The Heir of the Western Lands
Chapter 7
Author's notes: Well, I usually take a couple of days off after publishing a new chapter to let the creative juices regenerate, but it seems that this time I am inspired enough to skip the rest period for now. As I write this, I posted chapter 6 the day before, which was March 19th. I'm really glad to see and answer the many reviews people sent me, but don't forget! If you really want me to answer, you have to leave something in your comments that I can answer to. No matter which way you're spinning it, requests for updates or other small comments can't be really answered with more than a comment of being patient or some thanks.
I won't just write a PM to everyone who ever thanked me for writing, else I wouldn't get anywhere. XD So this is another somewhat filler chapter, but there should be some action in it and maybe one or two time skips to put them into the end of their teenager years for some good old sexual tension!:D Let's go see the stats now. We have 29 reviews, 270 followers, 234 favourites, 4 C2 communities and 18 907 views. Thank you everyone for your continued support. Now, the show must go on!
Last Edit: May 26, 2017.
Harry and Rias' play date had become more like Harry and Akeno's reunion than a regular play date. Once the girls coaxed the frightened boy from under the bed, they all sat on it and explained everything to the confused redhead. Akeno and Harry had been attending the same human school in the city of Okayama and neither knew that the other was part of the Supernatural sect. Akeno's mother had her doubts since she was a talented exorcist and an experimented priestess, but without a Youkai coming along and confirming it, they stayed suspicions.
While both children had bonded quickly, the nickname came when Harry saw mother and daughter side by side in the same Shrine Maiden outfit. Since Akeno looked a lot like her late mother, the boy had started to call her Chibi-Miko in front of her first name and no matter what she did or said made him stop calling her that. Then there was the shock of learning exactly who Harry's grandfather was. It was Rias who had the most interesting reaction to the news. She said to him with certain awe in her voice and surprise on her face
"You mean to tell me that you are one of the grandchildren of the Inu No Taisho? The Dog General if we translate the title in English? The most powerful Youkai to have ever walked the face of the Earth? That Inu No Taisho? "
At Harry's nod, the redhead with the pretty blue-green eyes could only let out one word with the surprised look still stuck on her face before continuing to talk
"Damn! For a pedigree, that's a pedigree! Not that I judge people by who they are related to, but you can't really escape the hype that comes with having a famous relative. Trust me, I know."
She finished a bit sourly.
Akeno was more surprised by the fact that her best friend and Kingswore than anything else. It was very rare for Rias to be uncouth due to her upbringing. Akeno was also aware that there was a hidden Youkai enclave in Okayama even if she had never ventured inside, having met quite a few in disguise passing through the streets and many more that would come to her mother's Shrine to pay respect to the Shinto Gods. But she hadn't known that it was THE Lord Sesshomaru of the Western Lands from the Warring States Era who was the local Ruler. The silence was broken by Harry who spoke to her
"So, I guess the redhead is Rias right? I mean, she does look like the Lord in the study and said is daughter's name was Rias. Man, the guy looked like to be about as old as my own father; just by seeing him you wouldn't believe that he was a centuries old Devil! Say Chibi-Miko Akeno, could you tell me how come your scent is different than before? Are you hurt somewhere? You smell like blood on top of your different base scent."
Both girls instantly reacted in a very different way. Rias cracked up immediately and started laughing almost hysterically, while Akeno was quite mortified and turned beet red from the sheer embarrassment the question caused her! She had started to have her period a few months before her mother's untimely death (She was an early bloomer due to her Fallen Angel blood.) and right now she was at a stage in her cycle where there was some blood that was escaping her body. Of course, Harry with his Inu Youkai heritage and very keen nose would smell it even if it was faint, but he just had to open his big mouth just as they met again after so long!
While the Gremory Heiress was getting her laughter under control, Akeno considered the use of offensive magic to make her displeasure known on the hybrid boy, but knowing that if her male friend dodged it, which was very likely, she would damage Rias' Japanophile collection, Akeno then decided to go by another route since her wages as a Gremory servant would never be enough to replace what she would have likely damaged. She crossed her arms under her developing bosom, settled her face on a glare and said with an acidic tone of voice and with some pure indignation added to the mix
"Harry James Potter! You don't ask those types of questions to a girl! It's not proper and very uncouth! As for my base scent, why should I answer you? It's none of your business what I smell like! I had almost forgotten how rude and impolite you could be!"
If she thought that a glare still not enough charged with feminine fury and an admonishment would deter him, she was proven totally wrong in an instant. Faster than both girls could react, the Hanyō was in Akeno's personal space in a blink and then went behind her. Without a single care about how his act could or would be perceived, he parted away her long raven black hair with one hand, steadied her with the other by clamping it on her right shoulder, taking great care to not puncture her delicate looking skin with his sharp claws and started to smell repeatedly and rapidly the left crook of her neck, memorizing her new body scent once he had approached his nose near her skin.
Before Akeno could chase him off with extreme prejudice, the boy had bounced away. He was now repeating the same trick on Rias but without the restraining hand since she had lifted her long red hair on her own. She was inviting him with a smile that was doing strange things to his insides. While the redhead was far less flustered than Akeno since she had been around animal like Youkais before, notably her new Rook Koneko who was a Nekoshou, a stronger offshoot of Nekomata, she was fairly ticklish and the air entering and exiting Harry's nose hitting her skin rapidly made her giggle lightly. Seeing the odd look her Queen shot her, she explained to her once the boy was done
"I've dealt with Youkais before in the recent past. After all, our new family member is one. Those that are supernatural offshoot of regular animals, especially those that are of canine ancestry, need subconsciously to take on the scent of new people entering their lives to properly remember them. Yes, it is a bit awkward in society, but our new friend needed it to categorize us once and for all into the friendly category. The adults are more subtle about it, but it seems we have someone who is really curious with us."
