A/N: Hey guys! So just saying in advance but there is a speech (If it even is) and it sucks a lot. So please spare us from how terrible the speech is. Also we want to thank bLuewErewOlf25 for beta reading this fanfic. So without further delay, let us begin!

Demon Hunters

Demon Hunter Academy!

"God damn it!" shouted Ryu as he ran. He glanced behind him, the hundreds of tiny bat creatures following him from above. "Fucking bastard tricked me!"

The rising sun shone down brightly from above in the dark but lit starless sky. It was sunrise and Ryu was not having a good time. Being chased by a giant horde of bat level demons, he ran while cursing out Tao. A bat creature swooped down and smacked into Ryu's side, which caused him to tumble to the side. As Ryu started falling, unbelievably slow. Another bat creature smacked into his back. "Ow!" Ryu glared behind him at the bat who was snickering.

"Ahhh! Why can't I just have a break for once!?" Ryu said, trying to hold his back. Bats started swarming around him and he started waving his arms around as he ran blindly. He kept running as the bats bit and tackled him. "Go away!"

He kept running until he noticed nothing attacking him. He stopped and looked around. Behind him, the large horde of bats were smacking into a blue aura like wall. "Ha! Serves you right!" He shouted and stuck out his tongue.

A loud bang reached his ears and he jumped. A fairly big demon was pounding on the wall, steam or smoke was rising from his mouth. "Oh god! It's a Shadow level demon!" Ryu jumped back, turned, and hightailed it outta there.

He was in thin woods and it didn't take long until he got out. He stopped as he was greeted with the people, buildings, houses, and chatter. "I… made it... " muttered Ryu, his voice full of awe and surprise.

He walked toward the streets and looked around. Stone and wood buildings and houses littered the city. In front of him, a giant castle was planted. "Okay! Now where's the school?" he stated in an oddly proud voice.

Ryu kept looking around and soon started asking strangers about it. He approached a fairly buff man, maybe in his late 20s or early 30s. He had short ginger hair with brown eyes. He wore casual clothes. "Um, excuse me!" Ryu called out, gaining the attention of the man. The man turned and glanced at Ryu. "Can you tell me where Demon Hunter Academy is? I would really appreciate it if you do."

The man looked Ryu up and down. Ryu felt a pit in his stomach as he flashed a nervous smile. The man then laughed out loud, some people glanced at him before continuing on with their lives. "Why do you want to go to that school?" he asked.

"Why? So I can become a demon hunter and help the world!" exclaimed Ryu, but not too loud, pointing to himself with a proud smile.

The man laughed again. "You? Becoming a demon hunter. You look like you wouldn't hurt fly! Listen, if you want to help the world, do it a favor by going back home and eating a sandwich." The man pat Ryu on the shoulder as he walked away, laughing.

A vein popped up on Ryu's face. He was about to let out an outburst but an elderly voice that seemed to belong to a woman stopped him. "Hello there, young man." Ryu looked up, an elderly woman, a bit shorter than him, stood. She had a smile on her face.

"Uh, hi." answered Ryu, quickly glancing around.

"I couldn't help but overhear your previous conversation with that mean fool." stated the woman, a brief scowl on her face before it disappeared. "I hear you want to find Demon Hunter Academy."

"Great. Now an old woman is going to insult me." thought Ryu, he sighed. "Yeah, I do want to find Demon Hunter Academy."

"I think it's great that young people such as you are fighting to protect brittle and powerless people such as myself." said the elderly woman. Ryu stared at her in slight shock.

"Not what I thought she was going to say..." thought Ryu.

The elderly woman gave Ryu directions and told him that she wished him the best of luck and he graciously thanked the woman before taking his leave. He thought of how nice the elderly woman was before he returned to that man, a vein popped up on his face as he shook a fist near his face in anger. He soon arrived in front of a large building.

