Chaos and Hope

If there is any relationship that is more entertaining to watch, then one should look no further than Hakos Baelz's and IRyS'. A rather endearing yet chaotic duo who spends roughly most of their time roaring at each other about how the other is annoying, only to then make up afterwards, reluctantly.

Still, despite the hilarious complications, the two often spent more time with each other over the phone, talking the night away or planning streams together. For a couple that is consistently going through divorce and remarriage, they are very close.

Their little romance began as nothing more than a little gag where the two were acting as a married couple. However, this one act resulted in both of them actually falling in love, with IRyS now actively trying to grab Bae's attention.

IRyS would often go to where the council leader would be and give her a lunchbox, full to the brim with dishes the rat loves, plus a demand that she finish all of it since the nephilim took time making the thing, voluntarily. Bae would do as she's told, munching down on her friend's homemade lunch like it's the utmost pinnacle of cooking, she's not one to waste free food after all.

Although, despite the many advances, Bae hasn't acted on any of them which led to people now believing that Bae doesn't see IRyS' acts of love as signs. When in reality that wasn't the case.

Yes, while Bae plays it off as if she's unaware of the nephilim's obvious attempt at flirting the chaos incarnate is actually more than aware of the meaning behind IRyS' actions and she even adores it.

So why doesn't she date IRyS? That's what everyone wants, why won't she push for a relationship?

Well, while Bae has knowledge on what dating is, she doesn't really understand the concept of love fully and whether or not what she feels for her friend is love or lust.

She dreams of being with IRyS but at the same time, she dreams of making love to IRyS. In her mind that indicates lust not love and so Bae actively doesn't address any of IRyS' advances until she can fully distinguish her feelings as love and not lust.

Unfortunately though, she doesn't seem to get any closer to solving her dilemma.

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Over with IRyS the girl is currently in the middle of practising a dish for her beloved. Reading up a recipe she found online that seemed easy enough for her to do, but fancy enough for Bae to eat. Because nothing says a dedicated wife more than giving your partner only the very best. To her, painting her kitchen with flour, yolk and whatever other ingredients, is a small price to pay for Bae.

"Ok, so two eggs-"

Just before the shells makes contact with her mixing bowl a loud boom erupts from her phone making her miss the bowl and smack the egg on the counter instead.

She watches as the yolk drips to the floor with a gaping maw before several veins on her forehead pop out from another boom of her phone.

"Who is calling me while I'm cooking for Bae." She snatches the phone from the counter and presses the green button to answer. "What?! I'm busy!"

"Oh uh, sorry."

That voice freezes IRyS in place, she looks down on her phone and sees that she's actually on video. Who's on the other side? Well her darling Baelz of course.

"If you're busy I can always call-"

"No!" IRyS screamed, cutting Bae off. "No, no it's fine. What's up Bae?"

"Oh uh, I was gonna invite you out for lunch," Bae says.

"Lunch?" IRyS takes a glance at her kitchen and sees the mess it's in. "Sure, it's a date!"

"Cool, come meet me in front of the mall in 1 and a half hours." Bae waves bye to IRyS and turns the call off.

Once she's gone, IRyS speeds to her bathroom to take a shower, she needs to get rid of a lot of her things on her person thanks to her cooking practice. She doesn't want Bae to see her all messy now after all.

Afterwards, she grabs the cutest outfits she could find for Bae. Which mostly consisted of a black turtleneck topped with a grey coat, a black frilled skirt and a beanie for her head.

After she finishes changing her clothes, she rushes to the meeting place almost immediately. A train ride and some walking later, she arrives in front of the mall that Bae and her regularly frequent.

She can feel her heart pound within her chest, it's been a while since she and Bae went out together, this was exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time.

While waiting, the Nephilim began to fidget with her stuff, pulling out a mirror to check if her hair isn't messy or that her makeup is just right. She keeps on glancing at her watch, wondering where the rat was, and she even fiddles about in her phone, grinning rather pervertedly at artworks of Bae that are a bit adult in theme, she was extra glad of any that involved her.

