A.N/: I just realized Yukio is the one to suffer Rin's stubborness every time he wouldn't get out of bed...Maybe Kuro's just too lazy...

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Chapter 8

"You can't stay in bed the whole day Nii-san." Yukio sighed, since long ready to go to school.

"Watch me." Rin grunted from his bed.

Yukio had been trying to get Rin out of his comfy bed for a good ten minutes but without success. He had heard his brother had skipped exorcism class the day before. Shiemi wouldn't say a thing so he was left as confused as all the others. She had sniffled most of the afternoon yesterday without the Exwires being able to do anything about it. Rin on the other hand, had spent the last day in bed and wouldn't get out of the comfort his covers provided for the life of him this morning despite all Yukio's efforts.

"Stop acting like a little kid!" No reaction. "This is middle school all over again, you're silent and grumpy like when you used to skip school all the time! You think that's going to solve anything!?" Yukio started getting annoyed with this situation.

"Leave me alone Yukio." Rin grumbled, his back still facing his brother.

'He wouldn't get it' Rin thought tiredly. Shiemi would never want to see him again after what had happened the afternoon before and he wasn't ready to face the others and their questions yet. Especially Shima, how could he possibly go and talk to the boyfriend of a girl he had almost kissed? 'What if Shiemi told him?' She probably did. She was scared of him now but he didn't blame her. It was entirely his fault after all… 'My life sucks…'

"No, I'm not going to leave you alone! You remember the meeting last week? The teachers kept telling me how terrible you were in every class, do you even imagine how embarrassing that was!?" Yukio shouted losing his temper at the thought of all the nasty comments he had heard about his 'good for nothing' brother that day.

"Just go away Yukio!" Rin cried out.

"If you don't do anything you won't be able to stay in the academy! I already told you, so why don't you get a move on!? You said you would think about it!"

"I have other things to worry about, so are you gonna leave me alone or what!?"

Yukio's patience was running low. "I don't care what happened between Shiemi and you! I don't give a damn ok! But you said you would become an exorcist…!"

"What does it have to do with…!?" Rin interrupted him but Yukio cut in again.

"You can't become an exorcist if you get kicked out of the Academy you prick!"

Rin was silent after that. He thought nothing mattered anymore now that Shiemi hated him but he had forgotten one very important thing. 'I have to go and kick Satan's ass'. And to do that, he needed to be prepared. He couldn't be forced to leave until he had reached his goal. There were still many people to protect and he wouldn't let them die because of his selfishness, he had promised on his father's grave.

Yukio knew he had made a good point. He needed to add the last straw to convince him: "Also if you start studying, you won't have to think about whatever happened with Shiemi. She isn't in the high school."

Touché. Rin sighed and got up lazily. Yukio blinked in surprise as he realized his brother had slept in his school uniform. His shirt was wrinkled and his hair all over his face. He ran a hand through his bangs out of habit and grabbed the Komaken next to his bed along with a few books which he put carelessly into his bag.

"Let's go." He passed by Yukio and walked to the door.

The younger twin couldn't help but smile proudly at his negotiating skills before he followed his brother downstairs.

Rin sat down leaning against a tree in the high school's campus. It was lunch break and he had managed to make some kind of sandwich in only two minutes with what he had found in the kitchen this morning before going to school.

He hadn't listened much in class. Just something about cellular division in biology… 'The heck is it again?'

He didn't think it through too much, taking another bite of his sandwich, bored. He was glad Shiemi wasn't in the high school, that way he wouldn't have to see her cower behind Shima for protection when she saw him. 'What protection? The guy's afraid of spiders…' He thought, munching on his bread and salad. Didn't I put tomatoes and mustard? Ah, there they are…' His thoughts soon drifted back to Shiemi however. He was somehow disappointed not to see her, even if it was just to have her be scared or angry at him. He already missed her, knowing that she would never smile at him or even want to talk to him again…

His heart began aching again. It happened way too much these days. He shut his eyes tightly, trying to make the pain go away but as always, he didn't succeed.

"Hey Rin!"

He lifted his head up to see Renzo jogging his way, closely followed by Ryuji and Konekomaru. 'Shit. This had to happen eventually…' He thought, sighing. Renzo was either going to yell at him for ever touching his girlfriend or beat him up to a bloody pulp. Or at least try to, since Rin was way out of his league for that kind of thing. Maybe if Ryuji and Koneko backed him up…

"What happened yesterday? Shiemi didn't say anything." Renzo asked, still shocked by his girlfriend's behavior.