Harry was now sitting silently still on the ground, his legs crossed, his eyes far away. Rias' words were true, now he had the new Akeno scent and his brain was processing it alongside Rias' scent so he would be able to recognize them right away in the future.
Akeno, now no longer mortified, answered to this with a groan of exasperation while palming her face
"You have absolutely no idea, Rias! He is a real magnet for trouble! He doesn't even need to go looking for it; trouble finds him on its own! Like one time he was tripped by another older student and he managed to keep himself from falling by accidentally taking hold of the fire alarm lever with the broken protective case in the corridor we were in. You can imagine by yourself what happened next. Somehow, he rarely got the blame for all the stunts he came up with! I don't know how he managed it and he wouldn't tell no matter what I tried, but one day he somehow managed to transform the entire third floor of our previous school to look like an old temple!
One full of pit falls and traps like you would see in one of those Indiana Jones movies! He did this only to win a bet he made with an upperclassman! It stayed like that for a whole day and the next morning, everything was back to normal and as if nothing ever happened! Nobody even remembered what happened, except me and him in the aftermath! "
She finished, very exasperated, all the while throwing her arms into the air!
Rias giggled a bit to that, so their new friend was a troublemaker huh? She could deal with that. The best way to deal with an intelligent troublemaker was to help him channel his creativity into something worthwhile. That was what her mother said she did with her brother after all. Then she asked, curious
"Say Akeno, if he is so troublesome, why did you become friends with him in the first place?"
Akeno let out a sigh and after collecting her thoughts, answered with a sincere smile on her pretty face
"Well, he is not always that troublesome. Harry can be pretty nice too when the mood strike him. I remember, one day I was feeling rather down. I don't remember exactly why and lo and behold, that silly foreign looking boy appear in front of me while I was brooding in an isolated corner of the schoolyard with a bouquet of wild flowers clenched in his fist. He said something corny about that I was too pretty to be down and he liked it more when I was smiling. We were what? About nine or ten years old of age I think?
Even as young as we were I could already tell that it was a rather corny line, but he was sincere in his desire to put a smile back on my face. He managed to do it. I was smiling the rest of the day. I can't really pinpoint an event or a date where we became real friends. You see, Harry always had a magnetic personality and presence, a lot of people seemed to orbit around him for many reasons. But when he would see me, he would ditch them without a second thought to keep me company. I was rather shy back then, since I wasn't leaving the Shrine very often. "
The young blue-green eyed and redheaded girl would have likely said something but then Harry came out of his catatonia all of the sudden, surprising and interrupting them both. Then he realized, a bit late, what he had asked about and smiled sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head toward the black haired girl and said to her
"I'm very sorry about the question about the smell of blood on you Chibi-Miko Akeno! My dad talked to me recently about things that happen at puberty for both boys and girls and it totally slipped my mind that girls were likely to be more sensitive about certain subjects than boys. I didn't want to embarrass you or make you uncomfortable in front of your friend. I sincerely thought that you were hurt with a bleeding wound somewhere on you."
Internally, he was a bit worried about the near catatonia he just went through though, it never took him so long to analyze and associate scents before! He would have to talk about it with his grandfather later when they would be at home.
Once again, Rias giggled since she found the situation and the nickname given to her new Queen greatly amusing, but Akeno's cheeks quickly became dusted in red once again, but she only accepted his sincerest apologies with a nod of the head. After taking some time to get acquainted with Rias or in Akeno's case, reacquainted, they all decided to go outside to burn some energy. Both girls were a bit intrigued as to why the boy put back on his human disguise before leaving the room, but they both decided to not push the issue right now. Once outside, they took to exploring the grounds.
While Rias was very familiar with the place since she grew up in this estate, Akeno had only been inducted into the Gremory Clan for about two weeks. Thus she was not accustomed to everything yet and Harry had never been there before. Once again, both girls giggled once they saw the humorous scene of Harry; somehow back into his natural form, nose on the ground, walking on all four and sniffing around like a dog.
Then amusement changed into shock when the Hanyō suddenly leaped on his feet, turned around very quickly and with a fast movement of his right arm, a golden colored energy whip flew from his claws at high speed. Only for the energy whip to be caught a few millimetres from the face of a silver haired woman with a delicate looking hand. Said woman had likely appeared from nowhere since she wasn't there a few seconds ago or she was stealthy enough to bypass his supernaturally enhanced senses.
Grayfia Lucifuge was a beautiful woman appearing to have been in her early twenties, with silver hair and matching eyes. Her hair, which was flowing all the way down to her back, featured a long braid on each side with small blue bows at the ends, while the rest was let down, ending in twin braids. She was wearing for some reason a blue and white French maid outfit with long sleeves and a white maid headband over her head, with red lipstick as a cosmetic accessory. Harry and the newcomer where in an intense staring contest, but said contest didn't last long when Grayfia literally crushed the Youki whip in her palm like it was nothing, dispelling the negative energy.
She was somewhat surprised though, the boy was pretty strong, since her palm was lightly cut. It wasn't everyday that a child could make the Silver-Haired Queen of Annihilation bleed. She wasn't a Satan-class Devil for nothing though. He stood absolutely no chances against her as he was right now.
She was only here in the first place to drop her son Millicas for a visit to his grandparents when she felt Rias' familiar energy signature in the grounds outside in the back with her new Queen's unique signature. She wasn't alarmed and was prepared to dismiss it entirely, until she felt an unknown presence that was clearly not a Gremory Devil with the girls. Cautious and a bit curious, she had ordered her son to go ahead while she investigated. It took all her will to not giggle like a school girl at the sight of an Inu Hanyō (The furry dog ears on the top of his head were an easy sign permitting his racial identification.) around the same age of both girls with his nose on the ground, sniffing around like a hound.
Then it seemed her presence was detected and had startled the boy since he had reacted very quickly and attacked first once back on his feet. She would never tell a living soul, but she had been taken totally by surprise to see a twelve years old boy create and send an energy whip from his claws towards her face.
