Sorry for the delay (school and stuff) but H finally got the next chapter out and it got long! Enjoy!


Chapter 11: Demons and Mischief Part 2

Ventus could feel something tugging at his hair. He knew exactly what it was and he wished he could ignore it, but he also knew it wasn't going to stop. So he opened his eyes and found exactly what he expected… Vanitas was hovering above him and pulling at pieces of his hair.

"Can you cut that out?"

"Why? You need to wake up. You have school today right? Shouldn't you be getting ready?"

"And why would you care if I go to school?" Ventus grumbled.

"Cause that's where all the fun is. I can't cause a whole lot of mischief to others when you just stay at home."

"And you think I want you to cause mischief at school? I don't want to get into any trouble!" Ventus said, raising his voice slightly.

"Ven?" Ventus's mother called from down the hall. "Did you say something?"

Ventus flinched. "Just thinking out loud."

He had learned that no one but him could see Vantias. Which meant to his parents he was going to start looking pretty insane unless he found a different way of communication. He was sure there was though, after all Vanitas spoke to him in his mind the first moment he showed up. The only hard part was figuring out how to do the thought speaking back to him, though maybe it wouldn't be as hard as he thought. He knew it could work, after all Vanitas had read his thoughts last night.

"Well you better hurry up, otherwise you will be late for school," his mother replied.

"See? Your mother agrees with me, you should get ready," Vanitas chuckled.

Ventus let out a long huff of air. "Whatever."

Vanitas flew in a little closer, having his face right up to Ventus's. "Come on, I am letting you get ready on your own, don't make me take control of you. Though… that does sound rather fun."

Ventus jumped out of bed before Vanitas could get any other ideas. He wasn't about to let Vanitas have that chance. He got dressed quickly and heading into the kitchen to grab some food all while Vanitas trailing behind him. He did his best to ignore him though, he had to try and keep calm since he would be in the kitchen with his mother.

When he got there he grabbed a bagel and headed to the fridge to get the cream cheese. After he finished preparing his food he sat down at the table where his mother was.

"Good morning sleepy head. Stayed up pretty late last night didn't you," his mother said.

"Huh, how did you know?" Ventus asked.

Vanitas groaned. "You shouldn't admit to it, cause now you just confirmed that you snuck out last night."

Ventus ignored Vanitas and watched as his mother smiled. "I'm your mother, I tend to know these things. So, what was it you were doing then?"

"Uh… I was just some silly thing with some friends. Some Halloween night tradition or something."

His mother straightened up, narrowing her eyes. "Now I hope it wasn't playing pranks or breaking into places you shouldn't go, I wouldn't be happy to hear if you got into trouble."

Ventus shook his head. "No nothing like that… it was just…" Ventus paused for a moment, trying to come up with a reasonably thing to say. It had to be something his mother would believe and wouldn't cause her to be even more suspicious.

"Just say that you went with your friends to the park to howl at the moon. It was full anyways last night."

As much as Ventus wanted Vanitas to go away and stop, he at least had a fairly decent excuse. Ventus relayed the information to her and much to his surprise, she laughed.

"Sounds like quiet the silly tradition, I hope you had some good laughs."

"If you can call getting a demon stuck to you a good laugh…" Ventus dryly thought to himself

"Hey! You know I can hear your thoughts, right?"

Internally Ventus smirked, glad that the thought speaking to Vanitas wouldn't be as hard as he thought.


Ventus walked onto the school property. The first thing he did once he entered the doors was to look for his friends. He could only imagine what they were going to say to him. Though to be fair he had to still figure out what he was going to say to them. They still had ditched him before he entered the cursed house after all.

He kept to himself though when he got to his locker to drop off some of his stuff and then headed to his first class.

When he got there he noticed two of his friends were already there, sitting in their seats, chatting to one another. They stopped though after seeing Ventus enter the room. Their eyes ranged from confused to shocked, clearly they hadn't expected to see Ventus and that made him feel a bit uncertain.

"So those are the friends that dared you to go into the house. I should thank them, but maybe I should also mess around with them. It's clear they are completely caught off guard, it's like they expected you to be dead or something."

Ventus wrinkled his nose before proceeding to his chair, which was right next to his friends. "Just stay out of it."

