Note: Sorry it took me a while! As promised, longer then the last chapter. Let me know what cha think! Oh, the demon I described is made up XD, kinda crappy but he had to be intimidatingish.
Chapter 4:
"You're not hurting the person that I love the most! No way in Hell!" Rin shouted, closing in on the demon.
But he didn't make it in time. Rin was a second to late.
The crack from the demons tail hitting Bon was loud. Extremely loud. It seemed to echo around them.
Time slowed, and Rin's eyes widened in horror as he watched Bon slam into the ground. He didn't move after that, but Rin could see the blood that colored Bon's white shirt red.
A snarl tore it's way out of Rin's throat, a red haze drifted across his vision, and he attacked the demon with everything he had. All caution flew out of the window after seeing Bon like that.
Rin rammed into the demon, kicking it under its chin, then flipping around and plunged Kurikara downwards, catching the demon's cheek and slicing it open. Blood flew through the air as the cheek split open and the bottom part flopped to the side, showing the demon's bottom teeth.
It hissed in pain before focusing on Rin and headed for him. Rin placed both hands on Kurikara's handle and braced himself. The flash of words almost made him stumble. Then it hit him. It was the demons Fatal Verse!
A feral grin appeared on his face. The demon was going to go down.
"Bon!" Several voices cried out from one of the tunnels. Rin looked over and saw Yukio and the rest of the exwires run out towards where Bon lay.
"Get him out of here!" Rin yelled out at them, eyes never leaving the demon as it came towards him again and again. Rin gripped the swords with two hands again, waiting for the words to appear. He didn't know how long it would take him this time to read them out but he didn't want the demon to go after anyone else. He'd already failed Bon...
Rin gritted his teeth as a pang of guilt made him loose his concentration for a moment.
That moment was enough for the demon sink its claws into Rin. The pain that ripped through Rin was excruciating. But it didn't compare to seeing Bon in a heap on the floor. Once again, Rin gripped Kurikara with both hands. As soon as the words appeared, Rin said them.
"These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son also may glorify thee." From the first word, the demon roared in pain. But that didn't stop him from attaching Rin.
"As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."
With every word that left Rin's lips, the demon charged and lounged at Rin, trying to wound him, to stop the flow of words from his mouth. Rin dodged and struck the demon every time it happened. Small wounds appeared on its body. Cuts, and stab marks that slowed it down even more. The smell of blood was surprisingly thick in the air and it made Rin grimace at the stench.
Out of the corner of his eyes, Rin noticed the group leave, with Bon in tow. He seemed to have woken up because he was looked over at Rin almost like he wanted to stay.
Rin tore his attention back to the demon. He couldn't afford to loose his concentration again. He didn't dare. As he uttered the last few words, the demon screamed. Rin jumped and swung at the demon, cutting him into two halves with one swing of Kurikara.
Rin landed on his feet, but exhaustion hit him and he collapsed to his knees.
"Rin!" Yukio and Bon cried out, but only Yukio ran over to Rin since Bon couldn't move by himself.
"Rin, are you alright?" Yukio squatted down, eyeing Rin critically. The gashes and cuts were visible and the blood still flowed from some of the puncture wounds.
"I'm fine, lets get out of here... How's Bon...?" Rin asked, waving away his own injuries. They would heal, nobody needed to worry about them. But he was worried about Bon.
"He's got a broken arm, and a little rattled, but he's going to be alright." Yukio said, bringing Rin's arm around his shoulder so he could help him stand up and walk back to the rest of the group. "Alright, lets get out of here. We'll let another group clear the rest of it."
The group was silent for the rest of the way out of the old building. Bon kept looking over at Rin, wishing that they were walking together, side by side.
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Rin stood outside the hospital room, in the hallway that smelled strongly of antiseptic and very very faintly of vomit, just staring at the door that hid Bon from his immediate view. He wanted to go in, wanted to just stare at Bon, to make sure he really was okay... but something was holding him back.
Would Bon want to see him...? Sure he'd been talking to him while they were separated from the rest of the group, but maybe that was just a one time deal or something like that...
Suddenly, Rin eyes widened. Hadn't he screamed out that he loved Bon when fighting that demon before Bon got knocked out...?
What if Bon remembered that and didn't want to talk to him anymore...? Damn it! He hadn't meant to say that out loud! Now Bon probably did hate him, and didn't want to see him ever again. How could he have been so stupid...? But he'd been so scared, and it was how he really felt. Rin loved Bon. There was no other word for what he felt for the other teen. Love. That's the only thing it was.
Rin loved Bon and he hadn't exactly been thinking straight when he'd yelled that out... But that was it. When you loved someone and that someone was in danger, people didn't necessarily stop to evaluate the words that left their mouths.
"Rin, you can come it." Bon's voice through the door made Rin jump. He didn't think that Bon had noticed him there.
Hesitantly, Rin opened the door and stepped in. The first thing he noticed was Bon propped up on the hospital bed with a cast covering his broken arm from wrist to elbow. The blow from the demon's tail had snapped his radius and ulna clean in half.
"I'm sorry..." Those were the first words out of Rin's mouth.
"You're sorry? Why?" Bon asked more then a little confused. Everything was still a little hazy, but it was slowly clearing up. The morphine that they had giving him was a nice way to dull the pain but it made things too fuzzy to keep focus.
