I finally finished this chapter, this is months in the making... mainly because I get lazy and don't write for a while. So if the proceeding chapters take a while to be uploaded, there's your reason.
Anyway, welcome to my latest story. I've got most of it worked out already and there will be some changes from the canon, besides the OC, though these changes shouldn't have too big of an impact. Though if I find out that one of these changes does conflict with future events I will try my best to work around it.
Alright, I've held you all up for long enough. I hope you enjoy chapter one of Triple Threat, I'm gonna get started on chapter two.
Chapter 1: A New Life
The sun was shining, the birds were singing and overall it was a very pleasant day. But not for Anton Kurushima. No, he was being chased by the Kuoh Academy tennis club. Why? Because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Get back here, pervert!" One of the girls yelled.
"I wasn't peeping!" Anton yelled back.
He had been unlucky enough to walk past the perverted duo, Matsuda and Motohama, while they were trying to get up skirt photos of the girls in the tennis club. The girls thought that Anton was standing guard for them and chased him since the perverted duo ran as soon as they were noticed.
As he ran past the old schoolhouse, Anton came up with a plan. He ran towards a tree, jumped, kicked off the tree, grabbed the ledge of an open window and climbed in. After catching his breath, Anton looked out the window. The tennis club searched around for a bit, but they eventually left.
"Why do I have the worst luck?" Anton sighed as he brushed some of his silvery grey hair out of his vision.
"I don't know, but would you like some tea?" A feminine voice asked.
Anton whipped around so fast that his braid smacked him in the face. There were two other people in the room. Akeno Himejima and Rias Gremory. The two most popular girls in school. Anton kicked himself mentally, this encounter would blow up in his face sooner or later.
"Ah... uhm, no thank you. I wouldn't wanna impose and I didn't mean to intrude. I'll ah... I'll just be going now." Anton began climbing back out the window.
"Why don't you use the door?" Rias asked. "If someone sees you climbing out of the window they may mistake you for a thief."
Anton immediately brought his leg back through the window and headed for the door, he opened the door and began to leave.
"Very sorry for the intrusion." Anton apologised hurriedly with a bow. He closed the door as he left. The two third years waited for a few seconds before Akeno spoke up.
"Well, that was unexpected." She said with her usual smile.
"Yes, it was." Rias replied while keeping her eyes on the door.
"Ara? Did he catch your attention?" Akeno asked as she poured some tea.
"You could say that." Rias smiled as she drank from her cup.
After school, Anton stopped on the bridge he had to cross to get home. He thought about his day, besides the tennis club mishap, he had had a good day. Though there was the fact that he had intruded on the two most popular girls at Kuoh Academy, no matter what scenario he thought of, he just knew that would come back to bite him tomorrow.
"Excuse me?" A cute voice asked, drawing Anton from his thoughts. Anton looked over at the source of the voice, a girl with black hair and purple eyes. She was a school uniform that Anton didn't recognise. For some reason, this girl set alarms off in the back of Anton's mind.
"Um... Yes? How may I help you?" The silver haired teen asked, surprised by both the sudden company and the danger he felt.
"I was wondering... Um... Would you go out with me?"
It took Anton a second to realise that he was just confessed to, by a girl he didn't know anything about. A girl that the presence of made him cautious.
"I... I see. Okay, I have two questions. First, who are you? Second, why me?" Anton decided it would be best to fish for information, expecting this to be some kind of prank.
"Oh, right!" The girl gasped, as if remembering social conventions were a thing. "My name is Yuuma Amano." Yuuma finally introduced herself.
"It's nice to meet you, Amano-san, I'm Anton Kurushima. And before you ask, yes, I am half Russian." Anton introduced himself in return.
"It's nice to meet you too, Anton-kun." Yuuma replied with a smile. Anton felt awkward because of the difference in how they referred to each other. "And as for why you... Because I love you, plain and simple."
Anton stumbled backward at the sheer intensity, and cuteness, of Yuuma's smile. He took a deep breath and thought things through. There was no way this girl could be in love with him, this was the first time they had met. This had to be a joke, any second now she would say that her friends dared her or something. As much as Anton believed this, there was a part of him saying 'what if?' What If she really did love him? What if it wasn't a joke? Every time Anton wanted to say no, these thoughts kept popping up. So he decided he'd take the chance.
"Alright..." Anton nodded to himself. "Amano-san... No, Yuuma-san. If you'll have me, I would love to go out with you." The teen had to mentally fight himself to get that sentence out, but the smile on Yuuma's face made it worth it.
