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Chapter 1: Meeting the Supernatural

Kyoto, Japan

"Thank you for buying! Please return whenever you want!" A young man, who looked in his early 20s said, giving off a small smile to the customer. He had short black hair, grey eyes and no facial hair, giving him the look of a handsome man. With a sigh, he returned to the same old bland look he always wore. This job was boring, so damn boring that he'd prefer to be anywhere else, hell even school! At least there he wouldn't have needed to interact with so many people in a single day.

"Keith, I hope you are behaving around our customers, right?" A stern masculine voice asked. Then a middle-aged man made his appearance. The man was of average build, slightly bald with no facial hair.

"Of course, Tanaka-san." The young man responded blandly to the store manager. Tanaka's Bakery Store was known in Kyoto as one of the best. The cakes especially were absolutely marvellous, or so the reviews were saying. Even Keith had to admit to that, even though reluctantly.

Daiki Tanaka had to supress a sigh at the look his young employee was giving him.

'I swear this kid is the embodiment of sloth.' He thought, chuckling for a bit.

"You should smile a bit more, kid." The manager said. "You should know it makes wonders, especially among the young ladies." Daiki rose his eyebrows up and down suggestively.

"I did smile." Keith deadpanned. "What else do you want from me?"

"An almost non-existent smile doesn't count Keith…"

Keith snorted. Why should he smile to random people? It's not like it will make them come back here faster or whatever. Plus, why would he smile anyway? Life liked to fuck him in the ass ever since he was 10, so what good would bring a smile or two.

"Right…I will keep that in mind for the next random person that comes."

"You said that the last time I told you…and the last time before that…and the two last times." Daiki honestly didn't know what to do with him. He wasn't a bad kid, but the fact that he would rather sleep non-stop than to at least put the minimum effort into anything irritated him a bit. Keith was smart, gentle when he wanted to be and cared about others, in his own way.

"Anyway, I received an order for some donuts and I have no one to send but you." Daiki told him. He stifled a chuckled as he watched Keith's face cringe. "Here is the address."

The young man sighed for the umpteenth time this day. Why were there people who tried to make his life hard?

Nodding, he took the address from Daiki and made his way to the bicycle he always rode.

"Oh and try to smile this time!" Daiki yelled from inside.

Keith's response was a grunt, followed by a series of mumbles.

Arriving at his destination, Keith had to double look at the address. Why? You may ask yourselves. Because this place was a desolate building!

"You've got to be shitting me right now…" He started blankly at the store building, his eye twitching slightly. It wouldn't take a genius to see that this was either a joke, or Daiki gave him the wrong address.

'Fuck it and fuck whoever made the joke.'

He didn't have time for kiddies who thought they were funny, hell no, he had more important things to do, like sleeping.

Before he could leave though, a giant shadow-like appendage grabbed him and pulled him through the window of the building, shattering it in the process.

With a groan, he shook his head slightly and rose in a sitting position, rubbing his head.

"The hell just happened?" He muttered as he looked around. He was still shook a bit.

"Well, well! Look at what I caught!" A shrilly feminine voice said with delight, startling him and making him look around frantically. "Oh? How rude of me to talk to my food without showing myself."

A loud thud was heard behind Keith. When he looked his eyes widened marginally, his mouth dropped and he started to tremble a little. He couldn't fathom what he was looking at right now. The creature before him had the upper body of a beautiful naked woman with an ample bosom, long black hair, red eyes and a pretty face. However, when his eyes met her lower half…he tried not to gag. Her lower body was that of a scorpion, with large claws and a long tail that ended with the stinger. He crawled back on his elbows for a bit.

The creature seeing him watching at her intently, she snickered to herself.

"Oh? Are you that immersed in my body?" She asked sensually, groping her chest, eliciting a moan from herself. It was her turn now to look at her soon-to-be food.

"I can see that I caught myself a good looking appetizer." She purred. "You are very handsome for a human." She then widened her eyes slightly, before a sadistic grin made its appearance on her face. "It seems that you are not only handsome, but you hold a Sacred Gear as well!"

"Huh?" Was the only answer he could muster at the moment. Sacred Gear? The hell is that? No, more importantly, who and what is this fucked up looking lady?!

"Oh, it seems you have no idea what I am or what I am talking about." She pouted. "Ah well, doesn't matter, come here you!" She jumped at him towards him with the intention to squash him with her gigantic scorpion body and she would have succeeded if Keith didn't roll on his side to dodge it.

"Oh, you dodged that, huh?" She asked. "Doesn't matter." She then thrusted her long scorpion tail towards him with the intention to impale him. Keith jumped to the side and managed to dodge it, the actions being repeated by both of them for a bit, until the scorpion lady had enough.

