Note: This chapter contains graphic sexual content.

-Faith, Love, and Forgiveness - Chapter Twenty-eight: Jailbirds-

Enoshima Central Jail - One hour later

"Step out, we're here."

Kouta climbed out of the backseat and waited for his wife to follow suit. For some reason, the arresting officer had opted to handcuff the two of them together, Kouta's left to Lucy's right. He never gave them a reason for this, but Kouta thought it was because they were a married couple, and it would deter them from trying to flee. Running from the cops while cuffed to your significant other would probably not turn out so well.

The officer uncuffed them and performed a quick pat down on Kouta to ensure that he wasn't armed or carrying contraband. When he teasingly asked why his wife wasn't getting searched, the cop replied, "I think it's obvious she's not hiding anything."

The couple, still wearing just their swimsuits, held hands as they walked in.

Annoyingly, their arrival caused an immediate uproar, and it wasn't exactly difficult to figure out why.

"DAAMMMNNN!"

"Oh my God!"

"Man, let me tell you what I'd do to that bitch!"

"PLEASE tell me she's single!"

The pink-haired girl just sighed in irritation. "Like I'd give any of them a chance even if I was." Immediately after she said that, she turned to Kouta, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him deeply on the lips. As far as she was concerned, Kouta was, is, and always will be, the only man in her life. Everyone else didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of having her.

Their kiss triggered an even bigger uproar, with several inmates yelling how much more of a man they were than Kouta.

"Tell me we're not actually going to put these two in there..." one cop asked.

"We have to. It's the only place left that's not overcrowded." another answered.

"What if we let him go in, but put her in solitary?"

"That might work."

"No." Lucy shook her head. "We're married, and I go where he goes."

"We can't stick a girl in a bikini in a room full of men."

"We'll be fine. Those people are nothing." Lucy replied.

""Those people" include murderers and rapists. If we stick you in there, it's a lawsuit waiting to happen."

"We'll sign a release or something." Kouta offered.

"That's not how this works." an irritated officer said. "You go where WE say you go, not the-"

One of the others came up and whispered something in his ear. He looked at Lucy, then back to the officer. They couldn't hear the conversation word for word, but it sounded like the cop that walked over knew Lucy wasn't human and suggested that giving in to the girl's insistence that they be housed together might calm her down and make her less likely to do something drastic.

"If she decides to get combative with us, there is NOTHING we can do to stop her." Kouta heard the man whisper.

The officer they were just speaking to seemed to switch places with the one who just walked over to them. Kouta watched as the man opened a steel security door and disappeared out of view, presumably to either write reports, or begin a different assignment.

"I'm sorry about that." the new officer said. "I'm Officer Takai, and I'll be taking over for my colleague. What are your names? We'll try to bump you up the list quickly so you don't have to stay in there long."

"Kouta and Kaeda Kurosawa."

Lucy smiled, taking Kouta's hand in hers. This was the first time anyone had referred to them by that name, and she already loved the sound of it.

"Mrs. Kurosawa, umm... forgive me, but, you are in fact a Diclonius, yes?"

"I am."

"I... I understand that we don't really have a way of stopping you, but I would be very grateful if you would please not use your vectors here... please?"

The couple heard one of them whisper something about "confiscating weapons", followed by someone replying that you "can't confiscate the kind of weapon that girl has".

"No promises." Lucy eventually replied. Wisely, the officer accepted this without protest.

"We need you to leave your wedding rings here with us." one of the cops said, holding out a small plastic 'Evidence' bag. It already held Kouta's wallet, smartphone, and the key card for their hotel room, and though it took a little convincing, Lucy eventually left her engagement and wedding ring with the officer at the desk.

"It won't go anywhere, ok? Look, we'll leave the bag right here in a locked drawer. As soon as you're released, I promise we'll give it back."

If it seemed like the jail officers were giving Lucy special treatment, it's because... well, they were. They had no way of actually stopping her if she decided not to cooperate, so they decided the best option they had was to be as accommodating as possible, and hope like hell she played nice.

"We'll keep a very close eye on you two, just in case." the cop walking them to the holding area quietly said. "By the way, would you like me to find you a sheet or something to cover up with?"

