"You take that back!" Mara shrieked angrily, a huge ball of black hellfire in her hand as she glared daggers at her demon husband. She didn't care that she would be weak as a baby if she kept this on, as long as she could land some hurt on the pigtailed asshole her eternal existence was bonded to. Her current condition, instead of making this more difficult, seemed to be helping her, much to her surprise. As she was now she couldn't hope to win a fair fight against Ranma, but this wasn't a fair fight. Not with the demoness being pregnant with his children and taking advantage of the fact he didn't dare hit her back.
But there was one thing he could do that drove her crazy with anger. "Or what, tomboy? You couldn't hit me with that even if I was as fat as you!" He could keep up the insult game with the best of them.
Usually she could just let the insults slide, but of late she'd been under a lot of stress. Mara growled angrily and let loose with the ball of hellfire which, much to her increasing anger, he dodged effortlessly. Neither of them noticed how the attack continued on its way, hitting a store across the street and setting it ablaze. They were too intent on each other.
"Missed me!" Ranma taunted.
Mara growled angrily and charged to try and beat the shit out of Ranma with her bare hands. She knew her attempts wouldn't be very successful, but that way she could last longer and maybe she'd manage to satisfy herself with a lucky shot to his groin. It was, after all, what got her into this mess to begin with.
She then stopped at that thought...
...
......
... Fine... She didn't want his groin to suffer. Maybe she could admit that much to herself, since she would be spending eternity and a day with him and the one thing she enjoyed about the agreement she didn't want to lose.
She'd just have to content herself with ripping his eyes out.
Ranma snorted in derision as Mara attacked him with physical attacks that came nowhere near him. In his opinion at least, for Mara could've easily taken down any normal human with the first blow, permanently.
A punch to the face was easily deflected; a kick was jumped over, an attempt at a head butt ended with her out of balance. As a result of the short exchange Mara found herself struggling against Ranma's impossibly strong hold on her wrists, which were trapped behind her back. "Let me go!" She demanded, wincing slightly as she felt her left shoulder protest her own movements.
Ranma held the demoness tightly, making her defenseless as she glared up at him, and his eyes locked with hers.
Ranma stared into the angry visage of his wife, even if he still had trouble accepting the fact that they were actually bonded. So many negative conflicting feelings were reflected by those eyes, yet the pigtailed demon could tell most of them originated from the bad hand fate had dealt her. Frustration. Fear. Impotence. Resentment. All of them combined, and she was using him as an outlet of that aggression. He was the only outlet left for her. And yet... There was something else in her eyes as well.
Mara lost herself in the hurt and anger that light Ranma's eyes. He had lost a lot of what he cared for, and losing Kodachi as well had made him snap and allow those emotions to take over his actions. She was definitely angry at him for everything he'd caused in her life... Yet she was even angrier with herself... She should be thriving on those feelings, on watching Ranma destroy everything around him and then let those negative emotions consume him... It would be normal for any demon to react that way.
Yet she couldn't... "Damn this fucking bond," the demoness growled under her breath as she averted her demonic eyes from Ranma's own, blaming the effects of her connection to him for her current actions. For distracting Ranma from his self-destructive path.
Standing there, in the middle of a deserted and destroyed street of Tokyo and so close to each other, even if it wasn't the most romantic of embraces by far, the demons remained silent. The fires of violence in Ranma's eyes dimmed as his grip on the demoness slackened. "... Sorry about that..." He whispered to Mara, for he knew he was much stronger than her and he saw that wince of pain. Ever since he knew she carried his children he couldn't even entertain the thought of harming her.
"Fuck you, Ranma," Mara snapped back without conviction, rubbing her sore wrists and wishing she could stay angry with him more than she was with herself.
A very awkward silence followed, both of them looking at anything but the other.
Finally, after nearly five minutes of that same uncomfortable silence, Mara opened her mouth to speak. "Where did you place Kodachi, anyway?" When she had found Ranma he was already relieved of the crazy gymnast.
Ranma lowered his head. "Someplace safe," he answered in a voice full of despair.
"That's your child inside of her, Ranma!" Mara snapped, and had to remind herself that she was worried about the little shit because she could later use it for her purposes.
The pigtailed demon didn't have the chance to answer, because at that precise moment the demons were startled by footsteps no more than a couple of feet away.
They turned at the ready to find...
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