Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!
LoamyCoffee; Yup, cat fight indeed!
hellspam; It's going to be quite the reunion!
xhope14x; Well, this is a bit different since this isn't about Excalibur on the Exorcists part, this is about what they believe to be true. And no, you're not misreading things.
Arkraith; Thanks very much! Yeah, I always like trying to make up some fresh ideas~
ShadowUzumaki55; Things are getting intense now! Nope, they really can't~ He doesn't no, he'll do anything to give Rossweisse a tease. That's Saji for you~ We'll have to wait and see, that's going to begin resolving itself soon enough~ Akira's gonna be showing he's quite the peacekeeper!
Silver crow; Thanks, and thanks for the votes! No, it wouldn't be a harem story, just single pairing. A cute little moment between the two of them~ Yup, Le Fay's in the peerage, along with Incinerate Anthem starting to act up, that shall be addressed at a later date. Not last chapter, but this chapter they do! Le Fay's still doing her club, and yeah, it seems that something is going on with Yasaka! That's the two perverts for you~ Ophis is quite good yeah~ They'll be going on a date in the future~ That's Ophis for you, and yeah, Aika might do. It seems that he wont huh. Well, that's how they feel. He'll be using his diplomatic skills. Cool! I suppose it could. Maybe there could be. Yeah, don't see why not. That would be fun. Yeah, that could be a fun moment.
Guest 1; Yeah, they would be, since being Ophis' child, they'd be one of the strongest people in DXD, and they'd only become involve if they found someone they wanted to fight, like a powerful Evil God or someone as strong as a Heavenly Dragon or even stronger. They wouldn't bother with people like Kokabiel unless Kokabiel did something to anger Ophis offspring. Ooh yeah, it would be like that. Yeah, higher ups would know his existence, others might have an idea, and some would just be oblivious. I could see that happening. That would be a cool group. That's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion!
AlphaOmega; She does yeah, that's Ophis for you~ She did yeah, she's come a good long way. Cool, thanks for the votes.
Skull Flame; He did quite well with them yeah~ She does yeah, and that's Ophis for you. We'll have to wait and see what Incinerate Anthem is doing. Yup, quite the change! Apparently so. They surely are being quite difficult. She does yeah, Ophis is quite wild. They are yeah, Aika just needs to apologize, but she, or rather he, wont. She probably wouldn't like Irina doing that no. He does yeah~ That's Saji for you, and yeah, maybe a little bit~
Guest 2; Yeah, she could, and thanks!
Guest 3; It is yeah, she'd be cool, and I don't see why not. That would be pretty cool! And yeah, I don't see why not.
Guest 4; She'd have a respect for him, but due to his half breed status, Xenovia wouldn't know what to think about him. And yeah, that would be good~
Guest 5; Probably not as the main protagonist of the Persona 3 story, but I could have a character that's Mitsuru's younger brother appear in Persona 3 story, as a secondary character, before taking on the role of the main protagonist in a Persona 4 story I'd write after it. Yeah, that would be quite funny~ Yeah perhaps!
Guest 6; Probably though I wouldn't know what kind of name that would be.
Lightwave; That's Akeno for you, and yeah, Vali wouldn't care. In her own way, Vali did yeah, and the others are quite excited to have her around. It surely is, we'll have to wait and see who that's going to be going to. For the moment, it's going to work, but it is a Longinus so it can't be contained forever. Odin and Azazel, quite perceptive people. Well, they'd probably have good feelings about him coming back rather than keep distance away from him. Maybe yeah. Mitsuru is cool.
Neonlight01; I'm glad you like their moments! She wouldn't be that bothered knowing that she took his virginity. Yeah, Ophis has integrated herself into the group rather well, and yeah, she's giving the group advise based on what she knows. Well, Xenovia would be conflicted on Akira himself, since he's a half breed of a Devil and human, a human from the Church no less. Cool thanks for the vote, and one day yeah I will.
Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it is time to start the chapter!
Akira and Irina!
When Akira returned home for that evening, Ravel came up towards him while seeing Kuroka laze around on a couch with Akeno sitting down beside her, giggling perversely to one another when glancing at Akira himself, Asia was happily sat with Ophis, Gasper was on her computer, Vali kept giving him small looks which he returned with soft smiles, an understanding between the two of them.
"Aki-sama, we have a call from Yasaka-sama, it seems quite urgent as she's called a few times."
Akira furrowed his eyebrows.
"I'm surprised, she's calling us? What for Ravel-san? Do you know?"
Ravel shook her head.
"No, I don't know anything about it. We haven't an appointment with her as far as I am aware, and we haven't got anything pressing to do from Yasaka-sama so I am as in the dark as you are Aki-sama."
"Aah I see...then I will go and see what's going on with Ravel-san. Could you handle the requests for me Ravel-san?"
Ravel nodded, pulling out her computer.
"Leave it to me."
"Thank you Ravel-san, I can always count on you."
Akira petted her head, and Jin hopped off his own, going towards Ophis who sat on the nearby couch. Ophis acknowledged Jin's presence, and then petted her lap, so the dog jumped up, and curled up on her lap, Ophis' small hand gently stroked his head.
Before he went up the stairs however, he heard the rattling from the flames of holy coming from the area past the kitchen. Le Fay who had walked in with Koneko, looked towards the flames and cocked her head.
"Akira-sama, it seems that the flames are becoming even more wild than before."
"Yeah...it must mean that whoever is supposed to be attached to them must be getting close. But, thanks to Azazel-san and Odin-sama, we can keep the flames contained. We just have to make sure that the flames don't go to someone that is evil."
That was a worried Akira had.
If someone tried to take the flames and they were evil, or had bad intentions, then gaining such a power would be quite worrying.
"...I'm sure Senpai would be able to make sure that we are safe once more."
Hearing Koneko's confidence in him always made him smile.
"Thanks Koneko-chan. We will have to do our best, huh."
"...Yes, we will."
Akira gently rubbed her head, causing her cheeks to turn slightly red.
Akira went up the stairs, while Kuroka looked through the mail that had come along.
She noticed something happy for her had come.
"Ooh my, it has come."
"What's come?"
Akeno asked, Kuroka giving off a small smile.
"It's something that will make me frisky nyaaa~"
"Even more than usual?"
Akeno asked with a sly smile, the young girl nodding her head mischievously.
Akira flew up the stairs, and switched on the hologram set up before sitting down, and saw Yasaka was waiting patiently as a hologram.
Akira himself could see that Yasaka had a serious face, something that she rarely showed honestly.
Though since she was serious, Akira would listen to anything that she needed to talk about at that moment in time.
"Is something going on Yasaka-san? Ravel-san said that it was urgent."
Yasaka nodded her head a single time.
"Yes. You see, there's going to be something that I am going to be doing in a the not too distant future. I'm going to be going to a...meeting you could say. A peaceful meeting about sharing information and such with a different faction, and you see, I have been thinking about how to prepare for such an event, and I couldn't help but think of you."
"Of me Yasaka-san?"
Yasaka bobbed her head up and down.
"The owner of a Longinus, and the King of the girl with Divine Dividing. We've been having trouble lately, you remember how we first met with the Grim Reaper's attacking us during even a peaceful event within the Familiar Forest."
"I remember when that happened, and how nearly someone got killed as a result. Are you worried about them coming back to try and harm you or your daughter, or something else entirely?"
Yasaka furrowed her eyebrows.
She seemed quite serious.
"Yes."
Her naked honestly was quite surprising.
But she didn't hold back her thoughts either which Akira appreciated a lot.
"I see, then please ask the burning question you have been wanting to ask since the beginning of this meeting."
Akira could see that she was wanting to do so, so he cut through the small talk and got to the real meat of the conversation.
"I would like it if you and your Hakuryuukou become my guards during this peaceful meeting. Sorry to ask abruptly, but there are few people that I could think would be better than you both to come and be my guards."
Akira could understand that.
She wanted someone who she could trust, and react to Grim Reaper's speed within seconds.
Someone that she knew would be impartial and wouldn't cause a problem.
"Right..."
"As I said, I'm sorry for asking so suddenly, but this is important to the future of the Youkai of Kyoto, and as its leader, it is going to be a messy time if the Grim Reaper's do show up. I'm also concerned about my daughter who will be going with me. I have to have people watching Kyoto while I make this brief trip, so in case something were to happen there in my absence, my strongest people could handle it. But that also caused me a dilemma because I also would need someone to come and help keep the meeting as a safe area."
