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Soul Society, 1st Division Headquarters

Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto had never felt so peaceful before.

Ever since the Winter War ended more than two years ago, other than that brief altercation with the late Shodai Shinigami Substitute, Ginjo Kugo almost a month ago, there was nothing left but peace. Standing on the balcony of his office and enjoying the gentle breeze blowing through him as his haori fluttered along with it, appreciating the cloudless blue sky which meant a bright sunny weather and gazing out at the beautiful scenery before him, the Soutaicho hoped that no one will interrupt his moment of serenity.

...Which was broken when a messenger appeared in a Shunpo, kneeling on one knee beside him.

"Reporting, sir! The two Shinigami sent out by the 13th Division to investigate Kurosaki Ichigo's fluctuation of his reiatsu in Tokyo has returned, sir!"

No words were spoken for a few moments until Yamamoto, without switching his gaze towards the messenger, asked, "Why are you reporting me this?"

"Uh... that's because..." the messenger swallowed a lump into his throat, feeling a tad nervous before he continued, "Ukitake-taichou ordered me to send his Shinigami's findings to you, saying that Soutaicho may be familiar with the findings," And with that, the messenger took out a file from inside of his shihakusho and present it to the Soutaicho.

Yamamoto landed his gaze on the file and looked at it for a few seconds before taking it with his sole hand from the messenger's hands. "You may leave."

"Hai!" and with a bow, the messenger disappeared in a flash.

Yamamoto wondered what Ukitake found that made him think it would peak his interest. Walking towards his desk, he opened the file and spilled the contents of the file onto the desk, revealing them to be photos.

Yamamoto looked at the first photo that came to his line of vision. This photo showed three figures, two against one, standing in the middle of the night at a park while there was one more person lying on the ground. He could make out the outlines of Kurosaki Ichigo, but he couldn't identify the others since the photo was a tad too dark. The photo was taken at night after all.

He switched his gaze to the second photo and Yamamoto opened one of his eyes as he identified the one standing beside Ichigo. She was a beautiful young woman with long red, crimson hair reaching over her back and a buxom figure to boot. What's more, her face structure and her eyes was almost similar to one of his old acquaintances he met some hundred years ago. There was no mistaken who was this woman.

Both of his eyes were opened as he looked at the third photo. The photo showed a middle-aged man wearing a fedora on top of his head and wearing a trench coat. What peaked his interest was that this man has two jet black wings protruding from his back. He knew exactly where this man originated from.

"Getting involved and meddling with the affairs of the Three Factions now? You really are an interesting individual, Kurosaki Ichigo." Yamamoto said as he looked out of his balcony.

"Speaking of the Three Factions, I wonder how Gremory-dono, Michael-dono and Azazel-dono are doing..."

...

Ichigo's Apartment

Kurosaki Ichigo always thought nothing can be more bizarre while waking up in the morning than his father's annoying antics by attempting to ambush him to wake him up.

He was wrong.

He had no idea why Rias was sleeping in the same with bed with him, when she came here, and how the fuck she knew where he was staying. He didn't recall telling here where he was staying, or ever his apartment's address. What's even more bizarre was that she was sleeping without her clothes on! Did he and Rias...? He instantly shook his head at the thought. He was still wearing his boxers, and even if he did have sex with her, he couldn't remember a single detail about it.

"T-The hell are you doing on my bed, Rias?!" asked the young man, trying his best to not stare at her large breasts and pink nipples as he backed away against the headboard.

Rias smiled as she crawled her way towards the heavily blushing orange head and snuggle up against him as she closed her eyes. "I wanted to check if you were okay after I finished healing Issei's wounds last night, but when I got here you were already asleep, so I decided to join you."

The Shinigami Substitute tried to turn his obvious arousal away as he felt Rias' nipples rub against his side. "And your clothes! Why aren't you wearing any clothes?!"

The beauty rested her head on Ichigo's chest and wrapped her arms around him as she started to drift off again. "I can't sleep unless I am nude..." whispered Rias softly as her warm breath tingled his cheek.

