Black Dragon and White Kitten
Chapter 4
Pacts and Familiars
Hiei was inside of the club room, Rias was sitting at her desk and staring off into space, Koneko was eating something, Kiba was reading a book, and Akeno was fixing something to eat. Issei and Asia was out delivering flyers, Rias tried to get Hiei to go, but he burned them all from being asked to do something beneath him. The entire thing was irritating, Hiei being forced to play nice with devils is one thing, but being made into a slave is another, not to mention that he has yet to be sent out on a request, thankfully.
"Hey, Asia and I just got back," Issei informed the king while she was still staring off into space, "earth to Rias," the call was enough to snap her out of her trance since she took in a breath.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I guess I spaced out there for a little bit, it's been one of those days," Rias said as she turned to look at them, then she looked at Asia and stood up. "Asia, if you don't have any problems with it, I was thinking you could make your big debut tonight," she informed, then she looked at Hiei. "When we make your debut will be with me helping, since we need to make sure that you don't burn the client to ash, or scare him away from someone else we could send."
Asia was confused at the term, debut, Issei jumped in to inform her, "basically, you jump to a potential client using a magic circle and try to make a pact with them. Rias, don't you think it might be a little too early for that, i mean, Asia's brand new, she hasn't even been a devil for a week," Issei pointed out, even though he went out on his third day.
"You need to relax, don't you worry your precious pumpkin head about her, she'll be totally awesome, when it comes to magical powers, that girl has almost as much game as I do," Akeno called out as she brought in tea.
"Are you serious," Issei asked dumbly and Koneko just blindly nodded her head while nibbling on a cookie.
"I couldn't agree with you guys more, didn't make her my bishop for nothing," Rias commented with a smile.
"Congrats on that too, bishop is impressive," Kiba stated with a smile of his own, Hiei didn't feel like commenting, so he didn't.
Asia looked down for a minute in doubt, prompting Rias to ask, "Asia, what's wrong, you okay," even though she did still have a smile.
"Oh, I'm fine, I'm just nervous, that's all," Asia stated as she turned back to the president, this was beginning to feel like a waste of Hiei's time.
Issei slammed his hands on Rias's desk before speaking, "Rias, I think it'd be better if I went in Asia's place, she hasn't been in the area long enough to know her way around yet. Why don't we send her out after she gets the chance to get a better feel for the place," Issei's argument was logical, based on perverted thoughts or not, still logical.
"Then go, I'm going to go to a client with Hiei tomorrow night, if you get a pact tonight, I won't have to take you on a different trip," Rias ordered before Issei left for his bike, then the client. "Hiei, tomorrow meet in the club room after school, I'll go over the requests and pick out the best one to go on for you, until then, you are all excused."
Hiei barely listened before getting up along with Koneko and heading out the door, while walking to the apartment, Koneko brought up a question, "any idea on what your request will be?"
"I'm a battle type of devil, my skills are not to be used in anything other than that, but knowing her for the short while I have, I believe she'll put me in a mundane summoning request," Hiei answered.
"Seems about right," Koneko wanted to be the one to go with Hiei instead of Rias, but with her being the strongest out of everyone there besides Hiei, she could hold him back if the client says the wrong thing.
Next night
A glowing magic circle was below Hiei and Rias as they prepared to depart, Issei failed to get a pact last night and was now going to be taken on a later trip, but now was time for Hiei's debut. The whole peerage was gathered to see where the two would be sent, "good luck Hiei, you'll do great," Asia called out for encouragement.
"Get ready guys, I'm sending you now," Akeno stated before she activated the magic and Hiei and Rias was teleported away in an instant, they were taken to a home with Japanese memorabilia all around the place.
Sitting down was a suit of traditional samurai armor, it stood without any warning and spoke in a woman's voice, "um, you're the devils, right," she asked. "I'm Susan-san, and I'm a foreign exchange student, I love Japanese culture, it's totally Kuru, but this area is really scary at night. So, I wear this samurai ufuku to scare all the bad people away," the girl said and didn't see Hiei's eyebrows twitch in aggravation.
