Author's rant: I'm angry... No, scratch that. I'm pissed. Two of my favorite stories had dissapeared without any trace! I don't know if both of them were deleted by the author or not since I can't send PM to the author. I hope he/she will upload both the stories again... *sulking in the corner*
By the way, I had upload a crossover of High School DxD and Devil Maker: Tokyo with slight crossover with Sarishinohara recently so I hope you guys can give me some opinions about it.
Finally, if any one you are still confused if Wataru and Naruto is the same person or not, PLEASE READ THE FINAL SCENE OF CHAPTER 2 CAREFULLY, FOR ROOT'S SAKE! THIS IS REALLY GETTING ON MY NERVES!
Anyway, the first arc will begin from this chapter. Enjoy the show, minna-san \(^o^)/
DISCLAIMER: i OWN NOTHING EXCEPT MY PLOT!
Chapter 7: The begining, the thief, the alliance, the Fallen and the nun
[Naruto's POV]
"Please don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you, young one" said the man who was clad in a grey formal suit with brown tie and had a violin case in one of his hand while in his other hand was an umbrella as he slowly approached me.
Looking at the 2 people standing at the entrance of the alley, I couldn't help but feel the fear creeping up his spine as Yoko said frantically in his mind while she slowly pumped her chakra into my body in order to heal his minor wounds first
"Be careful there, Naruto-kun! I can sense that these two are very dangerous! They may looks normal but I can sense some strange yet great power signatures in them!"
'Understood' I replied mentally while silently observing the two men thanked to the light of a lampost near there as his right hand held onto a chunk of wood in case I needed to fight to escape. The first one was about in his early 20s, wore long red trench coat with black clothing underneath, auburn hair and brown eyes, an umbrella in his hand and a long crimson sword strapped on his waist. The second man who was clad in grey suit was about in his early 40s, black hair with some highlight of brown, black eyes which was filled with HONEST concern and kindesss, not to mention he had the kind of aura that made I feel safe and trusting. Noticing that my eyes was looking at his umbrella and his violin case warily, which I did on instict thanked to the beating I received almost everytime I was outside the compound, the man in formal suit turned back to his young companion
"Genesis, please look after the Bloody Rose for a while, ok?" said the man as he threw the violin case to 'Genesis' who caught the violin case gracefully. Turning back to me, he let out a loud gasp as he came close enough to see me which made my muscle tensed. Thinking that he recognized me as 'the demon fox', I prepared to swing the wood chunk that i held behind my back.
"Genesis! Give me the first aid kit quickly! This child is badly injured!" said the man frantically as 'Genesis' rushed to the man in formal suit as a small box mysteriously appeared in his hand. Taking the box from 'Genesis', the man in formal suit opened it as he took out some strange medicine and applied it on my wounds. After finishing the task, the man in front of my took out bandages from the box and start tying them onto me to cover my wounds.
As all of those were happening, I was so shocked.
Why would he help a random stranger like me?
Why would someone care about a worthless child like me?
Why would someone want to help a demon fox's container?
I couldn't understand.
Suddenly, a warm feeling engulfed me which snapped me out of my train of thought. Looking at myself, I found the grey formal jacket that belonged to the black hair man now wrapped around my shoulders. Looking at me with eyes filled with concern, he asked me gently
"Do you think you can walk by yourself?"
As my brain was still trying to find a plausible reason that could explain why this man had helped me, I could only gave him a weak nod and with a shudder, I mustered all my remaining strength to force my legs carry the weight of my body as I shakily stood up. But before I could take any steps...
"Gah!"
... A wave of exhaustion hit me like a huge sea wave crashed into a shore. Luckily, before my face could made a painful impact onto the ground, 'Genesis' caught me by my shoulders as an amusing smile appeared on his face
"Woah! Take it easy there gaki." Said a smirking 'Genesis' "I can guarantee that you don't want to kiss that ground even if you have a ground fetish or not"
Letting out an annoying grunt, I tried to force out a reply but the exhaustion once again hit me hard. Before the unconciousness could finally claim me, I felt someone lifted me up and gave me a piggyback and then everything around me became black.
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[Third POV]
Snapping his eyes open, the first thing Wataru saw was the familiar ceiling of his bedroom and he found his body was pinned down and unable to move any parts beside his head and his legs. Turning his head to both of his sides, he saw Yoko who was naked and Aoko who was clad in a blue tank top, each of them hugged one of his arms as they slept. Looking down, Wataru saw Yukari, who had sneaked into his bed, was tucked between his left arm and his body while his daughter Emi-chan was snoring soundly as his adopted daughter curled up like a kitten on his chest. Looking at their peaceful expressions, Wataru found it was very hard to move his body since he didn't want to disturb their sleep.
Though after a few more minute lying in the bed silently while thinking back about his dream about the first time he had met his tou-san and G-nii-san, his bladder decided to give him a reason to get out of his bed. And after more than 10 minutes struggling to get out of his bed without waking Yoko, Aoko, Yukari and his daughter, Wataru finally could head to the bathroom in order to relieve himself and start doing his daily routine.
