Finally back to some older stories now and even older after this one.

Today is the day that Ravel was meant to be coming to the human world but I wouldn't be there to greet her, reason being I was the only one who could do this particular job so she was stuck with being greeted by Asahi. Not something anyone could be jealous of.

To start with, I wasn't even at school today as i've got the day off to complete this job. I'm currently in the neighbouring city's airport waiting for two exorcists to arrive. According to Azazel, they are here to retrieve the Excaliburs that were stolen somehow and I am the liaison between the Fallen Angels and Devils in the area because i'm the only being in the area who is not a Devil or a Fallen Angel. Add onto that the fact that I have the Lunar Gear, the Left Hand of God and I'm the only viable option for this job.

They were to arrive around midday so I got there early at around 11 so I could just hang around and go over their information folders while I waited as it pertained to the job and the lives of those here. Since Rias is now officially engaged to Raiser, he has a hold over Kuoh town which he has relinquished to me. That's simply so he doesn't have to bother and something i'm actually kinda grateful for. It's also given to me over Ravel because I beat his whole peerage and because of this kind of thing, I would guess as Raiser isn't really the easiest person to figure out outside of women.

The supposed culprit who has stolen the Excaliburs is Kokabiel, a cadre who was never really pleasant. He also really disliked Asahi. The Excaliburs that were stolen are Excalibur Rapidly, Excalbiur Transparency and Excalibur Nightmare. Only Valper Galilei is a known associate here with Kokabiel with a rumoured rogue exorcist, there is also a possibility for numerous Fallen Angels who are a part of Kokabiel's guard. It's a somewhat risky thing to deal with. 3 devil groups and the two exorcists coming to deal with this, and obviously we won't be working together unless things go south badly.

Then there was the two exorcists, One Japanese and the other was Italian but both of them were girls. I've looked through papers on the church before but it kinda corresponds with the angels, from the brief overview i've seen. There are few women in both the church and in the top levels of heaven but they are all either high-ranking or important in some way. For the church, they were either some of the top exorcists, holy sword wielders or sacred gear possessors. I'm not really sure whether that's a good or bad reason. These two girls in question are both Holy Sword wielders, the problem being for me is that it doesn't say whether they are born that way or not. I mean this by whether they were born able to, experimented on to be able to or lastly wield a Sacred Gear like me that allows them to. The two girls wielded Excalibur Destruction and Excalibur Mimic. Destruction to the Blue haired Italian and Mimic to the Brown haired Japanese.

Xenovia and Shidou Irina were the names of the two girls. Shidou Irina was a name I knew, however I do not know it that well. It was during my early days with the Hyoudou household, the days when I was just a kitten and couldn't be bothered taking on my human form. Azazel said my looks were too deadly and I might get kidnapped, I didn't know whether he was being completely serous but I didn't want to chance it at all.

A few minutes after 12 and the passengers from the flight they were on started to funnel through, the fact that it wasn't private at all created two problems. Firstly was the fact that they were exorcists and wore the appropriate garb which was their battle gear covered by a large white robe which couldn't help but attract attention, then add to that the fact that Xenovia was carrying her sword on her back wrapped up like a mummy with a golden shield buckle to keep the layers on top. Second being me and thanks to Azazel, I can't go anywhere in Japan without being recognized. My face is a very well known one, more so in the bigger cities so a congested airport is a definite for being noticed. Then you can contrast their clothes with mine. Black boots, silver jeans and a black high collared jacket which betrayed my hate of modelling because of it being labelled a 'Fashion Jacket'. I don't really understand that.

The two girls wordlessly came over to me once they spotted me, Xenovia held a stoic and serious expression while Irina was holding a cheerful front. It was easy to tell that beneath it she was ready if anything happened. Looking at them both I could see that I wasn't fully trusted, the silence that they met me with showed that. Turning on my heel, I started to walk out of the airport bringing my hand up to signal them to follow.

The moment we got out of the airport into the carpark, I took my phone straight out from my pocket and called Asahi and like usual it didn't even ring once before he picked up.

"Gin-nya! You called me!"

I winced slightly at the volume of his voice in my ear, it hurt in more ways than one.