It might be a bit more conservative and modest than a typical two-piece, but it still exposed part of her cleavage, along with her legs, upper body, and hips. Despite the situation she was in, she told him there was no need to worry about it.

Before he locked them in, he told the other inmates:

"Listen up! This young lady and her husband are going to be joining you all for a bit. I highly, HIGHLY suggest you leave her be... trust me on this, you DO NOT want to find out why the hard way."

The couple walked in, and after seeing that the chairs were all being used, sat on the bare concrete floor in the far corner of the room. Lucy sat down beside Kouta and leaned against him. As she was hoping, Kouta wrapped his arms protectively around the pink-haired girl's slim frame and held her closely.

For a few minutes, everything was quiet. Then the "None of your fucking business" questions started.

Things like "How long have you been married?", "How old are you?", "What's your names?" they had no problem answering. So far, things were pretty cordial. When one them wanted to know what was on Lucy's head, she replied that they were horns, and even let him come over and take a close look at them.

"That is crazy! I'm SO glad I robbed that gas station, or I'd have missed this!" he told her.

Lucy thanked the man, then went back to leaning against her husband. Kouta was honestly extremely impressed with the Diclonius' social skills. She may not be an extroverted social butterfly like Nana, but she had no trouble having casual conversations with strangers. The "old Lucy" would have never given the man the time of day, let alone allow him to get that close to her.

Though in fairness, the "old Lucy" wouldn't be in jail in the first place because she'd have just murdered the cops the moment they tried to arrest her.

Then the REAL "None of your fucking business" questions started.

"Do she like it in the ass?"

"Are those titties real?"

"Is her hair pink down there, too?"

Lucy closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Kouta..."

"Don't. We'll be out of here soon, so just ignore them."

A few moments later, one of the men who were making a scene when they walked in got up, sauntered over to them, and grabbed his crotch. "Hey man, tell yo' bitch to suck mah dick!"

Most of the men began laughing, but the oldest-looking inmate cautioned the man to stop antagonizing the couple.

"Leave her alone, man... that girl's dangerous."

"What are you talking about?" the guy sitting next to him asked. To him, Lucy looked about as dangerous as a roll of toilet paper.

"You see those things on her head? That girl isn't a human, she a Diclonius."

"What's a... Die-clone-E-Us?"

"They're killers, that's what they are."

Lucy gave him an amused half-smile. "So you know..."

The older prisoner swallowed nervously as he nodded. "Yeah, I do... I've never seen one of you in person, but I've heard plenty of stories."

Shifting his attention to Kouta, the man told him he was either incredibly brave, or incredibly stupid for marrying her. From the way the other inmates had seemed to immediately take his advice, the older man was most likely well-known to other convicts.

But, apparently in an effort to show off, the man decided it'd be a good idea to press his luck a little further than he should have, ignoring the older prisoner who was trying to tell him he was about to do something really, REALLY stupid.

He proceeded to unzip his pants and tell her, "Come on bitch, I ain't got all night!"

Lucy glared up at the man, speaking to him in the same cold, quiet tone that she normally used right before someone either got killed, or was horrendously maimed.

"Go... away."

"Listen to me! That girl will kill you!"' the older inmate implored.

"What, no sucky sucky? Aight, that's cool... how 'bout you let me feel yo' titties instead?" he leered, reaching a hand out in an attempt to grope her breasts.

Lucy immediately released one of her vectors and brutally struck him with it, slamming him against the wall much like she had Nana when they first met. The impact knocked the creep out cold, and an eerie silence fell over the room. The noise was so loud, even the cops that were outside of the building heard it and came running.

Kouta just sighed and shook his head. "Well, at least you tried."

Lucy smiled and kissed her husband's hand. "Don't worry, he'll probably live."

The supervisor entered to check on the downed inmate and immediately yelled for someone to call an ambulance.

The inmate was face down on the concrete floor, bleeding from the head wound he received from hitting the wall, as well as the facial injuries sustained from falling to the floor. It would eventually be discovered he had a comminuted scapula fracture, two cracked vertebrae, skull fractures, broken teeth, soft tissue damage, and a concussion.

"What happened to him?"

Dead silence. The supervisor sighed, "I shoulda known..." he said before leaving. This wasn't the old "No snitching because inmates stick together", it was the "No snitching because that bitch is a psychopath, and we don't want to piss her off."

