OK so this is the next chapter!
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Tsuki Aizawa asked: I just have one question. when u will update again? will it be quick like chapter 10?
Answer: I do not have an update system. They just happen honestly. As you can see, here is the next chapter as for the next one...we shall see.
silverheartlugia2000 asked: speaking of which how much longer is the seal gonna last?
Answer: Ummm...you will kinda have an answer in this chapter and in the next one. Kinda.
I think I got all the questions, sorry if I didn't.
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Onto the chapter!
"Um...Mr. Okumura? Can you explain what happened last night, please?" Konekomaru asked nervously, looking at his teacher as they entered the classroom since they would have lessons at the cram school today. Yukio froze in his actions of placing a few papers down on the front desk, and looked at his students.
"What do you mean?" Suguro spoke up in confusion, having not been around to see Rin's reaction to the demon.
"Well you see," Shima said nervously, rubbing the back of his head. "Yesterday when we went to go check on Rin, it seemed like he could see the demon for a little bit, or that's what we think anyway."
Yukio sighed and turned towards his class. "It's true that for a moment he was able to see the naberius, however it didn't last and he could no longer see the demon by the time you arrived."
"I've never heard of a temptaint acting like that before." Suguro mumbled furrowing his eyebrows.
Yukio shook his head, happy that they were believing his excuse. "Neither have I. But if it doesn't take effect, I don't want Rin to know about demons. If it does, I will be there to help him understand. So, you will still mention nothing about demons to my brother, understand?" He received nods and smiled. "Good, now since I'm not your first class, I'll leave you all be."
Yukio began walking down the hall after he left the classroom, his eyebrows furrowed as he thought about what would happen tonight. He began preparing a room on an upper floor for him, away from where his students would be taking their exwire exam. He was still worried about how safe his brother would be, but he didn't dare leave him with Mephisto.
Shaking his head, he went to go prepare for the night.
Rin laughed as he ran through the dorm building with Kuro at his heels. He had woken up to his brother and the other's getting ready to go somewhere. When he asked Yukio explained they had to go to their club room to deal with a few things. Rin had accepted to answer and instead made himself a meal as they left.
For a while, he had worked on his school work online, but it wasn't long before he grew bored of that. He never wanted to go to school when he did, so what made his brother think that he would work productively on other work without his watchful eyes. So, instead of working, Rin decided to play with Kuro.
Now, as he ran through the halls, one of the closed doors caught his attention. He knew it was where his brother had gone last night when he got him, he wouldn't forget the layout of his current home. He also knew it was a girl's washroom and, despite his curiosity, he knew better than to go in there. Biting his lip, Rin had a mental war with himself as he decided whether to give into the curiosity or to walk away. He knew Yukio would probably not want him to walk in there, but he was so curious.
Curiosity having won out, Rin approached the door and pushed it open, his eyes widening at the sight before him. There was a bench knocked over in the middle of a group of lockers with what looked like pieces of the ceiling around it. From the pieces, Rin looked up and found a large hole in the ceiling before looking down again and looking at the showering area with the large amount of broken glass everywhere.
"Woah." He gasped out, his eyes wide as he looked around. He still hasn't been told what happened other than an accident, but now he knew it was something big and he really wanted to know what.
Walking around the room, Rin leaned closer to the wreckage sometimes even reaching out to pick something up, only to pause and remind himself that Yukio wouldn't want him touching anything. Actually, Yukio wouldn't want him in here at all, so he was already in trouble there. Once he had finished exploring the room, finding everything he wanted and yet disappointed there had only been signs of destruction, Rin exited the washroom.
He was about to go look for Kuro when a sudden bang down the hall reached his ears. Tensing, Rin got his hands up, prepared to defend himself if someone had broken in. He began to inch his way down the hall, hearing a few more bangs after another, making him tense even more. Finally he came to the rom besides the one his brother and his brother's friends were in yesterday. Taking a deep breath, Rin pushed the door open and saw-
"Nii-san?" Rin asked, putting his hands down and tilting his head. There, standing before him with about five rocks at his feet with one in his arms. Yukio blinked at the sight of his brother and quickly put down the rocks in his arms.
