A Day in Paradise? [Closed]

[Kumori]

	HP 100% Regen 5HP every 5s MP 100% Regen 5MP every 5s	Kumori :: Level 77 :: Assassin Armor: Cuirass of Shadows with Cloak of Darkness Main Weapon: Night’s Kiss by 黒 with Nectar Scabbard and Alvan Blade by 黒 Quick Slot: Heaven's Wrath by 黒 Other: Something
WC: 678	Tags: ?	Skills: Skill name

Another day in paradise? As if. Kyuu and Ryuu had gotten into a fight the other night and they still hadn’t made up. Ryuu was fuming and pacing on the ground floor of the Abbey. Were he Catholic or Anglican, he would’ve entered one of the confessionals to talk about his troubles. Now that he thought of it, maybe it was just a good idea to talk to someone who wasn’t Kyuu for a few moments. He really needed to de-stress and take a step back from what was happening. He really wanted to throw the pews and just flip tables all over the Abbey, but he knew better. Besides, if he did all of that, he would be the one having to clean up everything. He may own the Abbey, but it was the priests and the nuns who were in charge, and they made sure that all things were fixed by the person who was the cause of the problem.

He sighed heavily and then went into the confessional. “Father… I just need to talk,” he said plainly. He may have had a few sins to confess, but that wasn’t his reason for being here. He really just wanted to talk about him and Kyuu. “I had a fight with my wife, last night,” the adventurer started. He sighed heavily. “It was a stupid fight… something about her wyvern getting in the way of our relationship…” he said to the priest. “I’m just angry… I want to have alone time with her without her pet getting in the way!” he cried out to the other side of the screen. He punched the wall of the confessional, careful as to not use too much force. It would’ve defeated the purpose of hiding his identity, should he have destroyed it. “But, I know I’m in the wrong… I know she loves me, but how do I tell her that I want to get closer to her? We’re married, but I want to be with her as much as possible… I want to tell her that I love her. I want to cuddle with her and kiss her…” he said, “but she’s uneducated in the ways of being in a relationship with anyone…” he said.

The priest then opened his mouth after the guild master had stopped speaking for several seconds. “My son… It seems that you must go to her and confront her about becoming closer. She is still your wife, so you should respect her and her needs and wants, but if she does not know what you want, how will she know what to do? Show her the romantic side of you, and ask if she can leave her pet out of it,” the wise man said. Ryuu pondered and nodded at the profound simplicity that he had spoken. “You know what? I think you’re right. I’m going to make up with my wife, right now and tell her how much I love her and that I want to cuddle with her at night and kiss her. Thank you, Father, I will do what I can,” the guild master said. He opened the wooden door and rushed out of the confessional and went towards his private room that only Caerbannog had access to. He knew she would be there (since he was forced to sleep on the pews last night). Man, those pews were uncomfortable. When he made his way to the door of his private room, he knocked on the door. Yeah, he knocked on his own door that he was permitted to open. “Kyuu, can we talk? I’m really sorry about yesterday, but I do want to tell you something,” he talked through the door.

If she opened the door, Ryuu would pick her up and kiss her on the mouth, but that was hoping that she would open it. Please, please, please open the door! “Kyuu Schwarz Oshiiro… I love you!” he yelled loudly. He didn’t care if everyone heard, he just wanted the one person who truly cared about to hear it.

