Gehena Heiretsu Ch. 7
Disclaimer: I may own a Ao no Exorcist poster and True Cross Academy necklace, but sadly I do not own Ao no Exorcist itself.
Rated: T


Rin fingered the hilt of kurikara with a mixture of excitement and nervousness as he sat alone on his booth seat in the train.

'We're finally on our way.' The half demon smiled.

After a week of training, Rin and the other exwires were finally going on a mission; but he was starting to feel a bit guilty about going on this trip.

Here he was, getting excited about going on a mission that could possibly result in his death, while his friends and family were probably getting more and more worried about him as the days passed. Although some, i.e Shura and Bon, were probably getting increasingly pissed off at him since it was his own stupid mistake that landed him here. He could already begin to imagine the yelling he'd get from the two. The teen winced as he thought of how many hours Shura would make him kneel with a bariyon on his lap to teach him a lesson on how he should listen more.

Sighing, Rin couldn't help but look at this world's Yukio. Even though the only way the Vatican would help him return his world was if he helped them with this war, Rin knew he would have helped no matter what.

Despite the fact they were only the parallel versions of his friends, the teen knew he never could have just abandoned them. They all still shared the same face and personality so Rin couldn't help but want to fight alongside them; even if the feeling wasn't mutual.

He didn't even need to ask the others what they thought of him still, he already knew it just by the fact that everyone had refused to sit next to him. All the other exwires, were uneasy around him despite the fact that all week long he had tried to prove he bore no ill intentions towards any of them. Well, excluding Shima, but even he was still wary of him.

'At least Eyebrows isn't screaming every time I enter the room anymore.'

"As explained before, your original mission has been changed due to an outbreak of demons and Salamanders setting fire to a forest near one of our Northern outposts." Yukio announced. "Our mission is simple; assist the exorcists in taming the fire, treating those who have been wounded, and exorcising the lower level demons."

"However, if one of the demon kings or any demons above middle class appear, I want you to retreat immediately. None of you are ready yet to defeat those types so just let the upper class exorcists handle it." Yukio's gaze was directed fully on Rin while the other exwires all agreed. Knowing from his childhood, he remembered Rin's impulsive tendencies to take on any opponent head on even if they were three times his size.

Meanwhile, Rin had felt like retorting about how he'd already defeated the Impure King, who was the size of a freaking city, but he bit back the comment. He knew that the bespectacled teen was just worried about him. Even if he wasn't this world's Rin, he could tell that Yukio was concerned for him all the same.

"Fine." The half demon muttered, earning a sigh of relief from the other.

The rest of the train ride was quiet, the only sounds coming from the hushed conversations between Kamiki and Shiemi, and Bon and Shima.

-o0o-

By the time the train pulled into the station, Rin felt like he was going to die of boredom.

"Everyone exit now, this is as far as the train can take us to our location." Yukio told the exwires as he stood up and began leading them out.

Rin eagerly hopped out of his seat and followed after his parallel twin.

"So what are we going to do now?" He questioned, his tail moving back and forth in a peppy curious manner.

"Ni—I mean Rin, I've gone over this many times." The exorcist sighed. "We are going to get picked up by a truck and driven to where the other exorcists are."

"Oh yeah, sorry."

Rin wondered for a moment what Yukio had been about to say earlier, but then realized it. Yukio almost called him "Nii-san".

'It must be really hard for him since his Rin is on Satan's side… Me being here is probably not helping the situation.'

The dark blue haired teen let out a breath as he once again cursed his parallel for what had to be the millionth time.

Shuffling off the train, Rin was shocked to see that even from this distance, the smoke and flames curling off the tops of many trees was clearly visible.

"How the hell do they expect us to put that out?" Bon asked incredulously to no one in particular.

Rin couldn't help but silently agree with the teen; this did seem like a rather impossible task.

"Looks like I'll need Uchimochi." Kamiki commented as the other exwires also began thinking of what they'd need as well.

"Nii-chan, we'll need lots of sancho-san." Shiemi told her greenman spirit, who was currently perched on her shoulder. Of course he was in his smaller form, since not only was it energy saving, it also meant her shoulder wouldn't get crushed since his other form was so large.

Shima just started assembling his K'rik in silence while Bon checked to make sure he had enough ammo as they all waited for the truck to arrive.


"I need all available exorcists not helping the injured or engaged in combat with demons to start putting these fires out!" A dark skinned exorcist was shouting as the exwires were hopping out of the truck.

