I woke up with yet another broken bone, this time it was my leg. I limped over to Yukio's room to see he wasn't there. I shrugged and went to get some food from Ukobach.

As I walked to a random door so I could go see Mephisto the door opened and he was standing there. He smirked and grabbed me, he pulled me across the doorway into the cram hall. We were headed for the current class room.

I struggled to get out of his grasp to no avail. He just threw me over his shoulder and continued walking. We went into the classroom and he just said, "Good luck Exwires, congratulations on everyone achieving the right to participate in a real mission on the other days test."

"Um Sir? What's that on your shoulder," I heard Leo ask.

Mephisto shrugged and dropped me. My face hit the desk and I cried out, "WHAT THE HELL? THAT HURT YOU BASTARD!" I yelled.

Then I looked out over the class, some looked at me fearfully and I began to feel tears racing down my face. I decided on a quick escape. My face turned red as I tried to glide out the door. Only to be caught by Mephisto by the my hood.

I fell back and my flames hit the door. Everyone gasped in surprise as they spread out across the wall.

"Sir Pheles what is she doing here!" Izumo shouted as she stood up.

"No matter, congratulations to those who earned the chance to participate in a real fight. I want you to participate in the expedition to Kyoto." I sat in a ball next to his feet and I only just looked up to see Bon's face turn to shock.

'Bon, Koneko-chan, and Shima are from Kyoto right? Why is he so shocked? He never told me of anything that happened.'

Mephisto smirked and dragged me to the training room from yesterday. I left my head down and never looked at them.

He threw me into the room, "Well that certainly was a fiasco wasn't it?"

"BECAUSE YOU HAD ME INVOLVED!" I shouted at the stupid clown.

He shrugged, "No matter, I was going to inform you of it anyway, because you and Rin will be joining them."

My eyes grew, "What? Why? You saw how they reacted to me! I'll just be extra luggage they'll try to get rid of at the first chance!"

"Yukio and Shura will be there as well. Rin seems to be having more trouble then they expected. It was decided that once Rin faced off with Toudou-san you both would be going to protect the 'Right eye' of the Impure King."

I grew serious, "I heard of that in a book somewhere, was the left eye nearby?"

He nodded, "Both you and Yukio are very bright, if there's one why not the other? If there was no other it wouldn't have a name of left or right, good or evil, am I correct?" He blathered on then looked at me with a smirk, "You are half demon and half human. You and your brother are being called " The Bridge" because of this. Only by the demons though. Humans fear you but at the moment they find you necessary in order to kill Satan."

"I know that, stupid clown, because of your interference. Get to the info you're getting off track." His smirk grew and he shrugged.

"Yes the left eye was actually in the academy itself, Toudou-san was the one in charge of protecting it, but he turned into a demon as he gave into his own selfish desires. The 'right eye' is being protected by a temple in Kyoto. At the moment, though, most of the monks have fallen ill because of a… complication in the control of the eye's miasma. In fact this particular temple is home to a certain group of runaways. The son of the head monk also had taken a liking to you." He said as I thought his head might split in half.

"Wh-what?" I blushed. 'Shima once let it slip that Bon was the son of the head monk. And aren't monks not allowed to have unusual hair colors? Pink and rooster are unusual! …OK I've got two and two… four…GODDAMMIT THEY RAN AWAY FROM THEIR TEMPLE, DYED THEIR HAIR, (not konekomaru though) AND CAME HERE TO LEARN EXORCISM!' I suddenly felt faint and my head was swimming in pudding.

"Don't think about it too hard." Too late, "Well now, I'll spar with you as a test for your scythe skills, you can't use your flames in anything but, enhancing that leg of yours."

I remembered that I broke it this morning, "Oh yeah, I broke it, I hope it didn't heal wrong." I muttered as I snapped it back into place, "Ah, no not healed yet, that's good." I took the bandages from my arm (healed over night) and wrapped my leg in them.

I stood up and breathed in before we began sparring.

I suddenly arrived at the train station with my bags in hand. I passed by Rin inside of the cars.

"Hello, Nii-san." I said politely. I sat next to him as he looked through a magazine.

"Ne have you ever heard anything about good places in Kyoto?" He asked while still rummaging through the book.

I shook my head as I took the window seat.

"Utsu-chan? You feeling alright?"

I smiled to him, "I'm fine Nii-san, just tired, Mephisto sparred with me and I got really tired is all."

He stared at me, "You stopped calling me Nii-san once the old man died, what's up?"

"M-morning." We turned our heads to see Shiemi standing in front of our seats.

I ignored the conversation by looking out the window. Until I heard Bon and my old group greet her. I looked over at Bon.

"Oh, I'm so happy you guys are looking alright!" I looked at Rin in fear as he tried speaking with them normally, "Have you ever heard of Kyoto tower? Please tell me you have other recommendations on where to go in Kyoto?"

"Bon, you mustn't." Shima held his friend back.

"I-I know that!" He said angrily.