As they were waiting on EMS and rewatching the footage to try and figure out how a known gang member with fifteen felonies on his record was on his way to the hospital from injuries nobody even knew how he received, the cops received a call from the Watch Commander of the jail.

"You want us to do what? Is it really that bad? Uh huh... Ok, let me take a look..."

A few minutes later

"It looks like the only one we got that's not drugs or violent crimes are the couple brought in for public indecency. Oh? Ok, I'll tell them."

The cop at the desk opened the holding area's door and called for the couple.

"Ok, here's the deal... the Watch Commander says we're overcrowded, so he wants us to void your arrest and send you home. The guys who brought you in are coming back to take you two to... wherever it is you're staying."

"Tell him "Thanks" for us when you see him." Kouta said. Just as their ride arrived, so did the ambulance. As the medics were getting the man on the stretcher, the Diclonius smiled at the terror-stricken inmates and gave them a cheerful wave as they left, stopping long enough to reclaim their property and put her rings back on.

The holding area stayed dead silent until long after they were gone.

Twenty minutes later

"You guys are seriously on your honeymoon? For real?"

"Yes." Kouta answered.

"Well... I guess if you're going to get caught having sex in public, that's probably the best time to do it." one of them admitted.

"You two are cute together, I'll give you that." said the other. Arriving back at the hotel, they opened the backseat door and let the two lovebirds out.

"Stay out of trouble."

"We will." Lucy promised.

"By the way, cute ass." the one driving said.

"Excuse you? That's my wife!"

"I wasn't talking about her." the driver replied.

"...What?"

"If things don't work out between you two, you should come by the station sometime."

"Ohhhh..." Kouta said. "Um... Thanks."

Lucy's laughing fit continued long after the cops drove off.

Once they were back in their room, however, her mood noticeably changed.

Kouta came out of the bathroom and found the visibly upset Diclonius waiting for him.

"I'm sorry..."

Seeing his confusion, she explained that, "I was being selfish, and I got us arrested because I didn't want to wait until we got back to the room. I'm sorry, if you're mad at me... I... I get it."

Kouta just shook his head and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm not mad at all. If anything, I think it's one of those things we'll look back on and laugh about."

Lucy sighed in relief, "Thank you... I'm sorry, I should've just waited until we got back."

Kouta smiled at her, holding her tightly in his arms. "It's alright. Everything worked out fine in the end."

The couple held each other a little longer before letting go.

"You getting in bed?" Kouta asked.

"No." the pink-haired girl answered. "I want to shower off first. You go on ahead, I won't be long."

Giving her bottom a playful slap, Kouta crawled in bed while Lucy stripped off her swimsuit and stepped into the shower. Pouring some of her cherry-blossom body wash in her hand, she started lathering herself up. Aside from getting hauled to jail, she greatly enjoyed their day together.

And to be honest, even that was kind of fun.

She had just finished rinsing off when she was suddenly grabbed from behind.

"Kouta!"

"You were taking too long, so I got worried."

Lucy just smiled. "Was that the only reason?" she teased.

"Well, there was another one, yes." he said. She turned around to face him, but the moment she did, he roughly pushed her against the wall and started kissing her.

Lucy responded by forcefully shoving him back, kissing him just as aggressively as he kissed her. She might be a very romance-biased girl, but she had no qualms about getting rough.

She reached her hand down and gripped his erection, but judging from the painful yelp he made, she might have been a bit firmer than necessary.

"Are you ok?"

"I think you broke it..." he groaned.

"Really? Here, let me kiss it and make it better." she smiled as she got down on her knees and took him in her warm mouth. Kouta closed his eyes and groaned again, this time for a completely different reason.

"God, this feels amazing..."

Smiling to herself, she took him out long enough to thank him for the compliment and stroke him by hand a few times. He leaned against the shower wall, gently touching her face as she took him back in.

If this were any other night and place, he probably would have let her continue until he came in her mouth. Tonight, he wanted something different.

"If I do anything that actually hurts you, I apologize." he faintly whispered. Eager to see what he had in mind, she nodded in understanding.

He let her go on a few seconds longer, then grabbed her arm and hauled her to her feet. The moment she got up, he pushed her up against the wall, more forceful than before, this time roughly groping her breasts as he kissed her.

