Request iKumori

Slip of the Tongue

Chapter 2~

"Will you slow down? We made a wrong turn somewhere!" Bon called out in frustration, as he tried to keep up with the demon a few yards ahead of him. "Rin-!"

"I know where I'm going!" Rin finally snapped, as he turned around and glared at the older. "Will you just let me take over for once?"

"You don't even know where you're going. You haven't even looked at the damn map." Bon frowned, as he pointed to said map in his hands and tried to ignore the death glare he got from the younger.

"I don't need a map. I'm a demon, remember?" Rin spoke, as he turned his back to the older and started heading down another alleyway.

"That's a dead end!" Bon called out after him.

A few seconds later a growl of frustration was heard, before the young demon came stomping out of the alleyway with a pissed look on his face. His tail lashing out behind him as he shot the older a glare; and headed down another.

"Dead end." Bon sighed, as he turned his attention back to the map.

His classmate once again stomping angrily out of the alleyway, before he headed down the road behind the older. The brunette n' blonde not even bothering to look back, before rolling his eyes and looked up from the map.

"That's the way we came, moron."

"Fine!" Rin shouted, as he walked back and stood in front of the older. "Since you've got the 'map' and you're the smart one, why don't you point us in the right direction?"

Another sigh left the older, as he looked down at the map and headed in the only direction the demon hadn't gone. A frustrated look appearing on the younger's face as the realization hit him, and quickly followed after him. The older barely paying any attention to the younger's grumbling behind him, as he rubbed his temples and tried to focus. It hadn't even been a half hour since they left the group and they were already lost beyond compare. Not to mention the older was forming another migraine.

"The demon is that way!" Rin suddenly blurted out, as he went to run off toward another dead end and Bon grabbed his arm. "Hey! You're going to let it get away!"

"It's another dead end." Bon spoke, as he pointed it out on the map for the younger.

"Give me that!" Rin snapped, as he grabbed the map from the older and looked it over. "What the hell is wrong with this town? Almost every alleyway is a dead-end! How are we supposed to catch this thing?"

"We're not supposed to catch it. We're supposed to be finding clues." The brunette n' blonde spoke, as he took the map back and ignored the younger's displeased frown. "You can't just go after any demon that moves and attack it."

"You sound like Yukio." The younger mumbled, as he crossed his arms and walked to the entrance of another dead-end alleyway.

"He's right, though. Not every mission we get-"

"I know! Every mission we get won't be about killing demons!" Rin spoke, as he growled and glared at the older. "But that's what I was born for, wasn't it? I wouldn't be born with these powers, if I'm supposed to sit around and do nothing!"

"We're not doing nothing, Rin. We're-"

"I know!"

A frown fell over the older's features, as he watched the demon angrily pace around and check the nearby alleyways. His tail lashing every which way behind him, as it jerked from side to side and curled up on occasion. Almost as if it was searching for something. Something that was close enough to feel, but not grab a hold of.

"Dammit! The demon is so close, I can feel it!"

"Are you sure it's even the demon we're looking for?" Bon asked, as the younger's head snapped toward him. "And when did you get the ability to feel the presence of demons?"

A stretch of silence filled the air around them, as the demon's tail finally seemed to relax and wrap itself around the younger's thigh. An uncertain look in the younger's eyes, as that same flash of light blue light flashed across the demon's eyes. Almost as if simple eye contact was creating the light show in the younger's eyes for a spilt second, before he turned away.

"I got it over winter break." Rin mumbled, as his tail lashed out behind him and the demon's eyes bolted over in a random direction; before he let out a growl. "It got away, again!"

"Speaking of winter break, you seem different. Did something happen?" Bon asked, as the younger stiffened for a split second. "You seem a bit more irritated and stressed."

"I'm not stressed." Rin mumbled, as he frowned at the older. "Besides, it doesn't concern you."

"It does when you can't even preform a mission properly. You've been all over the place since we've started and you've gotten us lost. Maybe you should relax and let me-"

"Well sorry I was trying to help! I'll just leave it to you, then! You can get us back on track and lose the demon!"

