CH 15

I was watching the fight between the fallen and devils. The fight went just about as I expected it to.

With my training earlier today, Kiba and Koneko were not of any problem to them and were defeated in a few minutes. The only thing left is the fight between issei and raynare. ' Now that I think about it, there is a good chance that raynare will kill him. ' I hope not cause that will just bring me unnecessary trouble. As long as raynare reigns in her pride and doesn't taunt him, everything should go smoothly. '

I feel demonic energy appear on the edge of the woods near the church." Oh, looks like rias finally showed up. Late as usual. "

' let's see how she handles this situation she is in. ' I look into the woods and see the both of them stepping out of the teleportation circle.

Rias-Pov

"It seems like Hikari wasn't lying. " Says Akeno as she notices the lack of guards in the area.

Rias looks around trying to sense for any enemies but can't sense any. ' This isn't right they should have had one guard here at the very least. ' A bad feeling wells up in her chest as something doesn't seem right." Come Akeno, I've got a bad feeling. Let's meet up with the rest. "

Rias and Akeno hastily heads towards the church, ascending the steps of the church. The closer they get to the top their heads start to pound in pain with and intense ringing. Both akeno and rias clutch their head in pain as they get closer to the church.

Devils will always have a slight headache when being near a church, but both rias and Akeno has not felt pain like this." aahhhh wh-what is this pain. " Akeno cries out in pain as she slowly walks up the steps alongside Rias enduring the pain.

Rias pushes forward to the top of the steps until she reaches the top. She looks at the church through the door to the inside, seeing the fallen angel donaseek standing above a downed Kiba with his foot pressing down on his back.

Upon seeing Kiba her blood runs cold at the thought of him dying. worry spreads across her face as she sprints to the church." k-KIBA " rias screams for Kiba, seeing his life in danger she runs as fast as she can even sprouting her devil wings midway through to him trying to close the gap in distance to save him. with Akeno, following behind and also calling out to him.

Rias gets close to the doors of the church, but just as she is about to pass through the doors, her body is shocked with electricity and sent flying back through the air with part of her uniform burnt.

" Aaaggahhhhhh," Rias screams in pain as she was launched back from the shock. 

Akeno caught rias body knocking her down, too." Rias, rias are you alright. " Tightly clutching rias body Akeno shakes her body, causing her to stir awake.

" Ughh w-what happened. " Rias eyelids flutter open as she places her palm against her head as she sits up. She looks towards the church to see it covered in a dome shaped barrier of holy light. With donaseek and mittlet standing right behind the doorway with smiles on their face as they look at rias.

" Ha ha, look at you crawling on the ground, quite fitting for a devil if I do say so myself. " Says donaseek as mittlet laughs from the side holding her hand up to her mouth as she laughs haughtily at both Rias and Akeno." Come donaseek, let's not waste any more time on these devils. " Says mittlet as she walks back into the church.

Donaseek nods at her as he turns to face the two devils on the other side of the barrier." Well, you must excuse us as we have one last devil that must be taken care of. "

With a wave of his hand, the doors of the church slam shut. Rias slowly starts to stand up shakily as the blast from the barrier still hurts her a lot. demonic power of a high-class devil starts to pour out of her in waves. She is visibly upset and distraught at the thought of her servants being killed along with the taunting from the fallen. she stares at the church barrier with anger as she tightly clenches her fist walking closer to it.

holding her hand forward she forms the magic circle of the gremory clan in front of her hand.

" Rias? " Akeno looks at rias who now forms a large sphere of POW as tears slowly cascade down her face.

" Akeno, this is all my fault. I sent them in there without thinking.... and cause of that, I put them in danger. Th-this is my fault. "

Once the sphere of POW grew large enough, she shot it towards the church in hopes that it would destroy the barrier, but those hopes were quickly doused by the harsh reality of her own strength as upon contact with the barrier her POW was dispersed and then fizzled out of existence shortly after contact with the barrier.

" n-n-no, no, no, no." Seeing her attack have no effect at all, she began to despair at the thought of her servants being killed and their death being on her hands. Rias, in her state of mind, began to break down in tears.

