Key:

[Flashback]

[Spirit speech]

['Spirit thought']

Sacred gear names and time skips

Attack names

'Thought'

Other

I don't own Highschool DxD nor do I own any references I may use. That goes to Ishibumi Ichiei nor do I own any references I may use. I only own Shiro.

Chapter 10

Very soon, the normal day turned into a normal week for the ORC crew as they adjusted to their newest member. As for Issei, he was still heading towards his goal of Harem-king hood with some minor…difficulties…along the way. With said difficulties being him achieving a contract.

Meaning he had yet to receive a single one.

Shiro was currently sat in the ORC clubroom along with Rias, Koneko and Akeno. Kiba was already out on a contract. He had his headphones in and was tapping his foot to the sound of 'Neefex – Rumours'. He took one of his headphones out and looked at Rias, who was currently doing some Devil paperwork.

"So why am I waiting for Issei?" Rias looked up at him, wearing a pair of glasses. The first time she wore them, Shiro asked if she had a problem with her eyesight to which she replied 'They help me focus.'

"Koneko is double booked today and so I think it's a good time for Issei to gain some experience since he hasn't received one yet." She replied, taking her glasses off and closing them with a click.

"Okay but, why am I here?" Shiro asked with a raised eyebrow. "I don't see why he can't do it on his own."

Rias opened her mouth to reply but closed it when the door opened, revealing Issei. "I'm finished handing out all the flyers."

"Excellent. Now onto the next step, Koneko has been double booked with two contracts and I want you to handle one of them." Rias gestured to the white-haired loli, who was sat next to Shiro.

She politely bowed to him. "That would be super rad."

"Sure, I can do that…" Issei responded with his own bow.

Rias stood up and gestured to Akeno to start the teleportation process. "Right now, Akeno is currently inscribing you sigil into the teleportation circle so that you can easily get to the contracts location. Not only that but" She then gestured towards Shiro, who waved at them. "Shiro will be accompanying you, just in case the Fallen ones attempt another assault. Now hold out your hand." She took Issei's hand and drew the same magic crest that was on Shiro's palm.

"What's this?" Issei asked her, holding his hand up so he could get a better view of it.

"This tool allows you to utilize the magical diagram to teleport you to your summoner or in this case, Koneko's." Rias then turned to Akeno. "Akeno, are you finished?"

"You can start anytime Buchou." Akeno told her with a bow.

"Okay Issei. Stand in the magic circle with Shiro and when you reach the client, don't panic and follow Shiro's lead, okay?" Issei nodded and walked into the centre of the circle, Shiro following soon after giving Akeno a kiss and hug.

"Sweetness, after this I'm one-step closer to having my harem." Issei said with a perverted and lecherous grin.

Shiro rolled his eyes and wacked him over the back of his head. "Try and stay focused Issei." He then turned to Rias and nodded. "We're ready."

"Okay, sending you both now."

Both Issei and Shiro closed their eyes as they felt the spell wash over them, followed by a blinding light. After it died down Issei spoke up. "Hello, I'm here to complete your task."

"Issei…open your eyes." He heard Shiro say in a monotone voice.

Issei opened his eyes and saw that they were still at the ORC clubroom. "The fuck?"

Rias rubbed the bridge of her nose and sighed. "Seems like you can't make the jump and I'm guessing it's effecting your ability to jump as well Shiro."

"So, how are we gonna get there?" Issei asked.

"I can't believe this!" Issei growled through gritted teeth as he stood outside of the client's location.

"It's not my fault your weak ass couldn't make the jump." Shiro replied, his arms behind his head in a lazy manner.

"But still…" Issei looked behind him at the pair of bikes that were chained up. "Why did she put us on a bike?" Comical tears streamed down his face.

Since Issei couldn't make the jump, he still needed to reach the client in some way to which Rias proposed to cycling there. After all, he still needed this contract.

"Who cares?" Shiro then nudged Issei forwards, towards the apartment's stairwell. "And besides. YOU still need this contract, so get moving newbie."

Issei growled at him but moved anyway. They both walked up to the second floor and stood outside of Issei's client, one . Issei knocked on the door and spoke up. " , Devil knocking at your door."

"Really, 'Devil knocking at your door'?" Shiro stared at Issei with half-lidded eyes. "That sounds like we're gonna kill him…" Shiro trailed off as the door opened slightly, revealing a man with brown hair and glasses.

"Hey there." Issei waved at him.

"Go away." Morisawa then slammed the door in Issei's face.

"Wait I wasn't kinding." He then began knocking on the door, dogs began to bark in the background. "You summoned a Devil and I'm here to hook you up!"

"Since when does a demon come to your front door."

'Dude has a point.' Shiro thought, averting his eyes.

"Tonights your lucky night?" Issei suggested.

"Screw you, I'm not an idiot." The client, Morisawa, yelled at the two. "I know how this works, Koneko always appears out of the magic circle on the flyer. She's the one I called for. Now get off my porch!"

Tears began to well up in Issei's eyes, the frustration of the current situation and his earlier embrassesment mixing together.

"Shit are you crying?" Shiro asked stunned.

It was at that moment Issei fell to his knees in front of the door. "Look, I tried, ok. I couldn't do it! I don't what happened!" Issei cried. "All I know is that they said I had to get here and then they put me on a bike! A BIKE!" He broke down as low as any emotional teenage boy could get.

