Hello! Firebird here, here is the other story I told you about that I said I was writing alongside Of Holy Swords and Demon Spear. Don't worry, I am writing up the 4th chapter of that story, I've been abit busy with work and stuff so please be patient. This story is set during the main continuity. Let's get on with it!
Highschool DxD: War Dancer.
Chapter 1: I Died.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
I cried when I saw the time on the clock. It was almost eight o'clock! I am going be late. I sprung out of the bed with a huge shock. "Not again!" I quickly look around to grab my clothes. It was lucky I took a bath last night, I don't need to shower now. If I rush through breakfa-! Wait, no… if I skipped breakfast and then maybe I'd be able to catch the train to school! Then maybe there I could grab a breakfast bar.
Argh! I can't believe I was missing morning practice! Buchou-san will get annoyed at me again.
I was making a lot of noise as I was looking for my clothes.
"Kana-chan, what's with all the noise?" I heard Shizuka-onee-sama called out from the kitchen.
By the way, my name was Kana. I was 17 year old Japanese girl, living just on the edge of Kuoh Town, nearly on the other side of where Kuoh Academy, where my school was at.
"Sorry, Onee-sama! I'm just late for school." I replied as I finally put on my school clothes. The Kuoh Academy girls' uniform consisted of a white long-sleeved button down shirt with vertical with a black ribbon around the collar. Placed on top of the shirt was a black shoulder cape with a matching button-down corset. Finally topping off the uniform was a cute magenta skirt with white accents at the bottom and white knee high socks. To be honest, as much as I did like the style, as it invokes a high society kind of look, different from usual high school uniform, this does make me feel insecure about the fact that this uniform makes my boobs stand-out allot.
I rushed over to the sink in the washroom and once I brushed my teeth, I made sure I was looking at least somewhat presentable. I pull wavy my long dark, almost black, purple hair into a side ponytail to my left, leaving the bangs to fall and cover my forehead and some of my left eye. Making sure my blue eyes were baggy before washed my face. Ok I am ready!
I made a run to the living room to see my 28 year old sister, Shizuka-onee-sama, sat there reading the paper with a small smile on her face. I get envious whenever I see my sister, she was so beautiful and was physically my superior in every way. She had blonde hair and her eyes shone a gold hue. She was taller than me, standing at a height of 176cm whilst I stood at 167cm. She even had bigger breasts than I do and still has a strong athletic body. Dressed in traditional Japanese kimono, my sister works as a Shinto Priestess.
"Good morning, Onee-sama!" I greeted her. I always greet her before I go to school, it's a bit of a habit of ours since I joined Middle School.
"Morning, Kana-chan! I left toast for you." She told me as she pointed at the slice of toast on the counter.
I squealed, "Thank you, Onee-sama!" as I grabbed the toast and ran over to the front of the house.
With my food-filled mouth, I clapped my hands together before praying in front of the three photos that stood behind scented candles. "I am off to school today, everyone. Please watch over me," is what I was trying to say with bread in my mouth. These three photos were pictures of both mine and Onee-sama's parents. Long story short, I was adopted, my Chichi died before I was born and Haha passed away during labour, and both Otou-sama and Okaa-sama adopted me as their child. Otou-sama passed away recently due to an illness and now my 29 year old Onee-sama succeeded as the head of the family. Okaa-sama was alive and well and after the passing of Otou-sama, she decided it was time for her to travel across Japan to learn from other Shinto temples. I think she's currently in Kyoto.
After giving my prayers, grabbing my shinai and schoolbag and putting on my shoes, I announced. "Well then Onee-sama, I'll be leaving!"
I left the old Japanese style building in such a hurry that I didn't my sister's reply. I couldn't believe I was late!
Our family, the Akizuki family, are a family of Shinto priests, heading several shrines across Japan, including this area. And being part of the main family, my sister is the head of those shrines. She does have a lot on her plate constantly. I am just a normal high school student, and due to my being an adopted child, I was not brought up like Onee-sama apparently because of the wishes of my dead parents (bless their souls). So far I have been helping out my sister with cleaning and maintenance of the shrine and helped around during big events as a way of saying thanks. She even taught me how to do the dances as a shrine maiden, though I am officially not one.
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Luckily I had enough to buy a small snack at the convenience store by the train station. Once I got to the station nearest to the station, I quickly managed to race up to a majority of where Kuoh Students are at. As I was walking and catching my breath, I heard a call from a girl behind me.
"Kana-san!"
