History's Strongest Devil Disciple Kenichi

I do not own HSDK or High School DXD

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A/N: Hello again to everyone reading my story, and thank you to the people that have left me reviews.

Sorry for the long wait – Finals and stuff held me up.

Next chapter will have a little more meat to it.

*Action*

"Dialogue"

'Inner thoughts'

{Phone/Communication Dialogue}

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Chapter Ten

Shigure's Story

*Snap*

That was the sound of a perfectly good #2 pencil that was being gripped tightly break in half.

Kenichi, whom is sweating nervously, is sitting in a chair in the student council room.

'I am so glad that Sona is on the other side of the desk, but somehow I don't think that that will stop me from dying.'

He started off the conversation by telling her what happened with the kendo club. Then, he decided to tell her about Yomi/Yami.

Her facial expression was almost unreadable if it wasn't for the fact that her eyebrows were furrowed and that he has gotten a terrible feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Odd silence follows the loud snap that has seemed to have outrageously echoed throughout the entire room.

Her expression does not waver and neither does her movement. If it wasn't for the fact that he knew better, he would think that she was a statue.

She couldn't figure out what to say to him. She was happy that things went well with the kendo club, but his presence could be bringing danger to a school that she is in protection of. Her normally stable mind has been thrown into a whirlwind of chaos and mixed emotions.

The pit that was developing in his stomach grows deeper and he lets out a depressed sigh. He slowly gets up from his seat and gives her a polite bow. Then, he leaves the room without another utterance from either of them.

'It's pretty evident to me that she is pretty pissed. I don't think that is would be right for me to stay with her anymore. I am going to have to tell this to Serafall as well. Oh, man. I am certainly going to get killed again over this. I can't imagine that she is going to be very happy with me for putting her sister in danger.'

After leaving the student council room, he decides to head home early. This does not get unnoticed by some of the other council members.

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After getting back to the mansion before everyone else, he starts packing up his stuff.

'Here I am, packing up my stuff yet again. This sucks. Just as I am starting to settle in, this happens. I have no idea where I am going to go though. Maybe I could ask Kisara if I could stay at her place a few nights while I figure things out.'

He gets through packing one of his bags and is currently packing up a box with his books when he comes to his chess book.

He gives it a small smirk. This new life was starting to become interesting, even if it has been a little rough to get used to.

Just as he is about to put the book into the box, his bedroom door flies open. His eyes go wide with slight panic and looks to see who is at the door.

Sona is standing there and she looks even angrier than she did before, but she still looks very stoic at the same time.

"What do you think you are doing?"

He looks at his stuff, and then he looks back over to her.

"Um. Packing." He replies.

"Why?"

For a brief moment, he is at a loss for words.

'She was at the student council office for the conversation we had, right?'

He decides not to voice that comment to her.

"I am packing my stuff."

"Why?"

"Because, I am leaving."

"Why?" She asks again.

"I could tell that you were quite pissed when I told you about Yomi. So, I am leaving."

She crosses her arms.

"You didn't even give me chance to process what you told me and respond properly."

"I felt a pretty violent aura in the room coming from you. I didn't think that it was wise for me to stay."

"So, you are just going to run away?"

"No."

"What do you mean, no? Aren't you packing your stuff?"

"Yes."

"Then you are running away."

"No."

"I fail to see your logic." She says in a slightly confused state.

"I have vowed not to run away anymore. That is the main reasoning why I got into martial arts in the first place. I don't want to run away any more. I don't want to be known as week knees. I want to protect the people that need protecting."

"So how is packing up and leaving not running away?"

"This is your school along with Rias. I am just a foreign element and people might be following me here that probably won't care who gets hurt trying to get to me. I will face them on my own, but I don't want to endanger anyone in this school, especially you and your peerage. Your sister put me here to protect you, but danger is coming because of me. I can't stay."

Hearing those words come out of his mouth brings some comfort to the King before him. Knowing that he wants to keep her and the rest of the school safe from whatever danger is possibly coming his way gives her a higher perception of the man before her.

"Did you even talk this over with my sister yet? Where are you going to go? Did you think about the consequences of going off on your own? Do you want to take the chance of becoming a rogue devil?"

He shakes his head.

"No. I haven't talked this over with you sister yet, but I am sure that she will understand. There aren't very many other choices for me right now. I will just have to figure something out."

Serafall pokes her head through the doorway.

'Oh shit. I am going to die.' He thinks to himself.

"No, your not. At least not yet." Serafall says to him.

He gulps.

He fights every instinct within him to figure out a way of fleeing, not that there really was much of a way for him to flee these two women before him.

"So, you talked to her?"

Sona shifts her glasses slightly.

"Of course I did. I called her shortly after you left and talked things over with her."

'Begrudgingly.' Sona thinks.

"Sit down, Keni-chan."

"But . . " He tries to retort.

"Sit." Demands Sona.

He abruptly sits down on his bed.

