Who Said Romance Was Dead - 7

"Then don't say anything," she replied, without turning around, "Am I still pissed? Hell yes. I never once imagined I'd have to share you with another girl, never mind have to deal with the fact that you're apparently going to atttract tons of girls because you're strong. And can I just say that supernatural girls are all complete and utter total thots? They're not all that different from gold diggers from the way Irina-chan explains it."

"Well…they're not all that bad, just for a lot of them like devils power is is attractive to them." Kaito shrugged.

Or at least that was what he picked up from the memories of his other self. The power was the draw for most of them, but that didn't mean they wouldn't actually gain actual proper romantic feelings for the target of their attraction.

Or maybe that was just nonsense and he only saw what he wanted to see and wanted to believe he could make this work.

"Whatever, it's partly my own fault anyway," Yanagi clicked her tongue, "I should have just brushed your baby whining about being poor aside and locked you down ages ago. Or tried at least, because going by your luck I would never have managed it, all these supernatural annoyances would have still found their way to you."

The short girl sighed, shoulders slumping, "The worst of it is, I can totally understand the logic Irina-chan told me earlier," she admitted, "You've already got a bunch of girls at our school crushing on you after you saved Murayama, Aika took one look at you while you were hard and wants to slobber all over your dick and you've even got two literal demon chicks wanting to seduce you into their service…keeping you to myself was a fools errand all along."

Well, he didn't think Rias or Sona were interested in him at all sexually. He wouldn't put it past them to use it as a possible recruitment strategy though. Rias' drew Hyoudou's initial loyalty with promises of him getting a harem if he rose up the ranks after all. And she had no problem getting naked in front of him or giving him the chance to feel her up.

Still, there wasn't much he could say in response to her words. He could, tell her he loved her. But, again, he wasn't the most experienced with it and while he felt very strongly for her, beyond strong in fact and would pick a fight with Great Red for her if it ever came down to it, he didn't know if that was truly love, he couldn't even explain it properly to her either.

But in the end, he wasn't that good with words anyway, he was always a man of action.

"Sorry." he apologised as he stepped behind the short girl and wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

"You should be," Yanagi replied without missing a beat, even as she relaxed into his hold and leaned against his chest, "Stupid himbo."

"That I am," he agreed, "…Though, I have to ask. Why did you agree? I honestly expected you not to and I'd totally understand."

"You really are a stupid himbo," she repeated her insult and stopped stirring the pot to look up over her shoulder and give him a dry gaze through her bangs, "I just weighed my options. I either had to share you and still have you or give you up, in the end, pissed off as a I am about it, there's really no contest on the choices."

Kaito blinked, staring down into her eyes, "….And choosing to have me is really that big of a no brainer?" he found himself asking.

Yanagi snorted, "The fact you can be so confident about who you are and see no problem in taking on a guy that according to Irina at full strength could wipe out this entire city…yet not be able to see your own worth, is probably the funniest thing about you…or the saddest," she replied then shrugged, "I've not decided which yet."

He wasn't sure what to say to that, so he decided to just stay silent, only tightened his grip around her shoulders a little bit.

They stayed like that for a few moments and he just enjoyed being close to the girl.

"By the way…shouldn't you get bandaged up or something, you're kind of littered in cuts from that funky sword of Irina-chan's." Yanagi commented after a small period of silence.

It was a blatant topic change, but one he was glad for.

"It'll be fine, I told you before right? I double all my body's physical abilities with my Sacred Gear, and I've got them active still right now," he informed her, "That includes my body's recovery rate. With a good meal and some sleep, these will be healed by morning."

"Mmm, it works like that too huh?" Yanagi mused, "Interesting." and said nothing else on it.

"Yeah, it's totally great for when I push myself training." he agreed. He was really glad for the subject change.

"Not what I meant dumbass." Yanagi snorted, then stepped forward and forced him to let go, "Now get out of my way while I cook, if you want to feel me up that badly you can do it later."

"…Okay?" Kaito agreed.

"You can grope me if you want!" Irina piped up, looking to him with a bright grin as he made his way over towards her.

Apparently she had been listening.

Granted, not that she could have avoided that in the first place without plugging her ears considering how small his apartment was.

Kaito again wasn't sure what to say to that. He just stared at the twin tailed girl. Like, yes he would love to grope her and he knew she was serious. But…he was pretty sure Yanagi was just teasing him there like she always did.

Yanagi spoke up before he could gather his wits to respond, "If you start making out with her and feeling her vastly inferior tits while I'm making us dinner, I'm going to torque your balls in opposite directions with my gravity powers."

…Well, okay lesson learned.

Kaito froze there like a statue and did not say a word. Like a rabbit that played dead in the face of a predator.

"Hey, my boobs aren't inferior!" Irina shot back.

"Whatever you say self-proclaimed church girl." Yanagi snorted.