"Yeah I did. How long left have you got for lunch break?"

"Hmm hmm~~ Give or take 15 minutes."

"Good, can you inform Rias and Sona-kaichou that i'll be bringing the two exorcists by to get the meeting over and done with quickly?"

"Sure thing. What shall we do about Kiba-tan?"

Kiba huh? Ahh, another product of the church's failure.

"Well it's not like we can keep him from noticing. These two Exorcists would kick his ass anyway, so make sure Rias knows that. If she can't keep Kiba from going nuts then he falls under our jurisdiction as he could anger the beehive and in turn endanger Rias or Ravel, I won't be as generous as Rias would be. If he angers it even a little, i'll end him then and there regardless of the feelings the other people have."

"Okie dokie Gin-nya~ I'll make sure they all know. When you return, get ready to be jumped by Ra-tan. Azazel refrained from telling her that you'd be gone."

Ahh shit, the possible rumours that sprout from that won't be good ones for me.

"Alright, i'll see you in the clubroom after school. We should already be there when the bell rings."

"Catch ya later Kitty-kat~"

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Ring Ring

As the bell sounds, I sit back down on my sofa in the corner of the Occult Research clubroom still in the clothes I wore from before. Despite being in school I refrained from going back to the uniform even if I can change in a split second with magic.

Nearly a minute passed before Rias reached the clubroom with her peerage in tow, presumably to inform the new recruits of how serious this meeting would be. Rias sat straight down on the sofa opposite the two female exorcists while Akeno went to prepare drinks while the rest of the peerage took their place behind the sofa that Rias sat on. All of them bar Koneko were looking nervous, Koneko was just bored looking perhaps because she doesn't get to eat any sweets. I guess i'll have to help her out.

Letting out a high pitched whistle that only Koneko would here, I opened the fridge to my side and took out a lolly for her. Upon closing the fridge door, I saw Koneko there in front of my face. Offering her the lolly, she took it straight away with a smile only in her eyes before going back to join her peerage and starting to eat the lolly.

"Can we start now?"

Xenovia said that out loud but directed it towards me.

"You can but unless you want to be interrupted by an Ojou-sama you'll want to wait a little bit longer."

She only narrowed her eyebrows in annoyance, I probably would have done in the same in her place. Though I think hers is more to the point of potentially being interrupted rather than waiting like I would.

Give or take a minute later and the Ojou-sama arrived with gusto.

"Gin-sama~~~~"

Hmm … It's like a true female version of Asahi. I wonder how boned I really am.

Just like a bird, her head twitched from side to side as she looked around the room for me and onced her eyes locked sight onto me she quite literally threw herself at me. I was too dumbfounded like everyone else in the room and didn't move, which resulted in Ravel barreling straight into my side and effectively pushing me down while wrapping her arms around me in a hug.

"...Now we can start."

Yes, yes you can. Thanks for not needing me to reply, saves me the hassle.

"Recently, the Excalibur fragments that were being safeguarded have been stolen."

With Ravel finally loosening up her grip on me, albeit she still clung onto me, I was able to sit back up properly on my sofa and I could see the surprised expressions on the Gremory peerage's faces.

"Seen as there are some new servants and an idiot here, i'll quickly go over Excalibur. Strong sword wielded by a King and during a war it broke into 7 pieces. The strongest is currently somewhere in the world, the other 6 were with the church. 3 of these 6 were stolen. Their abilities can be saved for after, that's not really that important. None of the pieces are as strong as the original Excalibur but they are still more than enough to kill you easily, Devils that is."

With everyone's attention on me, I pouted slightly and shrugged my shoulders.

"Really they are just overrated pieces of crap. Nothing good comes from an instance that involves the Excalibur. If you want to talk about an awesome Holy Sword then talk about 'Second Star' as after all, it's the only Holy Sword that's made from bits of the moon."

Even if my opinion is completely biased along with the fact that the sword reminds me of something from a game, you can't disagree with the fact that a weapon made from the surface of the moon is pretty cool.

"And the ones who stole the Excalibur fragments was Grigori."

Hearing that I immediately turned my head to the side to feign ignorance as their attention turns to me, the lone member of Grigori here in the room.