The boy almost managed to land a blow on her! He hadn't needed more than a fraction of a second to form the Youki whip and then send it! She had to give credit where it was due, it was quite impressive! She had managed to catch it by a hair breath and made sure to subtly heal the wound it caused her before any blood could be shed; she had a reputation to uphold after all. She didn't wanted nor needed to deal with the headache it would cause if word of her getting injured by a child got around the Underworld. Crushing it after realizing that it was not some mundane energy but very potent youki, she then decided to crush the boy's defiance right here and right now before things could get uglier for him.
The only problem she had with Inu Hanyōs was that to make them obey, was the fact that you generally had to prove to them in no uncertain terms that you were their superior in all things if you were not part of their pack. Usually by beating them to the ground so thoroughly that they wouldn't get up for a good while. She was not found of hurting children, but he was an intruder here and intruders must be dealt with extreme prejudice and violent children must be thought a lesson.
However, before she made more than a single determined step towards the now alert Hanyō who was flexing his clawed hands, the boy was obviously looking for a fight and was even barring his fangs at her in a clear sign of defiance; Rias ran from her position near Akeno to between them and stayed there with both her arms outstretched as far as they could go. Grayfia was about to order the foolish girl out of the way, but she beat her to the punch by saying out loud
"Stop! Stop it, the both of you! Grayfia, Harry is here with his grandfather, Lord Sesshomaru-Sama. The Dog General is with my father in his study, discussing. Harry, are you insane?! Picking a fight with my elder brother's Queenof all people? Do you really want to become a Popsicle so badly? She's a master of ice magic and a Satan-class Devil! She is not an opponent you can beat as you are right now!"
While Harry was very tempted to not heed Rias' words if only because that Grayfia chick's scent was making his instincts go crazy, (He would later find out that he had inherited his grandfather's desire to battle strong opponents to test his mettle.) he knew that she would wipe the floor with him as he was right now. He had nothing in his arsenal that could help against an opponent of that calibre right now, even if he were to bust out the Wizarding Magic. (His mother was really stingy with the cool and destructive spells and since she had his dad by the balls, he was stingy too, by default.
His uncles were so afraid of incurring her wrath and temper that they wouldn't help him bypass her stopgap on the cool spells. What a bunch of cowards!) He reluctantly stood down from his aggressive stance, but still looked at the silver haired woman straight into the eyes to show her that he wasn't afraid of her. He wouldn't fight her right now, but it was only postponed. When he would be strong enough, he would challenge her. The Potter Scion then turned around and grabbed his two friends by the wrists lightly but firmly, tugging them farther on the grounds, away from the temptation to fight an opponent he wasn't ready to fight.
In Grayfia's case, she was torn between feeling proud of Rias for the fact of standing up to her for her friends' sake or feeling exasperated. The girl was wearing her emotions on her sleeve (As a Pillar Family heiress, Rias should have learned to properly guard and control her emotions to prepare herself for a life of politics and thus not being ruled by them like she was.) and was wandering around with a total stranger without any chaperone to make sure the boy behave himself. She was also somewhat intrigued. So this was the grandson of the Inu No Taisho huh?
There had been a few rumours on the supernatural grapevine that the Dog General had found his missing daughter and that said daughter was already mated with a British human wizard when they found each others. It seemed that the rumours were indeed true. The boy had not backed down because her reputation had scared him. To the contrary, it had made him want to fight her even more, before cold hard logic overcame his instincts. Right now, he was absolutely no match for her. But he had potential. She was not usually battle happy like some members of her husband's Peerage, but she was looking forward to see if he could make something worthwhile of himself.
There was also a strange blade sheathed at his side. She couldn't put her finger on it, but she would swear that she had seen that sword before…
Months and years passed, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. Rias' Peerage had grown in size and strength during this time. One Sealed Bishop since he was still unable to control his powers, Gasper Vladi, a Dhampir with a Sacred Gear named Forbidden Balor View, a Knight Yuuto Kiba, a former Human, also possessing a Sacred Gear, this one called Sword Birth.With Toujou Koneko, Nekoshou, her Rook and Himejima Akeno, a Fallen Angel/Human, now Devil, hybrid, her Queen, Rias' Peerage, more like her own family, was still growing and she couldn't be prouder of them and love them more even if she tried. She had also tried to reincarnate her dear friend Harry as her other Knight or maybe her other Rook since he was a powerhouse, but he had turned her down politely.
Rias then tried to sway him to her point of view by pouting and by making him the sweet eyes since she knew the boy loved them, but it did nothing. Well, it had an effect but not the one she wanted and he still refused to be turned into a Devil under her leadership no matter what…
Now at eighteen years old and on their final year of High School, Rias and Akeno had grown into their looks and as a pureblood Devil and Fallen Angel/Devil hybrid; they weren't ashamed to use their feminine wiles to get their way. Harry, Akeno and she were now very close. Theirs relationship had never officially been defined by a title; they couldn't really bother with labels. They would share the same bed any chance they could get and their male companion's hands would roam on their bodies, caressing them before sleep and the next morning before getting up, since both girls almost always slept naked. (Boy, Harry wasn't complaining, not at all!)
The relationship between the three of them wasn't one of the often dreamed on by teenager boys worldwide of two women somewhat submissive to one lucky man. No, those three loved each other's equally. They were a true triad, with all the benefits and problems of such a situation. Rias had been free to decide her own future, since Sesshomaru had persuaded Lord Richard Gremory to leave the matters of the heart into his wife's expert hands. While there was some grumbling of lost opportunities, the Dog General simply decided to favour trade with the Gremory Family first over any other Pillar Family. It was enough to quiet the crafty Devil lord and discourage him to bind his daughter to a Marriage contract.
