Sorry that this took long to update, been dealing with RL stuff such as college and stuff, which was getting too much in the way. Usually Im able to find a loop hole between doing this and college. But this time College seems to be more dominate now *sigh*
Here are some responses to reviews:
Enigma95: Well as for how Serafall, will react to him, well for one thing she won't find out that he's a magician and two he will be oblivious who she really is. But Zeru will be surprised to find out what her real occupation is. Yeah, I sort see that I did write some of his inner thoughts, I guess he's lonely since he doesn't have some sort of spirit of his own to talk to lol Well as for my constant use of 'Tch' What else is there to use when a character is irritated lol
Argorork: Wait, a lemon with Rossweisse? How soon? As in before canon? Wow that's alittle too soon lol
Lioncousin: Glad you liked that she's in the story. If you read some of the flashbacks from previous chapters, I did give some hints that she is going to be in the story.
Durandel: He will meet Serafall before canon since in the last chapter it did say he was going to meet Levi-tan. As for when canon will start...Well I don't want to burst anybody's bubble but I won't be getting to canon soon, since I have arcs planned for Zeru when he takes a year off for school.
Hime: Sorry, but I will be staying away from canon, a little longer.
HeroBladeRiyet: It might be somewhat of a crossover, since I'm adding some elements from RWBY, but it's not like I'm going to put him into the RWBY universe.
9th Chapter:
As the young teen, who just got back from one of the Norse Nine Realms, was awaiting for assistance in getting up form the currently hot pavement, which was burning his butt. Thanks, to a girl who punched him in the face.
"Well are you going to help me up or not?"
"Nah, I think you look good just right there." She smirked.
"Oh joy, how I do love being looked down by the upper class, even though she's a chibi."
"Did you look at that online poll we had?"
"You mean the poll we made, when we argued about which animal is Totoro. I said it was a cat and you said it was a rabbit?"
Rukia nodded with a smug look.
Zeru sighed as he looked it up on his phone and looked up the poll, as he stared at the results.
"Hmph it's already past the deadline to bring such a topic, wasn't our bet suppose to be over three years ago?"
"Welll….You didn't call!" she yelled pointing at him."
"I didn't know your number!"
"You're type of person that seems to be able to find any info!" she yelled.
"So?! It's not I'm going to be concern about you or anything!" he retorted back.
"Hah! As if I would expect you to concern over me!"
"Then why the hell did you decided to bring up a stupid poll we started since we were ten?! Some conversation starter!"
"Hah? What you did expect some emotional reunion?"
"NO! As if I would even ever thought of that anyway. We only knew each other for about …seven months! Besides why would you insinuate that from me?" Zeru yelled outraged at such a ludicrous expectation from him.
Rukia froze and there was a strange color forming on her cheeks.
"Ara ara~ Rukia-chan it isn't nice to hide your feelings like that."
Rukia immediately tensed hearing those words.
"Onee-sama!" Rukia whined at the young women behind her.
"It's been a while Hisana-nee." Zeru greeted.
"Ara~ Zeru-kun, what happened to you?" She asks seeing the bruise and some bandages he had on.
"Ehheh, well let's just say that I made a new friend and she didn't like my attitude. Also the new fresh one here, Ruki-chibi did that to me." He said pointing at the newl bruise he had from Rukia.
"Ara~ So does this mean you've already replaced Rukia-chan already?" Hisana asks, seeing that it seems that he met another female friend.
"Onee-sama!"
"As of what's currently in my mind, I'm not interested in starting a relationship."
"Oh why's that?"
"I'm no ready for being tied down yet. I still have my wings to spread, look for things and what not."
"With talk like that, I might have to think of you as a gigolo now." Hisana giggled. As she walked up to him and helped him up.
"Ah finally someone that is willing to help a fallen down person. Thank you kami-sama for the person chosen to lift this poor sap. Also if was a gigolo I'm pretty sure that I'll be dead in a day real soon." He said with relief.
"You really have grown and talkative too. Ufufu." Hisana commented seeing how the ten year old boy, as grown to such a handsome young man.
"Oh so does this mean I have a chance with you now?" he said with a fake eager look, causing Rukia to glare at him.
"So back then you did have a crush on me?" Hisana giggled.
"Eh? Hisana-nee was dense? Hidoi~ I guess when I was a child my sweet feelings were insignificant to you~" he said in a fake hurt tone.
"But you do remember that I'm currently dating Byakuya-kun right?"
"Shouldn't you add the proper honorific, since he has the status of heir to the Kuchiki family after all?"
"Are you trying to tell me how I should call my own fiancé?" Hisana said with a taunting tone.
Suddenly the atmosphere around Zeru suddenly turned cold and he realized that if made one more snarky remark it might be the end of his existence.
"On second that forget what I said and wow you're already engaged with Byakuya-nii. Wow time has gone fast." He rubbed his head sheepishly.
Hisana giggled.
"Well we will start preparing the wedding, once Byakuya-kun has become the next Head."
"So when my Okaa-sama meant two people that wanted see me, she meant you two?"
"Who else?" Hisana smiled.
"Hm I don't know, I am a sociable person so I guess it varies." He shrugged his should, smirking.
"Hidoi~ Zeru-kun~ I thought the two of us were really close to your heart." She said in a fake hurt tone.
"Eh heh heh." He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.
"Now give me a hug." Hisana had her arms opened as Zeru got into the embrace.
"Hee hee, I'm taller than Hisana-nee now." He giggled childishly.
Suddenly he felt her hands began touch him in a weird motion.
