Chapter Seven.

Mephisto and Divino calmly walked out of the field hospital side-by-side, stepping out in to the warm sunshine that was filtering down from the scattered cloud cover that had been rolling in over the last few hours. As the door swung shut behind them, Mr Shen started to scream.

"Its odd to see you care about something like that," said Divino calmly, almost coldly as they walked.

"I care about anything that upset's you, my darling," replied Mephisto smoothly, swinging his umbrella in his grip. "You nearly shed a tear back there!"

"I know I know," dismissed Divino with a wave. "I've got to be careful, but you didn't see what I saw, in that moment when I touched his hand." He shivered so hard that his feathers rustled faintly.

"Be that as it may," cautioned Mephisto. "Your as bad as my little brothers, you need to keep a better handle on your emotions. You shouldn't hide yourself away from society so much."

"Yeah yeah," sighed Divino but then he smiled and looked up at the sunlight. "Still, I do have to say, the Little Princes are very interesting."

"Woke up at last then?" Asked Mephisto playfully, "maybe I should go check on them myself."

"You'll do no such thing," scolded Divino, just as playfully. "They are asleep at the moment and they need time with each other, and a chance to talk, without interruption or distraction."

The purple haired demon pouted, causing the golden haired angel to laugh and poke him in the arm, "anyway I also went and spoke with there friends."

"Hm?" Mephisto perked up slightly, knowing that his old friend wouldn't mention something unless it was important.

"Do you know that they are all willing to follow the Little Princes into Gehenna itself?"

Mephisto laughed at Divino's shocked expression, his voice sounding even more rich and velvety as he leaned in closely, "of course so my darling," he crooned. "And while I don't control everything that happens, much to others disbelief, it does seem very remarkable that everything is falling into place there. Its not like I had that much control over who applies to join the Cram school, just who gets into the boy's class."

"Whatever you trickster," Divino rolled his eyes while pushing Mephisto's face away from him, but the demon caught his hand and instead brought it up to his lips, kissing the back of Divino's fingers and hand, almost caressing it against his cheek. The winged young man blushed and bit his lip, fighting back the temptation offered in those dark eyes, "not yet, we don't have time," he managed to say at last.

They had been walking towards Mephisto's limo that was parked two streets away, but had stopped a few meters away when they'd started talking. Now Mephisto suddenly pulled hard on Divino's arm and the winged young man gasped as he suddenly found himself pinned to a wall, the slightly taller figure of Mephisto was pressed tightly against him. Divino had only a moment before the demon's lips found his own and he was almost melting, distantly grateful that the demon had thought to pin him to a wall first, but he also knew it was the only way Mephisto would have been able to kiss him without Divino running away.

Lips moved and soon tongues moved too, fanged teeth nibbled at Divino's bottom lip and he gasped faintly before suddenly the lips were gone, they were instead on his neck now. Biting, kissing, licking, all of it sending shivers up and down Divino's spine, and making his face flush while his heart rate soared. As those lips reached the junction between his neck and his shoulder, Divino tried to pull himself away, to get himself back under control.

"I-I said we don't have... hmmm... we don't have time for this!"

"Oi, you clowny bastard!" Snapped a female voice behind the white clad demon. "You can't get any action these days, you gotta grab people off of the street now?"

Mephisto stopped and lifted his head up to the sky, managing to chuckle through clenched teeth as he reined in his libido. He sighed and turned just enough to look over his shoulder, Shura was stood at the entrance to the short alley he'd pulled Divino into. She was dressed in her usual too-small shorts and barely-holding-in-there string bra, with combat boots and a light jacket plus the addition of several bandages on her arms and torso, but it was the scowl she was wearing that had the demon chuckling.

"Can't a man enjoy some time alone any more?" He said, stepping away from Divino, having giving the winged young man enough time to stop his legs shaking at least. As he stepped back, Shura finally caught sight of who it was he'd had pinned to the wall and her eyes nearly popped out with the shock.

"What the hell?!" She almost shouted, looking around herself quickly and taking a few steps closer, while starting again in a lower tone. "What the hell is going on?" She asked again.

