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Thwack! The meaty thud of flesh hitting flesh reverberated through the tennis court, which was empty, save for four teenage boys and three dead pigeons. A boy with lavender-colored hair so pale that it appeared to be a shade of white crumpled to the ground under the force of the black-haired boy's blow. Okumura Rin glared down at his classmate, Shiratori Reiji.
Reiji and his cronies had been shooting pigeons with Reiji's new crossbow when Rin had arrived, and the sight of blood and death had driven him over the edge. Rin couldn't stand blood. He would not tolerate unnecessary death.
Jet black hair waved in the feeble breeze and deep blue eyes narrowed threateningly at the group of rich kids. Reiji shuddered. Scooting backward to get as far away from Rin as possible, the delinquent tenderly touched his bruised cheek.
"Go."
That was the only word that Rin had to say to send the three gangsters running in terror, screaming their heads off all the way down the road and out of sight. The teenager's eyes were shaded from view and he silently watched them flee.
"Am I really a monster?" Rin asked the only surviving pigeon. The pigeon tilted its head sideways in question, "I mean, I just sent them screaming in terror," He shrugged, "So doesn't that make me the bad guy?"
The pigeon cooed in a comforting manner and seemed to make a negative sound, "Good," Rin nodded to the white bird, and it nodded back, taking off and cooing gratefully. The teen watched the bird fly until it was but an invisible speck in the sky, "'Cause I don't wanna be a bad guy."
He looked down at his hands, which were coated in a thin sheen of blood. The ravenette winced and let his hands fall to his sides, "Shit."
Grimacing, he trotted off to the woods to wash his hands in a stream. If he went back to the monastery, his brother would ask him what had happened. If he went to a local shop, they would probably call the police after seeing that the blood wasn't his own. So the nearby forest was the best option. Besides; taking walks helped to clear Rin's mind.
The leaves of late summer were quite a sight to behold with the sun shining through them and illuminating the trees. A dry crunching noise came from the first falling leaves on the ground and he heard birds twittering cheerfully in the canopy. He arrived at the small creek in a matter of minutes and sighed in relief when he felt the dried blood rinse off of his hands. Taking a moment to appreciate the beauty of the woodlands, he soaked in the sun's dying rays as it sank below the horizon. Suddenly, a strange golden glint caught his eye, and he turned to face the source.
Rin gasped in shock. It was a wooden goblet with golden fire in it, and it was floating above the brook. He stared at it, slack-jawed for several seconds, and then he held his hand up to his chin and seemed to ponder something. With a wide grin, he eagerly reached out to touch it, as something about it drew him in, and then a golden flash of light blinded him for a second. He reached up and grabbed it out of the sky -it seemed to be weightless and would just stay in the air unless an outside force acted upon it- and held it in his hands. Sitting down with his back against a tree, he stared deeply into the golden flames and felt a strange pulling sensation in his mind before he blacked out.
The last thing he thought before he was pulled into oblivion was, 'This thing is so fucking awesome.'
When he woke up, he was no longer sitting by the creek with the goblet in his hands but was instead in a very strange clearing in the middle of a seemingly infinite forest. It appeared to be split in half like a yin-yang circle, but half was blue instead of black and the rest was gold instead of white.
Rin looked to the blue side first. In the sky above it was a full blue moon, and it looked to be nighttime. The grass was dark green but looked like an ethereal shade of midnight blue in the strange light, and on the larger side of the yin half was a pool of golden water; the same shade of the fire in the goblet. Dark-leaved evergreen trees stood in silent vigil around that half of the clearing.
Rin looked at the other side as well. The sun shone in the afternoon sky, and the grass was a shade of yellow not unlike the autumn. The trees were orange and gold, and like the yin side, the yang side had a pool of water; only this one was blue. It looked less ethereal than the blue side, but none the less pretty. It stood in stark contrast to the darkened yin side.
Splitting the circle through the middle and in the shape of the yin-yang symbol was a small creek, just like the one he was just at. He closed his eyes and breathed in the fresh scent of autumn and the cool breeze of a summer night. There was a massive tree right in the middle; one half was blue-themed and the other half was gold, and that was when Rin spied two figures sitting in it. One was a beautiful lady with teal blue eyes -just like his brother's- and dark brown hair, staring at him with a shocked expression. The man sitting next to her had long white hair and icy blue eyes that seemed to burn with a fierce flame. He seemed less shocked at Rin's appearance and more so that he was in the strange tree in the strange clearing.
"Who are you?" Rin and the lady asked at the same time, pointing accusingly, and they both looked away with red dusting their cheeks in embarrassment.
The white-haired man snorted in amusement, and looked down at Rin, "I feel like I know you from somewhere," He drummed his fingers on the tree branch thoughtfully, "Like I've met you before, but a long time ago."
Meanwhile, the woman gasped, "Rin?"
Rin looked up in shock and then frowned quickly, "Do I know you?"
She looked saddened, "No, you were too young," The woman sighed sadly, "You and Yukio were my sons."
