Author's rant: This is just a random idea popping out of my brain when I'm working on the update of "The devil who walks the path of humanity" and it refuses to let me concentrate in writing the update anymore. Honestly, this maybe one of my weirdest ideas I have ever had and since this is only a... well, you can call it a side project... I'm not really sure about this story myself. If the reactions of the readers about this chapter are positive, I will consider to make the update more quicker.
Since this story was inspired by "Sarishinohara" song, the main character is the main male character of "Sarishinohara", his name is my choice since there is no source about his name. The timeline in my story will begin AFTER the song "Yonjuunana". Except a few parts, this story won't relate to the manga version of "Sarishinoha" since I only based on the songs "Sarishinohara" and "Yonjuunana" so please don't use details from the manga to say that I'm wrong.
Finally, there will be a VERY LARGE harem for the main male in this story thanks to Devil Maker:Tokyo... Damn... there are too many females in that game... I'm going to have a headache with this...
Anyway, enjoy the show, minna-san...
Disclaimer: Sarishinohara, Devil Maker:Tokyo and High School DxD are not owned by me... *sulking in a corner*
Chapter 1: Hiromu Ushio and the awakening of The Light Sigil
[In a medical room]
..." Lucky for you, your injuries are not that severe. It's okay to take off the bandages tomorror if the swelling reduced. But please remember not to put too much pressure on your right hand..."
In the medical room, a young woman who sat next to an occupied bed was having a conversation...well, more like she did all the talking... with her patient, a young man about sixteen or seventeen who was clad in a white shirt, black pants, short black hair and black eyes. Desipte the serious tone of the woman, the young man only looked at the television in the medical room with his sady and nearly lifeless eyes.
"... Hey... Are you listening to me?..."asked the woman
The silence was the answer she received as the boy just kept staring at the television, which now was playing the end of the live show of a rising music idol.
"... If you're not going to answer me, I won't return your glasses and your unifo..." said the woman sternly with a small hint of playfulness in her voice as she waved a glasses in front of his eyes. Though before she could finish, she was cut off by her patient
"... I'm sorry... And thank you for your concern... I'll take your advice and be careful..." said the teen sadly as his head hanged low with his hair overshadowing his eyes making it hard to know if he was looking at his injured hands or not. The teen's reaction caught the woman by surprised as she had and arkward and guilty look on her her
"... Well... I mean... Aghhh... Ju... Just wear this and go back home already..." said the woman arkwardly as she put his black uniform gakuran and his glasses on the bed.
" Um... Hey... I wonder why she suddenly did that. Extending her arms to an empty seat..."said the woman suddenly as the young man was slowly putting on his gakuran
"Hm... Maybe it's a pre-planned high five with a fan? Since this's her first concert after all..." said the woman's assistant thoughtfully as she was also watching the live show in the television.
"But who would have known that a person would get hurt from this..." said the woman as she took a sit next to her assistant "... It was dangerous. It was lucky that it wasn't a serious case..."
As the teen slowly got off the bed and putting his glassed on, the woman turned back to him one more time
"Oh, hey, you lost the second button of your gakuran. I think you lost it when you collapsed"
Not saying a word, the teen just silently left the medical room with a small unnoticable smile on his face...
_ "... But still, I love you..." _
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Snapping his eyes opened, the first thing Hiromu Ushio's eyes met was the familiar ceiling of the bedroom of his small apartment. Knowing that he wouldn't get anymore sleep after that particular dream, Ushio got out of his futon while shaking his head in order to shake off the sleepiness before he put his glasses on his face and got dress in a pair of long pants along with a simple white shirt. Looking at the clock hanging on a wall of his small living room, he saw that it was nearly 4 a.m. It might be a little early but he decided to start preparing breakfast along his bento so that when he came back after finishing his newspaper delivering job, he would have a warm breakfast ready on the table before going to school as well as a small bento for his lunch... Though his breakfast would only be his last night's leftover and his bento would only have some rice and two or three small tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled omelette)... After about thirty minutes later, his modest breakfast and his small bento was finished and he could finally took a shower before going to do the delivery.
'It has been 7 months since her first live show...'sighed Ushio as he put on his shoes while his mind started dripping back to his previous dream.
How was her health now?
Was she fine?
Had she moved on?
Would one day he could reach to her even though now she was out of his league?