"Fine, what do you want," Hiei said in a demanding tone, this was beneath him, he was a fighter, not some slave at the call to whoever summons him first.
"Well, the thing is, I left my notebook at school and I'm too scared to go and get it by my jiko," Susan said in a very afraid and cowardly voice, Rias was really trying her luck with setting this one up.
"Which school, room number and desk is it in, tell me and me going by myself will be much quicker than you coming with me and slowing me down," he ordered and she did with great fear. He was gone for maybe thirty seconds to a minute before he returned, why did it take him so long, he was grumbling the entire time, something about dragons and detectives.
"Arigatōgozaimashita," Susan said in a not so great accent, Hiei just grunted and prepared to leave with Rias before she spoke again, "I hate to be a bother, but there's one more thing I need you to do."
"A chance to degrade myself further than I already have, no," Hiei stated firmly with a glare before something unthinkable happened.
"Nonsense, we'd be glad to help," Rias stepped in and forced them to stay, he just leaned against the wall, apparently it was a boy, "so, tell me about this guy."
"I really like him, but I'm kind of a shy shojo, I don't know how to talk to bito," Susan admitted while hanging her head in shame.
"You want us to make him fall in love with you, is that it," Rias asked, even Hiei knew that wasn't it, she wants to do it the right way, that isn't the right way.
"Oh no, I don't want to force him to koi me, I want him to koi me on his own," she may be crazy, but Susan at least understands that there are no short cuts in life.
"Have you tried opening up to him and telling him how you feel," Rias asked, she clearly understood that you can't force love at least.
"Oh, no, I couldn't, I wouldn't even know where to begin," Susan stated as she waved her hands in front of herself with embarrassment.
"Just write a damn letter to the fool, no one ever said to do something face to face," Hiei barked out in annoyance, this was a waste of his time if they couldn't see that.
"Not bad, a love letter might just work," Rias complimented while sounding impressed, not every day that Hiei shows that he knows what his stuff.
"You think so," Susan asked as if unsure that it would work, it's not every day that strangers help out on something you've never been able to by yourself.
"Writing down what you feel can be a great way to express yourself," Rias pressed, it really was a good idea, and she wanted to see where this would lead. Susan wrote the letter, and sent it in the weirdest way possible for this day and age, she shot it to the boy with a bow and arrow, Hiei chose not to comment on that.
Now they were in a park some place and waiting for the guy to arrive, it was daytime and they were waiting for him to arrive, when he did, he was dressed in armor from the dark ages. Hiei and Rias watched from the side as the two met, the boy in armor looked mad to Hiei, but it was hard to tell with that armor on.
"I've perused your letter my lady, and I'm shot through the heart, not the head, to think that I, of all people, could be caught off guard like this, I'm truly overwhelmed," the knight said.
"I'm so over head skin boot and koi, you're all I could think of hori, my samurai," Susan stated with love in her voice, Hiei was seconds away from killing them both with a flaming sword, since he didn't have a physical one.
"If you'll have me, I'd be honored to be your knight in shining hori," the knight said and this was just getting too weird when a knight tried to talk Japanese.
In the end, the two were together and Hiei wanted to bash someone's head in, namely the two who didn't even form a pact with him, he didn't want a pact in the first place, it was beneath him.
"Those two sure were a match made in armor, so what do you think about being together with the person you love more than anything in the world," Rias asked as they stood in the club room while she held a picture of the two they brought together.
"I know about that engagement, you've been staring far away for a while now, my opinion on anything is irrelevant, do what you want with the free will you've been given, not what others want," Hiei spoke coldly.
"You mean bring dishonor to the Gremory name and lead my house to ruin, bring the wrath of the phoenix family a down on us, and set you free at the same time," Rias question.