"Wait, you mean-" Rin cut himself off by looking up at her with wide eyes.
"Yes," She smiled sadly, but it was warm, and Rin felt safe, "I am your mother."
"Wait, so let me get this straight," Rin sighed tiredly, "You're Egin Yuri, mine and Yukio's mother," Yuri nodded, smiling happily, "And you're my father, and you're Satan," Satan nodded regally, "And your spirits were dragged from wherever they were before to me when I looked into the golden fire."
"We think so," Yuri interjected, "We aren't positive."
"Okay… I believe you," Rin sat still for several seconds, and then suddenly stood up and flipped over the imaginary table that they were sitting at. An enraged fire burned in his eyes, "THAT'S BULLSHIT! Did you seriously expect me to believe that?!"
"Well, now that you think of it, it does sound pretty implausible," Satan mused thoughtfully, not at all phased by Rin's outburst, "Hmm…"
"But it's true!" Yuri cried, standing up as well, "I'm having trouble believing it too!"
"Not as much as I am!"
"No way!"
A fiery spark erupted between them and they seemed as if they were about to get into a fight when suddenly, a blaze of golden fire appeared. A being with black hair stumbled out unceremoniously but managed to catch himself. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Satan, but with golden eyes, and their auras were quite different. The new person had warmer features and seemed more approachable, while Satan appeared cold and dangerous.
Said cold and dangerous demon narrowed his eyes, "You," He snarled in barely suppressed rage, and launched himself with a shocking speed at the newcomer. The new guy's eyes widened and he just barely managed to dodge the attack, before firing a bout of golden flames at Satan.
"Wait, brother, let's talk about this peacefully!" His protests were ignored as blue flames were shot at him, and his hair was singed. Seeing that Satan would not be negotiating, his features hardened and he seemed to transform into a cold, battle-hardened warrior. They engaged in a fierce battle, and Rin and Yuri let their fists fall and watched with their jaws dropped at the godly fight occurring before their eyes.
Suddenly, Rin's eyes narrowed, and he felt rage boil up within his chest, "WHO THE FUCKING FUCK ARE YOU AND WHAT THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY FUCKING HEAD?!"
His shout actually managed to stop Satan and the newcomer in their battle, and they looked at him in unconcealed shock, "What?"
"I said," Rin snarled, "You are in my head, I don't know why, and I want you to either tell me who you are or get the hell out of here."
Satan, Yuri, and the other man all shuddered before sitting down in front of the rock. Rin climbed up on the rock (suddenly feeling like a god), "So, what's your name? And no killing!" He glared at Satan for the last part.
"I'm God," The man said nervously.
Satan did not try to kill him, and instead shuddered under the weight of Rin's fearsome glare, "Hell, kid, you're even more terrifying than your mom when you're mad."
"I know," He said dismissively with a wave, not even acknowledging the comment, "What are you doing here?"
"I sent a goblet of holyfire down to earth to choose someone that would make a suitable vessel so that I could pure Assiah of demons and lock the Gehenna Gate," God gulped, "It apparently chose you, but instead of just outright possessing you, it dragged the souls of the Gehenna Shugoshin and Assiah Shugoshin to your body to maintain the equilibrium."
"A Shugoshin is a guardian deity?" All three nodded, "What are you?"
"I am the Shamayim Shugoshin," God said.
"And Satan is your brother?"
"He is not-" Satan was cut off by a vicious glare from Rin, "Yes, he is my brother."
"So shouldn't Yuri be the sister?" At their confused expressions, he said, "You said she was the guardian of Assiah."
"Yes, but Yuri-nee-chan is not in her true form," God explained.
"Can you reveal your true form to me?"
Yuri nodded hesitantly and began to transform. Her dark brown hair turned black with white streaks, and her eyes were blue with a burst of gold in the center. Other than that, there was literally nothing different about her. Rin sighed wearily, like an old man that had had far too much excitement for one day, "Well, I'm going home. We'll talk later."
Somehow knowing how to, Rin disappeared from his mindscape and awakened back into the real world. Disoriented, he almost dropped the goblet in his hands. He stared. Now it was a constant battle of cyan blue and bright gold flames. The teenager sighed and wrapped it up in his jacket (the flames did not seem to be able to burn anything) before heading homeward.
It had been a really long day.
Meanwhile, Fujimoto Shirō unlocked the case which held the Koma Sword, an ancient demon-slaying sword that sealed away the demonic power of Okumura Rin. He looked at the tiny flames leaking from the blade and was extremely confused. Instead of blue, like Satan's flames, they were a constant clash between blue and gold; a vicious tye-dye. He stared for a while, uncertain, and then left the room to go search for Rin. He would have to have a word with Pheles Mephisto, who knew more about demonic nature than any other exorcist, being a demon himself. Shirō sighed. Something had clearly happened, and for once, he had not the knowledge of what it was.
So, let me know what you think! By the way, Rin is thirteen years old in this fic. Please review!