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1000 words HP 100%		Pet: none MP 100%
The warm, fluffy bed in Kumori's room was completely blank and empty. It was missing a single pillow though and the blanket was nowhere to be seen. The room was quiet even as sunlight peeked through the window; that is, until the guild master of Aeryn screamed at the door. What did the door ever do to him, huh? But more importantly, he did something that he should not have done. Having been Kyuu's friend for years, he should have known better, really, than to awaken a sleeping dragon. Two blue orbs appeared beneath the empty bed and they turned to a glaring golden color. Those angry golden eyes then slowly moved to look at the doorway, beyond which there was some loud noise. The golden eyes disappeared for a moment and an audible sigh echoed beneath the bed, but then suddenly that piece of bedroom furniture was flung upwards and towards the window. The bed crashed sideways and all of its contents, pillows and blankets and sheets, fell to the floor. Slowly, the creature beneath the bed stood up. It was cocooned in the missing blanket and had been clinging onto the also-missing pillow. The creature's eyes shot open when she heard more knocking on the door. Clumsily, the cocooned beast waddled over to the door. It put up one foot and then with all its might- Let's go back to what happened previously, how this all began and why the guild master of Aeryn had to sleep outside of his own bedroom. It is rather well-known, maybe far and wide or maybe just within their group of friends, that the samurai Caerbannog was very fond of creatures great and small. Beech was an exception. And who was Beech? Well, the wolf-hair had recently acquired a wyvern that she found along the riverside of Avon. It had been a pleasant adventure with the druid Scoria and Kaguya, except maybe for the presence of a burning village; and it had been mostly pleasant until a haughty wyvern appeared. That was only the second time that Caerbannog felt remotely annoyed with any creature in Elder Tale. The first time was when her frenmic rabbit Hrairoo's family was murdered by a pittered boar, and what did little Caer Bear do to the boar? She murderized it back. That was how she obtained her first tamed pet, Roo. A little later, once she had the appropriate levels, the samurai had acquired the self-proclaimed wife of Hrairoo, Hyzenthlay. While Hyzen was sexist, rude and violent, she still honored the bond between tamer and tamee; even when she and Roo had been released by Caerbannog, she continued to be in good terms with the wolf-hair (but not with anyone else, even Hrairoo is not spared from her wrath). Foreman Mukade IX and Beech now comprised Caerbannog's list of tamed creatures. The former was an elite centipede who dwelt in the mining tunnels of Sarum; a creature who'd been shut in the dark for all his life until he discovered the deliciousness of cake. Despite his nightmarish appearance, Foreman Mukade IX was quite the gentleman and tried his best to honor the customs of adventurers and landers alike. Except for the use of cutlery when dining. Mukade IX still preferred to paralyze and then eat his quarry alive as it kicked and screamed. In fact, he reveled in his food item's cries of agony. Maybe it was sadism. Maybe it was centipede nature. Maybe it's Maybelline. ANYWAY! The other tamed beast was the wyvern Beech who, in the first place, was domesticized by Caerbannog because she wanted to put the haughty creature in its place. But Beech had not learned his lesson and continued to be quite the evil bastard. Ever so often, he had tried to eat Caerbannog's rabbits. But instead of getting rid of the wayward dwagon, the samurai kept Beech and annoyed the wyvern on purpose by summoning him frequently. Caerbannog could deal with one tantruming wyvern... but then her own waifu began to throw a tantrum! It was something about cuddles and kisses and fun times; she did not even understand what was going on! The samurai concluded that Kumori wanted to get rid of Beech. No can do, Mister! The samurai had repeatedly screamed NO NO NO! at the assassin and then she began to throw her plushies at him, one after the other. Sure they're only plushies, but do you have any idea as to how many of them were in Caerbannog's army? It was like a little mountain in the bedroom! A particularly big and heavy one was some kind of whale creature, perhaps a whale shark, which she heaved and threw right at the assassin's face! The samurai had not intended to make the young man sleep on the cold, hard pews but that's what happened anyway. Still fuming that evening, the wolf-hair grabbed a blanket and a pillow and then she rolled beneath the bed for a good night's rest. The wyvern, of course, had been unsummoned so that he would not wreck or burn things while his tamer was asleep. Presently: -the Caer Bear kicked the door open and actually intended to slam it on Ryuu's face. She had mostly forgotten their argument that evening, though they probably had to talk about that anyway. Why was Caerbannog annoyed now then? Because Kumori's screaming had woken her up. Who screams at their own bedroom door at such ungodly hours?! Even the dead would wake up and throw their disembodied heads at the assassin! And then the samurai's stomach complained after she kicked the door. She stood on the doorway, still cocooned in the fluffy white blanket with her arms around a pillow. The little Caer Bear was huffing and puffing and her eyes were golden in color; her face was flushed but not bright red, while her mouth was upturned to an inverted C or V. Now the assassin had to deal with a cranky AND hungry Caerbannog.

[Kumori]

	HP 100% Regen 5HP every 5s MP 100% Regen 5MP every 5s	Kumori :: Level 77 :: Assassin Armor: Cuirass of Shadows with Cloak of Darkness Main Weapon: Night’s Kiss by 黒 with Nectar Scabbard and Alvan Blade by 黒 Quick Slot: Heaven's Wrath by 黒 Other: Something
WC: 385	Tags: ?	Skills: Skill name

