Dance With the Devil

Kyoto Prologue

Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved, for if I did there would be a lot less cock-blocking going on.

Told you that I'd be back to posting after January was over. Hope you all survived the Polar Vortex.

To answer some reviews:

Mr. Haziq: You're talking about a setting where there's Sacred Gears that can destroy the planet, kill Gods, interact with the dead, warp dimensions, create anything the user wants, become sentient and walk around on their own, stop time, heal any damage, control the weather to the point that you can freeze all the Reapers in the Land of the Dead solid (Including the Greek God Thanatos) and there's people without Sacred Gears that can beat those with the above mentioned Sacred Gears. Look up what Saji's Sacred Gear can do to see some silly stuff. And that's not going into the people like Vasco Strada or Ajuka Beelzebub and the insane things they pulled off in the series.

aliesterus: Dunno, but she canonically has a hoarding habit as her mother commissioned the Occult Research Club to clean her room and she had like 5 copies of the same bear figurine and she gave each one a different name.

Temsen: Probably not a good idea, no. XD

Kaiya Azure: Not the first (or last) Fate reference I'll make in this story.

"So you spent all day yesterday getting punched in the face by Rias's cousin?" Ranma asked, laughing when Issei nodded at him.

"Master!" Lilith waved at him as she ran up to the two of them as they waited for the train. "Did you remember your pass?"

"Pass?" Issei asked as Ranma pulled out a talisman.

"Yeah, Demons and Devils normally can't enter any of Kyoto's more important temples." Ranma answered Issei. "Of course, mine's a bit special."

"Special how?"

"Due to an event that happened over three years ago," Lilith frowned as she realized it was almost four years by now, "Master's pass lets him not only bypass the defenses of the temples but he's a special VIP who can see the leader of the Kyoto Yokai association without needing to wait."

Issei stared as Lilith started to shiver. "Is the leader that scary?"

"She's evil! She'll throw you in flour, wrap you in seaweed, or some other food stuffs, throw you in boiling oil and turn you into tofu before she eats you alive!" Lilith's face was blue as she trembled.

"...Wouldn't you normally die from the boiling oil?" Issei looked at Ranma, who shrugged.

"Dunno." Ranma walked over to where Atsuko and Mittelt were at as they waited with some of the other girls from class. "But knowing the big tittied Fox MILF, she'd find a way."

Issei sweat-dropped, he'd have to remember not to piss that woman off.

(-)

Settling down at the back of the train, Ranma sighed as he tried to relax, but was finding it hard to do.

"What's wrong?" Mittelt asked. There were only two seats back at the end of the train and she had won the game of rock paper scissors to sit next to Ranma. Atsuko and Lilith were a couple of seats in front of them.

"Not used to riding in the train." Ranma muttered. "I was usually chasing after it to keep it from dragging me everywhere." Mittelt raised an eyebrow and Ranma elaborated. "Tied to a chain, forced to run as fast as the train or my legs would have snapped and my body would have been a broken and bloody mess."

The blonde gave him a stupefied look. "That is... How in Heaven's name did you pull it off?"

"Very, very carefully." Ranma said, wondering how he had survived some of his training exercises growing up. "Most of the time, if we caught a train, we rode on the roof."

One of the girls that he recognized from the morning crowds that liked to chase Issei around, poked her head over the top of her seat. "You can't expect me to believe that. No one does things like that."

Ranma gave her a flat stare. "I can juggle a fully grown woman who's taller than me, throw her under my leg without having her butt touch the ground while juggling a katana, a motorcycle, a bowl of fruit and a flaming chainsaw. If I really wanted to I could have had her naked before I finished." He smirked as the forehead girl's eyes widened. "And, really, chasing after a train isn't even that hard to do. Try riding on one in winter when it's windy."

"THAT SUCKED!" Lilith yelled from the other side of the chairs.

Mittelt shook her head. "How are you not insane, a psychopath or a mass-murdering monster?" She had known Angels who fell because they saw people abusing children. The fact that Ranma was pretty normal, outside of his sex drive and ideas for what constituted normal training, was a miracle in and of itself.

"Who says I'm not?" Ranma said so softly that only she could hear.

Mittelt looked at him in concern.

(-)

Hours later...

"Porno party, porno party!" Issei and his two friends were chanting to the side, much to everyone's annoyance.

