"Oh my sweet Kaito! Finally making friends! And with such a beautiful girl as well!" Miki Hyoudou said happily, the middle aged woman hugging her son who looked like he wanted the sweet release of death.

"Dear. Please don't! We don't want to scare the poor girl off! God knows Issei will never be able to be friends with a girl" Issei cried out in anger and betrayal, anime style tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Oh no. Don't mind me Mr. Hyoudou. And I'm sorry I couldn't introduce myself last night, mrs Hyoudou. I got here very late and we had to work on our assignment. It was incredibly important" Akeno said with a kind smile, her hands pressed together at the same height as her chest.

Which only brought Issei's gaze towards her breasts which strained against her school shirt.

"AND SHE'S SO SWEET AND POLITE AS WELLLLL!"

"Ggagaggggkk!" Kaito began to choke, flailing his arms around as Issei cursed him and Gorou, his father, begged Miki not to murder their child with the most potential.

Meanwhile Akeno just watched this the whole time and quietly giggled to herself as she finished her food, finding the antics of the Hyoudou family quite amusing and oddly endearing. Even if their youngest son, currently being choked, had an oddly heavy aura for how new he was as a Devil.

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"I can't believe you managed to trick mum and dad like that! But I know the truth! How did it feel?" Issei asked, wrapping an arm around his brother's shoulder and pulling his head down towards him.

"How did what feel? The hell are you talking about?" Kaito asked, catching Akeno's attention as she discreetly listened while walking alongside them.

"Akeno! Come on man. At least tell your brother how it felt to smash that"

"What the fuck? No. I didn't smash her. We just worked on an assignment together. Get your mind out of the damn gutter!" Kaito blushed brightly as he corrected his brother with the lie that Akeno had told his family.

"No fucking way. I heard mum talking about how she was half naked"

"She took a shower!"

"Uh huh. Sure. I'll get the details out of you eventually" Kaito growled and Issei quickly backpedalled "Ok, ok! I'll stop. But hey, mum and dad can't seem to remember Yuuma at all. They just thought I had some fucked up dream"

Acting quickly Akeno hummed and looked over at them, placing a finger on her chin.

"Yuuma. Who may that be Issei?"

"My girlfriend! We went on a date yesterday and everything"

'Does he not remember me appearing?' Kaito thought to himself.

"You managed to get a girlfriend? Sounds pretty far fetched if you ask me" Akeno teased him, getting a snort from Kaito as Issei groaned and stomped ahead.

As he did Kaito noticed the gates to the school and he froze. His mind whirring as he realized in a split second what people would think the moment they saw him walking besides Akeno. Issei walking with her would be a scandal in and of itself. But Kaito walking next to her? He'd get lynched before he even reached the doors of the school, and he had a sinking suspicion that said lynching would be a lot worse than the small bruises he usually got.

Brown eyes rolled around his sockets as he walked robotically next to Akeno who just hummed pleasantly. Seeing a few trees next to the school's walls he got an idea thanks to the new strength and speed he seemed to have and the moment he finalized his plan he diverted his path. His footsteps unusually silent and his presence slipping Akeno's mind entirely.

"And here's the school. You know you and your brother are surprisingly fun to walk with Kaiiiiii….to?" She turned around and saw him gone, blinking slowly in surprise before she turned back around looking for him.

Seeing him nowhere in sight her mouth parted for a moment before closing as she furrowed her eyebrows, wondering where he had gone and how he had done it without her noticing.

'He has a surprising aptitude for stealth…..Though it was a bit rude for him to just up and leave. I'll have to….teach him not to do such mean things' She thought right as she approached the gates, allowing a seductive smirk and giggle to leave her lips as she licked them before slipping into her 'public' persona.

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A few hours later

Akeno frowned as she walked down a set of steps. Lunch having started ten minutes ago and the buxom teen having been unable to find Kaito despite having been in the same class as him just before lunch. And while it was impressive Akeno was beginning to grow ever so slightly annoyed. Now cursing herself for having not put more effort into trying to commit his magic signature to memory while she had the chance.

"Princess Akeno?" The dark haired girl sighed internally and turned around to see the Kendo club walking through the halls towards her.

