Normal day school was ending at the True Cross Academy as she walked to Cram School. A couple of the normal students stopped and whispered to one another, staring at her eyes but she didn't care. Her friends were with her and she was happy. As Emiko walked towards the cram school, she spotted Cassidy and Huyu waiting just outside. "Hi Em." Cassidy said cheerfully. Emiko just stood near them and folded her arms across her chest.

"One, don't call me Em. My name is Emiko. Two, what are you doing?" She asked. Cassidy frowned slightly but said nothing. If there was one thing she had learned to do since joining the cram school, it was probably not to piss off the girl with the dragon eyes. Emiko turned to Huyu, waiting for an answer.

"We wanted to meet you and walk to class together. Isn't that what friends do?" He said. Emiko's eyes widened momentarily. He considered them friends? She shook her head and sighed. Suddenly, she heard the jeers of a group of human cram school students nearby.

"Hey look! It's the freak class." A black haired boy with alot of piercings called out. From what Emiko could gather, he was the leader of the little group.

"Half-breed freaks!" Another yelled. Not that it was anything new to Emiko. She had been called every name under the son before.

"So tell me, how much did your fathers have to pay your mothers? We all knew they were whores! They had to be to have slept with a demon." That was a step too far. Her mother, a whore?! There was no way she was going to stand for that as her mother had died giving birth to her. She would not let her be insulted and her fist clenched, her claws drawing blood on the flesh of her palm.

"Hey! Maybe we could make them our familiars!" Another yelled.

"Or, maybe we should just slaughter them in the manner of their kind." Their leader suggested, making them all laugh. Emiko spotted Huyu's jaw clench. Which meant it must have been bad to provoke the pacifist. Emiko, deciding to take a stand, pricked her finger.

"I'm going to kill them." She growled through a clenched jaw and gritted teeth. Huyu nodded.

"I won't try to stop you but perhaps vengeance would be much more satisfying if done by your own hand rather than by summoning a familiar." He said. Emiko nodded and ran towards the group, her fist clenched and ready to connect. The next thing the leader of the group saw was her running straight at him before her fist connected with his face and there was a dull, satisfying crunch as his nose broke and blood spurted out from beneath her fist. She turned to the remaining lackeys, throwing her punches and holding no bars. One got too close and received a kick to the crotch. In a matter of minutes, all that remained were the normal students lying on the ground in varying amounts of pain and Emiko walking back to Huyu and Cassidy.

As they headed to the cram school, she noticed a boy with cropped red hair and bright green eyes following them. He seemed human, so why was he following them? It was beginning to piss her off so as they entered the class, she spun on her heel and pinned the stranger to the wall. "Alright human." She hissed the word. "'Fess up! What are you doing following us like that?" She snarled at him. She was about to slam him against the wall when he didn't answer but she was interrupted by the appearance of a woman in the most whorish outfit she had ever seen.

"Ron! What do yer think yer doing here?" She asked him. When he didn't answer, Emiko decided to answer for him.

"This… human was following us on the way to class. We caught him after a… encounter with the normal cram school students." She snarled, deciding it was probably in her best interests not to mention the battering she had handed out to the normal cram school students. The woman raised an eyebrow at her.

"You're Emiko Ryuujin right?" She asked. Emiko nodded, not releasing her grip. "I'm Kirigakure Shura. Your new Sensei. I'll be keeping a close eye on you." She said before turning to face the boy who exhaled.

"The cram school students made a point that I wasn't welcome there anymore. It was just a freak occurrence." He grumbled before looking levelly at Kirigakure-Sensei. "Why didn't you ever tell me?" He asked.

"Tell yer what?" Shura replied.

"That I was a half-breed freak, that I shouldn't even exist." Emiko's eyes narrowed at the use of the word freak. Ron, on the other hand, got even angrier. "And that there was all this shit going on behind my back. And that you and my dad were part of that shit. How could you just let me live like that?" Shura looked at the rest of the class and then back to Ron.

"That was the way yer dad wanted yer raised. Not me. But we will talk about it later." Shura said. "For now, both of you get a seat and stay there until Okumura Sensei gets here." She snapped. Emiko dropped Ron and took her seat furthest away from everyone else whilst Ron took the seat in front of Maya. There they waited until Rin walked in with a duffel bag and his sword thrown over his shoulder.

"So, a lot of you want to be exorcists." He said, which Emiko scoffed at. He sent a small glance in her direction before continuing. "The thing is that you just can't kill demons with your powers. For example, I have Kurikara."

"This is ridiculous!" Emiko snapped, causing everyone to stare at her as she sat with her arms folded across her chest and glared at Rin. "Us being exorcists. I refuse to kill my own kind. We are demons! Why should we have to fight for and protect those miserable scumbags who are nothing like us and hate us?!" She demanded, getting to her feet. She had had enough of them all saying how humans needed to be protected and that demons were just mindless monsters. But after hearing all of this she had to think, who were really the monsters?

"You forget that we're half-demons, not full demons." Maya's voice reached her ears from the back of the class. Of course, she was going to defend the humans. "And you also seem to forget what that other half is. We are half human. And I'm going to defend my own kind." Emiko spun on her heel, not caring for anyone else anymore. There was no way in Gehenna or Assiah that she was going to let that filthy little human lover seem like the better person.

"Defend them?!" She barked viciously. "Defend the ones who hate you and fear you? Who call you freak and who think that you are nothing more than an urban legend, or a circus freak or the daughter of a whore? Who insult your mother as well as you? You're just ignoring the fact that we are half-demons and want to live like them. You want to be one of them." She snarled. She had had enough of Maya's attitude towards demons.

"So what if I do? At least I don't condemn humans just for being humans. You group them all together." Maya countered.

