Hi I'm back! This is the chapter of all chapters! It is worth the wait! I do realize that once I write this, there is no turning back! Please do rehash your memory and read the previous chapter/s, so this event doesn't jump to you out of nowhere. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it! Oh and I love the current arc, the possibilities of Hilda forming a contract with Oga is so within reach and not far-fetched if Beel gets kidnapped (ah I can't wait!). Everything is owned by the great Tamura! I'm borrowing his characters because I love them, I love them, I love them, I love Beelzebub! :D

Hilda's Birthday II: Oga's Proposal

"WELCOME to our contest where we will shed light on how well couples really know each other. At the end of the show only one winner will prevail while the others who don't quite know each will either MAKE-UP or BREAK-UP!"

"This is televised?!" Oga exclaimed as he saw the camera crew in front of the stage.

"Err yes… its on the paper you signed." The girl with the clipboard earlier is now coordinating the couples participating on the contest as they prepare to come out of the backstage.

"Okay now couples you must hold hands when you get out there."

Oga's hands started getting clammy again and he's getting goosebumps. "Hold hands?" He started having cold sweats.

Hilda looked at him as he suffer through the symptoms, 'He's even worse than me, just the thought of holding hands and he's already getting sick.'

"Give me your hand Oga." she asked. The guy didn't seem to hear her as he continues to stand there frozen, "Oga your hand. Oga!" the man isn't listening, "TATSUMI!"

He finally looked at her and stared at her propelled hand. He slowly put his hand above hers. He closed his eyes for the onslaught of pain and misery as they touch skin… 'Huh…' surprisingly he felt no pain, there was that initial jolt at the first contact and his stomach did churn a bit but not as bad as before, he looked at their clasped hands and it just felt… oddly enough… it felt right. 'WHAT THE HELL?! Do you even hear yourself Oga? IT FELT RIGHT?! IT FELT NATURAL?! Are you turning your bad-ass life from a shonen into a shoujo, no longer worthy to be part of JUMP? Get a grip of yourself!'

Hilda however is having a harder time, her heart started beating faster again, she took a deep breath and tried to calm down. Oga sensed her uneasiness, "Can you bear with it?" She nodded, her heart settled to a steady rhythm, "Let's do this!"

As they sat on the red sofa, Hilda looked at the audience and saw Misaki with a video recorder waving at them. They called her so she can take care of Beel while they participate on the show, she showed up with his Oga's parents in tow. She reluctantly waved back before looking around the stage, 'Where are they keeping them?'

One of the assistants handed each pair a large notepad and a marker. 'Odd for them to choose paper for this competition.' She gauged the thickness of the notepad, it will take forever to hurt someone with it. She looked around again, 'Maybe they're hiding them.'

"What are you looking for?" Oga whispered.

"Where are the weapons?" Hilda whispered back. "How are we going to eliminate the competition? These notepads are too flimsy to slap our opponents with. Can we do hand-to-hand combat instead? It will be easier that way."

"What did you think this competition is?!" Oga hissed, "This is not battle royale!"

"Tsk. Stupid humans with their stupid competitions."

"Now contestants one of you will be writing their answers on the notepad and we will reveal later on how those answers match that of your partners. Ready contestants?"

"Question number one is for the women: what is your partner's favorite snack?"

Hilda smiled confidently, 'I know this dumbass human's favorite snack.'

"Okay gentlemen we'll start with pair number one, if you could please state your favorite snack."

"Sweet potato fries." The guy with the heavy glasses answered.

"Alright miss, please reveal your answer." The host turned to the woman beside him who turned her notepad towards the audience.

"And she's right for 5 points!"

"Now our last pair, Oga and Hilda, if you could please tell us your answer Oga."

"Croquette."

Hilda nodded, and flipped her notepad to reveal her answer.

"Err… Hilda-san what exactly is that?" the host tried to decipher the drawing on the notepad.

"It's a croquette. This is how Oga likes them cooked."

The audience and the host seem flabbergasted, the croquette looks like a face of a ghost in pain.

