Chapter 44: Unleashed Wild Desires of Koneko Toujo! (Short)
"Buchou! Asia!" Michael bursts through the Old School building door to meet up with his distressed friends.
It was a last minute emergency after school ended, and the panicked call that Michael received from Rias was quite very frightening with all the screaming she was doing over the phone. It must have been a pretty bad situation if it has got her this riled up. Also the fact that Asia was getting potentially hurt too caused him to run faster, he needed to make sure she was doing alright, too.
However, he was a bit excited that he was the first one to be called once danger arose, he grinned and thought,
'Hah! Finally I'm getting some recognition! Buchou has finally seen that my greatness is better than Pretty Boy's!' Michael sounded off a loud hurrah!
Looking ahead, Michael saw both girls standing in front of the club room door waiting for him.
"Hey, you…guys?" Michael stops when he notices the Rias and Asia's messy hair and ruined uniforms, they looked like they got attacked by a rabid animal.
"Michael, thank goodness you're here." Rias looked relieved that they're reinforcements made it.
"Michael-san…" Asia looked downcast.
"It's okay, Asia, don't worry. I'm here now." Michael placed his hands on her shoulders to calm her down.
"Auuuuu…" Asia whimpered.
"Hm?" Michael tilts his head in confusion as he noticed a slight change in her usual innocent expression.
"Michael." Rias got her servants attention.
"Hai! Buchou!" Michael saluted with a grin, "I, Michael Hanamura, will show you my great skills and prove just how awesome I am!"
Rias coughs while looking a little flustered, "That's good because this job requires the right touch and you were the only one I can think of, no, the only one qualified for this job."
Getting a bigger boost out of that, Michael laughs while pointing to himself, "Really!? Ahem! I mean, of course I am, there's nothing that I can't handle!"
"Indeed, that is why I called you here instead of Akeno and Kiba because I know that you can be trusted to persevere through any hard challenges."
"Hahaha! Wow, Buchou, now your just flattering me!"
'Michael-san, you're making this easier for her…' Asia sweatdropped.
"So what's the stitch? An evil Stray Devil lurking among the town!? Some freak experiment gone wrong in the underworld appearing in this town!? The apocalypse!? Some Evil God trying to kill us!? I just can't wait to show you my skills!"
Michael looked from left to right with an excited grin on his face.
"No, much more dangerous than that." Rias had a grim voice.
"Really, then allow me to get my Balance Breaker ready!" Michael was about to summon the Boosted Gear.
"You are to stay here and watch over Koneko for 3 hours."
Only these words stopped him in his tracks.
"Come again?" Michael looked up and leaned his head forward.
"Because of an accident with a spell that I placed on some tea, to reform a "certain" someone's personality, we were assaulted by Koneko who drank some of it."
"I'm sorry."
Asia looked to the side with a little guilt.
"It's not your fault, Asia, I should be to blame for leaving the tea out in the open like that." Rias apologized.
"Wait, so you expect me to handle a raging, out of control, Koneko-chan in that room? Without any witnesses? Alone!?" Michael pointed out.
"Yes, and if you can keep the damage to a minimum, then I would really appreciate it." Rias nodded.
[Dragon Booster!]
"Okay, Ddraig, you better start the countdown."
"Michael, I know you may be frightened about Koneko possibly hurting you but you need to-."
"Possibly hurt me? The girl nearly kills me whenever I mention her height, and you expect me to survive a couple of minutes to hours with her when she can't even control herself!? No way Jose! Screw this! Once this timer is done, I'm outta here!"
Michael started walking away a little slower than he had when he walked in. Koneko and him can barely get on good terms with each other when they in close proximity but its a completely different horror story when its them alone.
"Now what, Buchou-san?" Asia looks to Rias who sighs.
"Only one thing to do now." Rias exclaims, "Are you so cowardly that you would run from your own kouhai in need?"
Michael stops in his tracks.
"Would you think a Maou would leave their own kin to suffer like this? You say you want to be a Maou, but you're doing something that strays from the path you seek."
Michael slowly turns to face Rias.
"Keep in mind, Michael, I've been thinking about your progression as a future Maou and this test could signify whether you're qualified for the position. Think carefully about your decision now."
'Could this be a test to see if I'm worthy of the title?' Michael walks straight for the door.
Michael gulped as he turned around to face Rias, who stared at him seriously while Asia looked all the more guilty for letting these events conspire because of her past actions.
