Disclaimer: I don't own Ao no Exorcist, all belongs to Kazue Kato. I just own my Oc, Chise.
Location: Chise's room, old male's dormitory, true cross academy
Time: midday.
The window was open letting a fresh breeze get inside the sunlit room of a certain brunette girl who was lying lazily on her untidy bed while she read the last volume of one of her favorite mangas.
It was Saturday and since there wasn't any mission appointed to the group of exwires due to the events of the previous day Chise was dying of boredom. After she had a kinda awkward breakfast with Rin and Yukio - in which none of them utter a sole word - she had been in her room doing absolutely nothing. The girl closed the book after she finished reading it and left it beside her, she put her arm over twilight colored eyes and sighed with boredom.
"There's nothing here to do..." she thought. The second she closed her eyes the memory of a specific moment of yesterday's events flashed in her mind. The image of herself throwing over Rin in a hug and the feeling of Rin's arms wrapped gently around her fragile body returned to her like a shockwave.
Chise got up into a sitting position in her bed with wide eyes and a deep blush over her face. "What was I thinking? Why did I do something like that? So embarrassing." she thought covering her face with her hands and shaking violently her head to expel the memory.
"What's wrong with you?" Rin's voice reached her ears making her stop her inner monologue.
Chise uncovered her eyes and saw the black haired boy standing nonchalantly on the doorframe. "huh? No-nothing. Why didn't you knock the door?"
"I knocked but you were busy trying to break your neck. Anyway, could you borrow me your notes of Yukio's last class? I kinda spaced out." the black haired boy said flatly scratching the back of his neck. Something inside Chise told her that he was trying to look indifferent but maybe it was just her imagination.
"Yeah...wait a minute. Come in, take a seat." she stood up and walked to her escritoire while Rin walked inside the room and sat on her bed.
Rin's blue eyes followed the girl while she rummaged through the massive pile of papers over her escritoire. He looked around the room and noticed the clothes, books, shoes, candy wrappers and several other things scattered on the floor.
"She really needs to clean this room." Rin thought sighing; he never imagined that she was the dirty person type. If Yukio saw this disaster he surely as hell would freak out.
"Found it!" Chise exclaimed self-satisfied, skipping to him with a notebook in hand. "For a second I thought I had lost it." she handed him the notebook with a grin plastered in her face.
"thanks." he replied trying to smile but his eyes fell on the big, purple bruise on Chise's left cheek and instead of a smile he ended looking sideways with a blameful expression.
The brunette felt somewhat downcast at his reaction and touched the bruise lightly. He had been avoiding looking at her face since this morning and it was starting to annoy her. She had already told him that it was her fault being injured by Amaimon not his but it seemed he didn't see it that way. She patted him lightly on the head with the notebook. "Okay it's enough."
"Oi don't hit me moron!" Rin looked at her non-plussed rubbing his head.
"If you don't want to me to hit you again then wipe that gloomy expression of your face and come with me." the girl took his hands in hers and tugged him to follow her out of the room.
"Oh silly me. Wait outside a sec, okay?" she slapped her forehead and closed the room's door in his face.
"What the hell..?" Rin blinked twice not understanding what was going on.
Seconds later she emerged clad in a pair of skinny jeans and a green t-shirt instead of her loose, white t-shirt and pajama shorts. "Okay, I'm ready. Let's go!" she exclaimed excited before taking Rin's wrist and pulling him.
"W-wait Chise...Oi wait! Where are you taking me?"
"just come with me okay."
"b-but, wait...!" he tried to stop the girl but she seemed to be deaf at his complains and decided that it was futile to reason with her and he let her be.
Chise had tugged him all the way from the dormitory to a park that he didn't even know existed. Currently, he was sitting on a swing with his head bent while Chise bought who knows what on a convenience store a few meters away from him.
"There's something really wrong in her mind. Hell, she didn't even let me change." Rin thought sighing heavily. He was still wearing the pair of black pants and an old, red t-shirt he used when he's in lazy mode.
Suddenly, a blue rectangular object appeared before his eyes. "What's this...?" he asked her with a raised eyebrow.
"Take it..." Chise held out the object. Rin recognized what it was, a popsicle and knew exactly which was by the wrapper. Gorigori-kun, his favorite.
"...thanks." he replied accepting the popsicle.
Chise sat on the swing next to Rin, opened her cherry flavored popsicle and licked it before reply. "You're welcome..."
Both teens remained in a comfortable silence meanwhile they savored their delicious snack. Chise's eyes wandered from the kids playing and other people surrounding them to the black haired boy, he seemed to be deep in thought.
"Hey Rin...are you worried?" she said out of the blue with the popsicle stick hanging of her mouth.
"About what?" he asked her not sure of what she was referring. "How did she finish her popsicle that fast?" he thought still eating his frozen candy.
She began to swing slowly. "Shiemi and the others...what they might think of you from now on...?" Rin finished eating and began to swing too, his face scrunched up with concentration. She was right, ever since last night he had been wondering what was going to happen between his classmates and him specially his friendship with a certain blonde girl. He began to swing slowly.
"Don't worry...I'm sure sooner or later all will return to how it was, trust me." the brunette stopped abruptly and gave him a kind smile.
"...why...How could you be so sure?" he asked totally taken aback by the security on her words.
"mmm I don't know...it's just I feel it in my guts." she said with a silly giggle.
"What kind of answer is that, moron...?" he asked grinning and punched her playfully on the arm.
"You sounded exactly like Yukio...!" she laughed mirthful.
"...huh, re-really?" he said his face showed disbelief and this made her laugh even louder. He tried to glare at her but couldn't, the way she was laughing just made him want to laugh or at least smile and he ended laughing with her.
