past.

I drive up the rough gravel road toward our house on the meadow. The day was over and it is time to help Soul out and check on his progress. The house is soon finished and the only thing that would be mission was electricity, paint and wallpaper and furniture.

I stop at the beginning of the meadow and kill the engine.

"Hey love." I almost jump out of my skin. Soul had gone through the car and jumped out of the steering wheel in his spiritual form. I hadn't even seen him anywhere near the car! Damn him, he must have used his speed when I wasn't looking. Sometimes I just wanted to smack him and then kiss him right afterward.

"Damn you Soul! I could have hit my head! The ceiling isn't that high you know!" Soul had always complained how small my car is, saying that with his bike he didn't have any trouble at all with ceilings or car doors or anything of that nature.

"Sorry." He says not apologetic. He goes right through the car and turns back to his normal form, opening the door for me. "I have been waiting for you."

Waiting for me? He usually didn't even know the time had flown by or noticed me driving up the road. He got so easily into his project that was the only thing he was doing, he was just building and building and building, even forgetting to eat his lunch! Many times I had to call him on my lunch in order to get him to take a break to eat his lunch and rest.

"Is that so? What are you up to now?" I get out of the car and he closes the door for me.

Soul smirks wide and traps me between his arms, his sweaty chest just an inch away from mine. "This." He brings me into a tender kiss while his arms wrap around my back. His sweaty chest presses against my blouse as he takes out the hair clip in my hair. He had a tendency of doing so when we were about to get intimate.

I smirk against Soul's lips, but not for long because I felt Soul grab a hold of my bag and snatched it from me. "Now what do we have here." He says, quickly walking away from me as he searches my purse.

"Soul!" I scream and run after him. "Give it back!" Hasn't he learned that peeking inside of a woman's purse is bad?! It is a woman's secret ground!

"Nope." He carelessly takes out one thing at a time. "Tissues, not fun." He throws it behind me, forcing me to catch the items. "Make up, you're such a girl!" He tosses it behind him with no care in the world. "Come on, where is the fun stuff―"

"Give me that!" I snatch my purse from him and puts down all of my things that he raided from it. "What exactly are you even looking for?!"

Soul smirks wide and moves close to me. "A condom." He inhales my scent loudly, his hands daringly cups my behind. "I'm in the mood~"

I shiver. His hands. They are way too skillful for his own good. "You can wait for tonight. I didn't come here to sleep with you, I came here to help you." I moan loudly when Soul's lips find my neck and gently nibbling my throat.

"No one is here to see us." Soul states, he locks and kisses my neck. His fingers find the buttons and pop open one at a time. "It's been such a long time since we last did it."

I roll my eyes and gently push Soul away. "We did it at Monday night, remember? You had hit your thumb and you wanted to get it instead of a kiss on it." He had gotten both in the end.

"Four days is still a very long time." Soul says seducing and his hands snake under my blouse.

"You will have to wait for tonight." I pull Soul's hand out from my blouse and give them a squeeze. "Now, we have a house to build. I don't know about you, but I would like to move in here in a month." I smirk wide, getting an evil idea. "Or maybe you need some motivation. You won't be getting any sex until this house is finished and all of our furniture is at their place."

Soul pouts like a small child. "That is unfair! I'm the only one who is actually working at this house!"

"Then get some people from work―"

"No!"

Oh Soul. I had tried to convince him before at getting some of his coworkers to help on the house, but he never even budged. He kept whining about who he is the only person who worked on it and therefore it would take longer time to build it. He was too much of a man to ask for help with the building, but I knew he secretly loved working alone on it. Then he could be alone with his thoughts and sing loudly for himself. Yes, Soul usually does that a lot when he thinks he is alone. Even in the shower.

I sigh loudly and walks pass Soul. "Let's just start working on it." I take off my slippers on the porch and walk inside of our house with a hammer in my hand.

We had designed the house to look like a cottage, a nice little two-store cottage with one porch and one balcony. As embarrassing as it sounds, we had designed the house so we would have one bedroom, an office for me and a garage for Soul, a guest bedroom, and an extra room we said could be used as a "storage room," but we both knew exactly what we had in mind with the extra room, a room for a child. Even though we are only twenty-four, the subjects about marriage and children had come up quite often. Most of the times we would be joking around about genders and baby names, but through the teasing and jokes, we both were dead serious.

It is obvious for both of us that we plan on spending the rest of our lives together and start our own family. Now when we both have our own jobs in the carriers we want to work in, it is a good time to really start talking about marriage and babies.

