Chapter 27

(Issei's House, 3rd person POV)

Long brown twin tails and kind purple eyes, paired with a happy white smile. A beautiful young girl, around my age looked back at me seemingly overjoyed. After a brief silence, the girl spoke. "Hiyah Issei! Remember me?"

The two teens stood for few moments, eyes locked. They took the time to study each other, the brunette's smile seemingly unwavering. After awhile Issei made his move.

"Fuck off." With that he slammed the door on the two, but it stopped short of closing completely as the blue haired woman caught it with her feet. The door suddenly reopened revealing that the blue haired girl had also removed her hood. She had short sapphire blue hair, messy bangs, a small amount of green highlights, and much less friendly eyes.

"Issei how could you." The brown haired girl began to tear up as she whispered to herself, as her partner took a step forward.

"Listen, I respect all religions, but I don't think I'm going to come to Jesus no matter how long your stupid speech is. If you want I'll take the pamphlet, but I'm not donating any money." Issei put his hand on the girls shoulder trying to escort her out, but she simply knocked it off and stood firm.

"What's going on in here?" Rias entered the room, holding a mixing bowl and wearing an apron, when she got a look at the two girls her eyes exploded with shock. "Issei watch out, those are exorcists!"

"Exorcists?! What the hell!?"

""A DEVIL!"" The two women threw off their robes, revealing skin tight black body suits. Then two flashes of yellow light appeared in both of the girl's hands and from then two blades were formed, each of them exuding a dangerous aura. One of them, the one held by the brown haired woman resembled a standard Japanese katana. But the weapon wielded by the blue haired girl was unlike any sword Issei had ever seen, abnormally long and broad, like a blue cleaver with a gold trim.

"Holy swords." Rias said in shock before discarding the mixing bowl and summoning two magic, one two each hand.

"Be careful Irina, this one's no stray. She's a high ranking devil and is probably more powerful than anything we've faced." The blue haired exorcist said firmly as she stood in the defensive. "But what is she doing here?"

"She's probably here to seduce Issei." The brunette who's name was apparently Irina, replied. "We have to slay her and free Issei of her spell then I'm sure he'll help us."

"Wait! Are you guys gonna fight?" Issei asked trying to assess the situation. "Oh no. Not in my house!"

[WELSH DRAGON BALANCE BREAKER!]

Issei's armor quickly surrounded him as he grabbed the two by the backs of their latex-like suits and using his strength, he shook the two girls forcing them to drop the blades and leaving them dizzy, before dropping them to the floor.

In another flash of red light Issei's armor disappeared and he and Rias looked over their two disoriented attackers. "Well…. That was super weird."

(Later, Issei's POV)

We tied the two girls up with some rope and sat them down on the couch. It took about five minutes for them to come to and when they did we were ready with questions.

"Uuhhhh." The brown haired girl was the first to wake up, her eyes slowly cracked open. "Huhh? Wait! What's going on?! Xenovia wake up!" She elbowed her Associate, waking her.

"What's going on? Where are our swords!?" The two of them begin to struggle in the ropes. Both of them had well put together figures and we're especially endowed in the bust. As the struggled this became more apparent.

"Woah! Stop!" I raised one had to signal them and with the other I covered my eyes. "Calm down your swords are in the kitchen."

"Why would you tell them that!?" Rias yelled at me.

"Because I wanted them to stop their squirming, I didn't tie the ropes that tight. Besides even if they know where their swords are, they'll have to get past me to get them." I summoned my gauntlet to show off.

"What!? Issei I didn't know you had a Sacred Gear!" The brown haired one is really acting like she knows me, but I'd think I'd remember a face like that.

"Irina that's not just any Sacred Gear, that's the Red Dragon's Longinus, the Boosted Gear." The blue haired girl is pretty knowledgeable. "I knew that armor looked familiar, what doesn't make sense is that Sacred Gear wielders are traditionally loyal to the Church, considering their powers are gifts from god. And you are not a devil which means you weren't reincarnated. So why do you choose to align yourself with Hell scum?"