"Uh Nee-san…"
"Uhuhu~ You really have grown and don't worry I am an adult." She said with a seductive tone, into his hear.
Zeru then immediately got himself out of the embrace, as he was unable to withstand the very M rated aura coming from his big sister figure. He then began to pant from exhaustion from just now withstanding Hisana's presence.
"Are you alright Zeru-kun?" Hisana asks with vixen smile.
"Nee-san kowai." Rukia muttered seeing the devilish side of her elder sister.
"Neh, Rukia-chan why don't you give him a hug?"
"Hah? Why should I?"
"Well you two are childhood friends, so it's fitting for the two of you to have a reunion hug."
"Technically we're only acquaintances. So acquaintances don't hug. They only do a casual greeting. End of story." Zeru said.
"Well this occasion is an exception."
"It's really not necessary, we already greeted each other." Zeru added in.
"See he doesn't care for that." Rukia pointed out.
"Ara~ then you don't mind me telling other people about that one time when you two were watching that movie and then you two ended up…"
"GAH OKAY!" The two yelled in union preventing from Hisana of talking about an embarrassing moment they had during their childhood.
The two sighed, and stared at each other.
"Let's just get this over with, before Nee-san gives us more of a headache." Zeru said.
"Fine, but don't do anything weird."
"Whatever, it's not like I'll benefit anything from that."
"Hurry up you two." Hisana said with a hint of eagerness.
"Fine." Zeru sighed.
The two then without hesitations immediately stood a couple feet from each other and just draped their arms over their own bodies, which was known as the air hug. Zeru then looked closely at Rukia and to his surprise she actually grew and it looked she was about about like an inch shorter than him.
"Really?" Hisana said with displeasure seeing that the two only did an air hug.
'It counts as a hug." The two said uncaringly.
"Mataku~" She rubbed her temple, at the stubbornness of the two.
"Wait a minute if you're marrying Byakuya-nii san then that means…"
"Yep we're going to be your in-laws." Hisana said.
"Great…" he said with a tone of discomfort.
"I can't believe you turned out like this." Rukia crossed her arms.
"What was that Usagi-baka?" He asked with hint of agitation.
"Oh nothing, I just can't believe the bed wetter ended up become some sleazy baka," Rukia answered with a smug face.
Upon hearing that little nickname, Zeru clenched both his fists and gritted his teeth.
Meanwhile inside the house.
"Ufufu~ This is getting good." Misako said seeing the tension between the now two reunited childhood friends, from the window of the living room.
Issei was looking as well and was surprised to see the calm cool collected Zeru, would look so irritated. Well there were times he was irritated but he would brush it off easily by being carefree and retort with a tease that hit the other's nevere.
"May I remind you that you were the one that initiated the cause of my certain wetting of myself in my sleep?" he asks with his tone slowly cracking, having been called a 'bedwetter'.
"Oh was I the one that moved their hand into a bowl of water, in my sleep?" she taunted with an innocent tone.
"I believe so, I do remember that a soft petite hand held mines and placed it in something worm and liquidly." He growled.
"Oh if you know that, then why let it happen." She smirked.
"Cause I was fucking exhausted, compared to you who has chibi body which has more activeness. Also how long are you gonna go with that little Hisana jr look?" he retorted, as the two gritted their teeth at each other as a sparks collided emanating from each other.
"Ma ma, you two why don't we go back inside, if you two make such a commotion it would make you two look like a couple." She said in gentle tone, causing the two to reluctantly stop.
"Fine." Rukia said.
"Whatever." Zeru sighed.
"Good, now lets go back inside, or the neighbors will start thinking some weird things about you two being a couple with a lot of issues."
"ONEE-SAMA! HISANA-NEE!" the two whined childishly, as the three entered the house.
Hyoudou Residence.
"So Zeru-kun how was your trip?" his mother asks after giving him a hug.
"It was nice, the country side in Northern Europe was nice." He kissed his mother's cheek.
"Did you see any hot girls?!" Issei asks eagerly.
SLAP
Issei was suddenly knocked out from a powerful blow to the head, from his mother who had a calm composed look as if an insignificant insect.
"Anyone want to ignore that previous question?" he asks sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.
"Ara~ I want to know too." Hisana notioned.
"Hisana-nee, I really don't think that's necessary…."
"But I want to know what you've been up to lately, since it has been six years since we seen each other. *Sob* To think that the little shy puppy ten year old boy, has become so independent now *sob* Oh how puberty has changed you *sob." Hisana cried and for some reason there was some sad violin music in the background.
Starting to feel the guilt in his heart, he started to regret not having been much in contact with her and Rukia, ever since he started his new life with the Hyoudou family. He was so engrossed with his new life and friends, he had never had the thought of even contacting them, thinking that he shouldn't meddle with their new lives in peace.
"…Gomen, for my selfishness." He bowed in apology, giving off a gloomy aura off guilt.
Suddenly the sound of a camera flash was heard.
"What the?" Zeru reverted from his depressed expression to one of surprise. He then saw that Hisana giggling, starring at her photo.
"Ufufu~ Aw it's been a long time since I saw that cute apologetic look you had." Hisana starred at the picture in delight.
"Mou~ Hisana-nee!~" he pouted with his cheeks slightly pink.
"Now now, everyone why don't' we all head to the living room, I'll get the tea ready." His mother suggested.
"I'll head upstairs to my room, I need to check on something for a bit." Zeru said as he headed up to his room.
"Oh that reminds me Zeru-kun."
"Hai Nee-san?" he asks, with a hint of fear of what she was going to do.