Akira could understand.
He nodded a single time.
"Alright, leave it with me and I'll speak to my peerage about it and get back to you about what we can arrange. If what Azazel-san says is true about the Excalibur's going missing, I might need to have a few people stay in Kuoh and keep the residents safe."
Yasaka bowed her head.
"Of course. Just you thinking about it is enough for me. Beyond that would be a pleasure for you to come and be my and Kunou's guards."
Akira offered a smile.
"You can count on me, I'll be there at that meeting somehow, I just need to sort a few things out before I am able to come to Kyoto."
Relief came over Yasaka, who wiped her brow.
"Thank you Akira-kun, you are a kind young man after all. So dependable."
Akira chuckled lightly.
"It's nothing really. Thank you for asking. This is going to help the connections between Devils and Youkai from Kyoto all the more. And if I can be that bridge to peace, then I am quite excited to say the least. My parents wished for me to be the bridge between humans and Devils, and if I can't do that, then I can help other factions grow into peaceful ones."
Yasaka could hear the genuine happiness in his voice, and she was glad at the same time.
But then as they talked, Kuroka came busting through the door.
"Aki-chan, we've got a problem!"
"W-What is it?"
Akira quickly asked, Kuroka calmed herself, then nodded.
"Just sensed a clash of powers in town, and I can feel Holy Swords in the presence from their auras nyaaa."
"Holy Swords...Excalibur maybe? Or could it Durandal?"
"I don't know, I've never felt them before nyaa. But it seems very strong, so we should go and see what's going on, right nyaaa?"
"Yes." Akira turned to Yasaka. "Sorry to cut the meeting short Yasaka-san. Just know that my answer is yes."
Yasaka bowed her head.
"Thank you, and good luck with your problem."
Akira nodded, and left with Kuroka and the others.
Going out the door, he said to Ophis "We'll be right back!" knowing that if she went, something dangerous might happen so they decided to leave her there.
But when they left, she saw the purple flames were acting up more and more, seeing how wild they were going inside of the barriers that the others had made, and tilted her head curiously at said flames.
Back at the fight at hand, Yumi and Xenovia clashed blades instantly. But Xenovia didn't even seem phased by it at all, and pushed the young woman backwards, causing him to stumble back, but Xenovia gave him a hard stare down.
"Are you trying to defend switch cutting King there?"
"Don't call me that again you Harley Quinn!"
Xenovia gave Rias a curious look as did Raynare, and Ise. But Rias remained adamant and held her fist up to Xenovia, and Irina who was defending Xenovia, did the same thing, shaking their fists at one another angrily.
"Ignoring that, Irina. Get that Harley Quinn over there."
She said while looking at Rias.
Rias pointed at herself, Xenovia nodded.
Rias breathed in slowly.
"I've been kind to you until now, but not anymore. I wont have this injustice from someone who has blue hair."
"Blue is better than red."
Xenovia countered, pushing Yumi's blade back with her own, and then aimed it downwards.
"No it isn't! Stop this nonsense right now!"
Rias snapped, Yumi growled, and thrusted her sword at Xenovia, but she stabbed the ground, and released its power, Excalibur Destruction, the power to release a strong burst of power, which fractured the ground around her, and created holy waves that went for Yumi who used her speed to move out of the way, but the wave went right towards Rias.
Rias pulled back, and went to dodge, when Ise pulled Rias out of the way, Raynare growled.
"Oi Kiba! Rias-buchou nearly got hit then!"
"I am currently busy fighting off the Exorcist! Take care of Buchou!"
"Geez, what is wrong with you?! Seriously, stop this crap! I know that they are a little weird, but if you attack then it could cause problems for Buchou!"
Raynare's words didn't connect to Yumi who swung her sword for Xenovia, but she merely cocked her hand, and thrusted her sword outwards, slicing right through Yumi's own sword, breaking it down like it was nothing.
"Excalibur, so it has this kind of power..."
Yumi murmured under her breath, while Rias took a step forward, her POD dancing in her hands.
"This has gone on far too long! I can't stand it anymore!"
She thrusted her hand forward, and shot off a blast of her energy at Xenovia to defend Yumi, but Xenovia swung her sword outwards, releasing her destructive power, clashing with Rias' power, and caused an explosion.
As it happened, Yumi saw a chance, and came at Xenovia with a sword of ice, and fire at the same time. She swung them outwards, and downwards, trying to catch Xenovia off guard, but Xenovia saw it coming, and avoided the slashes, and then used her Excalibur Destruction sword to slice right through the swords, and the pressure of the blade forced Yumi right down to the ground with overwhelming power.
"Irina! Take care of that Harley Quinn!"
"That's my name for you and your friend the Joker!"
Rias snapped, but neither cared which infuriated Rias even more than ever before.
Irina looked unsure, she didn't want to fight she just wanted the truth.
"But Xenovia-"
"Do it!"
Xenovia parried swords that Yumi made, and took them down with her blade.
Irina looked towards Rias and then rushed forward, taking out her own sword. Rias' eyes shot for Irina who came closer with her blade in hand.
"Please just tell me what you did to Aki-chan! I don't want to hurt you!"
Irina pleaded, but Rias scowled.
"I told you, I haven't done anything! And I don't want to hurt you either but if you attack me, I will defend myself!"
"You explain why his family is gone, and why yours moved in pretty quickly!? Didn't you take him and his family out because you wanted this place for yourself!? But Aki-chan escaped, and awakened his Longinus, right! That's why you Devils kept Aki-chan around so you could abuse his power with your own so he could fight on your behalf! Admit it Rias Gremory!"
Rias was baffled.
She didn't know what she was supposed to say.
She felt cold inside.
She felt like she was going to die about this kind of thing.
"I-I didn't do anything! I didn't do what you're saying-"
"Stop lying!" Irina cried, tears raining off her face. "Y-You took Aki-chan's family away from him! My love! We loved one another, and Aki-chan and I were going to be wed one day, then you killed his family! You took Aki-chan's family away and then you stole this town which belongs to Aki-chan since it was his families in the first place!"
Raynare, seeing Xenovia glaring, decided to go and help Yumi out in the fight, but Irina stepped in front of her, and sliced through the light spear that Raynare launched at Xenovia, and then got into a stance.
"Geez, I was trying to stop the fighting!"
"But, I can't allow you to harm my partner, so if you're going to attack her, then I will defend her."
Raynare rolled her eyes while Rias looked on strongly.
"Fine, I'll do it!"
Rias slapped her head as flew off towards Xenovia to try and stop the fight, so Irina got in the way, and parried the attack, sparks going off from their blades, allowing Irina to slide by her body, and grip the back of Raynare's shirt, but Raynare sliced the back of her shirt, forcing Irina to jump backwards, and saw Raynare summoning spears of light around her form.
"Oi! I don't want to fight!"
"Well, I will to stop this fight right now!"
Raynare span her spears around and then launched them at Irina in a bullet barrage, but Irina used her good skills to slice through the spears, Rias stepped forward, so Irina turned towards her, and took out a bottle of holy water, and yelled "The power of Christ compels you!" believing that Rias was going to attack her, splashing the water at Rias' face, causing her to cry out.
"Aaaaaaaaah! It burns!"
"Ooh shit Buchou! Don't worry about it, I'll stop her right now!"
Raynare seeing that, summoned her light sword, and swung it for Irina who parried with her own blade, pushing her backwards, but Irina didn't give up, and took out the bible, and began reading it to the others.
"Sorry about this but this is how it is!"
Irina yelled, and continued reading the bible at them, causing them to have headaches.
"Aah! Stop it right now!"
Raynare yelled, Ise clutched his hands over his ears.
"Could you stop this crap already!?"
Ise charged for Irina, but she revealed a cross, and held it out to Ise. Ise scowled, and could feel worry coming from it, while Irina threw some holy water at him, so he dodged it, but that gave Irina the time to slip past him, and charge for Rias.
"You want to rumble with me, then lets do it! I will never lose to you!"
Rias shot off a blast of POD, but Irina danced to the side, avoiding the blast, while Xenovia destroyed another sword of Yumi's, and kicked her in the torso, pushing her backwards, only making her more angry and determined.
Rias didn't look pleased, and sent off a few more blasts at close range, but Irina used her skills to avoid the attacks with a grace that Raynare was surprisingly jealous of, but then Irina saw her chance, and took out a cross, launching it at Rias, who yelled "Leave me alone!" and allowed her power to shine, destroying the cross, but Irina leaped over the power, and got close, with her sword, Rias screamed "OOH SHIT!" and tried to avoid it, but Irina leaped over her head once more, and got behind her, grabbing her wrists, and allowed her sword to become a rope, wrapping around Rias who cried out when the holy power touched her skin.
