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.

6. Chapter 6

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 6

Karma's pov:

"Place of assassination…?" I mumbled, as I eyed the big building in front of me. "Are you serious?"

"Assassination of Ryoma, 1867. Check it out - you'll be surprised by the amazing world of internet", my master said. He had a huge book in his hands, that happened to be Koro-sensei's school trip travel-guide. It weighted probably ten kilos - which I suppose, was quite lot for a book. "And this isn't too far away from Honnoji-temple either. This city was Japan's center for quite the while and it's basically an assassination-magnet."

"So, what about that?" Sugino asked. Seemed that I wasn't the only one not getting where Nagisa was going. "And did you read all that from Koro-sensei guidebook?" To that, my master nodded.

"An assassination-magnet, huh… Oh, I get it now", I hummed thoughtfully. I gave Nagisa a grin - he wasn't as stupid as he looked (sorry not sorry). "Many people have been killed around this place. It's not only an assassination-magnet - you could say that it's a monster-magnet as well. It's common knowledge that monsters enjoy pain and death. They come for spirits and for the bloodlust, the dark power that death leaves behind." The more I thought about it, the darker my own thoughts became. Death wasn't only a monster-magnet, but demons enjoyed it even more. And anyone from Hell could notice the amount of monsters gathering in this place - it was no surprise that some stronger demon had found its way here.

"I suggest you keep an eye at your demons", I said. "So they wont just start devouring some human-souls or pick a fight with monsters."

I eyed the other demons we had with us. I was already familiar with Kayano's demon, Rei, who looked like a squirrel - except, double the size. Then you have a demon-squirrel. The pretty girl, Kanzaki had a fishy-like-mermaid demon, and it was quite small at the moment and it was tangled around Kanzaki's waist. I knew that in water the demon could grow bigger - possibly to the same size as I was. But it was no close to my power level. Her name was Mizumi. Then, the girl with glasses, Okuda, had a butterfly-like Air Demon, who was quite beautiful. Yet deceiving. He was named Chou (so creative *Chou=butterfly). And finally, there was Sugino, who actually had managed to summon a quite strong Earth Demon - a black jaguar, named Kuro (again, how very creative *Kuro=Black).

Oh yeah, I should probably explain where we were at the moment.

Well, after we had signed into the hotel and settled in, we split into our already decided groups and left to kill some monsters. Each group had its own place, while the main-campus students would continue our jobs tomorrow. They got to rest today and the day after tomorrow. But they had it easier than we - unlike them, there was only one class hunting monster now, while tomorrow there would be two or three at the same time. Well, either way, it didn't really matter to me. I like fighting.

At the moment, my group was looking for monster. They knew how to hide when needed, but it was possible to use a tracking-spell to find them. Or a demon's nose. We were also sightseeing at the same time and I guessed that a place where some assassination took place was good start. Koro-sensei would come and watch us at some point of the afternoon. He would - if necessary - give us some advices and - possibly - mock us. He was a weird teacher, who could do pretty good job at annoying the shit out of others. But at the same time, he could be a quite reassuring and overprotective as well.

The yellow octopus was a total mystery to me. And yet, I had the feeling that I had met him before. But I just couldn't place the face or the time to the correct place… well, it would come to me eventually. There was one more thing that worried me about Koro-sensei. Nagisa had told me that he was turned into a octopus by a Fire Demon - which meant that some of my siblings would've had to fight Koro-sensei at some point of last year. That again wasn't possible. I would know about it. And no attack made by a Fire Demon would turn a human to an octopus with super-speed. As a one, I knew it well. So what happened? How did he become what he is? I believed that he had been a human once, but still… Well, I couldn't figure any of this out, until I'd found out what he had looked like as a human. Maybe seeing his real face would refresh my memory. It was an interesting case for sure - and I liked interesting stuff. Little excitement to the life, right?

"And what about you? Shouldn't we be more worried that you wont lose your mind - since you're so strong and all", Sugino questioned.