'If Buchou is suggesting it, then maybe she's right. Maybe getting my ass kicked by a crazed Koneko will prove how much I'm qualified for being Maou, maybe I can…'
Walking up to the door, Michael starts to sweat in fear as he reaches out for the doorknob before he stops to think about it a little more.
"Wait a minute... How does this even qualify for being a Maou!?" Michael immediately stops himself.
"And we were so close." Rias bit the nail of her thumb.
"I-It didn't work Buchou." Asia whispered.
"We can't just leave her in there like that, or she'll find a way to get out and do what she wants. This leaves us with no other choice."
After whispering to Asia, Rias walks next to the door and knocks on it, lightly.
'What is she doing?' Michael looked skeptical.
"Koneko, you have someone who wants to see you." Rias filled the 1st year student in.
"Buchou?"
*GACHA!*
Michael froze in place as he heard the sound of the door opening behind him with a pair of hazel eyes gazing directly at his back.
*GLEAM!*
"Koneko-cha-?"
"Nya~! Nya~!"
Shooting out like a snake grabbing its prey, a hand latched onto Michael's ankle and pulled him down as he got dragged into the dark club room.
"No! No! No! No!" Michael clawed at the ground to escape but it was all in vain due to Koneko's superhuman strength.
"Please, anybody, anyone! Help me!"
*SLAM!*
Watching the horrific scene end once the doors slammed shut, Rias made sure to apply a heavy seal across the door so no one from the inside could escape.
"There, that ought to hold them until the tea's effects wear off."
"Excuse me, Buchou-san, I still feel unsure that what we did was the right thing."
"I know what you mean, Asia, but our objective needed Michael to stay here with Koneko or else she'll run amok on campus."
"I-I understand that, but why did Koneko-san start to say "nya" in her sentences?"
Pausing after that, Rias tries to give Asia a forced smile, "Don't worry about it, you'll soon know one day."
Tilting her head to the side, Asia didn't quite get what she was hiding but lets it go then prays,
"O, Lord please forgive us for putting Michael-san in such a tight spot, amen!"
Inside the club room, everything was dark, the lights were ominously turned off, the curtains were closed, and Michael was terrified beyond belief.
He needed to, no, he had to stay cautious because if he lets his guard down then things really will be over for him.
'Oh, geez…' Michael yelps once the clattering of a few dishes hit the ground.
'Aw man…' Michael heard a huge THUMP coming from the now falling couches.
'Okay, Michael, you've been preparing yourself for this moment, the moment when Koneko will definitely kill you. Just remember all of the mental preparations you trained for to get here. I mean, yeah, in those I may have still gotten my ass kicked 55 times out 56 times but remember you still got that one victory by pretending to play dead. Yes, that one win can decide this.' Michael raised his hands defensively.
Shifting her head from behind the shadows of the desk a shadowed out Koneko looks over at Michael and starts to climb onto the desk.
"M-Michael-senpai…"
Koneko's voice was low and a little husky.
'Okay, Michael, get a hold of yourself, you can't allow her to smell your fear!'
"Koneko-chan, I can probably guess that you're about to rip me apart, but don't think I'll just keel over just like that!"
The shadow which was Koneko simply gleamed their eyes as she got on all fours on top of the desk and readies to pounce her opponent.
"I-I-I'll give you one m-m-more warning. If you come at me then I won't be afraid to hold ba-!" Michael stuttered.
"Michael-senpai~!"
"Ough!"
Hopping off the desk, Koneko crashes into Michael's chest and knocks him off his feet.
"Ouch, that will hurt in the morning..." Michael sits up to feel someone rubbing up against his chest.
"So this is what it's like to be so close to Michael-senpai, nya~!" Koneko rubbed her body closer up to Michael's chest. This display of affection caught Michael off guard.
"Eh, Koneko-chan?" Michael didn't know how to react to the girl, who always thought of him as a nuisance.
"It's so rare of me to be this close to Michael-senpai, directly. Those other accidents were indirect, but to do it normally like this is the best." Koneko nuzzles her head closer to Michael's chest. The tone in her voice was now that of a joyful girl her age destroying her old stoic composure.
'Is Koneko-chan trying to cuddle with me? This must be some parallel universe!'
"Hey, Michael-senpai." Koneko timidly raises her head with a small blush, "Could you maybe wrap your arms around me?"