"Rin? What are you doing here? You should be working on your classes right now." Yukio asked, looking at his brother
Rin didn't answer his brother, only continuing to stare at the giant rock on the floor. "Why do you have rocks in here?"
Yukio was silent, not knowing how he should answer his brother, before he decided to just tell him the truth. "The other's were bad today so this is their punishment."
"Rocks?"
"Yes."
"Why rocks?"
"Because it will be a fitting punishment."
"..."
"..."
"You won't hit them with the rocks, will you?"
"What?! No! What gave you that idea?!" Yukio exclaimed, sighing when all he got a was a shrug in response. "Don't you have homework to be working on?"
Rin shuffled his feet. "Maybe."
Yukio frowned. "I want you to have half of that done by the time the others get back, Rin."
"Oh, come on!"
"I mean it Rin, get back to work." Rin pouted in response before grumbling and shuffling his way back out the door.
"I don't like this!"
"Why are we getting punished? We weren't even part of the fight!"
"It's called collective responsibility." Yukio spoke, his eyes narrowed as he looked at each of his students. The room had its door closed to keep Rin from coming inside, but he knew that if his brother were to see this, Rin would be laughing whole heartedly at the students. "This camp is for more than just studying. It was also to strengthen your bonds with each other."
"I don't want to have bonds with anyone." Izumo huffed.
"It doesn't matter if you want bonds or not; exorcists do not fight alone!" They all grew silent at his words and Yukio glared at each one of them.
"Support each other's abilities, cover their weaknesses. Everyone fights in a team of at least two. In a real battle, a quarrel in the team can lead to death!" He gave them each one more look over. "Think about that."
He looked out the windows to the night sky outside and sighed. "Now, I have to go put Rin to bed and then head out for a mission that will take around three hours. Because of the ghoul incident, I will be locking all the entrances and exits as well as place strong barriers around the building to keep anything from happening.
"Wait, lock the entrances?! What if we need to get out?! Or what if your brother needs something?!" Suguro exclaimed.
Yukio gave him a chilling smile. "Rin will be asleep and will hopefully not need any reason to leave the building. As for the rest of you, I can't think of any reason why you would need to leave the building." Yukio turned to walk towards the door only to pause as he came up to it. "You will all stay in here to cool your heads and get along, understand?" When he received nods, he smiled and left the room.
He moved through the halls to make his way to his and Rin's bedroom. When he entered, Yukio found Rin sitting on his bed still working on his laptop just as Yukio had told him to do.
"Alright, Rin, it's time for bed." Yukio said as he came up to his brother and gently closed the laptop. Rin blinked for a few moment before stretching and looking at his brother.
"But I don't want to go to bed." Rin grumbled, crossing his arms.
"Yeah, well it's late and you shouldn't stay up so late, ok?" Yukio replied with a smile. His brother was already in his pajamas, since he wanted to be comfortable while he worked, so Yukio just told his brother to shift so he could tuck Rin in bed.
"Will you be in here tonight?" Rin asked, tilting his head as he curled up into his sheets.
"I'd like to but I can't. I have to go work with the other's for a bit, ok?"
"Ok." Rin yawned. Kuro jumped up onto his bed, and curled up near Rin's feet. Yukio smiled and ran his hand through Rin's hair.
"Good night."
"Night." Rin mumbled as he closed his eyes. Yukio sighed, watching his brother for a few moments before turning around and exiting through the door. Once he closed it, he placed a seal on the door so that no demons would be able to enter it in case they left the room during the exam.
Once he was sure his brother's room was secure, Yukio walked away to wait and watch for the end of the exam.
Inside the room, a blue eye opened before a second one followed. Rin looked around the dark room, seeing no sign of his brother and sighed. He couldn't sleep, he just couldn't. He was wondering where his brother was going dressed in the trench coat that Yukio seemed to wear a lot.