" Rias," Akeno quietly called out to her as she comforted rias." it will be fine. All we need to do is break down this barrier, and we can save them. Don't give up yet. "

Akeno got up and charged her demonic power and shot lightning at the barrier over and over with no success, but she doesn't stop. Seeing her friend try so desperately to save them rias wipes away her tears and also got back up and joined Akeno in trying to destroy the barrier.

Hikari Pov

I watch as both of them fire off their attacks at the barrier with no success. They can try for an entire day, and that barrier will still be there I altered the designs of one of the church's barriers specifically meant to repel high class devils. If they want to break the barrier with brute force, they need to attack it, at least with the power of a low-ultimate class and knowing their strength there isn't a chance in hell there breaking it.

' I'm glad to see that my training in barrier formation is finally being put to use. ' I learned Shinto magic, shikagami, and how to form barriers from the various omniyoji clans whenever I had the chance. Though Shinto magic is about the only one I have come close to mastering with barriers being a close second, and I only learned the basics of shikigami, I really never cared too much for them. I did learn how to make barriers pretty fast. I was even told I had a talent for them. I would always alter and improve the omniyoji clans' barriers. This barrier made by the church had the power to trap and keep high-class devils out, but if you had any knowledge on how barriers work, you can pretty much undo it quite easily. Rias eventually has Akeno to look around the barrier to see if there is a weak point that they can exploit while she keeps trying to break it with brute force by repeatedly firing her power of destruction at it.

' Well, not that the barrier is going anywhere. Let's see how things are progressing with raynare and issei. '

Raynare-pov

" Guhah," issei is clutching a wound on his stomach. He is kneeling on the ground as blood continues to pour out onto the floor.

" i-issei, issei. " Asia calls out to him in worry but stops as raynare holds the edge of her light spear against the nun's neck making the little nun quite down in an instant.

" I suggest you be quiet unless you want to end up like your little friend over there. " Says raynare coldly with a cruel smile on her lips. Asia quickly quiets down as she feels the sharp edge of the spear pressing up against her neck as blood starts to trickle down the edge of the spear.

" Don't you dare touch her. " Says issei with ragged breaths as he tries to stand back up.

'' Hah, as if you could stop me, kid. You aren't strong. you're just a perverted little kid who got lucky that's it."

Issei balls his fist up in anger as he glares at raynare. The green gem on his gauntlet flashes bright green. Issei knows it is true. Not too long ago, he was just a normal high school student who just happened to get involved with the supernatural. " You're right, yu- raynare. I was just a normal high school student, but now I am a servant of rias Gremory, I am the pawn issei hyoudou, and I'm going to kick your ass you hear me. "

As he speak, the gem on his gauntlet begins to glow, covering him in a green aura.

[Boost]

[Boost]

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"Tch" raynare seeing issei awaken his boosted gear puts her on guard. Issei pulls back his fist and charges at raynare, planning to put all his strength in one last punch. Raynare puts up her spear of light to block the punch, but it breaks upon contact with his punch, and it continues until he hits raynare in the stomach sending her crashing against the wall in the room next to the altar.

*BAM*

" issei, you did it. " says Asia happily as she looks at him with a smile.

" Haha, I did it. I beat her. " said issei happily as he flashes Asia a smile.

" Hold on, Asia. I'm coming to get you. " Issei limps over to Asia but falls over onto the floor from the lack of energy and blood loss. The power from the last punch drained all his energy alongside the blood loss, which rendered him immobile just as he was a few feet from Asia.

' no no no no just a little more, and I can reach her. '

Issei stopped his movements and turned his head to look at where raynare was and sees her slowly standing up as she wipes blood from her mouth. " YOU FUCKING BRAT. " Yelled raynare as she stared at the downed issei with hatred.

" n-no. " issei looks up at raynare with fear in his eyes as a chill runs down his spine. currently unable to do anything he can only watch as she approaches him in fear.

raynare walks up to issei's body and start kick him in his head and ribs driving her heel deep into his ribcage causing issei to scream in pain as he curled up into a ball. " DID YOU REALLLY THINK YOU WOULD WIN, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT. DEVIL SCUM " said raynare full of venom as she as she continued to beat him.

