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"Rin!" – Human Speech

'Rin!' – Human Thought

"Rin!" – Demon Speech

'Rin!' – Demon Thought

Deadshot of Demons

A Gift From An Old Man, An Invitation From a Clown

In a dark room, lit only by the moonlight at midnight, a man was not asleep. He was just sitting on a neatly made bed that had a couple of suitcases on, filled to the brim but were zipped in perfectly. The rest of the room seemed to be empty and dead, bland and with no life or memories of it being used as a personal bedroom. And this man looked to be sixteen years old with a gun in his hand.

"Well I guess that it is time. Time to leave the only place I called home and become what Father was in his lifetime. Dammit, why did he have to die in front of me and from the mouth of this gun!?" The man shouted, which miraculously didn't wake anyone outside the bedroom.

There was a cloud in the night sky that dimmed the moonlight so that the man was still shrouded in shadow. But that cloud soon moved to give a revealing light to this young man. His name was Rin Okumura, adoptive son of the owner of the church that the bedroom is located in.

Rin has messy, dark blue hair that sweeps down in his pale skin and intense blue eyes. Since using a treasured sword named Kurikara for the first time, Rin began exhibiting a number of physical traits that hint at a demonic nature in his human form such as prominent canine teeth, slightly pointed ears, and a black; fur-tufted tail just above his hips.

Rin's wardrobe consisted of a simple blue hoodie over a pink T-shirt and a pair of black jeans with chains on the side, giving the impression of a rebellious nature. He was also seen wearing a white jacket with big pockets and various decorations on it and a fingerless pair of black gloves.

And as for the gun that he was holding and claimed to use on 'Father', it was a black one that had the shape of a revolver type of gun. A revolver that can store up to ten slots to fit bullets and then fire from that slot, with the next one automatically shifted to the barrel. As the revolver can hold ten bullets, it was rather larger than usual revolvers and it look significantly heavier too.

"Who would have thought that this damm thing took away what I treasure as much as my home and family but also give away to a chance at being something better than that bastard's son." Rin spoke to himself still. And said not another word that night, before going to sleep on top the neat sheets.

XXXXX

The Past,

"Where is that boy!?"

"Yeah it is almost dinner time and we need him to cook!"

The church, where a pair of twins were being taken care of, was bursting with similar cries and complaints from the staff and other residents. It was strange for adults to ask of a boy that was three times young than they were to cook their meals; but Rin was no ordinary boy and his cooking was something out of this world.

"I am sure that if you were a little more understanding of what happened when you two idiots sent him to that nursey to get him out of your hair." The two complainers turned slower than a robot in a painful attempt to see the glare that was staring them down, like a cat to exposed field mice.

"F-father Shiro, w-we d-didn't m-m-mean it!" The first one of the church residents complaining stammered at the glance of the owner and head of the church.

"I don't want to hear it." Shiro said that shut them both up.

Father Shiro is a tall slender man with average build. Shiro would appear younger if not for his light gray hair and aged facial features but overall he seemed like he could pass for man in his mid to late thirties. Along with his hair which he wears in a messy fashion, Shiro also has a goatee and some stubble along his lower chin and upper lip. Shiro always wore a pair of glasses with the chain adorned with beads & a cross. The most notable feature Shiro possesses is the cross like scar on his forehead. Shiro also sometimes wears a happy look on his face but when the time comes he can become quite serious.

"And never mind finding him, I will get Rin and you two just tell everyone that dinner will late or else it will take out on you two. Better have some money saved up rather than spent on wine outside your duties." Shiro said in a clean and clear threat that made both of the idiots nod before hurrying to tell the news. Meanwhile, Shiro turned to the courtyard behind the church; something out there made him smile and leave the room that had an open window facing the back.

Out in the courtyard, there were empty wooden crates with cans from the trash bins stacked on top. Then every single one of the cans were knocked out with a rock that was picked off the streets. And each of these cans had a rock hitting the bullseye, right in the center of the front. "Alright!"

Apparently, it was a little boy sending the rocks to the cans. And with a plain red slingshot that looked rather well maintained even after being used recently. And the little boy was Rin Okumura when he was about five to six years old. He was wearing a plain white shirt and blue shorts that had dirt in patches. And his bare hands were covered in bruises from some sort of fight while his feet wore sandals that were as dirty as the rest of his wardrobe.

"I got them all without missing one! I am getting good! I can definitely play those games with the other kids now!" Rin bounced in excitement so he never noticed that he had an audience until that man in question came up behind.

"What game Rin?" The said boy nearly screamed in fright before turning to see Shiro standing over him.

