Chapter 6

Issei was speechless, as he stared at his girlfriend. He had been dating her for a week with today being their second date and after having a fun day, the girl he loved, was saying nonsense. He couldn't believe what he heard, he wanted to deny it. But her words, her wings, they were true, all of it. Yumma, or rather Raynare, was a Fallen Angel and he himself had something called a 'Sacred Gear' locked away inside him.

He didn't know if he could handle all this information but had to chug through it, he had to not pass out and listen to Yu-Raynare.

When she finished he spoke after swallowing the lump in his throat, "So, my girlfriend is a Fallen Angel and I have a super special power in me?" When he received a nod his frowned, "Is that why you were only interested in me, because of this special power?"

"No, not at all!" Raynare objected waving her hands franticly. "I mean…well I was at first but only because my boss I had to observer you!" She was only make him madder by the creasing of his brow and tightening of firsts. She needed to find a way to calm him down. "Issei, you're not just special in power." She turned away a little blush crossing her cheeks, "You're…special to me."

The day Asumoto spoke to her, she changed her plan to try and recruit Issei to her side, before that she suggested the plan to Azazel-sama, hoping to convince him that having one of the Heavenly Dragon's on their side could give them an advantage. The answer she got surprised her, the Governor General said no, they were there to only observe not recruit. That was his answer, until the beauty convinced her leader that if having one of the Longinus's, he could study its secrets. Azazel jumped at the chance to study one of the legendary heavenly dragons and ordered Raynare to recruit him however way she could, which now was doing after having another fun date with Issei.

The Queen of Rias was right about getting to know Issei, it helped her realize he wasn't just a dumb pervert, but quite a nice person to get to know and funny as well, especially when teased sexually, which she found very cute.

Seeing his anger vanished she carried on, "You may be a pervert but you're a good guy, Issei Hyoudou. Through our time spent together, you've made me feel not like a Fallen Angel, but like a human being, like a normal girl. You're fun to be around and I know my orders were to observe you, but I truly have taking a liking to you Ise-kun. Your kind, funny, and so cute when you blush. I-I don't know if you'll forgive me, but I am I'm sorry." She bowed her head, eyes covering behind her bangs.

Issei stood their silently, listening to her words. She was ordered by the leader of the Fallen Angel's to observer him because of his power but she had grown to like him. True it made his heart fill with joy that at last there was a girl who like however…

"I don't know Yumma." He said at last with a sigh, "Maybe it has been better to not tell me of this supernatural stuff."

"I had to tell you." Raynare said slowly getting closer to the human, "Either it was me or Rias Gremory. She wants to turn you into a Devil."

Issei looked up at her in shock, "R-Rias Gremory's a Devil too!?"

"Yes. Issei-kun, that power you have within you is very special and desirable by many, specifically Rias. She'll turn you into a Devil for that power. But Ise, my darling Ise-kun, you can come with me, to Grigori. We can help you learn to control that power and you'll still be human. My sweet human." She pleaded as she cupped his face, her violet orbs staring into his brown.

Issei looked back at her, he was being offered to join the Fallen Angels, to leave his normal life behind. Hesitation filled him at that thought. He liked Yumma, but he didn't wanna leave his home and how would his parents react to this?

Seeing the hesitation Raynare spoke softly, "Ise-kun, you don't have to worry, you won't need to leave Kuoh to control your power. Will be here to help you. And your parents won't need to know a thing about this. There's nothing to worry about."

Well that was one problem out of the way, but there was one last question he needed answering which made a perverted grin form on his lips. "If I join…can I get a harem?"

Surprise came over the ravenette's face before giggling and pulling at his cheek, "Of course your silly pervert! You can have all the Fallen Angel girls you want. Just remember I'm you're first girl~."

'Yes! I get to be surrounded by a bunch of hot naked Fallen Angel!' He cheered as a big goofy smile came over him before throwing his arms around Raynare's neck and kissing her lips.

Raynare blushed at the affectionate kiss the brunette gave her, that one more thing she loved about him, he was a great kisser. When he pulled away she stroked his cheek tenderly, "Ise, baby, I'm sorry but I gotta go for now. I need to report this to my superiors. Tomorrow, you'll meet the others and will explain everything to you. And make sure you tell no one, not even your parents."

"But what about Rias Gremory, won't she be mad?"

"Oh, she'll be mad alright. Because she didn't get what she desired, your power. Don't worry I'm sure Rias won't try to force you to join, unless she wants a war, but I'll explain more about that tomorrow. You just get home safely."