Leo nodded shakily to us before joining Bon in a seat behind us. Konekomaru just avoided eye contact altogether.

"Hey, Konekomaru that was too direct!" Shima complained.

"Ho-how can you act so normally? What are you going to do if they suddenly go berserk again?" Konekomaru replied shakily.

I pulled my legs closer to me and continued to look out the window.

"Well this was decided by the higher-ups." Shima said.

"Just treat them like an untouchable Idol statue." Bon added.

"Bon that's… there's no word for that." Leo said.

I had been crying a lot lately, mainly when Bon was involved, so I wasn't too surprised when I began hiccupping. I looked over to Rin and he was hanging his head in a depressed manner. I'm glad he didn't see me, he'd be worrying too much.

Izumo suddenly sat down in between me and Rin.

She looked at me and held out a cloth, "Wipe your tears, you look horrid." I took it and wiped them away. I looked out the window, kind of happy she didn't react like Bon and the others.

"A'ight, attention please. I've been forced against my will to be captain of the reinforcement squad this time 'round. I'm Kirigakure Shura! Let's work together on this!"

Shura left it to someone else to explain what I already knew about. I listened half heartedly.

Then once they were explaining what The Impure King was.

"In the last years of Edo, around the 5th year of the Ansei era, the Impure King was an upper-class demon. Considered to have caused the spread of fevers and epidemics, and believed to be the root cause of over 40,000 deaths." I breathed in, that's a big number, "The "Right Eye" and the "Left Eye" were said to have been removed and taken by a monk named 'Fukaku' when he suppressed the "Impure King" As proof that he had done so… Although they are just eyes they give off a strong miasma. They are extremely dangerous articles."

I raised my hand and the teacher sighed. "Yes Okumura-san?"

"I'm sorry but, why weren't they just destroyed? Was there something that hindered them from doing so?" I said quietly.

He still heard me thankfully, "Yes they were not able to be destroyed at the time and the monk died soon after showing he had defeated the demon. The miasma itself prevents people from getting too close without gaining horrible boils and fevers." I gulped. 'What would they do to a demon?'

"In any case, the enemy's intentions remain a mystery. But one thing's for sure: they're trying to do something evil with the eyes. There's a possibility that the Kyoto branch office, which protects the "Right Eye" might get attacked again. We have to prevent the same failure we had with the "Left Eye" from happening again."

After awhile I fell asleep one the train until Bon stood up behind me shouting, "You've got guts to be prattling on and on just cuz' we kept quiet! Who did you say was a coward huh!"

I actually fell out of my seat and held my chest panting in fear.

"Then what would you call yourselves then?" Izumo challenged.

"YOU BITCH!" Bon shouted back

We all got a punishment of Baryon on our laps. I groaned as my legs lost feeling.

"This is worse then zanzen with the old man eh?" Rin said nudging me. I only nodded in response as my tail jumped about beside me in pain.

"Why are we taking collective responsibility again?" Izumo dared.

"I told ya'll to cooperate and put your strengths together didn't I? Cool off here till we reach Kyoto! Got it? Don't wake me!"

I shivered and forgot that I lost all feeling in my broken leg until Rin's tail flicked it. I gasped and held it. I didn't listen to Shima's comment.

"More importantly, why did sensei leave Okumura-kun like that? If anything happens. It'd be dangerous!" Konekomaru said shakily yet again. Then his Baryon hopped off of his lap onto Shiemi's back. I pushed my Baryon off quickly and went over to her.

I tried pushing it off but it wouldn't budge. "If I remember correctly the only way to deal with Baryons is to shatter them by incinerating them at high heat." Shima said as he tried to stab it with his staff. "IT'S TOO HARD!"

"No good huh." Bon said.

"Let me." I said as I sat in front of Shiemi.

"What?"

I placed my hands on the rock and started a calm flame at them.

"What do you think you're doing?" Konekomaru shouted at me, "You'll hurt Moriyama."

"Trust me, I only burn what I want to." I said calmly.

It wasn't doing anything so I stood up and breathed flames onto it.

Shiemi screamed then stopped when she realized she wasn't burning. The thing shattered and I was grabbed by Bon.

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? YOU COULD'VE BURNED HER TO DEATH!" he shouted at me.

"No," I wretched free of his grip, "She wouldn't have, I have complete control of what I burn. Nii-san hasn't but if he were to aim flames at anyone of you, you wouldn't burn. Because he's always got your health on his mind. WE aren't any different from before, YOU all just reject us as if we are full demons." I said calmly. I pointed to the seats. "No scorch marks, I had everything under control. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to put my leg back in place before it heals." I pushed past him to my seat and did as I said I needed to.

I gasped as I felt it grind together. I need Yukio to help, it doesn't hurt as bad when he does it.

"Bon above you!" I heard Shima shout.

My instincts kicked in and I ran over to the group, but Shura beat me to it. She quickly smashed it with her demon sword. "You guys can't even take care of small fry like this?" she shouted, "When the real deal along you guys plan to hamper each other like that too? YOU'LL DIE!"