I don't know if I'm the kind of writer to warn his readers when there's a lemon in the chapter, but if I was, this would be one of those times.
Honestly though, there's a lot of fluff and sexy bits up ahead.
Enjoy.
The night after Akeno confessed her heritage to Yuuji, she didn't dream at all.
The jubilant, ear to ear smile suggested that she'd gone to sleep too satisfied, or perhaps too exhausted to do anything else.
Likely a bit of both.
She had told him who she was, precisely the kind of monster she'd always been, and he'd accepted it.
He'd accepted her.
The dark little part of her had wanted to test it, test him to see if he really meant it, though, a much larger part of her had been firm in the knowledge that he would accept that too.
So in the end, she'd let go, completely and fully for perhaps the first time. She'd shown him just how much that had meant, just how far she'd fallen for him.
Then, she'd shown him how depraved and twisted her passions could be.
He'd accepted that too.
Then, he'd turned around and one-upped her.
The end result was a shrine that looked like a pair of hurricanes had gone to war within its walls.
Not a single door left intact, no wall left undented, and at least one room was only mostly covered by ceiling.
Oh, and the floor in at least one location had proven to be far weaker than Akeno's hip bones, thus she had a different (better) excuse for any walking trouble she might have in the morning.
There were scorch marks that reeked of ozone, there were dull grey ropes and chains and other things lying here or there, some still wet, and finding their clothing would require an expedition team at least.
The fluid covering wall, ceiling, floor, and, well, the pair of lovers, for the most part, wasn't blood.
Yes, it would be accurate to say the raven-haired beauty, lying in a tangled heap with her lover, had had a very, very good night.
In the end, they'd only just managed to remain in the building when they'd collapsed, one of Yuuji's, and both of Akeno's legs- both coiled around Yuuji's one- having escaped the confines of the now door-less meeting room they were curled up in to rest on the porch.
So the happily exhausted Akeno didn't dream at all.
Yuuji was a different matter.
Usually, when strangers appeared in his dreams, he could never quite make out their faces.
Tonight was no different.
Crowds of people, perhaps wandering aimlessly, perhaps moving with a destination on their mind, milled about in the featureless gloom.
Murmurs and whispers and jostling movement, weaving his way forward through bustling crowds felt and heard, but never quite seen.
Further and further he travelled, pushing towards…
Nowhere at all, really.
Yuuji didn't know where he was going.
Frankly, he didn't really care, either.
He just wanted out of the crowd, away from this faceless mass that pressed against him heedlessly from every possible direction.
Out.
Out.
Out-
With a suddenness that made his head spin, Yuuji found his wish granted.
He was alone.
Nothing but the vast darkness, and the lifeless gray that curled around his feet.
Yuuji wandered onwards through the mist, no longer certain if his newfound solitude was blessing or curse.
And that's when it loomed out of the gloom, stretching its way far out of sight, towards an unseen sky.
A once mighty tree whose colossal branches spread wide enough to hold the horizon, mist coiling about and concealing its roots.
The imagined image marred by how the bark and branches were the listless iron he was so familiar with.
As if the tree itself had been stained by the lifeless grey of the Arsenal Memoir.
The mist around the base of the tree receded, revealing brilliant colors that made Yuuji recoil as vivid golds and reds scraped at his eyes.
Pierced through, twisted and warped by the iron roots that had overtaken it, were the remnants of a massive, almost impossibly ornate throne.
No mortal being could have sat upon such a throne.
The torn remnants of the lush, red velvet seat alone were large enough to seat the main building of Kuoh Academy.
Yuuji wasn't confident that all the gold in the world would be enough to replicate the throne.
And yet it lay broken, destroyed beyond repair by the still larger tree that had overtaken it.
Yuuji nearly fell to his knees as his vision lurched in nauseating fashion.
It was if he'd taken a step back, not by a few feet, but by miles in their hundreds.
For the first time, he could see the strange tree in its entirety.
See the only green and growing thing in this world of gloom.
Twisting around the uppermost trunk of the sad dead tree, like a verdant crown to accompany the throne below.
Rough textured leaves of warm green, edged with sharp spines in a way that almost reminded him of thorns.
Milky white berries like the eyes of a blind man.
Glistening even in the darkness, not with dew, but blood and rust, slowly dripping to the ground below, and running down the grey bark of the tree.
Drip, drip.
He could feel it.
Dripping down his chest, the wetness causing a deep chill to-
Yuuji's eyes opened to the rich wood of the shrine ceiling, and a strange chill blowing across the dampness of his chest, contrasting bizarrely with the wet, hot-
He lifted himself up onto his elbows, to find a still very much naked Akeno dragging her tongue across his bare chest.
Their eyes met, Akeno's tongue frozen in its place.
As his eyebrow rose, she retracted her tongue and scowled.
"Go back to sleep, Yuuji."
Yuuji remained silent.
Akeno let out an irritated huff.
"You never wake up after me, do you know how difficult the timing is?"
"Timing?"
Now he was honestly curious.
Akeno nodded slowly, as if she couldn't quite believe he was asking the obvious.
"Timing. How am I supposed to wake you up with morning service if you always wake up first?"
"... And you're licking my chest because…?"
The prim and proper demeanor she tried to convey was firmly thwarted by the flush of her cheeks, among other things.
"Well obviously, we made quite a mess, so I was being a dutiful lover and cleaning up as I went. I would have made it down far enough in another minute or two, but you just had to wake up."
"It's chilly."
Akeno didn't say anything, glaring at him once again like he did something wrong.
One piece of curiosity satisfied, Yuuji let his gaze drift around the room.
The lower half of their bodies were lying on the porch, the reason they were exposed to the open air likely being one of several shogi lying in the courtyard in various states of ruin.
The walls were… messy.
He'd just go with messy if asked, he decided.
Hopefully Rias didn't inspect the property before the repair crew, whom he didn't envy at all, showed up and got their work well underway.
Or, maybe he or Akeno should just burn the shrine to the ground before anyone else showed up, allowing for a fresh start.
Potential blasphemy shouldn't be a concern for a Devil, right?
Past the scent of blood, and sweat, and semen, was the sharp tang of ozone, Yuuji dimly remembering that at some point a somewhat overstimulated Akeno had loudly, passionately proclaimed that lightning made everything better, and then set out to prove it.
... Which explained the tingling.
He was also pretty sure that the various scratches across his back had clotted to the ground, and at least half of the aches in his body would defy medical science.
Among other things, Yuuji had discovered that yes, his metal arm did have a vibrate function.
Just about any function he could want, really, if he was willing to experiment or Akeno gave him the pouty eyes.
The definition of 'weapon' had been thoroughly abused that night.
His prosthetic was feeling rather strange right now, being marginally more sensitive than any of its mundane counterparts, so he could tell that the inner workings seemed to have become a bit…
Clogged.
After a moment, Yuuji let his vision fall back to the warm violet orbs that glittered at him with a fond and playful light.
They nodded and spoke as one.
"Totally worth it."
Akeno giggled as Yuuji smirked at her, both drifting into silence after that and enjoying each others warmth.
"Yuuji, thank you."
