Haru sat staring out of the window, mulling over the events of the last four days. Albion's maddening emotional state and Ophis' terrifying power in his house had him on edge at all times at home. He'd barely slept or used his computer, scared that Ophis would just pop up in his room again. It had been like this for four days and it was wearing him down. He heaved another sigh, rubbing his tired bloodshot eyes.
"Hey, you okay there man?" Asked Kiba. He'd noticed Haru's odd behaviour ever since Akeno had mentioned it. He didn't seem nearly as relaxed as he normally did. He was lethargic, awake most of the time, always moving and wasn't liberal with the sarcasm. Something was very wrong. Haru looked over his shoulder and offered a droopy smile to Kiba.
"Oh, uh hey, uh Kiba. I'm fine." Haru replied. His face was gaunt and his eyes were sunken in with large dark rings under them. Kiba felt a little concerned for him.
"You sure you're alright? I don't mean to be rude but you look like hell." Kiba said with slight worry. Haru didn't reply right away, but when he did it was with a tired grunt. Rias entered the room, surprised to find Haru there.
"Damn, you look like—" Rias began.
"Shit, I get it." Haru said. Even with four days of sleep deprivation he was still quick enough to interrupt her.
Just why does this guy keep doing that? she thought irritably. She sat down at her desk and sifted through some papers.
"So you see my counterpart?" Haru asked her. She looked up from her papers and directly at him with a raised eyebrow.
"You mean that Hyoudou boy? Yes, what about him?" Rias said, wondering what he wanted to know.
"Is he any closer to awakening Ddraig?" He asked hopefully. Rias just shrugged.
"I haven't noticed anything different in his aura. So I can only assume he isn't." She replied.
You seem awfully excited about Ddraig.
Not now Albion.
"I heard that he's got a girlfriend though. I guess everyone gets a lucky break once in a while." She said. Haru's mind froze for a moment, but a smirk grew on his face.
"I'm guessing my advice worked then. Huh, strange. I thought I was just talking shit but it looks like my bullshit had some weight to it after all." Haru replied with a laugh. Rias was slightly concerned over what advice Haru gave to Issei but dismissed her suspicion. It couldn't be too harmful if it worked. Right?
Haru had been told that this girl was known as Yuuma Amano. Apparently Issei had met her not minutes after Haru had his talk with him and he'd been bragging about it ever since, much to the immense jealousy of Matsuda and Motohama.
Lucky son of a bitch! He gets a girlfriend and I get stuck with the Ouroboros Dragon. What the fuck kind of messed up luck is that!? Haru mentally raged.
Little did they know the price of the main canon character getting a girlfriend straight away was a grave one. You know something's wrong when that happens.
Issei's first thought was "What the fuck!?" as he watched his girlfriend Yuuma change into a very well developed woman wearing something akin to an S&M outfit with two huge black raven-like wings. Her features were much more mature than just a moment ago with her teenage look. However, with all her beauty came her power and killing intent. Her violet eyes danced with sadistic glee as she watched Issei's bewildered expression at her sudden transformation.
Now don't be fooled, his initial reaction wasn't fear, oh no, but actually perverted joy as her transformation involved her clothes exploding, leaving her bare to the world.
She regarded him with her violet eyes and a small smirk appeared on her lips.
"I have to admit, I actually had some fun today. Given how naive and childish you are, things could have been much, much worse." She raised her arm to inspect the small pink scrunchy around her wrist "And I must thank you for the gift. Very sweet." She then opened her hand as red light appeared in her palm, becoming a red, jagged and barbed light spear.
She launched the spear forth and it hit its mark. Straight into Issei's stomach. Blood instantly soaked through his blue shirt. It dissipated quickly and blood flowed free and spurted from the wound and his mouth as he collapsed onto his back. "Yuuma" sat cross legged on the fountain, still smirking.
"Sorry but you were considered too much of a threat to us. If you want anyone to blame, blame him. After all he's the one who put it inside you." she said, as if he'd know what she meant.
"Well, that was pretty mean." came a voice from her right. She snapped her attention to the direction it came from to see a white haired boy leaning against a tree, sizing her up with his grey-blue eyes. He looked like he hadn't slept in days but the sheer amount of power he exuded warned her to tread carefully with this one.
