Blue Exorcist - Burning Heart in Blue Flames

By Tayla Drago

Episode 7 # - A Flock of Plovers

Another new day today as Shiemi gets ready to get to her classroom and to know about the test scores and everyone else's too. For her mother asks her daughter if she made any friends yet; she has - from admiring Yukio a lot, befriending Rin, and being close to Kiyomi as a sister to her was good enough so far to try to make more. Going into the room with the special key to bump into both Paku and Izumo who were just walking down the hallway. She trips for Izumo to be calling her a clumsy person to walk away but at least Paku cares for others, Shiemi must do some of the things on her own.

"Shiemi? What are you doing on the floor?" Rin asked.

"Ah, nothing." she said.

Kiyomi and Zuku saw on how rude Izumo treated Shiemi like that.

"That girl was a bit harsh, wasn't she?"

Shiemi thinks otherwise for Kiyomi tries defending her friend.

"(Kiyomi, she's defending me...) I'm fine, Kiyomi, really. Thanks for worrying though. See you two in class."

Shiemi goes off to not giving up in to making more friends on her own as Kiyomi was worried about her.

"I don't like Izumo. She could try being a bit nicer to Shiemi, like she's been giving me the dirty look the other day thinking that she was better than I was. As if!"

Rin tries cheering up Kiyomi too.

"Don't let get to you, Kiyomi." he said. "Most people can be damn idiots here so just be yourself. Shiemi will be okay. All I want is to be cool."

Kiyomi didn't think about Rin otherwise to like him in the way he already was to her.

"But, Rin, you're fine being yourself. You don't have to be cool for anyone or for me."

Rin sees that Kiyomi was starting to care for him more and more.

"(No way...) You like the only me just being myself?"

"I do. Don't ever change on who you are, okay?" she said to Rin. "Anyways...Let's head to class."

As Kiyomi walks off first for Rin to follow her, as he was turning red all over to see on how much Kiyomi was from changing to not being alone anymore into being happy, headstrong, smiling a lot with him being around her, great at other things in to not giving up, and making a promise to always protect in liking Rin than any other guy in the entire building. Rin then realizes that he couldn't stop thinking about Kiyomi for one reason only…

"(Ah, man! I might be in love with her...)"

He sure was happy to know that part. As they were in class today for Yukio to give them and everyone else's their test scores.

"Listen up, Summer Vacation is about a half a month away." he explains to his students. "But before the break, you're going to take the Exwire Examines."

This was news to both Rin and Kiyomi.

"Escort Examines?"

"What's that?" asked Kiyomi.

Shiemi corrects Rin.

"No, no, Exwire Examines." she said. "A candidate to becoming an exorcist."

Yukio had a handful a paper in his hands.

"Keep in mind that getting this, you'll also be taking some special combat training during the time. The exams won't be so easy to pass; therefore, we're offering a one long week boot camp to be prepare for the exam."

"Boot camp?" Rin was confused.

Kind of like a Summer Camp type of thing in training to do before the first-year ends. Yukio hands each of the students the paper form.

"Just sign up if you wish to go or not by writing what type you are part of a Page or a Meister, just hand it back by Monday until then."

"Well, this sure to be fun..." Kiyomi said to Zuku to be looking at it.

Rin was still lost from looking at it, so he asks someone about what a Meister is. He had to ask Bon about it since he was very smart.

"Say, could you tell me what a Meister is?" he asks Bon.

"Huh?" he was confused.

"Come on...Help me out here. Please?"

"Just answer the question, Bon." Kiyomi said to him.

"Give me a break! You want to be an exorcist and you don't know what that word is!? Seriously, what's with you!?"

Shima laughs a little about it.

"You really are totally clueless, huh Okumura?"

"Fine, I don't have a clue. You going to tell me or what?" Rin asks to Bon, Shima, and Miwa.

So, Miwa tells Rin.

"I'll tell you. It's a requirement in becoming a full-time exorcist, it's in title to prove that they got great skills." he explains for Kiyomi to be listening in too. "There are five Meisters in all...Knight, Dragoon, Tamer, Aura, and Doctor. If you require at least one of those, then you can become an exorcist."

Now Rin gets it for Kiyomi tries to know her place too.

