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"Shirou" Regular speech.
"Shirou" Thoughts.
DRAGON SHOT Attack names.
(Shirou) Words said previously.
"SHIROU!" Shouting speech.
[Ddraig] Dragon talking.
New life, This Could Turn Out To Be A Good Thing
Pain.
His whole body was aching...
No that wasn't the right description.
It felt like his body was cut and slashed in many different places. While there was a fire burning inside him. It hurt just to move.
There was an upside to this, feeling pain meant he was still alive.
After realizing that, he started to recall the events of before, including the previous battle, his enemy who fled and blacking out due to his injuries.
But that begged the question, where was he now and who was that voice he heard.
A soft groan escaped his lips as he breathed in before getting up. Doing so fortunately didn't cause much pain.
Next, he opened his eyes to see where he was, soon he had to resist the urge to close them again, he was suddenly pained by the sunlight which felt like it was sizzling his skin on contact. This was odd considering he had no such problem with sunlight yesterday.
"Nnnnng….!" he growled in pain. After a few minutes, his eyes adjusted. looking around at the familiar furniture and size of the room, he realized he was in his own bedroom, and that he was resting in his bed.
Now the question was how he was back in his room, Shirou decided to sit up and process all this.
He thought back to the events of yesterday, trying to figure out if there was something he missed.
He was under no delusion that it could have been a dream, everything was normal until that moment. And the battle was still fresh in his mind, even in his worst nightmares, he could never imagine something as surreal as that.
The darkness, the killing intent, the feeling of her light piercing through his flesh.
A dream could never have had those things.
That strange girl, or rather the Angel dressed like a stripper, Yuuma Amano, had attacked him with the desire to end his life.
He fought back and succeeded in tearing apart both her arms.
She gravely wounded him, and he used the last of his strength to crush her beneath his feet.
She flew away before the finishing blow.
And he was left there before passing out.
The question on whether he would have survived or not was up for debate. He was used to taking large amounts of damage, and it's possible he could still live despite the state he was in.
The thing that didn't make sense was, how he was back home. He could only imagine that whoever showed up at the end brought him here with the intention of saving his life. But that raised more questions like how did they know where he lived, why did they save him, how much did they know about what happened, and most of all where were they now.
None of this made any sense.
"I don't understand what's going on here." Shirou asked himself, placing a hand on his stomach.
"Unnn…mmm…" Hearing a sweet-sounding voice right next to him, that was undoubtedly aroused stopped his thoughts.
Shirou turned to his face the left side of the bed to see the source of the voice, what he saw was a girl with hair that was a deep crimson much like the color of blood and pale skin that looked softer than silk and shone from the suns light. Besides that, she was completely Naked and because of that Shirou could see everything, including her large breasts and pink nipples, all the way down to her hairless nether regions.
Shirou was surprised and confused at the sight of seeing this girl out of nowhere.
He kept his cool however since it was nothing he hadn't seen before, though to be fair she was more developed they any other girl he'd seen before.
"I have several questions." That was all Shirou could say about all this.
Shirou then rested his hand on his jaw and tried to make sense of this randomness.
"I'm pretty sure we didn't do it, otherwise the bed wouldn't be so neat and tidy. So why the hell is there a girl in my bed?"
{Maybe you drank one too many and brought her home last night!}
Mika answered his question from her room on the other side of his wall.
"Mika! First of all, I only drank one bottle yesterday. Secondly, it was in the morning and third I would NEVER bring a random girl home for sex and will deny it if anyone says otherwise! I'm insulted that you would even think that." Shirou said with his arms crossed.
{Well even if you say that, how do you explain the woman sleeping next to you, and your lack of memory as to why?}
Shirou noticed she had a point there.
"Oookay, I know this looks bad, but I assure you I'm innocent, innocent I tell ya!"
{Well Brosuke I want to believe you, but you're not giving me much proof.}
"Well, you can't prove I did anything!"
{That may be true, but you can't prove that you didn't since you can't remember.}
"Damn, she's got me there..." Shirou then noticed what was going on and became irritated.
"What am I doing? I have nothing to prove, besides all that, I need to find out what's going on here, and what you're doing isn't helping!"
{Aww, you ruined it, we could have gone on longer, it was getting fun.}
Shirou face-palmed.
"Look I'll deal with you later, right now I've got to figure "all this" out."
{Very well then, I shall desist.}
Shirou let out I sigh of relief. "Okay now back to the matter at hand."
"You certainly have an interesting relationship with your Sister."
"That's one way of seeing it, but it's tiresome nonetheless." Shirou replied. "...Wait."
Shirou turned back to the crimson-haired girl to now see that she was awake, she was laying there not caring that her body was on full display, her eyes were a gentle blue color, and she smiled at him as if everything was normal. "Good morning."
"Good morning? That's what you start with?" Shirou didn't know why she was so casually with all this. "I'd of preferred if you at least told me your name first."
The girl was surprised by that question. "Wait... you don't know who I am?"
Now Shirou was confused. "Umm, should I?"
"We go to the same school, I'm an upperclassman, I'm pretty well known."
"Oh, well sorry but you don't seem familiar." Shirou shrugged.
She was now at a loss for words, she didn't expect that someone from her school didn't know her. She had just assumed everyone knew her by now, after all, it wasn't like there was anyone else with crimson hair.
"Uhh, okay then, I'm Rias Gremory."
"And I'm Shirou Tsukiharu." Shirou replied.
