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If only I did.

Part 4

It was mid-morning when Azazel, dressed in an over-coat, found himself in front of the Hyuudou house, knocking on the door. He smiled as he heard a pitter-patter of feet before the door opened up to reveal a young girl with blonde hair and red eyes who was wearing a cute dress. "Hello, is Issei here?" She nodded and he chuckled. "I don't think I got your name, are you someone's cousin?"

"...I don't know if mom ever had any siblings." The girl said as she giggled softly. "My name is Alicia Testarossa."

"Ah," Azazel nodded. "I heard that Issei had two guests living with him, I didn't realize one of them was cute as a million puppies." The Fallen Angel bit back a laugh as the girl blushed shyly while turning away.

"Alicia, who is..." Azazel looked up as he saw a woman with long, dark hair, walking towards them. The features she had with the blonde girl was obvious, beyond the eye color. "Oh, a visitor?"

Azazel nodded and smiled. "My name is Azazel, I was here to discuss something with Issei, Rias and the others who live here, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see such a young woman visiting here at the same time."

The woman smiled and chuckled. "Oh dear, you're a charmer. But I'm fairly old, I'm afraid."

"Old is a relative term." Azazel chuckled as he walked in, took his shoes off before taking his coat off and hanging it up. "From where I'm standing, you're still quite young."

"Oh my," the woman said with a smile, "it's been a long time since anyone spoke to me like this."

"Well, that's a shame." Azazel said with a smile as he fought the urge to compare her to that cute green-haired alien he had met back during the treaty signing awhile ago. Really, it didn't make any sense to him. Even the longest-lived couples in Hell constantly liked to flirt with each other, even if it wasn't as often compared to when they were younger.

And these women, who weren't even a century old, were very good looking, and it didn't make a lot of sense to him why none of them weren't getting hit on by everyone around them.

"Where are my manners?" The woman asked with a smile. "My name is Precia Testarossa, Alicia's mother." The blonde girl ran up to Precia and hugged her, smiling brightly.

"Hey, who was at the door?" A female voice spoke up and Xenovia stuck her head into the entryway. "Oh, Azazel. We're glad you could come over, something weird happened last night."

"Yeah, Issei said something about light strings." Azazel said as he nodded to Precia while walking past her. "So what was..." Azazel trailed off as he saw what looked like a demented disco laser show going on in another room, which included a bright blue thread running out to Xenovia, who smiled nervously. "...What happened?"

"That's the thing, none of us know." Xenovia said as she led Azazel, Precia and Alicia, who both followed after and they went into the spare room where Issei was touching the strings and they were glowing and running to one of the girls in the room. "It's not harmful at least."

"So you say," Azazel said dryly. "Oi, Issei, what did you do?"

"I have no clue." Issei told him. "I wake up and things are going silly."

"I see that, but what happened before this?"

Issei scratched his head. "I'm not sure, I had a weird dream where Rias, Akeno, Xenovia, Irina, Asia, Yukiko, Koneko and even Gasper were all naked and glowing."

"AHHH!" Gasper, who was sitting on a chair in the corner, suddenly screamed. "Why was I naked in your dream?!"

"I dunno." Issei told him. "It wasn't even a good naked sexy dream, everyone's bodies were covered in glowing light like I was watching some anime that just liked to tease but never show the good stuff."

"Um," Asia raised her left arm, which Azazel noted was completely covered by the black wrap, "this is kind of my fault." That caught everyone's attention. "I woke up around three this morning and felt this tickling sensation in my magic, so I thought I'd try something and then suddenly there's a bunch of string lights coming from Issei to all of us and I'm not sure what it is."

"That's a good..." Azazel began but was interrupted.

"My, it looks something like a mana string from familiar to master." Precia said as she looked at them. "But none of you are drawing on magic from Mr. Hyuudou, so I can only assume that you are all really close to him emotionally." Precia smiled nervously. "I assume that familiars don't work the same way for you?" They shook their heads and she nodded. "I see, well, where I'm from, we make contracts with animals typically, it allows them to gain intelligence and power, in exchange, we get someone who can help us with various tasks. Sometimes..." Precia trailed off as the image of a sandy-colored cat and a red wolf pup entered her mind, "we do so because the animal is dying and we wish to give them another chance. Other times it's because we have specific tasks for our familiar and once the contract is done, both part ways, though this usually leads to the death of the familiar."

"That sounds so sad." Asia said and Precia nodded.

"Yes. Typically older mages who aren't as physically able as they used to be, or are really busy, have familiars, since they consume a lot of magical power to sustain. If the mage's health is too weak, the familiar will cancel the contract to spare their master's life. It's usually completely consensual on everyone's part."