"Sure thing." He swooped in and gave a quick kiss to her lips, "I love you, Yu-Ray-chan." He said before returning home waving to his girlfriend.

"I love you too Ise-kun!" She yelled back with a sweet smile. When he was out of sight she turned to find Asumoto leaning against a tree with a smile on his face. Guess he had been watching them the whole time to ensure nothing happened.

"Huh, never knew Hyoudou was such a great kisser. Gotta give him points for that." His comment made the Fallen Angel blush, "I'm glad you made the right choice, Raynare."

"As am I. With the Red Dragon Emperor, we will have ourselves a powerful ally. Thought I still can't believe you'd purposely sabotage your master's plan to obtain Ise-kun."

"I wouldn't call it sabotage, more like suggesting a better plan instead of murdering the boy. As I said, if you had killed him Rias would have reincarnated him. Anyway, I should be going, perhaps next time we meet it'll be at the mall or somewhere."

"Hold a moment." Raynare said quickly, "I believe you deserve something in return for giving Grigori one of the Heavenly Dragons. As a token of gratitude, I'll let you have a Sacred Gear user here in Kuoh. It's not a Longinus but it will be useful."

"Oh?" This caught Asumoto's attention, what Sacred Gear could it be that she would trade for a Longinus?

"It's called Twilight Healing. It heals any injury, or so I've heard. Its possessor was once a nun of the church who was excommunicated and I…sorta planned to kill and steal her Sacred Gear." She said looking away at the glare Asumoto sent her. "That was before you came long." She added quickly, "Anyway, I'll let you, or rather Rias Gremory, have it in exchange for the Longinus. However, if you want it, you need to take care of the guy she's with. A rogue priest who we recruited by the name of Freed Sellzen is supervising her. Kill him for me and the Twilight Healing along with its possessor are yours."

So that's what his name was. Ever since the Fallen Angel's showed up, clients of both Rias and Sona had been discovered dead with the murderer never around. Both nobles had suspected the Fallen Angels were at fault, until Asumoto witnessed firsthand the white-haired priest murdering a client before feeling the crime scene. That had been a week ago and now knowing who the bastards name was, he could pay in back for all the murders he committed. Devil he may be, nobody, not even innocent Devil clients, should be killed in such brutal ways.

However, he couldn't stop himself from asking the obvious question everyone asks, "Why not kill him yourself?"

"Because I'd rather not have that idiot know I betrayed him. It needs to look like we had no connection to that rude priest. Plus, I never liked that foul mouthed bastard, all yammering on about killing Devils and fucking girls. Ugh, I now regret ever recruiting him. Anyway, the Twilight Healings possessor is an Italian girl by the name of Asia Argento, she's blonde with green eyes and wearing the nun uniform. You'll know it's here since she'll be with that vulgar tongued red eyed bastard."

Asumoto thought of the trade they'd be getting. Rias would lose a Longinus, but she'd be getting a very powerful healing Sacred Gear that the Church should not have let go, a stupid decision on their part, and all he'd have to do to acquire it was kill the rouge priest working with Raynare, simple enough. "Very well, I'll do it. I assume you have a plan?"

"Yeah, just head to the church, kill Freed, and take Asia for yourself. Will dispose of the body and see if Azazel-sama want's a base here to help train Issei."

"Then we have an accord." Asumoto said pushing off the tree to shake hands with the dark-haired beauty.

Pathetic. That was the thought Asumoto was thinking as he stood within the abandon church looking down at the corpse of Freed Sellzen. While he had some skill with a gun and sword, he was nothing but all talk and that, in the end, was his death. It took the Devil thirty minutes to get to the church and another two minutes to kill Freed.

As for the girl, Asia, she fainted the moment she saw her "sense" get a sword through his neck and a bullet to the left eye. Poor girl, probably never had seen anything so violent in all her life since she was raised in the Church.

"Tch, guns, helpful as they were, they could be such a noises problem when trying to be stealthy." He said to himself while dropping the weapon to pick Asia up.

"I'm impressed boy," A gruff voice said as a man in a trench coat and fedora stepped out of the shadows. "You dispatched that priest like he was nothing. If you weren't a Devil, I'm sure you'd make a powerful ally."

Asumoto smirked at the fedora wearing Fallen Ange, as he began the preparations to teleport back to the occult club room. "If only that were true my friend. If only that were true."

