A.N.- You guys are probably going to hate me for this one haha. Just make sure you read to the end. And sorry about the shortness, but it does pack quite the punch.

The Third King of Kuoh Academy

Chapter 10

I looked down the stairway and saw my Queen smiling at me from the bottom of the stairs. I sighed and closed the hatch that acted as the only door up to my room. The stairs were now blocked off and I turned to look at the red haired devil princess sitting on my bed, starring me down. Let's just get this over with…

"Alright Rias, what else do you want?" I asked. I was just tired of all her crap and I wanted to leave this town so badly. Maybe we should go to America next…yeah America is fun!

"Well Varian, I think we need to have a talk about what you can and can't do in my territory." She started; her inner snob was already present in her voice.

"Don't even start that okay?! I went to save my friend last night, what business do you have knocking me out anyway?! I could have died and then my girls would have been hunted down as strays or something!" I yelled at her. This was the last thing I wanted to deal with right now, but here she is…nagging me.

"Well I think you should just butt out and leave my servants alone and go home." She responded coldly.

"How about I ask you a question? Where were you when your servant needed you?" I said and smiled to myself. Her eye twitched in anger and she looked out the window across the room. Got ya!

"There was a barrier up and I didn't know he was in danger. How did you know about my servant?" She countered, hate dripping from her words.

"I went to go find Issei yesterday morning to apologize to him for threatening him. Ya know something polite people do! I told him if he ever needed help to summon me, and he did!" I yelled back and she seemed even angrier.

"The safety of my servants is my responsibility." She said quietly.

"Well you are doing a bangin job of it." I yelled back and she jumped off the bed and stormed across the room. Her hand lit up with dark ruin magic and she raised it to slap me. I caught it of course and held her still.

"Is that any way to treat your fiancé?" I teased and winked at her. She jerked her hand from my grasp and turned her back to me.

"I'm going to call my brother and we are settling this once and for all!" She yelled and brought a magic circle to her ear. "Brother, I need you to come to the human world right now! I don't care about what you're doing, this is urgent!" She finished and brought her hand from her ear. Moments later a bright red flash covered my room. I shielded my eyes and moments later there stood Sirzechs, the lord of the devils.

"Okay Rias, what is it that is so urgent?" He said, clearly tired and annoyed at being summoned. He looked around the room and saw me and he immediately sighed. At least he understands!

"Brother, would you tell this worthless ingrate why he doesn't deserve to marry me?" She commanded and Sirzechs sighed once more. The older devil snapped his fingers and a table appeared in the center of the room.

"Take a seat you two. I shall act as a mediator and we will get this issue resolved alright?" He said and I nodded. Rias just huffed and took a seat angrily. This was going to take awhile…

"So, what's been going on since you came here Varian?" Sirzechs asked and looked at me with that warm smile.

"Nothing much Sirzechs, just what you'd expect. I went to school and halfway through my first day your sister had me thrown into a fight. I came home and had to explain my big long story to my slaves. Then I left the next morning, apologized to her servant, and had to fight a fallen one. Oh great job in keeping this town safe Rias. Getting attacked by fallen ones on a daily basis is a good sigh. Anyway, I had to save her servant last night and, get this; she knocked me out when she appeared at the scene. Woke up this morning, fought a dozen priests and fallen ones and now I'm here. That sound about right Rias?" I finished my story and Rias was on a totally new level of anger. Sirzechs just sighed and rubbed his temples.

"Rias, that is unacceptable. Do you have any idea how great this man is how wonderful his peerage is, and how much he has done for you in his life?" Sirzechs asked. He had a good point; this girl was a spoiled brat and didn't care about anything I'd done.

"All I remember him doing is leaving!" She yelled and the room fell into a silence. What? What does that have to do with anything?

"Rias, what do you mean by that?" Sirzechs asked and I looked at the red haired girl, puzzled. Anger had left my face; I was genuinely confused at this point.

