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"Everyone, this is Shiemi Moriyama. She is going to be joining cram school starting today." Yukio and Shiemi stood at the front of the class, Shiemi still wearing her Kimono.

"H-hello! I-it's nice to meet you all!" Shiemi bowed her head and looked back up. What the hell is she doing here!?

"You can have a seat beside Rin if you would like."

Shiemi hurried to the desk and sat beside me, smiling. "Hi, Rin." Her voice was quiet, as Yukio was now talking.

"What are you doing here?" I tried to make it sound as polite as possible.

"After what happened I decided I wanted to become stronger and to help people like you and Yukio. So thank you, Rin." I smiled at her comment. That was sweet. "But I also wanted to see Yukio teaching!" Shiemi looked at Yukio as if he was a God. I swore her pupils were in the shapes of hearts. So that's what the real pull is.

"What is the lowest-level demon to the King of Rot, Astaroth? Okumura!"

I jumped in my seat, snapping awake. "Oh! Um.." I placed a hand behind the back of my head, trying to act casual. "Well I've never actually seen one so I-"

"It's a Coal Tar. There is one right beside you." I looked over and a Coal Tar went past me. Awkward.

"Alright, so I'm going to be handing your tests back now!" Yukio stood at the front of the classroom, tests in his hand. "Shima."

"Yep!" Shima got up and walked to the front of the classroom to retrieve his test.

"Please look over the question you have missed. Be thorough."

"Sure thing." Shima took his test and walked back to his desk.

"Kamiki." The purple haired girl stood up and got her test from Yukio. I looked over at Shiemi and noticed how happy she looked.

"What's gotten you in such a good mood today?"

Shiemi looked up at me. Her green eyes round and big. "Because I know I did well!"

"Oh right, your family is pharmacist's, right?"

"Yes, specializing in exorcist-related products. So you could say it's my strong suit."

"Moriyama."

Shiemi stood up. "Y-Yes!"

Yukio pushed on his glasses and looked at the test. "What exactly do you mean by... 'Mr Sancho'?"

"Um..." Shiemi looked down and started to fidget with her hands. "You peel it and apply it to burns..."

"That would be aloe. And what about 'Mr Homiley'?" Yukio had on hand on his hip. Even he was slightly confused.

"A yellow-ish powder that's used as an antiseptic..."

"You mean tumeric." Yukio gave Shiemi a small smile and handed her the test. "It's fine that you assign your own names to plants," by the look on Shiemi's face, it wasn't a very good score, "but for tests, please use their proper names."

"I will.." Shiemi looked down and sat back down. "Damnit..."

I started to laugh, "And you said it was your schtick."

"Okumura." I looked up and saw Yukio holding my test out, but he had it so everyone could see the score. 2. Out of 100. I held the test in my hands and felt an awkward air between where Yukio and I were. "I think I have an ulcer." I saw his eyebrow twitching and looked at the score again.

"Sorry, teach..."

"Suguro."

"Yes!" Suguro stood up and started to walk towards Yukio. His hair looked like it had been glued in place, as his blonde streak through the middle of his hair was almost in a perfect line. As he walked past me he mumbled under his breath. "I couldn't get a two if I tried."

"Huh?" I stopped to look at him.

"It's because you're constantly fooling around. You make me sick!"

"Excuse me? You're the one the one who's fooling around, you rooster headed shit!"

"Excellent work, Suguro." I noticed a grin on his face. He turned towards me and held the test out to show his score. 98!

"No way! How could a guy like you get 98!?"

"What did you say!?" Suguro got closer to be, both of our fists clenched. "Listen, I came to cram school because I was serious about earning my exorcist qualification! Everybody here is studying hard to become exorcists while you don't even pay attention in class! A clueless bitch like you should just get lost!"

"Who do you think you are!? You may not believe it, but I'm trying to become an exorcist, too!"

"Seriously!?" We took a step closer to each other. "You're always dozing off in class!"

"Please calm down, Bon!" The short guy with the buzz cut, Konekomaru, and Shima rushed up to the front and stepped beside Bon.