"What kind of a reason was that?!" Ichigo roared in embarrassment as he tried to push her away from him but to no avail. Rias moaned and held onto Ichigo harder. Damn, this woman has an iron grip on him. "Don't move, you make a very comfortable pillow." whispered the girl as she delicately placed a hand on Ichigo's chest. "We still have a while before we need to get ready for school…"

Ichigo was going to retort but held back as he saw how peaceful Rias looked when she was sleeping. Sighing, he relented and slid down onto the bed from his sitting position on the headboard. To make her feel more comfortable, he shifted slightly so Rias' head was resting on his left shoulder, her face snuggling into his neck. Her left hand was on his chest and their legs were intertwined. In turn, Ichigo's left hand was on her lower back and her lightly wrapped his right arm around her waist to secure her in place.

He could feel her breasts pressing against his left side, but he didn't feel as hyped up as before, probably because he was busy focusing on her pretty face resting on his shoulder . Ichigo just smiled wryly as he thought to himself, "Man, this woman is going to be the death of me."

After almost 30 minutes had passed, Rias begain to stir from her comfortable slumber. A soft yawn escaped from the red-haired woman's mouth as she opened her eyes, and found herself stare into Ichigo's brown orbs.

"So you're finally done with your beauty sleep?" Ichigo asked, his tone slightly teasing.

Rias giggled as she nodded and asked, "Is it time for school yet?"

"Almost, we have more than an hour before class starts," replied Ichigo with one of his rare smiles, making Rias' heart flutter, "Feel free to use the shower if you like to. You'll find the towels hanging on the rack to the right.

Rias shook her head. "It's okay, I'll just take one at the club later," Ichigo raised an eyebrow at that, but he refrained himself from asking. The red haired beauty then get up from the bed and walked over to Ichigo's desk where she placed her clothes and started to dress. Ichigo blushed hard when Rias bent over to put on her panties while giving him an explicit view of her womanhood, and he found covering his manhood with his hands to be increasingly difficult as he watched her cup her breasts into her bra.

"Come here..." Rias softly said as she turned her back at Ichigo, "Help me clip my bra."

"Uh, s-sure," Ichigo shook his head of his dirty thoughts, and walked over to her. "That old fart would throw a fit if he sees this..." muttered the young man as he closed Rias' bra, while desperately to suppress his obvious arousal that was threatening to poke her lower back.

"So Rias, Who- no, rather, what are you? You, Akeno, Souna and a few others in the academy felt different from any ordinary human since I first arrived, and after what happened yesterday, there's no way I would keep quiet about it." Ichigo asked as he walked towards his closet and took out his folded uniform.

Rias sighed as she turned around and answered, "Well to answer your question Ichigo, I'm a Devil."

"A Devil?" Ichigo raised an eyebrow, "You mean those creatures with red skin and long horns, that kind of devil?"

"That's an exaggeration," Rias sweatdropped as she continued to explain, "To be honest, we're not that much different from humans. We just have powers humans do not have and we've been raised in a different society than humans." She paused, then added, "And we can live much longer than humans."

"I see, so you're a devil huh?" Ichigo rubbed his chin in thought. He had heard of them from Christian Mythology but never thought they're actually real.

"You don't seem surprised," Rias noted.

"Believe me, when you go through what I've been through it's hard to be surprised to hear stuff like that," he stated, "And I remembered that winged bastard call you an heiress of a clan or something. Are you from some kind of a royal family?"

"In a way," she said, "I am a pure-blood Devil from the Gremory Clan, one of the 34 clans remaining of the 72 pillars. The 72 Pillars are the 72 Devil clans that are what we call pure-blood devils. Devils who were born devils and not reincarnated humans. Right now, there are only 34 remaining clans of the original 72 Pillars. Though some of the clans are still alive, they no longer hold their status because they have human blood mixed with them."

"Reincarnated humans?" Ichigo wondered before a light bulb flashed above his head and asked, "So that was what you did to Hyoudou? You reincarnate him from a human to a devil?"

Rias smiled at his deduction and nodded, "You're pretty sharp."

"Well the pervert didn't felt human yesterday unlike my first day at school when I beat him up, so yeah," Ichigo shrugged it off while Rias just giggled at the insult Ichigo called her newest pawn as another question popped out in his mind, "Why did you reincarnate him though? Did something happened to him the previous day?"