"I'm gonna say this once, so listen carefully. That boy, Issei Hyoudou, is to survive this. You understand? He's a nice guy but he's also my rival so I can't be having some randy Fallen Angel kill him now can I?" The guy said casually, but the threat was definitely there in his tone.
"Just who the hell are you!?" she growled. She was too prideful to be intimidated by some brat, no matter how powerful. The guy just smirked and stood up off the tree. Suddenly two white and blue wings extended from his back.
"You didn't know? I'm the one Grigori should really be concerned about right now. I'm Haru Namikaze, the Vanishing Dragon and White Dragon Emperor. I'm surprised Azazel didn't warn you about my presence here. Maybe you're just that expendable to him." Haru mused.What the? What's Haru doing here? What the hell's he talking about? Vanishing Dragon? White Dragon Emperor? Issei thought, his mind growing hazy.
I'M TOO TIRED FOR THIS! Haru mentally screamed.
"Yuuma" seethed with rage. "Don't you dare accuse Azazel of seeing us as expendable! He'd never see us like that!" she roared.
"If you say so. Look, can we just get this song and dance done? I feel like I could pass out right now." he said. Just then, a crimson magic circle appeared from behind him and from it, Rias Gremory emerged.
"About damn time you got here. He's kinda bleeding out over there so if you could, you know, make him not die that'd be great. Thanks." Haru said to Rias, who ignored him and went straight to Issei. The two escaped via magic circle, leaving the Vanishing Dragon and the Fallen Angel alone.
Haru folded his wings away and smirked at "Yuuma". "Well Raynare I guess the plan worked." Raynare blushed and looked at her feet. "Since when did you get good at acting like that? And why didn't you tell me that was your side of the plan? I was getting pissed off at my bad luck earlier because of this."
"Well, it just comes with the job you know. Anyway, why did you need me to try to kill the kid? I feel kinda bad about that." Raynare said accusingly. Haru just shrugged.
"It'd take too long to get it naturally for him so I just pushed him in the right direction on the fast track to awakening Boosted Gear. Might seem like a dick move but you gotta do what you gotta do, right?" Haru said, uncaring. "Besides, I know he won't die. Ddraig wouldn't allow it. Not now and certainly not with the amount of potential the guy has. Plus, I'd imagine he's being healed up and made into a devil as we speak." Haru reasoned.
Raynare nodded.
"So are you going to make Azazel aware of the circumstances?" Raynare asked. Haru nodded, putting his hands in his pockets.
"Got no choice. Anyways I'd better get going. My little house mate is demanding food." he said, taking a step on the path towards home. "Oh by the way." he said, turning his head towards her with a lazy grin. "Nice scrunchy, looks good on you." he said before actually leaving. Raynare's cheeks turned red and she took flight to leave herself.
I'm not sure who's the real devil sometimes. Them by blood, or you by action. Raynare thought before disappearing into the distance.
Haru dragged himself through the entry hall of his house, groaning from the exertion of six days of sleeplessness, school and general fear of Ophis. He'd given up on any hope of sleep again, or just relaxation of any kind. He was about to crawl into the kitchen but was met with the sight of a pair of small sock feet. He looked up and met the dull grey eyes of Ophis. It was then he just gave up. He slumped his body to the floor in defeat.
"Just end it. I wanna sleep, I don't care how I get to it." he said. Ophis still just stared blankly, but knelt down.
"Food." was her only word before poking him in the head a few times. Eventually he looked up at her again and met her expectant gaze.
"Ugh, fine. Anything you want in particular?" He asked. She just pointed to a takeaway menu she seemingly pulled from nowhere. The name of the restaurant was "Twin Dragons Takeaway." Seriously? Of all the names? Whatever.
He took it from her small hand, admittedly with some hesitation, and opened it up, showing her the different dishes and sides. "Just pick something you like. I'll order it then head to bed. Deal?" she nodded silently. "Alright then."
It didn't take long for her to pick something she wanted, just a standard beef curry. She'd never had these things before, being born from nothingness but there was a first time for everything. With her food delivered and paid for, Haru retired to his room where he was able to grab the first night of sleep he'd been able to get in six whole days. Pure bliss.