"Oh no need to call me Princess. I'm a student just like you all, after all" She giggled and waved her hand.

"Uh huh. Hey, have you seen the Scourge?"

"The….Scourge?" Akeno asked, genuinely confused by their words.

"You haven't heard the name before? The brother of that pervert Issei Hyoudou"

"You mean….Kaito Hyoudou?"

"That's him. He's the scum of the earth. Even as bad as the perverted trio are, they don't match him even combined" Akeno outwardly kept a composed appearance but internally was beginning to grow annoyed.

"Ara ara, I don't think that he could be that bad"

"HE'S WORSE!"

"YEAH!"

"HE'S THE WORST OF HUMANITY"

"R-right…"

"One of those three perverts Motohama told us that the Scourge was taking pictures of us while we were changing! Have you seen the little coward?" Katase growled while smacking her bokken against her palm.

"No I haven't seen Kaito"

"Gah! I told you girls he's probably on the roof again! Like he always is!" Akeno perked up at that information.

"Hmmm. You said that one of the pervert trio, Motohama told you this information? What if he was the one that did and lied about Kaito's involvement?" The girls blinked, as if the thought had never occurred to them.

"No way. He's a pervert but he'd never resort to the lengths that scum resorts to!" One of the girls cried, whipping the rest up into a frenzy as they rushed towards the roof. Getting a sigh from Akeno as she waited a few moments before following after them.

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Meanwhile on the roof Kaito sighed as he sat within the branches of one of the trees on the school roof. The teen sitting cross legged and enjoying the gentle breeze and cool shadows that the branches and leaves provided. He wonders why he had never considered this spot before, and remembered that with his previous, pure human body, it had been too much work to seriously consider. But now that he was up here he found it oddly enjoyable, even if not incredibly comfortable.

Though from his new vantage point he did notice an area of the school that he hadn't before. A small little alcove between three of the buildings that he reckoned would be a perfect hiding spot.

And as if hearing his thoughts, the door to the roof slammed open. And Kaito could feel his good mood beginning to slip away. But amazingly, even with the girls all spreading out around the roof, not a single one of them noticed him. Keeping his movement to a minimum and his breathing low.

And eventually they actually left! Something which shocked Kaito greatly, seeing as while he had always been naturally stealthy, he had never been able to avoid the entire club looking for him before. A happy grin coming to his face as his good mood began to improve. However before it could lift too much he heard the door open again and quickly quieted his breathing again.

Whoever it was that walked through the door was ignored however as the shadows caused by the rooftop entrance seemed to darken slightly and shift. Almost becoming supernaturally dark and drawing his attention as the shadows almost seemed to grow…..depth?

"Kaito?" and suddenly the spell was broken, getting him to shake his head and look down.

"A….keno? Y-yeah I'm here" He heard a small gasp as Akeno looked up and saw him as he made his way out of the tree.

"Oh! Well there you are. So Kaito, you were so rude this morning~" He blushed and leant back as she leant forward "Leaving a lady all alone when she still had things to talk about"

"S-sorry? But you know how everyone sees me here. If they saw me walking with you I'd be…lynched. To say the least" He muttered, averting his eyes.

"Hmmm. I'll talk to Buchou about it to see what we can do. Buuuuuut, if you ever do it again I'll have to punish youuuuu~"

"Uhhhh, n-no thanks?"

"It's not an option"

"I'm making it one." Akeno blinked at the blatant defiance, unable to comprehend how to react.

"R-right. Well would you mind coming with me? Buchou would like to speak to you"

"The same one that revived me?"

"The same one"

"Ok, uhhhh show the way?"

"Gladly" She chirped with a grin.

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"Welcome Kaito Hyoudou" Rias spoke ominously as soon as Kaito walked into the clubroom that Akeno had led him to.

Kaito merely hummed and looked around the room, seeing how fancy and traditionally European the décor and furniture were. Meanwhile Rias felt her eye twitch slightly and Akeno giggled at her friend's slight annoyance.

"Excuse me. I'm over here"

"Oh yeah. Sorry, just inspecting the place. So you revived me?"

"Yes. That was me" Rias blinked in confusion as Kaito bowed to her.

