"Mama. Papa." The room fell completely silent except for the hum of Emi's heater. The two of them staring blankly at the child that had appeared out of thin air. After several seconds of pause Maou was finally the one to break the silence.

"Emi, what did you do?" His voice quickly escalated, his state of mind catching up to his words.

"Eh? What I did? You were the last one to touch it before it turned into a-a-a kid! Why did it turn into a kid?" Her mind was racing with a million questions but the one that made itself most known to her was why she felt so much warmth towards this little girl.

"Ya but I've touched it before and this never happened." Maou's head was beginning to overheat with so many questions running through it. This was insane. Lailah never mentioned anything about a child.

"Okay. You didn't have this before so where did you get it?" Emi's voice wavered slightly, showing her panic a little more than she would have liked.

"Lailah gave it to me when I was a child and it was in my garden until you attacked my castle. Then some humans got it and I'm assuming one of your church friends brought it through the portal with them, then traded it for something. Lailah said that it 'found it's way back to her' and she gave it back to me tonight.

"Wait, you knew my mom when you were a child?" Emi's expression was that of surprise but it made sense. Her father had told her that her mother had traveled a long distance before meeting Nord in the market where he sold his harvest. Their conversation was interrupted by a light tug on the front of Emi's night shirt.

"Mama, I need to go potty." Emi lifted the child off her lap and onto the floor, then stood and took the toddler's hand to lead her to the bathroom. The two walked hand in hand down the hall in Emi's small apartment the elder racking her mind for everything she had ever learned about the yesod fragments, and the younger humming care-freely. Suddenly the toddler yanked her hand to her side and put on a very determined expression. "I can potty by myself!" she turned and pushed on the door with both hands, promptly shutting it in Emi's face.

"Okay, so she doesn't need help. Now what?" She muttered to herself. Emi reached for her phone. She was determined to get to the bottom of this and right now, her only lead was her mother. Halfway through her dialing she was interrupted.

"Mommy are you there?" A slightly distressed voice came from the other side of the door and Emi paused at the thought of admitting motherhood of the child but she also didn't want to leave the girl scared and alone.

"Yes I'm here. Do you need help?"

"NO! Just don't leave." This little girl was rather defiant when it involved doing things independently she thought to herself.

"Okay, I'll stay right here." Emi could hear a muttered thank you from inside the bathroom and she felt herself smile. She finished her dialing and hit send. She waited for several seconds but it went to voicemail. She hung up and continued to wait for the toddler. Soon she heard the little girl humming a song her father used to sing to her. Yet another question for her, how did this child know a song from a place she had never been. A small tear trickled down the hero's face but she quickly brushed it away. Her father was alive and she could see him again, it was time to let go of all the pain and anger she had lived with over the past years once and for all. Soon she heard the toilet flush and the little pitter patter of small feet running over to the sink but she didn't hear the water turned on. Emi waited several seconds then opened the door just a crack to see the little girl on her tiptoes reaching with all her might to get to the sink. Emi stepped into the small space to lift the girl and this time there was no complaining from her.

-At the devil's castle-

"You are insane!" A certain young purple haired demon shouted as he slammed the door to his shared housing apartment. He had been forced to listen to Ashiya all day long, this chief this, this chief that. He quickly threw on his jacket and ran down the steps to the street. Looking both ways multiple times he finally made a decision to head to the local convenience store. He walked down the street letting his body language seep with hate and ill intent. The last thing he felt like right now was talking which seemed to be humans favorite activity. He figured he was safer not giving them a reason to interact with him at all.

His feet took him in the right direction instinctively so he let his mind wander to other things. "Maou doesn't know what it's like!" The young teens voice didn't carry far but it wouldn't have mattered if it did. There wasn't anyone nearby to hear him and even if they did he doubted they would have cared about his opinion. "I'd like to see him stay sane always being locked up inside and treated like Ashiya treats me. Why is he giving me orders anyway? When we were in the demon army we were the same rank. Hell I even survived Emilia the hero! Who the hell put him in charge?!" At this point his sullen anger had become more attune to a maniatic joy.