"For the third time, we're gathering-"

"Dammit, it disappeared again!"

"Will you listen to me?" Bon yelled, as he grabbed the demon's arm and forced the younger to look at him. "Stop trying to go after it! We're looking for information, not the demon!"

"Like you're one to talk! You can't sense the damn thing! You're just hiding behind the bloody map and following directions like a good boy! You try finding the thing without a damn map!"

"Fine!" Bon snapped, as he shoved the map into the demon's chest and shot the younger a glare. "You take the damn map and find the thing by yourself! I'm going to go gather information like we're supposed to! Go get yourself killed for all I care!"

In the heat of the older's frustration, the brunette n' blonde turned on his heel and headed back the way they had gotten lost. Leaving behind a pissed and shocked Rin, who watched the older angrily walk away from him. The ever-lingering presence that he had been feeling this entire time slowly fading, as his classmate disappeared and the younger looked down at the crumpled map against his chest.

"Fine, get lost for all I care." Rin mumbled, as he unceremoniously folded the map and shoved it in his pocket, before heading in the other direction.

Bon let out a frustrated growl, as he stopped in the middle of an intersection he couldn't remember and tried to recall the map. Something that quickly failed, as a mental picture of a shocked Rin holding the map to his chest flashed through his head, before the older shook his head clear and let out a curse. Leave it to him to be thinking about the older demon at a time like this, instead of trying to find a way back to the hotel they were staying at for the night. Rin was always plaguing his thoughts, and for this to happen now was no surprise. Ever since he first saw the younger he had fallen headfirst into the never-ending pit he was stuck in now, and had never seemed to find a way out. Even with Shima's perverted jokes and harsh comments, he had never once hated Rin. Sure, he argued with him from time to time; but the young demon had it coming. Rin had a bigmouth and sometimes he needed some sense slapped into him. Well, metaphorically so to speak.

"Dammit, I'm lost." The brunette n' blonde muttered, as he rubbed his temples and tried to focus. "I must have made a wrong turn."

"Lost?" A voice spoke, as the teen quickly turned to see a woman walking up toward him.

Her hair a nice ocean blue, as it stopped just past her shoulders and covered the sides of her face and her ears. The woman's eyes a stormy grey, and a modern white kimono covering her frame, as she stopped beside him and gave him a sweet smile. One that easily calmed the brunette n' blonde down, as he gave her a small nod.

"Where are you going?"

"The local hotel." The teen quickly answered, as she gave him a small nod. "I'm supposed to meet some friends there."

"Well, you're in luck. I know a quick way to get there." She spoke, as she gently set a hand on his shoulder and guided him toward one of the alleyways. "I've lived here long enough to know all the shortcuts."

Bon gave the woman a small nod, as he followed her and felt a sense of uneasiness wash over him. An unknown sense telling him he wasn't safe, as he gripped at the prayer beads in his hand and glanced over at the woman. Her eyes focused on the path ahead, as the younger felt something brush against his leg and almost froze on the spot. The woman not paying the slightest attention to him, as he glanced down and noticed the ocean blue colored tail swaying underneath the kimono.

It not even taking the teen a few moments, before he pushed himself away from the woman; and put some distance between them. Something that barely fazed her, as she easily brushed off his shove and turned to face him. Her storm grey eyes bring holes into his chocolate brown ones, as he started muttering the first hymn he could think and pulled out his prayer beads. A displeased look befalling the woman's face, as she pulled out a ribbon and tied her hair back to reveal her pointed ears; and keep her hair back.

"Seems like I caught myself an exorcist." She mused, as she sighed. "I was hopping to bring you back unharmed, but it seems like I'm going to have to be a little rough."

Before the older had even expected it, the demon was in front of him. Her hand raised to strike, before a light crackle filled the air and she was thrown back by the unknown force. The brunette n' blonde barely able to comprehend what had just happened, as his hymn came to a stop; and he watched the small blue spark disappear. Even the woman would've known the hymn he was using was to soften the blows of incoming demons, not repel them. Whatever that spark was, wasn't his own incantation.