Woah! For a saint this girl is pretty harsh, and what position is she in to question me? "Cause I do what I want. That's why. Anyway, we're the ones asking questions. You can start by telling me your names and what exactly you're doing in my house."

"My names Xenovia Quarta." Man that sounds like a fake name, like who has a name like that. "And this is my Partner Irina Shidou."

"But you should know that already you jerk!" Irina blurted out at me. "When we were little we were best friends! I can't believe you don't remember me!"

Totally doesn't ring a bell, I don't know what she's talking about.

"So, you claim to be his childhood friend." Rias accused the girl as she slowly wrapped her arm around my shoulder seemingly marking her territory.

"Yes I do, and just who are you to him?" Irina retorted.

Rias was about to fire back, but I decided to step in and end it. "That's not important to you. What is important is why you came here, and I'm just dying to know."

"It's simple, we came to you seeking refuge. Irina said she was familiar with you, so we came hoping to use your house as a base while we complete our mission." Xenovia explained, I don't think she's blinked since she got here.

"And what exactly is your mission." Rias asked before I could. "This area is under my control, don't think I'll just let you cause trouble unsupervised."

"That's need to know only, and you don't. Let's just say if we do our job, even a devil like you will be thankful." I gotta give Xenovia props, girls got stones. But I don't think that explanation has quite pleased Rias.

"Remember, just where you are. You have no place making decisions here, I suggest you cooperate." Rias glared her serious stare at them. When she gets like that even I usually end up yielding to her will, and I'm a pretty stubborn dude.

"Fine, but not here." Xenovia relented. "There are eyes everywhere, is there anywhere more secure we can talk. Just the two of us."

"You're right, we should meet at the club room tomorrow. There is plenty of magic protecting that place form any unwanted eavesdroppers." Rias compiled and a plan began to form.

"That sounds good, the only problem is we have no place to stay."

"Well you can't stay here." I said quickly, trying to work myself back into the conversation. "Not trying to be mean or anything, but this place is crowded enough as is. Raynare and Asia will be back any minute, and I have no idea where Tiamat is but if I give you her room she may try and eat you."

"Well we wouldn't want that." I think I'm gonna nickname Xenovia captain obvious. Only in my head though, calling that to her face would be mean.

"I can give you enough money to spend the night in the hotel a few blocks from here, but only one night cause I'm not sure if we're friends." I said pulling my wallet out of my pocket.

"We are friends Issei!" Irina cried out one more time, not ready to give this up anytime soon. "I can't except the fact that you forgot me. We used to play together all the time, but then that fire happened and you left and I left shortly after that."

"Well don't feel too bad. It's very possible you and I were good friends back then, but after that fire I made it my top priority to forget everything about that part of my life and completely start over." Yeah, I kinda feel bad for her. It's not cool that I forgot her. "In fact, back then I had a rather unhealthy obsession with women's bodies, if it wasn't for what happened I might've become a huge pervert."

"Yeah, might've." Rias said with a roll of her eyes.

"Anyway, the only thing I can really remember form back then was playing around with this dude at his house a couple of times, but that doesn't really help your case sorry."

"Awww…. that's super sad. We were such good friends I was sure you'd remember me." Irina lowered her head in depression, I don't think I've ever heard someone sound more depressed and I lived with my grandfather for 9 years. I almost teared up myself. "I know!" She immediately perked up, looking as happy as ever. "I know I brought a picture of the two of us as kids, I'll show you that to jog your memory! Where is my luggage."

"We left it outside, but I don't think we have time for that. We need to rest, it's been a long journey and we have a lot of work to do." Xenovia scolded her comrade. "Think you Issei Hyoudou for your generosity, you'll be in my prayers."

I untied the two girls and handed Xenovia the money. "Now when someone says you can't come into their house, respect their wishes from now on." I showed the two to the door. "Oh, wait before you go." I quickly ran to the kitchen and ran back with the fancy swords in my arms. "Here ya go."