" PL-PLEA *SOB* PLEASE STOP IT, *SOB* STOP IT RAYNARE. " Asia screamed as tears fell from her eyes as she watched. unable to bear to see more she closed her eyes and tried to drown out issei's screams of pain but it was to no avail.

" AgHHhHhh "

" guahhh "

" AAAAHHHHHH "

raynare was smiling cruelly as she continued to relish in issei's pain but stopped as the image of Hikari and her warnings about leaving issei alive crossed her mind. " tch luckily you huh. " said raynare as she looked down at his now limp body and lifts her foot off his body.

As issei was lying down on the floor bloodied and beaten he hears footsteps coming from behind him from the stairwell. His heart swells with hope expecting his friends to be there so he uses the very last of his strength and yells for them in hopes they will save him and Asia.

" KIBA, KONEKO IM DOWN HERE. " issei yells to his friends.

A small laugh escaped from raynare's lips as she looked down at issei in amusement knowing full well his friends weren't coming to help him. 

The steps get closer and closer. Two figures appear out of the stair way it is the two fallen that were fighting his friends.

issei looks at them with fear then anger as his heart sinks into despair " y-you... what did you do them. " Issei says with anger as he glares at them.

" Oh, you mean these two. " Says the man in the trench coat and fedora.

He tosses the unconscious bodies of Kiba and Koneko onto the ground in front of issei. Their bodies are riddled with wounds, and their breathing is shallow but still alive. Mittlet appears from behind donaseek and walks over to raynare stepping over issei in the process.

"Ow," said issei as she stepped over his body.

" I can't believe raynare actually lost to this twerp. " Said mittlet, standing in front of raynare, who is now furious.

" Lose I didn't lose mittelt and if I were you I would watch your tounge. " Said raynare to mittlet.

" anyways we need to finish up here. " said mittlet coldly to Donaseek completely ignoring her. before raynare could even realize what happened she felt a hot stinging sensation in her abdomen. raynare looks at mittlet then down to see her spear of light impaling her.

" wh-why? " said raynare as she looked at mittlet in confusion.

Donaseek walks over to issei and kicks him in the face, rendering him unconscious.

mittlet just looked at raynare with a bit of pity before being replaced with a cold look as she kicked raynare off of her spear making her body fall on the floor. raynare could only look up at her comrades who she trusted with hate, confusion, and fear. 

" h-help m-me. " Says raynare weakly as she can feel her death slowly approaching.

" What? Help you. " mittlet chuckles as she walks over to Asia, who was frozen in fear at the scene before her. She points the spear of light and thrusts it into her heart, ending her life in a single swift motion.

" Sorry raynare but we have orders. "

" Orders? " Said raynare weakly. mittlet words dwell in her head for a bit before it connects. Hikari plans on using me as a scapegoat using her to hide any involvement she had.

Anger flashes across raynare's face as she lashes out." y- you treacherous fucking whore. You're really going to kill me for that girl. ME OF ALL PE-*smack* 

" please don't act like we were friends or anything like that you always acted supieor and looked down on us. " mittlet said coldly as she turned around and began to leave." come on donaseek were done here. " 

" Well then raynare this is farewell. " mittlet looked at her with a smile as she snapped her fingers causing the barrier to fall apart.

Tears well up in her eyes as she watches mittlet and donaseek teleport away, leaving her all alone to her fate.

*hic* *hic*

" Is this really how I die? As some pawn for someone's benefit. "

* BOOM *

the front doors of the church were blown open, and the sound of footsteps rushing down the stairway could be heard. ' I guess it's too late to ask for mercy. '

Rias and Akeno appear in the doorway and stand there in shock. In the middle of the room is Kiba and Koneko, laying on the floor unconscious covered in wounds. Issei is in a worse state then them at a glance. She looks up from them as her sights immediately lock on too raynare, who is leaning up against the altar with the nun hanging limply above her.

" You did this. " Says rias laced with anger and disgust in her voice as she looked down at raynare.

