Dance With the Devil

DxD Chapter 4

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Hiryo: Great to see you again and glad you're enjoying this! I update every two days and I have plenty to post for awhile.

dxdragon3895: Berserk mode + Youki = murder kitten

aliesterus: There was a fic I read a long time ago where Kuno-sempai summoned a Demon of Incompetence and was going to go "Operation Desert Storm" but went "Operation Dessert Storm" instead and that's where the base idea for the Sweets Devil came from, I admit.

Sagitaro V: The Sweets Devil would be great as a recurring character, but I don't think I could keep it being as funny/awesome as it was the first time. As for Nuku, well... Lilith's working on corrupting her! So, yes, worry about her. And the last character? You'll see, that's all I will say.

Onto the chapter!

As they reappeared behind the school, but outside still, Mittelt looked around and sighed as she made her wings disappear. "Wait, why am I hiding my wings and grateful that humans don't see me with them out?"

"Because humans who don't know of the Moonlight World shouldn't know about what we are." Lilith answered her with her arms crossed. "It's a pain in the ass, but it keeps everyone safe. Last thing we need is a bunch of panicking mortals who use their stupidly over-powered weapons on themselves trying to kill us."

"It was a rhetorical question." Mittelt responded flatly. "Anyway, Ranma, why can't we show them that we're Devils?"

"Do you know anything about Devil society?" Ranma asked, getting a negative response from Mittelt. "Okay, so from what I've been told, the only way you're supposed to be a King is if you're a High-Class Devil or something. Now, ask yourself this, how do you think they'll react if they find out that a part Demon not only became a Devil without them knowing, but also became a King with a chess set?"

"...Point taken." Mittelt muttered, wondering why Devils would allow humans and other races to become Devils in the first place. Then she dismissed it, because she never really bothered to care much about Devil society or anything until recently. The only thing she cared about were the Devils that were on par with her bosses, those ones were scary and she had all of their faces and names memorized so that she knew to flee if she ever saw one. Or at least beg for forgiveness and hope that they took pity and not kill her.

"Anyway, Fallen Angels are known to work with other races to get stuff done, so just keep it under wraps for now." Ranma waved her off. "Anyway, shall we go?"

"You sure they won't try to kill me?" Mittelt asked, feeling a little vulnerable as she walked inside. "I mean..."

"If you told them you were changed they'd want to know who your King is, and as Master pointed out, that's not a good idea right now." Lilith interrupted her and looked at Atsuko. "You too, don't tell them that information." Atsuko nodded, no way she'd betray Ranma like that.

Mittelt grumbled as she followed them to the Occult Research Club. "Um, stupid question, but how are you going to show off your curse?" She asked the redhead, who looked down at herself and blinked. "You forgot, huh?"

"Easy to forget, other than the tingling I feel when I change I don't feel any different." Ranma jumped a bit when she was splashed with warm water, returning to normal. "Thanks, Lilith."

"No problem." She smiled and made the glass in her hands disappear.

"Wait!" Nuku Nuku narrowed her eyes at Lilith. "You could have done that back at the fight, why didn't you?"

"I had no clue that triggering the curse would cause Master to return to normal, nor was I in any mental state to do it. The last time Master was in Neko-ken, I ended up with a concussion, several broken bones and other injuries from when he mounted me." Lilith sighed and shook her head. "So all I could think of was "I don't want to go through that again" and when Kiba pulled out those two swords, my mind snapped back to the present and I took a stab in the dark."

The next thing she knew, Lilith's face was buried in Ranma's shirt. "Master?"

"Shh..." Ranma rubbed her head and back and she sighed, practically melting into it. After doing that for nearly a minute, he let go. "Sorry."

"Master, you know you can't control yourself in that form. I healed up just fine." She hated how he blamed himself for the things that happened when he was in Neko-ken, especially after what happened to her. "Besides, that was my fault, okay?" She cupped his cheeks and smiled at him. "Now, you're going to stop moping, go in there and talk to them, okay?"

"Heh, thanks, Lilith."

"You know, I just realized something." Mittelt narrowed her eyes at Ranma. "You sound a LOT like Nuku when you're in your cursed form."

"I do?"

"He does?" Nuku was surprised, when did that happen?

"Eh, just a coincidence, I'm sure." Lilith shrugged, it wasn't that important. "Shall we go?"

"Yeah, okay."

(-)

Sitting behind her desk, Rias looked at her peerage, Akeno and Kiba on the couch to her left with Issei, Asia and Koneko on the couch to her right and some chairs straight across from her. She was actually worried, since she was certain that neither that berserk state nor his transformation ability was something he wanted others to know about, but now that it was known he'd have to explain.

Well, she'd worry about it later.

"Are you sure he's..." Issei began as a knocking on the door was heard. "Oh, that's him isn't it?" It was strange, he couldn't feel any of them out of the room, but he just chalked it up to not knowing enough about his Devil abilities to feel them.

"Come on in." Rias called out and gave a small smile as she saw Ranma, Lilith and Nuku walk in. Her smile disappeared when Mittelt followed after them. "Before we begin, I wish to let you know that I officially object to a Fallen Angel being in here with us. Lately they've been nothing but trouble for us."

