Øne Minute For Heaven

Since then he fought harder than ever on the battlefield, it wasn’t about his faith alone anymore. He became a little more reckless, sneaking out of the camp almost every weeks to see you. Every sneeze, shivers, every little sign of tardiness had him worried. He forbade you to lift heavy stuff, must be wood or water. He did it for you, even if he was tired from the fights. He also brought more food even if you told him it was unnecessary.

Your bump was starting to show a little bit when naked, not much yet, but everytime his eyes were on it, his usually angry look softened like he wouldn’t dare to lay his eyes on you with a severe stare in fear of hurting the baby.

Your bump was starting to show a little bit when naked, not much yet, but everytime his eyes were on it, his usually angry look softened like he wouldn’t dare to lay his eyes on you with a severe stare in fear of hurting the baby.

His latest obsession now is to make you leave the holy lands for good.

« I told you I do not want to leave you. »

« I know. But part of my legacy is lands in the north, where you could live as a lady, you and our child would have a most suitable life. You bear a Shiba, it is out of question for them to be raised in the middle of the wood.»

« Not as a lady… as your mistress. And what about your family ? What about the cardinal ? If you have to hide us from them by locking me up in your castle I would rather stay here with you than away in a property where I will never see you. »

« Enough with your stubbornness Y/n. Do you not want our child to have everything they deserve ? I could bring the best tutors, I would make sure they learn to read and write, they would study theology, litterature, latin, ancient Greek, mathematics and also teach them how to administrate a land, how to sword fight, and horse riding and dancing and- »

« Taiju ! I am not opposed to all of this. But what a baby needs is not gold or lessons on how to become a noble. They will need their father. » You whisper sliding your hand in his. « I will need you too. »

He puts his warm palms around your face and you lift it to let him kiss you. « I am aware of this… situation…but…you know it is not that simple. »

« I do. » you say closing your eyes while you deepen the kiss. « I just want to be with you forever. »

He groan in the kiss and put a hand on your back, then slide it slowly until he can grab your ass in his full hand. « I do not wish to argue with you. I just want you both to be safe and sound. And I will do everything it takes for that… Now, is it me, or you are becoming more and more arousing ? »

You smile against his lips, feeling his hard on against your stomach. « You already impregnated me, breeding me would be pointless, lord commander. »

He smirks and lift you from the ground. You roll your legs around his heavy waist while he kisses your breast. « Nonsense. It is my duty to mark what is mine. »

He walks you to the bed and sit you on the edge before flipping you on your stomach, grabbing your hips to have you on all four so you don’t lay on your little bump he already loves so much.

« Taiju, what are you doing ? » You say, trying to look behind your shoulder.

« I told you, I take what is mine. »

He grabs you ass cheeks and part them just to make space for him to slide his thick cock in between and then let a long string of saliva fall from his mouth to his length.

You chuckle and breath hard when you feel him sliding his cockhead up and down your folds. Your cheek lay down on the mattress while he makes you more and more needy. You start to wriggle beneath him and he smirks.

« What is the matter Y/n ? »

« Hurry… I want you… » You plead, feeling your cunt becoming so wet for the crusader.

« Then, would you let me breed you again ? »

« Yes ! God yes… I want your semen inside my womb. »

He smiles and starts to slide his dick inside your tight hole. « Good girl. »

You moan loudly when you feel him split you open on his hard shaft.

Your eyes roll inside when he bottoms out. No matter how many time you did it, you’ll never get used to his size. Taiju is a tall and built up man, and God as gifted him everywhere.

You feel the blood rush in your vein as he doesn’t move and you need so bad to feel his powerful thrusts, you start to move on your own.

He looks at you rolling your hips to meet his and bites on his lower lip. « Someone is eager. »

« More… I want to feel you deep inside me. »

He caress your ass before giving it a slap. « Greed and lust are great sins woman, are you not ashamed ? »

He teases you, wanting to take his time when all you want is feeling him slamming his hips against your ass.

He bend over and peppers kisses on your back. « Be patient, I promise I will make you feel good. »

« No ! I want it now ! »

You push him away from you and he let you do what you want even if he’s a bit surprised by your behavior. You became more sexual since you’re pregnant. Not against his liking but you always let him do what he wanted.  

You push him on the bed and come to straddle him, riding him with your hand on his throat.

