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grey-eyed-menace · 3 years ago

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"...what's your favorite genre?"

Wantanabe turns to look at him like he's grown a second head, and, rather pointedly, poked his arm with the history textbook, as if to check if he was solid, real even, which, fair, Issei supposed that was the tamest reaction someone would have after you accused them of amassing a secret harem under the noses of the student body.

"Is this your an idea of an apology? Planning to take me out?" There's no accusations behind the words, no disgust or fear, not even resignment, and Wantanabe sounds the furthest from scandalized as one could probably get, if anything, he's genuinely curious.

Issei bites down the instinctive urge to shout out a loud denial, to flinch back and show palable disgust, and, instead, he shrugs, wetting his lips a bit before speaking, "Yeah, sort of, I guess, you're apart of the Newspaper Club, right? Is there, like, a book signing in town you wanna check out? I'd be willing to pay."

Wantanabe's mouth contorts into a weird half-smile-half-frown, and... Pokes him with the history textbook again. It almost startles a laugh out of him, if he was being completely honest with himself.

"Not particularly," he replied, after seemingly mulling it over for a few moments, "I wouldn't mind hanging out at the mall though, this weekend? Mika and Yui-chan have something to take care of out of town, and Okabe-senpai has a family thing then, so I'm pretty much free."

"Saturday?" Issei blatantly ignores the whispering behind them, the obvious glares, the low hisses and swooning.

"Saturday, yeah. Meet you in front of that bakery on the west end of the Entertainment district? The one with the bagels?" And then, Wantanabe gives a genuine smile, a little sharp around the edges, (and are those fangs?), but it practically lights up his whole face, and Issei suddenly finds him questioning why he didn't try to make it happen sooner.

[Months later, Issei will question if this offer of friendship was a way to butter him up for a chance at being apart of Feyre Oriax's peerage.]

(Months later, he won't really care, as he sees Uri's silent peace offering decorating his desk. The same way he wont care when Minato, Kiba, and Zyndra all join up to physically lift him off his feet for a bruising hug.

Things like that tend to matter a little less when you're caught up with getting to know people your determined to call family.)

#High School DXD #Highschool DXD #High School DXD Oriax Peerage #Oriax Peerage #High School DXD Zyndra Mandrake #High School DXD Hyoudou Issei #It should be noted that Sona and Feyre give Rias so much shit over not using and Alias.#And in turn Feyre gives Sona shit for not even attempting to change her first name.#Wantanabe Ryuunosuke is Zyn's alias. The offical story is that his moms russian.#In this story. Akeno doesn't go by Himejima on school files.#Because the principal clans have RESOURCES and they will very much cause a war to protect their pride.#On file and around school she's Tokunaga because she thought it was too good a joke to pass up.#Zyn is pretty much responsible for Issei when it comes to the more... delicate nusances of Devil Society.#Or rather how to keep yourself from physically kidnapping your found family and moving to a secluded island to live out your days in peace.#It should be mentioned this is a prevalent problem in Queen's as a whole. They're kinda slated to be mother hens.#Tsubaki is the Education Mama. Akeno is the BAMF. And Zyn is feral enough to tell Sirzechs to shove it.#It's much less prevalent in Diodora's Queen. But the moment she realizes that her bitch of a master can be taken down a peg? Ooh...#Guess who powerlevels to the point that she physically holds the man at knifepoint as he transfers his pieces to her.#Anyway. Issei and Zyn are friends!#I think I'm going to expand on why exactly Issei's so damn bitter over Zyn's relationship with both Yui and Mika at some point.#It's not obvious here mostly due to the fact that Issei is actively trying to think about other things.#Akeno Tsubaki and Mikazuki bond over shitty relatives.

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