Mittelt held her hands up as she sweat-dropped and tried to look harmless. "Hey, I'm not stupid enough to try and challenge a bunch of Devils on their own home turf, okay? I'll be good, I promise."

"Besides, she needs to be fully trained by Master tonight." Lilith's perverted expression left no doubt as to what she was thinking about.

"Pervs." Koneko still couldn't believe that there was someone out there more perverted than Issei. If there was someone even more perverted than the succubus and her master, she shuddered to imagine who it could be.

(-)

"ACHOO!" Happosai sneezed, dropping several pairs of panties out of his pockets. "NO! The silky darlings!"

(-)

"So..." Ranma began as he sat down, Lilith next to him, Mittelt on his other side, and Nuku next to her. The blonde looked grateful to be where she was. She knew that Ranma and Nuku were strong and fast enough that they might be able to escape if things turned pear-shaped. "Where do you want to begin?"

Before Rias could speak, Issei blurted out "how did you get those rocking melons?!"

Akeno giggled and Rias shook her head, an amused grin on her face. "Well, as my pawn so graciously asked, how do you turn into a girl?"

"Simple, I went to China, spent about two years in the country, ended up in a valley in the distant part of the country near Tibet. Found a bunch of springs where a bunch of different things drowned from ages ago."

"I take it that has something to do with why you change then?" Rias asked, getting a nod from Ranma.

"Fifteen hundred years ago, a girl in her teenage years ended up at the pools of Jusenkyo, fell into the pools and drowned. Now whomever falls into that spring..." Ranma was splashed with cool water by Lilith, losing height, gaining large breasts and her hair turning red, "becomes a girl with a splash of cool water. Warm water returns them to normal."

"And you just so happen to look like Rias, except shorter." Akeno giggled and looked at Rias. "You know, you could use her to act as a double for you so that you don't have to deal with certain things."

"Absolutely not. For one thing, her hair is way too short to pass as me. Secondly she doesn't sound like me. And lastly, she's too short!"

"But at a distance no one could tell. And we could easily give her hair extensions or something." Akeno giggled as both Ranma and Rias shot down her idea. "Oh pooh! I thought it was a good one."

"Maybe the girl that drown was one of your ancestors?" Kiba looked at Rias, who shrugged.

"I wouldn't know, fifteen hundred years is a long time after all, it could be or it could simply just be a coincidence."

Akeno started giggling and Rias gave her a tired look. "What?"

"I was just imagining someone saying 'go fuck yourself' and then you grabbing Ranma when she's in girl form and going 'already have'."

Rias didn't say anything, but her face matched her hair in coloring at that suggestion. The others in the room likewise turned red at that, though there were some exceptions.

"AH MAN! NOW I'M GOING TO HAVE DREAMS ABOUT THAT!" Issei cried out as tears fell out from his eyes. Double the redheaded boobies, double the redheaded naked bodies, double the fun!

Lilith started giggling as she imagined it. "Ooh yes! Maybe get some and... YEEEE! Orgy!" She squealed and clapped her hands rapidly while bending her knees up and shifting from side to side.

Ranma just put her face in her hands. "Why am I not surprised someone would make that suggestion?" Though as she looked at Rias, she admitted it wasn't a bad suggestion, the girl was tall, curvy in all the right places, had a pleasant face and her breasts were incredible. Though from what Ranma could tell, the other redhead was a virgin, which wouldn't be a problem, but Ranma was pretty sure that if Rias gave her first time to him that she wouldn't be able to be satisfied by any other man in the future.

Atsuko looked around in confusion, she wasn't understanding why everyone was acting like that, though for some reason she was imagining Ranma and Rias, both in girl form and both naked with their breasts pressing against each other and she wasn't sure why.

"So..." Rias coughed to try and dispel the atmosphere that Akeno had created. "Is there just one spring?"

When Lilith poured warm water over her allowing her to return to normal, Ranma shook his head. "No. There's the spring of the drowned panda and hundreds more. Hang on." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small, soft-cover book. "I just got this in the mail yesterday." Flipping it open, he began to read. "Spring of the drowned piglet, drowned dog, drowned cat, drowned saber-tooth cat... Wait, what? These springs are THAT old?! Spring of the drowned duck, drowned octopus."

"How does a duck drown?" Kiba asked, shock on his face. "HOW DOES AN OCTOPUS DROWN?!"

"Spring of the drowned Buddhist Monk, Virtuous man, spring of the drowned..." Ranma tilted his head. "This is the weirdest one so far, no way that's real."

"What?"

"Spring of the drowned Yeti-riding-bull-carrying-crane-and-eel."

"...You're right, that can't be real." Rias shook her head. "Anyway, I think I understand the curses. They seem to be pretty old, especially if that one is any indication."

Ranma shrugged as he put the book away. "You're telling me. But, before we continue, do you mind if I ask you some questions?"

"So long as they aren't anything too personal, I could answer them."

Ranma nodded at her, grateful she understood. "I was told that only high ranking Devils get to have peerages, is that true?"