I raised my hands as a sing of surrender. "Hey, hey - that's kinda mean. I sense mockery in your voice, Sugino-kun~", I said, not putting any effort to sound kind. "But I can control my lust just fine. And I'm not even interested in other monsters, man that's just nasty. A human-soul… yes, that's what I want." I gave the scared looking boy a cold grin. And for that I deserved a hit to the back of my head.

Nagisa gave me an annoyed glare before turning to Sugino - I thanked my luck that he didn't hit me with the damn guide-book, that might've actually hurt. "Don't worry Sugino-kun. I wont let Karma do anything out of order. And we have this guide-book with us too - I'm starting to think that Koro-sensei has included every occasion possible in it, even if the possibility is only 1% - not necessarily even that."

"Sounds like him", Kayano chuckled.

"Yeah", Nagisa smiled kindly at the green haired girl. "So no worries. Whatever happens, this guidebook will help us out."

I eyed him for a moment - the bluenette seemed to actually believe into that. That made me shrug my shoulders. Maybe the book wasn't total bullshit after all. I mean, I hadn't even touched my own. Actually, now that I thought of it… I think I threw my own away. Honestly, I was surprised that Koro-sensei even gave me a one.

Despite the fact that I had been part of the 3E-class for a week already, no one really saw me as a student nor a classmate. I firmly believed that the same went for the teachers - exception being the yellow octopus, who seemed to be quite happy to have me there. I did help him out when it came to demonic-lessons, but still…

A demon did not belong to a class full of humans.

"Let's go this way", Kanzaki said, as we made our leave. The next stop was Yasaka-shrine - or at least Kayano said so. So Kanzaki as the nice girl, showed us a shortcut. An empty alley, that didn't seem so safe for me. "This place is pretty empty, but for a reason too. I did my own research, and I had it all written down on my own school trip schedule. I'm just wondering where it disappeared…"

"You probably just dropped it", Sugino suggested, giving Kanzaki a reassuring smile. "And it was only for this trip, so it's not such a big deal, now is it?"

Kanzaki answered his smile with equal kindness (was there something between these two?). "Yeah, you're right, Sugino-kun. And as I was explaining this alley is usually full of different kind of shops, but they're not for uninvited guests like us. I think we can all guess why - but they're pretty well hidden from the main-streets, so people wouldn't accidentally pass them for no reason."

"I get it", Nagisa nodded. "This place could be full of monsters! If it's as sketchy as you say, Kanzaki-san, we can expect lots of monsters to be around here. They feed on peoples bloodlust and hatred - Karma, do you sense anything?" The bluenette turned to look at me.

I stopped for a moment to look around, and I did smell and feel lots of different things - including monsters and humans. And few humans were coming closer to us. "Heads up", I said. "We got company." And just as I had said those words, three dark-suited men appeared in front of us. I could see a van behind them, and there was probably little more men there.

Are they demons? I can't tell, Nagisa's voice asked inside my head. I could sense his nervousness and he wasn't the only one. It seemed that my other classmates (oh, it felt so strange to have humans as my classmates) were pretty nervous as well - and their demons didn't seem any better.

"No, they're humans", I answered. "High-schoolers to be exact. But you see that van over there? Yeah - that's our biggest problem. One of them is possessed by a demon. He's probably the leader as well, making the other humans work for him. Humans possessed by demons can be quite scary too… These are bunch of wimps, and so, they don't have the courage to go against the boss."

What should we do? They don't look so nice… Nagisa asked. I gave him the don't-look-at-me look. I mean, he's my master - if he gives me an order, I'll kill them. But that was about all he could do now. Order me to kill them. It was the strongest and easiest order you could give to a demon - it didn't take lot of will-power to make a demon kill. And these were humans too… I wouldn't mind killing them. But my point here was that, a fully-tamed demon would do anything its master ordered, while a demon like me, would do everything to refuse the order. It wasn't even my decision, the blood inside of me simply refused to be tamed by a human. I, of course didn't want to be chained to Nagisa for the rest of my life, but in a situation like this, I would gladly just knock the humans out if that was what my master would tell me to do. But no, I had no power to decide about that. My whole body and mind would just automatically refuse Nagisa. Both of us knew this.