"Oh! Dad, I didn't see you there!" Rin said, calmed down a slight margin. Shiro may have been his adopted father but he was still scary, especially when Rin got into trouble again; whenever he caused it or not. "There was this game to hit the most cans so they will get a cholate bar from the nursery owner! I hit most of them while the other kids only got a lot less. Then they started to say I cheated and I kind lost it again."

Shiro was puzzled. This was the first time Rin actually did a game with some kids and this time, trouble found Rin instead of otherwise. And Shiro saw nothing that is considered cheating when Rin knock off those ten empty cans. "Cheating huh? Sounds like the kids were just jealous."

"I thought so too but I thought it will rude to say something like that! So when the nursery owner came, I told her the game we were playing and that she will give the winner cholate bar, she then yelled and kicked me out!" Shiro saw that Rin was tearing up and said nothing, "She said that I was lying and just a menace! Just like all the ones before." Rin then feel to the ground, crying his eyes dry.

Shiro's stern deposition relaxed into something of a mother listening to how her child got dirty and hurt in a fight. Shiro then grasped Rin into a hug that the poor boy returned while letting it all out; Shiro never liked his uniform so he won't complain about it getting wet from the tears. After a few moments, Shiro heard Rin settle down and even the tears were drying up.

"Always remember Rin. When you keep bad emotions to yourself, you will just break down. When you feel like that, go to someone you trust and let it all out. I know you will find such a person." Shiro said while Rin left the embrace while cleaning his face of tears.

"I-I will Dad! I will!" Rin showed no fear, no sadness and no pain anymore. He showed pure determination to make his adoptive father proud.

"Good, because I have a present for you on behalf of your bravery, trust and determination. All of those I rarely see in kids your age nowadays." Shiro said and chuckled at how Rin looked excited but kept his rather loud voice in while waiting to see the present. Shiro then took out a gun.

"What's this Dad? It's…really heavy. You carry this everywhere?" Rin then asked in pure curiosity that Shiro nodded to.

"It is a weapon Rin. It is an object that most respect while fear at the same time. But I know you that you will get both respect from your friends and fear from your enemies. Because a weapon is what the user wants to use it for." Shiro said and Rin tried to take it all in, with his very young and not fully developed mind yet.

"Then I want to use it for the right ways! I want to use it like you always tell you do!" Rin then shouted and Shiro wanted to know more.

"You want to use to chase and kill monsters? To become a killer like me? Why?" Shiro asked and Rin shook his head.

"You are not a killer, killers are bad people and you aren't a bad person Dad! You protect everyone with this! I want to do that someday!" Rin said and Shiro found the innocence and awe that only a child can muster, makes the church head remember how he used to be like that when he was Rin's age.

"Then that gun is yours. I have used it countless times, it has protected me as many times as I kept and maintained it. And now it is time for you to fill in that role and I am sure that the gun will protect you as well." Shiro said and Rin embraced his father once again, with tears not of sadness or pain but of joy and love. Two feelings that Rin thought he never feel around anyone other than his brother. But that belief will be tested in the years to come.

And so, Rin practiced his aim with the gift he got from his father. And every day, Rin got more and more used to using a gun which was a lot different from slingshot. For one thing, a gun was significantly heavier than a slingshot so Rin had to use both hands on the handle; he just needed one for the slingshot while the other reeled in the rocks with the rubber band.

Another thing Rin had to get adjusted to be the recoil effect that a gun caused when triggered. As a gun was heavier than a slingshot, it used heavier ammo that bullets are compared to nuts and rocks. Once a bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, it releases hot air in all directions but also a force matching the velocity of the bullet in the opposite direction.

As a child, Rin had to use both hands to hold up the gun and was always sent off his feet when triggered. But when he was a teenager, Rin was able to use the gun with a single hand and the recoil effect only made that same arm flinch a bit. With this, Rin was able to really get his aim right.

Speaking of which, Rin noticed that his aim was so excellent that he can hit his target with any type of standard ammo as well anything small and can easily fit in his hand. After mastering rubber, steel and iron bullets via BBs, Rin tried to use rocks and nuts again but with his bare hands and arms instead of a slingshot. Yet despite that shortcoming, Rin always hit his target even with his back facing the bullseyes he painted on spare blankets and bays of hay.

But he hadn't used rocks or nuts in his target practice when not using his gun, it was his set of knives made of silver. Unlike the unusual style of knives, these are more based of the curved blades that are used by the Arabic swordsmen's. And somehow, these silver knives can be used as boomerangs. That gave Rin all sorts of fun, knocking down self-made targets with this knives as boomerangs.

