Issei's Incinerate Anthem (A DXD Fanfiction)
Chapter 6 (I wanna hold your hand)
Issei begins to write, once again, on his yellow notepad. He looks up at Akeno, then blushes a bit, returning to his writing. After a moment, he looks up at the white haired devil with an indifferent expression, shortly after, returning to his scribbling. Another few moments pass as Issei once again looks up, this time at Kiba. Facial features that were originally just slightly annoyed, changed to that of disgust. Issei now returns his focus to his notepad.
Twenty seconds afterwards, Issei rips the piece of paper from his pad and places it on the table for everyone to read. All three look over the table as Koneko reads outloud, "I understand. You are devils. I have known about angels ever since." Koneko attempts to read over the scribbled out words that were replaced "that happened". Looking closer, Koneko can see what was originally written. Correcting herself, "I think it said "ever since my parents were…"
Akeno looks up at Issei, who has his head buried in his hands. Reaching over, pulling on both of his arms, forcing him to look at her, she gasps. Tears are jetting out of blank eyes, uncontrollably. This makes everyone in the room want to break down, understanding now, what exactly had happened. Akeno is about to tackle this broken soul, however she is beaten to the punch. Before she was able to jump over the table, Koneko was now sitting in his lap. Issei's eyes widened, not blinking, not moving, however tears were still jetting out.
He didn't know what to do. Akeno freezes as Kiba begins to choke on his glass of water. Issei was also completely in shock, but before he was able to react, the neko girl placed her head on his shoulder. Feeling this, seeing this, Issei completely broke down. He had no control over his own body as his arms automatically wrapped themselves around the little white haired devil. His face was slowly enveloped by soft white hair as he laid his head on hers.
Then, sounds came from the mouth of Issei, though they were not comprehensible. "Ugghhh AWWWWWHHHH!" These were the sounds of someone who has not felt any love from anything for a long time. If one were able to translate such a sound, the language would make anyone's heart break, even the sturdiest and most cold hearted of creatures would break to such a sound. That is exactly what happened here. The entire room, including a mostly reserved Kiba, was crying.
Akeno takes hold of the paper that is still laying on the table. She attempts to control herself and continue reading where Koneko left off, as she was completely overtaken with overwhelming sadness and despair. Akeno looked closely at the paper, removing some stray tears from her eyes, "After that happened, after my family was…m…by angels, I knew that other things must exist. The asShoLE maDE mE WATCH! He kiLled ThEm iN FRONT OF ME! AngELS are SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD! So WhY, WHy did hE TakE ThEm? You arE DeviLS, sO, yoU R enemies? HeLp mE, PLEASE! I WANT TO KILL HIM! I NEED TO KILL HIM! HELP ME! PLEASE, It mUst Be Why U R herE , PLEASE!" Akeno can't read anymore, this is too much, she also finds herself wrapping around both Koneko and a balling Issei. Kiba decides that this is far too much information for Rias to learn about later, rather she needs to know now. Kiba then pulls out his phone and calls Rias.
"Kiba? Is there a problem", a sleepy Rias can now be heard on speaker phone. Kiba then moves the phone closer to the crying so that Rias can hear it. "What is happening? Is anyone hurt?" Kiba puts the phone back to normal and places it toward his ear, "not physically, President. But I really think you should come to Issei's home, we have found out some rather disturbing information." Rias replies, "be right…" In the center of the room, a crimson teleportation circle appears on the floor, however Issei is too far gone to notice anything at this point. As the circle dissipates, two voices can now be heard. One voice on Kiba's phone and the voice that was present in the room, said in unison, "there." Akeno sees Rias, then runs over to her, tackling the redhead in a powerful hug. Rias Gremory, who is only wearing a skimpy bath towel, looks around the room, feeling this miasma of pure sadness. "What is going on, my cute peerage?"
Akeno attempts to explain, however she is mumbling incoherent nonsense, while crying. Rias pats her on the back, looking at Koneko, as she is shocked at what she is going. Never in Rias's life, has she ever seen her rook cry before. More so, Rias has never seen Koneko be affectionate toward anyone, let alone imagining her sitting in a crying boy's lap. Turning her head toward Kiba, hoping that he could explain what happened, Rias then shrugs her shoulders, notifying him to say something. Kiba then clears his throat, "President, we just now found out that Issei's parents were dispatched by angels."
Rias's eyes widened in shock. Koneko jumps in, "(sniffle) Issei is also an amazing cook". Then finally, the room lightens up as Akeno giggles from the comment which in turn makes Kiba smile. Rias is absolutely confused at this point, however she does smell something that entices her. Issei is no longer crying, however he realizes the situation, feeling a girl on his lap, laying on his shoulder, he freezes. Attempting to compute what was happening, Issei slowly lifts his head off of the little devil's head, scanning the room.
He then stops at this new person in the room. Koneko feels the difference in Issei's body and energy, she lifts her head off of his shoulder, however she still feels him holding her very tightly, not uncomfortably, but rather, perfectly firm. She did not want him to let go. She knew he was just a human, she knew she was twenty times his strength, however, she felt safe… and she also knew, (somehow), he did as well. Placing both of her hands on Issei's hands, (who were wrapped around the devil), Koneko forced a bit of pressure on said hands, ensuring he could not let go, even if he wanted to.