Shiro didn't know how to properly react, so he just stood at the side awkwardly. Suddenly, the door opened.

"Ugggggh fine. Come on in." Morisawa groaned and gestured for the two to enter.

And, just like that, Issei and Shiro were granted access to Morisawa's home.

"Here."

"Thank you."

"Cheers."

Issei sat on his knees as a cup of tea was placed in front of him on the table. Shiro stood of to the side, accepting his own cup. He kinda felt out of place in a room that looked like an otakus paradise. Anime CD's, posters, figures and manga decorated the room.

"Alright so what do you two want?" Morisawa asked the pair as he sat at a computer. "And why are there two of you for that matter."

"My name is Shiro Katsura and you could say I'm his senior. Our master asked me to come with him just to make sure that he doesn't screw up, that's all." Shiro said with a polite bow.

"I see..." Morisawa nodded and then turned his attention to Issei. "So what cool Devil tricks can you do?"

Shiro was now standing outside of Morisawa's appartment. Issei seemed to be doing well enough on his own, seeing how he and Morisawa got into a debate about an anime called Dragonball Z and then began to watch said anime.

An hour had now passed and Shiro was starting to get...agitated... Sure, he was glad that Issei hasn't managed to screw up-yet-but it shouldn't take this long to complete the contract. He began to impatiently tap his foot against the ground.

"Hurry up Issei." He began to impatiently tap his foot against the ground. "It's not supposed to take this long to obtain a contract."

Shiro began to debate breaking down Morisawa's door and drag Issei out, contract or not, but he restrained himself since he knew that Rias would be pissed at him. Out the corner of his eye, he spotted a metal box. On closer inspection it was a vending machine, his throat was starting to get a bit dry, so he thought he would get a drink.

He walked over and looked the machine over before putting his money in and, just as he was about to get his beverage, he saw a flash of light out the corner of his eye. His devil instincts told him to dodge, and it was a good thing he did because as soon as the light-thing hit the place he was standing, it exploded outwards, causing the vending machine to go up in a great ball of flames and send him flying backwards.

He quickly form a magic circle behind him which caused ice to jettison out the ground and stop his momentum. He dropped to the ground as the ice shattered away and summoned his sacred gear, ready for a fight.

"Alright! Who the hell is there? I'm not afraid of someone who won't show there face." Shiro yelled out into the darkness.

"Ufufufu~" A familiar laugh made Shiro heart skip a beat and when a familiar navy-blue haired woman stepped out of the shadows and into the light, his blood turned to ice and his sacred gear dispelled. "Your reactions are as cute as ever, Shiro."

"Wh-What?" Shiro said, stunned. He didn't expect that this would be his first contact with her after not hearing from her for a few weeks.

The navy-haired woman gave a bitter smile. "It's a shame that things can never be the same between us after what I have to do now." Kalawarner summoned a spear of light in her left hand. "You best defend your self SHIRO!" And with that yell, she threw the spear at Shiro, it rocketing towards him with tremendous speed.

Acting fast, Shiro slammed both hands on the ground and conjured up another wall of ice, both the spear and the ice shattered. "What the hell are you doing Kala?"

"Isn't it obvious." She said with the same bitter smile. "I'm here to kill a Devil." She laughed a little when she saw his horrified expression. "Don't worry your cute virgin face Shiro. I can tell you're playing out a couple paranoid scenarios in your head, things like 'Was she aiming for me this entire time?' or 'Did she only get close to me just to kill me?'. The answer is none of these. In fact, you never were my target."

Shiro stared at her blankly before speaking. "I was thinking more along the lines of something witty like 'what do you have against vending machines?' but that would be in bad taste." Shiro shook his head and stood at full height. "But now I want to know why you are here and who you are trying to kill?"

"Maybe this will clarify things..." She outstretched her arms in a dramatic fashion and held that pose. For a few seconds nothing happened and when Shiro was about to comment on it.

FWOOSH

A pair of black, feathery, raven-like wings sprouted from her back. She flapped them, sending her into the air and rained down black feathers all around Shiro. She stared at him with a cold yet sad expression.

"Does it make sense now?"

"Not really..." Shiro shrugged. "I mean, I see the wings but it still doesn't explain why you're here."

"Seriously?" His response took her by surprise. She had expected him to gasp in horror and then she would do this whole 'evil monologue' saying that they were never friends to lessen the shock of betrayal not...this. "You seriously don't know what the wings mean?"

"I know a few people with wings, no biggie."

Once again, Shiro's response shocked her. "But are they feathered?"

"No..."

"So that means..." She rolled her hand, gesturing for him to answer.

"That means?" Shiro mimicked her hand movements.

Kalawarner sighed, she didn't expect him to be this dense but that was just another reason why she found him cute. She opened her mouth to respond but closed it when she saw his humorous expression. "What?"

Shiro kept quite for a few seconds before bursting out in laughter. Kalawarner rolled her eyes and waited for him to stop. He stood up straight and smiled at her. "I'm just fucking with you Kala." Now that confused her. He gave a bitter smile. "I know you're a Fallen Angel."

"Good, then it makes things easier for me-" Kalawarner began to speak but was cut off by Shiro.

"Make what easier? We're still friends."