A red light soon engulfed him before he stepped out to see his fellow Devil's staring at him in surprise. Asumoto was an honest man but sometimes he'd lie his way out of things, and right now was one of those moments, "Sorry I'm late," He told them as he walked over to the couch opposite of the one Koneko sat on to lay Asia down on. "I had a run in with a vulgar tongued priest, who's now dead. This nun was with him and fainted after I killed him. Oh, and Rias, the Fallen Angels wanna give you a message." He turned to Rias with a troubled expression, she wasn't gonna like the news, but he didn't care one bit.

"Issei Hyoudou has joined the Fallen Angels."

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"What?" Rias whispered, her eyes going wide with horror. She couldn't comprehend what she heard but what Asumoto said was true.

Issei Hyoudou joined the Fallen Angels.

It wasn't supposed to be like this, the Fallen Angel's saw Issei as a threat and planned to kill him, not recruit him! What made them change tactics? Why did they change tactics?

"By your shocked expression I assume you didn't want it be like this. If you're wondering why they got to him first it's simple. It's because they didn't waste time looking at Issei through windows." Asumoto sighed, "I'm sorry Rias but you brought this upon yourself. Instead of confronting the pervert, you just sat here and allowed the Fallen Angel's to obtain him. You may be leader of this peerage, but a leader always listens to their followers for advice and you didn't take any of our advice, so if you're to blame someone, blame yourself."

Whether she saw it as facts or an insult wasn't his problem. Rias had made a poor decision in assuming things would go her way.

"When did they recruit him?" Kiba asked.

"I don't know honestly. That Fallen Angel dating Issei, Raynare, only said he joined Grigori. It may have been last week."

A week!? That meant she had been wasting her time lounging around in hopes that she would recruit him. This wasn't fair…. she needed Issei's power! Without it...she was screwed!

Asumoto glanced at his master, the red head mistress looked distraught about this information. 'Servers you right you spoiled bitch.' He said to himself, hiding the smirk he wished she could see.

"There is some good news." He motioned to the blonde, "This girl, has a Sacred Gear that may proof useful to use. If I remember correctly, that priest said this girl, Asia Argento, possesses Twilight Healing."

"Twilight Healing!?" Kiba gasped, making Rias jump to her feet.

"That's what he said, why are you so surprised by this?"

"Because, Asumoto, that Sacred Gear this girl has is possibly the most powerful healing type ever created. It can heal any wound inflicted on anyone, unless it's a lost limb of course." Rias said with a renewed confidence as she walked over to examine the blonde. Her green eyes flickered to her Queen, "Do you know exactly why they were here?"

"Not sure, the priest was named Freed and he was very vague about things. But he did say that he, along with Asia, were once followers of the Church and now on the run. Which means they were excommunicate."

So, they were rogue priests eh? Hmmm…maybe tonight wasn't such a loss after all…she may have lost Issei but still gained a Sacred Gear. Suddenly the nun stirred making Rias step away to give her space.

Green eyes fluttered opened with a confused expression. This didn't look like the Church she was living at with the Fallen Angels, it looked like a very nice but creepy house. How did she get here and more importantly, why was she here? What she could remember, which made her shiver, was seeing Freed Sensei get his right eye blown out of its socket and a sword run through his neck.

"Hello there."

Asia turned to the voice to find a very beautiful red-haired woman standing before her with a kind smile. Behind her was a very handsome blonde man, a young white-haired girl and- "It's you!" She gasped clasping her hands over her mouth. The brown-haired silver eyed stranger who killed Freed, she'd never forget those silvery eyes of his. "Y-you killed Freed-sensei!"

"Because your 'sensei' was causing trouble by murdering people so I had to put him down like the dog he was."

"Wait, you mean this girl was with that priest?" Kiba asked to which Asumoto nodded at. The Knight, along with his master, sighed in relief. So, Asumoto had at last killed the murder of their clients, at least now they didn't need to turn up to corpses when being summoned.

"W-who are you?" Asia asked a twinge of fear filling her.

Asumoto glanced at his master who nodded for him to continue. She didn't know what was going on but if she could get this girl to join her peerage that was good enough. "I apologize for not doing so earlier. My name is Asumoto, I'm the Queen of Rias Gremory." He motioned to the red head who smiled kindly, "Don't be afraid." He added in a gentler tone. "We won't hurt you miss…"

"A-Asia Argento."

"Asia Argento. I promise as the Queen of Rias Gremory, we won't harm you. Won't we?"

"Of courses not." Rias added deciding to join in. "I apologize for killing your sensei, but Asumoto-san is right. He was causing us trouble by killing our clients."

Asia gasped, her face turning pale. "He-he never told me that. He just said he was going out to do business."