'Oh, this is gonna be good!' Lucy thought excitedly.

Kissing back, she felt Kouta bite down hard on her lower lip. She in turn shoved him back and bit his. This time, firmly grabbing his erection didn't seem to have much effect. He broke the kiss, turned her around, and pinned her up against the wall. He reached down and roughly pushed one of his fingers inside her.

The Diclonius gasped in surprise as he gave her a few painful slaps on her bare bottom, then went right back to fingering her. After a few seconds, he pulled his hand back, spanked her a couple of times, then reached down and started roughly rubbing her clit.

Lucy moaned, loving every second of it. He reached around with his free hand and groped her breasts a little bit more, alternating between pushing a finger in and out, and rubbing her clit (occasionally stopping to deliver a couple of hard, stinging slaps to her ass).

The pink-haired girl's orgasm hit by total surprise. Usually, she could tell how close she was to climax, but this one snuck up on her out of nowhere. Most of the time, Kouta would ease up a little bit after she came, but not this time. She moaned and squirmed, but he simply used his left hand to keep her pinned against the wall.

"Kouta..." she gasped. Just as she was about to orgasm again, he quickly pulled his hand away and started probing her with his hardon. Realizing what he was trying to do, Lucy backed up a little and bent over. Kouta forcefully pushed his entire erection inside her and started taking her hard and fast from behind.

Her second climax and his were almost simultaneous, and Kouta continued roughly thrusting long after he finished cumming inside her.

When he finally pulled out, both of them were panting and out of breath. Unable to resist, he slapped her bare cheeks one last time before she stood back up.

"If you don't stop that, I'm going to start doing it to you."

"Sounds kinky. I might like it." he replied.

Lucy burst out laughing, hugging him tightly against her. Kouta smiled to himself, kissing her neck and shoulder as hot water continued pouring on them.

"I love you so much..." he told her as they held each other.

"I love you, too..." she softly replied. After a few seconds, one of her vectors reached out and turned the water off.

That night, the naked couple lay awake in bed talking. Tomorrow, they'd be going back home to Kaeda House, and though they were looking forward to it, it was nice not having to worry about being overheard or accidentally walked in on.

"Umm... I'm sorry if I got carried away earlier. I wasn't trying to hurt you."

"I think my ass might disagree with that." she teased.

"I didn't... I mean... I wasn't WANTING to hurt you, I was just..." he stammered.

Lucy smiled, reaching out to touch his face. "I know, Kouta... and to be honest, I liked it."

Her husband smiled back, relieved. Yes, he definitely meant for it to sting a little bit, but not to the point of actually hurting her.

"Hey, umm... can I have a look?"

"No, you pervert. What kind of man would want to look at his naked wife's ass?"

"Oh, shut up..."

The pink-haired girl giggled as she turned the bedside lamp on and rolled on her stomach. Her bottom was just as milky-white as the rest of her, but right in the middle of each cheek was a faint but noticeable redness that Kouta found unbelievably sexy.

He took his hand lightly ran his fingers over the reddened skin. "Does it hurt if I touch it?"

Lucy shook her head no. He gently massaged her soft skin, making her blush when he pulled her cheeks apart to have a look between them. Unable to resist, he leaned down and literally kissed his wife's ass.

Remembering Nana's suggestion, she decided to be brave and take a chance."

"Hey, um... Kouta?"

"Yes?" he answered.

After a long pause, she shook her head. "Nevermind."

"Tell me." he replied.

"It's too embarrassing. I'll tell you about it some other time."

"Please? I won't judge or laugh." he coaxed.

She finally gave in and said it, embarrassment be damned.

"Hypothetically, if I asked you to spank me, what would you say?" Lucy asked.

"I'd say, I'd love to."

The pink-haired girl looked at him in surprise. "Y-You would?"

Kouta nodded his head. "This was Nana's idea, I assume?"

Sheepishly, she told him how Nana had once told her that she should, "Ask Kouta to put you over his knee some time".

"Would you like me to?"

The Diclonius blushed heavily as she nodded, and before she knew it, Kouta was sitting on the edge of their bed, and she was lying naked over his knee.

'Oh my God, I can't believe I actually asked for this! Nana, you sure as hell better be right!'