Oga can't believe it! 'Shit! Shit! Shit! Damn bitch! First question and they're already eliminated.' He raised his right arm "Ah! You have to excuse her! She's from Macau! She doesn't know how to write some words in Japanese so she has to draw them!"

"Oh. So she truly is a foreigner… we apologize Hilda-san, we just assumed, since you speak such fluent Japanese. Let me confer with the judges on what to do with this situation."

After talking to a panel sitting behind a large table in front of the stage, the host came back. "Due to special circumstances, we will flip the question around since we did not know that Hilda-san is not that familiar in writing Japanese characters. So Oga-san you will be writing all your answers and Hilda-san will state hers." Once Hilda handed the notepad to Oga, the host asked, "Alright this question is only for couple number six. Oga-san what is Hilda-san's favorite snack?"

'I know this bitch's favorite snack. It's spicy… spicy… spicy… SHIT!' Oga can't remember for the life of him the Spanish word that comes after spicy! 'Shit! Shit! Shit! Is it caballero? Spicy caballero bun? No it doesn't sound right, spicy caballo bun?' He crossed the answer again. 'Spicy… DAMN IT!'

"Please write down your final answer Oga." The host prompted.

If they get eliminated then so be it! Oga wrote down his final answer and waited for the host's cue.

"Alright Hilda-san, what is your favorite snack?"

"Spicy habanero meat bun." She stated followed with a grin. She saw Misaki shouting 'Wohoo!' at the audience.

"Oga your answer please."

Oga turned his notepad and some audience started laughing. The host read his answer "Spicy habububba meat bun."

"You have to excuse him. He can't remember foreign words, the Japanese language pushed the limits of his brain."

The host wiped the tear at the corner of his eye. "For making us laugh Oga we will accept your answer as a match, five points!"

By the third question two couples were eliminated bringing down the number of couples to three.

Alright question number four for the men "What is your partner's favorite color of underwear?"

"Oooooo." The audience collectively uttered, some even whistled reacting to the boldness of the question.

Oga remembered the underwear Hilda always leaves in the bathroom and it was yellow.

The other two couples had mismatched answers, "Alright… our last couple Oga and Hilda. If they get this right then they've won. Hilda-san what is your favorite color of underwear."

"Yellow." She answered 'Yes!' Oga was about to stand up from the couch to declare victory when the bitch opened her mouth again. "Hmm but I do wear black." Oga stared at her incredulously as she thought her answer over. "Yellow…." Oga's eyes widened again with excitement before "…or black." 'Damn you!' Oga stared at her with daggers.

"Well Hilda-san now that everyone knows the color of your underwears. Which will be your final answer."

Hilda looked at the audience and saw Misaki showing the strap of her bra which is the same as hers. "Yellow."

"Oga-san please re-.." Oga didn't wait for the host to finish his sentence, he flipped the notepad, showed it to the audience stood up, pulled Hilda up and hugged her. "Yellow! Damn it! We almost lost! You damn bitch!"

"You asshole it will be your fault if we lost! You and your peanut of a brain!"

"And we have a winner…" the host and the audience stared at the couple as they dished out insults to each other while they hugged each other because they've won.

When the clapping died down, both realized how close they are to each other and Hilda pushed him away. Oga felt a sense of loss when Hilda stepped away from him. 'WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?!'

"The owner of the jewelry store Mr. Nissan will now present the winners with the prize." The older man appeared from the backstage and shook both winners' hands. He then directed them to the photographers in front "Please smile for the cameras." He asked them. Oga looked at Hilda who posted a smug smirk. He tried his best to smile but judging from the gasp of the audience his smile was probably a fail.

"And now audience the moment you've been waiting for. Oga will now propose to Hilda!"

"PROPOSE?!" Oga almost dropped the box that the older man handed him.

"It's in the paper you signed up for. That if you win you will propose on television to your partner."

Oga's eyes widened! Shit! All the troubles he had to go through seem to just keep piling up. Why does he always end up in this mess?

"Oga-san, your proposal?" The host and the audience waited in anticipation. The contestant doesn't seem to be fully aware of the stipulation of winning the competition. Question now is will he propose or not?

Oga stared at Hilda whose looking back at him and then at the box he was holding. 'Do I want to marry Hilda?'

