Happily ever after
Sequel to Missing voice
Shizuo for the first time ever was truly content. He had a lover that would never let him go. He had a friend and a replacement family for his own, he had a child and he had two men that were a cross between friend and family. They had names but anything other than eel wasn't welcomed. He was happy and it terrified him. Because happiness was always stolen. Those up high were brought down low. There was never truly a happy ever after for a fairytale and especially not for a villain, like his lover had made himself to be.
It felt like there was an invisible clock above his head, slowly counting down to when he'd lose everything. Right now they were on land, staying in the Orihara estate. Shizuo was in his true form but still a soul given his body had long since died and washed up on shore. He had his own voice rather than the shallow princess's and the bond between him and the sea witch was unbreakable.
But watching out for attacks and schemes from both the land and the sea was making him anxious and paranoid. It wasn't going to last.
x-x-x
"Sea witch!"
Izaya paused as he left the dining room. Kanra was a strange human. She knew what he was and yet still antagonised him. She'd also slept with his lover and had a child with him. They were just friends though which complicated things and yet simplified them at the same time. She was both a threat and harmless.
"I'm not reading to the human children." Izaya said before she asked for the dozenth time. She thought it would be fun for the villain to read fairytales.
"It's not about that." Kanra's mischievous look dropped and her lips set in a thin line, eyes cold. "It's about Lordling. He's not used to being happy. He's a romantic at heart but after what he's been through he doesn't believe in happy ever afters. He's likely waiting for something bad to happen. Reassure him before he starts self destructing. Trust me, it's not pretty."
Without a word she turned on her heel and stormed down the hall, the whirlwind that she was.
Unfortunately her words were worth listening to as she had memories with Shizuo, that he did not. It was irritating like he was playing catch-up.
Izaya changed direction and went to where he knew his lover would be. In his old room, lost amongst the fairytales he wished to read to the orphaned children. They'd already discussed how dangerous it would be. They were here for Shizuo's daughter and to stay far away from the merfolk.
x-x-x
Shizuo sighed closing the little mermaid book and returning it to the shelf. He heard a creak and then he was being pulled against a solid body, tentacles coiling around his limbs. Letting himself relax, he rested his head against Izaya's shoulder.
"You're restless." The sea witch murmured. "Why?"
Shizuo sighed. He didn't know why he thought he'd be able to hide a thing from his lover. His soul was bound by the sea witch's magic. "I don't like the clothes."
"I don't either." Izaya murmured. "It's an unnecessary layer. But that's not it. Try again, Shizu-chan."
"There's so much to lose now" Shizuo heard the despair in his voice. "Not a single one of these stories does the villain win."
"That's right. The villain always loses." Izaya kissed his cheek. "Whose story is this?"
Shizuo blinked and frowned. "You're from the little mermaid, so Ariel's?"
"No. It's yours. This is your life and your story. You're the main character, Shizu-chan. You grew up in a horrible family, you were murdered and then you found your Prince Charming."
Shizuo snorted but his mood quickly soured. "Except there's no happy ever after. The villains are all alive and scheming. And it's not just my story. Everyone is the main character of their own story. So yeah, to me you're the prince. To Ariel you're the villain, same with the prince and my family. Just a matter of perspective. Hell that could mean no one wins. Maybe we all lose. Maybe we all- Ah!"
Izaya kissed him. It seemed the sea witch had enough of his rambling and was determined to shut him up. He was fine with that, his body content to be pushed up against the book case, his knees lifted so his legs were locked around Izaya's waist. His head fell forward, resting on Izaya's shoulder, held tight by both human limbs and tentacles. He felt safe and secure but his fears continued to batter his thoughts.
"I love you." Shizuo murmured. "For however long we have."
Izaya hadn't said those three little words, he didn't expect him to. The sea witch was all powerful and he was the pathetic human soul bound to life by the sea witch's magic. Eventually he would be just like the eels, following along.
He'd failed to save the sea witch from becoming a villain. Now they had both land and sea enemies. He'd made a wish and he'd failed.
Izaya's fingers smoothed across his cheek. The sea witch never felt weak. In human form, Izaya was stunning with short inky black hair and jewel like red eyes, he was the dark prince everyone both feared and wanted. In his true form, Izaya was power. His lover's tentacles were long, thick and versatile. The aura around him was dark and thick like a god waiting to deliver judgment.