After changing his attire from his nightwear to a white long-sleeve turtleneck shirt, black pants and a muffler, he decided to head to the kitchen after checking the clock in his room, which now pointed at 5 o'clock in the morning. Usually he would head to his violin atelier to try some of his new ideas on crafting violins but today, after what had happened in Daiki's and his 'visit' to a devil bastard last night, he just didn't have the mind to try any ideas now.
"How is your last night?"
Stepping in the kitchen, the first one Wataru saw was none other than Souji as he was clad in his usual grey hakama while preparing a very large Japanese-styled breakfast. Grapping an apron which was hanged on a wall near there and put it on himself, Wataru started helping his comrade with the cooking.
"Honestly, not really good... " sighed Wataru with a small bitter smile as he chopped the vegetables a little too forceful " Lost a Origin Bullet but still woth it... But... I have to kill a family... to give them a mercy death... I can't save them... "
"You can't save all people" said Souji as he poured a small amout of miso soup into a small sauce and tasted its taste
"I know.. But I always want to save as many as I can... that's what my nii-san taught me... " said Wataru as he chopped some leeks.
Letting out a sigh, Souji stopped stirring the pot and added some spices in the miso soup as he looked at the window to see a happy Shouichi was whistling merrily while watering the garden.
"My obaa-chan said: 'Life is a long path to a goal. Drop your heavy luggage and enjoy walking with your hands empty.'. " said Souji slowly " Sometimes you should enjoy your life more, Wataru. Carrying a large burden all the time like what you're doing now won't help you"
"... My tou-san once told me this: 'Life is a long jouney with a large, heavy luggage on your back'..." said Wataru after a few silent moments with a faraway smile plastered on his face as he took out his wallet after cleaning his hands with his apron and opened it. Inside the wallet was a photo of a beautiful girl who had pinkish white hair that was tied into pigtails in the back layers of her hair and reddish eyes
"... Calling 'luggage' maybe not really correct, but one thing for sure that everyone has their own precious things in their hands... Ironically, they can only realize it when they lose their precious things are lost... There are so many times that we thought that we couldn't carry any more 'luggage', but unbeknown to us, we have carried them for who-knows-long and since who-knows-when... Maybe, without those 'luggages', the journey will be easier, but I never want that... because without them... my journey will no longer be interesting anymore..."
Taking all the vegetables that had been chopped neatly by Wataru, Souji put them into a pan and started stir-frying the vegetable with a small amount of cooking oil. Adding a teaspoon of wagiri-tougarashi (Japanese dried hot-red-chili peppers) into the pan, Souji continued after taking a small glance at the photo in Wataru's wallet before Wataru put the photo away.
"If you said so... but remember this... My obaa-chan said: 'When people love others, they grow weaker, though it's nothing to be ashamed of. True weakness lies elsewhere. Because this is not true weakness. Only those who know weakness will be truly able to become stronger.'. Now shoo! I have no need to use your help anymore. The breakfast will be ready soon. And you should prepare for the talk with our 'guests'. I don't want to see my leader be cornered by some mere high-class devil."
"I will keep that in my mind". Chuckling at his comrade's quirk, Wataru took off the apron and washed his hand. Because of his abilities and outlook, combined with his talent of usually being a step ahead of those around him, which even Wataru and Minato sometimes couldn't keep up with his thought, Souji was somewhat rude, and exceedingly arrogant at first glance. However, this serious personality held back the caring emotions he had for others deep inside. If anyone want evedience, just looked at how Souji spoilt Emi-chan rotten was more than enough to prove the point. In Wataru's mind, Souji reminded him much about G-nii-san...
Letting out a small sad smile, Wataru headed to the garden to see if Shouichi needed any help or not. Maybe he and Shouichi would have a short hand-to-hand spar... as long as the garden wasn't damaged or else... a mad Shouichi wasn't someone you want to deal with...
[Gremory castle]
At the gate of the castle, a silver magic circle appeared and a crying Grafia emerged from it as she ran to her room in the castle without caring about other people saw her crying...
When she had just waken up from her eternal repeated nightmare for a few minutes, Sirzechs had summoned her to come with him for an emergency situation, which had been the murder of Lortha Stolas who had been the head of the Stolas pillar and a member of the Elder Devil Council. After putting her usual cold and stoic facade on her face, she along with Sirzechs had traveled to the Stolas castle in the teritory of Stolas clan without knowing that what she had been going to see would give her a small glimpse of hope after two hundred torment years...
[Flashback]
When the light finally died out, the sight of Stolas clan's castle was the first thing Sirzechs and Grayfia saw and after a few seconds, Ajuka Beelzebub and Falbium Asmodeus also emerged from his magic circle.