"I didn't know you were practicing kissing." She giggled devilishly.
"Eheheh…. So you found that huh?" he asks dryly, thinking he got a handle at what she meant and he thought for sure he kept in a secure place in his room.
"Yes, but to think that you would use a mannequin head to practice kissing, though and you seemed to have picked a good wig."
"…Oh that? Well I did want it to be accurate."
"Oh so is their a certain person you have a crush on?"
"Yes her name is Celty Sturluson." He said smiling.
Rukia had a deadpanned look, seeing that her frie…acquaintance would already stoop low to liking two-dimensional female characters in a romantic sense.
"Ara~ So you openly admit that you use that Mannequin head for the practice of exchanging of the lips between a male and female.
"Of course I do have a major crush on that character." He openly answers, without a hint of shame, causing Rukia to stare at him with a deadpan look, his mother shaking her head in disapproval, Issei felt that his brother should really need to stop dwelling in the 2D world and recognize the power of three dimensional oppai.
"Ara~ But Zeru-kun wouldn't you want to feel the touch of a real women's?"
"Hm I already know how it feels to kiss a female on the cheeks, so I guess it's about the same since it's only skin contact. Besides who wants to have skin contact that has saliva that's just gross" He lazily says.
Hisana, was surprise to see this cocky and smart aleck attitude form the little boy who used to be a very cute shy shouta, to become such a sleaze bag.
"And that's why you have no life." Rukia said.
"Uh do I look like I have a problem with my social life?" No. Do I have friends? Yes. Do I have a family? Yes. And do I need help with a love life…Not at all."
Rukia had a tick mark, from the annoyance of her acquaintance.
"Zeru-kun, with an attitude like that, it'll make you a child full of ignorance."
"Eh? I'm not that ignorant, it's not like I'll follow a shady stranger or anything."
"You'll never know." She teased.
"Pft, you got some nerve lecturing me like an Onee-san like that." He said with a taunt.
"Rukia-chan why don't you show Zeru-kun your book." She smiled giving off a devilish vibe.
"…What book exactly?" he said with his tone cracking, knowing what the contents might be."
"Kufufu, sure I'll let Neko-baka have a taste at looking at my great art." She said in a smug tone, as she twirled the front strand of her hair.
Zeru had a tick mark at the smugness of the girl adopted in the Kuchki family with anger.
His mother was smiling enjoying the little somewhat drama between the two childhood friends and enjoyed seeing Zeru losing his cool. Seeing the relation between them there was one word, tsundere.
As Rukia took the book out of her bag, on the cover it said 'Rukia's Art' and it had some big chibish bunny heads drawn, which looked…unique and some bunny stickers. She then gave it to him.
"Alright then have a look at my story then."
"Read the second one." Hisana advised.
"The second story? *Turns the pages*…How Shiro bunny meets Kuro bunny?"
"I think you'll find the story really interesting." HIsana said.
"Oh really." He glared at Rukia.
Reading the story it showed a white rabbit with Rukia's hair which had a smiling gace and the drawing that seems a couple inches from the rabbiy was black fat whatever but after real close inspection it's was suppose to be a bunny and it had purple eyes…
"Is that supposed to be me?!" he yells angrily pointing at the unknown black looking smudge.
"Ma, who knows." Rukia shrugged her shoulders, smirking at him.
Zeru was starting to get a migraine after remembering how inadequate her drawings were back then and the way the drawings looked now. It looked like the drawings of a preschool student, only if a child drew it was cute. But to see some of her age to still draw like this was so sad, since some teenage girls are able to draw cute chibi drawings. Her art had no progress at all, although the bordering around her pictures has improved though.
As he turned the page he then saw the white bunny was approaching the black bunny until…
"Grrr." Zeru was gritting his teeth as he saw some detailing to the black bunny.
It had stink lines and it made the white bunny then backed away from the stink-lined bunny.
A tick marked appeared on his forehead, as he was irritated that his once shy quiet behavior when he first arrived at the orphanage was portrayed as if he had some stinky aura, that made him too un approachable.
Hisana seeing the irritated look on Zeru, giggled at seeing his reaction.
Zeru was this close to ripping the object he was holding right now.
His mother and brother, couldn't help but hold in their laughter since they already read the picture story and seeing Zeru's reaction was once in a life time. Since they never seen him with a pissed off look, except when someone would dare mess with his love for neko or if he does it on purpose for the fun of it.
After a couple pages of him, seeing the black bunny with stink lines, once scene touched him. A white bunny with black hair similar to the other white bunny but only slightly taller than walked up to the black bunny.
The black bunny was just standing there as if he was unaware of the existence of the bunny. The taller bunny the brought her arm and placed it on what seemed to be shoulder, making the stink lines to disappear. Black bunny, then turned around to see the older bunny. The next page the showed the black bunny then hugged the taller bunny as blue dots were coming of the black bunny.
Zeru remembering how Hisana was the one that managed to comfort him from his depression he had from the death of his parents. When he was at the orphanage he didn't want to talk to anyone, he would just wallow in depression of how alone and helpless he felt during the last moment his parents.
Then after a couple of pages later the black bunny was no longer entirely black, as it was now a regular white bunny with black hair and purple dots for eyes. The two younger bunnies were standing infront of each other, and there was a thought bubble of a bunny for the white bunny and a cat for the male bunny.
Zeru then closed the book and placed it on the coffee table.
"So? Do you finally see my power." She said with a smuggled look of confidence thinking that the he finally see the true art within her drawings. Seeing that he had tears swelled up.