An image of a busty, young woman with sandy-colored hair, cat ears and a tail appeared in Precia's mind.

"...Usually."

"So did I accidentally turn everyone into Issei's familiar?" Asia asked, a shocked expression on her face. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do that!"

"Unlikely." Azazel said with a chuckle. "Hmm, I wonder... Issei, could you please..." He looked at the bright yellow colored light. "Could you focus on that light and only that one, I want to see what happens."

Issei nodded and looked at the light strand that Azazel had mentioned and, to the surprise of Azazel, reached up and grabbed it, squeezing it.

"Yeek!" Asia jumped, her face turning a bright red. "Um, Issei, not right now."

Issei looked shocked as he let go of the light strand and shook his head. "Ah, no, I didn't say or think anything, so I don't know what she's talking about. All I felt was really happy."

Asia was still blushing as she fidgeted. "That is, I felt your desires and..."

"Interesting," Azazel muttered, "it seems like Issei's general lust for Asia made her feel like he was desiring her at that moment."

Alicia looked confused as the others seemed to nod in agreement. She grabbed her mother's shirt and gave it a tug. "Mom, what are they talking about?"

Precia smiled at her. "I'm not sure, but it has something to do with those lights. I'm guessing it has something to do with how Mr. Hyuudou is so close to those ladies."

Alicia nodded in understanding. Her mother had told her that normally good boys and girls only dated one person at a time, but since Issei and the others weren't human, human rules didn't apply to them.

"This might be forward of me," Precia spoke up, "but perhaps whatever mystery is bothering you, the answer might be right in front of you," she gestured to the other strands, "maybe try grabbing all of them at the same time?"

Issei looked up and frowned, "but they're all spread apart, should I..." He reached up with his right hand and, to his shock, the strands all pooled together on his palm and glowed white.

Rias, Akeno, Xenovia, Yukiko, Asia, Irina, Koneko and even Gasper all gasped in surprise.

"Huh?" Issei gasped in shock. "I can feel them, it's like, I'm here and there," he pointed to Irina, "and there," he pointed to Koneko, "and there," he pointed to Gasper, "and here at the same time." A confused look crossed his face, "while I can feel everyone, it... Well, I feel Xenovia really clear, like I can read her mind and..." He trailed off and gave Xenovia a bewildered look, "why would you think about what kinds of things you can do with light fixtures?"

The blue-haired Devil blushed and looked away, "it was a stray thought, I heard about how light fixtures could be used and it got me thinking how they could be used and..."

"Oh pooh," Irina pouted while looking sullen, "I can't feel Issei or Xenovia anywhere near as clearly as they can feel each other."

Azazel closed his eyes and cupped his chin while thinking about what he heard. "This is just a thought, but Issei did go through that aura synchronization training with Rias and Xenovia, plus with Rias giving birth to Ikusu..." He trailed off as he thought a bit more. "I think I get it." He chuckled while opening his eyes. "Issei, you've played dating sims and visual novels before, right?"

"Well, who hasn't?" Issei asked and Azazel chuckled while some of the others nodded.

"Well, congrats, because your life just became a dating sim visual novel." Azazel laughed at the looks he got. "Alright, hear me out. Thanks to miss Asia's little incident with her newly awakened Fae magic, we can see how close, for a lack of a better term, you are with each of them."

"Wait!" Gasper's eyes widened in surprise. "Does that mean that Issei would have to want me the same way as he wants his girls?" He looked at Yukiko and when she blushed, he felt himself turning red. "I-if there's a good reason, then..."

"ACK!" Issei found himself falling over. "H-hey!" He yelled and got to his feet. "Gasper! What the heck, man?! You know that I want to help you be more of a man! So why..?"

"W-well," Gasper poked his fingers together cutely, "Yukiko used to be a guy, and..."

The blonde in question blushed and shook her head. "N-no! Issei hasn't even kissed me, Gasper. I'm still not used to being a girl."

"Ara ara," Akeno had a tight smile on her face, "but you did try to seduce Issei back before turning into a girl completely, Yukiko, so..."

The blonde was looking flustered. "I was confused on my feelings and I didn't want to be alone, okay?! You know that I would rather have forced myself to live as a girl rather than be alone."

Akeno's smile fell from her face and she got up, walked over to Yukiko and hugged her. "I'm sorry, that was uncalled for from me." Yukiko nodded her head against Akeno's large bust.

"It's okay." Yukiko said softly.