And as a bonus, with all his time spent to practice, there hasn't been an incident regarding Rin since. The boy always behaved during babysitting, no matter what the other kids do to get him riled up. Rin still came back home with bruises and cuts, not from brawls he fights but from the other children who lose their own temper. And while those kids were sent to their corners for ten minutes the most, the parents and nursery owners and teachers never take responsibility for Rin's injuries. They all blame Rin for simply being there that 'always cause kids to misbehave' and become bullies.

After five schools, eight nurseries and twenty babysitting incidents, the church decided to give up. They took care of everything that came to Rin, including his education. All the while, Rin had not told anyone about him practicing with a gun or knives. Shiro asked of the boy to keep a secret. And little boys are always excited about secrets, if only they could keep them to themselves.

But when Rin became Sixteen, he was too old to be home taught so he was asked to try and get a part-time job. And while Rin does get the work done, his over eagerness to work and the superhuman strength (which came at the day of puberty) always get him fired out of fear. Rin always comes home dejected and sad and shameful to face his brethren and his own family of what happened. The only place for Rin to feel happy was the backyard when the church was empty and quiet; and when it wasn't. Rin will just stay in his room between meals.

That is because his room was once filled with books. Books on firearms, guns specifically, that tell all the different types and how they worked. There was also the books on Exorcism. And they all were from Shiro.

Rin had gotten the biggest surprise of his life after finding out about his once quick temper, his uncanny accuracy with firearms and his superhuman strength; Father Shiro is an Exorcist! That meant that demons of all types, undead corpses and devils all exist! And Rin learned about this when he thought he saw a bizarre creature based of a monkey during his short employment at a local supermarket.

Shiro said that the world is filled with the supernatural. And only those who can see them, more than the dangerous effects, can become Exorcists. Rin was then told that his gun was made to shoot different bullets filled with holy herbs and other valuable substances against these creatures.

After hearing that his father was, and I quote, 'a very cool old man', Rin took to the books like a duck to water. In fact, between meals, reading was all he did. He even skipped practice for a couple of months just to keep reading the books from cover to cover until he remembered every single piece of info about exorcism. Of course, when he succeeded, Rin had to make up for losing days of practice and job experience; that day was one to remember once everyone saw Rin's face at that moment.

But all this will be put to a final test when Rin's personal sightings of demons suddenly increased from seeing black puffs everywhere in a mall hallway, moving corpses on a rooftop and even a possession of a boy that Rin knew barely from elementary school. Then came what happened the night when Rin's world came crashing down.

"Dad…" Rin said as he stared and stared at the sight of Father Shiro, with demonic features and covered in some kind of blue fire. The sight of the flames just rubbed Rin the wrong way for a reason the poor boy had no way of knowing.

"Yes Rin, I am your father." The body of Shiro was definitely possessed as a demonic voice came out of Shiro's mouth, it reminded how that possessed boy had gotten horns, spikes, superhuman strength and the personality of a demon when a devil took over his body and mind. That voice makes demons sound more like mice, it was a devil; it was Satan, the Fallen Angel!

Satan's true Demon form is something most don't live after seeing, but as he is possessing Shiro, he shows typical Demon features such as pointy ears, long nails and sharp canine teeth. The possessed version of Shiro also shows features similar to Rin's own Demonic form, these being the black tail with a blue flame at its end and blue flames covering the body.

"I'm a perfect entity with ultimate power, but there's one thing I lack. Do you know what it is? It's a substance in Assiah strong enough to contain me! Everything in this world that I touched is doomed for destruction!" (1) Satan laughed once again after shouting out what he sees himself as.

"Shut up Satan. I will rather call an old man's dead body as my father than you!" Rin, of course, hates his biological father already. After all, Satan did only one thing before meeting Rin; attack the boy's home city and his church, nearly killing an innocent boy and also everyone associated with Shiro. Anyone will hate Satan after all that,

"Oh? Can a dead man give you the warmth that I can before you die!?" Satan once again spoke and laughed through Shiro's body, causing Rin to growl slightly louder and even chip off a piece of tooth in his teeth grinding; it took all his willpower to ignore the pain. "Now since this body can't hold my wondrous power, I will cut to the chase by cutting these useless fingers!"

Rin almost roared to see Satan force Shiro's body to rip off all ten fingers, spilling blood everywhere! But before the poor boy could move to react, the blood from Shiro's hands suddenly moved in a supernatural way and then a blue portal of the same flames appeared! Rin was frighten by this and tried to move back for some space, but Satan won't let him.