The building was large, no massive. It looked like it could house 2,000 people. It seemed to be mostly made of steel. The bottom was a large dome like building, a giant tower that looked like a sword extended from it, like a sword stabbed into a stone. Two white wings protruded from the handle. Ryu could see windows on the wings. He sweat-dropped. "Don't tell me the dorms or classrooms are all the way up there." He muttered, he looked directly in front of him to find wood doors with a hand painted drawing of a sword with wings stabbed into a stone. "Okay, I just need to open these and step inside and then I'm in!"

"Oh look. The wimp made it." Ryu groaned as he realized who the voice belonged to. He turned to see Akane with her arms crossed, a smug smirk formed on her lips, with Yuki standing next to her.

"I'm glad you made it, asshole! I thought for sure you were going to get lost and maybe get eaten by demons." The usually shy and quiet girl said happily.

A vein popped up on Ryu's forehead. "My name is Ryu. Not asshole!" He shouted. A few strangers looked his way but then kept on going with what they were doing.

"Hey, Yuki, did you hear that?" asked Akane, shouldering the girl beside her. "I think I hear a whiner."

"O-oh, I'm sorry, Ryu." Yuki whispered.

Akane looked at her before saying "You don't have to feel sorry for that loser."

That sent Ryu over the edge. He gripped his sword handle but Akane already had her bow up and loaded.

"Any movement and I'll burn you to a crisp." warned Akane, her tone serious and intimidating. Ryu started regretting his decision as his anger was washed over by fear.

"It's not wise to waste ammo on cattle like him, you know." pointed out a new voice. The trio glanced at the voice who was watching them from a tree nearby. Tao was sitting on a tree branch with his same annoying smirk plastered on his face. "And if he survives, the medical bills are going to be quite expensive, dear old tsundere redhead,"

"I am not a tsundere, you baka!" shouted Akane shooting a flaming arrow at Tao. Tao chuckled as he pulled out a pistol and shot it. Akane's arrow stopped moving and split in half as the flames died. Tao's bullet landed in front of Akane's feet.

She reached down to pick the bullet up but Tao said "Careful. It's sharp. I wouldn't want a girl like you getting hurt. Also, I don't like blood on ammo. It wastes them and takes more time to clean. Especially peasant blood."

"Who are you calling a peasant, fuckboy?!" the enraged Akane shouted, a vein popping on her forehead. Ryu took a step back and so did Yuki.

"You, ba~ka~" stated Tao in a taunting tone. Akane shot three arrows at Tao who jumped down from the tree branch and avoided them.

"U-um, Akane, we should stop fighting. We're causing a scene." Yuki said eyeing the crowd that formed around them.

"So! I don't care! I'm going to burn this fuckboy into a crisp!" She stated as she kept shooting, somehow reloading and shooting faster with more accuracy than the last.

Tao dodged and shot some of them, his smirk pissing Akane off even more. Before the fight could escalate any further though. Both of them were surrounded in a violet aura and were unable to move.

"What the-" commented Akane in shock as she tried to move. Tao raised a brow.

"Can you please not fight on academy grounds?" a stern voice asked. The crowd looked over at the source to see a woman push past the crowd and into the small circle where a fight could have ensued.

She had long blond hair that was rolled up into a bun and emerald green eyes. She wore a long lavender robe with black trimming and gray boots. She was taller than all of them, but not much taller than Tao. She had a stern look but she wasn't an old lady. She looked like she was in her 30's. She had ovular glasses and teal hanging earrings with a bead attached to it. Her hands were glowing violet as she sent a glare at the four teens.

"We-we're sorry." whispered Yuki shyly slightly blushing from embarrassment.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I was just walking by and she suddenly attacked me, I was just defending myself. Can you please forgive me?" lied Tao with a sweet smile. "I promise it won't happen again."

"No excuses!" the woman snapped loudly. Yuki and Ryu jumped back but Tao and Akane held still, for they were stuck in place.

The woman took in a deep breath and let it out. "School hasn't even started and kids are starting trouble already…" she sighed.