And that made Nagisa hesitate, which didn't make things any better, because that made me also little nervous. I had two choises - run or somehow get Nagisa order me to kill them.

But of course, I needed to annoy them first - like hello, first things first (isn't that humans say?). "You guys shopping?" I asked, giving them one of my special shit eating grins. "Let me guess… you need a purse? But I'm sorry, we don't have any. Still, I can point you to the right direction, since it seems that you can't find the way yourself."

"How funny, boy. But please, make this easy for us", one of them, specially stupid looking guy said. "Ditch the girls and get out of here."

"Or what? You gonna do something so stupid, that we'll die laughing? Because I don't mind going out like that."

"Karma… maybe you shouldn't push it", my master mumbled.

"Now would be a good time to run", I answered telepathically. "These guys are not normal high-schoolers. They're studying to become Hunters like you, exception being that you're from a prep-school while these are just bunch of idiots. We'll make it if we run now."

I saw that Nagisa gave that idea a good thought, but we honestly didn't have the time for it now. My other classmates and their demons didn't seem to know what to do either and the clock was ticking. I was ready to fight any time, like always, and I knew I could take them on - but the same didn't go for the other demons.

"You guys are from a prep-school, aren't you?" a guy with glasses asked. No one answered, but he didn't seem to need any answers. Instead, a twisted smile appeared on his face, as he eyed the girls we had with us (except, Okuda had disappeared to somewhere - what happened to her?). Now, that's disgusting, I thought, my eyes narrowing at the man. "You snot-nosed brats are also training to become Hunters like us. We can see the demons you have with you, but c'mon - there's no way you can defeat our demons!" And there was a silent 'pop'-sound, and three demons appeared out of thin air.

Fucking great. I totally forgot that these guys are high-schoolers, of course they have more experience than my master! Satan knows how many demons they have tamed and collected, I thought, gritting my teeth. Now, there's no fucking way we can defeat them - unless Nagisa gives me an order!

"Karma… you can defeat the demons, right?" my master suddenly asked, like he would've heard my thoughts, even though, I did keep them as my own. "Without killing any humans."

"That depends on you", I mumbled. "To me it seems that you don't have the will to control me now. And we're screwed if their boss comers here - just so you know."

Nagisa sweat dropped and I felt how my other classmates gave me angry glares (sigh, if only looks could kill). "You didn't have to point that out, thank you very much", Nagisa sighed. He then took a deep breath in, trying to calm his nerves down. And then it happened once again - out of nowhere, he found power to stand up and calm down. But there was also something different in him this time.

We were suddenly surrounded by darkness but there was one thing lighting it up. And that thing happened to my master. It was like Nagisa would've been glowing dim blue light. The light surrounded his body, making him look more intimidating than he truly was, because I was the only one who saw him like this. The blue light tangled around his body, like a fire that couldn't burn him. This was Nagisa's aura, his spiritual-energy. It was still pretty weak for a Hunter, but much more stronger than I had believed. This was also the first time I saw the chain attached to his hand… and how it was also attached to my neck, tying us together.

My hand rose to touch the other end of the chain, and I actually felt it. Cold and hard metal, silver to be exact. And I also had my katana in my hands - meaning that Nagisa had forced me to take my spiritual-form - though, I didn't have horns or a tail, since I could only take my demonic-form in Hell. And yes, I did have horns and a tail. And usually I was radiating pure flames, I had more pointy ears and teeth of a vampire. Nice, huh?