Rias nodded as her face turned serious and said, "Yes, he was attacked by another Fallen Angel the previous night. He summoned me from one of my flyers and when I saw his condition, I decided to reincarnate him into my peerage."

"Flyers? Peerage?" Ichigo said as he rubbed his temples, "The more answers I get, more questions are raised. This is going to be a long day," With that he proceeded to walked towards where his bathroom. Before he entered the bathroom, he looked over towards where Rias was standing, "I'm going to take a shower. We'll talk about this on the way to school."

Rias smiled and nodded as she continued to put on her own clothes.

...

"So Shinigami are dead souls who gained power to purify hollows and help wandering souls here to pass through Soul Society, does that mean you're dead?"

"Nope, I was born with Shinigami powers. Since I'm a human with Shinigami powers, I'm known as a Substitute Shinigami."

"How does a human like you gain Shinigami powers? Did you inherit it from someone?"

"Something like that. My powers weren't awakened until I obtained it from another Shinigami."

"What happened?"

"Long story. In the past two years, I awakened my powers, then I lost them, then regained them, and lost them once again, and regained them after a long time, then lost them once again, and finally regained them."

"Sounds like you've been through alot for a high school teenager."

"You're making me feel old when you put it that way."

"Maybe I was trying to imply it that way."

"Oh shut it."

Rias giggled at Ichigo's response as the both of them were walking side by side towards the direction of their school. Before they set off to school, they took a little detour to a nearby cafe to have breakfast. From there, Rias had explained to him about the Three Factions, how she reincarnated Issei via the Evil Piece System and how the system works in a peerage, with the King piece as the leader and other pieces as servants to the King. Ichigo wasn't impressed with the term 'servant' as it sounded like the King treated the devils in the peerage as slaves, but after Rias explained that it's just a mere term and the most Kings in a peerage usually treated their servants more as friends and comrades, Ichigo cooled down.

She also told him the true purpose of the Occult Research Club, which acts as a cover for her peerage to conduct duties as a devil. From there, Ichigo easily deduced that Akeno was Rias' queen in her peerage, since she was the Vice-President of the club.

After that, it was Ichigo's turn to explain his roots. He explained to her about the Shinigami and their job, which is to help Pluses, a term for estranged human souls pass through to Soul Society and purify Hollows, monstrous-looking human souls who stayed on the human world for too long. He also explained to her about the Soul Society and the Gotei 13. After listening to his explaination, Rias finally remembered where she had heard the term before. She had read about them in some old records kept in the mansion's library when she was younger.

"You said Shinigami can't be seen by any ordinary human because they're in soul form right?" Rias asked, getting a nod of confirmation from Ichigo, "How can you eject your soul form?"

"Oh yeah speaking about that," Ichigo shoved a hand into his left pant pocket and took out a pentagonal badge with an image of a skull in the middle of it and show it to her. "This is my Substitute Shinigami Badge given to me by Ukitake-san, the 13th Division captain. It enables me to eject my soul form from my body and perform my Shinigami duties."

"I see. Care to demonstrate?"

"Sure, but not here of course." Ichigo deadpanned as he shoved his badge back into his pocket. "Wouldn't want to give people nearby a heart attack. From their point of view, it'll look like I dropped dead after I pressed my badge onto my body."

"That would be amusing to watch," Rias chuckled at that, making Ichigo letting out a chuckle of his own as they entered the school gates, which attracted instant attention from the students around them.

'OH MY GOD!" cried a random girl as a crowd gathered in front of the school. "ICHIGO-KUN IS WALKING TOGETHER WITH RIAS-ONEESAMA!"

It was an expected reaction. After all, it was never often you see the increasingly popular badass of the academy walking with one of the academy's Two Great Ladies to school. Plus, the both of them stood out like a sore thumb, with their eccentric red and orange hair colors really caught people's attention.

"They look so cute together!"

"They have been so close ever since he transferred here!"

"Doesn't Rias-senpai look a lot happier than normal, maybe they are in love!"

"Maybe they're a couple!"