"You fear pointless things, Shizu-chan." Izaya murmured. "You are mine. That is all you need to know and believe. Nothing will harm you. Nothing and no one will take you from me."
Shizuo met Izaya's gaze. Focused. Determined. "And what about you?" He asked.
The sea witch smirked. "I can handle myself."
x-x-x
Shizuo sat alone in Kanra's room. She still had the ridiculous chaise. Motherhood had not killed any of her wild spirit. He suspected it had stopped her opium use.
"You're fretting, lordling." Kanra said sashaying into the room and letting the door click behind her. "Did your big, strong tentacle witch not soothe you?"
"You're not funny." Shizuo scowled.
"Neither is your obsession with focusing on what could go wrong." Kanra retorted. "That way lies tragedy and apparently shrinkage. You're a foot shorter than you should be."
Shizuo sighed, curling up on the chaise. His body rippled back into the golden octopus he was so comfortable with. Kanra sat and lifted him into her lap. He much preferred to be coiled around Izaya's neck but Kanra and the eels weren't so bad either.
"Trust in your witch, Lordling." Kanra murmured.
x-x-x
"Where's Shizuo, boss?" One of the eels frowned looking behind him.
"Yeah, aren't you always together?" The other asked. "Married like."
The nanny of Shizuo's daughter stormed towards him, child on her hip. Her expression was thunder and she practically shoved the child into his arms.
Izaya watched her go, his gaze sliding to where she'd come from. Kanra's bedroom. Izaya repositioned the child and headed to see what had upset the nanny so much.
Kanra was curled up on her side fast asleep. Held protectively in her arms was Shizuo as a golden octopus, his tentacles, coiled around her arms. Her eyes opened and she stared up at him.
"Lordling, your witch is here." Kanra sat up and stood holding the octopus to his skin, tentacles uncoiling from Kanra and settling around his neck. "There you go." She fixed him with a glare. "You need to work on your speeches." Then her focus left him and a brilliant smile bloomed as she plucked the child from his arms. "Hello sweetie. Where's your mummy gone? Hm?"
"Out." Izaya answered. "She didn't look happy."
Kanra's gaze shot to the newspaper sitting on a small table. "Oh crap. I need to go. You're on babysitting duty."
The eels cackled as Kanra rushed past them leaving him with both Shizuo and the baby.
"Go after them. Make sure nothing happens." Izaya instructed moving to the paper. The orphanage was closing down, unfit to be run by an eccentric single mother. The article dragged Kanra's name through the mud. "Looks like it's starting." The war on land.
x-x-x
Shizuo was weak. He stared down at the paper in the witch's hands. The idiots on land were tearing down Kanra. They were closing the orphanage. He could stop it. His soul was malleable. He had gone through torture, what was a little more? If he could protect Kanra and the orphanage…then didn't that make things worth it? He hadn't been able to save Izaya from becoming a villain, a target to the sea.
Looking up he stared into Izaya's red glowing eyes fixed on him. "No." The witch said sternly. "Don't try anything, Shizu-chan."
Shizuo didn't respond, didn't move, thinking maybe Izaya would leave him be. He was carried back to their room, with the witch locking the door. He jolted as a spark chased him from Izaya's skin. Shizuo toppled onto the bed, dazed and staring up at the sea witch in all his majestically tentacled form.
Shizuo was humanoid again. The spark had done something, leaving him at Izaya's mercy. Shizuo wasn't sure whether to hide under the bed or cower in submission. Izaya's expression was dark and magic crackled across the surface of his tentacles. Shizuo had never seen anything so breathtaking.
Izaya's tentacles snapped out, coiling around his wrists and ankles, the one around his throat was a little worrisome. Shizuo's eyes widened wondering if this was the part the sea witch took back his magic and cast him aside.
Izaya's hands were on him, on his cock, the tentacles lifting him with ease, naked and helpless. "You're not getting it Shizu-chan. You're not understanding. I don't want to be cruel, not to you. But if it keeps you safe by my side…then I'll have no other choice." Izaya stroked his cheek. "You are mine. For eternity. Your soul is mine. Your heart is mine. Your existence is mine. You need to remember that, because next time you get a stupid idea pass through that head, you will be punished. Am I understood?"