While the Lord of the West was much stronger than his daughter, he wasn't about to antagonize her by writing her son into said Marriage contract, which is why he hadn't tried to put Harry in place of Riser into the would be contract. His Rirī was a very modern woman, thank you very much. And also she was an excellent cook and could usually sway him to a more modern way of thinking with his favourite's meals. So to accommodate the odd threesome of the Gremory Heiress, her Queen and his grandson, he had given the permission for both girls to use their transport circles to travel through the extensive wards around his Lands to and from Harry's home only.
(When the young man had turned seventeen years old, the age of majority for Wizards worldwide, he had move into his own house but still inside the Western Lands. That way he could have "fun" with his girlfriends without risking traumatizing his younger sister if she walked on them but permitting him to still be near his family.)
Venelana Gremory nee Bael had taken a shine to the young man and was often prompt to embarrass him by pinching his cheek in public or to make him melt by petting his dog ears. The crafty Devil woman was quite adept to undo his disguise at will. As they grew up, she would set up dates between the young man and her daughters. While Akeno wasn't a fruit of her womb, she has come to love her like she was her own, even if she was Rias' Queen. Akeno had openly cried for the first time since her near death at her granduncle's hands when Venelana claimed her as such.
Lady Gremory and Lily had become great friends in time and the gossip/friendship circle grew when Venelana included Lady Natsumi Sitri and Lady Reyna Phenex. It was a remark from Koneko of all people, that after the Four Great Satans, there were now the Four Great Divas that made the nickname stick. The Divas would gather once every two weeks for a girl day/night out in the Human world, leaving noble titles and responsibilities behind for twenty four hours. Often times the Divas would invite their daughters, but they were not regular attendees.
Even if Ravel, the youngest child and only daughter of Reyna, was two years older than Rosaline and her often visiting friend Kunou, the trio of younger girls got greatly along and were often seen entertaining a now six years old Aquila Borealis Black, Sirius' Demigod daughter. She was very much like her father was, witty, mischievous and prompts to use the rules against others who would oppose her fun. She was a true Heiress of the Marauders, like her cousin Harry. Rosaline never really cared for the Art of Pranks except to get revenge when wronged.
Aquila was impulsive, passionate and also loved quite hard. She didn't shy away from talking about her feelings or hugging her precious people. She was also very intelligent, having high scores in school. Her aunt Lily had devised special glasses to permit her to read English and Japanese like it was Ancient Greek. With those, her dyslexia was no longer a problem. Nothing much could do with the ADHD except encouraging her to be as active as possible and be on the constant lookout for monsters once out in the real world. While the traditional Greek and Roman monsters were very rare in Japan, there were always some shady characters, be they human or otherwise who would like to get their hands on a Half-Blood for nefarious purposes.
Aquila would never be a typical Daughter of Aphrodite. While she had her girly moments, she was not one to pass too much time worrying about her appearance; it was why she had her blood red hair in a pixie cut. Way less time she had to sit still while her dad, uncles or aunt would comb her hair that way. While she hadn't inherited the Charm speak ability, her magical nature had given her the option to learn Occlumency, thus the ability to resist it if she made the effort to learn and practice.
Now we find ourselves with our protagonists into the Occult Research Club on the campus of Kuoh Academy. The Club house was a three story building, with the third story serving as a clock-tower. It has been painted white with a black roof with vines creeping up to the second story. The club room interior was a wood-paneled room with Victorian-style couches and chairs along the walls. One side was set up to be able to be used as a bath, and a large Gremory Family magic circle is also there to allow teleportation to and from clients. Currently Rias was looking through a bay window, observing the Perverted Trio run for their lives after been caught peeping on the girls' Kendo club when they were changing.
Harry in his Human disguise was sitting on a couch, his black wood acoustic guitar on his lap, strumming randomly on the strings and adjusting the tuning pegs while sneaking up a few glances at Rias' lacy black panty clad posterior under the very short skirt of the Academy uniform. Akeno was currently baking small treats for the rest of the peerage, still in class since they were in Second Year. While Rias and Akeno had sufficiently good grades to be excused of many classes since they were so ahead or had already passed them, Harry wasn't as much of a good student as them. But to remediate to that he had signed for fewer classes than others.
He was only in High School for three reasons. One, his Rias was there. Two, his Akeno was there also. Three, his parents would have his hide if he didn't obtain a High School Diploma since he had declined to attend a magical school. While Hogwarts was great to visit, having do so before on some occasions, he was far too free spirited to be stuck in a drafty castle in Northern Scotland for ten long months with only the occasional visits to Hogsmeade village to change the routine somewhat. Now if Hogwarts had been a day school he would have at least considered it but even after the "Purge", Wizarding Britain was still very much traditional.
Permitting a day student would have caused a scandal like no other. So Harry decided to be the first Potter in many generations to NOT attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at all.
Needless to say, his father and uncles were very disappointed with his choice but his mother and grandfather supported his decision. The fact that his mother had put her foot down as the Alpha of the family when Rosie was almost eleven and told his father that under no circumstances that she would allow him to send their daughter away on the other side of Asia and Europe for ten long months while they stayed in Japan was their first major fight in years! His dad slept on the couch for a week and a half since he refused to back down from his position before his mother literally jumped his bones on the said couch!
What was the most amusing, to him at least, was that Sirius had told him that they had been caught red handed by Rosaline, so they had to give her "The Sex Talk" earlier than scheduled. He was very glad that it didn't happen to him! Poor Rosie! Talk about awkward…*snickers*
While his sister's control over her temper and powers had started rather badly, she was now on the opposite end of the spectrum, control wise. While still quite temperamental at times, she no longer used her powers in public on a whim. His father had wanted at least one of his children to attend their Alma mater since it was what the family tradition dictated. Distance and cost be damned, his daughter would attends Hogwarts. In the end, his parents came to an agreement.
