SHINJI AND XENOVIA
by Gunman
Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion or Highschool DxD or their characters.
Summary: A different telling of Shinji and Xenovia's relationship.
Idea from Pyromania101.
Authors notes:
If I didn't mention this before, these stories are about Shinji hooking up with different girls under different circumstances. And not hooking up with Rias or Akeno like in my other stories.
Also, it's important to know, that in some of these stories, the origin and status of Shinji will be different. In some stories, he might not have a Sacred Gear like Issei does. He might not be the central character like Rias is.
I'm trying different things here.
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Xenovia Quarta woke up in a panic, practically jumping up in bed with a cold sweat on her forehead, her heart pounding like a jackhammer.
"No. No, it... it wasn't real." she whispered to herself as she got out of bed and stumbled through the darkness of her room and headed to the bathroom. She clicked the light on and her eyes grimaced at the brightness. She turned on the water faucet and splashed cold water onto her face. "It wasn't real, it wasn't, it wasn't real." she repeated as she looked at herself in the mirror.
"Xen-chan? What's wrong?" a voice behind her said.
Xenovia looked back and instantly felt better as she saw her boyfriend and lover, Shinji Ikari, standing in the doorway of the bathroom. He was dressed only in his white and black boxer shorts, while she herself was dressed in a gray cotton sports bra and loose shorts that she slept in for comfort.
Xenovia instantly ran to Shinji, burying herself in his chest, her arms wrapping around his neck as she hugged him tightly.
"Xen-chan, what is it?" Shinji asked as he wrapped his arms around the blue-haired young woman.
"Shinji-kun! I... it was horrible! I thought you had..." she cried.
"What, Xen-chan? What?" he asked as he held her tight.
"I thought you had left me... for Buchou." Xenovia cried.
"Buchou? But she has Issei, why would I..." he asked, confused.
"And Akeno-san." she added.
"What?" he gasped.
"And Asia-chan." she added again.
"I... I left you for three other women?" he gasped, clearly shocked by her words.
"Yes. I didn't want to believe it. But I saw it. I... I..." she began stuttering as her tears fell.
"Shh. It's okay, Xen-chan. It was just a bad dream. And I'm right here." he said softly as he held her tightly, caressing her back soothingly as he kissed her cheek gently.
"I don't want you to leave me, Shinji-kun." Xenovia cried, and Shinji could feel her tears on his chest.
"I won't, Xen-chan. I promise." he said as he turned off the bathroom light and escorted her back to their bed.
Still holding the former exorcist to him, Shinji crawled back into bed and pulled the covers over the both of them. Xenovia was holding on to him like a lifeline, her arms and legs wrapped around him tightly, like she was an octopus. Shinji continued to caress her back and her hair soothingly as she slowly fell asleep against him.
Even in the blackness of their apartment, Shinji just continued to stare at the ceiling, thinking back to how they had come to this.
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It was little more than two years ago when Shinji was teleported to this world by the 12th Angel. He was only 14 years (and 9 months) old when he ended up in a world of Devils, Angels, Fallen Angels and all manner of supernatural creatures, that lay hidden from the human world. He was found by Rias Gremory, the young heiress to the Gremory Clan, and her best friend/queen Akeno Himejima, while he was half-dead after being dropped into this world by the 12th.
Rias offered Shinji a chance to live, as her servant. Though he had little reason to live, he didn't want to die. He agreed, and Rias resurrected him as her new Rook.
Possessing incredible physical strength and defensive abilities, Shinji became Rias's second Rook after Koneko Toujou, a young nekomata girl who had been left in Rias's care some time ago.
A few months later, Rias choose another peerage member, by the name of Yuuto Kiba, who became her first knight.
At that point, Rias didn't have a bishop, which Shinji wondered about. Rias only said that it was taken care of.
Shinji served Rias loyally for those two years, quickly earning the respect of his new master and his peerage mates. His physical strength increased in those two years, himself becoming three times stronger than when he first arrived in this world.