"Hmm...I see...Maybe I could become a knight or a tamer. Yukio's a doctor, and Rin...Maybe a knight? (With half of the demon in him.)"

"Oh, okay. I think I get it now." said Rin.

"No one said you can sit with us!" Bon complained since Rin was sitting down next to them.

But wait, there's more for Miwa to be saying something else...

"Also in part of your skills and fighting to know which Meister you are is how you do it."

"Thanks, Konekomaru, which one are you going to be?" Rin asked.

"Well, Shima and I are going for aura."

That's for those as monks or priests to giving out spells within a book type of weapon.

"Bon's going for both aura and dragoon." said Shima. "Because he's all hardcore and everything."

"Wow...That's our Bon."

Bon got mad when Rin said that to him.

"Do not call me Bon!"

"But we always do, Bon." Kiyomi said to him.

"Shut up!"

As Yukio was not only doctor but also dragoon too already, so lucky for him.

"Already, huh?" Kiyomi was surprise to hear.

"Yukio kicks butt, huh?" said Rin. "What should I go for? What is a dragoon?"

Bon got mad again to be slamming his hands on the table.

"You are so stupid...! A dragoon is a fire arms of magic as knight in using skills combat of a hand to hand combat or with a sword."

Shima laughs to see that Bon cares deep down to get one part for Rin's attention.

"Wait, you said sword?"

"Knights are also known as best sword fighters." Miwa explained.

Then Kiyomi thought of one for herself.

"Oh, dragoon, huh? Zuku and I will go for that one. What about you, Rin?" she asks Rin

"I'm going with knight. This should be good for me." he answer.

"I know, this is going to be fun for you and me."

Good call, Rin, since he can carefully learn on how to control his weapon better for the others to see him carrying his sword around a lot, he and Kiyomi are all set to go. As Shiemi sees them being happy; she wanted to make friends like they were too and support Kiyomi a lot to liking Yukio for she must try her hardest, for the next class was summoning their own demon for Igor Neuhaus teaches them by creating a symbol on the floor.

"Now I'm going to summon a demon." Rin almost steps into the circle for Igor to stop him in time. "Watch your step!" he said. "If the magic spell is broken, it'll lose it effected. To summon a demon, you need to drop some of your blood to a special calling to it."

And so, Igor does that to summon his being a Cerberus-like demon dog or a Ghoul to smell like silver, but for Kiyomi can summon her Zuku at any time to morph into anything under her control. Igor then explains about having a strong will to know that it'll obey you and to know who was boss to follow your orders and to be kind hearted and strong to it in its own way in to do things; so today was their time to try summoning something out.

"So, this is like a test?" Rin questions himself about it.

"Saki, show the class how you do it with your summoning." he said to Kiyomi.

"Okay. Ready, Zuku?" Kiyomi does so as she commands Zuku to do some tricks that the two were bounded with each other. From weaponry, fighting skills, turning into animals, or objects for they have gotten better for the others to like it all while watching. Bon, Shima, Miwa, Rin, Shiemi, Izumo, Paku, Yamada, and Nemu liked her skills already. "Piece of cake." she high fives Zuku.

"Alright, Kiyomi!" Rin cheers for her.

"Nice work, Zuku!" same with Shiemi.

"See that? Those two are bounded by faith. Now as for the rest of you, the papers that I have given you before class, each of you will try it out. Drop a little blood on it to chant what comes in your mind to summon any demon that's right for you."

Izumo had no problem on her end to summon two white spirit foxes in seconds, they are the two White Foxes or Byakko to have names Miketsu and Ukemochi. For she comes from a family of shrine maidens, Kiyomi is a half breed, while everyone else were unable to do it 'sadly' to summoning theirs. Then by luck for Shiemi, she summons out a baby plant-like demon Greenman being cute and very small to only say Nii a lot, that's his name afterwards for her to give it to him. Cute!

"Aw, so cute!" Kiyomi said. "Nice work, Shiemi."

"If I'm not mistaken, that's a baby Greenman that you summoned." said Igor. "Excellent, Ms. Moriyama, excellent."

This was Shiemi's chance to talk to Izumo since she has befriended Nii.

"Ms. Kamiki, I summon out my familiar too like you did."

She smirks to be laughing about Shiemi's work, was she jealous?

