To Tame a Demon

by SilverTreeandGoldLeaf

In a world that has been split in three, Nagisa Shiota is training to become a Demon Hunter. However, instead of hunting them down, he wants to befriend a one - but first, he has to tame it. Can he and his classmates tame the demons they have summoned and become Hunters? Especially Nagisa, when the demon he summoned is a red-haired boy, who ran away from Hell.

5. Chapter 5

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: To Tame a Demon

D/C: I don't own anything from Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, I only own my own OC's.

**Ansatsu Kyoushitsu**The arc of Hunters**

Chapter 5

Nagisa's pov:

Karma was quiet for a moment, his eyes hidden behind his bangs. I could still see the dark look on his face, from the way his lips were pressed shut and I felt how the air seemed to lose its warmth. Then, all of a suddenly, the katana in Karma's hand disappeared, making a strange bling-sound as it did. The red head in front of me, kneeled down once again and stared right into my eyes. His golden eyes seemed deeper than before and glowed slightly.

Scary…was what I thought at the moment.

"…Do you really think that something like that would change my mind now? You do know that it only happened because I took pity on you", he said.

"So, you do remember me?" I sighed in relief. "I already thought that you had forgotten."

"You're a human", Karma growled. "Naturally, I hate you. Times have changed, Nagisa-kun. I may have helped you out five years ago, but you heard yourself - it was five years ago."

He was right. It happened a long time ago, and times had changed since then. It was obvious that Karma had changed completely - but because of him I had decided to become a Hunter. He was the one who changed me.

"I know", I nodded. "And I can see that you've changed."

That made Karma snort. "You humans… I really hate you." He had disgusted look on his face, yet his eyes were pained. But it changed soon, when Terasaka-kun joined the conversation.

"How come you're not trying to kill Nagisa?! Why the hell did my demon turn against me, while she was lot more weaker than you!" the brown haired student yelled and Karma turned to look at him. I too, turned my gaze at Terasaka, who was staring at Karma.

"Oh well, if it isn't the asshole-friend. Seems like you're fine", Karma chuckled, now looking very amused. "You want some answers from me, now do you… Just use your brains and you'll be able to find the answer." A cold smirk appeared on Karma's face. "Or maybe not, since you are quite stupid. I think this incident just proves me right."

"Excuse me?! You fucking lousy demon!" Terasaka-kun growled angrily. He walked to Karma, grabbed the red head by the collar and lifted him up until he was facing Terasaka directly. They had like two or three inch height-difference, but Terasaka didn't seem to care about that. "Should I teach you how to respect others?"

This didn't seem to anger Karma - instead, his smile widened. Suddenly Terasaka let out a strange whimper and he fell to the ground, holding his stomach. Karma took a step back, mischief in his eyes. "Pitiful act, human. You really have no idea how the world works. You see, those who are weak, don't deserve any respect from those who stand at the top. You want me to respect you? Then how about you try to beat me? If you do it, I'll help you kill my father."

"Why would you want to kill your father?" Terasaka coughed, still holding his stomach.

"I don't care does he die or live", Karma simply answered.

"Ha! Should've guessed something like that from a demon", Maehara muttered. "You don't even care for your own family."

"Exactly", Karma nodded, cold smile on his face. "Soooo~, want to fight or not, asshole-friend?" The red head tilted his head a little, an innocent look on his face, but the deep golden eyes told else. Anyone could see the mischief glimmering in them. Terasaka sweat dropped and I heard how he took a deep breath in.

"It's obvious that I'm not strong enough yet…", the brown haired boy answered quietly, his face downcast. "But someday… I'll kick your and your father's ass. That's a promise."

Karma blinked his eyes in surprise and for a moment he seemed to be genuinely happy to hear it - which was weird, but I knew that demons had a very strange sense of humor. But the happy smile on the red head's face disappeared soon, and it was replaced by an amused smirk. "Oooh, scary~! Can't wait to see you do that, Terasaka-kun", Karma said. It surprised us all that he called Terasaka by his name and actually with honorifics. "But I don't like losing, so don't let your hopes too high."