"You're welcome."
"And… I love you.
Yuuji blinked once, and just let his answer slip out on its own, not quite sure what he'd hear.
"I love you as well, Akeno."
*Crack*
With a low hiss, the can was popped open and the contents lifted to the woman's lips.
Sighing loudly in appreciation, she leaned her head back against the dull iron she leaned against, taking a drag from her cigarette as she stared up at the branches high above her.
A good thing he'd been too busy staring to actually explore around a bit more.
She didn't really know what she wanted to say to him yet anyways.
Another loud sigh, and she shook her head vigorously to shake the cobwebs out.
This failed in its attempted purpose, as the cobwebs were made of more alcohol than melancholy, but succeeded in whipping her long blue ponytail against her nose.
Jerking upright with a snort, she rubbed her nose with one hand, thankfully not drunk enough to rub the lit cigarette against her own face, even if it was a near thing.
Well, embarrassing mishaps aside, being dead wasn't all that bad.
She could still get a good buzz going if she tried, and since the rules in this dreary place seemed rather flexible, smoke and booze runs were a thing of the past.
She wasn't really surprised that she'd ended up here, even if she really shouldn't have ended up here at all.
He had always been bad at letting go.
"Ah, what the hell. Complicated stuff like that never suited me anyways. Besides, left him a little early, I think."
Another puff of smoke.
"Damn though, he really hasn't grown up at all, what the hell you doing out there, JB?"
... Well, she couldn't really blame either of them when it came right down to it.
She hadn't finished growing up either.
A soft humming filled the room as Yuuji stepped out of the transportation circle and into the common room of the dorm.
The humming was coming from a smiling Akeno, currently being carried in his arms, her own draped around his neck.
Those arms tightened suddenly as she gave a sharp gasp.
Turning his head down to her in confusion, Yuuji was met with a look of incredible guilt.
Why would she-?
Oh.
They had planned not to do anything like that yesterday, or last night for that matter.
Hell, they hadn't even intended to sleep in the same room.
Today was supposed to be the day of of Yuuji's date with Rias, and they hadn't even spent the night at home.
How very considerate.
It had been awhile since Yuuji felt like this much of an asshole.
Would she even want to?
Sure, they'd showered and changed, but the scratches hadn't healed.
Yuuji didn't really know how dating multiple women was supposed to work, but he doubted Rias would appreciate him being 'marked' if they decided to go all the way.
This…
"This isn't good. We- I… oh Rias…"
Akeno was starting to hyperventilate.
Somehow, the usual tactic of 'kissing her to take her mind off things' seemed inappropriate.
Well, they still had a few hours before the date…
And there were footsteps coming down the stairs.
Akeno froze in his arms when Rias, with hair wet from her shower and little more than a loose, short white bathrobe padded down the last step.
Her smile did its best to illuminate the room even as those radiant blue eyes dimmed, for just a moment.
"Welcome home, you two."
"Yeah."
"Rias…"
Akeno began hesitantly.
"I'm sorry."
Everything went still.
It hadn't been Yuuji, it hadn't been Akeno.
Rias had apologized.
She pushed on before they could find their voices again.
"I know how scared you were to confess to Yuuji, I knew you couldn't wait anymore, I even encouraged you to go ahead with it yesterday..."
Rias closed her eyes and took a deep, shuddering breath.
"And I'm still jealous. What kind of Master, what kind of friend am I, if you finally work up the courage to bear your heart and all I can feel is jealousy!?"
She retreated back onto the first step.
"Rias, you're wrong, you're not the one who should be- Rias wait!"
A desperate Akeno exploded into motion, her legs thankfully doing their job without falter as she caught Rias before she could take another step, pulling her off the stairs and into a tight embrace.
"A-Akeno! Stop it, that's enough! Akeno, let me go!"
Rias struggled in her Queen's grip, but couldn't seem to muster any strength for it.
"Rias… please, just listen. I'm the one who should be sorry, I'm the one who couldn't wait one more day to dump my problems on someone else. Rias, I'm so, so sorry."
"T-that's… no! We both know how important that was! I'm your King, it's my job to put you first!"
"No, it's your job to be happy. With us. Rias, it's okay to be angry. It's okay to be jealous, it's okay to be sad."
Akeno turned one eye back to the silently standing Yuuji.
"It's okay to tell us what you really want."
His dull voice sent a tremor through the crimson-haired girl, trying her best to wilt away and disappear.
"I…"
Another deep breath.
"I… I don't want what you have, Akeno. I don't want what you have, Yuuji. I… I just want a chance…"
Akeno gave her a reassuring squeeze as she faltered, beckoning her on wordlessly.
"I just want a chance to have something of my own… not as Rias Gremory, not as Buchou, just as Rias. Is that so wrong?"
Two voices answered as one.
"No, it isn't."
Rias took another deep breath, and this time, the tension went with her.
When her eyes opened, they were accompanied by a dusting of color across her soft cheeks, and rather than a tremble, it was more of a squirm.
"T-then… i-if you're not busy, Y-Yuuji, would you… accompany me, today?"
"Nope."
Rias flinched, but Yuuji's smile carried such an uncharacteristic sense of warmth with it, that her pain withered before it was even really felt.
"No, I'm going to do this right."
Yuuji strode forward to the furiously blushing crimson-haired girl as the beaming ravennette released her at last, and stepped aside.
Yuuji gently took her hand as Rias' fidgeting intensified, and she tried her best to keep both eyes locked on him, without looking directly at him.
"Rias, I don't think I deserve you at all, but if you could find it in your heart to spare me just one day, it would mean the world to me."
Rias blinked her watery blue eyes.
In the end no words could escape, so she gave his hand a tiny, halting squeeze and gave a stuttering nod of her head.
"Thank you, Rias."
After that, she was pretty sure he'd apologized for something that she really couldn't remember since whatever it was must have happened so long ago she couldn't remember it.
Just like she couldn't remember having gone back up stairs, or having seated herself on a stool in front of her bathroom mirror.
Oh, and Akeno was there too.
Strange.
Oh, but Akeno could help her with something, couldn't she?
Right, the-
One hand cupping her face, the adoring coo that slipped from Akeno's lips ruptured her possibly scattered train of thoughts.
"Wha-?"
Came the detailed request for clarification.
"Daydream later, ufufu~. While I'm sure he'll appreciate you with nothing on, why don't we at least give him something to take off?"
Sorry Akeno, Rias isn't home.
Call back later-
Rias' train of thought was this time interrupted by a soft moan, slipping from her own lips.
She blinked rapidly as her keen intellect concluded that the moan likely bore a connection to Akeno's stray hand.
One perfect brow arched as she lowered her gaze to the hand currently grasping onto her bared right breast.
"Did you just grope me?"
Akeno gave another squeeze, as if making sure, before nodding.
That seemed wholly unnecessary, if perhaps not wholly unwelcome, just as the ageless wisdom in those violet eyes seemed wholly inappropriate.
"Pinching your cheek would have ruined you complexion."
Declared the worldly, raven-haired sage, unrepentantly continuing her subdued molestation of the girl seated in front of her.