The two of them just blocked out the attention around them as usual as they entered the school building and walked up the stairs to the direction where their class at. As they reached to the top end of the stairs, a new voice spoke in front of them.

"You both certainly caught a lot of attention," Ichigo and Rias looked up at the familiar female voice to see Souna Shitori leaning onto one of the pillars with a small smirk, "Good morning, Rias, Ichigo-kun."

"Yo Sona/Good morning, Sona," Ichigo and Rias replied with their respective greetings as they walked towards her.

"Oh and Sona?" Rias spoke up as Sona looked at her with a questioning gaze when Ichigo greeted her with her real name, "He knows."

Souna raised an eyebrow at that as she turned her gaze at Ichigo.

"Yeah what she said," Ichigo said, "I knew the both of you, and some students here included, were different since the first day of school judging by how your reiryoku felt, and though I'll explain later, I knew you felt that I'm not exactly normal too."

Sona just stared at him with an unreadable expression before her lips curved upwards in a small smirk and said, "Fair enough." Then she turned her focus towards her childhood friend. "And by the way, you've got a new one huh, Rias?" Sona switched her gaze towards over the railing as she looked down at the Perverted Trio who just entered the building, specifically the brown-haired boy. "It's not like you to impulsively reincarnate someone into your household."

"Is that so? " Rias has a small smile on her face, Sona looked at her with a curious look. "I guess I've gained a stupid little brother to watch over."

"Is that so…" Sona muttered before looking back at the trio.

"Oh and speaking of which," Rias spoke as she just remembered something important as she looked at Ichigo, who raised an eyebrow in response, while Souna just looked on with a curious look, "Would you mind doing me a favor, Ichigo?"

"What is it?"

"After school today, I need you to grab Issei and bring him to the Occult Research Club room," Rias told him. "I think it's time I introduce him to rest of my peerage and explain his situation to him."

"Why me?" Ichigo asked, a tad puzzled, "I mean, I'm not a part of your club."

"That's because now I'm offering you to be the secretary of the club," Rias' smile widened as she said that, throwing Ichigo off guard, "You see, I have a hunch something big is brewing for the near future. Though you haven't show your strength, I know you're quite powerful, and it would be a pleasure to have you in our club and your help in future battles. I'm not asking you a favor as the club president, but as a friend. Will you accept?"

"And maybe, you will be the one who would save me from the contract."

Ichigo was silent as he considered Rias' offer to be the secretary of the club. After much thinking, he decided what he was going to do. He sighed, "Man, it's going to be troublesome and a pain in the ass," Rias cheery facade faltered slightly and looked down as he said that, thinking he was going to reject her.

"But," Rias instantly looked up to see a smirk on Ichigo's face, "After witnessing everything that had happened in the last few days, there's no way I'll be fine standing in the sidelines. So I might as well take you up on that offer." He then looked down at the brown-haired pervert who was playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with his two best friends, "And as the secretary of the club, my first task is to bring the pervert to the clubroom after school today."

...

Issei groaned as the last day of class ended. Nothing seemed to be going right for the young pervert whose only real desire was to see a pair of real life oppai. Ever since he got stabbed by Yuuma-chan, his life had been confusing and weird for him.

It got even worse the previous night, and he had no clue what was going on. The only thing he remembered was he got stabbed once more by another black-winged weirdo and he was saved by Ichigo-senpai. This morning, he had woken up in his bed, the wound on his chest completely healed as if it had never happened. Did Ichigo-senpai healed him? What's more, he was feeling inexplicably tired for some reason, not to mention confused and worried. Issei couldn't help but feel like he was slowly going insane.

And not even once he thought about perverted stuff or maybe peek into the Female Kendo Club's changing room to satisfy his desires. And that's very worrying. When Issei Hyoudou, an incredibly lustful male teenager who has high infactuation towards oppai, wasn't thinking anything perverted, you know something was wrong.

His thoughts were broken as the girls in his class started to squeal in delight and gathered around the entrance of his class. Curiosity got the better of him as he took a look at the entrance to see what was going on. He was a little surprised to see Ichigo-senpai entering his class and was walking towards him with his usual scowl in place.

"Yo Hyoudou." Ichigo coolly greeted as he halted his step beside Issei's desk.