"Thank you. Truly"

"Oh, well you're welcome I guess. However reviving you wasn't something that came at no cost. You're now my servant" She said, leaving out the reason she had truly revived him.

"Your servant? How so?"

"Hmm. Well you see, High-Class Devils such as myself have what are known as Evil Pieces. Modelled after chess pieces. I myself have the King piece. Signifying me as the leader" Kaito nodded to show that he was following along "Every piece other than the King has a unique power. With my Queen, Akeno, getting a Jack-Of-All-Trades type power-up" He hummed and looked over at the girl who smiled and waved teasingly.

"And what piece am i?"

"You are a Knight piece. Similar to Yuto Kiba"

"Oh. Goodie" Rias paused and blinked in surprise at his dry tone before continuing.

"Meaning you have increased speed and agility" He hummed a bit and held his chin, obviously thinking.

"That's pretty neat I suppose. Anything else?"

"Hmmm, Yes there are some other things. But I'd prefer to explain tomorrow when we bring your brother in and introduce him"

"Oh yeah. Why didn't you bring him in? Or why didn't either of you tell him he's a Devil now?"

"I have my reasons" Kaito narrowed his eyes, opening his mouth to say something.

"Kaito. How about we test your new abilities? See how much you've improved" Akeno suggested, grabbing him and leading him out as Rias sighed and massaged her forehead.

"I knew that he was going to be trouble….Hopefully his gear was worth it" She muttered, looking at the chess board with her remaining Evil Pieces.

Said board now holding a lonely Rook. A lonely Bishop. And one, singular Knight.

'Well. Im glad brother got me that gift now….'

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With Kaito, Hours later

Kaito looked down at his fist as he clenched and unclenched it. Watching the air slowly chill and ever so slightly condense over his hand.

"I didn't expect to be so good at Magic. Akeno seemed pretty surprised at least. I mean all I managed to do was freeze that bottle of water…." He muttered to himself before stumbling as a strange feeling came over him.

A sense of vertigo hit him like never before, forcing him to his knees as his eyes shook and rapidly dilated. His palms hitting the cement as a gust of wind blew through the path he was on, rustling the leaves of nearby trees and covering the teen in shadows.

"…..Sha…don…"

'W-what's happening? C-can't breath. Shadows. Shadows growing darker. B-Breathe. Need to breathe!' With a choking gasp the teen exhaled, black smoke leaving his mouth, and quickly inhaled again to get some much needed oxygen into his system.

At his hands and knees the shadows grew darker and darker, just as they had on the rooftop earlier that day. A sound like static filling his ears and reverberating in his head as he desperately gasped for air, pale and sweating. The sound of the wind, of rustling leaves, of his own clothes, his own breaths. They all began to grow louder, more and more overbearing, soon to the point where even his own heartbeat began to grow in loudness, joining the cacophony of noises that caused a muted scream to leave his lips.

His brown eyes screwed shut as tight as they could and his upper body collapsed, soon followed by the rest, as he lifted his hands off the ground to clamp tightly around his ears and curl into a ball. His senses began to torture him, sounds as loud as explosions, smells powerful enough to injure, even his sense of touch. The mere feeling of his clothes rubbing against his skin feeling like a million fire ants.

'Make it stop! Make it stop make it stop makeitstopmakeitstop MAKE. IT.'

"Stop." Every noise, every smell, every sight, every feeling. It all stopped.

Opening his eyes Kaito saw himself in a blank void, darkness as far as the eye could see. Within moments however his eyes adjusted, the pitch black of the void proving to simply be a ruined civilization, destroyed and wilted as it was covered in the darkness.

"You're the most Draconically inclined of all my users? Fascinating" Kaito whirled around and saw nothing but dispersing smoke.

"Where? Who?"

"You aren't like most Dragons. Attention doesn't really seem to be your thing" He spun around again, getting a sight of something dark purple before it dissipated into smoke again.

"And yet you can't help but want it? How truly Draconic. How truly fitting"

"Enough! Where am I? Who are you? Why am I here?" Kaito growled, looking all over for any trace of whatever deep, rumbling voice seemed to be speaking to him.

"You won't be seeing me. Even if you are the most Draconically inclined of all my past users. I will not play that fools game. There is not a single human worthy of being my partner. No matter what they may have been reincarnated into"

"Well I didn't choose to be reincarnated! And what the hell do you mean by 'your users' huh?"