Urushihara reached the convenience store without incident and went to the back of the store grabbing a basket and a blue raspberry slushy before he began cruising the isles. He noticed two upper classmen eying him from the corner and texting. He took his time going back and forth through the small store watching as the older teens eyes followed his every move. He finished up and took his few selected items to the counter. After paying for his new sustenance he left the store not missing the fact that the two highschoolers had followed him out. He grinned to himself, this will be fun. Three more assailants stepped out from behind the convenience store. The three boys were dressed in black and had various spikes and chains on there clothing. Normally a few chains would be nothing to concern himself with but these boys where wearing so much it was beginning to look like chain mail. It was pitiful how hard they were trying to be intimidating really.

"Hey kid, empty your pockets or get a beat down, it's your choice." The biggest one stood a good six inches above Urushihara looking as intimidating as he could. Obviously he was the leader but he noticed that the other lackeys seemed to have a bit more confidence than the usual street rats and junkies he had encountered during his time spent with Olba. He felt out to see if there was any magic but he sensed nothing. These were just ordinary high school bullies, with no powers and no street smarts. "Didn't you hear me punk? I said empty your pockets, or else."

"I heard you. I just thought I'd give you a chance to reconsider your mark. Going around attacking random people without doing your research is pretty gutsy, even for me." He waited a few seconds for his words to set in but the only response he got was the boy in front grabbing both sides of his collar and slamming him against the wall of the convenience store.

"You think your better than us?! I hate your kind of punk! You think that just because you got some high score in a video game you get to go around looking down on the rest of us?! Well your scrawny ass is about to be taught a lesson. Welcome to the real world!" He removed one hand from his collar balling his fist and pulling back poised to strike.

-At the hero's apartment-

Maou fell loosely onto Emi's sofa. This evening had definitely taken a turn for the strange. His life was threatened, then his biggest regret had been resolved, and now it would seem he was a new father. His head swam with the sheer overload he was experiencing, the last item of his day being the heaviest hitter. Of course when magic was involved anything was possible but a kid. That seemed just a bit much for magic alone. There had to be something more to this that they were missing.

He just stared blankly at her ceiling waiting for the two of them to come back. He shot a glance at her wall clock and noted that it was now officially the next day. Exhaustion had long ago set in and his eyelids began to drift shut. The sound of small feet running across the carpet brought him back to full consciousness.

-At a convenience store-

The purple light faded from behind the convenience store and Urushihara stood over four of the boy, the fifth one not far away. There bodies had small trails of smoke coming off of them. He had left them alive but barely.

"Yeah, welcome to the real world. Kinda sucks huh?" Urushihara let a small chuckle escape before turning his attention to the last boy who was now tightly hugging the front bumper of a nearby car. Looking up at the young demon with terrified eyes.

"What, What are you?"

"Me?" Ushihara asked with fiend confusion. He stepped closer to the boy who was frozen with fear and leaned in close to the boys face grinning as wide as he could and reaching past him. "I'm just something that doesn't like it's twinkies stolen. I'll also be taking these." reaching into the fifth boys shirt pocket he removed a pack of cigarettes along with a lighter and then stood up to walk away.

-At the hero's apartment-

"So? What are we going to do with her?" Emi was tired and at this point she didn't care what the answer was as long as it brought about a swift end to the evening.

"Well she can't sleep on the floor so my place isn't an option, she'll have to stay with you." Maou hated pushing the responsibility off onto Emi but he honestly didn't see a better option available to them.

"Okay." Emi rubbed her left eye and started walking towards the door to let Maou out. Her answer took him by surprise a bit but he decided it was stupid to push the subject any further after she had agreed with him. Maou walked to the door looking back to see the little girl asleep on the couch in the same spot he had almost dozed off himself.

"Oh, I almost forgot. Why did you call me here?" Emi suddenly froze. Maou walked through the door and then turned back to look at her but when he did he saw that her face was almost as red as her hair.