"Is this some sort of ploy to hit me because I already fell for that once and I won't let it happen like last time." Michael didn't buy the cute act.
(Last time)
"Baka-senpai." Koneko approaches a cake eating Michael.
"Yeah?" Michael continues to eat his cake.
"Could you give me a hug?"
Spitting out his food, Michael coughed, "H-Hug you? What brought this on?"
"…I just want to hug you for being an unbelievabe senpai." Koneko opened her arms.
"I don't buy it." Michael went back to eating his cake.
"…What I meant to say is that you are the Greatest senpai ever."
Standing up with his arms open with a pep in his step, Michael laughs, "G-Give your senior a hug!"
*WHAM!*
"Duah!"
Receiving a fist to the face from Koneko, Michael falls flat on his back and reaches for the sky, "W-Why?"
"Because I was hungry." Koneko walks off with his cake.
(Present)
"But Michael-senpai, I promise not to do that this time so please…" Koneko looked like she longed for some affection.
"Errrrrr….!" Michael looked reluctant but hugged her anyways, "Fine."
The moment that Michael embraced Koneko, he flinched back expecting her to break her word, but in response Koneko was overjoyed by the hug that she hugged him back tighter,
"Teehee! A hug from Michael-senpai is definitely the best nya~!" Koneko nuzzled her head into Michael's chest.
"Whoa, that tea must have been powerful to actually reform Koneko-chan's entire personality it's like she's forgotten that she hates me." Michael looked at his kouhai in disbelief, well it was hard to see so he really couldn't see that much of her expressions.
Standing up, Michael searches for the lights.
"Okay, before anything else I need to see so where is that light swit…" Michael paused when he felt something latch onto his leg,
Koneko-chan what are you doing?"
"Senpai, I want you to spoil me, nya~!"
'There's that 'nya' thing that she's been doing. Seriously, what is up with that tea she drank. It's making her act so weird.'
"Koneko-chan, please let go of my leg. I need it to walk." Michael tried to pry the girl off but she wouldn't budge.
"No, I want Michael-senpai to spoil me right now!" Koneko didn't give up as she started to hug Michael's leg more firmly.
"You always do stuff like that with Asia-senpai and Buchou, so do it to me, too!"
"Koneko-chan, let go or I'll!"
*CRACK!*
"Gyaaah!" Michael held the top half of his leg in pain, Koneko's rook strength was starting to literally bend it.
"It's not fair!"
"Okay, I hear you! Just let g-!"
*CRACKLE! CRACK!*
"Aaaaaagh! My bones aren't supposed to bend that way!" Michael cried.
"It's not fair! It's not fair!"
"Okay! Okay! Please, I'll spoil you just let me go turn off the lights first!" Michael was on the floor tapping out.
"Yay~!" Koneko jumped up with joy.
"My leg…My leg…" Michael held his leg and rocked up and down on the ground.
Getting his chance to turn on the lights, Michael returned to Koneko and sat on the couch with her. Due to her desire of being spoiled, Koneko laid over Michael's lap, the way she was does reminded Michael of a cat.
'So did the tea make her personality change from cold and scary to hyperactive and kitty like?' Michael raised an eyebrow as he looked down at the girl.
"Michael-senpai, would you please pat my head, pretty please~!" Koneko sent a smile which took Michael off guard once again.
"For real? Are you sure?" Michael's eye twitched as he narrowed his eyes at her, "This isn't just an act for you to trick me into letting my guard down, right?"
"…" Koneko looked saddened with Michael's doubtful gaze, "…You're so hesitant, but I can see why…"
Michael looked concerned once he heard her voice go a little sad,
"It's not fair… You're always treating Gya-kun with a pat to the head more often than you did with me and you praise him more than me too. Watching you do all of this for him deep down I felt envious of him and a little jealous too. That despite meeting you for only a short while you still dote on him more as your junior."
"Koneko-chan?"
"I know that we never got along and we usually act as opposites everyday most of the time, and I usually end up beating you up, but still I want Michael-senpai to dote on me, too. I've caused you so much trouble in the past which ended up in you taking damage for my own mistakes. I just want you to be happy with me, but I guess I'm just a big bother to you."
Koneko started to tremble and clenched Michael's leg as she resisted the urge to shed tears.
Scratching his head, Michael sighed, 'Man, this spell really must have changed her personality. I mean I've never heard Koneko-chan say this much before. Meh…it must be because of the tea but for some reason I can't leave her like this until time runs out it'll leave a bad taste in my mouth.'