"Can't say I will," Vanitas said nonchalantly with a shrug.

"Yo Ven! You're actually here? I mean like, you're okay?" one of his friends, Tidus, asked.

"Yeah… why wouldn't I be?" Ventus asked as if nothing had gone wrong.

"Well, it's just you know, we weren't sure after… uh…" the other, Vaan, tried to say but he fell flat on his words.

"You guys all ditched me, so how would you know if I even went through with it?" Ventus asked, trying not to sound annoyed, but his tone was already showing that. "Besides weren't you the one that said Riku entered the house and then disappeared a few weeks later?"

"True…" Vann replied. "So does that mean you did it?"

"I guess you guys will have to wait and find out in a few weeks and see if a disappear," Ventus deadpanned. He didn't want to try to be rude to them, but he was still annoyed that they had left him all alone at the house.

"Oof, that's going to sting to them. But unless you plan on running away, you aren't going to be disappearing. I don't have that kind of power," Vanitas replied. "In the meantime I could mess with them and freak them out. Make them think you are cursed or something."

Ventus sighed. "Isn't you being tied to me a curse?"

"Hey! I wouldn't call this a curse," Vanitas flew in close and wrapped an arm around Ventus. "I would call this something awesome and you are extremely lucky."

Instinctively Ventus moved his shoulder to try and shove Vanitas off him. But once he did that he got some odd looks from his friends and he could feel his gut tighten. They had seen him move and react in a way that in their eyes, looked strange.

"Uh Ven, you okay there?" Tidus asked.

"Ah yeah yeah, just thought I heard a bug or something near my ear," Ventus quickly replied.

"If you say so," Vaan replied, though he still had a fairly skeptical look.

Seconds later the bell rang and the rest of the students filed in to take their seats. The teacher, who had been at his desk, finally stood up and began to take attendance. While he did Ventus watched Vanitas carefully as he floated around the room.

"Sure seems like this is going to be a boring class, which one was this… math? Ugh."

"Weren't you the one who wanted me to go to school?"

"Yeah, but I don't want to learn, I just want to cause trouble," Vanitas laughed. "Now I need to figure out what would be best to do."

"Please don't…" Ventus whispered.

"Nah, I told you. I wanna play some pranks and I intend to do them."

Suddenly Ventus had a thought that came to mind. "How are you going to do anything? No one can see you."

"Just cause they can't see me doesn't mean I can't interact with objects and other people," Vanitas replied.

Carefully Vanitas went over to the teacher's desk and pushes off a couple of pencils. Ventus wanted to internally groaned yet at the same time winced that Vanitas had caused a distraction. The teacher had stopped talking to look at the fallen pencils, no doubt confused why they had suddenly fallen.

"Is that really all you can do? No offence but I thought a demon would be one to cause a bit more chaos."

"I'm working slow and building my way up! Relax, I'll get to the fun stuff eventually," Vanitas chuckled.

"I don't want you to get to the fun stuff though," Ventus replied.

The teacher had already picked up the pencils and went back to teaching the lesson at hand, but Vanitas kept floating around the room. With that it made it very hard for Ventus to concentrate, he kept fearing what Vanitas was going to pull next.

During the class, thankfully nothing major happened because of Vanitas. He mainly went around ever so often and knocked over something either on a students desk or the teachers. By the time the bell rang all of the students were whispering to one another wondering what that was all about. But none of them seemed to come to a conclusion, no one besides Ventus who had to witness it all.

"So you're just an annoyance," Ventus muttered as he headed to his next class.

"You just need to give me a chance. I haven't been able to actually do any of this before, so it's just taking me a bit to get use to it."

"Ugh, I wish you would just stop. I need to focus on school. And you being here only makes things harder."

Ventus suddenly felt his entire body freeze up. His arms moved without warning and he dropped all of the books and notebooks he had been carrying. Everyone around the area he was in turned to look at him, staring at him with a lot of confusion.

Ventus tried to open his mouth to speak or even bend over to pick up his books, but he couldn't even do that. He only stood there, frozen.

"I think me doing this makes things a lot harder. Would you care to have me demonstrate more? I could take full control and have you do and say what I want," Vanitas said in a taunting voice.