"Great! Hey, to celebrate, do you want to go on a date with me tomorrow?" Yuuma asked.
"Sure." Anton responded with an awkward smile.
Anton stared at himself in the mirror in his room; he repeatedly scanned the boy reflected back at him. Silver hair tied back in a braid and cobalt blue eyes, average height and slight slouch. He couldn't fathom how he had just gotten a girlfriend.
"The world works in mysterious ways." The teen joked to himself as he took off the suspenders from his school uniform.
"Five minutes early... Better than five minutes late, I guess." Anton mumbled as he checked out his reflection. He had his hair in its usual braid, but opted to go for a smart casual look for his clothes. He was wearing a plain white dress shirt, a black waistcoat, a red necktie, blue jeans and black and white high-tops. He headed straight to the meeting place after changing out of his school uniform.
"Hey, hey." A lady with brown hair and a devil themed costume tried to get Anton's attention. The blue eyed teen turned on his heels to face her. She held a flyer out for him so he took it, she ran off shortly after.
'Does she work at a cosplay cafe or something?' Anton thought. He looked at the flyer he had been handed, it had a circle with an intricate design on it. A pentagram. 'Ah, a cult. That makes much more sense.'
"Sorry! Have you been waiting long?" Yuuma asked as she arrived.
"No. I just got here." Anton replied with a smile. "Shall we go?"
The date started off with the two teens going to the arcade, they played most of the games there and drew a small crowd when they played a dancing game. Before leaving, Anton won a pendant from a crane game and gave it to Yuuma as a gift. After the arcade, they went to a restaurant and had lunch. They got to know each other a bit better as they enjoyed their meals. After a bit of walking around, it started to get dark. Anton offered to Walk Yuuma home and they stopped by a park on the way.
"Hey, I have a request." Yuuma stated as she approached a fountain.
"Okay, what is it?" Anton asked with a smile on his face, he hadn't expected to enjoy the date as much as he had.
"Would you... die for me?" Yuuma asked innocently. Any and all traces of happiness left Anton's body.
"What?" He asked, confused.
"I said... Would you die for me?" Yuuma repeated as her expression went from cute and innocent to scary and sadistic. Her clothes disappeared like she was from a magical girl anime and were replaced by a skimpy, black, leather S&M outfit. She also sprouted big black wings, humans didn't do that.
"What the...!" Anton was interrupted as a spear of light almost pierced him, luckily, he dodged before it connected. 'A fallen!? Dammit!' He thought as he dodged a few more spears of light.
"Stay still you pest!" Yuuma shouted. Anton ducked into the bushes and kept moving until he found a place to hide.
"Damn... it..." Anton panted as he slumped against a tree. "So... soon?" He questioned. "I guess they've gotten better at tracking... or I'm getting lazy." He pushed off of the tree and snuck around, trying to find an exit without getting spotted.
"I found you~" Yuuma's voice sang as a searing pain spread throughout Anton's body. He kept crawling, kept trying to get away. More pain. More light. He kept crawling.
"Just die!" Yuuma shouted as she hurled another spear of light into Anton's body. He couldn't move anymore, the pain was too much.
"Damn..." Anton coughed, blood splattering next to him as he did so. "I didn't even... find... her..." Anton laid there, trying to force his body to move. It was hopeless. This was how he was going to die.
'Wait.' Anton remembered something, something from earlier. The pentagram. He focused his thoughts on it. 'Come on... I don't care who... but grant my dying wish... save me!' Anton prayed. Even as he was dying, he still saw the humour in praying to a pentagram. He felt the power begin to build up in his pocket, then it disappeared. Or more accurately, it was released.
Anton's vision was filled with crimson. At first he thought it was more blood, but then it moved. And then he saw her. Rias Gremory. With black, bat-like wings. He tried to say something, but just the thought of speaking hurt. And that was the last thing he remembered before blacking out.
Ringing, Anton could hear ringing. It confused him, but it also annoyed him. He had a headache, the ringing wasn't helping. He tried to turn off his alarm clock, he kept missing it.
"Shut up!" The silver haired teen screamed as he threw his alarm clock against the wall, it shattered into multiple pieces. "...Crap." He sighed as he got up, he cleaned up the remains of his alarm and started getting ready for school. It wasn't until he had finished braiding his hair back that he noticed a strange, but familiar, feeling in his chest.
"How did that...?" Anton began to question the feeling, then he realised why it was there. "And here I was hoping it was a dream." He moaned as he continued his morning routine.
