A/N: Hey! I'm gonna try updating everyday! Wish me luck! I actually have no idea how a real slum is like, so I made one up.

Some words you might need to know in the story line:

Light Dwellers- people who live in the city; despised by people in the slums

Slums- a place surrounded by a the Boarder, which keeps its inhabitants inside by force, unless they can climb the Boarder

Boarder- a 30 foot brick wall with barb wire at the top in some places, built by the government to keep the crime rate down, though people who live close to the Boarder are still in a high crime zone

Laughing Shadows- the once best gang that ever lived, had only one leader, Serpent, in which its members only swore their allegiance to him, and only him. A gang who hides in the shadows. Laughing Shadows is a group of strong fighters or people with unusual abilities that fight to protect their families, without them knowing, or to survive. Only the members of the gang know where its base is, those who find out are 'erased' or killed.

Serpent- the leader of Laughing Shadows, a foster father to Wolf.

There will be more detailed and described words in the next chapter, this is all the information I'm gonna give you so far. Oh! Thank you so much FD, your review cracked me up (the one about Wolf) and also yeah, here's a faster update, since you were the first to answer ALL of my questions! FD and xRuneStone you both get... um...*rummages through pockets*...ah...*remembers that I don't have pockets**goes to refrigerator, pulls out two sodas* You guys get a virtual can of Coke! Thanks for reading everyone!

Disclaimer- I don't own Ao No Exorcist (Blue Exorcist)

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Rin looked at the time, 9:02 am. Though the sun was up, no light shone into the alleys and passages. He made a sharp turn into a long alley and leaned up against a wall covered in grime and blood, hiding in the shadows. His eyes strained on the entrance he had just come from, waiting to see if anyone had been following him. He had the strange feeling of someone or something was following him, and it had been nagging at the back of his mind throughout the whole night up till then. Just as he had thought, he heard a few pairs of foot steps nearing closer, his electric blue eyes still straining to see his followers. As the foot steps neared closer and closer, Rin tensed waiting for a brawl. The chances of Rin winning a fight one against God knows how many, was extremely unlikely. In the best situation, it was either Crow or Rock, returning from a brawl of their own. In the worst situation, it was gonna be a fight fifty against one. The possibility of it being Wolf was close to none was because every time she had to go anywhere, she would use the rooftops instead of the ground below.

A shadow appeared and Rin pressed against the wall even harder, trying to disappear into the wall and escape his stalkers. As the shadow grew bigger and a more followed, five to be exact. As the shadows neared, Rin slid down and squatted, trying to be less noticeable. A head popped out; Shima's. Rin's eyes widen in horror, What his he doing here? How did he get over the Boarder? Rin thought to himself as he pulled his hood over his eyes.

Shima walked into the alleyway, and stopped next to Rin, looking down the alleyway. Shima waved, as if beckoning someone. If possible, Rin's eyes widened even more, as Yukio, Izumo, Bon, Konekomaru, and Shiemi walked into the alley as well. Not them too! What are they trying to do, get themselves killed? Who would be an idiot to actually go over the Boarder? Except me. Rin yelled inside his head, wondering what drove his friends to do such a stupid thing. As Rin stayed where he was, the Esquires had started a conversation.

"Now what? He just disappeared into thin air, and I don't think we can stalk air." Shima wined.

"Stop being such an idiot, people can't disappear into thin air." Izumo reasoned.

"That's right, now leave. You're not supposed to be here in the first place." Rin added in his mind.

"Where's Takara?" Bon wondered.

"He went home; I guess he remembered his way back." Shiemi answered.

"Wait! He was following me too!" Rin yelled, still in his mind, not wanting to give his position away.

"Does anyone know the way back? School has already started and-" Konekomaru nervously added to the group.

"Shiiiit! Was anyone keeping track where we were going?" Bon shouted.