Once again, Kalawarner was at a loss for words. "Are you actually kidding me Shiro? I'm a Fallen Angel."

"I see that."

"And you're a Devil."

"Still not getting it~" Shiro said in a sing song voice.

"THAT MEANS WE ARE ENEMIES!" Kalawarner yelled at him as she threw two more light spears at him but, just like before, they were blocked by ice.

"Oh yeah? Says who?" Shiro asked.

"Says the Holy Bible." Kalawarner conjured more spears in the air and launched them at Shiro.

Seeing as he couldn't block all of them, Shiro summoned his sacred gear and sent out a pulse of gravity and froze them in place before summoning a magic circle and blasted them all with fireballs.

'A minute countdown. I need to stall her for a minute after that I can use it on her and calm her down.' Shiro thought as he glared at Kalawarner. "I'm not going to fight a friend Kala."

Kalawarner didn't respond and narrowed her eyes at him. She conjured another spear of light and charged at him with a strong beat of her wings. Despite how fast she was going, Shiro still managed to roll out of the way. He quickly got to his feet and conjured a sword of ice just in time to block a downward strike from her. Thanks to being in close proximity to the spear, Shiro could feel the holy magic pouring out of it and it felt toxic.

He deflected her strike and went for his own palm strike to her side. His strike made contact which caused her to stumble away from him. Shiro dispelled the sword in favour for a staff and held it behind is back in his right hand with his left hand in front of him, palm out.

Kalawarner scoffed at this. "Hoping to defend against me Shiro? That's foolish and you know it." Kalawarner went airborn once again, not knowing that she was giving Shiro a good view of her panties, and held her spear at her side. "You won't be able to defend forever Shiro." She then dive bombed him, the spear held in front of her.

"We'll see about that won't we? Thirty seconds left." He thought that last part.

When Kalawarner got close to him, he spun the staff around his body and deflected her strike but she summoned a second spear and stabbed it at him managing to clip his stomach causing him to recoil back. He hoped back to create some distance between them causing her to scowl.

"Why won't you attack dammit!"

"I told you, I'm not going to attack a friend." He yelled at her as he held his side. 'Damn that stings.'

"'Friends' HA. How childish. We can never be friends Shiro." She launched more spears at him, all intending on ending his life.

"Well I don't care about what the Bible says." Shiro held the staff behind his back and his left hand in front of him. A magic circle, one larger then before, appeared in front of him and released a explosion destroying all of the spears she created. The explosion was so big, it managed to singe some of Kalawarner's clothes, exposing some of her mid-riff.

"It's not just the Bible Shiro." She held her hands above her head and began to create and even larger spear. "It's what we all think. Just because the war has ended do you think that the scars have healed?" Shiro could tell that something was off about her. She sounded upset and hurt. "NO! THE SCARS WILL NEVER HEAL! THE THREE RACES WILL CONTINUE TO HATE EACH OTHER FOR ALL ETERNITY!" She yelled as she launched the large spear towards him.

Seeing how he couldn't dodge, Shiro created a dome of earth and ice around his body to lessen the blow.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

As soon as the spear made contact with the ground, it caused a large explosion that blew Shiro back and into a building. He fell to the ground with a dull thud. He slowly stood up even as he body protested in sheer agony and clutched his right arm since he fell rather roughly on it. Shiro then examined himself and saw that he had multiple burns and cuts across his arms and torso.

"Ufufufu~ I'm impressed Shiro." Shiro looked up at Kalawarner, who was hovering in the sky above him. "With all the light damage you've taken, I would've thought that you would be a little nauseous by now."

"I should be nauseous? I feel fine." Shiro said as he looked at his burnt body. "Albeit a little bit tingly but that's probably because of the burns. Other then that, yeah I feel fine."

"R-Really?" Kalawarner stared at him in shock. She was the most skilled in dealing light based damage, sure that made her spears weaker then the others but she made up for that in stamina. She had never met a Devil that had this much of a resistance, not counting the Mous since she has never faced a Mou. "Not even a little bit?"

"Nope...Do-Do you want me to fake it?" Shiro asked rubbing the back of his neck.

Kalawarner sighed at this and waved her hand. "No, no it doesn't matter." In an instant, Kalawarner was in front of Shiro and a spear of light was reared back, intending to strike his head. "I'll just kill you normally."

Shiro's eyes went wide in surprise. "Oh shit!" Without thinking, Shiro quickly raised his right hand with his thumb over his middle finger. Then, using his sacred gear since the timer had reset, flicked Kalawarner away with a blast of gravity. 'Dammit, now I need to wait another minute until I can use my sacred gear. I need to stall her.' Shiro sighed and dispelled his staff causing Kalawarner to scoff.

"What's this? Deciding to give up?" Kalawarner smirked and pulled her arm back, ready to rush at the silver haired teen and end his life.

"No." Shiro closed his eyes and shook his head. He then opened them and stared at Kalawarner with intense eyes. He then took a step forwards. "I can't claim to heal everybody's wounds like others can. I know I may be a naive and idealistic fool but that doesn't matter to me." While he was talking, Shiro kept getting closer and closer to Kalawarner and it would've been so easy for her to just thrust her light spear through his chest but for some reason she couldn't bring herself to do it. She couldn't bring herself to kill the boy that had captured her heart. "If the world says we have to be enemies, then I'll use my idealistic veiws to break through all reason." Shiro was finally in front of Kalawarner and held his hand out towards her. "We don't have to fight Kala... I know that, deep down, there's some part of you that hates all this fighting. A part of you that wants all this to end and we can do that. So what do you say?"