But let me explain shortly, what a spiritual-form was. No matter what kind of creature, everyone has a spiritual-form. Usually, humans took it after dying and going where ever they go - Heaven, Hell… I wasn't so sure about that. In that form, a persons live-line, or as I put it, aura was visible. And any other thing that was spiritual, like my weapon, my katana. Humans didn't usually use their spiritual-form for anything, which was stupid, because in that form, humans were at their strongest. In this messed up world, aura was one of the strongest weapons there was. But Hunters knew how to use theirs, and that's why they were such a danger to demons, who knew everything about spirits and spiritual world from the day they were born (now you see why we're better?). But yeah, spiritual-form was a weapon, easily put. Though, not everyone used it as a one.

But you should never use your aura for nothing nor show your spiritual-form to your enemy. It also happens to be the biggest weakness a creature can have. If the life-line is severed, no matter what you are - you die. In spiritual-form, that line was visible and so easy to cut. You could see every weak-spot, every fatal place. Luckily, Nagisa wasn't strong enough to actually use his aura to do a thing and so, no one except me (because I was spiritually connected to him) was able to see it. But still - how stupid of him to suddenly show it to me.

Suddenly, Nagisa turned to look at me. His eyes widened in surprise. "Karma… why are you glowing red light?" he asked, and that broke the spell. The darkness surrounding us disappeared, and we found ourselves lying on the cold ground still at the alley. My head hurt and now that I knew for sure that I was chained into Nagisa, I couldn't stop thinking of the damn chain around my neck.

"Wha- what happened?" Nagisa asked as he sat up. I realized that the thugs were gone and so were Kanzaki and Kayano - while Sugino and Okuda were both kneeling next to us, worried look on their faces.

"Both you just passed out all of a suddenly", Sugino started to explain. "We didn't know why, but we guessed that it had something to do with your contract. While those guys used the chance to kidnap Kanzaki and Kayano… Okuda was able to hide…" Sugino had a pained expression on his face and he gritted his teeth together - which looked pretty pathetic if you asked from me. "I couldn't do a thing… maybe I should've fought back." His demon, Kuro, started to comfort him by pushing its head against Sugino's chest.

I let out a silent snort. "If you would've fought, you'd be dead", I said. "I can't say that you did the right thing by letting them go either… but they're not going to kill them, or not yet at least. If we go now, we still have the chance to save them." Nagisa, Sugino and Okuda all gave me strange and surprised looks.

"Do you actually care about them?" Okuda asked quietly.

I got up from the ground, brushing the dust off of my clothes as I did. "I don't particularly care for them, but you do, don't you? I know you want to save them, so why not give it a shot?" I explained, giving Okuda a grin. "Make a call to that sensei of yours - he could be some use now." A human mind is sometimes so simple, I thought, my smile disappearing.

"Hell yes we're going to save them!" Sugino nodded, determination in his voice. "And you know Karma-kun - Koro-sensei is also your teacher." The boy grinned at the end of his sentence. Okuda took out her phone and called to the yellow octopus, while I was left pretty dumbfounded. But I was over it quickly.

Yet, I keep finding humans who are full of surprises, I nodded to myself, my smile coming back. As Okuda and Sugino explained what had happened to Koro-sensei, who sounded pretty scared at the moment, I turned to look at Nagisa, who was sitting on the ground quietly. He looked pretty down - probably because he had been so useless this time. I wondered had he even realize what he had done.

"Nagisa-kun~", I said sweetly, giving the bluenette a "kind" smile. "I have one question, alright. So hear me out."

From the look on his face, I could tell that he was expecting something bad. Well, maybe I was acting way too sweet for his liking. I leaned down towards him, our faces only few inches away from each other.

"Why did you try to use spiritual-power against those thugs?" I asked. "You know you're not strong enough to actually put in use."

"…Spiritual-power?" Nagisa hummed, his blue eyes wide. "Is that what I was using - or trying to use?"

"Huh?" I tilted my head a little. "Don't tell me… you had no idea what you were doing the whole time?!"