"So, basically, we're stuck in the slums, one of the most deadly parts of the city, if it's not it's own city now, we don't know where we are, and most likely going to die by nightfall." Yukio reasoned.

"We're gonna die!" Shima yelled.

"If you wanna live, STOP SCREAMING!" Rin shouted inside.

"How about we go to the street and ask for directions?" Shieme asked shyly.

"Yeah! We can all do that, and all get killed." Bon said sarcastically.

"Actually, you could ask for directions on the street. As long as you don't ask anyone in the alleys and passageways, you'll be fine." Rin concluded silently.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Shima yelled even louder.

"Yeah! You're gonna die! Just STOP SCREAMING!"

"WE'RE GON-"

"Shut up! If you wanna live, STOP SCREAMING YOUR ASS OFF YOU MORON!" Rin finally screamed.

The Esquires looked down at Rin who was glaring at them, this own aura sending them death threats.

"..."

"Now, what are you guys doing here? Why did you follow me? And, do you guys have a death wish?" Rin said, annoyed, and did nothing to hide it either.

"...Well...we have some friends that live here and-" Shima started.

"The only people who live close to that cement building are dead." Rin replied flatly.

"Um..."

"We followed you because we were worried about you, Nii-san!" Yukio pleaded.

Rin stood up and walked over to the group and looked at his brother. "So you followed me? Do you have a death wish?" Rin said, anger burning behind his voice.

"Maybe we do have a death wish, so, you gonna take us to the 'event'?" Izumo accused.

Rin turned away from his brother to look at Izumo, wondering if he said no whether or not they would still follow.

Knowing that they would follow in the end, Rin gave a sigh, as if in defeat. "Fine, you can come. It's your life."

'What did he mean "It's your life"? Where exactly are we going?" Bon wondered, studying his friend.

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Wolf woke up to the door on the first floor opening and Demon's voice echoing throughout the building. Wolf ran off the bed and stomped downstairs, forgetting that she was still in her pajamas, once she was on the second floor she bumped into a few walls (1) and continued on. Once she was half way down the stairs, Wolf took a few steps back, and looked into the large mirror shard that hung on the wall. Her hair was a mess. "What the heck did I do? Go through a rats nest, blown by a leaf blower, and through a wood chipper? How am I gonna face Demon like this?" Wolf thought angrily. On the nape of her neck, something caught her eye. Wolf neared the mirror and took a closer look at her neck the words in sharpie said; "Have fun seeing your boyfriend! From, Crow."

Wolf ran up to the second story and grabbed the metal baseball bat from the corner and stomped back down stairs to the first floor where she heard Crow's voice. Once she reached the end of the stairs, Wolf zoned in on Crow who was casually talking to her boyfriend. But she was distracted by six unusual people behind Demon. A little voice in her head told her that they were the enemies; another voice said they were friends. She did the reasonable thing and took voice number one's advice.

Once she locked onto her target, the guy that looked like a rooster, she ran over, jumped over a wooden table, used the couch as a spring board, and lunged. Demon, sensing his girlfriend, pushed Crow away and hit the floor, leaving the Esquires speechless and too scared to move out of the crazy girl's way.

Wolf swung down and hit Bon on his temple, knocking him out cold. Wolf hit the ground lightly and took another swing with the bat in the pink haired boy's stomach, while landing the blow, elbowing a girl with weird eyebrows in the gut, her eyes rolling back into head, knocking her out as well. "Three down, three to go." Wolf thought with a smirk. (2)

The click of a gun snapped her out of her gleeful thoughts, and a loud gun shot knocked her metal bat out of her hands. Yukio couldn't believe his eyes, his friends were taken out one by one by a girl, and she was smiling. When he shot her bat out her hand her smile had widened. She was like a beast, wanting to spill the blood of her enemies, whether or not she had a weapon didn't matter to her. The look in her eyes told him she had killed before, and she wasn't afraid to kill again.

