A week after meeting Yamato
Kaito couldn't help but deadpan at his brother as he listened to him complaining to Rias about being a Pawn. The remains of the Stray Devil wafting away in the wind making the younger brother of the Hyoudou family scrunch up his nose and rub his finger under it.
"Feeling sick there Kaito-kun?" Akeno purred as she sidled up to him.
"Got some whore in my nose" He said dryly, sneezing after he breathed in a little.
Akeno brought a hand up to her mouth and began to giggle into it as all of the members of Rias' Peerage began to walk back to the school. The two of them walking at the back of the group with Issei trailing after Rias at the front.
"Now now Kaito-kun. It's not respectful to speak ill of the dead"
"That implies I care" He snorted, sliding his hands into the pockets of his school pants.
"How very rude of you"
"Oh yes. The peak of evil. Meanwhile what Gremory said and did was fiiiiine" He rolled his eyes.
"Of course. Buchou can do no wrong" She played along jokingly.
"Oh wow. You can admit to your own hypocrisy" He muttered condescendingly with a mocking clap.
"You know I can admit to other things too?" She purred, getting a raised eyebrow from Kaito.
"Like what? That your magic is a bit weak?" he teased her, getting a flat look from her.
"I take great pride in my magic Kaito-kun…"
"That's great and all. Doesn't change my opinion"
"Hmmm. I'll remember that next time we train" She hummed, licking her lips seductively.
"Good. I'll never learn if you're holding back on me"
"Does the little Hyoudou want me to shock him?" Based on the blush on her cheeks as she leaned closer to him, Akeno was beginning to work herself up.
"Down girl" He grumbled as he grabbed her ear and tugged it as he continued to walk.
"A-Ah Kaito-kun! A-At least pull my hair it's much- ah! I-It's not nice to- OW!" The rest of the Peerage stopped in their spots, watching the two of them continue walking past them.
"I see that Akeno-san has met her match…" Kiba chuckled nervously while scratching his cheek.
"He's disgusting…." Koneko muttered.
"Don't be mean Koneko-chan" Rias chided the 1st year half-heartedly.
Koneko didn't say anything in response, but Rias and Kiba were both easily able to see that Koneko wasn't swayed towards Kaito in the slightest.
'Slow and steady Rias. Slow and steady..' She sighed mentally.
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The next afternoon, Yamato's Store
"Here's your payment!" Yamato cheered, handing a small pouch to Kaito who grabbed it with a disbelieving expression.
"The hell is this? I was promised 1500 gold pieces, remember?"
"Yeah?...Oh holy shit. You actually don't know about storage bags? What the- pardon the irony- hell are you Reincarnated being taught?" Yamato asked, starting off with a couple snickers that began to devolve into full-blown laughter.
"Shut up and tell me."
"I-I mean…Storage bags!? Pfft! Hahah! They're like the most- hahahaha!- basic of magic items!"
Kaito growled, his eye twitching and his shadow darkening. One of Yamato's ears flicking momentarily and his nose twitching, causing him to suppress his laughter long enough to get a sentence out.
"O-Ok ok! Pfffft. B-basically they have more space inside them then they occupy"
"Ah. Like how some games explain inventories, got it" Kaito nodded his head.
"Wait wait! Back up a sec!" Yamato exclaimed suddenly, smacking both of his palms on the counter "You play games? You never told me that!"
"Why….would I?" The brown haired boy responded with a dull look and raised eyebrow, slipping the pouch into one of his pockets.
"….Touche. But seriously, we should play something sometime!"
"Maybe. Have you completed the outfit I told you about?"
"Oh yeah! I got that Shadow Demon Leather the other day and have been working on it pretty much nonstop!" Yamato shouted excitedly, rushing into the backroom so quickly he nearly pulled down a shelf as he ran past.
Kaito just snorted and rested his weight on one leg as he waited, letting a hand fall down to his side to grab his Darkblade hilt that he made sure to always have on his person. Beginning to spin and flip the hilt between his fingers before slipping it back into his pocket as the door was kicked back open and Yamato rushed out, placing the main items of his new outfit on the counter.