"Now stop attacking me and tell me what happened to Aki-chan's family. I don't want to hurt you."
Rias' bottom lip trembled, and she could feel sick from the power that was on her body.
"Ooh shit! Get off me please! It burns! Make it stop please you weirdo?!"
Irina scowled at being called a weirdo.
"Buchou!"
Ise tried to go forward, but when seeing Rias was breathing hard, and Irina held some holy water out, he couldn't do anything, and Raynare felt angry about this at the same time, Rias looked back at Irina who was still crying.
"Ise! It's alright! Don't worry about me!"
"But Buchou! She's got you bound!"
"Yes, I'm quite aware of that fact Ise."
Rias cried, nodding her head so fast that Ise thought that her neck would break.
Then her neck went towards Irina who continued to cry.
"Alright, alright. Please calm down, you're upset, we can deal with it-"
"I'll deal with it when you say the truth about you taking Aki-chan's family away!"
"I didn't do it! I'm in your holy rope, why would I lie about it!? Just please listen to me, I haven't done anything wrong, I am not a bad person!"
Rias snapped at Irina but Irina held her close.
"Are you telling the truth?"
"Of course, I haven't done anything!"
Rias pleaded while Irina contemplated what was being said.
However, she didn't even think about anything else as she saw Yumi's face eating dirt with Xenovia once more breaking through her swords.
"Trying to fight me so directly. My Excalibur Destruction can destroy anything, including that of your sword itself."
Yumi got off the ground, and slowly moved upwards with her sword.
She panted, and made another sword in her hand. But this one focused more on destruction. It was larger than before, Xenovia shook her head in disappointment.
"This sword wont do you justice. You aren't someone who holds a lot of physical power, so a sword like that is going to be hard to swing around against me. Good effort, but I will have to take it down right now."
"You can try! I will end you and that damn evil sword!"
Yumi charged for Xenovia, but like the blue haired girl said, her movements were dulled.
As Xenovia went to swing her sword at Yumi, and vice versa, a flash happened between them, and a voice yelled "Worthless!" and immediately, the holy aura around Xenovia's blade, disappeared all together, and a hand caught the blade, another hand catching Yumi's and held her backwards as well, at the same time a being flashed behind Irina, grabbing her body and held her upwards with a single hand.
The person who stopped Xenovia and Yumi was that of Akira, and Vali had moved Irina, Rias who was bound, cried as Kuroka and Le Fay helped her out of the binds, Asia went over to her, and began healing her wounds.
"Thank you Asia, you're a shining star."
Asia smiled towards Rias, and continued healing her body, while Akira looked between all of them, his other peerage members looking between the two groups with wonder in their eyes.
"Now, does anyone want to tell me what's going on?"
"Please move out of the way Akira-kun! This is my fight!"
Yumi yelled, but Akira gave him a stare.
"No. Now go over to the others."
"No-"
"I said now!"
His voice was full of authority and power.
Yumi was taken back by how his powerful commanding voice, and bowed her head, walking towards Rias, and the others.
Akira pushed Xenovia's blade away and she backed down when seeing Akira's face.
Irina was then dropped by Vali who walked over to Akira, though he was busy keeping the people calm.
He looked between them all, before giving a small breath.
"Okay, lets all relax now. We can't fight so casually out in the open for one, normal people could get caught up in it." His eyes went towards the Exorcists. "Okay, you two, if you want to come to this town and cause fights, then I wont allow that."
"Aki-chan...you're Aki-chan, right?"
Irina spoke up, Akira turned his eyes to the side.
He looked towards Rias and the others and then back to the Exorcists.
"Okay, Rias-san, you and your group go back home, okay? I'll deal with the Exorcists here, and see what's happening."
"You sure?"
Rias said, shooting a glare at Xenovia who did the same thing.
"Yes, you've been hurt, so go and get some rest. Asia-san, could you go with them to finish healing them? And Kuroka-san, and Vali-chan, could you go and make sure that they don't get surprised attacked?"
"Yes of course!"
"Sure nyaaa~"
"Whatever."
Asia said with pep, Kuroka was fine with it, while Vali rolled her eyes though she went along with it, and walked off with Rias, Ise, and Raynare, and as they walked away, Akira noticed that Xenovia was giving Asia a darkened glare.
"Why are you glaring at my Bishop exactly?"
Akira demanded from Xenovia, who gave a passive look.
"No reason."
He didn't believe her.
Yumi didn't leave the area though.
Her eyes glared darkly towards Xenovia and Irina and didn't back down.
Her hands trembled with her anger.
Akira could feel it, and walked closer towards her.
"Go home."
Akira said with a soft voice.
Yumi shook her head, and looked at the Excalibur's with rage.
"You expect me to go home after seeing those cursed swords right before me?"
"Yes, I expect you to believe in me and go home right now. I'll be with you shortly, but trust me right now, and go home."
Yumi's hands tightened angrily.
But she saw that Akira seemed serious.
She knew that she wouldn't be able to get past Akira, so she turned around and walked away.
His eyes went towards Koneko who wordlessly nodded, and followed after Yumi to make sure she didn't do anything she would regret. He then looked towards Jin who barked up at Akira, and then went with Koneko to make sure that they would be okay.
His eyes then went back towards Xenovia and Irina, with Gasper, and Ravel remaining behind to speak to them directly.
"Aki-sama, this area has become a little damaged, I recommend that we fix it right away before any normal humans come and see, and don't spread any terror about what is currently happening."
"I agree. Could you handle that Ravel-san? I've got this."
"Right away."
Ravel went onto the phone while using her to keep normal humans away, Gasper went to go and help her as well.
That left Akira alone with the two Exorcist women.
He looked between the two of them, and could see that Xenovia was trembling with excitement, while Irina seemed to be more subdued which was surprising since he presumed that she would be the more bubbly person.
"So, Exorcists, you have come to this town and attacked the Devils. You do realize that she is the Princess of Gremory and it could cause strife if you attack her. And if you had killed her, it would have caused a war between the Church and the Devils once more. Since we're at a standstill right now, one thing could tip that balance, is that what you were hoping to achieve?"
Xenovia folded her arms, moving closer.
"The famous Yaegaki Akira Belial. I have to admit, I am quite surprised. Your speed is incredible, the legends are true about that after all. If it is permitted, I wouldn't mind facing you with our blades clashing with one another, and showing our strengths."
"Not until you tell me what's going on here. And why you are in this town in the first place?"
"We are here because our theory is about the recent deaths that are leading to this town."
"Recent deaths leading here. How can you be so sure?"
Akira asked Xenovia while Irina looked on from the side.
"Because we have been tracking down a man by the name of Kokabiel, who is currently trying to gain the swords Excalibur. And the deaths are coming here. I can only conclude that that man is going to be here and is causing trouble, so Irina and I have been sent to stop him, once confirming that he is in fact in this town, which seems likely from our information that we've received, but we need to investigate. That's when I would want a meeting with the leader of this town."
Akira gained a slightly confused face.
He thought that it was common knowledge that Rias was the one that basically owned the town herself.
"You just attacked her. Rias-san leads this town-"
"But why doesn't Aki-chan!?" Irina yelled out her question. "I mean...Aki-chan's family had this city before Rias Gremory did, and she wouldn't give me a right answer. She kept saying that she didn't, but from what I have heard, it doesn't make sense to me..."
"It is true that my family did once run this town, but I don't run this town due to my half breed status. However, even as a half breed, that doesn't mean that I don't have authority, so if you go and look for a fight with her, then I'll have to become involved."
Akira said with his voice showcasing how strong he could be at that moment.
Xenovia narrowed her eyes at the young man before her.
She thought about what to do for a minute while Akira didn't move, he was an unmovable wall.
Irina herself wondered why it seemed like Akira was trying hard not to look at her.
She had confirmed by now that he was the same Akira that she met years ago, yet it seemed like he was keeping distance for whatever reason that he had.
"I see...then, we will contact you in a few days, once confirming a few things. I do not acknowledge that Rias Gremory is the leader of this town. Clearly, you are above her in power, and I had heard that you prayed to God from Irina. If that is the case, then that means I would rather speak to you than her."