Looking down at the foot of his bed, he saw Kuro sleeping peacefully and let his head flop back onto his pillow. He was so very tempted to get up and see if he could catch the others or Yukio and ask what was going on. Yukio always told him that their group was something he shouldn't join, but wouldn't tell him exactly why. With a huff, Rin rolled his head on his pillow in frustration.
His eyes rose from the floor to the door of the room. No light shone from under the door and it seemed the only illumination would be from the windows. Biting his lip, Rin slipped his feet quietly away from where Kuro was resting as not to disturb the cat's sleep. Once that was done, he slipped his body out from under the covers and slowly made his way to the door.
Rin winced whenever the floor would creak from pressure, but thankfully he remained undisturbed during his sneaking. Once he made it to the door, Rin placed his hand on the knob, only to jerk at a slight and very small shock from it. Staring at the knob, Rin slowly placed his hand back on it and let out a sigh when no shock came again.
'It must have just been from the humidity or something.' Rin thought, pushing the door open slowly. For a second, he felt another shock but it was gone just as quick and it didn't matter once he let go of the door.
Walking out, Rin began to make his way silently down the hall. He placed his ears up to the doors of the rooms he knew that the other teens were in, hoping to hear any sign of them in there. The only one he thought he heard a ruffle of sheets from was the one with Paku, but he knew she was hurt so Rin didn't disturb her.
He made his way through the halls, hoping to find any sign of the others, when a sudden large bang echoed upstairs. Tilting his head in confusion, Rin slowly made his way upstairs and in the direction of the noise. Keeping his footsteps quiet, Rin made his way to the source of the bang and found a hole in the wall of where he knew a door was supposed to be.
He looked inside, while still taking cover behind one of the walls, and found large roots blocking his sight. He tried to look past them, and for a second thought he could see Shima through one of the gaps in the roots, but that was taken away by what he saw next. Rin had blinked and suddenly he saw the creature from yesterday pinned against the wall by the root. His breath caught in his throat and he began backing up when the creature looked in his direction.
'I'm dreaming! This isn't real! Nii-san said it isn't real!' Rin told himself as he continued to back up. Rin brought one hand up to his arm and pinched himself, flinching in fear and pain when he felt the pain of the pinch.
The creature opened its mouth and gave a low gurgled moan, and Rin thought he could once again hear some actual words in there, but was too scared to make sense of them. Suddenly, the demon began splitting its body down the middle. Rin gave a choked cry at it and clenched his eyes shut.
Suddenly he couldn't hear it anymore.
Shaking, he opened his eyes and found himself staring at the root covered room once more, no sign of the creature anywhere. Rin, not wanting to risk seeing it again, turned around and began to run through the hallway. Once he was a safe distance away, he leaned against the wall and took a deep breath, trying to forget what he had just seen. Rin felt tears building up in his eyes at the thought of the creature being real. He could still see the way it was pinned and the sound of its moans and ripping flesh.
Rin gave a shiver and shook his head. The eight-year-old wanted to just go back to his room now, but he didn't want to sleep, not after seeing that. The creature was engraved in his mind. In fact, he could hear its moans now just as clearly as before.
Wait. Opening his eyes, Rin looked up to see it half of it coming down the hallway, crawling on all fours with a spaded tail whipping behind it. With a cry of fear, Rin took off into a run, not even watching where he ran off too. He took notice he started going up flights of stairs, but he didn't process it.
Eventually he made it way to the roof and he had nowhere to go as the demon approached him. It moaned at him again, but Rin just curled up as he fell to the floor, trying to block himself with his arms.
"Stay away! Please! Go away!" He cried, tears beginning to fall down his cheeks in his terror. "Nii-san!"
He could feel his body heating up but he didn't know what to do as he caught the sound of the demon nearing him. He could smell it now, it was so close. Rin gave one last cry before his vision exploded in blue, before fading to black.
So that was that! I'm going to try to update quickly, but I have to see.
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