They were now in a large circular clearing in the forest that had a large magic circle around them to keep the demons from entering their make shift camp.

"Yukio Okumura, Reinforcement Squad Captain." Yukio introduced himself to the man as they shook hands. "How can we be of assistance?"

"Tarsem Mahal, Defense Squad Captain." Tarsem returned. "We need help in keeping the fire at bay so it doesn't reach the nearby town or our base."

Tarsem paused a moment to listen to voices reporting in on his walkie talkie.

"It seems aid is needed in the treatment area and we help in putting out the fire... Hold on, a group of exorcists have been greatly outnumbered in the forest by some demons and are surrounded." He paused and then continued, "You can assign your exwires to what areas you see fit."

Yukio nodded and then turned to the exwires who had all been listening in on the discussion.

"You all heard those directions right?" He asked them as they nodded in reply. "Alright, Shiemi, you should help treat the wounded." The bespectacled teen said.

"Izumo, you work on helping put out the fire; Bon, Shima, and Rin, you all help that group of exorcists." Yukio added and then gave them the coordinates before rolling up his sleeves. "I am going to go join Shiemi in the treatment area to help with the miasma wounds. You are all lower ranks than anyone here so if someone gives you an order to stand down, you need to listen alright?"

Even though the rule applied to all of them, Yukio's gaze was on Rin for the most part.

"Yes sensei." Each of the exwires replied before leaving for their positions.

"And, Rin?" Yukio stopped the teen.

"Yeah?" Rin asked.

"Don't do anything stupid."

"I know."


Izumo coughed as she breathed in some of the smoke. Using her sleeve to try and filter the air, she then waited as the words of the summoning spell came to her.

"Uchimochi come forth!" She began as a long white kitsune (fox) began to appear. "Take an arashine into your hands and cleanse it. Take a nisoshine into your hands and purify it."

As the twin tailed girl casted the spell, a white kitsune began to swirl around and rorm a cirlcle.

"To make eight servings of sacred wine, at the peaceful sound of Yahirade." Izumo paused a moment before continuing. "Hear me God! Ama no Oomiki!"

With the completion of the chant, the fox then took the form of a large white bowl filled with sacred wine that began pouring over the fire. Since the fire was the result of the flames from a Salamander, holy water and other blessed liquids worked better than normal water on putting it out.

All around the exwire, other exorcists were working on using fire hoses and grenades of holy water to keep the flames at bay, while others were fighting the dragon-like Fire Salamanders.

It was draining for Izumo to use her tamer abilities to keep refilling the bowl of wine, but not too much since this was what her and Shiemi's type of training had focused on. Endurance.

That was the reason behind them having run around so much from that Leper demon; it was to help them build endurance so they'd be able to keep their summons out longer.

Along with running they also had worked on keeping their demons out for long periods of time. So as tiring as it would be, Kamiki knew she'd be able to hold out for awhile.

"Hey someone help him!" An exorcist called out as she pointed to another man who had just collapsed. Judging by his burnt clothing, Izumo figured he had been hit by an attack from one of the Salamanders.

'I don't think it'll take too much strength to help him out with one of my summons. Just as long as they don't get attacked along the way.' The purple haired teen decided.

"Come forth Ukemochi siblings!" She shouted as small little foxes began appearing around her. "Carry that man back to the temporary camp."

The little demons immediately headed over to the injured exorcist, and to the surprise of many, they easily picked him up and began heading off.

Izumo would never admit it to anyone, but she found those little siblings of her summons adorable.

Quickly hiding her blush, Izumo started the chant again to pour out another bowl of sacred wine, when explosions of blue fire erupted across the treetops further into the forest.

Quickly slapping a hand over her mouth, she tried to cover the sound of her instinctive scream at the sight as she closed her eyes and tried to block out the horrible flashbacks.

'Calm down. It's not him, it's probably just that idiot parallel version of him. Don't freak out. Stay calm and focused.'

Despite her attempts to convince herself, Izumo knew something was wrong. Even if he was an idiot, that parallel Rin wouldn't create that much fire when he knew they were trying to stop it.

"Are you alright?" A blond curly haired pony tailed asked her as she dusted off her ruffled skirt.

"…Yeah."

"Then focus on the task. Whatever it is going on out there, it's not our job to worry about it. We need to focus on subduing these Salamanders and the fire."