"If that's what your wish is then I can't stop it. But you wouldn't mind if I kept taps on you while in this town, right? Purely to make sure that nothing bad happens to both of our sides."
"I would be worried if you didn't, as we will be doing the same to you, Devil human hybrid."
Akira almost felt like she was saying it with a superiority complex about herself.
Though he reined in his thoughts for the moment.
"Then Irina, we should-"
"Xenovia, I wanna speak to Aki-chan on my own, okay?"
Xenovia wasn't exactly thrilled with that idea, considering a number of things and he was a Devil, he wasn't exactly someone that she was thrilled about seeing.
"Are you sure? He could be dangerous."
Xenovia spoke with worry for her friend.
But Irina knew what she was doing.
"Please? For me?"
Irina asked while showing her cute smiles.
Xenovia bowed her head.
"I'll be close by. Come when you're finished."
Irina nodded, Xenovia gave Akira small look, before leaving.
Once she was gone, it was just the pair of them together.
It was an awkward silence between the two of them.
They didn't know what to say.
They both clearly knew who the other was.
But neither knew what to say to each other.
But then Irina spoke up.
"I waited, everyday for Aki-chan to return."
Akira was caught off guard with that.
Though he suspected, he wasn't sure on how she would feel about seeing him now.
"I know, I found the buried letter."
Irina looked relieved that he did find it after all.
She thought that it might have been a fleeting thought.
Irina placed a hand over her heart.
"So you did find it, I was worried you never would. I haven't been back to this town since we were children...back then, I remember meeting Aki-chan, and now seeing Aki-chan like this, you've grown too much Aki-chan, you're way taller now."
"That happens after many years apart. But, you've grown to be very beautiful Iri-chan."
To hear Akira call her 'Iri-chan' once more, it was one of the things she had wanted since he disappeared.
"Aki-chan...what happened? After we last saw one another, you disappeared, I looked everywhere for you, but I couldn't find you. None of our hideouts, nowhere. What happened Aki-chan? Was it because of Rias Gremory? Because she moved in around the same time that you disappeared. You told me that if anyone ever found out about you, then people would hurt your family and she came around the same time so it has to be her...right?"
That's how Irina saw it.
But Akira shot down that idea quickly.
"It wasn't Rias-sans fault."
"But, if not her then..."
Irina seemed to be unsure of what to think.
Then Akira dropped a surprising bombshell.
"It was Exorcists fault. They killed my parents, and came to finish me off."
Akira clenched his fist tightly, remembering that night over and over.
How they came in and slaughtered his Mother and Father.
How they screamed, and told him to run away.
It all came flooding back, and it took everything he had to not break in front of her.
"N-No...Exorcists wouldn't do this. They wouldn't..."
She just couldn't accept it.
Exorcists were supposed to protect good people.
Yet they killed Akira's parents.
It seemed insane.
It didn't seem real.
But Akira continued with a heavy heart.
"I saw what I saw, they killed my parents, and came for me. I managed to get away thankfully thanks to my Kaa-chan, and my Tou-chan's sacrifice."
Irina placed a hand over her mouth, looking horrified.
"Exorcists...killed your parents…? They really were killed..?"
"Yes, I saw them all. They had been tracking me after that, they kept trying to kill me while I was on the run. It was only thanks to women named Rossweisse-san and Gondul-san that I am currently alive, since they saved my life, and after that, I lived with my Uncle Diehauser-nii, and he's considered my guardian right now though I am quite old enough to look out for myself now."
Irina couldn't believe it.
She thought that for years, it was the Devils had killed Akira's parents, and possibly him.
But to hear it was her own people.
The Exorcists.
She could tell that he wasn't lying.
There were many indicators for her to see that it wasn't the Devils, but the humans that had taken out Akira's family.
"I see….so Exorcists really did these things..."
"Yes, that's right, Exorcists killed my family. But, I don't blame all Exorcists for it, just the ones who did it. It would be pretty stupid of me to say that all Exorcists are evil when they aren't, the same for Devils and Fallen Angels and so and so forth, there's badness in any place you look, but there's also goodness, you just have to learn how to tell the difference between the two of them. The ones who killed my parents, they are the ones I hate more than anything. But, I don't consider you or that blue haired woman my enemies. Though in the future-" He lightly tapped Irina's head who stuck out her tongue. "-don't go around attacking Devils and other beings without knowing the facts of what was happening."
"It was Xenovia that did it, not me! She was going wild, she can be a bad girl when she wants to be you know Aki-chan? Then that Fallen Angel girl went to attack Xenovia so I stopped her, then Rias-san tried something so I thought if I captured her, they wouldn't attack me. I only wanted the truth."
Akira gained a light smile.
"I see, if that's how it is then I can forgive it for now. But don't cause trouble while in this town, okay?"
Irina winked at Akira who smiled lightly.
"But of course~ We aren't here to cause trouble, we're here to make sure that the bad people are stopped."
Akira looked relieved.
Irina however fiddled with her fingers, and looked down at the ground.
"Did you...wonder about me Aki-chan?"
"I did, and I looked for you."
"I looked for you too Aki-chan! But since I didn't know your full name, I only pieced together things and eventually came to the conclusion that you and the famed Yaegaki Akira Belial had to be the same person."
"Yeah...I searched for a long time, but since you're an Exorcist, my research could only take me so far. But as the years went on, I thought you'd probably forget about me, and just think I was dead-"
"But I wanted to be with Aki-chan!"
Irina cried out, surprising Akira quite a bit.
But it brought goodness to his soul.
"Though I'm a half Devil, and half human, I thought you'd despise me. After learning what that meant. I remembered you wanted to become an Exorcist, so we'd be on opposite sides anyway."
"Aki-chan...it doesn't matter to me about things like that. You are the person who protected me for so long, you gave me the courage to do many different things..." Her eyes went across Akira's lips, and then brushed her own. "...Aki-chan, I imagined being with you all of the time. I love being an Exorcist, but there was always a part of me always wondering what happened to that little boy who I cherished..."
Irina confessed, continuing to surprise him.
"I cherished you too Iri-chan, I always have done."
To hear that brought happiness to Irina's soul.
Her very being felt lighter, and brighter.
"...I never told my parents about you, I never told anyone, apart from Xenovia. I know she's quite rude, but she is a good person deep down. She doesn't agree with me having feelings for a Devil...even I'm surprised. I shouldn't, it's against what God would want...but, wouldn't God want us to be happy?"
"I wouldn't know, God doesn't look in my direction. But, I do know that he wasn't happy about my parents being together."
Irina hugged herself, holding back her worries.
"Aki-chan, I'm so sorry about your parents being killed, even if they were from the Church and Underworld, they shouldn't of died for being in love."
Akira adopted a soft smile.
"Thank you."
Irina and Akira stared into one another's eyes, and pulled closer...
But then she heard Xenovia calling for her.
"Irina, come on, we have to find somewhere to stay before sundown."
Irina fluttered her eyebrows, glancing at the distant Xenovia, who waved her over.
She then looked back towards Akira.
"Aki-chan, I have to go now. I promise that we wont cause trouble."
Akira inhaled slowly, nodding his head.
"Yes, I understand, I hope that we can get along while you're here."
Irina bowed her head, and went to leave, when Akira reached into his shirt, and showed a necklace that she had made years ago, the same one that she left in the box that she buried for Akira to find one day.
Her eyes turned to water, she began shedding tears at the sight of the necklace, and reached into her own outfit, to reveal her own necklace that she made, placing them together to complete the necklace itself.
"Aki-chan..."
"I'm glad you still kept yours Iri-chan. I always wear mine."
"Me too."
Irina replied with a soft, crackling with her tears voice.
Akira kept composure the best that he could.
Irina turned to leave, and began walking.
Akira watched her going, knowing that it probably was for the best…
But then she turned around, rushing right at him, and hugged onto him tightly.
He was caught up in the moment, and held onto her tightly, while she openly sobbed against his chest.
He understood why she was crying, so he continued to embrace her, and stroked the back of her head.
"Aki-chan...why do our worlds have to be so far apart?"
"Because I'm from Hell and you're from Heaven. Can't get any farther than that."
Irina giggled with tears streaming down her face at the joke.
But it was bitter sweet, the reality between them now.
They were from different worlds, their higher ups were always glaring at one another, so being close to one another again almost seemed impossible, and to both of them, that was more devastating than anything else that had happened.
Irina then split from Akira, and gave him a kind and sad look mixed into one.
Akira could understand why she felt the way that she did, and he felt the same thing.
