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“This feels incredible.” Jina moans as she submerges her bare body into the pool of hot water. “Much better than the one in the underworld.”
“You have bathhouses in the underworld?” Rumi questions as he joins her into the hot pool of water, putting a small distance between them out of respect. His discarded towel was accompanied next to her towel on the floor.
“Well, yes and no.” Jina began to explain. “Instead of actual bathhouses, there were these lagoons of hot water scattered across the underworld.”
“So Gwi-ma gave his victims large hot tubs to relax in?”
“Oh, they were not for relaxing.” Jina stated. “Once you enter the water, your mind is flooded with every single shameful thing you’d ever done when you were human all at once. Not just the one caused by the deal you made with him.”
“Sounds like a nightmare.” Rumi shudders at the thought. “Have you ever been into one of them?”
“Yes, it was….not ideal.” Jina admitted, not going any further. “It didn’t get any better when I discovered that my clothes were stolen by some perverted demons.”
“Were they?” Rumi’s eyes turn gold for a quick second, already thinking of a way to track said demons down.
“Easy there hunter boy,” Jina giggled. “Luckily Jelly was there to capture those demons in a trap and gave me my clothes back before I had to streak all the way back to my cave.”
“Jelly? Who’s that?”
“Oh, he’s one of the water demons who were born in the underworld.” Jina explained. “He’s actually quite friendly and not as threatening as the majority of the water demons are. Once you get to know him, it makes you wonder what he’s doing in the underworld of all places.”
“So he’s basically like Casper the friendly ghost,” Rumi jokes.
“Who’s that?” Jina asks.
“I’ll explain another time.” Rumi made a mental note to remind him to show Jina and the rest of the Saja girls more childhood movies.
“I still can’t believe you just started going to the bathhouse recently. “ Jina turns the spotlight onto him now. “I know you were hiding the patterns from Zack and Miru, but you never once went to one by yourself.”
“I didn’t want to risk dispatch or the paparazzi taking pictures of them and exposing them to the world.” Rumi admits as he looks down onto the patterns that cover his whole body now, rubbing a hand over one of his arms. He was still getting used to having them out in the open.
Noticing the change of mood from her boyfriend, Jina took his roaming hand into her own and placed a kiss exactly onto the patterns. Then she kissed the patterns on his arms until she pulled herself close to his chest so she could kiss their patterns too.
The actions made Rumi blush with his patterns glowing all shades of red. He gulped when he felt her breasts brush against his chest.
“Well, you don’t have to hide them anymore.” Jina states as she stares directly into his eyes.
Rumi responds with a small smile. He wraps his arms around her and the couple stay like that, neither speaking a word for a few minutes as their presence was enough for each other.
“Rumi,” Jina broke the moment of silence. “Can I ask you something?”
“Of course,” Rumi replied, his hands still wrapped around her body.
Jina hesitates for a moment before she just blurts it out.
“Do you want to have children?”
“.....What did you just say?” Rumi wanted to be sure he didn’t misheard her.
“I ask if you want to have children?” Jina repeated.
“....Are you seriously asking me this now.” Rumi pulled back a little from Jina so he could look directly at his girlfriend to locate where her common sense had gone.
“Well, I’d been meaning to ask you that and I thought now would be the perfect moment.” Jina explains, not seeing what the big deal is.
“.....You ask me if I want children when we’re both butt ass naked.” Rumi was blunt with his explanation.
“We’re both vulnerable right now, both physically and emotionally, so I thought now would be the best time to ask. I did research and it says it's important to ask questions like these before the relationship gets serious and not to do it at the last second. So, do you want to have children”
“....You know dispatch will have a field day if we were charged for public indecency.”
“Public indecency?” Now Jina was getting annoyed. “What does this gotta do with me asking you if you want to have chi-” Jina’s eyes widen in realization and soon a smirk came on her face.
“Did you get turned on by my question that you wanted to breed right here and now.” Jina did her best to hold back a laugh.
“No-No!” Rumi stutters as his patterns begin to glow rainbows, causing the water they were submerged in to glow as well.
“Then you won’t mind me taking a look at that sword of yours down there for a proper answer.” Jina looks down below at Rumi’s waists.
“Don’t you even think about it.” Rumi warns through clenched teeth. Suddenly his mini horns appear upon his heads, as they usually do whenever he experiences high levels of stress when he’s not in public.