"Does this happen a lot?" asked Yuki curiously.

"Not particularly. Though it happens from time to time." answered the woman.

"Soo…" started off Ryu, "since I technically didn't do anything am I in the clear?"

The woman sent a glare at Ryu. Ryu froze and chuckled nervously. At this point, the crowd of onlookers were gone and inside the building. "...I guess that means no." he sighed in defeat.

"Don't do it again. Now get inside, the opening ceremony is about to start." sighed the woman. The violet aura around her hands, Akane, and Tao vanished.

"Thank you, Ms…" Yuki said, her voice slowly droning out.

"Kuno." finished Ms. Kuno for Yuki.

"Right! Thank you, Ms. Kuno!" Yuki said before retrieving Akane and walking inside the school.

Tao smiled sweetly, hiding his smug one. "Thank you." he said before turning on his heels and exiting.

Ryu glanced around and gave a nervous smile. "Uh… Thanks!" With that Ryu took a step back before sneak sprinting away.

Although Ms. Kuno caught him leaving and said, "The opening ceremony is that way. I'll lead you there." So Ryu got stuck walking with a teacher he just met, following the rest of the leftover crowd.

Now inside the school, a large room that was mostly empty except a fairly large stage sat at the back. Students wanting to enter were gathered in the room and were talking to one another. Ryu was released from his torture and he graciously accepted it. He went to go hang out with his friends but then he realized there were only three other people he knew here, who unfortunately, hated him or so it seemed.

He walked up near the stage where a man, probably in his early 40's or late 30's stood. He had short silver hair and unique gray eyes. He wore the same robe as Ms. Kuno, except it was a light blue instead of a lavender one and it had what Ryu presumed was the school insignia on it. He also had ovulary glasses.

He stood in front of a microphone and spoke into it, gaining the room full of cheerful and exuberant student's attention.

"Hello. My name is Stafford. I am the headmaster of this academy." The man who is named Stafford started. "I assume you all have traveled here from another kingdom or from your cozy homes in order to learn how to slay demons and potentially improve your skills. I commend all of you for your courage. Not everyone has the guts to do this kind of thing. I presume you are all here for a certain reason, something happened in your past, you want to make your family proud, or maybe you are doing this to help humanity. We hope that you will meet new people and grow. But, I will give you all a fair warning. This is by no means a fun or safe job. You will have a chance to die, so I ask that you ask yourselves if you are sure you want to do this. If you think you can't do this, then I suggest you go back home. No one will resent you."

A little bit of whispers were created from the crowd and a handful of people exited the building.

"For the those of you remaining, we will start by finding out your limitations in your initiations tomorrow." continued Stafford. "Today, you shall rest. Tomorrow, your initiations will begin. All of you are dismissed."

There was silence, then the chattering of the teens filled the room once more. Ryu didn't know how to respond. So he decided not to think about it. The initiations were tomorrow and he was ready. He looked around and spotted Akane and Yuki talking to each other, he jogged up to them.

"Um, hey, guys. I thought I could hang out with you." said Ryu awkwardly.

"Why would we want to have wimp like you hang out with-" started Akane before she was cut off.

"That would be great!" said Yuki in a cheerful tone.

"So does that mean tsundere over here won't mind if I hang out too?" asked Tao out of nowhere.

Akane opened her mouth about to speak but Yuki covered it with her hand. "Of course!" answered Yuki with a smile. "Akane, why don't you get the four of us some sleeping bags? They're over by the wall."

Akane couldn't argue with Yuki so she just did as she was told. She came back with four sleeping bags, to see Tao pull out four sleeping bags. He turned toward Akane. "Oh, I'm sorry. I already brought some."

A tick appeared on her forehead and threw the sleeping bags with her at Tao who took it. Tao grunted in surprise. She threw the last sleeping bag at him and he caught it like it didn't just got whipped at him. "I'll return these for you then. From the kindness of my one of a kind heart."