"Beelzebub-sama, Asmodeus-sama" bowed Grayfia in front of the Blue Satan
"How do you do, Ajuka, Falbium?" greeted Sirzechs with a smile for seeing his best friend
"Quite good until I receive the message from Lady Balthidle" said Ajuka grimly. After all, a member of the Elder Devil Council was murdered in his own castle without any notice from his family as well as his peerage, the guards and servants wasn't some small business.
"I was having a very nice dream" grumbled Falbium as the lazy satan follow Sirzechs and Ajuka to the castle "Why did Lady Balthidle insist on calling me, not my force?"
"How should I know?" said Ajuka as he, Sirzechs, Falbium and Grayfia arrived at the main room and they could feel the heavy atmosphere in the castle as three servants who were waiting there bowed down as one of them said
"Please follow us, Lucifer-sama, Beelzebub-sama, Asmodeus-sama"
"Where's Lady Balthidle?" asked Sirzechs
"Stolas-sama is in her room now, Lucifer-sama. She is very distressed at the moment because of the death of Stolas-sama" said a servant
"Do you know why she insisted on calling me?" asked Falbium annoyingly
"Stolas-sama only keeps saying 'He has returned'." said a black hair servant, whose smile somehow really unnerved Grayfia, as they traveled throught the castle until they reached the private chamber of Lortha Stolas and Grayfia as well as Sirzechs, Ajuka and Falbium could smell the dried blood from the outside of the chamber.
" 'He'?" asked Sirzechs confusingly
"We don't know who this 'he' is, Beelzebub-sama." Said the last servant as he opened the door "We only know that Stolas-sama was terrified when she saw the scene. Here we are, Lucifer-sama, Beelzebub-sama, Asmodeus-sama"
When the door was fully opened, the sight Sirzechs, Ajuka and Falbium made their eye widen while a small hint of terror could be seen in Sirzechs's eyes: Blood splashed everywhere in the chamber and the corpse of Lortha Stolas was stuck into a wall by many swords impaling into every part of his body except his head as a black box was hanged on a sword impaling the corpse's neck. Though that wasn't the main reason that caused such reactions...
On the wall the corpse was stuck into, a large bat-liked insignia was carved into the wall and with Sirzechs, Ajuka and Falbium, the insignia in front of them was something that they could never forget since there was only one person they knew used this insignia.
"Grayfia-chan! H..." Said Sirzechs loudly as he turned back to his Queen only to find that Grayfia had already disappeared
[Flashback end]
He had finally returned!
The Dark Kiva had finally return!
Her Otoya-kun had finally returned!
She had to find him!
She wouldn't give a damn about being branded as a Stray Devil or not. All what she cared now to find Otoya and make things right
Slaming the door of her room closed, Grayfia quickly sat into her desk, took out some papers and start writing a letter informing Lord and Lady Gremory about her soon departure as well as a letter to Sirzechs's wife, Sera Gremory who was also a maid of Gremory castle, to request Sera to take over Grayfia's role as the head maid of the castle for a while. After finishing the letters, she rushed to her closet, took out some set of clothes and threw it into her suitcase after folding them neatly with some magic. After taking a lot of money and put them into an unlimited wallet, she ran to the table in her room , opened aone of its drawers and took out a small red box that contained her treasure, the final gift from Otoya...
"... Hm... natural blue star moonstone... very rare indeed... This is really a fine treasure..."
Turning to the source of the voice, Grayfia was caught by surprise when she found the black hair servant that she had just met in the Stolas castle was leaning against a wall while he was inspecting a silver bracelet that had three blue star moonstone on it. Suddenly, there ice cone shot out from the ground toward the servant only to be easily dodged as the servant kept smirking at Grayfia
"Give it back to me, you lowly thief" growled Grayfia dangerously as she threw the empty red box to the side
"How about... No?" smirked the servant as he dodged another ice pillar aiming at his stomach.
"Then you will die!" growled Grayfia as her power flared up and the temperature in the room became colder and colder. But before she could make any move, the servant took out a strange gun with a strange card as he loaded the card into his gun and pointed the barrel at the ground
"As much as I want to stay here and piss you off for a little while, I have to go now or boss will start wondering why my 'detour' took so long. Ja ne! Attack Ride: Flash!" said the servant as he pulled the trigger.
*BANG!*
Before Grayfia could react, her senses were disoriented by a blinding flash of light along with a loud "BANG" noise that could have echoed throughout the Gremory castle if Grayfia hadn't put so many silent spells as well as private charms. When Grayfia's senses could finally regain its function, Grayfia let out an angry yell when she found that the thief had already disappeared. And when her tantrum finally subdued, Grayfia fell onto her knees and started sobbing uncontrolably again.
She had lost it.
The last and the most treasured gift from Otoya.
She had lost it...
[Time skip, 3 days later]
In the music class, Rias was looking out at a window absently while thinking back about what had happened in the last three days.
