Author Note- There are two important announcements I would like to make

My beta reader/editor for this fic Polkxe has sadly informed me this chapter would be his last. Due to increase in work load on his job he would be able to edit my story any longer.

Now I would like to personally thank for edit these previous chapters. He is the only reason this story is in a reading condition. SO THANK YOU POLKXE

Again, thank you Polkxe for your services. Now on with the chapter.

Chapter-8

Occult Research Club

"Rias, I have your clothes ready here," Akeno said placing Rias's school uniform on the dressing table attached to the sink.

"Thanks," Rias replied from the shower ,her blurred figure visible through the glass.

When Akeno exited the bathroom to prepare tea for Rias, she saw Sona and Tsubaki enter the clubroom.

"Sona? Tsubaki? Is something wrong?" Akeno asked concerned as It was unlike them to just barge inside the clubroom without even knocking.

"We might have a big problem on our hands. Where is Rias?" Sona asked there was urgency present in her voice with a hint certain edge.

"She is taking her usual shower at the moment and will be out in a minute or two. Why don't the two of you take a seat in the meantime while I go get some tea ready for you and by the looks on your faces you could use some." said Akeno.

"I…" It seemed she was about to refuse her offer but instead she took a deep breath,"Yeah, sure." she gave her a deflated response before plopping down on the sofa with Tsubaki following her suit.

Akeno did not know what was wrong but the least she can do is get them some tea ASAP.

After a few minutes Rias emerged from the shower dressed in a fresh set of school clothes and immediately noticed Sona and Tsubaki sitting on the sofa. "Sona? What are you doing here? Do you need the notes from the classes you and Tsubaki missed today?" Rias asked and took a seat opposite to them.

"No… well not now at least maybe later you can give us your notebook. But that is not the reason why we are here." Sona waved her hand and, in a flash, images started floating above the little coffee table they were sitting at. "Our familiar came across four fallen angels inside our territory last night."

Rias saw the images of four fallen in the market area of Kuoh. The only male of the group was sitting on a bench looking bored out of his mind, exuding an air of arrogance that was intensified by his coal like eyes looking with contempt at the crowd of humans surrounding him. The short blonde girl was at the moment sporting a wide smile while listening to an elderly lady, it could've even look cute if one were to ignore the short stack's hands clenched into fists behind her back and her blue eyes trying to erase the old lady out of existence. The woman with dark blue hair was playing with a teenage boy, manning a takoyaki food stand by folding her arms under her breasts while ordering food. The boy ,completely encapsulated by the sight in front of him, didn't even ask for payment when he handed over the takoyaki only coming to his senses when the woman was long gone and the next person came up to order. The last fallen of the group was a raven haired beauty that didn't look much older than Rias. She looked tense and on guard, her eyes were scanning the area around her. "Maybe she felt someone was watching her but couldn't pinpoint from where exactly?" Rias thought.

"First the rogue exorcist's and now this." Rias muttered "Were you able to find out where they are staying at?"

"No, they disappeared from our familiar's viewpoint. They weren't able to keep up with them," Sona answered "that's why I came here. We need to gather both of our peerages and hunt them down. The Fallen are inside our territory without our permission."

"Don't bother, I know where they're staying." A voice interrupted their conversation when they turned around they saw Akane leaning against the door of the clubroom "and I can even tell you where they are at the moment,"

"Akane, what are you doing here?" Rias asked her.

"Don't you remember? You invited me to be a part of your occult research club?" Akane said to her.

"Yeah, I do remember that I can also remember you saying that you won't be participating in any extracurricular activities." Rias replied with her hands crossed.

"It's not like she will have a say in this." Sona joined in, "taking at least one extracurricular activity is mandatory and that's non-negotiable." She added.

"Hmmm… Yeah, my homeroom teacher did say something like that." Akane replied, "But that is not important now. It's the fallen angels in your territory that had got your panties in a twist, right? Well, I know where they're staying." She told them as she entered the room and took a seat at the sofa.

"And how do you know where they are staying?" Sona asked, her eyes squinted in suspicion.

