Here we are! Where? Here. Where is here? None of our business!
Darth56: thank you! And yeah, I know that very well. OCs usually are too unchanging and boring, but my friend Yuudai actually has a past bringing in some plot for a rolling story. I hope you continue to like this!
So how are we today? Good I hope. If not then sorry, but I can't help without the help of this story! So read!
Chapter 8: Training Devils
Yuudai looks down the hill at the group of devils while leaning against his things he brought. He sighs looking behind himself. Right there is the Gremory's little vacation house (Bull. It's a mini mansion.) which he will be staying at for the next nine days isolated with only the devils to keep company. Not his exact idea of a vacation, but it is better than nothing.
"Get over here and help us!" Yuudai looks to Issei who just shouted at him.
"What's my motivation?" The black haired teen asks.
"I'll do your chores for the next nine days!" Issei offers. Faster than he could think, Issei is standing next to Yuudai with his bag on the ground.
"I'll let you know when you're needed my young butler." Yuudai tells him grinning.
"I so should have sucked it up." Issei mutters.
Rias sighs. "He was supposed to do it himself as a form of training." Rias says unfortunately not being heard by the two males already at the top of the hill.
Asia walks up without a bag seeing as she had Issei do it. She stands beside the two boys waiting for Kiba, Koneko, Akeno and Rias. Yuudai picks up his belongings and starts walking the mansion.
"I'm heading in to find a room. I'll see you all in a bit." Yuudai says. "Issei, come and get me when you all decide to start training." He proceeds to walk into the building finding a room fairly quick.
He sets his stuff down beside his bed. Yuudai then takes stuff out putting them away in their temporary resting place. The feeling of being watched falls over him causing him to subtly look around. The feeling doesn't leave at all, so he looks out a window to see a feline figure in the woods. The teen laughs to himself.
"I had that feeling over a cat? I really need to stop being so paranoid." Yuudai states out loud. However, he knows that whatever watching him is still around, so he is trying to make it seem he's off guard.
Some knocks sound at his door a few minutes later. The door opens to Issei looking fairly frightful. "We are ready. But Rias and Akeno are going to be helping Asia grow her magical power while you help Kiba, Koneko and I." He informs.
"That's fine." Yuudai says walking with Issei outside to a wide open field. He looks over the devils slowly calculating them based on their stature and body language. "So you all are going to be bruised up by the end of this. Got it?"
The three deadpan at his blunt out of nowhere statement. "Why do you say that?" Kiba asks.
"Because the best way to learn is through experience." Yuudai answers. "But I want you each to throw a punch at me first. As hard as you can. If I think you are holding back I'll punch you back until you give it your best punch." Yuudai instructs.
Koneko steps up first cracking her knuckles. "My pleasure." She says in a stoic voice.
She pulls back her fist then lets it fly at Yuudai. He holds his hand out catching her fist creating a wave of dust from the wave of power emitted. Yuudai frowns and punches her in the gut emitting a sound of pain from her. He sighs.
"I thought you'd be the first to come at me with everything you've got." Yuudai states. "Now are you going to give it your all or give up the very first moment of training?"
Koneko glares at him. "Up yours." She insults sending an even stronger punch for his own gut. He still catches the fist, but his face lightens up.
"Nowhere near your best, but I think the only way you'll get through to using it is breaking through your emotional wall." Yuudai evaluates. He punches her in the forehead knocking her to the ground with a headache. "Sadly, I won't be the one able to help you do it." He points to Kiba. "Now you."
Kiba uses his speed to run at him to use the force of his speed to add more strength to hit Yuudai, but the teen blocks the attack with his forearm. He definitely felt that, but it is easy to notice that Kiba used his speed to his advantage. Yuudai nods.
"Is this your best?" Yuudai questions.
Kiba scratches behind his head. "Well I typically use swords as my offensive and defensive, so I think it is."
Yuudai accepts that answer. "Now for you Issei. Put your power into this punch."
Issei smirks summoning a red gauntlet with an emerald in the middle. "Whatever you say." He says throwing his own sucker punch at Yuudai. It connects, but only with Yuudai's own fist. The fist stops Issei's own in its tracks. "W-what the?"
The teen instructor nods. "Looks like you all need training in different areas."
"What do you suggest?" Kiba asks.
"Well first thing is to have two of you partner up and the last one partners up with me." He instructs. Not even a second later Issei is next to Kiba.
"Well Kiba and I are partnered up." Issei states.
"Good. Because you two are going to help each other. Kiba will be the instructor for you in whatever he believes you need work in and while you do whatever he says he will be doing some durability training." Yuudai tells the two.
"You got it." Kiba says. "Let's go Issei." Kiba says walking to their own little area.
Yuudai looks to Koneko with a small grin. "Ready to start your speed training?" He asks rhetorically.
She stands up sighing. "Sure." She answers.
"Then start with trying to hit me. Don't stop until you can land a hit!" Yuudai tells her.
"What if I stop my attack for a moment." She asks.
"Good question." He says. "For each moment I believe you to be leaving an opening, not focusing or stop for more than a second I will go on the offensive until you can continue to try to hit me."
Her eyes darken. "I'm going to beat Issei senseless." She states.
"Start!"
Later
"Thanks for dinner." Yuudai thanks the girls, minus Koneko. Speaking of her, she is bruised and bleeding a bit.
"It's no trouble." Asia says.
Rias nods in agreement. "So how did all your training go?" She asks Koneko, Kiba and Issei.
Kiba and Issei are sweating and Issei is bruised in some areas. "Fairly well." Kiba replies.
"Kiba needs to learn the word restraint!" Issei exclaims. "His training was so tiring!"