Rias gave her the look, and Akeno grudgingly retracted her hand.
That one silky finger feathered its way across a pert nipple, sending tingles all the way through her body, must have surely been coincidence.
Or Akeno was horny.
Again.
The odds were even, she felt.
Probably.
Apparently Akeno's other hand had not been idle, as the brush ran its way through the crimson river before it.
"Hmm, I think we'll leave your hair down, Yuuji really likes watching it catch the light."
'H-he does?"
Akeno nodded with a soft hum, pretending not to notice as Rias preened a bit.
She was glad that things had been smoothed over for now, she really had felt bad about monopolizing Yuuji all night, the night before Rias was supposed to have her long awaited date.
Rias' hesitant voice snapped Akeno out of her musings before she could pursue the gloomy train of thought any further.
"Akeno, I… I, um…"
"Rias?"
Akeno smiled patiently, easily being able to understand that Rias had began speaking before she knew what she wanted to say.
Unheard of in any public setting, but here, where they were alone, Rias didn't have to be a King, and could just be a teenage girl.
Akeno was sincerely hoping that with Yuuji, Rias could find even just one more place where that was true.
"I… I'm n-not sure I'm ready…?"
Oh.
That was a bit concerning- oh, Rias was blushing.
So that's what she meant.
At the silent prompt, Rias continued, face red as she avoided her friends gaze in the mirror.
"I mean, to… you know…"
"Know…?"
"T-to sleep with Y-Yuuji."
Akeno gave a slow sigh and leaned her body forward, pressing up against Rias' back as she draped her arms over her shoulders.
"He won't mind, you know."
Rias jerked up in clear surprise, staring wide eyed at Akeno's patiently smiling reflection.
"H-he won't!? B-but you and him do it all the time!"
"Rias, you're misunderstanding something important, I think."
Her heart skipped a beat when Rias wilted a little.
"S-should I not? D-does he not, you know… s-see me that way?"
Akeno bit back a disappointed groan and stared hard at Rias, with one eyebrow raised.
She took the time to insure her best friend looked suitably chastised before continuing.
"No, that's not what I mean. Yuuji is fully on-board with sleeping with you. I know, because I asked if he would."
"Y-you asked!?"
Akeno gave a shameless nod, smiling wickedly.
"Ara, Yuuji-kun still had his reservations about the whole 'harem' thing, so I thought that if I broached the fun subjects he'd be less worried about how I thought."
"That makes sense… I suppose?"
"Mhm, so if you want Yuuji, go for it. I can share, ufufu~."
"B-but if I don't want to and he does… won't that be… awkward?"
Akeno shook her head firmly.
"Yuuji's a bully. But when it comes to being a bully about things like that, he's only a bully if you want that from him."
"... I don't understand."
"JB and I have talked. Yuuji is the sort who gets off the most on the girl's reaction. If you aren't enjoying yourself, he won't enjoy it either. That both means he's amazing in bed-"
Akeno took a moment to shiver in delight.
"-And that he's going to be incredibly attentive to your needs. If you say you're not ready, he won't push. If you are ready on the first date, like I was, Yuuji won't accept any hints, no matter how blatant."
Akeno's lustful smile deepened as her breath grew husky.
"He'll make you say exactly what you want, and then he'll give it to you in ways you could never imagine."
Akeno trailed off as she noticed Rias gaze of total concentration, the flush in her cheeks causing it to seem less like the absolute focus of the Gremory King, and more the glittering eyed daydreams of a smitten girl.
That look faltered rather quickly when Akeno started to giggle, but the nervousness had by now been replaced in its entirety by girlish pouting, and thus Akeno would take the win.
Her arms gave a reassuring squeeze.
"Rias, it's not a contest. Move at your own pace, and please, please don't try to rush because you think you should."
She had firm evidence that faking it was impossible with Yuuji, in the form of the single most embarrassing moment of her entire life.
Yuuji had seemed a bit distracted, during one of their nightly sessions, and so a slightly miffed Akeno had gotten the brilliant idea of growing more vocal than she really felt the need to be, in an effort to snap him out of it.
It had worked perfectly, and failed just as spectacularly.
She had reclaimed his full attention, almost instantly.
She had also been subjected to the soul crushing embarrassment of feeling certain parts of her man go limp while still inside of her.
As Yuuji slid out of her folds from the sudden lack of tension, he had calmly stared at the mortified girl, one eyebrow raised, waiting until Akeno was too ashamed to even look at him to ask if she was done being an idiot.
Suffice to say, from then on, nothing that came from Akeno within the bedroom was anything but total honesty.
Rias had gathered her thoughts enough to distract Akeno from her existential horror by then, thankfully.
"OK. Thank you, Akeno."
"Anytime, Rias."
Their time spent preparing for the date was much more pleasant, after that.
He was beginning to wonder if there was some ancient law, binding modern Japan itself with certain immutable rules.
Perhaps it was the work of the gods, because Yuuji had learned from Akeno that the Japanese pantheons were not only alive and well, but highly influential within their native lands.
This train of thought had been prompted by the small line that he and Rias were standing in, arm and arm.
The line to the crepe stand in the park they'd selected for their picnic.
This was three for three now, as every date Yuuji had been on while on Japanese soil had inevitably wound up crossing paths with a crepe stand.
Raynare hadn't actually stopped at said crepe stand, them having just left the cafe they'd stopped at, but she'd been sorely tempted to say the least.
They were also on a picnic, so Yuuji could at least hope that he didn't somehow end up being used as a model in a clothing store, otherwise he'd begin to think he'd been cursed.
He was pretty that asking for an exorcism would just get him killed, being a Devil and all.
He was also fairly certain that eating crepes before lunch would affect their appetites, but Rias had been drawn like a moth to the flame, and so he'd held his tongue.
He had the handle of a well-laden picnic basket under his right arm, preferring to offer his flesh and blood arm to the girl at his side.
Yuuji found himself strongly reminded of Akeno when they reached the head of the line, as Rias had given him a single, critical stare before ordering on his behalf without an ounce of hesitation.
The crepe finally put a stop to the humming, he noted, not that Yuuji had minded all that much, since she was still glowing.
When he'd met Rias in the common room, she'd scarcely been able to ask his opinion before he gave it in typical blunt fashion, and the only word out of his mouth, at first, had been 'amazing'.
Weak to compliments without ulterior motive, the highly sought after daughter of nobility had required some time to recover her meager defenses.
Then, the arm Yuuji had linked with hers, in order to guide along the dazed beauty, had found itself very much trapped.
He'd actually averted his gaze, briefly, unsure of what expression he himself was making before the sheer radiance of the smile across her lips.
Rias hadn't noticed that even more people were staring at the young beauty than normal, too busy beaming ear to ear and humming happily to herself.
She'd likely never know, but after Akeno had seen the two of them off, she'd promptly scooped a pillow off a nearby couch and squealed into it until she ran out breath.
If Rias was going to be that cute all the time, she honestly wasn't sure her heart would be up to the task.
For their date, Rias, with her friends help, had chosen a tight-fitting, long sleeved tan top with a strapless neckline that left her shoulders, upper arms and the top half of her cleavage exposed to the open air.
