Since I re-posted the last two chapters into one i'll be re-posting the rest of the story as different chapters with some changes in other chapters aside the number. Also i won't be leaving notes after every chapter. I hope this change won't be a problem to you readers.

Chapter 2

Akeno stared at Asumoto in disbelief, she couldn't believe what she heard but there was no lie in the redhead's words, Asumoto was a Rias Gremory's Queen!

This was quite a revelation to hear, and an unexpected one. Akeno suspected the two knew each other in some way, but never as master and servant. She thought he was just some normal guy who hated Rias for reasons unknown.

"Yes it's true. I'm Rias Gremory's Queen." Asumoto admitted with a sigh. "And you are Iwamatsu Hayashi's niece, Akeno Hayashi. Imagine my surprise when I learned Iwamatsu's niece had transferred to Kuoh Academy?"

"Dose everyone know my uncle?" Akeno asked, pushing the cart into the room and offering her delectable to the Devils.

"I don't." Kiba added.

"Never heard of them…" The white haired girl replied in a very monotone voice.

Well that answered her question. Facing Rias she prepared herself for whatever the Devil would ask, most likely she'd-

"So, did you turn her into a Devil yet?" Asumoto asked with a hint of anger in his tone.

That. She would turn her into a Devil.

Ignoring her Queen's hostile tone Rias addressed the miko. "Forgive him, he's usual not like this. Please sit." Rias motioned as she took one of the cups of tea and sipped on it. She hummed in delight at its taste. This was some pretty good tea, she hadn't expected the priestess to be this good with cooking. "I think formal introductions are necessary. As I said before, I am Rias Gremory, the King of the peerage and my Queen is Asumoto. Kiba is my Knight and my little Koneko Toujou is my Rook."

Kiba waved politely while Koneko and Asumoto nodded at the ravenette. So that's what Kiba's piece was, that explains why he was sparing with Asumoto. Of course he'd use the Knight trait as well because his ancestors were Samurai.

"We, of the Occult Research Club, are all Devils. Our club is a cover for the duties we must perform to ensure Kuoh is safe." She didn't need to go into detail about the history of each Faction knowing this girl was part of the Shinto's so she'd cut to the chase. "I've heard many things about the Priestess of Thunder, how you go from town to town purifying evil spirits and exterminating Stray Devil's. Won't your stay here in Kuoh restrict you from helping the rest of Japan?"

"Not really. There are thousands of other Shinto priest and priestess who travel. While Kuoh I do plan to graduate here and I love this town, I also felt it was necessary to have a miko purify the town of any evil that dwelled here."

"And do you see us as evil?" Rias asked cautiously.

Akeno shook her head, "Not at all. In my eyes evil is those who wish to do harm on the innocent. You've said you're duties are to protect Kuoh from that very same evil, which happen to be Strays. Devils."

Rias smiled, this girl's perspective of evil wasn't like those of the other Factions. Her uncle trained her welled. "In that case I would-"

"Don't even Rias." Asumoto interrupted. "You're grab for power won't work on this girl. She's the niece of Iwamatsu Hayashi, surely you don't wanna invoke his wrath."

"He's right, Rias," Akeno added, "I know you want to reincarnate me as a Devil because of my powers. However, that unfortunately won't happen. My uncle may try to harm you if he learned about your actions of turning me into a Devil. That and my duties to the supernatural world lay with the Shinto Faction, not the Devils. I can't willing give up my humanity for power or immortality. I'm sorry but I must humbly decline."

Rias sighed, there goes a good piece to add to her peerage to stop her engagement to Riser. However, she couldn't be mad at her, Rias heard of the power Iwamatsu Hayashi carried and wished to not face that power. Still, she needed to find a way to end this engagement of hers. She had to find a way, she just had to.

Rias looked hurt by her decline, no doubt she wanted to gain herself a powerful servant but Akeno had another solution. "My uncle has been trying to mend the feuds our Factions have had. Perhaps we can ours by becoming become allies and more importantly, friends?" The miko asked with a kind smile as she offered her hand.

Rias looked at the girl's hand for a long while, stunned that she was offering to be her ally even though she just turned down her own offer to join the Devils. Guess her uncle rubbed off on her. Iwamatsu was famous not only for his power but show compassion toward all the Factions, which many shook their heads at.

