On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Huo walked out of the castle wandering around for sometimes and found himself already down the path of the river that leads to the heaven's border. He took the way and wished to spend some time in that tree hut fon the river banks he hadn't been to for over months. Memories gushed inside and he couldn't push then away. His heart thumbed louder and made him feel weak. He wished he remembered nothing. The hideout that meant too much in life. Those rendezvous with someone ripped his heart out to think of it now.

He looked around and washed his face sprinkling some water from the river. He felt peaceful then.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him standing inside the tree hut, her arms folded.

"I," he stuttered. "I was just passing by," he said looking up at her. For some reasons, he didn't have the courage to look into her eyes. He avoided and looked away.

"Don't again," she warned him.

"What?"

'I said don't come here again," she repeated.

"Why? Aqua I don't get you," he asked her.

"I won't let you go back alive if you do, Demon King," she spoke rudely and very angrily. Seeing him boiled her blood.

"Come down and talk to my face if you dare," he said smirking. And she did jump down, holding her twin daggers in her hands. "Say it again,"

"I won't let you go back alive if you do, Demon King," she repeated once again. He couldn't believe what he just heard.

"Why?" he asked her. "It doesn't make sense."

"I don't want some random people to walk in and out the place that I treasure. Unlike some people, I can't tolerate people who wrong me , I wouldn't spend intimate times with them," she said straight equal to slapping his face.

That hurt him. It did. But he just as if it didn't effect him.

He just took a deep breath listening to her acquisitions and remaimded quiet to not cause trouble as she went on. "Cannot deny, can you?" she smiled and turned her back.

"Why should I? I hate people who cannot trust others, we are even here," but Aqua got angry and threw one of her daggers at him, it passed right through his left hand as he moved and cut his sleeve a little bit, with blood wetting that of his clothes. He took his sword out and they both duelled.

He did not wish to do it at all and waste both their energy. "Are you crazy? stop fighting, why are you fighting with me?" he asked her as she kept attacking him and he went on defending. "Stop," he said afraid that he might end up hurting her while she vent out her anger on him. "What's wrong with you? stop it," he kept telling her as she never intended to stop. He then used the charm to stop her from moving.

"Remove the charm. Or else I will really kill you," she said and remove the charm herself. But he got both her daggers and locked her holding her arms tightly. She struggled to let herself lose. But he cornered her against a tree and kept both his arms either side of her.

"Let go," she kicked him right on his spot and he just controlled biting his lips acting cool.

"You shut up and leave," he said to her.

"No, you shut up and leave" she snared at him. "You pig," and she started fighting again. Her kung fu seemed to be still on the same level.

"What are you angry for?" he asked her.

"A Princess need not explain that to a demon,"

"Then just stop this nonsense and get the hell out of here," he warned back. This time he was irritated.

"This area belongs to me how dare you trespass and ask me to leave, have you forgotten that I can bring my force to guard the border," she asked him.

"I don't give a damn about that, Why the heck did you sneak into my castle?" he finally asked her.

"Ah so you knew and still didn't find me, I get it, get lost and I don't ever want to see you again," she said looking at his face. But he looked too calm smiling at her.

"You're mad at me? Really? What right do have to be mad at me?"

"What right do I have?" She laughed. "Don't forget you're at my mercy, staying alive," she snapped. "Should I retrieve them watch you drop dead?" she threatened him.

"Has resurrection effected your sanity? Duh!" He joked at a wrong time and got stabbed in arms by her dagger. He didn't want to threaten her by about part of the soul he had given her, thinking that it is nothing but her temporary madness to have caught him red handed.

"No I just want to rip you apart, for everything you did wrong, forgetting who you are,"

It really pissed Huo off. He dropped his weapon, clenched his fist as the blood oozed our from the wound and took several towards her.

She stood holding the dagger with his blood dripping in her hands. She did not move a bit, facing him bravely. Some sort of regret mixed with hatred filled her heart. Though the times they spent together filled her head, every moment Volca and Huo spent in the past years flashed before eyes. She couldn't bring herself to forgive him. The first thing she did was unlocking the memories of the crystals in his body and see the truth.

Catching her off guard, Huo'er pressed his lips against her. Aqua's gripped on to her daggers tight. He took her lower lips and slowly loosened his grips on her as the drops of blood touched the ground from his arms. She let go off the daggers, she wanted to cry, but she couldn't forget what she saw. Tears streamed down her face. And she moved her hands up keeping them on his chest and stopped him.

She hit him hard on his chest that ached him, pushing him away, but he was too strong and withstood it and kissed her again. He locked both her arms behind her and kept his other hand in her neck. And this time she responded back closing her eyes, tears kept running down her eyes and put her arms around him when come kind of familiar feeling rushed inside her heart, holding on to his clothes tight. He felt her tears and did not stop from what he was doing. To him it felt the same.

Aqua didn't want it to happen, she couldn't help but surrender, and she hated it before weak. She was still madly in love with her Huo'er, she was sure of it. Huo'er watched her whole she stood with her eyes closed. He then let he ago.

A Few minutes later she met his gaze and pushed him away, stepping away from from. It did not feel convincing enough for her.

"Don't ever appear in front me again," She told him.

"What is wrong with you?" he couldn't still understand her and why she acted up.

"I can't forget the times you always stood with her and let her do things to you, I can't forgive you after seeing you with her in the room, things that could have happened for the last 23 years when I was not here, suffering and living as mere human, I don't want to know, what she was doing just explained things to me, connecting it to all the rumours about you two, I can't help but hate you,"

"Why can't you understand that I had no recollection of anything?" he used the excuse since he could not come up with anything else. Deep inside he knew well how she was right, though he couldn't tell her what happened between him and Volca. Even though he wasn't himself he let everything happen.

"See you're still not denying it," she said.

"Don't ever come in front of me again. If we meet, pretend like you don't know me at all," She was trying her best to not burst out. "If you don't, you will face the consequences,"

"Is this how you're going to treat me? Is this how you return the promises you made," He asked her unbelievably.

"I am afraid that this is the best I can do for things you did to me,"

"What about you? Were you neat when you were away?

"Atleast I did not cheat you,"

"Aqua," Huo'er lost his patience. He took a deep breath, trying to control his anger. "Let's break up," he said to her.

"I have," she said and took a step backward. "The moment I spotted her in your room, I chose not to restore the memories of the Crystals in your body only because I won't be able to live with it, can you deny? But I did anyway."

"It was a misunderstanding, " he said but before he completed, she disappeared from the river banks. He just stood there, shocked and guilt consuming him all over. He screamed and stabbed his sword on the earth.

He recalled what happened right after he woke up from his long sleep. The first time he opened his eyes and discovered where he was. His eyes searched for something family but he found nothing. Huo'er remembered the condition he was at and looked at his arms bleeding. He got up and walked back, while his mind wandered back to the past.

The dead and fragile body came to his mind, wounded and covered in bandages. The fumes of herbs and medicines inside the room he was hidden felt too strong and nauseous that he always has the sensation to throw up. He grew anxious at thought of his life. He could see it clearly, the dark and cool room, the piled books and clothes, blood, woman, everything too vividly.