"And you are not going to run away any more like your 'father' did with my own son! And to think that of my twins, you are the only one with my powers! What a waste on a pathetic half-demon trying to be human! You are son, you will never be human ever!" Satan laughed and dragged Rin over to the portal, the one that is named by the Devil himself as the Gehenna Gate. It was a doorway, a doorway to where Satan lives and plots against the almighty God.

But something went wrong and Satan cursed as his host suddenly halted and froze. "Sorry Satan, but as powerful as you will ever be, my bond to Rin will be stronger." Shiro said with his own voice, showing that he finally gained back some control of his body from Satan and instead throw Rin away from the Gehenna Gate. "Now Rin! While I hold Satan back, send him back where he came from!"

"But Dad, that means…!" Rin got up just in time to hear a command that was basically telling him…to kill Shiro. "No! I can save you! I will not let anyone get hurt or get killed for me!"

"Rin!" Shiro shouted. "All my gifts were given to you so you can find the answers you always wanted! And I am just an old man! The young world doesn't need someone like me dragging you or anyone down!" Rin just shook his head with tears,

"Bah!" Rin then heard the terrible and haunting voice of Satan again, only a lot angrier. "If you can't kill a mortal unarmed and helpless than I will need to break you back in my home! You can't escape your destiny as my weapon against those who wronged me! You are not my son, you are my successor and my weapon!"

As if Satan hoped that Rin will back down, it didn't work. Rin then smirked and got up to his feet. After a few moments, he dropped the belt that he always wore with only his gift from Shiro in his hand. Satan was confused until Rin spoke up, "You're right. I am a weapon. But not of your stupid and selfish ambition, but of my friends and my family that you want to destroy in your jealously!"

"Jealous? You think that I am jealous of my pathetic son and his even more pathetic twin who have a human mortal, a lying old man for a father!? I am Satan! I am above you and your worthless, useless emotions!" Satan yelled in a purely prideful protest while Rin's smirk never left.

"Without emotions, you would never feel in love with my mother and have us. Without emotions, you never will bother to fight. You never would bother with God. You will just be a demon no one will fear or respect, you will be nobody." Rin said while taking the bullet holder from his revolver, emptying it of all but one bullet.

"NO! I am Satan! All should fear me! I will not be a footnote, a figure in God's shadow! Everyone will know me! And you will make it all happen, whatever by force or not!" Satan shouted and tried to move his host's body but failed. "What!?"

"My son, not yours Satan, is actually smarter than you think. Than what everyone thinks. Even me." Shiro said as he successfully took control of his body again but resolved to prevent Satan from moving his.

"One pound of well-grounded white sage, four liters of A-density holy water, and 13 inched oak shaving. (2) All for the more powerful demons that are commonly associated with lower-class devils. It can't kill you, yet." Rin said then the bullet in question burst into blue flames that almost matched those of Satan.

"Rin, you…" Shiro muttered while Satan actually thought with the same words and tone.

"I know. I knew about this long before. But like you said, you are just an old man that will slow me down. And Satan doesn't need to know." Rin then before inserting the aflame bullet into his revolver, with the gun being damaged at all!

"Now then Satan." Rin said, "You once claimed emotions are worthless to you. But it was emotions that allowed to take the body of my real father. And it was emotions you clearly shown that you will never control Dad like a puppet. Your own power was used against you." Rin said while Satan growled,

'Boy, you dare…?'

"And now, you are going back to where you came from. With a…bang!" Rin said before triggering his revolver to launch the bullet, still engulfed with the blue flames that made up Satan's possession. And with Shiro's pure willpower and conscious preventing Satan from trying to dodge it, the bullet hit its mark.

All Rin remembers from the day was hearing the voice of Satan, not taunting or laughing but screaming. Screaming while the blue flames and demonic features that Shiro had all left the old man's body and was dragged into the Gehenna Gate. All Rin ever knew was that he had stopped Satan for now and fulfilled the wish of his old man but this was just the beginning.

XXXXX

In the Present Day,

The sun finally rose after the day of Father Shiro's death. Everyone who knew him were still silent and sad about it. Meanwhile, Rin went through a backpack that was stuffed with all sorts of charms, herbs and every other exorcist device that Shiro had taught him how to use.

"Holy Water, Clover Leaf, Shiver Shavings, White Oak…" Rin muttered a few for examples. "Yep, it is all here." Rin then sealed the last pocket of his backpack, placed it firmly by the straps on his shoulders and then went to his gun. The present from Shiro that made Rin happy, as happy as Rin was when he cooked. Rin made sure that he will clean it every day and make sure that even after a hundred years, it will still work.