Akane then ran at Tao who started running away. Ryu chuckled and sweat-dropped. Yuki went to stop Akane. When she failed, she gave up and returned by Ryu's side.

"It's like they're a couple sometimes…" Yuki whispered to Ryu, who just laughed.

After about ten minutes someone announced that the lights would go out in 5 minutes so Akane and Tao finally calmed down. They choose a corner of the *enter place name here* by the stage where the professors talked on. Yuki and Akane set up their sleeping bags beside each other while Ryu and Tao had to be beside each other across from them.

"Why do I have to be beside him?" Ryu whinned. "It's not fair!"

"It's not like I want to sleep beside you either. I think tsundere-chan wants to secretly sleep beside you~" Tao chirped teasingly. Ryu blushed and mumbled something no one could hear. "I've seen how she's been looking at you, and the way she's calling you a baka is very tsundere like."

"HELL NO!" Akane yelled, enraged. A ton of "shh's" went around them and she said a quiet "sorry". Yuki seemed kind of quiet so Akane checked to see if she was asleep. She almost was but she sat up and mumbled a faint "Hmm?"

"See you, baka? You woke the tired girl up." A vein appeared on Akane's forehead for Tao's comment but she took a deep breath in and let it out escape through her nose.

A minute passed before Yuki said "Good night…" and fell asleep.

"Night, idiots." Akane said before turning over to face the wall.

"For the record, I'm not saying goodnight to you, peasants." said Tao before attempting to go back to sleep.

"You did indirectly…" mumbled Ryu while sweat-dropping. Ryu turned on his side as thoughts ran through his mind.

There was one last announcement of a five second warning before the lights went out. By then everyone had fell asleep.

Ryu stared at the ceiling of the room. He thought of how nice the old lady and Yuki was. He wondered if that is how most people at the school acted. He glanced at Tao and Akane. "Maybe not..." He pushed thought away as he decided that he needed as much rest as possible. He closed his eyes and soon he was in deep sleep.

Ryu found himself standing in a dimly lit room. Old and worn out stone made the walls. Cells were all Ryu could see. His eyes widened when he realized where he was. "No... No, no, no!" Ryu thought as he backed up. His hand went to grab his sword to find it gone. He glanced back to find it missing. "You're kidding me!"

"Hello, friend." Ryu's froze, his blood ran cold. He slowly turned his head and was met with a dark entity. It was unnaturally close. Red beady eyes and a smirk, revealing sharp teeth white teeth. Ryu tried to swallow up all of the fear that held him still. The dark entity backed up, it's form slowly turned into Ryu's size and shape. "Don't be afraid, it's just me."

"W-w-why am I here!?" Ryu asked, demanding to know.

"No need to raise your voice at me." started the entity. "I was just getting lonely, so I called you for company."

"Liar!" shouted Ryu.

The entity frowned before appearing in front of Ryu with inhuman speed and kneeing Ryu in the gut.

Ryu snored loudly and slammed a fist into his gut, he coughed and snored at the same time. Tao was awake and was recording Ryu while stifling a laugh. Yuki was watching Ryu like he was mental. Akane was still asleep.

Ryu coughed as he lurched forward. His head was grabbed and was slammed against the stone wall behind him. It hurt but at the same time didn't. "Don't raise your voice at me." the entity growled.

Ryu coughed again and weakly nodded. The entity let him go and he slid down the wall. "Listen carefully, I have a task for you." the entity stated. "You have to slay 300 bat level demons, 200 shadow demons, 85 hell level demons, 50 ghoul level demons, 15 nether level demons, 10 hades level demons, and the 6 demon princes that command each demon class."

Ryu coughed. "Why?"

"Because the more demons you slay, the stronger I get."

"But why a certain amount?"

"You don't need to slay that exact amount, that's just the goal if you will."

"What if I refuse?"

"*chuckles* You already know the answer to that."

Ryu bit his bottom lip as he stared at the ground. "Fine. I'll do it."