"Wait, wait, can you hear m-" *boom*

Rias blasted raynare with a sphere of POW destroying her body and soul completely not even willing to listen to her. Once raynare was dead, rias along with Akeno, immediately began to heal Kiba, Koneko, and issei. They tried their best to heal them. Koneko was the easiest to treat as she had the least amount of injuries and none of her vitals where hit with holy light. issei was the most damaged as he had multiple broken bones in his ribs along with a broken nose and a dislocated jaw. his body was also badly bruised but luckily the only major wounds he suffered were the ones from the spears of light that hit him in his knees and a shallow stab wound in his gut. their life is no longer in danger except for Kiba his body was covered in superficial wounds except for one that is deep, and the holy light continued to spread through his body like poison.

" Akeno, can't you do more? Please. " Rias begged Akeno to keep trying, but she just shook her head as she has done all she can.

" I'm sorry, rias but healing isn't my specialty. " Akeno said to rias solemnly as there isn't much, she could do to fix Kiba's condition

' no no no there has to be something here. ' Rias looked around frantically for something or someone. Her eyes land on Asia the nun that is hanging from the cross. Remembering issei mention her having a sacred gear called twilight healing capable healing even devils. Rias gets up quickly and goes over to Asia, destroying her shackles getting her off the cross and laying her down on the floor. She hastily pulls out the bishop evil piece and inserts it into her chest. Rias anxiously waits for Asia to wake up. Life starts to come back into her body as color starts to return to her pale body. her chest heaves up and down, showing that she is breathing again.

" Uh w-who are you. Oh no, issei, what happened to issei. " Asia tries to hastily stand up and go to issei but is stopped by rias.

" He is fine, but more importantly, first, can you heal my friend please please. " Rias spoke in a shaky voice as tears were streaming down her face as she pointed over to Kiba.

Asia looks at rias, a bit stunned, then nods at her. She gets up and goes over to Kiba. Akeno steps back as Asia takes her place. She activates her twilight healing, covering Kiba in a green light. His wounds quickly close as his breathing stabilizes, and the holy light leaves his body.

" Um, I finished healing him. "

Rias immediately went over to Kiba to check on him and breathed a sigh of relief." Thank you. I guess I owe you an explanation, but first, let's get them home. "

rias looked at Akeno and gave her a nod " Akeno "

Akeno summoned a teleportation circle that encircled all of them teleporting them out of the church.

Hikari-pov

Well, not exactly how I expected this to go, but it works, I guess. Kiba wasn't supposed to be that close to death but only rendered unconscious cause of that the nun was resurrected as a servant into rias peerage. That was about the only thing that was outside of my plan, but overall, I would say it was a success. I got a recording of rias and her failure, and they have no reason to connect me to this. I jumped from the tree I was in, disappearing into the night. eager to send this video and a letter to mom.

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high above the sky of Japan lays the divine realm of the gods of the Shinto pantheon Takamagahara. there are two sides of this heaven one ruled by lady Amaterasu and the other ruled by her brother Tsukuyomi. Tsukuyomi side is covered in darkness with the only light coming from the moon as the sun never shines in his land meanwhile the opposite happens in the land Amaterasu rules over. there is no night or darkness it is always bathed in the divine light of Amaterasu.

A small white fox with red markings on it's fluffy white body carrying a scroll in it's mouth could be seen running up steps heading for a large palace that shone brightly over the land as a beacon of light. it was massive and decorated to match it's grandeur as it was made with the finest materials and most professional craftsmen. gold and gems lined the gates, rooftops and hallways but not to much just enough exemplify its already magnificent presence. this is the palace of the sun and it is where Amaterasu resides.

just as kumo the messenger fox made it up the top of the steps and went to pass through the gate two spears were swiftly placed in a cross denying the fox entry into the palace. the ones who blocked kumo where two soldiers stationed there to guard the entrance.

*growl* 

the small fox let out a growl as she looked up at the guards. these were not the ordinary guards that protected Amaterasu palace before in the past. they were dressed differently from the ones under Amaterasu's command as evident by their attire. their Armour was ornate and white in color with accents of blue with their garb underneath being black with the symbol of the moon in the shape on the waning crescent proudly on their chest.