"Indeed." Rias nodded. "You know me as Rias Gremory, what you don't know is that I am the next heir to the house of Gremory, one of the seventy-two pillars of Devil society."

Issei looked at her in shock. 'Woah, I knew she was a big deal, but to hear her say that. I'm even luckier to have her as my master.'

"Is that all?" Rias asked and Ranma narrowed his eyes as he thought about it.

"One more question then. Why are you in Japan?"

Rias was surprised, most didn't ask that question. And it was true, she could have been anywhere in the human world, but she chose Japan for a very simple reason. "I happen to like Japanese culture."

"Oh." Ranma laughed softly at that. "Makes sense." He took a deep breath and sighed. "So now you probably want to know about the other thing that happened out there, I assume?"

"Please." Rias nodded. "Understand, Saotome, I don't wish to cause you pain by remembering, but after what I saw, I have to put the priority of my peer...no, my family above your concerns."

Ranma waved her off, though mentally he was impressed, the only families he had seen had been his, the Tendos, the Kunos and Atsuko's family, there was plenty of insanity and dysfunction in all of them to make him really appreciate families like what Rias's was. "That was the Neko-ken."

"Cat fist?" Issei asked. "How did it get that name?"

"Because of how I was acting, that's where the name comes from. The training is simple, really. Just dig a hole so deep that the trainee, who has to be under the age of ten, can't jump out. Then widen it and find a bunch of cats and throw them in and put a cover over the pit, starve them for about three days..." Ranma noted that Koneko was looking at him in a mix of shock and disgust, but he ignored it. "Then take the trainee, tie them up so they can't move, wrap them in fish sausage..." There was a growing sense of outright shock forming on Asia's face, as well as Rias and Akeno's faces as they realized what was being said. "Then throw the trainee into the pit. Repeat every day until the trainee is dead, insane or learns the Neko-ken." Shockingly the only person who wasn't looking absolutely disgusted, other than Lilith, as she already knew this, was Kiba. 'Cool customer, that one.' Though Ranma wondered why, he ignored it.

Asia's face was green and she put her hand over her mouth as she ran to where the shower was in the club-room, never more thankful that it was there than at that moment as she threw up violently and loudly.

"I..." Rias was at a loss of words, she couldn't imagine the most disgusting of Devils doing something like that. Hell, she couldn't even imagine Fallen Angels doing that! Considering how Akeno and Mittelt had similar expressions of shock and disgust on their faces, it was easy.

Ranma waited for the usual pity or outrage, it never failed when he told this story and he hated it. Sure it sucked to be absolutely terrified of cats, but what could he do about it?

The next person to react was, shockingly, Koneko as she stood up, walked over to Ranma and hugged him tightly.

"Koneko?" Ranma asked in surprise. He REALLY didn't need more ammo for his damn reputation at this point.

"The cats didn't want to hurt you." She said softly. "They were scared and hungry, they couldn't help themselves, they just wanted to live too."

Ranma smiled and gently hugged her back. "I'm not mad at them, but I can't even look at a cat without freaking out." Koneko nodded, she understood. If someone had done something similar to her, she doubted that she would have a different reaction.

Ignoring the sound of running water in the background, Rias coughed into her fist. "I truly am sorry that you went through that."

"What can you do? Unless you know someone who can fix it."

"Not personally, no." Maybe her brother knew, after all, he was one of the four Devil Kings in Hell and he might know of a pantheon that could help Ranma out.

The water sound shut off and Asia walked out, tears falling down her face and looking a little pale. "Um, Ranma-san... How old did you say you were again when you did that?"

"Hmm... I was six when I went through that training." He jumped, Koneko still hugging him as a crack was heard and both Akeno and Rias started glowing. "Um... You two look like you're going to murder someone."

Rias took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Sorry, I just couldn't imagine someone doing that."

"Yes, I might... Enjoy causing others pain, but there's a difference between pain and torture."

"What kind of idiot would do something like that?" Issei muttered in shock.

"You'd be surprised what people will do when they think they find a way to obtain ultimate power, whether for themselves or for others. The amount of pain that is caused by people who do things either maliciously or ignorantly shouldn't be underestimated." Kiba replied and Ranma looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, but..."

"I hate to interrupt." Ranma let go of Koneko. "But there's some sort of energy forming..." He stood up and stepped away, pulling Koneko and the chair out of the way. "Right here." Unsurprisingly Lilith had done the same as a red sigil formed where they had been a moment ago.

Rias was shocked, how had he felt that so easily? She'd have to ask him sometime. When a relatively tall, busty woman wearing a blue French maid outfit with white over her chest and a white apron in the front of her skirt, complete with a white head-dress, long silver hair done up in two long braided ponytails behind her back and two short braided ponytails hanging in front over her shoulders and silver eyes, appeared in the room, she wondered what she was doing here. "Grayfia?"

"Ah good, you're here. I would be upset if I had to track you down." She gave the younger girl a small smile to let her know that she was joking. Turning around, she raised an eyebrow as she saw Ranma, Lilith, Nuku and Mittelt. She narrowed her eyes at the blonde, who looked like she was about to piss herself out of fear. "You have some interesting friends."