A tense silence fell upon the two. A second passed, then two, then three. A minute passed between them, which might of been an eternity, as Shiro waited for her answer.

"Hey Shiro! Where you at pal?" Shiro turned as he heard Issei's voice call out to him. He had completely forgotten that the client's house was behind him.

"Issei stay back!" Shiro ordered. "It's too dangerous."

The brown-haired teen rounded the corner and began to walk towards him. "I know I messed up the contract, but Bouchu won't be that mad will she?"

"No just stay back. Let me handle this."

"Handle what?" Issei asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Kalawarner. Let me handle her." Shiro said as he held his arm out.

"Who's Kalawarner?" Issei asked even more confused. "Are you tripping out or something?"

"What? No! She's the Fallen Angel behind me." Shiro said, pointing over his shoulder with his thumb.

"But there's no one there dude."

"What?" Shiro turned around to see that Kalawarner was indeed, no longer there. He then noticed a single, black, raven-like feather on the ground. He knelt down and held it between his thumb and forefinger. "Kala..." He sighed out. He stood up and pocketed the feather before turning to face Issei. "Lets head back to the club house so you can give your report to Rias."

"R-Right..." Issei wanted to say more to his friend but couldn't think of anything to say.

As the two teens walked off, they both failed to notice the lingering shadow on the roof tops, hesitating for a moment before flying off.

Kalawarner finally touched down in front of the large doors of the abandond Church that they were using as a makeshift hide out. She opened the door and stood in the doorway and servayed the room. There were a few stray priests going about, doing mundane task like cleaning, some were idly chatting and she could also sense some in the basement preparing for the ritual.

As soon as the door slammed shut, every priest that was present stopped what they were doing and bowed respectfully to her as she walked by them. As she did, some called her Kalawarner-sama (I think that's right) while others called her Mistress Kalawarner. She reached the secret passage way that lead to the basement and walked down it.

She continued to walk down the corridor that lead to the rooms until she came into contact with two of her fellow Fallen ones.

"Big sis Kala is finally back~"

"You took quite a while Kalawarner. I was starting to get concerned."

Even though the words sounded caring and compassionate, they were anything but so. The two in front of her weren't even capable of feeling any empathy or pity.

"Leave me be you two." Kalawarner dryly said as she walked past Dohnaseek and Milttelt.

Mittelt flew infront of Kalawarner, stopping her in her tracks, with a teasing smirk on her face. "Aww did someone have a bad break-up?" Kalawarner didn't respond to her taunts and walked straight past her.

"I'm surprised the smell of blood doesn't taint you Kalawarner." Dohnaseek's cool voice caused her to halt in her tracks. "It would be very embarrasing if you were defeated by a mere child."

"I wasn't defeated by him. Thing's just became far too inconvenient for me to continue." She then turned her head slightly to face them. "And just so you know, my tie with Shiro Katsura is all but cut. He is off no concern to me anymore." Her voice sounded cold and harsh.

"So you don't mind if I have my own fun with him hmmm?" Mittelt said as she sat on a statue and swung her legs. "I always enjoy the younger ones you brought, the older ones always make such disgusting faces when they climax~" Mittelt then looked at Kalawarner with a teasing and sadistic smirk. "And it might be fun to break someone like him~"

Kalawarner balled her hands into fists but quickly unclenched them before they noticed her actions. "Like I said, he is of no concern. There is no point in interacting with him any further." Her cruel tone sent shivers down Mittelt's spine, and some of the stray priests that were passing by.

Her cool and calm demeanor was somethig that Mittelt hated about Kalawarner...and it was something she intended to break.

Mittelt giggled and hoped of the statue. "So then there is no trouble if I do is there?"

"No...However, with the ritual drawing closer. It would be unwise to anger the Gremory household." Kalawarner said to the youngest Fallen Angel and was about to walk off but Mittelt flew in front of her.

"Excuses, excuses. You just want him to fill your hole with his spunk."

"Enough Mittelt." Kalawarner told her as her hair shadowed her eyes.

"What~ You know I speak the truth~ Or is it something more...intimate?" Mittelt looked at Kalawarner and feigned a look of surprise. "It is isn't it. Did big-sis Kala not learn after what happened when she-"

"I SAID ENOUGH!" Kalawarner yelled as she conjured a spear of light and thrusted it at Mittelt's throat, her eyes were filled with a murderous rage. She only stopped before her spear pierced her throat. Kalawarner wanted nothing more then to gut her like a frog but in doing so meant that Mittelt would've won and, judging by her smirk, she knew it. Kalawarner clicked her tounge and dispelled her spear and started to walk away.

"Kalawarner!" She winced when she heard Donahseek's voice. "I know you don't appreciate my advice but I do care about our objectives. Which is why I 'encouraged' you to cut all ties with that boy. He is a Devil and we are Fallen Angels."

"I know." Kalawarner replied. Her voice still showed signs of anger but there was something more: bitterness.