At the beginning of his third year at Kuoh, Shinji had just turned 17, and Rias gained two new members to her peerage. The first was Issei Hyodo, who was only a couple of months older than Shinji. At first Issei proved to be a dim-witted pervert who was obsessed with womens breasts and wanting to start his own harem. However, after he was killed by a Fallen Angel named Raynare, and resurrected by Rias as her new Pawn, a lot of things changed. Rias learned that Issei had a mid-Tier Longinus called Boosted Gear, on his left arm, that made him a threat to all kinds of supernatural beings, which is why Raynare attacked him. Issei became Rias' pawn, using up all of her 8 pawn pieces because of his Sacred Gear.
What's more, is that his personality changed. He proved to be kind, courageous and possessed a determination to help people.
He actually helped Shinji to help the others overcome their own personal demons, as it were, and become better people. This gained Issei the affection of Rias Gremory herself.
The second person was Asia Argento, a kindly blond-haired, green-eyed girl who had recently been excommunicated from the Church for healing a Devil. She possessed a unique Scared Gear called Twilight Healing, which enabled her to heal any injury and illness of any person or being, regardless of race. She had been called to Tokyo because she had been accepted to a new church, which was actually lead by a group of Fallen Angels. Shinji and Issei were the first ones to meet her, the trio becoming good friends, only to be attacked by Raynare and Kalawarner when they came to collect Asia.
While Asia was shocked to find out that Shinji and Issei were actually Devils, she was even more shocked to learn that the Fallen Angels were planning to kill her and take her Sacred Gear to use for their own purposes. They knocked the pair of Devils out and quickly kidnapped Asia.
Shinji and Issei, along with Rias, Akeno, Kiba and Koneko arrived at the Church and battled the Fallen, which included Raynare, Kalawarner, Dohnaseek and Mittelt, along with the psychotic ex-priest Freed Sellzen, and several rogue priests who had fallen under the Fallen Angels evil influence.
After a hard fight, Raynare, Kalawarner and Mittelt escaped and were later imprisoned by Azazel, the governor-general of the Fallen. Dohnaseek and Freed were killed, along with the rogue priests, and Asia was dying. To save her, Rias resurrected her as a Devil, even though she gave the blond haired ex-nun a choice to either be a Devil or die as a human.
Having witnessed Issei's and Shinji's heroism in trying to protect her, Asia chose to be reincarnated as a Devil to be with her friends. She became Rias' second bishop. Shinji became like a big brother to her, like he had with Koneko, while Issei became a really close friend.
A month later, the group went to the Familiars Dimension to get their own familiars.
Rias, Akeno, Yuuto and Koneko already had familiars, so Shinji, Asia and Issei were trying to get theirs.
Shinji was able to find a blue dragons egg, from which emerged a serpentine water dragon that he named Rei (after former Eva pilot Rei Ayanami), while Asia found an injured baby Sprite Dragon that she named Rassei. Issei didn't find a familiar in time before the portal to their world closed, which was disappointing to the young Boosted Gear wielder.
Two months before Riser Phenex's arrival to the clubhouse, the Church exorcists Xenovia Quarta and Irina Shidou arrived at Kuoh Academy looking for the stolen shards of the Excalibur sword, which had been taken by a rogue Fallen Angel named Kokabiel. While Issei and Irina were shocked to see each other, the former now a Devil and the latter a Church exorcist, since the both of them were former childhood friends, Shinji was immediately smitten with the blue-haired exorcist named Xenovia. Mostly because Xenovia reminded him of Rei Ayanami, whom he also had a crush on before being sent to this world.
While Xenovia initially rebuffed his affections, due to his being a Devil and herself raised to believe such emotions were sinful, she quickly came to see that Shinji was not what the Church had led her to believe. It was during their battle against the Genocidal Archbishop, Valper Galilei, and the battle-crazed Fallen Angel Kokabiel, that Xenovia and Irina were informed that God was dead.
While they did not believe it at first, the rogue archbishop and Rias confirmed it, as well as telling them that the original Satan, Lucifer the Morningstar, was also dead. Killed thousands of years ago during the last Great War.
Xenovia, while not willing to believe that God was dead, saw no reason why the Devils would tell them about Lucifer being dead as well.
It was a secret that both Heaven and the Underworld had kept from the Angels and Devils of their world. And the human world as well.
After destroying the Excalibur fragments that Kokabiel had stolen, and delivering their report to the Church, both Xenovia and Irina were excommunicated as heretics for finding out that God was dead.