"Yes I know, and I'm sure you're wondering why I'm here."
Shirou nodded. "Yeah among other things too, but for now let me ask, why are you Naked?"
"You are too you know." Rias pointed out.
"Wha…" Shirou looked down and saw that she was right, he was indeed as Naked as she was, the difference was that his torso was still covered in his bandages, although there were some openings here and there and some holes from where he was stabbed. Besides that, everything else was out in the open.
Shirou then scratched his right cheek. "Huh, you'd think I would've noticed that."
"Don't worry it was just something to heal your wounds."
"That doesn't make sense, how does this lead to that."
"Very much so actually, you see I can only heal you with skin on skin contact." Rias explained.
"You can't be serious, that sounds like something from an H-game..." Shirou then noticed something in her words. "Wait... you healed me?"
"That's right, you're welcome." Rias said with a smile.
"Then you're the one that appeared after the fight?"
"Correct again, and let me just say congratulations on that victory, not many humans can defeat a Fallen Angel like that." Rias praised him.
"Fallen Angel? God this keeps gettin—" And that when it happened, Shirou suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, like his brain was pierced. "Augh…! What the hell?"
Rias giggled at that. "I forgot to mention this, but you shouldn't say that name anymore."
"Name?" Shirou groaned rubbing his temples, trying to soothe his head pain. "You mean God?" And just like that, it happened again. "Augh…! I'm in hell!"
She giggled some more. "Yes that, invoking that name in any oath or prayer will cause pain." Rias clarified.
"How does that work?" Shirou asked while rubbing his head.
"I'll explain in detail later, for now considering your change, it would be easy if you learned to live without swearing to God or praying."
"I doubt that'll be a problem considering I don't pray." Shirou said.
"I know it sounds weird, but….…Really?" Rias wasn't expecting that response. "You don't mind never speaking God's name or practising religion ever again?"
Shirou sighed. "Truth is, back when I was a kid, I was a huge believer of the Christian faith, but after a while both my faith and my beliefs died, so no I don't mind at all." Shirou looked out the window with a troubled expression.
Rias looked at him with pity in her eyes. "That sounds like a sad story. Want to talk about it?"
"No. I've said enough already."
"Does it have anything to do with what's beneath those bandages you're wearing?"
Shirou stopped and then looked at her seriously. "You didn't look beneath them did you?"
Rias shook her head. "I was planning to, but when your Sister heard I was going to heal you, she insisted I not remove your bandages, so I healed you though them."
Shirou's expression relaxed at that. "Then I appreciate that, but my answer is the same."
"You sure about that."
"Look make no mistake, you brought me back here and patched me up, and I'm grateful for that. However you're still a stranger that I just met, I know nothing about you so I'm not just going to tell you something personal about myself just like that."
Rias heard his words and nodded. "I suppose that's fair, I won't ask anymore."
"Good, now then you can explain what the hell happened yesterday." Shirou said impatiently. "What was that girl and why did she want to kill me, I've been cool about this until now but I think a deserve an explanation already."
"Don't worry I'll explain," Rias assured. "Though I'm a little surprised, I half expected you to think of yesterdays events as nothing more than a dream, and deny everything at this point."
"Yeah well not me, I doubt it could have been a dream considering I never went to sleep, and more than that I've still got the pain in my body to prove it." Shirou pointed out.
"I guess that's true, very well then let me introduce myself properly." Rias then smiled. "I am Rias Gremory… And I am a Devil!"
Shirou blinked. "Come again?"
"The day before you were deceived and almost killed by a creature known as a Fallen Angel as I said before." Rias continued. "In order to save you from the brink of death, I performed a ritual on you that made you the same as me."
Shirou took notice to the last thing she said. "Wait, you mean I'm..."
"That's right, you were given a new life as a Devil."
The was a long silence that followed after Rias's declaration.
Shirou then sighed and got up.
"Look I'm still not getting all of it, so let's hear the whole thing downstairs." Shirou then gets out of bed and stands on the floor. "And since I think we've stayed undressed long enough, let's get some clothes on first. You change in the hall."
Rias was confused by that request. "Why?"
"Because I'm also going to change my bandages," Shirou then narrowed his eyes. "And not to be vague or anything but, you've already seen everything I have and showed me what you've got." Shirou gestured to their bare bodies. "So if there was ever a time for you to respect my privacy, it would be now."
Rias got out of bed and picked up her clothes. "Alright, I'll get dressed and wait for you downstairs."
Rias then walked out the door, and Shirou began getting ready.
"So what you're saying is you are a Devil?" Mika said, pointing at Rias from the other side of the breakfast table. Rias who was now wearing her student uniform, nodded in response, smiling pleasantly. She then points at Shirou. "And you're saying Big Bro has now been reborn into a Devil as well?"
"That's the gist of what she said." Shirou confirmed, leaning on his arms tiredly.
"It's the truth." Rias confirmed, passively taking a sip of her coffee. "It's fine if you don't believe me, Shirou said he wanted you to hear this too, so here we are, but I know most humans would have trouble taking this seriously. It's a common reaction."
"No. I believe you." Mika said immediately. After adding a large amount of sugar to her coffee she takes a slip.
Rias blinked. Surprised by the fact that once again, someone believed her words instantly. "Really?"
Mika nodded. "Well sure." Mika let out a yawn. She drank more of her coffee the get ride of her drowsiness. "Brotato wouldn't lie to me about something like this, so if he vouches that it's for real then I believe it."
