Babysitting

It has only been one day and Rin is bored already. It isn't just because of the long day he is having or even the classes, which just finished up not too long ago. No, it was the fact that this human he must watch, Yukio, is just so dull. He would rather be with Mephisto, who annoys him from time to time. Yet, this boy is still considered to be his full-blooded brother but he doesn't quite claim. Why would he claim someone he didn't grow up with?

Rin follows his twin brother from behind, watching him with emotionless eyes and a blank face. That is until his 'brother' turns around and smiles at him. Yukio is pointing at the dorm he has been staying at. Perhaps he can convince Rin to at least come inside and have a proper meal? It is the nice thing to do, after all. He can use this as a chance to get to know the person he is curious about.

"Would you by chance like to come in and visit for a little bit?" Yukio asks as he opens the door and gestures Rin inside, "I can fix you something to eat before you have to go back home for the night. So, how about it?"

Rin blinks, surprised by the other boy's offer, and thinks for a moment. At first, he wants to say no, as he would rather be at home. However, Mephisto did tell him to get to know Yuko and what better way is there to do that than at least spend some time with him outside of class? The demon eventually nods.

"Sure, I guess it wouldn't hurt to hang out for a few, I didn't exactly have anything to eat today," Rin sighs before briefling smiling at Yukio, "If I were to come up home hungry, then my brother would get on my case and decide it would be a good idea to cook me something…"

Truth be told, Mephisto isn't the best cook, in fact, he is far from it. Every time he must eat something Mephisto makes, he almost always feels sick to his stomach. Of course, he would never say that out loud as he doesn't want to think about any kind of consequences.

Yukio smiles once more as he enters the dorm, looking over his shoulder as he does so to make sure Rin follows him. Rin does so and closes the door behind him. The exorcist leads Rin towards the Cafeteria, looking back occasionally to get a glance of the other. For some reason the other boy seems familiar to him…

Rin pretends not to notice the fact that Yukio is staring back at him. This happens quite often, as he tends to have a lot of humans look at him. Maybe it was mostly since he is almost always seen tagging along with Mephisto. There is also the fact that he knows he is quite handsome, probably caused by the rather large ego has.

"And finally, here is the Cafeteria," Yukio says and gestures towards the general area, also noticing that there are food trays there already, "Oh, it seems like our food has already been prepared. I don't know who makes the food but every time I look, there is always food there. It's very good, too!"

"You have your own dorm cook then? How nice," Rin comments before raising an eyebrow as he looks at the food, already knowing that the cook just so happens to his elder brother's familiar, he would recognize that cooking anywhere. "Does anyone else living in this dorm or something?"

Yukio stays quiet for a moment as he goes over to pick up the food trays, Rin having already sat down in his seat as he did so. He can't help but glance back at Rin before sitting down across from him and setting down their trays.

"Right now, I am the only one staying in this dorm, you see, before I was assigned here this dorm was practically abandoned. I have no idea why, though," He responds before stabbing at the food with his fork and taking a quick bite and swallowing before continuing, "What about you, are you staying in any dorms or anything?"

Rin was about to eat before he bursts out into laughter at Yukio's question. The demon thought that the answer is rather obvious, since he has been raised by Mephisto all of his life but apparently not. Where else would someone like him stay other than the mansion? Well, there was that but he has also stayed in Gehenna on Occasion but there is no way Mephisto would be happy if he mentions something like that. Knowing his luck, it would ruin any progress he makes with this mission of his.

"My brother has raised me since birth so, I've only really stayed in the mansion. Besides, I'm not the kind of person who likes to sleep in places like that," Rin responds, finding himself already bored as takes a bite of his food and is mentally counting down the minutes until he can finally leave the dorm and head to the mansion.

As minutes of silence occur, it becomes obvious that neither of them are good conversationalists. From the beginning, Rin could get the sense that Yukio is an awkward person, which makes him feel even more boredom. It was getting too late for Rin to continue his babysitting mission. There will be plenty of days in the future for them to interact, right?

To speed things up, Rin does his best to eat as fast as he can without making a mess of things, which tends to be rather hard. Anything to get out of this place. Once he does so, he wipes his mouth off and stands up, smiling briefly, and adjusts his collar so that it looks straight.

"Well, as much fun as this has been, I really must get going, I don't want to stay to long and make my brother to worry about me too much. He is overprotective, you see," He says, coming up with the generic excuse to get out as he knows for a fact that Mephisto isn't the type of demon to worry that much, "Thank you for the food, it really was delicious, Mr. Okumura."

As if to mimic the other boy's movement, Yukio stands up and smiles politely at Rin before nodding and waving.

"Please, you don't need to be so formal with me, Rin. You can simply call me Yukio," He responds, "Of course, just say the word and we can do this again sometime. It really was nice meeting you. Who knew, Mephisto having a little brother!"