"It's alright, they know about us." Rias smiled at Grayfia as she turned around. "And don't worry about that one, she's been pretty docile despite being a Fallen Angel."

"Very well." Grayfia nodded to the younger girl. "But that is not why I am here. I'm here in regards to your engagement."

Most people in the room cried out in shock, though Rias was twitching in anger.

"Let me guess..." Ranma spoke up, causing Rias and Grayfia to look at him. "Arranged marriage and your parents chose the engagement, probably set it up before you were born or were really little, you've been trying to put it off for a long time and probably can't put it off anymore?" He smirked as both women looked at him in mild shock. "Welcome to the club."

After a few moments and everyone calming down, Rias looked at Grayfia in annoyance. "He knows that I'm going to school still."

"Unfortunately, after dealing with unusual weather in Hell, he has... Gotten tired of waiting." Grayfia shook her head.

"Dammit! I don't care what my parents arranged, I'm not marrying that..."

"I knew you would be like this." Grayfia held up a hand to forestall what would probably be an epic rant that would actually be fairly impressive use of creative swear words. "After some negotiations your fiance agreed to have a Ratings Game over your engagement."

"I barely have enough members in my peerage to participate." Not that Rias doubted her peerage in the slightest, they were all really strong, but Riser had yet to lose a Ratings Game after all!

"Indeed." Grayfia nodded. "However, there's another stipulation. Should your team lose... You are to wed him immediately."

"Are you kidding?!" Rias slammed her hands on her desk and stood up.

"If you win, you would get the right to dissolve the engagement." Grayfia didn't think it was right, but it was a way for Rias to get out of it. Of course there was another way out, all she had to do was...

"Hoo boy!" Lilith rubbed the back of her head and everyone turned to look at her. "Sounds like this fiance of yours is a real piece of work." Rias nodded and Lilith tapped her chin while looking up. "Man, he sounds like he'd probably love to blindfold you, tie you up in bondage and have unending sex with you until your brain turned to mush."

Rias twitched, she had thought of that possibility. After all, Riser was likely using the marriage as a way to improve his own social standing rather than caring about what happened to her.

"Of course, that's if he's just self-absorbed. I mean, he could probably do all of that and then after you're docile and submissive he could loan you out to a bunch of guys when he's tired of you."

"What?" Rias asked, her pupils shrinking. There was no way Riser would do that, was there? Yet in the back of her mind she couldn't help but imagine herself in some sort of slave bondage gear, on her knees and surrounded by a lot of faceless men.

"Yeah, and then if he's really bad, he'd probably do the same to Akeno, Asia and Koneko." Lilith looked each of them over and tilted her head. "Yeah, with Asia, I could so see him putting her in a stockade and giving her to demonic beasts."

"Lilith..." Ranma whispered as he felt the tension in the air starting to skyrocket. "What are you doing?"

"And Akeno... Well, he'd probably just do the same to her that he does to you, Rias. If he's as scummy as I think he is, he might just put Akeno in the wall and have her act as a glorified glory hole."

Atsuko frowned, she knew what a glory hole was now, but what did having someone stuck in the wall have to do with that?

"And Koneko? Well, I can imagine him training her to be an anal slave and..." Lilith stepped back as an aura surrounded Rias, Akeno, Koneko and Grayfia. "...I went too far." She whispered.

"THAT BASTARD!" Rias yelled, her eyes seemingly lighting up with fire. "That's it! Kiba, Koneko, Asia, Akeno, Issei! We're going to train our asses off and we're going to show that sunnvabitch that we won't lose! Grayfia you can tell him that we'll meet in two weeks for the game."

"Very well, young mistress." Grayfia bowed to her.

"Alright, let's go!" Rias stormed out of the room, followed by the rest of her peerage, though Asia stumbled along behind.

When the doors closed, Ranma smacked Lilith on the back of the head. "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING?!"

"Sorry! I didn't know it would turn out like this!" Lilith whimpered and looked at Grayfia, who was still glowing. "I wasn't serious! Calm down!" When the aura disappeared and Grayfia blinked in shock, Lilith sighed. "I'm sorry! It's my fault."

"What did you do?" Grayfia asked, concerned that she had lost her temper. She never lost her temper that easily before.

"I was using a low level hypnotic suggestion to get a reaction out of everyone." Lilith looked down as Grayfia gave her a stern look. "I'm sorry! It was only meant as a joke to see the reactions. From the way you were all reacting it seems like all of you think he would actually do all of that!"

Grayfia took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "I admit, that was unprofessional of me. But I will also admit that all of those horrible things you described have crossed my mind in the past. If you'll excuse me, I need to let Riser Phenix know about Rias's acceptance for the Ratings Game."

"Wait!" Ranma called out. "Before you go, can I ask you one thing?"

"Be quick about it."

"The Evil Pieces, do you know who made them or who has a lot of information on them?"

"Of course, the person who made the Evil Pieces and knows more about them anyone would be Ajuka Beelzebub, one of the four Devil Kings." Grayfia looked at him in confusion. "How do you know about the Evil Pieces?"

"Came across them awhile ago and I was curious about them. Thanks."