I turned around to see Aika Kiryuu-san, my classmate walking up towards me. "I am guessing you overslept today?" she asked.
Aika Kiryu-san was a bespectacled girl in my class. She was slender girl with long brown hair tied into two braids with hazel eyes. Her glasses were pink and circular. Despite her seemingly normal look, Aika was a very sex positive person. No! I didn't mean that she was a slut, I meant that she was a perverted person and was happy about it. But despite all that she was a good friend and was willing to help out a friend when she sees it, even if they are a bit perverted in nature. She claims to know the sizes of the male appendage by looking at their clothed crotch. Apparently that's a thing…
I made a slight awkward chuckle and rubbed my head. "Yeah…"
"What did you do last night that made you miss practice this morning?" I saw that perverted glee on Aika-san's face as she pulled her hand up to cover it. I pulled back from her expression.
The real reason was I stayed up to finish the final season of Magical Girl Prism Blade. It was a show about two magical girls named Yuuko Tsurugi and Saya Hitsugi, known as Prism Blade and Prism Spear, and their journey to protect the world using magic from the invasion of aliens. It was the ultimate showdown between magic and technology, humans versus aliens, with the power of friendship to guide them! Halfway through the story, another magical girl named Oriha Kiba/ Prism Arrow, who had both magical girl powers and alien powers and fought our favourite her-! Oh no I was getting too carried away with my thoughts. Though it doesn't help that I stayed up to watch anime, if Onee-sama saw me she would have told me off.
"I promise it wasn't anything perverted!" I waved the hand hold my school bag with two fingers up to deny any lewd thoughts she had. "I stayed up to finish off Prism Blade. The DVD boxsets came a few days ago, I was spending time watching it and watched the last episode last night." I answered, though my face was red from what Aika-san could be thinking about.
Looking at Aika, she probably was thinking of some form of hentai she saw recently…
Aika was disappointed at my answer and puffed out her cheeks in retaliation. "Mou…you are no fun Kana-san." she said cutely before grinning. "You magical girl otaku."
I giggled at her response. As we walked through the school gates, I remember to lend her the DVD for the first season of Prisma Blade. "Here you go, as promised." I smiled before she thanked me. I was trying to steer her into the path of light with Magical Girls and fun anime instead of letting her rot in perverted anime and hentai hell!
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Speaking of perverted…
"In other words….a Harem!"
I heard that that proud statement as I was making my way to the dojo after school with my gear, I turned around to see three male students on the grass striking silly poses blabbering on about boobs and girls.
Those three are known as the Perverted Trio. As you can tell from the title, these boys were well known across the student body for their unchecked perverted tendencies. And they are also my classmates…
The boy in the middle was known as Issei Hyoudou-kun. He has short spiky brown hair with two short locks of hair behind his head and light brown eyes. He was slightly taller than me. He wore the school's uniform for boys although with a few alterations, which consisted of the same type of white with black stripes but the shirt unbutton to show his red t-shirt. He wore the school's black blazer over it and had matching black pair of trousers. He wore a white and blue sneakers instead of the normal dress shoes. Of the three he was definitely the best looking.
The boy on his left was known as Matsuda-san, the self-proclaimed lolicon. I don't know whether he should be proud of that though. He was known as the "Perverted Baldy", for his bald head. He wore the standard school uniform without the ribbon on the collar. Matsuda was a member of the Photo Club and would often take those horrible panty shot photos of the girls playing sports, especially the tennis girls, earning himself the title "Sexual Harassment Paparazzi".
The other boy was Motohama-san, who was a bespectacled student with short black hair. He was the only one of the group to wear the school uniform properly. He always boasts of about his ability, like Aika's, to calculate a girl's body measurements just looking. This gave him the nicknames "Perverted Glasses" and "Three Sizes Scouter". He once calculated the sizes of my measurements and almost shouted them out in front of class before I gave him a smack on the head.
With personalities like this, I do worry about them. They could get arrested for doing things like this, especially Matsuda! I do worry about Issei-kun the most, contrasting to his perverted personality and well known love for big boobs, he was always been nice and helpful. He always look like he is enjoying life regardless of what other people thought of him. That idiot.
"Kiba-kun, what are you doing later?"
I heard the voices of other girls nearby and saw them running up to another 2nd year student. He was a very handsome young man who always seemed to have a smile on his face. He had short blonde wavy hair, light blue eyes with a beauty spot underneath his left eye. He had an air of enchanting elegance about him that pulled girls towards him, completely different from the other Kiba I mentioned earlier, though she was a fictional character. But he never seemed to be interested in girls, always busy with the Occult Research Club.