Zeru then wiped the tears from his eyes, as he began to remember the good times he had at the orphanage.
He then immediately hugged Hisana.
Hisana hugged him back as he patted the back of his head.
As they broke off the hug.
"So I guess that story touched you?" Hisana asks giggling.
Zeru then took a breath.
"Hmph, I guess the events displayed added more impact than those chubby deformed bunnies or whatever they even are." He said, in monotonous tone.
"Hmph, at least you can sort of see the meaning in the art." She said turning away from him.
"Ma ma, you two it's really unhealthy to suppress those emotions like that."
"Hmph." The two said in union.
"So did anything good happen during the trip?" his mother asks.
"Well I did accidentally entered the bathroom catching a girl in the nude after she showered." He said without shame.
Hearing that Issei's nose began to drip blood slightly as he imagined a girl in her birthday suit, and her chest was very wet.
"Oh my, to think you would get yourself in that situation." His mother giggled.
"It was a coincidence, besides I was tired and I didn't think straight."
"So what happened when she caught you? Peeping Tom-kun?" Hisana asks.
"Well I'll have to admit, I did stood there for a couple more seconds, to satisfy my lust, note that no tent was pitched and after that I got called a pervert and got hit by a harisen. Oh and I almost received a concussion."
"You had it coming." Rukia said.
"Hey at least I didn't gawk or nosebleed, only super perverts do that. I do have some morals in my perversion."
"So did she got her little compensation?" Hisana asks devilishly wondering if the said girl got her payback.
"Nope, I think her beating me up is good enough."
Suddenly his phone ranged.
"Huh? Rossweisse? Hii~…Yeah I made it here okay…Did I told anyone about that little incident? Yes…Excuse me, but this call is going to be a little loud." He said leaving the living room and headed out the backyard.
"Okay you may continue~" he qued the young asgardian to continue the conversation."
"YOU BASTARD HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME?! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS?!" yelled the loud voice of the asgardian.
"It's not like I bragged about to my male friends, that would've been worse since some are perverted. Also I was with my mom, older-sister figure, acquaintance, and my pervy little bro."
"Hmph." She puffed her cheeks.
"…Okaaay." He said with an unsure tone.
"So what do you mean by acquaintance?"
"Oh it' just some girl that I knew when I used to live in the orphanage when I was ten. We sort have a somewhat childish antagonistic relationship with each other."
"Is that right…"
"Hm, are you comparing yourself to her?"
"Eh?! What makes you think that."
"Well usually, when new female finds that their new male friend has another female acquaintances that he knew longer compared to the new one. They start comparing themselves towards that person to see if they have a shot at that said male." He said smirking.
"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!" she yelled.
"Geez, my eardrum is gonna get busted." He said rubbing his listening ear from hearing the loud voice of the asgardian.
"Good…Also you should be more careful when you ever come to Asgard." She advised.
"Why, is the double boner helmet god of bestiality fetish pissed off?"
"Yes, but don't worry about him his mother and Grandma are dealing with him."
"That's good, so what's the reason for me to be more careful?"
"My dad."
"Oooooh, how bad?" he asks.
"He's really protective of me when it comes to boys."
"Was that the reason why other males swarm away from you and you couldn't make one until you met me?"
"NO!...It's because Grandma told my parents about you and… Well you get the rest."
"I see." He said dryly now worried that he has started an antagonistic relationship with her father now.
"Yeah…So sorry about your death wish." She said jokingly hoping to ease him thinking that he was already freaked out that her dad was going to make him pushing up daisies real soon.
"I'm fine really…So does your father have any siblings?"
"…You're trying to get dirt out of him aren't you?"
"Yep, just need some precautions when dealing with him."
"Wow, didn't know you're that brave…Should I mention that during back then during his day, he and Thor-sama were rivals when they were children?"
"…On second thought, I'll leave that out."
"That's good."
The two laughed.
"Well then I have to go back to the dorms now. Talk to you later?"
"Yeah. Bye."
"Bye..."
The two hanged up.
After Rossweisse hanged up she had her hand over her chest, feeling her beating heart from having her first conversation with a male friend for the first time via phone.
"Aw you two seem going steady." Said Natalia.
"Eh Auntie?" he notices his Aunt
"Didn't know you were already getting on the saddle." She chuckled
"What do you mean by that? It's not like there's anything between us. Besides I'm not interested in a relationship."
"Your loss. So got your limiters undone I see." She noticed his mana flow now normal.
"Yeah, unfortunately I was hoping that I get an extra boost from all my experiences but that ain't enough."
"Heh, I see… So how was her bod?" Natalia asks.
"Hm well she has somewhat of an angelic I guess with her smooth white skin and how the water droplets glistened in the light and her embarrassed face was so cute that I might've been tempted to do that." He said devilishly with a cocky tone.
"So you are capable of having some sexual attraction at your age now."
"Does it count that I tried to hold back on the tent pitching?"
"What kind of man are you?" she asks wondering of his sexual attraction.
"It's called having will power and I will admit I was willing to let the tent pitch, but I didn't want to get the tent ruined."
"Wuss."
"Geez, thanks. Also I did kiss her on the forehead."
"Once again a wuss move."
"Geez, you sound like one of those males that expect me to get laid."
Natalia then walked up to him and ran her fingers through his cheek.
"If you want some pointers in certain subjects, I'll be happy to help." She whispered seductively into his hear.
"Whoa whoa whoa, back up and keep your succubus hormones down, geez." He pushed her back.
Back to the living room.
"So what how did your conversation go?" Hisana asks.