"Huh, yeah, brother isn't the kind of person who talks a lot about things like that and it was nice meeting you too," Rin says and bows before turning around, waving backwards, "See you around, Yukio!"

All Yukio does is watch the other walk away and out the door. He is still generally curious as to who Rin is. Also, why does Rin feel so familiar to him? It's probably nothing, right?

In Mephisto's mansion

The Raven-haired demon finally enters the mansion after a rather long walk and doesn't hesitate to start loosening his tie. He truly hates wearing ties for so long because they just feel so suffocating at times. The moment he looks up, he can see Mephisto sitting on top of his desk with his legs crossed and grinning at him.

"Well, you've certainly arrived late, must've had one hell of a goodnight with Mr. Okumura, am I right?" Mephisto smirks as he jumps off his desk and approaches the younger demon, "It's not like you to be so late. So, you've got me curious, how are things going with him?"

Rin rolls his eyes in response and sighs. He really doesn't understand why his elder brother is so interested in a human like Yukio. Then again, he never really understands him period.

"It's going surprisingly well, I suppose, the human seems to have taking a liking already or something like that," Rin replies as he stares at Mephisto, his blue orbs staring into Mephisto hazel ones, "However, I still understand why you seem to be so interested in him. I find him a bit… dull, to say the least."

Mephisto grins as he brings up a gloved hand to brush the raven-haired boy's cheek before patting it and putting it back down.

"I knew you wouldn't disappoint me, my dear little brother, just keep doing what you are doing and things will go as planned~" Mephisto says and winks Rin before chuckling, "As to why I am so interested in the boy, all will be revealed when the time comes for you to know. Just be patient, Rin."

This is something he came to expect from the older demon. True, he may tell most of the things he wants to know, but there are plenty of times that the King of Time likes to keep him in suspense. Just this once he wants to know why he has to do these things because he wants to know what he gets out of this. If Mephisto has asked him to watch some dull 'brother' there has to be a good reason.

What a damn tease.

"I see, so you're going to keep me in suspense until then? How nice of you," He says sarcastically before sighing, "Will you at least tell me what my reward is? After all, I did all the hard work, do you know how hard it is to babysit? Wait don't answer that last part…"

Mephisto sighs and ever so slowly walks over to his seat before sitting down. He gestures towards the seat in front of his desk, implying that Rin should sit and get comfortable. It seems he would have to explain a few things to young, easily bored, demon. His expression turns serious as he leans forward so that his chin is resting on his hands, his elbow prompted up.

"You really don't understand, do you? You have so much to learn, Rin," Mephisto tsks before leaning in, a grin returning to his facial features, "Very well, since you are my Kin, I will explain why I do the things I do. These are the kind of things that I've told no one else, nor will I ever. If you haven't noticed, I take great pleasure in watching mortal behavior. This is the very thing I've done for over two hundred years, monitoring them. I also happen to know that you, too, seem to take some pleasure in them from time to time."

Mephisto is good at many things but what he is best at his using that silver tongue of his. Of course, the demon King of Time didn't have to say anything for Rin to know this. In fact, there were quite a few times where he managed to influence the younger demon because of this. Either way, Mephisto manages to peak Rin's interest. He leans closer to listen more clearly. Needless to say, Rin is now giving the older demon his full attention.

"Assiah and everything in it is my chessboard and I've invested a great deal of time in it. Like playing chess, it takes time to set pieces in their proper places; manipulating them, if you will. Even now, I'm making sure things go my way, you could always try giving it a go too, you know. I could always use a protégé." Mephisto smirks, "Yukio has the potential to be a very important piece in this game of chess and that's why I'm having you do what you're doing. To Learn, to study."

This is honestly something that Rin never really thought about and the more he did so, the more he liked it. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the large amount of patience his guardian has. Not to mention Rin has a lot in common with one of his other brothers, Amaimon, in the fact that it doesn't take much to bore him. Mephisto knew this and no matter how hard he tries, it always fails. Though, he has gotten slightly better.

"I suppose you do have a point and if he is as important as you think he is, it would be a shame to lose something so beneficial," Rin sighs and leans back in his seat, "It's just that it's so hard watching someone so boring. I don't know how you've managed to keep yourself entertained this whole time. Also, it would appear that Yukio is a bit clingy, maybe he even knows something."

"Well, it would make sense since Yukio is a very clever boy," Mephisto chuckles, "If you aren't careful he could piece things together, so watch out. Now I do have things to do, I am a very busy man, you see. We'll discuss this more thoroughly later."

"I'm not too worried about Yukio discovering anything, I'm sure he isn't as smart as I am," Rin mutters before standing up and turning around to walk away, "I have had a rather tedious day, so I think I will be off, I'll need plenty of beauty sleep for tomorrow."

Rin heads out of the room without saying else, though there is no way he is going to sleep, despite what he just said. The young demon never really gets a lot of sleep. He just plays his video games until he decides to go to sleep. Sleep was for the dead, right?

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