"Please let go of me Vanitas!" Ventus shouted as loud as he could in his thoughts. He was still frozen in place and people were really beginning to notice.

"Maybe I will, if you say the magic words," Vanitas laughed.

"Vanitas!" Ventus screamed. He tried to pull back control from Vanitas, but however he was doing it, prevented Ventus from doing anything.

Vanitas just laughed again. "Come on, I am not asking for much. Just the magic words and I'll let go."

"Fine! Vanitas, please let me go!"

"All right, since you said the magic words," Vanitas said.

Ventus felt control over his body flow back through him and he dropped to his knees. He could hear the whispers from everyone around him. All eyes were on him now and his cheeks had begun to heat up with embarrassment.

WIthout a word or even a glance around, Ventus gathered up his items and ran off to his next class, all while Vanitas laughed in his head.

By the time he got to the class he flopped down on his desk and let out a long exhale. Vanitas appeared in front of him again, still laughing. Tears had started to fall down his face from laughing so hard. "Oh boy, that was so wonderful! You should have seen your face!"

Ventus gritted his teeth glaring right at Vanitas. "You just embarrassed me in front of a bunch of people!"

"Yeah? So? It was funny."

Ventus exhaled sharply. He wanted to counter again to Vanitas, but the bell had rung and everyone was taking their seats. Vanitas started to float around the class room again, most likely looking for something to push over or mess with.

"How about you just not do anything for this class?"

"But I was thinking of some good things to do this time."

"I am seriously asking you not or do anything for this class. This teacher will not tolerate any misbehavior," Ventus said. He paused before he added. "Please… Vanitas?

Vanitas paused and looked at Ventus. He smiled before chuckling. "Aw how cute, you're trying to be nice. Fine, this time I'll listen to you. But I won't do it again."

Vanitas disappeared just as the teacher walked in and closed the door behind him. As he walked up to the front of the room, everyone straighten up. The familiar long blue haired male set down some books at his desk before he did a quick run through of attendance.

"This is the big scary guy? He looks like a wimp."

"Didn't you say you could see my memories? You should know about Mr. Lune."

"Ugh, I am not going to dig through every one of your memories. That's a lot of effort and I don't care to see everything. And what's with a last name like that? Sounds fake."

"Well Mr. Lune has always been a quiet but strict teacher. So messing with him is a bad idea. And it is French for moon."

"Okay, I am totally going to mess with him." Vanitas said.

"No! What did I just say!?"

"I know what you said, and I am going to disregard it because it will be fun," Vanitas chortled. "But I am going to wait for the right opportunity."

After several minutes Mr. Lune passed out some papers for the class to fill out and read from their textbooks. Once everything was handed out he went to his desk and began to work on something at his computer. Vanitas took this moment to appear and he made his way forward towards the desk. Ventus thought to yell at him again, but he decided to just ignore him for the time being. He could only hope that all fo what Vanitas had planned wouldn't get him in trouble. Though he couldn't help but glance every second, just to make sure that Vanitas wasn't getting too carried away with whatever he had planned.

Vanitas got up to the desk and scanned over it. He then noticed that there was a cup of coffee sitting there with the lid open. Vanitas smirked as he went to reach for it. But to his surprise Mr. Lune turned his chair and now was face to face with Vanitas.

For a moment he thought that the man just had to get up, but no… the blue-haired man stayed there and his eyes were locked directly on to Vanitas's. His greenish blue eyes pierced right into Vanitas's. He narrowed them before reaching out to his coffee cup and moved it to the other side of the desk.

Vanitas backed up and a second later he vanished from sight. Ventus blinked trying to figure out what happened and noticed that he was the one that was being looked at now. He quickly lowered his head and stared down at the textbook, but he was far too confused to read any of it.

"He saw me."

"What?"

"I just said he saw me idiot, you need your brain cleaned out or something?" Vanitas grumbled.

"But how did he see you? I thought only I could because I am tied to you," Ventus asked, now feeling genuinely curious to know the answer.

"I don't know! I thought maybe he had a demon tied to him or at least had, but I don't sense any traces of a demon. But I know he definitely saw me."

"Maybe there are just people who can see demons?" Ventus suggested.