The pair returned to Kuoh Academy two weeks later, where they accepted Rias's offer to join her peerage.
They did this for their own reasons.
Irina accepted Rias's offer because she wanted to be with Issei. Having reunited with her childhood friend brought up old feelings she had originally suppressed while an exorcist for the Church. That, and she found out that if she had accepted Michael's offer to be reincarnated as an Angel, she would not be able to be with Issei. Since if an Angel had 'impure' thoughts, they would not be able to remain as Angels, they would be 'Fallen'.
Xenovia accepted for the same reason, but she wanted to be with Shinji.
During their confrontation with Kokabiel and Galilei, Shinji was injured protecting her, even against the orders of his master.
Seeing that Shinji was both strong and honorable, despite not having a special Sacred Gear like Issei did, Xenovia wanted to see him again because there was something about him that made her heart 'flutter'. She had not thanked him for saving her life nearly a month before, and had tried to ignore what her heart was telling her. This was mostly because she had been raised by the Church her entire life and was taught that such things were a sin.
However, after meeting Shinji she began to see that such things, caring for someone, were not as sinful as she thought. Especially since the lines between good and evil were not so clear cut as she was lead to believe.
She came to see that despite being a Devil, Shinji wasn't an evil monster as some other Devils were. Xenovia became Rias' second knight, while Irina became Rias' third knight via Mutation Piece.
Realizing that Xenovia was socially inept, meaning that she lacked Common Sense due to her upbringing in the Church, Rias assigned Shinji to help Xenovia adjust to life in Kuou Town. This was mostly so that Xenovia didn't develop feelings for Issei.
Shinji agreed, much to Xenovia's happiness, which shocked Irina since she had never seen Xenovia so happy before. Especially at spending time with a boy.
Shinji helped Xenovia get accustomed to the modern world, which was a hefty subject since Xenovia didn't know anything about the world outside of the Church.
Popular culture was the most difficult thing to teach her, since it was one of the broadest subjects imaginable. There were dozens of different genres to cover, hundreds of thousands of movies, television shows, video games, comics and mangas, animes and cartoons. Then there were carnivals, theme parks, different types of toys for boys and girls, all genres of music, various types of fashion and cosmetics, politics, social media, various kinds of foods from different countries. Then there was the technological aspects: cars, computers, cellphones, iPads, etc. Not to mention thousands of years worth of history in various countries around the world.
The most difficult thing, however, was trying to teach Xenovia common sense since she had been limited to only the Church's teachings.
Xenovia found Shinji to be a wealth of information, constantly asking him questions about 'this and that'.
Shinji didn't mind her constant questioning. He liked being the only source of information the blue-haired exorcist had to rely on. Even if he didn't know everything.
And while Irina moved in with Issei, much like Rias, Akeno and Asia did, Xenovia moved in with Shinji at his apartment. Which ultimately became their apartment.
The pair grew closer every day, which resulted in Shinji asking Xenovia to become his girlfriend after two weeks together. Xenovia happily said yes, enjoying the attention and affection he lavished on her. It made her feel things she didn't know were possible, even though she knew they were positive things. Her heart felt full and warm, and she felt herself finally being part of the world. Just like every other normal girl in Kuou she saw who had a boyfriend, and saw how happy they were.
While a part of her had originally thought that this was a selfish thing, she realized that it wasn't such a selfish thing to love someone and be loved by someone else.
This was where Shinji had given Xenovia her pet name of 'Xen-chan', which she liked.
But before the pair could consummate their feelings for each other, Riser Phenex had arrived.
It was then that Shinji and Xenovia learned that Rias had been promised to Riser when they were children, but Rias didn't want to marry him since he was arrogant, despicable, condescending and treated his servants like they were objects, not people.
Rias managed to convince her brother, Sirzechs Lucifer, to hold an unofficial Rating Game, and that if she won she would not marry Riser.
Naturally, Riser didn't think Rias could win, even with a full peerage, and agreed.
Rias convinced her entire peerage to fight in this Rating Game, mostly because if Riser won, he would have joint-control over Rias's peerage, which meant he would make them do whatever he wanted, and they would most likely hate it. Such things being sexual in nature.
Shinji and Xenovia particularly hated that idea.
