Decay

Koneko and Issei were in the middle of another session of love making. She had been very adamant about it this time around as it took a lot of mewling and affectionate nuzzling to get him to come with her. (hehe, I'm a child). She made the claim that she was helping him but wouldn't tell him how or why.

The small neko cried out as another earth shattering orgasm hit her. Issei only grunted as her walls clamped down on him. As he looked up at her, she had tears in her eyes and a frown on her face. Normally, when she would cum, her tongue was out, and she was grinning ear to ear. What changed?

Without realizing fully, he slowed down to a stop in her and reached forward. "Kitten, are you okay?" His gentle hand ran across her cheek.

"I-I'm okay. Why did you stop?" Her voice was cracking, as if she was about to cry. This was something really new.

"Because I'm worried about you. If I'm hurting you, please say so." He placed a small kiss on her forehead. "I don't want to hurt you."

"You-You're not hurtin…" All of a sudden, her eyes closed, and her head dropped.

"Koneko? Koneko!" Issei pulled out of her and laid down by her side. He placed his ear on her naked chest and found a heartbeat. "Phew, you're still alive. Alright, now what the hell happened to you Kitten?" She didn't answer. Her breathing was shallow and her mewls were weak. Normally when she would pass out, she would still be purring. She wasn't.

He pulled her up to the pillows and laid her head down. After putting his own clothes back on, he went to find Kuroka. This was something bad, it had to be.

Issei sprinted through the halls to the room that belonged to his third wife and son. Kuroka had moved out of the room she shared with Koneko so that Ewan wouldn't keep her sister up all night. Frantically, he knocked on the door to get her attention.

"Hang on, hang on." Kuroka snapped from inside. She opened it to find her husband looking terrified. "What's wrong?"

"Kuroka… it's Koneko. She passed out." He panted since he was running.

"So? That happens normally after you to are together, right?" Apparently Koneko told her sister everything.

"Well, yes, but this is different. I think she's sick. Either that or something bad."

"Alright, let me put Ewan down." After putting the toddler to sleep, she followed him to check on her sister.

Together, they entered Koneko's room to find her wrapped up in the blankets. Kuroka leaned over her sister and shook her head. "She's being an idiot. That's your answer."

"Huh?"

"Did she or I ever speak of an act known as Bojutsu?" She asked as she sat down on the bed.

"No, not that I remember." Issei looked back as far as he could and found nothing.

The older neko shook her head again. "Well, I'll let her tell you when she wakes up. For now, let her rest. She'll be fine soon enough."

Issei kissed Kuroka. "I'm sorry. I feel that I did this to her."

"Oh, you didn't. She's doing it to herself. I knew I should've taught her that part of it." She frowned and pushed past her husband. "Unless she already knew."

At the door, stood Rias. She had come to ask Issei a question and saw them rushing to Koneko's room. "Is she okay?" She walked up behind her husband and offered a comforting arm.

"I don't know. She just passed out." He relaxed visibly as Rias ran her hand across his shoulder blades.

"She's fine. Koneko's a strong woman now. She'll be just fine."

"I hope so."

Hours later

Koneko's eyes fluttered open to see she was alone in her bed. As her senses adjusted, she felt weak when trying to lift her arm. "Ow, dammit." She went to reach her phone but couldn't do it. "That took more out of me than I thought."

"Kitten?"

She instantly raised her head. Only one person called her that name. Issei.

"Issei?"

She found him sitting in her gaming chair reading his phone.

"How're you feeling?"

"Remember the truck?" She was referring to the one that hit him a few weeks ago.

"Yea." Issei placed his hand on her forehead to check for her temperature.

"Double it."

A small chuckle came from her mouth as Issei just sighed. "Kuroka said that you did this to yourself? Something called Bojutsu?"

Koneko's grin faded, she'd been caught red handed and ratted out by her sister. "Yea."

"What is it? She said you'd tell me." Issei moved to the bed and sat next to her.

Knowing there was no way out of this, she rolled to her side to face him. She sighed. "Fine, since she ratted me out, I guess I have no choice now. Do you remember not long after we started our healing sessions, I offered you another solution?"

Issei reached back into his memory and found a vague recollection of the time. "Sort of."

"Well, I phrased it differently then. Bojutsu is also called Bedroom arts. It's a special way to heal one using energy. In this case, sex." Her cheeks were pink as she spoke. The word 'adorable' came nowhere close to describing her face at this moment in time.

