Chapter 12: Every Time We Touch
(Y/N)'s POV
"My name is Asia Argento," Asia introduced herself to the class, our class! I was happy that she was in the same class as I am. But I'm also aware of Matsuda and Motohama, promising myself to keep them away from her. My brother is pervert, but those guys are rapey.
"I'm feeling a bit like a fish out of water," Asia continued. "But I'm excited to be here." What few boys there were in the classroom marveled at her cuteness. I admit, I do too.
"Shorty's hot!" Matsuda exclaimed, staring at the blonde girl.
"Bust: 34! Waste: 26! Hips: 35! And look at all that hair!" Motohama was doing his thing and... sizing her up, I guess would be the correct phrasing. I snapped the pencil on my hand with my demonic strength, showing some demonic aura that people who sit beside me might have felt it.
"Being in a new school, in a strange town can be overwhelming," Asia said. "But luckily I'm staying with Issei and his brother, (Y/N)!" Most of the class were sending death glares at us now. The guys were all jealous (yet, they had no reason to be) and the girls hated Issei automatically because he's a pervert. I think he's proud of it...disgusting yet he's my twin.
And now Matsuda and Motohama were choking him out.
"Tell us you secret!" Motohama yelled at me. "Have you sworn off porn or something!?"
"Look, I didn't have anything to do with this!" I defended. "She's only staying with us because she has a thing for (Y/N)!"
"Yeah, snitch your brother. It's an effective way to show love in family." I sarcastically remarks.
"It true, Pinetree always does that to his sister." Bill said it to me.
'Who in the actual fuck is Pinetree?' I thought.
"You bastard, go die in a hole!" Matsuda shouted as he was about to punch me. I took the initiative to grab the hand and flipped him over to the floor.
"Think use your head Baldy..."
I looked to see Asia getting along well with the kendo team! I looked to the side to see Issei in dismay.
"Hey, Asia, listen," one of the kendo girls, Murayama, said. "You're room has a lock, right?"
"Um... yeah," Asia answered her, looking confused.
"I bet he, like, masturbates in the bathroom. So watch for pubes," the other kendo girl, Katase, warned her.
"I'll have to keep that in mind," Asia responded, she didn't seem to understand what was going on.
"And there could be hidden cameras all over the house, so check everything," Murayama advised her.
"O-Okay," Asia stuttered in various levels of confusion. "But... which one are you warning me about?"
"What do you mean?" Katase asked.
"Are you trying to warn me about Issei or (N/N)?" Asia asked.
"Issei, obviously. His brother doesn't seem that bad." The kendo girls nodded in agreement with each other's statements. "But you could do us favor to send us his picture. Mainly when he is shirtless."
"Oh, come on, guys!" Issei yelled at the top of my lungs. "I'm right here, dammit!"
"Don't corrupt her with your own perverted mind, hypocrites!" I joined my brother in yelling.
[Timeskip]
"So, how did everything go, Asia?" I asked as we walked back to the clubroom after an afternoon of handing out leaflets. It was a nice enough night so we decided to walk it rather than skating or cycling. I was worried about how she was settling into school, considering how new she is to the whole thing.
"It went great," she told me, her sweet smile ever present on her face. "Everyone was so nice to me, especially Matsuda and Motohama."
"They didn't do anything creepy, did they?" Issei asked. He knew what would happen if he didn't do his job properly.
"No, but they did invite me to something called a 'Devil's Threeway'." she told us.
"Whatever you do, don't go to that," I advised her. "Those two are about as crooked as Dad's attitude towards Issei."
"Hey!" Issei yelled at me before slumping his shoulders a little. "He is right, though. Be careful around those two."
When we got back to the clubroom we found Rias sat at her desk, clearly deep in thought about something.
"Hey, Rias, we're back!" Issei announced, but she didn't respond. "Earth to Rias!" This was strange, she'd been so distracted recently.
She seemed to come to her senses, turned and smiled at us. "Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I spaced out there for a little bit." I didn't buy it, and I don't think Issei did either. "It's been one of those days. Asia."
"Yes, ma'am," Asia spoke up.
"If you don't have any problems with it, I was thinking you could make your big debut tonight," Rias told her.
"Debut?" Asia asked.
