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Name: Noriko Hitomi
Description: She has gray hair. Eyes are silver, scar on her right cheek and 5'7. She has tattoo wings on her back to serve as a seal to her angel wings, and she has small tattoo's on her wrist to keep her powers in check and to keep her somewhat hidden from demons.
Personality: She is really outgoing once you get to know her, but while the characters don't know her, she has a lone wolf personality. Shy in the beginning but starts to open up during the story.
Background: Both her parents were exorcist's at the academy, but the father was an Angel that wanted to help others and joined Mephisto Pheles exorcists in defeating demons. The father and the mother were great friends with the headmaster and they asked them to take care of their daughter if anything were to happen to them. The mom and dad became a family and started to teach their daughter under secrecy about everything they knew at the age of 7; so she is pretty ahead when she enters the academy. They knew that Noriko would have to defend herself if she were in any type of trouble, since she was half human, half angel.
Powers: Fast healing, and can heal others. Incredible strength. Fast runner and learner. Great power when using any type of exorcist spells.
Chapter One
On a quiet morning in a small town of Japan, a mom and dad were decorating the house for their daughter who has graduated high school and getting ready to go off to college. The mother sat on the couch, looking through old photos of her family in her scrap book and started to tear up.
"It's amazing how fast they grow up... I just wish it wasn't so fast", said the mother.
The father who was hanging up the sign that said 'Congratulations!', paused and looked at his wife, "I know, but every parent deals with this. We are not the only ones whose little birdy is leaving the nest". He walked over to his wife and sat down next to her. Looking at a photo of their little girl dancing in their backyard brought back memories that put smiles on their faces.
" I remember this day. She was in the ballerina phase and would dance around everywhere she went", said the mother who was wiping away tears with a kleenex.
"Haha, ya. Oh, remember this! She was so happy when she found that seashell on the beach and thought she could hear mermaids speaking to her", the father said while pointing to the little girl in the photo who had a seashell up to her ear and smiling to her hearts content.
They looked at each other and smiled.
"We raised a beautiful child, didn't we?", asked the mother.
"Ya. Speaking of our daughter, is she still asleep?", asked the father while he looked upstairs towards his daughter's room.
"Let's go wake her up. She doesn't want to be late for the graduation ceremony", said the mother as she closed the book and set it on the coffee table. They silently walked up the stairs and creaked open their daughters door to see her asleep. The father put a finger to his lips towards his wife to be silent. He creeped up to the bed and yelled, "The house is on fire!".
Noriko jumped and saw that her father was on the floor laughing at his daughters expression. She growled and threw one of her pillows towards his head, which hit on the spot.
"Dad... Payback's a bitch!", she growled as she moved her long gray hair out of her face and into a high ponytail.
"I'm sorry honey, but your face was priceless!", said the dad as he continued to laugh on her bedroom floor.
Noriko looked towards her mother in a plea to get him out. She didn't like any type of loud noises in the morning, and so far, her day was pretty bad.
"Come on honey, let her get dressed. I'm making you your favorite breakfast so you better get dressed pretty fast if you want it nice and hot", the mom said as she was helping her husband off the ground and out of her daughters room.
"Thanks mom", Noriko said in a groggy voice.
Once the door was shut, Noriko layed back down on her bed and sighed.
'Can't wait till this ceremony is done with. All I want to do, is enjoy my bed and the sleep that comes with it', she thought.
Finally after 5 minutes, she finally decided to get ready. Once she was done with getting ready, she walked downstairs to see that her parents had finished decorating the place. She smiled when she saw the sign that congratulated her and walked to the kitchen to smell the frying of hash browns, her mouth watered when she saw the scrambled eggs and blueberry pancakes sitting on the counter. Then she felt big arms wrap around her and spin her around.
"My baby is all grown up!", said her father once he was done making her dizzy.
"Honey! You are going to make her sick before she even eats!", yelled the mother as she smacked him on the shoulder with a wooden spatula.