"Before this soap opera gets more crazy," Azazel spoke up, "I highly doubt that Issei swings that way, Gasper, so you'll be fine if you aren't interested in romance with him, but there are more to relationships than simply romance and love." He then gave Issei a calculating look. "In fact, Issei, that's something you should be working on. You were able to unlock your golden armor form due to you and Xenovia completing your aura synchronization training and I bet that you'll be able to fully master your Balance Break if you are able to bring everyone's threads up to the same level you have Xenovia's at." He suddenly chuckled. "The best and true ending for this visual novel is the harem ending, so make sure to build up everyone's relationship."

"Too bad there's no guide online for this." Issei said softly but nodded, "yeah, I can do that."

"Good," Azazel nodded and turned around, "alright, I'll leave, have fun." He walked out of the room, grabbed his coat and put it on before pausing and turning back to look at everyone. "Oh, Miss Precia, I was told that Lilith, Hayate and your daughter, Fate should be back on Earth in a couple of hours." Precia looked at him and nodded, though she looked unsure about how to handle it. "And one last thing, Issei," when Issei looked at him, he smirked, "try not to turn Gasper into a girl like you did Yukiko."

"GET OUT OF HERE!" Several people yelled and Azazel laughed before leaving.

"And Issei," Rias gave him an upset look, "if you do find a way to turn Gasper into a girl, I'm going to put you in a chastity cage for a month."

"WHAT?!" Most everyone screamed in horror.

Alicia just looked confused while her mother blushed. "...What's that?"

"Just think of it as a way to punish a naughty husband or boyfriend." Precia told her daughter and Alicia nodded.

"Adults are weird." The small blonde said to herself.

(-)

Suzuka smiled as she watched Nanoha pace back and forth. "Nanoha-chan, you're going to put a hole in the floor." She sighed when Nanoha didn't respond and looked at the others that were at the train station, waiting. "So, Ranma..."

"Hmm?" Ranma looked up from whatever book he was reading.

"What's that?" She asked and pointed at the book.

"Ancient martial arts." Ranma said as he closed it. "And some other stuff, ah, there's Asia and Issei... Oh, Gasper came with them?" He stood up and waved his friend over. "Oh?" Ranma blinked in surprise as an older woman with dark hair, who was wearing jeans and a dark sweater, and a young girl with blonde hair who was wearing a blue tanktop and a pleated skirt, followed after them. "You had... Issei, why is there a little girl who looks exactly like a small version of Fate?"

"Well, apparently she's Fate's big sister or something." Issei said with a helpless shrug.

"...Wait, big sister?" Ranma asked and looked at the little girl and then at the woman. "...You're Fate's mother?" The woman jerked in surprise and nodded, looking unsure and sad.

"My name is Precia Testarossa," the woman said and motioned towards her daughter, "and this is my daughter, Alicia Testarossa."

Ranma's eyes widened in surprise. "...Ooooooooh..." He said while dragging the word out. "Does Lilith know that you're going to be here?" When she shook her head, he sighed. "Alright, I'll keep her in check, because otherwise..." He trailed off as he felt a rising surge of magic and turned around to see Nanoha taking several deep breaths. "Hey, calm down."

"I'm trying," Nanoha told him as she glared at Precia before taking several more deep breaths and letting them out. "I apologize, but the memories of what you did to Fate-chan came back to me and I got upset."

"I deserve that much." Precia said with a nod. "I can't ask that you forgive me, I know I'm beyond redemption, but at least let me meet with Fate before you decide what to do with me."

Alicia frowned and hugged Precia. "You're not beyond redemption, mom. You did some bad things, so what?"

"...It was more than just a few bad things, Alicia." Precia said softly. "I was a monster. I..."

"No!" Alicia shook her head. "Mom! Just because you were bad in the past doesn't mean you're bad now, right?"

"Please, Miss Testarossa." Asia smiled as she walked in front of the older woman. "Even if you did things in the past that you truly regret now, the fact that you feel remorse and see that you were in the wrong proves that you aren't a monster."

Precia smiled at her. "Thank you."

When the announcer spoke up about a train arriving, the group moved towards the train, though Precia stayed towards the back of the group.

After the train came to a stop, the group waited until Signum, who was using crutches to get off the train, stepped out, followed by Hayate, who was followed by Vita, who was followed by Lilith, who was being helped by Arf, who was followed by Lindy and finally Fate, who was wearing a long-sleeved coat that went down to her knees.

Seeing Fate, Nanoha sighed in relief and ran up to her girlfriend. "Fate-chan!" She smiled and gripped her right hand. "Are you okay?"