"Ichigo-senpai?" Issei asked, his voice couldn't hide his surprise, "What are you doing here?"

"Rias wants to speak with you," Ichigo just replied, making Issei's eyes widen, "So pack your stuff and get up. I'm escorting you to the clubroom."

Issei gave his senpai a look before he stood up with a sigh. "Sure…"

"What?!" cried a random girl in the class, "Impossible! Ichigo-kun and Hyoudou the Pervert?!"

Another girl shook her head violently as she cried out in desperation. "Don't hang out with that pervert, Ichigo-kun! He'll corrupt you!"

Issei grunted in annoyance and walked out with Ichigo-senpai in front of him. "They are just spouting nonsense…"

"Not exactly," Ichigo looked over his shoulder at Issei with a smirk as he continued, "You being a pervert is true after all."

"S-Shut up!"

...

"So Ichigo-kun's a Shinigami?" one Himejima Akeno asked rhetorically after Rias told her about Ichigo's powers, "Does he know our true nature?"

Rias sighed as she stood in her shower and let the hot water run down her body. "Yes he does. I told him after what heppened last night. We were careless last night, making Issei wandering alone in the darkness. Last night, he got attacked by another Fallen Angel." That information surprised Akeno slightly as Rias continued, "He survived the first light spear that was pierced into his stomach, but Ichigo made it in time to save him from the second light spear. If he wasn't there, Issei would not have lived. And that's why I'll be forever grateful to him."

Akeno sat down on a chair next to the shower with her legs crossed as she asked, "I see. So what your plan regarding Ichigo-kun, Buchou? Will you reincarnate him into your peerage?"

"Even if I do want him in my peerage, I don't think my remaining pieces are powerful enough to reincarnate him due to his enormous power within him, so I offered him to be the secretary of our club and he accepted," The club president stated from within her shower. "He's powerful Akeno. Remember when I told you his power felt on par with a High-Class Devil when we first met him? However, in his Shinigami form, even though I didn't truly saw him in action, the power I felt from him are off the charts. Even though he may not be a part of our peerage, I'm glad we gained such a powerful ally into our club."

"Interesting…" muttered Akeno as she delicately held her hands to her face, a hint of arousal showing on her face. "I wonder how powerful he is. Maybe I should test him personally, ufufufu."

Her dirty sadistic thoughts were broken as a series of knocking on the door of the clubroom and she stood to greet the people at the door. The door opened and came in Ichigo into the clubroom followed by a confused Issei behind him, both looking around the gothic style room with interest. But while Ichigo was thinking how weird and creepy the decor was, Issei was staring at the cute white haired girl sitting the couch, and the gently beauty standing in front of them.

"Oh Ichigo-senpai, you're here as well?" Ichigo turned to the direction to where he was called out and saw a smiling Kiba Yuuto get up from the couch he sat across Koneko and walked towards him, "Rias-buchou told us we would be expecting two newcomers in our club. I expected one to be Issei-san, but I wasn't expecting you to be the other."

"Well surprise surprise, Kiba," Ichigo just replied with a smirk, which then changed into a look of curiosity as he asked, "Speaking of which, where's Rias?" He then looked around the clubroom and noticed there were white curtains covering one of the rooms. Hearing the sounds of the showers running, he instantly realized with a blush that room was the shower. He could saw a buxom female silhouette clearly through the curtains, and his blush intensified when he recalled their conversation in his apartment. The person that was showering in the shower was-

"RIAS-SENPAI?! I KNEW IT!" Issei shouted with delight as he watched the silhouette showering with a disgustingly perverted expression on his face, "That beautiful silhouette! This is true art! Those beautiful lines are a work or art in and of themselves! What a fanta-GAH!"

Which was stopped when he received a hard punch on the head, courtesy of Ichigo.

"Keep those perverted thoughts to yourself, you lecher!" Ichigo roared.

"Hai! I'm sorry!" Issei cried in fear as he held his throbbing head.

"Ara ara Ichigo-kun, I think you just broke his head," Akeno amusedly stated as she walked towards them and bowed with her usual smile, "Since the both of you are new members of the club, let me introduce myself. My name is Himejima Akeno, the vice-president of the club." And then she gestured to the white-haired girl on the couch, "This is Toujou Koneko, a first year student."