"Adorable!" she was being ironic to her. "So, tiny and stupidity cute, like a peanut."

"Ah, really? You think he's cute?" Shiemi asked. "Aw, thank you."

Kiyomi and Zuku hated Izumo's attitude already.

"Ha, ha, Izumo you're so funny..."

Seems that three girls have done very well by summoning theirs so far for today. Igor tells them to tame a demon that they summon takes a lot of skills and being very rare for some 'expect for Kiyomi with her Zuku', at some point if the master's weak they will not obey to turn against them at some point. And after breaking the seal, the demon will go away to its world until the next time it is called out again. In other words, tear up the paper if that bad thing were to happen at some point so nice into learning something new as the school bell ringed to be over for today.

"That's all for today, class dismissed." Igor said to be leaving the room.

From that on Shiemi won't have any trouble with Nii to keep around and to control into being friends with. Izumo and Paku leave for Shiemi calls out to them, Paku likes her but not for the snobby Izumo to ignore poor Shiemi for Kiyomi to see that happening. She tries catching up for Kiyomi and Zuku to follow them to keep on saying 'wait' many times.

"Why are you following me around!?" Izumo yells at Shiemi. "Okay, so you summon a familiar now, big deal. Do you think you're so special now?"

"I would like...For you...Will you please be...my friend...?" ask Shiemi. "I never had friends before besides Kiyomi...So you know..."

Kiyomi and Zuku didn't think that Shiemi would ask Izumo to be her friend.

"Look, she's just trying to fit in school again so give her a break."

That's when Izumo smiles out of the blue to be saying this to Shiemi.

"Alright, we can be friends for now on."

Then Kiyomi and Zuku were like 'what?' to each other.

"Huh? Really?" said Shiemi. "I'm so happy."

Then Izumo uses Shiemi to do stuff for her like holding her bag.

"Good then here, hold this for me. I'm tired of holding it, that's what good friends do for each other. Right?"

So Shiemi smiles in to doing it.

"(Friends...Help each other...)"

Paku didn't like the idea of Izumo using poor Shiemi either for Kiyomi to get mad at her already. She punches a wall in anger for even Zuku to be freaking out at as Bon sees Izumo's way to show that she'll get better in to caring for others later for him, Shima, and Miwa leave the girls be but Rin to worry about Shiemi too.

"Kiyomi...? Yikes! What happened to your hand!?"

She kind of made herself bleed.

"Izumo...! Using Shiemi...! What kind of-!?"

Rin covers Kiyomi's mouth in time to help her clean the cut off her by washing to covering it in time.

"Look, not so loud..." Rin whispers to Kiyomi. "Look at your hand, you're bleeding."

Kiyomi sees it.

"Oh...Sorry, Zuku."

It understood her problem.

"What was up with that? Trying to hurt yourself?"

"Well, you saw it too. Izumo's using Shiemi, seeing people using others like they are nothing makes me sick. I see that happen to me too..."

Rin sees where Kiyomi was getting at.

"I know, it is dumb. Just try taking better care of yourself, alright? Don't do something you'll soon regret."

"Thanks, Rin. I don't know what came over me."

"Maybe you get mad to let your powers show your feelings other than controlling them." Rin took a big guess on that part.

"Probably. I still better keep an eye on Shiemi, just in case."

"Really? (She's kind hearted person who can kick ass and still be very pretty...) You're a good person, Kiyomi."

"Well, that's how I am." she said to Rin. "Sticking to my code to defend others who are treated wrong, or else."

And so…Zuku does for Kiyomi to spy on Izumo and Paku as she kept on using Shiemi to do things for her instead of being friends all day long. From passing papers out, getting something for her, to getting her food and a drink - all that Shiemi can do was to say yes, a lot with a big smile on her face to getting it all done. This angers Kiyomi more for Zuku to show Rin all of it for she proven a very good point.

"Unbelievable." Rin said.

"What did I tell you?" said Kiyomi.

"You were right, poor Shiemi. That Pako-Girl using her like a servant."

Zuku was being Izumo in character looking like her in making Shiemi like playing with dolls for it to the Izumo's one on the floor many times to prove that she was being mean. Yukio overhears this.

"What?" he asked.

"Eh, nothing." said Rin. "Anyways, why are we having boot camp in our dorm?"

