Chapter 1

Luna fumbles with her bag getting on the train. "Man! I need to get a travel bag with wheels."

Kamiki walks through the car and up to Luna. "Ms. Kirigakure needs us at car one to get a vaccination."

"Okay, I'll put my stuff up and head that way. Thanks Kamiki."

"Yep."

Luna walks into the car her ticket tells her she needs to be in and sees Rin. "Rin!" She runs over to the seat he is sitting in nearly squishing Kuro, she hugs him. "I was so worried about you. I'm glad you are alright."

"Ah… Yeah I'm fine." He blushes at Luna.

"Oh! I have something for you." Luna bends down and unzips her bag. Pulling out two books she sets them on Rin's lap. "These are the graphic novels we had talked about. I kept forgetting to bring them to class. I'm sorry about that."

Rin looks at the books. "Maus?"

"Yeah, it's a World War II comic about surviving the holocaust in Poland. Remember we had chatted about it last week."

"Kinda?"

"Ok well paw through them if you don't like it no biggy." Luna stands up grunting while lifting up her bag.

"Want me to help you with that?"

"That would be lovely Rin. Thanks."

Rin grabs her bag and sets it above the window of his seat.

"I'll be right back. I need to go to car number one."

"Kay."

Shiemi stands at the door staring at Rin.

"Shiemi!" He says.

She says nothing to him just keeps staring. Suguro, Shima and Konekomaru come up behind her.

"Oh hey Moryama."

"Hey Suguro!"

"Did you get your vaccine yet?"

Shiemi shakes her head no.

"Oh they are doing them in car one."

Luna walks up. "Hey guys."

"Good Morning!" They say collectively.

"Where are you sitting Luna?" asks Konekomaru.

"I don't know I need to get my vaccination first. Is car one this way or that way." Luna points in both directions.

"I need to get mine too. We can walk up together." Shiemi says.

Luna nods her head and she and Shiemi walk up to get their shots.

When they return Kamiki is sitting in the aisle seat next to Rin while Kuro sits sleeping in the middle seat.

Luna leans over to Shiemi. "Oh bummer I was going to make an excuse so the two of us could sit next to Rin."

Shiemi's face turns red and she shuffles past them sitting in the middle seat next to Takara.

Luna follows her sitting in the aisle seat. "Shiemi, what's wrong?"

Before Shiemi can answer her Ms. Kirigakure is standing in front of them giving them the low down on their mission. "Yesterday the Left Eye of the Impure King was stolen from the Deep Keep of the Vatican. At the same time someone tried to steal the Right Eye located in our Kyoto branch's Deep Keep. Our mission will be to care for the sick who were exposed to the Impure Kings Right eye and try to figure out who was behind the attempt to steal it."

"The Impure King is kin to the god of rot. Isn't that right?" Asks Kamiki.

"Yes, that is correct. So we have an hour and a half to Kyoto so I'll be taking a nap in the back of the car if you need me." She walks past the students giving Rin a glance. He is looking out the window of the train.

After a little while Rin looks over at Kamiki. "You and Wilk are the only two who aren't scared of me huh?"

Kamiki folds her arms over her chest. "Why would I be scared of you? There are lots of exorcists with demon blood in them."

"Really?"

"Yeah"

"Wow, Thanks for trying to cheer me up. I thought you all were mad at me."

"Shut up guy's I can't sleep." Ms. Kirigakure says from the back of the train.

"Tisk, I'm madder at people always talking about defeating Satan and wanting to help people…"

Suguro stands up yelling. "I'm tired of listening to this!"

Luna jumps and looks over with her headphones on not knowing what's going on. "Hey sit down!"

Ms. Kirigakure pulls Luna's headphones off her head. "Do you have any idea how loud you guys are talking? You are disturbing the rest of the passengers."

She sends them to a vacant car and has them put baryon stones on their legs.

"I feel like we've been here before." Luna says trying to stay positive while she winces under the pressure of the baryon on her lap.

"Yeah, if somebody could have kept their voice down this wouldn't have happened." Says Kamiki looking at Luna.

"I'm sorry I had my music on to loud."

"You're not the one at fault Wilk. Suguro's the one that got us all in trouble." Says Rin.

"What! Me? I'm not the one always picking fights with people."

"Kamiki and I were talking. Why did you have to butt in and eavesdrop?"

"Stop it!" Luna yells, "Stop fighting! We are supposed to be a team and every mission we go on you guys are squabbling amongst each other like little children fighting over a new toy. Not to mention that you Okumara," She points at him. "and you Suguro are the worst offenders. Why can't the two of you just have cool heads for a change?"

"You go Wilk, tell that boyfriend of yours off." Kamiki cheers.

"We are not an item Kamiki. I'm here to be an exorcist. I'm not here to be playing footsie with the first girl that bats an eyelash at me!"

"Bon!" Konekomaru whispers to him.

Suguro looks at Konekomaru and then the look on Luna's face, gritting his teeth.

"Really then you should have told Wilk that." Kamiki smirks looking at Luna.

Luna looks down at the ground with her brow furrowed. She speaks sternly. "Well I've never once batted an eye lash at you Suguro. So I'm glad I don't have that sin on my heart." Luna takes a deep breath. "The rest of your statement is correct though. We are here to be exorcists. That means no time for relationships except for the working ones we create with our fellow team members. So everyone in this room needs to be able to trust each other and that includes Rin."

After Luna speech no one speaks until they get to their destination in Kyoto (Suguro's mother's inn) and even then none of them really want to talk about the elephant, or the demon in the room.