6. YOU DID WHAT!?
Mikage twitched as Lady Yonomori sat at the table across from him. She was smiling in a cheery manner that confused the god. Why did it confuse him? He had't talked to Yonomori since three months before that when Tomoe and Mizuki caused a blood bath in the courtyard.
Inari had to clean Tomoe's wounds while Mikage had to wash the grass off; Mizuki was broken in a few places and Yonomori had vowed never to come back to, ' Mikages sorry excuse for a shrine' But now she was here and Mikage had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.
It grew worse when Nanami walked in and was fussing about something very.. -Personal-
" Tomoe is saying I kick in my sleep while he was on the other side of the- Oh Hi!" Nanami looked at the goddess and bowed. She smiled a cute little girl smile, that it until Tomoe came in and started glaring about how his side was now, forever brusied.
He was rubbing his side; but he was ready for the day; unlike Nanami. She was wearing cute bunny shorts while her hair was pulled to the side in a messy ponytail. He looked tired, as if he coudln't sleep with her in the room. Mikage chuckled at that one. He wondered what happened to them when they were alone in the kitchen.
Nanami on the other hand looked like she slept a ton, unlike Tomoe who had probably stayed up all night reading. He swore that boy needed to rest more; but apparently he got enough of that..
The god sighed as Yonomori stared at Nanami blankly, " Who are you?"
The girl blinked and then looked at Mikage before smiling, " Nanami, My name is Nanami." She smiled and the young blond giggled in response,
" Your so cute dear! Why are you in a shrine with all these aweful men? I'm sure you'd like female company, right?" She smiled but the girl shook her head. She looked slightly embarrassed as she opened her mouth. Mikage was praying that she stayed quite but it looked like the secret was going to be out soon.
Until Tomoe slapped a hand over Nanami's mouth and sent her a glare that could freeze all of Japan over. Nanami gulped under his hand before he chuckled with his fake Familair act,
" Thsi is true but we promising we woudl look after her. You see her mother will be back soon and she ONLY trust Mikage." He smiled fakley and Mikage was surprised that Yonomori bought it. She smiled and nodded,
" That sounds completely reasonable. " She looked over at Mikage and sighed, : Now tell me. You have such a pretty light around the shrine.. and that girl; Even she seems to be glowing." She smiled not know ing that her compliment made Nanami blush and turn red to the core.
Tomoe looked at her blankly and huffed, " She looks like she got hit by a bus." He spat out leaving Nanami to glare at him,
" You would like that wouldn't you?" She got in his face and he smirked,
" Oh You have no idea.." They both glared at each other until Mikage cleared his throat. He really wished these to would leave each other alone but right now they coudln't stop screaming at each other; But Mikage did notice that Tomoe had been fidgety last night at dinner.. and he didn't eat much.
He sighed heavily as they drank their tea and Tomoe and Nanami stormed to another room to argue. Even Mizuki looked a bit appalled, but to him it was nothing for Tomoe. Now he had a human following him around, an atrractive human. Mizuki sighed as he got up, excused himself and walked out to the shrine's courtyard.
He wasn't expecting the door to be opened and for him to see a fox and girl talking in a heated argument on the porch...
Tomoe glared at her; he was mad, no.. He was seething! What was this girl thinking? What had he done? He wasn't ready to look her in the eye from last night; She didn't eat and maybe that was why she wasn't puking.
But he couldn't sleep at all last night; it felt like one of those arranged marriages.. Even though he was sleeping on one side of the room and she was sleeping on the other. He had gotten up to cover her up since she kicked off her blankets; but he had gotten kicked in serveral spots.. one he didn't want to mention.
He grimaced at the memory but stood his ground and let his teeth grind. He would not think about it; he just didn't think this baby woudl ever have siblings, not that he was planning on it AT ALL.
He was already stuck with this idiot and now he had to deal with the thoughts of a baby yokai. He didn't know what to do; He was left alone at the raw age of six. When he found hsi father he was shocked to the bitter core, and he meant bitter. He wanted nothing more but to hurt the man.. but that all changed somewhere down the road.
Now?