Noriko smiled and got a plate out and served herself. Once the family meal was done, Noriko looked at the clock and told her parents that they should probably leave if they wanted good seats. Driving to the location where the ceremony was held took them about an hour, since they lived in the suburbs of Japan and not in the local area of the school, it took them longer to get anywhere. To Noriko's wishes, the ceremony was over and the students cried and took photos. She never really had any friends since they all saw her as a freak because of her hair color and how quiet she was. Her family went to a restaurant and celebrated with other parts of the family. Her mom's side of the family was a good amount, only her uncle, aunt, their two kids, her grandparents and her parents were at the restaurant.
Once the whole thing was over and they had arrived back home, Noriko went to the bathroom and cleaned off the makeup she had on all day and wore more comfortable cloths. Deciding that she wanted to hang out with the family more, she went down stairs and saw her parents watching TV. Noriko jumped over the couch and plopped on the cushions.
"Honey, don't do that! You are going to ruin the couch", her mom said while looking up from her magazine.
Noriko shrugged it off and watched whatever her dad was watching. Once it hit around 11, they all decided to go to bed. Noriko sighed as her body hit her soft bed and hugged her pillows for comfort. 'Hello bed, you and I are going to be best buds until college starts' she thought as she drifted off into sleep.
Noriko woke up to hear the loud noise of glass breaking and gun fire from her parent's bedroom. With caution, she quietly grabbed the gun that was under her bed and put a silencer on the barrel. She quickly, and silently, ran to her closet and opened the door. Inside was a hidden door behind her cloths that would protector if anyone were to come. But this hidden passage also went to her parents closet, just incase this type of scenario were to occur. Both of her parents were exorcist at the True Cross Academy, and since she was half angel, half human, a lot of demons were to come after her and her father for what they were.
As a precaution, they taught her everything from shooting a gun, to summoning a familiar. And at the age of 16, she herself could easily be an exorcist at the True Cross Academy like her parents were before they had retired to take care of her. Her parents wanted her to have a normal life, but knew that would never happen, so teaching her early was their best option. Noriko grew up with a target on the back of her head because of her parents, and that wasn't going to stop her from acting like a normal student.
True it was hard growing up in that type of situation every single day and night of your life where demons were looking for you and wanting to kill you, and Noriko didn't want to look at it as a setback, but to look at it as an advantage to making her a stronger person; which brings us to now.
Noriko slowly made her way through the passage, holding the gun steadily to her side and keeping her breathing quiet. As she made her way closer, she could hear her parents talking to whoever it was that dared come into this house.
"If you don't give me what I want right now, I will wake your daughter up and kill her parents right before her eyes, and we don't want that now do we?", asked the man with a deep voice.
As she got closer to the other door, she slowly and quietly got on the floor and opened the small door. There she saw her parents in bed with shocked expressions, and the intruder at the foot of the bed. He was surrounded by hundreds of coal tars and had small amounts of blue flames covering parts of his body. The horns on his head and the tail wiggling around showed that this was a pretty high up demon, but that wouldn't stop her. She took an aim for the head and shot.
The coal tars freaked out and fled the room through the open window while the body hit the floor. Noriko quickly got out of her hiding spot to see her parents grabbing their exorcist equipment.
"Great shot Noriko! Now quickly, we need to go to-", her father's sentence was cut off when he saw the body get up.
"Noriko, you need to get out of here now! Who knows how many more are going to come!", her mother said anxiously as she was getting her familiar ready as well as spells.
"No way! You guy's taught me-", Noriko said before she was interrupted by her father.
"We know! But this is bigger than we can handle, and you are what they are coming after. And they are coming in armies. Here", he said while gathering his guns, he wrote down the address to the academy and handed it to her shaking hands, "Go to this address and ask for Mephisto Pheles, say you are the daughter of the angel and he will understand everything. We need you safe and this is the only place where you will be."
Noriko looked in her fathers eyes and saw that they were not going to come out of this alive, even with her fathers angelic powers that he still possessed. She looked at her mother and saw she got dressed in her exorcist clothing and was writing down a spell.
