This story is under revision and will have constant changes to it's formatting and plot (so if it seems confusing along the way just please know I'm trying to piece things back together again) It'll take me a while to post new chapters because I'm trying to catch up on my reading of the manga for a more accurate and revised story to keep you guys entertained(and hopefully happy ^^)And I know some of you have strong opinions that Yuri should not be in my story but it'll all become clearer why I put her in there later on in the chapters so please don't fret. But I will tell you now, I only have in her the story as a supporting character for Rin in Gehenna(because I feel like if he didn't have that best friend figure down there, he'd likely choose Satan faster and thus ending the story early. Yuri is that key character that's keeping his mind innocent and more "human") But you know that's just my intentions for her appearance in the story. As I said before this story is under revision and you will see constant changes. Open criticism is welcome! (and I am very sorry to the people I have had a problem with, I was being childish you were right. And I will think about what you have to say on improving this piece of work) Thank you for you understanding! LOVING MY KITS! 3
Chapter 1: What Lies Beneath
Ever since Father Fujimoto died, my world's been turned upside down. First I discovered that I was Satan's son, meaning that I too was a blue flame spitting demon! Then I find out that my dad was an exorcist set out to destroy the devil himself! Sometimes I think 'Hey, if you listened to Fujimoto back then and just stayed in the basement like he had told you to, maybe he'd still be alive and you'd still be human.' But no… I had to be a hard headed punk and break out of there to "help". What did I help? He's dead because of me!
If I had just stayed put I wouldn't have become a distraction to him and he wouldn't have let his guard down. He wouldn't have tried to protect me! And why did I say what I did?! I can't believe I told him that I hated him! That wasn't true! And in the end those were my last words to him. I wonder dad, I wonder if you're watching over me now and laughing at all the mistakes I made this year. Today is your one year anniversary you know. Where are you? Can you see how much I've grown? How much I've changed? Well I strive to be better dad. For you.
"Come on Rin, it looks like it's about to rain. And not to mention it's getting late! Sir Pheles isn't going to wait on us for much longer." I sighed and stood up from the grave I knelt beside, placing a bouquet in front of it. "Yeah whatever Yukio. Mephisto I'm sure can wait on us for a few minutes so chill out!" "I would 'chill out', but school is going to start soon and I'd rather not be late. I was reelected as class president this year and it would be a bad example for me to show up late now wouldn't it?" He pushed his glasses farther up on his nose and gleamed down at me. I just proceeded to glare back up at him. "Just shut up four eyes! I'm not ready to say goodbye yet!"
He opened up his mouth to say something else but closed it knowing that it wouldn't have been a good decision to talk back to his brother. So instead he turned around and walked off towards the pink limousine parked on the curb of the street. "Well it seems I'm going to have to leave soon dad, but don't worry! I'll be back as soon as I can. Maybe by then I'll have finally gotten an A in my demon summoning's class and I can rub it in your dead ass's face!" I then turned around and trailed back to the limousine, checking over my shoulder to look at the gravestone one more time and then hopping inside the car.
Yukio was already inside leaning in his seat and reading some sort of Chinese printed book. Dam he's such a geek! "You're learning Chinese now? What's that for?" He looked up at me, obviously annoyed that I interrupted his reading activity. "I was asked by the council to be transferred to the China branch for demon hunting. Apparently a lot of demons have been showing up and harming the locals, so I thought it'd be best to learn the language to ease my search."
And he's just telling me this now?! "Wait, you're leaving to go to another country and you didn't even tell me?! What the hell man?! How long are you gonna be gone?!" "For as long as I need to be. It depends on how the mission goes." "So you're just going to leave me alone in our big dorm?" "Yes." Woooww it shows how much he cares about me. His dear older brother might I add! "You can take care of yourself Rin, I know you can cook for yourself so you won't go hungry." "But who's gonna wake me up in the morning? Who's gonna set out my clothes for me before I go to school?!" He gave an irritated sigh and pinched the brge of his nose, he did that whenever I really got on his nerves. "I'm your brother not your maid. You can figure something out for yourself."
Damn that four eyes… Thinks he's so smug and smart and cool! He should know by now I'm hopeless when it comes to taking care of myself. "Well Rin, why not I just allow one of your friends to bunk with you during Mr. Okumura's absence?" I hadn't even noticed that Mephisto Pheles, the Head Master at True Cross Academy, was sitting with us, more specifically sitting by me. "Whoa! You scared me! At first I thought you were some whacked out clown!" He glared at me with demonic eyes and pinched my cheeks causing my eyes to water. "I'm sorry… Did you say something?" "No! No I didn't now let go hulk!" He released me from his iron grip and I immediately went to comfort my red swollen cheeks. "Good! Anyways, I said why not just get one of your friends to allow you to stay with you in your dorm until Yukio gets back? I'll even allow it." "Yeah that's a tempting offer buuut no.