For the entire day, Anton couldn't focus on his studies. His headache wouldn't disappear and it was aggravating at this point. The blue eyed teen found himself staring at the clock in lessons and restricted himself to his classroom during breaks, he couldn't find the will to do anything. He had almost gotten back into bed this morning, but decided not to harm his attendance just to nurse a headache. That had proven to be a bad idea, considering he felt like shit. Anton was relieved when his last class ended, he bolted through the door. He wanted to get home and rest. He rushed out of the school fast enough that no one could stop him, he really wasn't in the mood to deal with people at the moment.
Anton slowed down when he reached the bridge, mostly because it made his headache worse. Images of Yuuma in her leather outfit kept popping up in his head. It got so bad that he fell to his knees, he felt like throwing up. By the time he recovered, the sun was already setting.
"Gotta get home..." Anton grumbled, he stumbled to his feet and kept walking.
Night-time came around faster than Anton expected, he had only just reached the park. Anton looked at the fountain where Yuuma had transformed into a fallen angel. He clenched his fists as a wave of anger washed over him.
"When I find you, you will feel my wrath bitch!" Anton growled.
"That depends on whether you survive." A masculine reminded.
"What did you say!" Anton barked as he span around, a sharp pain entering his body as he stopped. "You know... I'm getting really pissed off with all the stabbing!"
"Well if you would just die, you wouldn't have to worry about it." A man in a trench coat and fedora joked, his pitch black wings gave away his faction. Anton attempted to say something, but all that came out was low growl. Between the pain from the headache and the pain from the spear of light, his brain wasn't functioning properly. The fallen angel walked over to Anton and pulled out the spear of light, it hurt just as much going out as it did going in. Anton snarled at the fallen angel.
"Don't worry, I'll be sure to finish you off!" The fallen angel yelled with a sadistic grin. Though before he could stab Anton, an explosion blew him away.
"Could you not touch my underling?" An all too familiar voice asked. Anton grunted as he looked up, his vision was filled with crimson.
'So it was her, well then, it seems I finally got lucky.' The silver haired teen thought.
"Crimson hair... So you're a Gremory?" The fallen questioned.
"That's right Mr. Fallen Angel. I am Rias Gremory." Rias introduced herself.
"What a surprise, he's one of yours. Might I suggest you keep him on a short leash next time? Otherwise someone like me might attack him again." The fallen angel warned as he took off. "My name is Dohnaseek, I pray that we never meet again." Dohnaseek introduced himself as he flew off.
'Another one to kill later.' Anton thought, he had a feeling that list was going to keep growing.
"Are you okay?" Rias asked, her teal eyes meeting Anton's cobalt blue. The boy let out a small grunt. "C'mon let's go back to your house, I'll treat your wounds." Was the last thing Anton heard before passing out for the second day in a row.
When Anton woke up, he felt uncomfortable. His bed felt cramped, it wasn't until he turned over that he found out why. Rias was sleeping next to him... and she was naked. Anton placed his hand on the cover and slowly pulled it off.
'Please don't be, please don't be, please don't be...' He looked down. "Ah, shit." He sighed. He felt movement, Rias was waking up. For some reason, Anton suddenly felt incredibly worried. What had happened last night? His memory was hazy. Rias began to sit up. Anton's mind went blank as he got a better look at her figure. He began to lean back and was going to use his arm as support, forgetting his bed was a single. He crashed onto the floor and backed away from the bed.
"Oh, you're already up?" Rias asked as if there was nothing wrong with the current situation.
"Uh... Um... Ah... You... Me... We... S... S... S..." Anton's brain was working overtime, he had had very minimal contact with the opposite sex and now he had just woken up nude with his senpai next to him, who was also nude.
"Why?" The flustered teen finally managed to ask, his heart was racing and he couldn't understand why.
"I was healing your wounds." Rias answered, much to Anton's confusion.
"My wounds..." He repeated, he repeated those two words over and over. Then he finally remembered, he had been attacked. Most of his memories from the day before were hazy. He placed a hand over his abdomen, the wound was gone completely.
"I must say, it's quite surprising how quickly you healed." Rias admitted as she started getting dressed.
"Aren't you gonna take a shower?" Anton asked as he put on a pair of boxers.
"Hmm?"
"If you're gonna get dressed it would be better to do so after a shower right?" He reiterated. "I'll go get started on breakfast." He added as he left the room. The silver haired teen sighed as he made his way downstairs.
"This is going to become a thing, isn't it?" He asked as he passed through the living room. He started making breakfast once he reached the kitchen, it was just toast but something felt different.
'This is the first time I've made breakfast for someone else.' Anton realised.