"We're in class, Bon." Shima grabbed Suguro from the back and I felt Yukio's hands do the same to me. Shima and Yukio urged us back away from each other.

"I've never actually seen you pay attention in class!" Suguro wasn't giving up and pointed a finger at me.

"I'm an in-the-field type of person! I can't just be chained to a desk to fricken memorize things!"

"Suguro, you are absolutely right." I heard Yukio speak from behind me. "Go on, tell Rin off some more."

"Are you enjoying this!?" I pulled myself away from Yukio and looked at him. "Whose side are you on anyway!?"

"Let's see, whose do you think?" You're kidding me. The bell rang and I glared at Suguro, Yukio staying calm the entire time, but managing a tone in his voice jabbing towards me. "Ah, well that's it for today."

As Suguro walked past me, he bumped into my shoulder. Shima and Konekomaru followed him; Konekomaru keeping his head down and Shima forcing a small laugh at me to laugh the whole thing off, I guess. Izumo, Paku, the guy in the black hoodie and puppet kid left as well.

"I just don't get it." Yukio and Shiemi were sitting on the bottom step of the fountain as I sat two up on the top, waiting for the next class bell to ring. I placed my elbow on my knees and my head in my hands. "Is he actually smart?"

"Ryuji Suguro? Yes, he is actually. Like me, he is here on a scholarship. He is also the heir to a historic temple in Kyoto." Yukio sounded like he was still slightly irritated with me.

"So he's a little rich prick, huh?" I started swinging my legs, looking down at them.

"He is an exceptional student, incredible athlete, and extremely attentive during class. At the very least, he works harder than you, Nee." Yukio looked up at me. "You should look up to him, if not clone his whole brain."

"Clone his brain? That's a bit far. I'm not that bad..."

Yukio looked over to Shiemi beside him. "Oh, Shiemi, I wanted to ask you, how are you getting used to school?" That's right! She's never been to school before, let alone a huge school like this. I was still getting used to it.

"N-not at all..." Shiemi's face turned red as it almost always did when she talked to Yukio.

"Well, you seem more positive about it than before, you're almost a different person." Yukio gave her a comforting smile. "Try not to get too anxious. Just do your best."

"I will! Thank you, Yuki."

"Well, I've got another class to teach..." Yukio stood up and walked a couple feet away before turning around again. "Don't be late for P.E class, you two!"

"Bye Yuki!" Shiemi waved to Yukio as he walked away back towards the school. Shiemi and I sat in an awkward silence.

"Hey, um.. Shiemi? What class are you in?"

Shiemi looked up to me. "Huh?"

"Not cram school, but high school."

"Oh. Well, I only asked to get into the cram school. I don't think I could handle anything else at the moment..." Shiemi put her head down, but I could see the shy smile on her face. "I barely went to class in junior high." So she did go to school? Not much though, obviously

"Hey, I barely went either. I didn't exactly fit in..." I laughed a little, knowing our reasons were completely different.

"Hey Rin?"

"Yeah?"

"I don't belong here, do it? In cram school I mean..."

"Why do you think that?"

"Well, I don't really want to become an exorcist. I'm not smart like Suguro..."

"Well, having a brain like that doesn't hurt, but don't compare yourself to him, Shiemi. He's probably been studying it a lot longer than either of us, anyway." He's still a prick. "Besides, what fun would the world be if we were all like that? It's better with a variety of people."

"Rin?" Shiemi turned around and looked at me. "Do you have any friends?" She got up and moved herself onto the level I was on and sat beside me.

"What?"

"Well...you see..." Shiemi took hold of my hand and looked up at me.

"Well, well!" Oh not now! "What are you two doing? Getting close, huh? Must you do this in broad daylight?"

I turned around to see Suguro, Shima and Konekomaru standing together. "Oh shut up, you prick!"

Suguro chuckled at me. "What? Best friends act like this now? All touchy?"

"She's not my friend!" Crap, I didn't mean that. "Damnit!"

"Oh, I get it now." He smiled at me, mocking me.