Made of a black, leather-like, material were a pair of combat boots that came up to mid-calf with multiple buckles along the outsides instead of laces. A long, black cloak in a more Victorian style. And rounding out the three items of the outfit were a pair of black, leather-like vambraces.
"Pretty well made" Kaito muttered, looking over the vambraces with his admittedly pretty untrained eye.
"Of course it is, I made it after all!" Yamato bragged, his tail wagging just like a regular canines.
"Ego"
"Fuck you" Kaito rolled his eyes at the shop keeps retort.
"Oh wow. Real original, well done. Truly"
"If you want a job you might wanna shut uuuup~" Yamato said in a sing-song voice.
"Speak."
"I want an apology first"
"I'm sorry your brain is smoother than a marble. What's this about a job?"
"Yeah that's on me I suppose….Anyways, one of the Greek guys in town finally got word of you. He wants to hire you for an…..'extermination'. So to speak"
"Extermination? The hell have you signed me up for?"
"Hey, hey! Don't pin any of this on me. I'm just telling you about it. Actually accepting or denying is all you buddy"
"Yeah, sounds about right. Ok, where am I meeting them?" He began to try the vambraces on.
"It's a place down the south of town. An estate with a wall around it"
"Well at least they should pay well…" Kaito sighed, fitting the second vambrace on.
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Random street of Kuoh
Kaito felt his eye twitch as he walked down the steadily darkening streets of Kuoh in his new outfit, constantly testing out his movements and how his new apparel effected it.
The reason for his annoyance was the small, white coloured creature that had been following him from the rooftops. A miniature polar bear if what he had managed to glimpse was correct.
'Honestly it looks like one of those magical girl mascots from that show Irina would watch whenever she came over….' He thought to himself with a deadpan gaze, turning around to look at it again and seeing one of its legs just barely disappearing over the ledge.
"Are you just going to follow me all night?" He asked dryly, turning to the spot that he had just watched it disappear to.
All that met him was the ever-so-brief sound of padded feet on shingles before even that disappeared, the teen sighing in aggravation as nothing happened for a few moments. Turning on the ball of his foot he continued walking, noting that whatever had been following him had likely been spooked off by his blunt calling out of it, something to keep in mind if he ever saw it again.
However, despite the mystery of his strange follower, he made his way to the estate. Knocking on the gate.
"WHo Is ItTtTt?" It took a moment for the owner of the voice to fully register in Kaito's brain, the stone gargoyle on the estate wall staring at him expectantly.
"The...exterminator"
"YoU aRe AlLoWeD iN"
"Thank…you?" He just gave the once again unmoving gargoyle an unnerved look as he hesitantly walked past, taking it one step at a time.
When it appeared that it wouldn't do anything he began to walk a bit more naturally into the estate grounds, his gaze much less static than it was beforehand.
"Ah! The man of the hour!" Brown eyes met honey as Kaito looked up at the young man leaning out of a window on the second story.
The first thing Kaito noticed about him was the wild honey blonde hair that splayed across his shoulders and, Kaito assumed, across his back. The second thing Kaito noticed about him was that he was shirtless, he hoped that was the only thing he was missing but wasn't holding out hope. Because the last thing Kaito noticed, even from down on the ground and still a good 30 or so meters from the door, was that he reeked of sex.
"Have you even seen the sun in the last week?" He called back, his face twisting in disgust.
"That depends, friend! Do you count-"
"Don't answer that. If you even dare leave that room to talk to me smelling like that I'm leaving before you can even bring up the mission" He called out, continuing his march towards the estate, hearing the blonde laugh boisterously, and a feminine whine from further in his room.
"You drive a hard bargain!" He spoke between fits of laughter "As my sister speaks to you I'll be sure to finish up and freshen up then!"
"Uh huh. How the hell did I find someone hornier than my brother?" He muttered the last sentence to himself as he knocked sharply on the well made and maintained wooden doors.
Opening the door was a fairly lean, somewhat muscled form of a platinum blonde young woman, looking him up and down with an appraising look.
"Well, if nothing else, you certainly look like a proper freelancer….if you ignore everything under the coat"
"This mission will go towards that, may I come in?"