It was tucked into a pair of scarlet short shorts, a shade or two darker than her hair, with silver buttons, over top of rich brown leggings.
Completing the outfit were simple flats matching her shorts in color, and a plaid beret in a mixture of white, brown and red.
"Mm, it's good!"
Rias chirped, the uppermost of her daintily crossed legs bouncing slightly as she enjoyed the treat.
"That so?"
Yuuji asked, calmly taking bites of his much less sugary crepe.
Or, 'suitably boring crepe' as Rias had teasingly put it.
Even though it still had whipped creme.
"Mhm, try it!"
Rias thrust that monstrosity she called a crepe towards him, and Yuuji, girding himself with his most convincing poker face, managed to look accepting, rather than like he'd prefer eating the bench they were seated on.
"Hmm, that is pretty good."
Yuuji admitted, after taking a very small bite.
Rias nodded, looking inordinately pleased.
"Your turn."
Until Yuuji offered his own crepe in return, and then she blushed crimson for reasons Yuuji wasn't entirely sure of.
"Do you not want to?"
"No! I definitely want to!"
Rias exclaimed, oddly insistent.
"If you're sure…"
Rias was scowling at him a little as she leaned forward to taste test, distracted just as Yuuji planned.
So when she took a bite of his crepe, she didn't notice immediately that a small dollop of creme had ended up on her cheek.
That is, until Yuuji told her she had something on her face, and, with his free hand tilting her chin, swooped his head down to lick it clean before she could react.
Rias blinked at nothing, once, twice, with eyes suspiciously glassy.
Ever the dutiful servant, Yuuji calmly relieved her of her crepe before it could end up in her lap.
She couldn't even stay mad at him when her system rebooted, because her adorable pout (and she knew it was adorable damn it!) rather than rightfully prompting guilt, just made him laugh at her!
It wasn't even his subdued chuckles that made you second-guess if he'd reacted at all, no,, she could swear his laughter even had an echo!
Honestly, he didn't play fair at all, did he?
She decided she'd forgive him though, just this once, if such a simple thing could make him smile like that.
A mild breeze whispered through the grass around them and the leaves high above their head, bringing with it the faint scent of flowers in bloom.
Eyes closed, Yuuji enjoyed the soft winds, just as he enjoyed the warmth of the body next to him.
"Hmm, really outdid yourself there."
Enjoying the simple lunch that Rias had made the night before, tucked away in the basket he'd carried.
Rias made a pleased noise at his side, and gradually he allowed his eyes to flicker open once more.
"How beautiful."
"Yes-"
Rias cut herself off, just having noticed that while he was facing mostly forward, his one visible eye focused on her, and her alone.
A dusting of pink graced her cheeks as she ducked her head, though not far enough to conceal the smile tugging at her lips.
"Sneak attacks are no fair."
She murmured without any heat.
"That should be my line."
It really wasn't fair when the sun slipped through the trees, at just the right angle to send her crimson locks ablaze like that.
Yuuji would wonder from time to time why all the Devils and Fallen Angels in his life seemed so bright.
Unaware of the set of blue eyes watching him, Yuuji frowned softly as the thought struck him.
When had his world gotten so bright?
A soft body pressed up against him as Rias leaned her head on his shoulders.
"I don't know, Yuuji, but I'm glad it did."
"Said that last bit out loud, did I?"
"Mhm."
"I'm glad too, I think."
For a brief while, nothing was heard but the breeze.
"This is… relaxing. It's rare I can feel like just Rias. It's…"
Yuuji kept his silence for a moment, waiting for that faint whisper to continue.
After a moment, he tilted his head downwards, noticing that the slight weight against him had been ever so slightly increasing.
She probably didn't even see it herself, but the tension had never seemed to fully leave Rias, as of late.
Just like she probably didn't know she wasn't fooling even a single one of them.
Even if it was just a slight tension of the shoulders, or a faint narrowing of the eyes, always the signs were there since they'd limped away from the battle with Kokabiel.
She'd been extra attentive, and always seemed to let the members of the household out of her sight with a faint air of reluctance.
Not now, though.
She seemed so delicate, so fragile, leaned up against him.
Though, the serene smile on her sleeping face was one he doubted he'd ever forget.
Finally, peace.
It was strange, he supposed.
Somewhere along the way he'd been allowed to sample the normal life that he'd always craved in secret.
It had only taken his death and resurrection, as a creature of darkness, to see his modest dream reach fruition.
Gently, he shifted the sleeping girl to a more comfortable resting spot.
He supposed he'd have to make his gratitude clear some other time.
"You really were tired, huh? Rest for awhile then, Rias... I'm not going anywhere."
No, he wasn't.
Kazami Yuuji was right where he wanted to be.
Long lashes fluttering open, Rias nestled her head against her favorite pillow, pleasantly warm from both her own body heat, and the soft sunlight peeking through the curtains.
She must be having a dream, she supposed, because the rich carpet of her room looked suspiciously like grass.
Oh well, if she was dreaming then no one could fault her for relaxing a bit.
With a languid yawn, she shifted her head to look up at the dark ceiling of her room.
Belatedly, it occurred to her that instead of a dark ceiling, it was a pair of dark eyes that met her gaze first.
That sort of dream, was it?
"Hello there, Yuuji."
She offered with a pleasant smile.
"... Sleep well?"
"Hmm, yes, I'm rather comfortable still."
Had she been more awake, she might have recognized the twinkle in his eyes for what it was.
They remained in comfortable silence for a time, and her eyes were just starting to drift close when they snapped open wide.
'Yuuji?"
"Yes, Rias?"
"Where are we?"
Yuuji lifted his gaze to survey his surroundings.
"Still the park, it would seem."
"I see…"
She couldn't quite seem to get a handle on what was nagging at her.
Thus, Rias turned her head to the other side for the first time, finding herself greeted by the sight of Yuuji's shirt.
Understanding dawning at last, Rias made a strange noise and slowly turned her head back towards the 'ceiling', covering her rapidly warming face with both hands.
She didn't lift her head though.
She was enjoying her favorite pillow, even if the rankings had seemingly changed hands without her awareness.
Not really minding, Yuuji let his gaze drift skywards until she was ready to speak once more.
"I was looking forward to my first lap pillow… though I didn't expect to be the recipient."
Rias' voice remained muffled by her hands.
"We can switch, if you'd like."
"... I will have to pass, I think."
"Is it to your liking then?"
"Neither too hard nor too soft, I believe it's just perfect. I'm feeling rather well rested."
"That's oddly reassuring."
"As it should be."
Rias had an odd note of pride to her voice as she spoke, her Gremory-born instinct to revel in any of the 'achievements' of her servants shining through.
Yuuji could only smile as her hands slipped away from her face once more.
The second time Rias awoke with much more vigor, jerking up from Yuuji's lap, dumping the thin jacket that covered her as she moved.
"Yuuji!?"
"Yes?"
"H-how long was I asleep?"
Yuuji lifted his watch.
"Three hours, give or take?"
"T-three!?"
Rias flinched away as if he'd slapped her.
"Calm down."