"Like you don't always have your stupid crew hanging around with you! Sticking with only two guys? How lame is that!" Suguro glared at me. Behind him, Shima turned around and started to laugh.

"Hey, what are you laughing about!?" Suguro turned around glaring at the pink haired kid.

"I was just thinking about how it was true."

"Why would you agree with a bitch like her!?"

"What did you just call me!?" I bared my teeth at him and he did the same. I felt a low growl come from the bottom of my throat, but I doubt anyone else noticed it. We started to glare each other down and I could feel the stares from the other three around us.

I stood at the top of the pit, leaning with my back against the wall. Inside were four Leaper's, a type of demon that looked like a large frog, in individual cages. I looked down at the P.E. strip, judging it once more. For the girls, it was purple shorts, or pants, and a long sleeve shirt. I chose the shorts, though. For the boys, track pants and a t-shirt.

"Now class!" Tsubaki, the P.E. teacher for the cram school, stood in the middle of the cages on a tower type thing with levers and controls. "First up, Okumura and... Suguro?" I looked towards Suguro and smirked. Perfect. I walked towards the pit and jumped down, landing with my knees bent while he decided to use the ladder. I stood at the white line that was marked for starting and placed my hands on my hips, smiling at Suguro. "But these were supposed to be same sex pairings?"

"Whatever, just get on with it!" Suguro shouted up to him. We both got into the positions for running and looked at each other. He had the same intentions as me; win. "You should've just gone with another chick, Okumura."

I smiled at myself and looked ahead. "You probably should've as well."

"Another guy?" Suguro asked confused by my comment.

"A girl." Tsubaki hit the alarm signaling us to run. Both of us took off running from the Leaper, and I gotta say he was pretty fast. Even with the half demon powers he was still right beside me or just behind me.

"Okay, this is not a footrace! The goal is to get you conditioned to the movements of the demon! Try to pin down it's movements!" Tsubaki shouted from the control tower.

I looked behind me and saw Suguro right on my tail. Damnit, I can't lose him!

"Wow, Rin's pretty fast! Suguro was the best athlete at our junior high, no one could beat him!" I heard Shima talking to the others as they watched us run. I chuckled and looked behind me, smiling.

"Pretty slow, aren't we? You may be smart, but that's not gonna do you any good in the real world!"

"What did you say!?" Suguro started to speed up. "In the real world," the Leaper jumped between us, causing us to run out of line from where we were originally heading. "-It's the last one still standing who wins!" I felt a shove on my back and fell to the ground face first, the Kurikara almost falling off my shoulder. "Screw you!"

"Bon, you can't just hit a girl!" I rolled over and sat up to see Konekomaru giving a worried look to me and then to Suguro. I looked at Suguro and noticed the Leaper right behind him. It jumped up ready to attack, causing him to yell.

"Enough!" Tsubaki pulled a lever, which yanked back the Leaper to the center. "What on Earth do you two think you are doing!? Are you trying to get yourselves killed?"

Rin and I stared at each other on our hands and knees, panting and out of breath. "What the hell was that for?" Why the hell would he kick me.

"I wasn't about to lose to you, a girl, even if it killed me."

"Oh yeah?" I stood up, my fists clenched. "Then how about dying right now!"

Suguro got up, standing in the same position. "Come hit me then! I dare you!" I lunged myself at Suguro, grabbing his waist and pulling us onto the ground. Shima and Konekomaru were sliding down the walls to us, Tsubaki running to us as well. Suguro swung his fist at me, grabbing my hair and pulling me towards him, holding my face close to his as he bared his teeth at me and I did the same to him. "You're just a weak little bit-"

I brought my knee up between his legs hard, and the fact that I had boney knees probably didn't make it feel much better for the pierced punk. He fell onto his knees, groaning and holding his crotch, bent over. I looked down at him and saw Shima, Konekomaru and Tsubaki cringe. Suguro looked up at me and got back up. He grabbed my hair and yanked it down causing me to yell out a little. I put my hands around Suguro's throat.