Rosie would be shipped to Hogwarts for her Seventh year equivalent to take her NEWTs. She would have likely argued with the decision, had not her grandfather adding his two cents, actually approving the decision. Why he was okay with it ,he never told them though. Good luck making him spit it out, you'll need every shred of it.Officially tired of seeing one of his girls staring out of the bay window since the other was occupied and wanting to feel her presence by his side, he decided to put his guitar back into its case before getting up from the couch he was sitting on, moving behind her, putting an arm around her waist then hugging her to his larger frame and also putting his chin on her right shoulder, he asked
"So, which one of the three is a potential new recruit? I do hope its Hyoudou; at least he can be a pretty decent guy if you manage to keep his mind off the female body for a while. The other two are really pissing me off. It's all I can do to keep my claws to myself and not open them from head to crotch. Little creeps. Only yours and Akeno's scent keep me calm and relaxed…"
Rias had to suddenly bite her lips to keep a moan from escaping her mouth, since her boyfriend was now tenderly nibbling her neck with his sharp teeth. He might not be a Devil, but Harry certainly knew how to cheat like one! He knew she was very sensitive there! Her most erogenous point outside of her intimate parts! Why would he tease her like that when he knew that she was occupied by carefully planning her next moves mentally? With a supreme effort of willpower, she managed to answer without stuttering
"Yes, Hyoudou Issei is a possibility. I felt a powerful Sacred Gear from him and Akeno agree with me. She thinks it might be an upper tier level Sacred Gear. Could you tell me if your senses picked something we might have missed?"
While trained members of the three Biblical Factions could feel the presence of a dormant Sacred Gear inside a Human being if given enough time, it was more a spiritual detection method than a physical one and it was far easier if the Sacred Gear in question had been awakened beforehand. Those of Youkai blood had other means to detect such things, such as combining spiritual and physical detection abilities and sometimes adding a mystical sense, like aura reading. Harry's sense of smell was very sharp; he might have caught something both Akeno and she could have missed. Her friend Sona was also recruiting for her Peerage and while Hyoudou Issei had potential, he was like a diamond on the rough.
They would have to be patient with him and invest much time on him to bring him up to snuff. Sona was not as benevolent as she was and would likely not be willing to deal with his perversion. Her new Pawn, Genshirou Saji, was quite lecherous also, but contrary to Issei, he possessed more restrain. Rias could deal with a pervert, after all her boyfriend and girlfriend/Queen were both perverted themselves and she wasn't far behind. They would usually left those kinds of ideas for the bedroom though.
Harry hummed pensively, continuing to nip at her neck, enjoying her reactions and the fact that he was making his Rias all hot and bothered. He knew that she was still a bit too shy to do something about it where they could be stumbled upon. He then answered
"Hyoudou smells like a Dragon underneath his Human scent, a really strong one to boot since I could detect it easily. My bet would be that he is a Dragon type Sacred Gear wielder. Oh, I also detected the scent of a few Fallen Angels near the abandoned church while patrolling the town yesterday evening during one of your Requests. There were four of them in fact if my guess is right. What is your plan my Benihime? (Crimson Princess) Do we leave Hyoudou to be preyed upon by opportunists or do you want to recruit him early? It would be easy enough with his lust already so high. He better not try to sniff around you if he knows what's good from him though. I share you only with Akeno."
While Rias digested the information she obtained after rolling her eyes at his declaration and then thinking on her next course of action, Harry stopped nipping her neck since there were now a few visible hickeys on her no longer pristine skin, but stayed where he was. He loved her scent mixed with her soap and shampoo. It was very relaxing for him. After a hard day at school, he could spend hours with his nose in the hair or in the crook of the neck of one of his two girlfriends.
After thinking deeply about it, Rias decided on a wait and see approach. If the presence of the Fallen in town were only temporary, it would only sour the relationship of their respective factions more than it already was if she answered with hostility to their mere presences. With the Treaty between the Three Factions already paper-thin, one wrong move could kick-start a war and their leaders really wanted to avoid that. She would wait to have a good motive before giving them the boot. If she was in her right to act, then nobody could come crying foul later.
While she could tempt Issei with only a bit of skin, her time with Harry and Akeno had made her uncomfortable to expose herself intimately to strangers. Rias wasn't encumbered by the nudity taboo taught into the Humans, but it didn't mean that she was an exhibitionist. She then summoned and sent her familiar away with the mission to be on the lookout for anything suspicious and instructed it to give her new candidate for her peerage one of her summoning flyers when the occasion would arise and to report to her anything worthwhile.
And it was a good thing that she took her precautions. A female Fallen in human disguise asked Issei on a date and after said date, killed him with a light spear in the gut. His dying wish was enough to summon Rias to his side at his last breath. The Princess of Destruction had to give her male lover's deductions some credit. The boy was indeed the host of a really powerful Sacred Gear since it took all of her eight Pawns to reincarnate him! Once he was resurrected, she sighted with aggravation. She would have to sleep with him in the same bed while naked to heal him, since she would have to saturate his body with her magic to be able to heal such a wound.
Akeno had just appeared from her magic circle to see if she needed help, answering the summons. And help would be needed indeed. Harry loved and trusted them with his life, but boy did that man could be possessive of what was his! It had taken many violent spars between them for her male lover to accept that Kiba was no threat! They were great friends now, thank the Maous! All that male posturing was getting quite annoying!
Akeno asked her master and lover once near
"What help can I provide, Buchou?"
The redhead answered with a somewhat tired smile
"I need you to keep company to our Harry-kun tonight, Akeno. You know how he gets when a new boy come sniffing around us. Hyoudou-kun needs my help to heal him and well, I can't manage our Harry's possessiveness and our new little brother's healing at the same time."
Akeno smiled and giggled in her hand at what her King was implying. She knew that Harry loved them with all his heart, in fact it was one of the principal reasons they were a triad and not two distinct couples sharing one lover. The Hanyō loved far too hard for only one girl to manage. He was making every effort possible to beat that flaw of his into submission but it would likely become easier as he aged and matured. After all, they were all still very young in the eyes of their races. So when one girl needed a break, the other was there to take over. Harry was not exactly jealous; it was more complex than that.
