Break The Curse Of This Earth Chapter 48

Chapter 48



Seishirou opened his eyes to an empty bed. That's odd, usually Subaru woke up after he did. Hoisting himself out of bed he grabbed his black dressing gown. It had been a few years since he and Subaru had moved into this manor, and about four months now since their daughter was born. It was odd sharing a house with only Subaru (and a few servants), but he liked it.

His sharp hearing picked up noises in the kitchen. Grabbing his wand from the bedside table, he crept downstairs after checking on his daughter of course.

Working as an Auror his eyes were used to the darkness and he had an airiness of stealth. He crept into the kitchen was greeted with his husbands back. "Subaru?"

Subaru jumped into the air, he wasn't expecting his husband to be up. "WAHH!" Much like Seishirou, Subaru was dressed in a dressing gown, except his was white and was tied tightly around his waist, Seishirou's was more loosely tied.

"What are you doing down here? It's six in the morning."

"Making breakfast." Subaru poked his fingers together and looked at his husband with bright green eyes. Subaru was a lot of things, a cook was not one of them.

"Subaru, you didn't have to do that…you know I would've made breakfast."

"I wanted to surprise you…"

"Surprise me? For what? It's not our anniversary, it's not my birthday."

"It's Valentine’s Day…"

Seishirou mentally kicked himself; he had forgotten all about Valentine's Day. He should've known, Subaru's birthday was coming up and he and Fuuma had a planned a huge party for the triplets. Placing his wand down, he walked over and hugged Subaru from behind. "You're far too good to me." Whatever Subaru was making was burnt and there was no hope of saving it.

"Sorry Sei-kun, I know I can't cook but I wanted to do something nice for you..."

"How about this: since we have the day off today, why don't you come back to bed, I'll have one of the servants make breakfast for us in bed, in the afternoon we can go out to the hot springs, and then go out for dinner, then come home?"

Subaru's face turned red. He knew what ‘come home’ would mean. Never the less, he smiled before turning around and stretching up to kiss his husband. Seishirou met him halfway and they stayed like that in the middle of the kitchen. One of the maids had come in, but when she saw them lip locked she turned around snickering and decided to clean a room other than the kitchen.

“We should send a card at least to Kurogane and Fai, they got married in November while I was out of it and they're due to have their first child any day now.”

“Mmm that won’t be a problem. Their wedding was a private one family only, only way Kurogane would agree to ah, how does he put it? Such nonsense.”

“So out of our little group that leaves Hokuto, Doumeki and Watanuki—”

“Who are already working on setting up dates.”

“—And Syaoron and Yuui.”

“Well Syaoron is still in school.”

“That didn't stop Touya and Yukito, or you for that matter.”

“Well we weren't so far apart in age.”

“Come on back to bed, I'll let the Ministry know we won't be coming in today.”

“What about you? Will you be going in tonight?”

“That depends on if I get summoned, you know that Subaru. Now come on.”

Subaru hesitated a bit. He was still worried about his crazy mother-in-law and when he walked towards the stairs he swore he felt a cold chill; but that was just his paranoia...

Right?

~#~

After spending the day together and indulging themselves in more adult activities while their daughter had slept, Subaru lay nuzzled against Seishirou in one of the bigger reading nooks while the older male read.

Normally Subaru would join him, but his mind was too busy racing to concentrate on reading. He must've seemed out of it because a warm hand touched his shoulder.

“Subaru are you alright?”

“Huh? Yeah, I'm fine, just thinking.”

“About?”

“You and I having another baby.” A soft smile and a playful laugh. Subaru was partially teasing, partially serious. He was so caught up in it that he missed the look of terror on his husband's face and thankfully the fireplace flared as a letter appeared in it.

“I've got to go...they need me near Diagon Alley. What moron goes there in the thick of night to hide, seriously?”

“Please be safe and think about what I said?”

“Let's wait for Mystic to get a bit older first, okay?” A brief kiss and before Subaru knew it, he was alone in the reading nook. Again the cold chill passed him but he took it just to be nerves. So he busied himself by cleaning up the slight mess they had made of the room.

~#~

Seishirou for his part yawned and twirled his wand as he sat on his perch waiting for his prey to show themselves. This was the strangest job he had ever received in all his time of doing this. “This is boring, I've been out here for about an hour and still it’s a no show.”

“Well my dear sometimes you get the boring cases.”

Sunglass filtered amber eyes turned and met with another pair of amber eyes on a petite woman. “What are you doing here?”

“I'm the one that sent you that letter, I haven’t seen you in so long, I missed my little boy so much.”

“Your 'little boy' is grown up and has a family of his own now thank you very much.”

“It won't last for long, not with who you are.”

“You're wrong....you're dead wrong.”

“Am I? I bet you your fairytale will end while your mudblood of a brother is happy. People like you and I Seishirou were meant to be alone. This is why I know no matter how much I love you I can never have you.”

“You couldn't anyways you know I love—”

“That boy so you claim, yes, but I'm telling you it won’t last.”

With that she disapparated to who knows where, leaving the older male still sitting there lost and confused. He thought about going to see Hokuto, she lived in Diagon Alley now with Kakyou above her shop. But it was after ten at night, they may be asleep already. He nearly jumped five feet in the air when a hand touched his shoulder.

“Are you alright Sei-kun?”

“Subaru how did...how did you find me?”

“Well what happened was...”