"Oh? What would've happened really?" The rhetorical stung deep within Kalawarner. She knew what he meant. "It was for the best that you followed my advice."

"Well you voiced your concern so strongly that I had choice but to oblige." Kalawarner spat.

"And I'm sure that your precious toy's life on the line had nothing to do with it." Donahseek said as he tilted his fedora to cover his slowly growing smirk. "I cannot, however, guarantee his safety if you attempt to make contact with him again."

"..." Kalawarner didn't answer him and just continued to walk off. She then reached her room and opened the door. She silently closed the door and walked over to a drawer that was next to her bed. She opened it and pulled out a picture that was of her and Shiro when it was they met. She had her arms wrapped Shiro and she was smilling, a genuine smile. When ever she went out on dates with a guy, she would always wear a fake smile but when she was with Shiro her smile, her laughs and her feelings were all genuine.

She stared at the picture with a emtionless face before she held it over a lit candle. She held it just above the flame for a good minute or so but she just couldn't bring herself to burn it. Sighing, she placed the photo back in the drawer and closed it before she layed in her bed and closed her eyes.

"Son of a bitch!"

"Hold still Shiro."

"Sorry but it stings like hell."

"I know and your pain is making me so hot." Akeno whispered lustly in Shiro's ear as she went over his cuts and burns with a cotton swap that was covered in disinfectant. Everytime she wiped a cut or burn, Shiro would either wince in pain or yell out in pain when she got a little...rougher. Shiro loved his girlfriend, he really did but he sometimes hated her sadistic personallity.

"Maybe this will teach you to call for back up when facing an enemy who has the means to completely erase your existance." Rias chastised Shiro. When Issei and Shiro walked into the club room, Rias immidetly asked them what happened. Shiro kept mum about it but when Rias turned her attention to Issei he folded like a deck of cards and told her how he flunked the contract and how Shiro fought a Fallen Angel. When Rias found out that Shiro was attacked a Fallen Angel, and one who was his client no less, well...it took the efforts of both Kiba and Koneko to calm her down...after she finished spouting threats to the Fallen Angel's and their governour for attacking her cute servant.

"Oh aye yeah." Shiro said with an eye roll. "Cause that would've work out real well. 'Hey could you hold on a second, I just need to call for back up.' and besides-ow-if you guys did show up, then you would just try and kill her."

"That's because your actions tonight put you and Issei in serious danger." Rias said as she narrowed her eyes at her senior 'pawn', she wasn't liking his attitude.

"But we're fine...mostly Issei but still."

"But what if you weren't hmm? What if you were killed Shiro."

"But I wasn't."

"But you could've."

"But I-"

"You. Could've." Rias said in a tone that put an end to the conversation. A sound emited from Shiro's throat that resembled a growl.

"Fine. Can you just finish this healing session so I can take care of a few things." Shiro looked at his left hand, which was wrapped in bandages, and clenched it into a fist.

"About that." Rias crossed her arms and looked at him with half-liddded eyes. "Consider this your punishment."

"Punishment!" Shiro stood up but was promptly dragged back down by Akeno who was in the process of putting a bandaid on his nose. "Punishment for what?"

"What you ask? Let's see. You placed your's and Issei's life in danger and you failed to call for back up." Rias kept her scowl before her face softened slightly, but she still kept her disapproval showing. "I'm sorry If I sound harsh Shiro but you are still in training and are not ready to take on enemies with holy atributes."

"But those reason aren't all my fault and it's cruel to leave me like this." Shiro gestured to his injured state. "It'll take me a month, at least, to fully heal."

"Not exactly." Kiba said as he took a sip of tea. "Devil's have a higher healing rate than most humans." Kiba then gestured to Shiro's arm. "If you recived a full brake or fracture it would take at least a week but with your light injuries, I suspect it would take four days to heal."

"Four days!" Shiro said and, for some reason, he sounded angry. "That's way too long. Can't you just get Akeno to do the naked healing?"

"Wait." They all turned there attentions to Issei who had been silent for the entire time. "What naked healing thing?"

"Oh yeah, you weren't awake for that." Shiro said with a sigh. "Well good news, you finally felt a woman's breasts." Issei's jaw dropped as Shiro pointed at Rias with his thumb. "And it was Rias'." An array of emotions crossed Issei's face ranging from shock and awe to pure lecherousness. But all those went to horror when he saw Shiro's grin. "Bad news, you were out cold." Shiro then turned his attention back to Rias as he let Issei sit there with a cloud of dispear hang over his head. "Now back to the matter at hand. I need to get healed quickly to get back to said training. Kalawarner needs-"

"Shiro, no." Rias cut Shiro off with a stern tone. "I want you to take this time to reflect on your actions and how your recklessness alomst got you killed." She then held her hand out to silence Shiro when he opened his mouth. "And I forbid you to go out looking for that Fallen Angel for petty revenge. She's probably gone back to their base and if you go after her now then you will most certainly die."

Shiro stared at her and blinked owlishly before slapping a hand to his forehead. "Dammit I've been caught. What was I think, getting revenge on a Fallen Angel. HA. That was so stupid of me. Welp you win Rias, I won't go searching for Kalawarner and the Fallen Angel base which is located atttttt..."

"Shiro..." Rias said with a deadpan stare. "Do you take me for a fool? I know what you're trying to do and it won't work."