Rias was surprised by that reasoning, but welcome it. "Well I'm glad, that makes thing easier."
"Besides, bro-doken would never bring home some random girl home for sex, that's not his thing."
Shirou narrowed his eyes at her. "Really 'cause that's not what you said just a moment ago."
"Aw come on," Mika waved at him. "You know I didn't mean it."
"Yeah, sure I do." Shirou said sarcastically.
"And I know she can't be your girlfriend because I'm the one you're going to be shipped with next."
Shirou almost fell off his chair at that.
"You're still on about that?!" Shirou hissed.
"Well of course I am," Mika said seriously. "Do you have any idea how upset I was when you started dating, just be glad I didn't have I problem with Aika or I would have said something. Now it's me who's route you're going to follow."
"I told you, I'm not doing the "little sister route"!" Shirou barked, feeling annoyed by the fact that he was even having this conversation. "I thought I've made it clear, I'm not a siscon, you damned Otaku!" That gave Rias some time to pause, looking back and forth between the little Sister and the older Brother as if she was realizing something she hadn't noticed before.
Mika shrugged, not seeing this as something to get upset about. "All I'm saying is consider it and I'm okay with it anytime." Mika said casually. "You know it's okay to change your mind, and no one would blame you for falling for your super adorable, uber, amazing Otaku baby Sister. Since we can't get together by law, we could have our own little ceremony when you're finally ready."
Shirou resisted the strong urge building up inside his head that was telling him to slam his face in the table.
"Why can't you understand? This isn't some stupid eroge! There are major problems with doing something like that."
"Actually there aren't." Rias chipped in getting their attention. "Devils may look a lot like humans, but we're built different, the problems a human would have don't exist for us and now you."
"Seriously?" Mika asked amazed. "That's great!"
"No it's not." Shirou didn't cave. "It's still my Sister!"
"Well that's not out of the norm for us either," Rias explained. "In Devils' society, it's actually not uncommon for some siblings to become intimate. I've seen it a number of times."
"Wow, Devils must have a lovely community." Mika commented.
"Why thank you." Rias responded flattered.
"Stop throwing fuel on the fire!" Shirou berated Rias. He then looked at Mika. "And you, being legal or socially accepted isn't the problem, the problem is I don't want to de-flower my Sister, Devil or otherwise!"
"Cooomme ooonn!" Mika whined. "At least think about it."
Rias looked from Shirou to Mika to Shirou to Mika to Shirou "..." She put deep thought into her next words. "I ship it."
"Why do you keep encouraging her?" Shirou asked, getting fed up at this point. "This is incest you're talking about."
"Devils are supposed to encourage sin." Rias said coyly. "You might find that there are a lot of taboos that you won't mind breaking at some point."
Shirou's eyebrow twitched. He had enough nut-jobs in his life without someone who apparently supported his little Sister's laid back Brother-complex.
Back when they were little it was cute.
(One day when I'm bigger, I'll be Big Bro's waifu!)
But when Mika got older, she never quiet dropped the sentiment. It wasn't as though she was pursuing him like some stalkerish love-sick puppy, but it made him horribly uncomfortable that she was more than willing to become his "last resort"...well, maybe not "more than willing". "More like "just willing". It was hard to put a definite label to it, it wasn't as though she outright said, "I love you Big Bro! Let's be together forever and ever and I won't let any other hoe have you!" or anything more obsessive like that, She obviously didn't mind him dating someone else, it just seemed she wanted to get in on it.
Although she always repeated the same thing, Mika was always pretty vague about whether she was joking or not.
Shirou once came home after having sex with Aika, and Mika came up to him and said with a straight face.
(Mind showing me how you did it?)
—was what she said.
How was he supposed to respond to that. Especially when she said it with the same passive eyes she always had.
"Okay! I think it's time we get going!" Shirou said getting up from his chair, and just wanting to end this discussion.
"Yes, I believe we should get going." Rias agreed and she got up too, having finished her coffee. "We should be getting to school."
"Wait school?" Shirou turned his head to face her feeling confused, despite the strangeness of the conversation they just had, he still had more questions to ask her, yet her she was talking about going to school.
"Yes, School." Rias said, gesturing to time on her watch. "We're going to be late."
"But I still have stuff I want to ask you about."
"I'll answer any question you have after school." Rias then made her way to the front door.
Shirou sighed. "Fine.…" Not seeing any other option, he decided to just go along with it for now. He followed her to the front door, but before they left, he turned back one more time to Mika. "Take a shower, Mika!"
"Whaaaaat!" Mika whined. "I took one last niiiight!"
"You didn't use soap like I told you." Shirou barked. "I can smell your stink all the way from here!"
"But—"
"DO IT!"
SLAM!
Shirou slammed the door shut, and he and Rias began their walk to school.
He forgot to take something into account.
Shirou Tsukiharu was many things.
A Delinquent. Brawler. Student. Protector of the weak. Merciless destroyer of his enemies. An under-age drinker. He was all those things and many more.
But "Attention seeker" was not something he was. Even though he normally stands out anyway, he didn't want to go out of his way to be even more noticed. The looks on everyone's faces whenever he passed by them grated on his nerves to no end.
Apparently Rias wasn't kidding when she said she was well known. But how could he have guessed that she was literally the most popular girl in all the campus.
The gossip had already started.
"Princess Rias and the King of Destruction?"
"He must have threatened her."
"A forbidden romance between two secret lovers come to light!"
"It can't be! Rias-oneesame left me for that demon!"
