Kiba is distracted!

A few hours later, the Peerage had gone out to the field in their track outfits. Raynare joined them, despite her grumbling. It was partly to keep an eye on her, and keep her from snooping around in the club room, and partly to shanghai an extra member into their team. For the time being, they were practicing baseball. Koneko was pitching to Rias, who currently had the bat, and everyone else had catcher mitts, and she was aiming to hit balls at the group for them to catch.

"Got it!" Issei called, a bit surprised. "...I thought it would be harder to move at instead of away from something coming at me after all that evasion training," he joked, throwing it back to Koneko, who then threw it at Rias again. She hit it at Raynare next, who jumped to catch it, barely getting it in her mitt.

"Gonna have to do better than that!" she noted, throwing it back. Rias next hit it towards Asia, who unfortunately fumbled it. Well, unfortunately for her, Issei got a good view of her bent over in those tight shorts. Yeah, he had seen her ass naked before, but certain outfits, while removing the specific appeal of nudity, added their own kind of appeal, if that made any sense.

"Try to catch it properly!" Rias told Asia as she hurried to retrieve the dropped ball. Then it went to Kiba, who Issei expected to easily catch it, given his honed warrior reflexes. Instead, it bonked right off his head.

"Ack!" he yelped, clutching his new goose egg.

"Hey, what gives? That would have been an easy catch, even for me!" Issei called out at Kiba.

Rias looked after Kiba in concern. "Kiba, are you alright?" she asked him. "This isn't like you..."

"...sorry," Kiba waved with a sheepish smile. "I wasn't paying attention..."

"... let's just take a break for now," Rias sighed, and they headed for the bench.

...

"Club activities again?" Motohama was asking Issei as he sat with them after the day's lectures a few days later. He idly noted that it had been a while before he had been able to hang out with these two.

"Yeah, the club ball tournament is coming up," Issei replied as he relaxed in his seat.

"Well, I imagine you guys will do well enough, everyone in your club is sporty," Matsuda chortled.

"Eh, sort of," Issei nodded, thinking it was because they were Devils that they had an advantage over the others. Even in daylight, they were more powerful than regular humans.

"Actually, Issei, I should tell you something. There are strange rumors going around about you..." Motohama informed Issei as he adjusted his glasses.

That brought Issei some pause. "Really? What kinds of rumors?" Issei asked, and the two fellow perverts leaned in, and told him all kinds of things, that apparently, he was blackmailing Rias and Akeno into sex with him, forcing himself on Koneko, corrupted Asia, and was using "Yuma" as his personal ****. Issei froze, and turned his head. Most of the girls in class were glaring at him out of the corner of their eyes, muttering. Well, he was doing perverted things with Rias, Akeno and Asia, but no **** was involved, and while he was getting Asia more comfortable with sex, he wouldn't say he corrupted her, at least not to the point where she was just a sultry and seductive woman. Also, using Raynare/Yuma as a personal ****... Yeah, he and the whole Peerage were slightly guilty of that. Other than that, there was no truth to the rumors. No way in hell would he even TRY forcing himself on Koneko, even if he wasn't morally opposed to ****, which he was. He valued his bone structure and internal organs WAY too much. "Damn it, who was spreading these rumors!?" he demanded, shooting to his feet.

"Us, actually," Motohama remarked with a grin. There was a pause. Then... WHAM! WHAM! "Argh! What the hell, you asshole!?" Motohama demanded.

"Yeah, don't take it out on us!" Matsuda protested as both perverted idiots that weren't named Issei held their heads, courtesy of Issei bashing their skulls.

"You assholes!" Issei huffed. "I should have known you'd think that was a good way to mess with me! Frankly, I should count my blessings that you weren't also telling people I was gay with Kiba too!"

"...well..." Matsuda replied slowly, making Issei freeze, his eye twitching.

"That one happens to be quite popular with the ladies, if that helps," Motohama remarked weakly.

"DIE!" Issei roared, smashing his foot into their heads. As they went down, he huffed and looked at the clock. "Oh, right, gotta go practice," he noted, getting up.

"Again? Since when were you this sporty?" Matsuda asked with a sigh, getting up as he cradled his head.

"Yeah. You certainly have changed a good bit recently," Motohama added, looking mournfully at his broken glasses. "Did you eat something weird? Or is it just that life changes when you see real boobs?"

Issei grinned back and waved mocking at them as he walked off. "The latter~! In fact, no matter how many times I see them, real boobs are the best!" he cackled.

"DIE!" both of them shouted after him, weeping tears of envy, and he laughed as he dodged their bookbags yeeted after him with laughable ease. Sometimes he wondered why he was still friends with them when they did shit like those rumors, but then again, they were fellow perverts, and they gave him a much needed sense of normalcy... When they weren't actively pissing him off at least. He better wish away those rumors before someone actually called the cops over them. He'd seen enough horror stories about how false accusations, however baseless, could ruin lives online to want to nip it in the bud. Something those idiot assholes clearly didn't think through before their little prank. Not that they were malicious... Just stupid as hell about social consequences, and he hadn't been much better before getting the level of responsibility that came with owning Rias as a Genie.