Disclaimer: Ao no Exorcist isn't mine. I'm just borrowing it for a bit.
So this story starts during the Exorcist Exam arc, just prior to Rin and Yukio being assigned to go and look for Shura.
Chapter One:
"He needs you."
The voice on the other end of the phone sighed. "Do you not challenge him enough?"
"Ya, but with you, he's different." Shura continued. "He's not as, how do you say, a stick in the mud."
There was a snicker and a brief snort, followed by another sigh. "Shura, I'm just not sure."
"There's more…"
Yukio Okumura slowly and painfully sat up in his bed. Even moving slower, so that he didn't elicit any more pain from his ribs, he reached for his glasses on his bedside table so that he could see what time it was on his watch that was still upon his
wrist.
5 am.
Wrapping his arm around his bruised and cracked ribs, he slowly got to his feet and made his way to the bathroom, trying not to wake his sleeping twin brother. He knew that if Rin saw the state that he was in, then too many questions would be raised.
Questions that he still did not have the answers to.
'Why couldn't things be simpler?' he thought to himself, as he stiffly moved into the warm spray of the shower as he slowly set about getting himself ready for the day.
Instead of worrying about the pain of his ribs and the issue with his eyes – even the deadline of becoming an exorcist that Rin was facing – Yukio allowed his mind to wonder to the brief moments in his life when things were simple as the water flowed
down his back, somewhat soothing his aching ribs.
The simple moments of his childhood when the demons weren't around and he could actually be a child with his twin.
When the man he considered his father was still alive.
When he and Rin lived with their father at the monastery with the others they called family.
Those were just a few of the moments that came to mind. Yet then there were other moments as well…the moments that dealt with Addie were the simplest. There weren't many that did not deal with their training or early missions, but those simple moments
were all the more precious to him.
God, where had the Vatican assigned her once she had passed her exorcist training? No telling with the skill set that she possessed.
Damn.
He could really use someone else to talk to beside those who were here at the Academy.
The next few hours painfully dragged by.
Once Yukio had finished his early morning shower, he had gotten dressed for the school day and left the dorm before Rin had woken up. He decided that he would catch up on some of the studying that he had been slacking on. He couldn't let his grades slip
and loose his scholarship.
Sure he had exorcism to fall back on, but that was not what he wanted to do with his life. He still had dreams of becoming a doctor – a real doctor – to help people, not just ones who had been attacked by demons. But for now he would do what he needed
to do to survive and to help his brother survive.
In his jumbled mess of thoughts, Yukio some how had managed to subconsciously find his way to his lockerwithin the semi-deserted halls of True Cross Academy. He sighed as he opened his locker to place a few items in it that he would need later in
the day, including the lunch that Rin had prepared for really needed to get focused once again on what was first and foremost in his life – making sure that Rin was safe and that his brother became an exorcist like he was.
'What's this?' he thought to himself as he felt a note of some kind in his locker as he set his books inside.
Pulling out the note, he immediately recognized the handwriting – Mephisto Pheles. Arching an eyebrow slightly, he opened the note and read what the chairman of True Cross Academy had written him about.
~Yukio,
As class representative, it is your job to welcome new students to True Cross Academy and make them feel at home. A new student is starting in the advanced freshman classes this morning. Please meet them at 8 am at the bottom of the stairs in the main entrance hall to provide a tour prior to classes.
~Mephisto
Yukio sighed as he lifted his glasses from his tired eyes and rubbed them. Just another thing to add to his list and the day had just begun. He then noticed that there was a second piece of paper and Mephisto had written something there as well.
style="text-align:center;"Also the exwires will begin their training with shields today. Their new instructor will arrive prior to class.
Sighing once again, he set the letter into the locker and shut it. no use in studying now since it was almost 7:30 am. And with the pace he was moving, he was going to need all that time just to make it to the main entrance hallway to find whoever
he was going to need to show around.
By the time he had made it to the main entrance hallway, there were a few more students milling around. Yet none of them seemed out of place. After a moment glancing around the hall, he noticed a young woman sitting on a bench. And it looked to be
like she was looking around the hall for someone.
Perhaps this was who he was sent to meet.
As he began to move across the vast hall towards the young woman, he took in her details. She was small in stature with lithe frame with straight light brown hair that fell just past her shoulders. And she was probably about the height of Shiemi from
what he could tell by her sitting on the bench.
It was then that the young woman took notice of Yukio walking towards her and smiled at him. Yukio stopped dead in his tracks as her bright blue eyes met his teal ones. The young woman stood up from the bench and began to walk towards him with her
book bag in her hand, yet Yukio found that his feet were cemented to the ground.
Were his eyes playing tricks on him? There was no possible way that she could be the new student here.
Simply no way possible.
His eyes flickered down to her hands. There he spotted silver infinity twist ring that he had gotten for her last birthday still resting in the same place that he had placed it almost a year ago.
This had to be an evil and twisted joke. But there was one way to find out.
Just as she was within arms reach of him, Yukio reached out and pulled Adelyne Gabar into his arms and kissed her deeply on the lips.
AN: So what did you think? Let me know! I have many twists and turns planned. Why do you think that I titled it 'Complications'.
Bye for now!