"Both of you! Enough! We are in the middle of class!" I felt Tsubaki's hand pull me back from Suguro. "I can't believe either of you!"

"Sorry." Shima tried to apologize as he was grabbing onto one of Suguro's arms while Konekomaru grabbed the other, both of them struggling with holding him back. Suguro and I stopped struggling and glared at each other, almost growling.

"Suguro, come with me." Suguro followed Tsubaki to the further side of the pit, glaring at me as he walked past.

I watched him walk off and noticed Shima and Konekomaru come closer to me. "What the hell is with him?"

Shima laughed, "Sorry about that. Bon is so serious sometimes, he can't always take a joke."

"Are you okay though?" I looked down at Konekomaru and nodded.

"Yeah, I used to have fights worse than this daily." I laughed a bit.

"He came into this school with huge ambitions, so.." I looked at Shima now.

"Ambitions?"

"Bon wanted to defeat Satan, so he's studying to be an exorcist." I felt my eyes widen at Shima's statement. The image of the Old Man's face lying on the cold floor of the monastery, blood dripping from his eyelids and nose, dead, came into my mind.

"I'm gonna beat the shit out of Satan!"

I felt my eyes twitching. So he's the exact same as me...

"See? Makes you laugh, huh?" Shima laughed a little. My face must've been priceless by the looks on their faces.

"Wait, that's supposed to be funny?" Shima stopped laughing at my comment.

"It's true." We both turned to Konekomaru. "Bon is so intense because he's determined to restore our temple, which fell to the ruin because of the 'Blue Night'."

"Blue Night? What's that?"

"What? You've never heard of it?" Shima gave me a surprised look.

"The Blue Night happened 16 years ago, when Satan massacred the world's most prominent clergymen. According to our own priest, on that night, one by one exorcists started bleeding all over, then died from blue flames sprouting from their mouths."

Shima continued on from Konekomaru. "Blue flames being the symbol of Satan. Our priest, who was still in training at the time, huddled in a corner until dawn, since he wasn't able to stand up. After that night, our priest finished his training and took over the temple. The only problem was people were so spooked that so many monks died there on the same day, so they stopped coming, including our parishioners... Next thing you know, it was known as the 'cursed temple.'"

Konekomaru spoke up. "Both Shima and I are apprentice monks at Bon's temple. We followed him to this exorcism cram school, hoping it would help restore the temple."

"Bon's got a full plate, so you could say he's driven." Shima placed on hand on his hip and smiled. "So try to cut him a little slack, okay?"

"So Bon's from the cursed temple, huh?" I mumbled and looked behind me towards Bon who was glaring at me from the corner of his eye as Tsubaki spoke to him. Maybe we weren't so different after all.

I leaned against the wall while it was now Shiemi and Izumo's turn. Izumo was wearing the pants instead of shorts and Shiemi was wearing.. well a hakama. I kept glancing over at Bon, Shima and Konekomaru then heard a small scream from inside the pit. I quickly looked down as saw Shiemi had tripped in front of the Leaper. She looked back at it as it was jumping, but it was yanked back by the chain around it's neck as Tsubaki pulled the lever.

"For goodness sakes Shiemi! How many times are you going to trip?" Tsubaki looked down and placed his hands on his hips.

"I-I'm so sorry!" Shiemi pulled herself up and looked up at the teacher.

"Why are you the only one wearing a hakama?"

"These are actually the only clothes I have that are good for sports..." Shiemi put her head down, clearly embarrassed.

"That was fashionable about 100 years ago, you know? Next, Shima and Yamada!" As Shiemi and Izumo walked to the ladder, Shima and the guy in the black hoodie slid down the side of the pit to the ground. I looked over to Izumo as she sat beside Paku.

"You're really amazing, Izumo." Paku smiled at Eyebrows.

"Ah, whatever, it's not like I'm tired. I noticed her glance at Shiemi as she smirked. A cell phone started to go off. Everyone started to look around to see who would react or reach in their pocket for the phone.

"Who the hell's cell phone is that? In the middle of class?" Suguro crossed his arms.