"That's right, why are we?" Kiyomi asked.

"I think it would be easier, we're the only ones living here anyways so it's perfect to use it. It'll be fine."

Yukio does prove a very good point about it, for the students living there were fine to Kiyomi hating Izumo's guts is another thing.

"I get it, but still...That bitch!"

Soon all eight of the students have arrived.

"Hey there! Your students have arrived! Nice place you guys have." said Shima.

As he, Bon, Miwa, Izumo, Paku, Shiemi, Yamada, and Nemu were all here to liking the area that three were living in to not being that special for a building to be living in.

"Good morning, everyone." Yukio said.

"Seriously? This place looks like it came from a horror movie." Bon complained.

"Wow, it so creepy and ugly. Was this the best we can find and to do this?" said Izumo. "Here, takes my bag."

She gives the bag to Shiemi to hold on to again, for Kiyomi goes over there for Rin to stop her in time.

"I know, Kiyomi, just calm down." he said.

"I know...But...Damn it...!" she stops.

Paku was worried about Shiemi more too like they were.

"You don't have to do it if you don't want to, Ms. Moriyama."

"I'm fine with it, really." Shiemi said with a smile on her face. "Because that's what friends are for."

Paku, Rin, and Kiyomi didn't think so. And with that, they get use to staying in a place from it for Yukio to getting their papers back for doing their work for today to be night time now. So, they can finally get some rest for Yukio tells them to wake up by six in the morning tomorrow, Rin didn't like doing that though. Soon Paku, Izumo, and Shiemi went to go take baths together for Shima likes the sound of it, into being a pervert.

"Three girls taking a bath together, even Saki...Hey, you guys, let's go have a peek at them, shall we?"

"Hello, Shima!? You're supposed to be a monk here!" Bon said to him.

"You're getting back to your bad habits again." said Miwa.

"Ah, shut it."

Kiyomi was sick of Izumo's attitude to wait out to be taking her own bath and to yell at Shima for no reason and Yukio keeps his job seriously to see Kiyomi instead.

"Shima...! Look at me naked, and I…will kill you!"

Shima moves away for Bon and Miwa to be a bit afraid of her for Yukio nose started to bleed.

"(Wow...She's kind of cute when she gets mad.)" Yukio said to himself.

Rin goes with Kiyomi to get themselves a drink as Izumo tells Shiemi to buy something for her and Paku, instead of getting in the bath with them. That sucks.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Rin asks Shiemi to be looking sad.

"What's wrong?" Kiyomi asks her too.

"Nothing...Just going to get some fruit milk..."

She leaves for Kiyomi took a wild guess on what happened to her, Rin stops Shiemi from going anywhere.

"Listen, stop doing that."

"Doing what?"

Shiemi was hiding her feelings from Rin and Kiyomi, but Zuku could already tell.

"That. Stop being treated like a servant girl to them."

"I'm not being used; I'm just helping out a friend!" Shiemi was trying her hardest to not believing in what Izumo was only using her.

"You believe in that?" Rin said. "Do you really think that's what going on?"

Shiemi had other reasons too on why she was doing all of this.

"I'm tired of others helping me out. I'm just trying to... (To be like you, Yuki, and Kiyomi.) To be strong to help someone out for a change! She's the other friend compare to Kiyomi being my first that I ever had! You wouldn't understand because you two are strong when you're together in love. You two have friends already!"

Shiemi runs off crying for Rin to go after her, as both Kiyomi and Zuku to take care of other things.

"Alright, that's it! I might get in trouble for this, but Izumo and I need to have a little talk in private! Come on, Zuku!"

She goes into the bathroom for Rin takes care of Shiemi.

"Kiyomi...? Shiemi, hey! Wait up!"

Kiyomi goes inside the bathroom for Paku to ask why Izumo was treating Shiemi badly to even be like that to her as a friend, since those two have been best friends for a long time to go to True Cross Academy together, so she doesn't treat her like she does with Shiemi. It still was rude to still and to do it to someone else. They been through together for Izumo to see things differently with Paku to care for someone as the others treated her like crap, Paku knows otherwise for her to try harder. Then Paku says to Izumo that she wanted to quit from seeing that the place wasn't for her to do or having any special powers, making her friend feel sad for hearing that and to prove a point not to make fun of others either. You tell her, Paku. Then Kiyomi appears in front of them.