Shouldn't there be love first? He has no idea what love is. The remote idea he has on love is what he feels for his parents and his sister. He sure can't stand them at times but he will do anything for them. He looked at Hilda and Beel at the audience, there was a time when he couldn't wait to get rid of these two. His life got busier when they both came. He looked at the woman in question again, every minute he's cursing her for being a damn bitch and making his life miserable. Life would be a breeze without her… but then he remembered the time when she was stabbed, the feeling of helplessness, the inability to protect her, he felt like a failure. When she apologized to him, he got pissed, it's his responsibility to protect her and Beel damn it! Not the other way around! And when the dragon kidnapped her, the anger he felt while they tried to manhandle him as he tried to go to her. The sense of loss and fear he felt when the damn dragon swallowed her. The worrying, and the gnawing feeling if he'll ever see her again was at the back of his mind while he trained.

Hilda looked at him straight in the eyes. And the emotion he's feeling now he can't describe it. She always throw him in a loop of emotions depending on the situation but right now he felt… oddly enough… content. He will do anything for her and Beel, the same way he will do anything for his family. He looked at Hilda and Beel, they're his family now…

"Hilda…" the audience gasped. "I sure can't stand you most of the time. I hate how you order me around. I hate you insulting me, and I don't know when you will go back to hell or take my soul for that matter. But I can no longer imagine my life without a demon beside me to raise Beel. I have no clue what love is. But I do love my family, and for some twist of fate, you and Beel are my family now." Oga opened the box and it revealed the shiny solitaire diamond. He slipped the ring on Hilda's finger.

'Demon?' 'Go back to hell?' the audience seem to be digesting the details of his proposal, once Hilda has the ring on her finger, they reluctantly started clapping.

"Family?" Hilda tried to digest what Oga is offering her. She stared at the ring on her finger. And remembered Oga's mother wearing one as well. She saw the sincerity in Oga's eyes, the ring symbolizes that they're a family now. Unaware of her own reaction, she started to smile. This moment reminded her of the time when she received the necklace from her master's mother. The feeling of acceptance and happiness that someone cared for her, she looked at Oga and realized the implication of the jewelry. 'He cares for me…' The ring symbolizes more than them becoming a family. 'Is this why his mother takes so much care of the rings she has on her finger?' Her smile became a sinister grin as she figured out something. 'Come to think of it, his mother wears two rings. Why is this bastard giving her just one?'

She looked at Oga who is grinning like a smug bastard. "You're offering me one ring? When your mother has two!? You damn fool!"

"Hahahaha!" Misaki played the video over and over again, the show wouldn't be televised until next month. "It wouldn't be Oga and Hilda if violence isn't part of the engagement. I wonder how they'll edit the last part." Misaki replayed the last part again when Hilda knocked his brother out on stage.

"Dah!" Beel exclaimed in agreement, he stayed close to Misaki and sat at the kitchen table as they enjoyed the show.

"SHUT UP!" Oga threw the sofa pillow towards his sister's direction before touching his sore cheek. 'YOU BETTER GET ME ANOTHER ONE!' he remembered Hilda shouting.

His mother explained to Hilda that the other ring comes when they're actually married. The damn bitch, he can't believe he decided to live the rest of his life with her. Maybe it was a moment of insanity. He can definitely take it back, that's right! He'll tell her that it was all an act and that she can keep the ring and that he can't wait for her to go back to hell. He's nauseated being with her and tired of her presence at home and at school. Heck he wants to be a lone wolf again! 'That's right Oga, you should be your own man and not let the woman control you.'

"Oga lets go to the convenience store. We need to buy soy sauce." Hilda shouted from the kitchen.

"Coming!" He immediately stood up and met her at the doorway, where she handed him his jacket. She's smiling beguilingly at him. 'So much for being my own man. Shit! Shit! Shit!'

Hope you enjoyed it! It was a very long wait but it's so hard to make a dense man and woman feel love hahahaha! I still have Hilda's ACTUAL birthday to complete the trilogy (hahaha) so look forward to it… hopefully I'll have more time in my hands and update sooner! I do read your comments and I apologize for the wait. Take care everyone! :D