Grayfia nodded and disappeared in a flash of red light. 'Wait, came across, what did he mean by that? It's not like they're laying out in the open after all.'

"So..." Ranma turned and walked to the door. "Let's go catch up and hope we can clear up the mess you made."

Lilith pouted and looked down. "Fine."

As Ranma and Lilith walked out, Atsuko looked at Mittelt, who was shivering. "Are you okay?"

"No I'm not okay! That was... GAH! That was one of the most powerful Devils in all of Hell! Right here! She could have wiped me out and there was nothing anyone could have done to stop her and..." Mittelt fell to her knees and started crying. "WAAAAAHHHH! I WAS SO SCARED!"

Atsuko knelt down and picked Mittelt up, carrying her out as she cried into the Cyborg's chest. "Shh, shhh... The scary Devil isn't here anymore."

"WAAAAH!"

(-)

Meanwhile back in Nerima...

Nabiki frowned as she tapped her finger on her desk. "This is so fucking useless!" What was the point of having a Sacred Gear if it was so useless. Hell, having a Sacred Gear that did nothing but give her an extra arm would be more useful than the thing she got. She knew there was supposed to be a more powerful form to the Sacred Gear, but she had no idea how to unlock it.

This would require... Research.

(-)

After catching up to Rias and calming her and the others down, along with a thorough chewing out of Lilith, Ranma asked a question that was on his mind. "So you Devils have to train as well?"

"Well, yes. What, did you think we got stronger by sitting on our asses and just letting our power grow naturally as we age?" Rias asked, getting a shrug from Ranma.

"From what I know, Demons, Devils, Angels and Gods tend to live extremely long lives."

Rias nodded, that was very true. "Yes, but Devil society respects power, and the best way to get more is to train."

"Mind if I join in?" Ranma asked, getting a surprised look from them. "I spent my entire childhood in the wilderness training and fighting, I think I know a thing or three about it."

"Oh my," Akeno smiled suddenly. "This could be good. Maybe the rest of your friends could join in as well?"

Ranma shrugged and looked at Lilith, who nodded. "Well, why not? Could be fun for us too."

"I have to ask you to restrain yourselves from doing anything... Untoward anyone while we train."

"Oh, that's no problem." Lilith smiled brightly. "I enjoy fighting more than sex." When everyone gave her a weird look, she shrugged. "I do!"

"Well, in that case... Why not?" Rias looked at the others and they mostly showed indifference towards the idea. "But even so, you won't be able to help us in our Ratings game. Unless you were part of my peerage that is."

Ranma shook his head at that. "Thanks for the offer, but no."

"Very well. We'll start training tomorrow."

"But we have class tomorrow." Asia pointed out. "We won't be..."

"Training's at five in the morning at the school grounds." Ranma spoke up, getting shocked looks from the others. "You show up late I'm going to come to your houses or apartments and drag you out in your underwear."

"...What if we don't wear clothes?" Akeno asked, just wondering what he would do.

"Then you train naked." Ranma smirked at them and walked off. "Don't worry, I'll be there."

"Five in the morning?!" Issei cried out in shock. "But that's..."

"Go get some sleep then." Lilith bowed to him. "If it wasn't for school he'd let you sleep at least until six. Just put up with it." She turned and ran off.

"...We're going to need to get to bed early, huh?" Issei asked, sighing when Rias happily admitted that's what they were going to do.

Well, tomorrow morning couldn't be that bad, could it?

(-)

It was exactly five in the morning when Issei looked around blearily, he was somewhat grateful that none of the others were really awake either. "Where's Ranma?"

"Right behind you." Ranma said, causing everyone to jump. Spinning around, they were shocked to see Ranma, Atsuko and Lilith all awake and looking sharp.

"Where's Mittelt?" Akeno asked, getting a giggle from Lilith. "What?"

"One, she'll get her own training and two, she probably won't be able to walk straight today after last night."

Ranma rolled his eyes and ignored Lilith's giggling. He knew the reason Mittelt couldn't walk straight, and riding her ass, literally, for more than a few hours, tended to do that. "Anyway, I'm going to spend this morning judging you on your fitness level."

"Why are there couches here?" Koneko asked.

Ranma just grinned.

(-)

"Faster!" Ranma called from on top of Issei's couch as he and the others were running laps around the school yard. "Seriously, is this the best you can do? I was able to do this when I was seven! And I was running through swamps and chased by wolves while my old man sat on the couch."

"He's not kidding! I did it too!" Lilith called out from her spot on Asia's couch. "Of course, Master and his father were sparring when I did it while the wolves chased me."

"I don't believe you." Issei muttered and he blinked as Ranma's head appeared in front of him, though upside down. "What?"

"Just for that, Issei..." Ranma's face broke out into a grin, though it looked like he was frowning from Issei's vantage point. "Lilith! Do it!"

"Too bad I couldn't get any Demon Dogs, oh well!" Lilith shrugged and snapped her fingers. "I guess Demon Rats will have to suffice."

"...What?" Everyone turned slowly and paled as they saw a bunch of rats suddenly materialize behind them. "AAAAAH!"