First of all, Rias along with Akeno, Koneko Sona and Tsubaki continuous strange dreams had stopped after leaving Wataru's house... Well, beside a dream where she dreamed Wataru held her bridal style after he defeated Riser with the katana she had seen him used on the strange demon that had appeared five days ago as both her and Wataru ran away toward the sunset. That dream would brought a huge blush onto Rias's face everytime she thought about it
Secondly, an alliance... well, more like a truce in Rias's opinion, had been made between Wataru's group and Rias's and Sona's peerage. At that moment, Rias and Sona had decided to use that chance to try to find more information about the mysterious group, but they could only found that Wataru was ...
[Flashback]
"What am I ?" said Wataru amusingly "I had already..."
"I mean what kind of species that you are?" said Rias impatiently
"Ahh... Well, in a sense... You can see me as a devil..."
[Flashback end]
... And that was all Rias could find and Rias was unable to press on this matter since Arturia had decided to give both her and Sona a warning glare that screamed 'If you dare speak about this again, you shall be punished'. But then somehow and by some unknown reasons, the conversation had turned to the Evil Pieces system and the result... hadn't been really good...
[Flashback]
"Evil Pieces, ha?" said an indifferent Wataru as he looked at the ceiling with a faraway look as Emi-chan was sitting on his lap and playing with her "Mr. Woof Woof", which was a small grey plushy puppy, while his comrades, now including Daiki and the blond woman that using gap whose name was Yakumo Yukari, were sitting in front of Sona's and Rias's group " A sytem based on the chess pieces that reincarnates other species into devils as slaves..."
"Servants, to be more precise" corrected Rias
"... of the devil who has the King pieces..." continued Wataru indifferently without a stop "... The slaves... "
"Servants" corrected Rias again, she started feeling a little annoyed with how her Wataru-kun refered to the peerage members as 'slaves'
"... must obey the King's every words and commands without any complaints or protests..." continued Wataru as if he didn't hear her words "... If they disobey, the King has full authority to punish them. If one day, they decide that they had enough and ran away, they will be branded as Stray Devil and will be eliminated."
After taking a sip of his tea, Wataru continued in a neutral voice, though now his eyes had a piercing gaze
"Gremory Clan, while is known for being affectionate toward their slaves..."
"It's SERVANTS!" Rias finally snapped. She just couldn't stand it! Why did her Wataru-kun just kept refering the peerage's members as 'slaves'?
"At least most of the servants aren't bound to someone until their death!" now it was Aoko's turn to snap " Your clan may be affectionate toward their slaves, princess. But pray tell, in other clans, do 'servants' have the final say in what concern their lives or life? Or are they only given a Hobson's choice? Or maybe their King will overule their choice and instead force them to choose the option their King choose for them. Even when they would become a high-class devil and have their own peerage, they would still be a member of a peerage, which means their peerage's members would also become slaves of their own King!"
"Please stop, Aoko-chan" said Wataru tiredly as Aoko and Rias kept glaring at each other fiercely for a few more second before both of them sat down on their seat "Please accept my apology for Aoko's outburst..."
"Wataru-kun!" came the protest of Aoko
"No, it was Rias's outburst that cause this" said Sona as she bowed her head while Rias shot her childhood friend a betrayed look "Please accept my deepest apology, Wataru-san"
"Don't worry about it, Sona-san" Said Wataru dismissively before he turned to Rias and said in a soft tone "Anyway, as I said before, Rias-san, your clan while is known for being affectionate toward their peerages, you can't deny the fact that many clans treat their peerages badly that it is no different than enslavement and the posibility of being hunted down for the rest of their life will be used as a kind of choker to stop them from running away . Even with the way you described the Evil Pieces system to me, it still just like some kind of feudalism, more or less."
"But..." said Rias but Wataru raised his hand up to stop her as he turned to her Knight
"Kiba Yuuto, you are a survivor of the Holy Sword project, right?" this got a flinch from the blond bishounen as his eyes now had a murderous look "How about leaving Rias's peerage and work for me? If you agree, I will help you get your revenge and even help you destroy the Excalibur fragments. All I ask is your loyalty for return. So what will you say?"
This earned a shocked gasp from Rias as everyone else, minus Wataru's group, was shocked at what Wataru had said about Kiba's past, but they were more shocked about what he was doing: He was tempting Kiba to leave Rias and work for him IN FRONT OF Rias's face! And what Wataru had offered Kiba in trade of his loyalty could bring another Great War between Heaven and Underworld!
"Destroy the Excaliber fragments? How can I know that your offer to help me is not a lie? And how do you know about that I was a survivor of that damn project?" growled Kiba as he looked at Wataru dangerously. With a fingersnap, a folder appeared in Daiki's hand and he handed it to Wataru
"This folder contained all the information about the Holy Sword project, the Excalibur fragments whereabout and theirs ability, who participated in the project as well as who were used as experiments, not to mention the ones who gave the orders. It all thanks to my comrade Daiki here. If you want, I will offer this as a token right after you accept my offer" said Wataru as he raised the folder in front of Kiba's eyes
"But... what about when I was branded as a Stray?" asked Kiba with uncertainty "I will be hunted down and I doubt you would like that"
"You don't have to worry about that, young boy" before Wataru could say anything, Yukari decided to add her two cents as she snapped her fan opened and let out a laugh from behind the fan "All the matter now is your answer, young boy. Accept or Decline?"