"Nurufufufu", Koro-sensei stepped in to the conversation. "Looks like you're fairly young demon. So full of energy~." The yellow octopus was of course bigger than Karma, and was now looking down at the red head, a creepy smile on his face. Karma gave him a questioning look. "I was wondering, have you ever been taught like a human. Do they teach mathematics in Hell?"

"No, but it's basic knowledge", Karma answered, still the questioning look on his face (which was kinda cute) - but he wasn't the only one who didn't get where Koro-sensei was going. "I mean, the strongest demons are as wise as grown-up humans. We know all the basics you teach at schools."

"Why do you need to know something like that?" I asked. Karma gave me a grin.

"Don't forget that demon-king level demons can change forms to whatever they want. You can never know is the person walking towards you a demon or not", the red head told me. "Isn't it interesting? It's little like gambling. If you have bad luck, the person is a hungry demon who has decided to eat you - if you have good luck, it's just a human. It's quite effective amongst humans - especially where there aren't so many cops and Hunters. After all, fear is a strong weapon."

"Why did you ask, Nagisa?" Kayano whined to me. "Now I'm afraid to walk home." I gave her an apologetic smile.

"I understand…", Koro-sensei mumbled. His smile disappeared for a moment, but when it came back, it came fast and it was brighter than before. "Would you like to join our class, Karma-kun?"

"…Huh?" the demon asked, a confused look on his face.

"Wa- wait…", Terasaka-kun mumbled. It took a moment for us to realize what our homeroom-teacher had just suggested.

"WHAT?!" the whole class yelled once the news sunk into our brains.

Koro-sensei let out an amused chuckle, while Karma just stared at him and we others kept throwing daggers (yep, real daggers) at our sensei, who of course dodged every one of them.

"You have to be joking!" Nakamura-san said. "He's a demon. He can't possible join us! Nagisa-kun has to keep him under control - not let him roam around the building freely!"

"Nakamura-san is right", Okuda-san said, and she was probably the only one staying so calm. "Isn't it dangerous?"

"The point is", Koro-sensei started to explain. "If Nagisa-kun can't control Karma-kun while he is in his human-form, there's no point even trying."

"But this is only the second day!" Sugino-kun defended me - once again. "You can't assume that he could already control him perfectly."

"No no, I'm not assuming anything, dear students. But last night, you were supposed to make the contract strong enough, that the demon can't get out of your control." As sensei said those words, he looked directly at Terasaka, who turned bright red. "I believe that Terasaka-kun here just forgot to set the rules strict enough - seriously, this is a good instance. This is what happens when you let the contract too loose." Koro-sensei turned to look at me, a gentle smile on his face. "Nagisa-kun again, seems to have fairly tight grip over his demon. Karma-kun couldn't even take his human-form before Nagisa-kun gave him an order. But there's lot of work to do, it's not a perfect contract. But Sugino-kun here was right, I can't assume that you'd even be able to do a perfect one, since this was your first time."

"Humans usually leave lots of holes into the contract", Karma added. "It's not even that hard to find them, and use the chance to take control. The damn-annoying-bitch-demon knew what she was doing. But since you are first-timers, I'm surprised you've got this far. Seems like the rumors aren't just rumors."

"What rumors?" Karasuma-sensei asked, frowning at Karma, who gave him a secretive smirk as an answer.

"But let me ask again, Karma-kun. Would you like to join our class and learn few more things about humans?" Koro-sensei asked, returning to the subject from before. The idea of Karma being a student in our class send shivers down my spine. I wasn't sure was it a good or bad thing - but at least now he had a chance of seeing the better of the world. And I could keep an eye at him too… maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all.

It took me a moment to realize that Karma was looking at me, waiting for me to give some kind of answer. He was giving me an (now truly) innocent look. "What do you want me to do? It's more like your decision."