Fate smiled and nodded. "Other than the obvious, yes." The jacket sleeve swayed in the breeze to emphasize her point. "I'm sure I'll be fine."

Ranma walked up to Lilith and gave her a quick kiss while hugging her. "I hope it wasn't too bad."

"It wasn't," Lilith said while the wind made her hair shift around, "so where is..." She looked over Ranma's shoulder and saw Precia and tensed up.

Ranma grabbed her. "No. I know you want to hurt her, but no." He sighed at the look Lilith gave him. "I know, I know what she did, but you can't do what you want to do to her."

Lilith protested. "Master, you know..." Ranma nodded and she looked confused. "But then..."

"It's not our place to do that." Ranma told her. "It's Fate's, and you know it." Lilith grumbled but nodded. "Just be a good girl."

Lilith gave him an annoyed look. "Fine, but only because you asked me to. She acts up, I'm going to gut her."

Ranma sighed as he let go of her and nodded. "Fine, I can accept that much. We should take this elsewhere though, and..." He trailed off as he realized there was one more person, a man with long blond hair and was wearing a green suit, standing near them. "Wait, who's that?"

Lilith grinned and stepped back and put her hands on the person's shoulder. "Master! I know it's been a long time, but don't you recognize Yuuno?"

Ranma gawked in shock. "Wait, the last time I saw him, he had short hair, didn't have glasses and wasn't so tall."

Yuuno chuckled and pushed his glasses up. "Sadly I developed a stigmatism in my eyes and I need glasses to see properly."

"Well, you're looking good." Ranma smiled at him.

"Get this," Lilith grinned and patted Yuuno on the back, "he dated Suzuka a few years ago."

Yuuno blushed at the look he got from Ranma. "We went on a like three dates over the course of a few months."

"Mostly because we don't live on the same planet." Suzuka said as she walked up to them. "Hello, Yuuno-kun, it's been awhile."

Yuuno nodded while smiling at the purple-haired girl. "Yeah, but this is a large group."

Issei looked at Gasper. "Hey, buddy, can you stop time for a bit for everyone around us?"

The blonde boy nodded, his eyes flashing and suddenly everyone but the group was standing still. "There, does that help?"

"...You can stop time?" Yuuno asked, surprised. "That's really impressive."

"Among other things." Lindy said. "So, why did you stop time?"

"So I can get us out of here without people seeing the teleportation flash." Ranma said as a large magic circle formed under his feet, extending outwards to surround everyone in the group. "I got a place near here that we can talk and no one will notice us disappearing."

"Alright, that works for me." Lindy said as the group disappeared in a flash of black light.

Around them, time started up again and no one noticed that they had disappeared.

(-)

Appearing in a living room, Hayate looked around in confusion. "Big brother, where are we?"

"Where I used to live when I was in Kuoh." Ranma told her as she helped Signum sit on the couch. "My parents live here now."

Issei smiled at Gasper. "Thanks, Gasper." The blonde gave him a smile back.

Asia went over to Signum. "I know that I can heal your legs, is it okay if I do this first?"

"It's fine." Fate said with a smile as Nanoha helped her remove her coat.

"Oh, we have guests?" A woman's voice was heard as someone walked in. "I wish I had... Ranma!" Her eyes lit up. "Why didn't you tell me you were coming?"

Ranma chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry, mom. I didn't mean to forget."

"Big brother's mother?" Hayate blinked in surprise before smiling brightly and running over to Nodoka. "Hello, mother." She bowed to the surprised woman. "Big brother should have told me more about you."

"...Ranma, did you adopt another sibling into the family?" Nodoka asked.

Ranma laughed. "Ah, sort of." He walked over to Nodoka and the two of them and Hayate walked off as he explained things to Nodoka.

Signum looked at Asia as she knelt in front of her and a green glow was coming out of her hands. "Look, you don't need to do this."

Asia shook her head. "No, it's fine. This level of injury will be fixed up before you know it."

"Ah, but healing magic shouldn't..." Signum trailed off as she felt her legs and feet started feeling better. "...What?"

"What?" Asia asked in confusion.

"Healing magic can be bad for a person if it's over-used." Nanoha told Asia. "There's a limit to it since it just speeds up our body's natural regeneration."

Asia frowned in confusion. "...I don't do that when I use my healing power."

"That's because your Sacred Gear undoes the damage that someone had." Lilith told her. "At least that's what I think, I'm not sure. But it's a miracle-class healing, if you ever unlock your Balance Break, you'll probably have such powerful healing that no one could ever hurt you since any damage will be undone right away."

