Disclaimer: I do not own Blue Exorcist. I do not own this plot. I do not own Muki, Imi, Hirotaka (who belongs to Shiroikage), Nami, Spyro (who belongs to MewStar0013), or Hotaru (who belongs to ShadowFalcon). I only own Leigh. I don't own Michael or Raphael either. They're angels. They belong only to God.
The fact that we were officially ExWires excited everyone, but I kept a lid on how happy I really was. Muki, however, had no such inclination. In fact, she squealed, "We're finally ExWires!" and almost started to run and jump around the room.
"Don't you think you should drink decaf?" I whispered to her.
She got that fake surprised look. "There's such a thing as decaf? Since when?" For lack of a better term, I face desked.
When I looked up there was someone near an empty desk. "Does anybody sit here?" She asked. I knew it was a girl because a have a friend like her, as in, she likes to dress in boys' clothes. She had short reddish hair, green eyes, and naturally tan, unlike Nami. She had a navy blue t-shirt with a red star pin and green collar and a black vest with a red ribbon around her neck. On her belt she wore two guns. It was pretty obvious what Meister she was going for.
Muki said, "Nope! No one sits there. Except for maybe a ghost." She paused. "Are you a girl or a boy?"
Leave it to Muki to ask something that rude. "That isn't nice to ask someone," I hissed behind my Demon Pharmacology textbook.
The girl looked totally alright with the question. "That's alright. I get that a lot. My name is Hotaru Kagami."
She saw an opening to make friends. "Mine's Muki Yaka!" Great. She saw an opening to introduce me yet again. "This is Shiemi and the one behind the book," I scowled at her, "her name's Leigh Schmal!"
I told her, "You don't have to introduce me to everyone. Yesterday you even introduced me to a squirrel." Yes, that which I had made a joke of actually happened. I tried to give her the glare where my eyes go from blue to gray and they see it happen, which always shuts her up, but she just ignored it.
Hirotaka sneaks up behind us, while I hear him coming. "I see you're in this class." Shiemi, Muki, and Hotaru all jump out of their seats while I roll my eyes he needs to get quieter. I was listening to Linkin Park's "Papercut" and I heard him coming.
"Really Hirotaka, more ninja moves?" I turn around to face him. He was okay looking, but way to nice for me. Maybe for Hotaru, she seemed pretty nice…
"Hiya Ni-chan! Are you in this class with us?" Muki hugs him, while Hotaru makes the Mole look relaxed. He looks at her and walks away. Muki turns to her, with a smug grin. "You like him, don't you?" Hotaru follows my lead and starts reading her book, totally unaware that she's reading the Glossary, upside down. I wanted to laugh. I really did. But I restrained myself.
"No I don't," she mumbled but it wasn't convincing with her blush and eyes casually following him. I zoned again.
Muki obviously saw that she was going nowhere in that direction, so she turned to me and asked, "Leigh, do you want to go back to America? And if you do, I wanna go with you!"
I glared. "We will discuss that later." In other words, I didn't want her to see Charles on Saturday nights.
The Mole coughed. "Since you all hardly know each other, I thought we should try to get to know each other." He looked at Hotaru. "Why don't you start?"
Thank God, I thought, I can listen to music in peace. I looked behind me to make sure no one would rat me out. Suguro: gave me a sullen glare like everyone else. So hot. I'd have to hang out with him sometime. Renzo: trying to see if Hotaru had noticeable breasts. Pervert. Konekomaru: trying to snap Renzo out of it. Nice guy. Emo Kid: playing on PSP. Miracle he (maybe she) passed the ExWire exam. Puppet kid: talking to his puppet. Don't even get me started on him. Painter of the Familiars (Spyro Watashnie): doodling in his notebook. He had a pale blue eye and a brown eye, freckles, long white hair, and a school uniform. Princess Eyebrows (Izumo, princess because of her attitude, and eyebrows because, well, let's not state the obvious): staring into space. That girl needed therapy. Shiemi: looking at the Mole dreamily. Muki: excited to learn about everyone. Rin: drooling on the desk.