"You will learn in time. What I've allowed the winged fools to know that is. But I'm feeling kind. Your proficiency, for magic, comes from me. And it isn't for ice or wind or lightning. No, nothing as pitiful as those elements. Your proficiency comes from something far…..darker~" Feeling the realization slam into him with the force of a freight train he looked down.

What he saw was his own shadow. Despite not a single source of light anywhere in sight he, somehow, had a shadow.

"Well well. That didn't take long at all. Nice to see a user with brains for once. But now, entertain me. As all your predecessors have before. Experiment, fumble, fall. Just as they all have. You were born to the shadows, forced to the shadows and have found them to be your allies. Show me how you'll misuse them. You seem unorthodox, perhaps you'll find a new way to misuse my precious shadows. It's always infuriating to see how wrong you humans use my power. How angry will you make me, boy? Learn all you can. Starting with-" Within the head of his own shadow a single, draconic purple eye opened and stared him down with a gleeful sadism that put anything Akeno could ever conceive to shame.

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Kalawarner scoffed as she walked up to the curled up, limp form of her target. Truly, to think that the Devils were so pathetic that they had to pad their numbers with humans as cowardly and weak as this one.

With a click of her tongue and a flick of her hair she took her time to summon a spear of light, smiling sadistically as she twirled it in her fingers before gripping the shaft of the spear and raising it high as her face twisted from something seductively beautiful into something dark and perversely ugly.

"Now die you Devil scum!" She swung her arm down with all her power, planning on not only spearing him through but pinning him to the ground to further torture him until he died.

However it was not to be as the spear stopped just short of touching his skin, unable to go any further thanks to the thin needles of shadows forming an X shape by piercing through her wrist.

"I'm not letting one of you kill me again." Kalawarner screamed in pain and ripped her arm away, using her magic to dispel the needles so they didn't rip her arm open as she did so.

Huffing with a glare that could melt steel she looked at her once curled up target. Watching him slowly rise to his feet, looking almost like he was floating as the shadows stuck to him and curled off his form like vapor. His spiky hair overshadowing his eyes as two sets of wings slowly unfurling from his back.

"Y-You think your fucking Devil powers can stand up to my Light? Are you that stupid or are you ready to die!?" Kalawarner scowled as she cradled her injured arm close to her chest and held the other out to form another spear.

"Light huh?...How, ironic" Kaito mumbled as he lifted his hand up to his face, like a puppet being controlled by its master.

"Now Di-KGggahahggg!" The Fallen Angel gurgled and spat out blood as her light spear slowly spluttered out.

Slowly tilting her head down she saw a thick spear of darkness coming out of her very own shadow, stabbing through her torso. Now the only thing keeping her blood and organs inside her.

"Im…p-possible"

"Like I said. I will not die to one of you again. Because there's no redo now. And for once in my life I have the power to fight back" The shadows began to encroach on the girl as the spear dissipated, a geyser of blood coming out of her torso as she fell to the ground and sunk into the darkness.

"D-Devil…..sc….u….m….." And she was gone, leaving only a rapidly weakening Kaito who fell to his knees only moments later, panting and sweating, now from exertion though, unlike a few minutes ago.

'I…I did it. I really did it' He thought proudly, a tired grin coming to his face before frowning as he looked at the shadows which returned to normal after devouring the dead Fallen Angel.

"I'm sorry that had to happen….But I guess it was you or me" He muttered while shakily getting to his feet, forcing himself to walk through sheer force of will as he made his way home.

And by the time he actually did reach his house his exhaustion had reached a fever pitch. His vision going in and out of focus, just glad that his parents were out tonight. The stairs were a special challenge in and of itself, causing him to nearly collapse three times. The thought of being able to sleep in his nice, comfortable bed being the only thought that allowed him to work through the task and make it to his room. The teen basically slamming his door in his delirious state.

The teen didn't even attempt to take off his clothes, simply walking to the end of his bed and face planting onto it. Not able to think anything else as he fell asleep in the middle of falling. Unaware of what was happening in the room over involving his brother and a certain red haired Devil.