Nagisa laughed nervously. "Well, I was just trying to calm down and actually put you in use… but guess I went little too deep. You can take your spiritual-form if you concentrate enough and balance your feelings, right?" He gave me a questioning look.

"Close, but not exactly right", I sighed. "Yes, to use your own spiritual-energy, you need to balance your feelings. But does it seem that demons and monsters are concentrating on themselves, when they attack? The answer is no - using spiritual-energy is as natural as breathing to us. And it could be as natural to you humans as well, but it takes lots of training to be able to reach that stage. Only few Hunters have gotten that far." I pointed my right index finger at Nagisa's chest, right around the place where his heart was. "You humans feel too much. You hesitate too much. It takes years to reach a stage when you can just use your spiritual-energy without even sparing an another thought to it. But -" I straightened myself and smiled down at the bluenette. "- don't ever try to reach power like that."

"Why?" Sugino, who had been listening to our conversation, asked. "Isn't the whole point of becoming a Hunter to reach that point?"

"Depends on why you want to become a Hunter", I answered. "If you want to kick Satan's ass like Terasaka-kun - sure, go ahead and rise to the top. But if you want to become a Hunter to help people, seriously, don't go that far. You don't necessarily need to. Demons are able to use spiritual-energy because we don't have same kind of feelings as you humans. We don't know things like love and happiness. And for a human to reach power so strong - you'll need to abandon everything that makes you human. I don't think you want to become a emotionless killing-machine."

"Is that what you think of yourself?" a new voice suddenly asked - I turned around to see Koro-sensei standing behind us. He was smiling down at me, tentacles whirling around.

I crossed my hands behind my back, and gave the teacher an innocent smile. "I'm a Fire Demon. For my whole life I've only killed - humans, demons, monsters. And still, it's only natural, what everyone expects me to do."

"But…?" the yellow octopus trailed off.

My innocent smile turned into a sinister one. "But wouldn't a little twist bring more excitement to life? I mean - why follow to rules when you can break them~?"

"Nurufufufu", Koro-sensei chuckled. "Interesting indeed… But now, I think we've have some work to do! How about we go and hunt down some possessed humans?"

"Sensei…", Nagisa sweat dropped. "Our point is to save Kanzaki and Kayano…"

"Who says we can't kick some ass at the same time?" I asked, grinning at Nagisa, who for some reason, turned bright red. I touched his forehead, checking did he suddenly have a fever - didn't humans turn red when they were sick? "What's wrong? Are you okay? Or did I do something wrong? Because I think I've behaved quite well today…"

"Nothing is wrong!"

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

Nagisa's pov:

It didn't actually take us so long to find the place where Kanzaki and Kayano were taken. We even did it without Koro-sensei's help - he just told us to follow the instructions from his guide-book. It was lot more useful than I had ever thought and its usefulness seemed to surprise Karma too. The red head didn't have his own with him, but Koro-sensei had some spare ones, so he got a new one from him. Karma was reading the book while we others were looking for the right place. It was quite funny to see the confused look on his face when he found things he didn't know about - like, Karma didn't even know what ramen was.

They were at an old factory, which had been abandoned long time ago. There were few high-schoolers outside, guarding the place, but we did have Koro-sensei with us. He took them out in less than a second - quite literally.

But when we stepped inside the building, I sensed how Karma went from neutral to really nervous real fast. I knew that demons didn't enjoy being inside, because that meant less space and block of view, but this was the first time I felt him be this nervous. Yesterday, it hadn't been this bad when he sensed the other demon - but now, it was starting to seem that he was little frightened. And I was pretty sure that it wasn't such a good thing.

"Karma, you okay there?" I asked quietly, as we walked through an empty hallway. The room where Kanzaki and Kayano where was at the end of the hallway - at least Koro-sensei told us that he could smell their odors coming from that room.

"Yeah, why?" the red head answered my question with another question. I had learned that Karma was quite good at dodging questions linked to him and his past.