"No, that is not dishonor, I don't care for the name of Gremory, nor does the wrath of a phoenix scare me, and if I want freedom I can take it along with your life at any point I so wish. I choose not to as that would cause me more trouble than needed, I said what I said because it is the truth, unless you are going to be physically forced into doing this, then don't," Hiei stated.
"I'm not going to be physically forced, nor will any of my pieces be taken away from me if I don't go through with it, but I still have the Gremory family as a whole to consider," she looked him in the eye as she said that.
"Screw the family do what's best for you and you alone, not some family that sold you off like a prized ass," he growled before speeding off, he grew tired of that conversation, too political.
A few days later
Everyone was gathered in the club when Rias popped a creature into existence, it was a pink ball with cat ears and bat wings, a pointed arrow tail and pinchers for hands. "This is my familiar Issei, I believe you two have met each other," Rias said before the creature turned into a woman in a red and white dress with black shoulder pads and black hair.
"Hot flyer girl's your familiar," Issei stated before the woman turned back into the same creature as before.
"I've got one too of course," Akeno mentioned before summoning her creature on the floor with a square circle, it was a green and short thing that looked like a walking cactus.
"This is Shiro," Koneko stated while holding a white cat and looking at Hiei as if to introduce the animal, Hiei grunted at the cat and the cat meowed happily to him, he turned away.
"Mine's badass," Kiba stated while about to summon his, but Issei turned away and waved him off.
"I don't care about your tiny dancer," Issei commented as well as wave the offer off, he really only cared about the girl's familiars.
"Why you got to hate man," Kiba retorted, it was clear that the other knight was just joking with the pawn.
"Don't be jealous Issei, you'll get one, familiars are a major part of being a devil, when you're in need, they're always there to back you up," Rias stated.
"That's great, only problem is that we have no idea how we're supposed to get one," Asia commented.
"That's the next step," Rias started before there was a knock on the club doors, "come in," was called and entered the school council president, Sona Shitori, also known as Sona Sitri, along with the rest of her peerage.
"Sorry to interrupt," Sona said as the rest of her peerage also came in as well, it was a good-sized group as well.
"Issei, who are these people," Asia asked Issei, Hiei didn't need to be told, he knew from Koneko's memories and all that.
"The one in the middle is Sona Shitori, the student body president, and the girl with the glasses behind her is Tsubaki Shira, it looks like they brought the rest of the council with them," Issei informed.
"Hello Sona, what can I do for you," Rias asked, as politely as she could of course, childhood friends and all that.
"Nothing, I just wanted to congratulate you on increasing the number of your servants," Sona casually mentioned.
"Hold on, how does she know about that," Issei asked, clearly the boy needed to work on sensing other devils.
"Her real name is Sona Sitri, and she's not just the student council president, she's the next head of the house of Sitri, a big devil family," Akeno informed.
"Are you saying there are other devils at our school," Issei dumbly asked, that is what she just said, so it must be true.
"Rias, I'm hurt you didn't tell your little boyfriend about us, but I suppose if you don't trust him with inside info than he must not be worth much to you, huh," a blonde-haired boy named Saji stated.
"It's considered bad form to get involved in the affairs of other households Saji, it's only natural Rias held this back," Sona stated with a small smile.
"I know you, you're the guy from 2-C who was just elected student council clerk, right, think I might have voted for this guy," Issei asked as if unsure.
"Saji Genshirou, my pawn," Sona introduced the pawn with pride in her voice if Hiei heard her correctly.
"This is my pawn, Issei Hyoudou, my bishop Asia Argento, and my knight Hiei Jaganshi," Rias introduced with pride on each one of her pieces.
"So, you're a pawn too dude, that totally means we're twins," Issei said like a child discovering a friend in grade school.
"Can it D-bag, you and your gaggle of slutty sluts don't deserve to be in the same room as distinguished devils like the Sitri's," Saji stated as if he was any better.