I don't really want to spend the night with any of them!" "How about that Bon boy?" "Oh hell no! He's a major pain in my ass! And that's not something he'd want either." How about Mr. Shima?" "Nah, he's a better choice than Bon, but we're not really that close, neither is me and Koneko. Especially me and Koneko…" It would be nice to have one of my friends over, but if I can't have them all then I don't see how it could really work out. I know me being the son of Satan is still a bother to them, and they probably don't trust me to be alone with them all night. The only person who doesn't seem to care is Izumo, and she's a girl so I can rule out her spending the night with me.
I started blushing profusely at the thought of me spending the night with her. Sure she can be a little bit rotten, but deep down she's a real cool and considerate gal. I've known that ever since I let her borrow my shirt during the whole ghoul fiasco during our exwire promotions. She gave me my shirt back all washed; maybe I'm over thinking it, but when she gave it to me it looked like she was blushing. Maybe from embarrassment? "Rin? Are you even listening to me?!" "Huh? What?" I looked around abruptly, noticing an angry Yukio sitting by my side. "Of course you weren't listening. I said I was only going to be at school for the first day, my excuse for being absent is a study retreat overseas. And on another note! We're approaching the school now.
" I looked out the car window and there it was, the big castle like building known as Cross Academy. I was so deep in thought that I hadn't even noticed how close we were to our destination. "I'm so not ready for school. Come on let it be summer again!" "You seemed eager to go yesterday." I looked at the ground tilting my head in his direction. "That's because I thought you were going to be there." He gave me a sad look but shook his head turning his attention out the window. "As soon as we make it to campus we'll have to head different ways. I'll see you at the cram school." The limousine pulled up to the school and we both got off, taking our luggage out of the trunk. "I'll see you later boys!" Mephisto drove off to go who knows where, and Yukio left me alone as well.
With one hand I lifted up all my bags and headed towards my dorm on the other side of campus making all the students giving me weird looks and whispering things, wondering if I lifted weights or something. Well now that I know that I'm a demon, I don't have to worry anymore about why I was so freakishly strong. I think the ladies dig my wicked strength anyways! I continued my journey towards my dorm room when I heard all but too familiar voices talking in cheery tones, with questions of how are you and how you been. I peeked around the corner and there they were, my friends. All except for Shieme who I know didn't go to the actual academy. I debated whether I should go around them, or continue and cut straight through them.
"Hey Rin! What's up buddy?" Shima ran up to me and put me in a head lock and on reflex on flipped him over my shoulder, he hit the ground with a thud. "Oh man! Sorry! I wasn't expecting that." "Yeah, and I wasn't expecting to get my ass thrown on the ground either." We looked at each other and started laughing as I helped him stand up. Izumo approached me and my breath caught in my lungs. She usually wasn't so touchy, but she held out her hand for me to shake. "It's nice to see you again Okumura." "Y-Yeah, it's nice to see you again too Kamiki." I shook her hand and we stared into each others eyes, a blush spreading across both our cheeks. "Why are you looking at me like that?" I reverted my gaze away from her releasing her hand. "I didn't know it was a crime to look at pretty girls."
Her face went from a light rosy pink to a deep tomato red within seconds as she retreated back to her best friend Noriko Paku. She used to be in the Cram school with us but quit during the exwire exams last year. Ever since then, Izumo has been trying to be a little nicer to all of us like how her friend suggested. I don't know much about their back story but all I know is that Izumo treats Paku with a deeper kindness then any of us at the Cram School. "Rin man! Are you putting the moves on Kamiki here? You sly dog!" "Ah shut up Shima!" I punched him in the arm not realizing how much force I'd put into it as he squealed with pain holding his injured arm. "Be careful dude!" Konekomoru walked over to him checking his arm and sighed when he didn't notice any real damage. "Calm down you big baby, you'll most likely get a bruise." "Yeah! A really big bruise! Thanks for the analysis doc!" Koneko smiled at him sheepishly shrugging his shoulders and heading back to Suguro who looked about the same amount of pissed as always. Of course the one he was normally pissed off at was me. "Hey Bon! Koneko! How have you guys been?" They both looked at me with different expressions on their faces.
Koneko looked scared that I tried to start a conversation with him, and Suguro looked disgusted that I initiated one with him first. "I thought I told you not to call me Bon idiot! Only my friends call me that." "Buuut I thought we were friends?" "We are. I just don't like you." "Ouch dude. Ouch." I ignored the rest of the negative comments he opened his mouth to say and turned my attention to Konekomoru. I smiled at him with as much kindness as I could muster so I wouldn't scare him, but to no avail, it seemed to not have worked. "Well, it was nice seeing you guys again. I'll see you all later okay? I'm gonna drop off my stuff and head to the orientation. Maybe I'll find a seat next to you guys." We parted ways and I walked the quiet path to my dorms alone. If this is how it's going to be for the rest of the school year I think I'll lose my head.