"Ok, that's it!" She yelled. It was fun until it lasted but this human started to irritate her. With a speed Keith has never seen before, she disappeared and reappeared in from of him, swatting him away like a bug, making him hit the wall, hard. Falling down, he started to cough uncontrollably for a few moments. When he got his composure back, he looked around the building to see the monster gone.

'She isn't gone. There is no way she just left.' No, that was wishful thinking, thinking that he couldn't have right now. The fear creeped down his spine when he heard laughing. He looked around frantically for the second time that evening, only to barely see something or nothing at all. It was dark, darker than he thought it would be. Something wasn't right.

His thoughts were proven true when he heard a snap of fingers and as if they were brought to life, shadows latched around his arms and legs, kipping him in one place. He started to thrash away from their grip but to no avail, the shadows didn't even budge. The sound of tapping made its way to his ears and from the darkness emerged the monster yet again, a sadistic smile on her face as she approached him.

"Hm? Oh my, you are much more cuter than I thought you would be up close." She stated, cupping his cheeks with her human hands. "Oh ~ the fun we will have before I eat you." She shook in ecstasy at the thoughts, her cheeks gaining a pink hue. Keith for his part began to tremble again, his adrenaline from earlier long gone. Was this it? Was this how he died? Eaten by whatever the hell this was?

Before any of them could do or say anything, a ball of golden fire struck the monster, making her howl in pain as the flames were eating her up. Keith saw her tail being eaten away by the flames.

'Holy shit!' Was his only opinion on what he saw. He started in awe at the golden flames, as if they were made out of…well…gold. Then he was freed by the shadows as the monster was seen trying to put out the flames but to no avail.

"Keep your dirty hands away from him, Stray Devil." A feminine voice was heard. Both him and the monster, now identified as a Stray Devil, whatever that was, looked to see a young beautiful woman standing on one of the pillars of the building that was destroyed by the Devil when she tried to hit Keith.

The woman has a voluptuous figure, long, golden blonde hair tied in a pony tail, with matching eyes and is dressed in a traditional miko outfit and tall geta with white tabi. The hakama she was wearing seemed not able to contain her *ahem* chest as it let a bit of it being shown. Of course this wasn't why Keith was watching at her intently, nope, what baffled him were the two fox hears the woman had on top of her head, along with the nine fluffy tails that were currently swaying behind her.

'So…she's a…umm…what are they called?' As he was rummaging his thoughts about what she was, which he was sure he saw somewhere in the legends, the beautiful woman narrowed her eyes at the Stray.

"Now, what is filth like you doing in Kyoto?" She asked, her pupils taking a more feral look, as fire engulfed her hand, ready to be thrown.

The Stray, managing to stop the flames, sneered at the uninvited "guest". A dangerous aura enveloping her as she spoke, seemingly forgetting about Keith.

"The fuck do you think you are bitch?!" She then conjured a ball of darkness and threw it at the young gorgeous, who dodged it without any problem whatsoever.

Appearing behind the Stray with speed that put the fastest cars to shame, she kicked the she-monster with so much force that it sent her into a wall, creating a silhouette of her after falling down.

Seeing the Stray incapacitated for a moment, she turned her attention to Keith to tensed up, only to give him a warm and gentle smile.

"Fear not human, because I will take care of her." Her tone was calm and reassuring. Turning her attention towards the groaning she-devil, her warm and gentle features left her face as soon as they appeared, her eyes turning cold and her lips thinning, her features sharpening.

"Now, I will ask one more time." Her voice held no warmth this time. It was cold, devoid of any emotion, sending shivers down Keith's spine. "What are you doing here?"

"Hah! Like I would tell anything to a whore like yourself!" The Stray yelled in anger. Conjuring more and more darkness as she spoke. "Prepare to die!" She channelled the darkness into a huge ball, only to push it down on the ground, which absorbed it. She started to cackle madly.

The young woman just sighed and shook her head. Once again, with speed never seen before, she jumped into the air towards the Devil, dodging the sharp huge shadowy spikes that burst through the ground. As soon as she reached the Devil, without second thoughts, she lengthened her nails and decapitated her, her head falling down with a thud. Then she willed her flames to burn away the corpse.

Seeing this ordeal happen right in front of him, Keith mustered all the will he had not to barf his stomach out after the gore he had just seen. Taking a calming breath, he watched as the Devil's corpse was engulfed by flames and disappeared like it never existed. He became wary however when the fox woman, a kitsune he remembered she was called, turned her undivided attention to him and started to walk gracefully towards him. He gulped and unconsciously took a few steps back only to hit the wall behind him.

"Easy, easy, I do not wish to harm you." She smiled at him. "I am sure this event shook you up good, huh?"

He opened and closed his mouth like a fish needing air, trying to think of anything to say. He didn't know why, but he felt that he could trust her. He didn't feel as if she was lying. He could read people well enough.

Seeing him like that, the young woman giggled, covering her mouth with her hand.

Taking yet another breath, Keith nodded to himself.