Shizuo nodded wide eyed. "Y-yes. Yours." He didn't squirm, didn't want to agitate the witch. Another time he could-
"I don't think you do." Izaya said power in his tone. Shizuo went limp and Izaya…Izaya seemed to grow, bigger, more imposing and longer, thicker tentacles. Tapered with thinner ends.
Shizuo did squirm then, feeling the monster that the sea folk had thought he was. He was held, that was all he could say. He was held by a mass of tentacles numbering more than eight. There had to be. They were everywhere and one pull could tear him apart.
Shizuo yelped as the tentacles moved beneath him, over his buttocks and between the crease of his ass. His breath hitched as one of them coiled up over his shoulders and around his throat. The witch's eyes glowed like blood red burning coals, not a trace of mercy in his gaze.
Shizuo had never seen the witch like this, not even when Izaya had taken the mantle of villain. His heart beat a drum, rhythm out of pace. He was going to die. Part of him knew that, feared that. Blinking tears away he didn't move to wipe the fallen ones away.
The witch's lips parted revealing sharp pointed teeth and a long tongue. "I warned you, Shizu-chan." The witch didn't move, the tentacles bringing him closer. Izaya's fingers traced his tear tracks. Then he was dropped onto the bed, where he immediately took his octopus form, dropping and sliding under the bed.
There was no escape as the tentacles plucked him out into open air. He was lifted into the witch's arms where he trembled. Izaya's fingers stroked over him. "I'm a monster, Shizu-chan. Never forget that."
He wouldn't.
x-x-x
"He loves you." Kanra sighed. "You know that lordling."
Shizuo curled up in a human shaped ball. He'd shrunk a bit. He might've been able to blend in as one of the boys from the orphanage. He hid behind Kanra's large poster bed.
"Shizuo, the witch became a villain because of you. He's here because of our daughter. Do you honestly think he doesn't care about you? Heck even the eels love you and they seem to hate every other human going!"
Shizuo uncurled himself and slid under the bed. He felt pathetic. "Oh no you don't!" Kanra grabbed him by a tentacle and yanked him out into the open, dangling him from her grip. "No more hiding. You're going to listen. You died. You came back. Are you still going to remain a coward?"
x-x-x
Shizuo's heart was in his mouth as he entered the tank. It was the sea witch's personal room, more water than room and if the magic ever broke it would flood the entire mansion. The eels looked up and grinned looking thuggish as usual. They swam past him and out of the room. As soon as they passed the door he watched them take their human forms, right before they closed the hefty door.
Shizuo swallowed looking at Izaya beneath his lashes. The sea witch looked in his element, similar throne and tentacles out in all their glory. Kanra hadn't been pleased she couldn't see the room.
"…I'm sorry." Shizuo mumbled standing in front of Izaya. "I'm still the same stupid idiot that got himself killed."
Izaya's tentacles curled around him, lifting him into the sea witch's lap. Shizuo rested against the man's bare chest, tentacles coiling around his naked form.
Izaya kissed him, touching every inch of his body. Shizuo wasn't truly content until his sea witch was inside him. He begged, whined and melted, showing his soul to the one that owned it, the one that kept him in existence.
x-x-x
Kanra whistled as she tidied up the books. The orphanage was closing. Fair enough, she'd already occupied a new building for it, one not riddled with mould and rats.
The door opened and she glanced behind her seeing the sea witch. "Did you sort it out with Lordling?" She asked continuing her task.
"Why the interference?" The sea witch countered.
Kanra sighed. "Lordling is important to me. He deserves to be happy. He's chosen you for that. But his past haunts him."
"Shizu-chan can take the form of a woman." Izaya said.
Kanra snorted. "So? I have the love of my life. I have no interest in yours."
She stiffened as she turned finding the sea witch centimetres in front of her. "No? Then what is the wish hammering so forcefully against your heart? The shameful desire you keep locked away. You want what you can't have."
Kanra sighed. "I do. I love my daughter and I'm thankful for Lordling's sacrifice. I just wish she wasn't his. I see my love trying but she cannot love half of me. Sometimes I wish my daughter had never been born, sometimes I wish she was a part of my love. It's shameful to have such feelings." Kanra whispered wringing her hands together and letting her vision blur.
"I see." The sea witch spoke. "Then sign a contract, Kanra Orihara."
Kanra looked up wary. "What would the price be?"
"A child for a child. Your daughter will become mine. In return you'll be able to impregnate your chosen."