He had a mate; and it was twisting his stomach everynight. He didn't want to have a mate; he never planned on having on, and not this soon in his life. He was stil so very young. He wasn't ready for a mate or a baby. It was a two in one thing that he had not prepared for.
" I dont know what your thinking but stop spacing out and listen to me scream at you!" Nanami pouted making Tomoe jerk out of his thoughts. He bit his lip and huffed out a breath; until his ears caught a sound. It was like a crack of a twig, adn the crunch of the grass. The sound of the dirt shifting..
Someone was watching them.
He cursed to himself and then looked at the girl with the messy hair in front of him. She was jabbering about sharing a room and he knew whoever was watching woudl get an ear full. So he had to do something quick.
This made his body react to quickly as he jerked her against his chest and started to pat her back, she squrimed against him but he slapped her head making her gasp, " Hold still; Someones peeping on our time together." He grunted hating his own words.
" We aren't doing anything Idiot! The thing I'm doing is screaming at you. I wanted to do so ever since he treated me like trash. You act like the world doesn't matter but it does.. I matter; this ba-" Tomoe cut her off as he pressed her back against his chest.
She screamed and hit at him but he held his ground; she even gouged his skin with her little nails. He had to admit she had spunk, but he wasn't going to let her go. It wouldn't be a good thing.. Especially if the perosn watching was looking for dirt on Tomoe. Something he had a lot of.
He groaned and winced as he held her tighter, He leaned his head down to whisper something but instead he looked at her neck. Tomoe froze,
What was he thinking in a time like this? What coudl he think? He had a plan but he didn't want to go through with it; The plan was to make it look like he was telling Nanami off; and then she would try to flirt.. but if he pushed her away it would save him and her from disgrace to the shrine and to the person who was so rudely watching them.
But when he looked down he froze, his teeth pinched at his tongue and he winced. She was his mate but he didn't want to accept it. He didn't want a mate yet but right now.. What he was looking at?
Was his mate mark.
He nearly choked, He was unexperienced in things like this; but right now his teeth were baring and her skin looked inviting. The mark was defeinaly there for good; it was going to scar; but for Tomoe it wasn't even really fully healed.
He remembered biting her; but that was all...
The bite was harsh, even for him. He had never bite down so harshly. He didn't mean to hurt her at all; but he lost all control that first night.. He looked at the pale skin and the red marks that were still there. They were puncture wounds but they seemed to be dragged through her skin a little.
This made him wince, how hard did he bite her? Did he hurt her to badly? He winced as NAnami struggled against him, bringing him back to their current siutation. he winced and without warning himself or her?
His teeth bared and he bit down into his old mate mark; a soft moan escaped his mouth as he bite down; the mark was his.. she was his, and it was pleasing to think about but it also scared him. He didn't know what to do at all; he had claimed her when he was drunk and he didn't even know why.
The fox bite harder and the girl gasped at his conduct. She wasn't expecting this from him but he made it worse when he sucked and licked his mark over and over again. He moaned in embarrassment; his ears flattened but he didn't care.
What was going on was something he wasn't expecting.
He moaned and groaned out as her grip tightened on his hakama; but she didn't pull away which confused him. There was a gasp though; and something hit his head..
That gasp was from their little sky; ( That he had forgotten about ) And the thing that hit him was a rock. He yelped out and held his temple leaving Nanami to watch him as he pulled away and held his head.
Blood trinkled down his temple as he blinked and tried to regain focus; then Nanami was yanked backwards and for some reason Tomoe felt his temper flare up. He looked up and saw about three Mizukis' swirling about until his vision cleared and he saw the snake holding the girl protectivly.
" I should have known! What do you plan on doing?! HUH!? Assautling a human is a crime against the gods!" He hissed out, his snake like fangs bared in anger. Tomoe on the other hand was to busy wiping his blood away; when he did look up he looked murderous.
He wanted to say something stupid or cruel; but he didn't have the guts to at the moment. Why was it that he wanted to protect Nanami? She was just a one night stand.. Right? Or did he have a reason for chosing her? What could of been his choice? Why had he chosen her for all things?
He gripped his head and glared at Mizuki in hate;" Leave her alone. I was not assaulting her idiot!" He winced out as the snake scoffed at him,
"OH!? So what do you call biting her, huh? Her neck is bleeding and shes shaking!" He gripped her arm tighter as Tomoe's head shot up.