"Meh, she got mad when I told her about that situation. No big deal." He said casually. Oh I do have pic of her." He then took out his phone showing off the little selfie of him with the silver haired girl with his arm around her shoulder pulling him close her with her cheek next to his.
"She's a beautiful young lady. But you seem forceful with her." Giggled Hisana seeing the embarrassed look Rossweisse had on her face.
"Really? I didn't noticed." He chuckled.
"So Zeru-kun, it looks like you made a name for yourself in middle school." Hisana said.
"Well that's what happens when playing in sport that makes certain people stand out."
"Hm never thought you gain the nickname Akuma-boy." Hisana said.
The nickname Devil boy, came from Zeru's habit of toying with the other team. Besides his capable leadership and speed he has suited for a Point guard postion in basketball, he also good at using fakes which he always used. For example whenever if another player tries to stop him, he then prepares to shot. Seeing that action the other player will attempt to block it, but in the end it was nothing more than a decoy for him to use that as a chance to perform a pass to his team member, shoot or drive.
"So I like toying around with people during games."
"I did hear you were scouted by other high schools."
"Well I wasn't that interested in trying to get into the world of sports. Besides I only joined the team because my friend made me, which I then enjoyed but did not want sports to become a major part of my life. Plus since Kuoh is close to where I live, it was somewhat of a better choice, even though they sent me letter of acception even though I already planned on what high school to attend"
"I see. So are you working during the summer?"
"Yep, I except random requests from people that I'm acquainted with and work at a one hundred yen shop sometimes."
"My, you're such a freelancer, I do hope you aren't affiliated with bad people."
"Don't worry they aren't that bad, although most of my clients are middle-highschool males that are perverted. , and my pervy little bro." He winked at Issei causing him to shiver feeling the creepish aura emanating from his brother.
"Well then if you excuse me, I'm a little tired from the trip, so I'll be going to my room."
"Ara, why don't you ask Rukia to come with you? She could help you relieve the stress." Hisana suggested.
"…Usagi baka if you don't want to deal with the more teasing from her, then you should come to my room."
"I suppose that's the only solution, to get out of this." Rukia said as she followed hm.
"Awww" The three adult women said teasingly.
Both of them had tick marks on their foreheads as they went upstairs.
"Did he just offered Rukia-san, go with him to his room?" Issei says in a somewhat confused tone, not sure if this was a tsun tsun moment or not.
Zeru's room.
"I knew I shouldn't have been back home early." Zeru sighed sitting at his desk.
"It wouldn't matter, you know how Onee-sama is."
"Yeah, she's unbeatable."
The two were in awkward silence being alone like this.
"So…How was school for you?" he asks sheepishly.
"Eh?...Well it' was fine, I made some new friends."
"Oh who?"
"Her name is Saegusa Mayumi."
"Oh, the Elven sniper." He said knowing about a well-known student from Yamazaki Middle School from the Archery club who was highly skilled and she got the name Elven because of her supposed petite/elfish body.
"So you've heard of her?"
"I heard some of the students from my middle school talking about her. I already know she's apart of the Saegusa family which does have the same rank as the Kuchiki family."
"Yeah, one of her Older brother's is also friends with Nii-sama."
"So who else?"
"There's Junmonji Kasuto"
"Hm another high ranking clan." He mused knowing that Juumonji clan, is well known for their use of defensive magic giving them the title Stonewall.
"Also do you remember the Hayakasa twins?
"You mean those siblings we met at the playground back then?"
Rukia nodded.
"Man it's been awhile since I saw them, him now that I remember I do remember there was someone with the name Hayakasa who was known as the ace of the Kendo club…"
"That's Shusui."
"Right, that guy. Man he was really competive back then."
"And he whupped your ass twenty five times." Rukia added, remembering the times they two would play kendo against each other.
"We were kids, and he was already taking kendo classes at a young age." He said pointing out the reason for his losses.
Zeru smiled as he reminisced his childhood.
" So, what are you doing during the summer?"
"Why are you asking that?" Ruki asks suspiciously with a startled tone.
"Just thought I should compensate, for not being in contact with you is all."
"Is that so…"
For some reason, Zeru felt awkward now, usually when they were children they always had this somewhat anxiety towards each other due to him criticizing her crapp…unique drawings, and saying that cats are way better than bunnies. Well I guess now that they're older, they started to develop some new emotions.
"So…Which High School are you attending?"
Rukia snapped out of her deep in thought.
"Unfortunately it's the same as you're attending also." She said with displeasure.
"Geez, fate's such a bitch."
Once again the two were in silence again, since back then they never did have somewhat of a normal conversation instead of having them in the form childish arguments, talking to each other as if it was chore since Hisana would force them to spend time with each other.
Zeru began to rub his temple in irritation, at dealing with such a conundrum. Based on this situation it was as if it was some awkward first da…
He gritted his teeth to cut out the narration.
"Dammit stay calm." He muttered to himself.
Zeru couldn't take it anymore decided to Russian roulette it.
"Are you doing anything tomorrow?" he asks.
"Eh?" she says in a somewhat dumbfounded tone while trying to understand the meaning of that question since there are many alternatives motives to such a question.
"You see I'll be going to Akihabara for a photo shoot, and since there's an Usagi Café…"
"USAGI CAFÉ?!" she yells in shock, causing Zeru to be bewildered back her excitement, well her excitement for anything bunny related. He then wondered if his current excitement with Nekos was that similar…Nah it isn't because he doesn't draw crappy drawings.