"I do remember that now. You got on top of me before Rias came in." He rubbed his neck as the memory came back.

Koneko tried to sit up but dropped down. "Yea, well, I was preforming Bojutsu on you every time we've done it." That number was about six or seven times in the past week. Koneko had been hounding poor Ravel about scheduling and would never explain why. She claimed it was healing sessions.

They both sat in silence before Issei spoke up. "Why did you pass out though?"

Once again, she was trapped with no escape. "I was transferring my energy to you." Her white fluffy ears fell as she realized the weight of what she was about to say. "More specifically, my life force."

Issei was taken aback. Koneko was giving him her life force. "Wait… what?"

"She's not lying partner." Ddraig spoke aloud. "It would appear Koneko has lengthened your lifespan… at the cost of her own."

"What!?" His gaze snapped to Koneko instantly. "What did you do!?"

Koneko cowered away in fear of his response. So much so that she started to cry. "I'm sorry Issei. I couldn't bear the thought of loosing you. I figured that if I transferred some of my life to you, you would gain your full life force back. I may not live to see our grandchildren, but I'd like to see our children."

Issei realized he was scaring her and relaxed a bit. "Okay, how do we reverse it?"

"Huh?"

"Reverse it, take back what you gave me."

"Partner. She has given you over fifty percent of her life force over these past few days. She can barely move right now."

The room went silent.

No one dared speak.

After a few minutes, Koneko spoke softly. "I don't want it back. Issei, I gave it to you to keep you breathing. I-I don't care about me." Her lips formed a frown and she looked down at the bed sheets.

Issei's heart was pounding. All of this was so surreal. The thought of someone literally giving their life for him was strange enough. And it was Koneko of all people. He noticed the look on her face and moved to sit behind her. Carefully, he wrapped his arms around her. "We can fix this Kitten. I promise. You and I will live together for a very long time. Now, we just need a solution."

Koneko let a tear slide out. "I-I don't know one. The only way to restore a nekomata's life force is to kill, and I don't want to kill."

"If I may..?" Ddraig boomed. "I may not know much about Nekomata Ms. Koneko, but perhaps your predicament can be solved the same way our is."

"What do you mean?" Issei asked as he held the still sniffling Koneko.

"I mean, if you both extend you family line, you could extend your own lives." Ddraig's reasoning was sound. If it worked for Issei, it might work on her.

Koneko sat still for a moment. "I don't know if that'll work, but I'm willing to try."

"Alright, lay back Kitten. We're going to go slow since your body is frail right now." Issei soothed her with his hand on her back and gently laid her back whilst he got on top. Thanks to Ddraig having some control of some of Issei's bodily functions, he was already stiff again and ready to go. "Are you ready?"

She just nodded her head slowly. "I'm ready, but you don't have to do this."

"Yes, I do. Koneko…" He only used that name with her when he was serious. "… I'm not going to lose you because of something this silly. I want you to be a part of my family for as long as possible. That means restoring your life force."

Just as he was about to start, he got a call.

"Dammit." He opened his phone to see it was Rias. "Hey Rias, what's up?"

"My brother sent details on a stray we need to eliminate. You up for it?" Rias was serious about this. "It's one not to be taken lightly."

"Alright, send me the coordinates and we'll head on over."

"We?"

"I'm gonna bring Koneko with me. It'll be good for her to get out some." This earned him a light swat on the arm.

"Okay, be safe you two." Rias hung up.

Issei turned back to Koneko. "Well, here's plan B. We go out there, I beat this thing to within an inch of its life, then you kill it. Think you can muster the power to kill something?"

"The point isn't that I can kill something, it's that I don't want to." She turned to face him. "I-I don't want this power to overrun me."

"Then I'll be there to bring you back." He brought her face into his still naked chest. "I will never let you lose your way Koneko. I can and will promise you that."

Tears dropped on his chest as Koneko cried. She could feel his hand running through her hair to soothe her. "Thank you. But if this doesn't work…"

"If this doesn't work, then we'll go back to plan A." They stayed like this for a few more minutes. The plan was set, now it was time to execute it.

It has been a roller coaster of things done here and there. I regret to say that DxD will be on the back burner for now. Fall semester is about to start and I want to focus there. As i mentioned before, go check out my other stuff. Demon Slayer and Re:Zero are the most recent to be updated and will probably be the easiest to update. Stay tuned for this though.