Ranma 1/2, High School DxD, Darkstalkers and the rest are owned by their respective owners. I own nothing.

If only I did.

Chapter 3

"Hey." Ranma smiled as he walked into the nursury, where Kuroka was resting on a chair. "You okay?" He asked as he walked over and gave her a kiss on the lips.

"Yeah, still recovering from child birth." Kuroka chuckled at his amused smirk. "Yes, I'm just being lazy, nya."

"That's fine." Ranma smiled as he looked at the crib next to her. "...Amazing to think that these two..."

"Your sons?" Kuroka chuckled and looked into the crib where their sons, one with orange hair and one with white hair, were sleeping and jerking their arms and legs. "I thought I was going to die when they were coming out." She gave his arm a hug. "Thanks for being there with me."

Ranma smiled at her and looked at his sons. "I'm a little surprised that neither of them have black hair."

"Eh, black hair seems to be recessive in my family." Kuroka shrugged. "My mother, my grandmother and my little sister all have white hair and father had blond hair himself. The fact that I have black hair is a rarity."

"...I don't know if genetics works that way, but whatever." Ranma shrugged as he looked at his sons.

The one with orange hair suddenly squirmed and rolled over, opening his amber-colored eyes and looking up before letting out a scream, which caused his brother to grunt, wake up and start screaming as well.

Kuroka sighed and picked up the first one while Ranma picked up his other son. "Daidama," she said to the orange haired boy as she bounced him up and down while rubbing his back, "you can't scream like that, you woke Tenma up."

The only response she got was a cooing and a pawing at her breasts. "Oh, you're hungry, huh?" Kuroka chuckled and slipped her kimono down so that her son could feed. Daidama immediately latched on to her nipple and started sucking hard while his orange cat ears twitched. "H-hey, don't suck so hard, you know that the milk bar's always open." Kuroka smiled nervously as she chuckled. "Ranma, our son is trying to eat my boobs."

Ranma was thankful that Tenma calmed down really fast while being held in his arms. His son looked around with his blue eyes while his white cat ears twitched above his head. Tenma let out a yawn and snuggled against his father's arms before going back to sleep. "Don't worry, he can't fit something that big into his mouth."

"Not for a lack of trying." Kuroka said with one eye closed. "I wonder if this is what it's like for all parents?"

"I wouldn't know."

"Well, get used to it." Kuroka told him. "I want more kids than just this." She nodded at his look of surprise. "Someone's got to repopulate the Nekomatta species, and Shirone and I are the only two who can do that."

"Speaking of your sister..." Ranma said before looking at Tenma in shock. "...Kuroka, is my son purring?"

"Good thing I stole that artifact from Bastet, huh?" Kuroka chuckled.

"Speaking of which, I should contact her and offer compenstation." Ranma mused.

"What did you do with that thing, anyway?" Kuroka asked, "because I've seen you naked and I haven't seen it anywhere on you."

"I used a ritual when I was working for Jedah to fuse it with my body." Ranma told her while tapping his chest with his left hand. "It didn't take long to do. Anyway, your sister called me yesterday." Kuroka perked up. "You were sleeping and she said she wanted to come and see her nephews soon."

"...Oh." Kuroka's voice was soft as she sat down and rubbed Daidama's back. "...That's nice."

"...What?" Ranma was confused as he looked at her.

"She still hates me." Kuroka said softly. "I don't know how to fix our relationship, but she hates me." She looked up as Ranma put a hand on her shoulder. "What?"

"If she hated you, she wouldn't bother coming to see her nephews." Ranma told her. "Issei and Rias have been working with her, I'm sure that she just doesn't know what to think is all." Kuroka had a hopeful look on her face and Ranma smiled. "Besides, Issei threatened to make her sleep in a cat carrier if she didn't try to be nice."

Kuroka's face looked weird as she tried to process what she heard. "Pfffft!" Her cheeks bulged before she started to laugh. "Hahahahahaha!"

While the laughter was nice, it caused Tenma to wake up and start crying again, which ended with him on Kuroka's free breast, sucking his mother's milk like it was going out of style.

Ranma and Kuroka looked at the babies eating and then at each other before smiling and laughing.

(-)

On Earth...

"So, we're supposed to meet someone here?" Atsuko asked as she, Nabiki, Lillie, Leonardo and Koneko got off of the train.

"We're meeting with Ranma's little sister and her friend before all of us head to Makai." Nabiki told Atsuko. "And Koneko wanted to meet her nephews."

Koneko closed her eyes and nodded. "It will be nice to see them."

"And your sister?" Atsuko asked and Koneko let out an annoyed grumble. "...Sorry."

Koneko let out a slow sigh. "I'll be nice. It's just... Difficult, okay?"

"No, I get it." Nabiki told her. "My sisters and I fought a lot when we were younger too. Even if it's not for the same reasons you and Kuroka had a falling out, we still argued and things were always awkward for awhile after that."

Lillie suddenly pointed ahead of them. "Here." Everyone turned to see Hayate, who was wearing casual clothing, walking towards them, smiling and waving while Arisa, who was looking a bit flustered, walked behind her. Behind Arisa was Signum, Shamal, Vita and Zafira.

