I found Rias in her homeroom a few minutes before the bell rang.
"Keith, You left me alone in the bed this morning. Do you know how lonely I was without you to hug?"
"Sorry Babe, but I needed to talk to Sona. And I have to train these guys so they are ready for what lies ahead. Issei, Koneko, Yappy, and even your other bishop need alot of work."
"Who's Yappy?"
"Oh, that's Sona's pawn. His name is Yappy from now on. I don't quite get it, but he asked us to please only refer to him as Yappy. Be sure to let everyone in your peerage know about his name change, from what I understand he gets pretty upset if you don't call him Yappy anymore."
"It's wierd but I'll pass it along to everyone."
"Yeah, no telling what weird stuff that dudes into, but hey who am I to judge? If he wants to call himself Yappy then by gosh I'll make sure no one calls him anything but that."
"You are so thoughtful."
"I try to be." I could hear Vapor laughing. "Partner you are terrible."
"So what brought you all the way to my classroom this morning?"
"Well I didn't get to say good morning to my beautiful Rias or get my morning kiss." I leaned closer and wrapped one arm around her waist and brought the other to the small of her back and pulled her in closer. I slowly moved my face closer to hers until our lips finally touched. As we kissed I could feel her heartbeat in her chest as she pressed her breasts into me. All to soon it was over, I pulled away and looked into her smokey half lidded eyes.
"It gets better every time we do that."
"Mmmmmm...You are an amazing kisser", she said as she snuggled her head into my chest.
"Babe, why do I feel like we are being watched?" I turn towards the door to her classroom and saw at least 10 3rd year girls standing there. Some had blushes, some had tears in their eyes, and more than 1 had a jealous look on their face.
"Awwww... that is the sweetest thing I have ever seen. I wish I had a boyfriend like him. It's not fair, why does she get to have him? I heard he is really a butt pirate. Are you crazy we just saw him kiss her. I heard from the perverted guys in 2nd year that it's all for show. You believed those 2 perverts? Well you have a point, plus he does have girls always around him."
I let those 2 off way too easy.
"Alright ladies let's give them some privacy. Thanks Akeno", I said.
"I need to get to class, was that all you needed?"
"It was the most important thing I came here for, but I want to meet your other bishop after school."
"I don't know if that's a good idea Keith. He doesn't react well to others."
"I know babe, but we need to be prepared for anything. My sources tell me something big is in the works and it's centered around Kuoh."
"If you think it will help I'll bring you to him, but don't expect much."
"Sure thing. I leaned in and gave her a quick peck on the cheek. See you at lunch." I walked her back to her classroom and left for my homeroom.
After school I met up with everyone at the ORC building.
"Sempai I thought you were going to train with me today?" said Koneko with a cute pout.
"I am, I promise, I just need to do a couple of things first then I'm all yours Koneko." She smiled.
"Oh no you're not. You need to watch what you say, you are giving these other girls ideas, Keith." Koneko glared at Rias. She walked over to where I was standing.
"Sempai, Buchou is being mean to me", she gave me her best puppy dog eyes.
"Rias it's Ok. You don't have to be so hard on Koneko." I didn't see Koneko sticking her tongue out at Rias from behind me.
"Keith I am warning you now, you are too nice and too sweet for your own good. Koneko I am also warning you, try anything with MY mate and I will NOT be happy, you got that?"
"I'm not doing anything Buchou, sempai is just helping me with my training I don't know what's got you so upset."
"Grrrrr... Listen you've been warned. Keith you said you wanted to meet my other bishop, follow me, his room is down this way."
"Dang that sure is alot of protection for one person." This looks like some of the stuff I have protecting our place.
"It had to be powerful, Gasper has a very powerful sacred gear. He doesn't have control over it yet either."
"Oh, I know. That's why we need to get him out of this room and on the battlefield."
"That would be great but don't expect too much, he is afraid of everyone." As she says this she waves her hand over the wards and they drop. She knocks on the door.
"Gasper, I am coming in. I have someone I want to introduce you to. He's a really good person, me and him are even mates."
"NOOOOOO! I DON'T WANT TO MEET ANYONE! JUST GO, LEAVE ME ALONE."
Good grief what a set of lungs.
I stepped into the room, it was completely dark except for the light given off by a laptop on the desk. I heard some movement and noticed a box with 2 red eyes staring at me from holes in it's side.
"Gasper come out and meet my mate. This is Keith."
"NOOOOOOOO! GO AWAY."
"Let me handle this Rias. I told you I was coming to visit you didn't I Gasper?"
"I don't know who you are, get out!"
"Is that anyway to talk to your friend, ClosetVampire98?"
"G-G-Ghostwalker is that you?"
"Of course it is little buddy, now come over here and give me a hug." All Rias saw was a little white blur as Gasper tackled me to the ground.
"You really came? I thought you might of forgot."
"How could I forget one of my best friends?"
"It's so good to see you Ghost..no Keith-san."
"It's good to see you too Gasper, how have you been doing lately?"
"I've been good, the game isn't as much fun without you tho."
"Sorry about that. I've had alot of things come up lately."
"It's Ok, because you are here now. We can play whenever we want."
I rubbed his head, "that's right little buddy."
Rias just looked at me and the little vampire with shock evident on her face. "I take it you 2 have a history?"
"Yeah I've known Gasper for probably close to 2 years now. He has been my gaming partner for what feels like forever."
"You never cease to amaze and confuse me, love."
"Hey I was going to go outside for a little while with a couple of friends who I am helping to train. Why don't you come along with me?"
"I-I-I I'm afraid to go outside."
