This is the same intro to the story, but I thought up an alternate ending that I had to post! So here it is revised, I decided not to make it two chapters this time though.
December 27, 1995-September 2, 2011
Yukio Okumura
Beloved son, brother, friend, teacher, protector
He stared at the stone, re-reading the generic inscription he had long ago memorized. How that inscription did not serve his dear brother justice in the smallest. He was so much more than that. As was his father. His real father in his eyes.
Shiro Fujimoto
Adoptive father, beloved friend, and trusted priest
Loved by many
Neither his brother nor his father would be known by the people who read their inscriptions. No one would know of their sacrifice for him, of how brave they were standing in the face of Satan and refusing to back down or give up Rin to him. Rin held the gaze of both tombstones with his hands deep in his pockets and Kurikara slung around his shoulder. He grit his teeth together as the tears fell in the pouring rain.
"I thought I'd find you here." Rin remembered when it had been his brother who had said that to him. How he longed to hear his brother speak to him again. "Let's go." Rin took a last look and turned away. Trudging behind the fiery haired exorcist his brother had hated. Rin didn't believe Yukio had hated Shura, his brother just didn't hold that emotion in his heart. He watched Shura's face, and he saw her lip tremble and tears fall. Rin smiled sadly. I knew she cared. He look to the sky as if he could communicate with Yukio and Shuro that way, "See Yukio, I told you she cared. She had always been trying to make you stronger." He thought to his younger brother as a few more tears escaped his ocean eyes.
"Yukio, is that Yukio?" Rin blinked open his eyes from the floor of the Academy. His brother was alit with flames only feet away. Rin heard a voice cut through the air.
"You thought you could destroy Gehenna with your science?"
"Father." Rin heard his brother whisper. "Don't imitate my father's voice!" Yukio screamed.
"I'm not imitating, he was the last person I possessed, so my voice is his voice my son."
"My father was Shiro! Don't call me your son! You killed my mother and my father!"
"I didn't kill your mother, your precious grandfather sinking over there did." Somewhere in the confusion Frederick had been swept into Gehenna gate.
"Help me Yukio!" He cried. Yukio looked to him, eyes wide with disbelief.
"Just ask him! He ordered her to be killed for bearing my children, for bearing you and your brother. He ordered her to be killed for befriending demons and for loving their king! Her love was not one sided either. He had ordered for Shiro to kill you too! But he couldn't bring himself to do it, he raised you instead! Just ask him!" Yukio went over and gripped the Pope by his jacket.
"Did you kill mother? I thought you loved her!"
"I ordered her to be killed. She was dead to me when I found out she was bearing you and your brother's demonic filth!" Yukio's eyes watered and he flared blue flames across the roof. He reached back and punched the pope across the face, watching as he sank into Gehenna gate. Yukio screamed to the sky, blue flames flicking outwards out of control. Yukio flinched and his body doubled over. Rin's eyes widened at the stance.
"I loved her, he loved the daughter he wanted her to be.." Satan whispered.
"No..." Yukio whispered in a voice so low only Rin's hearing could pick it up. The other esquires arrived then, standing at the entrance to the roof of the Academy.
"What the hell is going on here?" Rin didn't care who said it. Bon ran to Rin and helped him to his feet while Shima fetched the sword. Rin couldn't tear his eyes off his brother. Shiemi gasped.
"Yuki-chan." She whispered, eyes watering. Yukio cackled loudly.
"Finally, the perfect vessel for me. Just like his mother, he can withstand my power." Yukio said. He turned towards Rin, blue flames exploding outwards, smiling with a mouth of razor sharp teeth and hands like claws. Rin freed himself from Bon's grasp and snatched his sword running out to Yukio.
"What the hell's wrong with you Yukio!" Rin shouted. Yukio cackled to the sky.
"Ah, my other son! How I've missed you! My you have changed since Shiro's death."
"Don't you talk about my dad like that!" Rin shouted drawing the sword.
"He's not your father. I am." Rin glared.
"You can say that, but Shiro will always be my real father. You are nothing to me Satan. But my brother, that's different. If you kill him, you won't even live to regret it."
"I won't kill him. I just plan to take him home with me, along with yourself. Though you might kill him trying to free him. How ironic, the son of Satan, not only an exorcist but a paladin no less! And look at him now, the vessel of Satan!"
"Leave my brother alone!" Rin screamed, blue flames exploding outward from his body.
"My that's funny. You plan on beating me with those? I'll show you real power my boy!" Shura ran onto the roof, her sword dripping with blood from the former paladin.
"What's going on. Yukio!" She yelled.
"Young sensei has been possessed by Satan in his emotional turmoil." said a quiet voice. Shura looked over to see a young boy with a puppet. Shura ran out beside Rin.
"Back away Shura he's dangerous!" Rin said.
"Exactly why I'm here Rin." She poised a fighting stance.
"If you don't come with me Rin, I'll kill your little friends over there! One by one!" Satan sneered.
"I'm going to have to kill him..." Rin whispered. "He wouldn't want to hurt them..." Tears fell from Rin's oceanic blue eyes.
"Rin you don't have too, you can leave, I'll take care of it. I won't let you kill your brother." Shura said.
"Planning right in front of the enemy? How stupid!" Satan laughed, back arching in his fit of laughter.
"Is there no other way?" Rin choked out.
"Not even Shiro found that way." Shura put her blade at the unsuspecting Satan's neck.
"You won't do it snake girl." Satan tested.