"Oh, Ms. Saki." Paku was surprise to see her.

Izumo got mad to walk up right in Kiyomi's face.

"You...!" she said. "I don't know why you're here, but if you're eavesdropping on us, you can get out now if you know what's good for you."

"Then stop treating Shiemi like crap." Kiyomi spoke.

"Don't tell me what to do!"

Izumo 'in anger' punches Kiyomi in the face for Paku to hate seeing that happened, but she was fine to be kicking her to the other lockers to get hit hard right into them. Then pushes Zuku's hand to turn into a knife to miss Izumo's face for Kiyomi to say this to her.

"You know what's wrong with you, Izumo!? You're a snobby little brat who thinks that she is better than anyone else to use or to spit in their faces! Well, I'm not like that! I want friends too for having a normal life while you hide in the corner afraid and scared to admit your problems like you're special! So, leave Shiemi alone or be friends with her, at least she wants to be helpful and Paku here is proving a point to talk some sense into you! The way I am by force! You little...Stupid, ungrateful, pushy, loud mouth, not nice...bitchy troll!"

That kind of hit hard to show that Kiyomi cares to do things like that for Izumo to learn, soon Paku sees something dropping on her to look really dark. It looked like blood. They look up to see a doll-like two headed demon beasts about to attack the three girls, for Paku to get in the way, then to get hurt, and Kiyomi with Zuku's help by turning into a spider form to stop it and protect both her and Izumo. At least their screams got Rin's attention to check it out and Shiemi to go with him.

"Paku!" Izumo said in fear of her friend was getting hurt.

The demon's blood was burned like acid to attack her next.

"Look, Izumo, Zuku and I will save her. Get behind me and shut up!"

"Like hell I'll listen to you!" So Izumo joins her to summon her familiars for the two foxes to stop the demon, to be too afraid on not knowing what to do. Bad move there...Because on what Paku said to her, they turned against Izumo to strike.

"Ah, you idiot! Don't think of bad things, it'll make you weak!" Kiyomi said to use Zuku to hold them down in time. "Because of this, your demons are turning against you!"

Rin then comes in to knock some sense into the foxes by punching them.

"Tear up the paper." Rin said.

Izumo does that in time to lose the demons and he waits for Yukio to come, only for Shiemi to arrive instead.

"Rin? Shiemi?" Kiyomi was surprise to see them.

"No time to panic, I'll treat Ms. Paku's wounds. Kiyomi, both you and Rin stop that thing. Let's go."

"You want to help out?" Kiyomi asks her. As Shiemi gets down to business with Nii to healing Paku's burned injuries 'by making a plant come out for Shiemi that she needed', as Rin uses his sword to whack some sense into the demon, for Kiyomi to use her double edge swords to stop the demon with him, it sends Rin flying into the big shower room. "Rin!" Kiyomi said in a horrifying scene of seeing him get hurt.

She strikes at the demon many times without stopping, to spray something into Kiyomi to avoid it with Zuku's help to giving her wings to fly. Kept on attacking, for the demon spoke something that he came here for Rin by his master's orders...

"He means Satan?" he said to try reaching for his weapon. "I have no choice; I can't hold on..."

Almost getting it, Yukio finally appears to be shooting the demon from behind for Kiyomi to do the same thing with Zuku's help.

"Rin! Kiyomi!" he said in a hurry. "Get back here!"

Trying to escape, Kiyomi pulls it down for using Zuku as a rope to drag it and to fire another acid-like spit-like blood at Izumo, for Kiyomi stops it in time by shielding her, only to lose grip of the demon to make get away.

"Crap! It tricked me." she said. "Thanks for saving her, Zuku."

Zuku was happy to help even for Izumo to learn a very big lesson after tonight's event, they didn't want her to get killed of course.

"Are you two okay? You're not hurt?" Yukio asks them.

"You're late!" Rin said meaning that they were fine.

"I still made it, did I? Kiyomi, good save. You did the right thing in protecting the girls in time. I know that demon escaped, but you had to do what needed to be done."

"It was nothing really, Yukio."

"Shiemi, how is Ms. Paku?" Yukio asks her.

She and Nii were healing Paku the best that they could as the other students arrive in the room to see what was happening.