As the conversation continued, Rias was shaking like a leaf as her mind was overloaded. Why did her Wataru-kun do this to her?! Her mind just kept trying to find a reasonable answer but she just couldn't. Looking at an Kiba who now had an unreadable expression, Rias could only pray to all the Maou that her Knight would refuse and stay with her, but a small part of her mind doubted that...
"I'm in"
The bombshell had been dropped when Kiba said in a firm tone. But before Rias could let out a tantrum and lashed out with her Power of Destruction...
"Emi-chan. Could you please close your eyes and close your ears until papa tell you to open? It won't be too long" said Wataru as he patted his daughter's head.
"Will Emi-chan have a cupcake made by uncle Souji if Emi-chan do? " asked Emi-chan cutely. After receiving a nod from her godfather, Emi-chan closed her eyes as she raised her hands, which still had the 2 glovepuppets, and close her ears.
... what happened next shocked Rias as well as everyone else greatly
With a snap of Wataru's fingers, 5 huge swords appeared right above Kiba's head and quickly slammed down close around Kiba, very close that one single move could create some quite nasty injuries on Kiba. Turning his head to the shocked group, Wataru said in a cold tone
"Rias Gremory, now Kiba can be considered as a Stray Devil now even though you don't brand him as a Stray since he agreed to leave your peerage and work for me. If I am another King from another clan, I will have full authority to execute him right here, right now. Do you deny it?"
"... No, I can't deny it..." said Rias resignedly. Despite the urge to lash out at Wataru, Rias knew that she couldn't deny what Wataru had said. When a devil betrayed his/her King in front of the King's face, that devil would usually be executed immediately. Even when that devil was branded as a Stray, that devil would usually be eliminated as soon as possible since not many (no more than 1 percent) Stray Devils would want to come back to their old King. As Rias was still deep in her thought, Wataru said softly which snapped her out of her thought
"That's just one of many posibilities that may happen Rias-san, one day a devil want to leave his or her peerage, that devil may never can leave, acceptable reasons or not. Even if they decide to leave no matter what... the result will never be pretty... This is the reason in my eyes, the Evil Pieces system, along with the Brave Saints system of Heaven on some extents, is no different than enslavement..."
With a wave of his hand, all the swords dissapeared into the air and a slightly tired Kiba dropped himself into his seat since he had to stand still without moving even a small muscle for quite a while. After Kiba finally got a hold on himself, Wataru bowed down in front of the surprised devil groups
"I sincerely apologize for being a jerk, Kiba-san and I also apologize for acting like a jerk, Rias-san. But I need to show all of you that things in this world always have 2 sides, good and bad." Said Wataru in a sincere and honest tone that made Rias blushed slightly "You don't have to forgive me for what I did but please, consider what I said. That's all I ask."
"I... ah... Well... Ap... apology accepted..." said Rias after recovering from her shock
"Thank you for your kindness, Rias-san" said Wataru with a smile that brought huge blushes onto all the female member of Sona's and Rias's peerage "Though I must say that you're lucky to have his loyalty, Rias-san"
"Me?" asked a confused Rias as she looked at her Knight who was smiling thinly
Chuckling at Rias, Wataru said with an eye-smile
"He said ' I'm in ', not 'I accept', which made me assume that he would try to get the information and after getting his revenge, he will come back to your peerage, am I right Kiba-san?"
"Well, yes. At least that was my plan" said Kiba with a sheepish smile as Rias couldn't help but shot a small glare at her blond knight. Though inside she was very happy to know that Kiba was still loyal to her
"But I still need to say something to you, Kiba-san" said Wataru in a serious voice "Please answer me truthfully: If I use a dagger and stab you, which one will you hate? Me or the dagger?"
"... You" said Kiba after a very long time silence
"Judging from how long you need to think for the answer, I believe you understand what I meant when I asked you that. Which means I can give this to you" Said Wataru with a smile as he tossed the folder to a surprised Kiba
"Eh?! But I..."
"I have no reason to keep that folder so you can have it. Think about it as a gift. And you can open it here, no need to worry"
Frowning at Wataru, Kiba slowly opened the folder that contained all the information of the damn project only to find...
" 'How to polish and sharpen your sword' ?" said Kiba questionably after reading the title of the book that he took out from the folder
"Well, I did say that this folder 'contained' the information, didn't I?" said Wataru with a small humourous laugh which gradually made Kiba join his laugh.
"Papa! Can Emi-chan open my eyes now? It's so long!" said a cute voice that made everyone laughed while Wataru tried to sooth a cute-looking angry Emi-chan as she pouted at her father.