I put in the earbuds and pushed 'random'. All was fine until: "I AM NOT YOUR F-ING SISTER! SHUT UP OR I'LL POUR BOILING MAPLE SYRUP DOWN YOUR SHIRT!" That Muki. After that, Spyro talked about himself. Then Muki. My turn. I decided to stay as cryptic as possible because whatever I told any of them, I would be exponentially increasing their knowledge about me. I sighed. "I have a brother and a sister who are 8 and 6 years older than me. I want to go for Knight. I'm left-handed." I said the word 'brother' with distain and Rin obviously noticed.
"What about your brother? Is there something wrong with him?" duh, I thought. Instead of saying anything, I flipped out. I got out of my seat, walked to him and said, "It's a best brother one minute and annoying d-head the next sort of thing."I glared at him. He looked like he peed himself. Quietly, so no one else could hear, I added, "If you say one single, solitary word implying anything about my brother, I will rip out your heart. Are we understood?" He nodded, looking even more scared.
The Mole coughed. "What about you, Shiemi?"
After cram school ended for the day, I went to make amends with Rin. It wasn't his fault. He didn't know my brother was a touchy subject. I told Shiemi that I'd take a rain check on hanging out.
I knocked on the door. Yukio answered. "Mo-Okumura-Sensei, hello. Is Okumura-kun home? I'd like to apologize for class."
"Why, of course," he replied and called out, "Nii-san! Leigh-san is here! She wants to talk to you." Nii-san? They were brothers? And Rin was older? Wow. They were probably twins.
Soon, Rin came down. "Hello, Leigh." He was definitely better looking out of uniform.
"Listen, Rin. Can we talk in private?" Seeing my sincere look, he agreed and took me to the dining room. Once there, I started. "Okay, Rin. About earlier; see, my brother is a touchy subject, because up until a few years ago, we used to be really close."
"It's cool. You may make Suguro look like a wuss, but still, you still seem like a good friend. So what happened with you and your brother? You can trust me."
I stiffened at that. "Sorry, but I haven't really been able to trust someone for a while now. And besides, it's nothing personal, but the people in my head just don't like you too much." Crap. I mentioned that I had people in my head.
"People?" he asked, perplexed.
"Just kidding! I may be psychopathic, but I'm not crazy." He nodded, obviously weirded out by the fact that Americans made jokes out of insanity. "But seriously, I have issues in the trust department." I decided to change the subject. "So is the Mole really your younger brother?"
He laughed at my nickname for him "The Mole? I have to write that down. Actually, he's my younger twin."
I pulled a Muki. "Does he always act like he has a stick where the sun don't shine?"
He laughed again. "So that was you who said that the other day! Yes, he is always like that."
"He seems a little young to be an Exorcist. How long has he been training?" He winced. "Sorry, if that's a touchy subject we can file it away with my brother in a drawer labeled 'do not discuss.'"
He was back to normal. "It's fine. It's just that he received his Temptaint at birth, while I received mine a couple months ago. He's been training since he was 7. He became an exorcist at age 13."
"I know how he feels. Being able to see demons your whole life, I mean. I received mine at birth, too, only no one believed me when I said I saw monsters. I never talked about them in church. But the weird thing is, the goblins, the coal tars, the really low-power ones, rarely, if ever, came within 5 feet of me. I thought that it was just a Catholic thing at first, because the coal tars didn't like my family. Now I know it's because they have clean spirits."
We kept talking for a while. I would talk about my friends; he would talk about growing up in a monastery. It was a really pleasant talk, even with Michael urging me to make a sword and stab him. Finally, it was getting late so we wrapped things up. "By the way, Rin, never breathe a word of what I said today. It was a private discussion, and again, I'm sorry for flipping out on you earlier."
When I got back to the dorm, I knew there was going to be an onslaught of questions why I didn't hang out with them. But I didn't care, because I now knew that I had a friend I could talk to freely, even if he was a demon. It was like the old days, when I could talk to my brother, because most girls would tell everyone they saw, while guys could keep quiet. In a lot of ways, he did remind me of my brother: intimidating but a really nice guy. I just hoped he didn't start drinking, because that would be worse than the first time. In a lot of ways, guys could make better friends than girls.
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