Which reminded me that I was going to be late to Kendo!
After school we had club activities, I was currently part of the Kuoh Academy's Kendo Club. To be honest, I only joined the Kendo Club in Middle school. So I have had experience of tournaments and even managed to make to regional finals, so I like to think I was getting good at it with all the hard work I was putting into it. Our Kendo Captain/Club President was a 3 time national champion, so she was always whipping our butts and always seemed to enjoy it. I could see it in her eyes sometimes.
I joined the Kendo club was because Chichi was a highly skilled in Kendo during his youth according to Otou-sama and even won nationals during his high school career. According to Otou-sama, Chichi was very passionate about kendo.
I don't know really, I joined because I wanted something to connect with him. I know it's a bit romantic but I missed out on meeting my real parents, it was that sense of longing.
"Hey Kana-san." I saw Murayama-san greeting me as she was changing out of her school uniform.
"Hi, Katase-san, Murayama-san." I smiled back at the two. These two are in the same year as I am. Murayama-san was a shorter than me, with brown hair tied back to a ponytail and her bangs covered her forehead, similar to mine, and she had hazel eyes. Katase-san was the more slender of the two, she had short light pink hair, reaching down to her shoulders and reddish brown eyes. These two girls were some of my best friends in Kuoh, Aika included. We often spend some time afterwards to do some karaoke, go shopping and many other things.
As I was getting changed, we heard loud noises coming from the other side of the wall.
Murayama gasped, "Someone there?"
Both Katase, I and the rest of the girls jumped in surprised.
We rushed through to put on our hakama and keigoki before taking our shinais to where the noise were coming from.
By the time we had already arrived, we saw the pervert was already on his butt.
I already had a bad feeling about this.
And I hung my head low whilst sighing when I saw who was our perpetrator: it was Issei.
I was sure Matsuda and Motohama were here too. I'll tell them off later.
"So its you again?" Murayama said in a low voice.
It was Issei-kun. I can't stop the girls from hitting you. I am sorry but you brought this upon yourself.
I saw Issei-kun beginning to plea for mercy as he realised the situation that he was in.
"You perverted monkey!" Katase cried before the girls mercilessly beat him down with shinais.
After the girls were done with him and gave him the punishment he deserved. I saw that he was lying on the floor in pain and slightly bruised.
"Kana-chan…" I heard Issei-kun groan in pain as he looked up at me, he was using the Hyoudou 'forgive me' face on me. I sighed in defeat. I squat down in front of him before pulling out a small handkerchief and gave it to him.
"Issei-kun, you deserved it." Idiot. I left him to his own machinations as I went to back to the dojo.
Though it doesn't look like much, Issei-kun and I go way back. We were old kindergarten friends and have been going to the same schools ever since. I know what you are thinking 'Oh no! Not another childhood friend love interest!' cliché, I assure you it's not like that! I've always seen him as more of a brother. We grew up together! It'll be weird if I had feelings for him! It's like being in love with your own family member!
I do care for him, despite his perversions and label as part of the Perverted Trio, he is still an important person to me.
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Though I said that, when I heard from Motohama-san and Matsuda-san the next day, right after smacking their heads for yesterday's episode, that Issei-kun had made a girlfriend, I was shocked.
Issei-kun… that Issei-kun… the same boy that on a school camping trip at 5th year elementary, came running into the camp peed himself, had gotten a girlfriend. That was why he was grinning all day. And what's more was that she was beauty!
I was happy and also in so much shock that my mind was just confused all together. How did he? When did he? Who was she?
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Despite all that, I never really came to question more about it. I can trust Issei-kun will be good to her. He was always shy around girls he first met. He was just like any other teenage boy. I was sure he will treat her nice.
It was Sunday, and I was walking home from the groceries and was sat by the bench in the park. I promised Onee-sama that I would deal with this week's shopping list. I brought a parfait and was happily having one for myself.
As I was finishing up on the sweet, I saw in the corner of my eye a familiar silhouette. I then realised it was Issei walking with a girl to the fountain of the park.
Oh my god, she was beauty! She was so cute and innocent looking! She was like a model. I am feeling some serious girl envy. She looked like a Yamato Nadeshiko with black hair and violet eyes. She wore a cute pink top and black skirt. I could see why Issei-kun looks so smitten with her.
"Hey, Issei-kun." The girl said in a sweet voice.