"Hm, you may. Forgive my brother, diluted the blood of Zeus may be but it carries its…..quirks"
"The blood of Zeus? You're a demi-god? Quarter-God?"
"Not even that close. Think more 1/1024 God. Still enough to grant us significant strength on its own, but neither of us will ever be the next Heracles"
"Informative"
"When the day comes that you prove to hunt down or make those of Deific blood vulnerable, then I will care who I tell"
"Your family is a blunt one"
"Don't fix what isn't broken, regardless, there is a mission offer looming over both of our heads that I believe you want to get details on?"
"Preferably before your brother gets out. I refuse to believe that a smell that strong can be masked by anything"
"Nothing natural at least, friend! Supernatural on the other hand…" The brother's voice was heard before he leapt over the table, spinning in midair to land on a seat by the table, both of his feet up on the table itself.
"Oh good. The man-whore is here. What's the job?" He asked, looking very pointedly at the sister who snorted at his clear dismissal of her brother.
"Right, well. Me and my brother both specialize in our own little fields of magic. Mine, Alchemy. His, Enchantment" Kaito perked up as she spoke about their magic specialization "And well, I created a couple creatures while testing my alchemy. And this moron decided to try out some of his magic on them. So they escaped containment"
"Wonderful, how many are there?"
"There's five. They seemed to be sticking together when they escaped but beyond that. I couldn't tell you"
"Greaaaat. Want them back undamaged for research or something?" He asked sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"pfftt, not in the slightest. Blow the things to dust if you wish"
"Hmmm, helpful. What do they look like?"
"Quadrupedal creatures with sharp bones sticking out of their heads"
At Kaito's genuine expression that basically screamed 'what the fuck' the young woman at least had the decency to blush a little and avert her gaze.
"I based them on the Aeternae ok?..."
"Riiiiigggghhht. How much am I getting?"
"That depends, friend! How much do you wish for?" The brother finally asked while rocking himself back and forth on two legs of the chair.
"Ten thousand gold"
"How bold"
"Hah! I knew that there was something about you that I would find enjoyable, friend! Demitri Iraklidis!" He finally introduced himself, holding a hand out.
Eyeing the hand warily he shook it, feeling the other males grip as he tightened it for the handshake. It definitely wasn't enough to hurt him, but it was still tight, enough so that he could feel the blood as it pumped in and out of his extremity.
"Oh great. Now there's no getting rid of you. I'm Anastasia"
"Hm. A pleasure. Now my price?"
"For a first job it seems a bit steep, I admit. But if these creatures aren't taken out quickly, I'd say it could lead to more problems than just a few deaths" Anastasia mumbled to herself, before after all of two seconds of waiting, Demitri spoke up.
"Tell you what friend, are you a fan of a little challenge?"
"That depends…"
"The sun is going down now. If you can defeat all of them by 12:30 on the dot, with proof. I'll pitch in and you'll get 15,000 gold for your services. Buuuuuuut, if it takes any longer, you get 8,000 gold. Deal?" He grinned and brought both of his legs off the table, swinging forward and perching his elbow on the table.
"Demitri must you-"
"I'll take your offer. This time. Which direction did they go?"
"uhhh, that way" Anastasia pointed in a direction, getting a nod from Kaito before he suddenly stood up, turning on a dime and making his cloak flutter behind him as he marched towards the door, slipping in and out like a wraith.
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10:30pm, Random Kuoh street
'Well they definitely stuck together!' Kaito shouted in his mind as he released a burst of mana from the soles of his feet, flipping and twirling uncontrollably over a wild swipe from one of the creatures.
With a grunt he felt his shoulder hit the cement at a bad angle, arresting almost all of his momentum in a single moment, causing him to have to quickly erect a spear of shadow's to impale one of the creatures who tried to capitalize on his lack of movement. The teen drawing and igniting his blade to finish off the struggling creature with a spear going clean through its torso before having to jump back to avoid the three creatures that crashed into each other to get to him.
"This is disappointing. The most Draconically inclined of my users and he can't even fight like a proper Dragon"
'I DON'T EXACTLY HAVE AN OCEAN OF MANA TO WORK WITH YOU CRYPTIC FUCKER' The fifth creature made itself known, losing a hand to Kaito's sword before forcing him to retreat to avoid being impaled upon a crown of bone.