"Basically, you jump into some greedy asshole's house and make a deal with them using the magic circle," I explained to her. "But, Rias, isn't too early for this? She's only just started."
"You need to relax," Akeno said, bringing a tray of tea over. "Don't worry your precious pumpkin head over it, she's going to be awesome. When it comes to magical powers, that girl's got almost as much game as either of us."
"Seriously?" I asked, just now noticing that everyone else was in the room. "Guess I didn't make her my Bishop for nothing."
"That because I give the piece to you." Rias smiled away.
"And thus, you're right. I owe you one."
"Make sure you return the favor though." Bill told me.
"You have a great eye for potential, Gremory," one of the ex-Fallen Angels, Kalawarner, said. "The girl does have quite a lot of magical potential."
"She seems alright, but I give her a shot." Another one of the ex-Fallen Angels, Miltelt exclaimed. "But I still mad that one eyed boy give me two Pawns!"
"I have a name you know...And I'm your master..." I deadpanned at the girl. She's pain in the ass with her bitchy attitude.
"Congrats on that, too," Kiba said to Asia. "Bishop's impressive."
"Uh, thanks a lot!" Asia said to all of the compliments directed at her.
"Honestly, your potential makes me regret killing you even more," Raynare admitted, rubbing her neck sheepishly as she brought up the rather 'awkward' situation.
"It's a shame regret doesn't change things, isn't it?" Issei asked, more than a little hostility in his voice.
"Just ignore him people," I told them once I noticed Raynare's face start to fall. "He's just a bit bitchy because someone shat in his cornflakes this morning." He gave me a small glare but backed down pretty quickly once the others started laughing, instead just looking embarrassed.
"Being an overprotective master aren't you?" Bill wiggled his brows before I decide to flip him off.
"Asia, are you okay?" Rias asked. Asia had gone a little quiet and started looking at the floor.
"Yes," she assured us. "I'm just nervous, is all."
"Should I go instead?" I asked. When everyone looked at me strangely I started to explain. "Asia doesn't know her way around yet, and she hasn't even been a Devil for a week. Wouldn't it be better to send her out when she gets a better feel for things?" If I'm being honest, I was just really nervous about the possibility of her being summoned by some pervert who'd make her do bad things.
In the end, I went on her behalf.
...And I was scarred for life!
Do you remember when I told you that Issei had a client who kept asking for shit that even a Devil couldn't provide? No? That's okay, neither did I until I met the guy for myself. Because wouldn't you know it, apparently this guy decided to try again despite his lack of success the first time.
So I stepped out of the magic circle and into the house of this... thing. I couldn't in all good conscience call it a person, the fucker was huge! It was an incredibly muscular man in a gothic lolita outfit. It looked like Wolverine had fist-fucked a body building transvestite, and somehow that made a baby!
"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT?!" Bill exclaimed in shock as his eye were widened.
"Hey, honey! I'm Mil-tan!" the muscular monstrosity introduced itself.
"H-Hello," I nervously replied. "I'm (Y/N) Hyoudou, a Devil of the house of Gremory...well sort off. What do you need?" I tried to keep the pleasant smile on my face, truly I did, but it was near impossible when facing whatever the fuck this thing was.
Mil-tan put his/her hands together and took a step closer to me. "Look here, Tiny Tim, Mil-tan wants you to turn her into a magical fairy princess!"
"Don't do the deal...It's not worth it..." Bill looked at me dead in the eye. Even he was afraid.
"And I wish I had the ability to see through clothing, we don't all get what we want in life." This was too much for me. I was so freaked out by this that my sarcasm was starting to take control.
"Please give me fabulous powers!" Mil-tan begged me. "I'll let you lick my lollipop."
"WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!" Bill shouted, probably know what he/she meant by 'lollipop'.
"Trust me, mate, there's nothing so compelling about that offer that'll make me suddenly gain the powers of a god," I told him/her. "And you're about as fabulous as you can get, already."
"You realize you had that kind of power don't you?"
'I'm trying to turn her or him down!' I shouted in my mind.
"Okay...make sense to me."
And then, just as my luck would have it, the damn thing started crying! "Whaaa! I just want to be magical like a fairy!"
"Oh, for fuck's sake," I muttered to myself. "Alright! We can have a chat about it!"