"Who is this?" We all looked up at Tsubaki as he held a cell phone up to his ear. Both Suguro and I dropped our mouths open and gawked at the teacher. "What's the matter, honey? R-right now? You really are a handful, my cute little kitty." Did he just call his wife 'kitty'? Tsubaki turned towards us. "Listen up! The rest of class will be a study block!"

"What!?" Suguro and I spoke at the same time.

"Normally, the Leaper is a docile demon, but he has the annoying habit of reading people's emotions and attacking based on those emotions. Until I get back, you are not to go into the field and you are to stay out of the range of the Leapers chains! Got it? Alright!" Tsubaki turned around and left through the doors, almost running. "I'm on my way, my cute little kitty!"

Shima chuckled. "Did he just say 'my little kitty'"?

"What the hell do we study for a P.E. block?" Izumo looked pissed off. "Is that even allowed?"

"And he calls himself a teacher?" Bon complained. "I thought that True Cross Academy was a sacred place of learning where only the highly motivated people go, then again..." Bon looked at me. "The students aren't much better either!"

"Just shut the hell up, Suguro!" I glared back at him. "Where's your damn proof I'm not motivated?" Shima got a look on his face as if saying 'really? You're going to do this again?'

"It's obvious by the way you act in class, you idiot! You're just a spoiled little rich girl getting some special treatment, aren't you? Or are you doing other 'favors' to get into this school?"

"Bon, you're being immature." Shima stepped closer to Bon.

"Please stop." Konekomaru looked nervous about us fighting. Again. For the third time today.

"Both of you just back off! Shut up!" Suguro swung his arm a little to shoo them away. He turned back to me. "If you insist that you're motivated, then prove it to us!"

"How?"

Suguro pointed to the Leaper in the pit. "With that. If you can touch it without being attack, you win." I gave Suguro a confused look. "It will look into your eyes and see your emotions. Anger, fear, jealousy, doubt. Whatever it sees, you're dead if you waver and look away, because it will attack you. If you're going to become a true exorcist, then you'll be able to control your emotions. If you make it back here on one piece, I'll be happy to acknowledge you as someone who is serious about this."

"Wait, Bon!" Shima had a worried look on his face, I couldn't blame him. I didn't wanna screw with those things!

"Of course, I'll give it a shot as well. Obviously I'll win though! So make up your mind, what's it gonna be, princess?"

I smirked and looked down. "Course I'll do it." I heard my classmates let out a small gasp and looked up to see Suguro smiling. "Is that what you thought I'd say? Dipshit." I scratched behind my ear, enjoying the surprised look on Suguro's face.

"What?"

"Of course not! What if one of us gets killed by accident?" I can't pull out the sword in front of people... "And besides, I have the same ambition as you, Suguro. No way am I gonna miss out on the opportunity later on because I died of a shitty little bargain like this."

"What?" Suguro's confused look turned into shock then to anger as he turned to Shima and Konekomaru. "You told her, didn't you!" Shima and Konekomaru held their hands up defensively.

"Well..." They both looked away from the skunk-haired guy.

"Bullshit on ambition! You're just scared!" Bon glared at me, but I chuckled back.

"Whatever. Say what you want, I frankly don't care."

Suguro clenched his fists and looked down. "Why don't any of you ever fight back..." He looked up at me, determined. "I'm gonna do it! You just stand there and watch!" Suguro turned around and slid down to the pit.

I ran to the edge of the pit and looked at him. "You idiot get back up here!"

"Bon!" Konekomaru looked at Shima and down to Suguro.

"Is he... Serious?" I looked at Paku, who was talking to Izumo. Everyone was watching Suguro as he approached the Leaper, except for Izumo.

"He's just trying to get attention. What an ass."

Suguro walked with confidence towards the Leaper, his fists clenched. How stupid is he!? Suguro stood about 10 feet away from the Leaper.

"I will become a real exorcist. I'm not going to be a coward like you." Suguro was staring straight at the Leaper, but it didn't seem like he was talking to anyone in the room. "And I will defeat Satan!"