"Yeah, you better run!" Lilith laughed as the group picked up the speed while the rats ran after them. "Run!"

Atsuko sat on Koneko's couch and looked back. "Isn't that a lot of rats?" She narrowed her eyes as she looked at the moving shadow.

Lilith was laughing until Asia tripped and fell over. As she tumbled off the couch, Lilith sighed and watched as Asia screamed, threw her hands over her head and was covered by the rats, which slowly started to fade away.

"H...Huh?!" Asia blinked in surprise and uncrossed her arms. "Not that I'm complaining, but..."

"It was an illusion." Lilith helped Asia back up as the others had stopped and were staring at them. "What? No way I'd do what Genma put us through! You think I'd summon rats, wolves or bees from Makai? Are you insane?"

"Don't worry about it." Ranma got off his couch. "Most of you are in decent enough shape that this won't be useful. Issei, you and Asia need a lot of work though."

"So... Now what?" Kiba asked as Ranma smirked. "I won't like this, will I?"

(-)

Two hours later...

"He's evil, I hate him." Surprisingly it was Asia who was saying this as she and the rest of them limped into the school. Ranma had given them enough time to get cleaned up and changed for school.

It had mostly been running, which was easy enough, but then Ranma and Lilith had started randomly attacking them with energy blasts while Atsuko threw bricks and other stuff at them. Every time they got hit by an attack they had another ten laps on top of what they already had to do.

"I made a mistake." Rias muttered, thankful that the blasts had only enough power to sting and not do any real damage.

"Good thing school's out for a couple of weeks after today." Ranma smiled as he and Lilith walked off. "See you tomorrow!"

"Are we really bringing them with us?" Kiba asked and sighed when Rias nodded.

"He said that this was just to test us, hopefully it won't be so bad tomorrow."

"Well, I have to admit, that was kind of fun." Akeno giggled at the looks she was getting. Her inner masochist actually enjoyed what happened.

(-)

Mittelt groaned as she woke up and grimaced as she felt how sore her ass was. "Damn you, slut..." She cursed Lilith for convincing Ranma to do anal stuff to her last night.

Sure, it had been enjoyable... Once the initial pain and awkwardness of having something that big shoved up her rear had subsided, but that didn't mean she wasn't sore from it.

Getting up and wrapping a towel around herself, she made her way to the bath and stared at Happosai, who was sitting in the hallway, looking at some scrolls. "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to start Ranma's training soon. Considering that he defeated that Devil, he's going to be diving into the deep end soon and is going to need help learning to swim in that end of the pool."

"I don't get your metaphor." Mittelt grumbled and winced as parts of her body started to act up. "If you'll excuse me, I need to go clean up."

Happosai waved her off and mentally sighed. 'Dammit, if only you had just let the Devils deal with the problem instead of getting involved.' He just knew that things were going to get ugly and soon. He didn't know what exactly, but one didn't live to be over three hundred years old as a human by ignoring your instincts after all.

"I hope that young Devil girl is okay."

(-)

When Mittelt heard that Ranma, Lilith and Atsuko were going to be out of town, she wondered why they told her, why she was being told to join them and Lilith was grinning at her.

Well, she had a few ideas as to why.

She just hoped that it wasn't for the reasons she thought Lilith was grinning at her for.

"Have fun." Happosai said, getting a surprised look from the others. "Basic training isn't my idea of fun. Besides, Ranma, when you get back you're going to need to go through some advanced training from me."

"To be a giant pervert?" Ranma snorted, getting a laugh from Happosai.

"No, you're already on your way. I have other things to teach you, however. And you still need to learn to let go of your hesitation when it comes to your female form."

"And I told you, that won't happen." Ranma shot back and stood up. "Anyway, let's go, we'll be late for school if we wait any longer."

Mittelt sighed, she just knew it was going to be a pain in her ass to sit down today.

(-)

Sona frowned as she saw her friend's exhausted figure that morning. Sure, Rias was hiding it well, but she could tell that her friend was absolutely exhausted. "Are you okay?"

"Hmm, yes. After this morning though, I'll be more okay as the school day goes on."

"...What happened this morning?"

Rias gave a small yawn as she walked through the hallway. "Was busy all morning doing some crazy workout with Issei and the others."

"Crazy morning workout? Why was Issei there?"

"He was helping." Rias grimaced softly as she remembered the attacks she took. They didn't hurt that much, but the way they added up really was annoying. Kiba had mostly avoided them, until Ranma had gotten a crazy idea to use some sort of weird barrier attacks to get in the blond boy's way and knock the wind out of him. "Took lots of hard hits this morning."

"Huh?"

"Yeah, they didn't hurt much, but there were so many all over me. I swear, if not for Asia's help my breasts would be all bruised after what happened." Rias looked at her chest for a moment and missed Sona's shocked look. "My clothing was in tatters too. Good thing that I was told to use clothes that I wouldn't miss."

"What about the rest of your peerage?"

Rias looked at her a little bleary-eyed. "They were all there as well. Poor Kiba, he got it the worst too, all because he was so dodgy."

"I... I see." Sona adjusted her glasses. "If you'll excuse me." She ran off, her face red.