"I don't know, they kind-of look good together."
It was really starting to push Shirou over the edge, fortunately though he was able to hold it in. The Pro-Shirou crowd was expressing their amazement by this scene believing it to be the ideal match-up. While the Anti-Shirou crowd was spreading their disdain for this pairing and outright refusal to expect it.
Shirou then looked at Rias to see how she felt about this. Surprisingly enough she didn't seem fazed by this, she walked without a care about the gazes on her much like he did yesterday.
"I wonder how she can be OKAY with all this?" He thought to himself as he rested his gaze upon Rias. Every movement was elegant and alluring, the wind carries a sweet scent emanating from her body. It was a relaxing smell, one that put his nerves at ease. He quickly stopped himself however, not wanting to explain why he was sniffing Rias.
They soon approached the front entrance to the school. It was very awkward walking next to someone who may as well be a real princess. It was like a Rogue being put next to a... well princess. It was hard to imagine any right way to go about walking beside her. They now entered the main hallway.
"I'll send someone to fetch you later." Rias said.
"Fetch me?" Shirou asked, raising an eyebrow. "And how will this fetching work exactly?"
"Don't worry." Rias responded. "Just hang out till final bell, they'll come to your class to get you, they'll introduce themselves so you'll know it's okay."
Shirou nodded and Rias walked away, leaving Shirou alone with his thoughts. While he was tempted to just leave halfway through the day, he really needed answers, so to his dismay he had no choice but to attend the whole day of school.
Shirou was now seating in his seat by his desk. The final bell had just rung and he was now waiting for whoever was coming to take him to Rias. While waiting he thought about the events of today.
More rumors had started up by the student body after the word had spread on how he and Rias had walked to school together this morning. Sometimes it really bothered him on how vivid their imagination could get. On one side, they thought it was the start of a forbidden love between the two of them, and Rias was able to bring out the kind soul hidden inside of him and he in return would protect her like a knight in shining armor. The other side believes that Shirou is choosing to follow his demonic impulses and sink his lustful desire on Rias, intending to ravage her completely.
Shirou personally thought they were all idiots.
"Hey Shirou."
Shirou looked to his right and saw Ren and Aika approaching.
"Oh, hey you two." Shirou greeted them.
"What was up with you yesterday?" Ren asked. "You left school and all of a sudden, you show up today with Rias Gremory?"
"There are a lot of rumors going on about the two of you right now." Aika mentioned to him.
Shirou sighed. "Look, whatever the rumors say, I guarantee they aren't true."
"Really?"
"Yeah Ren, really."
"Well, the day's over so mind explaining it to us then?" Aika requested.
"I'd like to but I'm waiting for someone."
As Shirou said that, the three of them heard flustered screams coming from the girls in the classroom. They looked to see a handsome blonde youth appear and the girls all seemed charmed by his very presents. he was a handsome young man with short blond hair, bluish-grey eyes and a mole underneath his left eye. He wears the Kuoh Academy boys' student uniform. The youth made his why to Shirou.
"Hello there." He greeted with a polite smile.
Shirou blinked, he was confused by his sudden appearance but rolled with it. "Ah, hello?"
"I'm here to fetch you." He specified.
Shirou now understood. "Oh, so you're the guy huh. Well great then let's go."
Shirou got up from his seat. Unfortunately to his dismay, the others seemed to misunderstand the implications of their meeting.
Squeals and flustered screams erupted from the girls not-so-subtly gathering behind the blonde.
"Tsukiharu-kun and Kiba-kun! I love it!"
"Kuoh's Prince and Dark Prince!"
"BL4Ever!"
"Who do you think would be on top?"
"Hmmmm… Maybe they take turns?"
"What would the circumstances behind their romance be?"
"I bet it was passionate and wistful!"
All their comments and gossip was making Shirou more annoyed, and to make matters worse, Ren and Aika joined in.
"Wait, is this who you were waiting for?" Ren asked, looking as though he just realized something.
Aika decided to have fun with this. She pretends to look upset and placed a hand over her mouth while looking to the side.
"Alas, Shirou has left me to find love with his stud-muffin."
A drop of sweat fell from the back of Kiba's head as he felt uncomfortable by all this excitement.
Shirou however decided enough was enough.
"NNOOOOO!" Shirou slammed his hand on his desk, silencing everyone in the room.
Shirou pointed to Ren. "Look, it's not what you're thinking!" Shirou then pointed to Aika. "And it's not what you're thinking!" He then narrowed his eyes and pointed to the group of girls. "And I don't know what your thinking, but it's probably wrong!" Shirou then grabbed his book-bag. "Now everyone just forgot what you saw and I will be leaving!"
Despite saying that, Shirou just stood there for a few minutes and then looked at Kiba annoyed. "...Well, I'm waiting."
Kiba was confused for a second, but then realized he was supposed to escort him. "Oh right sorry. Follow me."
Kiba then leads the way and the two of them left the classroom.
"Mind telling me where we're going?" Shirou asked.
The two of them were now walking away from the school building and into the further ends of campus.
"Don't worry, we're almost there." Kiba assured him. "Aside from that, things got pretty interesting back there."
Shirou scowled at being reminded of what happened a moment ago.
"Don't even remind me of that, worst part is despite what I said, I'm pretty sure they're still gonna start rumors before long."
"True, this school does have a habit of that." Kiba replied. "Still I didn't think you had a problem with that Tsukiharu-kun."
Shirou was a little curious by his choice of words.