"Take it easy." Soul says, grabbing my free hand. "No helmet and no steel boots, are you begging to have a bone in your body broken?"

I snort and poke Soul playfully in the chest. "You aren't wearing a helmet either, so you would rather have perfect hair and have a broken skull than even messier hair and a whole skull?"

Soul chuckles and runs a hand through his wild white hair. "I'm a carpenter and I know secrets about buildings. I'm going to be fine." Nope. A year later he got a plank on his head, getting a concussion. Ever since that day, he wore a helmet.

I roll my eyes. "Let's just finish this so we can call the electrician to come and finish this. Oh, and tomorrow we are going to go and look for wallpaper, paint and floors for all the rooms." I had already in mind what I wanted all the rooms to look like. I wanted them to have the cottage touch to them, but at the same time modern and really look like a house and not like a cottage you come for just a summer every year.

Soul groans loudly as he lets me pull him inside of the house. "Yes ma'am." He never liked the wallpapering and painting part. He has always been more of a building type of guy, but in this industry, it is good to have many expertise.

We walk inside of the baby room where Soul instructs me of what we will do and I start hammering the walls up with the help of Soul. "Do you remember when we were younger, when I told you about where I wanted to go once the whole Kishin thing was over?"

I do. He had always dreamed of a place where the sun never set, where we would always be able to escape the moon's mocking presence and live in the day. It was a very nice picture and unfortunately, ever since that dreaded day on the field, we had never gone to that place in the world.

Maybe it was because of the pressure of reality, or the memories of the ones we lost in the fight. Chrona, Harvar and Kilik. Kilik was the hardest one to get over since he was the reason we were together. If he hadn't sacrificed his life for Soul, then we would all be dead. In honor of Kilik, he had tattooed his name over the scar on his shoulder where the Kishin had struck him.

It wasn't until days later that we knew exactly why they died. Soul though that since I was infected by my mother who obviously had phenomenal strengths, I also did, and one of mine was being able to connect myself to all the other Kishins and when Soul had struck me with his Soul Force, it was send to all the Kishins and successfully killed them all. We also came up with the conclusion that if I had killed myself, the Kishins would only be immobile for a minute before they would regenerate and was able to walk and kill again. It was a very dark and sad picture, but it was something we needed to get answers to.

"Yeah, what about it?" I ask as I carefully hammer the nails into the wall.

"I was doing some research on it and there are these places where you can actually experience midnight sun and you can go on certain cruising where you can see whales and orcas."

"So when are we leaving?"

Soul blinks his eyes in confusion while he picks up a new board and holds it toward the wall. "Who said we were going there?"

I giggle and start nailing the board to the wall. "Like you weren't implying on us going there. The only time you do research is when you have to. You don't learn just for fun. For you to search for it, you must have a motive for it."

Soul chuckles and surrenders. "Okay, fine, I want us to go there." I know him so well. "I was actually thinking we could go there and take a break from everything, you know, just to relax and have a good time."

It does sound very intriguing, seeing whales and orcas, watching the sun in the middle of the night while drinking wine and eating crackers. I like the vision.

"Do you have a date in mind?"

Soul nods and leans toward the wall when I finish nailing it. "Actually, I know it is a short notice, but I was actually thinking we could leave next weekend. The midnight sun won't last much longer."

"But what about the house? Can we just leave?"

Soul chuckles and nods. "Yeah. We could decide the floor, wallpapers and those kind of stuff and get some people to fix it for us while we are gone."

The electrician will come soon so then we will have some time to look at paints and wallpaper. We got the whole weekend for it as well. It is enough time for us to finish the house for the wallpapers and floor to go up. The only thing preventing us really is ourselves.

"I think it is a great idea." I walk up to Soul and wrap my arms around his neck. "Let's go. We both deserve a vacation and it would be fun to see midnight sun."

Soul wraps his arms around my waist, pulling me closer to him. "Is that a deal?"

"Yes." Our lips lock and we kiss passionately, with tongues and everything.

On that trip, Soul had proposed to me at midnight when the sun was still up. Our lives had taken a sudden turn with the marriage and with our dream home almost finished. I found out I was pregnant with our first baby and we both couldn't be happier. Soul had burst out crying tears of joy and I couldn't keep my tears locked behind my eyelids. Not when I was pregnant with the love of my life's child.

Yes, I enjoy my life very much when I'm not haunted at night by creepy monsters, instead, I'm haunted by Soul's hands touching my naked body. I will always prefer Soul's hands than the sound of the monster pacing back and forth outside of my window.