Chapter 2- the calm

Issei walked home it was a pleasant walk but one that is not usually done with a spring in one's step and a tune sung on one's lips. This was the way that this young man was walking home after a pleasant meeting with a young girl and a date confirmed the next afternoon.

Upon his arrival at his house he opened the door to come in and took his shoes off his mother and father would be working late at the hospital as always. He placed his bag next to his shoes than proceeded upstairs to his room, where he sat on his chair, turned the TV on and watched some crap for a bit until he thought that both his mates were home.

He then turned off his TV, opened his laptop and started up Skype with his best friends. A big picture to the right of the screen showed his face and two little windows showed the faces of Motohama at the top and Matsuda. He then smirked and said "hey guys, guess who's got a date tomorrow after school?"

And they both answered at the same time. "You."

"Exactly." He said back enthusiastically.

"When do you not have a date on a Friday night?" Motohama asked.

"When I can't be arsed." He cheekily replied back.

"Don't you have work on Saturday mornings?" Matsuda inquired.

"Yeah but she doesn't seem like the kind of girl who fucks on the first date." Issei confessed.

"And? You don't look like a twat but you still are."

"Touché." He replied then he heard the door banging downstairs. "I gotta go my parents are home and you know how much they hate hearing your two voices." He smirked.

"Remind me why do your parents hate us so much?" Motohama asked.

"Well my mum heard you calling her husband a twat." He pointed at the picture of Motohama on his screen. "And he heard you Matsuda calling his wife a cow."

The two then nodded their heads and Matsuda replied. "Fair enough." Issei then proceeded to shake his head and then close down Skype to go on YouTube, waiting for his tea and not bothering to go downstairs to say hello to his parents.

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Issei's parents don't talk to him at tea time; they don't ask him how school has gone or how his friends are. They aren't part of a typical family unit those Hyoudous. They don't need to ask they think they don't need to worry because if something was wrong he would just tell them they think. Issei never complains or gets angry; he only gets passionate about something. It takes bullying and murder to get him angry or something equal to those.

They do not care for his music career, they do not respect it one's a nurse the other is a doctor why would they celebrate their son plucking the strings of a guitar and saying sentences that go along with a tune.

They are less then pleased for his choice in women and his attitude towards sex. They are unaware of what made their child such a fuck-up. But that is their problem Issei thinks to himself when he has finished eating, walking up the stairs after thanking his mother for the meal.

They feed him because otherwise he would die, not because they love him. He lives in their house because he has nowhere else and that's why they don't kick him out every time they hear him playing with a girl in his bedroom.

Issei doesn't need to work, his music covers most things like phones and laptops but he works to save up for an apartment which after a few more weeks of work he should hopefully have enough money for. And the sooner the better he thinks as he gets ready for bed because living in a house where no one loves you can bleed you out pretty fast.

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His parents have gone to work when he wakes up typical he supposes but hey it still hurts.

He has a shower, gets dressed, eats cereal, puts his shoes on, puts his bag on his back then leaves for school. And during each one of these mundane tasks he gets a little bit for bored of the same old routine he needed some spice in his life and he needed it fast. A fire can only burn on 1 bit of fuel for so long before it is completely out. He needs to add more fuel to his before that happens; maybe this mysterious girl can help with that.

He is walking down the street and is met with a peculiar sight a girl in a ridiculously revealing cat out fit with cat ears, black see through tights, black boots and a black long sleeved crop top she also had midnight black hair. She was on the same side of the street he was on handing out flyers it seemed he had to walk past it to get to school, he tried not to stare at the knowing it was rude but found it ridiculously hard to do knowing she was in a very revealing outfit.

As he walked past her he heard a very confident "hello." He turned to see she was looking straight at him in to his orange eyes with her, curiously, pink ones. "Would you like a flyer?" she held out this piece of paper with a very weird symbol on it, it looked like something Edward Elric would draw, an alchemic symbol. It had writing on top of it saying 'occult research club' and at the bottom saying 'summon a devil today and have your wildest dreams come true'.

He smirked and took the paper not looking at her when he said "don't these things come with a price." He looked up to see her reaction, she gave none.

"Of course they do It wouldn't be fair if there wasn't, demons don't' become powerful without sacrifice." She said giving him a wide smile.

He smiled back tucked the piece of paper in his inside jacket pocket. "Can't have the mortals getting all big and powerful can we?" He said cheekily, loving the way her sparkly eyes widened with his words. Then turned and walked away not wanting to be late for school.

(A/N all those who got the FMA reference put your hand up and remember, you are not alone and I have no fucking clue what was on that flyer originally or if Akeno was evening handing them out I'm writing this fic on holiday so 'yay' for me so sorry for my inaccuracy but I honestly don't give a shit.)