"I'm completely fine with either way", I said nervously. "But Koro-sensei is right - you'd get to observe humans daily. Isn't that what you demons like to do?"

Karma frowned at me. "Are you kidding? That's the most boring thing ever", he sighed. "You humans don't even do anything interesting - you just sleep, eat and eat some more. And if I'd follow a Hunter, I'd risk my life." He made a x-letter with his hands. "No, nope, definitely no thanks."

"I get it", I sweat dropped, a nervous smile on my face. "But you should still join us. What's the point if I can't control you?"

The smirk returned to Karma's face. "You don't need to control me", he purred. "You could just let me go."

"Seriously… no one is that stupid, Karma."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that~", the red head said, his eyes traveling to Terasaka, who noticed it.

"What's with that shit-eating grin of yours, demon?! Even I'm not that stupid!" the brown haired student yelled.

"Even you?" Karma repeated, his voice triumphant.

"Shut the fuck up!"

"Okay!" Koro-sensei said between. "I think that's enough. Please give me the answer, Karma-kun."

Karma turned serious, his golden eyes meeting my own for a moment, before he was looking at Koro-sensei again. The red head shrugged his shoulders. "Yes - I suppose", he sighed. "But just one more thing - if you tell someone that you have a Fire Demon walking around this place, I'll personally slaughter you." He wasn't only talking to Koro-sensei, and the cold smile on his face was more than enough to get us all agree. That made me wonder - why was Karma in Middle World in the first place? It was common knowledge that Fire Demons didn't leave Hell, because there weren't many of them.

Now that I started to think it - Bitch-sensei had asked that was Karma hiding from something or someone. But the red head had dodged the question quite easily. I really should ask him about it, I thought, as I eyed the red head.

"I think we get it", Koro-sensei nodded. "Now then, do you have a last name?"

"A last name…?" Karma asked, tilting his head to the left a little.

"Yes, a last name. Like Shiota, or Kaede. I mean, I have to put your full name to the student-list", our homeroom-teacher explained.

"Umn…"

"You don't have a one?" I asked, surprised to hear this. Karma gave me an annoyed glare.

"Demons don't need a last name", he hissed, golden eyes narrowed at me.

"Then come up with a one."

"…You fucking serious?"

"Yes", I nodded, and now it was my turn to smirk - which made Karma even more annoyed.

"I'm going to make your night a Hell", he growled. "Don't forget that I don't need sleep, unlike you." He had a sinister smirk on his face. "So, with all respect, master, shut up."

"Got it", I mumbled nervously and I swore I heard Kayano chuckle. And she wasn't the only one.

We waited a moment for Karma to come up with a name, but luckily it didn't take that long. Maybe three minutes. And I was surprised to hear that he came up with a pretty good last name as well.

Karma smiled at our homeroom-teacher once he had the name ready.

"You can call me Akabane Karma", the red head said. "Now, shall we make this school-year a remarkable one, Koro-sensei?"

**Ansatsu Kyoushitsu**The arc of Hunters**

Karma's pov:

I hadn't been joking when I said I'd make Nagisa's night a Hell. And yep - it was fun. Before leaving school, I took my cat-form again and at night, I didn't let the damn dimwit sleep. It was way too fun, because Nagisa sure had the best reactions. Especially when he was half-asleep.

As we made our way back to school, I had to practically help Nagisa to walk. Humans really were strange things - they could fall asleep in a second. Or at least Nagisa could. It was somehow funny and somehow annoying. I mean, when we were at the main school-building, I had to carry Nagisa on my back. We would be late from school otherwise, and I didn't really know was that a good or bad thing.

"Now, this is what you can call karma", I mumbled, as Nagisa's head rested against my shoulder and I could hear the quiet snoring. "Just what the hell am I doing?" Suddenly I smelled scent that could possibly only belong to a human - mix of blood, sweat and caramel. Or this human smelled little like caramel. You know, every human had the smell of sweat and blood, but every human had also some kind of other scent on them. Like caramel or lavender.

