A/N:Sorry for scaring you all like that but the past couple of monthes have been really rough, but now things are finally looking up! So I am back and ready to write again. :D This is a filler chapter just so I can start to get my creative juices flowing again. I hope you guys don't mind. Enjoy.
Fire Starters
Chapter 33
Hara stood behind the Homra bar counter cleaning up and counting inventory when the the front bell rang. It was unusual to have visitors on a Sunday when Homra was closed. Even the clan stayed elsewhere and today didn't seem like an exception, until the front door opened. Though it was never some one she had expected to see or ever thought she would see inside Bar Homra.
"Can I help you?" Hara said with a bit of a suspicious stare. The man who stood before her gave a sheepish grin and bowed.
"I'm sorry to trespass ma'am, but you had said before that you wanted him to visit you more often." Looking behind the young red head who stood before her, Hara almost squealed in delight.
"Saruhiko!" Fushimi Saruhiko was being held and dragged towards the bar by several of his fellow clansmen. Hara rushed forward and wrapped him in a hug. "Oh I've missed you so much! Have you gotten taller? Oh my, I like what you're doing with your hair now. Are you hungry? Thirsty? How about you biys?" She turned her gushing to the other young men in the bar who all stopped to stare at her. "Would you boys like anything to eat or drink? I'll throw something together real quick." They all just froze there unsure of what to do when Domyouji burst forward.
"Could we please? That sounds great!" She gave him a smile and grabbed Saruhiko's hand. Pushing him to sit in a chair she could see how uncomfortable he was even as he felow clansmen sat around him.
"Do you have any requests? Saruhiko, honey are you craving anything?" Saruhiko turned his head and clicked his tongue and something snapped before he could reply. Looking up he saw the Red Queen looking like the devil himself and wooden spoon snapped in two. "Don't you dare pull that attitude with me, young man. I didn't bring you up to click your tongue at me." Saruhiko shivvered and nodded, muttering a quick apology.
"Beef noodles, please." He added quietly. Hara smiled quickly falling back into a sweet demeanor. The others all gave their own orders while they felt both amazed by Hara's power over Saruhiko, and fear over her ferocity. Hara quickly made them all that they desired and food was placed neatly, and elegently before them.
"Dig in boys, but please try not to make too much of a mess. Kusanagi will be upset if his bar becomes stained." They all nodded, eating carefully and quietly. "Why are you all so quiet? Did I scare you? I'm sorry about that, but Saruhiko knows not to click his tongue around me. Does he do it often at your place?" Domyouji was quick to answer.
"All the time! Even when the Captain talks to him." Hara snorted at that and shook her head. "Why is that funny?"
"I apologize. I'm not too fond of your Captain due to his lack of understanding of the word 'personal'. So I just find it entertaining that Saruhiko is givin him a hard time. That man likes to put his nose where it doesn't belong. He deserves all the trouble he gets." Domyouji took offense.
"Huh?! That's why you hate the Captain? That's the dumbest reason I've ever heard! Are you stupid or wh-!" Domyouji was quickly shut up when a fist met his teeth. Looking up and holding s bleeding lip, he saw Saruhiko looking down on him with a very, very dangerous look. "Fushi-"
"Don't ever show Hara-chan such disrespect. Especially when she has allowed you, a Blue, into her domain without repercussion. Try to not be such a stupid kid, Domyouji." Hara watched carefully as for once, Saruhiko had outwardly shown his care for her. He sat down and went back to quietly sipping his noodles as though nothing had just transpired.
"Saruhiko may not be a Red anymore, but I suppose he still respects me, no?" Saruhiko rolled his eyes and Hara ignored it just this once. "What a sweet boy I've raised."
"You didn't raise me."
"No, but I did bring you up for over a year, no?"
"That doesn't mean you raised me." Hara snickered not admitting how true his statement was.
"Domyouji-san, please sit back down properly." Domyouji carefilly lifted himself from the floor and sat on his stool without a word.
"But," Hidaka began but paused.
"Go ahead." Hara prompted him.
"But, what exactly did our Captain do? You know, to make you hate him." Hidaka ducked his head as the others looked up curiously.
"He dug into my family history and uncovered a few things I'd rather not speak of. Then he had the audacity to challenge me on it. In a sense, he had also threatened my family. And threatening my family is not something I take lightly." Hidaka nodded his understanding and bit his lip.
"I'm sure Captian had his reasons, but to think he would threaten Homra-"
"Not Homra, my family. My husband and my small children. I have four now, but then I'd only had my two." Hidaka swallowed thickly.
"Why? I don't get it."
"I was at odds with my father, and he uncovered this. He thereatened to take my children away, escentially ripping my family apart. I was also to be deported as a threat." Hidaka, as well as the others, mouths hung open as they viewed their king in a new light. "But don't get me wrong. I'm more mad that he assumed he knew what was truly going on in a situation he truly knew nothing about. He tried to tae matters into his own hands and 'make things right' but he knew nothing. He didn't really know, that by taking my children and sending me away, he put myself and my children in danger. Our lives were on the line, if he had gone through with threats."
"How could Captain not know the truth?"
"Easy. False poilce reports were made public and money made the truth go away. He had to dig much, much, much deeper to get the truth and even then he would not have gotten all of it. So I informed him myself. And he quickly made his way back to little blue cave and has kept from my family since." Hara busied herself cleaning once more as a heavy silence hun in the air until she spoke again. :I truly have nothing against your king, he is a good man albeit a bit foolish sometimes. But I respect him, and I do respect his clan. I only hope that you children may return such thoughts."
"I'm sorry for my disrespect before." Domyouji finally muttered out. "Uhm also, I have a quick question, if you don't mind ma'am?" Hara nodded. "What is your relationship to Fushimi-san and Homra, specifically?"
Oh that," she giggled. "I saved Saruhiko's life when he was younger, when we first met actually. I'd been a part of Homra for 5 years prior, but we hadn't met due to circumstances. And I'm the king's wife. I am Suoh Hara, Queen of the Red Clan, also known as Homra."
Hara waved the Blues off from her spot on Homras steps as they drove away.
"Wow, to think we met such a powerful woman today. I never knew the Red King had a wife and kids. Fushimi-san, why didn't you ever mention it?" Domyouji sat forward leaning on the back of Saruhiko's seat enthusiastically.
"It was never worth mentioning. She's annoying and smothers every one. Honestly, I don't think she gets how suffocating she is." He kept muttering to himself as Doumyouji sat back with a frown.
"She was pretty though. I hope I get a woman that pretty. I just hope she's not as scary." Domyouji added with his arms behind his head.
"I bet the king is even afraid of her!" Hidaka laughed.
"He is, she gets angry and he hides." Saruhiko smorked as he spoke aloud. "It's entertaining to see a grown man hide form his wife, even when he's not the object of her anger." Hidaka began to sweat and gave a nervous smile.
"Well, I bet she's sweet like that most of the time." Fuse nodded an affirmative. "Other wise she wouldn't be loved so much, even by Fushimi-san, right?"
"I guess so." Saruhiko added and placed his head against the cool glass of he window. "Now stop talking about it."
"Yes~" They all said sullenly.
A/N: Sorry if they were a bit OOC. I wanted just once scene where Fushimi defended Hara and I thought, why doesn't he just punch Domyouji since he tends to say things without thinking half the time anyways. Anyways, sorry for the filler, but I hope ou all enjoyed it. Review, Follow, Favorite!