Bae eventually arrives, calling out to IRyS who is still drooling over an art piece.

Noticing the chaos incarnate, IRyS quickly puts her phone away and says hi to Bae.

"What got you so fixated?" Bae asks, curious about the taller girl's phone.

"Nothing," she bites back, only fuelling Bae's curiosity even more who grins and keeps probing her.

"Come on IRyS we both know that's not true," Bae sings, leaning closer to the girl.

"You're so annoying! Let's just go already." IRyS walks off with a pout, making Bae giggle at her.

Bae takes IRyS to a nice restaurant that serves them a full three-course meal of foreign delicacies that one would not get to eat on a normal day.

IRyS is speechless at this choice of a restaurant, one because it's Bae who is currently there with her and two it's far too fancy for just a simple lunch date. Because of these two thoughts combined, IRyS is now thinking of rather ridiculous ideas in her head about the reason for her invitation.

"Is she going to propose? We're not even dating yet! Oh, wait no, what if she's really asking me to be her girlfriend? I don't think my heart's ready!" Steam puffs out of the top of IRyS' head, her vision swirling all around like a whirlpool, she just can't take the prospect of being Bae's girlfriend, not just yet.

On the other side, Bae watches with a raised brow at IRyS' stupified expression. "What is going on inside her head right now?"

The food arrives and the two enjoy a moment of silence between them, letting the mouth-watering scent of the dishes entrance them.

"Well shall we?" Bae asks.

"Yes." IRyS takes her utensils and begins to eat what's been served. Moaning and shaking at the deliciousness. "So tasty!"

Bae chuckled at the other girl's remark, before taking in a forkful of food herself. She too then moans in bliss, while commending herself in her head for the great choice of establishment.

Meanwhile, IRyS' head is still full of questions about Bae's decision to take her out. Normally Bae takes her to a cheap fast food place or some shop on the side of a street, but here they are in a fancy place eating a three-course meal. But decides it's probably best not to question and just enjoy the moment.

They continue to eat their meals, eventually reaching dessert where IRyS is served a beautiful golden flan while Bae is given a red velvet cake that oozed with strawberry jam. Both also received a cup of coffee, to balance the sweetness of their meals.

Once again, the two enjoyed their dishes in bliss, eating small pieces before sipping a bit of coffee.

During their meal, IRyS notices that Bae has a bit of jam on her cheek and is about to take her napkin to wipe it off, but a lightbulb then flashes in her mind which in turn makes her smirk a little bit.

Calling out to Bae, the nephilim then rubs the jam off the rat's face with her finger before licking it while also giving Bae a rather seductive look.

Silence falls on the two, Bae's face quickly turns a bright shade of pink and smoke puffs out her head. She drops her fork onto the plate as she begins to then try to scold IRyS but ends up coming out as a stuttering mess.

"I, uh… you… wha…"

IRyS giggles at her beloved's reaction, she's glad she got a reaction out of her, to her it means that Bae is at least aware of some of her romantic acts.

After leaving the restaurant the two go their separate ways since they have streams to prepare. On her way home IRyS keeps playing the image of Bae's face in her head, giggling at the adorableness of it. It's not every day she gets to see a flustered Bae like that, so she is making sure to enjoy it as much as she can.

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It is now nighttime and Bae is on her bed scrolling through Twitter to pass the time till she gets tired enough to sleep.

All of sudden though, a call from IRyS suddenly appears in front of her face. Blinking in slight surprise, the chaos incarnate answered the call and a rather elated IRyS appears on the other side.

"Hey Bae!" the nephilim greets gleefully.

"Hey IRyS what's up?" Bae asks slightly groggily, her fatigue slowly catching up to her.

"Oh nothing was just watching videos, what about you?"

"Just trying to fall asleep." Bae then yawns, timing her words perfectly to illustrate her point.

"Oh was this a bad time?" IRyS' smile slowly fades away, she doesn't want to be an inconvenience to Bae, so she opts to just end the call there while apologising.