"Wait you know about me?"
"Not in detail, but I've heard rumors about you." Kiba specified.
"Well that makes sense, these days I can't go one day without someone starting a bizarre rumor."
"Sorry for the trouble."
"On an unrelated subject, I've also heard of you." Shirou admitted.
Kiba wasn't expecting that. "You have, when?"
"Are you kidding, who hasn't heard how you, the "Super hot bishounen that can make a girl reach her climax with just a wink"."
Kiba smiled while scratching the back of his head.
"I see, I was hoping you didn't hear those." Kiba said awkwardly.
Shirou shrugged. "Don't worry about it, I never put much stoke in what they think."
"So I've noticed, still the rumors about you are much harder to follow."
"Why's that?" Shirou asked.
"Well the story changes depending on who you hear it from, and honestly even after meeting you I still can't tell which were true or not."
"To be fair, we just meet." Shirou reminded him.
"True, but you already get the basic gist of who I am, so I'd hope to learn a bit about you." Kiba admitted.
"What do you think?"
"What?" Kiba responded.
"What kind of person do you think I am." Shirou clarified. "Everyone else just decides for themselves based on what they think, so you do the same.
Kiba thought for a moment, as he didn't know how to answer that. He then told him what he thought.
"I think you're someone who simply does things on his own terms, and everyone else just takes it too seriously."
Kiba gave his honest opinion based on what he had seen so far, and he waited for Shirou's response.
Shirou himself just stared at Kiba processing what he had just said, then his response surprised Kiba.
"Huh, we've only spoken once and your answer was closer than most." Shirou said casually. "Not bad, I think we'll get along."
Kiba inwardly sighed in relief, worried he might have offended him. "Thank you."
With their conversation at its end, the two of them finally arrived at their destination.
"We're here." Kiba said.
"This place?" Shirou said, feeling unsure. "Looks like it's barely standing."
He had been led to the old school building on the outskirts of campus. It used to be the main school building back when the school was first built, but when the expansion and increase of the school prestige came along, it was replaced by the new larger school building, leaving this place empty and run down.
"Don't worry, it looks much nicer inside. Let's go" Kiba assured him.
The two boys made their way inside, and Shirou found out that Kiba was right, it was much nicer on the inside. The floor was so clean it shined, the walls looked they held up much better than outside, everything looked new.
"Huh, you weren't kidding." Shirou said impressed.
Kiba smiled. "Glad you like it."
"So does Rias own all of this?"
"Well sort of, her father actually owns everything on campus, but this is her personal base." Kiba explained.
"Wait, why would she need a base? And why choose someplace in the middle of nowhere?" Shirou questioned.
"Relax, it'll all make sense in a minute."
As they made their way through the building, they soon reached the stairs and climbed them to reach the second floor. They kept walking till they reached a specific room with a sign on top of the door.
[Occult Research Club]
"Huh, Occult Research Club." Shirou stared with half-lidded eyes before turning to Kiba. "How did you even get permission for this?"
Kiba smiled amused. "Trust me, it's just a name, what we actually do is much different."
Kiba then knocked on the door. "Chief, I've brought him."
"Come in," A voice replied almost immediately.
Kiba opened the door, leading Shirou inside. Shirou entered wondering what was awaiting him this time.
One part of the room was covered with various weird signs and symbols that Shirou couldn't understand at all. They looked like some kind of summoning circles for dark rituals you'd see done by Satanists or heretics. There was an especially large one in the middle of the room. There were sofas, tables, and old-looking paintings that made the entire room look as though it was from a completely different era.
Sitting on one of the two sofas facing each other was a white-haired loli munching on sweets. She is a petite girl with white hair and hazel eyes. The front of her hair has two long bangs going past her shoulders and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead, while the back has a short bob cut. She wears a black cat-shaped hair clip on both sides of her hair. She was currently wearing the Kuoh academy girl's student uniform.
Her appearance completely threw off the whole "unholy" vibe this place had going for it. She was just so tiny and cute that it was hard to take her seriously despite the fact that she had a completely stoic look on her face.
"This is Shirou Tsukiharu," Kiba said gesturing to Shirou.
The girl paused from her snack, which Shirou recognized, to stare at him. "…Hey."
Was all she said.
"Sup."
Was all he said.
"This girl is Koneko Toujou." Kiba said introducing the loli. "She's a 1st-Year student."
"Umm… Okay, don't really remember asking though." Shirou responded.
Soon Shirou could hear a strange noise, as he listened he recognized it as the sound of running water.
"What the?" Shirou looked around to try and see the source. "Where is…?"
Shirou then saw another room that was covered by a curtain, and inside that room was undoubtedly a shower with the curtain drawn. More then that, he could see a womanly silhouette through the shower curtain, and steam pouring out through the sides and over the top.
Shirou simply stared with half-lidded eyes, knowing it must be Rias. "Really?" Shirou groaned. "She really couldn't have done this before I got here?"
"Oh, Shirou are you here already?" The voice of Rias called out in the shower. "Hang on, I'll be done in a moment."
"Your clothes have been laid out for when you're ready, Chief." An unfamiliar voice said.
"Thank you, Akeno." Rias sighed in relief, letting hot water wash all over her.
Another girl, perhaps a year older than him like Rias, came out from behind the curtain, almost immediately turning her attention to Shirou.