"Alright." And with a click of her boots, the blond exorcist went back to fighting.

'It isn't like me to not stay focused. If my heart wavers at all my summons will attack me. I need to stay focused.'

With that in mind, Izumo took another deep breath before going back to dousing the flames with the help of her summon.

-o0o-

"Nii-chan bring me Sancho-san!" Shiemi asked the greenman as she kneeled before an injured exorcist.

"Nii!" The summon answered as it brought forth a large amount of aloe from its belly for his tamer to use.

Thanking him quickly, the teen quickly began treating the various burn wounds with precision.

"You're doing great, Shiemi." Yukio complimented as he passed her.

"Thanks."

Those few words of encouragement actually meant a lot to her. Ever since she was little, Shiemi had always looked up to Yukio. It was because of him that she'd come out of her shy shell and progressed so far.

She still remembered the day they first met.

Their world hadn't been so war torn yet, since Satan's recently acquired vessel was still young and untrained, but the supply shop was on high alert anyways due to what had happened there and was beginning to get more visits than usual from exorcists.

Yukio, a recently made exorcist, had come to her mother's shop with his adopted father, Shiro, in order to supply Yukio and himself with everything they'd need for their mission.

She was still too shy back then so they didn't talk much, but the little they spoke of had a profound effect on her.

See at the time, her grandmother had recently been killed by a group of demons that had broken through the barrier surrounding their garden and had become depressed. Shiemi probably would have died at that time too since she was out in the garden as well, but her grandmother had sensed them coming and made her run away to somewhere safe while she kept the demons distracted until help arrived.

However, by the time the exorcists came, the demons had already killed her grandmother and escaped.

Ever since then, Shiemi had grown more reclusive and scared of everything, not to mention heartbroken since she couldn't keep the garden maintained due to her small size.

But when Yukio spoke with her, everything had changed. He told her that just like her, he too used to be scared of a lot of things, but he had someone to protect him all those times. Shiemi's grandmother had been her protector, but she was gone now. Yukio countered that easily and said that his protector also had been taken away from him by demons.

That event was what led to his decision to become brave and do for others what his protector had done for him. So he became an exorcist as his father suggested.

He had left her with that message in mind, and since then Shiemi had worked on being brave for others like Yukio was.

In the end, she too became an exorcist.

Shiemi's thoughts were interrupted as she felt something nudging at her side. Looking down, the teen found herself looking at a man being carried by a bunch of small kitsune.

'Those are probably Kamiki-san's. I can never get over how cute they are!'

"Thank you for bringing him." Shiemi smiled at them as they then dispersed.

Looking over the wounds, the exwire noticed the tell tale signs of miasma poisoning and quickly called Yukio over as she started treating the burn wounds.

"Yes Shiemi?" Yukio asked as he jogged over to her. His gloves were bloodied from the wounds he'd treated so the teen quickly threw his gloves away and pulled on a new pair.

"I need help in treating these miasma wounds." She replied without looking up.

"Sure."

The pair then began treating the wounds of the unconscious man together. They worked quickly so when Yukio began hearing voices emit from his walkie talkie, he knew he could leave the rest to Shiemi and pulled out the device.

"Did anyone see those blue flames? "

"– Isn't that just from the parallel Rin?"

"No… that one's with my group right no—Wait, something's coming… OH SH—!"

"Hey what's going on over there?" Yukio asked as he pushed the talk button of the device.

"—E NEED BACK U!"

The frantic voice was cut off by a loud crack and static as though someone had just smacked the walkie talkie away.

'Rin and the other exwires are with that group! Shit! If the one attacking is who I think it is is, Rin is definitely going to do something brash and stupid!'

Yukio quickly racked through his brain of everyone in this area for someone he knew could help out over there. However, when the teen realized who he'd have to call, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of exasperation.

'I guess she's my only option.'

"Yukio is everyone alright?" Shiemi asked him.

"I'm not sure, but I'm going to send help their way now." He replied as he pulled out his cell.

Clicking the contact he always dreaded meeting, the teen waited as he listened to the dial tone ring in his ear.

-o0o-

"So where are we going exactly?" Rin asked curiously as he followed Bon and Shima, all walking at a fast pace. They would have run, but then they might be too winded to help out by the time they got there. Or at least Bon and Shima would have been since Rin was practically a machine. Each of them were holding a cloth to their face to try and filter the smoke from the fire, but it wasn't doing much.