Wolf stood there, measuring her opponent who had a gun, while she had two fists. She had been trained by Serpent, his training and death would not be in vain. Wolf sped towards Yukio, got behind him in an instant, and back to back in a second. Wolf quickly grabbed behind her for his neck. Once she got a hold of his throat, she threw him over her shoulder, onto the cement. She heard a large crack, and she knew she had broken one of his ribs. A gleeful smile widened to show her own set of fangs.

Konekomaru watched as his Teacher was taken down in five seconds, maximum. He watched in terror as his fellow arias were taken out with a bat, and Izumo with a single elbow. She was beast, and she took to no effort in hiding it. "Is what the slums are really like? Is this what Rin meant by 'It's your life'? I am I going to die?" All of these thoughts crowded Konekomaru's mind.

Wolf neared her next piece of prey, but the urge of killing them was suffocating. Each step she took, the urge built up and up. The only thing that was stopping her was the fact of the one rule that Serpent had made; no killing in the base. She hated that rule. While she fought her inner demons, she stalked over to the bald kid, who shorter than herself. She stopped right in front of him, him looking up at her in terror. Her evil grin reappeared on her face, as she watched her 'prey' stiffen. Wolf raised her fist, and punched him in the jaw. The force of her punch threw him against a cement wall, knocking him out cold.

Wolf turned to her last victim, a blond girl with an alien in her hands and shivering in fear against the wall. In the end, everyone was the same. Everyone feared her in some way, even her own parents had feared her, and left her on the streets. Only four people had not feared her; Serpent, Crow, Rock, and...Demon. At first, when she and Demon had first met, he thought she was pathetic, letting her inner demons consume her so easily.

But, in truth, she knew she was pathetic.

"Nii-chan!" The girl shouted.

Wolf was taken aback when the alien jumped up and grew giant root like things out of its stomach, pushing Wolf back. Through the thick tangle of roots, she saw the blond sigh in relief. "I wouldn't let your guard down yet, Princess." Wolf thought as she picked up her bat. Wolf walked up to the giant wall of root and positioned herself just right, took the bat and threw it like a javelin, hitting Shiemi on the temple, successfully knocking her out. The giant wall of root disappeared, and Wolf looked around at the mess she had made.

"Ah~. What a mess~." Crow said as he gently kicked Shima in the head.

"Wolf. You do know that they were my friends, right?" Demon asked her, smirking at the damage.

"Oh." (3)

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When the Esquires woke up, the sun was high in the sky and the room that they were in was sweltering. They all were in a cement room with a wooden door that looked like it was rotten in some places.

"Where are we?" Izumo moaned.

"All I remember is some crazy chick swinging a baseball bat like a madman, taking us down one by one." Shima complained as he held his stomach.

"That wasn't a girl, it was a beast!" Konekomaru shouted at his friends.

"Be quiet my head hurts like fuck." Bon complained.

"I don't know if you noticed, but when she was fighting us, she was smiling. Even when I shot the bat out of her hand, she was smiling like a madman." Yukio said, holding his ribs.

"S-she wasn't a beast! She was simply trying to protect her friends. She was lonely, and I believe that's she's nice" Shiemi said with confidence.

Izumo brushed Shiemi's remark, stood up and went to the door, in which a note hung. She read the note out loud for everyone to hear;

"Good morning. I'm sorry that Wolf knocked you all out this morning. Once you wake up, come down stairs.

Rock."

"I vote that we all stay here, where it's all safe from the crazy girl." Shima said raising his hand in vote.

"Nii-san is probably down stairs as well so we shouldn't be afraid." Yukio said, trying to reason with is students.

Once he had gotten all of the Esquires to come down stairs, then there was the part about getting down stairs. They had wandered through the maze of doors and hallways for fifteen minutes, when the Esquires had given up.

"Hey, Bon, what room number is that?" Shima asked, clearly exhausted.

"Its room number 1,452."

The Esquires gawked, until Izumo broke the quiet hallway.