"You just… seem little nervous. Is it about that other demon? The one who has possessed the human." Karma hummed quietly to that.

"He's strong", the red head said. "Really strong…"

We came to the door, and Karma opened it slowly. At first, we pushed the high-schoolers Koro-sensei had knocked out inside the room, and then we entered, waiting to see some shocked impressions - but it didn't go like that.

They had known that we were coming.

The room, rather the hall was big and mostly empty - but there was a one couch there, and Kanzaki and Kayano were sitting on the couch, hands tied behind their backs. There were also some old broken chairs lying around, but otherwise the place was empty and just dirty.

The leader was standing right in front of the couch, about ten meters away from the door. He was a long young man, who had greasy looking shoulder-length hair. He also had a scar right next to his left eye. Now that he was possessed by a demon, his eyes were pitch black and he had strange tattoos going up his neck and arms. He was also radiating dark bloodlust, the same bloodlust I had felt yesterday with Karma.

"Welcome", the leader said with a cold voice, that obviously didn't belong to a human. And for some reason, Karma took a step back. I could now feel, that he was scared. "We've been waiting for you. These girls sure had faith in you - they just kept going on about how you were going to come and save them. And you know what? That was exactly what I was waiting for too."

"Sensei!" Kayano yelled. "You came too!" I could see Kanzaki sigh in relief - but Karma's uneasiness made me feel uneasy as well, so I wasn't able to feel relieved at all.

"So, your goal was to lure us in?" Koro-sensei asked. "What for?"

"Obviously because you'd get on my way otherwise", the leader answered. "You know, this city belongs to me. It was a present from Satan-sama - he said I'd get to use it as much as I want. This city is so full of tasty souls… but you prep-schoolers are getting on my way. I would like to be nice - leave now, and we don't have to fight. Even though, you do look quite tasty too." He gave us a creepy grin.

"I have to refuse", Koro-sensei said. And that was when I realized that he wasn't even wearing his disguise - yet this guy didn't seem to be fazed by this at all. But the high-schoolers he had with him obviously were. And it also seemed that they didn't know anything about this whole 'present'-thing.

"Tch, that's too bad", the leader said, shrugging his shoulders as he did. "Well, at least I tried. I possessed this body just to have a nice talk with you - these high-school students were actually supposed to come and hunt down monster, just like you. It's a nice body, but it'll wear out soon. I've used almost every bit of his spiritual-energy, he'll die within ten minutes and I'll have to take another body."

"Or you could just step out and show yourself", Karma suggested. The leader turned his attention from Koro-sensei to the red head who stood next to me, and a cold smile formed on the guy's lips.

"I could, but why would I do that? You can't kill me right now, can you?" the leader chuckled. "I know exactly who you are, Karma. It hasn't been that long, so it's not possible for your master to actually know how to use your powers to sever my link to this body. And the only other way to do that, is for you humans to start chanting those stupid spells of yours - but don't think I'll let you do that."

"What does he mean?" I turned to ask from my demon. "It hasn't been that long? And how does he know your name?"

The red head gave me a nervous look, his golden eyes glowing in irritation. "I haven't been under your control for long, is what he means."

"How does he know it?" Sugino asked.

Karma turned to look at the leader, who stared straight back, still the creepy smile on his face. "It's… complicated", my demon answered after a while of quietness. "But you know what? I suggest we get the hell out of here."

"But we have to take Kanzaki and Kayano with us!" I pointed out. "And why are suddenly in a hurry? Don't tell me - you know that demon, don't you?" Karma turned to look at me sheepishly.

"I don't have to say it aloud if you don't want to", he said.

I let out a sigh. "So, you really do know him, huh… Is he stronger than you?"

That made the red head grit his teeth together, rather annoyed expression on his face. He stared at the leader, who was smiling smugly.