" HALT, state your business. " Said one of the guards in an authoritative tone as he stared down the fox.

' I have a message from Hikari for lady Amaterasu. ' Spoke kumo telepathically into the minds of both the guards. sounding tired having to do this each time.

the guards glanced at each other and gave a slight nod at each other as they lifted the spears up.

the fox ran right past them heading through the gate but stopping real quick as she turned her head to look at them and stick out her tounge to the guards before heading into the palace walking through the intricate hallways.

kumo frowns as she looks at the hallways that used to be bustling with servants and guest going up and down these hallways but now it was desolate with only very few servants around to tend to the palace. it has become like this six years ago when Tsukuyomi brought Amaterasu back from the mortal world.

kumo continued to walk until she came across the palace garden and saw lady Amaterasu crouched down looking at the flowers. she was a tall woman with a gorgeous figure and a face that would give Aphrodite herself a run for her money. she had long dark black hair that reached down to her waist with hazel-colored eyes gleaming with compassion and kindness. she wore a pure white kimono with red flower patterns on it along with a bright red sash going around her waist.

' Lady Amaterasu. ' Said the kumo happily.

" Ah kumo so nice to see you again. " Says Amaterasu in a quiet but cheerful voice as she gets up from crouching and opens her arms wide for kumo.

kumo runs over to her and just as she is about to pass a pillar and enter the garden a hand stretch's out swiftly picking kumo up by her scruff in a tight grip making kumo yelp in pain.

" KUMO!!! " Amaterasu yells out in Suprise.

stepping out from behind the pillar is an extraordinarily beautiful man wearing lavish blue robes with long flowing white hair and teal blue eyes that shone like jewels.

" Tsukuyomi " she muttered under her breath as her smile quickly shifted into a frown as she stared at her brother.

he looked at the fox and the scroll it was carrying with a scowl on his face. " I honestly can't understand why you continue to pretend to be a mother to that Halfbreed of yours. " He said in obvious disgust as he mentioned Hikari.

" What is it that you came here for brother. "

he let's go of kumo's scruff dropping her. as soon as the fox dropped to the ground she dashed over jumping into Amaterasu's arms.

" You should already be aware dear sister of mine forget that pitiful mortal and join me in marriage so we may join heaven together once more as it was in the past. " He spoke in an almost ecstatic crazed voice as he stretched his arms wide open as he looked at Amaterasu.

" That, that will never happen brother now get out of my sight. " Said Amaterasu as her Patience is running thin.

he looks at her mildly disappointed by her response before shrugging his shoulders. " Oh, it will sister whether you will like it or not. if you don't want anything to happen to that oh so precious daughter of yours. " He laughs haughtily as he looks at her once more as whisps of an ominous purple could be seen flashing across his teal blue eyes as he disappears in a flash.

Amaterasu-pov

Amaterasu breathes a sigh of relief and relaxes her shoulders as she sees her brother disappear. ' What happened to you brother. ' Tsukuyomi never acted the way he is now, and Amaterasu couldn't wrap her head around his sudden change in behavior. 

" Are you okay kumo? " She looked down at the fox in her arms and petted her on the head with a fond smile. kumo gently nudged her head against her palm enjoying the affection.

' Lady Amaterasu, I have a message for you from Hikari ' spoke the fox happily.

she smiled at the mention of her daughter happy to hear any news from her. she gently took the scroll from kumo and read through it getting an understanding of what is currently going on at kouh. i also understand what Hikari is trying to do by setting up those devils but that is not as simple as that but nonetheless I'm glad she is safe.

the words of her brothers previous statement about Hikari comes to her mind leaving a sour taste in her mouth as she frowns. " th-this it's, it's all my fault. if only I wasn't selfish just maybe, maybe then Hikari would be able to live a normal life with her father. "

it isn't an understatement to say my selfishness is the reason I am in the current predicament that I am in now. it all started eighteen years ago when I went down to visit the mortal world and I came across a interesting person and that person would be Hikari's father. I strangely found myself coming back to meet him time and time again over the course of a year and before I knew it, I found myself in love with him.