"The day I arrived at Kuoh I got offered a job to keep an eye on a group of fallen angels that would be arriving at Kuoh. Seeing that the job would not be conflicting with my interests with you guys, I accepted the job. That's how I know where they are, I have been following them from the moment they arrived at Tokyo airport." Akane tells them.

"Wait…. this is the Job you're doing for Azazel?" Rias asked remembering Akane's and Grayfia's exchange last night and her mention that she was doing something for him.

"Yeah." She replied, as Akeno arrived with a few cups of tea on a tray and started placing them on the table.

"So, why would you give us their location? You do realize what we would do with them, right?" Sona asked.

"Yeah, the mission would be a bust, and I would lose out on the rewards but it's not that big of a deal. The people who'd be suffering the biggest loss here would be you two." Akane said, pointing towards Rias and Sona.

"Why would we be at a loss here?" Rias asked.

"There are four fallen present in your territory who might have also hired some rogue exorcist. If they do attack or harm you and your peerage, you are liable to ask the Fallen Angels anything as indemnification and by law, they can't say no to that. You would have Azazel by the balls, essentially." Akane explained it to her.

"Fallen angels are known to do recon missions like this all over the world. And if those agents do get caught the fallen angel brass always decries the culprits as rogue elements and denies any involvement. The same thing will happen here if we go to them demanding compensation." Sona replied.

"Hehehehe, I'm afraid they won't be able to deny their involvement this time." Akane replied before looking towards Akeno ,"Akeno, do you remember a cousin of yours by the name of Raynare?"

"I have a lot of cousins Akane-san. Some are even a good few decades older than me. So forgive me but I don't remember everyone's name." Akeno replied, her voice carried an air of nostalgia, and her face was set in an expression Akane found hard to read. There was anger there, but also sadness and a deep longing.

"Hmmm, that explains why you didn't warn them about her." Akane said before she took out a pair of glasses from her pocket, "Now, how did that work?" she said and started to tinker with them.

Rias, Akeno, Sona and Tsubaki had no idea what she was doing, "ahem ahem... Can I help you with something?" a distorted voice asked, when she looked towards where it came from she found a Letter G with a speech graph beneath it floating above the table.

"Who are you?" Akane asked.

"That's my bishop, Gasper." Rias introduced him "He's a bit shy and tends to operate through distance." she informed her.

"You didn't answer my question. I said can I help you with anything as I felt you were trying tamper with magic seals present here." The distorted voice now recognized as Gasper asked.

"Yeah I was trying to connect this." Akane began showing gasper the glasses, "With a magic seal so I could show Rias and Sona the info I have in these." She explained.

"Ohh? Put it on the tea table I might be able to help you with that." Gasper replied.

"Ok." Akane said before putting the glasses on the tea table and as soon as the glasses touched the table a magic seal formed under the glasses and vague symbols that Akane had seen before started creating a see through wall around the glasses. "Rias? Is your bishop by any chance an Archive user?" She asked as she observed strands of symbols forming from the magic seal moving up creating a sea through moving wall before disappearing into thin air.

"Yes, you know about that type of magic?" Rias asked.

"I know that you have to be pretty god damn smart in order to learn even the basics of that magic." She replied. She didn't notice everybody in the room flinching or the magic seal flickering a little when she mentioned the name of god.

"Here, it's done." Gasper replied as she saw a few files appear above the magic seal with a few pictures on them. "Though I must say, whoever designed these glasses is a genius. If you don't mind Ms. Orimura, I would love to take a deeper look on their design someday." He asked.

"Sure, I'd love to know how these glasses work myself." She replied and the letter G disappeared.

"Sorry for the delay." She apologized, "Anyway meet Raynare." She said as picture of an attractive young woman with violet eyes and long silky black hair appeared before them, "She is in charge of the group that's currently in Kuoh, a fallen with 5 sets of wings." She introduced them to their target first "Oh and she's also a daughter of Kokabiel." Before she added the kicker.

"Crap!" the four of them cursed at the same time which only make Akane chuckle, "and these are the files containing info on the fallen angels that are working under her at the moment," she told them as the four of them started to look through the files and photographs.