"Just how many rooms are there?"

"2,234." An unfamiliar voice replied. (4)

The group spun around to meet a tall and lanky African American standing behind them wearing a green long sleeve shirt, black shorts, and no shoes or socks.

"Who are you?" Yukio asked, tensed, ready for a fight this time.

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna go berserk like Wolf did. The name's Rock." 'Rock' said raising his hands in a sign of surrender.

"I'm-" Shiemi started, but was quickly cut off by Rock.

"We already know who ya' all are, 'kay? Sorry, not trying to be rude or nothin'. You're Demon's friends aren't ya'?" Rock asked, taking a step forward.

"Who do you mean 'Demon'?" Bon asked cautiously.

"Oh, um...I think you call him...ah, 'Rin'." Rock said pushing past the Esquires.

"Why would he be called 'Demon'?" Izumo asked suspiciously.

Rock looked over his shoulder and smirked, as if laughing at their ignorance. "The names 'Demon' or 'Rock' or 'Wolf' are names ya' get in a gang, Rin's gang name is 'Demon'. Once ya' have your gang name, you're stuck with it for life. The only way to get rid of it is death. Now, if you Light Dwellers haven't figured it out by now, I'll spell it out for ya'. Demon is part of Laughing Shadows, and there's nothin' ya' can do about it."

Yukio's and the Esquires faces paled, except for Shima's, who burst out laughing, thinking it was all a joke. His laugher was the only sound in the hollow hallway.

"Ya' think I'm joking? Is reality so hard for you, Light Dweller?" Rock glared, not liking the fact that he wasn't taken seriously.

Shima's laughter stopped and his face paled, only now the pieces had clicked in their mind. The way Rin fought, his sometimes deadly and serious glare, his natural instinct that they all thought of his normal demon behavior. It was all from the slums. It was Yukio who snapped out of this trance.

"What's Laughing Shadows?"

Rock's face fell and he turned his head away. "You'll find out at the 'event' tonight. C'mon, everyone's waiting down stairs."

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They walked in silence, following Rock through the maze of hallways. Once downstairs, the Esquires found Rin, the crazy chick wearing hot pink short shorts and a big white T-shirt, and a guy with spiky bleached hair wearing jeans and a black T-shirt. And strangely, to the Esquires, the three were sitting on the couch having a conversation; the crazy chick DIDN'T have her metal baseball bat at hand. It was simply in the corner. Covered in blood. With a chain around it and locked to the wall. (5)

"Yo. Look who I brought with me to the dinner table." Rock announced.

Everyone looked over their shoulder to see the Esquires, except the crazy chick gave them a cold glare instead of smile or an 'I'm sorry'.

"You finally awake?" Rin asked with a smirk.

"Shut up, blueberry." Bon shouted back.

Rin smirked. "You're in my territory, now." And at this, the Esquires paled again.

The crazy chick stopped glaring once Rin looked at her, only when he looked away she started glaring again.

"She's gonna kill me, I know it! Then again, this chick is pretty hot..." Shima thought, looking Wolf up and down.

Rock leaned close to Shima's ear and whispered "She's taken."

"So~. Who's up for some early dinner? ...Without anyone killing each other." The guy with spiky hair asked.

Everyone raised their hands except for the crazy chick. Rin, with his free hand, took hand and raised it for her; the crazy girl obviously didn't like the Esquires. Everyone followed Rock into a room that looked somewhat like a kitchen with a dinning room added on. Rin and the crazy chick stayed in the living room, Rin saying that he needed to talk to 'Wolf'. A few minutes after the Esquires sat down and Rock and the spiky haired guy started to make the meal and loud scream was heard from the living room, then Rin came in, Wolf over his shoulder like a bag of potatoes. Wolf was screaming her head off, kicking, and hitting Rin's back as hard she could.

"What did you do now, Demon?" The spiky haired guy asked with a chuckle, evil glinting in his eyes.