A loud roar came from outside and her father ran to the window, "They're coming, and a lot of them. Noriko", he looked at his daughter and brought her to his strong arms, and he was shaking as well; he knew this day would come. Her mother joined in on the hug and started to tear up, "We love you so much, just know that.", Noriko looked at her parents and saw the same horror in their eyes that she was feeling. Her father put a hand on Noriko's head and the other on his wife's, he said a prayer for protection in angelic language. His hands lit up and the feeling of warmth and love spread through Noriko and her mom. They hugged one more time and Noriko whispered, "I love you guys", and with that, she ran out of the room and down to the basement where there hid a secret door to the forest that was a mile from her house. She opened the creaky metal door and activated the spell that was on the wall for protection.
She ran and ran, but stopped when she felt an earthquake and a loud noise that sounded like an explosion, debris from the tunnel fell onto her and filled the place with dusty air. Noriko's knees buckled and went out, tears filled her eyes and sobs escaped her lips. They were gone. Her parents that she thought would outlive her were gone, just like that.
She laid on the cold earth for what seemed like a month, when she finally decided that her parents wouldn't want to see her like this, she was stronger than that. She got up and brushed the dirt off her clothes and face, and continued to run, the cold earth hitting her bare feet as she went.
Once she got to the exit, she released the seal and opened up to fresh air hitting her face. Noriko climbed out of the passage and closed the gate behind her. Looking up, she saw that her house was engulfed in blue flames. She gasped and dropped her gun and fell to her knees again. It took her a minute to take it all in before she heard a noise coming from the forest behind her. She quickly grabbed her gun and aimed it towards the noise. Her breathing was unsteady and her hands were shaking, fearing that whatever killed her parents is right behind the dark trees. She let off a warning shot in the air and heard nothing after. Noriko cautiously walked towards the location of town, looking back to make sure she wasn't being followed. She was lucky that it was the beginning of summer and the nights were in the seventies, wearing only a baggy t-shirt and short shorts made the small breeze feel like air conditioning to her.
She entered town about an hour later, sweaty and tired, looking at the deserted stores she felt like she was all alone. Brushing off that feeling, she walked towards the train station and saw that there was a old man behind the counter. She walked towards him and knocked on the glass. The old man violently woke up and blinked a few times to readjust his vision.
"How can I help you?", he asked in a tired voice.
"How do I get to True Cross Academy?"
"The next train to Tokyo comes in about a half hour. Take that and good luck."
Noriko nodded and sat down on a bench. She was the only one at the station besides the old man she just talked to. Once the train arrived, she hid the gun in the back of her pajama pants and walked in to see no one around. Noriko sighed and planted herself on a seat. She pulled out the paper of the school address and stared at it. Out of anger, she crumpled it up and threw it across the train, only to hit the window and slowly hit the floor. She memorized the address so she didn't need it anymore, looking out towards the night sky, she sighed and started to tear up. Noriko let out a small cry of frustration and wiped her tears away.
Once she finally arrived at the main town, she saw that it was just 4am and people were starting to pile up in the train. She got the most dirtiest looks because she was only in her pajamas, had no shoes on, and looked like a total wreck. Noriko walked out of the train and walked up to customer service, hoping that this person will be a lot more helpful than the last guy.
"Um...excuse me", she asked politely, and saw an older gentleman with a smile on his face. Once he saw her, that smile vanished and turned into a scowl.
"What do you want?", he asked in disgust.
"How do I get to True Cross Academy?", she asked in the politest way she could.
The man looked at her and laughed, "They accept trash now!? Wow!"
Noriko stepped back in shock that he would laugh in her face, with all that's she's been through, she wanted answers, now. She glared at him and said, "Look you old fart, I've had the roughest night of my life and already delt with an ass hole like you back at my home town. Now if you don't give me answers, I will rip your tongue out and shove it where the sun don't shine. Comprehend?", she asked as she gave him her death glare.
He quickly shut up once he saw that she wasn't joking and told her the directions. From what she understood, it was going to take her about two days to get to the school, with it being very popular but very far away didn't give her anymore hope. Noriko looked around and saw that this place was going to be a madhouse soon and didn't want to be near it. She walked out of the station and looked up at the sky, only to see high buildings and planes in the sky. Noriko sighed and started to walk around, at this point, she didn't care about the looks that she got and ignored the pain in her feet.