"Have any of them made any contact with Rogue Exorcists?" Sona asked after looking through the files and photos.

"They haven't met nor mentioned them ye.t" Akane replied.

"Well, Sona this complicates things. Don't you think?" Rias asked.

"Yeah, even though the fallen angels are the ones that are breaking the rules here. We really can't harm Raynare without causing unnecessary conflict between fallen angels and devils, especially knowing who her parent is." Sona replied with a sigh.

"Her hatred for Devils is legendary after all." Tsubaki added in with some mirth.

"A few weeks back she actually tried to kill me when I mentioned that I would be offering devils my services," Akane said "And she would have succeeded if Shemhazai and Azazel had not restrained her." she added with a shudder.

"I have noticed that you say the names of high-level figures in a way that suggests you are very familiar with them. Its rather strange for someone your age." Sona commented as she adjusted her glasses.

"Well I did train at True cross, remember? Students there tend to go on diplomatic missions as an understudy with their masters so we do get familiar with important figures. My partners were especially notorious amongst the brass and me having a never seen before bloodline did not help the matters." Akane reminisced with a chuckle.

"A bloodline that allows the user to copy anything whether it's a fighting style, spell or a chakra technique bar other bloodline ability," Rias said. Sona who did not know about that looked at Akane with peaked interest. While Tsubaki looked a little alarmed by the reveal "It would be foolish to ignore someone with abilities like that where it's an ally or not." She commented.

"Ahhh, so Grayfia was able to retrieve the Info from Azazel?" Akane asked.

"She did. It was ahem... an interesting read." Rias said with a little nervousness which the other members of the room caught upon immediately.

Akane chuckled expecting that reaction, "You really have nothing to worry about Rias, I am not stupid enough to use those on an ally." She assured her.

"What are you two talking about?" Sona asked them.

"Nothing that's important at the moment Sitri-san. From what I remember we were talking about the fallen angels, let's get back to that topic." Akane replied changing the topic of the conversation,"So what are you two gonna do? This is your territory after all, your word is law." she asked them.

"Aside from their leader's parentage and the info on the members of her group we still don't have enough information to make a decision here. Akane, can you tell us about their motive for being here? Why did the fallen angel brass send them here in Kuoh?" Sona asked.

"They were sent to locate and keep an eye on a Longinus user living in Kuoh. Now, why did the brass send them here? I don't know." Akane lied keeping the crucial fact about a possible Mutiny amongst the fallen a secret.

Both Sona and Rias shared a look when she mentioned a Longinus user, "By the looks on your faces it seems that you two know the Longinus user." said Akane.

"We do, or to be more accurate suspected that he might have a Longinus but this is pretty much a confirmation." Rias replied, Akane noticed that there was a certain excitement present in her voice for some reason while Sona looked visibly annoyed about something.

"Can you tell me the user's identity?" Akane asked being a little interested herself about the Longinus user.

"His name is Issei Hyoudou he is in your class. I am sure you either have seen him or have been warned about him and his perverted habits." Sona told her.

"Hyoudou Issei now that's a name I haven't heard for a while now. Wasn't that the guy Irina had a crush on?" Akane thought to herself.

"I've heard his name before; I might have even seen his face in my class though I have never met him met him personally." She replied, "So you two were looking to recruit him into your peerage as you two already knew about the sacred gear?" she asked.

"Yes, I was hoping to recruit him." Rias answered.

"Hmm let's hope they don't- "Boss..." Akane was interrupted by one of her clones on the radio.

"Yeah, what is it?" She asked as she gestured the rest of them to keep quiet for a moment.

"Raynare is at your school she just entered through the main gates and is dressed in a Kuoh student Uniform." Her clone informed her.

"Akane what is it?" Rias asked her.

"Raynare is at the school, she just entered though the main gates." Akane informed them, "Do you guys have surveillance around the school so we can get a live feed on what is she doing here?" She asked them.