Akeno is a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous figure with breasts that might even be bigger than the ones on Rias, very long black hair and violet eyes. Her hair is tied in a long ponytail, reaching all the way down to her legs with two strands sticking out from the top and sloping backwards, with an orange ribbon keeping it in place. Like most of the girls at Kuoh Academy, she wears the customary Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform, along with black calf-length socks.
"So you're the boy that Rias brought into our group~." She said in a pleasant tone as she smiled at him.
"Yeah…" Shirou wasn't paying attention, instead he kept his eyes on the shower. "Does she do that often?"
Akeno was amused by his question. "No, she usually showers at home, why were you hoping to get a closer look~"
Shirou then looked at her and was about to say something, but then stopped himself. "I won't even dignify that with a response."
"Aww, that's no fun." Akeno said sounding disappointed but still giggled.
Shirou then looked at her closer and narrowed his eyes, "Why do I feel a metric fuck-tone of Impure thoughts from you."
Akeno's expression didn't change, she simply placed a hand over her mouth and looked away.
"I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about~"
"…He's actually right though." Koneko added from her seat.
"I'm actually surprised you noticed so quickly." Kiba agreed with an apologetic smile.
Shirou shrugged. "I'm just good at reading people, It's just an instinct thing."
Rias then walked out of the shower completely clothed and seat down in her desk.
"Thank you for waiting."
"Rias." Shirou said.
"Shirou-kun," Kiba whispered interrupted him. "She prefers you call her Chief."
"Well, I'm not calling her that, that's ridiculous." Shirou immediately replied.
Shirou then turned to face her with half-lidded eyes. "Wow, first my bedroom and now this, do you just love being Naked around me, or do you do this for everyone?"
Rias looked amused and smiled at him. "I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about~"
"Would you cut that out!" Shirou snapped. "It was bad enough the first time,"
Rias then gestured to the couch. "Take a seat."
Shirou sighed. "Fine… This better be worth it."
Shirou then sat down on the couch opposite from Koneko.
"Now that you're here." Rias said. "Let's discuss the reason I brought you here."
"Right, you made me wait all day for this."
"Well, first of all, let me begin by welcoming you as the newest member of the Occult Research Club."
"Hey, you taking the wrong steps." Shirou interrupted her. "I didn't come here to join a club, I came here to get answers. What was Yuuma Amono? Why did she want to kill me? And what's all this Devil stuff about?" Shirou then looked at her seriously. "Answer me, or I'm leaving."
Rias looked at his gaze and choose to straight with him "Very well then, let me begin by saying this club is more than just a hobby, It's also a cover for us Devils."
Shirou took notice to the last thing she said and raised an eyebrow. "Us?"
Rias nodded. "That's right I'm not the only Devil in this room."
Shirou blinked then looked back at the others. "Wait, then you guys are—"
They all nodded with a smile.
"That's right."
"You guessed it~"
"...Yep."
Shirou frowned. "Huh, you'd think I would've seen that coming."
Rias continued with her explanation. "And the person known as Yuuma Amano was a Fallen Angel."
Shirou scratched the top of his head. "Yeah. You said that before, but I still don't know what that is."
"Then we'll start from the beginning: We, the Devils have been at war with the Fallen Angels since ancient times. We have been fighting over the possession of the Underworld, which is also known as Hell in the Human world. The Underworld is split into two areas, one for Devils and one for Fallen Angels. The Devils form pacts with humans and receive their sacrifices and increase their strength. The Fallen Angels on the other hand control Humans to eliminate Devils. At this point, the Angels come in to destroy these two races on God's orders, which creates the Three Factions, also known as the Trinity Factions. This has been going on since ancient times."
Shirou took a minute to process her explanation. "I get it, so basically the Devils and Fallen Angels got into a huge turf war over who gets the Underworld, and the Angels who saw them fighting decided it was a good chance to take out both of them, and now there's a huge war between all of them."
Rias blinked, feeling a little surprised. "Ahh… Yes, that is a simplified way to look at it. I'm a little surprised you followed all that so quickly."
Shirou then crossed his arms behind his head. "It wasn't hard, I've seen something along those lines before in Middle-School. There were a bunch delinquents who formed street gangs, there were three gangs that were the biggest ones in town and they hated each other. After a while, two of them got into a huge turf war and started fighting, after a while the third one joined in too and it became a three-way brawl between all of them."
They all were surprised by the story he just told them. Considering the scenario he just described was the Three Factions in a nutshell.
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"Okay then..." Rias decided to just continue. "I guess that helps too."
"Which side were you on?" Kiba asked.
"None, just like right now, I wasn't involved with any side, which begs the question." Shirou turned back to Rias. "Since Yuuma was one of these Fallen Angels, why'd she come to kill me? I didn't do anything to piss off her bosses."
"It's because you were dangerous." Rias said. "She believed the power inside of you was a threat to the Fallen Angels and chose to kill you, though she failed."
"My power? You mean the Sacred Gear?"
"Yes, it- Wait, what did you say?" Rias asked surprised once again. "How do you know that name?"
"Before we started fighting, she said a lot of things I really didn't get, but one of them that I remember was that she said something about killing me because of my "Sacred Gear"." Shirou explained. "So what is it?"
"I see." Rias decided not to ask how he found the time to remember that while fighting for his life. "The Sacred Gear is a special power bestowed on a rare few Humans by God."
"But I don't feel rare or special."
"Really? Not even after you managed to best a Fallen Angel with nothing but your bare hands?" Rias said unable to believe he didn't think he was special after a feat like that.
"Yeah, but I didn't use any strange power to do that." Shirou pointed out.
