"So, what do you think?" Fou asked, his eyes staring into the water underneath the bubbles from his little "Boat."
Rias hummed, long silky red hair splayed and floating in the bath water around her. "Is it true that Sepiroth's Sword can change it's length?" She reached out, grabbing the handle of a tea cup and bringing it to her lips as her eyes scanned yet another page of the manga in her hands.
Despite the sudden urge to project the weapon, Fou refrained, merely rolling his eyes. "To quote the description I'd gotten with it, 'The Masamune's blade has an organic quality to it, lengthening and shortening as needed.' And thus, I can extend and shrink it without even using Alteration." Rias's smile grows bigger as she finned the page.
Gracefully and almost revently she closes her book, having memorized her page number, and placing it down on her bathroom's trolley with her tea cup. "So you can make it like 20 feet long!" Sparkles explode in her eyes as she hastily sits up, sending a ripple through the water and rocking Fou's warm resting spot.
"Maybe, but that's not what I'd asked you about." Pouting, Rias crosses her arms over her bust. "Fou..." Her voice trails off warningly, exaggeratedly rolls his eyes and huffing, he adjusts his position. "I know you've sent him home with Kiba to keep watch, but I'm quite sure our resident cat has been snooping around him." All notions of joking round left the room.
"I have." Solemnly she confesses. "I've been thinking about how best to broach the topic."
"And?" She sighs at Fou's response, sinking deeper into the water and raising it's level.
She looks away, blowing bubbles into the water as she warps her arms around her knees. "He's your friend."
"And now you're deflecting the issue, why haven't you approached him yet?" His eyes close as the both turns away from her.
"Because I don't know how, I was in the middle of saving everyone else." Her mind brought up the circumstances of each peice she'd collected over the years. "There wasn't time to consider Kiba's situation, Akeno was about to be killed and we'd only just arrived, Koneko was traumatized and Sirzerchs gave her to me, Gasper..." She rested her eyes on her knees, feeling like the ground would open up and swallow her whole if she said more.
"Everyone was lucky, you, were lucky. Ye?" She grunts, breathing in the humid air. "And Issei was lucky, because I was there." Wordlessly she nods.
"He has a choice now, and unlike Sona, no one who's joined me has had a choice..." She hears water splash, feels the surface tension lap against her skin before the plastic bumps into her.
She lifts her head up enough to peak a single eye out. "I can tell you for certain, had I not been involved, had I not shown Issei the effects of moderation, he'd most likely be dead or in your peerage right now." She winces, knowing from Sona's lessening complaints that the boy had really pulled back and reigned in his desires.
"He's a simple boy, he wants a Harem." Fou starts, shaking his head. "Tell him about the peerage system, explain to him how it works and he'll draw his own conclusions." She feels a paw press against her forehead for a moment before the Fou pushes off and away from her.
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"Hyoudou-san, how was your morning?" Issei freezes, the unforgettable velvet like voice gracing his ears as he closes his locker. "G-Gremory-senpai?" He turns his head slowly, finding the young woman standing next to his locker with a smile and crossed arms under her-"Uh... Are you alright?"
The stinging feeling on both his hand and cheek grounded him away from his pervy desires. "Just peachy! What brings you to my locker section?" Awkwardly leaning against the cool metal and crossing his arms, he quickly focuses on the Animal, or would it be Person, on her shoulders.
A hand finds itself covering her lips as she giggles, seemingly finding joy in how flustered he is. "Why, I wanted to ask you to swing by the Club after school so we can finalize you joining and get your schedule properly redone." His heart shutters from the melodic sound.
His eyes were drawn to her own, the enchantingly Vivid Blue conveying the seriousness of her request. "Right, right. I'll uh..." One of his hands find's it's way to the back of his skull, idlily scratching. "Find my way there after classes." lamely he confirms.