Rias nodded, "Yes, Gasper had Surveillance Lacrima installed all around the campus grounds when we moved here," she told her as a live feed from all around the campus started to appear before them thanks to magic seals on the tea table

"Shizuma where is she now?" Akane asked her clone as she looked through all the live feeds from all the areas.

"She heading towards the entrance of the main building of the school." Her clone informed.

"Where is the feed from the entrance of the main building?" Akane asked them.

"Ahh…. here" Rias maximized that feed's window.

"hmmm… there she is." Sona points out the target.

"Traitor or not the girl sure has balls," Akane thought to herself as she saw Raynare enter the main building of the school. "Can we get audio on the feed?" she asked Rias.

"No, but I can send Koneko to tail her." She offered.

"Don't." She stopped Rias,"Shizuma change into me with a school uniform on and follow her closely this time," She ordered her clone.

"Already on it."

"She's going into a crowded area. Will the lacrima around the school be able to follow her?" Akane asked.

We have calibrated the entire surveillance lacrima to focus only on her every movement. When installing these Gasper made sure there were no blind spots present, and they are placed in a way that even if she walks out of the range of one lacrima there is always another one that will catch up on her." Sona informed her.

"Hmmm, inform every member of your Peerage to stand down. I know it's already impossible to find out that she is a fallen angel. But the student council can stop her if they don't recognize her." She said.

"I will go do that." Tsubaki replied as Akane looked at the clock only 15 min left before lunchtime is over. "What's her angle here?" Akane wondered as she observed Raynare every move with Rias and Sona.

She knew that Rias and Sona would not have even noticed the fallen angels if it wasn't for the incident that happened in the last few days. Devils don't have the ability to sense whether a foreign hostile individual has entered their territory. They can track stray devils and demons sure but that's possible only as long as they have the Evil piece still inside of them and even that method is not perfect as she had encountered multiple cases before where the stray demon did not have an Evil piece in them. And from what her more experienced exorcist's masters told her that sort of thing does happen quite often.

But like many supernatural groups Devils can sense the presence of something supernatural in their close vicinity. It's not perfect but it does alert them and enough so they can send out familiars who can sense immediately what their masters just felt.

Which sort of made what Raynare was doing now something Akane could not find an accurate word for, not stupid… mule headed came to her mind and those words would have made sense if she was dealing with just a grunt. But this is a high-level fallen angel they were dealing with, a daughter of one of the generals of Grigori. They can't be that stupid, at least she hoped they are not.

"Wait how are you there as well?" Rias' question brought her out of her train of thought as she saw her pointing towards footage of her dressed in the Kuoh school uniform going through the crowd.

"It must be a chakra clone." Tsubaki commented.

"It is a chakra clone, a blood clone to be more accurate. Two of my blood clones have been following them from the moment they arrived." She informed them.

"Hmmm…. I guess they would be suitable for missions like this thanks to their durability. Still, aren't you worried that they might run out of chakra and disappear?" Tsubaki asked.

"Not really, these aren't basic blood clones, the one I use is a modified version of the technique that my clan developed years ago for hand to hand combat training. Their chakra reserves are much bigger when compared to regular blood clones so you can modify the amount of chakra one clone carries. The downside of this upgrade is that you can't make these clones on the fly. It takes me an entire afternoon to make just two of them." Akane explained.

"So how long can one clone be operating?" Tsubaki asked.

"It depends on how much chakra you're using when you create them. Think of it as a car tank the more fuel you provide the longer they can go. When I create two blood clones I tend to give them 45% of my chakra each. And if they're not doing anything major, they can stick around for two and a half maybe three weeks." Akane replied all the people were listening keenly while they keeping their eyes on Raynare.

"Giving away 90% of your chakra sound suicidal to me no matter the advantages this technique would provide. If it was up to me I would have chalked it as a forbidden Jutsu and thrown it somewhere where no can ever find it." Tsubaki gave her matter of fact opinion. It made Akane smile.

"Raynare is entering the second-year wing." Sona gave an update as they saw her go through the crowd of students hanging out of the class during the break "And she just entered a classroom." she added.