Should Ryuu have known better? Probably. It was likely that she even forgot about their argument last night already, and yet here they were, about to argue again, unfortunately, unknowingly to the assassin, she was in a grumpy mood. Well, he did hear the crash of several items on the other side of the door as well as heavy footfalls coming closer towards the door. And then, the footsteps stopped. He scratched his head. He was confident that she was there, but what was she planning to do. She surely wasn’t going to kick the door open as hard as she could would she? Bam Nope. She did. She most definitely kicked the door open. Ryuu flew back into the wall behind him and then slid down to the floor. Ryuu rubbed the back of his head as his eyes were closed. “Owwww….” he moaned out in pain. He wasn’t sure what just happened. All he knew was that he just got the door kicked into him and was flung back by the force. “Kyuuu… what was that for?” he said, attempting to control his temper as best as he could. Yes, he was pain, yes he was mad, but she was still his wife. He sighed heavily and then looked towards his wife. “Did I wake you up?” he asked, speaking from the ground. He didn’t want to start another fight. He wanted to make up. For the fight they had last night. He really wanted to sleep next to Kyuu every night, and thankfully, the summons weren’t out. He would’ve been very sad if they were still here.

“Baby, I’m sorry about last night… will you forgive me?” he asked. He finally pushed himself up off the floor and grabbed his wife’s hand and rubbed them gently against his. He pulled his wife close and kissed her on the forehead. “I’m sorry for being such a baka, yesterday… I really just wanted some alone time with you, that’s it,” he said. Ryuu hugged her tightly. “If you’re not ready, then I promise we won’t have to move any further, but Kyuu… Kyuu Schwarz Oshiiro… I love you, that’s why I married you,” he said to her. He waited for a response, but part of him was expecting a punch straight in the jaw.

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1060 words HP 100%		Pet: none MP 100%
Little cocoon beast Caerbannog continued to huff and puff in her fluffy blanket while her hands clung to the equally fluffy pillow. The soft object obscured the sound of her rumbling belly, but the expression on her face verily spoke of her negative feelings. She was furious, and if the assassin had reacted angrily to that door to his face, the whole incident would have escalated to yet another ridiculous fight. Fortunately, Kumori knew better than to make his wife any angrier than she already was. There was a time to be a nerd or a genius, or even a grammar nazi, or some logical nut who would counter everything with well-phrased reasoning. And then there was a time to just apologize even if one did little to nothing wrong. Now was the time for the latter and thankfully, Kumori thought that too. A hungry person cannot think on an empty stomach, and an angry person cannot think with overflowing emotions; hangry Caer Bear was the worst Caer Bear. She even thought to pull her hand back when the assassin took it, but he had already stepped forward for a kiss to her forehead so the samurai just grumbled. Once the kiss was done, she glared up at the young man. He had asked the most obvious questions! Or at least to her, the answers seemed obvious. She'd been locked up in the bedroom, of course she was asleep! Such a baka indeed! "Grr..." Caer growled when Kumori pulled her towards him and gave her a big, warm hug. He had said something about love and marriage but all the samurai could think about was the rumbling in her tummy. The wolf-hair raised her foot off the ground, but she did not raise it high enough for a kick. Instead, she bent her knee slightly and then it shot up straight towards the assassin's sensitive area. If he evaded that somehow, or even if he didn't, Caerbannog jumped straight at his face for a headbutt right to his nose. The samurai then flailed away from her husband; still cocooned in the blanket, she ran down the stairs with the pillow in her arms. Along the way, Caer ran past some of the Abbey's attendants who had just finished cleaning the respawn area of the place. It was still very early so only a few adventurers appeared and respawned in Westminster Abbey, but there were some people who stayed to wait for their friends or party members. The samurai bolted right past them as well and then she stopped, dropped and rolled beneath the altar where people were resurrected. That left a lot of onlookers with confused expressions on their faces, and some even scratched their heads. "Did you see that? It rolled under the altar!" one of the adventurers exclaimed to a friend. "Was it someone's pet? All I saw was a blurry white thing," came the reply. A few others gathered around to discuss the appearance of a white beast that ran into the Abbey. However, no one actually bothered to check what that beast was because they were all afraid of being scratched or bitten. Newcomers wondered if it was just someone's cat, but those who had seen Caerbannog in her white blanket insisted that it was too big to be a cat. Someone then brought up the stories about twin-tailed monster cats that roamed the Windsor Greatwoods, but none of it interested Caer who remained beneath the altar. "Leave me alone, baka!" the samurai telepathically screamed at Kumori. She then took out pancakes from her inventory and took a bite out of the soft, fluffy goodness. The syrup, unfortunately, trickled onto her pillow and blanket but it went unnoticed for the bottom of the altar was covered with thick drapes therefore it was rather dark. The wolf-hair was focused on the sweet smell of the pancakes that she made so long ago with a very tall monk whose nature was not as scary as she thought. It was curious how the game aspect of Elder Tale affected their infinite inventories, and how it kept food fresh or at least in the state that it was in when it was originally placed there. Naturally, there was little to no need for refrigeration, but if adventurers ever wanted to improve the state of their new world's technology, then that was a step that they must go through. Caerbannog lay down on her side as she continued to munch on the pancakes. The scent of maple syrup filled the bottom of the altar and she wondered if there were real maple trees in Elder Tale, or if the sap that she used to create the syrup had been gathered or created from something other than maple trees. It seemed real enough to her at that time, and so the samurai's thoughts drifted back again to cooking. As she thought back to the time that she spent crafting, either as a chef or as a blacksmith, Caer could not help but wonder if she was more fit to remain as a smith. Unlike other chefs who were dainty and girly, complete with the usual cutesy "Ow~" or odd hissing whenever they nicked their hands or burned their skin against some hot utensil or dish, the wolf-hair had been the type to just stare at a cut or a burn without batting an eyelash. "GYAH!" the samurai screamed. She still had a girly side to her after all. Maybe it would just take some coercion for it to emerge; coercion, or a bottle of cold grape juice down her shirt. Caerbannog had pulled out some mogu-mogu from her inventory and, in her slightly sleepy state, she had opened the bottle cap while the container was sideways and parallel to her position. The result was a very cold drink all over her blanket, pillow and clothes. The samurai finally rolled out from beneath the altar, much to the surprise of adventurers who remained idly chatting around the respawn point. "Ryuu-nii! I ruined my pajamas!" Caerbannog cried, "UWAAAAAAAAA~!" The Abbey's attendants and other occupants stood there staring at the little adventurer who had a drenched pillow and blanket under one arm, an empty bottle of what smelled like grape juice in her other hand, and dressed in pink pajamas with pronounced splotches of purple.