Issei had blush on his face as he rubbed the back of his head and bowed to the girls. "I-I'm Hyoudou Issei. Nice to meet you all!"

Ichigo had never been one for etiquette, so he just nodded with his usual scowl. "Kurosaki Ichigo, the new secretary of the club. Please take care of me."

Koneko, as her response towards the two, just nodded silently.

"Eh?" Kiba said with surprise seeping in his voice, "Ichigo-senpai is our new secretary?"

"I will explain later," A melodic voice spoke from the shower as the shower curtain was pulled to the side and revealed a fresh Rias Gremory in her school uniform. The beauty's hair was still wet, so she held a towel in her hand and gently ran it through her crimson strands.

After everyone took their seats, save for Rias who was leaning on her desk table and Ichigo who was leaning on the couch's arm rest at Issei's side, Rias spoke with a bright smile on her face, "Now that everyone is here, I would like to officially welcome you both to the Occult Research Club! But the Occult Research Club is just a mere facade. Nothing more than a hobby…"

Issei looked up blankly. "What do you mean?"

Rias smirked as she looked at Issei. "I'll be frank here. Other than Ichigo, we're all devils."

...And the silence commence.

Issei could only sit there, staring at her blankly after what he had just been told. "Th-That was indeed very frank. And What do you mean by 'other than Ichigo'? What is he then?"

All the stares went directly at Ichigo as he sighed and said, "I'm not a devil, but rest assured I am not exactly normal either. I'll explain later. Listen to what Rias wants to say first, Hyoudou."

Issei just dumbly nodded as he switched his focus towards Rias, which was hard to do because he was distracted by her large breasts, "Do you remember the black-winged man from last night? He was a Fallen Angel." Issei's eyes widened in response as Rias continued, "Once Angels serving God, they have been cast down to the underworld because of their wicked nature. These Fallen Angels try to manipulate humans and kill us devils. This is a conflict that has been brewing since ancient times, a war to decide who will rule the underworld, or Hell as humans called it. We also have real Angels sent by God himself to destroy us. In other words, we have a three-way-standoff."

No one notice Ichigo flinched as he heard the word 'Hell'.

Issei meanwhile just listened with his mind completely blank, not understanding a single thing.

"Do you follow me so far?" Rias asked.

"Uh… All this stuff about Devils and Angel, to a stupid high school teenager like me, it's a little too complicated for me…" Issei started to get a little nervous at this point as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Amano Yuuma." That caught Issei's attention in less than a second, letting out a small gasp as he looked at Rias in shock. "It's good you still remember her clearly, after all you did date her."

"I-I've no idea where you've heard of that name." Issei said with gritted teeth, still thinking about the date he had gone with the girl. "But don't treat is as a occult phenomenon. To be frank, I find it unpleasant. I'm sorry, but…" The brunette tried to stood up from his seat but a firm hand on his shoulder stopped him from doing so. He looked up to stare straight into Ichigo's brown eyes, who was giving him a stern look.

"I did say that you have to listen to what Rias wants to tell you, Hyoudou," Ichigo said to him, "You may want to run away from your trauma, but nothing will come good from it, nothing will be solved. 'Abandon your fear. Look forward. Move forward and never stand still. You'll age if you pull back. You'll die if you hesitate.'" Issei went wide eyed while others just looked on with interest as he said that. Who knew Ichigo can be so deep? "So stay and listen to what she wants to say. It may help you in the future."

Issei just looked at him with surprise. He always thought Ichigo-senpai was scary as fuck, but he never thought he would see this compassionate side of his. Begrudgingly and reluctantly, Issei sat back on the couch.

Rias smiled at the scene and was impressed with Ichigo's words of wisdom as she pulled out a picture from the desk behind her before tossing it onto the table between the couches.

"Your Yuuma-chan… is this girl right?" Rias asked, to Issei's shock.

"Y-Yes it's her! But where did you get this photo?!" Issei asked, a look of disbelief on his face as he stared at the photo.

"This girl...no, this fallen angel. She came from the same faction that assaulted you last night." Rias stated.