"B-but we're supposed to be on a date, spending time together!"
"And we haven't been apart since we left the dorm."
Yuuji pointed out, a little unsure as to why she was so worked up.
"But that's…"
"Rias."
Yuuji looped one arm around her shoulders, and one hand to her chin, turning her head so that they could see eye-to-eye.
Rias went still, meekly staring at him.
"You're looking at this the wrong way. It's not as if I didn't get anything out of this."
Rias blinked in confusion.
"And you're making it sound like us keeping busy is important."
Rias opened her mouth to protest, but Yuuji pushed on.
"Or were we only going to do this once?"
That killed any protests, though it less cured her bout of shyness so much as changed the reason behind it.
"N-no… I'm sorry for dozing off but I'm still really, really happy… and w-well I hope that you are too…"
She peeked her head up slightly to peer at him from under her bangs.
"And like I said, you're looking at this the wrong way."
Rias lifted herself upright to look at him fully once more, curiosity evident.
"Among other things, your sleeping face is unreasonably cute."
… And her reactions to surprise attacks like that were still top-notch.
Dinner time rolled around, as tended to be the case, and they were, among all the possible options, seated at a small noodle stand halfway across town from their residence.
Normally, Yuuji would have taken a girl somewhere nicer on her first date, often a reservation if he felt it appropriate, but Rias had specifically requested for him not to.
Rias was well-accustomed to to the sort of establishments where if one had to ask for the prices, one couldn't afford them in the first place.
Places with several months long wait-lists during the slow seasons.
Wait-lists that she could often skip at will, should the fancy ever take her.
So she'd asked to have dinner with Yuuji at the kind of place you couldn't even book a reservation for.
Not due to price or exclusivity, but the exact opposite.
She had the distinct impression that attempting to book a reservation for an establishment with precisely six chairs and a curtain, rather than a door, would only lead to her being laughed at.
That, and Yuuji hadn't planned a specific location, rather, he had planned a route for their walk that offered several possibilities, and allowed Rias to fall to temptation at her own pace.
The childlike wonder in her eyes as they wandered less-than public streets was well worth it, he felt.
As was the revelation that Rias Gremory could, and in fact did make slurping udon adorable.
The slightly grizzled, smiling chef watched his two customers as they ate, and when Yuuji met his eyes with an appreciative nod, took one look at the beaming redhead beside him and winked.
Rias had just been informed that when one ran out of noodles, they could drink the broth by lifting the bowl to their lips.
Yuuji had the distinct impression that only her full hands prevented her from gleefully clapping them together.
After paying, a task Rias was soundly denied, they had taken once more to wandering the streets arm in arm, having a few more hours of daylight left.
Yuuji had noticed that Rias seemed to be carefully searching for something, after a while, but he decided to leave it for the time being.
That resolve didn't last for very long.
"Looking for something in particular?"
Rias jumped a bit, her grip on him tightening out of reflex.
"N-no! Just curious, I haven't been in this part of town ehehe…"
Rias trailed off, mumbling awkwardly.
"I was sure 'that' kind of hotel…"
"Love hotel?"
Yuuji clarified, Rias apparently forgetting that Devils had sharp hearing.
Rias stiffened like a wooden doll, but meekly nodded her lowered head after a moment.
"Probably in a different part of town."
In other words, he'd been steering them away from those particular streets.
He wasn't going to risk the chance that Rias would see one and convince herself of some sort of 'obligation'.
The possibility was a bit too far from zero for his preference.
"Why, curious?"
"M-maybe a little…"
"Hrm, well I can't say I share that curiosity."
"Y-you don't?"
Predictably, Rias wilted like a dying flower.
"No."
"I-I see…"
The fingers entwined with his own weakened their grip.
He doubted she was even aware.
"After all, I'd feel pretty guilty leading a girl into a place like that when her knees are knocking together."
"...Huh?"
Rias' voice was laden with confusion, as if she had heard his words but couldn't fathom their meaning.
Slowly, Rias let her gaze fall to discover that yes, her legs were shaking rather violently.
"Huh?"
She repeated.
Yuuji let out a long sigh.
"Rias, stop trying to force yourself."
"I! I-I'm not… I don't know what you…"
"Rias, why don't you tell me what's been bothering you?"
"There's n-nothing."
"You're a terrible liar and we both know it."
Rias displayed a narrowing of the eyes that might have been a glare, but didn't manage to fully form.
"Rias."
Yuuji's voice took on an edge of firm insistence that made her straighten in spite of herself.
Sighing in defeat, Rias closed her eyes for a moment, frowning softly.
"I… I want to… do the things you do with Akeno… but I don't have the right… do I?"
"The right? Rias, what do rights have anything to do with this?"
Rias opened her eyes and finally met his once more.
Her weak little smile had a bitter, resigned edge to it.
"I've tried to sleep with you before, remember? I tried to use you to get out of my marriage. What's to say I won't do it again?"
"Nothing really. Maybe you will try to use me again."
Despite the brittle edge to her smile, Rias didn't seem all that surprised he'd agree.
"The only question I can really ask, Rias, is so what?"
That made her stumble, eyes going wide with shock.
"S-so what? What do you mean, so what!?"
" People use each other all the time. Is it really so wrong to use me for your own happiness if doing so let's me use you for mine?"
"T-that's... it…"
"People aren't born complete, Rias."
Rias could only offer a puzzled stare.
"We need other people to help us become whole. There is nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is getting help from other people and never trying to return the favor."
Rias went silent, another pensive frown on her face.
Yuuji could tell he was starting to get through to her, so he decided to push for home.
"Stop trying to complicate things, and be honest about what you want."
Rias released his hand and spun away for a moment, standing tall.
After a second, she clapped herself on the cheeks several times and then pumped her fists as if psyching herself up.
"Right!"
She spun on her heel to face him once more and stepped in close, pinning her hand over his heart as she pressed their bodies together, before turning her heated gaze away.
"I'd like you to take me to one of those… l-love hotels."
"And what do you want to do when we get there?"
Her heavy-lidded gaze snapped open wide.
He was going to make her say it, wasn't he?
Just like Akeno said.
… He really was something else, wasn't he.
"There, I want to give you my first time."
Yuuji lifted one hand and turned her gaze towards him with a finger on her chin.
Rias went a little cross-eyed trying to stare at it, before locking her shimmering blue eyes onto his much darker gaze.
"That, I can work with... Rias."
Rias had immediately locked herself in the bathroom to 'freshen up'.
Also to make a hushed phone call to Akeno, which he was definitely unaware of because Rias was definitely being as quiet as she thought she was.
He'd keep it to himself that Akeno had already shot him a text or two, offering an insider perspective.
Yuuji was well-known for his poker-face (lack of expression), and so he kept the chuckles in when Rias swept out of the bathroom with all the determination of a kitten before a ball of string.
She strode towards him where he sat on the bed, and then…
Awkwardly lurched to a halt.
He kept silent as she reddened, watching the gears turn.
Slowly, Yuuji stood up, and Rias jolted, not out of panic but rather genuine surprise, as she'd momentarily forgotten he was in the room.
