I opened my eyes to find myself laying heavily over one of the more stable desks, well I was alive despite absolute hellish pain that I had just been through. Letting it go for now I looked around, no flaming ball in sight. "Rin?" I asked aloud curious to where he had vanished to. When no one replied and my stomach fell for a moment, before I reminded myself that it was expected after making a deal like that. "Well I'm screwed..." I muttered as I pushed myself up ignoring the dizzying after echo of whatever I had gone through. "You might want to be careful, the ritual I did might have taken a lot out of you just take it easy." Rin's voice echoed in my mind. For a moment I felt extreme embarrassment over the fact that Rin had indeed heard what I said before I realized that he had spoken to me in my thoughts not out loud like he had done before. "Rin, what was this ritual exactly?" I picked my words carefully making sure that my tone was emotionless. " My soul has been merged to yours, by doing so I've made you were you're under the radar of most of the violent ghosts in this place. You might want to be careful though should any of my memories pop up... and just to point this out you might look a little different too."

Looking around to see what he was going on about I quickly searched for something that could show my reflection. Finding a dirtied, cracked, and broken slab of a large mirror. I curiously looked at my reflection to see the change that Rin had mentioned. My previously dark brown braid now had dull ginger and bright blue streaks in it, to be honest the blue looked like just the exact color of the Rin's flame form, oddly enough the ginger color was not mine. My normal smoky grey eyes that were usually covered with my black framed glasses where now two different colors, one had multi shades of blue around the irises and the other was a deep hunter green just like the color of camouflage that hunters use. This surprise was also increased by the fact that I could now without them. Taking off my glasses I tossed them aside knowing that I'd no longer need them, I continued to find the differences that had occurred each one a little different. My skin and face was what had changed the most, before my skin had had a this ill pale look to it but now it had a healthy glow to it along with a nice tan of someone that had frequently gone outside to get some sun. My cheeks instead of my usual baby face now showed that I had high cheekbones that had obviously been rearranged to give me a regal and quite pretty look; all blemishes on my face and body were now gone.

I actually smiled at my reflection liking what I saw and to my astonishment I found that my canine teeth had sharpened to a vicious point. Rin had been right, even if I did manage to escape nothing could reverse what had happened to me, I doubted even my parents would recognize me now.

Like a curious puppy dog I touched the edge of my sharpened teeth with my tongue trying to feel how sharp they were. "If you're quite done..." Rin trailed off, he sounded however quite choked as if my appearance had shocked him as well. A flash of worry crossed my mind as I tilted my head up slightly before addressing him out loud. "Rin..are you alright? Is something wrong?" Despite my earlier attitude towards him I was a little concerned, "I'm fine, its just that...I..I didn't expect you to look so much like me.." He paused for a moment and I barely caught his hushed whisper. "I had forgotten what I looked like until now..." I didn't know what to say to that or if he even wanted me to hear that last bit at all, for now I was willing to drop what he had said as I got to my feet and looked around, my gaze lingering on the door that Rin had said led to the indestructible evil. "Go ahead you'll be fine so long as you don't run into...her. There's an infirmary not far from there you can get some supplies." He said. 'Already guiding me to places'. I thought sarcastically as I strode over to the half open door.

I crossed over the doorway into the hall.

It wasn't just the classroom that looked like a natural disaster had hit it huge chunks of the floor and wall were missing while a deep rustic brown stained much of the wall, 'This is everywhere...' I thought in horrified awe to myself. Shaking myself out of it I scanned the wall in front of me and quickly found what I needed. I swiftly walked over to the wall that had cracks running up and down it. Ripping the map off I saw that the school name was Heavenly Host, to me it was oddly ironic to have such a name when most of the school was infested with spirits. Assessing the path I needed to take I folded the crumply paper and put it in my dark blue uniform school skirt before starting on my way.

It hadn't taken me long and it was fairly easy to avoid the holes in the floor, the sign on the door read Infirmary in bold black letters. It was however my mistake when I turned and saw it.