"Seriously?" Mittelt gave them a flat stare as she rested her head on Ranma's lap. "You'd think they could wait a few hours before talking about that."

"You'd think." Ranma said as he ran his hand over her side softly, causing Mittelt to sigh happily.

"We will be arriving in Kyoto in a few minutes." The conductor's voice was heard over the loud speaker. "Please collect your things and be prepared to depart."

"Aww, I liked this." Mittelt said as she sat up and stretched, groaning as she felt the tension on her sides. "Gunna suck that we can't be in the same room." She muttered.

Ranma shrugged, though he agreed.

A couple seats up, Lilith just grinned to herself.

(-)

"Woah!" Everyone stared in shock at the hotel they were going to be staying at.

"Fancy!" More than one person said as they looked around, they couldn't believe the school had gotten them a hotel this extravagant.

"Too fancy for my tastes." Ranma muttered, sure, he could enjoy it, it looked nice, but this was way beyond what he was used to.

Then again, considering that he spent most of his life sleeping in tents, on dirt, grass, rocks and snow, saying he wasn't used to this was like saying someone from a developing nation wasn't used to clean running water.

"Listen up, everyone," Azazel said as he and Rossweisse stood in front of the group, "miss Rossweisse has a statement for all of you." When Rossweisse started talking about things on sale and other things, Azazel sighed and grinned. "And don't get into trouble with the law, stick together if possible yadda yadda. Okay, everyone go to your rooms, get your stuff unpacked."

(-)

Opening his room, Ranma just shook his head in amazement. It was a typically designed hotel room, though the bed was huge! It could easily fit four people on it and still have room for a large dog at the foot of the bed. There was also a mini-fridge near the door, a bathroom to the side and a large flat-screen television on the wall across from the bed. "And why do I have such a large room anyway?"

There was a knock on the door and he turned around to open it, blinking as he saw Atsuko, Lilith and Mittelt. "Lilith..." Ranma started slowly. "Did you perhaps hypnotize Azazel, Rossweisse, the rest of the chaperones and the clerks at the desk into letting all of us have this lovely room?"

"Why Master! I have no idea what you mean! It's not like I was telling them to look me in the eyes when the room assignments were handed out. And I surely didn't tell them to breathe the air when they were looking at my eyes. And there's no possible way that I left any sort of hypnotic suggestion on them making them think that if they split us up that they'd be doing a really bad thing or anything." Lilith gave him an innocent look.

Ranma shook his head and chuckled as he stepped aside and the others came in. "Good, because I wouldn't know what to do with all of this bed."

"I can think of a few things." Atsuko, shockingly, said as she gave Ranma a blush and a naughty grin.

"I'd love to, but..." Ranma sighed, getting a nod from Lilith.

"Yeah, something's not right." The succubus frowned, getting confused looks from Atsuko and Mittelt. "You two can't feel Ki or Youki, we can."

"And the energy feels..." Ranma frowned as he tried to explain it in a way they could all understand. "I guess like a rubber band pulled as far it can go and it's ready to snap off and fire into someone's eye."

"So what should we do?" Mittelt asked as she put her suitcase on the side of the bed. "Because I want to explore Kyoto."

"That's what we're going to do." Ranma said to her. "Listen, I don't know what's going on here, but with the energy so tense in this city, I want to see what's causing it."

"Good thing I got extras of these." Lilith tossed a talisman to Mittelt and one to Atsuko. "Since you're Devils now, you need that to visit the temples."

Ranma reached into his bag and pulled out a scroll and unrolled it on the bed. "This has all the leylines around Kyoto on it. Atsuko..."

"Already memorized." The cyborg gave him a thumbs up. "I'm taking it those large spots are the temples?"

"Yeah." Ranma nodded as he pointed to each one and listed them off. "However, there's plenty of other nodes around the city I want to explore. There should be some Youkai in those spots."

"Master, you don't think that..." Lilith trailed off as Ranma re-rolled the map.

"I sure as fuck hope not, this city doesn't need another blood bath." Ranma narrowed his eyes. "Let's go."

Opening the door, the four ran into Rossweisse, who was in a red track suit. "Oh! I was just coming to tell you that you have free time for the rest of the day, so you're free to explore Kyoto how you want."