"B-But Matsuda and Motohama didn't remember anything about her!" Issei retorted as he stood up from his seat, "I clearly remembered I introduced her to them last week!"

"After a Fallen Angel completes her mission, she used her powers to erase everyone else's memory and all records regarding her," the president explained. "That was what your Yuuma-chan did."

"Mission? What mission?"

"Killing you." Rias simply stated, "She came to check whether you have a certain dangerous object in your body. Once that was confirmed, she killed you instantly. Impaled by a light spear to be precise."

"Now I remember," Issei said with seriousness as he recall what happened that night at the fountain, "I remembered Yuuma-chan talked about Sa-something or whatever it is."

"What she said is Sacred Gear," Rias told him calmly.

"Sacred Gears are basically artifacts given to humans by the original God from the bible to enact miracles on earth. Only humans or human hybrids are born with Sacred Gears, though they can show up within the ranks of devils and angels if the human possessing the Sacred Gear is turned." Akeno explained.

"Issei, you have a Sacred Gear within your body," Rias told him bluntly as she pointed at him, "A very powerful one if I'm not mistaken, which is the reason that Fallen Angel tried to kill you. Most likely, she was ordered to by the hire ups who feared whatever Sacred Gear you possess. We won't know what is your Sacred Gear without seeing it, so Issei?"

"Hai?"

"Please raise your left hand."

Issei just did what she instructed, "L-Like this?"

Rias proceeded to sat up on her desk table, which gave Issei a flash of her panties, and gave him her advice as she said, "Now close your eyes and imagine the strongest being that comes to mind."

Issei was too distracted as he was enjoying the beautiful scenery and absentmindedly answered, "T-This is all too sudden..."

"Focus, Issei."

"H-Hai!" and with that, Issei closed his eyes and tried to focus.

Keyword 'tried'.

That was because he couldn't resist opening his eyes and get an eyeful of Rias' panties.

"Yes, Issei, focus," Rias was oblivious to what was happening as she continued to push him on as he tried to focus.

Shaking his head to remove the perverted thoughts out of his head, Issei closed his eyes once again and tried to focus, "Focus...focus..." and of course, as expected, Issei opened his eyes once again and take another peek at Rias' panties. Currently, rather than focusing to activate his Sacred Gear, he was focusing to look more deeper into the crimson-haired beauty's panties.

And that was why he gave up on activating his Sacred Gear.

"Argh! I can't do it!" Issei dejectedly said as he sunk onto his knees.

"It's all right, Issei," Rias tried to cheer him up, "We'll take it slow."

"Idiot, that's not how you do it," Everyone turned their attention towards the orange-haired secretary as he started to speak, "Your focus was all over the place and you were easily distracted. Do you think I didn't caught what you were actually doing, you pervert."

"S-Shut up!" Issei stood up immediately and pointed at Ichigo as he continued, "How could I focus properly when her panties' were right in front of me begging to be admired?!"

Ichigo just ran a hand over his spiky orange locks and sighed as he stood up and said, "Well anyway, let's do this my way. Hyoudou, close your eyes and do not open them."

Issei did what he instructed and resisted the urge to open his eyes. He then heard Ichigo speak again, "That's good, now take a few deep breaths, inhale and exhale uniformly." The brown-haired pervert followed his instructions and to his amazement, he felt more relaxed and more calmer as he continued to breath deeply. "Now relax and focus on each of your body parts one by one. Now start with your stomach."

Issei relaxed into his breathing and focused on his stomach as he tried to feel something there, but he didn't. Ichigo crossed his arms as he continued to guide the pervert, "There would be a tugging sensation when you finally felt it. If you did, mentally call forth upon your power and pull it out. If you didn't felt it after a while, focus on your next body part."

After feeling nothing on his stomach, he gave up and place his full focus on his left arm. After much focus, like what Ichigo-senpai just said, he felt a tugging sensation on his left arm. Scrunching his eyes, he mentally call forth upon his power and and tried to pull it out with all his mental might.

And he succeeded.

