Please guys. I worked really hard on this chapter and the only thing I want is one review for it. I don't know why this story suddenly gets no attention but I do know is some of you like this story, right? Well anyways please read and review.

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Kou Residence

Back at the Kou household the festivities were continuing after Erina and Taichi brought back a woman with ginger-colored hair, named Mayama Amamiya. After she regained consciences from her drunken stupor she was wary about what the rich kid and purple haired chick did but soon relaxed around them. She got along well with Sankarea and the two were seen drinking a nice gin tonic as the others were talking.

After some talking and having fun everyone gathered around dinner table where Akagi set the last of the plates. The smells coming from the food made everyone's bellies rumble like an earthquake, once that happened Akagi glared hard at Gero who defending himself.

"Whoa, why am I getting the hate? Everyone else's stomach's growled like a bear!" Gero cried.

The brown-eyed maid appeared indifferent to his cry. "Oh please, everyone else gave a respectable growl. Yours on the other hand was uncouth, you degenerate!"

Gero only gave a sigh that he wouldn't win this battle as he soon complimented on everything he saw. "This is the biggest Christmas dinner I have ever seen though!"

Erina agreed as she marveled at the food. " Yeah; we must have been to three stores and bought everything there."

Taichi gave an uneasy laugh. "Yeah, after dropping Mayama off, we had to get some extra stuff for Akagi's culinary skills to be put to work."

"She was awesome!" Aoshi gave an excited cry. "Akagi was like some bi…i.-!" She stopped at trying to say the word.

Sankarea said it for her. "Bionic?"

"Yeah, that's it!" The green-haired girl cried!

Akagi patted the girl on the head gently and gave her a kind smile. Seeing that Gero couldn't help but wonder how pretty the maid was (when she didn't bust his ass of course).

Mayama also looked at the food and gave appraisal. "Looks better than the slop I've seen,"

Sankarea and even Erina knew where she was coming from as they gave a nod.

Soon the group got settled at the table; Gero sat next to Aoshi to his left and Akagi to the right. She was next to Taichi who sat happily next to Erina. The blue-eyed buxom teen was next to her brother while he was next to Mayama who sat beside Sankarea and the gangster daughter was by her baby sister.

As the maid finished passing around the decadent plates and everyone finished getting helpings of turkey, ham, mash potatoes, some veggies, bread or whatever they liked, she soon turned to her master/foster brother as she asserted what she needed to do.

"As usual Master Taichi I need to taste test the food." Akagi said which made the young lord blush.

"What makes you think the food is poisonous, Akagi, didn't you make this?" Taichi replied with unease.

The pink-haired pigtailed teen gave a nod. "Yes but you got the ingredients from the store. Anyone could have easily slid something to the stuff you were about to buy."
As the maid was about to bite into a piece of meat (not that meat!), Erina took a bite from the fork and gave moans on how delicious it was.

A crossed Akagi gave a look to her master's girlfriend. "I was supposed to taste that for poison."

Covering up her mouth with a hand Erina only gave an apologetic smile. "I couldn't help it; I wanted to see if the food was delicious…I mean poisoned."

A scoff escaped the diligent maid's mouth. "But it's my job to make sure my master is safe."

Before this would turn into a battle Gero had an idea. "You can check my food to see if it's been poisoned?"

Both turned to the skater teen, one in amusement from Erina while skepticism ran across Akagi's.

Taking almost 30 seconds she agreed with a nod. "All right, Gero, I will!"

'Score!' Gero cried in his head as a guitar riff from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure went off to explain his own excitement.

Taking a fork with some food and blowing it off delicately she popped it in her mouth and took her time chewing. Everyone at the table were eating but paying attention to the drama going down.

"It's clean." Akagi announced in a brisk tone and would have returned to bothering Taichi until Gero babbled out another response.

"Hold on, uh I think there may be some poisonous food in my mouth!" He blabbed out.

Erina, Sankarea and even Mayama smirked at this as they caught on to his plan. Tamura and Taichi were clueless, the former being more involved with eating a hearty meal while the latter was just naive by the fact his teacher wanting to get a kiss out of the matter.