"You take that back," Issei ordered while clearly upset, Hiei didn't care about the conversation, it was just noise to him.
"Awe, he's mad, not even gay prince charming or the dark prince can protect you from me, I took up four pawn pieces bro," Saji boasted.
"He took up eight pieces, it's always better to check your facts before you make a complete fool of yourself," Hiei stated before Sona could get a word in.
"Wait, what, you're freaking kidding me right, how did this lame ass butt munch mention that," Saji protested.
"My apologies, he's young, I hope you'll forgive his youthful naiveté, newbies don't always appreciate the finer points of civility, do they," Sona said calmly.
"I can already see where this is going, call me when I'm actually needed, not wasting my time," Hiei stated before walking to the window, opening it, and jumping out before anyone could say anything about it.
"I suppose that's him," Sona stated more than asked as she watched where the guy just jumped out, they had clearly already discussed Hiei, but Sona had never met him before.
"Yes, a trouble maker if I ever saw one, Hiei's rude, a little arrogant, has a poker face that could rival Koneko's, speed that can run laps around Kiba, and a visitor from another universe," Rias summed up.
"I've seen his school record, he does nothing but sleep in class, yet gets perfect scores on all his tests, and I could sense his power Rias, is he really worth a knight, or was it a mutation piece," Sona asked.
"A plain Knight piece if you can believe it, he was already powerful enough to catch a spear of light in midair, then held it in his hands while only gaining slight burns," she answered.
Then they heard an argument between their pawns and got back to the task at hand, which led to Sona and Rias competing for the right to take their servants to get familiars. First was a tennis match, which led to nothing but a battle between two magic users, not going by the rules at all there, and in the end, nobody won.
Following night
This is not what Hiei had in mind when he said to call when actually needed, and he made that clear when he was told to show up in his gym clothes, he wore his non-school attire, "I meant battle, not a stupid game," is what he said.
"They outnumber us by one person, I've asked the extra to be a referee," Rias stated and completely ignored Hiei's protest.
"I'm like the worst at sports, I don't even know if I remember how to play," Issei also protested, more like complained.
"Oh, you'll be fine, just grab a ball, aim it at the Sitri team and hit them right in the face," Rias said as she tossed a yellow and black ball to Kiba.
"Asia picked it up in no time, I'm sure you can do it too," Kiba commented as said bishop was stretching with Akeno, which Issei was eyeing like a piece of candy, which prompted Koneko to bend him forward and hurt his back.
"Team headbands, nice, we're going to look totally badass," Akeno commented as Issei handed everyone one, when he tried to give one to Hiei, there was a growl and that's all was needed to shoot that notion down.
"Thanks, I stayed up all night making them," Issei nervously commented while Koneko came up behind Hiei and put on a headband whether he wanted one or not, she knew he wouldn't hurt her. "I just wanted to make something cool as a way of saying thank you for everything you guys are doing for us, I'm lucky to have friends as awesome as you. Plus I suck at sports, so this way I'll know not to throw the ball at my own team," he added the last part as a joke. Everyone else was just staring at them, "what's wrong, are they lame, maybe I should have gone with t-shirts instead."
"Oh no, I think they're perfect Issei, it was nice of you to do that, let's put these on, go out there, and do our best to kick some Sitri butt," Rias commented as Hiei grumbled about how he had to wear this thing.
"Ready to rock and Roll," Sona asked as the opposing team came into view of everyone, all dressed in gym gear looking as intimidating as an apple pie.
They all got ready and in position for a game of dodgeball, a blue haired girl on the other team had the ball, in an instant, she threw it and made it go straight for Koneko, only for Hiei to grab it out of the air with one hand. The girl was so surprised that someone caught the ball that she didn't see the ball collide with her face and send her several feet back.