Sona grabs his desk chair and sits across from him. Tsubaki stands just outside of the doorway and listens in.

"You need to stay. We aren't kicking you out and we don't want you to leave." Serafall says to him.

"What about the people that will be coming after me?" He retorts.

Sona and Serafall shake their heads.

"You are a part of my sister's peerage and a part of the student council. You are one of us. Everyone has a past and we aren't just going to abandon you because you have people coming after you." Says Sona.

"Even if they might endanger the school?"

Sona takes a long and hard deep breath at his remark.

"Yes. Besides, if you become a rogue devil, then we might still end up having to deal with you."

'I've got a feeling that he wouldn't be easily dealt with if that did happen. I would probably have to take him out myself.' Serafall quietly thinks.

"This does not mean that there won't be consequences for whatever happens here at the school, but we will deal with things as they come up."

He nods to her stern and somewhat ominous comment.

Serafall floats up into the air.

"If they dare mess with a member of my peerage, then I will bring the hammer of justice down upon them."

"That sounds a little extreme." He says to Serafall.

Sona gives her sister a stern look.

"You might blow up the whole continent if you do something like that."

Kenichi raises his hand after scratching head as though he was still in school.

"What is it, Kenichi?" Asks Sona.

"What if they try coming to this mansion?"

"That would be a foolish mistake on their part." Sona says seriously.

Then she lightens her mood.

"Unpack your stuff and get ready for dinner."

As Sona walks out of the room, Serafall latches onto his arm and playfully looks up at him. He looks down at her with a somewhat pleasant smile.

Then, he feels a strong aura come from her, but she still has a playful smile on her face.

"Don't let anything bad happen to my dear sister. Okay?"

Despite the cheerful sound in her voice, he understood the seriousness in her comment.

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The next day, Evening.

Kenichi ventured to Akisame's Bone clinic.

He gives a knock on the door to the clinic and walks inside.

"Hello there. It is a surprise to see you, Kenichi."

'How does he do that?'

There was no one else in the clinic except the two of them. Akisame had his back turned and was cleaning one of his tables.

"There doesn't seem to be anyone else with you. Are you here for a checkup for yourself."

Kenichi scratches his head.

"That almost doesn't sound like a bad idea, but no."

"Well, this is interesting. What can I do for you then?" The master says as he turns to Kenichi.

"I saw Shigure the other night before leaving on a journey. She said that she wouldn't be back for a few days. She wouldn't personally tell me why, but she said for me to ask you and that I should tell you that it's okay."

Akisame's eyes go slightly wide from the fact that he mentioned Shigure.

"That is very interesting. She never says anything like that. You have been seeing her outside of the dojo?"

'I wonder how much I should tell him.'

"It's okay if you don't want to talk about it, it was just a friendly question."

'Damn. He did that trick again.'

Kenichi waves his hands.

"It's okay, it's just been awkward since I left Ryozanpaku. Her and I have met up a couple of times. She didn't like how things ended at the dojo."

"I could tell that she didn't, she also hasn't been around as much since you left either."

"She hasn't?"

Akisame shakes his head back and forth.

"How about you let me do a check-up while we talk."

Kenichi just shrugs.

"I don't have much to offer, but I can make some tea."

"That sounds good."

The master flips his sign to closed and sets up a warming pot for tea. Kenichi takes off his shirt and it reveals the chain shirt that Shigure had given to him.

"So, Shigure gave you the chain shirt."

"Yeah, she did. She also told me about Yami."

"I see. That sounds like another conversation we should have, but you wanted to hear about Shigure right now, am I correct?"

After a brief moment of contemplation, he nods.

The jujitsu master begins checking him out as he tells his story.

"I will tell you a story of my own to explain her past."

'Of his own?'

"She was brought to Ryozanpaku. I was the one that brought her. I was also the one who killed her father."

"What?" Kenichi asks in shock.

"I was a different person back then. I knew a man named Hachirobe of the Kousaka clan. He showed me a sword that I had never seen before, and I became curious. It was extremely sharp and made exquisitely. I couldn't believe the craftsmanship. It had also been used recently to kill. I wondered why such a sword was still around and used for killing."

He was feeling Kenichi's shoulders and could tell how muscular they had become.

"So, I followed the directions where to find the man that created such a sword. I went into the mountains and came across a small child. She was cunning and skilled. She kept her distance from me and ran away whenever I got close to her."

Akisame broke away from Kenichi and made up a cup of tea for both him and Kenichi.

"I eventually made it to a small house where the man I was looking for resided. When I knocked and walked inside, I instantly got attacked. I stopped the shuriken from hitting me in the face. Instantly, The man asked me to kill him."

Kenichi listens intently as he sips the tea that Akisame had given to him.

"I thought that the request was absurd and couldn't understand why he had made such a request. I sat there and chatted with the man. He was quite the interesting person. He had created that sword that I saw, but he wasn't exactly proud of it. Yami had convinced him to make it."