"Yeah, their opening one there, and the grand opening is tomorrow…" he said, feeling that he regretted for mentioning that and wondered why did he even say that. Dammit he need to get his mind back in order before he does anything dumb, shit why did it have to be her that came here.
"Wait a minute, photo-shoot?" Rukia said puzzled at the activity Zeru said he was doing at Akihabara.
"Yeah about that. Long story short, during my schools little festival I think our class reprehensive said we should do a butlers and maid café, and I was one of the butlers."
"Pfft." Rukia snickered.
"And when I put that outfit on, fangirls be screaming talking about how I look like Sebastian Michaelis from Kuroshituji."
Rukia began to laugh imagining him acting in a butler-like fashion.
"Then things got worse since most of them took pictures of me and shared them on the net, thereby more fangirls came…And the worst of all was that there were a bunch of Onee-samas bring in their otoutou's cosplaying as Ciel Phantomhive…"
"Pedo-Shitsuji."
"There was no Pedoing, it was just some pictures of me feeding them and doing some quotes from the anime/manga."
"Still a Pedo, to make those poor young children being defiled by Neko-baka shituji."
"The worst of all were the Grells…" he placed his head against his face, trying to get the image of a long red haired male.
"Well that's what you get when you cosplay a character that's shipped with a red haired Okama." Rukia laughed hard at him.
"Shut up!" he yelled with is face red, having remembered those accursed Grell coslplayers, who were able to pull of his creepish rape face look.
After about a couple of minutes, Rukia stopped laughing, while Zeru was outside of the balcony of his room.
"You done yet?"
"Yes. So how did you end up getting involved in photoshoots?" Rukia said innocently.
"Well after that crazed fiasco, a women was there who turned out to be obsessed with Butler and Maid café genres, was also the owner of a her own photography studio which also focuses on Cosplay. As for how I was convinced, let just say her actions spoke louder than words."
"She shanghai'd you didn't she?"
"Oh yeah, kept trying to get out of her grip but no avail."
Rukia giggled at the dilemma he must've dealt with back then.
"So how about you, what's it like being a part of the Kuchiki clan?"
"It's fine, everyone from the family treated me and Onee-sama fine, especially your Oba-sama." Rukia said talking about the women who is the wife of head of the Kuchiki Clan.
"Really." He said rembering his aunt, who was his father's younger sister.
"How come you never visit…I mean visit your aunt?"
"Don't know, maybe I'm going through some phase in my life where I want to move on from the past and move on." He said sitting on the floor with his back against the bed.
"Really…"
"When I mean the past, I don't mean like moving on from you and Hisana-nee. I just don't want to deal with anything the family business and other stuff."
"Hmph, as if I was trying to interrupt what you meant into that." She scoffed.
For some reason Zeru couldn't understand what was going on with him now, usually when he's around her, his heart would just fill with annoyance. But here they are for the first time having a somewhat conversation that didn't end up with objects being thrown and various cuss words were heard and they ended up in the time out corner by their caretaker.
Rukia on the other hand was having this sort of reaction to the current event right now. At first whens he met him after he arrived at the Orphanage he sort had this really strong vibe of anti socialness, making her hard to approach him. But later when he started to opened up things did seemed to be okay between them but until one thing led to conflict, their love for there favorite animals which they think is superior then the other. So that began their antagonism towards each other.
It wasn't that she didn't dislike him on purpose; it's just that she has problems showing her real feelings to other people besides her sister. It just happened.
The two now couldn't help but feel comfortable in ones presence for the first time, in six years.
Suddenly Zeru immediately headed to his door with an irritated expression on his face.
"Is something wrong?" Rukia asks seeing an irate look on his face.
"Hold on…"
As he opened the door.
Zeru had a blank expression seeing Hisana who was holding a glass, for eveasedropping
"Ohayo, Zeru-kun~" Hisana greeted with an innocent expression.
"Mind telling me why you're trying to eaves drop on us?"
"I just want to make sure that there are no conflicts with is all and maybe try to catch you two in the moment." She says innocently.
"Nice try Nee-san." Zeru smiled.
"So you two already setup your date for tomorrow?" she asks giving off a cheerful vibe."
Rukia's faced turned pink hearing that from her sister, while Zeru on the other hand.
POKE
"Itai~ Zeru-kun." The elder sister, rubbed her forehead from the Poke.
"Nee-san, should really be careful what she says without trying to gather all the evidence to support her statement." He smiled.
"Hmph, to think you changed to this extent.." she pouted at the once was shyful cute little shota, was now grown up enough to poke older women on the forehead.
"Well puberty is the natural order in growth."
"Hmph."
"Uh, Nee-san?" he asks sheepishly seeing Hisana pouting.
He then turned to Rukia, giving her a 'what should I do?' look And Rukia shrugged her shoulders with a 'How the hell should I know?' look.
"Uh, I'm sorry?" he says with uncertainty that this would be enough.
Hisan then turned her head to him and stared while still having her pouting face.
"Nee-san?"
Hisana then pointed her on forehead and then pointed at her lips to his.
"Really? Nee-san? You have a boyfriend and I am way above doing that kind of thing." He says knowing what she meant.
"Hmph." She pointed at her forehead again pouting with an expression similar to that of a child's.
"Fine!" he said grumpily; as he kneeled down to kiss her forehead.
"Is that it?"
"Mou~ Zeru-kun didn't put any love into it."
"Well I'm sorry if Shouta-Zeru became like this now." His eyes rolled in annoyance.
Hisana then stood up.
"Well then, I'm happy that you two are going to spend some time together tomorrow."