"Eh..had to try." Shiro then stood up and gave Akeno a quick kiss on her lips. "Well I'm heading home now. Later guys." And with that Shiro walked out the door.

Akeno turned to Rias with a smile on her face. "You do know he was lying right?"

"Oh absolutely." Rias said with a sigh. "Which is why I'm going to get you, Kiba and Koneko to make sure he doesn't...That is, if you don't mind of course."

"Not at all Buchou." Kiba nodded at her.

"Idiot-senpai asked for it..." Koneko said with a deadpan look and Akeno just smiled sweetly but everyone could sense her sadism leaking out.

"Sir, I don't think we should continue."

"We must. This child is the piller for this project."

"*sob sob* I want my mommy."

"Silence you brat! Your mother is never coming to get you."

"Yes. Unfortunately for you, she was told that you perished."

Demonic smiles suddenly filled a dark room as a 3-year old child was strapped to a table.

"Now. Time for the test to begin again."

"NO PLEASE! NO MORE!"

Shiro's search was less then successful. On top of that, he was exhausted.

Shiro decided to conduct his own search for Kalawarner but, apart from the destruction of their battle, he found nothing. No feathers, no residual aura, nothing. It was like Kalawarner had just vanished from the face of the Earth. On top of that, Rias deemed it neccesary to send Kiba, Akeno and Koneko out to partol the area, probably to make sure Shiro didn't go out looking for Kalawarner. So half of his time was searching for clues on her where abouts and the other half was spent dodging the three. He swore that Koneko was a blood hound as, whenever he was close to her, she would always make threats whilest looking in his direction.

Shiro knew that Rias would never approve of him searching for his Fallen Angel friend and, in all honsety, he should've dropped it. He should've gave up looking for her considering she was, in fact, aiming to kill him.

But something felt...off...about her. She had many opportunities to end his life but she always hesitated at the last second. On top of that, she waited until the last second to attack, she could've easily killed him with that first spear she threw, the one aimed at the vending machine. She could've aimed a little to the left and, bam, Shiro would be dead yet she destroyed the vending machine and exposed her self to him. It just didn't add up.

And that's why he hasn't given up on looking for her.

So that's why he searched for her alone. Rias wouldn't help him, while kind, carring and compasionate to her servents, her pride and narrow-minded way of thinking would only impede any attempts he might make to find her. She had already left him to heal naturally because of his 'recklessness'. Hell, she probably would never let him go anywhere alone if she found out he was thinking treasonous things like 'befriending a Fallen Angel' or 'wanting to save his Fallen Angel friend.'

All in all, no matter what Shiro did it was like everything was against him.

"You okay honey?" Shiro lifted his head up off the table and looked at his mother's concerned face.

"Yeah I'm fine...just thinking about some things." Shiro replied as he went back to resting his head on the table.

"Shiro..." Shiro looked back at his mother when he heard her say his name. "What's wrong? You know you can talk to me right?"

Shiro contemplated on talking to his mother about his situation but he didn't know how to without exposing that he was a Devil and his friend, who was a Fallen Angel, tried to kill him and now he is in bad blood with Rias. "It's...complicated." Was what he settled for.

"Does it involve a girl?" Lilith asked him as she leaned on her hand with a knowing smirk.

Shiro sat up straight and refused to look his mother in the eyes. "N-No..."

"Shiro."

"Okay maybe." Shiro then glanced at his mother who had a 'you're lying look' causing him to sigh. "Yeah, yeah it does involve a girl."

After hearing this, Shiro's mother's face became softer and compasionate. "Is it Akeno?"

"No...it's a different girl. I'm not cheating on her." Shiro quickly added when he saw the angered look his mother was giving him. "She's-She's a friend and, well, she's in some trouble."

"Oh?" Lilith looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "What kind of trouble?"

Seeing how his mother wouldn't let up, Shiro sighed and told her everything, without exposing Kalawarner's Fallen Angel nature and his own Devil nature. "Well, im not sure of the extact trouble that she's in but when I was out doing some club activities, we saw each other and when I tired to talk to her she kinda...attacked me..." Shiro told her as he looked down at the table, almost like he was ashamed to even look her in the eyes. For a full minute, his mother didn't give a response so Shiro took that as a signal to continue. "She kept attacking but I didn't attack back, I only defeneded myself and when she asked why I told her that I would didn't want to fight a friend. She said that we weren't friends but there was something...off...when she said that."

"Explain."

Shiro sighed and looked down at his bandaged hands and clenched them into fists. "She seemed hesitent to attack me, it was like she didn't want to but some...outside force was telling her to do it. That's about it." Shiro sighed and held his head in his hands. "I just don't know what to say about it...why are women so complicated?"

His mother was silent as she processed the information her son gave her. After a minute had passed she sighed making him look up at her. "What do you think Shiro?"

Her question confused him greatly. He couldn't understand what she meant, was she asking what he thought the problem was? "I-I don't understand what you mean?"

"I'm asking what do you think the reason was for her attacking was." She then looked at him a serious expression. "You said she seemed hesitent to attack you, that she didn't want to. Why do you think that is? You also said that it might be an outside force. Do you think that she's being blackmailed?"