Deciding to speak from heart, Michael said, "Well, of course, you're a big bother to me." Koneko gasps at this, "You always insult me, kick my ass when I try to have fun, and you even doubt my greatness on a daily basis. Oh, and let's not forget the daily kicking of the ass again and again!"
"I-I see…" Koneko started to tear up.
"But that's what I like about you, Koneko-chan." Michael chuckled.
"?" Koneko sits up to see Michael big grin.
"Yeah, because before I met you, I thought you were some rude girl who just doesn't say anything and I found it weird most of the time. But when you started to show actual annoyance at me and started to beat me up, I started to feel some joy that my Kouhai wasn't some stoic doll mascot for the school. It made me relieved that you were still just human or in any case a normal devil with emotions."
"But senpai, I still inflict pain onto you in severe manners." Koneko tried to prove her past actions as unjustified.
"Pain, hah! Look, I'm still okay, see?" Michael did some jazz hands, "And besides I hate to admit it but I do sometimes deserve a few hits to the noggin from time to time, but I find it endearing that you do it a lot for me."
"You do?" Koneko sits up.
Michael nods.
'No point in holding this back because this reformed personality spell placed on her will wear off and she'll go back to being normal again.' Michael thought.
"Okay, look, you may already know this, but most of my friends including you like to call me idiot or most of the time try and kick my ass to keep me in line. People, who do this are the ones that I'm the most happy to be friends with. I mean, who would go out of their way to scold someone they don't like. For me, its like if you don't like how they act ignore them or show some care towards them since you do like them." Michael chuckled bitterly knowing that most of the people he knew were like this because of his own troublesome behavior, but that's why he always enjoys their company.
"It may not be a good thing, but it makes me feel good to know there are people watching my back, and you, Koneko-chan, I like the most because you're always there to kick the crap out of me whenever I cause too much trouble." Michael reaches out and pats Koneko on the head.
"…" Koneko looks up with a blush as Michael grinned once more.
"It's kind of strange because my role as your senpai should have been yours to keep the other in line, but I really appreciate what you do for me even if it is violent or hard to understand at times. So don't think of yourself as a bother for me and remember that all those hits I took for you were because I didn't want to see you get hurt. Besides if I can't scold you like a senior then I should at least protect you like one." Michael laughed.
"M-Michael-senpai, I-I…" Koneko started to tremble in Michael's lap.
"Well, that's all I needed to say so does this satisfy you, Koneko-chan?" Michael rubbed Koneko's head a little more softly.
'M-Michael, no, Baka-senpai…thank you…' Koneko's lips curled up into a smile once more but this time it was sort of lecherous.
"Michael-senpai, can you do me a favor?" Koneko raised her head.
"Sure." Michael had nothing to lose at this point.
"I want to take a shower with Michael-senpai. Right now, nya~!" Koneko's cute smile couldn't change the look of fear on Michael's face.
"How about no?" Michael forced a smile since the favor was so sudden that he couldn't come up with anything else to say.
Standing up, Koneko faces Michael and holds her unbuttoning her uniform.
"Koneko-chan, just hold on real quick!" Michael puts his hand out to stop the girl.
"Nya~! Nya~!" Slipping off her skirt, Koneko unbuttons her top next before assisting her senpai who was now trying to escape. Luckily for him, she has much easier ways to oblige with his own clothing.
Her hands strained to look like claws as they ran through the front of Michael's top uniform; leaving 5 tears in the front which looked reminiscent to Rias and Asia's uniforms from the beginning.
'Now I know why those two looked that way! She can use scratch attacks more effectively with her rook powers!" Michael screamed as he jumped over the couch and made a break for the door.
"Where do you think you're going, Michael-senpai~!" Koneko hops over him and lands on all fours, "The fun's just beginning so let's take a bath together!"
Koneko jumped high in the air casting a shadow over Michael who takes a stutter step back.
"Ohmygodwhatthefu-!"
*WHAAAAAM!*
XXX
Later outside in the hallway, Rias and Asia were returning to the club room to check up on the two. Rias had determined that the two hours had passed and the effects of the spell should have worn off by now, so a quick look was needed to confirm it. She had to remind herself to make it up to Michael for just being thrown under the bus like that but it was the only inconceivable way that she could have escaped with Asia.