Rin's eyes widened in surprise as he stood up. 'She didn't tell them? Why?' He stared at the grass on the ground, completely confused.

"She seemed to have been crying when she came back to class." Konekomaru added worriedly.

"And where were you all afternoon? You skipped?" Ryuji inquired.

They were all giving Rin questioning looks. 'What is it? A cross interrogation?' he thought, bemused. The voice at the back of his head told him they were just curious and worried but he couldn't shake off his confusion at Shiemi not telling them anything. It was her right. She would have been the poor innocent victim while Rin would have passed as a filthy pervert… His friends would have hated his guts and he would have been all alone again, watching Shiemi live her happy life with her boyfriend…

'It's not like her. Even if it was my fault, she wouldn't do that to me.' His eyes widened a bit more at the realization but he soon got back down to reality. 'She still hates me.'

"Rin, say something man!" Renzo exclaimed, throwing his arms in the air in frustration.

The half demon sighed. He couldn't tell them, he just couldn't… "It's none of your business." He didn't even bother to lift up his gaze to meet theirs.

"Tch…" Ryuji's temper slowly rose. Konekomaru felt it coming and gave him a warning look which he ignored. "What have you done again?"

The memories flashed before his eyes. Him shouting at Shiemi, him pinning her against the wall, her eyes widening in fear, the tears running on her pale cheeks…

Rin turned his head away "Like I said, none of your business."

"I'm her boyfriend man!" Renzo defended his title, outraged.

"Like I need you to remind me…" He mumbled too low for the others to hear, then raised his voice a bit louder. "If Shiemi doesn't want to tell you, then I won't either…" He was still looking at the ground somberly.

"I asked you a question!" Ryuji shouted. "Shiemi's our friend as well and you did something to her! Tell us!"

This was really starting to piss him off. Rin gave his rival a dark look. He wasn't going to tell, that was final. Ryuji returned the glare and turned around.

"You'd better go apologize before we get on your case." He said in a low tone.

Rin sighed as he watched them go, Konekomaru and even Renzo trying to –unsuccessfully- calm Ryuji. Rin had never realized his rival cared so much about Shiemi. The Exwires formed a small close group after all, it wasn't so odd for Ryuji to stand up for one of them. However Renzo's behavior had surprised him. He hadn't insisted all that much to learn the truth about the day, even if it concerned his girlfriend.

The half demon sat back down, running a hand through his hair. 'There you go, all alone again.' He thought tiredly. He had won the jackpot, now not only Shiemi hated him but his friends as well. But what else could he have done? Shout at Shima's face that he was crazy in love with his girlfriend and that he had nearly kissed her in the corridor? 'Yeah sure…'

He was tired of all this mess, he wished he could go back to the time when Shiemi was still his friend and he spent his days having fun with her and all of the other Exwires. Rin closed his eyes, trying to remember all these good times they had spent together. Memories of the past days flashed in his mind instead. He couldn't take it anymore when he saw Shiemi's scared eyes again.

He let out a loud growl, making some passersby turn around to give him curious looks. He glared at some of them but all that didn't free him of his thoughts at all. He took his head in his hands and tried to shake off his problems but that didn't work either. His eyes fell on his half eaten sandwich when he finally gave up. He picked it up and put it back into a plastic bag and into his school bag, not hungry anymore. He stared into the horizon for a little while after that but no matter how hard he tried, all his thoughts drifted back to Shiemi.

Rin sighed in frustration again then turned his head to scan for something to do in the forty five minutes he still had for lunch break. He eyed his school bag indifferently and recalled Yukio's words this morning: 'The teachers kept telling me how terrible you were in every class, do you imagine how embarrassing that was!?...' he had said'…Also if you start studying, you won't have to think about whatever happened with Shiemi.'

Rin kept staring a little longer then finally picked up his bag and searched through it for his biology text book. He opened it to the sequence about Cellular division 'To hell with it…'

A.N/: Don't ask, I don't know why I came up with cellular division, I just did...-_-"

I'll make sure to upload the next chapter soon, but don't expect it to be daily update like before because...Hell...Hum, I mean, school started again so I'll be busier than before.

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