The entire ordeal consisted of Kouta gently slapping her bare cheeks for about thirty seconds. When he tried to help her up, he got an unexpected request from his new wife in the form of her asking for a little more.

"Gently?" he asked. God, even thinking about what they were about to do gave him a hardon that bordered "rock hard" and "painful".

"Not so gently..." she blushed, unaware he was doing the same.

For what was intended to be just another twenty to thirty seconds, but ended up lasting over a minute, Kouta spanked Lucy's bare bottom a little harder. She gently gasped at first, but this quickly turned into soft moans and shy requests for "just a little more". He obliged, but every time she asked, he upped how hard he slapped her.

"Just one more?"

"If you're sure, but it's going to hurt a little..."

"I know..." she said shyly.

Kouta lifted his hand and spanked the naked Diclonius fairly hard. He slapped one cheek a few times, then swapped to the other, then repeated. Lucy moaned and squirmed a little, but loved every second of it. Now she understood why Nana liked it so much.

When he stopped, her milky bottom was as pink as her hair.

"So...? Did you like it?"

The pink-haired girl blushed and giggled. "I LOVED it! Could you do this again, preferably soon?" she asked as she climbed off of Kouta's lap.

"I'd love to..." he said with a yawn. "Come on, let's go to sleep."

Yawning herself, Lucy nodded and crawled into bed with her husband. She reached over and turned the lamp off, then cuddled her naked body against his.

"Thank you, Kouta... for everything. I'm so lucky to be loved and wanted by you." she softly whispered just before falling asleep. Kouta smiled, giving her lips a gentle kiss before closing his eyes.

Never in his wildest dreams did he think he and the girl known as both Nyu and Kaeda (and Lucy, according to Nana) would ever actually stand at an altar and legally become husband and wife. It just seemed like one of those things that was only possible in ones imagination, something that's nice to daydream about, but impossible to accomplish.

And yet, they did... and Kouta had never been so happy to be wrong.

Kaeda House - Two hours later

Flipping boredly through the channels, Nana yawned as she waited for the sinus meds she had taken to start working so she could go back to sleep.

"Police in Enoshima Central Jail say a man sustained severe injuries while in custody earlier tonight, but they can't explain how."

Nana perked up after hearing this. 'Hey! That's where Kouta and Lucy went!' she thought to herself.

"What you're looking at is the security footage from inside the Jail. Authorities reported the man was free of injury before being placed in the jail's holding area. If you watch closely, you can see the man appears to be speaking to a female inmate before he suddenly impacts the concrete wall, leaving him with several broken bones, skull fractures, and a concussion."

Even with the poor quality of the footage, here was no doubt who the girl with the long, pink hair was.

And if she's on jail footage, it meant her and Kouta did something to get arrested.

Nana erupted into a laughing fit.

"Oh, I can't wait to hear the story on this one!"

Kaeda House - The next night

With the honeymoon over and the newly married couple home, things looked to be settling back in to their normal routine. After dinner, the family sat in the living room watching some sort of reality show so stupid, even Nana hated it.

"Ok, what's the point of this again?" Kouta asked.

"Basically, they go around looking into people's garbage to see if they threw away something valuable." Yuka answered.

Lucy just looked at her with a clear, "Are you serious?" look on her face.

"Oh! Look at this! A vintage My Little Boney plushy! Why would these people be that stupid as to throw something like this away?!"

"Umm... maybe because it's covered in shit?"

"Are you sure it's shit? Maybe it's just chocolat- wait, nevermind... lot of used diapers in here, too... Bugger! One of them's stuck to my leg! And it's FRESH!"

"We're out..." Kouta declared as him and Lucy got up. "Goodnight Yuka."

"Thanks again for the honeymoon." Lucy added with a smile as they headed upstairs.

After another fifteen minutes or so, Nana announced she was going to bed and departed.

Mayu, not wanting Yuka to feel left out, came and sat by her, enduring the awful excuse for a TV show for over an hour before she realized Yuka had fallen asleep. After waking her up, the brunette finally decided to go to bed.

Upstairs, Kouta and Lucy were busy getting... well, busy. At the moment, a naked Lucy was on her hands and knees having sex with an equally naked Kouta. This wasn't slow and romantic sex, but it wasn't hard and fast sex either.