She stared at him, and Yuuji suppressed a sigh, not wanting to wound her pride at such a fragile juncture.
He was pretty sure he understood what was happening.
Rias was used to being in control.
Which didn't help her in the slightest when they both knew she was clueless as to how to proceed.
Calmly, Yuuji began to unbutton his shirt, watching Rias all the while.
He'd made it about halfway before a slender pair of hands moved his away and took over.
The end result was a button-up on the floor and Rias staring at his bare chest.
Tentatively, with an almost guilty air, Rias lifted one hand to his pec, her cool fingers sending a slight shiver through him.
Gradually, her whole hand rested on his chest, and Yuuji watched, with no small amount of amusement, as Rias found herself momentarily enthralled by the beating of the heart beneath her hand.
With the slow, uncertain motions of someone slowly ensnared by guilty pleasure, Rias' slender digits trailed their way down his chest, halting momentarily on the thin scar that traced the edge of his lower rib, before finding themselves resting on the uppermost ridge of a chiseled set of abdominals.
Rias froze there, for a moment, a strange glitter in her eyes and a faint heat in her cheeks, before her fingers began moving once more.
Yuuji watched patiently as the wonder-filled girl mapped out his abs with her fingers, bemusedly wondering when-
Rias jerked her head up guiltily to lock soulful eyes onto his, clearly having forgotten that there was a person attached to the muscles she was playing with.
His smile must have been more of a smirk, because she puffed out her cheeks and shoved him onto the bed.
Tried, anyways, instead letting out a shriek when Yuuji pulled her with him, leaving her straddling him so closely that their noses almost touched.
Rias straightened up so fast he thought her neck might crack, but didn't actually get off him, so Yuuji considered that progress.
"So... am I the only one getting undressed?"
Apparently not, as Rias looked down at her own top in something like surprise, and promptly relieved herself of it.
Black, white and red lace, huh?
She and Akeno definitely had been talking.
Yuuji lifted one hand, covering about half the distance between them, and cocked an eyebrow.
Rias took his hand and placed it firmly on her clothed breast.
Yuuji let it rest, instead lifting the other hand in similar fashion.
Only when it received the same treatment did Yuuji begin to move, rubbing slow circles that brought his thumb whispering over covered, but still very much erect nipples.
Rias let her eyes drift closed, a soft moan slipping free as she slowly began to rock her hips.
This prevented her from seeing Yuuji's soft smile turn wicked, and she was too busy enjoying his motions to realize that his hands were slowly working their way upwards.
She was about to learn the greatest feature of a strapless bra, which he could only assume was defying gravity through magic.
... Which wasn't something to say in jest anymore, was it?
"Hmm… my turn, I think."
Rias didn't even register that he'd spoken, at first.
She did register that suddenly her nipples had been exposed to open air, and her eyes snapped open as Yuuji pulled down her last covering, letting her massive breasts bounce free.
It was too late to do anything, though, ad her surprised squeak dissolved into another breathy moan, Yuuji continuing his work unimpeded.
"I like this view better, I think."
"You~."
Another moan-
"Think?"
"I do, though I feel like the verdict shouldn't be rushed."
Yuuji spoke with utter seriousness, fully devoted to experimenting with the elasticity of the breasts beneath his fingers.
This was a matter of grave importance after all, as Akeno deeply desired an unbiased opinion of the differences between her breasts and those of Rias.
Something he'd assess in hindsight, however, comparing two women, while he was engaged in foreplay with one of them, seemed more than a little rude.
Oh, he let himself get distracted.
Her legs were quivering again, but this most certainly didn't have to do with discomfort.
"Oh right, your breasts are really sensitive."
"Oh… right? H-h-how do you… know that at-"
Rias cut herself off with another moan.
"I might have paid close attention when Suu molested you for the first time."
Because there most certainly had been other times, Suu enjoyed 'heavy petting' and would slide under bathroom doors to join the girls from time to time if she was feeling peckish.
Or 'thirsty' perhaps?
"That… sOH~!"
"Sorry, Rias, say that again please?"
"I… s-AAid!"
Aww, she was trying to glare.
How cute.
"Well I think I've had enough fun for now, what say we move things along?"
Yuuji inquired politely, removing his fingers from Rias' mildly throbbing chest, taking extra care to brush her nipples once more on the way down.
"So… you admit it!?"
Rias demanded in a voice more sexy than stern.
She was still sitting on top of him, but now she had both hands on his chest to keep herself upright.
In one smooth motion, Yuuji lifted himself from the bed and stood up, scooping the much lighter girl up into his arms in one smooth motion.
Rias had a few seconds to blush before he twisted around and dumped her on the bed, her calves hanging off and Yuuji's body leaned over her.
Yuuji found himself wrestling to keep his sadistic urges in check as Rias watched him timidly through heavy-lidded eyes, head tilted to one side and one fist up to her lips.
Making sure to keep her gaze, Yuuji lowered his left hand to her waistline, and undid the first button of her shorts.
Rias free hand jerked towards his own suddenly as he went for the second button, so Yuuji halted, regarding her patiently.
After another tense beat of her pounding heart, Rias lowered her hand to the covers beside her head, and gave a tiny little nod.
Yuuji undid another button, and Rias squirmed a little.
Yuuji reached for the third and final button-
Rias gave a little squeak as rather than feeling the last button pop free, cold fingers slid their way beneath layers of thin fabric.
In an impressive display of dexterity, Yuuji's thumb unhooked the last button as the rest of his fingers slowly pushed the covering layers down.
Right as the tips of his long fingers reached a patch of boiling heat, they halted once more.
The young beauties eyes went wide and she whipped her head up to meet Yuuji's gaze, eyes swimming with a mixture of surprise and panic at having been suddenly denied.
Yuuji gave her enough time to lock gazes fully before his hand slid down a little further and hooked.
Rias' back arched like a drawn bow as she gave a short scream.
Yuuji stilled his fingers once more.
Rias admonished him through long, heavy pants, the ache in her voice subverting its usual authority.
"Stop… teasing…"
"Teasing? Hmm, that wasn't my intention. I'm just not entirely sure what you want."
"Even… now?"
"There's an easy way to fix this, I think."
Rias latched onto his words with a clear desperation.
"Why don't you try giving me an order?"
Huh, she actually clenched around his fingers.
Valuable information.
"N-no…"
"No?"
"D-don't… want- control! Y-Yuuji!"
Yuuji leaned in closer, until their lips were almost touching, as the words struggled their way free from the squirming girl.
Rias snapped both hands around the back of his head and met him halfway, catching him in a searing kiss that saw their tongues dancing around each other.
The fingers buried within her remained motionless.
Rias broke away with a gasp shortly after, untangling her fingers from his hair, a line of saliva linking them for a moment before it fell free onto her naked chest and sent a shiver through her.
"I don't want control… so Yuuji, please…"
For the first time since they'd entered the room, a passionate smile set her face aglow.
"Please, Yuuji… just take me~."
Yuuji tilted his head slightly, eyes narrowed as her smile refused to vanish.
"Give me your hands, Rias."
Confused but compliant, Rias lifted her hands up in front of her, almost together.