"He was always there and we were always together, and one day he just…leaves." Her voice trailed off and Sirzechs smiled.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me!" I yelled and rose to my feet. "Sirzechs, give us a minute please." I asked and my old master snapped his fingers, disappearing.

"Varian…just let me explain okay." Anger had left both of us and Rias was trying to convey feelings now…feelings I never wanted to hear.

"No I'm not going to let you do anything like that!" I yelled and walked over to where she was sitting. "You're saying that the hazing and the harsh treatments when we were younger were supposed to be kindness? You expect me to believe that you actually wanted me around?" I yelled, my voice rose higher than it has in a long time. I've never been this angry…

"Varian…I just…things changed okay?" She was starting to tear up and she clearly had pent up emotions, but I didn't want to hear it.

"Oh please attempt to explain your actions since I've been here! Hurting my peerage, knocking me out, attacking me!? What are you trying to prove? Is this your version of love or something? Because if that's what your trying to tell me, that you love me, then just shut up and get out!" I yelled and raised my hand to smack her. She bullies me and treats me like a nobody when we were younger and all of a sudden she cares that I left, what is this?

"Varian just stop!" She yelled back, "Just let me explain!"

"Why should I?" I yelled back and she stood up and smacked me first. The sound echoed through the room and I saw tears fall down her face.

"Because I love you, you idiot!" She yelled, and proceeded to tell me how she really felt all those years…

"From the first day when my brother brought you home, I knew there was something about you! You remember how we were always together, I know you do. We always played and laughed and we went to school together. And when the war got really intense, you started training even more. So I had to go make other friends…" She started and my anger grew even more. How dare she try to make herself look like the victim.

"And those "friends" kept you from ever talking to me again? Those "friends" had you order me around and ditch me all the time?" I countered and she really started to break down. She threw herself against me and buried her face in my chest.

"I was a teenage girl Varian! I didn't know what I wanted okay? I thought they would think I was lame if I hung out with a servant boy all the time. I had to ignore you and I'm so sorry! But what you did was worse! You left me! You never came back and you just disappeared! I almost believed you were dead and my brother was just lying to me! And then I saw you…" She looked up at me and smiled. She's never smiled at me before…she looked…so beautiful.

"So seeing the person you love, that you thought was dead, makes you attack them?" I retorted and she shook her head.

"I was angry! I hated seeing you with those other girls and I hated that you seemed to despise me! Why do you hate me Varian?" She screamed and the tears flowed again, "I promise I'll be good to you. You'll be the only man in my life and you'll be part of the Gremory house again! Just tell me why you hate me and I'll be better, I promise!" She kept on screaming and I pushed her off me. She stumbled and fell on the chair. She looked at me again with those pleading eyes and I couldn't face her. What is this stupid feeling?

"Because…you never loved me…not the way I loved you." I whispered and she threw herself against me again.

"But I do love you Varian! You're strong and brave and sweet and I know you'll take care of me." She promised me all these things and…I…I couldn't say anything. She had been such a snob and she had ruined my life. If she had been like this back then…would I have gone back?

"Give me one good reason why. Why should I give myself to the girl who has caused me nothing but grief and pain? The girl who hurt my peerage and toyed with my heart…" I trailed off and looked away from her. I felt her soft hand run along my neck and cup my cheek. She smiled at me and slowly brought her head closer to mine. What is this…I can't let this happen…can I? I didn't have time to think about; she pressed our lips together and kissed me. I'm a fool aren't I…I don't know what to think any more!

"I promise I'll make it up to you Varian. We can start…now…if you want." She purred and she brought my hand to her breast. She was so tempting. The most beautiful girl I'd ever seen throwing herself at me…but…it was Rias…

"NO!" I screamed and threw her onto my bed. "I can't forgive you for everything you've done! You toyed with me and treated me like any other suitor! I'm not special to you; you're just trying to make yourself not look so bad! Just like the snobby bitch you are!" I screamed at her and walked towards the staircase.