[Kumori]

	HP 100% Regen 5HP every 5s MP 100% Regen 5MP every 5s	Kumori :: Level 77 :: Assassin Armor: Cuirass of Shadows with Cloak of Darkness Main Weapon: Night’s Kiss by 黒 with Nectar Scabbard and Alvan Blade by 黒 Quick Slot: Heaven's Wrath by 黒 Other: Something
WC: 536	Tags: ?	Skills: Skill name

Ryuu did what he could to try to appease his wife, but every step had become a misstep. He tried to be as caring as possible, but even his patience had its limites, though he tried to keep things together, mainly himself. Making this worse than it already was would only result into a bigger fight. He didn’t want that to happen, and the two just needed some time to think, maybe. He heard her stomach growling, which meant that the reason why his wife was angry was because she was hungry. Hangry Caer Bear. The worst Caer Bear that ever existed. It was then that he should’ve expected the knee to shoot up straight into his crotch, but he didn’t. Instead, he crumpled to the floor and rolled on the floor, tears forming in his eyes. “Aaaaaggghh,” he yelled out in pain. He continued to writhe in pain while his wife ran out to who knows where. It wasn’t too long before he got a telepathic “LEAVE ME ALONE,” in which he winced even more and continued rolling on the floor.

What in the world did he do to deserve this punishment? All he did was try to make his wife feel loved, and yet all he got was a knee to the crotch. He stood up after several minutes of recovering from the pain and finally people in the attendant were talking about a beast of some sort scurrying around the Abbey. He figured it had to have been his wife. Despite getting the message that yelled at him, he still looked for his love. He didn’t care if she made him mad sometimes. She was still his wife and he would take care of her no matter what. As aggravated as he should’ve been, he still wanted to love his wife as much as possible. It took a lot of his willpower, however, to stop himself from yelling at her.

After looking all around the main area of the Abbey, he finally heard crying and his name. She had spilled her grap juice all over herself and was crying because she had stained her pajamas. Ryuu sighed, but he also smiled. It was times like these that Kyuu was unbelievably cute. Ryuu ran up to her and picked her up. “I apologize for her behavior. Please go about your business,” he said to the other adventurers. The People of the Land who tended to the Abbey knew this was typical behavior of the Aeryn duo, so they paid little attention to their antics. Ryuu brought Kyuu back to their room and set her down on a chair. He extended his hand, opened palmed as if he was asking for her to give him something. “Give me your clothes, Kyuu… I’ll go wash them for you,” he said. The good thing about being a tailor was knowing how to clean every little dirt that could damage an armor. He was pretty proficient at it. He also didn’t think much about asking his wife for her clothes, as it would be obvious that he would see her naked or close to naked eventually. Hopefully, Kyuu would take it as well as he hoped she would.