"I-I'm not sure..." He knew the answer but he couldn't just say that she was attacking him because he was a Devil and she was a Fallen Angel. "But what ever it is it's not right. I refuse to turn my back on her when she's in trouble." He then heard the chair scrape across the floor and the sound of shoes tapping against the floor. He looked at his mother as she approached him and then pulled him into a loving hug.

"You're just like your father you know that." She told him with an amused laugh. "He also didn't like to turn his back on his friends. My advice, go with what your gut tells you. If you think she's in trouble then throw help at her until she accepts it or the problem solves itself. That's what your father did for me and look what happened. I married him and then gave birth to you." She then stood up and gave a quick kiss on his forehead. "I have to go now and won't be back until tomorrow okay."

"Okay." Shiro smiled at his mum. She returned the smile and then began to walk out but stopped when she heard him call her. "And mum."

"Hmm?"

"Thanks. You're the best." He said with a large smile. Lilith looked at her son before closing her eyes and shaking her head in amusement. When she opened her eyes they went wide in surprise as she saw a shadow of a man behind Shiro. The man had silver hair and was giving her the same grin, he also had his hand on Shiro's shoulder.

She quickly turned around as a lone tear began to roll down her cheek. "You're welcome Shiro...Now don't you have to go to school?"

Shiro raised his eyebrow and looked at the clock before widening them in shock. "Oh shit!" Shiro cursed as he quickly stood up from the table, grabbed his things and ran past his mother and out the door causing her to shake her head and laugh.

"And also like your father, you're both terrible at time management ." She then felt a pressence on her right shoulder which made her place her left hand on top of it. "He's becoming more and more like you each day...and I couldn't be prouder." And with that, the pressence faded away leaving Lilith to her own devices.

In the local park sat two teens on a bench, one had silver hair and the other had brown hair.

"Soooo..." Shiro was the first one to break the silence.

"Soooo..." Issei mimicked.

They both sighed, even though they've had different problems it still lead up to the same conclusion. Everything leading up to now had been one giant train wreck. And the beaming sun wasn't doing them any favours. What would've been a wonderful day for other people, was an unending hell for the two younf Devils.

"Heard you flunked your first contract."

"Heard you flunked your first dozen."

"Jokes on you, I actually got pacts completed unlike your dumbass."

"Jokes on you, your a dick."

Both teens shot acid-like glares at each other before sighing in discontent.

"Hey Shiro..."

"Sup Issei?"

"Is this how you imagined us spending our youth." Issei commented. "Handing out pieces of paper, taking requests of complete strangers."

"Getting murdered by psychotic monsters?"

"And then being revived as servants to a crimson-haired bombshell of a Devil."

"In all honesty, no." Shiro replied as he leant back on the bench. "I saw myself passing college with a degree in zoology, getting a good job then finding a nice girl to settle down with before passing away peacefully."

"Oh..."

"Issei..."

"Yeah?"

"Fuck this world."

Once again, both teens sighed heavily. Unable to get out their respective reason for being so depressed.

"Man, I can't believe I screwed up that badly." Issei moaned. "I spent so much time watching Dragonboy Z that I forget to secure an actual pact."

Shiro laughed dryly. "I'm surprised you didn't hear the explosions outside." Shiro then glanced at Issei who was giving him a dry look. "Anyway, don't worry about it too much Issei. Sure, Rias will get slightly peeved after the first fail but that's the equivalent to spilling some water on the floor. She gets a lot less impatient after the ninth one but that means she'll be even more please when you manage to get one." Shiro then patted his shoulder and smiled.

Shiro knew the reason for him not getting a pact 90% of the time but that still didn't make it any less embarrassing when he failed to bring even a single pact from Kalawarner-

And just like that, Shiro froze. His thoughts kept going back to the navy-blue haired beauty who could give Rias and Akeno a run for their money. He remembered when he talked to his Mother on how he intended to keep on talking to her, but his heart ached when he thought about her and the way she talked. He knew something wasn't right. There was evidence, or so he hoped, that she was just lying to him, maybe to protect him? But, there was also evidence that Shiro was just in denial.

As 'Yuuma', if that even was her real name, had proven with Issei, Fallen Angels were exceptional in deception. After seeing how she acted around Issei, it seemed like her love for him was genuine yet, in the end, she still murdered him all because of her group's intentions. Her 'group's' intentions. Since Kalawarner was apart of that group, that meant she could be equally as deceptive.

But Shiro refused to believe that and, just like his mother told him, he would keep trying to help her until she accepted his help.

He was brought out of his musings when he heard the sound of someone snapping their fingers in front of his face, mainly Issei.

"Hellllllllllo? Earth to Shiro?" Issei screamed his silver haired friend. "There you are. You okay?"

Shiro blinked owlishly before shaking his head. "Wha? Sorry man, I wasn't listening."

"No shit." Issei agreeded and leant back. "Jeez you totally crapped out on me." He chuckled. "Where you having an inner monologue or something?"

"N-No..." Shiro replied, averting his eyes.

Suddenly, the current line of discusion was cut short when they heard a dull 'thud' proceeded by a scream of shock.

""Hmm?""

Both teens said in a confused unison. They both turned their heads to the sound and was greeted to the wonderful sight of pristine white panties that did nothing to cover up a firm ass. Somehow, in the process of her falling over, her dress managed to flip over her back allowing the rest of the world to see said sight, the rest of the world being Shiro and Issei.