[Flashback end]
Luckily, the final result had been good and the alliance/ truce had been made. Basically, Wataru's group would help her keep guard the town as well as helping hunting Stray Devil while not interfering with their contracts. In return, Rias and Sona had to swear that they wouldn't intentionally hurt any innocent humans and when they recuited new member for their peerages, Rias and Sona had to tell their candidates both the good and the bad side of becoming a devil and their member must be given a REAL choice to become a devil or not, NOT a Hobson's choice. Luckily for Rias and Sona, both Issei who was her new pawn and Saji who was Sona's new pawn had agreed very fast when Issei had heard that he could become a Harem King if he became a devil while Saji had been infatuated with Sona so it hadn't really hard for him to accept Sona's offer. Though from what Issei had told her about the girl named Amano Yuma who had asked him out, this was not a good sign...
"Yes, that's right, Akeno-san. Keep that position. Rest the lower back of the violin on your collar bone and hold it in place with your jaw. "
Snapping out of her thought, Rias turned her head toward Wataru who was helping a slightly blushing Akeno in how to hold a violin in a right way. She couldn't understand why when she looked at the scene between her Queen and Wataru, she just had an urge to strangle her super sadist Queen because she was near her Wataru-kun.
Suddenly, it hit her: Why had she kept refering to Wataru as her since that day?
Did she fall for him?
That thought quickly brought a blush to her face as she shook her head furiously
'Damn it Rias! Get a hold on yourself!' admonished Rias herself as she started thinking about the strange requests that Wataru had asked her yesterday
[Flashback]
"... My requests are: One, I want both of your group will say nothing about our group's existence to anyone until you have my permission since we don't want to have any attention at this time. Two, I want a droplet of blood from both Hyoudou-san and Genjiro-san. Those're all I ask."
[Flashback end]
"Buchou! Buchou!" The sound of Akeno's voice snapped Rias back to the reality.
"wa... A... Akeno? Where is everyone?" Asked a confused Rias as she looked around the now empty music room
"The class was over a minute ago, buchou." Said an amused Akeno. Then her voice became more serious "Wataru-sama asked me to tell you not to let Hyoudou-kun go to his date or be out of his house this evening. "
" 'Wataru-sama' ?" Asked Rias as her eyes narrowed dangerously "When did you become Wataru-kun's servant?"
"Ara? Is my buchou jealous?"asked Akeno innocently with an eye-smile
"Hmp!" Rias let out a loud hulf as she crossed her arms and stomped out of the music room with Akeno, who still had the same 'innocent' plastering on her face, followed behind. Though in Rias's mind, she wondered what Wataru was planning when he asked her to stopped her new pawn.
[After school, that night]
"Did you have fun today, Yuma-chan?" asked an eager Issei as his date was sitting beside him on a bench in a small park
"Oh yes, Hyoudou-kun. I had so much fun today, but... can I ask you to do this for me?" said Yuma as she fidgeted in her spot
"Just tell me Yuma-chan and I will help you!" said Issei with the same eagerness and Yuma came near him and whispered in his ear.
"Will you die for me?"
"Huh?" It was all Issei could say as his 'Yuma-chan' now turned into a woman who had a pair of black bird wings on her back as she was clad in what looked like a S&M outfit. Floating in the midair, a light spear appeared in her hand after a flick of her wrist
"I will be honest, Hyoudou-kun that I had so much fun with you but you are a threat to us so please, die" said 'Yuma-chan' as she threw the light spear toward un unreadable Issei as his eyes was overshadowed by his hair. And what happened next shocked 'Yuma-chan' greatly
With a poke of Issei's finger, the light spear was shattered to pieces before it could impale Issei's stomach. With a powerful kick, the bench flew toward the floating 'Yuma-chan' and knocked her down to the ground before she could recover from her shock.
"Wow, so much for my first disguise mission." Said 'Issei' in amusement as 'Yuma-chan' slowly stood up and glared murderously at him
"Who exactly are you?" said 'Yuma-chan' as she gnashed her teeth nastily. There was no way that pervert could have this kind of strength! This wasn't supposed to happen!
Snapping his fingers, a small fog slowly formed around 'Issei' and when the fog dissipated, a young man who had shoulder length and very dark brown hair that could make people thought his hair was black with predominantly red dye stood in 'Issei' 's place
"My name is Tsugami Shouichi though at this moment, I would prefer to be called Agito now" said Shouichi as his warm brown eyes now only filled with rage.
"But... how..." said 'Yuma-chan' fearfully. This one... she could feel a very large power inside this... this ... this creature...
[Flashback]
"Why don't you go?" complained Shouichi as Daiki dropped a droplet of blood onto a blank card. After a few second, an image of Hyoudou Issei with his perverted face appeared on the card.
"Wow, even his card has his perverted face" said Daiki amusingly as he loaded the card into his gun and pointed at Shouichi "Okay, this will only be tickle a little bit"
"Do you even listen to me?" cried Shouichi but Daiki just shrugged his shoulders and pulled the trigger
"Disguise Ride: Hyoudou Issei!"
[Flashback end]
"That is something you have no need to know" said Shouichi as he cracked his knuckles "What you should concern now is you can leave this place alive... or not..."