"That's because all humans are as bad as each other." Emiko hissed, her tail lashing out and flipping the desk over in her anger. Many of the other students backed away, not wanting to receive a blow from the lashing tail. Emiko suddenly smirked. "But then again, I guess we have to remember that you are part foreigner after all. So you would want to erase everything ugly about your kind, about your past. So I wouldn't expect any less from your kind." She sneered. She turned away slightly, shrugging her shoulders. "I guess what those morons we encountered before said was right. Your mother must have been a common whore to marry a foreigner."

The next thing Emiko knew, she was on the ground with Maya standing over her. She growled and elbowed her in the face before hopping to her feet. Her years in the orphanage had proven useful for brawls like this. Maya punched her in the gut and swiftly kicked her. Emiko growled, her eyes almost glowing with rage as she summoned a jet of fire and sent it barrelling straight towards Maya.

Maya focused and through sheer will stopped the jet but sent a wall of fire straight towards Emiko. There was no way she was going to dodge it in time. Just as it was about to hit her. Time froze around her and Maya, with the two of them freezing as well. AKASHI! She growled inwardly, cursing the annoying bastard of Mephisto. It took Yukio and Rin to separate them before Akashi set time back to its original flow.

"I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU TWO!" Rin yelled at them. Emiko ignored them and fought to get back at Maya, wanting to tear her apart and finish what they started. "Every day, every single day the two of you are at each other's throats. Why can't you two at least appreciate each other's ideologies? Mayako, you're going to go through more training after class today for that little stunt." Emiko smirked as Maya's eyes flashed crimson on the outside when Rin suddenly turned to her. "I don't see what you're smirking about as you can have double training for starting this and the little stunt with the normal cram school students before." Emiko wanted to punch him so badly but didn't as blue flames emerged on his skin. He called an end to cram school after that. Emiko stormed away from the rest of them, knowing that if someone spoke just one word to her, even if it was calm and peaceful Huyu, she would kill them.

She booted the door of her room open and slammed it shut behind her, startling her hobgoblins. "Double training! Can you believe that?! She started that fight but no. As usual I'm the one in trouble. I can smell the favouritism!" She sighed and flopped down on her bed as her hobgoblins gathered around her. "I have an hour's rest then I have to go deal with Okumura Sensei. Great." Her voice oozed sarcasm and her hobgoblins chattered. "Do you lot wanna come with me?" They nodded and she smiled. "May as well get a bit of shut-eye before my training." She murmured, rolling over and pulling one of the larger hobgoblins towards her. She sighed and closed her eyes, allowing her fatigue to take over as she fell into slumber. Not that it lasted long. As usual, she got about 45minutes worth of sleep before the nightmares of the room and monster took over.

She jolted awake from her nightmares, born of her memories and got to her feet. She looked at the clock on her desk and sighed. She had five minutes left before she had her training session. She groaned as she got up and stretched. "Come on then, let's go." She said to the hobgoblins, leading the, what was essentially a small army, out of her room and to the training rooms. She never noticed Maya watching her leave.

When she got to the room, Rin stood waiting for her. "You know you have a double training session right? So first we'll work on summoning water and then we'll do wind, ok?" Emiko said nothing. Merely took her usual seat, with her legs crossed and used her tail to set up the four large glasses. "You know the drill, fill all four to the brim simultaneously." Rin said as he settled down and began to read a manga. Emiko sighed and focused. She managed to fill two of the glasses at the same time but the third and fourth were simply knocked over by the power of her wave. "Try again" Rin said. Emiko growled and before she realised what was happening, a wave of water hit Rin. He said nothing. "Continue whilst I dry off." He said before getting up and leaving.

Emiko continued trying to fill the glasses at the same time but it didn't work. She would either fill most of them and knock the last one over or she wouldn't fill any. By the time Rin came back, both she and the room were soaked through. "Let's move onto your wind abilities." He said. "As usual, summon three small tornadoes and maintain them for as long as possible."

Emiko sighed and tried to summon three small tornadoes. But her abilities seemed to not want to work with her today as instead of small tornadoes, she summoned two rather large ones that tore through the room and blasted through the door before sweeping a rather large path of destruction through the hallway. "Oops." Emiko said dryly. Rin glared at her and she tried to summon them again. This time she summoned two small ones that flew around the room. She fought to maintain control before fatigue took over and she fell to the floor. Rin helped her up.

"I think that's enough for the day. You can leave now Emiko." He said. She nodded and made her way back to the dorm. As she got closer to her room, she suddenly smelt burning. She quickly ran to the room and opened the door as alot of smoke burst out the door. She ran through it and opened the window to let it out. When it cleared, she gasped to see all her stuff was burned.

"Wh...What happened?" She gasped. "Who could have..." She paused as she realised. Her fist clenched and she snarled loudly. "MAYA!" She roared as she stormed out of the room and made a beeline straight for Maya's room. "OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR RIGHT NOW YOU BITCH!" She screamed as she pounded on the door, alerting the others to her presence.

"Emiko-chan, what's wrong?" Huyu asked.

"That fucking human lover pathetic waste of demon genes burned all my stuff! OPEN THIS DOOR!" She screamed again. The door groaned in protest before opening to reveal a bored looking Maya.

"What's wrong?" She said.

"Like you don't know. You broke into my room and burned all my stuff." Emiko snapped. When Maya didn't respond she growled. "Apologise." She demanded.

"No." And with that the door was shut in her face. That was the last straw. Emiko threw herself at the door and started kicking it and punching it.

"OPEN THIS DOOR! YOU OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR RIGHT NOW SO I CAN TEAR YOU A NEW ONE!" She screamed. It took both Huyu and Ron to drag her away. "Tell her if she comes anywhere near me or my stuff again, I will kill her." With that, she turned on her heel and stormed back to her room to try to see if she could salvage anything from the ash.