"The Church has received word from the Fallen Angel Governor and what he says fits with our own reports. Kokabiel is the man behind it all and because of this Azazel is lending us Tsukiyomi Gin to help retrieve the Excaliburs."

"If that is the case, then why do you have to inform me of your presence here? Gin-kun has about as much hold over this territory as me."

"Because in the eyes of the Church, this is Gremory territory. Meeting you is more than just announcing our presence, Devil."

"And that is?"

Oooh Rias is getting annoyed. Is this a standard thing with Xenovia or is it like an instinctual conflict between them? Perhaps I should try and sway Xenovia to stay around afterwards to piss Rias off. Hmm … That's not even a plausible plan, I could only kidnap her to where she'd either kill me or herself. Tch.

"For you Devils to stay out of our way. We aren't here for you so we'll leave you alone but if you do intrude we will kill you, the Fallen Angel Governor has said he has no qualms with it but allow Ravel Phoenix to do as she likes. Tsukiyomi-kun, we'd like you to elaborate on that."

"She's clingy. We are chasing after Kokabiel, there is little chance that all three of us with survive. She won't want her precious Gin-sama to do something so dangerous."

Because my voice was so void of any emotion, my words only irritated Xenovia because to her it was me not taking things seriously. Probably also because she'd have to possibly deal with a devil when around me.

"Actually though, I'll question this operation. Why wasn't the Strongest sent too? I mean the opponent is Kokabiel. With the two Excaliburs you have, you can't sneak in and retrieve the Excaliburs and neither as Humans can you really take them by force. This isn't really a suicide mission because a suicide mission implies that it can still be resolved even with your death, this is just plain suicide. Even if you have a secret weapon, you aren't old enough to have sufficient experience with it to be able to take on Kokabiel well."

"That is of no concern for you Tsukiyomi Gin. You have your own orders in this, we have been informed that you can back out any time you want if your life feels threatened. We will follow through with our orders regardless."

Commendable but stupid. Even if I have the ability to freely pull out whenever, I don't believe I can. This is Kokabiel we are talking about, he is bound to have some insane and highly reckless excuse for stealing the Excaliburs. The fact that he has brought them here, where two sisters of the Maous are known to reside is enough to come to a conclusion on why here in particular.

"And I personally agree with you. Despite the fact that I don't like all the hubbub about the Excalibur, I still personally believe in God myself. I won't back out if my life is in danger, I am His Left Hand after all so it is also my job to retrieve something that was made by Him before it can be used poorly and wrongly."

"Ano Gin-kun, aren't you a devil?"

I couldn't help but change to an annoyed expression as Aika spoke up from within the peerage.

"I know you have only been a devil for around a week but seriously, you should be able to see that my aura is different to yours."

"But you don't have one."

"That's the point. My aura is not one you can see, my aura is only something that fellow Youkai can see."

"You are a Youkai?"

"I am a Nekoshou or in layman terms a cat. But that isn't something you need to know about in detail. Xenovia, Irina, is there anything left to say to the devils here or should we start?"

Xenovia seemed to wear a thankful expression as I turned the conversation back round.

"No, I have nothing else to say to these devils. I think we should begin now."

As Xenovia and Irina stood up from their seats, I turned my head slightly and looked straight at Kiba. His hostility was painfully apparent but no one was seeming to pay it any mind, or at least they just weren't showing it and that was more than likely the only thing in this situation.

"Then let's leave."

Bringing my vision back round, I look straight at Ravel who was still clinging onto my arm. I only had to send her a simple look before she released my arm back to me. Standing up and giving my body a full stretch, Second Star blinked into existence by my left side, it's white ribbon wrapping itself around my waist clinking the two red beads together before relaxing into place and exuding its divine holy aura through the room cooling it down immensily.

As the two exorcists went towards the door I hesitated before taking a step to follow them, I felt like I had to make a precaution. Turning my head ever so slightly I looked out the corner of my eye and saw Kiba starting to move himself, his body at the edge of Rias' peerage. Dropping my left hand down, I took a hold of the scabbard as I placed my right hand onto Second Star's grip. Wiggling my fingers slightly as I held onto it, I waited a second before starting to spin my body round and unsheathing my blade and in one full swoop stopping the sword as the cold edge of the Holy Divine blade rested on the skin of Kiba's neck the power it was exuding causing his skin to burn up and steam arise from it.