"Perfect! And while we talk, we can paint our nails and gossip!" Oh fuck me!
"Oh, I have a great idea!" Mil-tan exclaimed. He/she went over to a shelf of DVDs and brought over an anime DVD. "To get us in the mood, we can watch an episode of Magical Milky Girl!" This was a very long night. And I wanted to die by the end of it.
"I'll order our coffin..."
'Please do...'
[Timeskip]
I got back to the clubroom through the magic circle to find that Kiba and Koneko were out on contracts.
"Ah, you're back," Rias acknowledged my presence.
"How'd it go, bro?" Issei asked me. I stepped out of the magic circle, walked towards a wall, and started smashing my head repeatedly off of it.
SMASH! SMASH! SMASH! SMASH! SMASH!
One bleeding head later I was standing on wobbly feet looking at the others in the room. I looked at Issei and answered his question.
"I think I preferred being dead," I told him. "It was Mil-tan." He winced in remembrance of his second contract. "I had to sit through all that, and I didn't even get a fucking contract out of it..." I was nearly sobbing at the mental scarring that had happened that night.
"You didn't get a pact?" Rias asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No," I shook my head. "He... or she... or whatever the fuck that thing was just made me watch a bunch of anime that I'm pretty sure is just meant as a form of torture. Thanks, Asia," I thanked her when she came over to heal the injuries I'd just inflicted on my own head. "Can I go home, now? I think I'm gonna need therapy after this."
"Sure, go ahead," Rias told me. "Issei, Asia, you can go too. See you tomorrow."
"See you later, boy!" Kalawarner winked at me.
"Goodbye master~" Raynare waved her hand, small tears was threatening to fall.
"Calm down will you..." I deadpanned at my Knight.
"It's not like Miltelt will remember you or anything..." Miltelt looked away...fuck...she's a Tsun.
The ex-Fallen Angel girls bid us farewell, too, and the three of us went home. My poor mental health still hasn't recovered from the terrible events of that night.
[Timeskip]
It was lunch time and I still hadn't seen Issei. By now I'd figured that he'd gone off to have a nap, not a bad idea to be honest. Still, the fact that I couldn't find him meant that I had some time on my hands. Now, what to spend it on...?
"(Y/N) Hyoudou?" a voice behind me asked. I turned around to see the Vice President of the Student Council, Tsubaki Shinra, looking at me. "The Student Council President wants to see you."
"Again?" I asked. "Aren't I popular. Alright, lead on." I knew my way to the Student Council Room already, but I could tell she would have brought me there either way. While we were walking down a corridor, I decided to see if my new-found charm was still intact. "So, how does a girl as pretty as you get involved in all of this?"
I saw the faint ghost of a blush on her face before she quickly got it under control and returned to her serious expression. "Sona Sitri saw potential in me, and made me her servant."
I knew there was more to it than what she said, but I wasn't going to pry. So I settled with saying: "Well, I can definitely see why someone would want you with them at all times." That faint blush brushed her cheeks again.
"Kid, you're pimp..." Bill commented as I chuckled a bit.
"I might be..." I muttered under my breath, didn't want Tsubaki to hear me.
We arrived at the Student Council Room and entered.
"Ara, hello (Y/N)," Sona greeted me.
"Hello to you, too, Sona," I returned the greeting. "To what do I owe this unexpected pleasure?"
"I enjoyed our chess game last time, you provided me with an unusual challenge and I'd like to play against you again."
"Please sit, you can socialize while we play," Sona said as she sat on one side of the table. I sat on the other side. She chose white so she got the first move.
"So, how are you today, (Y/N)?" Sona asked me when we'd begun.
"Very well, thanks," I told her.
"And how is your brother?" she asked, keeping her eyes on the board in front of us.
"Probably sleeping somewhere, I asked around and no one's seen him since he had gym class earlier." Everyone in the room made some noise of disapproval at the statement.
"You know, I've asked myself that same question a few times," I admitted. "Though, for me it's more because of how different we look than anything. But I looked at a few family photos and found out that we just took after two different sides of the family. I look more like mum's side and he looks more like dad's."
"How's your stay at ORC Club? I heard you now gained a Peerage even though you're still-"
"Low Class Devil?" I interrupted her with a chuckle. "Oh Sona, I'm more than just a devil."