"Is that so? Even if no one will be able to see you?"
"How will no one be able to see me?"
"That's easy I'll summon my sacred gear and then instead of cloaking myself, I'll cloak you. No one will even know you are there and you can hang out with me for the afternoon."
"REALLY? That is so cool. Wow, you must be powerful. I wish I had your powers instead of mine."
"Why would you say that Gasper, I think your powers are so freaking awesome."
"You do?"
"Heck yeah, you can freeze time. Just think of all the pranks we could pull together."
"I can stealth us around and then you freeze time. They wouldn't know what hit them."
"But I can't control my powers, he said with a sniff..."
"Ah but remember that magic candy I told you about?"
"Yeah."
"I brought some of it with me. I held out a peanut butter ball. Eat this and I promise you will start to feel better and if you train with us you will be strong. We can be partners again, but not just in-game. We can do it in real life too. What do you say little buddy? Are you ready to leave this dark lonely room and come with me on a real life adventure?"
"I would go anywhere with you Onii-san."
Onii-san, huh? I like the sound of that. "Ok, little buddy from now on call me Onii-san. Now here eat this candy and we will start our adventure otouto."
The little damphire started to cry. sniff... "I have... sniff... always... sniff... wanted a big... sniff... brother."
"Well now you got one, but I can't let my otouto run around untrained. So I need you to come with me."
Gasper took the candy from my hand. He took a bite, "Mmmmmm this is good." By the time he had finished Rias and I could feel a change had taken place.
Rias leaned over and whispered, "What was in that candy?"
I whispered back, "I added some of my blood to the chocolate. Gasper had told me he hated blood so I added it to the chocolate to hide the flavor. My blood gave him a boost, he should have better control over his power now. Heck with some training he is gonna be a beast."
"Onii-san, you know vampires have very good hearing right?"
I laughed, "sorry otouto I didn't mean to trick you, but it was for your own good."
"It's Ok Onii-san. I actually liked it alot. Could maybe you make me some more?"
"I'll make you all you want little buddy."
"Now you need to get dressed so we can go train."
"Whats wrong with what I'm wearing? I think it's cute."
"I'm not saying it's not cute, but you don't want to get it dirty do you?"
"Ohhhhh, I didn't think of that. What should I wear then?"
"I brought you something I think you are going to like, here try this on."
After a few minutes, "Onii-san this is nice but isn't it too tight?"
"I think it looks great."
"Keith, it looks almost like the same thing you were into battle."
"This looks just like onii-san's?"
"Yeah the only difference is his doesnt have that little skirt around the waist."
"Cool, then this is what I will wear from now on too then."
"See, he likes it."
"You two are just too much."
"Oh, you haven't seen nothing yet", I laughed.
"Let's go Onii-san. We got some training to do."
"That's the spirit otouto." I summoned my sacred gear and threw my cloak around Gasper. We walked back into the club room. Where Issei, Koneko, and Yappy were waiting.
"I guess Gasper isn't ready to come out yet is he?" stated Akeno
"No, I'm here Sempai."
Everyone looked around, "where did that come from?"
"Oh, sorry. Let me introduce everyone to my otouto. Everyone this is Gasper." I let my cloak fade away.
"Wow, he's dressed almost like Keith."
"Ahhhh! They can see me."
"Yes Gasper they can see you, but they can't tell who you are. Can you guys?"
"No, I would have never known it was Gasper in that get-up."
"Really? Cool."
"Not only that guys, Gasper is going to train with us and he has better control over his sacred gear now."
"Wow, Gasper that's great. How did you go from hiding in a box in your room to being so brave."
Gasper snorted, "My Onii-san. He told me we are going to have real life adventures. I will go anywhere with my Onii-san." Everyone laughed.
"Okay let's head out to do some training."
A few minutes later at the training sight.
"Alright, Issei and Yappy I want you to work on your stamina. You need to be able to stay in battle longer. I want you both to take these packs. They each weigh 300 lbs. Each one of you put one on and I want 50 laps to start with."
"50 Laps! With 300 lbs backpacks?"
"That's half of what I started with so get to it".
"Fine, by the way why are you calling Saji, Yappy?"
"That's what he asked me to call him, isn't that right Yappy?"
"Yeah, please call me Yappy from now on Issei", he said monotoned.
"Whatever floats your boat Yappy. Let's get this over with."
"Alright Koneko, I want you to sit right here legs crossed in front of me." Koneko sit down.
"Now close your eyes and concentrate. Feel the energy flow thru you. Don't draw any in yet just feel for it. Feel the grass, reach out and feel the trees and the animals. That's it, deep breaths. Can you feel it?"
"I can feel it senpai."
"Good now use those feelings to picture everything around you. All living things have their own energy. Concentrate until you can see it all in your mind. Can you see it yet?"
"I see the energy flowing thru everything sempai, I see the birds, the trees, I even see you."
"Ok, now I need you to slowly open your eyes while still concentrating on the energy." Koneko slowly opened her eyes. I saw the tears start to flow.
"It's so beautiful, I can see how everything is connected. I see the energy moving from place to place. Sempai I see you. I see the REAL you, you are so beautiful. Your energy is dancing around you."
"Now I want you to hold this for as long as you can alright?"
"Hai! Sensei." That caught me off guard but I laughed it off.
"Now Gasper, I brought this volleyball with us. I'm going to throw it up into the air, I want you to stop just the ball."
"I'll try sempai."
"I know you will, don't worry about it tho. It might take a few tries but I know you can do this Ok?"
He nods, "Then let's begin."
After 2 hours of training I called it a day.