Koneko sends a death glare at Issei. "Shut up." She tells him. He puts his hands up with a nervous laugh.
"What did you and Yuudai do Koneko?" Akeno asks. "It looks like it was pretty intense."
"It was hell." Koneko states.
"She said it was hell, but I guarantee she won't keep her eyes off the enemy anymore." Yuudai says. "Will you?" She only shakes her head. "Good."
"Hey Yuudai." Issei gets Yuudai's attention. "I need to talk to you later."
Yuudai shrugs. "Alright then. Just find me out at the field later."
"Thanks." Issei then turns to Asia. "So how was your magic training?"
Her face starts to sparkle in excitement. "It was so cool! I am actually able to use some minor based magic spells!"
"That's great Asia!" Issei complements.
"Thanks Issei!" Asia then looks to Yuudai to see if he will complement her too, but he isn't looking at her. Or anyone at the table. His gaze is out the window as if watching something.
"Sorry everyone, I'll be right back." Yuudai says getting up. He then walks out hurting Asia a little bit.
"I guess he just won't ever like me." Rias states with a sigh thinking he left because of her very presence.
Once outside in the dark shade in the outer lining woods, he stops. "Who are you?" He asks.
The feline figure from earlier approaches him with the shape of human features now apparent. Yuudai tenses himself up. He has seen many things, but cat people are a first. The person reveals themself showing that it is a very beautiful girl. Once again, not too much clothing. She has a similar appearance to Koneko if the girl was shorter and more conservative. Another noticeable trait is that she has the feel of deceit all around her.
"Nyea" She says in the way a cat would.
Yuudai sighs. "Nearest cosplay convention is...actually I have no idea. I really need to keep up with that." Yuudai tells himself. "Either way, I'm sure it is some ways away."
The girl laughs short and sweetly. "You already know I'm real, nyea." She says knowingly. "What I don't know is how you knew I was here."
He waits a moment. "Skill." He answers hoping he nailed that comedic timing.
The girl sweat drops. "Uh, right." She straightens her features to a seductive face.
Yuudai doesn't let the tension go anywhere, only in his stance. "Tell me why you are here before I give you a first hand experience of what kind of training your sister went through." He threatens.
Her face first takes a look of shock. "N-nyea? How did you know that?"
Yuudai shows off a self satisfied smirk. "I didn't. I had a very convincing thought that is was possible and it seems I was right again."
Her face turns into her own smirk. "Well I also happen to know that you came from another dimension against your will." She states.
"Who doesn't?" Yuudai asks.
"What if I could help you get revenge on the person responsible or return you to that dimension, nyea?" She questions.
Yuudai grits his teeth in anger. "Don't you dare toy with me like that."
'Perfect! Falling right on in my trap.' She thinks. "Oh, but I'm not toying with you, nyea."
"What will it take then?" Yuudai demands. His mind then stops. "Nevermind."
Her face turns into confusion. "What did you just say?"
"I said nevermind. Even if I went back I'd only be finding everyone dead at this point." He admits finally after so long of knowing this. "I refuse to bring anyone into my own fight, so take your offers elsewhere."
She frowns. "Unknowns have no right to say no." She states teleporting behind him with her power. His senses kick in and he blocks with his arm only to have it cut deeply from her claws her nails grew into.
He sucks in some air spreading his senses to predict her moves. She teleports again from his side to attack, but he dodges while throwing a sucker punch towards her face, but she once again teleports to his other side. As another slash is sent his way he fluently moves to kick her while barely avoiding her claws. She once again teleports away appearing a few yards away.
"How disappointing, nyea." She says sighing. "I guess everyone just over exaggerated your strength."
He activates his ring turing his hair into the familiar blue streaks he has come to know. She raises an eyebrow only to blink in pain as she finds herself on the ground with a bloody nose. She looks around to find Yuudai standing where she was. She tries to be angry, but it honestly excites her. She gets back up grinning.
"Are you trying to get me excited?" She asks. "Cause it's working." She whispers seductively.
Yuudai just deadpans. "You so took the satisfaction of knocking you off your feet from me." He states. "Now stay away from here lady. And tell anyone else that knows my backstory to stop stalking me. It's getting annoying."
He turns around to walk away. "Of course, my strong man." She replies. He whirls around to scold her, but she is already gone.
"Damn. Now I got a crazy stalker lady." Yuudai mutters. He turns off his power and walks back to the mini mansion.
As he walks in he finds nobody even in the dining room now. His plate is the only one there still though. The teen shrugs sitting down. Yuudai then starts eating alone. His vision shows him eating around a fire when he was traveling with Guiche, Kirche and Tabitha. All laughing and joking.
"You are all alone here and you still zone out." Issei states. "Glad it wasn't because of any of us."
Yuudai shakes his head getting rid of the image. "Yeah, sorry about that. So what did you need to ask me?"
Issei takes a deep breath and looks him in the eyes. "How did you become so strong and become so cold?"
"Do you honestly want to know?" Yuudai asks. Issei nods without hesitation. He sighs motioning for Issei to sit down. "Well if I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you a story of my upbringing. Now keep this a secret between us."
End
FINISHED! How'd you like it? Great! I'm thinking this was productive.
What could happen now? Two members of the Khaos Brigade have already shown themselves to him and one already is crushing on him. Too bad Yuudai doesn't play around with that kind of trickery. I think next chapter will fly by and have the Riser fight. You know what that means. If it is, then it'll be a long chapter! But should I show Rias' fight too? Or only Yuudai's?
Without much else to say, thanks for reading, following, favoriting, reviewing and having a great day/night/morning!
