Lads.. and lasses. I'm torn. Do I want to finish this arc and end it? Or do I full send this and try for 100 chapters. I'm sure I can find a way to do it, I just want to know if you lot think this is worth continuing.

Still Counting

Issei woke up the next morning in a guest room. He didn't know which one, but he knew he had three girls that didn't sleep with him on a nightly basis. Ophis didn't sleep with him at all, and Kunou's room was at the end of the hall. She had been studying late. Yuuma would stay in there sometimes but that was rare so she would stay in a guest room. So, who's arms were wrapped around him at the moment? Then it all came back.

He looked down to see two long twin tails of hair belonging to one Ruruko Nimura. He remembered finding her in the middle of the street in a bloody mess. Then how he brought her here to be healed. How he decided to stay the night in the same room, and then how she wouldn't let go because she was too afraid to be left alone.

The face on his chest was still in the smile that was there when he fell asleep. He stroked her hair and decided he would take the day off from work. Picking up his phone, he was about to text Ravel when he remembered where she was. 'Oh yea, she went home for her birthday.' Instead, he called his head mechanic.

"Hey man. Yeah, I won't be coming into work today. Ran into a bit of trouble last night and need to spend today sorting it out." He spoke to his mechanic.

"Yeah, I get it. Your wife needs you right now. Be with your family." Crumley spoke back. Vincent Crumley came to Japan as an army brat from the United States and was hired by Issei to work in the shop after Sirzechs introduced the two. Turned out, Crumley was a devil that worked under Sirzechs. He had no power and wasn't a peerage member. "Take the day off boss, we'll have that blue 400z ready on the lot by the evening."

"Thank Vince." He hung up and set the phone down. As he did so, Ruruko began to stir again. Her smile had vanished, and her hands were shaking. Issei wrapped his arm tighter around her and rocked side to side with her. "You're okay Ruruko. No one is going to hurt you. Listen to my voice and relax."

The Sitri Pawn slowly relaxed in his arms. Her shaking slowed to a stop and her smile came back.

Just as he got her settled again, Rias opened the door followed by Sona. "How did she sleep?"

"We had a rough night. I started out alone, but around three or so she started crying." He was pretty much informing Sona as to why he was holding her since Rias had already seen them. "She's still scared a bit."

"I expect nothing less. She was held captive for almost a week." Sona caressed her Pawn's cheek. "I'm so sorry, Ruruko. I will kill the man that did this to you."

The rest of the morning was quiet and still for Issei. Sona and Rias had left a long time ago, and Ruruko hadn't woken up yet. The girl had still cuddled up to him like a kid despite the fact she was almost 21. Koneko had come in and asked to see her friend since the two had classes together in school. Turns out, Ruruko had went to university with the rest and was in Koneko's classes. The white Nekomata cracked a couple of jokes about a new harem member before kissing Issei and leaving. A small frown hit her face as she walked away.

Soon, Issei ached since he had this constant pressure on him. But every time he tried to get up, Ruruko would tighten her grip. Only when he laid back did she relax.

"Well, this is going to be a long day." Issei simply went back to looking for more inventory on his phone.

Around noon or so, Ruruko's eyes slowly fluttered open. She felt that she was laying on something warm and firm. It wasn't the metal slab that she had been on for a week, it was a person. She looked up with a bit of hesitation and found Issei. Only then did she make herself known. "Morning."

Issei looked away from his phone to the girl in his left arm. "Good morning Ruruko. Sleep any better?"

"After I you helped me, I did." She nuzzled herself into his chest. This caused Issei to blush. Normally when this happened, it was one of his girls. But Ruruko was almost a complete stranger and part of Sona's peerage.

"Uh, it's about time w-we got up. It's almost noon." He nodded to the clock causing Ruruko to follow his gaze.

"Oh, uh, thank you for letting me stay here Issei. I will be leaving now." She quickly jumped up and tried to stand. However, her body wasn't used to having to move and was still weak from the night before, so her knees buckled, and she started downwards.

Issei was so fast catching her, she never even saw him move. One second, he was in the bed, the next she was laying in his arms. "Oh no you don't." He quickly picked her up and laid her back on the bed. "Your body is too weak to function right now, and your demonic power was used up. You're staying right here until you heal."

Ruruko pouted. She liked being able to move and exercise, so sitting in a room was torture. And being the trouble maker she was, she was already forming an escape plan.

"And no moving unless you have someone here with you." Issei said as he shut the door behind him.

A few minutes later, a knock came.

"Who is it?"

"Ruruko?" Koneko's voice came from the other side.

"Koneko, come in."

The white neko walked in carrying a food tray and a glass of water. "How're you feeling?"

"Like a prisoner again. Don't get me wrong, I'm so thankful for all that you guys have done, but I just wanna go home." Ruruko looked over at her phone. She hadn't had a chance to check it. Her parents had to be worried sick, right?

Koneko set he tray down and hopped on the bed. "I get that. There are days I feel cooped up here too. But you need to get your strength up. You were held hostage for what, a week? You need to rest."