"Varian…no! I promise I'll change, I'll be better to you! I'll even let you keep that group of whores as servants when we get married." And that is when I snapped…

"What did you just say?" I asked quietly as I walked back across the room. "What about my girls?"

"Well at first there was no way I was going to let you keep a group of girls as your servants once you're married to me, but now I know you'll be faithful so it's not biggy." She said and smiled, like what she just said wasn't a big deal.

"Get out of my house…get out now…" I whispered and Rias looked at me, shocked.

"Varian, I promise everything will be okay baby. Let's just talk some more and I promise you'll be happy about being with me." She said and stood up to walk towards me. She slowly undid the buttons on her school uniform, but I didn't pay attention. The sound of another smack echoed through my room.

"I SAID GET OUT!" I screamed. She looked at me, awestruck.

"You hit me….? Varian…why?" She actually looked confused…I couldn't believe this girl! She stumbled backwards towards the wall and tears fell down her cheeks. "Fine! If that is what you want…I'll leave! Send my peerage back to me later!" She screamed and snapped her fingers, disappearing in a red flash.

I stood in the center of my room, thoughts swam through my head. She just tried to make a move on me…why? How could I ever let that witch in my house? How could I ever trust her or let her kiss me? SHE KISSED ME! I ran into the bathroom and drank half the bottle of mouth wash. I just stood there, starring at myself in the mirror. I couldn't believe what just happened.

"How could she do all that to me!? How could she say that to me!?" I screamed at my reflection in the mirror. I punched the mirror twice and made two big holes of shattered glass. My wrist was bleeding and my head was spinning.

I walked back into the bedroom and took a seat at the table. I gazed across and imagined Rias, still setting at her seat. My temper broke and hellfire flames consumed my body. They only appear when I'm really angry…

"I HATE YOU!" I screamed and blew half of my room away. The top right half of my building exploded and rubble fell to the streets below. I can't take it! I need someone to explain this to me! She told me I'd have to get rid of my girls…what if Sirzechs actually makes me marry her! What if I end up fighting another devil over her! I can't do that, what would the point even be!?

"Varian! Master are you okay?" A kind voice called from the stairway hatch. It was Brittany, she and the others were probably worried sick…

"Of course I'm not okay! I just blew apart the house!" I screamed back and let the flames consume me farther…if I keep going…on no…

I screamed one more time and disappeared in a flash…I can't be anywhere near my girls when I really explode. I wish I could do it to her…Rias…I despise the name!

I appeared in the underworld. I was on a cliff, similar to the one I'd been on when God had come down. I looked across the ash fields and screamed again, louder this time. I was so confused and angry and frustrated. I just wanted to explode and blow everything away with it. I didn't know what to do anymore…where do I go? If I go home, the girls will want to talk about it with me. And if I don't go home, the girls will come looking. I just have to get all the anger out and then try and go home.

I jumped to the fields below and started running. I ran, as a huge ball of hell flames, through the ash field. I reached a patch of dead trees and let them have it. My full power was coursing through me once again, the anger brought it back. But how…where did it all come from? I smashed my fist into a tree and a whole row exploded from the blast of flames that came afterwards. I put both my hands together and blew a huge column of trees away with a torrent of flames. The trees didn't even seem to catch on fire…they just kinda…ceased to exist, like they'd been blown away with a nuclear blast. I jumped in the air, only about ten feet, and flew back down in a wave of fire and hate. The ground around me sank about twenty feet and a huge crater appeared around me.

I looked around and felt the pain, a full wave of pain. It covered my whole body and brought me to my knees. My arms and legs ached and my head throbbed. My emotions were out of control and I…I just wanted someone to hold me. Tell me it would be okay. Guess this is what Rias meant about being a teenager.

I fell to my butt and started to cry. I couldn't move from the pain, so I just sat there and let the tears fall freely. Hope they don't wait up…I'll be here awhile….