'Yami?'

"He said that he had finished his last creation that evening. It turned out that the girl I had met in the mountains, was living with him. She had no name and she had learned everything that she knew from him. I told him that he shouldn't throw his life away. He could change his lifestyle and just be a father to the girl. He said that he couldn't be the father that the girl needs him to be."

Akisame stops and goes for the teapot and pours another glass.

"Really, Akisame?"

"The tea must be a certain temperature."

Kenichi sighs and eagerly waits for him to pour the tea so that he could start his story again.

"It turned out that wasn't the only reason why he asked me to kill him."

"Then what was it?" Kenichi asks.

"I found out after a chunk of a cliff almost came down and crushed the girl. He moved so swiftly and sliced it in half before falling on her. I also assisted in helping to save her. After it occurred, he coughed up some blood and said he was dying. He wanted to die as a warrior."

"I see."

"But, that still wasn't all."

"It wasn't?"

"He wanted to show the girl what happens to people that take the path that he had chosen. That was still hard for me to grasp and I refused to kill him. But, he forced my hand. After giving her his last creation, he attacked me. He attacked me so fiercely that he gave me no choice but to fight back with everything that I had, and I killed him during that attack."

He gives Kenichi a moment to take in everything that he just said, and then he continues on.

"After that, members of Yami came to take her fathers last sword, but we stopped them."

He remembers how he knotted all of the men together with their own body weight as a countermeasure.

'I can't believe Yami has even affected Shigure's life. I am starting to hear a lot about these people.'

Since then, I named her and raised her.

"So those swords she collects are all of her father's swords?"

Akisame nods.

"Perhaps she collects them because she doesn't want her father's swords being used for killing like that. But, you should ask her about that yourself."

"Thank you for telling me all of this, master Koetsugi."

"You don't need to thank me. Shigure is the one that gave the permission."

Kenichi sets down the empty cup and begins to get ready to leave. Akisame stops him after he put on his chain shirt and before he put on his regular shirt.

"What is it?" Kenichi asks.

Akisame pulls out the top part of the gi uniform.

"What is this for?"

"We were going to give it to you along with the rest of the gi we came up with. This top represents the Jujitsu and Karate martial arts you were learning. Since Shigure gave you the chain shirt, then I don't mind giving you this part."

"I don't know what else to say. Thank you, Akisame."

"You're welcome, Kenichi. You take care of yourself. I have a little bit more cleaning up to do, would you mind letting yourself out."

"Sure thing."

"I will let Shigure know that you came by."

"Thanks. I hope she finds what she is looking for and that she comes back alright. She is always coming back sore and hungry."

Akisame gets a smile across his face over the concern that Kenichi has for Shigure.

After exiting the building and shutting the door, Kenichi turns around and lets out a scream.

He turns around to find a giant muscular man standing in front of him holding a grocery bag over his shoulder.

"Hey, kid. Is that any way to greet your master?" Sakaki says to him.

'Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. . . .Wait. Did he just say master?'

Kenichi gives him a puzzled look.

"Did you just say master?"

"Of course I did. Do you need to clean your ears."

"But I got kicked out."

"I don't care about that. I didn't like how that happened. You're still my disciple."

Then he pauses.

"Unless you're ditching me." He says with an almost pout.

Kenichi scratches the back of his head.

"I would love to still have you as my master."

"That's great kid." Sakaki says while he wraps his arm around Kenichi's neck.

He gives his disciple a glare.

"So, it looks like Akisame's been holding out on me. You've been seeing him and not me. I thought that I was your favorite master."

'I don't know if I would exactly say that. Shigure has actually really been here for me, but I don't think that I should voice that out loud either.'

"It hasn't exactly been like that, but I did need to see him. What brings you here anyways?"

"Well, I saw the closed sign, but I saw that his light was still on. So, I figured that I would check it out. I didn't think that I would run into you here."

"Just don't tell the others that you saw me."

"I understand. Don't worry. I see that he gave you the gi, huh?"

"Well, the top half."

"You know, I hate the fact that I didn't get to give you something. They gave that lame excuse that it represents both mine and Akisame's martial arts. So, I am going to personalize it."

"Personalize it?"

"Yep."

After saying that, Sakaki grabs Kenichi's sleeves and rips them off.

"Now that's what I'm talking about."

His master starts to walk away and into the clinic. Before he goes in, he turns and looks back to Kenichi.

"Hey, Kenichi. We need to do some more catching up, and you better be keeping up with your training."

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A/N: Thank you for reading chapter 10 of my fanfiction.

My 'Teknoman And A Succubus' story is at chapter 2

My 'Kenichi: Not Just Her Disciple' story is at chapter 11 – And Complete

My 'Monster Musume: Drago's Quest' story is at chapter 4 – And Complete

My 'Familiar Of Zero: Saving Grace' story is at Chapter 78