"Naruta! Wait!" Naruta stoped to let his friend catch up. "Naruta those people were just trying to help us did you have to be so rude?"
"You can go to those classes yourself, if you choose but I'm not wasting my time learning to fight something they previously said was harmless."
"But they said there was some that aren't! Don't you want to defend yourself?"
"I can defend myself already. As I said you can go to the classes if you want but I'm not interested."
"Naruta, you know I can't join on my own, I don't have the confidence."
"If you don't have the confidence to face humans, how could you face up to 'demon' anyway?" Takumi's face hardened at Naruta's statement and he thought about it. Naruta was right, if he couldn't face humans, how could he face demons.
"You're right Naruta." Takumi replied. "If I can't stand up to people I can't stand up to demons." And with that Takumi turned round and started walking back towards the exorcists, much to the shock of Naruta. However despite his shock Naruta continued towards his dorm. He wasn't going to join a cram school. Not again, with how it ended last time, and certainly not taught by his previous friends.
Takumi's heart was pounding. This was the first time he'd ever actually talk to new people on his own. And that terrified him. But he knew he had to face his fears. Those demons weren't going to get the better of him and nor were humans. Spotting the two exorcists he'd talked to earlier, he walked up to them and prepared to talk.
"H-hi." He said quietly. The two exorcists turned round and saw him.
"Where's your friend?" The tall one asked. Takumi felt intimidated but seeing the short on there aswell made him believe that this guy couldn't be as scary as he looked.
"We had a fight. I'd like to learn to fight those demons. You said you could teach me how." Takumi gained a bit of confidence. "I want to be able to protect people."
"I'm assuming that's what you fought about?" The shorter one asked. "I'm sorry if we caused you to fight with your friend."
"No it needed to happen. I need to gain some confidence. Anyway You said I could learn to fight demons right?"
"Yeah, we can help you fight demons, but to get the class running we need at least 7 students. So we're waiting to see if our friends managed to recruit anyone. We'll put you down on the list though and hopefully we'll be able to get the cram school created."
"Thanks." Takumi felt relieved. He'd managed to have a whole conversation with someone without a friend. He began to walk away but one of the guys stopped him.
"What's your name?" Takumi blushed. He completely forgot to tell them that.
"Oh sorry I forgot to tell you that. I'm Goto, Takumi." He smiled slightly.
"Nice to meet you Goto-san. I'm Konekomaru Miwa and this is my friend Ryuji Suguro."
"Nice to meet you too. I should probably go now. Thank you. Bye." And with that Takumi walked away.
Naruta slammed the door open as he walked into the dorm and went straight to his room. Keito who was sat in the living room looked up hearing the door slam and frowned. Naruta did get mad occasionally but rarely enough to slam doors. He normally seemed to try hide his temper. Worried Keito got up and went to go check on him.
"Hey, Naruta, are you okay? You seem angry." He heard some rushed shuffling and what sounded like stamping, before Naruta appeared at the door.
"Yeah, I'm fine I just got in an argument with Takumi."
"With Takumi!? Since when does he fight. What was your argument even about?" Naruta seemed to stiffen before frowning.
"It's not important. Anyway I've got to study." And with that Naruta shut the door. Keito was shocked. This had been one weird day. First there was the people from TCU in his lecture with of which one had bright pink hair and wouldn't leave one of the girls (who had purple twintails) alone. Then there was that weird creature in the lecture hall that only he seemed to be able to see, and after that the two he mentioned before came up to him speaking about demons and that, which he didn't really have an option to believe because, he'd seen one himself, So he signed up for the 'cram school' they'd mentioned was being created. Now Naruta was angry, with Takumi of all people, and this day was officially one of the weirdest ever for him.
Naruta was sat in his room trying to not cry as he thought about that day. Being harsh towards his old friends was probably a good move, that way they didn't see him as they used to. Then again he almost let his flames loose again. Luckily he managed to calm himself when Keito knocked on the door and stamp out the little sparks he had caused. It had been ages since a spark had come out of him, he supposed seeing his old friends set him off. He couldn't let that happen again. He'd escaped the order and finally was on the path to an ordinary life, which was all he'd ever wanted, he couldn't afford to lose that now, even if it meant losing yet another friend to exorcism, he himself would not be friends with one.
Hello readers. Thanks to all of you for the support you've been giving this story, it's amazing. I'm sorry I've not been updating this often but I've just started my GCSEs ( for those who don't know it's basically one of the main qualifications people in Britain need to get a job) and I took triple science and art which means I get a hell of a lot of homework. I'll try to update this story as often as possible, so thanks for all you're support. If you see any grammatical errors in my writing please point them out I'm always looking to improve and with that I will say:
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