"I thought it was just the two of them?" Atsuko asked and Nabiki shook her head.

"No, Hayate always has at least one of her four knights..." She paused as she saw Reinforce Zwei sitting on Hayate's head, "correction, five knights, with her at all times when she goes somewhere. Since she's going to be in Makai for a few months, they all came with." Nabiki then nodded to the group as she stepped forward. "Are we all good then?"

"Yes," Signum nodded, "we have all of our clothes packed up and put away in storage, along with that annoyance that keeps trying to do evil things to Zwei."

Reinforce Zwei just giggled nervously.

"I was about to ask where she was." Nabiki sighed and shook her head. "Really, she seems like she's more trouble than she's worth."

"Tell me about it." Signum groused.

"Anyway," Nabiki looked around, "we should get into a secluded..." The next thing she knew, she and the others in the group all disappeared before reappearing in Makai, "place..." She spun around to see Lillie giving her a small smile while her hands glowed, "you could have given us a bit more warning before you transported us." Lillie just nodded before running off.

"So this is Makai?" Signum asked as she looked around. "...Why does the air smell weird?"

"It's the atmosphere." Nabiki told her. "From what I know there's going to be some people coming in tomorrow to fix the atmosphere and stuff. As powerful as Lilith is, she doesn't have the fine control to fix the atmosphere, plus she's pregnant, so we're getting some help to fix it. The ones that created this place didn't care about making the atmosphere pleasant."

"Should we worry about being attacked?" Shamal asked as she looked around in worry.

"Not while we're here." Nabiki said before pausing as something ran towards them. "...Oh right, there are centaurs here, aren't there?"

A blue centaur ran up to the group and what was surprising to most of them was that this one was female. As she got close to the group, she stopped and bowed. "Excuse me, is the lord of this castle in?"

Nabiki jerked a thumb behind her and towards the castle. "We were going to go see him. You're challenging him?"

The centaur grinned. "That's right! My brother failed to become the King of Makai, so I shall fight and defeat Ranma and become the Queen of Makai!" She looked at the group and frowned. "Unless one of you wants to fight me instead?"

Atsuko grinned as she stepped forward. "It might be fun."

"Have fun with that." Nabiki said as she, Lillie and Leonardo walked towards the castle. "Are you all coming with?" She asked as she looked back at Hayate, Arisa and the others."

"Will she be okay?" Arisa asked as she ran after Nabiki while Hayate and her knights followed after, though they did chance glances back.

There was a sudden slamming sound and most of them looked back to see Atsuko slamming the centaur to the ground while putting her in a headlock.

"Yeah, I'm sure." Nabiki smirked as the group walked in and ignored how Atsuko and the centaur wrestled outside.

After getting inside and away from the door, Hayate spoke up. "That was surprising."

"What was?" Nabiki asked her, curious as to what she was thinking.

"I mean..." Hayate trailed off. "I've never seen a horse person before."

"They're rare in Makai," Nabiki told her, "I think only a few dozen exist. Apparently their ancestors in Ancient Greece fell through a portal that landed them on the outskirts of Makai and they've lived there since. Anyway, I know that most of you are only here for a little while, so..." There was a loud explosion heard somewhere in the castle. "Huh?" Nabiki asked as her eyes glowed blue. "What the heck just happened?"

She relaxed as she saw Bulleta covered in smoke while coughing. "Dang it!" Bulleta yelled in frustration. "Stupid exploding bullets! Why can't you be easier to make?!"

"Well," Nabiki's eyes turned back to normal, "just the local crazy girl having an accident while making stuff."

"...Which one?" Hayate asked, causing Nabiki to laugh. "What?"

"Sorry, just reminded of something. Let's..." Nabiki trailed off as she saw Ravel walking towards them. "Ravel, why are you wearing a maid outfit?"

"I like it." Ravel smiled at Nabiki. "Plus, I want to be able to pull my weight around here. We need to hire more maids for a full staff, but I want to help out."

"Huh..." Nabiki nodded, "well, we have others with us, so..."

Ravel smiled. "We don't have enough rooms prepared yet, sorry."

"It's fine." Signum told her. "We can make due."

Ravel nodded and motioned for them to follow after her. "Come, we'll get you all set up with rooms."

(-)

A bit later...

Ranma nodded as he and Lilith walked out into the main area where Mittelt, Nabiki, Atsuko, Bulleta, Ravel, Hayate, Arisa, Yohko, Reinforce Zwei, the Wolkenritter and Cologne were all standing around. "Well, I'm not one for speeches, but it sure has been awhile since we were all together. And I know that some of you want to know why we're here." Ranma said as he walked up to them. "Truth is, thanks to how the world works, and you being part of my peerage, all of you will be targets from various threats out there. So I wanted to have us get closer, train and learn how each other fights."

"I figured this was going to happen." Nabiki chuckled, "just a training camp?"

"Well..." Ranma trailed off and nodded behind them as a very pregnant Serafall Leviathan walked in, grinning. "Another problem is something Ravel pointed out to me... Politics."