I don't remember the walk being this far to be honest. Yeah it was pretty lengthy last year but nothing compared to this. I looked around at the scenery as I walked, noticing that I had entered the forest part of the path. By now it was hard to track where I was and how close I was to making it to the dorms. I couldn't use the buildings as references anymore, all I could see were trees, trees, and more damn trees. "Ugh! How much longer?! I feel like I've been walking for hours!" Maybe it was because I have been walking for hours. The souls of my feet were starting to hurt and I was losing all sense of time. The sky was still blue but the clouds have drastically changed since I started walking. That indicates that I really have been walking for a while. Just what was going on here?! It certainly wasn't supposed to be taking this long.
"Rin Okuumoraaa…" A deep demonic voice sounded from behind me. I dropped my things and turned around abruptly. I reached inside my duffle back and pulled out my sword still sheathed. "Where are you?! Come out!" I unsheathed the Koma sword releasing my demonic powers, the blue flames consuming my body and my tail unfurling from underneath my shirt. "Rin, I have an offer for you… One I know that you can't refuse.." A wolf walked into view from the bushes. But I tensed up and almost dropped my sword when I noticed that that wolf was no ordinary wolf. This wolf was spouting blue flames.
"Satan!" I charged him and swung my blade down, but I missed when he dodged, jumping over my head and landing behind me. "I'm not here to fight. Only to talk." "Well if your offer was for me to join you in Gehenna then you can forget it!" He laughed at me with his heart splitting maniacal hysterics. "My son, it's funny how you think you have a choice in the matter. Of course I'm going to force you to come along with me! But I have a proposition to make you coming with me a lot easier." As the wolfs form finally disintegrated, what was left was a floating form of blue flame. The most disturbing part about it was the red glowing eyes inside of it, floating around and staring at me. It fell into the floor burning the dirt and concrete causing it to sear and bubble. As the rubble melted, a Gehenna gate formed and opened up. "You'd be an idiot to think I was going in there." "It's not you that's going in, it's what's that's coming out that I want to show you." A pain filled scream exited the morphed gate and emerged from the skulls that lay inside. Who I saw I had mourned to see for so long. "Father Fujimoto…"
He was covered in blood and gashes all over his body, and blood streamed from his eye sockets and out his mouth. His hair had grown long and shaggy, and it was so unkempt that if I ran my fingers through it my hand would have gotten caught like a fly in a spiders web. "Rin! PLEASE! Don't listen to him!" Satan approached me in his flame form, caressing my face with his firey figure. "Your dear daddy has been down here. In hell. All this time. I laughed every time you prayed like he was in heaven! Haha! My Son! It's your fault he's in here!" "SHUT UP!" I closed my eyes my ears, hoping to be rid of the lies he's was spilling at me. "Rin, please don't listen to him. Don't cooperate." The flame went closer to Fujimoto, drawing its flamed tail along his back, burning his skin. "Stop it!" I ran at him and jumped with in the gate to hug him and to protect him from Satan's fire. "Haha! You're so brave Rin! All I can do now is close the gte on you and you'd be mine! But if I did that you'd stab my gate and break it. We can't have that. So here's the proposition… Give me the Koma sword, so that I may break it and set your demonic heart free. If you do this I will release your father from the grips of hell, and allow him to reenter the world of Assiah." "He's lying Rin! Don't believe him! Forget me and just leave! GO!"
I didn't know what to do! Should I leave and run like he says to?! Should I follow his orders this time?! Or do I take the offer and free him from hell?... "Well Rin? Will you choose to protect this priest? Or will you choose to run and protect yourself? Your pick." "Rin, please son… I'm begging you." He looked up at me with desperation in his eyes. I know what he wants me to do but I'm sorry. He knows I can't just run away. "I'm sorry dad. But I take his offer." I lifted the sword in the air and allowed Satan to possess it, melting it from the inside out. As the swords metal dripped on to my face, my flames intensified and my heart beat louder in my chest. My fangs grew sharper in my mouth and my eyes hinted with red, the pupils becoming slitted. "YES! THE TRUE PRINCE HAS ARRIVED! As promised my good boy, I set the priest free." Father Fujimoto was lifted from the gate in a physical form, and placed onto the ground. He was alive again. "Please Rin don't go!" "I'm a real demon now dad. I don't belong here anymore. I'm sorry." Then the gate slowly closed on me. And I left the world of Assiah.