His eyes slides from your beautiful face to your belly and he adores everything you are, everything you do to him.

He puts his hands on your hips to help you go up and down his hard dick and you moan with him as soon as he starts to move in sync with you.

The pit in your stomach starts to grow slowly while you feel him nudged deep inside you, throbbing everytime he hits your sweet spot.

He lift his body to give you a passionate kiss and whispers against your lips « Mine. »

Your forehead rest against his while you smile « Yours, eternally. »

It makes him groan, grabbing your hips to slam his pelvis up hard and you moan for him loudly.

You squeeze him inside when he touches your right spot and it makes him go harder whispering « Good girl, you are my good girl. »

All your body starts to shiver as he thrust deeper and deeper inside you, touching your cervix with the tip of his cock and he comes to gently neeble on one of your boobs.

Your hands go in his black and blue hair to keep him close while you and him start to chase after your release.

He puts his head against your heart and make you slide on his shaft while his mouth starts to open, letting hard breath informing you he’s going to come soon.

You put your hands in his locks and pull lightly so he can look you in the eye. You’re chasing after his mouth and he kisses you passionately.

« Marry me. » he whispers in it.

Your breath is taken away as he slams your hips against his. You moan, feeling like you heard him wrong but he deepens the kiss before parting his lips. « I am about to come Y/n. »

You move faster on him, your warm walls sliding easily around his long cock and you keep him as close as you can.

« Come Taiju… come inside of me. Make me yours. »

He groans as his hips falter and he releases his thick cum inside you.

Your head fall back as he makes you come undone in a pure bliss.

He looks at you cumming for him and he’s so sure about his next words.

« Marry me Y/n. I want you to be my wife. »

« What ? »

« Let us take our vows. Right now. »

You look at him not understanding. You don’t even know what is stronger inside you, you’re just dumbfounded.

« Taiju… You cannot-»

« You do not want to be my wife ? »

« Of course I do ! But… you are a priest, you cannot- »

« Precisely. I am a priest. It means I am able to marry us. God put you on my way to give me an heir. I tried to burn you alive but you survived. I tried to leave you but you found your way back to me. You crossed an ocean, you walked through a land at war. You jumped out of a ship and yet you survived all of this. And more than that… » he put his hand on your belly, his cock still buried inside you. « You are going to make me a father. The Lord wanted me to be with you. I do not know why, but what I know for sure is that I want to make you mine. I want you to have my name. I want you to have my children. I thought my whole life had to be dedicated to the Almighty Lord but he wants me to be with you, I know that, you are pregnant by his will. I just know I want to protect and cherish you for the rest of my life. »

Your eyes start watering and you don’t know if it’s from happiness or because of the hormones. But you hug him close and kiss him again.

« What do you say ? » he asks against your lips.

« I say yes. I want to be your wife. »

He kisses you starting to thrust carefully inside you while he cup your cheek and do his work as a priest and a groom.

You repeat after him the vows that you have to take under the benevolent gaze of a god whom you don’t know if he really exists but if your husband believes in him then you’re willing to hope for his blessing.

As he fucks you gently, Taiju ends the process almost in a hurry, so eager to feel your lips against his.

« You may now kiss the bride. » You don’t wait for him to come as you kiss him toroughly while he come again inside you, breeding his newly wife.

« Mrs Shiba. » He whispers and your toes curl as he makes you cum with him.

Not once since you met him, you thought it would end up like this. You being married to him, bearing his child in a land you don’t even know.

You always thought, you’ll stay in your small village, in your tiny cottage, selling your vegetables to survive the next winter and eventually end up alone because no one ever caught your interest.

But you are so happy it almost hurts. Because now, that man that took away everything you ever had, just gave you everything he owns. His name, his life, his faith. Everything is yours. And he will stay with you forever. He swear in front of his God. He swear to respect and cherish you for the rest of his life.

« I love you Taiju. »

You lay down on top of him and he kisses your hair, petting your head and your back.

You are both exhausted. You fall asleep in his arms dreaming about a young child with golden eyes and a stern look on a beach, running to a crusaders arms and his father throw them in the air before catching back the giggling child and you know everything’s gonna be alright.

When you wake up, Taiju is not in the bed anymore. He’s patiently working on a piece a wood with his dagger. He got his pants on but is muscular torso is still bare.