“I think that confirms my suspicions.” Jina pointed at his forehead before she found herself laughing like crazy.
Rumi groans as he cools himself down by taking deep breaths. After a few seconds, his patterns stopped glowing and his horns had inserted themselves back into his forehead.
Jina had stopped laughing and now looked at Rumi with a serious expression.
“Well, do you want to have children?” Jina asks again with her arms wrapped around her chest. “Do you want to have them with…me?”
Rumi see how serious she was and did a quick sign before he finally answers her with a sorrow look.
“To be honest, in the past, children were the last thing on my mind.” Rumi began to explain. “Turning the honmon gold was my priority at the time and I push having a relationship or having children of my own as far away from me as possible. It didn’t help that Celio would hardly ever talk about the relationship between my mother and my father, so I wasn’t shown the best representation of what a relationship could be aside from K-dramas. When my patterns started to spread all over my body, I thought having children couldn’t be an option because I didn’t want to burden them with the same shame I was raised with around them.”
Rumi then stares into Jina’s eyes and he smiles at her.
“Then when you came and accepted my patterns as a part of me, well, I started to have different thoughts. For a while, I thought that maybe they wouldn’t be a burden onto someone else as they were to be. I never thought I would ever be in a relationship until you came back and…well.”
He places his hands into Jina’s hands and place a kiss upon them, causing Jina to blush with her patterns copying her.
“Well, now I feel like the happiest man in the world. And I wouldn’t mind having little ones to join in the happiness.” Rumi places a kiss on Jina’s forehead.
“But what about you?” Rumi asks Jina.
“Hmm.” Jina was confused.
“Do you want to have children?” Rumi asks. “Considering you’ll be the one giving birth, your opinion matters the most in this.”
Jina was caught off guard by that.
“Only if you want to give birth of course!” Rumi began to explain, hoping he didn’t offend her.. “There are other ways to have children now, but I just wanted to know if you’re comfortable with it since you asked me first. Especially considering back in your original time period, married women were expected to give birth to male heirs. And I just want to make sure you know that you have a choice with what you want to do with your body.”
Instead of receiving a verbal response, Jina’s hands wrap around his neck. She brought his head down so that she could give him a long kiss on his lips. When she released him, Rumi was breathless and speechless.
“In my old life, starting a family was the last thing on my mind when my mother, sister, and I could barely fend for ourselves. Surviving was the only thing that mattered to me at the time. But that landed me in Gwi-ma’s hands and made me leave my family behind.”
Jina began to shred a few tears. She was going to wipe them away but was stopped by Rumi.
“It’s ok to cry.” He brushed his hand against her cheeks.
Jina sniffed with a smile. She continued.
“But now that I’m here. Free from Gwi-ma and his voice. Free with my new family, free with you.”
She places a hand on Rumi’s cheeks now.
“I would like to start another family. Not right now with us being idols, but after that chapter of our lives is done so that we can start a new one. If that’s alright with you.”
“Of course it is.” Rumi states as he places his hands on her waists as he leans down to return the kiss she gave him. Jina returned it as her tears had stopped.
When the couple released each other from their kiss, they just stood there in the still steaming pool of hot water, holding each other in their arms.
“But I’m naming our kids.” Rumi ruins the moment with a smirk.
“Excuse me?” Jina raised an eyebrow at him.
“No offence, but considering the names you gave to the Saja girls, it’s best if you leave the naming to me.”
“Hey!” Jina pointed a finger at him. “My girls love the names I gave them. Even Baby got used to it. Eventually.”
“Ok, but what about Derpy and Sussie.”
“Don’t you dare drag out kids into this argument.”
“Our kids?”
“Yes, OUR children. We’d been raising them together ever since you met them and before we got together. ” Jina stated matter of factly with a pout.
“Well, ok you got a point.” Rumi admits to that.
“And I don’t hear them complaining about their names.”
“....They’re spiritual animal guardians.” Rumi gave her a blank stare. “They don’t speak English or Korean!”
“Oh yeah! Well how come I heard them call me mother multiple times.”
“Ok now I know you’re making stuff up.” Rumi couldn’t help but laugh at his pouting girlfriend.
“No! You’re just jealous that they called me mommy first before they ever call you daddy!” She stuck her tongue out at him.
“...I wouldn’t mind you calling me Daddy.” Rumi smirks, his horns returning once again.
“....I would have never asked that question if I knew you would end up developing a breeding kink.”
“I do-do not have one!”