"I let it hurt you... I failed..." Rin murmured, his eyes down cast in shame. "I was supposed to protect you..."
Bon looked at Rin for a moment, mentally rewinding the words. The fog cleared in his mind a bit more. Rin was upset that the demon had hurt him and was blaming himself for letting it happen. But he really hadn't let it happen, Rin hadn't been the one that attacked him. It had been the demon. "Why are you sorry though? It's not your fault that it went for me. You were the one that was fighting it, you were the one that defeated it, there's no reason for you to be sorry at all." Bon murmured, wishing that Rin would look up instead of down at the floor.
Then the words that Rin yelled just before Bon had been hit ran through Bon's head. '"You're not hurting the person that I love the most! No way in Hell!"'
A small gasp left Bon's lips, eyes, widening in shock.
Rin's eyes looked up, though the rest of his head stayed bent towards the floor, shoulders hunched.
'Yup, Bon definitely remembered.' Rin thought, his body tensing.
"You love me?" Bon whispered, gaze locked on Rin's.
Rin slowly straightened up, and with a hard swallow, nodded. Then he braced himself for the screaming.
"I..." Bon swallowed, a blush appearing on his face. "I... Before that demon found us... I was gong to tell you that I have feelings for you... I mean I told you how bad I felt about ignoring you... but I n-never told you exactly why. Y-you probably think it's because I found out who your father is... but the real reason is because I-I keep thinking a-about you... I... you're constantly in my mind, it won't stop... I felt s-so bad about ignoring you but... I needed to figure out what I was f-feeling, and Rin..."
Rin's jaw dropped, eyes widened. That was not what he had been excepting.
"Rin... I like you... I like you a lot... I don't know if it's love... but... I-I want to be with you..." Bon trailed off.
For a second, Rin just stayed rooted to the spot, then he practically threw himself onto the edge of Bon's bed. He was careful not to jar the broken arm but Rin couldn't help himself from leaning in close to Bon's face. "Really?' He breathed out, eyes trailing Bon's face.
A small grin made its way onto Bon's face. "Really."
"Can I... kiss you?" Rin murmured, eyes now locked on Bon's lips.
The only thing that Bon could do was give a very small nod, because his body didn't want to cooperate very well with his brain signals. Words wouldn't leave his lips.
Rin leaned forward and gently pressed his lips to Bon's. That one kiss, took Bon's breath away, he didn't even notice that his eyes had closed.
The world around them seemed to stop, and it was only Rin and Bon in that one moment. Bon's lips were soft, and they parted. Rin nibbled on the bottom lip, enjoying the small groan that left Bon's throat at the action. With that groan, Rin's tongue darted out, sweeping across Bon's lips and then into his mouth. Bon's own tongue darted to meet Rin's. By the time they parted, both were gasping, a sheen of sweat on their foreheads.
"That was amazing..." Bon breathed out and Rin leaned his head against Bon's. Rin reached out to Bon's uninjured arm and intertwined their fingers together, while his eyes stayed locked on to the other teens. they smiled softly at each other and Bon scooted over so that Rin could lay on the bed with him. Even though they didn't have much space, it was surprisingly comfortable on the hospital bed. Rin made sure to keep Bon's hand clasped in his own, not wanting to let go.
"Rin... can I ask you something?" Bon asked softly, turning his head so that he was looking at Rin.
"Yeah?" Rin was already looking at Bon's profile before so he looked directly into his eyes.
"How did you know those demons Fatal Verse?"
"Kurikara. Every time I held it with both of my hands and there was the demons blood on it, I could see the verses. I don't know why, it never did that before." Rin replied, his brow furrowed a little in thought.
"Maybe its from being fixed again with those Temple nails...?" Bon wondered, his head tilted to the side.
"Maybe. It's helpful, that for sure." Rin chuckled, tightening his grip on Bon's hand for a second.
Bon agreed, then the yawn he'd been trying to control for the past few minutes escaped.
Rin watched with an amused chuckle as Bon blushed as soon as he was done yawning.
"Sorry, I'm tired..."
"Don't be sorry. Why don't you get some rest? When you wake up you'll probably be released, so what do you say that I take you to get something to eat?"
Bon nodded, then tightened his grip on Rin's hand when he shifted to get out of the bed. "Stay..?"
Rin couldn't help but lean in for another kiss. "Of course." He settled in again, Bon a comfortable warmth on his side. Bon leaned his head against Rin's shoulder, his breathing eventually evening out as he went to sleep. Rin leaned his own head gently against the top of Bon's and he too drifted off to sleep.
For once, his dreams were all happy one's instead of the nightmares that usually plagued his mind.
The door opened and the buzzing group that was about to step in, stopped short. Eyes widened in surprise, and jaws dropped to the floor in disbelief.
Izumo stepped forward, grabbed the door and closed it as quietly as she could. Once that was done, she couldn't help but let out a small squeal. "That's so cute!" She completely ignored the looks the rest of the group shot at her and she pushed them away from the room.
A/N: Thoughts? XD One more chapter and its done! Thank you to everyone that read and liked this! Credit for the sword Fatal Verse thing goes to LilCKSunshine, I hope you're still liking it!
Special thanks to my reviewers: AnonymousIDK, LysaJane, modestlykeithhelm, Rachel Elizabeth Dare Oracle, and StayInTune!