They could talk to other males not related to them without a problem in general. But sometimes his animal instincts would flare up and tell him to protect his mates from unwanted advances. He knew full well that they would never cheat on him and they knew he wouldn't even consider the idea of cheating on them either. It was one of the many pitfalls of being born a Hanyō. Sometimes Human emotions and animal instincts clashed together in a big way.
So she answered
"No problem, Buchou. I'll make sure that our Harry-kun will be too preoccupied to be his possessive self and to make sure that he understood that no one is going to steal us away from him."
She finished with a seductive tone of voice and a hooded look. In another life, it would have been one of her known signs of teasing; but in this life she was a very liberated and happy young woman, who was sexually active. She was prompt to seduce both her lovers as much as she was seduced by them in return. So you could hazard a guess to what she will likely do to keep their man too preoccupied to be possessive towards their redheaded lover tonight. Rias had a small but visible luscious smile while thinking of their bedroom activities before bending to pick up her new servant from the ground, carrying him in a fireman carry and then calling upon her trusty Magical Circle to take them to her destination.
Akeno then decided that it was time to erase all traces of the supernatural around the park less the regular Humans wised up that something abnormal was going on or Underworld forbid, they get into another pissing contest over the jurisdiction of Kuoh Town with the Japanese Ministry of Magic. Once done, she decided to use the apparition her boyfriend showed her. While it was quicker than the Magic Circle, you couldn't bypass dimensions with it but it was great to escape the wards that the Three Factions tended to erect. Say what you will about their flaws, the Wizards had some great inventions. With a light twist of her heels towards the left, she was gone with a pop.
A few days later, Issei who was now in the know, was slowly getting used to be a Devil. His interactions with the (in)famous Harry Potter were very limited, since the Hanyō was often busy this week with private matters, only coming into the club room to kiss Buchou and Akeno-sempai on the lips, ruffle Koneko's hair to annoy her and high fiving Kiba before leaving to do whatever he was doing. He had learned that the older teen was not a Devil, but still something supernatural. What exactly he was though? Issei was told that he would learn of it when the time was right. Harry was not officially part of the peerage, but a member of the club.
Rias then explained to Issei after he asked why Potter-san was ignoring him like that
"Be glad that he is ignoring you, Issei-kun. Harry-koi can be quite possessive of Akeno and I when there are new boys coming sniffing around us. His actions show that you don't pose a threat to him, which means that you have a chance to become friends with him. He doesn't know you yet, so in his mind you are not still part of the "pack" so to speak. Give it some time, he will acknowledge you."
Issei answered with a frown
"Buchou, the way you speak about him, it's like he's an animal or something."
Akeno then answered with a hooded look in her violet eyes and a seductive voice
"Oh, he is! Ufufu! Harry-koi is a true beast in bed, Issei-kun! He takes care of both our needs almost every night and when he is done with Buchou and me, we are so delightfully sore! He can last for hoursand he love to make us scream his name in pleasure! "
Rias, suddenly embarrassed, took to hide her glowing red face into her palms while her new Pawn was having his revelation that his upperclassman was getting two hot babes at once. Koneko was palming her face and was muttering about big breasted perverted bimbos and horny dogs; Kiba was snickering, and finding his master's situation quite amusing all the while Akeno was still in la-la land thinking of her bedroom activities. You could guess that Rias was quite glad for a distraction when she got a phone call from the Archduke's Office, giving her two orders of suppression. Orders of suppression were only a nice roundabout way to talk about exterminating stray Devils.
They were Devils who have diverted away from their masters. Without their masters to keep their powers in check, they become a great threat if their powers were to go beyond their control. The Underworld took those cases very seriously, and any Devil who becomes a Stray will be killed on the spot. So the fact that there were two of them inside Rias' territory meant that they had to go deal with them.
Just as they were about to convene to use the Magic Circle inscribed into the ground to teleport all of them to the location of the first Stray Devil, Harry entered the club room, letting his school bag hit the ground with a dull "thud". Blinking his emerald green and gold eyes in surprise seeing them about to teleport, he said
"Hey, where are you lot going?"
It was Akeno who answered
"Buchou just received two orders of suppression a few minutes ago from the Archduke's Office, Harry-koi. We were on our way to deal with them."
The young man nodded at that. Such orders were taken with great seriousness and similar diligence. His grandfather would sometimes dispatch Hunters to hunt down and exterminate problematic Youkais making a mess around the mundane populace on his territory. Harry had been charged of a few of those contracts once in a while after he turned fourteen, since by then he was considered proficient enough with the Tessaiga and far enough in his studies to send him obtain some battle experience. Then with an ease betraying much practice, he went to join them, sending some of his own power into the circle to permit it to take him along with them.
The sigil changed somewhat and there was now a golden/emerald green light pulsing around the crimson red of the original circle. After he put both his arms around his girlfriends' waists and ignored Rias' look of indignation of having her show hijacked, the modified Magic Circle finally did his job and took them all to destination.
They reappeared into a rather big and luxurious house that had seen better days, with all the dust and the broken furniture around the place. While Rias started to educate her new Pawn about the realities of Stray Devils and how the Evil Piece System was based on the game of Chess, Harry started to sniff the air around to look for their quarry and to make sure there were no unpleasant surprises waiting for them to drop their guard. They did find the stray and man was she fugly down her torso!
Viser had the upper body of a voluptuous young woman with a nice chest, but past her waist, she was monstrous. Her front legs featured humanoid hands with red claws and her stomach had also a cavity with teeth to devour her opponents. Of course, Issei didn't see anything of that, since he was focused on her human breasts.
"Oppai! Naked oppai!"
Needless to say, Issei really had a one track mind. With a subtle slap behind the head from Harry, who promptly ignored the weak glare of the younger boy, Rias took the parole
"Listen to me, Issei. Each Piece has their specialities. In chess we have two Rooks, two Bishops, a Queen, a King of course and eight Pawns. Each piece has a certain value. I am the King, the more important piece of the game. Now watch closely how Devils fight my little kohai. Kiba, you're up!"