After eating breakfast with Rias, taking a shower of his own and getting dressed, Anton and Rias headed off to school. Anton noticed the hateful glares he got from the other students, both male and female alike. The two didn't part until they reached the school gates.
"I'll send someone to get you later." Rias informed Anton as she left. "By the way, you look better with your hair down." The crimson haired teen called out before continuing towards the main school building. Anton felt the back of his neck, his hair was covering it. He had forgotten to do his braid.
"One day won't hurt." He sighed as he headed towards the school building.
Anton had been half right, one day without his braid hadn't hurt. It had, however, earned him the stares of every person he passed. Did having his hair down make him look that different? Admittedly it did go down to the bottom of his shoulder blades, but he couldn't have looked that much different. As far as he knew he still had his indifferent expression and the dark circles around his eyes from sleepless nights, he should still look unapproachable. Yet the looks he received told him that the people around him wanted to approach him... or yell at him, he never could read people's expressions.
'Never letting my hair down again.' Anton thought, he didn't need attention from other people.
"Excuse me." A male voice called out. Murmurs of annoyance and admiration broke out, from the guys and girls respectively.
'No. She did not send...' Anton began to wish as he looked over to the doorway. 'Kiba Yuuto. Well if walking with Rias and having my hair down didn't get me noticed this will.'
"Is Anton Kurushima here?" Yuuto asked. And suddenly all eyes were on Anton, who simply got up and walked over to the blonde haired boy.
"That would be me." Anton sighed.
"Great, follow me then." Yuuto smiled. The two teens walked in silence, with Yuuto occasionally greeting some of the girls. Anton tried his best to keep his head down, it didn't work. He could hear the whispers from the onlookers. Who is he? Why is he walking Yuuto? He could hear just about every variation of these two questions.
"Are we there yet?" Anton asked with a sigh, he was starting to get annoyed with all the whispering.
"Almost." Yuuto replied with a smile.
The two approached the old school building and Yuuto opened the door.
"We're here." He announced with his usual smile.
'I wanna beat that smile off of your face.' Anton thought as he entered the building, normally this time.
The pair of teens started walking up the stairs. On the way up they passed by a sealed off room, Anton felt a strong power emanating from it. He started walking towards it absentmindedly, but stopped when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"That rooms sealed off, it's in a bad state so no one's allowed to enter." Yuuto explained. Anton knew it was a lie but let it be, whatever was in that room must have been too dangerous to be outside of it.
"I see. Sorry, I'm naturally curious so a sealed off door just screams 'open me' to me." The silver haired teen half lied. He was naturally curious, but anyone who could sense the power behind that door would want to investigate it.
"No worries. Come on, the President's waiting." The blonde haired boy motioned the silver haired one to follow him. They continued up to the third floor and stopped outside a door with a sign above it.
'Occult Research club. Well, they have a sense of humour at least.' Anton chuckled.
Anton scanned the room upon entry and was quite impressed with the furnishings, especially the full bookcase. He noted the company president style desk that sat at the head of the room and briefly glanced over the blackboard and the circle on the floor. It really did look like what you'd expect an occult research clubroom to look like.
As he continued to scan his surroundings, Anton noticed a girl sitting on the sofa. It was Koneko Toujou, the school's unofficial mascot according to... everybody. She was eating some sweets, which she promptly attempted to move out of Anton's line of sight once she noticed him looking at her.
"I wasn't going to steal them." The silver haired teen deadpanned.
Realising they were the only three in the room, Anton took a seat on the sofa opposite to Koneko. He rested his head back and let his thoughts run amok, it was how sorted his thoughts out. Let them run rampant until they make sense... it worked some of the time. Anton rubbed a hand over his face, realising his musing was getting him nowhere fast. He was about to get up from the sofa when he heard the door open, his head snapped towards the source.
"Sorry for the delay." Rias apologised as she and Akeno entered the room. "Ah, you're already here Anton." The crimson haired devil realised.
"Yep." Anton replied simply with a wave of his hand.
"Well someone's getting comfortable." Akeno teased as she saw how Anton was sprawled out on the sofa.
"I apologise Himejima-senpai. This sofa is just too comfortable." The cobalt eyed teen explained as he shuffled into a more formal sitting position.
"Ara~ Good manners? Not many people have those these days." Akeno teased again, Anton held back a sigh upon realising this was going to be a thing with her.
"Anyway." Rias coughed to get everyone's attention. "Today, we welcome you to the Occult Research club Anton." The president of the club announced. "To keep things simple, we are all-"
"Devils." Anton cut Rias off, fully aware of what everyone present was. "And the people that attacked me these past two days were fallen angels, angels that have been cast out of heaven for committing acts unbefitting of an angel." The teen explained as he took a sip of the tea Akeno placed in front of him.