"She's in my class. Go talk to the brunette with braids and glasses sitting near the windows her name is Aika Kiryuu. The seat next to her is mine start talking notes regarding the physics class she knows I was not paying attention but keep your ears on Raynare, I want everything." Akane quickly informed her clone.

"Roger." her clone replied.

The four watched Raynare slowly head towards Issei who looked way too busy talking with his friends. At this point, Akane's clone had also entered the classroom and she went towards Aika as she was instructed to. When Raynare finally reached Issei they saw Motohama pointing his fingers towards her and giving Issei a little kick under the table. Raynare and Issei started talking with each other. They talked for a good while before they saw Raynare bow down towards Issei. What she said made every student in the class shocked, it was almost cartoonish the way everybody's jaws were trying to hit the floor and brows trying to reach orbit. The most shocked one of the all was Issei himself, to his credit he collected himself after a couple of seconds and gave his reply to Raynare. The fallen angel smiled beautifully upon hearing his, it gave one back and promptly left the classroom. The moment her hair disappeared behind the door, Issei's friends started to beat him while crying, Issei didn't seem to notice neither to blows nor his friends' anguish, he was much too busy looking at nothing with a huge grin on his face while the entire classroom was still looking on in bewilderment still not registering what they've just witnessed. Akane's clone left the class following Raynare out.

"Well that was a weird watch." Akeno commented.

"What do you think she said to get that kind of reaction out of everyone?" Tsubaki asked.

"She asked him out on a date this Sunday." Akane answered her question, "My clone also mentioned some bullshit reason she gave on why she doesn't attend school regularly" She added.

"Well that explains a lot of things," Rias said while chuckling into her hand.

"Joking aside. What do you think is her true motive here?" Sona asked.

"Well as far as I knew her mission was to observe the Longinus user. I can see why you would go on a date with your target as it allows you to gather more info on him. It is still a bit on the nose here."

"Well, you were looking to recruit Issei so I think it should be your peerage who keeps an eye on him." Sona Informed Rias.

"So, we are waiting for them to make a move?" Rias asked Sona who nods, "We are. As Akane mentioned it might be profitable for us if they do attack us first. Still, be on your guard as I was not able to locate the rogue exorcists." She replied before getting up from her seat and started to leave with Tsubaki.

"Sona." Akane called after her and the Sitri heiress stopped, "I didn't give you the info on the fallen. Got it?"

Sona and Tsubaki shared a look with each other before, "I do." Sona replied and they left the room.

"The same thing applies to you two as well," she turned to Rias and Akeno and took a sip of her tea.

"Sure." Rias replied before looking out of the window of the room "So where is your clone now?" she asked.

"Must be following Raynare. I don't know their exact location and they don't call unless they want to tell me something important." She replied as the bell for next period started to ring. "Break already over. Fuck! Thanks, Raynare for ruining my chance to take a nap!" she thought to herself and with a deep sigh got up from her seat but both Rias and Akeno stayed where they were "Are you two not going to class?"

"Our chemistry teacher is sick so the period is free today." Rias replied, hearing that a part of Akane wanted to ask them if she could stay but eventually she decided to suck it up and head back to the class.

"For a moment there, it looked like she wanted to stay." Akeno said before taking a sip "It's a pity, I wanted to ask her about last night."

"Me too. Thought I highly doubt she'd answer all of our questions." Rias replied before looking at Akeno "I think it would be best if we do what Grayfia asked us to do. We might get some answers that way."

Akeno nodded "I'll inform Kiba to pick her up after the classes are done for the day."

Somewhere else in Kuoh

"Where is he? We've been sitting here for fifteen minutes. Wasn't he supposed to be here by now?" Mittelt asked her fellow fallen angel companions. They were sitting at an open café near a shopping complex.

"Calm down now Mittelt, it not like we have anything else to do today." Kalawarner chided from her seat, "Enjoy the free time you've got now. It won't last for much longer."

"What Kalawarner is saying is true. Once we get those packages we will be at the final stage of our plan and we won't be taking any breaks until we have completed it." Dohnaseek added.

