Next morning.
Sunlight peered through the window, and hit Jinrang right on, his face scrunched up and slowly he opened his pitch black eyes.
Facing him was Akeno who was still asleep, he watched her face for a bit before reaching out.
"Beautiful." He muttered as he cupped her face, before he blushed realizing what he just did.
He took his hand back slowly, not wanting to wake her up.
'I'll prepare breakfast.' He thought and got up.
He stretched as he walked out of the room making sure to close the door behind.
Hearing the sound of the door, Akeno's eyes snapped open, unable to hold back her smile as she held the cheek Jinrang touched just a moment ago.
'He called me beautiful…' Joy filled her as she laid back down on the bed.
She rolled around for a minute or two, before deciding to finally get up.
She walked out of his room and into the kitchen and saw him heating up dinner from last night.
She sighed deeply, 'Screw it, I've no patience.' She thought as she stared at him for a solid minute.
'How can I? When just seeing him fills me with so much joy? When his smile makes my heart race?'
She thought to himself while touching her heart.
'What a terrifying man you are, stealing this girl's heart so easily.'
She finally made her presence known to him.
Jinrang glanced toward her, lGood morning, Akeno. How did you sleep?" He greeted her with a smile.
"Better than ever, I'm tempted to sleep here every night." She giggled and spoke.
"H-Huh?" Jinrang was left speechless for a second, not expecting that answer.
"W-Well, I-I don't mind if that's what you want." He said while looking away from her.
'Does she…' Jinrang thought as he glanced at Akeno.
"It's a deal then." She said, smiling happily.
Jinrang wasn't sure at first, but now it all became clear.
'She's into me…' He thought, almost jumping in joy.
"So? What are your plans for today?" Akeno questioned him while coming to stand right nezt to him.
"Breakfast, school and..." Jinrang trailed off, "Nothing, I'm free."
A glint passed through Akeno's purple eyes, "Why not spend time with me?" She asked.
"S-Sure, what do you have in mind?"
"You'll see." Akeno spoke mysteriously and giggled.
"Alright. The food's ready." He said, Akeno nodded and sat down.
Jinrang quickly fixed the table and sat down.
The two ate in silence, it was one of many things Akeno noticed about him whilst eating, Jinrang didn't speak at all his attention was focused solely on the food in front of him.
'We all have our peculiarities.' She shrugged.
They finished quickly, and decided it was time to get going to school.
Jinrang and Akeno got dressed and went to school, upon entering school grounds students let out a bunch of "ooh's" and "ahh's" something about, "beauty and the beast."
it was fitting.
The two entered the classroom and were met with Rias grinning at them, Jinrang avoided meeting her eyes, but Akeno met her gaze as she smiled widely.
Class started and ended quickly. (who cares about this sh anyway?)
During break, Akeno and Rias were talking about something, Jinrang didn't pay much attention to their conversation.
He decided to go and visit Issei's class. As he walked down the hallway, other students expressed surprise because he never really left his classroom once he went in, and they know this because Jinrang is easily noticeable and it's kind of hard not to notice him.
"Hey." Jinrang greeted as he walked inside, Immediately all eyes were on him.
"Jinrang? What are you doing here?" Issei questioned, "You told me to come here sometime, so here I am." Jinrang answered.
"Yeah, I didn't expect you to actually come though…" Issei muttered to himself.
"Oh my, if it isn't 'The Giant' Jinrang Kim in the flesh." A girl's voice sounded from behind as he looked back.
"Do I know…you?" Jinrang questioned, confusing easily noticeable in his voice.
The noise came from a short brown-haired girl with glasses, her eyes went down his body before they widened, she whistled. "From this distance, I see quite well… you have a pretty large 'tool' don't you? Wanna put it to use with me sometime?"
"EHHH?!" The class exclaimed in sync.
Dozens of furious eyes were suddenly on the bold girl, they muttered quite a lot of… interesting insults?
Issei's eyes darted between this girl and Jinrang.
Jinrang wasn't even phased though, he just sighed put his hand on her shoulder. "I respect your straightforwardness, but I have to apologize, I already have my eye on someone."
The girl was surprised, she expected a completely different reaction.
And the others in the class groaned, they missed their chance.
"Ah, bummer. Can't blame a girl for trying, and by the way… would this 'someone' be Akeno Himejima?" She leaned in closely at the last part to make sure only he heard it.
Jinrang's eyes widened slightly and he sighed once more, rather loudly this time. "I forgot what kind of a school this is."
She giggled, "Well, that's that. If it doesn't work out, and you're willing… I would be quite interested." She turned around and went to sit on her chair.
Jinrang was unsure of what to say so he just stayed silent, he turned his attention back to Issei.
"Where's Asia? I don't see her." Jinrang questioned him.
Issei, who was still shocked didn't respond until Jinrang shook him and repeated the question.
"O-Oh she's at the cafeteria with her other friends." Issei answered.
"I see, I'm a bit late in saying this but, take care of her." Jinrang said before he walked out of the classroom.
School hours went by slowly, Jinrang would jump out of a window to escape, but he didn't.
Why? Because Akeno was there, and he was just sitting there, looking at her.
Which would have been a bit creepy to be honest, but she was also staring at him.
Meanwhile, Rias was just observing the two staring at each other,
'Just get together already, you two already shared a bed and you BOTH are aware of the other's feelings.' She sighed deeply.
(Don't get mad at me, I'm just making some slice of life and romance shit, admittedly with this I'm stalling for time, so I can get further into the DxD novel.)