"You shouldn't curse like that", said a new voice from behind me and I slowly turned around so Nagisa wouldn't fall from my back. Behind me was standing a strawberry-blonde boy, with cold and piercing violet eyes. He was dressed into the school-uniform, so I guessed that he was a student of Kunugigaoka junior-high as well. The strawberry-blonde eyed me and Nagisa for a moment, before he let out a disgusted snort. "You're from E-class, right? I've never seen you before, so are you new?" he asked.

I raised a brow at him. What's his problem? "So?" I asked.

"So?" the strawberry-blonde repeated. "Who are you?"

"Why are you interested?"

The boy shook his head slightly. "Well, I suppose I should introduce myself first", he sighed. Then he looked at me, holding out his left hand. "My name is Asano Gakushuu, I'm from 3A-class. Now, will you tell me your name?"

I gave Asano an apologetic smile (despite the fact that I was a demon, I knew how to behave myself time to time). "I can't really shake hands with you right now", I said, giving the sleeping dimwit a glance and Asano chuckled quietly. "But my name is Akabane Karma. And like you said, I'm from 3E-class. And I'm also new."

"…Akabane Karma, huh?" Asano mumbled. He then turned towards the main school-building. "As the student-council president, I'm giving you an advice, Akabane. Get high-scores in the next exam and get out of that class. It's not a good place - and you seem fairly wise too."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Asano sighed and gave me a cold look. "I don't have time for this now, the first lesson is starting soon. And you'll be late if you wont run." He started to walk away. "Just remember my advice."

I stared at Asano's back for a moment and for some reason, I was feeling slightly angry. He hadn't really said anything bad to me - but he had mocked the E-class. I wondered why? It did seem strange that there was a whole class outside of the main school-building, far away from it as well. And that wasn't the only thing that made me uneasy around the strawberry-blonde. There was something strange in his aura… whatever it was, my senses were telling me to either kill him or run away as far as possible.

"Asano Gakushuu…", I muttered. "He seems like an interesting person."

Then I finally started to make my way towards the E-class building.

And we were late, of course. But it wasn't my fault. As we stepped in, I simply dropped Nagisa on the floor, which woke him up. The whole class was staring at us, so I gave them a cheerful smile.

"Good morning~", I said. "Should I apologize for being late?" I turned to look at my master, who was sitting on the floor, clutching his head in pain. He gave me an annoyed look and I smiled back at him. "Rise and shine! Isn't that what humans say, ne?"

"I'm going to kill you…", Nagisa growled back.

"And you wondered why I was named Karma", I smirked. "Isn't it quite obvious now?"

"Totally", the bluenette sighed. He then stood up and bowed his head. "I'm sorry we're late, sensei… Wait, where's Koro-sensei?" Only then, I also noticed that the yellow octopus wasn't at the teacher's desk - instead, the serious raven haired man was standing there.

"That's what I'd like to know as well", the raven haired man sighed. "Just sit down. Akabane-kun's seat is next to Terasaka-kun… so you two are separated."

"Huh?" Nagisa gave the raven haired man a questioning look before turning to look at me. I shrugged my shoulders. "Who cares… might be more fun this way."

"Might be more fun…", the bluenette grunted. "You're practically sitting behind me. Just don't do anything stupid while I'm not looking."

"That's so mean. I would never do anything stupid", I chuckled, but for the first twenty minutes, I really didn't do anything. But it wasn't like anyone else did either, the raven haired man, Karasuma, disappeared somewhere, and we had the blonde woman as our teacher. She was quite stupid actually. And she didn't really teach us anything, since the first lesson was supposed to be math, but she didn't know how to teach it. I also heard that the guy named Maehara called her Bitch-sensei, so I guessed that it was her name.

But isn't that an insult…? I thought.