"That was his business unfortunately," Kiba said with an apologetic smile, "He was trying to kill us by murdering our clients to lure was out."

Asia looked down tears filling at the corner of her eyes. "Did Raynare-san know about this?"

Raynare? What did Raynare have to do with this girl and the priest? Rias rounded on her Queen who looked very surprised, her eyes narrowed with suspicion. "What is she talking about, Asumoto?"

Crap! Raynare forgot to wipe her memory but he wouldn't let this hinder his lying. "Hey, I'm just as surprised as you are. I didn't know they'd be in league with the Fallen Angels."

"Asumoto you know rogue priest and nuns join the Fallen Angels."

"We didn't join them." Asia said rubbing her eyes, "They came to use and offered to take us in."

"Then why were you here in Kuoh with the Fallen Angels?" Rias asked/demanded, feeling something felt off about this.

"I don't know? They never tell me anything. All I was told was that we were heading to Kuoh and that's all."

"Well do they know you've been taken to us?"

"I don't think so. Nobody except me and Freed were in the Church."

"It's true Rias, I only saw them. There were no Fallen Angels. They must have abandon them after recruiting Isse."

"But Asumoto, if they had abandoned her after obtaining Isse, why are they still here?" Kiba asked.

The blondes question made Rias glare harder at her Queen. Now that was odd, if the Fallen Angel's had recruited Issei a week ago why were they still here? There was something going on and she wanted to know, "Asumoto…what are you hiding?"

"I'm not hiding anything. Maybe there still here to keep an eye on you to not steal Issei from them." His reply only angered the girl more, he could see her fist shaking with the desire to slap or punch him. Guess there was no way he could lie his way out of this one. Sighing in annoyance he stared Rias in the eye before speaking the truth. "Raynare already had the Twilight Healing but after obtaining Issei she decided to give Asia to us a means to keep the peace from breaking. All I had to do was kill Freed and Asia became ours."

Kiba and Koneko waited with baited breath at how their King would react to this news. Having the Twilight Healing's possessor would be a major help to the peerage which sound good enough, least to Kiba that is. Koneko didn't care which Sacred Gear they got, so long as Rias didn't blow up the building in a fit of rage.

A whole minute passed till Rias reacted, first by inhaling deeply and releasing her rage into a long, annoyed, sigh. "So, this is there way of keeping the treaty from breaking is it?" Another pause then, "Fine, they can have Issei." Her voice had a defeated tone to it, but she keeps a strong face before her servants to not show how much pain she felt right now. "Do they at least know which Sacred Gear it is?"

"Unfortunately, they don't know either but honestly Rias Whatever Sacred Gear Issei has will probably be used for perverted things, which means he'd be useless. It's best to look for those who use Sacred Gears properly, such as Asia." He turned to the nun smiling kindly. "That's something we wish to ask you Asia-chan. I know it sounds cruel what Raynare did by trading you, but she knows it's the right decision because if you join us, if you become a servant to Rias Gremory, then you'll have a better life. You'll have friends who love and care for you."

"Friends…" The blonde girl repeated the words as she looked at the silver eyed Devil. She never had friends before, not even when she was with the Church. They always saw her as a means for healing people…then they cast her out just because she saved the life of a Devil. What right did they have to call her a witch and banish her for helping a Devil!? She would help anyone she could, whether they be an Angel or Devil, good or evil. She would use her powers to help anyone in need.

Especially her friends.

She looked Asumoto in the eye, a tiny smile forming on her lips. "I'd…I'd love to be your friends. If-if you're ok with that."

Asumoto smiled, "Of course we will, won't we guys?"

"No doubt about it."

"Sure…"

"You betcha!"

"So, what do you say, Asia? Are you willing to leave your humanity behind to become a servant and more importantly a friend of Rias Gremory?"

Asia's smile grew wider, her eyes filling with joy. At last, she wouldn't be use item to heal people. She would be with friends! Friends she would love and cherish forever and ever! "Yes!" She exclaimed throwing herself onto the brunette and hugging him tightly, "Thank you."

"So, Rias? Do you know what piece you'll use?" Asumoto asked his master.

Rias smiled, while her Queen rebelled, she nevertheless was happy to have him around. Maybe he was right, maybe having Sacred Gear uses who didn't act like perverts was a better idea. Asia was a kind and gentle girl who had lived her life in the Church with no friends or knowledge of the outside world, which she, her servants, and maybe Akeno, would help her with.

"I know what piece will fit perfectly with my newest servant."