Re:DxD Back from Zero
Chapter 1: Returning by Death
"What do I long for?"
"What do I fight for?"
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"That's right…I wanted to win"
A battlefield can be seen. Dust soot covered the air, rubbles littered the ground. Sounds of clashes can be heard in the distance and there, we could a boy with messy brown hair and brown eyes. He was wounded, a mortal wound can be seen, with blood gushing out of it. He can be considered as dead, if not for the fact that his chest is slowly rising and falling due to breathing.
"But I got defeated shamelessly…I promised to win…we promised to win, and I am going out like this" he painfully uttered as he gazed at the sky with his emotionless eyes.
"That all happened because of my weakness!"
"I am worthless"
"Worthless"
"I am not worthy at all…I am not"
He was laying on his back, paralyzed by head to toe and was laying on the pool of his own blood.
His face contorting into that of a furious look, he clenched his weakened fists and forcefully slammed his fist to the ground, inflicting pain on his dying body.
"If I just did something…I could have done it…"
"Why? Why am I so useless?" he painfully uttered.
"Issei"
"Issei"
Hearing this, his face of pure self-hatred softened, turning his head to the source of the voice.
She was a girl with crimson hair and aquamarine eyes. Blood and soot covered her delicate face as her clothes were torn from battle.
"B-butchou" he painfully uttered as he looked over to his master.
"Issei. Hang on! We are going to save you!" the red head let out, worried for the wellbeing of her pawn.
"Why save a useless trash?"
"Issei, please hang on…please" the girl let out while she cradled her pawn's disabled body.
"Why?"
"Issei-san!" screamed a girl with blonde hair, green eyes worriedly as she hurriedly went by their side. She has her clothes, ruined, with blood flowing through her delicate face.
"Asia"
"Leave me be please"
"My Bishop, please save him!" the red head demanded, frustrated.
"H-hai Butchou" the blonde girl responded as she started using her sacred gear, in turn, her hands turned ethereal green.
"Why?"
"Asia…it's no use…so please" he uttered
"Why save a trash that can easily be replaced?"
"Don't say things like that Issei! We are going to save you!" the red head said as stared at her pawn's bloodied body.
Seconds pass…seconds turned to minutes and yet.
"Why isn't it working?!" the blonde let out, frustrated.
"Why isn't the wound closing?" the red haid let out.
"I am sorry…" he muttered.
"Issei-kun!" screamed a girl, with worriness filled voice. She was girl with raven colored hair and violet-colored eyes. She was a wearing a heavily damaged Yukata.
"Akeno"
"Senpai" a white-haired girl let as she crouched down to the level of her Senpai. She has her clothes, heavily shredded from battle as well.
"Koneko…"
"Just leave me be"
"Akeno…
"I am a piece of garbage…a piece of disposable garbage"
"Idiot Senpai" responded the white-haired girl as she shed tears towards her Senpai.
"I can't be saved, the injury…- "
"Why Issei?! Why?! Don't you want to be saved? And that promise that you made at that day?!" the red-haired girl screamed angrily yet worriedly while crying her eyes out.
"I swear…I will stay by your side forever" he said enthusiastically while pumping fist to the air.
"You better keep that promise, my sweet pawn" she said while crying tears of joy and relief.
"Butchou…I know…I am sorry!" he apologized, tears poured down from his dull and emotionless eyes.
"I really can't…" he admitted.
"Just leave me be…please"
"Issei-kun…please survive…you- "the raven-colored hair girl began while tears flowing down her face.
"I am worthless!" he retorted, screaming at the top of his lungs interrupting the girl.
"I am too worthless, if I am stronger, no, if I was stronger, I couldn't have gone like this!"
"I am just a worthless pervert who never did anything!"
"I am the worst! The weakest of the weak!"
"Spending my time everyday reading magazines, never doing anything!"
"No, you are not my sweet pawn" the red head responded as she caressed her pawn's hair.
"Huh?" he let out confused.
"No…you never will be worthless" the red head added as she stared her pawn in the eyes.
"Do you remember that you saved me…you saved me from the accursed fate" the red head said as she gently caressed her pawn's hair.
"It was because of luck! If it wasn't for the almighty dragon sealed in my arm, we would have never won in the first place!" he screamed back at the girl.
"Yes, we won because of luck, however…" she began
"Because you did everything you can. You poured everything…"
"Wha- "
"Issei-san" interrupted the blonde-haired girl.
"I have no friends before that faithful day just because of my reputation…but you, cared for me, protected me, shed tears for me" she said crying, while continuing to use her sacred gear.
"I was a fool! I don't know anything at that time! If I would have known, I would have avoided you!" he screamed, trying his best to be dense.
"Issei-san…I can tell that you are bluffing…" she responded while chuckling bitterly.
Before he can respond, he was interrupted.
"Issei-kun…" it was the raven-haired girl's turn to speak.
"Do you remember the time when I showed you my heritage…being a half-fallen angel should have made you stay away from me…" she began, tears welling up on her eyes.
"You didn't…you accepted me as it was" she said, while her welled up tears flowed down her face.
"You also helped me to face my father whom I hated so much…" she added gratefully.
His face contorting, adapting a faked enraged exterior.
"I was naive! I was stupid! I only accepted you to add to my harem! I never loved you!" he screamed, lying through his bloodied teeth.
"Fufufu you are lying Issei-kun" she responded playfully while wiping of her tears.