"Nice choice of words," grinned Mephisto, leaning calmly on his umbrella.

Divino shot the demon a dirty look as he pushed away from the wall and stood up, stretching his wings out and giving them a shake to settle his feathers right again. "I told you we didn't have time," he said with an accusatory tone before turning his attention to the near frantic exorcist before him. "I'm fine, nothing bad was happening."

"Seriously?" Gaped Shura, in disbelief. "I don't believe you were willing to go along with that, I heard you complaining before I recognised the idiot's clothes."

"Hey!" Complained Mephisto indignantly, his calm composure cracking for a moment.

"Well no one else dresses as badly as that," snapped Shura, folding her arms under her bouncing chest.

"I was only complaining that we didn't have time," reassured Divino with a sigh. "I could tell someone was following us and they'd catch up soon."

"I meanwhile knew, I just didn't care," shrugged Mephisto with a wicked smile, his eyes on Divino.

"Moving on!" Snapped Divino before trouble could start, "now your up and about, I need to talk to you, Miss Kirigakura."

"Yeah? What about?" Asked Shura even as she continued to glare at Mephisto.

"Excuse me young lady, I'm over here," said Divino testily, resting his hands on his hips. Shura scowled once more and then turned to look politely at Divino, "thank you. Funny way of showing respect around here, first those Exwires and now you."

"In fairness my darling, its not like the Exwires know who you are," teased Mephisto, rummaging for something in one of his pockets.

"Yeah whatever," dismissed Shura, "what was it you wanted?"

Divino chuckled despite his annoyance, knowing that the woman before him had always had trouble showing her true feelings and affections for others. "Basically, the boys have woken up and I've given them the offer."

"The offer?"

"Their only chance to leave The Order without being killed." Explained Divino, shifting and slipping his hands in the pockets of his denim jeans.

Shura blinked for a moment in surprise then snorted and giggled, "you know they are never gonna take you up on that offer." She said as she continued to snicker, "those two are very different but so alike. Rin will run at a challenge head long without stopping to question if he should, and Yukio will think about it too much before charging in on his own, forgetting there are other people out there to help him. Give those pair a chance to be on a level footing with each other, then line up another shot at Satan and the deepest darkest prison couldn't hold them back."

Divino sighed despondently, he felt like he was being made a fool of. "Your the second person to say that to me," he sulked, looking away.

"I'm guessing you've already spoken to there friends?" Asked Shura cheerfully. Divino nodded mutely, and Shura giggled again, "yeah, you got the same answer from all of those guys probably. You know what they did when they found out who Rin really was?" Divino looked up from his sulking, curious enough to forget his sulk for a moment.

Shura answered her question, with one hand on her hip and the other in front of her, finger raised, "they got pissed off about the fact he'd lied to them, and not trusted them with his secret. Sure there was some fear there, but once they understood about Rin's level of control, once they understood his Blue Flame properly, they soon came around."

"Oh my," blinked Divino, understanding dawning. "They are loyal then. Did you know they agreed to go to Gehenna with the boy's? To support them apparently, if they ever got a direct shot at kicking Satan's ass."

Shura paled slightly but she never got a chance to say anything as Mephisto started to howl with laughter, he calmed down slightly as Divino clipped him with his wing, and he hand clamped a over his mouth to muffle his giggles. Shura seemed to be caught between the desire to laugh at the ridiculousness or shout with anger, she ended up chuckling weakly while staring at nothing.

"Those idiots," she said, distractedly. "I wonder if stupidity is contagious?"

"What about you?"Asked Divino, cheering up slightly and getting over his earlier embarrassment.

"What about me?" Asked Shura rudely, snapping out of her repose.

"Would you follow those two into Gehenna?" Asked Divino sweetly.