Instead, it was a sort of compromise between the two, and both of them were loving it.

Lucy closed her eyes and bit her lip as Kouta took her from behind. The lovers were so into it, they didn't even realize they weren't alone anymore.

Nana didn't really INTEND to be a voyeur, but Lucy had forgotten to completely shut the door, and she didn't want to interrupt them when they were so obviously enjoying themselves. As the couple continued having sex, Nana slipped inside and silently slid the door shut.

The Sipelit really wanted to just keep quiet, but she didn't come to watch them have sex, she came to get answers.

Though she admittedly would've been very happy to keep watching.

"You guys really should learn to lock your door."

"Nana?! What the hell?!" Kouta asked.

"I didn't want to interrupt, but this was important."

"It damn sure better be!" Lucy glared.

Five minutes later

The couple sat side by side on the floor, covering the lower half of themselves with a sheet.

"I just wanted to ask what happened the last couple of days." Nana said.

"We... well, it was our honeymoon, what do you think happened?" Kouta asked her.

"What about the day after?"

"I... I wanted to go swimming, so we bought swimsuits and swam in the ocean." he answered, to which Lucy nodded in agreement.

"And after you went swimming?"

"We went to dinner, came back, had sex, and went to bed." the pink-haired girl replied.

"What did you two get arrested for?" Nana casually asked.

The couple looked at each other, then turned to the Sipelit.

"How the hell did you find that out?" Kouta asked.

"It was on the news." Nana giggled. "Don't worry, no one else saw it."

Now that they knew they were busted, they gave in and told the overly-curious girl what had happened.

"You actually got caught having sex on the beach? How?"

"T-That's not important..." Kouta said.

"It was my fault." Lucy admitted. "I was horny and didn't want to wait until we got back to our room."

The older Diclonius just shrugged at the look Kouta was giving her. "What? It's the truth."

Nana giggled at Kouta's attempt to take the blame for his wife. "That was sweet, Kouta."

"I can't believe we made the news for THAT..." Lucy complained.

"Umm... it wasn't for that. It was because some inmate almost died and they didn't know how." the purple-haired girl corrected.

Seeing the guilty look on his wife's face, Kouta told Nana that the guy absolutely deserved it. "He tried to get her to suck his... well... and then tried to grab her breasts."

Nana gave him an angry glare. "Seriously? Lucy, Kouta's right. He COMPLETELY deserved it!"

She smiled at the younger Diclonius. "Thank you."

"Anytime!" she said cheerfully.

After a couple of minutes of small talk, Lucy nudged her husband and fake-coughed.

"Was there anything else you needed?" Kouta asked.

"No, I was just worried about you guys and wanted to be sure you were OK."

"In that case, would you mind letting us have some privacy?"

"Why? You guys doing something you don't want me to see?" she coyly asked.

"Yes, we are. It's called ''sex''. You've interrupted it, and we'd like to have some privacy so we can finish." Kouta explained. Both lovers had been greatly enjoying themselves prior to being 'cock-blocked' by the curious Sipelit, and were eager to resume.

"Can't you guys just hang on a minute?"

"For what? You said you were done." Kouta asked in annoyance.

"What's Lucy's swimsuit look like?"

"It's a red two-piece." he answered. He could tell Lucy was fast running out of patience, and really didn't want her to do something rash.

"Is it one of those string bikini type ones?" she asked innocently.

"No, it's not. Look, we can talk about it another time." he told her, starting to get a bit pissed off.

"What about yours? What's it look like?"

'Enough of this!' Lucy thought.

Turning to her husband, she yanked the sheet off, fully exposing both of their nude bodies. Before he had time to object, she pushed him flat on his back, got on top of him, and began making out. Kouta, meanwhile, was praying to God Lucy wasn't seriously expecting him to have sex with her right in front of Nana (who, by the way, had definitely noticed that Lucy's bare bottom still had a clearly visible pink tint to it).

Turning to the Sipelit, Lucy told her, "Visiting hours are over, so unless you want to sit there and watch, it's time to go."

Nana face instantly brightened. "Can I?"

The purple-haired girl had no idea Lucy could throw a pillow so forcefully without using her vectors.

Next chapter: Family.