However, much to IRyS' surprise, Bae tells her that it's fine and that talking to IRyS gives a sense of comfort to the redhead. Something that ultimately makes IRyS go bright red.

They continue to converse through the night, speaking about what they did after they returned home, which mostly consists of events that occurred during their streams. However, as they continued to converse, they slowly shifted their tone to the one people have gotten accustomed to when they stream.

Bickering.

It's normal for this pair to bicker, very normal, and it happens from the most simple of topics as well. For this particular one, IRyS merely told Bae she has a horror stream to do tomorrow, but since she's not good with horror, she half-jokingly asks Bae to be by her side. What was the response? Well…

"Ooh whittle IWyS scared?"

That little remark causes several veins to pop out of IRyS' head, here she was being vulnerable for Bae and all the rat does is tease her about it.

"Oh yeah? I remember you needing Mumei to comfort you while you played Tsugunohi!" IRyS bit back.

Bae gives a ghost of a smirk. "Well at least Mumei is a good girl to me."

The rat's teasing works as more veins begin to slowly pop out of IRyS' face. Getting more annoyed now, the girl just lets out one word from her mouth, full of fury.

"Die."

The leader of the council grins, knowing she got IRyS all riled up now, but she then gets greedy and tells challenges IRyS to then come to her house and kill her.

What follows this was a blank expression from IRyS who then promptly ends the call, leaving a bewildered Bae to try and piece everything else on her own.

Worried, Bae wonders if she went too far with her teasing and quickly tries to phone the nephilim back, but her calls are ignored.

She jumps out her bed and paces around her room, texting IRyS apologies for her teasing, but not one of them is read. At this point, Bae fears she pushed IRyS too far and this will actually make the nephilim hate her. That's the last thing she wants because, despite her constant teasing, Bae cares for IRyS greatly and would hate for them to get distant.

"Come on IRyS pick up!" she begs as she tries to call her friend once more, only to be ignored, again.

A knock then comes from her front door, shocking Bae stiff as there should be nobody knocking so late at night.

Nervously she makes her way to the front door, her guard up just in case it's an unsavoury character. Several knocks come through, but she doesn't answer any one of them, thinking it's a stranger.

"Bae open up, I know you're awake."

That voice, isn't that?

"IRyS?" Bae speeds up, opening the door for her friend who is indeed on the other side.

"IRyS what are you doing here?"

IRyS ignores Bae and enters the house, causing Bae to slowly move back in surprise.

"IRyS what's going on?" Bae questions, slightly afraid since the nephilim is unusually quiet.

"Well Bae." IRyS goes closer to Bae, causing her to trip on the landing and fall onto the floor on her butt. IRyS then comes in and pins Bae to the ground. "I'm here to kill you."

Bae's eyes widens, her heart races and her mind begins to question the other girl's words. "IRyS what do you-?"

Before she could finished Bae is silenced, but along with it came a soft feeling being pressed against her lips.

"Huh?"

IRyS pulls back and looks at Bae with heart-shaped eyes. "Well Bae how was it?"

Bae doesn't really know how to respond, her mind is still processing everything. But one thing was clear to her though. "Did you just kiss me?"

IRyS gives a sultry smirk and licks her lips. She then lowers herself back down and whispers, "I said I would kill you. So here I am, killing you… with my love."

At those words, Bae's heart goes into overdrive, she stares at IRyS for a second before planting her own lips against the nephilim's. What happens next is a bit of a blur, but she can feel the sheer ecstasy that she's in as she continues to make out with IRyS. She can tell they were no longer holding back any lust or love they had hidden from each other as she discerns the touch of IRyS' slender fingers caressing her skin underneath her hoodie.

The night was full of bliss, their proclamations of love are woven into their cries and moans. Their beads of sweat fly off their skin as their bodies dance while intertwined. Everything is being laid out on the sheets which they are gripping onto with all their strength.

Love and desire are now one.

Their hearts are now one.

Their bodies are now one.

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Night descends and morning rises, the two are peacefully asleep on the bed with the covers over them. Their clothes scattered across the room and the smell of lust permeates the air around them.