He straightens up, snapping into finger guns "I'll head on right over after school." She gracefully bows slightly in return, and his eyes lock onto her hair, the shade of Red completely redefining the colour itself. "Don't worry, Yuuto-kun will come pick you up." She steps to the side, starting to walk away.
He watches her go before remembering to respond. "Okay!" Yet his eyes stay on the back of her head, and notices the Piercing Blue of his... Well being truthful, his third friend, and wasn't that a sad tho- "ISSEI YOU BASTARD!"
The voice comes before a fist, and something in him flares to life, allowing him to duck. "GAH!" Matsuda's hand slams into Issei's locker, leaving a small dent. "You've betrayed your comrades in the Losers Alliance!"
Tears, both of pain and the sting of "Betrayal" prick at the boy's eyes as he stumbles back shaking his hand.
"Mah, Mah." Another voice draws his attention away from his now dented locker. "Calm down, Matsuda, no need to get so aggressive!" The third member of the so called Losers Alliance make's his presence known with a calming hand on Matsuda's shoulder.
"But Motohama!" Matsuda tuts, finger wagging while adjusting his glasses with his other hand. "You've jumped to far ahead, we need to hear what Issei has to say first." Both turned to the brown haired boy, faces filled with annoyance.
"What do you have to say for yourself Traitor!" They roar together.
Issei stares incredulously, looking between his locker and and them. "Sorry, but I'm a bit lost guys..."
""First you ditch us yesterday, now we find you talking to Gremory-sama!"" They scream at him, drawing attention from the rest of the nearby students and the aforementioned person. "Keep your voices down dammit." He hands smash into their lips, muffling their responses.
"Sorry!" He apologies, quickly starting to drag them off.
Fou's eye closes, returning him to the darkness provided by Rias's hair. "Well would you look at that, you can teach an old dog new tricks..." Fou mumbles, his body hidden under magic from the rest of the nearby students.
Rias looks over, watching Issei drag the other two boys around a corner. "I wonder just what was in that note you gave him." She turns away, eyes glancing at the clock and legs quickly picking up speed to get to class in time.
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I breathe out, feeling my energies rolling under my skin and fur as we wait for Akeno to start us off.
"I'm surprised, the President training willingly?" Kiba speaks up, and I crack an eye open to see him on the side of the clearing with Koneko and Issei. "Are you sure this safe is?" The only normal of our group speaks up, getting a nod from our resident cat.
"Shouldn't we like... Go to a gym or Something?" I firmly shut my eye, ignoring the sadistically smiling Akeno. "Let the battle-" The sound of air rushing and Issei choking sounds out, and I open my eyes in turn. "Begin!"
I stood up, slowing opening my eyes as I started to gather the energy in me, my mind thinking of a sword in the middle of the forging process- "BREAK!" In an instant, it felt like molten lava filled my veins, the heat viably warping the air around me as I actually full engage my Reactor instead of feeding off it's excess.
"I've already taken care of Kiba, too." She looks up to the roof of the ORC club. "Koneko must be hiding somewhere..." I roll my eyes as she looks to the forest. "Hah. But it doesn't matter." Imperiously she raises a finger to point at me. "You're next, Fou!"
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I huffed, the energy bleeding off, ramping down, and roll my eyes. "Really Rias?" The red headed weeb practically deflates, shoulders falling. "C'mon Fou~ Please~" I cringe, the way she's now clasping her hands and batting her eyes...
"If I play along, do you promise to not do that again?" She leans forward, trying her best to look more innocent. "Why I have no idea what you're talking about~" My skin crawls as she continues to put on her little act. "Fine!" I stomp, causing a small fissure in the ground as my reactor kicks it up a notch, producing more heat and energy then before.