"Uh…thank you for helping me miss." He said. "Weren't for you, I would have been dead."

"Noooo problem cutie!" She giggled to herself once more seeing his impassive expression. "As soon as I felt this Stray Devil, I hurried as fast as I could."

"Stray Devil?" He asked confused. He recalled hearing her call the monster that when she first hit her with a ball of fire.

The blonde haired woman nodded. "Yup! Anyway, I am happy that I managed to get here in time."

Before he could say anything, she narrowed her eyes a bit in concentration.

"It seems you have a Sacred Gear inside of you."

He scratched the back of his head at that.

"The monst- Stray Devil said the same thing."

"I see." She then thought of something. "Say, would you mind coming with me back at home?"

He blinked a few times at her request.

"I am sorry, what?"

"Mm! Come back with me to see what Sacred Gear you have and if it's dangerous."

He started to tense up a bit.

'What if she tries something?'

Sensing his distraught, she waved her hands at him.

"Don't worry! I mean no harm human, really!" She tried to be as reassuring as possible, after all, it wouldn't benefit her to bring him with her by force.

Narrowing his eyes at her in suspicion, he thought about what she said.

"What if I refuse? Couldn't you just erase my memory of something?"

She cursed under her breath. This human was smarter than she thought he would be. He didn't fall for her charms either, which surprised her slightly. Of course, she didn't have any bad intentions with it whatsoever. She was curious to test his mind. It pleased her to see him not fall so easily for her charms. Kitsune, especially strong ones, are capable of using charms on other races, Youkai included, which for a multitude of times, it turned in the favour of the kitsune.

"Indeed, I could, but it is very rare to meet Sacred Gear owners in Kyoto." She decided to be fair, to tell him the truth. "Not to mention that what happened tonight could happen anytime again."

He gulped at that. She was right and he knew it. He could be in danger once again someday and there could be no one to save him. Tonight he was very lucky, immensely so.

'Hmm, ah fuck it! What's the worst that could happen?' He decided to roll with it.

Sighing, he looked at her in the eyes.

"I can't believe I am saying this…but very well." He didn't like this, going somewhere unknown where it could be brimmed with others like her…and if all could do the same shit she did, well, life really likes to fuck him over.

She gave him a beaming smile and he could swear he saw her tails waggling.

'Well, at least one is excited about it.' He thought drily.

"As I said, you have nothing to worry about." She said. "Us Youkai see humans as friends."

"Youkai?"

"Ah, I will tell you all you want to know once we get to the palace."

'Ah right…wait…palace?!' Before he could ask her about it, a golden magic circle with the face of a fox appeared beneath her and teleported both of them out of there in an instant.

One thing was clear though, the life of Keith Nakamura would be anything but boring from this point onwards!

A/N: Hello, hello people! Exiled here! I bring you a story which I thought about for a very long time now, and it's not the only one! But for now I wish to focus on this one. Yeah…so…This is my first story ever, so don't expect much from me, on top of everything I am not a native English speak (I know you have heard this before a bunch of times, but yeah, just letting ya know), so in case I write something which makes no sense that's why. I may or may not use some phrasing which make sense in my native language but not so much in English, but fret not! For I will try to be as understanding as possible.

So a bit about this story: I thought writing about the Youkai Faction and all that because I absolutely love Yasaka (she's a kitsune, so I love her) along with Kunou (no, not in the weird way lol, hence why I am making her older here). Plus I feel like a lot of Fanfics out there focus on the Biblical Factions (which is absolutely fine! I love reading them, also this fanfic will come around the Biblical Factions anyway, sooner or later), but I felt like writing something a tiny bit different (yes I know there are other Youkai Faction fanfics out there), but I hope you know what I mean. Anyway, coming back, I love kitsune, alongside dragons as well, so expect to see these kinds in my other stories.

Harem: a bit about the harem…Well…this being DxD I believe it is self-explanatory, however I wish to say that I have already a rough idea of who is going to be in Keith's harem, but of course you can suggest names and I will think about it! (Exception: Issei's Harem, no I do not hate anyone, maybe I dislike Asia bit, but it's not that I hate them, it's because I wish to focus on women that are not so frequently used, well some of them). I am roughly thinking about adding around 8-9 mamacitas in it, of course the number can either rise or dwindle (most likely to not rise). If I feel like 8-9 is too much for me, then I will take out some, but I will try my best to keep it like that. When the idea about the harem is going to be clearer in my head, I will post the list and await your thoughts about it. Also, I wish to say that despite me not adding people from Issei's Harem, doesn't meant that I won't create stories with them, so yeah, wait patiently for it to happen :P.

All these being said, I hope you will enjoy this chapter (even though not much happens) and will wait for the second one! Also, a bit of information about me: I may not have time to write that frequently since I have work to do on my BA Thesis (I am in my third year), as well as University stuff to do (blegh), so yeah, if you see updates being slow that's why.