Half way through the lesson I started to annoy Terasaka. He was an easy target, since he was so damn stupid. Okay, maybe it wasn't fair that I was picking a fight with someone so weak and stupid - but c'mon, I was bored. When I left Hell behind, I thought that my life would take an interesting change, but no, I got chained to a human. And now I was stuck in a boring classroom. I really wished that I hadn't said yes yesterday.

"Argh! You're driving me crazy!" Terasaka yelled suddenly, waking me up from my thoughts, and reminding me that I was still teasing him. "Would you shut up for a moment?!"

I smiled at him, and closed my mouth for exactly thirty seconds.

"Ne, Terasaka-kun~…" I wasn't able to finish my sentence when I smelled something strange in the air. My head turned automatically around to look at the door, and a second later the yellow octopus stepped inside. Koro-sensei had a very strange scent, I couldn't name it - but at least I always knew when he was coming. But his speed was a huge problem. It made me wonder… was he really a human? Or rather, had he really been a human.

"I'm very sorry about being late!" the yellow octopus said and walked to the teacher's desk. "But I had something to do at the main-campus. Next week, we're having a new transfer student joining our class. But enough of that - are you guys ready to leave for the Kyoto-trip?"

Kyoto-trip…? I wonder what that's about. It didn't take long for everyone to start talking about it. Obviously the teachers were planning to train the students at the same time, and so, they were split in groups. I wasn't all that interested so I didn't pay any attention, but somewhere around the noon, Nagisa came to me and told me that I was in his group.

"Since you're my demon and I need to keep an eye on you, it's only natural that you're with my group", the bluenette told me.

"Umn… sure", I answered, eyeing the people who stood behind my master. "And the others are…?"

"Right, you don't really know anyone!" Nagisa said. He turned to look at the four people he had with him and started to introduce them to me. The green haired girl was Kaede Kayano, the boy who loved baseball was Tomohito Sugino. Then there was the girl with two braids and glasses, Okuda Manami and a pretty girl named Kanzaki Yukiko. "This is a great chance for you to get to know everyone."

Yeah right…I noticed the nervous glances the other humans were giving to my direction. The whole class did it. But I couldn't blame them - I was a demon after all. All they knew about me was, that I killed humans and that I could also kill them. Of course they were afraid of me. To me it seems that they don't want to have me here. But again, it wasn't like I liked them either.

"Karma, is something wrong?" Nagisa asked, frowning worriedly.

"Of course not", I responded with a smile, and I saw how his tense shoulders seemed to relax a little. "But you know, I don't know anything about this trip. So, care to fill me in?" Nagisa nodded right away, and started to tell me about the trip. Kayano even joined him, which seemed to make the atmosphere little bit more bearable. She was alright… I guessed. Maybe little bit too cheerful, which made her seem a little fake, but I didn't say that aloud.

"So, it's a three day two-nights trip to Kyoto. All of the main-campus classes from the third year are going, but the classes from A-D aren't staying at the same hotel we are. But I think that's a good thing, since we don't get along at all", my master told me. "We're supposed to go to Kyoto to help the locals with their problems with monsters - it's kinda like part of our training."

"What kind of problem do they have?" I asked.

"There's been lot of incidents in Kyoto, and monsters are behind it. Karasuma-sensei told us that it's possible that there's a demon-king level demon as the mastermind. As a school of Hunters, Kunugigaoka junior-high is going to help the locals."

"Isn't this more like a problem to the high-school students?"

"Monsters aren't that strong and Kunugigaoka-high has bigger problems to deal with", Kayano said. "We can take care of this."

"I see", I nodded. So, it's possible that there's a demon as strong as I am in Kyoto…I didn't like the idea of exposing myself, but I was good at hiding my demonic-aura, so if the luck was on my side, no demon would recognize me. If would, I'd need to kill it before it would return to Hell. It was still obvious that my father didn't know where I was, and I'd like to keep it that way as long as possible. But still, there was no way I could hide for long - four months and I'd need to leave this place. But before I can do that, I need to break the contract between me and Nagisa.

"We'll split into groups and hunt down some monsters while going sightseeing", Nagisa continued. "It'll be fun for sure!"