In an instant, a bright light shone around the clubroom, originating from Issei's left arm. As the light died down, Ichigo looked at Issei's left arm, and raised a curious eyebrow when he saw the thing that had appeared on his arm. It looked like a red, fingerless gauntlet with yellow accents and a green jewel on top of the back of Issei's hand.

Rias was impressed at how Ichigo taught Issei on how to draw out his power, as if he had experience teaching others, or maybe had gone through the same experience. Either way, she was getting more and more attracted to the orange-haired Shinigami, "Thank you for your help, Ichigo." she said with a bright smile, which was replied with a small smirk and a nod from Ichigo. She then switched her focus on her newest pawn, "And by the way, Issei, that's your Sacred Gear."

"Amazing!" Issei marveled at his gauntlet-covered hand. "This looks awesome!"

"It's a fact the Fallen Angel fear your power. That's why they wanted you dead."

"Eh? But wait," Issei looked over at Rias. "If it's a fact, then how am I actually alive?"

"Just as you were about to take your last breath, you summoned me through this flyer," Rias answered before he could finish his question and showed him a flyer with a pentagram at the centre. Issei gasped at the sight. He remembered that time when he was dying, he saw a glimpse of Rias-senpai's red hair. "And when I saw your condition, including the fact that you have a Sacred Gear, I reincarnate you into my peerage."

"W-What do you mean by that?" Issei asked.

"Issei, you've been reborn into the family of Rias Gremory," the president proudly stated as wings sprouted from her back, "Daughter of Duke Gremory, a High-Class Devil, as my servant devil."

"Indeed," this time, it was Akeno who spoke as everyone stood up, "We're the same as you." And with that, wings sprouted from her, Kiba's and Koneko's back, to the shock of Issei and Ichigo, whose eyes were wide as he watched Issei's wings sprouted from his back as well.

"Welcome to the family, Issei," Rias welcomed Issei with a small smile.

Issei looked so troubled by the fact that he wasn't human anymore. He thought stuffs like devils and servant were just an analogy. He never thought they would meant it literally. He looked back and forth between his wings and the others. 'So I'm a Devil now? I'm no longer human?!'

"Seeing you guys having wings while I've none made me feel a little left out y'know." Ichigo said in an amused tone as he looked back and forth at all the members.

"Well since we've already revealed ourselves as Devils, it would be unfair if you don't reveal yourself, Ichigo." Rias gave him a coy look as she replied him.

Ichigo just stared at her with an unreadable expression before he just sighed and gave her a small smile, "Guess it can't be helped huh?" He then proceeded to shoved his hand into his left pant pocket and took out a pentagonal badge, which made everyone save for Rias became curious and slightly alert at what he was going to do.

"You see, unlike you guys, I'm human, but like you, I'm not exactly normal like you. Let me show you guys why," He then pressed the badge onto his chest and he was ejected from his body. While the body of Ichigo lay motionless on the ground, the soul form of Ichigo was standing and looked totally different. He now wore a black kimono and hakama pants with a white obi tied around his waist and a red strap across his right shoulder. There were also X-like black markings on his chest and forearms, and tattoo-like bands with white ends lie around his neck as collar. What attracted the most attention from the club members was the huge cleaver hanging behind his back.

There were five reactions to his soul form.

Rias simply smiled at him.

Akeno was in a state of bliss.

Kiba was looking at the sword with interest.

Koneko was stoic as usual.

Issei was in a state of shock.

And they realized the air around them in the clubroom was heavier than before.

"Let me introduce myself once again. I'm Kurosaki Ichigo, Shinigami Substitute."

And done! That's the 3rd chapter, typed right after my finals ended.

Speaking of which, woohoo! Finals are finally done and dusted! Ahh the smell of freedom...

And regarding the story, I don't want to reveal too much as I could spoil the story, but one thing's clear that there would be no Vandenreich bullshit in this story.

Regarding Ichigo's harem, it depends on how the story progresses. Hence the word 'possible'. Rias and Akeno are definitely in it though.

Of course, Ichigo will become more stronger as the story progresses. How? I won't say anything, as like I said before, I don't want to reveal any spoilers, but the idea in my mind I guarantee NO ONE has tried before in any Bleach x DxD crossovers.

Please R&R. Constructive criticism is accepted.

The Athletic Author out.