"Kiba, if you try to get in our way I will put you down. I couldn't care less for your revenge against the Excalibur, hell I don't even care why because it's so god damn obvious when you want to exact revenge on an object that doesn't have a mind of it's own. If you seriously believe getting revenge on an inanimate object, no matter the history behind it, then you deserve to be put out of your misery because you have quite frankly gone nuts."

Like before I had kept my voice emotionless, I didn't need to have emotion in my voice for something petty like this. His aura, his lust, his killing intent, it was there and in bundles. It should be obvious that hating an object enough to want revenge is a beyond stupid plight.

I looked straight into Kiba's eyes, unfazed as I spoke to him and denied his revenge.

"And what would you know?"

Are you kidding me?!

"Are you seriously asking that? Has your hatred made you lose the ability to lose the supposed brain you have? My hate is much deeper than yours, my hate is something thats warranted. You hate a weapon that has wronged you and at most a number of other people. I hate a whole fucking race because they nearly eradicated my own. I am the last male of my kind and there are only a few female left then what happens when the bastards that near eradicated my race come to the town that I had been living in peacefully?! Turns it to shit. My freedom becomes restricted and I have to be careful not to garner their attention, i'm then forced to go into the school with that shitty race because the son of the family that I was adopted into is a massive fucking pervert and i'm forced to go near them. From day one of entering that school, I've had eyes following me and watching my movements. Then i'm approached to which I vehemently decline and with good reason to, they don't back down. Then what happens when my back is turned?! Some pretentious, spoiled red-headed brat kills me so she can reincarnates me as her goddamned servant. Turns me into something I despise, a monster. She made me something that killed the majority of my own race. All the while, she has a collar made by a fucking Maou to put on me so I can't act out without being punished. And at the end of it all, she has the gall … the gall to try and place misguided hope in me that I'd help her out from the bottom of my heart. Why in the Lord's name would I do that?!"

I blew up in Kiba's face, my aura becoming angry but still I kept the emotion from my voice. I was not going to break from something like this.

"So what of your petty hate to a sword of all things?! You blow at the sight of it?! Trying being in my boots for one day, having to live and co-exist with the race that nearly eradicated your own. Do you think I enjoy any of this Kiba?! Do humans or devils have to watch themselves against impure thoughts like hatred and anger? Unlike you I am a Youkai and I have to be careful with my hatred unless I want to go nuts and completely lose sight of who I am until i've killed enough people to bathe in their own blood."

Putting a bit of weight into my blade, I sliced a very thin cut into Kiba's neck as I withdrew my sword and placed it back into my sheathe. I had lost all care for doing anything now.

"Grow the hell up Kiba and don't be so selfish. To think that I thought I could look past the fact that you are a reincarnated devil, seems like another slight on my life."

Turning straight from Kiba I looked straight at Xenovia and Irina.

"I'm sorry you two. I'll catch up with you both tomorrow, I don't have the desire to do anything right now."

"That's understandable Tsukiyomi-kun. We'll see you tomorrow."

I couldn't help the small smile that tugged at my lips. I just nodded to them once not bothering to lift my head up to look at whatever pitiful look they had on their faces. From there I left the room without so much as a word. Sometimes being in touch with nature and emotions as a Youkai was such a pain in the ass.

Emotions for Gin :o
Dealing with emotions is a much bigger thing with a Youkai compared to any other character.
Not to say that their emotions mean more in a value sense but because more repercussions come from them.
Their sensitivity being the main problem and the fact they can latch onto to other people's emotions and be affected that way.
Senjutsuu is a bitch in that regards.

While i of course had to change it up for this story, this was the alternative choice i had for during the original story.
I was tempted to make Asahi and Gin a part of it in the old story but with how i set out this story, it felt better and more fluid to put it in this one.

Long story short, i don't wanna write a big A/N even though there is a lot could be said.
Not much of that really needed soo ...

Ciao!