"You are giving these back?" Xenovia asked as she hesitantly took back the swords.

"Issei What the hell are you thinking!" Rias yelled at me again.

"Of course I'm giving them back, or else that'd be stealing. Besides, nobody's gonna hurt you. There's no way I'd let that happen." Rias worries way too much.

"Oh…. right. I guess you wouldn't let something like that happen would you?"

"Of course not. Honestly you're pretty lucky ya know. I wish I could live my life knowing nothing was ever gonna hurt me."

"Issei you really are too good to me. I don't know what I'd do if you never came into my life….."

"Alright! We get it!" Irina yelled, killing the mood. "Chill out with the mushy stuff okay, we're leaving. Bye Issei! Try your best to remember me!" I waved goodbye and with that they exited.

"Well they seemed nice."

"I guess they weren't so bad for exorcist." Rias said before taking a look at the wall clock. "Woah It's this late already! I have to finish dinner and get to bed!"

"Oh yeah, you have a big day tomorrow. Have you decided how your gonna settle the Sitri thing?" I asked as I followed Rias into the kitchen.

She turned around and flashed me a big smile. "Yeah we decided on…."

(Next day, Kuoh sports area)

"Tennis….." I said with a loud groan. "How much more boring can you get, they might as well have a golf match." Kiba, Koneko, Asia and I made are way to the tennis courts for the match anticipated by the whole school.

"If you think it's so boring, than what's with the shirt?" Koneko asked pointing at my shirt. It was mostly white, but spelled out in big red letters was "TEAM RIAS!"

"Oh, I saw some of the girls in class wearing these early this week and asked where I could buy one and it turns out they were being sold here out school. I can't believe I was the last one to learn about this, I mean they've been making T-shirts since Monday."

"Uh Issei… we only learned about it yesterday." Asia said, just as confused as I was.

"Then why are there already…. T-shirts…." I looked around and learned exactly what was going on.

"What?! Issei-San is wearing one of those shirts?"

"So it's true, they really are dating."

"No! It can't be! Team Yuuma for the win!"

The voices of my female classmates made it all to clear. Those two perverts must have started a school wide shipping war with me as the main focus. Hell I bet they are the ones who made the stupid shirts! I don't know that for sure, but I am sure that one of them is getting punched, or both of them.

"Issei are you okay? You look pretty mad." Oh, sweet Asia. When you look at me with those concerned eyes, there's no way I could be angry.

"Hey Issei! Nice shirt!" The irritating voice of Genshirou Saji filled my ears and now then rage flooded back into my mind. "It's good to see your competitive spirit, but I hate to tell you you're backing the wrong horse. But seriously that's a nice shirt, are they making some for Sonia's team." Ha! He's an idiot too, that makes me feel better.

"So you really think that Sona can win. I've only ever seen her around school, but she doesn't seem like much of an athlete." I said, not meaning any disrespect but it was taken that way.

"Of course she can! Sona can do anything!" Man, Saji's face is getting all red. Dude needs to take a breath. "I wouldn't except someone like you two understand, unlike Rias, Sona's beauty is more subtle and takes more to appreciate."

"You're getting off topic here." I raised a hand to silence the idiot. "I'm not talking about physical appearances, I'm talking about what I've seen behavior wise. I just always pictured her as more of an intellectual than someone who'd want to solve their problems with a test of physical ability."

"Oh…. Well in that case you'd be right, honestly I don't know why Sona would agree to this fight…" Saji began to scratch his chin as he tried to work his tiny brain.

"I can answer that." Koneko walked up beside me and inserted herself into the conversation. "I was there after all. Rias-Buchou and Sona-senpai wanted to find a even playing field to resolve the conflict. Originally Sona-senpai had suggested a chess match to decide the winner and Buchou proposed a one on one battle her versus Sona eventually both were declined in favor of a sports competition."