The group trained hard for the next ten days to get strong enough to defeat Riser and his peerage, who procrastinated most of the time due to their numerous success rate in previous battles.
Shinji and Xenovia trained together, developing an almost perfect synchronization (much like he and Asuka had preparing to fight the 7th Angel).
When the day of the Unofficial Rating Game arrived, Rias' and Risers' peerages were sent into a parallel dimension which was made to look like Kuoh Academy.
Shinji and Xenovia were sent to deal with the Chinese Rook Xuelan, and the Pawns Mira, Lie and Nel in the school gym.
Shinji dealt with the three Pawns while Xenovia dealt with Xuelan, surprising the quartet with their strength, speed and skill. They defeated them within a minute.
Yuuto Kiba defeated the pawns Shuriya, Marion and Burent in the forest with impressive ease.
Irina and Issei battled and defeated the bishops Ravel and Mihae, then defeated the Pawns Ni and Li with Koneko's help, outside the track and field area. Defeating them.
Akeno battled and defeated the Rook Isabela then took on the Queen Yubelluna near the track and field area as well. Defeating them both.
Yuuto battled and defeated the Knight Karlamine while Xenovia battled and defeated the other knight Siris, with Shinji's assistance.
Enraged by all this, Riser attacked and took out Irina, Yuuto, Akeno, Koneko and Xenovia with his Phenex Fire Powers.
Upset at Riser's actions, Shinji, who had been knocked away to safety by Xenovia, followed the Phenex king to the school roof where he confronted Rias and Asia. The pair of kings were in the midst of a fierce battle, when Shinji and Issei ambushed Riser. Shinji attacked first, knocking Riser down off the roof and onto the ground, where he uprooted a large tree and smashed Riser with it, like a bat. He pressed his advantage as much as he could, punching and kicking Riser with all his strength. Riser recovered, however, and blasted Shinji with a full-strength Phenex flare, which eliminated the Rook.
However, that had been Shinji's plan all along. Shinji's distraction had enabled Issei to power up his attacks, and both he and Rias blasted Riser with her Power of Destruction and his Dragon Shot, and eliminated the Phenex King from the Rating Game in a joint-attack.
When Shinji awoke his head was laying in Xenovia's lap, who told Shinji that they had won the Rating Game, mostly thanks to his distracting Riser. Though Rias wanted to give Shinji a special reward, IE something intimate, Xenovia instead managed to get their master to just give them time off to themselves.
Rias did them one better. She set them up at an island resort with a private bungalow for a whole week.
In fact, Rias was in such a good mood, she gave her whole team a week off, anywhere they wanted to go.
Shinji and Xenovia spent the entire week alone with each other, resting, taking walks along the beach, swimming, and getting to know each other. It was on the third day of their vacation that their emotions peaked and they finally made love to each other.
Xenovia had never felt anything so incredible in her life. But more from the fact that there was an emotional attachment there as well.
Shinji loved her since he had first met her, and wanted to be with her. And now that he had her he wasn't going to let her go.
The pair made love every day until it was time for them to return to Kuoh.
When the pair finally returned it was obvious that they had become a couple. The rest of the Gremory peerage was happy for them, especially Irina and Issei. Irina because her friend/partner was finally happy, and Issei because now that Shinji had his own girl he wouldn't be going after the other women in Rias' peerage. Shinji didn't want a harem of lovers, he just wanted one.
Ever since then, the Rook and the Knight had been inseparable. Not that they hadn't been before, but since they had become official, they rarely if ever left each others side. Some people even started calling them 'The Newlyweds'. Not that Xenovia minded, she finally felt happy in her life.
While she has been dedicated to God and his teachings for nearly all her life, even to the point of religious fanaticism, she had never really felt whole. Like there was a part of her that yearned for a more personal connection. She couldn't get that with God, but she had found that in Shinji.
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Shinji looked over at the clock on his night stand, and saw that it was almost 6 in the morning.
He was glad that they didn't have school today, or any special activity with the Gremory peerage, so he could just lay in bed with Xenovia. The blue-haired Knight was still clinging to him tightly, even though she seemed to have a rather contented smile on her face.
"I'll never leave you, Xen-chan. I love you." he whispered to her as he kissed her forehead.
"Mmmmm... love you... too..." a sleep-laden Xenovia whispered back.