Seeing what his end game was, Akagi soon had a sly smile which made Gero sweat. "All right, in your mouth, correct?" She got close as the skater boy blushed as her face got near his, her decent chest somewhat pressed against his.

'Awww shit, she's being so nice to me now!' Gero rambled in his head about what she could do to him by being up in the feels!

"Uhh, Akagii...what are you-"He didn't finish as she caressed his cheek with a delicate hand.

Brown eyes stared at hazel as she spoke quietly. "Let me taste, is that all right?"

Seeing her be this nice was something strange but not bad for Gero as he only gave a dumb nod. As she brought his face closer Gero fumbled with more words until she almost brushed her lips against his and than-

BASH!

The devious maid gave him a well-timed blow to his noggin as he was on the ground with a not forming.

Clapping her hands as if she finished dusting, Akagi gave him a smile. "I hope that was too your liking, ruffian." She stated as that got a laugh from the females while Aoshi appeared confused.

"Ummm, is that what they mean by 'Love is a battlefield?'" she asked her sister who gave her nod.

Akagi returned to her seat and gave the rest a sharp look. "Back to eating everyone, don't want this food going to waste now! They heeded the maid's declaration.
As Gero grumbled at getting hosed Akagi couldn't help but giggle internally on how cute he appeared. In all honesty she was also flustered that she had considered kissing him but got gun shy and decided to brush off the situation by doing that to him.

'I don't even know what I'm doing anymore? I am a devoted maid to the Kou household but when Gero appeared, it turned my world completely upside down...' As she glanced at him getting his food and talking to the others, a warm feeling appeared in her chest that she cherished. 'Gero...'

Taichi noted the look she had and smiled, he was happy that Akagi was being social with his sensei and the others compared to when it was just them.

The scene shifts to Aoshi who smiled pleasantly at her sister helping her get her food.

"Thank you for helping me pick my food, big sister." She replied happily which made the big-breasted teen smile.

"Thank you for sitting on my lap. It's always nice to have something to keep me warm." Sankarea answered as Aoshi was indeed sitting on her sister's lap.

Mayama got her food as well and enjoying the tasty wine that Akagi broke out for such an occasion.

Tamura got up from his sit, surprising everyone there. He and Erina had come back to the sibling relationship they had before and his interactions with the rest were stable. He wanted to say this right now to come full circle.

"I just want everyone to know I'm happy to still be alive this holiday and to be enjoying it with good friends and family!" He brought up a wine glass. The others brought up their own glasses.

"Let's dig in!" Gero said as everyone got to eating until they heard the door bell ring.

Akagi appeared confused, no one was supposed to visit this place now given all the deliveries were completed and could have sworn she locked the gate?

" Who is at the door on Christmas Eve?" Gero replied as he decided to see who was at the door.

"I should answer it," Akagi said about to get up but Gero gave her a smile stopping her.

"Nah, let this be your night off, Akagi!" He soon went to see who would be dropping by.

Opening the door he saw someone that made him choke back a reply at first. "Ian?" .

It was indeed the son of Keitaro and Naru Urashima, the teen that went missing after that situation with Lucifer! The blonde teen appeared the same but Gero felt something was off with his best friend!

"Man, where have you been?" He asked but Ian didn't say anything. "Yo, dude-!"

A moment later Gero was sent sliding on the ground which put everyone on alert!

This alarmed everyone present as Aoshi stated the obvious, as Sankarea got in front of her.

"That man pushed Gero-niichan across the floor!"

Akagi gave a harsh as she grabbed two well hidden sharpened knives from her dress. "I will deal with all trespassers in this household!" She stated about to strike down this teen with prejudice.

Holding out a hand Gero stopped the maid with a cry. "No, don't hurt him; he's the friend I'm always telling you about…Ian!"

Akagi momentarily looked surprised by the news along with Sankarea, who had previously been on the search of the boy that set her loins on fire, before Gero took that spot. Erina took Aoshi from Sankarea and got her out of the room along with Mayama.

"We're going to have to fight him, right?" Tamura asked on one particular.

