Disclaimer: I do not own Ao no Exorcist or its characters. Only Belial and her story are my own.

CHAPTER ICHI

She awoke in a panic! That dream again? She thought to herself. How many times does it make now? Honestly, I'm really getting sick of this. Once I kill 'him' it will all stop…and with that the girl rolled over onto her side and 'tried' to fall back asleep.

It was now 6 o-clock Monday morning. She never really slept all that much, never needed it. The girl was a very routine person, well she tried to be anyways but, your life isn't always perfect and normal when you can see demons. She could always see them, for as long as her memories stood. The girl heard a light tapping on her window while brushing her teeth, but it was ignored. The tapping proceeded, getting more and more annoying. She hated annoying things, almost as much as she hated getting irritated so damn easily. But never really trying to change herself, the girl stayed the same. This is how I was born, this is who I am, why should I change that?

*sigh* "alright, alright! What do you want?" the girl spoke casually opening the window. There stood two impish looking demons.

"Won't you come and play with us?" they asked with pleading eyes.

"Not today, I'm busy…besides, have we ever 'really' played together?" her face was un-amused. Yes, she could talk with demons too. She closed the window, sighed, and went on with her morning rituals. Remembering her planned mission for the day, she hurried and set off.

"True Cross Academy…where is it? I know it shouldn't be that hard to find the damn things huge." Looking around it was hard not to notice the people staring at her. Alright, thinking out loud in an unknown area = bad idea, make a mental note.

Finally, the girl made it to True Cross Academy. She was really smart and highly qualified in the exorcist field already but, being self-trained, wasn't recognized as an exorcist. Not really wanting to go to school but wanting the badge proving herself as an exorcist she decided to enroll. It didn't even really matter to her what rank she would be just so long as she had that badge. The girl figured it would be easy to wiz right through her classes and become a real exorcist in no time because she was skilled already. Unfortunately…being a middle school dropout and not having any money, at all, deemed slightly problematic. She was dirt poor. Her only option was to convince-force-the headmaster to let her in.

Without even knocking the headmaster, Johann Faust's door was opened. Slightly surprised but more annoyed, though he tried to hide that part, he sat quietly at his desk eating Ramen.

"May I help you?" he asked.

"Mr. Faust, I would like to go to school here…please let me attend the Cram School!"

The girl really didn't have any manners...smart as she may be, she was a moron…

"You're not a student already, then how did you get in here? More importantly, why should I allow you to attend my school?"

"Because, I need a badge, I need to become a real exorcist!"

"…oh!" he chuckled a little. "And why is it that you need to be an exorcist?" his gaze darkened a bit.

"uhm…well…" SHIT! I never thought about making an answer to that, why does he have to ask so many questions? Getting quite frazzled her reply was "it's….personal…" I'm such a dipshit! DX he's never going to let you in if you don't answer his questions you nimrod! She already knew just by looking at him that he was a demon, which made her a little uneasy, but it kept her on edge. She worked better under a little pressure.

"Well, lets say if I do let you in, how will you fair?" his gaze amused, burning into her flesh.

He's creepy…another mental note added to her mental list of notes.

"what do you mean?"

"How will you pay for it?"

-Silence-

"Do you have the GPA to enter?"

-Silence again-

"So you don't have money, you aren't smart, and you're secretive. Now why would I…" he was cut short by a gun being pointed at his head from across the room.

"Mr. Faust!" her voice more stern "Please, I'll work to pay off the debt, and I'm NOT stupid, I just never continued for…personal reasons."

He was obviously annoyed now. "You ask someone please while at the same time pointing a gun at their face, how does that seem right?" and with that he ran to her grabbing the arm which held the gun and raising it.

He's so fast!...how the…

"Let me GO!" the frustration splattered across her face.

"And for a second there I thought you were actually going to…" he was cut off again by dodging a bullet that barely missed his face. A simple drop of blood rolled down.

Where the hell did she pull that second gun from? I didn't even notice…

"I was going to shoot you! I'm sorry but I will do whatever it takes!"

"And you think shooting the headmaster is the way to get in? Silly girl, you don't have any idea who you're screwing with." Now he was angry, yet all the more interested in this human girl who wasn't afraid to mess with demons. He wiped the already dried blood off his face. "Alright miss human, who are your parents? If I'm going to let you into my school I'll need their permission."

"My parents…they died a lon. WAIT! Are you saying you're letting me in?"

"Perhaps, you entertain me, so I would like to see more of what you can do, as long as it doesn't involve me getting shot that is…"

"Ehh…s-sorry, sometimes I don't think before I act." She blushed a little from embarrassment while scratching the back of her head.

"So you're parents are dead eh?" something about her seemed familiar now, but what was it? "Then who is your guardian?"

"Don't have one; I've been on my own since I was 14 after I got kicked out of my 12th foster family."

"…"

"IT'S…IT'S Not like I was a bad kid or anything! I just, wasn't…I don't know." A gloom cloud formed around the girl, she was depressing herself at her loss of words.

"So no money, no brain, too many secrets; and no family…well then I guess I'll have to be your new guardian! I nominate myself" he boasted holding his hand to his chest.

There's something almost…gay about him…isn't there….no…what a weirdo B|and those clothes…what's up with them…I need to stop thinking…him as my guardian…I already don't like him. But if that will make him enroll me then whatever, I'll sign my death sentence. Anyways, I'll be 18 in a year so I could just leave him if he gets too annoying. I'll most likely be an exorcist by then anyways…ehhhhhhh….

Thinking was too much of a bother.

"Well, what should I call you then miss…?"

"Be…Bella..hehhehhhhh." a poker face…she lacked. Her natural self was too outspoken all the time to lie.

He knew "Bella" was obviously lying and terrible at it too. She just couldn't bring herself to tell him her real name.

"Alright…Bella…" putting more emphasis in saying her name. "You'll have to fill out an application, and I would like to know more about you. But other than that, welcome to the academy."

I did it! I actually got him to let me enroll! My dream is a step closer!

Bella ran out the door sporadically. Just then Headmaster Faust remembered something the girl had told him when she first got there.

"Because, I need a badge, I need to become a 'real' exorcist!"

Real

A 'real' exorcist…what did she mean by that?