"What is it, Yuuma-chan?" I saw that Issei-kun was really nervous.
She smiled at him. "There is something I want to do to celebrate our first date. Would you listen to my wish?"
I don't like the sound of this. Is she going to ask him to…to…
Kiss…
My face went completely red at the thought of that. I couldn't believe Issei-kun… that Issei-kun…loud mouth, pee-in-pants Issei-kun was on a date and was going to make out with that girl.
"W-What is it t-that you want?" His words began to stutter. In my mind, I was really supporting him. Come on Issei-kun! Go Fight!
I can see that boy was ready to push his lips out for a kiss.
"Will you die for me?"
…
…
…
What?
I must have heard it wrong. Did I really just heard her saying that?
I could see Issei asking her if that was a joke.
"Will you die for me?" I could see that innocent smile she pulled whilst saying that. That is not normal!
I heard a sort flapping noise.
I could see a pair of black feathery wings appearing from her back. Her clothes starting to take on a more sinister look as her normal clothes were ripped, showing off her naked body in public…
…Wait what… Naked?!
Oh wait, black leather clothing just magically appeared on her body. I guess, that's fine. Is she a magical girl? She was wearing very skimpy clothing that showed off her amazing figure and large breast and leaving nothing to the imagination that were unbecoming for a magical girl.
My eyes glitter at the thought of it, a real life magica-
Wait Kana! You're not supposed to be distracted by that!
"It was fun. The short time I spent with you. It was like playing house with a little child."
I heard her say, her cute sounding voice changed into a more menacing tone. I could see her eyes becoming more scary and cold and she wore a sadistic grin on her face.
Was she playing with him? Why? Why would you be so mean to someone?
I saw in her formed something in her hands. She can even do magic!? It held a buzzing noise much heavier than the chainsaw would.
It looks like a spear.
It looked like a spear made out of pure light. What was that magic?!
IT'S REAL?!
As soon as I saw her pull back, I instinctively moved, I ran towards Issei-kun with reckless abandon. I dropped my groceries. "Issei-kun!" I called out before I pushed him out of the way.
I cried as I felt the spear stabbing through my side. Not only it was sharp, it was also burned at little. I tried pulling out the spear but it disappears. The huge hole it left behind caused a huge amount of blood to flow out from it. I collapsed from the lack of blood and my eyesight became blurry.
"Oh….Well that was surprising…." The angel girl was unsurprised by this. "But I am afraid your sacrifice won't mean anything with this!" She readied another magic spear and threw it at Issei, who was frozen from the pure shock of the situation as he looked at me.
He collapsed too from the huge hole left on his stomach, blood began to pour out of him.
"Sorry. You were a threat to us, so we decided to get rid of you early. If you want to hold a grudge, then hate the God who put the Sacred Gear inside you."
A Sacred…what?
I don't even know what that is, and to be honest, I don't care: I was dying.
Am I dying?
Probably…
I wonder how people would react. How would Aika-san, Katase-san and Murayama-san react? Would they be shocked? Will they cry for me?
What about Onee-sama? I don't want to leave her alone. Despite our silly moments, I don't want to see her cry.
I could only hear her laughing, gloating at the fact that she had dealt our demise.
"Issei….kun…" I croaked. So much energy wasted trying to force myself to look up. I remembered my being here in the first place.
To be honest, I never thought I would die so soon.
Lying in a pool of my own blood.
I was only here by chance. I tried saving him and here I am slowly losing myself to the pitch black darkness.
Where was he?
Slowly and painfully, I moved my head to find him. My muddled, blurry vision led me to his fallen and broken body, laying on the ground in his own blood.
I weakly called out to him, I slowly reached out my hand to him. As each moment passed by, I get weaker and weaker. I felt my outreached finger resting on his and a piece of paper. I felt content, despite all of this…
…I didn't want to die alone.
Especially when I had him here with me. I was fine with it.
I might be selfish for saying that but I hoped by him being here, my life had something.
I am sorry for not being able to save you.
I saw a bright light in the corner of my eye.
I saw red.
A shade of red so brilliant, I was in awe.
A beautiful and intoxicating red.
Before I lost conscious, I hear her voice, the owner of that shade of brilliant red.
"Live only for me."
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So that is the end of Chapter 1. I know its very by the books of OC story, OC character shows up, gets killed along said Issei. But I hope I can make this interesting by putting in a perspective of a teenage girl. One who is not so brooding (sorry Ren). But yeah I hope you like her.