Disclaimer: I don't own Ao no Exorcist, I just own my Ocs Chise and Mika.
Location: Academy City Train Station, True Cross Town.
Time: Saturday, Five hours before.
"God! This place has been made bigger since the last time I came!" a honey brown haired girl exclaimed when she looked at the enormous city like school before her sky blue colored eyes. "That man loves to make things swanky...talking about that man." she thought as she strolled to a nearby bench and plopped as she took out her mobile phone from one of her exorcist coat pockets.
"Let's see..." she mumbled as she scrolled her contacts until she found the right number and dialed it.
She heard the continuous beeping before someone picked up the call. "Heelloo, you're talking with Faust-" a wicked man's voice said.
"Cut it, Mephisto." the girl rubbed her temples obviously annoyed.
"Ohh my...! Mika-chan, it's been a really long time. How are you?" Mephisto said casually, ignoring Mika's sharp tone.
"Like I said, cut it. Right now, I'm in Academy City and the main, no, the unique purpose of my call is to ask you to give me back my sister." Mika said icily.
"Uhm, that's gonna be sort of a problem because I don't have your sister, believe me." he said playfully.
"Don't play dumb with me; I want her to come back with me to America so transfer her right now."
"well you see, Mika-chan, I have no problem with 'giving you back your precious little sister' as you said but the one who decided to come here was Chise-chan by her own will. I didn't dissuade her in any way; the sole thing I'm guilty of is that I suggested her to come here, that's all." Mika could almost visualize the wittingly smirk that he had all over his face.
"What hell are you talking about?!" Mika exclaimed losing her cool.
"You heard me, I recommend you to talk with little Chise before you assume that I kidnapped her." Mephisto's voice was unruffled.
"Tch..." she hung up and threw her phone inside the pink duffel bag she had with her, her small hands became tight fist. "Chise..."
There were two kind of people that Kirishima Mika hated the most, the two-faced and the liars but she hated even more when these persons meddled up with her sister.
Mika thought that Chise was a cautious and smart girl that always stayed away from problems but when she found out that she got transfer to True Cross Academy in Japan where the sly rat of Mephisto was the principal she decided that she had to do something to protect her sister even of her own decisions before it was too late.
Location: Dining Room, Old male Dormitory, True Cross Academy.
Time: Same Day, 7:20 pm
"So awkward." Rin thought as he slumped further into his chair.
In one of the many tables available was sitting Rin next to Chise and in front of them were Mika and Yukio with a cup of tea before each one. The green-eyed twin had a somewhat disconcerted expression all over his features, the newcomer girl looked at Chise's impassive face with a kind smile on her lips and the black haired teen looked between the sisters waiting for something to happen.
"Are you going to introduce me your friends, Chi?" Mika's soft voice said.
"Chi...?" Rin thought looking at the violet blue eyed girl who sighed heavily leaning her cheek over her hand.
"He's Okumura Rin, my classmate and friend and his twin brother Yukio, he's also my friend and pharmacology teacher." Chise replied half-hearted pointing to each boy with her free hand.
"Aren't you kinda young to be an exorcist?" She asked truly curious.
"I began studying when I was younger."
"That's quite amazing, your parents must be proud." Mika said kindly.
"Yeah..." Yukio replied. Both twins had the ghost of a melancholic smile on their lips.
Chise coughed a bit trying to drive the conversation away from the twin's deceased father theme. "Ehm...well guys, she's Kirishima Mika, my older sister."
"Yep, that's me! Nice to meet you!" Mika chirped with a grin.
Rin's eyes wandered from over Mika's lively face to Chise's emotionless one. "Even if they're siblings they're completely opposite." He thought remembering the bored attitude that Chise had when she introduced herself in comparison with her sister's bubbly one.
"For the coat you're wearing I can assume you're also an exorcist, Mika-san." Yukio said.
"Yup, I'm an upper second class exorcist from the American Branch." She replied shrugging nonchalantly.
"Re-really?!" Rin exclaimed baffled after he remembered the exorcists ranking list, this girl was two steps behind a Paladin. The honey brown girl nodded awkwardly then Rin looked at Chise. "Why didn't you tell me your sister was a high ranking exorcist?"
"...you didn't ask, moron." The brunette looked at him with a roiled frown.
"Chi, language." Mika reprimanded her gaining an insouciant shrug from her sister. "Anyway, I want to thank you for taking care of my heedless sister and also I want apologize for any problem she may have caused in her stay here." Mika remarked casually, Yukio and Rin nodded in understanding.