"Hai, Buchou!"
The bishounen looking blond gave his master and friend a honest smile and without waiting any longer, lunged toward the Stray Devil at a formidable speed, a pair of twin one handed swords forming with a flash of light in both hands. In a flash, one of Viser's arms was cut down, falling on the ground and twitching and Kiba had come back to his starting point.
Rias continued her explanation
"Kiba is my Knight, that piece is gifted with high speed and heightened reflexes. It is also worth tree Pawns. However, their main weakness is their low defense, making them vulnerable to powerful attacks if they are not careful. Koneko, you're next!"
The petite white-haired girl with golden eyes advanced toward their no longer roaring in pain opponent, who decided to crush the frail looking girl with one leg. Before Issei could shout a warming, Koneko grabbed the offending appendage and pushed it away like it weighted absolutely nothing!
Rias then continued her explanation
"Koneko is my Rook. They gain superhuman strength, leading to high offense and defense. However, they are not very quick, and can get beaten easily by a high-speed opponent. She may look fragile, but do not let her looks fool you. She is a redoubtable fighter and packs quite a punch. Rooks are also worth five Pawns."
The little girl got somehow scooped into the animal like maw of Viser, but was out of there quickly, without losing her expressionless face. With a powerful back handed punch, Viser was sent flying into the nearest wall, groaning. The fragile looking girl was unharmed, since you could see some patch of pristine skin in the holes of her uniform. Viser's teeth had only damaged the clothes.
"I have one Bishop, but he is unavailable right now and for the foreseeable future. Bishops gain enhanced magical abilities which they can use to conjure up a multitude of spells (offensive, healing, etc.). However, more powerful spells consume most of their magical power, which takes a certain time to regain, forcing them to use their power carefully or risk becoming vulnerable to physical attacks. They are worth tree Pawns. Akeno you're up!"
Koneko ceded her place to the vice president of the Occult Research Club. While Akeno was usually upbeat and gregarious, now there was something in her eyes that made Issei shiver with fright. Like there was something dangerous lurking behind her school façade. Rias continued to explain
"Akeno is my Queen and the vice president of the club. Queens possess all the characteristics of Rooks, Knights, and Bishops, making them the most balanced piece as well as the most powerful. Also, she is the ultimate sadist. Chibi-Miko Akeno! Let's light it up!"
She finished with a feral smirk on her beautiful face.
Akeno was very happy. Both of her lovers where near, she could feel the lustful gaze of her boyfriend on her ass and hips, making sure to put an extra sway in them as she moved because she knew he loved watching them and approached the still groaning in pain Viser. Her King wanted a show for the new kid? She would give her a show he wouldn't forget anytime soon and with pleasure! Using her old nickname that Harry-koi gave her made her just even more in the right kind of mood! Someone was going to get lucky tonight.
"Ara ara, now what should I do with you ufufufu? You look tired, maybe a bit of shock therapy would do you some good? Take this!"
She lifted her right arm into the air, summoning down forked lightning bolts, each hitting their target who was now screaming!
"GAAAH!"
BZZZZT!
"RAHHH!"
"Ara ara, take this, that, a bit of this and why not some of that for a change?!"
BZZZT!
BZZT!
CRACK-BOOM BZZZT!
CRACK BAM BADABAM BOOM BZZZZZZZZZT!
"GRAAAAHHH! You fucking WHO..!"
Viser couldn't even manage to land proper insults since she was now bombarded by a veritable rain of lightning bolts! Issei remarked something a bit disturbing though. Akeno-sempai was blushing heavily, she was panting hard but didn't look tired, her violet eyes were full of lust and she was also now rubbing her thighs together. She was turned on?! He was conflicted between freaking out or been aroused at the sight himself. After a few more minutes, Rias recalled Akeno, much to her displeasure. The Priestess of Thunder was pouting, but an order was an order.
Rias advanced toward the smoking Stray and with her hands on her shapely hips, then she asked
"Any last words from the condemned?"
The charred mass of flesh could only answer weakly
"Kill me…"
Rias then answered with an ironic tone of voice followed by a Devilish smile showing her pearly white teeth
"Your wish, is my Command!"
From her body, an intense blood red aura with an edge of black suddenly emerged. Both her pupils were now a slit and her bat wings popped out. Aiming her now outstretched right palm toward the condemned, a glowing orb of energy was condensed to the size of a basketball before it was launched. As the attack flew, they heard Harry's quiet voice declare in the background
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
It was very fitting, since after the Orb of Destruction extinguished itself, there was nothing remaining from Viser except some ashes. Retracting her wings, she was about to order everyone to gather for the next jump, but Issei asked her
"Excuse me Buchou, but what piece am I?"
Rias was a bit caught off guard, but answered all the same
"You are a Pawn Issei. And before you get depressed and think you are only good as a cannon fodder, it couldn't be any false. The trait of the Pawns is the ability to promote into a Queen, Rook, Knight, or Bishop in enemy territory or with the permission of their King. So in resume, train hard to get stronger and climb the ranks. If you don't increase you base power, you will never be able to become a Harem King."
Once everyone was together for the next jump and Harry once again put some of his power into the circle to be included in the next jump also, they reappeared in a deserted forest clearing. Rias was about to order Koneko and Kiba to smoke out the Stray, but Harry put a hand on her shoulder and said
"Allow me to take care of this one Rias. I need to blow off some steam and to keep myself in shape before my next beating/sparring match against my grandfather."
He finished with a somewhat resigned tone of voice.
Kiba snickered at that. Finally someone else who was biting the dust at regular intervals while being taught by a master swordsman with centuries of experience and who outclassed you in every possible ways that it wasn't even funny anymore! Both of them had bonded over their swordsmanship styles and complemented each other's rather well. (Once Kiba managed to make understand to the possessive elder male that he wasn't romantically interested in Rias and Akeno, that is.) Kiba was a speed type and while Harry was far from slow, he was more power oriented, what with his big ass youkai sword.