" Maybe she's shaking because she hardly know what type of person you are!" Tomoe's voice raised slightly and he heard the snake huff out a breath. He stepped forward and the snake let his snake wrap around Tomoe's arm. It hissed untill Tomoe, with no expression, ripped its stinkin head off. The animal choked and fell off his arm, shocking the snake.
Tomoe didn't know why he was proetcting her; but he had told himself that he was going to try to make this work; he wanted to help. It was mostly his fault she was carrying his child. Most of his life he never had a dad and he wondered why; now he knew and he didn't want a baby that he made, have to deal with such pain.
Even though he wasn't sure he wanted this baby anyway; He was only going to have one mate and that was her; wither he liked it or not. There had to be a reason ... right? Or had he waisted his only chance?
" Let my mate go." Tomoe hissed out by accident; but he couldn't help it. His eyes were feral and his teeth were ready for blood.
But his words left Mizuki frozen, and the snake couldn't help but gag and shove Nanami away from him, He was sickened to think that she was his toy... She looked so innocent; but apparently the fox took that away,
" YOU DID WHAT!?" He hissed out as Nanami yelped and fell off the porch backwards, she fell on her back and yelped out in pain; this made Tomoe curse and send a glare at Mizuki. He ranked his claws over the snakes face and growled with skin splinted open and blood poured.
Mizuki gasped out in pain as Tomoe kneeled beside Nanami and tried to help her sit up.
" WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Mizuki seethed out as the blood ran down his cheek and puddled under his chin; thats when Tomoe let the biggest mistake leave his mouth. It slipped but maybe it was because Nanami was holding her stomach and wincing in pain,
" YOU IDIOT! SHE'S PREGNANT!"
And that when it all broke loose...
Yonomori pointed at the teens as Inari started to check Nanami's pulse and other things while she gasped " WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S HAVING HIS BABY!?"
Tomoe felt his ears pin in pain; this woman was creaming way to loud and it was hurting his head more then he liked. He wanted to scream at her but sadly she was god. Right now he had to deal with the fact that Inari woudln't leave him alone about how and what Nanami hit when she fell.
" She fell on her butt." He replyed blankly making Nanami glare at him. She knew, that he knew.. That the doctor said she could miscarry; and right now she didn't doubt it was in the even higher risk factor now. Why? She was forced into a large jolt and it was very painful..
Inari was checking her but he seemed to be quite; when he finally looked up he sighed heavily and looked at Tomoe sternly,
" She's to stressed. Why can't you get her past the first trimester without an accident?" The medical god sighed heavily before packing up a few things and looking over at Nanami,
" You need an ultrasound. Your supposed to take one really soon.. So I say set an early appointment."
The girl nodded and Tomoe felt himself wince; Inari had to seal up his mate mark so no infection happened. He told them they needed to do that themselves next time it happened. He also pointed to a scratch from Mizuki's hand earlier; saying that Pregnant woman should stay away from injury as much as they can.
He helped her but he said she needed to lay down for the rest of the day; which didn't suit well with Nanami at all. She pouted and for some reason Tomoe stared at her mouth. A pressence went through him to kiss her bottom lip and tell her to calm down.. but he coudln't move himself to do so.
Because it was just the mate contract..
It had to be, right? He ground his fangs and blushes when the girl looked at him with tear filled eyes; she looked down and away before swallowing, " Thank you; for taking up for me." She whispered the last part and the fox nodded before he looked over at Yonomori.
She was still screaming about how disgracful this was to the shrine; she said the baby woudl bring dishonor and Mikage was saying how he didn't care. It looked like Mikage was rasising his voice as well because he said that the woman would NOT talk about his grandchild in such a way.
The woman shook her head," You were always niave Mikage; Do you think she can even carry that baby? Shes a human! Yokai babies will be lost aroudn the fifth week; we all know this. Your son just got involved with the wrong girl." She shook her head before mikage galred.
" Thats not what I see.. And so what if the baby doesn't live? I see something.."
