It had been a prolonged week since rin had defeated satan for a second time. The snow still stuck to the ground and the moon still hung in the sky. Rin glanced at his clock, letting his eyes rest from the amount of bookwork yukio was still giving him. One o'clock it read. Rin knew that he had been up late plenty of times before but doing such frivolous homework for hours on end, just wore him out.
"ugh. Dude do i really have to keep working on this? I'm not even half way done!" rin exclaimed.
"yes rin. If you want to become a paladin then you must do bookwork just like anyone else." explained yukio
Kuro stretched and climbed up into rin's lap. Rin removed his glasses and the clip in his hair and ruffeled his hair. He rubbed his forehead to try and quell his incessant headache. The door to thier dorm flung open. Shiemi stood thier with her kimono stained with deep red blood and she was up to her elbows in the iron-rich liquid.
"shiemi! Are you alright?!" said the brothers simultaneously, rin rising from his chair.
"a girl! Outside... Hurt really bad... Too heavy" she said trying to catch her breath. Yukio's eyes widened as he reflexively grabbed the first aid kit. The girl was at the footsteps of shiemi's garden. Covered now with a light sheet of snow. The girl looked like she was asleep. Blood littered the snow around her and some of the flowers near her. Yukio lifted her from the snow her body heavily bleeding from what seemed like everywhere. Snow fell from her ankle length long white hair. Yukio brought the girl within the cozy confines of shiemi's house. Shiemi ran to the front of her house to retrieve stronger medicines than her familiar had available. Rin just stood watching the girl and glancing back at yukio for any conformations of life left in the heap of flesh.
A long moment passed with yukio's ear placed over the girl's heart. His eyes widened. "rin, go get all the bankets in this house and any extra from the dorm. Quickly!" rin's feet moved instantaneously, leading him blindly to closets and bedrooms. When rin came back with ten blankets, shemi had already put several blue tinted leaves on the girls wounds. Yukio was washing the excess blood-now dry- from the girls body and around her wounds.
"what happened to her?" asked rin, still numb from the situation before him.
"she was stabbed" said yukio.
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Every nerve in my body seemed to ache and burn with crippling pain. I opened my eyes for what it seemed like the first time. The intensity of the light only made my eyes ache more. My hearing came back a little after that. I heard a door slide open, the sound was louder than i expected and sent a wave of pain through my system.
" good morning. Thank God you made it through the night." said a cheery voice of a girl with short blonde hair. Still in a daze i flung myself so i could sit up, my elbow quite wobbly as i did.
"oh. Please take it easy on yourself! When we found you you were covered in stab wounds and blood. You mustn't reopen your wounds." said the girl frantically.
"we?" i asked her.
" yes, yukio and rin and i, we found you unconscious in the snow. Were you attacked?"
" i can't remember" i can remember but just bits and pieces. I remember i had seen it for the first time in beautiful place, my home. I remember a man i had never met before caught me. He must've gotten word from the Vatican about me. Although i don't see what is wrong with me.
"oh you poor thing! You must have gotten amnesia, gosh was it really that horrific?" i paid no attention to the girl now. She leaned over to me and whispered in my ear.
"did a demon attack you?" i don't know what kind of feeling it was but it was a mixture of stupidity and outrageousness. I laughed immediately.
"no i don't think it was a demon." i said finally calming down.
" i see you are feeling better." said a boy whom i never noticed walk into the room. He had glasses and a black jacket with a pin that was vaguely familiar. Another boy waltzed in, this boy was different i could tell. The blue tint to his hair, the protruding teeth, the ever so slightly pointed ears. This boy was a half breed. A black cat followed daintily behind the blue-haired boy and the cat starred at me for a long moment.
"you okay Kuro?" asked the blue haired boy.
"lili! Oh my gosh lili! I have only heard stories about you from my great great grandpa. I thought they were just legends from long ago. But you are here! I can't believe it! rin it's lili! It's lili!" exclaimed the twin tailed cat as he pounced on me with great excitement.
"lili?" asked rin.
"yep. That's my name." i said stroking kuro's head as he seated himself gleefully in my lap.
"kuro said something about legends?" questioned the brown haired boy with the pin.
" yeah, what of it?" i said a bit of boasting in my tone.
" you wouldn't happen to be a demon would you?" the boy prodded.
" yes, aren't you also one?" i prodded back.
The boy looked shocked and a little hurt. Great there you go lil already hurting people when you first meet them. I gently removed kuro from my lap and he, in return, gave a me a disappointed whine. I straightened up and rose with just as much mobility as my wounds could allow me. My hair cascaded with the slow rickety movements i made.
" i am no threat to you boys. I am just a passerby. I don't intend to hurt anyone anymore." i said. i probably shocked them all with being so upfront about myself.
I hobbled my way out of the room. When rin grabbed my sleeve. I turned my head to look at him when he spoke.
" we aren't going to shun you. You can stay. And by the look of your wounds... It looks like you are going to have to stay here for a little while." he ended with a warm smile that made me want to either cry or puke. Kuro exclaimed with glee and shouted my name as he lept into my arms.
