7 chapter 7

Castiel P.O.V.

I want to punch myself from a few hours ago.

SSSSSNNNNNNNOOOOOORRRREEEEE!

I mean really, really punch myself.

SSSSSNNNNNNNOOOOOORRRREEEEE!

And then punch this loud bastard. Then punch him again.

How did things turn like this?

Four hours ago

"Hey, Okuyasu. Are you really ok now?" I asked this somehow new friend of mine.

"Yeah, I am great. Look." He started trying to make some simple stretches, main word being trying because, as soon as he tried he started, he began to twitch and had a pained look on his face. I was just as bad before, but damn if The Hand isn't useful.

"*sigh* Come on. You are going with us."

"Wha- no, no there is no need. I can go back just fine to my home alone." He told while shaking his head and trying to not go.

"Shut it. I will be making dinner and Asia will continue her treatment of you there. And don't even think of going back to your house until you can at least move properly, less you get attacked by some stray-devil. Honestly, the security of this city sucks for someplace that houses two devil heiresses."

"…" he is just blushing. Oh, I see. He stopped listening when I said he could continue the treatment with Asia-chan. Can't blame the dude, she is adorable, cute and just so, so, so... her. It is in these moments that I am happy I am not some overly dense dude (even if I can't say I am all that sensitive either).

"Let's go." I just shrugged off and took off taking him and Asia back home.

The dinner was fine, he kept talking to Asia-chan and they laughed together. Emilly went out with Taiga-san to eat outside and party a bit. No need to worry as they are both plenty strong (Taiga did get lessons with Saber after getting in this world after all) and by tomorrow morning they will be in their rooms, not wanting to get out of bed at all.

"So, Okuyasu."

"…. And then I was all like…"

"Hey, are you listening to me here?"

"…and he was all like 'how can you do that?' and I was like…"

A tick mark may have appeared on my forehead just now. I know that talking to a pretty girl does have this sort of effect, but really can't he listen to what I am saying from right here?

"HEY!" I screamed in his ears just to see if it had some effect. Boy, it is hard to get in the middle of a clueless girl and a boy with a crush.

"What? Can't you see that I am telling Asia-chan about one of my training sessions with my masters?" he asked with not so concealed annoyance.

"As I was trying to say, it is getting late. Are you in condition to go home now or would you like to crash here?" I mean it is past midnight so who knows. The fight took a while and his treatment lasted over two hours… even though they spent most of the time talking.

"Would you really not mind if I crashed here? Wouldn't it be a bother?" Okuyasu asked with some concern in his voice.

"Don't worry Okuyasu-san. Castiel-kun is a good person and would not mind at all, right?" Asia told as if natural. She is either way too trusting or gullible to really think like that this fast.

"Yeah, yeah no worries. I have a spare room beside my own and this home is quite spacious so why not?" Really, magic is amazing. Thanks to some bounded field made on the Tohsaka Tower I turned a regular 2 rooms one-bathroom house in almost a mansion, magic for the win.

"Then yeah, why not. As it is already pass… shit, it is midnight. Thanks for the offer, if it wasn't that I'd have to sleep on the street." Okuyasu said with a thankful face. "What, with my landlord being all strict with the hours and all that. Barely even let me rent the place and loves to give me the stink eye just because of my great fashion sense." He told with a mix of exasperation with the landlord and pride for himself.

"Why would he give you the stink eye, Okuyasu-san? Is it just because of your appearance?" Asia asked like it did not make any sort of sense.

"Yeah, many judge me just because of how I look." he admitted dejectedly.

"That is so wrong. You are a good and kind person." Okuyasu was practically glowing when he heard she say this. "It is wrong to judge anyone by their looks. Next time someone that has the same style as you tell me to go with him that I will have a good time I will go, they may be good people just like you." and with that, the glowing was replaced with pure frighten.

You know what, let's leave him to take care of this. I will not get involved. Let's watch the show of him trying to explain why she should not go out and do this, kukukuku.