" Shut up." Tomoe suddenly approached them. Nanami didn't hear them because she was too focused on having her blood drawn. This relieved Tomoe to some expetnt but something bothered him.
Nanami was having birthing problems, " Are you saying." He glared, " That the baby could die?"
Yonomori shook her head, " I'm saying it will! Yokai born from humans are rare; messing with a human was a mistake."
Tomoe stared at her before shaking his head, He was not going to let that happen. What could he do? Nanami was bleeding and in pain from time to time. He had to force a pill down her mouth this morning... with his finger. She had bit him and he had looked at her shocked.
Her teeth indentions were still on his finger..
Tomoe shuddered but glared at the goddess. He huffed out a breath but said nothing. He didn't know what to do in a time like this. He was just a young teen with no head on his shoulders... He swallowed before Yonomori looked at him and winced,
" I'm sure you don't want this." She whispered out leaving Tomoe to stare at her in shock, " When the baby is born. I can take it off your hands if you wish. I can raise it as a familiar; this little baby ordeal won't be a bother. That is if the child lives past month two.' She looked at him and Mikage gasped at her offer.
Tomoe blinked, This was his chance to get rid of all hsi burdens. The child would be raised in a good household and loved; it would eat and be healthy. It would have clothes on its back and warm beds to sleep in..
But, What type of person would he be? To give anyway your own child just because your scared of what the furture holds? He couldn't do that; it wasn't right, Now even he woudl do something so cold and cruel.
The fox didn't know why but he stood and glared at the goddess, He knew this was disrespctful; but he wasn't a full familiar. He was also a son to a god.. No that hardly meant anything to her standing but he had to say something now.
So when the words slipped out he hoped she didn't curse him, " Get out." He seethed and glared at her; he saw red as she stared at his with owl like eyes. She couldn't believe what he had just said to her; and Mizuki got ticked too.
" HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO HER LIKE THAT! AND SHE WAS TRYING TO TAKE YOUR MISTAKE OFF YOUR BLOOD COVERED HANDS!" Mizuki hissed out but Tomoe sent him a cold glare. The fox rooted on the spot as the fox gave him an evil smirk,
" I said to get out. This child may be a mistake; but ist MY mistake. Its MY respnibilty, and I will not let this baby be born without knowing who I am. Your the fool and disgusting person here; trying to separate a child from its true parents. " Tomoe cursed. He wasn't sure what he was saying but Yonomori pourted and nodded; She stood and ushered Mizuki to follow her.
" I see, " She pouted, A little disappointed that she couldn't have the baby if it survived, " Then We'll leave; but my offer still stands." She smiled lightly making Tomoe's fur bristle.
" Get out before I cuss you out." Tomoe glared at her darkly and the woman went rigid; she ran out with Mizuki in tow, slamming the shrine door. When she was gone Tomoe relaxed a bit before getting hit in the head.
He looked behind him expecting Mikage to scold him for being so blunt to a goddess; but instead his father winked and patted his head, rooting Tomoe to his spot. He blinked until he looked over at where Nanami was. She wasn't in the line of hearing for him so he walked over to her and kneeled down to look at her.
She hadn't heard the conversation because Inari had, with his doctor training, kept her ears full with medical advice.
Tomoe looked at her and felt her forehead with his wrists, he pouted slighly when he felt the fever radating into his skin. He didn't know why but he was worried.. and it was eating away at him. He sighed out and looked at her,
" Are you feeling well? " He looked at her with an unreadable expression before she looked at him with shaky eyes.
She then shook her head slowly and before Tomoe could think she lurched forward and emptied her stomach on his lap...
The fox gagged and hissed in shock and Mikage gasped. Ianri looked away and gagged while Nanami started to cry," I stained your pants.." She started to wail and Tomoe felt himself pat her head, dispite the warmth soaking into his clothes. He gagged and tried to hold his own lunch before glaring at Mikage and hissing,
" Why are you standing there? Get me something else to wear.." He made a disgusted look before Mikage nodded and ran off;
Thats when she threw up again and Tomoe stiffened,
" A BUCKET! GET A BLASTED BUCKET AS WELL!" HE wailed as it seeped into his clothes; making his gag as well.
'Oh Kami.. Help him.