"Fantastic." said the entity. "You have six years. Six years to grow stronger and slay the demon. Any longer than that, you know what will happen."

Ryu balled his hands into fists. His vision slowly turned to black.

Ryu's previous dream turned into a dream where Akane was a T-rex and he was a bird and Akane was chasing him. "Oh shit! Someone help me~!" tweeted Ryu. Yeah, his dreams are weird.

Ryu woke up, beams of sunshine smacking into his face like a drill slowly penetrating his eyeballs. He covered his eyes before uncovering them. He looked around to find his "friends" out of their sleeping bags. He yawned as he got up. He entered the restroom where some students were getting ready. What gained his attention was Akane and Tao fighting, not verbal, and not with their weapons, but with their hands and feet. Akane sent a punch toward Tao who dodged it. Tao did a sweep with his leg but thanks to Akane's sharp eyes, she saw it and was able to dodge by jumping. They continued fighting and Ryu sweat-dropped, especially when he noticed they both had toothbrushes in their mouth as they fought. He went over to Yuki who was a fair distance away from them.

"Yo!" Ryu said with a raise of a hand. Yuki greeted Ryu as she noticed him. "There fighting at this time of day... Great..." Ryu said.

"Yeah. This time their fighting with their hands, so I guess that's a feat." Yuki informed. "I'm going to go get breakfast, see ya!" With that, Yuki left.

Ryu chuckled a bit. He noticed that the fighting had stopped and Tao and Akane were doing their hair now. By the time Ryu had freshened up, they were still doing their hair, while sending glares at each other. He sweat-dropped. "I watched way too many anime to know where this is going..." Ryu muttered.

At breakfast, the four sat together. Yuki and Akane one side and Ryu and Tao on the other. Sausage, eggs, and bacon were on Ryu's plate that he was slurping and gulping down. He had a glass of milk next to him. Tao had Bacon, eggs, and toast with butter on it, a glass of water next to his plate. Yuki had a stack of pancakes with syrup on top. A glass of apple juice was next to her plate. Akane was scarfing down her food, probably faster than Ryu. She had waffles with hot sauce on top which struck Ryu and Tao as odd. A glass containing red liquids was sitting next to her plate, Ryu didn't want to know what was in it.

A tease from Tao started a food fight between Tao and Akane that dragged more students in, creating a giant mess. Ms. Kuno had walked in and had punished the children. Using her magic to clean everything up. Ryu assumed she could move anything with that purple aura.

Now standing in front of the entrance of a thick forest and Ryu's three acquaintances were standing next to him, seemingly getting ready for battle.

"This course is simple. You are to find an artifact hidden in this forest filled with shadow and bat level demons. You four must work together in order to obtain it." explained Ms. Kuno with a stern tone. "Are you ready?"

"I think we can all do it!" Yuki said cheerfully, smiling at the other three.

"Why am I stuck with them of all people?" Akane complained tiredly pointing to Tao and Ryu.

"Thanks, Akane. That was really nice…" muttered Ryu.

"Ah! I can do this by myself, I don't need Tsundere-chan, little girl, or asshole, but I guess some meat shields won't hurt." said Tao.

Akane turned and faced Tao and started shouting at him. Ryu did the same. Yuki was trying to stop Akane and thankfully succeeded.

"Go!" shouted Ms. Kumo, alarming the four.

"See ya later, peasants!" shouted Tao as he ran into the forest.

"W-wait up!" shouted Yuki but was way left behind by Tao.

"Asshole!" shouted Akane almost drawing an arrow if only she didn't need them badly for this. Yuki and Akane decided to run into the forest after him, but took a different turn anyways, knowing they might not meet up.

Ryu stood there. "Life is cruel…" Ryu sighed before running after them.

A/N: Done with chapter 2! So about where the other students are, they're also doing it but at different places. Now we bet you know we were referencing the 7 demon princes, well we know it's 7 and not 6 but trust us, we have a good reason for making it 6. I would again like to thank Tyiinva for working on this with me!