strangled

²²genesis of lunatic tendancies

mature themes!
warning: mentions of self harm and suicidal thoughts

When your husband walks into the house, he sees your body.

How could he miss it? Your frail physique is laid on the ground in the corner of the room.

The entirety of your naked body is trembling, similar to how a kitten acts when they are left out in the cold. His body stiffens as soon as his gaze lands on the cuts and bruises on your body.

Hair is torn from your head in patches and your dress lays in a torn up pile next to you. Your bare body tries desperately to inhale oxygen but the wheezing proves that it's difficult. Along the severely burned arm, you look like a wreck. Beaten up and mistreated.

Shouto clenches his hands into fists. He didn't know your father would punish you this harshly.

If he did, then he wouldn't have said anything to Enji in the first place.

The sight of you so defeated... hurt him.

It is not as satisfying as he thought it would be, or rather how Enji said it would be.

Shouto was told, through his father's training, that not caring about anyone else will help him focus on improving himself.

Feelings are detrimental. They would only serve the purpose of blocking him from being the best he could be. Sure, Shouto cared about you when he was younger. But now he's a man, the number nine ranking hero, and an adult with time only supposed to be occupied with focusing on getting to the top rank. His job is what's most important. Second to that, is the plan to get you pregnant.

Enji made it clear that having a job that constantly puts his life on the line is risky. Not only because of the fact that it's dangerous. There's also the underlying threat of dying without having a kid to keep the legacy of his family name going.

Yet... that's not the main reason why Shouto is eager to get you impregnated.

It's not because he wants powerful children or because he wants to keep the legacy going...

It's because he wants you.

To put it simply, if you give birth to his children then you have to stay connected to him and him alone. With how rebellious you act there is always a possibility of you running away and leaving him.

He can't let that happen.

Finding the man's jeans in the bedroom yesterday showed that you're clearly planning on rebelling again. Possibly even trying to get pregnant by another guy so you can get away from your own husband.

He can't let that happen.

That is why he told his father. So that you could be roughed up a bit and realize whatever you have planned will never work. You will always be his. But if that changes...

He CAN'T let that happen.

Shouto isn't blind to the horrible way you get treated by most of his family. Fuyumi doesn't pay any attention to you even when you need it, Enji being a control freak. Shouto knows he can also be a pain in the ass sometimes. It's painful to see you deal with it sometimes but truthfully he doesn't care. Well, he doesn't want to. If that's what you have to go through to stay by his side then he won't complain.

Selfish, sure, but that's how he was taught to act by his father. And in Shouto's eyes he isn't doing anything wrong.

It's not like he ever hit you.

Shouto can still remember the words you said only a few days before.

"Why did you change? You weren't like this when we were kids. You used to despise your father and now you just do everything he says? I don't want you to obey your dad like this anymore."