"He's loony. His compassion will be the death of him one day."

But it had not. One time, this of course was a rumor, was that he fought a Fallen Angel and when he defeated him, nursed him back to health.

Rias brother always said they wanted peace and maybe this could be the first step to obtaining peace. But more importantly, gaining herself a powerful ally. The noble Devil took the ravenette's hand and shook it. "Yes. I can tell just by looking at you, you're a good person Akeno."

Akeno smiled at the kind words. Her uncle never said anything about being allies with Rias. The poor man was so worried about her becoming a Devil he never stop to think about this option.

Ending the shake Rias addressed her peerage, "Well everyone, we have ourselves a new member of our club."

Akeno smiled at her new club members. Kiba smiled back, while Koneko continued eating her candy, Asumoto had a look of relief which confused her. Was he worried she'd becoming a Devil? Shooing that thought away she grabbed herself a cup of tea and began to talk with Rias and the others about what they do in Kuoh.

Night fell on the town and Akeno was at last walking home to her shrine. Her time spent with the Devils of Kuoh was rather pleasant. They told her about the contacts they preform along with the Stray Devil's they have to exterminate, and living life like normal people when not needing to perform tasks for the underworld.

Rias had shown her lot of kindness during their talks. It wasn't that surprisingly thought, the Gremory's were known to treat their servants and allies like that.

Akeno had also discovered that underneath that noble girl status was someone looking for a friend. She learned two out of three of her servants were grateful to be saved by her, one was not. Asumoto had said nothing about Rias, only that she was his master and he her servant. In fact Asumoto hadn't said much, Koneko was more talkative than he had. Something about that silver eyed samurai made him different to the others. He seemed to revolt being a Devil which had Akeno wondering why.

Her train of thought was stopped when she saw something out the corner of her eye. Turning to get a better look she found it was Asumoto and he seem to be looking around in case anyone was following him. What was he doing out here so late, shouldn't he be with Rias?

And why was he wearing a Shinto priest outfit?

Curiosity filled her as she began to follow the Devil, her skills in stealth allowed her to been unseen or detected by the samurai. Her tailing continued through alleyways, suburban areas, through more alleyways, all the way to the outskirts of the town. What could be all the way out here for the Devil not to teleport to, or could he not teleport to it?

She was given her answer when he arrived at a small shrine. It was old and ruined, the bell that hung was cracked and laid upon the dusty floor. Sitting on a stool was a statue of Susanoo, the God of storm and sea. Keeping out of sit she continued to watch much interest at what the brunette was doing here. She saw him drop to his knees and shakily move his hands together, in a praying motion. Akeno's eyes widened in shock, he wasn't just a samurai he was a Shinto too!

Continuing to watch, she saw Asumoto yelped in pain as he clutched his head which was followed a scream of anger from him as he jumped to his feet.

Akeno watched the samurai sadly. He wanted to pray to the God's of Shintoism but due to being a Devil couldn't do so. Poor boy, he must have dedicated his life to the Shinto way and it was taken from him. Rias probably didn't know anything about this and if she told her, drama could arise which she didn't wanna have occurring so she quietly slipped away from the scene, even if she wanted to comfort the former human.

When she returned to her home the ravenette sighed sadly. Asumoto's attempted praying and angry outburst played over and over in her head. That boy wanted his humanity back but there was no way to remove a Devil's Evil Piece without killing him.

Entering her bedroom she stepped in front of her mirror summoning forth two black feathered wings. Both wings slumped along with her shoulders as she sighed sadly.

"He's just like me." She thought aloud.

Well partially, he was a Shinto follower and had Devil powers he detested. She was a miko and had Fallen Angel powers she detested.

'Wonder how he'd feel if I told him about this side of me…'

Folding her wings back in, she stripped her school uniform off and had a quick shower before dressing herself in her miko outfit, and entering the shrine room where she went on her knees and preformed her prayers for the day.

As she prayed she began to think about Asumoto...she just realized he never gave her his last name.

In fact nobody ever addressed by his last name, only as Asumoto. Did he forget or was he hiding it and if so why? Could he be related to someone important, like she was?

She dug through her memories about what she knew about him. The silver eyed brunette was once a human, his descendants were samurai, and tonight she discovered he was a follower of the Shinto way.

…

Could it be possible...?

She had questions for the brunette, questions she hoped he would answer.