The unanswered questions just kept dancing in his mind but after a few minutes, he managed to shook them off... for the time being.
After all... With him, no matter how small his existence was to her or what kind of sullied future faced her... He would always be by her side...
With his renew determination, Hiromu Ushio opened the door of his apartment and begin his new day, without knowing that his life would going to change forever...
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[Time skip]
"Oh great, five more days until the day I have to pay the rent... At least I will have enough money to eat for the next two week after paying the rent" sighed Ushio inwardly after looking at the calendar in his small notebook that he used to write and calculate his earning and paying. If anyone thought that living alone on theirselves was a blessing, they would reconsider. Ushio had to take many, many part-time jobs in order to pay for his schooling as well as his rent and his food. Sometime he even had to live with only rice and Shōyu (Japanese soy sauce) despite Shirayuki's protest... As he thought about the landlady's daughter and also his only and best friend in the Kuoh Academy, a small smile appeared on his face. Shirayuki was beautiful, very kind, sweet, very good in cooking and so many other good traits. In short, she was the kind of girl that people called 'A perfect Yamato Nadeshiko'. Sometimes he couldn't understand why she still hadn't had a boyfriend and even decided to be friend with a lonely plain looking teen liked him. Locking the door of his small rented apartment, Ushio picked up his guitar case, put it on his back and started walking toward the academy...
"Ushio-kun! Ushio-kun!" said a feminine voice as someone quickly latched on to his left arm. It was a beautiful girl with silky black hair, very dark violet eyes that nearly black and she was clad in the female uniform of Kuoh Academy. This was Narukami Shirayuki, the only daughter of Narukami Yukiko who was Ushio's landlady.
"Ohayo, Narukami-san" said Ushio with a warm smile that made Shirayuki blushed lightly
"I called you by your name yet you called me by my surname..." pouted Shirayuki with a small huff
"... I'm sorry, Shirayuki-san... "said Ushio as he smiled at her childishness
"... No '-san' or replacing '-san' with '-chan' and I will forgive you' said Shirayuki as she refused to look at her Ushio's smile that would always melt her heart everytime she saw it. Sometimes she couldn't understand why a cute, nice, polite and respectful guy liked him was a loner of the Academy. Even his teachers often forgot about him too! Well, not that she complained anyway since she would have no worry about any competition for his heart! And then Shirayuki's mind started thinking about a scene where both her and Ushio was having a picnic with a boy who had Ushio's face and her eyes and a girl who looked like a small younger version of her with Ushio's warm eyes and smile. Once his heart belonged to her... Oh she just couldn't wait until the day her dream family come true!
"... ayuki... Shirayuki... Are you ok there? Are you sick? Your face is red." Asked a concerned Ushio as he put his hand onto Shirayuki to check her temperature. This quickly snapped Shirayuki out of her thought as she said frantically
"Huh... No! Wait! I means yes! I'm perfectly fine!"
"That's good to know. I would hate to see my friend get sick..." said Ushio with a sigh of relief, though he missed the frown on Shirayuki's face after hearing him said 'friend'. But the frown was quickly replaced by a large smile
"Oh right! Here! I made a bento for you, Ushio-kun!" said Shirayuki as she took out a large bento box and gave it to Ushio
"How many times I have to say to stop you from making bento for me? This is... uh, the seventh time..." sighed Ushio as he looked at the large bento box
"Listen to me now, Hiromu Ushio!" said Shirayuki hotly "As your future wi... wait, NO! I mean as your best friend, I refuse to let you eat a poor lunch liked that smaller-than-normal bento! And if you dare to refuse to take, I swear I will freeze you until you forget about the definition of warmth!"
"Freeze?" asked a confused Ushio "What do you mean by 'freeze'? "
"Huh? What did you say? I didn't say anything like that" it was the reply Shirayuki came up
After looking at Shirayuki owlishly for a few seconds, Ushio shrugged and decided to let it pass as he thought inwardly 'Girls and women are really hard to understand'. And this time, he missed the sigh of relief that Shirayuki let out behind his back.
'That was close' thought Shirayuki. She didn't want Ushio to know the truth about what she was... well, at least not now...
"Yeah! You can believe what you think, Matsuda, Motohama! That will never change the fact that yesterday a beautiful girl asked me out!"
