Chapter 2: Accident

I looked at the dorm where Ashiya and I would live. It was quite a bit larger than our rental apartment in Tokyo, but it appeared to be in worse shape. The building had obviously been abandoned; ivy crept up the sides of the building spiraling up to the second floor, the windows had a layer of filth on then, and a few areas of the building were cracked and had started to crumble.

Ashiya let out a sigh, "Yet another insufficient home. My apologies milord."

I looked at him and laughed trying to stay positive, "You got to admit it's a lot bigger than our old home."

This seemed to put him into an even worse mood; his head was hanging low on his shoulders and his snowy white hair was concealing his eyes. I gave him a little smile and grabbed his luggage for him. This snapped him back into action; he quickly grabbed his small duffel bag as well as mine from my other hand. He shook his head as if he were scolding me, "You should know by now that as long as you have me by your side you shouldn't need to carry your own bags!"

He quickly walked over to the large wooden front doors of the dormitory and knocked loudly. After a few short moments the door opened, revealing the inside to be in better condition than the outside and revealing a rather tall teenager wearing glasses with a sharp expression on his face which instantly softened when he realized who we were. He greeted us, "Hello, my names Yukio and here's-"he trailed off realizing that he was the only one in the doorway. He turned inside and shouted, "Rin! Get over here!"

He turned back to us, "Please come in." he rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.

We walked into the old building together and looked around. The walls were bare, there was nothing hanging from them, except for the light brown paint that covered them. To our left was an older wooden staircase and to our left there were several doors that were hanging slightly open. Yukio glanced at us, "So are you guys going to be staying with us right?"

"Yes, or that's what Mephesto had told us at least." I responded.

Yukio sighed, "Ya, I know. But it doesn't make any sense the reason Rin and I have our own separate dorm is so that we have some solitude and can do better with our study's."

Part of me wanted to be sarcastic right now and say huh, I thought you guys had a separate dorm because you're the spawn of Satan. Logic stopped me however, ya, that wouldn't have been good. Anyway I just feigned innocence and replied with, "I think that it's awesome that you guys have your own place, I mean this place is huge."

Yukio rubbed the back of his neck and glanced back over to the stairs as if wondering where Rin was. A small dark gray cat appeared on the top of the stairs and looked over at me like it knew what I was. It was an odd thing, as it walked down the stairs I noticed that it had two tails. I looked over at Yukio, "Cool cat."

He smiled and looked at the animal, "He's Rin's, his name's Kuro by the way."

I heard a voice inside of my head, Rin's so lazy he's sleeping right now. He even knows that we have guests. But he knows I don't like company. I saw the gray cat on the stairs was sitting and glaring at his paws. I looked over at Ashiya who gave me a look that said "Did you hear it to?" I nodded slowly not wanting to draw Yukio's attention.

The cat looked up at the top of the stairs, his eyes appeared to widen with happiness. Rin is up! He needs to get down here. RIN! RIN GET OVER HERE! The voice said as the cat excitedly bounded up the stairs. I realized that the voice was the cats, the cat's a demon, a demon using telepathy and for some reason it seemed like Yukio couldn't hear it.

Kuro shouted again, RIN! THEIR HERE! GET UP, GET UP, GET UP! I could hear Rin moan from his room upstairs.

Rin didn't get up so the demon cat tried a different approach, Rin. He purred, there's a fresh batch of sukiyaki downstairs. You should hurry before it gets- Loud footsteps were heard from his room before Kuro could even finish his sentence.

A thin, shirtless, dark haired teen race downstairs wearing only shorts, he raced over to Yukio with a long black tail trailing behind him wagging happily, and he shouted at his twin, "Where is the sukiyaki?"

Yukio looked confused further proving my theory that he couldn't hear the two-tailed cat. He raised an eyebrow at Rin, "What sukiyaki?" He paused and stared at his brother's tail which was still wagging back and forth with wide eyes. Yukio looked over at us; Ashiya looked away at the wall pretending to be really interested in the wall paper. I did the same pretending not to know that Rin has a tail.

Yukio bought it and Rin must've got the hint that we shouldn't know about the whole tail thing so he tucked it into his shorts quickly. Rin coughed into his fist, "Hi, I'm Rin."

I nodded, "I'm Sadao Maou and this here," I gestured to Ashiya, "Is Shiro Ashiya, call us by our first name s if you want but we prefer to be called by our last names." Rin nodded slowly, it was weird they all looked shaken by the mention of Ashiya's first name, Shiro. It had seemed to affect Kuro the most. He said nothing but he stared at the ground by his paws.

Yukio finally broke the awkward silence, "Let me give you guys a tour of the dorm."

I nodded and Ashiya and I followed him out of the entryway. Kuro still looked sad and Rin was careful not to show us his tail as he walked back upstairs to get dressed.

Yukio and Rin showed us multiple of the new renovated rooms in the dorm. Ashiya and I choose a pair of rooms that were next to each other. Later Yukio showed us older parts of the building a few areas were worse than others. Beams looked like they were about to fall and certain floor boards looked like they would fall apart if any weight was put on them.

I tried to be careful but I ended up screwing things up instead. I managed to step on one of the rotten floor boards. Luckily no one was around me because the floor around me collapsed. I hit the floor two stories below, the wind was knocked out of me and a beam fell towards me.

Instantly my physical form changed and I grabbed the beam with a large clawed hand. Pieces of the ceiling fell around me but a force field grew around me sheltering me from the debris. "Are you okay milord?" Ashiya shouted.

I could hear footsteps coming down the stairs; Rin was the first in the room. He just stood in the door way with his mouth hanging open. Yukio barged in next and glared at me. He pulled a pistol out of his waist band and pointed it at me, "What do you want with us, demon?"