Brown eyes narrowed as the creature didn't even seem to mind its severed limb and charged towards him again, or at least tried to.
"Hmph. The fact that throwing Mana around is all you think Draconic combat is disappoints me. You mortals are arrogant and pathetic."
'Then stop fucking talking to me!' The other three had untangled themselves and involved Kaito in yet another 1v4 scenario that had Kaito doing everything he could not to be impaled or sliced to death.
"Who are you to order me around?"
'The user of your power apparently! The teenage kid who's been dragged into a fucking THREE WAY FACTION POWER-STRUGGLE! The one that has to deal with YOUR bullshit because nobody else can!' Small wisps of black smoke began to leak off of certain points of his body, the teen not even noticing as he blocked a wild swipe at his head with one of his vambraces and stabbed the creature with another spear of shadows, effectively immobilizing the second one of five.
Right as he placed his hands on the ground to send out a wave of spears at the others he felt a tug in his very being that froze his body solid, a bright red light glowing underneath him.
"Hrgk!?" His teeth clicked together and all the muscles in his shoulders tightened and tensed as what he recognized as a Gremory Clan teleportation circle formed underneath him.
It probably would have worked as well, if he hadn't immediately been punted out of the circle forcibly by one of the creatures, luckily not cut to ribbons thanks to his cloak but definitely going to be sporting some bruises by midnight. Looking up he managed to catch the teleportation circle blink in and out a few times before shattering into motes of light and mana, making him click his tongue and growled furiously.
"Of course! Of course it was Gremory's fault I nearly died!"
"What a complete fool…"
"And you!" He snarled out loud, stomping on the ground and causing tentacles of shadows to wrap around all five, not hearing the interested hum the dark voice in his head made "You make fun of me for things I can't possibly know! You mock me and never bother to explain!"
Five floating balls of shadow burst out of his own, bubbling and broiling with power. The furious teen packing them with more and more power, an insta-kill if it hit any of the creatures.
"Hah! Hahahahaha! Well well! The pathetic little mortal actually figured it out, how to fight like a Dragon!"
"!" The five creatures roared and screeched within their bindings, trying and failing to escape even when they dislocated or snapped their own limbs.
"I'm done with all of you. Begone." He snarled, firing off each of the balls directly at all five of the creatures.
The projectiles ate through their flesh, burying into the cores of their torso's before exploding into giant sphere's of rotating and destructive tendrils of shadow's. Turning the creature's from writhing, screaming enemies into flakes of skin, muscle and bone that floated away on the wind or fell to the ground with small rattling sounds.
"Well done. Even if instinctually, you figured it out mortal. You thought of Draconic combat as wildly throwing out Mana to overpower an enemy. But it's not. Even the strongest of us would have died as hatchlings if that were true. No. Draconic combat is overwhelming power. Learning to pack and condense as much power as possible into an attack and overwhelming anything your opponent can put up in retaliation."
'That's….I genuinely think that's the nicest and most helpful you've ever been. Combined.'
"Hmph. Whiny brat. Fine, I will give you a boon no other wielder has ever gotten close to wielding. The true power of my Sacred Gear. My name is Betzalel. I am the Dragon who stole the shadow of the Biblical God. One of the two Dragons who fought, clawed and earned their way to the level of the two Heavenly Dragons Ddraig and Albion. I accept you, begrudgingly, as my partner Kaito Hyoudou. Now, go collect your pay, and when you sleep this night, we shall meet as properly as this vessel will allow."
'….Hm. Now we're on the right track. You better get ready, because I have plenty of questions, Betzalel'
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Aaaand that's the end of chapter 7. How'd you guys like it? I'm slowly but surely introducing stuff that'll lead to original arcs later on. Also Kaito's gonna get answers soon, or will he? X3
Also, for those of you who are wondering. Chapter 8 will be coming out on the 20th of Nov.
Truthfully I don't have much to say here so I'll just plug my discord and do the review replies now.
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REVIEW REPLIES:
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