She perked in interest. "Why do you say that?"
"That's...I gotta keep in secret." I put the final piece on the board before looking up at her. "Checkmate." Sona and her Peerage looked startled by this! "That has got to be dumb luck, I'm nowhere near that good."
"You smell that? I smell BULLSHIT!" Bill chuckled. "You used your Clairvoyance power."
'You got me Bill.' I slowly smiled at him, which was noticed by Sona. 'I cheated...but it feels good to do that though. You really are a bad influence.'
"Thank me later..." Bill waved off before flouting away.
"On the contrary," Sona said, a strange look in her eyes. "It would seem you are just as adept at this game as I am."
"That was quite an impressive display," Tsubaki complimented me.
Sona didn't speak again. As I said before, she had this strange look in her eyes that made me wonder what she was thinking about. Before I could question it, the door opened and in stepped a familiar face.
"Oh, hey, Koneko," I greeted the pretty, white-haired girl.
"I've been looking... for you..." she told me in her blank voice. Though she rarely showed emotion, something in her eyes told me she was frustrated about something. "I was wondering if you... wanted to hang out... after school..."
"Yeah, sure," I nodded. "I do owe you the time, don't I? Although, I had thought you'd wait for the weekend."
"I didn't want to wait," she said. "I couldn't wait to force you... to buy me sweets."
"Oh, so I'm your purse, am I?" I said in mock hurt. "Ow, my pride!"
"What pride?" she asked. I was quite surprised at the display of humour. She turned to walk back out the door. "You coming?" she asked me.
"Er, yeah," I told her. I turned to the others. "Thank you all for the wonderful time. I'll see you around." They all said their own farewells as I left the room with Koneko. "Any explanation as to what that was?" I was quite confused as to why she wanted me to leave with her in the middle of lunch time.
"I was here first," she said simply. Looking back, it was kind of stupid of me to not know what that meant.
[Timeskip]
"Okay, shall we go?" I asked Koneko after Issei and Rias had left. She simply nodded and began walking towards the door.
"Where are you two going?" Asia asked with a curious look.
"Don't know yet," I admitted. "Me and Koneko are just going to hang out for a bit."
"Unfair! How come she got to go out with master?" Raynare puffed her cheek in jealousy as her two other companion looked at her weirdly.
"Is that so?" Akeno chuckled, but there was a dangerous glint in her eyes. "Well, don't enjoy yourself too much, (N/N). We don't want your cute face getting hurt." I tried to hide my blush as I left the room with Koneko, but I failed spectacularly.
"And another one for the team Cipher!" Bill cheered before walking away leaving me. "Have fun or your date! Don't die when I was gone."
"(N/N)?" Koneko asked once we were alone.
"Yeah, I know," I said. "I'm getting nicknames left and right."
"I'll call you (N/N)... from now on," Koneko decided.
"Yeah, sure, go ahead," I told her. "Look... sorry about not really spending time with you recently. I'm a bad friend, aren't I?"
"No," she shook her head in the negative. "You're spending time with me now... aren't you?"
"Yeah, I guess," I said. "But I'll try and talk to you more often, I don't want to stop interacting with you entirely, you know?"
She didn't say anything, but I could have sworn she smiled as I said that. We kept walking and keeping to what she'd said earlier, we found ourselves at a sweetshop. Then I made the mistake of saying:
"Get what you want, it's on me." I was pretty much out of money by the end of that little escapade. She got some of everything the shop had in store, we stepped out of the shop looking like we were buying for a birthday party that had a thousand kids attending.
"Okay, so now that we've got your bags of diabetes, where do you want to go now?" I asked her. I really didn't mind buying her so much. The crush I had on her was fuelling pretty much everything I did at this point.
"You're buying me... ice-cream," she said, giving me what I can only assume was supposed to be puppy dog eyes, and she didn't do them all that well.
"Oh, alright then," I said. "You're just trying to bleed me dry, aren't you?"
We got to the ice-cream place, I got strawberry and she got chocolate, then we sat down in one of the booths to eat this succulent, ice-cold treats. We sat in relative silence for a while before Koneko broke it with a strange question.