And speaking of Asia, the girl has been rather down for tricking the boy like that and intends to do a proper apology for duping him.
"Now to see just how the both of them are doi-." Rias stops in front of the door to hear loud dangerous noises on the other side.
*SLAM!* *CRASH!* *BOOOOOOM!* *SNAP!* *SMACK!*
Feeling the ground shake just from the ruckus Rias sighed and smiled, "Everything seems to be in order now considering what they're usual arguments are."
"I hope they're okay." Asia worried over the two's health.
When suddenly the two doors ahead of them slam wide open.
"Nooooooooooooo!" Michael runs outs the door with wet hair and nothing but a towel.
"M-Michael!?"
"Michael-san!?"
Both Rias and Asia were stunned by the shocking appearance the Pawn made, Asia however was more shocked that she started to blush in embarrassment.
Falling to his knees in front of the two girls, he cried, "Don't let her kill me like this! I don't want to die naked, cold and wet!"
"Michael, why are you dressed like that?" Rias staggered back a little weirded out that this was the boy's appearance when he would rushed out the room.
"She stripped off my clothes and forced me to take a shower with her and she wasn't gentle!" Michael wailed.
"W-What!?"
"The spell wore off and I'll explain the rest later! Please don't let her get me!"
"Michael-san please calm down we should try to calm down Koneko-chan's anger." Asia still believed a quick talk could fix things.
*GLEAM!*
"Oh no! She's here!" Michael froze in place.
"…Baka-senpai…" Walking out the shadows of the club room was the good old Koneko returned to her usual quiet self now wearing a towel over her chest and wet hair as well. Her entire visage was seething with quiet rage and the fact that she was holding a banged up towel rack didn't lessen the fear Michael was having.
"Wait! Wait! Please, if you're gonna kill me at least let me wear my clothes first! I don't want people to know I died without dignity!" Michael fell back and inched away from the approaching white haired girl.
"…" Koneko's hair covered her eyes as she stood over Michael and raised the towel rack over her head.
"Oi! Hold on, I said wait!"
*CRAACK!*
"Gyaaaaaah!" Michael's eyes popped out as the towel rack smashed the floor between his legs.
"…Die…" Was all Koneko could mutter with her cold eyes.
Hopping out of the range of her weapon, Michael started running away, "Nope not having none of this!"
"Wait, Michael, where are you going?"
"Somewhere that's not here!"
"But Michael-san, aren't you embarrassed to go out like that?"
"Don't care anymore! I'd rather get live on humiliated than die with humiliation!"
"…Die…!" Koneko chased after Michael swinging her towel rack for his head.
"Is that all you have to say you, little midget!" Michael covered his mouth after saying that.
*SNAP!*
Koneko snapped the towel rack and picked up the pace, "I'll castrate you with this before you die."
"See was that so ha-?"
*SWOOOSH!* *SHATTER!*
Koneko chucked a piece of the towel rack through a window that Michael ran past.
"Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap! Bad day! Bad day! Bad day!"
Watching the two interact all Rias could do was let it be until the two calmed down. Although that last comment about Michael taking a shower with her was rather surprising since she realized the spell she casted on the tea didn't just reform the person's personality, but allowed them to be more honest with their emotions. All Rias could wonder was what truly conspired while she was absent.
"Gaaaah! Oooch! Aaaah! Stop it!" Michael receives a tough flurry of smacks against the back with the towel rack.
Secretly while dishing out her punishment, Koneko's face was covered by hair as a slight blush was shown underneath it as she remembered most of what happened in the clubroom. The warm image of Michael patting her on the head still replayed through her many times as her smacks started to get a little less rough but were still getting dished out at the same speed.
Falling on the ground and trying to crawl away Michael reached for the door and muttered, "S-So close."
Looking down at her pitiful senior trying to escape Koneko recalled the words he once said not to long ago.
-Okay, look you may already know this but most of my friends including you like to call me idiot or most of the time try and kick my ass to keep me in line. People who do this are the ones that I'm the most happy with to be friends with.-
"…" Koneko was prepared to let him off with a final blow, "stupid Michael-senpai."
"What the-?" Michael couldn't understand what he saw when he looked back at Koneko but he could have been delirious because right now of all times that she would be mad, she was actually giving him the faintest of smiles.
"…Thank you…"
"Oi! Wait! This is messed up, at least let me explain before yo-!"
Koneko brought down the split towel rack with a loud...
*THWACK!*
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