But neither could say anything right now.
They had to keep their feelings back or they might explode, and do something regretful.
After the meeting with the Exorcists, Akira went towards the place that Yumi was at, since he knew he would have to smooth that over so she wouldn't go and try and find anything that would lead her to the Exorcists, and he couldn't allow that to happen.
He saw Jin and Koneko together, watching Yumi closely so she didn't do anything.
Akira then waved his hand to Koneko who nodded and got up.
"I'll leave her to you Senpai."
"Thanks Koneko-chan, Jin-kun. You both did well, leave it to me now."
Koneko bowed her head, and left with Jin.
He walked closer to Yumi, sitting down beside her.
She couldn't even meet his eyes.
Her anger was taking over her, her frustration on unable to go towards the Excalibur and destroy them. Being regretful that she couldn't even use her swords to break through Xenovia's. It was anger inducing and all the more, she felt the anger rising within her.
He could see her rage, her anger at the situation at hand.
He could understand why she felt the way she did.
What happened to her, was something that Akira didn't want to happen to others.
Akira budged closer, laying his hand over her own, causing her to look towards him. Her eyes became moist, so he wordlessly brought her close to his body, allowing her head to fall against his shoulder, and he sat there, while she sobbed into his shoulder.
His hand ran through her hair, and caressed it gently.
"I know you're angry Yumi-san, I know you're scared, and upset by it being here, and you're angry with me for stopping you from fighting the Exorcists."
"Akira-kun...why did you stop me? Those swords, and the people in charge of it...they took away peoples dreams, their lives, all so they could find someone to wield the damn swords, the swords that...those damn swords..."
Akira could feel her inner turmoil, and could feel the anger that she was looking towards the swords, and the people.
But Akira couldn't allow that to happen.
"I know what they did to you, but you can't attack those girls because they didn't do anything to you, they probably don't even know what experiments had happened for those swords to be wielded artificially in the first place. I know they wield Excalibur, but Irina Shidou and Xenovia aren't your enemies. They didn't do anything to you...other than act rash, but it seems that they are quite hyperactive but as I said, they aren't your enemies right now. If they act aggressively towards us then they would be, beyond what they did before that is, but we have to think of the Factions too. Trust me, I know sometimes acting within confines is hard, especially with what my own life has been like, but this is what we have to do, we have to make sure we don't upset the balance."
Yumi understood.
She truly did.
Even if she felt anger for what was happening, she could understand what was happening.
"I-I know that Akira-kun...I know why you did what you did...but when I saw that sword...blind rage took over me, I only saw red, and I had to do something, anything to destroy them for my fallen comrades. Because of that sword, a lot of people died to experiments that shouldn't of happened and now they get to be used..."
Akira stroked the back of her head, peering deeply into her eyes. Yumi's wavering eyes found strength coming from Kenji's own.
"I know Yumi-san, I know. They're here in this town, and you want to destroy them. But that's not going to be the way. I want you to get your own kind of justice, but I don't want innocent people to suffer for it. Those two girls, aren't your enemy. That sword, and the person responsible for hurting you, are the reason why you feel like you do. You can't attack them again, okay?"
"Akira-kun..."
Her arms snaked around his body as he petted her head gently.
His eyes went into her own, and she gained a slightly red face.
"Yumi-san, you're going to be staying with me for a while, okay? I'm going to keep my eyes on you."
"...Your eyes on me Akira-kun?"
Akira chuckled.
"That's right. Sorry, but I'm gonna kidnap you~"
Yumi's cheeks flushed red, and clutched him even tighter.
"If it is Akira-kun, I don't mind..."
"Good girl, now you come with me and we'll go back home. Don't worry, I'll do everything I can to make sure you gain your own kind of catharsis, just listen to me and allow me to make some decisions now. You trust me, right Yumi-san?"
"Yes...if it is Akira-kun then I trust you."
Akira petted her head.
"Good girl. Come on, lets go together."
Yumi nodded, and stood up with Akira. The pair then left to go home together, Akira felt worry for Yumi and hoped that she didn't try and do something that she would regret, it would be the last thing that he would want to happen.
After getting home, and contacting the others, Akira looked towards his peerage, having Yumi go and relax for a while to unwind herself after getting so worked up about Excalibur beforehand, he sat down with Koneko and Gasper hopping onto his lap, Ophis did the same and sat down quietly on his lap.
Akira looked between all of them, before he began the meeting.
"So, it seems that we have a few things going on recently, with the Excalibur's in town and Yasaka-san has requested us to go towards the Youkai in fear of an attack on them during a peace meeting that they are having with another faction."
As Akira said it, Ravel looked between the entire group.
"We seem to be getting busy again. But what about those girls? What are we going to be doing about them?"
Akira placed a finger by his chin and hummed.
"I'm currently having Kuroka-san and Koneko-chan keep track of their movements. They might have Excalibur, but for Vali-chan and I, we should be able to handle them, though they have a good talent inside of them. Either way, right now it seems that we will have to split our efforts and handle this situation."
Ravel nodded.
"I concur." Reporting on the situation, Ravel continued. "Aki-sama, with the new Exorcist's in town, did they give any information on what they're doing here?"
"The other day, Azazel-san was speaking about the Excalibur's going missing." Retorted Akira calmly, waving a hand through his grey hair. "If that's true, then I would only have to assume that they were looking for Excalibur. I believe that they mentioned something about Kokabiel, wouldn't surprise me that he's involved."
Vali folded her arms.
"Tell me where you want me."
"V-Vali-chan, right now you naughty girl, though if you want then we could always go to bed together after this..."
Akira's cheeks resembled rubies at that moment, while Vali herself gained a healthy flush on her cheeks.
"Hmph, I didn't mean that way Aki." Vali folded her arms, hiding her lewd expression. "I meant, dealing with the Excalibur, or the incident with Kyoto. Tell me how you want me, and we'll go from there. Though later on, I know how I want you."
Vali's alluring voice pulled him in alone, and he felt heat pooling inside of him.
But for the moment, he had to keep a calm composure.
"I don't know the full details yet." Akira sighed out sadly. "However, what I do know is that I have a good idea on what we could be doing. I'll probably be going to Kyoto myself, if I myself become involved with the Exorcist's, then knowing good old Zekram, he'd turn this around on me somehow, so we can avoid that by me officially being in Kyoto with Yasaka-san. But Yasaka-san seems determined about a bad thing happening in Kyoto on this mission with the Grim Reaper's, so we should concentrate efforts on both areas."
Ravel looked between all of the peerage members, and then towards Akira himself.
"It seems we're going to have to speak to these Exorcist's before anything else. We can't disrupt peace, and if we do that, then Maou-sama knows what will happen. We need to find out the truth about what's currently happening with the Church before making any decisions. When is this meeting with the Youkai and other faction Aki-sama?"
"I don't know the precise date, but it's going to be rather soon. And you're right, we should make contact with the Exorcists soon and see their side to this story before we do anything rash. I already suspect that Rias-san and Sona-san wouldn't like the idea of involving ourselves with the Church. But we're not them so we'll have to think about the pros and cons before going ahead with anything."
Ravel was glad that Akira was seeing it like that, and that they could begin moving forward and thinking as a strong team.
Ophis pondered what they were speaking about, before shrugging and walking off.
"But what about our resident Excalibur hater nyaaa?"
Kuroka asked, looking towards the stairs with a pained expression on her face.
Akira also held a similar expression on her face, and he wasn't sure how he was going to help her right now with the limited things he could do as a Devil, a King, and as a High Class Devil that also happened to be a hybrid with a human of the Church, someone that Zekram would jump over if Akira became truly involved in this.
"That's a good question. Whether we like it or not, short of tying her down, we wont be able to stop Yumi-san from going for the Excalibur's, she will try one way or another, especially if I have to go away for a little while, it will happen."
"Then we will have to make sure that she doesn't do anything then nyaa?"
Kuroka wondered aloud, Akira nodded slowly.
"Yes, that's right. We have to make sure that she doesn't get herself killed or anything else like that. But enough of the depressing things for the moment, we still have a few things that we need to do at school! For one, Sona-san wishes for us to compete in the sports thing that's at school in a few days!"
Le Fay looked quite happy, clapping her hands together.
"Akira-sama, we get to play sports games with the others?"
"Yup, that's what Sona-san asked. One of the clubs had to drop out because they had managed to get injured people, and the others didn't feel like it, so we have to fill in for that role. Sona-san promised that if we did, we'd get a clubroom all our own and it would be rather big as well."