Signum, Nanoha and Fate all stared in shock.

Vita, who had been quiet, found herself grumbling in annoyance. "Why the heck couldn't we find someone like this earlier?"

"Sacred Gears are hardly known to anyone who doesn't have them." Lilith told her. "Trust me, do you have any idea how easy Genma's training would have been with Asia around?"

"Or how much more insane it could have been." Issei shook his head. "And didn't Ranma go over this before, Lilith? Besides, if you could perform miracle-level healing to off-set the worst of training, what would happen when someone decided to train their bodies until their bodies shut down at the worst moment?"

"Yeah, I probably wouldn't have learned my lesson about training too hard if I had Asia around." Nanoha admitted while rubbing the back of her head.

Arf jumped up and down. "Please, if it's so good, can it fix Fate's arm?"

"Well," Asia smiled nervously, "I've never had to restore someone's arm from scratch, so I don't..."

"You should be able to." A voice that she recognized as Raven's voice entered her mind. "Don't worry, I'm still at your house, but I can see what's going on. You know that black glove? Focus your magic and let it flow, turn into your Fae form and use your Sacred Gear. Just relax and focus, as for the spell, just think about what you want, the words will come to you naturally, tell your lover to slap or kiss you if you go out of control. When you're done, just will the power back to your hand, okay?" Raven paused for a moment before continuing. "This is really simple, since this is just enhancing what you could already do. I'll teach you some really fancy stuff later."

Asia nodded and looked at her right hand. "Issei, I'm going to use my Fae magic, if I start acting crazy, please slap me and get me back to normal." She blushed at the looks she got. "I didn't mean on my face, but if the first slap doesn't work, then try kissing me."

"Oooooh!" Lilith and Issei both said in understanding.

It was easy to understand, after all, Asia did have a rather large butt for her size.

Signum got up and walked around, before realizing something important as she felt around her thighs. "...You fixed my thighs as well?"

Asia just smiled at her. "Well, it was an injury that was there, it wasn't hard to fix." She then looked at her right hand as it glowed black and the black wrap that was around her hand expanded, quickly covering her arm, looping over her shoulders, down her left arm and hand, up her neck to just under her skull and down her body. Her hair and eyes changed color and the feel of her changed. "I... I'm still me." She said, her voice was slightly different as well, more sultry than before. "It's okay, I'm not feeling crazy."

"...What is this feeling?" Signum asked.

"That's a Fae." Alicia spoke up. "I lived with them for awhile, they all feel like that."

Asia nodded and walked up to Fate and put her hands on Fate's left shoulder. "Alright, just hold still, I've never tried this with this much power in me." Asia closed her eyes and chanted something in a language that only Lilith, Alicia and Precia had heard before.

A bright green light flooded the room, and to everyone's shock, new bones started to grow out of the stump of Fate's left arm down to where her elbow would be, before joints formed there and more bones grew outwards, ending with Fate's hand, looking like a skeleton hand. Fate could only stare in absolute disbelief. When tendons, ligaments and other fibers started to grow over it, she was slightly disgusted by the blood sheen that was covering it, especially as she could see blood vessels growing and covering her arm as more muscles were growing around it before it finally stopped with a layer of outer skin and fingernails over her hand.

Other than being very pink and soft to the touch, Fate could feel her arm as though it was never missing in the first place. "This is... Incredible."

"And so fast." Lindy said in shock. "If there is such a thing as miracles, we just witnessed one." She then looked at Precia. "As much as you'd like to talk to Fate, I need to talk to you."

Precia sighed and nodded. "Of course. I'm in no position to make demands."

"I'm coming with." Yuuno said, "for someone to go into the Dimensional Rift and come out alive, even going to a new realm, I have to document it."

Lindy gave a small smile and nodded, "I have no issue with that."

Alicia walked up to Fate and smiled. "Hello, little sister."

Fate looked at Alicia, smiled back and then hugged her. "Hello, big sister. I'm glad to finally meet you." Her smile increased as Alicia hugged her back.

Sure, there were other things that needed to be taken care of, but for now, she could just enjoy being with her big sister.

There was a loud smacking sound and everyone looked at where Asia, who was back to normal, was jumping up and down while putting her hands on her butt. "Oww, oww, oww!"

Issei looked apologetic. "I'm sorry, but you said to slap your ass as hard as I could."

Asia nodded as she rubbed her butt. "Y-yeah..." She blushed and whispered something so soft only Issei heard it. "I kind of liked it."

"...Oh my." Issei said in surprise.

End Part 4

One final part to go.