When you move in the bed he stops what he’s doing to look at you and then blow on the little piece of wood.

« Did I overslept ? »

He smirk and shake his head. « Just an hour. » He stands up and comes to you, putting his dagger on the bed and you take it to take a closer look. The handle is in black onix with several silver dots and a saphir on the top. He takes it back and lift your left hand to kiss your burned skin before sliding gently the wood ring he crafted on your finger.

« I promise to buy you a beautiful ring when I go back to the city, but for now, this is all I can give you. »

You look at your hand and then at him and you don’t know why but the feeling of him putting the handmade ring around your finger is overwhelming. « No need, I love this one. »

He chuckles and leans to kiss you. « No, I insist. You deserved so much better. You’re a Shiba now, women of my family wear gold and rivers of diamonds, I will ask my sister for help, she is known for having good taste in that matter. I will buy you beautiful gowns and everything you need to look like a lady. You are one now, you are my lady. My wife. »

You feel the butterflies go crazy in your stomach and you smile with your cheeks burning.

« You have a sister ? You never told me about your family aside your uncle. »

He looks at you and open his mouth calmly. « Since you are now my spouse I guess I can tell you. I do have a younger sister and also a brother. I am the first born. My father was a wealthy lord serving their majesty in the old land. He was the general of the royal army. But I barely known him. He was living with the court in the royal palace while my mother and us were living in our land, he just came from time to time to do his marital duties and then went back to the capital. My mother was a lady in waiting of the queen when they met. But once she got married, my father sent her in his castle out of jealousy. She was beautiful, and from a powerful family where the oldest son is always to become a servant of God. This is why my uncle is a prince of the church, this is why he wants me to be one too… »

« This explain a lot. » you say, finally lifting the veil of his life.

He nods « When my mother birthed me and by the marital contract my parents signed, I was immediately dedicated to be a knight serving God and I have been raised in this sole purpose. And then, just before my brother’s birth my father died from disease and the king gave me his titles, properties and a place in his army. I went to war at age of 17 and my mother died during my first crusade. My uncle took the head of our family, married my sister to a rich and old marquis and my brother to the youngest cousin of the prince. When I went back from war, he ordained me priest and he sent me to the inquisition. This is where I met you. »

He takes your hand and kiss it tenderly.

« I was fine with this life. I love being a servant of the Lord. My only regret is the harm I caused you. » He looks at your burned skin and kisses it gently. « But I swear, you will never be in pain again. I will protect you and keep you safe no matter what it will cost. You are mine, both of you. I will protect our family. » he adds putting his hand on your little belly bulge.

You throw yourself in his arms and kiss him as your life depends on it. You know you can relay on him. You are not afraid of what your life might be in the futur. You know Taiju will always be by your side.

You two end up falling asleep in a tight embrace, him caressing your hair and whispering sweet nothing to your ear until morning comes.

The next day, you open your eyes in your bed but Taiju is nowhere to be find. You hear loud noises outside, stand up and dress yourself before opening the front door.

Your husband is shirtless, cutting wood with an axe and you lean on the door frame looking at him working hard just to make sure you won’t be cold in the next days.

Despite you being behind him, he stops the moment he feels your eyes on him and turn around to smile at you.

You give it back, putting your hand on your pregnant belly and you think this is what you can call true happiness. You don’t need to be a lady, you don’t need to live in a fancy castle with jewels and helps.

You just need Taiju to smile at you.

And then you hear noises coming from the wood and Taiju frown, turning over with the axe in both hands.

Five crusaders come out the wood and stop in front of him.

One of the knight carry a banner with a black cross on it and you recognize the leader as Taiju’s aide.

Your husband looks behind his shoulder to you and say calmly. « Get inside. »

« Holy knight Taiju Shiba, in the name of our almighty Lord and by the will of his Holiness the Cardinal Shiba I order you to lower your weapon and come with us. »

« You do not order me anything, I am your lord commander. » Reply Taiju with murdurous eyes.

