Izumi opened her eyes as she sat up from the bed, groaning a bit as she rubbed her eyes. Letting out a small yawn, she stretched her arms over her head as the covers slid off her body. She stopped as the fact she was feeling no air through her chest.

Looking down, she saw that she was wearing a one of her plain red t-shirts covering her upper body.

"I don't remember wearing this." She said in a confused tone. She soon turned her head over when she heard soft snoring come from beside her. She saw Bryce with his head on the bed laying on his front. She looked at his hands and saw some blood on them and was about to panic before realizing the fabric.

It was the same clothes from her date last night, she doesn't remember taking them off though.

'I fell asleep as soon as I came in. Bryce must've changed me into different clothes before setting me in bed.'

Izumi softly smiled at her companion as she leaned her head down and gently stroke her thumb over his cheek. She then noticed the bags under his eyes, and frowned.

'The nightmares… how long has it been since he had proper sleep?' Izumi thought as she picked up his head and settled him into her lap continuing her ministrations with his cheek. She also smelt a hint of blood coming off of him, and it wasn't his which she was glad for.

Although somewhere in her mind, something told her that he wasn't home when she was out on her date and she did feel the energies of the other fallen in Kuoh drop last night besides Raynare's so something else went down that night.

But before she could figure out where he went, a voice called out to her bringing the brunette out of her thoughts.

"Morning my child." Turning her head to the direction of the voice she saw a young mature woman with long black hair down to her hips and black grey eyes that represent reptilian slit pupils. She was wearing a black gothic Lolita attire showing off her cleavage with black x tape over her nipples. She also had a black hairband with pink ribbon tied around her neck and a large purple ribbon tied around her waist.

"Good morning, Mother." Izumi greeted the older woman. "What brings you here?"

Rias was in a worried state of mind, last night her rook came in to report but she was scared straight. Koneko came in with a shaking form before collapsing to her knees and kept muttering the words, monster over and over. Slowly, she explained what she saw through Izumi's date and then immediately went back to her fetal position.

Rias had Akeno accompany Koneko home and stay with her for the whole night. She was wondering what kind of person Izumi really was.

And then there was her companion. Bryce Hayate.

She hasn't met him and yet from afar she could tell that he looked more dangerous than her. From what she could tell, they were both polar opposites.

Izumi was bright, cheerful and outgoing while Bryce was dark, silent, and empty.

But she knew, she knew there was more to them, and after Koneko's report she had to figure out who they were. Wondering if they were friend or foe.

All Rias knew is that once she found out who they were…

She would not like it one bit.

Izumi was out in the field with Bryce as she stared at the students watching over. She was waiting for Rias and co to come find them after what happened with the fallen angels.

She looked down in her lap and saw that the boy was sleeping softly as she caressed his hair. She smiled at how peaceful he looked, though her smile would soon frown as she waited for him to start hyper breathing in his sleep.

He always would, those dreams of his that he had were nothing but visions of seeing the same thing over and over. It's a curse.

When they were in the loony bin, secretly they were both experimented on… by humans. Humans that knew of the supernatural existence and were looking for ways to fight against the three factions, so they were trying to make human weapons.

Izumi shuddered as she remembered the torture they were put through. They didn't even want to become weapons, but punishments were harsh. The worst they did to them was forcing them to kill other children. Other kids their own age.

It was horrible.

"Stop thinking about it." Izumi was brought out of her thoughts when she heard Bryce's voice. Looking down, she saw him with his right eye open.

"That's a bit hypocritical of you don't you think?" Izumi chuckled.

"Excuse me."

Both heads turned their attention to the voice and were met with purple eyes as a teenage girl with long black hair tied into a ponytail held by a yellow ribbon. Smiling as she greeted them.

"Yes, can we help you miss?" Izumi asked

"My name is Akeno Himejima, my president would like to speak with you two right now if that's okay. She would like to meet you guys at the ORC." Akeno informed.

"ORC?" Izumi pondered as Bryce stared at the older teen.

"Occult Research Club." He answered. "Their a club that specialize in the supernatural, you know, ghouls, angels, demons, devils, fallen angels, you know paranormal stuff."

"Ara, ara, someone sure knows their stuff. Perhaps some experience on the supernatural?" Akeno teased as she placed a hand on her cheek.