Erina grimaced. "Got no choice, even if he's Gero's friend we very well can't let him do anymore damage!"

Akagi agreed with a nod. "I guess even you have your moments of reflection?" She keenly glanced at Gero and secretly didn't want him to see what was about to happen to his friend.

Taking note on how defensive the others looked Gero tried persuading them as he got to Akagi. "Please don't fight him!"

This made Akagi hesitate at seeing his face in such pain. 'I've never seen him like this before? He really cares for this friend of his?'

Ian waited long enough and gave them all a dead glare. Clearly he was possessed by some weird force as he would never do this. He soon sprints towards the group which Erina and Tamura were his first targets.

Tamura got in fronts of his sister as he blocked a punch from the blonde teen but met with a kick to the gut by Ian and a punch to the cheek! Grimacing the purple-haired teen went for a right-hook punch but the blonde avoided the strike and got in a good swift punch to his stomach causing him to gag. Ian soon lifted him up by the neck and tossed him on a pile of pillows on the couch.

Erina screamed for her brother as she tried her knack at him as she grabbed a well-placed rapier, that was knocked down by Ian upon him attacking Gero as she gave a couple of practice jabs and soon struck. She wasn't the best with swordplay but she was adapting to say the least as she was able to get a nick on Ian's cheek. Looking at the cut Ian licked the blood like a sadist and aimed a punch at her.

Staying somewhat calm Erina avoided the blow but Ian got in another punch which aimed at the blue-eyed teen's side which caused her to gasp in shock. Trying to jab the slim blade at an artery it didn't end up linking due to Ian once again showing improved speed as he chopped her hand to drop the blade and pinched her on the shoulders causing her to collapse unconscious.

This surprised Taichi as he was about to go to his girlfriend but Akagi's sharp tone stopped him. Giving a sadden look to Gero she said the one thing she could think of.

"I'm sorry, Gero" She said as she sprinted at Ian with her two sharpened daggers as Gero cried her name.

Ian was about to go to Taichi but Akagi stopped him with a well-timed block to his head with her high-heeled boots causing him to slide on the marble floor which led them to the main door hallway. Getting up as if nothing happened Ian was met with another kick but this time to the stomach! Akagi stopped briefly thinking that might have worked but Ian grabbed her leg which was still connected to his abdomen and tossed her! Righting her body to land on her feet she took a moment to gather her breath. Seeing how she would need to use more force she tightened her grip on the knives and threw one at Ian.

"STOP AKAGI!" Gero's voice broke through just as the knife left her hand.

Ian didn't bat an eye as he hit the blade away from him; his hand bled. That was all that Akagi needed as she struck and landing a palm strike to his forehead and following up with a jab of her knife against his other arm. Akagi didn't press the advantage as she was positive that he couldn't do anything more.

She would be wrong.

The blonde teen gave her a maniac cackle briefly which made her shiver internally and ended this drawn out battle with a fierce blow to her stomach causing her to loose air!
"ACK!" Akagi fell to the ground as Gero rushed towards her fallen figure and held her close. "Hey, Akagi!" He gave her a shake but remembered he shouldn't do that to someone who was injured. He turned to his friend.

"Ian what's wrong with you?!"

Said teen didn't offer an answer as he went to Taichi, who was trying to care for Erina.

The scrawny teen didn't have a chance as Ian pinched the side of his shoulder causing him to fall unconscious. Soon Ian ran away quickly as if he had an extra boost of speed.

"Ian where are you going, Ian?" Gero cried but was already gone.

It took some minutes for Akagi to wake up and she scowled like no tomorrow that Taichi ended up captured by Gero's friend. Even though she was crossed at what happened she needed information along with getting the others better.

As she gathered herself she turned her brown eyes to Gero's hazel. "All right, ruffian, do you mind explaining what is going on? Your friend just attacked us and took master Taichi! What is going on?"

He shook his head. "I don't know more than you Akagi. That person who attacked us wasn't my friend Ian."

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After a period Ian has returned but not as he should be; what happened to change our once protagonist to this state? Find out as the story continues! And they'll be plenty of fan service next time too!