Shirayuki's train of thought was abruptly halted to stop by the yell of one of the infamous Perverted Trio, the enemies of every girl in Kuoh Academy, Hyoudou Issei. There was a time her class had caught them peeping on them when they had been changing their clothes and it had taken all of Shirayuki's will power not to stab some pillars of ice into their eyes when they had looked at her with those filthy and lecherous eyes. Only her Ushio-kun could look at her in that filthy way!
"A girl want to go out with Hyoudou-san? That's strange... Oh well... Shirayuki, we have to go to our classes now" said Ushio that snapped her out of her thought as she followed Ushio to their respective class, Ushio's class was 3-C while her class was 3-A. But before she departed, she whispered to Ushio's ear
"The music room today?"
"The music room" nodded Ushio as he left to his class
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[Lunch break]
A very pissed Rias Gremory was walking in an empty corridor of the school building.
The reason why? She had just receive a letter from the womanizing bastard that she had been engaged to before she had been born, Riser Phenex demanding her to come back to the Underworld and marry him. Needless to say, the letter was quickly disappeared into nothingness with a flare of Rias's Power of Destruction.
Rias loved her parents, that was the truth. But she was also angry at them for making the contract and took away her choice in who she wanted to offer her hand in marriage to so that the clan could gain some gains from her arranged marriage. For a long time, Rias had been researching any loopholes in the contract and hadn't found any. Which meaned now there was only one wasy to break the contract: The Rating Game.
Luckily for Rias, she had just found a candidate for her peerage: Hyoudou Issei. Judging from what she had sensed that boy had a Sacred Gear inside him and a powerful one to be more precise as well as a large potential. With proper training as well as motivations, Issei would be the key for her freedom. From what Koneko had told her, yesterday Amano Yuma, a Fallen Angel in disguise had asked Issei out. Rias suspected that the Fallen Angel would kill him after the date, which meaned this would be a perfect chance for her to reincarnate him into a devil of her peerage, not to mention a perfect change to make the pervert become loyal to her. Usually, she hated manipulating other people but she knew if she didn't do that, she would never be free from that damn contract. She silently promised that after she was free from the contract, she would make up for him as well as her peerage.
Before Rias's thought could go any further, the piano sound echoed to her ears snapping her out of her thought. Curiously, Rias followed the sound until she reached the music room.
{Play music: Ai Kotoba (piano version)_ShounenT}
itsumo boku no kodomo ga/ You've actually been
osewa ni natteiruyou de / Looking out for me since childhood
kiitekureta anata kata ni /You've always heard me out, so you
kansha, kansha./ Deserve a lot of my thanks.
.
kono goon wo isshou de wasurenai uchi ni/ I'll never forget your kindness, so I
uchi ni himeta omoi totomoni /Kept it as one of my precious memories
uta ni shitemimashita. /I attempted to turn it into a song.
ai kotoba wa "ai ga too = arigatou"/ The love words "Love is 10", means "Thank you"
.
boku toka kimi toka koi toka ai toka/ The stuff about me, about you, about romance, about love,
suki toka kirai toka /About liking, and about disliking
mata utau ne./ I sing them again.
.
ima kimi ga suki de/ I like you, for now
teka kimi ga suki de / I mean, I like you
mushiro kimi ga suki de/ Really, like you
konna baka na boku wo kimi wa suki de/ For liking this stupid me
aishitekurete. / You loved me.
konna uta kiite naitekurete / You cried listening to this song, and so
arigatou./ Thank you.
Taking a peek from a window, what Rias saw brought a huge blush on her face. Inside the music room, a male student who had black hair, black eyes with a pair of glasses was playing the piano with a strong passion without knowing about her presence while he was singing in a soft and light sounding voice. Looking closely at the male student, Rias found that he looked really cute and handsome.
itsuka boku no kodomo ga juumansai no tanjoubi /On the 10,000th birthday of my childhood
mukaeta toki, iwattekurete sanjuuku mashita/When you come, we'll celebrate it 39 times
.
kono goon wa isshou de kagirareta jikan de/ Within my limited time, I'll put lyrics
umareru kyoku to shi ni nosete/ About my lifetime gratitude to this newborn song
kimi ni todokeru yo / It shall reach you
korekara mo douka yoroshiku ne/ So please continue to watch over me
.
boku toka kimi toka koi toka ai toka/ The stuff about me, about you, about romance, about love,
suki toka kirai toka/ About liking, and about disliking
mada tarinai?/ Should I add more?