"Yes." Bryce said with no hint of denial tracing his voice. Izumi sighed at his blunt response while she decided to speak her turn.

"Sure, we can meet up with your chief. In fact, we could do right now if that's okay." She said earning a smile from the older teen.

"Oh, that's wonderful. You two lovebrids follow me and I'll take you there."

"We're not a couple." They both replied simultaneously.

"You could've fooled me. I mean you two rarely separate and you don't do hang out with any one else. I hear that's what other students have been saying." Akeno said as Izumi groaned in response.

"Jeez, rumors, really?" She said as Bryce shrugged his shoulders.

"Deal with it, it's one of the everlasting shenanigans dealt around high schools and they never stop."

"Right you are, my little kouhai." Akeno says as she sashayed her way towards him and leaned her face towards his, their noses almost touching. "And since you're single, maybe you and I could have a little chat sometime?"

"Aren't we chatting right now?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

Akeno was about to sigh until Izumi spoke.

"Don't blame him, his obliviousness is thanks to a friend of his that he rubbed off of. Believe me, I've tried to tease more times than I could count and I could never get through him." Izumi informed her as she pouted at the boy while the older teen giggled at her expression.

Soon they all arrived at the ORC and Bryce and Izumi noticed the Victorian decorations that the place had.

Akeno then opened the door to the main room, and let them in before letting herself in and announced her presence. "I've brought them Buchou."

"Thank you Akeno." The redhead thanked her as Akeno left the room to go leaving the other teens by themselves. Bryce looked around the room and noticed two others that were roaming around.

The first was boy with light blonde hair and blue eyes as he was leaning against the wall near the window and then there was a girl with white hair and amber eyes on the couch eating what he assumed was candy. As soon as she turned to Izumi, she immediately stiffened and started shaking and he knew there that it made sense.

This girl was the one that followed Izumi to her date and was terrified, well it's not like he could make it better.

Still that didn't mean he couldn't try.

He slowly walked over to the shaking girl and stood in front of her earning looks of confusion from Izumi and narrowed eyes from the redhead and blonde boy. The amber-eyed girl looked up towards him as he reached his hand out towards her head and started petting her.

Everyone in the room froze in bewilderment including Izumi who knew that Bryce rarely did anything out of his own way to help others.

"I brought tea everyone." Akeno announced with a tray of cups and tea before noticing everyone was staring at Bryce, following their eyes she saw why they were staring. "My, my, now that's unexpected."

Bryce then noticed the gazes behind him and immediately retracted his hand, earning a slight pout from the girl in front of him, though she didn't show it.

"Excuse me for touching your friend without permission." He apologized. "She looked very distraught so I thought I could help her out."

"By petting her head like a cat?" The redhead asked.

"Well she looks like one and has eyes like one." He stated as if it was obvious. "And she's the first one to not try and scratch me as soon as I pet her."

Everyone looked at him for a second before suddenly letting out small laughter at his joke earning a confused look from him while the girl in front of him let out a small smile play upon her lips.

"I guess when you put it like that, I can't help but agree." She said as she stood up from her desk. "Thank you for laugh, welcome to the ORC. I am Rias Gremory and I am chief of this club."

"Akeno Himejima, pleasure to meet you." Akeno introduced herself with a palm on her breast.

"Kiba Yuuto, nice to meet you." The blonde now named Kiba said with a bow towards them. Bryce nodded his head when he felt something tug his shirt, looking down he saw the girl pulling his shirt.

"…Koneko Toujou…" She introduced herself as Bryce pat her head earning a small purr from her, causing her to slightly blush at her voice.

"Bryce Hayate." He introduced and all were surprised at how emotionless he spoke, Koneko frowned at him wondering why he was like that. Izumi suddenly came behind him and jump on his back and introduced herself.

"Izumi Hyoudou at your service." She said as she sat down on the couch while Bryce sat next to her. "So, what do you want to talk about Rias?"

"Well… I wanted to talk to you about your… date with Yuuma." She said slowly earning a confused look from Izumi.

"How did you know about my date… you're not spying on me are you?" Izumi asked her before narrowing her eyes playfully at the redhead.