Now, back to present, don't get me wrong. I lived with many different persons while growing up. There was Saber that acted dignified but would eat my hand if I tried to take the dishes out before she was full. Rin and her tsundere antics that usually ended with ample use of Gram, many times against Luvia that responded in kind (I lost count of how many times I needed to escape the room I was before I ended up like a new form of art on the walls). There were Junichiro and his ideas of training. Yuno, running after me with MANY, MANY knives whenever I 'forgot' a 'special date' that I did not even know at the time that it was special. Lancer and Bazet with their 'tuition fees' for my teaching that, oddly enough, always happened to be when they needed to buy something.

Like I said, I lived with many peculiar persons. But

SSSSSNNNNNNNOOOOOORRRREEEEE!

How could

SSSSSNNNNNNNOOOOOORRRREEEEE!

He be

SSSSSNNNNNNNOOOOOORRRREEEEE!

SO FUCKING LOUD!

I can't in good consciousness understand how someone can be so loud. The walls were enchanted to isolate sound to a bare minimum. But he somehow can be loud enough to not let me get a wink of sleep.

What, did he managed to enter in contact with his inner animal and it just so happened to be a chainsaw or something like that?

SSSSSNNNNNNNOOOOOORRRREEEEE!

You know what? I am leaving, I will teleport the hell away from here and sleep in the woods or something.

Shit, I can't teleport from the house. Almost forgot that I added bounded fields to prevent that (not like Kuroko can't just ignore it anyway, her sacred gear is BS in my opinion).

*Sigh* Let's go outside and teleport than.

Sona P.O.V.

"Kaichou we have a situation." The voice of Momo came right when I was about to fall asleep.

"It is best to be good Momo. I was just about to go to sleep." I said trying to restrain the yawn that was trying to get out.

"It is about Castiel-kun."

Well, that works to end my sleepiness.

"What about him?"

"As I was following your command of investigating and if need be, protect Okuyasu after Fuku-Taichou went out to 'correct a grave mistake'," I can already feel a headache on the way. Since when does Tsubaki just leave an assignment from me, and to buy lingerie or something along those lines at that? Honestly, whenever Castiel is involved she becomes a mess. "When I found them, Okuyasu and Castiel were returning home with some new individual." Well, that can either mean nothing or 'in less savory terms' means that shit hit the fan. What with the fact we still do not know who killed those fallen who knows what will happen next?

"I understand. But what do you mean that the situation has a relationship with Castiel-kun?"

"It is because according to my familiar, that I made watch Castiel's door, he just got outside and used a teleporting circle to teleport somewhere."

"!" That, that can be a disaster.

That means that we had an unidentified magician here, at Kuoh, this entire time. Granted we knew he had some relationship with that new organization but we had found no trace of any sort of energy from him. Does that mean he has some item that masks his presence or does he have some other trick? And what is his objective by coming here? I will apologize to Tsubaki later but this must be addressed with all seriousness. If he is a spy or a potential enemy we must know.

"Momo, keep monitoring the house but don't approach or intercept them in any way shape or form. Until we get a clear picture of what is happening we must stay on our toes."

"Understood Kaichou."

After the communication ended I informed the rest of my peerage and tried to enter in contact with Rias, focus on try because she was sleeping and did not wake up at all. The reactions were varied but the worst was definitely Tsubaki as, since some time now, she has been completely smitten by him. Knowing that he may be an enemy is not easy.

Tomorrow I will call him to the student council room, there are many protection and offensive bounded fields set there and in case he turns hostile it is the best chance of defeating or at least make sure that we will stay alive that is for now.

Castiel P.O.V.

Today is the worst. I needed to run away from my house to the middle of the woods just to get some sleep. When I got there I found a good spot, no animals to annoy me, a good breeze and a calming blue sky. All was good. That is until I tried to fall asleep and discover that my blood must be delicious to insects because the sheer amount of gnats must have been against the law of the universe.

After I managed to kill all those pests, you are welcome universe, I barely got 4 hours of sleep before I needed to go back home to get breakfast ready. When I woke Emilly up she throws a light spear at me that accidentally hit my room and, even though it did not destroy it fully, managed to burn my computer.

And, as the cherry on the cake, Okuyasu was perfectly fine and was telling me how good he felt because he had not slept so soundly in a good while.

Now here I am, walking with Emilly by my side, she was singing the last Izayoi song without a shred of shame or embarrassment for ruining my computer, and Okuyasu on the other side talking on and on about how great his night was, how great Asia is and whatever else passes throw his mind.