"Shut up, Crow. It's just that she didn't want to come to dinner, so-"

"So ya' picked her up against her will and dragged her here." Rock cut off.

Rin used his free hand to pull a chair out and dropped Wolf into the chair. (6) Wolf blew a few strands of hair out of her face and crossed her arms over her chest in defeat, but kept a wall up between herself and her boyfriend. Everyone ate in silence as the Esquires looked at Rin, wondering if it was really true about him being in a gang.

It was Yukio who broke the tense atmosphere.

"How could you, Nii-san!" Yukio yelled, finally snapping, getting out of his chair.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"How the hell could you keep the fact that you were in a gang from me? Even Shiro?" Yukio said, out raged.

"Oh, and now you know how if feels to be left out on a secret! Fifteen years! Fifteen years you kept the fact from me that I was a demon. Fifteen years you kept the fact that you were an Exorcist! Just like you, I can keep my fair share of secrets, can't I? Or is that not allowed anymore?" Rin shouted back, getting out of his chair as well.

"But-"

"Shiro knew what I was doing since I was in elementary! He knew what I was doing and he knew that there was no stopping me. The only person, who didn't know, was you."

Yukio's face fell. Reality crashing down.

"Laughing Shadows is the type of gang that accepts and scouts for people with strong fighting skills or unusual abilities. Its members fight to protect their family, mainly without their loved ones knowing, or they simply fight to survive. Demon was fighting to protect you, and the church. He was fighting everyday, laying his life on the line for you, and the only thing you can do is yell at him. Because of your brother, you had been living life easily, and when you did get in a fight, who was it who always fought for you? Demon. He has done things that you can't even think of, he's taken down rival gangs to corrupt underground organizations by himself for you, and you only blame him. Now, how do feel, Light Dweller?" Wolf said coldly glaring up at Yukio from her seat.

The Esquires mouths dropped while Yukio looked at his brother and Wolf in astonishment, and Rin looked at Yukio, hate and betrayal burning deep within his eyes. Crow and Rock observed the situation while eating their food.

"So~. Demon~. How about you tell them everything, eh~?"

Rin sighed and sat back down, obviously in defeat.

"Fine. I guess it started in my first year of middle school..."

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A/N: Hey! Don't you love cliff hangers? I don't! So I'll try to update tomorrow. Hopefully, though there is an 85% chance of me updating tomorrow.

Anyways;

(1) Ok. Ya know when you wake up in the morning and you get out of bed WAY to fast and all of a sudden black spots swam in your eyes, yeah, that's what happened to Wolf

(2) Yeah! When I wrote this I was literally saying "Let's see, Bon, Shima, and Izumo are gone...lets make Yukio break a rib or something...now lets get rid of Konekomaru..." Yeah...you see I tried to fight my inner demons...and I kinda failed...now me and my inner demons are on the same side...yeah, did I forget to mention that Wolf's bat was METAL!

(3) I was smiling like a madman when I wrote Wolf knocking out all of the Esquires one by one. So! How does if feel to be taken down by a girl? *Bon groans* Good.

(4) Did I mention that this base is HUGE?

(5) Ya know in Soul Eater how Maka always has a book on hand and Maka Chops Soul all the time...well, for Wolf, instead of a book she has a metal baseball bat that she fights with...yeah. Now you know wear I got the idea from.

(6) Rin was kinda being a jerk to Wolf because Wolf, first attacked his friends without knowing the full story (let alone the fact that they were friends), and second, didn't even say "I'm sorry" to any of the Esquires.

Okay, truth be told, I think I like Wolf out of ALL the characters I've weaved into the storyline so far. Their will be more. Just telling you. The plot WILL thicken in the next chapter or two, I promise. How Rin joined Laughing Shadows, how Rin and Wolf got together, and Crow, Rock, and Wolf's past is revealed in the next chapter. Please read and review! Thanks!