"No, absolutely not." Rias denied quickly. "It was just, something seemed off about her and well… you looked like you very excited about it."

"Oh." Izumi said with a face of recognition. "Well, I already knew that she was trying to kill me."

"Wait what!?" Rias called out in bewilderment. She was surprised at how easily Izumi just admitted that the fallen angel was trying to kill her. "Then why did you go out with her?"

Izumi just shrugged her shoulders. "Well I don't really have many girl friends as you can see besides Katase and Murayama. Bryce is my best friend and I've been his ever since childhood." She said as she smiled at him then turned her head back to Rias. "As for Raynare, I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt but I felt nothing but killing intent from her since she didn't even try to hide it so I basically killed her before she could kill me."

"That's very concerning." Akeno spoke in a worried tone. "If you did what you said you did, then you kill still be in danger."

"You mean the other fallen that are residing here?" She asked earning shocked looks from the room.

"How did you…"

"I took care of them." Bryce interrupted her as they all turned to him. He reached into his back pocket and took out two feathers. "These feathers belong to the ones called Dohnaseek and Kalawarner. There were three of them in general."

"What happened to the last one?"

"She escaped." He stated bluntly. Rias narrowed her eyes into his to look for any deceit hidden beneath them but she found none as she felt slightly disturb staring into his eyes. It was like he was looking directly into her soul, it was making her a bit uncomfortable.

"Alright, for now I'll take your word for it." Rias complied as he nodded his head, Izumi however knew that he was hiding something.

"Anyway, I wanted to ask you if you knew about the supernatural but it seems you both know that all too well. Still, it bothers me that two new students just randomly show up at our school and then take out three fallen angels like they weren't a big deal." Rias spoke with skepticism.

"What are you implying?" Izumi asked with her eyes narrowed.

"I'm not implying anything. I just want to know if you are either a friend or a foe to us." Rias said as she tried to calm the brunette down. "I want to know you are."

"We are human, that's it." Izumi shrugged her shoulders at the redhead. "Nothing more, nothing less, what difference does it make? It's not like we're here to kill anyone."

"We have no reason to attack you, we're only here for a fresh start and that's it." Bryce answered as he stood up and started to leave the room, but his path was blocked by Kiba who had his sword unsheathed, the blade pressed against his neck.

"Sorry, Bryce but I'm not done speaking to you." Rias said in a serious tone.

"Well I am, and if your knight doesn't remove his sword from my neck, I'll break his." Bryce threatened them as he slowly stared at Kiba, ready to end his life as if he was nothing.

Suddenly Akeno held out her hand, sparks of lighting dancing through her fingers while Koneko tightened her fist ready to fight but she started to hesitate. She was using her senjutsu and she could feel so much negative emotions in him, sadness, self-hate but most importantly… anger. She felt so much anger and bitterness within him, like it was about to explode at any second. Looking up at his eyes she saw that he was showing the same expression as earlier, no change at all… it confused her greatly.

"Listen princess, we're not here to pick with you or Sona. The last thing we need is you or her call your elder brother or Sera-nii and have her rain hell on our asses for false accusations…" Izumi informed them before narrowing her eyes at Rias. "On second thought, he might understand if his love for you doesn't blind him."

"Y-you know my brother?" Rias said with a surprise as they nodded their heads. "Well if you do than you know how much influence he has back in the devil world."

"Oh, give it a rest," Izumi face palmed herself as she held back a sigh. "You going to call your big brother for this, really, a princess like you can't handle two humans like us, or even the fallen?"

Rias narrowed her eyes once more and this time she gave a glare at the brunette. "You're getting on my nerves here."

"And you on mine, bitch." She called the redhead earning an angry look in return. "What's wrong don't like being called that? Well I say it fits you perfectly. Only someone like you would play with a person's life and let them die." Izumi mocked.

"Hey, don't disrespect Buchou!" Kiba shouted, defending his King while Akeno was inching towards Izumi. Unknown to them, Bryce finally had enough and suddenly grabbed the blade of Kiba's sword with his bare hand and then broke it off earning gasps across the room. He then moved towards the blonde, planting his knee right into Kiba's stomach, causing to cough up spit at the impact before being grabbed by the neck and lifted into the air.