"What was that all about?" Rias asked in confusion.

(-)

"ISSEI!" Two girls yelled angrily as Issei walked the halls.

"Huh?" Issei was by himself since he was just using the bathroom. "What do you two want?" The last time Katase and Murayama showed up like this, he had to run for his life.

"We heard! You were doing extremely bad things to Rias-onee-sama!" Katase yelled, tears welling up in her eyes. "And not just her! We heard you were REALLY hard to Kiba as well!"

"Uh... I didn't do anything to them, I was too exhausted to do anything. I couldn't even see the President's jubblies!"

"Silence! You lie!"

Issei started to sweat. "I'm sure that whatever you're assuming I did, it's not as bad as it sounds."

"So you admit you did worse! I heard Rias's clothes were in tatters!" Murayama yelled and Issei nodded at that. "SEE?!"

"Yeah, so were Akeno's, Asia's, Koneko's, Kiba's... Uh..." He started sweating as everyone in the hallway started glaring daggers at him. "Come on, guys! Mine were pretty messed up too."

"ISSEI YOU PERVERT!" The two girls pulled out Shinais and pointed them at him. "What other horrible things did you do this morning?"

"This morning? We were all doing extreme exercises!"

"So that's what you call it, huh?" Katase muttered and Issei gulped as a black aura of doom filled the hallway. "How dare you?!"

"Uh... heh... Um, uh... Bye!" He turned and ran, followed by a very angry and yelling crowd of girls who were screaming obscene things at him.

As they passed Ranma, he had to nod in satisfaction. "Issei's improved this much already, huh?" That was good, it meant the training was working, and it had only been for two hours even! Then again, it could just be due to adrenaline, but he would have time to fix that after two weeks.

(-)

Issei slid into class and hid under his desk, panting heavily and waited for several moments before chancing a look out and blinking in shock as the girls weren't running past the room, yelling in anger.

"Dude, what's the hurry?" Matsuda asked him.

"Was running from the kendo club. They think I did something bad again."

Adjusting his glasses, Motohama looked at Issei in surprise. "You do know that you were moving much faster than you usually could, right?"

"I hope so! I spent all morning running. My legs still feel like jelly." Issei wasn't sure how much longer his legs would work, all he wanted to do was sit down and just relax for the rest of the day.

He was NOT looking forward to the training trip. Other than Asia, he had found out just how far behind he was compared to the others in physical fitness.

(-)

The next day...

Issei was panting as they climbed up a rocky hill towards their destination. The only thing making him not feel like a complete loser was the fact that Asia was struggling as well.

Of course, then he took a look at the hiking pack that Ranma was carrying and suddenly felt like his balls had just been chopped off as Ranma's pack was at least five times larger than his and he had no problem keeping up with the others, chatting about various training methods and ideas for the upcoming trip.

"Come on, ladies!" Lilith called back at him, Asia and Mittelt, the latter of whom was only a bit ahead of Issei. "Fall any further behind and you'll have to chop a tree down without a tool!"

"You wouldn't make them do that, would you?" Rias asked her and Lilith giggled.

"Why not? Master and I learned to break wood by chopping trees down with our bare hands after all."

Rias just sighed and hoped that everything worked out on this trip.

Ranma, meanwhile, wondered just how far he could push the group, since they seemed to mostly rely on their Devil powers, not that that was a bad thing, but he had no idea how to train those. Oh well, he'd figure something out. Rias had some good ideas.

(-)

Meanwhile...

"Interesting." A tall woman said as she watched the training that was going on. 'More like torture.' She enjoyed combat, thrived on it some would say, but this was too much for her. "What do you two think?"

"Feh, most of them are pretty pathetic." The lone male, a Chinese young man wearing long pants, a sleeveless shirt and wrist-bands looked down in disinterest, his short hair flowing in the breeze. "That redheaded Devil and the girl with the long black hair, wouldn't want to deal with them though."

"ArE yOu SaYiNg YoU cOuLd HaNdLe ThE rEsT?"

"Feh, not all at the same time, I'm not stupid. There's a couple of others I don't like."

"Indeed. And as much as I hate it, we'll have to wait a little bit longer." The woman said, glaring at the man as he chuckled. "And what's so funny?"

"I thought you hated to wait."

Her eyes flashed an emerald green in color. "Of course I hate to wait, but if we're going to deal with them, we need to pick the right moment." She scoffed and turned. "Now come on."

"Yeah, yeah." The guy muttered as the trio walked through a portal and disappeared.

(-)

Issei groaned as he slumped down on the ground at the end of training. It had been over five days since the training started and his whole body felt like one big bruise. Even Asia's healing couldn't make the pain go away completely.

Hearing something snap next to him, he turned and his eyes widened as he saw Rias, wet, topless and wringing her shirt out. "What?! President?!"

"Huh?" The girl turned to look and blanched. "Sorry! Not Rias, it's me, Ranma! One of the trees had some water in the branches and it soaked me. Didn't notice you were here."

"Oh..." Issei muttered and slumped. "Man, I haven't seen nice boobies like those in so long that I thought you were Rias. I mean, your boobs are almost as big as hers are!"