The room was dead silent for 5 seconds before Izumo fell on her back, laughing. "You've gotta be kidding me! Defeat Satan? What is he, a child?" I glanced over to her, she was really starting to get on my nerves, and I had a feeling I wasn't the only one. Bon's stance stiffened and the Leaper opened it's mouth, roaring at Suguro.

"Bon! Run!" Shima looked at his friend, worried.

I jumped down into the pit and managed to get myself in front of Suguro just as the Leaper went for the attack. I felt it's mouth close around my body tightly.

"Hey!"

"Rin!"

Let. Me. Go. I bared my teeth and stared into the Leapers eyes. The white's of it's eyes turned a blackish purple as it looked down at me. I said let go! I felt a spark in my eyes and saw a flash of blue, but felt it nowhere else on my body. The Leaper let go as I placed a hand on it's nuzzle and gently pushed it back. "What the hell were you doing? Are you that big of a moron?" I turned around to look at Suguro. "Listen up, and listen closely, Suguro!" I stepped closer to the boy from the cursed temple on the ground, standing above him. "I am the one who is going to beat the shit outta Satan! Got it?"

Suguro looked scared and confused but shook off his feelings before standing up and pointing a finger at me. "Listen, you're the moron! What if you got yourself killed just now? You're the one who said you didn't want to die!"

"I did it to help you! Would you rather have died!?"

"Well don't copy my fricken ambition!"

"Copy!? I was the original!"

"What do you mean original? I thought of it first!"

"Oh yeah!? What year? What day? What hour? What minute? What second? Huh!?"

"What are you, child!?" I took a step closer to the moron.

"Look who's talking!" Our faces were almost touching as we bared teeth at each other.

I slowly backed off and crossed my arms, turning my back to Suguro. I walked towards the ladder and climbed up. As I got to the top of the pit, I saw Suguro climbing up behind me. Suguro walked past me and brushed against my shoulder. "Baka..." I mumbled under my breath but loud enough for him to hear.

Shima leaned into Konekomaru's ear to whisper to him and chuckled, "So who do you think is going to make the move first?" He said it loud enough for both Suguro and I to hear. Both of our faces turned a bright red and we clenched our fists.

"Shut up, you ass!" We looked at each other as we spoke in sync, then looked away from each other, crossing our arms.

I looked down at the piece of paper on my desk Yukio had handed out before the final break of the day. Yukio wrote 'Break Time' on the chalkboard and picked up some textbooks off his desk and walked over to me, placing them on the desk beside Shiemi. He looked down at the paper I was looking at and adjusted his glasses. "What's this?"

"I'm studying."

"What?" Yukio backed up, covering his nose and mouth with the top of his jacket. "Is this some curse?"

"What the hell does that mean, Four-Eyes!?" I glared at Yukio and gripped the pen in my hand. I groaned and looked back down. "Besides, my bangs keep getting in my damn eyes." I held my bangs back as I tilted my head up. Suguro walked over to the desk and looked down at me. I smirked back up at him. "What do you want? Come here to mock me, too?"

A shade of red came across Suguro's cheeks. "I didn't get a chance to tell you this morning... Thank you." Suguro looked away, turning an even brighter color of red.

"Oh.. Um... You're welcome, I guess..."

Suguro reached into his pocket. "I use this to keep my hair out of my face when I study at night." He pulled out an alligator hair clip and handed it to me. "I have another one, so you can keep it." I took it from him and looked at it. Yukio and Shiemi were looking at us, not sure what to expect considering we were at each other's throats earlier.

"This is creepy... Maybe it is a bad curse, Yukio!"

"What!? What's that supposed to mean? I was trying to be nice, you idiot!"

I clipped my bangs up and smiled at Suguro. "Well thank you, Bon!" I giggled slightly as his face turned even more red than it had once again.

"Don't call me that!"

Yukio looked at Shiemi and chuckled as I stuck my tongue out and the skunk haired boy.

How was this chapter? I know I hinted at a lot of flirting between Bon and Rin but I just think it worked! I don't know though, so tell me what you think!