On his belt were the silver blades/boomerangs that Rin plan to use on his path to be an Exorcist like Father Shiro once was. And while the knives were placed in the front and back of the belt, there were a couple of gun holders on each side. One for the gun that Shiro gave Rin and another that was for a larger and heavier gun; one that was more like a miniature cannon with a handle.

Once it was all placed in accordance to how Rin was taught to reequip, the time for waiting is over. It was now time to leave the church to become something more than the orphaned boy of Father Shiro; Rin is going to train and one day, become an Exorcist that will finish off the evil of Satan once and for all.

"Rin…" There was just this little something that hasn't been cleared up. It was Rin's more mature yet younger twin brother, Yukio Okumura. He looked more of a man than Rin and with a lot less demonic features; it was like he is fully human while Rin is half-demon. "Why do you have that gun and that sword?" Yukio never noticed that Rin's long clothed jacket perfectly covers the revolver from Shiro.

"I am going to the Exorcist Academy that our Old Man became an Exorcist from. If you want to come, go ahead but you can't stop me." Rin said, he really had no time for arguments with both suitcases in hand a backpack on his back.

"Stop you? I was told by the Exorcist Academy to be your caretaker. After all, I did graduate last month." Yukio said bluntly, think that his brother is going to explode.

"Get, my little brother is now my babysitter. At least you got to be a doctor that you always wanted." Rin said which surprised Yukio. "I was wondering why you've been for the past couple of years."

"You're not mad!?" Yukio shouted and Rin just sighed.

"Pipe down little brother, you will wake the entire city. At least show me your car so you can take me there if that clown from the graveyard is not coming like he said." Rin then walked over to the entrance of the church, leaving Yukio to wonder about the 'clown from the graveyard'.

But once Yukio caught up with Rin, the former saw what the latter meant. Rin was talking about, ironically, the principal of the Exorcist Academy, Mephisto Pheles.

Mephisto has dark purple hair and forest green eyes. He is also very tall, having a height of 195 cm (6'5"). He is usually seen in an elegant white outfit that consists of a white top hat with pink and purple around the base, purple gloves, a tie that is pink with white dots, a white suit-shirt and undershirt, jester-style pants, and pointed shoes. His appearance prompts Rin to refer to him as 'The Clown'. As the series progresses, he stops wearing the jester pants and pointed shoes, instead wearing white dress pants and black shoes.

"Hello Yukio~! As you can see, I already met your older brother~!" He spoke indeed like a clown while his escorts were as stoic as a stone statue.

"Hello Lord Mephisto! I was unaware that you were driving my brother to the Academy! I can just go by myself!" Yukio tried to clean up this mess that Rin always finds him in, causing it or not.

"Then I could just say 'no' and let you do the driving instead Yukio. It is either that or letting the clown take us." Rin said and before Yukio could try to silence him, Mephisto only laughed.

"That is guts in you older brother. We need guts in our school~!" Yukio couldn't believe that his older brother didn't upset Mephisto at all. "Keep it up and I might give you an early promotion once you show me these guts in the field. I will be waiting~!"

"Once I do find myself in the field, I will work to succeed and fight to win. That you can expect." Rin answered. "Now are we going or not?"

Yukio could only be nervous about all this while Mephisto smirked. "If you still are up for it, then come aboard and please forgive any inconvenience. I don't get much passengers."

End of Chapter 1.

*Hey Guys! I thought I will try a new story with an anime that is on Netflix Streaming! Please tell me what you think!

I thought to make this chapter more of a mix of the first three episodes. From here, I will be doing my chapters entirely on the next separate episode. Just thought I will make it clear to you all!

Another thing, as to why I have given this story the name 'Deadshot of Demons', it is because I am making Rin more than just a brash boy with a sword that cooks. I am giving him talents, skills and creatively of DC Comic's Deadshot. For those who are not familiar with the comic book supervillain, Floyd Lawton AKA 'Deadshot' is a deadly marksmen that can use anything as a weapon and with uncanny accuracy along with superhuman capabilities to fight when disarmed.

I am giving Rin all those powers in this fanfic. So hopefully this will answer some questions. Thank you for reading all this and enjoy this story!*

1. Sorry if I am copying a quote from the canon series but I felt like including it, word to word. I still don't own the original series so sorry about this.

2. I am still not hooked up on Exorcists measure out their supplies, herbs and holy materials. Please let me know what you will think Rin should use in his custom made bullets and I will try to incorporate into future chapters.