"Hey, Emilly." I call out to her.

"Yeah, what is it Castiel?"

"Where were you exactly yesterday? You came back quite late yesterday."

"Oh, that." She turned to me as well and told me "There was a show of Izayoi Miku yesterday and I got a prize ticket from your package of chips. Congrats, by the way, you won the great prize yesterday." She said as if it was normal.

With a vein almost popping in my forehead I asked.

"And you ate my chips even though you had yours… why?"

"Because stolen food is yummier." She smiled in such a way that seemed that what she did make perfect sense.

"… next time I go on a date with Yuno-chan I will tell her I was thinking of inviting her to go with me on the show but you took the tickets." I said trying SO HARD to not laugh at her reaction. I mean as soon as the world's got out of my mouth she fell on her ass and almost started crying and begged me so much to not do that. Kukuku serves you right.

"Hey, Cas." Okuyasu suddenly spoke up.

"Yes, what is it Okuyasu?"

"Who is this Yuno that you are talking about? Is she your girlfriend or something along those lines?"

"Yuno is one of my childhood friends and is one my girlfriend, I mean I have more than one… but please don't tell it to the guys at school. If god forbid, Issei or the other members of that trio of perverts know of this they may start to try and recruit me or make all sorts of bad rumors about me just out of spite."

Okuyasu got a stupefied face. I get it, suddenly hear a friend is a Casanova or something like that is surprising.

"Wow, did not see that one coming from you. How many are you dating right now?"

"There is Yuno-chan, Seryu-chan and Yuzuru and Kaguya. You will probably meet most of them if you accept my next proposition."

"Uh, what proposition?" he asks

"Would you be interested in joining us from Tohsaka Tower?"

"Don't know man. If I join, will I be forced to do anything in special?"

"Not really. We will study your sacred gear and try to give you the best training possible for you to learn how to use it to the fullest. Also, you can learn magic and all different forms of mystical arts such as, but not limited to, chakra, senjutsu, youjutsu, Ki, magecraft, Runecraft, Norse magic and Touki. There are other types we know but they depend heavily on what type of creature you are."

"Hum, I get it but is there something else."

"Well, we will also provide you with protection in case you are attacked and needs help or rescue."

"I don't know, man; I am the lone wolf type. There is no way I will enter some organi…"

"Asia is part of the Tohsaka Tower."

"I want to be part of it, where do I sign?"

Wow, this guy is an open book. The only way he could be easier to understand was if he came with an instruction manual… a 5 pages one at that.

"You can come with us this weekend. I will need to take Asia there anyway so you may tag along."

"Thanks. Now let's go or we will be late." Okuyasu reminded me, shit if I take any longer I won't be there in time.

"Yeah let's… hey, were is Emilly?"

We ended up needing to turn back as she was in fetal position with no light in her eyes saying how her life was over. Well at least if we take her now we won't be late.

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Yes. I did it. I am not late again. New rumors will spread, no doubt thanks to me bringing Emily in a princess carry so as to get here in time as she refused to move because according to her "I am a dead person, dead should not walk".

At least now everything is fine. I took Emily to Kiba's class and went to my own right after. There is Okuyasu sitting beside my spot and all other students trying their hardest to avoid looking at his general direction. *sigh* At least the classes are starting and nothing is going to happen now.

DING DONG

The students Castiel Emyia and Emily Fugimura please go to the student council room. Repeat the students Castiel Emyia and Emily Fugimura please go to the student council room

DING DONG

Fuck.

Why are they calling me and Emily? Did they saw something from yesterday that tipped them about who we are?

As I approached the student council room I sensed two things, first Emily got there first and second, there are more than just the members of the student council there. The Gremory peerage is also present. Well, fuck they probably figured out that we are not so simple. At least I can guess what is about to happen, I can only be thankful that one of the few areas my training reached excellent results is the detection of others thanks to my stronger than average soul (souls and the ability to use them are mostly only used to help search around unless you expecyalize in illusions or things like that, but having a stronger one does improve training speed even if that is already becoming meaningless to me).

KNOCK KNOCK

"You may come inside." Shitori-sempai told from the other side.