A sudden breeze blew straight on their faces and Chise's long wavy hair floated freely before Rin's blue eyes. The boy looked at her and the image before him was something...unexpected. The girl before his eyes looked lovely with her violet blue eyes filled with enjoyment, wide smile and dark brown hair fluttering behind her.
"So pretty..." he thought as his cheeks began tinting with red.
"That was refreshing, doesn't it?" she asked.
"Eh...? Ahh yeah." he avoided her gaze trying to hide his evident blush. "Ch-Chise, I bet I can swing higher than you." he said.
"Perhaps you have five years?" she asked teasingly with an arched eyebrow.
"Are you afraid of losing?" he replied teasingly as well.
"...humbly I accept the challenge." Chise replied meekly clasping her hands and bowing her head.
Rin cackled. "On the count of three...One."
"Two..." she counted with a smug smirk.
"Three..!" he said and both teens began to swing gaining more and more height and speed.
Chise felt a tingle in the pit of her stomach every time she rocked back and to be honest she loved that feeling, she couldn't remember when was the last time she had climbed up on a swing that way. When she got lost in thought, the girl lost concentration and her hands released the chains that held the swing and shot forward falling sharply on the grass.
Rin stopped abruptly his swing and ran to her side. She wasn't moving at all.
"Chise! Chise?! O-Oi are you alright?" Rin asked, shaking her lightly. "Oi chise..."
The girl turned so that her back was on the grass and burst out laughing. She was laughing so hard that she had trouble breathing and if she could feel pain her stomach would hurt.
"yo-you! Don't scare me, idiot...!" he huffed annoyed but was relieved that she was fine.
"Sorry b-but it w-was so much fun, it's been a long time since the last time I had this fun!" she stuttered because her laugh didn't ceased. Rin have never heard her laugh that loud.
"It's getting late...let's go back." he stood up extending her a hand which she accepted grateful and he pulled her to her feet.
"oww, it still isn't too late..." she pouted childish.
"Don't argue." he took her hand and started to walk to the dormitory.
She saw his hand wrapped securely her own and instantly she was flustered, her cheeks were blushing so fiercely that her face was like tomato with eyes, her heart was skipping beats and she could feel the same sensation on her stomach she had when she was on the swing but multiplied a million times.
"I bet that I arrive before you do!" she said before she started sprinting down the street.
Rin was left behind bemused at her antics. He still felt the warmth of the girl's small hand on his own. "Oi Chise! Wait, that's...cheat!" he exclaimed and ran after her with a silly grin on his lips.
"Stupid heart, could you stop skipping beats please? It's bad for my health." she silently begged her heart. Hell, she still felt her cheeks burning.
"I win...!" the black haired boy exclaimed triumphant.
"Are you blind? I clearly arrived a second before you!" the brunette countered puffing her cheeks.
"You're just a sore loser!" he said conceited with his hand on his pockets.
"Am not!" she exclaimed miffed, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Yes you are!"
"Whatever..."
"ohms c'mon...don't be a bad looser." Rin started to tickle her sides.
"S-stop...Rin, pl-please st-stop!" she started to squirm and giggle uncontrollably.
"Okay..." he stopped tickling her but his hands remained on her sides. Chise noticed that the space between them was small and she gulped awkwardly.
They looked at each other's clumsy expression and started laughing again. Rin took off his hands of her and searched for the door's key on his pockets. Both teens tried to stop their laughter when Rin finally opened the door and they stepped inside the building.
"We're home...!" Chise announced loudly enough to notify Yukio of their presence but no one responded.
The girl looked at the boy with an arched eyebrow and he shrugged ungainly. "Maybe Yukio went to a mission."
The brunette opened her mouth to reply but the sound of steady footsteps nearing stopped her. "Maybe not..." she said with a bright smile that made Rin want to smile.
"Welcome back, Chise!" an unknown feminine voice replied.
The teens turned their heads to the source of the voice and found a slender girl a little older than them with long honey brown curly hair, pale skin - but not as pale as Chise's - and bright sky blue eyes. Also she was using the same exorcist coat that Yukio have over black skinny jeans and black ankle boots.
"...impossible" Chise mumbled anxiously. Rin looked at her sideways and saw that her face was completely drained of color, her lips quivered and her violet blue eyes were glassy.
"O-Oi Chise, what's wrong?" Rin asked her tentatively, placing a hand over her shoulder but she stayed frozen and unresponsive.
"...what's up with that expression? Anyone could suppose you saw a ghost or something!" the strange girl said in a chirpy voice.
Chise opened her mouth a few times but no words left her lips. She blinked a few times and opened his mouth again. "What are...what are you doing here, Mika?" Chise tried to say this monotonously but at the end her voice sounded snappy. Rin noticed her drastic change of demeanor.
"Mika? Is she...Chise's sister?" Rin thought looking dumbfounded at the older girl.
A/N: Hey there guys! well, what do you think of chapter nine? Mika finally made her appearance (yei :D) also I have been dying to write some fluff for these two and I think it was really good development in their relationship but hey all of you have the last word :)
Anyway, I'm really happy with all the visits that's been having Finding a Way in Life recently also I want to thank all those wonderful persons who had reviewed like sopranokittythegreat (hey, I totally agree with you. School can be a bitch sometimes ¬¬" and I'm really really happy that you like this fic so much that's why I'll put all my effort to make this interesting.), Chichi4mangaHero and Ergelina. also those who had added Finding a Way in Life to his/hers favorite or alert list like , Chichi4mangaHero, KijoKuroi and Ergelina. Really guys thanks a lot for the support :'3
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