"What the hell kind of idiot do you think I am?!" Shouted Shura loudly, her face going red with the force of her words as she unleashed a torrent of anger. "Why would I follow that wimpy four-eyes and that thick headed idiot anywhere? You can't trust them to do anything right, the pair of them are just hopeless no matter what they try and do! They always need other people around them to keep reminding them of what they are supposed to be doing, to tell them not to try and do everything themselves. They-they-they..." Finally Shura trailed to a stop, panting slightly while Divino stood there still, smiling faintly. "Of course I'd follow them to Gehenna, you stupid pair of bald bastards! You know someone needs to keep an eye on them both! I'd go there just to kick there asses and tell them to get home before they got in real trouble."

Divino chuckled as Shura tried to cover her embarrassment, turning on her heel and folding her arms under her bouncing chest again. "Well, after I had spoken to the Little Princes friends," said Divino, conversationally. "I gave them an offer, in two parts really. Firstly that if the Little Princes agreed to go and they were to follow, I'd help train them all."

"Oh that is generous," admired Mephisto casually, smiling as he fiddled with his phone.

"Shut up, you know you'd have asked me to anyway," flirted Divino, almost fluttering his eye lashes at the demon. "Second part is, if they can figure out who I am, I'll offer each of them, personally, a way of going with the boys, no matter how long it takes for them to be ready."

"Really?" Asked the demon now, blinking a moment with the surprise then smiling widely. "It's going to take some research for them find out enough about you, oh my, should I make sure those books are back in the library for them to find?"

Shura meanwhile was frowning, seeming to be trying to remember something, "hang on, Shiro told me about this once. He's the one that told me all he could about you."

"So he won't have told you everything then," teased Mephisto, unable to help himself. "He wouldn't have been able to really, like you said. He told you all he could."

"He always was a such a loyal man," sighed Divino with a bitter-sweet smile. "He could be a little close minded at times, but he only got better with age."

"I agree with you there," leered Mephisto, winking at Divino, "and he was definitely talented for a Priest."

"Oh shush idiot, he'd kick your ass if he heard you talking like that about him," giggled Divino, his cheeks a faint pink despite his scolding the demon. "You remember how demanding he could be."

Shura was momentarily distracted from her efforts to remember whatever it was Father Shiro had told her, she was now completely horrified by what the two men before her were insinuating. But she knew that despite all the arguments she'd had with the old man, all the times she'd shouted at him to cover her bruised heart and the feeling that he'd 'dumped her' to care for the Okumura twins, she still loved him greatly. She knew that that love had a habit of altering her memories slightly, giving everything he'd done an almost golden edge to it since his death, like he could do no wrong. Yet she'd known the man, and she'd known that while he was a Priest, he wasn't that much of a 'holy vessel of god'.

"Look, whatever you guys used to get up to," she began haughtily, "I don't want to know, okay?"

Divino chuckled dirtily and licked his lips slowly, "are you sure my dear?" He asked, his green eyes seeming to smoulder as he looked at her, but Shura clenched her jaw tightly and glared darkly.

"I'm going to do my own research on you," she snapped loudly, "see if I can remember right what it was Shiro told me about you!" With those words, hanging in the air like a threat, Shura turned on her heel and stamped away, her hair swishing around behind her.

"You can come see the boys tomorrow if you like," shouted Divino to her retreating back. Shura did pause a moment, the waved a hand over her shoulder and hurried off even faster.

"Oh well," sighed Mephisto but a smile soon lit his features. "I didn't want to share you anyway," he said smoothly, stepping closer to Divino.

The winged young man stepped away quickly enough, "oi oi, I told you, not right now." He warned, "I've got another field hospital to visit now I've rested a bit."

"Damned," pouted Mephisto playfully, reaching out and stroking a strand of gold hair from Divino's face. "Will I at least see you later?"

"After I've been to visit the Little Princes," promised Divino with a soothing smile. "I still have some work to do with them before they see there friends again."

"Really? Whatever could that be?"

"Stop being such a trouble maker," replied Divino, rolling her eyes. "Its nearly four now, I've got to hurry if I want to be back before there friends."

"Always so busy," chided Mephisto but he didn't stop the bronze skinned young man as he opened his wings, spreading them wider and wider until he could lift himself off of the ground with ease. "See you later my darling."

I was in two minds about loosely pairing up my OC with one of the characters, but I figured since they are both so old, why not? ;)