Tsubaki had the ball now and she threw it at Rias to get a head start, thing was, it was magically enhanced, which made the fact that she caught it all the more impressive. Then Rias sent her own attack straight at another poor girl that set her on fire when she tried to block, which got Issei to perv out and almost get him eliminated. He was saved by Akeno before all hell broke loose and magic was flying everywhere, and at one point, Sona made a ball magically follow Issei until it hit him in the nuts. It finally ended when Koneko finally hit Saji in the balls with the ball after that and time was called with Rias's peerage winning over Sona's.
"A deal's a deal Sona, since we beat you, we get first pick at the familiars," Rias stated while the rest of the student council was leaving the gym.
"As much as I hate to lose, I have to admit, that was still a whole lot of fun," Sona admitted before turning to Rias after watching her own peerage walk out. "Although, if this had been a rating game and not us just fooling around, there's no way you could have beat me," she said with confidence.
"You really think so, well I guess we won't know for sure until we actually play the game, but it'll be a while until we have to worry about that," Rias said back with some of her own confidence.
"Don't be so sure Rias, you never know what's coming up," Sona stated as she began to walk away to her peerage and leave so that Rias's peerage could celebrate.
After that, the team returned to the club room where they celebrated with some well-earned drinks, Koneko, Kiba, and Issei on one side of the table, Akeno and Asia on the other side, Hiei in his spot, and Rias in front of her desk. "I want you to know, I'm thankful to each and every one of you for going out there and doing what needed to be done to beat those devils, i hope you guys feel very proud," Rias said with pride.
"Hell, all I did was get knocked in the love spuds," Issei commented, and in truth, that was all he did when it came to actual competition.
"Sure, you got nailed in the nads, but you also made these headbands, they're pretty rad man," Kiba stated.
"Totes, they really brought our team together," Akeno commented, even though all it did with Hiei was make him look silly and wanting to hurry up and get it over with.
"Thanks bro, I don't want to sound gay or anything but if you were a hot chick, I'd totally make out with you right now," Issei exclaimed as he held Kiba's hand.
"I hate to break up the celebration, but I think it's time we get these three a few familiars, since it's a full moon tonight, this is our best shot to see the familiar master," Rias stated as Akeno made the magic circle.
Familiar forest
When they arrived at the obvious forest where the familiars live the first thing Issei asked was, "where are we?"
"Duh, a magical forest where all the familiars live," Akeno said as though it was obvious, at in truth, it was so obvious.
"Don't be scared, this is where we came to get ours too," Kiba stated, obviously they did, since this is a forest that housed the familiars, it's obvious they would come here to get it.
"Oh, I'm cool, besides the fact that I just pissed myself," Issei whispered the last part, obviously not very well because they all heard him.
"Who wants me," a man's voice shouted, Hiei looked up in a tree and saw a guy in brown cargo shorts, white tank top, and a blue backwards hat with red hair sticking out from the whole in the supposed to be back. "The master of the familiar, aka, Zatouji, if you've come to find familiars galore, you've come at the right time, that's for sure, the full moon is out to help you decide and I'll be the one to act as your guid."
"If you can't tell, Zatouji's way obsessed with making things rhyme," Akeno mentioned to Issei, but Hiei still heard, this was going to be more trouble than worth.
"Now how can I help you, tell me all your wants and desires, a strong one, a fast one, one that likes to set fires," Zatouji said in a rhythmic way.
"Yeah, cool, do you have any hot familiars with big titos, who like really nerdy white guys," Issei asked as if he'd have something for perverts.
"This is why amateurs always annoy, if you're seeking something other than a toy, utilize your other hand my boy, to find the familiar who will be the best fit, look for best personality, don't look for best tit," Zatouji had a point.
"Makes sense, but I'd like one really cute and fun to be around," Asia mentioned since Issei got to tell what he wanted, she figured she'd give it a go.