"You don't have to apologize for anything, actually Chise-san is one of my less problematic students and it's the same out of class." Yukio was looking at his student with gentle eyes while he talked.
"Well, that's a surprise, considering her reckless and hot-headed nature." Mika replied casually.
Even if what the light brunette said wasn't bad Rin noticed Chise's body tensing. She mumbled something low-toned that Rin couldn't hear her but when he looked at her hands that rested on her lap he saw that they were two tight fists.
"...Anyway, for the time being, I'll watch over her while I'm here." Mika said lightsome but before she could add something else she was halted when Chise put her hands on the table abruptly.
"...excuse me, I...need something to drink." Chise said with dullness before she walked outside the dining room.
The black haired boy looked at the brunette's cup of tea that was full; he sighed and stood up catching the attention of Yukio and Mika.
"Nii-san, where are you going?" Yukio asked arranging his glasses.
"...huh? Well I...bathroom." Rin said offhandedly before he left the room.
Mika sighed softly. "I don't think they're going to come back." Her voice was dejectedly as her eyes looked at her intertwined hands that rested over the table.
Yukio looked at the girl beside him. "This isn't the first time Chise-san leaves a room this way, am I right?"
"Well...not exactly." She replied giving him a small smile.
"Nii-san, sometimes does the same as her. I'm sure that it's nothing for you to worry about, the most likely she'll calm down in a while."
"...maybe..." Mika sighed before taking a drink of her tea.
"Chise...? I'm coming in." the black haired teen knocked on Chise's room door but didn't receive a response so he opened it anyway. Rin peeked inside and found the window open but the room empty. "Damn, where the hell is she?" He mumbled taking out his mobile and dialing the girl's number.
After a few seconds of complete silence he heard Chise's muffled ringtone coming from outside the window, that's when a place popped in his mind. The roof. He closed the door and went to the stairs holding his mobile over his ear waiting her to pick it up.
"What...?" Chise's monotonous voice came from his phone.
"Where are you?" Rin asked starting to climb the stairs.
"Not gonna tell you." She replied nonchalant.
"Huh...Why..?"
"Don't wanna." Chise replied childish.
Rin snickered amused at her. "I suppose I'll have to found you."
"I don't want to be found." She huffed.
"Too bad." Rin replied standing on the doorway and looking at the girl's sitting form in front of him.
"Why?"
"I already did." She turned her head to the entry of the roof and saw the boy standing there.
"...damnit." She tried to sound annoyed but failed as a small smile made its way on her face; she hung up and left her phone on the floor beside her.
He kept his phone inside his pants pocket and sat next to her. "This isn't the kitchen, you know."
"I know...and?" Chise said with an arched eyebrow.
"I doubt you're going to found a drink here."
"Thanks for the brilliant deduction, Sherlock." She rolled her eyes.
He glared at her. "...why are you here, Chise?"
"I needed air..." She bit her bottom lip.
"Oi, could you explain me what happened back there? You looked like you were being reprimanded or something." he said softly looking at her.
"...it's nothing, really." Chise sighed and gave him a smile - a fake one, Rin noticed -.
"If you don't want to tell me it's okay but don't lie, it's pretty obvious you were uneasy."
"I'm not lying, moron...I'm kinda tired." Chise said bringing her knees to her chest.
"Tired of what?"
"It's...complicated, you won't understand."
"When it ain't complicated?"
Chise sighed heavily with her eyes glued at the night sky. "I'm not normal..."
"Tell me something I already don't know." He remarked wittily.
"Ha-ha so funny, I'm being serious, Rin." Chise pushed him playfully.
The black haired boy raised his hands in front of his chest in a surrender way. "Okay okay, continue."
Chise's violet blue eyes locked with his own blue ones and he saw a blur of different emotions mixed in them but the one he could pick up was weariness.
"I'm...tired of her and tired of being her sister. She's always treating me like a baby made of glass because of my incapability to feel pain."
"Oi, she's just worried about you, it's natural. After all she's your family. If Yukio was like you...I think I would be like her or worst."
"Worst?! That's hard to believe...she suffocates me. When I lived in America I couldn't go out alone, they checked out every part of my body daily, the sports were banned, I could never go to a amusement park or an aquatic park without being watched, I never was normal." her grip over her legs was tight even if her features remained expressionless. "That's why when Mephisto offered me the possibility to come here I didn't think twice and accepted without saying a word. Although, in the end it was useless...Mika always knew where I was." she chuckled darkly.
