They stop outside of Kofuku's house, where the lights are still on, and one can smell food cooking in the air. Yato goes inside declaring that he's going to get everyone a change of clothes seeing as everyone is nearly soaked to the bone. Inside Yato waits for Kofuku to get Hiyori a change of clothes, two piles already in his arms, and Yato already changed.
Daikoku comes up to Yato, a cigarette hanging out of his mouth "So who's the extra pile of clothes for?"
Yato sighs adjusting the clothes "For some kid we found while out and about today. The weird thing is that he can see me and Yukine without us drawing any attention."
Daikoku raises an eyebrow as Kofuku comes bouncing up to the two, the older shinki just asks his question "What do mean he can see you just like Hiyori can? How old is this kid?"
Yato rubs his head knowing that the two aren't going to like his next answer "Well you see about that, I don't know the exact age of the kid, but he said he goes to true cross academy, and he specifically said that he goes to cram school." He says knowing the two know what he's truly trying to say.
The cigarette nearly falls from Daikoku's mouth, and Kofuku gasps in shock nearly dropping the clothes if not for the shinki. Yato knows they would react this way, because of bad run-ins with exorcists in the past, and didn't want a repeat of it.
"Just try to keep this quiet and when he goes home after the storm, only then we'll get Bishamon over here, and discuss this between us. Try to be nice until then, after all not all exorcist are bad, don't you remember there was one by the name of Shiro Fujimoto that wanted to protect us." Yato explains as he heads to the door, to give the three outside much needed dry clothes.
Slowly they come inside, towels wrapped around them as they all take turns going to the bathroom to get changed. Diakoku gets a good look at the kid, as he sits down letting Hiyori get dry first.
She shakes her head with a smile "No Rin you go first after all your a guest, I can wait."
Rin looks at her, just to be sure "Are you sure? After all ladies first you know?" When she nods he gets up "Ok if your absolutely sure about it. I'm going to leave my phone here, it shouldn't get wet, I'll be quick." He then takes a pile of clothes and walks to the bathroom upstairs.
Everyone lets out a sigh of relief when he's out of the room, Daikoku takes a drag of his cigarette "So the kids name is Rin? He doesn't look that much older than Hiyori, nice so far though."
Yukine looks confused as to what's going on "What do you mean by that, of course he's a nice person. He's fun to talk to, and I wouldn't mind hanging out with him."
"He's an exorcist in training kid, that means that there is a 50/50 chance he'll turn on you or stay as your friend. That school he goes to provides a high school, but very few students attend the cram school he said he was going to. That means that he's studying to exterminate demons, and far shore beings like us." The war god explains lowly so Rin wouldn't hear them, his face mainly serious as he looks around the room.
Hiyori has a concerned look on her face as she listens to what Yato has to say "Hey wait, you used to do to do bad things, but you changed. Just because he's studying to be an exorcist doesn't automatically make him the enemy, we should give him a chance first." She huffs as she continues "Besides I don't think he even knows that your a god, or that Yukine is dead, and how his brother was talking, it doesn't sound like he knows much about exercising demons."
Meanwhile upstairs as they continue to talk, Rin is relishing the feeling of having his tail free after so many hours. He's already changed into the dry clothes, putting his wet ones into the basket like he was instructed to. His tail aches, as he sits on the floor rubbing the aches out of it, purring in relief at the feeling. It felt like you wrapped your leg around your body if possible, and left it there for hours on an end.
If he was back at hotel with Yukio he could just walk wherever he pleased in the room with his tail free. That reminds him the rain got it all wet, and strands of hair stick out everywhere in a bundled mess. He looks around for a hairbrush, and finds one, brushing out his tail to be neat and tidy again.
He doesn't know how long he's been in there rubbing his tail, and brushing through it, when there is a knock on the door, that startles him out of his thoughts.
"Hey kid what are you doing in there that's taking so long?!" He hears the tall, scary dude from earlier yell from the hallway. He quickly, but begrudgingly wraps his still sore tail around his abdomen, before putting down his shirt. He opens the door, to see the man still standing there "Sorry it took so long, I just had to brush out my hair, but it was really messy."
Daikoku huffs out as he follows Rin downstairs and motioning for Hiyori to go into the bathroom. "Geez I swear you were taking as much time as girl in that bathroom." He huffs out as he blows out smoke, and sitting down beside Kofuku.
Rin sits down humming lowly to himself, and checking his phone for any messages from Bon, or Yukio. When he finds nothing, he puts his phone back on the table as Yato catches a glimpse of said phone.
He hums impatiently, crossing his arms "No way is that the latest smart phone?!" He asks awed at actually seeing a smartphone up close. He's so jealous that Rin's got a smartphone, and all he has is a flip phone.
Rin looks confused for moment til he understands what Yato's looking at, and he holds the phone out for the god to see with a smile "Yep, the Iphone 8, my guardian got it for me. Do you want to see some of the features for it? Although don't drop it or break it, Yukio would kill me."
Yato takes the phone basking in it's glory, fangirling on the inside that a high schooler got an Iphone before he did. He wanted one so bad, but all he got from Kazuma was a bird to send messages, why couldn't he have one sooner? "This is so cool, I want one so bad. There like really expensive though, and I don't got the money right now." The god coos, while everyone but Rin look on as the lowly god awes over a phone with an annoyed look on there faces.
The demon just laughs at Yato's statement "Yeah i know right, but my guardian got it so I really don't care how much it was. Although he said he wouldn't be so kind on our allowance for the next two months, just 4000 yen for two months." A smirk is on his face when he finishes.
Yato puts the phone down with a sigh, and his eyebrow raised "Who's this Mephisto you were talking about earlier by the way?"
"Oh he's mine and Yukio's guardian, and he's the director of the school. A weird guy, but we tolerate him enough. He's also the one that's paid for our trip here for two months." The demon answers, leaning on the table.
"So he raised you all his life, and where are your real parents?" Daikoku asks this time, putting out his cigarette.
Rin gets a strange look on his face at that question like it brought up unspoken memories. "Well my mom died when she gave birth to me and Yukio, and my father I don't even want to get started with him. We did have a foster father that I consider more of a father to me than my real father will ever be. His name was Shiro Fujimoto, he was murdered awhile back though. Mephisto was a friend that said he would take us in after Shiro passed away."
Most of the occupants in the room are shocked tp hear that Shiro is dead, they never heard of this before. Of course Yato hasn't seen to man in over 10 years so he couldn't say what the man was up to, but he never mentioned anything about raising two kids the last time they spoke. He was always in high spirits and didn't have that many enemies, so who would kill him?
Although he could tell that Rin really wasn't keen on talking about the subject anymore, but would he get answers from Yukio if having the chance? He's broken out of his thoughts by Rin that's looking at something on his phone.
"The storm seems like it quit, and Yukio is wanting me at the hotel, so I guess we'll see each other tomorrow then." Rin gets up stuffing his phone in his pocket, and heading to the door "I'll come by tomorrow and pick up my clothes, and giving these back to whoever owns them. Bye everyone!" When the door shuts after everyone waves or shouts out goodbye, Yato has some stuff to think about for the time being.
He thinks it's about time to invite Yukio over tomorrow, and for Bishamon, Kazuma to meet up with the twins.