Three of the four other members of the club had varying reactions, Koneko was as expressionless as usual. Yuuto was smiling awkwardly as a bead of sweat dropped down his face, Akeno was suppressing a giggle at Rias' reaction, and Rias had a dumbfounded look on her face. The president quickly composed herself and moved on seeing as the newest member of the club was well informed.
"Then I assume you recognise this girl?" Rias questioned as she handed Anton a picture.
Anton looked at the girl in the picture, Yuuma. The picture was of Yuuma in her casual clothes with her black wings out. As Anton stared at the photograph he felt one particular emotion rise up within him. His heart started pounding, his breathing became faster and he felt an indescribable urge to lash out at something. He clenched his hand into a fist, crushing the photograph in the process. He was angry, no. He was furious.
"That bitch." The words left Anton's mouth before he could even consider saying them, the look on his face morphing into one of pure rage. He unclenched his fist, letting the photo fall onto the table.
"We believe she was after you for your Sacred Gear." Rias explained.
Anton's eyes unconsciously shifted to his left arm. "Of course." He sighed, his rage subsiding for now.
The teen held out his left arm, he focused his energy into it. A green gem formed on the back of his hand, the skin on his left arm around the gem shifting to red scales before bursting into the form of a gauntlet.
"So that's the source of the power I could feel from you." Rias commented, unsurprised, at this point, by how easily Anton summoned his Sacred Gear. "By the way..." The club president began. "...do you remember your dying wish?" She asked.
"No. I was on the verge of death, so the end of that encounter is a bit hazy." The half-Russian admitted, rubbing the back of his neck through his hair.
"I see." Rias nodded. "Akeno, hand him a magic circle, please." The president ordered.
"Here." Akeno smile as she passed a piece of paper to Anton.
"The pentagram..." He commented.
"That's one name for it. Most devils refer to them as magic circles now." Rias explained. "Anyway, As I recall... Your dying wish was, and I quote, 'come on... I don't care who... but grant my dying wish... save me!'" She quoted Anton's dying wish word for word. "You seemed to know that the magic circle would grant your dying wish, how is that?" The crimson haired teen inquired.
'Shit... make something up!' Anton mentally yelled at himself. "I was dying and desperate." The teen stated, working in a nervous laugh. "In my desperation I was willing to try anything." He explained. "I mean, no one wants to die young, right?"
"...I suppose so." Rias agreed after a few seconds of crushing silence. "Anyway, I answered your wish and saved you. After that, I realised you had quite a powerful Sacred Gear. That's why I brought you back." The third year explained. "You are now my servant." She reminded the new addition to her peerage. "Allow us to introduce ourselves properly." The president smirked as the three other members gathered around her as they all summoned their wings.
"Second year, Yuuto Kiba. I'm a devil. Nice to meet you." Yuuto greeted the newest addition to the peerage with a smile.
'Definitely gonna beat that smile off your face.' Anton thought.
"I'm Koneko Toujou, and I'm a first year. I'm a devil... It's a pleasure." Koneko greeted in her expressionless way.
'It doesn't feel like you mean that.' Anton mentally commented.
"I'm Akeno Himejima, a third year. I'm also the vice-president of the research club. And I'm a devil." Akeno greeted with a pleasant smile.
'I like this one.' Anton smiled inwardly.
"And I am their master, Rias Gremory. My house's rank is Duke. Welcome to the family." Rias greeted with a confident smile.
'I've just signed up for a world of trouble, haven't I?' Anton mentally sighed. He summoned his own wings and introduced himself. "I'm Anton Kurushima, second year. I'm half-Russian, half-Japanese and I'm also a devil. Nice to meet you all."
"As I said before, welcome to the family." The crimson haired president smiled.
"Thank you Gremory-senpai." The silver haired second year bowed.
"I must ask that you call me 'President'." Rias commanded.
"Alright, Pres." Anton said with a smile.
"I suppose that will do." Rias sighed.
It was then that Anton noticed Koneko re-entering the room, he hadn't even noticed her leave in the short time he was talking with Rias. Though he almost did a double take when he saw her carrying boxes that should have crushed someone with a frame as small as hers. Koneko set the boxes down beside Anton, a thud resounding through the room.
'She's the rook, definitely the rook.' Anton confirmed by himself.
"Right, for starters you're on..." Rias trailed off as everyone joined in on the next two words.
"Flyer duty."