"Figures a human like you would have a demon mate at this age." She scoffed, as she stood up and brushed herself off. "Whoever it is, is pretty strong for one so young though."

"Mate?"

A small chuckle left the demon, as she pulled out a dried leaf out of her hair.

"You have a mate, and you don't even realize it. How pathetic." She spoke, as the teen took a few steps back. "Looks like, even if you have a mate, this will be easy. Good thing he's not close by. It's a shame he won't be able to see me take you away though."

The next thing the teen knew, everything around him turned black.

"Rin-chan, you made it here on time!" Shima practically yelled in happiness, as he glomped the demon in the doorway.

"I can make it on time if I want to." Rin mumbled, as Yukio shot him a frown and Shima looked over the demon's shoulder.

"Where's Bon?"

"What do you mean, where's Bon?" Rin frowned, as Shima looked at him in surprise and pushed past him to look around in the hallway.

"I teamed Suguro and you together, Nii-san. You're supposed to come back with him." Yukio spoke, as he pushed up his glasses and frowned at him. "Where is he?"

"Like hell I know! We had a fight and he stormed off in the other direction! I didn't know I had to keep track of him!"

"He was your partner, Nii-san. You were supposed to stay with him." The brunette spoke, as Shima pulled out his phone and tried to get in contact with his best friend. "If he got lost we might have a problem on our-"

"I can't reach him, Sensei. I keep getting his voicemail." Shima spoke, as he covered the mouthpiece on his cell phone. "He never leaves his cell phone off."

"Alright." The younger twin sighed, as he looked to the older. "What did you guys fight over exactly, Nii-san?"

"Directions." Rin mumbled, as Yukio frowned at him. "What? Just because he had the damn map, doesn't mean I didn't know where the demon was! I could sense it when it got too close, and he kept stopping me from going after it! If he would've let me go off I would've gotten it by now!"

"Nii-san, I told you this is an information gathering-" The younger paused, as he drank in his older twin's words and the rest of the demon's classmates were listening in. "Wait, did you say you could sense it?"

"Yes! I kept trying to go after it, but Bon wouldn't let me go find it. It kept disappearing and reappearing so much I got pissed and yelled at him." Rin spoke, as Yukio glanced down at his clipboard and chewed on his lip. "Why? Are my powers screwed up again?"

"Again? When did you're powers get messed up?" Izumo butted in, as Rin stiffened and tried to ignore the stares he was getting.

"They, kind of got messed up during Christmas break." Rin mumbled.

"Both of ours did." Yukio added, as he looked up from his clipboard and at his older brother. "Nii-san, did this presence of the demon disappear not long after Suguro left?"

"Yeah, why?" Rin asked, a puzzled look on his face as his classmates gave the two brothers weird looks.

A pleased smile stretched across his younger brother's face, as he walked over to his backpack leaning against the wall of the hotel room and pulled out an old hardback book. The cover worn and coming apart, as he pulled the book open and leafed through the pages. The younger stopping, when he found what he was looking for and skimmed through the contents. The room silent, as Shima finally gave up on calling his best friend and closed the open door behind him to give them a little more privacy from the rest of the hotel.

"Our powers aren't messed up." Yukio finally spoke, as the older twin gave him a weird look. "Do you remember when we went back home from break and Izumi made that joke about how we were close to coming of age?"

"Yeah, but what's that got to do with this? That doesn't explain the presence."

"Isn't coming of age a demonic term?" Miwa hesitantly stuttered out, as Yukio nodded.

"To be precise, it's when a demon reaches the human age of sixteen. It's at this time a demon's inner powers are awakened and they have the ability to search for their mate." Yukio spoke, as he read right out of the book in his hands before looking at his twin. "So it wasn't our powers that were messed up then-"

"We gained new ones." Rin finished, as he walked over to his brother's side and looked at the page. "But what the hell is a mate, and why would we be searching for one?"