Once he obtained the permission from his redheaded lover after a quick but passionate kiss that was repeated with Akeno and once he was done with both of his girls, he said to Issei with a confident smirk
"You just saw how Devils fight. So now observe and see how a Youkai fight."
With that he took out from his uniform shirt a pendant with an emerald sculpted into the shape of a lightning bolt, fixed on a light chain around his neck. There was some scripts carved into the gem, but for the life of him, Issei couldn't make head or tail of them. He saw the Potter scion close his right hand on the stone and with a pulse of energy emerging from the hand and going into the carved gem, a reaction was kick started. A supernatural wind started from nowhere and engulfed the older young man! The wind was a snow white color and left the rest of the peerage with absolutely no visibility of the individual inside.
Issei was a bit worried, but seeing that the rest of his comrades weren't reacting, he forced himself to stay calm and waited. A few seconds later, the supernatural wind died and Harry was looking much different. Gone was his school uniform, he was now wearing a old style red two pieces kimono possessing wide sleeves and with a cream colored undershirt. There was a red belt around the waist of the hakama pants. He also had a sheathed katana on the left side of his belt and now his dress shoes had been replaced by old style Zori sandals.
The most noteworthy of changes though, was that his nails were now long and sharp, pretty similar to claws and that his human ears were gone! To replace them were now two black furred canine ears on top of his head! Then when he smiled, Issei could see that his human sized canines had now become fully fledged fangs!
Issei looked around towards his new comrades to see if any of them were as surprised as he was, but they all seems to be used to that trick, so he accurately guessed that they knew he was under a disguise. He didn't know exactly why even if he had a few guesses though. Now it was time to watch, not ask questions.
Now in his true form, Harry looked around the clearing, looking for traces of the Stray Devil. This one seemed to be cleverer than the last, since it didn't rush to attack. Well, if the Stray didn't want to come to him, he would go to the Stray. Crouching, he jumped easily a few metres from the ground to the highest solid branch of the nearest tree. While most Youkais and Hanyōs couldn't fly, they were more nimble on their feet than the tree Biblical Factions. All three were on a superhuman level but most adult Youkais were on another level together and counting their special gifts, it was why they were prized to be reincarnated into Peerages.
Jumping from trees to trees, Harry frowned. He could smell the Stray, but where was he? The scent was all over the place. Then something tried to blindside him from behind. The key word was "tried" since the aggressor didn't manage it. Potter turned on a dime with lightning fast reflexes and gave a powerful swipe of his claws to repel his attacker.
The blow connected, since the Stray Devil howled in pain and black as ink blood was now dropping from the four gashes that marred its face. Both combatants fell to the ground, the Hanyō landed with a controlled grace on his feet, the Stray fell harshly in a mess of limbs. Now visible from the light of the moon, everyone could see the target of the suppression order. It looked like an orangutan on steroids, since it was thrice as big and large as a regular one, with the tall, gangly and surprisingly powerful limbs. The fur was wrong though, not an orange color but a sickly purple with a rotten yellow skin. The eyes were a mad red and the dentition inside that mouth was all wrong.
It was not a fruits eater dentition. That thing's teeth were made to eat meat. They would have thought that it was a familiar who had gone rogue, but nobody had ever seen a familiar cast magical spells with two Magic Circles at the same time. Harry was hard pressed to dodge a bladed water whip spell coming from the left and a poison spray of some kind from the right.
He let out a sigh. He had wanted to avoid drawing Tessaiga for such a small fry, but he couldn't close the gap between them to administer a fatal claw strike. Dodging another shot of the bladed water whip, he decided that it was time to use his human heritage. From his left index finger a bright red light, a Stunner, shot out towards the Stray Devil. Showing some intelligence, the mutated Orangutan look alike dodged it but what it did what the caster wanted, a distraction. Fast as the wind, he was now behind his adversary and with a savage smirk of glee on his face, Harry said out loud
"I got ya!"
Having coated his claws with some Youki to add to the power of the blow, was it so surprising to see his left clawed hand coming out of the Stray Devil's torso, having pierced its heart? The Stray howled with agony, since the blow was fatal. Its only reprieve was the same arm having delivered the final blow, so when Harry retired his arm from the wound with a "squelch" like sound, the blood escaped faster than before. With a sharp movement, the Hanyō got rid of the foul blood streaming on his arm, spraying the nearest trees.
With a simple spell to clean the blood on his arm and around him and then another one to freshen the air around them, if you discounted the dying stray devil at his feet, you couldn't tell that anything happened. Pointing two fingers absently toward his foe, a wave of Youki was felt before the now cadaver was set on fire. The fire was clearly supernatural in nature, since in one minute there was nothing left from the Stray Devil and the blaze had extinguished itself. Walking toward the group, he said to Issei
"That's how a Youkai fight, new blood! Well, I'm a Hanyō, half human half Youkai, but it's about the same thing."
Clapping him on the shoulder, he only had time to brace himself when a very aroused Akeno literally jumped him right there, gracing him with a spectacular French kiss! It would have likely turned to fully fledged sex right there had not Rias intervened while saying with an amused and exasperated at the same time tone of voice.
"Cut it out you too! Keep it to the bedroom will you? I don't want Issei-kun to die by blood loss if he catches a peek of Akeno's breasts and the others don't need to be traumatized either."
Issei protested with an
"Hey!"
But he was ignored while Koneko and Kiba were with her on this one. When the two lovebirds calmed themselves, Rias called her Magic Circle again for a jump. Well except Akeno and Harry, who had both decided to head straight home by Apparating away, likely to go have some hot, heavy and very kinky sex. Rias managed joined them in time for Round two once she had finished her business at the Club room. It was a great night.