"We're just going to the same city, but we'll be splitting our ways from there." Rukia said.
"And technically it's not even close to a date." He concluded.
"Hmmm, will see."
Zeru then walked to his closet and took out a box and placed it on his desk, as he opened the box, taking out what seemed to be a glass container with a glossy texture making it look like it was filled with water and it contained what seemed to be a head with short brown hair, and it had a famine expression with it's eyes molded to look closed.
"Ah there's my Celty." He hugged the head and kissed it, causing Rukia's jaw to drop at the action displayed and Hisana stood their stiff and wondered how insa…weird did he became now.
As he then placed the head back in the container.
"What? Can't a teenage boy /otaku have some love for a two dimensional character?" he said not bothered with the action he just did in front of the sisters.
"Well…." Hisana said with uncertainty of what to said.
"Hmph, I thought you of all people would understand what love is." He said with disappointment at his sister-figure.
"Guess they were right about your change from reading that light novel."
"Huh?"
"Well when about two days ago when we arrived, your friends Satsuki-chan and Touko-chan stopped by and said that reason for your change was because of you reading a light novel called Durarara."
"Well I'm afraid that it's true, my once innocent shyish demeanor did change when I read that novel, which I greatly enjoyed. But what really inspired me to change was because of Orihara Izaya-senpai." He said in a voice of admiration.
"Ara~ And what is it that makes admire this Senpai?"
"He's a great Info breaker, that I wish to aspire and I love his personally."
"Basically he's nothing more than a scumbag." Rukia bluntly says.
"Bitch, you did not just diss on my senpai." He said glaring at Rukia giving of a vibe of angry fanboy.
"Really? You're going to call a fictional character your senpai?" Rukia says rubbing her temple.
"He's really influenced me as an Info Breaker, and I greatly respect him." He retorted proudly, without shame.
"Great, you're even more of a weirdo."
"Says the person liking a bunny named Chappy, which should be mascot for some Chap Stick brand."
Hearing the insult on her favorite bunny character, Rukia the waved her hand and then pointed with both fingers at him.
"Bakudo #1: Sai." Rukia chanted the kido, which then caused Zeru's arm to move instantly behind his back, making him the fall on his knees.
"Gah, you little…" He gritted his teeth at Rukia who smirked.
Zeru then tried to use his magic power to break out of the Kido.
"Fuck."
His arms struggled to get out of the invisible binding and the more he tried, the more his arms were soon going to break. Plus he never did had any experience in dealing with this level of paralysis so that was a dumb move to do now.
"It's useless." Rukia teased.
Zeru kept on struggling to get out for a specific reason. Which was that he is not going to live the rest of life remembering the one time that the Usagi-baka made him struggle like this. He then sensed the power emanating from the Kido and it made him irritated in jealousy since her Bakudo #1 is stronger, than his since she seems to be well more adept in kido than him, since he's still just a beginner.
"So, admit defeat?" Rukia asks with a grin.
"Not in my life, Hado #1: Sho." He then pointed his tongue out releasing a small pulse of blue energy, causing Rukia to be pushed back a couple inches.
"Tch."
"Bleeh, how do you like that I can use Kido with my tongue." He said mockingly.
Irritated now Rukia then brought out her hand, as Zeru sensed a large amount of power building up and the temperature of the room began to increase.
"Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of…"
THWACK
"Itai!" Rukia rubbed the back of her head, which was swatted by her sister.
"Now now, Rukia you don't want to scorch him now do you? Besides you wouldn't want to accidentally burn this house do you?" Hisana says in a gentle tone, while still having a calm expression. But there was some intent of evil emanating from that innocent expression.
Rukia slightly sweat, sensing the ominous aura from her sister.
"Uh…Someone unbind me here? I don't want my Okaa-sama to see me like this, making it look like I'm in some S&M situation with you two are the Queen."
"Uhuhu, My we don't want that to make it appear like that do we?" Hisana giggled.
Hisana then placed her hand over his bonded arms, releasing a small pulse of energy, which overpowered the binding spell.
"Thank you." He said stretching his arms out.
"So, have you been practicing you're Kido?" Hisana asks.
"Nope, since I originally had my magic power restrained, I did nothing. But now I'm interested, but it'll be tricky to find any books on Kido since those types of spells are restricted to certain families."
"Well, how about Rukai teach you then?"
"HAH?" the two teens said in union.
"Well Rukia is a good Kido practitioner, the Kuchiki clan's Kido Teacher noted that her skills are well adept."
"Really…" he stared at Rukia.
"Want another demonstration?" Rukia taunted mockingly.
"Well let's take it outside then." He said with a smirk, with the two emanating intents of beating the crap out of each other.
BONK
"Fuck!" the two yelled in union as they rubbed the top of their heads which had a comical bump.
"Now you two no expressing you're pent up love with combat." Hisana chided, who was now holding a harisen, which made Zeru remember some flashbacks he had dealing with that particular object.
"Tch." They both faced away from each other muttering some gibberish/cusses in irritation.
Hisana giggled seeing the supposed tsudereish act.
"Well then, I guess I should leave you two love birds alone then." Hisana waved as she left the room.
"When we start school, I will erase you from the very existence of my mind." Zeru said.
"I will do the same as well."
The two sighed having endured the presence of the Onee-sama.
Later on Zeru was checking out photos of a particular person with Levi-tan on the search bar of a cosplayers website.
"Hm, so this is her." Zeru mused having found the picture of his new colleague he was going to work with.
"Levi-tan? What does that stand for?"
"Dunno, but it looks like she's new based on the small photoset she has."