"I'm sure." Ranma muttered and sighed. "How'd you get me confused for her anyway?"

"Boobs, red hair, boobs, red hair, and mostly boobs."

Ranma sweat-dropped at hearing that. "You certainly are honest."

"I haven't jacked off in almost a week!" Issei cried out, causing Ranma to fall over. "Man, I'd probably cream my pants right now if..."

"I get it." Ranma muttered and sighed as she looked at Issei's trembling form. "I can't believe I'm considering this, but I actually feel bad for you."

"Huh?" Issei asked and blushed as Ranma walked over and sat down next to him, still topless.

"I get it, you don't get off for more than a few days and you're feeling really frustrated and pent up, right?"

"Like you wouldn't believe." Issei grumbled and sat up. "I'd love to have a few moments alone to... To..." He averted his gaze. "Could you put your shirt on? If you keep those things out I might grab them."

"I'll give you ten seconds." Ranma said flatly, causing Issei's eyes to widen comically and he spun to look at the redhead. "Ten seconds, any longer and I hurt you."

"But..."

"You can't grab my ass." Ranma told him flatly. "I haven't even let Lilith do this, but if it helps you concentrate, go ahead."

"I.. I... I..."

"Fine, guess you don't want..." Ranma trailed off as Issei's hands grabbed her breasts and she sighed, grimacing as he squeezed and fondled them rather roughly. "Nngh, remember, I'm only doing this because I feel bad for you." After the ten seconds were up, she grabbed his hands and pulled them off. "You're lucky no one showed up." Ranma put her shirt back on and Issei was panting and grinning. "Dude, really?"

"I haven't felt boobs in a good long while! That was awesome!"

Ranma sighed, her face was red. "Can't believe I felt sorry for a perv like you. Also, you squeeze too hard and you're clumsy with your groping."

"It's not like I have my own pair of breasts that I can practice on constantly." Issei pouted. Sure, he got to squeeze boobs once in awhile, but it wasn't consistent.

"If you want to be a harem king, you better learn how to make a woman cum from just her breasts." Ranma laughed as Issei gave her a shocked look.

"But I thought that you..."

"Didn't care about your dream? Dude, if you're going to have a harem you better learn how to fondle and play with breasts of all shapes and sizes. Small ones are actually more sensitive." Ranma shook her head. Seriously, that dream was crude, but she could respect it. At least Issei knew what he wanted in life, and it wasn't like she had a problem with him having a harem, so long as everyone in it wanted to be in it.

"Really?" Issei asked as Ranma leaned back and looked up into the sky. "I would think bigger ones were."

"Nah, man. I love me big boobs myself, hell, I have a pair right now." Ranma put her hands under her boobs and lifted them up before dropping them down, laughing as Issei's eyes followed the bounce. "But the bigger they are, the more area there is to cover, it takes longer to feel it."

"But shouldn't bigger titties have more nerves and be more sensitive?"

"Yeah, but big boobs are more abused compared to smaller ones." She smirked at Issei's shocked look. "Trust me, the big funbags are great to play with, fondle, bounce, suck, squeeze, grope and all other fun things, but the things they run into... Trust me, you don't feel as much with them since your mind starts ignoring lots of touches. Besides, smaller boobs are great too."

Issei laughed at that, he couldn't believe it, he got to squeeze some rocking tits, sure they belonged to a guy, but that guy was a girl now and that was totally cool! And he got to talk to a girl, who was a guy, but was a girl right now, about breasts and have talk that he couldn't have with most people before leaning back. "Say, where are the others?"

Ranma closed her eyes and focused on feeling out everyone's energy. "Hmm... I think Kiba's the closest one back to camp and he'll be another minute. Mittelt's the farthest one away and she'll be here in three. So not..." She trailed off and opened her eyes as she felt Issei's hands on her boobs. "And why are you squeezing my titties again?"

"...I want a minute of squeezing time so I have something to masturbate to?"

Issei gulped at Ranma's darkened expression.

(-)

Rias sighed as she made her way back to camp, at least today's training was over. "I am never looking at hide and seek the same way again."

"I know what you mean." Akeno groaned and stretched, grimacing at how stiff she was feeling. "At least..."

"ISSEI NO HENTAI!"

There was an explosion that followed the yell and the two looked at each other and rushed to see what happened, though they had an idea.

When they got close, they saw Ranma adjusting her shirt and storming off, grumbling about how she couldn't believe that she felt sorry for Issei in the slightest.

Hurrying up, they saw Issei, his body twisted in ways that they were sure weren't possible, grinning lewdly. "Heh heh heh... Worth it."

Ending Note: Now, before anyone complains about Ranma letting Issei grope her boobs, remember that in canon, Ranma felt so bad for Happosai that she picked him up and put him in her shirt so he could fondle her boobs. And that Ranma is far more of a prude than this Ranma is.

And, yes, the whole "Tired Rias talking to Sona and Issei getting flak" is a total running gag.

If what Lilith described what Riser would do to Rias, Akeno, Koneko and Asia looks familiar, I can assure you... It was quite intentional if you know what piece of work I was referencing there.