"For the last time, we are following these coordinates to help out that group." Suguro growled at him.

"Yeah, I know that, but where do those coordinates take us?"

"Just shut up and you'll find out!"

"Hey hey, why don't we calm down a bit. Fighting each other isn't going to get us anywhere." Shima cut in calmly.

"Oh don't even, you're the one who punched him on sight." Bon retorted.

"Well I'm not punching him now so let's just drop that."

The half demon sighed with a bit of a laughing undertone. He didn't care that they were arguing, he was just glad no one was trying to punch him in the face. In fact the way they were talking now reminded him of his Shima and Bon; just Bon was more irritable with him and Shima was cooler and knew how to control the situation better.

"We're here." Bon said as he looked up from the small map they'd been given.

It wouldn't have been that hard to tell they'd reached the destination if Bon hadn't announced it though. For one thing, there were a bunch of demons swarming around in the area, and another was the fact that they could clearly see the exorcists fighting said demons but they looked like they were starting to get exhausted.

Before their presence was noticed, Bon quickly aimed his rifle and began shooting at one of the salamanders that had been about to fire another ball of flame. Following after his suit, Shima quickly ran forward and stabbed the demon Suguro was firing at with K'rik.

"For wickedness burneth as the fire; it shall devour he briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up or smoke." Shima began chanting as he dodged attacks from enraged demons. The pink haired teen knew that many of the chapters in the book of Isaac were fatal verses to Salamanders and other fire demons, so he continued to say them despite knowing it would make the demons target himself.

Rin had just been standing there in awe and amazement of how quickly Bon and Shima had entered the fray like an idiot, but now he realized he needed to help too and quickly pulled kurikara from his sheath.

"Shima watch out!" He shouted as he quickly slashed a goblin that had been about to strike the teen. Shima gave him a nod of gratitude since he was still chanting and couldn't respond.

Rin could feel the other exorcists sending him wary glances, which although he found unfair, he knew he really couldn't blame them. He was the parallel version of the very person who had probably caused many of them a lot of grief.

The half demon had only recently learned how to control his flames so he was still a bit apprehensive to use them, especially in this forest that was already blazing with fire. The last thing he wanted was for him to lose control and burst into flame, but as long as he kept his temper, Rin didn't think he was in any danger of losing control.

Luckily though, there wasn't much that could set him off anyways since none of the other exorcists were speaking with him and all he had to do was fight the Salamanders and Goblins.

'Looks like I won't even get a chance to do anything stupid. That'll serve Yukio right for doubting me.'

The teen smirked happily as he thought about proving Yukio wrong for a moment. But then, he heard a loud crashing noise of trees getting knocked down by some large force.

It didn't take Rin too long to realize he'd spoken too soon; because then, a very familiar voice called out.

And by familiar, he meant it was his own voice.

"Oi! It looks like the party's begun now that I'm here!" His parallel's voice cackled loudly before his presence was even seen. Trees began to be engulfed in blue flames rather than the red flames from the Salamanders as the vessel of Satan drew closer.

"Exwires retreat back to base immediately!" One of the exorcists in charge ordered them. "This is way out of your leag—"

Rin had an idea of what the exorcist had been about to say, but seeing as the man was then impaled with a long fiery sword, he would never know for sure.

"You can't just leave in the middle of a party like that! I thought the host is supposed to keep the guest entertained." Rin's parallel pouted as he kicked the man's body off his sword. "So what shall we play first?"

The vessel grinned sadistically as he scanned around at the people surrounding him. Suguro and Shima were slightly out of the teen's sight since they'd wandered off a bit to kill a Salamander, but now Shima had his full attention on the demon.

"You!" Shima hissed and tried to take a step forward but was stopped by Bon.

"Are you an idiot? This is not the time to get our revenge." Suguro whisper shouted to his friend.

Meanwhile, another exorcist who had been talking into his walkie talkie was now fumbling with it to try and alert the main defense squad.

"WE NEED BACK U—" The exorcist cried out into the device before Rin stepped in front of him.

"Hey, I said no one leaves. That also mean no one comes here either." The demon stated coldly as he then smacked the walkie talkie. The force used caused it to immediately shoot out of the man's hands and smash against the tree into a spray of small cracked pieces.

"You bore me." And with that, vessel's sword was plunged into the man's chest.