"Yeah Karma - am I stronger than you? Let's hear the answer~", the leader teased. "Would this finally be the time when you admit that I'm the stronger one?" The leader gave Karma a cold grin - and Karma let out an annoyed hiss, just like a cat. I was slowly starting to think that he was half-cat, even though, he only took his cat-form at my house. My mother didn't know about him being a Fire Demon, and I'd like to keep it that way as long as possible.

"Fuck you", Karma answered to the leader, who chuckled as an answer.

"Some harsh language you've learned, Karma. Say that to Satan-sama, and he'll give you detention. Wouldn't that fit you since you're in school now?"

"Oh would you just shut up", Karma sighed, getting more annoyed by the second. I could already feel the anger boiling inside both me and him - and obviously everyone else noticed it as well, since Karma was radiating hot air, really hot air. "And get out of that body - the human will die soon."

The red head was right, the high-school student wasn't looking well. It was obvious that the body was dying and god knows how badly the soul had suffered. The demon possessing the human was obviously strong, its power was just too much for the body to handle. You could see it from the way the skin color was starting resemble ash and the eyes were bleeding blood. Disgusting and concerning. Yet it was exactly how the books put it.

"Huh, you're right", the leader mumbled. "I should get out now - and then I'll devour his soul. It's not as tasty as yours would be, but oh well. It's better than nothing. After this I'm going to -"

He was suddenly cut off, when the human-body he was possessing started to glow bright white light. The light devoured the whole hall for a moment, blinding us all. I could hear faint screaming and then it was over. The high-school student who had been possessed, was lying on the floor, unconscious, but alive and free. Everyone seemed to be little out of it - and the demon was nowhere to be seen.

"Wha- what happened?" Okuda-san asked, her voice wavering.

I turned to look at Koro-sensei, who had a smug smile on his face - which told a lot already.

"Nurufufufu, while you guys were having a little chat, I took my time to sever the bond between the human boy and the demon", the yellow octopus explained. "It wasn't even that hard with my Mach 20-speed. Tell me Karma-kun, did you see this coming?" The octopus turned to look at the red head, who was violently blinking his eyes (oh yeah, he didn't like bright lights).

"I can't see anything at the moment, thanks to you, sensei", Karma growled. Koro-sensei let out a weak 'eek'-sound and rushed to Karma. I was left pretty dumbfounded as our teacher was trying to fix Karma's eyes, which didn't go so well, since you couldn't just "fix" someone's eyes without knowing what you were doing. "Stop it, idiot! You're only making it worse!" my demon hissed after he got fed up with sensei - who went to the corner to cry alone, mumbling something about: 'I was just trying to help, I didn't mean to hurt my students… I'm such a bad teacher.' If I heard right, that was exactly what he said.

Suddenly Karma stopped rubbing his eyes like he would've been struck by a lightning - he looked up to the ceiling and as I followed his gaze, I soon noticed the black bat hanging from there. A huge black bat.

"Sensei… didn't you kill him?" Karma asked nervously, his katana appearing in his right hand. The rest of our group turned their attention to the ceiling as well.

"What is that?" Kayano asked, disgusted look on her face.

"Looks like he escaped my spell", Koro-sensei said, as he got up from the corner and now he even looked completely serious. "Nothing to do about that - we just need to kill it now. And quickly."

"Is that… a vampire?" Sugino-kun asked.

"Yeah", Karma answered. "His name is (surprise!) Dracula. He's the second oldest Blood Demon there is - which means he's hella strong."

The bat let out a strange squeak. And then it started talking. "You damn humans…" it hissed. "Making me use this form… Bastards… I'll kill you all. You'll pay. Of course, young master, I wont lay a finger on you - that is, if you stay out of my way."

Karma flustered red when the demon called him young master. He did get over the shock quickly, his embarrassment turning into rage. Very calm rage. Which was far more scarier than just starting a rampage. "Dracula, we both know we hate each other", Karma said, a cold smile on his face. "So drop the formalities. I don't even think that you respect me as the son of Satan, do you now?"