"And who better to help you than one of the four Devil Kings who happens to be your wife?" Serafall said with a wide grin on her face.

Vita grinned as she cracked her knuckles. "I don't mind training, I train cadets back on Crannagan."

"Besides," Serafall continued, "with the International Games, all of you will be, at one point or another, be forced to participate."

Hayate and Arisa both sweat-dropped heavily. "Wait, why am I being dragged into this?" Arisa asked.

"You don't have a choice," Ravel told her, "as Ranma's pawn, you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Don't worry, we'll help you become adequet. I'm going to be training along side you as well."

"What about me?" Hayate asked with a raised hand. "I got my magic differently from most people and my spells are big and take a long time to fully cast."

"Well then," Ranma said as another maid landed on the ground next to him, "Miko, what is it?"

"I can help train them too." The purple haired woman said. She looked at Hayate, "and despite what you might think, I do have basic ninja training."

Ranma nodded, "well, I think this could work. We all need to know how each other fights so we can work together, whether against someone who's trying to seriously hurt us or in a Rating Game."

"You just wanted us together to make us beat each other up?" Arisa asked and Ranma shook his head. "Huh?"

"Like I said, it had been too long since we were all together, we can catch up when we're not training." Ranma smiled at her.

In the back of his mind, however, he thought back to what Issei had said before he had made Arisa and Hayate part of his peerage. 'What if there are beings in that other world stronger than the Beast of the Apocalypse?'

It was a terrifying thought.

After all, anything that could make an old-school Devil like Rizevim excited to fight wasn't something he wanted to deal with.

'And the best way to deal with that is to get as strong as possible.' Ranma thought to himself before he glanced at Signum, Vita, Shamal and Zafira and mentally smirked. 'Plus, it might be fun to fight those four, since I know they don't like me.'

(-)

Meanwhile...

"So," the Fallen Angel known as Ruax looked at the others as they stood in the conference room after most everyone had left, "we're in agreement then? While the current alignment is somewhat tolerable, we all know that the real issue is that rogue element that has the favor of our leaders."

"Yes," the Devil known as Uzza, nodded. "I dislike the fact that he was able to bypass all the normal means of becoming a high ranking Devil. I am not the only one."

The final person, a female Angel named Cassiel sighed softly. "I mostly dislike him because he tempts our Lady Gabriel. Before he came around, she was the Angel of Chastity, but I fear that she is giving into sin and she must be corrected in her actions."

Ruax suddenly grinned, "if we could kill two birds with one stone, I would suggest we take Gabriel out somehow and use her as bait to lure him in." His grin faded as he looked upset, "sadly, she is far too powerful for us to capture."

"There is a way." Cassiel told Ruax as she moved a strand of blonde hair out of her face, "I know of a spell that is used to seal the movements of Angels while they are forced to confront their sins. It should not work on her, but if we could modify it and make it stronger..."

"Allow this one," a fourth voice said the three looked at the speaker, "Puck can enhance any magic circle you make. Increasing it to seal away an Angel, even one such as the Angel of Destruction."

"Chastity," Cassiel growled as several spears of light appeared above her, "she has not been the Angel of Destruction since the end of the Great War and Father's death."

Puck held up his hands and smiled, "calm yourself, traitorous one, while I understand you care for her, I respect people who are very powerful." He held up his left hand, extended his index finger and wagged it while shaking his head. "Low level Angels who should have become Fallen already do not scare me." He disappeared and reappeared above Cassiel's head while resting his hands on her head and looking over her head while kicking his legs in the air. "Anyway, should you lure her into a trap of some sort and deploy the seal, this one shall increase its power to hold her. We can use her to draw in the one you dislike the most."

Uzza suddenly grinned as a thought came to him. "A challenge then." He looked at the others in the eye. "Whoever manages to kill Ranma Saotome will get to decide Gabriel's fate."

"Oooh!" Ruax had a gleam in his eyes. "Making her into a Fallen Angel was a major goal of the Grigori. I will love to do just that."

Cassiel gave Ruax a dirty look. "I shall have her memories of him erased so she can return to being the Seraph of Chastity and stop acting like a love-sick human."

"I merely wish to kill her." Uzza grinned. "But we will need more than just us."

Cassiel nodded, "of course, there are a few Angels who despise Ranma Saotome and will help out. We all run the risk of becoming Fallen, but we must take it if we wish to save Lady Gabriel from herself."

"The Old Satan Faction has a few members left," Uzza mused, "I can ask them for support."

"And there are Grigori who would love to have a good, old fashioned throw-down to the bitter end if possible." Ruax smirked.

Puck just grinned and nodded, "good, good. Let's draw up the plans. If you need a victim to be saved, Puck can play the victim for you."

Puck personally didn't care what happened to these pawns he was using. But the chance to hurt the one who brought shame and dishonor to the Fae? He'd be a fool to not take it.

End Chapter 3

Yes, I know, Tenma is the most common name for Ranma's son. As for Daidama... It literally translates to Orange Horse. That's all.

As for Uzza, Ruax and Cassiel, those are actually names of biblical Angels. And yes, even in DxD canon, there were Angels who worked with the Khaos Brigade.