"Oh? You're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming right to me?" My eye twitched, the arrogance on her face and words. "Fuck it." I feel the wind push against my face, jaw clenching around the handle of Asuna's Ray of Grace as I launch myself straight at Rias. "I CAN'T BEAT-"
I reinforce my neck and jaw, rearing my head back and lashing out with as much for as I can while speaking through the leather. "THE SHIT OUT-" My blow is met head on, defensive hexagonal magic cracking mere moments after impacting against my blade before they both shatter.
Saliva fly's from my mouth as a fist find's it's way into my stomach, "KUH-" Rias smirks, her energy flaring to life and shocking me for a mere moment before I'm sent ass over teakettle through the air. "Ouch!"
My tail swiped against her forearm, the Black Key in my fur inflicting more pain then normal as she suddenly grabs at her wound. "Pierce, Masamune!" If she wanted an anime slash manga-esque fight, I was gonna do it by calling out my attacks!
Her head whipped up just in time to see the blade and lean to the left, dark purplish black energy enveloping the blade and completely erasing an entire section of it.
"Gonna have to try-" She turend just in time to catch a paw straight to her cheek, pushing her slightly off balance as I rebound and flip, letting lose a barrage of Black Key's that just radiated Holy Energies. "Gremory-Senpai!" Her head snapped back at Issei's shout, hand slicing through the air and shredding the weapons apart.
"Black Hole Sun!" A red and black sphere covered in flames appear in her hands, being throwing right at me. "OF YOU-" My front paws stretched out, the Ray of Grace appearing in front of me, it's metal drinking in my energy for- "ALTERATION!"
The 'Black Hole Sun' slammed into the metal, I kicked off it and away, watching the metal heat up before it shattered. "Omea Wa Mou," Rias appeared next to me, wings fully out and on display as she deliberately spoke the untranslated words.
I braced against the floor, feeling the sweat in my fur start gather- "Hedgehog!" She leans back, dodging the the sudden porcupineing effect I'd quickly employed.
"My, my, is that all you have?" She floated backwards, long hair gently flowing in the breeze as she languidly stretched. "Man, you're-*CRACK*-making me work for this you know?" Satisfyingly, I cracked my neck, I could feel my blood bump along the molten steel in my body, a smirk coming to my lips as I crouched lower, magic pooling in my limbs.
"Without getting~" I stretched, working my muscles a bit so that they wouldn't tear from my up coming movements. "CLOSER~!" I blast off the ground, blowing chunks of dirt into the air- *TACK* -I impacted a tree, staying there just long enough for physics to work and break through it with the force of my landing before moving- *TACK* -on to the next tree. *TACK* And onto the another, mid way through this jump, I twirled, launching a Black Key into Rias's shadow. *TACK* Another key.
*TACK* Another key- *TACK* Another- *TACK* Ano- *TACK* A- *TACK* *TACK* *TACK**TACK**TACK**TACK**TACK**TACK**TACK**TAC-
"That's quite enough~!" I'm pulled out of the trance I found myself in, mid way through throwing yet another key with my tail, Akeno grabbed the scruff of my neck, leaving me dangling and able to see the pincushion I'd turned the ground near Rias into. "Dispell, now."
I was thrust towards Rias- "Shit."
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Unceremoniously, Akeno dropped Fou.
"Shit."
He was breathing fast, steps wobbly as he swiped his tail through the air and turned all the projected Key's into Parana that safely dissipated into the air. Rias fell forward, landing on her knees and hands, "Huuuu-!" chest rising and falling as she quickly gulped down air before she was swarmed by her peerage.
"Shit... Shit. Shit, shit shit!" Fou exclaims, paws slamming into the ground as the red head is quickly turned over, her paler then normal face and unfocused vivid blue eyes- "Fou!" He's knocked out of his thoughts, Koneko having picked him up.
"It's... Okay..." Rias heaved out, Akeno and Kiba's energy's washing over her. "Bed, now." Akeno took charge, hooking her King's arm over her shoulder with kiba doing the same, their wings flaring to speed away.
"I fucked up didn't I?" Koneko stayed silent, both staring at the old school president house.