I gave him a fake smile, because at the moment, I wasn't capable of smiling a real one. I really doubted that the trip would be any fun for me - especially now that I knew about the other possible problem.

**Ansatsu Kyoushitsu**The arc of Hunters**

Nagisa's pov:

We had everything planned out and we were just sitting in the train. Karma was sitting opposite of me, looking out of the window and Sugino sat next to me. We talked quietly, mostly because Sugino seemed to be very afraid of Karma, who again paid no attention towards us. The red head seemed to be in a deep thought, and I couldn't sense anything from him so he was also neutral. All though, the fact that he was so quiet and didn't smile made me little worried.

"Kanzaki and the others girls are going to get something to drink", Sugino suddenly said to me. "Do you want something? I'll go with them."

"Umn, bring me a soda. Karma, do you want something?" I asked from the red head, but he didn't answer. "… Bring one strawberry-milk as well, I'll pay for it."

Sugino gave me a questioning look but left without another word. Neither of us knew did Karma have any money, but the red head didn't seem to be poor. He had always clean and new looking clothes, exception being the old katana I sometimes saw him carrying. He never used the katana to slay any monster I had fought with in this past week before the trip - but obviously it was important to him.

Sugino had been gone for two minutes, and the atmosphere was starting to get unbearable. I felt awkward when Karma was so quiet and no one else was talking with me. So, I reached my hand out to shake the red head a little - maybe something was wrong with him. But before I was able to touch his hand, he turned to look at me with his cold eyes.

"What is it?" he asked.

I quickly pulled my hand away and gave him a nervous smile. "You seem a bit out of it. Are you okay?" I asked.

Karma looked at my hand for a moment before answering. "I'm fine."

"Then what is it? Why are you so quiet?"

"I just don't have anything to talk about", he answered. "Does it really matter?"

"I guess not", I mumbled. "Oh - Sugino went to get drinks with Kayano and the others. I told him to bring you a strawberry-milk as well. Thought that you may be thirsty."

"…Strawberry-milk?" Karma asked, a questioning look on his face.

"Don't you know what it is?" I asked, surprised to hear this. But maybe demons in Hell didn't drink strawberry-milk - some demons drank blood, and those kind of demons were what humans call vampires. "It's just sweet milk that tastes little like strawberries. I thought that you may like it."

"Why did you think that?" Karma continued asking, his voice innocent as the look on his face.

"I don't know…" I stuttered, turning my eyes away from him, though, I could still feel his piercing gaze on me. But hey - I couldn't just tell him that I thought he likes strawberries because he smells like them. "Just taste and tell me what you think."

"Sure", the red head said, shrugging his shoulders. We were quiet for a moment, until all of a suddenly, Karma started a conversation. "You know, last Friday when I carried you to school -" I blushed at that "- I met the student-council president, Asano Gakushuu. He seemed to have something against the E-class. Would you tell me what?" He was paused for a moment, before he turned to look out of a window, a small (yet very cute) blush on his cheeks. "Please."

It took me a moment to comprehend what Karma had just said, but once I did, I swore I had a nosebleed. It was just so innocent for a demon like Karma to actually ask politely - and it seemed to be a huge step for the red head. But then I remembered, that we were talking about Asano-kun.

"Sure, I'll tell you. It's not like it would be a big secret anyway", I said. "The principal has a way of keeping his school at the top - and that way happens to be our class, the so called end class. 3E-class is the place for losers and idiots, as the main building students put it. We are outsiders, total losers. The main-campus students hate us and look down on us."

"I see", Karma nodded. "And I think I get it now. The principal is using you guys as a bad example: 'This is what happens if you let your grades slide to the worse'-way. It encourages the main-campus students to study harder, so they wont end up like you. No one wants to be left outside - right?"

I nodded to that. Have to say, my demon really wasn't an idiot. "Exactly. But now that we have Koro-sensei, things have been looking better. Though, we did hit a pretty big wall in the midterm."