Ranma smiled at her. "Thanks."

(-)

"Anything?" Ranma asked Lilith, who shook her head. "Fuck." He picked up his cell phone. "Atsuko, what do you know?"

"Less than I wish I did. I can't tell if there's anything wrong. Mittelt says that the energy lines aren't damaged, so that's something."

"Alright, head to the thousand door temple, we're heading there next." When she answered, he hung up the phone and started to head towards the temple in question.

"Do we have to?" Lilith whined, she did NOT want to see the person in charge of that temple.

"Only way to find out why things feel so tense is to go see her, Lilith." Ranma said without looking back, causing Lilith to whimper as she followed along, grumbling. He didn't even know why Lilith was upset about this, it wasn't even the head temple in Kyoto and there was a chance that Yasaka wasn't there at that time.

(-)

Ranma and Lilith got to the temple gates right behind Issei and the others. "Hey!" He waved as Issei, Xenovia, Asia and Irina turned around to see him. "What's up?"

"Just heading up to see the temple. Where have you been?" Xenovia asked.

Ranma gave them a serious expression. "I know none of you have been here before, but there's something seriously wrong with the Ki in the air."

"What do you mean?" Asia asked, getting a sigh from Lilith.

"What Master means is that there's something really wrong with this city right now and he can't tell what it is."

"So we're hoping the big tittied Fox MILF has some answers." Ranma really hoped his worst fears weren't happening.

After a few minutes of walking, Issei ran off, saying he had something to do.

"Say, Ranma..." Irina began, "you say you can feel the Ki in the city? How does it compare to before?"

Ranma shook his head at her. "Sorry, I don't know, I was still learning how to properly sense Ki and Youki at the time..." His eyes widened. "Sunnva!" He took off so fast that a gust of wind was all that remained.

The girls all looked at each other and took off after him.

(-)

"Outsider!" A little child in a red and white priestess outfit with blonde hair, though the tips were a light red in color, yellow eyes, several fluffy tails behind her and fox ears on the head glared at Issei. "How dare you?! Return mother to me right now!" Behind the child there were several people with black wings and bird-like faces hovering in mid-air. On the ground there were several people in fox masks and shrine priest outfits holding swords.

"...Huh?" Issei blinked in confusion, wondering what this was all about. "What are you talking about? I don't know anything about your mother."

"Liar! I won't be..."

"Hey!" Another male voice yelled out. "What's going on?"

"Another outsider?!" The little child yelled from on top of the gate. "Who d...ares..?"

The others around the child all gasped and started whispering.

"...Kunou?" Ranma asked as he came into view fully. "Is that you?" When the child got down from the gate and stood on the rocky steps trembling, eyes watering, Ranma got down on his knees. "Wow, you've gotten so big girl." Opening his arms slowly as she took one trembling step after another towards him, he smiled at her. "It's me, Ranma Saotome."

"DADDY!" Kunou yelled, tears falling out of her eyes as she tackled Ranma as hard as she could, sobbing into his chest. "DADDY! MOMMY IS! MOMMY! WAAAAHHH!"

"Shhh..." Ranma hugged her and rubbed her back as she cried. "It's okay, I'm here."

"...Daddy?" Issei asked in confusion as the others looked at Ranma and then at Irina, Xenovia, Asia and Lilith as they caught up. "Is there something you're not telling me?"

Lilith sighed, she knew this was going to be a long explanation. "Listen, why don't all of you go see Azazel and let him know that Master and I aren't going to be around tonight, okay?" She sighed as she saw Kunou continue to cry loudly. "Scratch that..." Walking over to Ranma, she put her hand on his shoulder, causing him to look at her. "Why don't you get caught up with her? I'll head back with the others, okay?"

Ranma nodded, thankful she decided to leave.

"...Daddy?" Issei muttered, still trying to figure that one out.

After everyone left, Ranma looked at the Youkai as they knelt down to him. "Okay..." He said as Kunou was calming down while he rubbed her back. "Can one of you please explain what's going on? And how come I can't feel Yasaka in the city?"

Well, those of you who guessed Yasaka's daughter Kunou was Ranma's daughter, congrats. Also, why does she have to have the same name as Tatewaki? GAH!

So I re-used an Omake, so I'm deleting it for those who get here later. It's from chapter 32 though.