Issei, being someone who has watched countless pornos which showed things in much more detail, looked on with a lecherous and peverse grin.

Shiro, on the other hand, looked on with a scarlet red face. He quickly looked away from her when he realised that he was staring. "H-Hey. Are-Are you okay?" He asked her. Even with how often he has seen Akeno's nude body and how much she had teased him, he still wasn't used to things of a lecherous nature. "C-Come on Issei." Shiro elbowed his brown haired friend roughly in his stomach and then pointed to the fallen girl. "Let's help her out."

Issei gasped as his breath was hit out of him by Shiro. He then sent a vengful glare before nodding his head. "Right right. Helpful gentleman time not pervy spaz out time."

Both Issei and Shiro walked over to the fallen girl where Issei went about helping her up and Shiro went about picking up her clothes and her vail.

"Hey there." Issei greeted her awkwardly. "Are you alright."

"Oh." She stuttered, allowing Issei to help her to her feet. "Y-Yes, I'm alright. Thank you."

It was then that Shiro had a proper look at her face.

She was dressed in robes that would normally be seen on a nun, with light-green eyes and blonde-hair that was such a golden shade it almost made Shiro think it was sparkling. Not only that but she had an innocent pressence that made puppys pale in comparison.

It was so pure and innocent that Shiro leaned over to Issei and whispered. "Your seeing this too right? I'm not crazy."

Issei, also in shock and awe in this girls presence, could only shake is head.

"A-Ah...er. Is something the matter?" The girl asked the two with a tilt of her head.

"N-Nothing." Shiro replied and handed the stuningly beautiful girl her veil.

Now, at Kuoh Acadamy, a beautiful, young girl was hardly rare in fact, it was practicaly the norm. Being a former all-girls school, it was packed to the brim with such girls, Akeno and Rias being among the top of the most beautiful ladies any man would see in their lifetime and even then, they had fierce compatition. But this girl, her beauty seemed different then Akeno's and Rias'. To Shiro, their beauty was more sexually appealing but this girls beauty made him want to protect her innocence.

While Issei talked to the girl, Shiro looked around the area, taking note of her travel bag and the clothes that fell out of it.

'So she's not from around here.' He noted. 'Must be Europian if her accent is anything to go by, Italian maybe? She also must be from the Church, at first I thought she might be a cosplayer but the more I look at her the more I think she's the real deal.' Shiro's mind went back to the first time he encountered someone from the Church. Freed Sellzen and Shinichi Sato, two stray exorcists that Shiro met when he tried to save Issei from being killed. While Freed may not have been the strongest, he made up for it in his speed and usage of light weapons, while Shinichi was stronger then Freed but lost the speed that he had. In short, Freed was like a 'Knight' and Shinichi was like a 'Rook'. 'This girl doesn't seem dangerous like those two though. Just have to act natural.'

"Hey Shiro." Issei's voice broke Shiro out of his inner-monologue. "Help me pick her clothes up."

"Right right." Shiro replied and bent down to pick up the Nun's clothes, taking care not to lose anything. He then looked over to Issei when he heard the Nun panic and sighed when he saw that he had picked up a pair of her panties.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The Nun repeated as she began placing her clothes back into her travel bag. She then turned to the two with a sheepish grin. "You saw a bad side of me."

"It's fine." Shiro waved her off.

"Are you a traveling?" Issei asked her while wiping his bloody nose with his sleeve.

"Maybe you should introduce your self before asking her random questions." Shiro told Issei with half-lidded eyes. "I'm Shiro Katsura and this idiot next to me is Issei Hyoudou."

"Screw you man, it was a fair question." Issei shouted at Shiro.

"Sorry man but I don't swing that way." Shiro replied with a shit-eating grin.

It took Issei a few seconds to understand what Shiro just said but when he realised his face broke out into a scowl and he got into Shiro's face. "Listen pal, you wanna fight?"

Shiro began to push back with his own scowl. "Sure, I'll knock your perverted ass into next Sunday."

Before Issei could retaliate, the girl got between them and pushed them away from each other. "Please stop." She begged. "Friends shouldn't fight."

Both of the teens looked at the girl and then to each other before laughing slightly, confusing the blonde. Shrio was the one to reply upon seeing her confusion. "Don't worry, we act like this all the time. Right Issei."

"Yeah, even if you are a major dick sometimes." Issei replied with his signiture grin. He then looked down at the girl with a questioning look. "You seem like you want to ask something."

The girl looked at him in confusion, which seemed to be her default face, before realising and clasped her hands in front of her face with a smile. "That's right, I seem to be a little lost. Can you help me?" She asked the two.

Been awhile since y'all heard from me so I just want to say...Sorry.

The reason why I haven't posted in a long time is because I've just haven't had the motivation and I've been trying to sort my life together with job hunting and also my mental state too. Another thing is I might be discontinuing this story and re-write a new one under the same name. Now, some of you may be disappointed at this but the reason being is because this story has just fucked with me.

Shiro's sacred gear is too hard to write out (how the hell are you supposed to make Gravity not OP?) and it just hasn't given me the satisfaction I wanted from this.

But I'll let you know what's going to happen in an authors note so until that time...

Stay well, Stay true...BYE BYE~