Kuroka adopted a smirk.
"Can I be the one who distracts people with my womanly wiles?"
"If you want Kuroka-san."
Kuroka smiled brightly, Koneko tightened her hand.
"We will destroy the opponents, they can't beat us."
Koneko's convictions seemed to be rather strong and were ready to face down any enemies.
"Yeah we will. We can't lose Aki, especially to Gremory and her gang."
Vali folded her arms while looking serious.
Akira chuckled.
"Of course, whether it is a battle in the Rating Game, or a baseball match, we will dominate all of the enemies on the battle field, they can't surpass us when it comes to super powers like that. Even if it happens to be Rias-san, she is still the enemy."
Akira spoke with a bright smile, Vali nodded with a confident look.
"Good, that's what I want to hear from my King."
"Yes, that's right Aki-sama! We will destroy all of our enemies!"
Ravel cheered, and got into the mood of talking about training for the games ahead. Akira felt worry for Yumi and the Exorcist's in town, but they shouldn't be in any danger for the moment, though Akira was concerned about Kokabiel, and what he was currently doing, and if he had slid into the town somehow, then he would have to search for him, and alert the others.
A little while later, when the others had gone to do their own thing, Akira saw that Asia seemed to be a little down about something as she sat on the couch alone so he went towards her, and took her to the side, sitting down beside her with a kind smile.
"Asia-san, is something wrong?"
"A-Akira-san! N-No, of course not!"
She denied, but Akira could see it clearly.
"There is, what's wrong Asia-san? You can tell me anything."
Asia's face tilted downwards, and looked towards Akira with a worried look.
"I'm...when seeing the Exorcists Akira-san, when they looked at me briefly, I felt a little nervous...I didn't want to worry you, maybe it is nothing but..."
Akira pulled Asia closer to his body, causing her to blush lightly.
"It's alright, I wont let them hurt you, okay? I'll keep you safe."
"Akira-san...am I being too much of a worrier? I have a bad feeling something is going to happen."
"Hehe, it's good to be cautious, but we're going to be alright. Remember with the Khaos Brigade?" Asia nodded swiftly, hugging Akira tighter than before. "We were at odds there, but we came out on top, we'll keep on our toes, and make sure that nothing bad happens. And the Exorcists...was it weird, seeing your former life once more? Since you used to be with the Church."
Asia fluttered her eyelashes, Akira could see that Asia was thinking about something deeply.
"But, I still am happy that Akira-san is my King."
"Asia-san..."
"I'm glad that I chose to be with Akira-san, I never regretted my decision. I love being with the peerage every single day, and being with Akira-san is a joy in my life that I never had before. You always are beside me, supporting me, and loving me. That's more than I ever received at the Church Akira-san."
Hearing her heartfelt confession, Akira leaned closer, and pecked her on the cheek with his lips.
Asia's face burst into redness, shyly poking her fingers together.
"A-Akira-san..."
"Don't worry Asia-san, I'll keep you safe from anyone." His fingers brushed her skin, causing her cheeks to turn slightly red. "I promise. Besides, after this, we can do many fun things together. We even are going to be participating in the Ball Tournament, that's going to be fun!"
Asia's face lifted up into a smile that made Akira smile in turn.
"Ooh yes! We are going to be playing games! Though, I don't know how good I'll be Akira-san..."
Akira petted her head, Asia fell against Akira, holding onto him tightly.
"Well, it doesn't matter about being good or not Asia-san, it just means playing in the game. Everyone's gonna be having turns, and even if you aren't that good, it is only meant to be some fun~"
"Fun...yes, being fun with Akira-san, and the others. Akira-san, I'm glad that we're a happy family, and being together like we are. I'm always happy with you and the others, I can't wait for us to play in the games Akira-san!"
Asia couldn't help but share her feelings with the others.
Later on during that evening, Koneko walked through the living room, preparing to go to bed, when she smelt something delicious. She didn't know what it was, but she felt good about what it was, it was filling her body with goodness.
She walked towards the nice smelling cup, and saw that it was a drink. It looked hot and ready to be drunk.
"That smells good...looks like hot chocolate...I'm sure I can have a sip."
She picked up the cup, and placed it to her small lips. Taking a small sip, almost rendered her unconscious with the pleasurable sensations running through her body, almost knocking her off her feet, her cheeks resembled a rose and her body quivered at the feeling.
Because of the drink she had, she practically felt like her natural instincts were kicking in. She didn't know why, but she felt like she was feeling good with even just a little touch of anyone, even her hands felt like she was going to be feeling an orgasm.
"Nyaaa..."
Koneko meowed, revealing her tail, and her cat ears, falling to her knees, and could feel her body quivering. Her head felt fuzzy, her mind was going into a blissful state, and Koneko could barely think of anything else.
Besides one thing.
"Senpai..."
She breathed out with barely an audio voice.
She couldn't breathe properly.
Heat was taking over her form.
She felt her legs quivering despite being on her knees.
Her body quaked with the sensations she felt, and she needed Akira right now.
And thankful to her, Akira came into the room, only having his underwear on.
"Koneko-chan, I was getting worried when you didn't..." Akira saw Koneko on the ground, his eyes widening with worry. "Koneko-chan!" He rushed over towards her, holding the blushing girl in his arms. "Koneko-chan, are you okay? Speak to me!"
Koneko's cloudy eyes ran over his form.
Her lips parted, and she moved upwards, pressing them against his cheek, surprising Akira.
"Koneko-chan, you're acting quite cute."
"Nyaaa, I want Senpai..."
She let out between hard deep breaths.
Her tail twitched, wrapping around Akira's form. Her small body pushed against Akira's, where she began taking off her shirt, tossing it to the side, along with her bra, revealing her small breasts, with hardened nipples.
"Koneko-chan..."
"Senpai...I don't get it, but I want...Senpai right now...my body feels so good...I feel as if my body is heating up...Senpai, please be with me too...I don't know if I could take waiting anymore Senpai, please take me..."
Akira's cheeks flushed, the sight of the cute Koneko before him, asking him such a thing while looking innocent. He clearly knew something was different, she was acting a little weirdly, and he felt something was off.
But Koneko was lost in her own thoughts at the moment, pushing Akira down onto the floor, and climbed on top of his body. Her small breasts pushed against Akira's form, her eyes hazily went towards his face, and her lips parted, going towards his own lips.
"Wait Koneko-chan..."
"No Senpai...please, me too. I feel so good Senpai..."
"But, why do you feel so good?"
His question was met with a confused face.
"Because of Senpai."
"But, beyond that, is there another reason?"
Koneko seemed confused.
Her eyes went towards the cup she had, she gushed, and thought about it briefly. But her body naturally called for Akira's own so she forwent from telling him, and instead, kissed his cheek, her sweet small lips felt good on his skin.
"Koneko-chan, I know something is different..."
"Senpai had sex with Vali-senpai."
Koneko suddenly brought up, to his surprise.
"Y-Yeah, that's right..."
"Then...me too Senpai. My body is small...but, Senpai could feel good with my small body too. I could do many things with Senpai. Please Senpai, please have sex with me too...because I really want to be with Senpai too..."
Akira heard the nakedness of her words, how full of passion and desire they were to be accepted and loved.
Though he knew something was different, Akira could feel that those words were what Koneko honestly felt.
His hand placed itself on top of her head, and petted her head gently, giving her a calm and cute smile.
"Koneko-chan, I know you're feeling a little weird right now, but I assure you that you're going to be alright. One day, when we're both ready, we could do such things. Right now though, I think that there's something wrong with you."
"Senpai...would you, do things with me too…? Even if I'm like this..."
Akira chuckled, placing a kiss on her cheek, making Koneko feel complex yet beautiful emotions.
"Yes, since you're my adorable Koneko-chan. Why would you think that I wouldn't?"
Koneko looked down her body, and how small she was, her small breasts, and her body.
Then she looked towards Akira, and lowered her eyes in a saddened yet adorable manner.
"Because...Senpai has many beautiful women around...with bigger boobs, and bodies than me...maybe Senpai wouldn't want to...be with someone as small as me..."
Akira placed his hand on Koneko's shoulders, and drew her close. Koneko's body twitched with excitement, and new discoveries, the feeling of his manly hands on her body was heating up her small body to new realms of goodness.
"Koneko-chan is so cute, I'd happily be with Koneko-chan. Even if you are small, I still like Koneko-chan anyway that she is. If you've got small boobs or big ones, that doesn't matter to me. As long as you're happy Koneko-chan."