After the explanation, our group continued its way to the tennis court, this time with the company of Saji. On arrival we met up with Raynare and a large group of girls crowding the sides of the court in anticipation of the spectacle.

"Hi guys!" She was really getting good at this Yuuma persona. Raynare ran up to greet us, almost like a real school girl instead of some damned angel. "You guys ready for the big match?"

"Yeah I guess." I answered without a bit of enthusiasm. "Tennis just really isn't my thing, I'm here in support of my friends not the support."

"That's cool Issei, but I unfortunately not everything is about you." Now that's familiar. Raynare then got a glimpse Saji. "Issei. Who is that guy?" She whispered into my ear.

"That's just Saji. He's Sona's pawn or something, so not really important." I whispered back and Raynare nodded.

"HEY JERKS! I CAN HERE YOU!" Saji yelled at the top of his lungs, getting the attention of the audience. He quieted down after that. "My name is Genshirou Saji, who are you supposed to be?" He crossed his arms and tried to act cool, even after being embarrassed.

"I'm Yuuma Amano, but your a little reincarnated devil so I guess you can call me Raynare." She said with a dumb fake smile, good thing the crowd doesn't seem to be able hear us or else they'd be pretty freaked out.

"Oh yeah, I've heard of you. You're that Fallen Angel that Hyoudou dumped before he started going out with Rias." Uh oh, watch it Saji.

A creepy smile broke out across Raynare's face, as she simply stood there. "What did you say? I'm sorry I couldn't here you. Please repeat."

"Alright that's enough." I stepped in between the two and attempted to change the subject. "Hey Koneko. Why didn't Rias and Sona just have a rating game."

"Well theirs a few reasons for that. The first one is that neither of them are actually old enough to participate in a real rating game, but that probably wouldn't be a problem here. But what is a problem…" Koneko stepped aside to show Kiba silently glaring at the ground. "He's been like this for days, Rias wouldn't throw him out like this."

Something must really be bothering him, Kiba's usually the king of the handsome smile. He just looks so depressed… "Yo bro, you okay?"

"Huh?" His head shot up quickly, as if he just realized where he was. "Oh, yeah. I'm fine…." Dude really needs to work on his lying, I wish I knew how to help the guy.

"HYYYYAAAAHHHHHH!" The excited cry of high school girls filled my ears and interrupted my deep thoughts.

I focused my attention back to the Court as the combatants entered. Occult Research Club President and Vice President, Rias Gremory and Akeno Himejima. Against Student Council President and Vice President, Sona Sitri and Tsubaki Shinra. Four of the schools top idols ready to battle it out in….. tennis.

"The Student Council looks like a pair of nerds, you think we got this?" Raynare asked straight up, no care for the opponents feelings.

"I don't know. Rias and Akeno both are carrying a couple extra pounds of…. resistance. They won't have the advantage when it comes to speed." I replied just as straight forward.

"Hehehe…. You guys don't have a chance in hell." Saji hit us with the disgusting pun, that physically hurt me. "I bet you we crush you."

"Oh yeah?" Normally I'd just leave it alone, but no pun goes unpunished. "¥10000 says we beat you."

Saji hesitated for a minute but eventually shook my hand. "Your on."

(Sorry guys but I really don't wanna write out a tennis match, so I choose not to.)

"8000 9000 10000…" I counted out my winnings in my hand before slipping it back into my pocket. Haha! That sucker. Our group was heading for the clubhouse to congratulate Rias on her win, but we had no idea what was waiting for us.

As I pushed open the large door I was greeted by the sight of Rias sitting on the couch, sipping a cup of tea. But sitting across from her were the two exorcists Irina and Xenovia, this time they didn't even bother with the robes, only wearing the skintight black body suits.

Rias turned around and spotted me. "Oh Issei, good thing you're here we need to talk."

(Author's notes)

Alright guys, this chapter was more lighthearted and the next one will get back onto the story. If y'all thought this was funny, let me know in the reviews. Until next time, bye!