"Fun, done and done," Zatouji obviously liked the female population more than anyone else, one of the things that would drive him crazy before this was over. They began walking and came across a lake that held a descent sized energy, "this lake is awesome, righteous and right, at the bottom you'll find magical sprites."
"Yeah, sprites are sexy, we just hit the familiar jackpot, she'll emerge from the water wearing nothing but a soaking wet see through dress with hair long enough to tie me up, then she'll pull me below and we'll make sweet, sweet soggy love," Issei had perv out.
"Here we go, looks like a sprite is about to show," Zatouji said as the lake began to light up in the center, soon, a beefy looking creature came out and when it turned, it screamed a man's scream, not a woman's, "take a look, that's off the hook."
"But clearly not off the roids, what is it, a competitive body builder," Issei asked, it was clearly a sprite, not the type he was looking for though.
"Undines water sprites, with megawatt power, a familiar like that would make your enemies cower," the familiar master stated.
"Screw that, he looks like he could pick me up and break me in half," the pervert exclaimed in horror, there was no way that thing was going to be the pervert's familiar.
"Not he, sorry but this he's a she," Zatouji informed and Issei fell to his knees in despair at the information, just had to say it, nobody saw that Hiei snuck away to puke and came right back as if nothing happened.
They continued walking after that, "that sprite back there, she had really kind eyes, even though she's tough on the outside, I can tell she has a good heart," Asia commented.
"Oh yeah, and pecks the size of my head," Issei commented himself while still in despair at a creature that was supposed to be beautiful being that.
Zatouji stopped before he spoke, "oh my, look high," they did and saw a small and blue dragon-like creature there, "cute but dangerous too, when they get angry, they have the power to shoot a lightning that's blue."
"Hey, that type of dragon is really rare, isn't it," Kiba commented, while Hiei chose not to comment, he has a dragon more powerful than anything in this forest, they just didn't know it yet.
"I think this is the first time I've ever seen one," Rias commented as well, it wasn't every day that you see a dragon of any sort so of course they would be a little amazed.
"Do it now if you want this one clamed, once these dragons grow up, they can no longer be tamed," Zatouji advised wisely, still being annoying about it.
"Issei, since you possess the power of the red dragon emperor, that sprite might turn out to be a pretty good fit," Akeno suggested.
"Yeah, that makes sense, right, dragon, I choose," Issei started to do some dorky dance is what it looked like to Hiei, but stopped when he heard Asia scream. They both turned and saw a slime covering her and starting to fall on the others, Hiei acted first and got Koneko out of there before the others, then burned any of the slime off her that may have gotten on. They could only watch as the slime fell on the others and started to burn away their clothes, Hiei had the sense to turn around from them while Issei was Issei.
Right before Koneko punched him for it, the slime continued to eat away at their clothes and Hiei remained with his back to them, it was only descent to not stare at women when they are undressed in such a way. Hiei tuned out their pleas for help while Koneko just watched, one part of the slime tried to make a play for her again, but Hiei burned it away before it could. In the end, it ended with the slime destroyed and Issei protesting it that he didn't get the slime for a familiar.
Asia did get something out of it though, the blue dragon from earlier came to get rid of the slime and bonded with her and made a pact with her to become her familiar. Now the only one that needed to even look for a familiar was Hiei, but he felt no energy levels anywhere to his desired area so he decided not to bring it up.
Club room
"They say sprite dragons only give themselves to the most worthy and pure hearted of masters, and normally, they would never choose to serve a devil," Rias spoke mainly to herself, but Hiei and Akeno still heard her, since they were beside her.
"Asia used to be a holy sister, so who knows, maybe that had some sway over the little guy," Akeno commented as they watched how it interacted with the others.
"I would like to know why you didn't help or look at us when the slime attacked though, and you only saved Koneko, why is that," Rias asked Hiei.
"I consider it foolish to look at someone such as you brat, and I saved the only person I consider trustworthy in this place, make of that what you will," Hiei stated before him and the others bid the two ladies goodbye.