"Enough." Bryce calmly stated as he stared at them. Akeno and Koneko both froze in place as they felt the killing intent coming off of him, it was massive and it felt so… so horrifying… it made them sick. Rias did her best to keep her composure as she started to sweat at the intense aura of death in the room.

"I'll say this only once, lay a hand on Izumi and I kill you. Simple as that." His words made them all tense in fear as he knew he was serious. Kiba felt the grip on his throat tighten as he started choking and started wringing in Bryce's grip.

"Let him go."

"Then don't bother us." Izumi stated with a cold glare. "We are here to settle not to fight but if it's conflict you want then you'll get it. Hell, it may reunite an old flame between the factions."

Rias eyes widened in terror as she took Izumi's words and figured out what she was implying.

"You wouldn't…"

"Only if I have to, and believe me when I say I will enjoy watching you all fight." Izumi smiled at her. Rias gritted her teeth in anger while Akeno and Koneko stared at the brunette still shocked at how easily she was suggesting to start a war and not caring about the casualties.

"Now then, while I would love to stay and chat, I think we overstayed our welcome." Izumi walked over to Bryce and patted him on the arm. "You can put him down, if he tries to attack you then you can go ahead and kill him."

Bryce let out a small sigh as he set Kiba down, by dropping him harshly to the ground as the blonde regained his breath.

"See you later, Rias. It's been fun meeting you." Izumi says as she and Bryce started leaving the clubroom, ignoring the glares being sent there way.

"Oh, that reminds me," Izumi stopped and turned her head towards Rias with a small smirk. "You may want to help that vampire of yours control of his… what was his name… Gasper was it?" She says enjoying the shocked look on their faces. "I'm serious, if you don't help him out of his shell, he'll be useless to help you in the future… and you have no one to blame but yourself for his fear." She finished her piece and walked out the room with Bryce following behind her as he closed the door.

After they were gone, Rias fire a blast of her magic towards the door, scorching the front from the impact.

"That scheming little…"

"What… monsters…" Kiba said as he slowly stood up.

"Buchou, we should avoid them for now." Akeno suggested earning a look of anger from her king. "Before you suggest we do anything to them, they aren't something we could just easily take down." Akeno said with a frown on her face. "You felt how different they were."

"Hai…" Koneko started as she spoke. "The killing intent off of them was overwhelming… and Bryce… I saw… something else…"

"Koneko…" Rias called out to her but the cat-devil said nothing as she was lost in her own thoughts.

Sighing to herself, Rias announced everyone to go home for the day and rest while she goes and talk to Sona. Akeno soon followed her and Kiba right after leaving Koneko by herself.

The cat had a rare frown and her gaze was filled with sympathy as she thought about Bryce.

'He looks… looks just like me…'

The two were leaving the school as they ignored the gazes of the student council that were watching them. They soon separated when Bryce informed her that he had something to take care and told the brunette he would meet her at home later on.

Walking by herself, Izumi sighed as she thought back to the meeting with Rias, she knew things were going to be a pain in the ass for the next few days and how she was going to deal with it.

She was brought out of her thoughts when she felt someone bump into her and was knocked down to the ground.

"Ow."

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't see where I was going." She apologized as she felt her hand being clasped and she pulled the person towards her.

In view, revealed a petite girl with green eyes, long blonde hair dressed in a nun's outfit with a suitcase behind her. She had swirls in her eyes as she stood up.

"Are you okay? Izumi asked her.

"Yes, I am. Forgive me for being a bit clumsy." She apologized as Izumi waved her hand dismissively.

"Ah, water under the bridge. Anyway, what's a nun like you doing out here?"

"Oh, I'm from America… I came here to search a church that can—wait!" She paused in her speech, staring at Izumi with shock. "You can understand me?"

"Yes, your voice sounds American so I only assume you were from America." Izumi replied while the younger girl sweat dropped at her answer.

"That's pretty vague."

Izumi use a finger to scratch the side of her face as her cheeks flushed in embarrassment. "I wasn't sure until you confirmed it for me."

"Putting that aside, could you show me around Japan and then guide towards the church?"

"Sure." The brunette happily before introducing herself. "By the way, I'm Izumi, Izumi Hyoudou."

"Pleasure to meet you, my name's Asia, Asia Argento."