A/N: Note that this is being portrayed as though it's real life rather than a game.
A/N: I do not own the characters of DDLC, they belong to Team Salvato! Commission is by Popidoru!
A/N: Later chapters will have dark themes such as murder, attempted suicide and suicidal thoughts!
Sweet and Dark Heart: Chapter 13
Once Natsuki saw John walking down the street and out of sight, she laid one strong slap to her father's face, his head quickly turning to the left sharply from the sheer force.
"…Remember what I said. I'm the bigger one here and I can make an abusive scumbag like you get hurt, really easy. You be nice to John whenever you see him. Got it?" Natsuki threatened as she looked down at her father.
Natsuki's father, as mad as he was at Natsuki, both due to believing that he was better than his daughter that he's been abusing for all her life and because of thinking his daughter shouldn't bring any friends home, knew that Natsuki was right. After all, Natsuki had easily broken his nose with just one punch with no effort, so Mr. Himoto knew, at least for now, that he had to be meek, as angry as he is internally.
"Yeah, yeah…I get it. You don't need to be all domineering about it…" Mr. Himoto said with a sigh as Natsuki chuckled.
"Oh but I do. After all, I never could bring friends over, now that I finally got to bring such a lovely man over, a sniveling weakling like you isn't going to just scare him off. He will be mine. If you're in the way, then you'll see what'll happen. Now remember to make sure that John feels wanted, anytime he's here." Natsuki said as her father nodded.
"…Fine…I understand…" Mr. Himoto said.
Afterwards, with the tension still lingering in the air, the two eat dinner in silence, with Natsuki glaring at her father at the table in-between bites of eating some vegetable fried rice with chicken teriyaki. After eating, Natsuki cleaned up and headed to her room to get away from her so-called father.
Seeing that it was 6:30 P.M., Natsuki decided to do the homework she got that she wasn't able to fully finish in class and some time later, she had finished. Now that it was 8:45 P.M., Natsuki went from her chair to her bed to relax and unwind by reading some manga. However, the mountain of a woman was distracted and not really focusing on the pages, because all she could think about was the wonderful time that she had with John today.
'Today was nearly perfect aside from dad coming home. He's such a joke that it's pathetic. Still…I can't deny what an awesome time I had with John today…we went to get the ingredients that we needed, sure…but playing video games with him, watching anime while sitting down side by side…then us enjoying my cooking together…it was amazing. It was just like a date. I won't let that idiotic man that's in the kitchen ruin the fun I had with John.' Natsuki thought to herself as laid down in bed, giggling to herself.
As the hours passed, Natsuki began to feel tired with the woman envisioning scenarios of her and John together, holding hands and having John all to herself without anyone else in her way.
"Just imagining him and me together…it's beautiful. He'll be mine. All mine." Natsuki whispered to herself as she fell asleep.
- Meanwhile, at John's house –
Now that it was 9 P.M. it was time for John to unwind and just enjoy himself. After all, tomorrow's Monday and he already knew that Sayori would ask him a plethora of questions about how today had went. John didn't mind though, he honestly had a great time with Natsuki, even with the sour attitude of her father prior to the older man apologizing.
'Today was pretty great…we got the ingredients for making the cupcakes plus we played video games, watched anime and I got to try some awesome food that Natsuki made. I thought she'd be too serious or something of the sort but she's honestly really cool and nice…maybe Sayori's right…she does have a heart of gold but just acts tough.' John thought to himself as he fell asleep minutes later.
- Monday Morning, 10 A.M. –
After leaving his house, John waited a few minutes for Sayori. Most of the time she was waiting on him but sometimes she took a few minutes extra to get ready. After waiting for a few minutes, Sayori came out of her house running, making John chuckle to himself.
"Well, well, well…talk about late!" John said with a grin as Sayori wiped some sweat from her brow.
"Haah…haah…sorry Johnny! My…my alarm didn't go off this morning!" Sayori said as John patted her on the back.
"It's okay Sayori, I'll forgive you this time!" John laughed, making Sayori giggle.
"Yay, you're so nice John! Thanks for forgiving me, I was worried that you'd be upset at me! Now then…how did Sunday go with our lovely baker, hm?" Sayori asked as she had a mischievous grin.
"I…well…it was great! We had a great time together!" John said as he blushed a bit, since after all, aside from Sayori, John's never really spent time with anyone else, let alone another woman.
"Ehehe, really now? Did you two do anything exciting? Holding hands? Kissing? Hugging?" Sayori asked as John blushed a deeper shade of red.
"Geez Sayori, nothing that much so soon! We didn't hold hands or kiss but we uhm…we did hug after I asked her to be my friend." John said as Sayori's grin widened.
"John and Natsuki kissing in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Sayori said as John groaned.