Anger. That's all he could feel right now. Anger toward the person who fucked his life over. He once had everything and it was now gone, all of it.

Asumoto laid on his bed staring at the ceiling in anger, with good reasons to be. This was the thirtieth or something time to be hurt when trying to pray. Why would they refuse his prayers? He was once a devoted follower to Shintoism and could no longer do so, no matter how hard he prayed.

"This is your fault Rias…" He whispered, Rias smug expression flashing through his mind, "You did this to me! Because of you and you're fucking Devilry I can no longer pray to the Gods or my ancestors! You have desecrated by life, you have brought shame and dishonor onto me Rias Gremory!" His screams echoed around the room of his house.

"By all means keep screaming. I wasn't enjoying a comfortable nap. Nya."

Silver eyes narrowed as they turned to the window. Sitting on that window was a black cat with golden eyes, its tail swishing back a forth.

"Go away."

"And miss out on another angry rant by Asu-kun, not on your life boy. Nya." The feline smirked as a female voice came from its lips. It, or rather she, strolled casual across the floor and hopped onto his bed. "Besides you could use the company. What is this, the sixth, eighth time I've heard you screaming like a toddler who doesn't get sweets."

"Gee I wonder why?" Sarcasm filled his grumpy tone as he continued to glare at the cat, not surprised that it could talk.

"And why are you still dark brown? Ugh why choose such a terrible color, please go back to your natural color or dye it a color that bring out your eyes more, like red."

"Why red?"

"Cuz it'll show how grumpy you are. Nya!" The cat teased with a chuckle as it laid on his chest purring softly.

"You know I could tell Rias I have an SS-class criminal staying at my house." Asumoto threatened.

"Awww you wouldn't do that to a poor little kitty would you? Nya?" Her eyes went big as dinner plates as she stared at him.

"I wouldn't cuz it'd be a waste of time and you're actions were to protect your sister. Thought you can't justify you're actions of abandoning her."

"How is Shirone?" The cat changed the subject.

Asumoto clicked his tongue in annoyance, "Stoic like always."

"Kinda like how you are. Nya." Her reply was the middle finger. "Asu-kun, stop being so pouty. How about I cheer you up? Nya~"

"By 'cheer up' you mean take my virginity so can have babies, so no." He groaned when he felt extra weight being added to him. Gone was the cat, now replaced by a gorgeous woman with long black hair with golden eyes. Her attire consists of a black kimono, a yellow obi, a set of golden beads, and an ornately detailed headband. The interior of the kimono was red and open at her shoulders, giving Asumoto view to her enormous breasts which rivaled Rias and Akeno in terms of size. On her head were cat ears and at her waist was not one but two tails swishing opposite directions.

"I liked you better as a cat, Kuroka. You weighed less."

Yes this was Kuroka, the very same Kuroka who became a Stray Devil after murdering her master. She was also a Nekomata and the elder sister of Shirone, better known as Koneko Toujou. What nobody realized was that Kuroka hadn't murdered her master but rather killed him in defense of her sister, after which she left her sister alone and was wanted a criminal for it. She eluded capture many times and was nearly caught once, after which she just seem to vanish off the face of the earth.

The answer to that was thanks to a certain samurai. Asumoto stumbled upon her one day, recognizing who she was he offered her shelter, as long as she didn't show her true form in public less Rias discover his treacherous actions of harboring a criminal. He understand why she did what she did but pitied her for not taking Koneko with her.

As for Kuroka, she was grateful for his actions for saving her but nevertheless enjoyed teasing him when she could. Unfortunately for her, today was one of his bad days.

"You're an ass!" Kuroka pouted smacking him lightly on the chest, "Didn't your mom tell you not tell a woman she's fat!?"

"Hm." Asumoto sat up pushing the cat girl off him and got out of bed heading for the door. "I'm not in the mood for your antics."

"Asumoto."

He halted when he heard her address his full name, meaning she was serious. Looking over his shoulder he saw her expression was very serious.

"You're not the only one who knows the pain of loss. I lost my sister."

"Which you brought upon yourself. I lost everything." With those words he departing, leaving Kuroka alone.

Kuroka sighed as she laid on his bed. Stupid boy, his negative emotions were swirling around him like a hurricane. If he didn't come to terms with the past, the pain he had would consume him.