"Oh, the exams you had just before the summoning-night? How did it go?"

"Not so well, but better than before", I answered. "But we'll do better at the end of the first semester. We've been studying harder than before and I'm sure we can do it. You're now part of the class, so you have to join too. I bet you can get high-scores."

Karma shrugged his shoulders once again. "I guess."

Then Sugino and the others returned with the drinks. He gave me my soda and he even had the gust to give Karma the strawberry-milk, while looking straight into his eyes. The red head only gave him a questioning look when Sugino backed off, a triumphant look on his face. I sweat dropped at that - but I was glad that one of my best friends was starting to get used to Karma's presence. It had been a week already, and it was finally starting to seem that my whole class was getting used to Karma. Even though, no one really tried to befriend him. I knew they needed time for it - until then, I'd be Karma's friend. Even if the red head didn't really see me as a one. But he had yet to really get to know me. And I didn't know him well enough either.

"So, what do you think?" I asked from him, once he had taken a sip of the strawberry-milk.

"… It's strange", he mumbled. "But I like it."

I smiled at that. "That's a good thing."

"Wait - is this your first time tasting strawberry-milk?" Sugino-kun asked, his eyes wide in surprise.

"Well, you don't really get stuff like this in Hell", Karma answered. "And I haven't been in Middle World all that much. This is my first time in train as well."

"WHAT?!" now both me and Sugino asked. Kayano, Kanzaki and Okuda noticed our sudden change of subject, and they decided to join us.

"Really?" Okuda-san mumbled. "I'm quite surprised. I guess that this is your first time in Kyoto as well, am I right?"

"Yep."

"Well, this is interesting", Kanzaki-san said, smiling kindly. "Let's then hope that this trip will work out well."

We continued our chatting for the rest of the way, and even Karma opened his mouth time to time. But most of the train-ride, he was staring out of the window, an almost unnoticeable frown on his face. I didn't make a any comments, but after noticing this, I could no longer un-see it.

Once we finally reached the hotel, I found myself alone with my demon. Others were relaxing at the rooms, while I and Karma were sitting outside the hotel. The red head didn't want to go inside for some reason and he was looking around nervously.

"Okay, now you have to answer me", I said after a while of just sitting around. "What's going on? Why are you so nervous? Don't forget that I can feel it too."

Karma bit his lip and after a moment, the nervous feeling in my stomach disappeared. The red head seemed neutral again, even though, his eyes were still full of distrust and it was quite obvious that he was feeling uneasy.

But then I felt it.

A strong and dark presence, just close by. Actually, about fifty meters behind me. I turned around like someone would've hit me. The day was still bright and there were lots of people around, so I couldn't really spot the person letting out such dark bloodlust - and the feeling disappeared as quickly as it had come.

"Wha- what was that?" I asked, turning to look at Karma, who had stood up and was now standing right in front of me.

"Something bad", the red head answered. "You guys may be right about the demon controlling those monsters… And it sure doesn't like the fact that you've just brought a whole lot more demons here."

"So, it was a demon?"

Karma shook his head. "No", he said. "That was a human possessed by a demon."

"I need to go and tell Koro-sensei about this", I said, but before I managed to go inside the hotel, Karma grabbed my hand. His hand felt hot against my own and I turned to look at him, giving the red head a questioning look.

"You need to let me take care of that demon", Karma said.

"No way! What would you do - kill that human with the demon?! I'm not letting you do something like that, and you wont disobey me", I growled. Karma let go of my hand, and for a second I sensed anger from him - but it was gone quickly.

"That demon isn't even your biggest problem…", Karma mumbled quietly.

"What?"

"Nothing, forget it. Go and inform your teacher about this."

"Koro-sensei is your teacher as well", I pointed out. "And you're coming with me." The red head snorted, but followed me inside.

And later, it was my turn to regret the fact that I failed to see the other dark figure watching us.

End of chapter 5

**Ansatsu Kyoushitsu**The arc of Hunters**