Rias frowned. "You know, I'm telling you some crazy stuff right now. You could try being a little more amazed! Or terrified! Or something."
"No offence, but after you've already seen it, having someone explain it isn't very exciting." Shirou casually responded.
"…He's right y'know." Koneko agreed.
Rias sighed. "Moving on, despite what you might think, Sacred Gears are a big deal." Rias explained. "A lot of famous people in history possessed one, some of which you might recognize."
"But you just said they're rare and special, ergo a lot of famous people in history didn't possess one and still turned out fine." Shirou pointed out.
Rias just stared at him for a minute, she then breathed in and then out. "Your ability to find flaw in everything I say aside. There are a lot of Sacred Gear that are only useful in Human society, but there are some that can pose a threat to non-Humans like Devils and Fallen Angels."
"So in-other-words, The Fallen Angels think I'm a ticking time bomb that will blow up in their faces, and they want me gone before I go off." Shirou deduced.
"Sad but true." Rias noted. "That's why we're going to help you summon your Sacred Gear."
"Well, I'm convinced." Shirou clapped and stood up. "So how's this work?"
"First raise your hand in the air."
"Okay." Shirou lifts his arm in the air. "Should I wave it like I just don't care?" He asked in a joking tone.
Rias held in her laugh while the others including Koneko let out a small giggle.
"Very funny, now be serious." Rias berated him. "Now concentrate, focus on an image of power and draw upon the energy of the Sacred Gear inside of you. Now it's alright if you don't get it on the first try. Summoning power like this is—"
"Done." Shirou called out, showing a red gauntlet with a green gem embedded on the hand covering his left arm from the hand to the wrist. "So is this it?"
Rias went wide-eyed. "What-How?!"
"I did what you told me." Shirou responded plainly. "I thought about the image I thought was the most powerful, myself."
"That's all it took?"
"Of course it was, for me I can't imagine anything in this world more powerful than I, Shirou-Sama."
They all descended into an awkward silence, as Rias tried to comprehend how their newest member was able to adapt to things at an unreasonably fast pace.
"Well then," Rias said. "Now that you've summoned it, you can use it anywhere, at any time, you did very well."
"I don't know." Shirou said looking at his Gear sceptical. "It doesn't really seem like much, and I don't even know what it does."
"Don't underestimate it!" Rias said dead-serious. "The Fallen Angels saw it as enough threat to try and kill you, you'll need to be cautious."
"Well, I still think I can beat her without it." Shirou said not convinced.
"Shirou, I'd advise against doing something like trying to fight her again." Rias said unwaveringly. "After what happened last time, she'll do whatever she can to kill you, and she won't have any intention on a fair fight, you can't handle a group of Fallen Angels."
Shirou just smirked at that. "Don't count me out yet. I still have an ace up my sleeve that she doesn't know about."
Rias was surprised by his confidence, she was tempted to ask what it was but didn't want to encourage his idea of fighting the Fallen Angels.
"Even so, you still can't." Rias said. "Doing so will put us at risk too."
Shirou was now confused. "What, why? What does my fighting them have to do with you?"
"That day, as you were on the brink of death, I saw an opportunity," Rias said. "Using my powers as a Devil, I resurrected you as my servant. My name is Rias Gremory, daughter of Duke Gremory. Now that we've given you your orientation, let us give you proper introductions. Everyone!"
The other members of the club stood up from their seats.
PA!
At that moment, bat-like wings sprouted from each of their backs.
Black, but different from the wings of the girl who tried to kill him, her wings were filthy and feathery like a crow.
PA!
Shirou jerked forward as a sudden force pushed from his own back, force suddenly replaced with a new weight on his back.
"What!" Shirou looked behind himself to see the same wings have sprouted from his back. "Wings?"
"My name is Kiba Yuuto. I'm a Second-Year like you, I'm a Devil too. Nice to meet you."
"…First year.…Koneko Toujou. Pleased to make your acquaintance. …I'm a Devil too."
Koneko bows her head.
"My name is Akeno Himejima, and I'm a Third-Year. I'm also the vice-president of this Occult Research Club. Nice to meet you. Even though I'm like this, I'm also a Devil. Ufufu."
Akeno bows her head very politely.
There was a silence as Shirou stared at the trio in front of him and then the wings on his back. He then stood there with his eyes shadowed by his bangs.
He then sighed. "Y'know it hadn't sunk in up until now, but I'm really not Human anymore." Shirou spoke in a quiet tone.
Rias was surprised for a different reason this time. This was the first time Shirou had shown any real emotion, she didn't expect this.
"Shirou." Rias said with pity in her eyes. "I know this sudden and a little hard to take in, but the only alternative was death."
"I know."
The rest all looked at each other not sure what say, or if they should say anything. They themselves had hard times adjusting to being Devils when they first meet Rias.
Shirou then looked at his arm covered by the Sacred Gear, and then he felt his wings that were now a part of him. Shirou then looked up, and now had a small smile.
"This could turn out to be a good thing." Those words surprised the others, they didn't expect such a sudden change of heart. "Truth is, for as long as I could remember even though I was human, I never really fit into the human world. I always felt I was different and nothing ever really made me feel like I was supposed to be here. Maybe being a Devil is the change I needed, I was already considered a demon so why not.
Rias was relieved and smiled at those words, happy that he was able to come to terms with his new existence. "That's a great way to look at it. Now, as my Devil servant, you shall live for my sake."
"PFFHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
No sooner after she said that, Shirou surprised everyone by showing emotion for the second time. This time however, he did so by bursting out in laughter, although none of were sure as to why. After a minute or so, he finally calmed down.
"Haha… Ah okay, I'm good." Shirou then looked at Rias and held up two fingers. "Two things, first of all, "live for your sake" seriously, who would ever live for the sake of someone else."
As he said that, Kiba, Akeno, and Koneko responded by raising their hands.
"…" Shirou blinked, not expecting that at all. "Okayyy… Don't know what your deal is, but as for me, I don't agree with that, I live for me." Shirou said determined but then paused. "Well me and the those close to me bu-but, mainly for me, it is for my own sake that I live, and that's not changing anytime soon."
Rias was a little surprised since this was the first time one of her servants denied choosing the live for her.
Shirou wasn't done.
"Second, even though I appreciate the fact that you put me back together, that doesn't mean I'm just going to kneel over and serve you, what reason is there to stop me for just leaving now that you've answered my questions?"
"Being saved from death wasn't enough?"
"You act like I agreed to serve you if you did." Shirou pointed out. "That was just something you decide for yourself. And even if you did nothing, you can't say for sure that I wouldn't have survived even without your help."
"Good point, but how about the part where if you leave you'll become a stray and hunted down to be killed." Rias pointed out.
"I'm not worried." Shirou replied unfazed.
"And you don't have to be my servant forever." Rias added. "With enough time and a good track record, you could rise up and get servants of your own."
"Sounds interesting." Shirou considered.
"And you'll also be able to master your power and maybe even unlock new ones." Rias continued.
That one caught his attention. "I do love power." Shirou considered the possibilities. "Rias, I'll agree with this, only if you agree to follow three conditions of my first."
Rias gave a graceful nod. "I'll agree provided they're within my power, name them."
"First of all I'm not big on formalities or anything like that, so I won't call you "master" or anything like that. I'll simply call you Rias like I've been doing."
Rias thought about that request. "I don't think that will be a problem, as long as you at least call me "Chief" around other Nobles."
"If I have to." Shirou said reluctantly.
"Then I accept."
"The second, I want to you to pay all my bills from now on, I mean I could do it myself but it's a pain doing that while also being a student."
"I understand, I accept." Rias answered immediately.
"Good, this is actually going pretty well." Shirou said satisfied with the rate this was going in. "This last one is the most important, and it's not negotiable. If you don't accept then the deal is off." Shirou said seriously.
"Name it." Rias responded.
"My Sister." Shirou said looking down.
"Mika?"
"Yeah, I know that by entering this world my life will be a constant danger, even more so than before. I know that I could end up dying somehow, even though I'll do everything in my power to live, you never know what might happen." Shirou then steeled his gaze. "Promise me that if something were to happen to me, you'll take care of Mika."
Everyone was shocked by his request.
"Mika is a shut-in, she can't cook, clean, or even look after herself, and personally if anything happened to her, I'd lose a chunk of my very soul." Shirou griped his chest where his heart was. "So swear to me that you'll take care of her no matter what, that means everything to me."
Silence.
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More silence.
"Uh hello? Is that a yes or." Shirou asked confused by their silence.
Everyone one of them was staring at him with sparkling, awe-stricken eyes.
"What's with you guys?" Shirou asked now feeling uncomfortable.
"His brotherly aura is so strong..."
"…I never thought he could be so caring...!"
"The rumors don't do him justice at all, he's really a great guy...!"
Shirou's eye twitched, irritated by there gaze. "Stop staring at me like that!" He snapped. "It's creepy."
"If that is all you desire, then it shall be done." Rias chimed in. "But known once we make this deal, there's no going back."
"Shirou Tsukiharu is a man of his word." Shirou said unwavering.
"Then we have a deal."
Rias extended her hand, and Shirou reached out to shake it. And with that everything was settle. The others smiled at the success of bringing in a new member.
"Welcome to the Occult Research Club." Rias said with a smile.
"Let's see how this play's out." Shirou responded.
That's the second chapter. First of all, yes I kept the Brother-complex in Mika because let's face it, I just loved that about her, so I made my version of Mika that way too. And I thought it would be funny if Rias told her it was legal now since Shirou is now a Devil. As for Shirou's bandages, I'll let you see what's beneath them in a little while, and yes Shirou is a non-believer even though he was once a Christian. Just letting you know, that's going to be important later on.
The scene with Shirou and the Occult Research Club where they explain to Shirou all he wanted to know. I decide to make him less aggressive as Shirou Fujimura simply because that's not who Shirou Tsukiharu is, he wanted answers, yes but he wasn't so impatient. Not to mention I thought it would be more fun if he kept poking holes in the things Rias said like he did with "Yuuma".
Another thing was, I wanted him to show some reaction when It sunk in that he was no longer Human, the fact is he never felt he was like everyone else and honestly, he wasn't, but he was still born a Human, so I wanted him to be at least a little affected by this. As for the laughing when Rias said: "live for my sake" that just felt appropriate since it would be ridiculous for someone to live for someone they just met, why everyone else was just immediately okay with that I'll never understand.
Oh and just so you know, he doesn't think of them as friends yet. It's more he's the new guy at a part-time job and they're the current work stuff, that you try to be civil around just because you want things to be easy.
P.S. Just in case you didn't get it. Chief means Buchou.
Anyways thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed, if you want more leave a review if you like the story click the follow/favourite, and as always have an awesome day.