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Rin slowly woke up, his stomach the first thing he noticed that made him grunt. The next thing was the fact he was on a very comfy bed; comfier than the one at the hotel. His eyes fluttered opened, looking around to see he was in a cell with bright purple curtains draped over him. His eyes dropped to see he was in fluffy white pants and a buttoned up white kimono top with gold pattern. Don't I look like a prancy dumbass. Rin thought. He hissed when his forearm burned when it rubbed against the itchy embroidery. He lifted his arm to see there was a tattoo of two snakes wrapping around a staff that looked like a pitchfork. It had the words Property of A&N In bold cursive letters. That's when Rin noticed it. He was handcuffed in chains that connected to the collar on his neck. The neck collar chain was connected to the cage, but he found it odd noting that there was a lot of chain for him to move around with.
He looked down at his feet, seeing that the top of his feet had gold jewelry on his ankle with a chain that connected with his middle toe so that it draped down like a rain of gold chains. Rin rolled his eyes at how tacky it looked. He groaned, rubbing uncomfortably at his stomach, his mind went back at what had happened. He was kidnapped by Alistair. That much he remembered, but he didn't understand how long it had been. Rin heard shuffling behind him, making him jump as he turned his upper body to see a pretty big sliver through the purple curtain that hung down his cage. He gulped, peaking through the sliver to see another cage with a navy blue curtain, its side of the cage completely exposed. It housed someone with black as night hair and pale skin.
Rin saw that they also had chains around them, but that was all Rin could see. "Pst! Hey." Rin whispered, trying to catch their attention. It worked.
The person slowly positioned themselves, before lifting their head, looking over him. Rin saw that it was a guy with long, shoulder length curly hair and bright purple eyes. His face was covered in a patchy beard, and a scar going from his nose, down his cheek and ending down his neck to his collarbone.
"What?" The man asked, his voice deep and raspy.
Rin cleared his throat, before speaking. "Do you know where we are?" He asked.
The boy looked around, but much like Rin, he couldn't say as well. "You've got me kid. I only got here yesterday." He explained.
Rin took offense to that. "Kid? Who are you calling a kid?!" He snapped.
The man chuckled, sitting up, crossing his legs. "I'm calling you one. Aren't you like.. 14?" The man asked, running a hand through his hair.
Rin blew a raspberry at him. "I just turned 17." Rin grumbled, helping his feet along so that he was in a much better position.
The man looked at him with surprised eyes. "Wow, never would have guessed." He teased.
Rin glared, folding his arms. "Oh, and how old are you?"
The man smirked, leaning against the cage. "I'm 24." He informed.
They were silent for a moment, before Rin decided to speak. "I'm Rin Okumura by the way."
The man nodded. "Takai Rikyu. It's nice to meet you Okumura." He said. "I would shake your hand if it weren't for the predicament we find ourselves in."
Rin chuckled. "So why did they take you?"
"I'm a cute demon according to the bastard Alistair. What about you?" Rikyu asked.
Rin seemed to clam up, wrapping his arm around himself. "He liked the way I looked and he also likes that i am-" Rin caught himself, looking over to see Rikyu lift a brow in curiosity. Rin took a deep breath, knowing his secret really wasn't worth keeping… well secret anymore. "- the Son of Satan."
Rin looked up to see Rikyu had a blank face, staring at him with no emotion. Rin honestly didn't know how he felt at the moment. It brought him back to how the cram students looked at him and that made his heart tug a little, as he slowly looked away from him.
"That's… not what I expected from you. Though I should have, considering the presence you give off." Rikyu said.
Rin shot a look at him. "Presence?"
"You give off a hot presence. I noticed it when they dropped your cage off this morning. I knew you were a high leveled demon, I just didn't know how high." He explained.
Rin just nodded his head before turning his back to the man, leaning against the bars of the cage. "Yeah well it seemed to have gotten me in a lot lately." Rin whispered.
He heard Rikyu scoff. "Yeah I can see how that would be troubling." He says sarcastically, also shifting in the cage. "If ya don't mind sharin' i'd love to hear your story. It's quite boring in these cages."
Rin looked over his shoulders to look at the man, who was now lying on his back with his hands behind his head. His feet were crossed, and his eyes kept looking at the navy curtain that billowed softly to the breeze in the room. Rin sighed, turning his attention to his limp legs.
"What story would you like to hear? I have plenty." Rin snickered pathetically.
He heard shifting in the cage behind him, but he didn't bother looking at him. "Why don't you start with why your legs don't work. Demons, no matter the injury should be able to heal."
Rin gulped. "Apparently not mine. I don't know if it's taking its time or if it just doesn't want to heal." Rin explained. They were silent for a minute before Rin sighed. "I got paralyzed trying to save some Ex-wires from a demon that tried to kill them because of me."
He looked back to see Rikyu looking shocked. "You saved Ex-wires? Aren't they exorcists in training."
Rin found some amusement from that statement, considering they have been stuck in ex-wire for quite some time. "They are, yes."
"Don't tell me, were you also one of those ex-wires?" Rikyu asked, shifting his weight onto one side so that he was peeking through Rin's sliver of curtain.
"I was. Though I don't know why I even tried." Rin's voice slowly faltered to a whisper near the end of that sentence. "They weren't at all kind to me. Even before they found out the secret." He explained.
Rikyu cleared his throat, before turning around and looking up at his own cage ceiling. "No one is perfect. If you keep beating yourself up over something that trivial it will tear you apart. Trust me."
Rin chuckled. "I guess." They went silent, the only thing that was heard between them was the air conditioner and the slight movement of chains. Rin dropped his hand onto his thigh, but yelped in surprise when he felt a small sensation, like a vibrating tough to his skin. Almost as if it had been asleep and was slowly waking up. Rin slowly pinched his thigh again, feeling the same sensation, this time it was only a dull sensation. This little bit of hope, even if it was minimal made all the worry wash away. He couldn't help that for the first time in a while, a genuine real smile stretched on his face.
Back at the hotel, everyone was in a sulking mood, still troubled over what happened last night. Not only did Rin get taken right in front of them, but he was now going to be sold like a whore. That thought did little to comfort anyone in the room. Especially Suguro who was beating himself up over everything. Not only did Rin get captured still thinking they hated him, but he was taken in such a way that made him angry. Though Suguro did notice that Alistair was bleeding which meant Rin put up a fight before being captured, and Suguro was really happy about that little known fact.
"What are we going to do?" Shiemi asked, twiddling her thumbs as she sat uncomfortably on the bed.
Yukio sighed. "We are going to get him back. According to Alistair's tip he will be sold in three weeks. If we work together to pinpoint where Rin is we can get him back." Yukio said, running a hand through his disheveled hair as he paced the room.
"Well the only places I can think of that would be able to host something like this is the night club 15 minutes from here or the big abandoned building that says caution on it but still manages to have bouncers outside and is still occupied. Those are the places we have been scoping out." Masami explained, looking over at Shura who confirmed it.
"What are we waiting for then. Let's go look." Yukio snapped, stopping his pacing to look Masami dead in the eye.
"We will, but we can't go in without a plan. First we will split into two groups and watch both of them for a few days, get the pattern down, then whichever one fits our current problem we will all come up with a plan and save all the people who have been captured and exorcise all the demons." Etsuya reached into his pocket and fished for his notebook, writing somethings down before looking at them all. "Get some rest. We start tomorrow." With that Etsuya and Masami left the room together.
The others though sat there boiling in their own mixed stew of anger, self pity and depression. One thing on their minds. Will they find Rin in time before something irreversible happens? They could only hope.