"Now! Where's this little parallel version of me I've been hearing so much about?" He asked with a crooked smile as he pulled out his weapon and began looking around.

"Right here dumbass!" The other blue haired teen shouted as he came at his parallel from above. When no one was noticing him, Rin climbed up into a tree and had been waiting for his chance to swoop down.

However, even with the advantage of surprise, the other still managed to block the attack.

"Well would you look at that!" His parallel laughed as their swords stayed locked. "You really are me. Of course I'm more handsome though. And it looks like you still haven't figured out you need to hide your tail."

Quick as a flash, the other Rin stomped on Rin's tail and used that chance to gain a chance to escape the others sword.

Rin meanwhile let out a cry of pain before managing to bite it back as he glared at his parallel with renewed hate.

"Okumura! What the hell are you doing? Get your ass over here! We were given direct orders to leave!" Bon shouted at him as he kept his rifle aimed at the vessel of Satan. Just then, the parallel Rin appeared before the teen.

"My little parallel is not leaving yet, I just started playing with him." The vessel reasoned with a laugh.

"Hey I can talk for myself!" Rin angrily retorted.

"If Rin leaves then I will kill everyone. But if you let me have my fun, I might just let you puny humans live." Parallel Rin threatened as he turned to face everyone.

"Yeah so everyone just stay out of this, I'll handle it myself." Rin added. In truth, he didn't think he could. He was positive his parallel was much more advanced and farther along in training than he was, but Rin didn't want anyone to die for his sake.

Even if it meant risking his own life.


For those who don't remember, a bariyon is those pickling rock demons that Shura and the other teachers seem to favor using for punishments.

Tarsem Mahal and the curly haired blond exorcist (or at least I think she's a blond) both appeared in chapter 22 during the Impure King arc. I personally think that the girl's appearance is too interesting to be a random background character so I think Katou has something in store for her.

Oh and I put the book of Isaac as the one that kills Salamanders simply because when I looked up verses having to do with fire, Isaac verses popped up the most so yeah. Not canon, just my own idea.


A/N : I hope no one got confused with this chapter since it had two Rin's...
I tried to keep it as less confusing as possible by using "Other Rin", "Vessel", and "Parallel" as much as possible.

Sorry for being a bit late and for having a few cliffies
Originally I planned on writing more but this chapter was getting pretty long...
Which brings me to another point.

As those of you who reviewed know, I'm replying through messages to those who reviewed since it's taking up too much space but for those who reviewed anonymously I'll reply down here as well as thank everyone who did reply.

Also, Suguro's gun... I spent probably an hour- two hours trying to figure out what to do. I used Tv Tropes and took a bunch of tests using his personality to figure out what kind of gun he was and decided to use a rifle. Eventually I decided to also the one he had in the anime but the closest I could find to it is called a "double defense 20 guage". So yeah.

Anywho thanks to Urube, mwuh-awesome, isthisparadise, Masked Bard of Chaos, Hartanna, NotJustASidekick7, ShiroHichi891, gdesertsand, Shinigami Reborn, Toby, Bryndel, pippintully, animecutie610, and drizzlemist for reviewing!

Now you get some sukiyaki made by Rin!

Kuro: Yay! Sukiyaki! 8D
Rin: Unless I eat it all first... ;D
Kuro: ; A ;


Toby - Yes, he does. But I can't say anything on the matter
I can't answer that either hehhh heh.
... That's actually better than my original idea oTL
Can I use it? : D

drizzlemist - I love any comments. Seriously, I like jump for joy when I see one in my email and I am constantly checking my email in hopes of getting one... heh
Yeah I like his school uniform too~ But I also like his street clothes, I think those look cool too
But I figured since parallel Rin never went to True Cross it wouldn't make sense if he had on that uniform so I figured I should clear it up. And then I thought that maybe I should give Amaimon and Mephisto new outfits too so yeah... heh
Oh and Amaimon brought the game from Assiah because it looked fun and he noticed that humans seemed to like it so yeah. Rofl, may I ask why you threw it at him?
You're last question was answered in this chapter right? And thanks :3

isthisparadise - ack you have pm-ing turned off... Guess I'll just answer you here!
So did I do a good job on that? I was trying my best to get his personality right. Sadly, I think I like my characters having horrible pasts way too much...
And yeah that's how parallel Rin became somewhat evil
So I take it you'll be sticking around to read more then?