"What do you think of... Raynare, Akeno and Asia?" she asked me. I might have been imagining it, but she almost looked nervous.
I thought about it for a moment. "Well, Akeno is okay, I guess. She's certainly very nice to me, but I think she has a fun time embarrassing me. I'd be lying if I said I didn't find her attractive. And, well, I think it's pretty obvious how I feel about Asia after the whole church incident. There is Raynare...I feel guilty that I broke her out from the character because of my Nightmare Inducement...I might have forgiven her a little. Just little..." I didn't want to upset her, but at the same time I wanted to be honest. Lying wouldn't get me anywhere.
"So that's my only option then..." she muttered under her breath. I was wondering what she was talking about.
"What do you mean opti..." My voice was cut off and my brain shut down as I felt something soft brush my lips. I did a double take, because believe it or not, Koneko was kissing me. I don't know where it came from, but the girl I'd had a crush on for most of the time I'd known her was kissing me. And I was kissing back.
It only lasted a few seconds, but it felt like years before we separated. My breath came out in rapid bursts before I found my voice again. "Where did that come from...?" I asked.
"I didn't even realize it... until other girls started trying to... attract you," she explained in her usual monotone, but there was a hint of emotion in there. "I like you, (Y/N)... and if there isn't another option... I'm willing to share."
"What do you mean by...?" Then it hit me. "Oh... erm, well, you'll have to discuss it with them. I really don't know how to handle this situation," I admitted. "Issei always talked about it, but I don't think he ever considered what this sort of situation would actually be like." I looked at the clock. "It's getting late, we should probably see if Issei and Rias are getting back."
She nodded her head, a troubled look on her face. I decided to fix that.
"And just for the record," I said. "I've liked you for a while, too." And that phrase got the first actual smile I'd ever seen on Koneko's beautiful face.
It was a damn good day.
[Timeskip]
We met up with Kiba, Asia, Raynare, Mittelt and Kalawarner outside the clubroom and we all entered together. Inside we found Issei with his hands raised in front of him like he was about to grab something. Rias was stood in front of him, by her desk.
"I guess we're right on time, huh?" I said as we entered.
"Oh, hey Issei," Asia said. "I didn't expect you to be here."
"Are we too late?" Kiba asked.
"What did he do?" Koneko asked the moment she saw Issei. She really didn't like him.
"Oh, hello," Raynare greeted them.
"Make way, the most awesomest Fallen Angel ever has arrived!" Mittelt bragged on her way in.
"Good evening, everyone," Kalawarner entered politely.
"We meet again...if anyone can see me that is..." Bill entered the premise rather happy.
"Five," Rias said and Issei looked disappointed. I had no idea what was going on, but I decided not to ask. "Oh, sorry, Issei. Looks like you're out of time."
"You look like someone just kicked you in the balls, Issei," Akeno said, noticing the dejected look on his face.
"It sure feels like it," he whimpered.
Rias started laughing. "Issei, you're so ridiculous, do you know that? You cannot possibly be that hard up to cop a feel."
"Oh, so that's what we walked in on," I said in realization as Issei nodded his head at Rias with an incredibly depressed look on his face.
"Poor guy..." Bill said before laughing out loud. "Nah, that just pathetic!"
Rias smiled at my brother's silliness. "Alright, fine," she said. "But this is all you get." She proceeded to lean over and hug Issei close to her, I was certain her boobs were being pressed against his chest.
"You do realize everyone's staring at us, right?" Issei whispered to her.
"You do realize that whispering in a silent room means we're still going to hear you, right?" I asked with a smirk present on my face.
"Next time do your job well, whether there's a reward or not," Rias advised Issei.
"Yeah... cool," Issei agreed. He honestly looked content where he was.
"Should we leave you two alone? Maybe come back in the morning?" I asked. It was an incredibly awkward environment.
Rias broke the hug with Issei. "You, Shintaro and Asia go home now," she told him.
"Wait," Koneko said. "Asia, Akeno... I need to talk to you... about something." She turned to me and Issei. "You two can wait for Asia outside."
And we did. I had a hunch as to what she was talking to Asia and Akeno about, and I was glad that nothing was going to get harder any time soon.
I really wish I'd stop jinxing myself.
"You really should, kid."
Author's Note:
Every...Love...AMV...Ever...
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