« Not anymore. The Cardinal had you followed. He knows everything. You are under arrest and so is she. If you do not put a fight, his Holiness might show mercy. »

Taiju looks at you and you see him smile before tightening his hands on the axe. « Well, if you want her, you will have to kill me first. »

« I have no will to fight you Commander. I always admired you and I still respect you. But you know I cannot deny his Holiness command. »

« Tell his Holiness she is my wife and she is bearing my heir. The church has no right to imprison or harm a pregnant woman and you know this. »

The aide don’t move, not touched by the revelation. « This is an order, I have to take her anyway. What the Cardinal is going to do to her is none of my concern. »

Taiju look at the axe in his hand and breath calmly. He really tried not to fight against his own men. But he promised to protect you… no matter what.

« If you want to get to her, you will need to kill me first. She is mine and I am not going to let you take my family away from me. »

A heavy silent starts to grow in the place and Taiju and his aide look at each other while the other crusaders ride off their horses.

The aide smile and bow his head. « So you are choosing this woman over the Church huh…Then I think you sealed your fate. »

Taiju looks at you one last time and try his best to smile. « Y/n, lock yourself inside and do not come out until I tell you so. »

« But- »

« For God’s sake woman, do as I say ! There is no time to argue !» He raises his voice at you and you understand things are going to get ugly when the aide pulls out his sword.

You just have time to see the four other crusaders do the same as they circle the priest, alone without his armors and sword to fight properly.

You don’t want this. You don’t want to let him alone. You are so afraid of closing this door. Because you know next time you will open it, Taiju might not be there anymore. You can’t lose him. He’s your breath, your heartbeats, your life.

« CLOSE THIS DAMN DOOR Y/N !! NOW !! » He shout when the first crusader comes to fight him. The last thing you see is him blocking the sword with the axe handle while another one run to his side with his sword in the air.

You shut the door and drag the table against to protect you from them and the first sound of steal against steal his terrifying. You don’t know what’s going on, you can’t see what is happening outside. You try to calm your nerve but the anguish is rising up so fast inside you it makes you want to throw up. You want to go outside. You want to be with him, to protect him.

But the only thing you can do is to wait like your husband told you.

It is not about you alone, you carry another life to protect and Taiju is doing his best to shield you both from the crusaders.

You knew things couldn’t last forever. Him being reckless, and you carefree would lead you there somehow, someday. But you weren’t ready yet. Not now, not like that.

The fight is still going on, you can tell, you hear cries and roar of soldiers fighting to death and your eyes slowly start to water. Taiju might die here. You could lose him. And this, is unbearable.

Your back starts to hurt, you can’t find your breath, you never felt so weak, so afraid.

Your eyes goes everywhere trying to run away from your tears without noticing it already started to fall off.

And then you see it, in the corner of the tiny cottage, his long sword he fought the infidel army with lean against the wall.

You take it and it’s so heavy for you, you have to drag it on the floor. Taiju needs it. You know he does. How can an axe would keep up with five swords ?!

The steel mock the floor while you try to push the table to the side.

This is so unreal, you don’t even think about yourself. Taiju needs his sword, he needs your help to stay alive even if he said otherwise.

When you are finally able to unlock the door you see 3 crusaders lifeless while Taiju’s body is all red and blood is escaping from a wound on his chest.

You go down the little steps with his claymore and call him.

The fear in his eyes when he see you out there skyrocket and he push back his opponent to shield you from a crusader coming to you.

His axe slay the hair and comes to the knight chest as you raise the sword and cut his thigh with it.

The fighter cries in pain before falling down but it doesn’t stops from what you fear the most to happen right in front of you.

Taiju’s aide raise his sword and strike your husband’s back making him fall in his knees while he looks at you with his mouth open.

Time freeze and you look at each other one last time while the captain comes to take Taiju’s final breath.

« I love you Y/N. » He says for the first time, an orphan tear running along his cheek.

You shake your head, refusing to hear his last confession.

When the aide is right behind him he stops and look at his commander. « May God welcomes you in the Kingdom of Heaven, Lord Commander Taiju Shiba. »

He raises his sword, ready to strike but Taiju push you out of his way, collecting his last strengths and turn around to impale his aide on his sword.

The Claymore his pushed the blade through him until the handle comes to meet his wounded flesh and the crusader lower his eyes to look at it before dropping his weapon and falling to the ground, dead.

Taiju stands up and staggers to you, but falls too, and you just have the time to catch him in your arms.

You see him struggling to breath to the point where he starts to spit out blood and you look at him in tears.

