"Of all the people to get dragged into this mess it just had to be you," Ragna scowled out as he looked at the pink-haired girl sitting on her knees, a depressed look on her face "Tch, honestly what the hell were you thinking jumping at me like that."
The girl decided to whine out "B..but Ragna I wanted to surprise since we hadn't seen each other in a while." the girl had pursed her lips while playing with her fingers while saying that.
"Yeah, I don't really give a damn you could have waited until I wasn't mid fight or, better yet not have done it at all and said hello like a normal goddamn person," Ragna ran his hand in his hair while reprimanding girl whose head hung lower with every word.
On the sidelines, Hyde, Noel, Ruby, Yang, Yu, Yosuke, and Chie all gave a combination of confused stares at what they were watching. At the end of his rant, Ragna finally sighed seeing as how the girl's face was nearly melting from her apologetic expression with tears about to start flowing out of her shimmering eyes.
Feeling that he may have taken his words a tad bit too far Ragna decided to say in slightly less gruff tone "L..look damn it there's need to cry or anything, just don't go doing anything stupid like getting in the way of me fighting, rather not think of what would happen if I blindly attacked you out of reflex."
"Will you forgive me if I promise to," she asked as her face was slowly recovering from the harsh rebuke and, turning his head Ragna nodded "Yessy! I promise I won't surprise Ragna at all with my love while he's fighting," she then cheekily followed up with a bright smile beaming at the reaper's face"I'll just wait until after the smoke clears hehe."
The word love made Ragna quickly push the girl back a bit saying "B..back off," he could already feel the questioning stares at his back along with two very frigid glares as well "Tch D..didn't I tell you to quit throwing that word around so lightly, damn it your going to make people get the wrong idea." Ragna complained.
"Ragna," Noel asked as a murderous shadow hung over her closed eyes "just who is this girl?"
Before the Grim Reaper could say a word the girl had beat him to it exclaiming "I am Aino Heart it's nice to meet you...hmmm," after introducing herself she took to analyzing Noel before saying "So your that Noel girl Ragna spoke about while on that date we had eh hehe it's so nice to meet you then."
"Cough..cough hold on what that old geezer got a date, with a cute girl!" Hyde coughed out in surprise as Yosuke cried out in depression "Aw come on the visage of death himself can get a date but, I can't what the hell man!" Yu patted Yosuke on the back.
"Man partner how are you taking this so calmly," Yosuke question and Yu shrugged before saying "It's not that surprising to me Ragna-san seems like the type who'd be popular with women."
Ragna scoffed before saying "Yeah, sure tell that to my list of "admirers"."
While Ragna was caught up with Hyde and, Yosuke beginning to interrogate him, he couldn't stop Yang from approaching Aino with a grin "So Aino was it," the girl nodded with a smile "You went on a date with Ragna right?"
"Yep, it was sooo awesome, I mean sure he was a bit mean at times but he can be such a nice guy too hehe," her happy grin blew Yang's attempt to mess with the girl away but, she didn't give up asking slightly hesitant now "R..really? So did you do anything like an actual couple would?"
The girl then rocked back in forth oblivious to the murderous glares she was receiving from both a jealous Noel and, Chie. "Well, Ragna was kinda against going too far, something about I should save saying and doing that sort of stuff with the one that becomes my boyfriend in the future," she then gained a small blush while scratching her cheek "b..but he let me hold his hand, we also had dinner which he was able to pay for surprisingly an..and he gave me a piggy back ride back to where I live."
Tick marks appeared on Noel and Chie's foreheads for every remark Aino made leaving Chie bitterly thinking "Th..that idiot! I spar with him all the time and, I can't even get him to take me out for a steak!" Noel's were slightly more violent "Th..this girl is trying to steal Ragna from me, I..I'm the only one that can have Ragna errg I'll blast her if she tries anything with me around."
Yang completely overwhelmed by the purity and, dumb honesty displayed left with one single question that pushed the two jealous girls over their limits "So when did you meet Ragna?"
"Oh, it was around the same time we went on that date, I mean that mean Mrs. Alucard dropped him through the roof of my school because they had a fight. After he woke up I had to take him around to make sure he knew where everything was after all."Aino said this with a thoughtful look with a friendly smile.
Ruby who had been uncharacteristically quiet while soaking in all the relationship talk asked: "So, you were not so much as taking Ragna on a date as you were just being a good friend?"
Aino answered "Hmm I guess you can look at it that way," suddenly Chie and Noel's bloodlust dissipated as they feel that they could have misjudged the girl's intentions from her scatterbrained way of putting things "though I really do love him, I mean he protected me along with a few of my friends multiple times during his time in my world."
As if glass shattered both girls renewed their glares thinking along the same lines "Ragna's going to have hell to pay," (With the guys)
"Tch, there you have it, I have no feelings for the brat or any of her crazy ass friends that I met," Ragna scowled out while looking at Yosuke who was still in shock that the Grim Reaper had actually gotten a date before him, even if he didn't consider it one.
Yu was the first one to say anything to the reaper"I think you should go for it," Ragna went to roll his eyes while Yu followed up with "She seems pretty devote Ragna-san and, in my opinion, she'd more than likely be good for your health."
"Yeah I hate to admit but, all the girls that like you are more than a little problematic," Hyde admitted before going on to say "At least this one looks like she'll befriend me before skewering me for talking to you."
"Yeah, but she's young and, I'm not exactly the best person to know when it comes down to it," Ragna mentioned before going on to say "sides she's an innocent kid, she shouldn't be sticking down around someone like me."
Yu then decided to counter him with "Ragna-san your still young yourself, not to mention you're nicer than you give yourself credit for," Hyde also added in " Yu's right, hell she'd probably never have to worry about herself or her friends cause I doubt there's a lot of people who'd willingly piss you off."
"Yeah, cept I'm lookin at one of them right now," Ragna scowled looking Hyde who nervously chuckled in response as the Grim Reaper sighed saying "Look, I won't get in the way of her "affections" but, I can't dish out my own, not until my problems are dealt with anyways."
Ragna then thought darkly "If I'm even alive by the end," before he could continue his train of thought, it was wrecked by Aino crashing into him from behind with a hug saying "I'm back Ragna."
"Geez, you never stop do you?" Ragna's red eye looked into her friendly orange ones, he could feel the darkness get pushed back by their brightness "So, what do you want anyway?"
"What else, I want to help you find everyone's friends and of course, figure out what's going on," Ragna simply grinned while the girl removed herself from his back so he could stand up shrugging while saying "Tch, do what you want just be ready because we'll be finding trouble first."
Aino simply gave a ditzy grin at him "Hehe I know, but you'll be there to help me if I can't win alone, I love you for that after all," Ragna did his best to hide his look of embarrassment responding "Yeah, sure whatever."
As the two walked off Yu simply looked at Ragna with a small, hopeful grin for Ragna while Yosuke had walked over to Yang who had her own grin.
"Finally gotten over your purity shock Yang-chan?" Yosuke asked with a small smirk, he had enjoyed witnessing the teasing girl get completely overrun by Aino's honesty and innocence.
Yang looked at Yosuke with a look that showed she wasn't too in the mood for her own medicine "Yeah, just shocked that the white-haired fart's gotta a...heart."
Crickets could be heard in the distance as that pun left her mouth making even a certain computer system groan in agony. End
Author's note - I have no clue If I made Aino sound good not too into the hearts series so if someone could give me some info it would be amazing.