.
jaa / How about:
"kinou nani tabeta?" / "Yesterday, what did you eat?"
"nani shiteta?" / "What were you doing?"
"nankai boku no koto omoidashita?"/ "How many times have you thought of me?"
konna koto hanashitemiyou ka! / Let's mention these things!
.
"kimi tabeta."/ "Ya eaten..?"
"nani shiteta." / "Ya doing..?"
"kimi no koto nanka/ "I kinda...
wasurechatta yo."/ Forgot about you."
As the song continued, Rias was in a daze
So much emotion... So much love in the song...
kimi ga suki de/ I like you
tteiu no wa uso de/ And that's a lie
honto wa daisuki de./ In fact, I do love you.
kizutsuketakunakute / I'd never want to hurt you
demo / So
kimi ga suki de/ I like you
aishitekurete/ You loved me
"konna uta atta ne" tte/ "To think that there was a song like this" you said
kimi to waraitainda/ I want to laugh with you
.
boku mitai na kimi / You who resemble me
kimi mitai na boku / I who resemble you
niteru kedo chigatte/ Same yet different
chigatteru kara niteru/ Both different, thus the same
.
suki da yo toiu tabi ni / The more you say "I love you"
fueru suki no kimochi wa/ My feelings of "love" for you intensify
boku kara takusan no kimi he no/ I'll give you tons of my
ai kotoba/ Love words
To Rias, the song was just... too beautiful... No... Rias could tell that the word 'beautiful' couldn't describe haft of the nature of the song... Rias couldn't help but wonder if the one she would give her love to would be like in the song or not...
{Stop music}
(Un)fortunately for her, Rias's cellphone decided to interfere her thought. Looking at the incoming call, Rias let out a 'tch' as she took her leave with the image of the young man playing piano while singing carved into her mind.
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[Timeskip, after school]
"Ah! It had been a long day!" said Shirayuki as she was sitting with Ushio, who had earphones in his ears as he was listening to the music of a certain idol, on a bench of a small park. Suddenly, he felt tap on his shoulder which made him took of his earphones
"What's the problem, Shirayuki?" asked Ushio and Shirayuki pointed her finger toward the gate of the park. Looking toward the said direction, Ushio could saw a pair of teenager was walking to the park... wait a second...
"Wait... Isn't that Hyoudou-san?..." said Ushio, finally recognizing the male of the pair was none other than one of the infamous perverts of the school. Which meant the female accompanying him was his date. And honestly, she looked quite beautiful in Ushio's opinion...
*TUG*
"Ouch! It's hurt! What was that for, Shirayuki-san?" said Ushio as his ear was pinched hard by an angry Shirayuki
"Why are you ogling at that pervert's date? Is it because she is prettier than me?" demanded Shirayuki as she glared at him
"No... It's just that... I feel there is something strange about her..." said Ushio thoughtfully as he carefully observed the pair
"What do you mean by 'strang..." said Shirayuki but she didn't have the chance to finish her sentence as what happened next shock her.
In a blink of eyes, Issei's date had transformed herself into a woman who was clad in a S&M outfit with two large black bird wings on her back as she float in the air
"Thank you for your 'date', Issei-kun. I really enjoyed it. And now, can you please die for me?" said the bird woman as a light spear, a sign telling Shirayuki that this woman was a Fallen Angel, appeared in her hand and she threw it toward Issei who was now too shocked to move his body out of the danger...
"LOOK OUT!"
Just before the light spear could connect its target, Isser was pushed aside out of the danger. Before Issei could fully recover, he was snapped out of his shock by a strange voice
"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL SITTING AT THERE? RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" yelled an injured Ushio as the previous light spear had impaled his left legs. Fortunately, Issei's survive instinct took the control before the Fallen Angel could snap out of her shock and he ran away as fast as his body could before his mind could give a command to him.
"You... You... DIE, YOU WORM!" yelled the Fallen Angel angrily as she threw another light spear toward a weakened Ushio due to the blood loss as well as the light of the first spear was poisoning his body. But before the second light spear could penetrate Ushio's chest...
*CLANK*
An ice lance shot out and deflected the light spear right in front of Ushio's chest while an ice pillar shot out from the ground and slammed into the Fallen and knocked her down to the ground as a crying Shirayuki sat down next to a half concious Ushio. Her hair color now changed into the silver as her tears gradually turned into small droplet of ice.