"Maybe… it's just weird… to have someone other than you see me though. But I get what you mean now… that stare had deep intimidation to it."

Ventus couldn't help but laugh quietly. "Told you."

Vanitas surprisingly stayed quiet for the rest of the class. And when it came time to leave he didn't appear or say anything else either. Ventus was just about to head out of the room when Mr. Lune spoke up.

"Ventus, can you come here a moment? There is something I need to ask you."

"No, don't go talk to him. Just leave," Vanitas said quickly.

"You realize doing that would just make him upset? If you already are intimidated by his stare, you do not want to be chased down by him. I've seen it… it's scary…"

Vanitas huffed, but didn't say a word, and thankfully didn't take any control of Ventus as he walked to the desk. "Yes Mr. Lune?"

"Please wait a moment," Mr. Lune replied as he waited for the other students to leave. Once it was only the two of them he walked to the door and closed it.

As he walked back to Ventus he spoke again. "Now Ventus, would you care to tell me where you acquired a demon?"

Ventus's mouth dropped wide open. "H-How…? How did you know it was me? I mean that the demon is connected to me?"

"The aura that surrounds you is one that belongs to a demon, and I know you did not have that aura at the start of the year," Mr. Lune replied as he crossed his arms. "Now… would it happens to relate to that old house that every student here likes to believe is cursed?"

Vanitas appeared next to Ventus and went right up into Mr. Lune's face. "Alright, spill it! How do you know and how can you see me?!"

"I've always had the ability to see the supernatural," Mr. Lune explained while keeping a calm and near emotionalness expression.

"And what do you think you are going to do about it? I am not leaving Ventus, he was my ticket out of that house and now I am free to do as I please," Vanitas replied.

"And I will be keeping a sharp eye on you, I do not want to hear or see you cause mischief around this school especially in my classroom."

"You can't tell me what to do!" Vanitas shouted.

"It seems you are quiet the young demon, so childish compared to others."

"Hey!"

"Ventus," Mr. Lune said looking at him now.

He straightened up at the tone of his teacher's voice. He had forgotten for a moment that he was even apart of the conversation. "Yes?"

"If I can arrange it, it would be beneficial if you stayed home until we can find a way to get this demon off of you."

Both Ventus and Vanitas were caught off guard, neither of them expecting Mr. Lune to say what he did.

"I'm right here you know!"

"Wait… we?"

"And I have a name too!"

"Yes you heard me correctly, I am going to help you with your situation, Ventus. And…" he looked at Vanitas. "If you want me to give you any proper recognition, I expect good behavior from you."

"And why the hell would I give you good behavior!? I have no reason to do that!" Vanitas shouted before disappearing.

Ventus felt his body stiffen up again… Vanitas was taking control. And this time it felt like a step further. Ventus's vision started blurring as he felt even less feeling over his body. And then his body started to move on its own… or really Vanitas moved it.

But before he could lunge at Mr. Lune, the man chanted some words before extending his hand. A glow formed and pushed against Ventus. He stumbled back but other than that he didn't feel anything else.

Vanitas on the other hand let out a shriek and reappeared behind Ventus. "What the hell was that?!"

"Just a simple spell to keep you from possessing Venuts," Mr. Lune replied. "Nothing more than that."

"But it stung!" Vanitas said, he still looked angry but Ventus could see that the demon boy was pouting. A strange sight to see on a demon for sure.

"Of course it did," Mr. Line replied nonchalantly. "And now I hope you will listen otherwise I will do it again."

Vanitas grumbled and turned away, acting exactly like a little child who was having a tantrum but trying to keep it contained. Ventus on the other hand still had so many more questions to ask Mr. Lune. But before he could his teacher spoke again.

"We will have to talk more later, I'll write you up a pass for your next class since it is already past the bell. But be sure to find me after school so we may discuss this further."

Ventus almost couldn't believe it. In just a few short days he had been cursed to have a demon tied to him and then he learned that one of his teachers could actually see demons and wanted to help him. He could only imagine what other strangeness would happen, but at the moment he had to run to his next class and try to focus on it as best as he could.


So yes we returned to this story, and there will be more of it in the future. But for what's up next, more random fun!