I started to date him and spend more time with him in the mortal world. I knew I couldn't leave my position in heaven and abandoned my duties for a mortal, so I resolved myself to leave him and go back to heaven however unexpectedly I found myself Pregnant from my human lover. I was still planning on returning to heaven but that instantly changed when I held Hikari within my arms.

I can still remember the first time I held her in my arms she was small and fragile she looked as if even the smallest touch would break her delicate body yet despite all that she filled me with an indescribable warmth that touched my very soul and that moment I knew I couldn't leave her. no more like I simply didn't want to I wanted to raise my daughter with the love she deserved and wished to see the kind of women she will eventually grow to be.

against my better judgement I went into hiding with my husband along with the newborn Hikari. for five years I've managed to stay hidden away from my brothers and live in Tokyo with my loving husband and my little sunshine Hikari as a family. when you're a god the days, months, years, and even decades seem to go by in a blur but not those years each and every one of them was special and I will always cherish those memories from the bottom of my heart.

but not all good things last eventual I was found by Susanoo. my brother was shocked to see what I was doing for the past years he never expected to find me living with a mortal and a demigod child. I begged him to not tell Tsukuyomi and the other gods and to keep my situation hidden. 

he was reluctant to agree and wanted me to come back heaven. he told me that Tsukuyomi was gaining the favor of the gods and was going to declare himself as the leader of the Shinto pantheon when he managed to sway most of the other gods to his side.

despite me being the ruler, he holds an even amount of power within heaven. this was urgent but my desire to remain here with my family was stronger. just maybe if I agreed to go back at that time all of this could've been avoided and regret it dearly as now Hikari's life is now in the palm of his hands.

thanks to my brother Susanoo he kept us hidden from prying eyes along with trying to stop Tsukuyomi from gaining anymore influence in my steed. for the next five years everything was going peacefully with Susanoo coming by to inform me on things that are happening in heaven and to act as an uncle to little Hikari.

over the years he has grown very fond of her and she has grown very fond him becoming very close and causing a lot of mischief. I swear sometimes I think he was a bad influence on her, but I can't deny the joy he brought to Hikari she would always have the biggest smile on her face when she saw him. he has also helped us out a lot along with being the biggest deterrent against Tsukuyomi.

for ten years Hikari was raised in what she thought was a normal loving household completely unaware of the supernatural at all. but that all changed one fateful night as we were walking through a park at night after visiting a festival Tsukuyomi appeared with large number of guards, they quickly took both my husband and daughter hostage and I was forced to return to heaven. as for my husband Tsukuyomi wiped me and Hikari from his memoires completely. he forgot the first time we meet and the entire twelve years we spent together.

when I got back to heaven I didn't have as much support as I used to have as most switched over to following Tsukuyomi. I was supposed to have a harsher punishment but thanks to Susanoo I have only been restricted to my palace with heavy supervision and most of my power temporarily restricted.

right now, I am only the leader of the Shinto pantheon in name as currently the one who has full control is my brother Tsukuyomi. I have no voice in what happens not even over the fate of my own daughter. even to the rest of the supernatural they still think that I am the leader.

the gods were mostly in agreement to have Hikari killed as the saw her as a possible threat but thanks to Susanoo she was spared as he managed to convince them that she could be useful. If trained properly they could use her to enforce their rule over the supernatural of Japan without having to directly interfere themselves. the gods agreed on Susanoo's deal but if she rebels against them or if she refuses to cooperate and follow the orders given, she was to be executed.

the little young and innocent Hikari who wanted nothing more than to see her parents was thrust into the cold and dark world of the supernatural forced to undergo brutal and cruel training without even fully understanding her situation. she was scared and helpless and even then, she endured the harsh training only to be ordered to fight and kill supernatural monsters around Japan much stronger than her. the gods had little care for her life and continuously threw her at monsters one after another where failure would result in death and refusal also ending in death so with only one option left, she fought and killed until there was simply none left.

so with nothing else the gods sent her to kouh to kook after the devils.