This wasn't going the way that Ruruko had hoped. She had hoped to enlist Koneko to help her get home. "Koneko, I need to go home. I'm sure my parents are-" She stopped.

Koneko looked up at her friend who was staring at her phone. Her eyes were wide and forming tears. "What's wrong Ruruko?"

"They didn't text me." Ruruko scrolled through her phone. There was not one text nor call from either of her parents. "They, they didn't call me." She dropped her phone onto the bed. "I was taken hostage for a week and they didn't even care!" She slammed her head into her pillow and began to bawl her eyes out.

All Koneko could do was offer a shoulder to cry one. She helped Ruruko sit up and pulled her into a hug. "I'm sorry Ruru." She rubbed her friend's back. "I know how you feel right now."

"Do you!?"

A heavy silence rang between them and throughout the room.

Eventually, Koneko sighed. "Yea I do." She sat back a bit, so she was looking at Ruruko's face. "When I was younger. My sister Kuroka and I were adopted by a high class devil. This man treated us like his daughters, at first. After Kuroka joined his peerage as his bishop, he started to experiment with her. He would take her blood daily and try to fuse it with other beings. Once her blood proved to be pointless, he came after me."

"I'm sorry Koneko."

"Let me finish." She let out a low breath. "When Kuroka found out, she killed him and tried to get us out. By the time she had made it back to our room, others had arrived, and she had to run. I lost the only family I had. For years, I believed that she ditched me to chase power, that she didn't love me. Now, she's here with me." Koneko saw the look in her friend's eye again. "I know that I had a happy ending. You can too. Not with your parents, with a new family."

"N-New family?"

"Yeah!" Koneko said suddenly excited. "I'm sure I can convince Issei to let you live here with us. I know you like him."

Ruruko's cheeks turned a deep shade of red. "I mean, uh, n-no I don't." She wiped her teary eyes. "H-He just saved me is all."

"I know girls that fell for him for less." The cheeky white Neko stood and helped Ruruko up. "Come on, you need a bath. You smell like…"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence." She snapped. Then both of them just turned into a giggling fit.

Days had past, and Ruruko was almost back to her old self. Her body had repaired and replenished what was lost. The scars were no longer there, and her demonic power was almost back at full strength. It was just over a week since she had been to her real home. The guest room she had stayed in slowly became hers as she recuperated. The biggest issue was that she had no clothes here, so she had to borrow some of Asia's that she couldn't wear at the moment.

Speaking of Asia, she was now in her late fifth month and her baby had started kicking more. Issei had decided that now was a good time to go and see their creation.

The happy coupled rolled up to the doctor's office that Issei had been to many times before. Same doctor, same process.

"Ah, Issei. It's been a while. Holding off for anything?" The doctor asked as he spun in his chair.

"No, not really. Things just came up." He wasn't going to talk about how he almost lost Asia because of Valdos and the entire thing with Cao Cao.

"I see. Well anyway, and you might be?"

"A-Asia Argen… Hyoudou. Sorry, I'm still not used to saying it like that." Asia smiled nervously. She was a little worried that her hopes would not come to pass. Although, even if she did have a baby boy, she would love him all the same.

"Nice to meet you Mrs. Asia." The doctor shook her hand. "Alright. I assume we're here to get a look at the stowaway?"

"That's right. Asia hopes that we're having a baby girl." Issei held his wife's hand.

The doctor rubbed the cool gel over her belly and moved the lens over her. "Well, it would appear that just like every other girl you've brought here, she gets what she wants. It looks to me like a beautiful baby girl." He turned the screen so that Asia could see.

Asia just sat in wonder. She had waited for this for so long and now it was finally happening.

"Wait a minute here. This is interesting." The doc turned the screen back and studied it more carefully. "Interesting indeed."

Both the parents became worried. "What's wrong? Is it Anastasia?" Asia asked with obvious fear in her voice.

"I wouldn't call this a bad thing Mrs. Asia. But… let's just say it takes two to complete a pair."

"Huh?"

"Congratulations. You're indeed having a baby girl, as well as a baby boy. You're having twins." The doctor stood and left to file some paperwork in his office leaving the surprised parents alone.

Both of them just sat there in amazement. Never in a million years, did Asia think she would be having twins since twins were a genetic thing. "I guess that's from me." She said stunned as she looked at the monitor again.

"I guess so." Issei stood and grabbed a cloth to wipe off her belly. "It would appear we need to have a name for a boy too.

"Y-Yeah." Her eyes never left the monitor. To think that she was pregnant with twins was amazing. "Good thing is they can't be confused with one another." That was true. You couldn't really confuse a boy and a girl even if they were twins. "We need to buy more baby stuff."

"I love you, Asia." Issei sat back down with her. His hands interlace with hers.

"I love you more."

"I love you most." He then reached his free hand to her swollen middle. "All three of you."

Hey lads, i went back and edited all the nsfw scenes in chapters 15, 30, 35. That's all I've done so far.