Before the Fallen Angel could made her escape, Shouichi appeared in front of her with an immense speed and gave her a powerful right hook that knocked her up into the air. But before she could recover, she felt her ankle was grapped by Shouichi which made her flight stop dead in its track. With a powerful swing, Shouichi slammed her down face first into the ground which created a small crater on the ground.
What she felt now wasn't pain
It was pure agony!
As her mind still tried to make her body move so that she could escape this... this monster, she felt her hair was pulled up and she was backhanded and crashed through a nearby tree. Before her trip could come to a stop, Shouichi appeared behind her and slammed his elbow into her back and made her cough a lot of blood mixing with her saliva as she crashed into a lamp post. Now the Fallen Angel could feel some of her internal organs had been ruptured as many bones had been shattered due to the vicious beating. Slowly opened her swolen eyes while trying to grasp onto her slipping conciousness, she saw Shouichi was stepping toward her with the sound of his step echoed to her ear and to her, it was like the sound of the Death coming near her.
"How boring" said Shouichi as he stopped in front of her "and I thought you would at least put up some fight since I held back most of my power... Oh well, it can't be help..."
And that was all Amano Yuma or more precisely, Raynare the fallen angel could hear before her vision darkened and she fell into the unconciousness
After making sure that the Fallen Angel was unconcious, Shouichi took out from his pocket what looked like a small button and he stucked it on her left wing under the feather layer. Slapping his hands together, Shouichi stood up and left the park, leaving behind the unconcious fallen angel as he took out his cellphone and dial the number
"Wataru? Mission's complete..."
[The next day, after school]
" So we are going to help them?" said a certain blue hair boy as he and his companion stepped out from a groceries store
"More likely we will come and watch, though I will take a look at that Stray's memory" said his companion who had a bag full of groceries on his arms
"Why did you let them recuit those 2 students into their peerage?" asked Minato as he and and Wataru was walking home after buying some groceries for the dinner. Hearing the question, Wataru looked at the sunset sky as he let out a sigh
"Minato, you're the most intelligent person of our group, so I belive you can see that what Rias-san and Sona-san did was simply solidfying their base and basically, there is nothing wrong with it. Even me, one day when I reclaim the throne, I will have to recuit strong individuals in order to help me protect my realm. Not to mention what right do I have to decide what are good and bad for those two? If they want to become devils than what right do I have to stop them? Moreover, even though I said many devil mistreated their servants but then again, humans have mistreated and backstabbed each other for centuries so what would be the different if they became devils or not? I doubt those 2 would become 2 new gentlemen after turning into devils"
"Yet you walk the path of humanity despite the way you say about humans like that" said Minato in a matter-of-fact way
"Don't we all? Are you testing me Minato?" chuckled Wataru and he received the silence as the answer "Great power can create Great Good but it also can create Great Evil and the endless potential of humans was that kind of power: It not only has the power to destroy the world, but it also has the power to change the world for the better..."
"Minato, you are one of the people who taught me not to assume an entire matter was bad just because a small aspect of that matter was bad." Continued Wataru with a faraway smile "Honestly, before I was adopted, I hate humans because of what I had to endured in the first ten years of my life...because of how the people in where I was from had treated me... But thanks to my adopted tou-san, while there are a few things that I may never be able to let it go, I could finally let go of my hatred toward humans and regained my hope... That's why I will never stop fighting, so that not only I can follow my tou-san's path and protect the humanity, but also making sure that Hope and all the goodness will be remained with humans. After all, Hope is a such a great thing, isn't it?"
"Yes... " came the short reply of Wataru's blue hair strategist before he put his headphones back on his ears as Wataru chuckled. Minato really lived up to his title which was created by Haruto, "The hardest-to-understand member".
"Hawaa!"
A voice snap Wataru out of his thought and made him and Minato turned back: Behind the duo was a blond nun who was lying on the ground, her arms was spreaded wide open and giving Wataru and Minato a very good view of her white panties.
"Auu, why do I keep tripping?" moaned the blond Sister in Italian as Wataru kneeled down next to her
"Are you ok there, Sister?" asked Wataru in concern as he helped her standing up. Luckily, his Italian was good enough to understand other people as well as having conversations with other people.
"Ah! Thank you very much for your kindness!" said the blond nun as Minato handed her the veil that had fallen from her head aftter dusting the dirt on it
"Are you traveling by any chance?" asked Wataru curiously as he eyed her suitcase
"No, I'm not" said the Sister as she shook her head and in her eyes there was a small hint of sadness and loneliness that didn't go unnoticed by Wataru and Minato "I was appointed to the local church of this town. Do you know where it is? I was lost and my Japanese is very bad so I don't understand what people said"
Her question made both Minato's and Wataru's eyes widened. There was only one church in this town and that church was the base of the Fallen Angels that they had just found out last night! The gears in Wataru's mind started spinning rapidly as many questions flooded his mind
Did this girl have any connection with those Fallen Angel or not?