Yuuji's free hand encircled both slender wrists and pinned them above her head.
Wide-eyed, feverish anticipation was met by a loving, wicked smirk.
"Sorry, what I meant to say was… as you wish, my King."
Rias didn't have time to protest before his buried fingers scissored apart in the sweltering heat that constricted them, a thumb joining the ring finger to lightly grasp a protruding little nub.
Rias bucked as Yuuji mashed his lips against hers, her blissful wail echoing down his throat.
With his weight against her, Rias could do nothing but squirm and twitch her legs as Yuuji's left hand began to pump in and out, her clit being released but his thumb brushing against it every time his fingers hilted.
Wet, slick noises filled the air as every moan and groan was devoured by the dark-haired man pinning her to the bed.
Yuuji lifted himself off of her ever so slightly, just enough that when he moved his body with the thrust of his fingers, her stiff nipples scraped every so slightly against his rocky chest.
Fingers piercing her again and again, hot lips crushed against her own, and the long tongue laying claim to every single inch of her mouth.
Rias found herself slowly coming unwound.
Surely it couldn't get any better than this.
As if to answer the unspoken question, the fingers exploring her deepest places found that one, perfect spot, and the rough lips tore themselves away.
A scream of pure, unfiltered ecstasy tore through the air.
Invading fingers came free with a wet squish as Yuuji's other hand released her.
Rias could only struggle to return the breath into her heaving chest.
Yuuji lifted himself off of her, just enough that they were no longer touching, watching her pant and gasp with a tiny, proud smile on his face.
"Wow…"
She managed to rasp out.
"That should be my line."
"B-but we're not done…"
That was probably meant to be a statement, not a question.
"Catch your breath first."
"B-but… I'm sure Akeno would keep going…"
Yuuji went still.
She hadn't sounded… jealous, precisely.
More like she had a very firm notion of how things should be.
'Doesn't want control? Bullshit.'
"And why would you bring up Akeno at a time like this?"
She didn't seem to recognize the danger behind his mild tone.
"N-nothing… j-just I can… k-keep going too."
She hadn't even caught her breath yet.
"I don't think it's nothing."
Rias blinked at him in puzzlement, missing the warnings signs once again.
Yuuji's right hand pinned her arms once more, and this time, he dispelled the glamor so that she could feel it for real.
"Now why would you bring up her at a time like this?"
Yuuji pondered as Rias began to squirm in vain, finally realizing that she might have said the wrong thing.
"Y-Yuuji?"
"Ah, could it be?"
Yuuji continued, as if he hadn't heard.
"Maybe you're starting to wonder, if she was willing to share me…"
Rias went still as the breath caught in her throat, ashamedly averting her gaze.
"Would I be willing to share her?"
Blue eyes went wide.
"I… I don't know what you mean."
"That so?"
Yuuji let out a soft, thoughtful hum and then shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, perhaps that's a topic for another time. You should be asking a different question, I think?"
Rias whipped her head back his direction.
"Huh?"
"Something like…"
That dark little smirk returned with a vengeance and a hint of promise.
"What has his other hand been doing?"
Rias didn't get the chance to answer as something entirely new pierced her depths and stopped.
Something hot and thick that brushed every side of her core at once.
Rias threw her head back with a tiny shriek as heat rolled through her in wave after wave.
Yuuji remained still, waiting for her to recover, and adjust.
After the gasping and the writhing died down, Rias opened her eyes to stare in Yuuji in dawning wonder, having just realized that somewhere along the way, he'd rid himself of the last of his clothes and-
"I-is that…?"
"Yeah, we're doing this for real now."
Yuuji informed her calmly, offering a gentle smile.
A sniffle escaped, and dark eyes widened slightly in concern.
"Rias?"
"I'm fine… just happy."
"I see."
"Yuuji's really filling me, isn't he?"
"Well…"
"Well what?"
Worry flitted across her flushed visage.
"We have a little farther to go."
Rias gulped.
"We'll take it slow, okay?"
Nervous once more, Rias gave a shaky but determined nod.
"Relax."
As the tension left her, Yuuji began to push.
Rias moaned.
Further.
Her toes curled.
Deeper.
Yuuji stopped as further entry was denied.
"Might hurt a little, so take a deep breath."
"O-okay."
Rias took a deep breath, and as the tension left her body, Yuuji pulled back and then thrust.
A hot flash of pain and an indescribable warmth sent a quake through her entire body.
Something between a scream and a groan slipped through her lips as Rias shuddered around him.
Yuuji was the only thing she could feel, filling her to the brim and scraping inside her with something that felt hot, and thick, and just so right.
"T-that was it… wasn't it? Yuuji marked me for real, didn't he?"
"... Yeah. You okay?"
Yuuji kept his voice level, but Rias was just a little bit more vocal than he'd expected.
Rias took a deep, shaky breath.
Yuuji bit down a flash of panic when she sniffled again.
"It scares me a little when you do that."
"C-could you let my hands go?"
"Sure."
Yuuji released his grip.
His concerns vanished when Rias' freed hands tangled in his hair, and her tongue did its level best to shove itself down his throat.
She gasped into his mouth when his hands roamed over her chest once more, stroking, kneading, rubbing.
As he did, Rias wove her tongue around his, exploring every inch and shivering in pleasure when Yuuji's low growl echoed through her.
She let her head fall back onto the bed as her air ran out, chest heaving under Yuuji's hands.
Right as she took a breath, Yuuji followed her back down, pulling back slightly to nibble at her neck.
Yuuji felt her breath hitch in her throat as he started moving again, slowly but surely pumping in and out of her as Rias began to fully adjust to Yuuji's length inside of her.
He took the cue to pick up the pace as Rias hooked her long legs around his hips, pulling him in in deeper than ever and making them both groan as Yuuji's cock pushed against the entrance to her womb.
Slender hands slipped onto Yuuji's back as his thrusting increased in pace, faster and faster as he drove the pinned beauty ever closer to the edge.
The nails that dug into Yuuji's back only seemed to spur him on, gentle nibbling turning to fierce suction against her neck, marking Rias in yet another way as she writhed beneath him.
Feeling Rias' walls began to squeeze and convulse, Yuuji slowed down just a little, trading his faster pace for long, drawn-out thrusts that made the girl beneath him bite her lip as her eyes rolled back in her head.
Yuuji pulled out until only the head of his shaft remained in the swirling heat of Rias' core.
He lifted his head at the same time, waiting.
Bewildered blue orbs stared up at him, confusion and just a hint of distress at being suddenly denied swirling in Rias' eyes.
She had just opened her mouth when Yuuji swept down to claim it once more, swallowing down another scream when Yuuji's length slammed all the way home.
The world turned white as the most explosive orgasm of her life tore through Rias, wailing into Yuuji again and again as he kept thrusting, dragging her orgasm out and driving her mind blank.
As the convulsing died down to sporadic twitching, Yuuji pulled his mouth away from Rias, teasingly pulling her tongue out between his lips.
He let out a chuckle as he released the organ, Rias' tongue not quite making it all the way back into the gasping girl's open mouth, her head lolling to the side.