"Senpai..."
Koneko curled up against Akira, who hugged her against his body.
Even if Koneko was taken over by some weird drink, Akira was glad that he could help Koneko and make her feel better.
But then as they were cuddling, Kuroka came into the room.
"Hey, have you seen my drink..." Kuroka noticed Koneko's flushed face, slapping herself in the head. "Shirone, that was meant for me and Aki-chan nyaa!"
"What was?"
Akira asked, petting Koneko's head who laid her lips against his neck again and again, making him feel good.
"Well, I got some pleasure enhancers for us nyaaa. I wanted to try it out before suggesting it to you Aki-chan for when we have sex with one another. But, it seems that Shirone took it before I could do anything nyaaa. That kinda sucks nyaa."
"S-So, you got something to make our love be even more than it is now?"
"Yup nyaaa. Supposed to make it even more pleasurable. But what happened?"
"Koneko-chan went into a sultry cute mode and wanted to do things."
Akira responded calmly, Koneko looked up at Akira, who smiled down towards her.
Kuroka folded her arms.
"Potent stuff then. It wasn't supposed to do that."
"Next time, don't get these kind of things Kuroka-san. We wont need anything to make the experience great."
Kuroka adopted a teasing smile, and moved closer. She casually dropped her robe to the ground, revealing her naked body to the world. Akira's eyes fluttered, Koneko meowed when she felt Akira's 'thing' standing at attention.
She pulled closer, her tails swishing behind her, getting onto his lap, while her lips parted, and pressed them against Akira's own. Koneko looked on with jealousy while Kuroka began kissing Akira deeply, using her tongue to play with his own.
Sometime later Akira went out by himself towards the Exorcists location, since Kuroka said that it seemed like they were fighting, so he went to go and check it out, but when he got there, he was surprised to see that they were merely sparing with one another.
He stayed back, and looked towards them and could hear them speak due to him being part Devil.
"Irina, tell me how it was seeing your friend again."
Irina dodged a slash from Xenovia, and then came at her with a large swing, but she couldn't get through Xenovia's tight defence.
"Honestly, it's brought more confusion and sadness than anything else."
Xenovia cocked her head, avoiding Irina's attack, and sent off her own, Irina leaping into the air and avoided it.
"Why's that?"
Irina paused, and held a hand to her face.
"Well, Aki-chan said that it was Exorcists that killed his family. But I never heard of them killing innocent Devils before. Sure, we aren't seeing eye to eye with Devils, but why would they kill a Devil that was running this town? It doesn't make sense to me."
"Perhaps he was lying?"
Akira wondered why Xenovia seemed to be against him and yet for him at the same time. She wanted to speak to Akira above Rias, yet it seemed like she still looked down on him, so it was confusing for him.
"But why would Aki-chan lie about that? Aki-chan wouldn't need to lie about it, it doesn't exactly strengthen my worries about Devils or humans or anything. But it might explain why Aki-chan had to run away."
"That Akira is a child of Yaegaki Masaomi yes?"
Irina furrowed her eyebrows, and thought for a few moments.
"According to rumours, I think that's right, though there are others that have been rumoured to be his Otou-san and Aki-chan's never told me about it but they share the same last name, why?"
"Then if that's the case, then a man from the Church and a woman from the Underworld, it would be frowned upon. More than frowned upon, it would be seen as a betrayal to the faith if this man fell in love with a Devil woman."
"But not enough to deserve death, surely!"
Irina argued, they had stopped their fight for the time being.
"Well...that's not up to us to decide Irina."
"Maybe not, but I feel torn about it. If it is true, then Aki-chan had to see his own parents...that must've been so hard, I can't imagine Papa going through that and I having to watch it. Aki-chan had to watch it, and to think that people like us, killed his parents...how come it was never spoken about in the Church? I've never heard of the case where we, killed a human and Devil lover together."
"Maybe it was kept under wraps. As I said, it isn't our place to decide what's right and what's wrong."
"Would you have done it Xenovia? If you had that choice?"
Xenovia furrowed her eyebrows, and thought about it.
Akira watched and listened closely.
"...I can't say yes or no unless knowing the circumstances. But, if there was a child involved at the time, probably not. But we don't know if they committed crimes beyond just being together. But going based on being together, and without knowing anything else...then I can't say that I would do that."
Irina furrowed her eyebrows.
"Me too. I just can't seem to understand why it would be wrong-"
"Because it was a circumstance that shouldn't of happened."
Xenovia and Irina jumped at the voice of Akira's.
Xenovia's eyes turned towards Akira, and Irina did as well.
Irina's face turned upwards, while Xenovia gave him a curious stare.
"You are quite the master of hiding. I didn't sense your presence at all."
"Have been able to hide myself since I was a child."
Akira explained gently, Xenovia folding her arms.
"Tell me something, because we thought that it was the Devils that had killed your parents, and you, or at least forced you to leave. Yet, you said that the Exorcists are to be blamed. Do you consider Irina and I your enemies because of that incident?"
Akira to Xenovia's surprise shook her head.
"No, because I can see that there's differences between people. I don't paint everyone with the same brush if that makes sense?"
"A little bit yes. Tell me, why did they kill your parents?"
"If I knew that then I wouldn't be having this dilemma right now about who I should see as my enemy and ask myself why that happened to my parents. The only reason I can think of is because Tou-chan was from the Church and Kaa-chan was from the Underworld, but to me that doesn't deserve death so I believe something else was going on that I don't know about. I was kind of hoping that you could give me some answers to that night."
Xenovia and Irina looked between one another, before shaking their heads.
"Sorry Aki-chan, but we wouldn't know about it. I only knew something had happened because you disappeared. And I had heard that your parents, the famous Yaegaki Akira Belial's had been killed when you were young. I put two and two together, and I assumed that it was the Devils, since I've heard that the Devils tend to treat half breeds as something that's bad. But if that's not the case then I don't know who it could be."
"It could be anyone, that's why I'm always looking for eye witnesses, and people that match the descriptions of the people I saw. But as a Devil, and on the opposite sides, it isn't like I can see every single Exorcists, I've had leads in the past, but those people are either dead, or I can't find them. I could only find you after researching and because I knew your name, I didn't even know the Exorcists, and records of the Exorcists of that time being in Kuoh, have been destroyed, so that isn't a help either. I want to find them to ask them why they killed my parents. What it was about me and my parents they hated so much that they saw it to end their lives, and nearly my own."
Xenovia heard the sadness in his voice.
Even she, who wasn't sure about Devils in the first place, couldn't imagine what it must have been like to see your parents die before your eyes, and not even know why that happened, why someone would kill your parents and come after you.
"I see, so that's how it is. Well, it is quite the tale to hear that from the half breeds mouth, I have to admit that I am surprised that you are quite human despite being half Devil. What is it like praying to God as a half breed anyway? Knowing that God wont ever look at you because you've got Devil genes in you."
Akira's eyes lowered in a single flap of his eyelids, and thought about what Xenovia said, while Irina gave Xenovia a stern look.
"Don't say such things so rudely Xenovia."
"What? I was asking a question."
"The way you ask the questions is quite rude Xenovia. I mean, geez."
Xenovia folded her arms, while Akira pulled closer.
"God wont ever look at me no." Akira's words caught the attention of Xenovia and Irina. "However, it doesn't make me believe that he wouldn't help others that do follow him. I might never be in his radar, and while I don't always show it, I choose to believe that God is trying to better mankind. No one is perfect, I know that, not even God, and you can argue with me all you want, but that's what I feel about God. He's probably a really great man trying to help the world. While I don't always agree with decisions that God makes, especially when it comes to the likes of my Bishop, and people chasing me down, I understand that he wants to make the world better so in that case, I do believe in God, and hope he does do his best."
Xenovia was actually taken back by his words.
Irina adopted a smile, and gave her thumbs up towards Akira.
"That's my Aki-chan, still the same as always!"
Akira smiled lightly, while Xenovia glanced at the dog on top of Akira's head.
"I heard the famous Akira had a sword that could slice through anything."
"Yes, that's right. That's my Jin-kun. Why did you want to know anyway?"
Xenovia unsheathed her blade, showing Excalibur to Akira who didn't even flinch.
"Then how about a duel between us? I heard you fought against Eminence Vasco Strada, and I myself would like to see the power of yourself. Can we duel with our powers clashing with one another?"
Xenovia asked, rather than demand.