"I will. I know he wouldn't want this. He wouldn't want his brother to fight him. And he wouldn't want to help you!" Yukio drew his gun pointing it at Rin.
"Well he can't stop me from fighting his brother." The arm trembled suddenly. The blue flames calmed slightly. Rin stared open mouthed as his brother fought Satan from the inside. Yukio pushed for every fiber in his body to be under his control again. His glasses cracked.
"You killed my mother... You killed my father... You want to kill my brother... My friends... You. You are no demon king, you're pathetic targeting humans." Yukio choked out between gasps. Shura pulled her sword back. "You never loved my mother, you wanted her to die!" The flames vanished completely and Yukio collapsed to the ground. Rin took the chance to slash his blade into Gehenna gate, burning it to ash and closing it. The thing compressed and in it's final moment sent out a shockwave that threw Shura and Rin backwards into the gate with such force that it knocked the breath out of them both, as well as the other esquires. A couple lost consciousness with the impact. Shura tried to stand but was unable to, simply falling back to the ground. Yukio still lie in the middle of the roof, unconscious on the ground. A whisp of white and blonde materialized on the roof above the fallen Paladin, recovered from Satan's possession.
"Angel don't he's freed of Satan's possession!" Shura yelled from her position on the ground.
"He murdered the Pope. In the name of the Vatican, I execute this stain in the True Cross!" He raised his blade as Yukio's eyes fluttered open. The turquoise eyes beyond the shattered glasses met Shura's and she apologized for not being able to help him. His only weapon lay discarded yards away. Angel's blade descended and the sound of metal on stone as well as Rin's animalistic scream resounded through the air. Shura opened her eyes she had closed to see Yukio standing up and the blade lodged in the ground. Angel had missed. Rin tried to stand but was knocked back down with brute force by Angel when he materialized before him. Rin grunted as he fell back, unable to move with the newly sustained broken ribs.
Though Yukio had escaped the fall of the blade he was still unarmed, and inexperienced with Angel's fighting technique, and Shura knew it. Yukio dodged the blade as best he could, but he was snagged by it a few times, his blood staining the stones below. Angel smiled.
"Just give up. You have no hope." When he said that, there were suddenly other exorcists around them. Exorcists who highly valued the Pope that had been slain. "Here stands Satan's son! Murdered of Pope Egin! Exterminate him in the name of the vatican!" Angel shouted to the new comers. Swords were drawn and guns were cocked, all at Yukio.
"I'm sorry nii-san." Yukio whispered, but Rin heard him from where he was. Yukio closed his eyes and Angel's blade impaled him through the chest, blood dripped off the other end protruding out his back. Angel withdrew the blade and walked away. Yukio collapsed to the ground bleeding. Rin struggled to stand, but the broken ribs were still too fresh even with his regenerative abilities. Tears fell from all the young faces on the roof as they watched their young teacher and friend die. Bon awoke from his dazed impacted state and saw Yukio, and saw Rin's expression. The boy jumped up and ran over to the bleeding Okumura, gently picking him up in his arms so he could be with his friends when he died. He walked over with the blood stained boy, and laid him between Rin and Shura, who were the only ones unable to move, everyone else came to them to grieve their soon to be loss. Shiemi hugged Rin, trying to comfort him. Izumo brushed Yukio's dirty hair out of his face and removed his broken glasses, figuring they were more impairing with all the cracks than it would be without wearing any at all. Rin held his brother's hand, hearing his brother's heartbeat, watching the life flow out of his in the form of his red blood.
"Why couldn't I save you Yukio..." Rin whimpered. Yukio's eyes opened, a turquoise different from the usual, it was clouded and dimmed.
"Just live Rin. And don't trust people who say they're related to you." Yukio said weakly. His eyes slipped shut again, and Rin heard his heart falter once, then twice, recovering each time, but the third, no heartbeat returned. Rin gazed at his brother in disbelief, he couldn't be gone. This couldn't be real. Rin screamed to the sky, but his flames did not release themselves. Rin hated those flames, those flames that made him known as Satan's son. He wasn't Satan's son. Yukio wasn't either. They were Shiro's sons. They were Yuri's sons. But no one saw them as that, only as the spawn's of Satan, and as a threat or a stain on the population. That prejudice had been the reason for his brother's death. That was why angel struck him down really, he couldn't care less about the Pope who had stripped him of his ranking as Paladin.
"I'll kick his ass. I'll rip his throat out." Rin muttered. And everyone knew this time, he didn't even mean Satan, he meant Angel.
"I'll help you get rid of that god awful baldy." Shura said. They all sat there until sundown, when Mephisto returned to take them home. Rin wouldn't stay in that dorm anymore, and he started training himself with guns to be a Knight and Dragoon, and he trained with Yukio's twin pistols. He always kept a pair of his brother's glasses hidden in his wardrobe.
Four years later Rin was twenty, and he was an exorcist.
Two years after that he was promoted to the class below Yukio had been.
A year following that he was the rank below Shura.
Two years after that, Angel mysteriously vanished, and Rin was promoted Paladin. Just as his father, and his brother had been.
And that is the end of this story. I hate angel in case you haven't noticed. I apologize if I have offended anybody, but it's not like he was OOC. In 22 he specifically states just being a demon in blood was reason enough to be killed. So I find it as no surprise he would slay Yukio, who is demonstrating demonic abilities as well as 'killing' the pope.
Anyway, hope you liked
Lifehouse Fanatic 2011