"Ushio-kun! Ushio-kun! Please stay with me! Please! Please don't die!"
Despite his critical state, Ushio still managed to keep his conciousness, though barely, and what he saw terrified him: the Fallen managed to stand up as three light spears were thrown toward him and Shirayuki who was still too occupied in his state to notice the incoming danger.
Time seemed to slow down.
Ushio tried to force out a warning to the now silver hair girl but he could only force the air out his lungs instead of a warning.
He couldn't accept it!
He couldn't accept that Shirayuki was going to be killed along with him because of him!
He felt so powerless... just liked that time seven months ago...
He failed both her and Shirayuki.
"How sad... Is this the ending you want to have, The Light Sigil?"
'Who's... that...' thought Ushio tiredly as his vision slowly become black
"Do you want to protect that white hair girl?"
'Yes...' thought Ushio as he tried to hold onto the remain of his conciousness, which was slowly slipped out of his grasp
"Then call for your power, The Light Sigil! Call for the power that have been sleeping in you! Want it, Need it. Desire it! Seek it! Call for it!"
And then Ushio's vision exploded in white.
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Suddenly, Shirayuki was pushed aside by the near-dead boy in her arms as said boy rolled to the other side. His sudden action had been in a nick of time as the three light spear now was impaled into the ground instead of him and Shirayuki.
"Hm... the mortal worm is still alive huh... " growled the Fallen Angel as Ushio slowly stood up, making sure that he put all the weight on to his right leg while his black eyes were glowing as an enormous power that could easily surpass Yasaka the Kyuubi, leader of the Youkai faction, started leaking out of Ushio. As Shirayuki was so shocked at Ushio's sudden enormous power, said young man raised his right hand as he started saying in a monotone voice
"Oh hear my call, the snow lady and the spirit of the snow! I summon you, Yuki!"
Suddenly, a dark violet magic circle appeared in the air in front of Ushio as a golden magic circle appeared on the ground as lightning and a pillar of light connected both the magic circle. When the light finally died out, a pretty girl now was standing in front of Ushio. The new girl had long very light blue hair and violet eyes. She was clad in a loose white coat which held into its place by 2 leather strap strapping to her neck and showed parts of her bountiful assets, a black and white cap, black panties, blue stripes stockings and white high-heel shoes.
"My name is Yuki. I have answered your call. Are you The Light Sigil?" said Yuki as she bowed her head slightly
"I'm not sure if I'm this Light Sigil you're saying or not but now, please eliminate that woman" said Ushio in a chilling tone that sent shivers down Shirayuki's spine.
"As you wish" nodded Yuki and she turned her attention to the growling Fallen Angel with an indifferent look and pointed her finger at the Fallen Angel
"Blood Prison" said Yuki
Suddenly, the Fallen Angel was hit by a blood tornado falling from the sky and made her cried out in pain. Before she could recover, she was punched hard into the face by Yuki. Gritting her teeth, the Fallen Angel three a lot of light spears at Yuki only to be deflected or dodged by the spirit of the snow.
"How annoying. I shall finish this" said Yuki as the of fact and pointed her finger forward
"Black Wave"
From the ground, waves of black chains shot out and grap the Fallen in place. With a fingersnap, all the chains exploded and created a large screen of smoke covering the area completely.
"Tch, she got away" grunted Yuki as she looked at the small black dot in the sky. Walking back to a silent Ushio and a shocked Shirayuki
"I'm sorry, master. She got away" bowed Yuki
"Thank you for your help, Yuki. Now I can finally rest" said Ushio omniously as his eyes slowly closed and before his face could make impact with the ground, Shirayuki caught him as she cried frantically
"Ushio-kun! Ushio-kun!" cried Shirayuki frantically. Turning her head to Yuki, she said pleadingly
"Please, you don't know me but please, help me bring him back to my home! He need to be healed and I can't stand losing him!"
Nodding her head, Yuki walked to the left side and put Ushio's left arm over her shoulder while Shirayuki held on the right side. As they traveled as fast as they could, Yuki's eyes widened when she noticed there was a faint glowing white snowflake-liked insignia on the back of Ushio's left hand. This could only have one meaning...
Finally, after more than 1500 years, The Light Sigil... had finally returned