The bat let out a familiar chuckle. "Maybe I don't. But I don't want to face any punishments Satan-sama might give me if I dare to touch his dear son."

"Dear son, my ass", Karma chuckled coldly. "He wouldn't give a shit. But Dracula, enough of that, would you care to go back to Hell now?"

"Why would I do something absurd like that? This city was a present! A present from Satan-sama, and your father! Respect it, kid!" the bat said angrily. It silently flew to the floor, and started to change, as the demon took its human-form. He was a middle-aged man, with greasy black hair and pointy teeth, and very pale skin. Well, he basically looked like a vampire from a movie. Except, his eyes were pitch black and he talked with a creepy, yet honeysweet voice. "I'm going to kill every human in this city - but you, Karma. You're just going to go back to Hell."

Karma's smile turned little nervous. "He's going to attack", he said in my head. The katana in Karma's hand was glowing slightly - maybe he was actually going to use it this time. "You know I don't have any intentions of going back just yet - and I'm tied to a human now too. I can't sever our contract by myself."

"Then, I'll just do it for you and kick you back to Hell myself!" And then the Blood Demon attacked, its teeth aimed directly at my neck. He moved faster than I thought possible, but I believed that Koro-sensei would make it - he wouldn't let the demon touch me. But he didn't come. His way was blocked by ten other demons and monsters, who came out of nowhere. They obviously worked for Dracula.

"Nagisa!" I heard Kayano scream, but what good was yelling in this kind of situation?

Suddenly someone pushed me down to the ground, and instead of meeting my throat, Dracula's teeth met Karma's, as the red head took my place. The sudden change of prey didn't affect the Blood Demon, who hungrily bit down to Karma's throat, earning a hiss of pain from the said red head. I watched in horror, as Karma's golden eyes widened and became emptier than ever before, and as Dracula kept drinking his blood, despite the struggling of his prey.

"…Karma? Why did you…?" I stuttered, sweat draining down my forehead.

"You can't!" Karma yelled - it took a moment for me to realize that he wasn't talking to me. "You… can't drink… my blood!" His voice was starting to get weaker, as he was losing blood quickly. I had never seen a demon being drank empty by an other demon, but it wasn't something I enjoyed seeing. "Stop! Stop… already!" He was panting, his golden eyes were pinned shut and his struggling was slowly disappearing. And yet, the Blood Demon didn't stop. It just didn't.

Didn't he just say, that he can't possibly hurt Karma? Or was he just so thirsty that he doesn't realize what he is doing? Either way, I have to do something! Karma will die if I don't! But what…

"It hurts…"

I heard Karma's weak whimper in my head, when he didn't find the power to speak aloud anymore. I knew demons could product blood faster than humans, but they had their limits as well.

"Hurts so much…"

I didn't believe that those thoughts were meant to be heard by me, but it didn't matter. It sounded heartbreaking. A demon, an emotionless demon, was saying 'it hurts'. The Fire Demon in front of me was in pain. Karma was in pain. My classmate was in pain.

My demon was in pain.

The next thing I realized, was that I was standing again, and Karma was lying on the ground and the Blood Demon had gone right through the opposite wall of the building, leaving a huge hole into the wall. I was holding my hand out like I would've reached to touch something - as I probably had. But I felt suddenly so tired that I couldn't sort my thoughts out. Everything was becoming blurry and my head hurt for some reason.

"Huh…? What's going on…?" I mumbled, my eyes trying to focus on my hands, and then slowly to the demon at my feet. "…Karma?" The red head's eyes were hidden behind his bangs so I didn't know was he awake or not, but the blood forming under his head was concerning me. I wasn't sure was he even breathing anymore.

I kneeled down… slowly, because I felt little light-headed and so tired. My hand touched Karma's cheek. It was warm. And soft.

"…Nagisa?" a weak, yet familiar and sweet voice called out. I saw a glimpse of gold…

But then everything turned black.

End of chapter 6

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