A corpse still fresh barley rotting with maggots wriggling around inside it's torn open chest cavity, it's innards were spilled all over the floor next to it and it's drying blood stained the floor a nauseating copper colored brown. Whoever it was appeared to be crawling away for dear life with a rusted sharped pipe jutting out of the middle of it's torso that to was covered in an excessive amount of blood along with being surgically cut open with it's heart and lungs missing. I could feel the sour bile beginning to rise in my throat, then I couldn't get enough air in my lungs and the room start to loose it's color. I backed away until my back meet the wall behind me and slid down until I was sitting. A rattily breath left my lips and I pulled my knees up so that they were snug against my chest letting me rest my forehead on them. "S-Sorry.." I muttered out to him trying not to sound fazed by the gruesome scene before me, but quite obviously I was failing. "It's alright it just caught you by surprise, just breath..." Rin understandingly said his voice managing to calm the anxious part of my mind that wanted to scurry away like a startled mouse. I took several gulps of the sour air around me . The floor I had my eyes fixed to regained it's disgustingly ironic red color before went to get up , I leant heavily on the wooden walls. "Close your eyes." Rin firmly commanded his tone booking no argument as I had opened my mouth to question him, willing to trust him just this once I did. The moment I did the feeling of a comfortable warmth surrounded my entire body making me feel as if I had just been wrapped in a fuzzy blanket just out of the drier. For just a second my feet left the ground before they connected once more and the safe warmth left me leaving me almost disappointed, " You can open them now." His voice sounded softly in my mind probing me to do so. I peeked under my lashes and I was no longer outside the infirmary but . . . . inside of it? "How did you. . . . ?" "As a spirit I was able to teleport anywhere in the this school, but now that we are bonded I can only teleport short ways like inside rooms as long that it doesn't have those papers with the strange words on it or your already on the other side. It now takes a bit more energy so I won't be able to do it again till we rest a little." He sounded of breath for the first time since I had encountered him, nodding to myself I decided to take a look around the new room, next to a old ceramic sink with rusty pipes was two large cabinets. In three strides I was in front of the closest one which when opening it revealed to have antibiotic cream, bandages, eye drops with the label worn off, and reddish goop that may have once been cough syrup. Amid all these various bottles and vials was a pair of scissors that were covered in dried blood making it hard to snip things, at the sight I curled my upper lip with a silent disgusted growl and snarl of disgust. Shaking my head I grabbed the necessities and carried them to the clean sheets of the medical bed, sitting down I organized the different types of medicine while discarding the ones I wouldn't need and had gone bad. Once I stood up I saw almost completely camouflaged was a set of drawers right under the cabinets, examining them drawers below the first cabinet of medicine.

Clothes oddly enough were folded neatly inside, on one side was a white long sleeve button up shirt along with several school styled black ties, on the other side was inky black slacks along with a uniform jacket. It looked like this is what the male students would wear during school, it was a bit oddly placed but I didn't mind as I grabbed a shirt and long pants out of two of the drawers.

I quickly stripped and took my hair out of it's braid and pulled it back into a tight high up pony tail making it so that my hair wouldn't get in my face. Not paying Rin any mind I quickly slipped into the clothes pulling the jacket and tie on as well if for anything for old times sake. quickly I folded up my old clothes and set them down on the bed before I started scavenging the room to see if I could take supplies with me. Looking under the bed I was once more surprised at the sight of bins full of starch white sheets, as an idea came to me as I took a few sheets out before going to the cabinets putting the useable medicine, bandages, pillows, more clothes, and regretfully the bloodied scissors too into the open space and tied it all together into a knot, looks like I was starting to get a good head start in this place. I was quite proud of myself for making it this far while managing to not have too many breakdowns on the way "Well done Masumi, but while we're here you should get some rest. You never know when you wont be able to.," Rin spoke out with a hint of pride in his voice. I eyed the infirmary bed with great interest as he said this before nodding in agreement, 'He's right I might as well get some shut-eye.' I thought before flopping onto the bed and burying my face into the stiff pillow curling up some under my jacket that was a size too large. I was asleep within moments, but a dreamless night was not on the horizon.