"Then I guess you three should enjoy this lovely day to its fullest, once we are done with our little meeting." A voice greets the three of them, as they turn around to see a man with white hair and red eyes dressed in a fine tailored suit, "Sorry to keep you three waiting there was a situation with one of our boys, hehe, rambunctious little scallywags they are." He replied with a chuckle.

Dohnaseek narrowed his eyes a little, "Is it something we need to be concerned about?" he asked.

"Oh, it's nothing to worry about. I was expecting something like this to happen before we came here. Being inside such a tainted territory is making my men anxious to perform their duties I am afraid Hehehe." he replied.

"Then control your men. They need to stand ground and do nothing until you are given specific orders from Raynare." said Mittelt reminding him who was in charge here.

"Calm down little lady, this is not mine or my men's first rodeo we know how to control ourselves it's just sometimes my men tend to go a bit overboard when they are trying to entertain themselves." He replied though Mittelt looked like she was not at all pleased with him calling her little lady. "Regardless, let's get back the topic of our meeting ,yes? I was hoping to meet and discuss things with your captain but from the looks of things she wasn't able to attend the meeting it seems."

"Something urgent came up which required her attention." Kalawarner replied, "I hope the three of us are good enough for you."

"Of course of course. Well, I have come bearing good news, I and my men were successful in retrieving the Packages our lady asked for." He informed them.

"And where are they?" Dohnaseek asked.

"Well, one of the packages would be arriving here on Monday while the others have been placed somewhere well-hidden until the heat caused by the retrieval simmers down. And It's not like you'd be able to use them immediately. Preparing them will take time, those were father's words." He informed them.

"Hmm, I can understand. The live package, has it sustained any damage?" Kalawarner asked.

"No, that job went without a hitch. She doesn't even have an idea that something has happened." Freed replied.

"Well this is good news. Raynare will be most pleased by your progress. Tell your men to be ready to answer our calls when we need them. Until then, disappear from the public eye." Kalawarner ordered him as all of them got up from their seats.

"We will. Good day, to you three." He replied with a nod before leaving.

Not that far from the café, from the second story of the shopping complex, a young woman with cherry red hair and glasses dropped her can of empty soda in the dustbin, "Freed Sellzen. Fuck… could this mission get any more complicated?" She said to herself after witnessing the exchange.

Beta reader- Polkxe, Echoes19

Author note- Here are my responses for the review from the last chapter

Sakaewmatsui -you know, for a second I thought that you stopped writing this story! man when I see the notification I'm hellla happy to see you're updating the story! anyway good chapter dude! it's interesting to see akane's family history

My response- I follow a monthly update schedule where I will always post the chapter around 10-15. You don't have to worry about this story being abounded as I am writing further chapters in advance. With Chap-13 the being the current one I am writing.

& Akane family is a major part of this story so I am happy that you found it interesting. Also thank you for leaving a review

Readinglover3-Great chapter! Fascinating to learn more about Akane's background and the lore of this story. Wonder how everything is going to turn out? I look forward to seeing how everything proceeds! Will Grayfia receive information about Akane's bloodline? Will she recruit Akane to her peerage? Who will be in Grayfia's peerage? Will it just be Akane? Will Rias be interested in recruiting Akane to Gremory? Will Akane join Serafall's peerage eventually? What will Akane do for Grayfia as part of her peerage? Will the two get along? How will Akane interact with Sona? We are seeing how she interacts with Rias and partly with Akeno, but if Akane is recruited into Serafall's peerage as her Queen, she will have to interact with Sona quite a bit more. What about the mysterious individual replicating the evil pieces? Akane is obviously being targeted by said individual, so what do they want with her? Who exactly will Akane be involved with? There are so many questions I look forward to see being answered! Good luck and I can't wait for the next chapter!

My response- You will get the answers to your questions as the story moves forwards so stay tuned and thank you for the review

blau92- this chapter was awesome, the lore is really well constructed, please keep up the good work!

My response- I am happy that you liked the chapter it is the one that took me My most time to write. And thank you for leaving a review.