« No, please no ! Do not do that to me, do not die. I need you to meet our child. You’re going to be a great father. We will leave the lands to your place. I promise I will do anything you want. Please, I beg you, do not leave me ! Taiju ! Taiju ! Do not close your eyes, please, I love you ! »

He looks at you and try to bring his hand to your cheek to wipe off your tears but it’s too hard.

He fights hard but darkness is slowly taking over him and you don’t know what to do.

He’s covered in so much blood you can hardly see his wounds.

When his eyes shut down your mouth opens and a silent cry escape. The sound of silent is killing you. Everything is calm. You can’t feel your heart beats anymore. You can’t feel anything at all.

You look up to the sky and shout out all your pain. Burning alive was nothing compared to what you are living right now. This is nightmare.

You can’t lose him. You refuse to. Taiju can’t die. If it was God’s will for you to be together why is he taking back his gift ?

No. No you won’t let him be. You won’t let anyone take away the love of your life.

You stand up and takes Taiju by his arm. You put him on his side and immediately looks for his pulse.

You can’t feel anything, your fingers are covered in blood and sliding on his neck.

You try again, wiping it out with your dress. Blood is still going out of his back and torso and making a pool of blood on the ground. You tear up your dress and put it aroud him, trying your best to make the blood stops while still looking for any sign of life left in your husband body.

Again.

And again.

And then you feel it. It is barely noticeable but you feel it. Taiju is still fighting and you thank the universe but you know you have to hurry.

You stand up and start to limp to the wood not realizing what you’ve been put through all theses past years was not by chance.

You are now exactly where you should have been.

The trivial, the stake, the things you learned with your help back then. You know you can save a life. You will try once again. But your time is running out and you can’t move fast with your burned leg.

You force yourself to keep going, even if it hurts, even if you could put your baby in danger by overworking your body.

You look around, bend over, try to run, to crawl, snatching herbs and seeds here and there. It’s not what you need but you will try. For him.

You come back a moment later, exhausted and check on his pulse again. Taiju is not moving at all. You can’t feel it anymore and sob when you remove your fingers.

You wait just a minute, not knowing what to do.

You can’t bring yourself to aknowledge this reality. Taiju can’t die. He’s not gone. He promised to stay by your side.

But his body is cold. You know what it means.



You caress his messy hair tenderly and your eyes catch the sight of your wooden ring when you feel a utter pain in your womb and you look at it painfully.

« No ! Please, please do not do that to me, please. »

You put your hand on your belly and force yourself to calm down. It’s so hard you can barely breath. You think you are going to die from the pain. The one in your body start to be even stronger than the one in your heart.

After a moment, you finally suceed at making the pain go away and you look at Taiju not knowing what to do.

And you realize. You can’t stop. You won’t.

Try. You have to try. Even if it’s too late. Taiju would have never give up. You are not neither. You are a Shiba. You are his wife. You can do this. You have to.  

You stand up again and go inside your hideout, coming back with a fur you cover his body with to warm him up, trying your best to ignore the worst.

And you start to heal him. You do your best, wiping the tears flooding your face, making the pain in your body go away.

You are a fighter. You fought all your life for everything. And you are going to fight again to save him.

Fire lights up in your eyes as you challenge God.

It’s you alone against the fate.

It was 3 AM You had just fallen asleep in taiju's bed , he had gone out with some friends and texted you to just come over and he should be home in 15 minutes. You were exhausted from work and didn’t wanna make the trip of taking the train and walking the rest home. Already in deep sleep you felt another presence, you assumed it was taiju coming home finally and just getting situated to get ready for bed. What you didn’t expect was your body being light shaken. You laid there, then there was a pause and now you could a hear voice calling you “hey….. sister in laaaw” oh God you thought to yourself, you kept your eyes closed hoping that the ONLY person who calls you that would give up and go away. “come ooooon future sister in law plllease wake up” he shook you again causing you to groan. You’re heavy lids blinked open, slightly blurry vision you made out the silhouette of the very long hair, side shaven, face fucked up with some bruises male. You groaned again rubbing your eyes “hakkai give me one good reason why I shouldn’t yell at you” you yawned , he nervously chuckled rubbing the back of head “to be honest if you did what im about to ask would actually make it believable” you raised one eyebrow curiously wondering what the younger male shiba meant by that.