After I get inside I noticed the mood of the room is dense. Some are curious, some are cautious, the two leaders are on guard and ready to take action if need be and Issei is glaring daggers at me (not like he doesn't do that every chance he gets but still).

"What did you called me and Emily-chan here Shitori-sempai? And with the members of the ORC (occultism research club) no less."

"First please take a sit". After I sat in one of the couches in the room the first thought in my head was not 'what will happen next' but 'she must have taken a special verb from the school to buy a pice's of heaven to sit in', it was just plain unfair. The chairs on the classes are comfortable and all but these are on another level entirely.

"Now for what we wanted to discuss. It has come to our attention that you are in the know of the supernatural word and considering your proximity with Miss Emily we called her here too. What we would like to know first is what are your intentions for coming here." Sona told in a serious and slightly accusatory tone.

SHIT

I knew it was likely this but knowing that my cover is blown still sucks. I better adopt a personality that demonstrates some superiority to deal with this, devils do respect strength so acting haughty if just a bit makes sense. This is one of the times I am happy that Rin forced me to train in self-hypnosis, a necessary skill to any mage and usefull for this sort of situations. With this I can better set my mind to the state of how I should act depending on the situation.

"We came here to study and to see more of the outside world as normal individuals. A feeling that the heiresses of Gremory and Sitri clan probably can relate too." I said with a slight smirk on my face.

TWICH

Oh, so they do see the irony here. Acting like I am doing something wrong while she is doing exactly the same

"Oh, you seem oddly informed. How come, despite you knowing that this is devil's territory, you decided to come AND not introduce yourself properly or ask permission to live in this city?" Rias asked like she was gloating the fact that her (and Sona) family basically owned the city.

"We never saw the need to inform you." I said as if natural.

"And why is that?" Rias asked while putting her arms crossed under her breasts, the ones that must have been magically enhanced from birth so big they are.

"Simple really. First, you were the ones that invited me here as scholarship student because of my late Kendo performance in some tournaments." At that Sona twitched. "And second because neither one of us is interested in being part of a peerage as we know you would have offered without a doubt." And so, Rias started to show a new interest in the painting of the walls, if the way she was avoiding looking at me or Emily as much as she could is any indication.

"A-anyway. The important fact is that we desire to know what is your current status." Changing the subject, huh, Sona.

"Both of us are unofficial members of the Tohsaka Tower." At that both the girls seemed slightly surprised but not so much. They must have investigated my parents and, if they saw who my father is, it would not be any stretch to imagine my relationship with the Tower. "We are unofficial just in the meaning that we never signed any form of binding contract with the tower itself... we have something of a sensitive status so to say."

"That is an interesting information… So? What do you intend on doing from now on?" Sona asked with an unnerving glare.

"We will keep studying here. Nothing more. If you need help in stray extermination or things like that you just need to ask and give appropriate pay that we will help. For the rest think of us as just two other students." I said with a shrug off my shoulders.

"… If you can promise no aggression and that you will not intervene on any possible adding to the peerages that we may do then no problem may arise." Sona agreed in the end.

"Before you leave." Right, when I was getting out of this chair and get out Rias decided to speak up. "Would you mind having a true spar with Kiba here. He has been fighting you for quite some time and he limits himself to a human level but he always loses. He told me while grumbling sometimes how he would have won had he fought for real... would you mind giving him that?"

"…20,000 yen."

"Wha- why do I still need to pay you?" Kiba said with a glare on his eyes.

"Because you are still not enough to a true spar." THAT got the attention of the others in the room.

"How can you be such an ass sometimes?" Kiba keeps with his infuriated glare at me.

"I am not the one that loves to use his hands on his sword and wants to use it on another man right now, am I?" His face was a distortion of hate and pure embarrassment with my comment. The others mostly took a step back and tried hard not to laugh at the boy… except for Issei that just fell over laughing at his companion.

"… Anyway, let's have this bout after school so as to settle the score." Rias said, trying hard not to explode in laughter at her knight-kun.

"Don't forget the cash." Finally standing up I was about to go out when I noticed the Emily was still sitting on her chair, mostly catatonic from my treat earlier. I just went ahead grabbing her by the scurf of her shirt and set off back to class.

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