Was she appointed at that church so that she could help those Fallen Angel or it was only a coincidence?
'Let's play along for the time being' thought Wataru as he turned to the waiting nun
"Yes, I know where that church is" said Wataru with a small smile as the blond nun's face brightened
"Really? Thank you! This is all thanks to God!" said the blond nun with a bright smile as she prayed
'If only she knew that God died a long time ago...' thought Minato and Wataru simultaneously
"If you want, I can guide you to the church" offered Wataru which the nun immediately agreed
"Thank you very much for your kindness... erh..."
"Oh, where is my manner? My name is Wataru. Kurenai-Pendragon Wataru and this is my friend, Arisato Minato"
"My name is Asia Argento! Nice to meet you, Wataru-san, Minato-san" said the blond nun as they started traveling. As the walked, Wataru and Minato talked to each other by using their hands signal and carefully not to let the nun saw what they were doing
'What do you think?' signaled Minato
'Seems honest. No signs of malice emotions. Need to keep a close eye on her for more details' signaled Wataru.
"OW!" cried a boy near there which made the trio turned their head to where a boy was crying as his mother was asking him if he was okay or not. Before Wataru could say anything, Asia quickly came near the boy
"Are you ok? Boys shouldn't cry because of a minor injury like this" said Asia in Italian as she her palms where the boy had injured himself and a green light appeared from her palm healing the injury
'Healing magic' signaled Wataru
'No... A Sacred Gear... Twilight Healing...' signaled Minato as kept watching the nun with his sharp gaze
"Here, your wound is healed now" said Asia as she patted the boy's head and turned to Wataru and Minato
"I'm so sorry, but I have..." said Asia but Wataru stopped her
"No, I understand. There is nothing wrong with helping other people when they are in need" Said Wataru with his sincere smile that made Asia blushed furiously "Now shall we go?"
"Ah! Yes! Please lead the way!" said Asia as she continued to blush, which made Wataru thought she looked very cute when she blush.
Finally, after about five minutes of walking, the trio stopped at a road where the church could easily be seen as Asia cried in delight
"Yes, this is the place! Thank God! Thank you very much for your kindness, Wataru-san, Minato-san!"
"Well, we should be on our way too" chuckled Wataru as the sky was getting dark
"Please wait! I would like to make you some tea..." said Asia but Wataru shook his head
" I'm very sorry but it's getting dark now. Maybe another day, then?"
"But..." Asia tried to say but Wataru's finger which was put on her lips stopped her as she started blushing again
"I promise that we will meet again, one way or another" smiled Wataru as he took out something from his pocket and gave it to Asia "Here, consider it as a gift from a new friend"
Opening her hand, Asia found herself staring at a beautiful amulet that had a small bat-liked sigil in the middle of the amulet
"No! This is too much! I can't..." Asia tried to say but again, she was stopped by Wataru's finger
"I said 'Consider it as a gift from a new friend', didn't I? When I looked into your eyes, I saw sadness and loneliness..." this got a small flinch from Asia though Wataru decided to ignore it "... If you don't have any friend in this place then I will be your first friend. I promise that everytime you need my help, I will come as quick as possible. If you want to cry when you're sad, then I will cry with you. I promise that if you're in danger, I will protect you. So, promise?" said Wataru as he raised his pinky finger
"... Promise" said Asia and she locked her pinky finger with Wataru's as she felt her eyes watered.
"Okay then. See you later, Asia-san" said Wataru as he along with Minato took their leave, leaving behind a smiling Asia whose tears started rolling on her face. Cleaning the tears with her handkerchief, Asia put the amulet on her neck and hid it under her robe. Letting out a bright smile, Asia picked up her suitcase and walk toward the church without knowing that she was walking to the place that would seal her fate forever...
[With Wataru and Minato]
"What's in your mind?" asked Minato
"... Contact Daiki. Tell him there is an emergency. We have a change of plan" said Wataru grimly as Minato nodded his head and started contacting Daiki with his cellphone while Wataru took a final look at the church that was also the Fallen Angels's base.
The live of his new friend was in danger now and he would be damn if he couldn't protect her like he had promised...
(Chapter end)
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Author's note: I honestly didn't plan to have so many flashbacks in this chapter but my brain decided otherwise and since I wrote mostly by instinct, I just merely follow its flow. This update had taken quite a time to write since my co-writer decided to have a break as he needs time to play Devil Maker: Tokyo so that he can have more ideas... Damn him...
Next, a warning to Grayfia's fan: things about her in the incoming chapters MAY annoy you and even may make you guy angry at me since her suffering will continue for a while... not sure how long but definitely not short.
Finally, I will open a poll for the positions of Wataru's familiars. While it will ONLY affect INDIRECTLY since I already had ideas in my mind, your ideas will still be considered and since it's still a LONG time until the familiars acquiring chapter, I MAY change my mind. If you have other ideas or propose about familiar positions, leave a review or send me a PM. Ja ne!