Irina was surprised.
Perhaps because she respected Akira as a fellow swordsman, that's why she thought he would be the best choice to fight against.
"You want to duel against me?" Xenovia nodded. "Fine, I don't mind having a duel against you, if this doesn't get back to the Church or the Devils side."
"But of course, this will be kept between us."
Xenovia agreed, Akira chuckled.
"I hope you're prepared then. Jin-kun, sword form." Jin barked, and leaped upwards, changing into a sword, and landed in Akira's hand. "Then do as you like, I don't mind if you make the first move."
Xenovia smirked, and rushed towards Akira while yelling "That's fine with me!" and swung her sword hard for Akira's body, but the young man casually blocked with his black blade, the sound of clashing metal reverberated around the area, along with Xenovia unleashing the Destruction power of Excalibur which tried to cleave into Akira's body, but he put strength into his swing, forcing back Xenovia, and cut the destructive power down into nothingness, without using Worthless.
Xenovia was bewildered by his ability to see her sword swing, and realized something.
But she didn't stop, and stabbed the ground with her sword, unleashing her destructive power, sending the wave right for Akira who blinked in surprise, and then disappeared from the sights of Irina and Xenovia, who both gasped.
"W-What happened?!"
Irina looked around, but she couldn't see Akira.
Xenovia looked around but she couldn't see him that well. She could see a blur moving around, and could catch his presence, but his speed was truly fast, and she hadn't seen a fast Devil like this in a long time, or maybe if ever honestly.
But then she heard a footstep to the left, and turned to slice…
But all she saw was an afterimage of Akira.
Only to feel a hand touch her shoulder from the other side.
She jumped, and turned to see Akira there with his sword towards her neck.
"Still want to fight?"
"I haven't begun yet!"
Xenovia came down with her sword, and released her power, creating a crater around her body, Akira jumped away, only for Xenovia to release the destructive power towards Akira in short strong bursts of energy, Akira gave a light smile, and sliced down the holy power again and again, splitting it down the middle.
"You are quite strong Xenovia-san."
Akira praised, landing on the ground as Xenovia came at him, swinging her sword, but Akira disappeared from sight, Xenovia let out a growl, and turned to see Akira to her right, swinging downwards with his blade.
It took all of Xenovia's speed to block the sword from Akira, which forced Xenovia to bended knee, the pressure of Akira's swing alone caused the air around his sword to divide, it was that sharp and fast, Xenovia looked on with everlasting surprise.
"W-Whoa Aki-chan, that's so good, you're so fast, and strong. You've really changed since we were kids."
Irina was impressed with Akira's displays, while Akira himself gave a soft smile.
"I had to become strong to defend myself. People have been chasing after me, even my own kind don't like me for the most part, so I had to grow in power, and become as strong as I could, and in the end, I believe while I'm strong, there's still a lot of people out there stronger than the current me."
Xenovia adopted a light smile on her face, pushing back against Akira.
"I can see the rumours aren't unfounded. I can feel the pressure with each swing. Yet, I also realize that you aren't going your full strength and speed."
Irina gasped.
"But, he's so fast!"
"Yes, but I suspect that he could go even faster than he is now. If rumours are true, then he has speed that the human eye couldn't follow. And right now, I can barely follow it, but I can still follow it, so why don't you go your true speed Akira? Why don't you go into Balance Breaker?"
Xenovia baited him, so Akira shrugged his shoulders.
"You sure you want it?"
"Yes, show me your power."
Akira released a chortle.
"You asked for it. Balance Break."
Akira released his Sacred Gear, and it became an armour around his form. The thick black aura surrounded him didn't feel evil, it felt calm and nourishing. Even the sword form of Jin had changed, and looked stronger than before, releasing his own kind of presence from the blade, his own aura, which blended so well with Akira's that made Irina, and Xenovia look at it with awe and the strength behind it was fantastic.
"Wow, the rumours were true, the brilliant black armour of the Black Dog radiates a warmth and yet sends you to despair if you're evil. I can feel how warm the power is from here. Aki-chan, your power is flowing so wonderfully."
Irina couldn't help but see it for what it was.
Magnificent.
She knew that right now, Irina couldn't take on Akira, and she doubted that Xenovia could either.
Even if she used her secret weapon.
Before Balance Breaker, Xenovia was struggling.
Now in Balance Breaker, she couldn't see a moment where Xenovia would be able to win in the fight.
"I see, so this is the Black Dog that Eminence Strada fought. Certainly, this power has to be Ultimate Class already, if not a little more than that. I understand now, as I am, I need to train more to become this strong."
"So, still want to challenge me Xenovia-san?"
Despite her worry for the fight ahead, Xenovia nodded her head.
"Yes, come at me!"
"Okay then!"
Akira, in a burst of speed, shot forward like a bullet, Xenovia pulled backwards, then he disappeared all together.
Unlike before, she couldn't even have a hint of what speed he was going.
It was so fast that she was blind-sided.
Akira then appeared beside Xenovia, and stuck out his hand, pushing Xenovia back so hard that Xenovia's body flew through the air, and the air pressure around the single push broke through a good portion of the area, turning it into rubble.
Xenovia span around and landed on the ground, and charged up her sword, swinging it for Akira, who appeared right before her, Akira blocked with his sword, and a shock wave of power erupted around them in a strong burst, Irina cried at the power being released.
"I was attempting to attack you at a distance, but it was all I could do to block with slash with my own power. Even charging up power isn't going to be my friend, is it?"
"Hmmm?"
Akira gave a light smile Xenovia let out a breath, and pulled backwards.
Akira watched her like a hawk, seeing Xenovia sheath her blade.
"There's no point me trying to defeat you right now. You are currently stronger than I am. If I continued, I wouldn't be able to win. Though it pains me to admit that a Devil is more adept in sword play than myself, at least I know that you're from an Exorcist's side too, so that makes it a little better. Those moves, are clearly Exorcist movements."
"I learned all I know from my Tou-chan, and have been practicing for years. That's all it is."
Xenovia rotated her shoulder.
"Though I honestly am torn about you. I can't be sure if seeing you face to face has relieved my worries, or I have become more worried. A Devil and a human that has the powers of both the Underworld, and Heaven, and even seeing you wield a sword with such proficiency. You could be a very great ally, or a very scary opponent."
If nothing else, Akira couldn't deny that she was honest with herself.
Irina then folded her arms.
"Xenovia, have you got enough information now?"
Xenovia nodded her head, glancing towards Akira.
"We will be in touch soon enough."
Xenovia began walking off, Irina giggled gently.
"I guess we'll be going then Aki-chan. See you soon!"
Irina winked, and walked off with Xenovia.
Though Xenovia didn't say it, she could see that he was a respectable swordsman, and someone that she would like to fight against once more. If they weren't on opposite sides, then she could have seen them being good friends.
Akira watched them go, and while he wasn't sure what was going to happen in the future, he trusted Irina, but Xenovia, there was something about her, that he wasn't sure about.
End chapter!
First of all, thanks to everyone who voted on the poll I had! I'll be closing the poll early next week, so if you want to vote, and haven't yet, then please do! It's quite close with only mere points separating the leader of the poll right now.
So Yasaka's got a mission for Akira, and a few members of his peerage! Irina and Xenovia, under the assumption of Rias being the ones who killed Akira's peerage confront Rias herself, and Yumi with hating Excalibur and clashed, but with a timely save of Akira and the others, they broke the fight apart. Xenovia's still on the fence with Akira, since he's a half Devil, and half human, but at the very least, she's impressed with his skills. Kuroka attempted to get a little fun in with Akira...until Koneko drunk it instead, and voiced some of her feelings to Akira.
Well, until next chapter, thanks for reading!
Akira Peerage
Queen; Vali.
Rooks; Koneko, Gasper.
Bishops; Asia, Le Fay.
Knights; Irina, Xenovia.
Pawns; Rossweisse (three pieces), Ravel (two pieces), Kuroka (three pieces)
Rias Peerage
Queen; Akeno.
Rooks; Aika, Bikou.
Bishops; Walburga, Valerie (mutation).
Knights; Yuuto, Raynare.
Pawns; Issei (8 pieces)
Akira; Rossweisse, Irina, Gasper (fem), Asia, Vali (fem), Koneko, Xenovia, Akeno, Kuroka, Ravel, Le Fay, Sona, Kunou, Ophis.
Issei; Rias, Aika, Walburga, Valerie, Raynare, Elmenhilde.