"Is that the reason why you came here? To get away from her?"
"One of them but believe me, if you were me, you would have done the same."
"I don't know...maybe, maybe not..."
"You don't know what is to live everyday being eclipsed by other person's existence, to be compared with said person in each aspect possible and end being totally and utterly inferior. The way so perfectly in which everyone sees her makes me look like nothing, a fail, a phenomenon." Chise said lifeless, burying her face into her arms. After voicing her thoughts she felt cold and empty.
"Chise..." Rin had a concerned expression. He put a hand over her back softly, afraid that the fragile girl beside him would crumble in pieces in any second.
They remained in silence a few moments until Rin decided to say something. "You know, I don't know your sister and all but...she don't seem to be that amazing or perfect or whatever you said before. You're not inferior, everyone is capable of different things so stop self-pitying, moron." Rin said awkwardly, she lifted her head and noticed that he was evading her gaze and saw the crimson that tinted his pale cheeks. A blush crept onto her cheeks too while a warm feeling filled her insides and out of the blue she started giggling.
"What the hell are you laughing at? Damnit." he muttered embarrassed, his blush deepening.
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention to laugh but I couldn't avoid it!" She said between giggles, Rin just looked at her huffy until she said something that took him by surprise. "...thanks. What you said made me feel somewhat better." Chise looked at him straight in the eyes with a sincere smile before she stand up and leave the roof.
While she was descending the stairs she felt her heart pounding wildly against her ribcage. The image of the awkward but cute expression Rin had was still fresh in her mind and felt a new wave of blood making its way into her face. "What is happening to me?" She mumbled.
When Mika and Yukio were completely sure that their siblings weren't going to return to the dining room they decided to leave it. The boy with glasses guided the light-brown haired girl to Chise's room before he went to his own.
Mika entered her sister's room and found it completely untidy but it wasn't a surprise, her sister had been always the kind of person that the tidiness of her room wasn't on the top of her priorities.
"I think I'll have to clean this tomorrow." Mika thought sighing.
Her light blue eyes landed on the only clean spot in the whole room, the bed across Chise's. The bed was already prepared with sheets and a pillow, immediately a smile crept on her lips. Suddenly the door was opened and a very flushed brunette entered and closed the door behind her.
"Chise..." Mika said confused at her sister's strange appearance.
"Oh, here you are. Your bed is ready if you want to sleep now." The younger girl replied stripping of her green t-shirt.
Mika's eyes widened in horror when her eyes landed on the thin scar over her sister's belly, she breathed heavily and decided that she would ask about the scar later. "Are you alright? You seem agitated, did something happen?"
"Huh? N-no, nothing at all." Chise tried that her voice didn't quiver but her sister noticed the little stutter she gave.
"Look, there's something very important we have to talk about." Mika said approaching Chise who just finished changing into her pajamas.
"Can't we talk tomorrow? It's been a long day and you should be tired of the travel."
"Listen, Chise...pack your belongings, you'll return to America the day after tomorrow. I already arranged a plane ticket for you." Mika said in a serious tone that made Chise freeze in her place.
"Wh-what?! Leave...? You're not serious, are you?" Chise turned to see Mika's face and found no trace of being joking. "B-but...Mika, I can't, I don't want!"
"No buts. Don't think I don't know the recent events that had occurred here. The large bruise on your cheek and the scar in your abdomen proves me that you're not safe here. You'll return to America and that's all." Mika's voice was determined; Chise looked at her with disbelief.
"...you're leaving?" A male's voice void of emotion said from the door.
Both girls turned to see who was the newcomer and found Rin. He had a perplexed look in his blue eyes and had Chise's mobile phone on his hand.
"Damnit, I forgot it on the roof." The twilight eyed girl thought somberly but didn't say a thing, just remained looking at the boy with glazed eyes.
A/N: Hey there my dear readers, I'm so sorry for the long wait. This weeks had been kinda hectic with all the exams and projects I've been drown in but now I'm free to continue with life. I hope this chapter isn't boring at all, anyway, I almost finished the next chapter so I hope to update next week or so.
I want to thank RantyOtaku for the review :3 and cristykreme, tanithh, xXMelloxRebekahXx, Valerie Mihaelis and SaChan22 for adding Finding a Way in Life to his/hers favorite or alert list, I really apreciate it guys :D!
That's all for now...until next update!