A soft chuckle left Shima, as Rin looked up from the book and looked at his pink-haired friend. A confused look on the demon's face, as Izumo rolled her eyes.

"Rin-chan, a mate is essentially the one beingin both Ghenna and Assiah that were born to be with you forever." The pink-haired teen spoke, as the demon's face turned pink. "That presence wasn't a demon, it was Bon."

Silence filled the room, as Rin stared at his friend in complete shock. His mind completely blank, as he looked to the floor and tried to grasp the concept. His younger brother gently shutting the book in his hands, as Izumo let out a huff of frustration and summoned her familiars to go search for Bon. Shima giving him a worried look, as he walked up to the demon and gently shook his shoulders.

"Rin-chan, are you okay?" The teen spoke gently, as the demon snapped back to reality and looked at the older. "You look a little pale."

"I-is he really my-" The rest of the demon's sentence died away, as Shima gave him a nod. The demon's blood running cold, as a panic rose up in him and he quickly turned to his brother. "How do I find him? Is there anyway I can locate him?"

In a rush, his younger brother pulled the book open again and started flipping through the pages once more. The pink-haired teen announcing that he was going with Miwa to find clues of where Bon went, as Shiemi quickly followed after Izumo. The older demon shaking from head to toe, as he watched his younger brother search through the never-ending pages for clues. His body nearly numb, as his tail swayed behind him in anxiousness.

"Nii-san, are you alright?" Yukio asked, as he looked at his brother in worry. "Maybe you should-"

"No, I have to find him." Rin quickly interrupted, as he grabbed the book and started flipping through the pages. "I can't believe I yelled at him, and now he's gone. I have to find him, before something bad happens."

"Nii-san-"

"You go find Shima and keep him safe." The older spoke, as Yukio froze in place and looked at him in shock. "If he disappears too I don't think you'll be able to keep me calm with your mate gone. Stay with him and call me if you find anything."

"A-Alright, Nii-san." Yukio forced out, as he quickly headed for the door. "Don't stress yourself. Suguro's probably just lost."

Without another word, the younger twin quickly left the room. The older flipping through a few more pages, before he let out a curse and plopped onto the hardwood floor. His fingers desperately gripping the worn book, as he bit his lip and closed his eyes. Damn, was he stupid! One wrong move and the next his high tempered classmate turns out to be his mate; and to make matters worse he's missing. If it wasn't for his heart thundering in his chest and his body shaking, he would've burst right out of the damn hotel and torn every house down just to find him; but now he couldn't even stand up straight.

What had even gotten into him? Hadn't he been all high and mighty a few minutes ago? What had happened to his composure? Why did he feel like he had just been disconnected from the rest of the world? And what was this sudden feeling of loss crashing over him? Bon wasn't in trouble, was he?

"Not so high and mighty now, are we?" Takara's puppet practically screeched, as Rin jumped at the sound and glared at the thing. "Not everything can be solved by swinging a sword around!"

"I swear; if you don't shut the hell up I'll burn you!" Rin growled, as he forced himself to stand and head for the door. "I'm finding him, even if it's the last thing I ever do! So button your damn mouth shut!"

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Scarlett: *waves happily* Hey guys! Here's the second chapter to your request iKumori! I'm officially two paragraphs in of your four paragraphs of information. I hope the fic is going in the direction you wanted to.

Akira: *walks in with a pissed look on face and a huge bruise on face* Scarlett!

Scarlett: *frowns, then turns around and happily smiles* Yes, Akira-chan?

Akira: *points to the huge bruise* you better fix this, before I get Mephisto involved!

Scarlett: *sighs* my dear, Akira-chan. Mephisto doesn't live here, nor will he ever. Plus, I'll shred him to pieces if he ever steps foot in my house. Alright?

Akira: *nods*

Scarlett: *walks over and turns him around, before pushing him to the door* Go right upstairs to Drew and ask him to help. He's a doctor. *slams door shut and turns to Bon and Rin* Now, where were we?

Bon: *frowning with Rin on lap* Why did I get captured?

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