"Haven't you done enough for one night?!" Emilia's voice was low enough not to wake the neighbors but it didn't loose any of its edge. She followed up by slamming the door in his face. A very stunned Maou just stood in place for several seconds before composing himself and heading home.

- Outside the Devil's castle -

Urushihara looked down at the pack of cigarettes and chuckled to himself. This was one of those times when he was forced to realize just how much this world was affecting him. He actually cared that these stupid things would affect his health. A demon worrying about his health, the mere thought was laughable yet here he was staring at the box frozen in thought.

"The hell do I care." deciding that it was stupid to keep worrying he opened the pack and took one out, sparking up the lighter to set the tip ablaze like he had seen done so many times by the people he and Olba had first met here. He put the filter bit in his mouth and breathed in. He then followed that up with a fit of coughing. He could hear the shuffling of feet from around the corner and he braced himself to face Maou or Ashiya but at this point he didn't care anymore. It startled him slightly when Suzuno rounded the corner instead.

"Are you unwell good Hanzo?" She wore a look of concern on her face which turned to one of disapproval as her eyes traveled to his hand holding the cigarette. He didn't know why but he felt a pang of guilt that she had found him like this. "I'm told that those things can kill you."

"So, who would care if I died anyway." He brought up the cigarette to take another puff but not before a blur came into his left field of vision followed by a sharp stinging on his cheek. He reached up to feel the place that she had slapped him. Then he turned his gaze to her face and saw something he was neither prepared for nor expected to see. She had a grimace and tears were starting to well in the corners of her eyes but they did not dilute her gaze. She lowered her gaze and what was said next came in a soft but firm tone.

"I heard Ashiya and you fighting. I will cook for you if you promise me that you will never pick up one of those foul things ever again." He pondered the possibility and why she would even offer in the first place before responding.

"Okay." It was short and reserved but it wasn't a lie and the right answer he thought. Her head shot up and he saw something he hadn't seen from her before, anger. Nothing held back, her face told him everything he needed to know.

"I said promise me!" Her voice came out louder than her usual calm self and to be entirely honest it was starting to scare him. He was sure that Emi was stronger and he had fought her off but that didn't seem to have any power to reassure him right now.

"I promise! I'll never pick one up again." With that answer she reached over to him and took the pack of cigarettes away the turned around and marched back to the apartments. Left to ponder the encounter he walked back up to the apartment only to find Suzuno standing in front of her doorway with a blank expression.

"I'm sorry I was so hard on you but for all your thinking about only yourself you don't put much thought into yourself. You won't live as long here as you would on Enti-Isla." This time her voice was quieter than her usual self and it all was starting to throw him off. She opened her door and motioned for him to follow her inside. "You'll need to decide what you want me to make for you tomorrow.

Maou walked through his front door and removed his jacket and shoes. A very exhausted greeting came from the far side of the room.

"Welcome home sire."

"Aciel were is Urushihara?"

"He left in a huff awhile ago."

"What?! He's gonna get himself arrested!"

"One can only hope sire. One can only hope." With those last words he was out cold.

Just then the front door opened again and Urushihara stood in the door.

"Oh, hi Maou."

"Don't hi Maou me! Just where the hell have you been." There was a small pause before Suzano cut into the conversation.

"He was assisting me good Sadou."

"Ya, sure he was. As if finding out I'm a father wasn't enough, now I have to parent you too."

"Wait Emi's prego?"

"Why would you assume Emi's the mother?!"

Her mind began wrapping itself around her current situation slowly but surely trying to grasp it's depth. She was a mother. That one fact alone brought an endless wave of feelings

A/N: I am truly sorry that this took so long to update. I have been working on a great number of things recently and honestly this ended up falling by the wayside. I'm glad that there are people who are sticking with it and new readers still joining this story. I will try to update soon but life is full. I love writing fanfiction however it is my hobby and until they start paying us to write I have to keep it in it's place. Thank you for understanding.

PS: I will be going through and reformatting because I see that some things in my doc are getting lost in the transfer to FFnet. Not story but things like headers and paragraphs.