"Why do you care for me!? I am worthless! A piece of disposable garbage who can easily be replaced!?" he let out as let out his welled-up tears.
Hearing this the girls then warmly smiled.
"It's because you will never be! We know you as the boy who saved us and loved us!" the girls let out.
"Why?"
"W-why?"
With that,
He cried.
Cried…
Cried…
Cried…
"I love you" the red haid said, confessing her feelings, shocking the boy.
"I love you too" the raven-haired girl said, smiling warmly.
"I love you Issei-kun so please…survive for us," said the blonde-haired girl.
"Stupid Senpai, I also love you" the white-haired girl confessed.
Hearing this, he finally smiled genuinely, the warmest smile he could ever muster on his life, happy.
But the dreaded fact remains…
"But I can't be- "
"I can't be saved…I want to spend more time all of you…" he said bitterly as his smile diminished.
"Issei…" the red head let out sadly.
"Asia, Butchou, Akeno, Koneko…don't be saddened" he said, turning his head to their direction. He observed that the girls were comforting the blonde as well as their faces filled with sadness and despair.
"Why!? You are dying Issei! Don't you care for your life!?" the red head retorted, glaring at the boy. The glare, however, has no animosity behind it.
"It can't be helped…" he let out waiting for his demise.
"Don't say things like that Senpai" the white head while staring at her Senpai, tears were pouring from her eyes.
"Everyone…" he called out.
"Move on without me…live happy lives, never let my death be in vain!" he stated, smiling genuinely.
"Don't talk about that you are going to die! Believe in us! We can still save you…so please…please…" the red-haired girl cried out as her flowing tears intensified.
"Butchou…I will not last any longer…" he let as he coughed out blood. He was saddened by that fact, however there was no choice but to face the bitter truth
"Asia please please please!" the redhead begged desperately as she watched the life of her pawn diminishing.
"B-Butchou listen to me…" he called out to his frustrated master, gaining her attention
"Butchou, thank you for saving me back there…thank you for everything" he said to the red head sadly as he coughed out blood remebering those times.
"Thank you, Akeno, Asia and Koneko, for supporting me." he added at this grateful statement.
The girls were happy seeing as how they wiped their tears and nodded when hearing this grateful statement from the boy they grew to love, whom they grew to cherish.
"This is this is the end…I am sorry" he painfully uttered as he felt his soul leaving his body.
"I am sorry"
"I am sorry"
"I am sorry"
"Ise no!" screamed the red head as she embraced her pawn for one last time. The girls to, broke down, seeing as how can't be saved.
"I…"
"Love…"
"All…"
"Of…"
"You…"
He confessed his feelings towards the grieving girls while smiling weakly, yet it was a genuine and warm smile as his body gave way from the strain and blood loss.
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And just like that, Hyoudou Issei has perished once again, leaving their world forever.
-DxD-
Waking up, he found himself in a world where light never existed, not a single speck of dust can be seen.
"Where am I?" he asked no one while trying to look at all directions only to be met with darkness and void.
"I knew I already died; I knew that sensation all too well…but how can I move? How can I talk? "He asked once again terribly confused by what transpired.
"I was just- "he was interrupted by a sensation he knew all too well.
Pain….
"What the!?"
Pain….
"It hurts stop it!"
Pain….
"Stop!"
Memories of all kinds surged his head.
"Stop this!" he screamed in agony while clutching his head.
"I-I will save you! j-just y-you w-wait!" said a boy with black hair and black eyes with blood pouring out of his mouth as he grasped a hand of a girl.
"It hurts! Please stop!" he continued in pain.
"Why do you keep living me behind!? What did I wrong!?" the same boy screamed out; however he was interrupted by his head being squashed, spilling blood.
"I will kill you! Damn you! I will kill you! Just let me out of these chains I will kill you!" he let out enraged as he saw a blue haired girl get brutally twisted.
"Please stop!" he screamed out, starting to dig his nails on his skin once again.
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The pain surging inside him, finally stopped, in turn he stopped his self-harming, however it was not done haunting him yet.
"What the hell?" he screamed terrified of what transpired.
"Those are not mine not mine not mine NOT MINE!" he screamed as he scratches his nails on his skin. He was terrified by what he saw.
"I love you" said a distorted voice, making him stop his self-harming.
"Huh?" he let out confused as he looked around, only to see nothing or rather no one.
"Who are you!?" he screamed in panic as he rapidly moved his head left to right, right to left.
"I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you" added the distorted yet feminine voice, disturbing the boy to his core.
"I said… who are you?" he asked the entity once again, distressed.
"I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you"
"No…stop this!" he demanded as he started to clutch his head in pain once again
"I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you"
"Stop this! Please just stop!"
"Issei Issei Issei Issei Issei Issei Issei Issei Issei Issei"
"Whoever you are…I will never love you!" he screamed with resolve.
The voice stopped, however…
"Love me Love me Love me Love me Love me Love me Love me Love me Love me!"
"Never!"
"So, please don't suffer, love your life, cherish it" another feminine voice said with concern.
Then…
Hands made up of an ominous energy, no hundreds of them were now approaching him with speed. In response, Issei made a defending motion, only to see all the hands pass through his skin, towards his heart crushing it inflicting immense pain to the boy.
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He found himself, in his old room, 2 months back in the past.
Chapter End
This is my first ever fanfic so please do point out my weaknesses.