She didn't know how far she walked because she was starting to hit small neighborhoods and playgrounds. Looking around, she saw a church and some priest tending to the garden. They looked at her and smiled. Noriko smiled back and was about to walk away when all of a sudden she felt a hand on her shoulder. She grabbed hold of the hand and spun around until the man was on the ground and she was bending his arm in a painful lock. When she saw the man, she quickly let go. He was a priest at the monastery across the street. The other priest saw this and quickly ran to the man's side and helped him up.
"I'm so sorry!", Noriko said while she was on the ground bowing for forgiveness. To her surprise, she heard giggling from the priests. Looking up, they were kneeling down and looking at her in a strange way. They helped her up and one of them said, "It's alright, it was a natural reflex to you and I shouldn't have scared you like I did. Please come with me and the others, it looks like you need some help."
Noriko smiled and accepted the offer, "Thank you so much!, but I shouldn't, I feel like I'm trespassing."
The priests looked at her like she had grown two heads, "Nonsense! Please, let us help you."
Noriko looked at them and gave up and accepted their offer. As they took her towards the monastery, she saw that it was also connected to a house on the side. They lead her to the house and up the stairs to the bathroom.
"Use the shower, clean towels are on the rack. There are essentials in the medicine cabinet if you need any. We will look to see if we have any extra cloths lying around that will fit you", said one of the priests.
Noriko bowed and closed the door once they left. The shower felt like heaven to her, being able to scrub off the dirt and sweat and God knows what else. After she was done she dried herself off and there was a knock on the door. Quickly covering up, a man's voice said that they had found some cloths and put them in front of the door and left. Once he left, she quickly grabbed the clothes and saw that they were boy clothing. Getting dressed in boys clothing was different for her, but she enjoyed any type of clean cloths on her body right now. Brushing her teeth and coming out the tangles in her hair never felt better. Once she was all done, she neatly put what she used in a pile and grabbed her gun from the counter and put it behind her back and let it hang from the pants she wore, covering it up with the baggy t-shirt. Letting her hair air dry, she walked out feeling refreshed and a new person.
The priest that she took down was sitting at a table and drinking tea. When he noticed she was done, he smiled and gestured for her to sit, which she did.
"Tea?", he asked.
"Please", Noriko said with a sense of clarity.
She watched as the tea was being poured in the cup that she didn't even hear what the priest asked.
"I'm sorry?", she asked politely.
"Hehe, I asked where did you come from and how did you get here? You looked absolutely terrible, what's your story?", the man asked.
Noriko sighed and told him what had happened, she felt like she could trust him for an odd reason, like he has been through something like this.
"And now here we are.", she said with relief that she didn't have to talk so much.
He nodded and said, "Well, you would be surprised but we went through something like that about a year ago. Oh! Where are my manners? I'm Nagatomo, and you are?", he asked while holding out his hand.
"Noriko Hitomi. And I can't be more grateful that you took me in on such short notice.", she said while shaking his hand. He smiled and got up from his seat.
"Follow me, I want to show you something that will peak your interest." Noriko followed Nagatomo to a hallway with many pictures of two little boys and an old man. Noriko smiled at the photos while it painfully reminded her of her family.
"Shiro Fujimoto, Rin Okumura and Yukio Okumura. The man you see there was the pretty much the boss here, and the two boys were his adoptive sons. A lot of memories in this place." , he said while looking at the same picture that Noriko was looking at. Noriko looked at him when he mentioned the name Fujimoto.
"Fujimoto... Sounds so familiar and I don't know why.", Noriko said as she looked down at the floor trying to look back into her memories to find any mention of that same name.
"Ya, we really miss them. He passed away and the two boys are off at school.", he said.
Noriko got a sense like he wanted to tell her something.
"And, if I may ask, where do they tend to school?", she asked.
He smiled and said, "True Cross Academy."