Kanra blinked rapidly. "You don't like me much, do you?"
"I don't like the claim you have on Shizu-chan." The witch agreed.
Kanra was already signing.
x-x-x
Shizuo frowned seeing Kanra dragging her lover past him and Izaya walking towards him, his daughter in his arms. "What's going on?" He asked.
"Kanra signed a contract. She and her lover will be able to have child together."
Shizuo felt his heart stop. "What did you take in return?"
Izaya looked at him steadily. "My daughter."
Shizuo blinked. "Your daughter? You can't take ownership of a child!"
"I did and I have." Izaya cradled his daughter-their daughter- closer to his chest. He frowned at the faint glow over her skin. "As my daughter, it's natural she'd inherit some of my attributes."
A sea witch. His daughter was a sea witch. Shizuo felt numb. He heard Kanra's laughter coming from the room. She was happy. Shizuo gathered their child into his arms. "Welcome to parenthood."
Shizuo couldn't deny the thought lodged in his heart when he'd first taken female form. It felt as if it would've been possible to bear Izaya's child. It had been a fleeting thought before he'd burrowed it down as ridiculous.
Izaya had taken his daughter for his own. A contract but still. Their child was a mix of him and Izaya. His silly little thought had come true. But he still woke in a cold sweat dreaming that he was swelled with Izaya's seed. An underwater palace free from harm, surrounded by children driving the eels mad. And him once again being babied by Izaya, expectant.
x-x-x
One day Shizuo might understand just how connected they were. Izaya wasn't going to bring it up anytime soon. The soul was usually subconsciously blocking him. He got an echo of feelings at times but nothing substantial. Kanra had been more help than she knew.
Something had changed and Shizuo was now an open book to him. Thoughts and feelings flowed towards him with ease. Dreams and desires, everything Shizuo had held back.
Izaya was a little surprised at Shizuo's real desire. The image painted was a chaotic one but not at all unappealing. They had one child, what was another?
x-x-x
Shizuo spent more time in the tank wing rather than his own room. Kanra was swept up in the orphanage with her pregnant wife, legal or not. The eels were content to play nanny to their child, leaving him with nothing to do. For the most part.
He moaned raising his head as the tentacles teased his female form. They held him down plundering what they could reach. Shizuo lowered his head back down his jaw slack as he took the tentacle deeper. He stilled as Izaya stiffened between his legs. Shizuo moaned tightening around the sea witch's cock. A geyser of thick semen rushed inside him, filling him until his stomach cramped and his belly swelled.
Shizuo stayed still twitching as Izaya held him immobile, tentacles coiled around his limbs. His face was flushed under Izaya's scrutiny.
x-x-x
Shizuo was a whale. He was stuck in female form, curled up in Izaya's lap. Heavily pregnant. He was also filled with the sea witch's magic and cocooned in Izaya's possessive tentacles. He had been since he'd realised his state.
But he had been out a few times. Kanra had her child and the two were more in love than ever. She'd started up a new orphanage run completely by her and the family. Of course there were rumours and one attempted fire, which had flipped opinion back on Kanra's side. Everyone was asking who was cruel enough to try and kill children. Thankfully it wasn't his family again.
The truth had come to light on that. Rumour and the demand for justice had forced the Royals' hand. There was already too much dissent over the storms that kept battering the castle in clear targeted attacks. Duke Orihara had been put in charge of the investigation.
The sea witch's curse hadn't affected the child, just his sister's mind. With so many cracks in his family, the servants told all and then it was confirmed. His brother in law had been arrested but kept had kept his mouth shut. Until Shizuo had walked in and the man had screamed . He kept at it having twisted fun with Izaya standing right there against the wall.
His brother in law was put to death. He watched that too. His throat was slit over the gallows. His sister had gone into recluse, his father was under investigation and the child had been placed in the orphanage.
As for the mermaid? She hadn't learnt her lesson. Izaya had given her voice back along with a truth enchantment. The princess could never tell a lie. Fitting. The eels went back to spy at times and came back with stories. Those two were very popular with the orphanage.
They hadn't gone back to spy since they'd sheepishly brought a gift from the king. A token of celebration for the blessing of their marriage and safe birth of their child. A truce from the king. As long as the king stayed far away from them, then he was happy. He'd gotten his happy ever after in the end after all.
End