At the same time, the silky death grip of her legs gave way, the slender limbs limply sliding off his back to dangle bonelessly off the bed.
Yuuji lifted himself off of the heavily dazed girl, propping himself on his side to watch her expression, even as one mischievous hand drew idle circles around a swollen nipple.
After a few minutes, long lashes began to flutter as the glazed look faded from his lover's eyes, and Yuuji, being himself, took this opportunity to smirk at her.
They locked eyes for a moment, until Rias broke her gaze to glare accusingly downwards at the fully erect penis that was idly resting against the enticing curve of her hip.
"You haven't had a single orgasm yet, have you?"
The odd question of whether she was talking to him, or just his dick made Yuuji chuckle once more.
Beautiful eyes snapped up once more, and very pinch-able cheeks puffed out.
Then a stern mask slipped over the face of a pouting girl, and Rias shoved Yuuji onto his back and rolled on top of him in one smooth motion.
Yuuji's dick twitched as it was pinned beneath her drenched lower lips.
Limbs quivering slightly, Rias lifted herself of off him with a determined expression, allowing his throbbing shaft to spring up into the air.
With a roll of her hips, Rias impaled herself once more and shuddered around him as Yuuji let out a sharp grunt.
"C-can't let you do all the work."
Rias managed, breathing rough as she began to rock her hips.
Remaining silent, Yuuji instead decided to reach out and grip her ass with both hands, squeezing gently as his fingers sank in.
Her rhythm faltering for an instant as Yuuji gave another experimental squeeze, Rias let out a sharp exhale and picked up speed, flesh slapping wildly as she rode him hard.
... Honestly.
Silly woman didn't even realize how exhausted she was, too busy trying to give more of herself to those she cared about.
It was part of the reason he admired her so much, but at the same time...
If she wouldn't rest, he would just force her to.
He was unfair like that.
Decision made, Yuuji went on the attack for real.
She was just at the apex of her motion when Yuuji's flesh and blood hand slipped a little farther inwards.
As their hips slammed together, Rias was sent spiraling off the edge by the long finger that invaded her ass.
Drenching Yuuji with a rush of hot fluid, Rias screamed atop him, head thrown back and eyes wide as she convulsed again and again.
The contractions finally pushed Yuuji over the edge, and Rias could only flop helplessly as the heat that painted her insides pushed her right into another orgasm, held upright only by Yuuji's free hand against the small of her back.
Yuuji lifted himself up into a sitting position, freeing his other arm to embrace Rias as well, and pulling her head down to rest on his shoulder as she twitched and moaned.
Rubbing small circles in her back, Yuuji held her gently as, just as he'd suspected, her weight fell against him fully and her breathing began to slow.
Gently, he laid the now sleeping girl down beside him on the bed.
Rising carefully, Yuuji padded over to the bathroom and grabbed a few towels to clean the two of them off a bit.
After that, Yuuji scooped Rias up in his arms and brought her around to the front of the bed, glad that the length of it would keep them well away from any… wet patches.
Pulling the covers back, he tucked Rias in and slipped in beside her, Rias already searching for him with a soft frown on her face, that shifted into a content smile when he drew her in, allowing her head to rest against his chest.
"Sorry if I was a little rough for our first time, Rias."
Rias kept her silence, of course.
"But, you were neglecting yourself a little too much in our favor, so now, take a nice, long rest."
The sleeping beauties smile grew radiant as a pair of lips pressed themselves softly to her forehead.
"Sleep well… and thank you, Rias."
Yuuji paused, and a warm smile that so few people ever got to see split his face as he pulled her in closer.
"Yeah, thank you for everything."
It was well after dark when he got home, slipping quietly through the front door.
The first sight to greet Kiba was a dark-haired beauty, reclining leisurely on the couch.
Noticing his arrival, a fond smile bloomed across her face as she sat up.
"Hmm, you're still awake, Akeno-san?"
"Ara, with Rias away for the night, it's the Queen's job to make sure everyone is home safe, isn't it?"
"... Yeah, that sounds like you alright."
"Ufufu, so, how was the date, Yuuto-kun?"
Kiba rolled his eyes, meeting her mischievous grin with an easy smile of his own.
"It wasn't like that. A few of the girls wanted to go to karaoke without any strange guys hitting on them."
"Of course, of course, and how many of the girls also hit on you?"
"Murayama and Katase were there, they're more interested in each other."
"So everyone."
Kiba's shoulders sagged.
"Yes, everyone."
Akeno covered her lips with one hand, though the action did nothing to muffle her laughter.
Helplessly, he joined in after a moment, not minding all that much.
When they'd recovered their breath, Kiba decided to ask the question that had been nagging at the back of his mind.
"Have you heard from either of them? Do you know how things went?"
With twinkling eyes to match her smile, Akeno dipped one hand deep into her cleavage and pulled out a folded sheet of paper.
Kiba walked over curiously, as she spread out the small paper on the coffee table, and picked up a stray pen.
By way of answer, a cheerfully humming Akeno drew a large check mark beside the first name on a list of several.
"That so?"
"Ufufu~."
"I wasn't all that worried, but confirmation is reassuring."
"Isn't it?"
Kiba stretched his arms over his head and yawned.
"Well, we have school in the morning so I'm going to turn in. Though, I'll take notes for Yuuji-kun just in case."
Akeno nodded.
"I didn't think I'd need to ask, and I'll be making excuses for Rias, of course. Oh, and, mind if I join you, Yuuto-kun? I could use someone to cuddle with, and Koneko wasn't feeling up to it."
"I don't mind, of course."
"But…?"
Akeno trailed off, waiting for Kiba to finish the thought.
"-But you have to keep that nightgown on. We both know you can actually sleep with clothes on, unlike Rias."
"Aww, Yuuto-kun doesn't want to see poor me naked? I'd be so sad if he thought I wasn't attractive."
Kiba didn't believe her for a second, of course, because Akeno's smile hadn't faltered in the slightest.
Even still, he decided he wasn't going to be the only one being teased.
Violet eyes widened as the Knight firmly placed both hands on her shoulders, hitting her with the full force of that charming smile that no woman, family or not, was wholly immune to.
"Aka-nee, you're beautiful and I love you."
"Aww~."
"- But don't be gross."
"Aww…"
She still got her wish, of course, a rare night where her darling younger brother slept beside her, lean arms wrapped comfortably around her.
Perhaps the Gremory family had rubbed off on him, because Kiba Yuuto didn't mind cuddling with his sisters in the slightest, even if they were all gorgeous, non-blood related young women.
He just happened to be the only adopted Gremory who found sleeping naked uncomfortable.
Yeah, he was weird that way.
Yeah, Kiba's an odd lad.
Had fun delving into Rias' mindset a bit more, she kind of feels underdeveloped despite being the 'main girl' in canon. A shame, since she has such a well-made base.
But, the less she has developed, the more I get to play around with and develop on my own, as if I'm not going to do that whenever I want anyways.
Anyways, not much else to say here, wrote my second lemon and dropped some exposition, so let me know what you think.
PS: If anyone is curious, Rias' date outfit is actually from a mobage card, Chocolate V if you want to Google it.