"Okay, I think..." she tells Yukio that both Nii and Shiemi did fine by stopping the burning pain.

"You did great. Who knows what might've happened if you haven't been here."

"Good job, Shiemi!" said Kiyomi.

Shiemi was happy to hear that and so was Paku to be saying her thanks.

"Thank you for saving me, Ms. Moriyama."

"You're welcome..." Shiemi said to be hugging Kiyomi. "Kiyomi! I did it! I was helpful!"

Izumo then started to cry after hearing on what Kiyomi was trying to tell her, though happy to see Paku was going to be all right but to leave as Shiemi proven herself to be useful in battle and to aid the others was great, just not for her.

"Kiyomi, you didn't...?" he asked.

"No. It was me who kicked some sense into Izumo, not Zuku."

It was Kiyomi's doing alone and not Zuku's on that part? That was something new.

"(Amazing...)" Rin then checks on Izumo. "Hey, are you okay?"

"Don't touch me!" Izumo said to Rin. "Both of you don't! I'm so ashamed..." she said in tears. "I don't want anyone to see me like this! I was weak, I couldn't help the only friend I ever had...And now she hates me..."

So, Rin places his sweater for Izumo to use to cover herself up and to show on how he felt sorry for her.

"Just put it on and get going." he said.

Then Kiyomi said this as she follows Rin to let her leave the room.

"Listen, Izumo...Paku only said that because she cares, you can still change. Be friends with Shiemi. Please? I was a bit...Hard on you, but I did it out of care. I was weak until Shiro, my Aunty, and my Uncle helped me throughout everything, even my closest friend, Yukio. Don't be like me before I came here as an outcast. Be strong to take control of the foxes again and to show them who's boss next time, okay? See you later." Izumo just looks at Kiyomi leaving for Zuku to get confused on what she did back there. "Look, Zuku, I did it not for her, just to save herself from being something that she's not. Rin would've done the same thing for anyone else."

Rin sees how strong and beautiful Kiyomi was to him and to really care.

"(She's a lot like me...I won't let her be alone ever again.)" he said to himself.

As for the demon, it was climbing up on the building from outside where the real master mind was behind it all being Igor himself. Thought those things looked familiar, so why was he attacking his own students for? He seems to know more to care for their lives on what he was really after which wasn't good at all. But Rin did say that he was falling for Kiyomi now too...Wait, he was shirtless!? No wait, he was naked to let Izumo cover herself up as Yukio, Shiemi, Miwa, Shima, Bon 'while holding Paku', and Kiyomi to be seeing that even for Zuku too.

"Ah, Rin!" Kiyomi said to have her face turning completely red.

"Rin, may I ask why you are naked?" ask Yukio.

"Ah, it just happened...?" Rin couldn't tell them the truth and his tail to hide behind his back. "Just get everyone out of here, will ya!?"

And so, they leave the room but Kiyomi, she offers Rin a towel to cover himself up with it.

"Here…Ah!" But she trips on top of Rin to fall together. "Rin! Crap!"

"Get off me!"

They both had trouble getting back up without Kiyomi looking at Rin naked, they soon stop to stare at each other to be seeing both of their faces up close.

"Sorry..."

"No don't be. At least it was you." Rin said to her.

"It was sweet of you giving your clothes to Izumo, you know?" Kiyomi had her hand on Rin's leg for the other one was on his chest for her breast was touching it too for him to be liking it.

"(So, hot...!) It was the least I can do for her."

"And…You do look kind of cute shirtless. Just bring some spare clothes next time, okay?"

"(And she said I was cute...? What a woman!)"

As the two continue staring at each other, Yukio comes in to see the image being mess up and thinks that they were having sex, but he had the wrong idea.

"Ah-! AHHHHHH! Rin! At least use a condom!" he freaks out.

Rin and Kiyomi got back up to tell Yukio for that wasn't it.

"Yukio!" Kiyomi panics.

And Rin got mad.

"This isn't what it looks like, you are such a peeping tom!"

Zuku knows of it to almost think otherwise for those two, other than I think Yukio got the story from Kiyomi afterwards. More to come next time with some surprises and turnarounds with Igor being very weird and such to Izumo learning an important lesson after today. I also hope that Paku will recover later...