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1000 words HP 100%		Pet: none MP 100%
Defeated, the blue-eyed wolf-hair sniffled as she followed Kumori back to their room. People assumed rather silly things about the couple, but if they really knew what happened behind closed doors, they would think that the assassin was more like a nanny or a mother than a husband to the samurai. It had always been that way and while Caerbannog did not take the young man's kindness for granted, she was yet to understand the difference between familial and romantic love. The wolf-hair trailed behind the assassin as he led the way back to their room and all that time, she only thought about her pajamas which had been ruined by grape juice. The weird looks and stares, the whispers were all normal to Caer by now. As long as she thought that she was not being rude, then the samurai would do as she pleased. Also, she was hungry and upset so all logic flew out the window. The samurai simply wanted to get the stain off of her clothes and she wanted some warm food in her belly. Fortunately, when they reached the bedroom, the wolf-hair had already calmed down some and she complied with Kumori's instructions. Caerbannog wiggled out of her pajamas, dove onto the bedsheets and rolled herself into a little wolf-hair burrito. She then struggled and sat up on the bed while her stained clothes lay on the floor. The samurai glared as she waited for Kumori to scold her but the young man only tended to her pajamas. "Aren't you being too nice?" Kyuu asked from within her burrito wrapping; only her face could be seen because the thick sheets covered her body and head completely, "Even if you promised him that you'd look after me..." The blue-eyed girl puffed up her cheeks whenever Ryuu glanced at her. As she calmed down, Kyuu had the chance to think over how she had been acting towards the one person whom she knew from the real world. Kyuu wiggled her burrito body until she managed to put her legs over the side of the bed, and she sat there as Ryuu tended to her clothes. He cooked, cleaned, washed her clothing, went to market occasionally, rarely got angry at her and if he ever did, one whine from Kyuu would make the assassin apologize even if everything that went wrong was her fault. "You're such a house husband," the wolf-hair furrowed her brow at the young man who kept working, "What a weirdo." She could do a lot of those things as well, but not for anyone but herself. Okay, maybe she did help Ryuu out with some of the chores; and maybe she did craft some of the stuff that they put in their estate, but for the most part, the menial labor in addition to the guild paperwork was all on the assassin's shoulders. Kyuu still could not understand why anyone would do that. Was he such a masochist? "Hey hey..." the samurai was feeling a bit chatty, "Why did we get married? What's the difference from just hanging out together?" Kyuu had never bothered to ask for the reason. All she knew was that weddings had cake and booze so she might as well agree to it. Perhaps a simple-minded or even childish reason, but to her, it made sense. The smallest gesture of kindness could make her happy but at the same time, the simplest of misunderstandings could make her upset. Perhaps now was a good time to discuss things with Ryuu so that he could answer all of her questions and to clear up their expectations from one another too. "If I don't like you anymore I can file for divorce and demand impossible amounts of money from you, right?" she asked. The wolf-hair could only ask questions based on experience. She had read about separations in the real world, but what stuck to her mind was that her mother wanted to take away everything from her and her father even though she had not lifted a finger to work all the days of her life. And even though back then, Kyuu was a minor and so should have gone with her mother after the separation, the woman wanted nothing to do with her and obviously only wanted money and material things. It was difficult for the samurai to believe that all mothers only wanted the best for their children and loved them unconditionally, because of her own experience that showed otherwise. Ryuu had often mentioned the concept of family and he said that it was his reason for having created the guild Aeryn, but Kyuu still had little understanding of what he meant. To her, the only family she had was her father and Ryuu. So what was different now? Wasn't it just the same as before? Why was her dear friend working even more diligently than ever? "Even if you do the nicest things and show the greatest kindness, you can't stop people's hearts or minds from changing," Kyuu momentarily looked down at her feet and then she looked up at the assassin once more, "That's why pets are better! If you treat them well, they'll be nice to you too! They're not like people who will do as they please and bite you on the back whenever they want!" Caerbannog suddenly fell quiet as if she was reassessing what she had just said. "... except maybe for cats. They're like the avatars of evil I think. But they are very fluffy so their rudeness is forgivable," Kyuu pointed out, "PEOPLE ARE NOT FLUFFY!" Okay so maybe that was not a hundred percent accurate either seeing as foxtails and werecats were fluffy, and wolf-hairs were fluffy to some extent. There were a lot of loopholes is what the young lady just said but she hoped that the assassin would not poke them too much. She hoped that she had gotten her point across and that Ryuu would answer her questions seriously.