24 POV

Pov - Kuroka

I'll tell you a little about what happened recently, it all started half a year ago when my mother died.

At the beginning I stayed with Shirone, we planned to do everything on our own, but it was not very easy and soon our "father" appeared and I thought he had come to take care of us.

It turned out that it was our biggest mistake, he led us to a kind of castle where a man promised to take care of us, at the end, it was not like that, they used me for investigations and every day we were suffering, to my relief they did not try to do anything to Shirone.

But one day I heard that the owner of the mansion chose me as a pawn, I did not care, but I also understood that they would do experiments with another Nekomata.

It was not so smart that they were talking about Shirone and I heard them, so one day, when everyone was careless, I hit Gilbert while he slept, I think he trusted me a lot, so I did not even bother asking because I knew he was in his room...

So we escaped from that castle, but it was not easy, we were persecuted and I had to fight against many servants, we managed to get out, but at the cost of many injuries.

We arrived at a cave where I thought about resting a little, Shirone lost consciousness and had many wounds. I could feel that her vital energy was falling, even if at a slow pace.

I felt helpless, I could not even protect her, I wanted to scream in frustration but suddenly I heard a sound.

There, standing in front of me was a child who was staring at us.

My eyes widened because I could usually smell the scents of other people before they came near me and I could not smell his at all, only until I heard a sound I realized he was there.

He had peculiar aromas, of a human being, but also something reptilian ... It was strange.

But it was not the time for that, I begged him to leave us, he could have been one of those who persecuted us and I was afraid that he would kill us or take us to Gilbert, but he did not answer me.

I felt as if I had fallen into a bottomless pit before I would die.

But the boy suddenly said my name ... I was speechless in a second.

Along with my name, he sent out a chilling aura, I could feel the anger and pain he was in.

I did not understand what happened. Did he get angry when he saw me in such a state? How did this child know my name? Also, who was he?

There were thousands of questions, even so, I did not trust him, suddenly his aura lowered and he came to give me some rare pill.

I did not want to accept it but he put it in my throat, forcing me to swallow it. I thought it was a poison, but magically my wounds healed and my life force increased.

I asked him why he helped us and his answer was that he had promised to protect us, I immediately knew it was a lie, but I decided to follow him, he took us to a place where we could rest and eat safely.

I decided he was not a bad person, so I went searching for food, I found parts of demons that I really did not mind eating, but I did not know if he would accept this.

In the end, I was surprised when he was the one who ate the most, I could not suppress my laughter to see him fill his mouth with so much food.

Yukio: "What are you laughing at?" He asked me, raised an eyebrow and stopped eating.

Kuroka: "You look so funny with your cheeks full." I saw that he was embarrassed and thought that he was a cute boy.

But soon my vision blurred, when I saw the tip of a sword pierce his stomach I did not know whether to scream or run towards him, I felt the worst way possible, I felt that my life was a disgrace for being so weak and unable to protect anyone.

Kuroka: "Y...Yukio !!" I tried to get away from him but he captured me and hit me harder. I only had two things in mind.

Kuroka (I can never protect those I appreciate, I'm too weak ...)

I wanted to apologize to Yukio for putting him in this and making him lose his life for no reason.

But the next thing I saw left me speechless. Yukio had changed, his skin was darker and his hair grew a few centimeters when his eyes changed to purple with a dragon iris, he had the shape of a dragon.

He fought with everything against Gilbert until he was the same again, his struggle made me understand that he really wanted to protect us and I shouted to tell him he could do it.

I saw his smile and I smiled at him as soon as the battle was over, he told me about a place to escape to and we arrived at a strange but very beautiful place.

And that's how I started taking care of him.

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I was on my knees beside Yukio's body who was asleep, I was wiping the sweat from his body, he was sweating a lot.

Shirone "How is Yukio-nii?" Soon Shirone appeared at my side as she looked at us, I smiled at her.

Kuroka: "Don´t worry, he'll be fine because now he just has to rest." She nodded and returned to the cabin.

We had spent only five hours here, it was a mysterious place and there was a lot of mana. Also, inside the cabin there were all kinds of food, I decided to prepare dinner with the hope that Yukio would not get angry.

I watched him for a while, took out a towel to dry his sweat and a smile escaped me.

Kuroka: "In the end you did it ... You promised to protect us, and I promised you that if you were successful, I would trust you ..." I touched his forehead with my hand, the first time we met, he did not have this tattoo in the form of a cross, my fingers touched it and I felt the heat.

Kuroka: "I hope you get up early ... cute boy."

--- The Gremory(Grayfia Pov)

We stayed at the fight site, we asked Rias how his dimension worked and she told us that the same place of entry would also be the exit.

Therefore, we choose to wait for Yukio to come out.

Sirzechs: "How long since they entered?"

Grayfia: "It's only been five hours, he must be healing ..." My concern for Yukio was increasing.

Sirzechs: "Rias, what's inside?"

Rias: "Enough to stay for a year .."

Sirzechs: "What are you talking about?"

Rias: "There is a cabin that has many things, water, and enough food for some years ..."

Sirzechs sighed deeply ... "For now we will wait two days, if, during this time they do not return, we will simply return when we feel his aura again."

Grayfia: / Rias: "Yes"

I looked in the direction where Gilbert's body was and I sighed inwardly and muttered.

Grayfia: "I'll see him when he gets back, I'll hit him if he still has more secrets." I shook my fists, but I still hoped he would return without injury.

Editor: maave