Bae is the first to stir awake and after a night of love making, she is completely out of it. She barely remembers a thing, but is more than aware of what she has done.

As she groans groggily she sits up and looks to the side where a naked IRyS slept like a baby.

The memories of the night prior then rushes to the front of her brain and a puff of smoke quickly escapes on the top of her head.

She sighs to herself and pinches the bridge of her nose. She questions how in the world those events transpired and how the hell will she face IRyS now?

"Morning Bae."

Bae's stiffens before she mechanically turns her head back around, where a fully awake IRyS gazed at her with a smirk.

"Last night was amazing," she swooned. "Wasn't it?"

"Uh yeah," Bae answered, unsure on how to feel about it. She pretty much went with the flow and gave in to her desire, but now that her senses are back she really has no idea how to tackle it.

IRyS senses this uneasiness on Bae and decides to just come clean. "Bae. Do you hate me?"

Bae recoils at the question but quickly reponds. "Of course not."

"Do you regret that we did it?"

Bae pauses, she looks to the side which gives the nephilim the wrong idea.

"Oh…" IRyS then stands up and goes to pick up her clothes, she thinks that she messed up and has assumed that Bae is just going to accept it. So seeing the chaos incarnate have such a guilty expression is now making IRyS think she merely forced herself on Bae.

Bae notices her quickly trying to leave, but she rushes to her and grabs her by the wrist. "Hey wait!"

IRyS stops, she slightly turns her head to Bae and with a weak voice asks, "Shouldn't I leave?"

Bae's heart is stung by her tone, she doesn't want IRyS to leave, it's just that she didn't know how to feel about their act. She loved every moment of it, but she is still partly in shock as it did happen rather unexpectedly. She was still questioning whether what drove her was lust or love.

IRyS who's been waiting for an answer notes Bae's hesitance and thinks she really has messed up and so tries to pry herself off Bae, but surprisingly she was a lot stronger than she looked.

"Bae," IRyS calls, "please let go."

Bae's eyes widens but she grits her teeth and tightens her grip. "No."

"But, I-I hurt you," IRyS says.

"You didn't hurt me IRyS," Bae responds, but IRyS doesn't believe her.

"How can you say that? You couldn't even look at me."

"That's because…" Bae pauses. "That's because I don't know if I did it right."

IRyS turns fully around and looks down on the shorter girl. "What?"

Bae tells her the worries that's bubbling in her mind. Her doubts that keeps weighing her heart and how she wants to truly love IRyS rather than lust for her. She admits that making love to her was truly bliss and that she loved every moment of it, but she's not sure if it was out of love or lust and so cannot look at IRyS as she thinks she is merely looking at her as some sort of object, which she hopes isn't the case.

IRyS is stunned, here she thought that she had failed to satisfy Bae when in reality, Bae was just confused. With a smile, Bae takes her arms and wraps them around Bae's slender body.

"Bae, I love you," she says, stunning the shorter girl. "I love every part of you and I want to be yours forever and only yours. What about you?"

Bae thinks for a moment but the answer comes quite quickly. "I want to be yours as well, now and forever."

IRyS smiles, she then tilts Bae's head upwards before softly planting her lips on the rat. "Then that settles it, we're stuck with each other till the end of time."

"Eh?"

"Lust or love, I will accept you, Bae, because I lust for you as well, but I also love you, that's normal. So don't worry, look at me however you want, I will still accept you."

Bae's eyes shimmer with tears, her mind has been clouded with thoughts such as she's looking at IRyS like an object when in reality that isn't the case, furthermore IRyS probably looked at her the same way.

With that Bae could feel countless chains fall from her heart. She's glad that she isn't hated by IRyS, in fact she's more than elated that they bore their feelings for one another.

"IRyS." Bae looks up to IRyS a smile present on her visage. "I love you."

IRyS returns her smile with one of her own. "I love you too."

The two once again lock lips, but this one was not out of desire, it's not being operated by lust. No, this is a confirmation of their love, the love they held back within their hearts.