As he looked at the picture of his new colleague, she had long black hair in pig tails style, blue eyes, she was wearing a mahout-shoujo outfit from the anime Magical Girl Spiral Milky Seven, her height seemed to be that of a teenage girl's, what also caught their attentions was her seemingly large chest suited for young adult women around their mature twenties.
The two stared in silence and worried that kids these days are growing too fast, or she drinks too much milk causing an abnormality causing her chest to grow more than her body at different rates.
"Well she seems interesting huh?"
"…Yeah…" Zeru says in an uncomfortable tone.
Zeru began to have a migraine now knowing that he's going to have a major migraine from dealing with a childish…No a super duper childish adult women, one of the types he can't deal with and based on how peppy and happy she looked in her photo sets, he feels like he's going to need a lot of Advil, or start drinking tranquilizer fluids.
"Oh I almost forgot." Zeru then created a magic circle, which opened his dimensional storage, dropping off the bag containing his armor. After that he created a magic circle with a formula specifically for transporting things to the Guild. With that the armor was transported.
"Okay done."
"What was that all about?"
"Just giving my Uncle his repaired armor."
"Was teleporting it really necessary?"
"Uh I'm tired from all the shit I did from Asgard. So I deserve to be lazy."
"So, have you been fighting stray devils?" she asks.
"No, not since that one we encountered before."
Rukia expression turned down, as she remembered the time that they accidently encountered a stray devil, which ended up with him being injured from protecting her. But luckily Hisana and Byakuya arrived to eliminate it.
"Also I did encounter a devil a couple days ago, luckily I wasn't that badly damaged since he didn't bother fighting back and I was just agitated easily by his presence."
Rukia had a worried expression knowing about his temper towards devils, ever since they encountered that stray devil. But she was also worried about something particular that happened to him during the incident.
"Hm? Are you okay Rukia?" he asks seeing the concerned expression on her face.
Rukia blinked, snapping out of her trail of thought.
"It's nothing." She said turning her head away.
"…Okaay…"
"So that girl that you're friends with is Asgardian."
"Yeah she's cute but somewhat of a cheapskate and gold-digger. As in she's already planning on her financial future and likes buying items on discounts. Oh and she's the same age as us and is already in college."
"She sounds interesting." She said in tone that made it seemed that her nice demeanor was breaking for some reason.
"So mind teaching me some Kido?"
"You sure it's okay to practice in your room?"
"No Hados. Just teach me some low ranking Bakudos."
Rukia then had a smirk on her face.
"Okay here's one for example." She then began to trace with her hand as various symbols were created. After she finished a red glowing kanji symbol appeared infront of her along with her body began to glow a red aura.
"Bakudo #9: Geki."
Suddenly Zeru's body became suddenly stiff, as he wasn't able to move his body and he could feel a strong pressure all over his body. The technique seemed to be similar to the Bakudo #1: Sai, only that bakudo focused on binding the target's arm. But this Bakudo seemed to be able to paralyze the entire human body.
"Really?" he asks, was it necessary to be demonstrated a paralysis Bakudo.
"You said demonstrate." Rukia grinned.
"Well at least I'm able to speak with my mouth."
"At full power I'm capable of doing a very thorough paralysis."
"Good to know." Zeru's body then began to glow blue as his aura began to overlap the residual aura of Geki, thereby breaking the Bakudo, which luckily that Rukia only add minimal power to the Bakudo.
"Okay, so looks like I got the mechanics of it." He said as he stressed his body from the recent paralysis.
"Just to let you know that Hado I was going to use on you was a level 33."
"Thanks for letting me know. Okay now let's head out."
"Where are we going?"
"Dunno let's just wing it and see."
His phone than rang.
"Hello?...Ah Raiga what is it? A mission? Oh come on man you're busting my balls like a hardcore sadistic seme….And 'f' word you too then. So what's it about?... Fine I'll do it. Mind if I bring in another person to tag along?...Oh Sat-chan and Abe Kiyome-san is coming too? Okay so when do we leave? Ten minutes? That's too quick….Fine bye."
"You're going on a guild mission now?" Rukia asks.
"Yeah and you're coming with."
"Eh? Why me?"
"What I want to see the full extent of your skills plus it's better than staying here dealing with Nee-san." He said with a worried expression of how much teasing can Hisana dish out.
"That is true." She said with the same worried expression, as she did not want to deal with her sister's teasing no matter how much she loved her.
"Also the mission we're dealing with will be C-ranked, so it'll be okay."
"So what's the objective?"
"We're gonna hunt for some Grimms and take some masks." He said simply as the two left.
Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter and remember to review :)
For those that are expecting later on for a time skip to canon, I am going to say I am not going to canon. Reasons for not going to canon, I really don't want to go to canon otherwise the same freaking clichés will happen in canon, and I do not want to deal with that anytime soon. Second, I already have some arcs planned during when Zeru's taking a year off after his first year in Kuoh Academy. I really want Zeru to be more developed and become experienced when I reach canon so he can become mentor towards Issei and help him improve compared to his progress in canon. Also I really don't like going to canon yet, because if I get into canon Zeru wouldn't get much development thanks to the clichés of the canon and plus It's kinda feels too rushed when going to canon.
If I go by a slow pace, it'll give some ideas to work on how Zeru will act during canon. So, sorry for everyone that's expecting canon. When I started writing this fic, I never had the intention of getting into canon anytime soon, you all just have to be patient.
Also I have a poll on my profile page, if anyone's interested. It's about how I should start off the story for my rewrite for my other fic Fallen Devil.