A/N: Hey! I'm really sorry! I said I was going to update very day, but I'm STILL on my parent's computer and mine is STILL broken! I actually have no idea how a real slum is like, so I made one up. Also, I only posted the first chapter two weeks ago and it has a lot of views, so I'm really happy. I want to thank everyone for giving me support, and I'm surprised you're still reading my story this far. Congadulations! (oh yeah, if you don't like gore and you're VERY scared of it, you've been warned. XD )

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

Crime Zone- a five mile radius surrounding the Boarder. Where crime rate is still high.

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.

Wolf- Demon's girlfriend. Wolf is fifteen years old, and is an orphan, her parents dumped her onto the streets when she was four and they didn't look back. Serpent picked Wolf up off the streets when she was six, and by then she had completely forgotten her name. Serpent named her 'Wolf' by the way she fought and acted.

Crow- Demon and Rock's best friend. Crow is sixteen years old. Serpent was also a foster father to Crow, who had found him in an alleyway while on patrol with his underlings. Crow was covered in blood, and several scars on his body. Crow joined Laughing Shadows at the age of eight.

Rock- Crow and Demon's best friend. Rock is fourteen years old. Has no living relatives or friends in his homeland. Rock joined Laughing Shadows at the age of nine, he joined because Crow was there, who had helped survive in the slums countless times.

Demon- Demon is Rin's name in Laughing Shadows, and was Laughing Shadows last member to join. Rin joined so he could protect Yukio and the church at the same time. Because of this, the church never got robbed, broken into, or damaged. Rin fought against rival gangs and corrupted underground organizations to protect his brother, and the church, since they lived in the Crime Zone.

Disclaimer- I do not own Ao No Exorcist (Blue Exorcist)

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

-Flashback-

The sky was dark and gray, it was about to rain soon. The passageway was littered with bodies, blood dripping down into scarlett pools. A single person stood among the bodies, wiping sweat off of his brow. A distant call of thunder and the rain started to fall in heavy droplets. A dark figured walked calmly to the fighter. The figure cupped her hands around his face, the teenager not sure about the situation. They stood there for a while, then, after the next clap of thunder, the figure kissed him. Rin's eyes widen in shock, as the figure kissed him. Rin pushed the figure away and rubbed his mouth on his sleeve in discust. The figure's hood fell off, and a girl with shoulder length black hair, wearing a yellow T-shirt under a navy blue hoodie, ripped jeans, and combat boots. The on thing that really caught Rin's attention was her deep emerald eyes. They held nothing, no emotion, no evil, no hate, and no happines. Her eyes were empty. Most of the girls he knew held emotions that were clearly seen.

The girl smirked at his reaction, but quickly fell when the bodies around them got up, and got into fighting position. Rin looked at the girl, still no emotion, not even a bit of fear. Before he could even move, the mysterious girl ran forward, towards the enemy. She pulled a bloody bat out from under the hoodie, and swung, an evil and crazed grin on her face, but still no emotion in her eyes. Rin stood there, not even fighting, watching the girl kill the enemy. Sure, he was in the slums at the moment. But it didn't matter.

The girl looked over at the so called 'feared and unbeatable' Demon of the slums, her grin still plastered on her face. Hate was deep in his eyes.

"You're pathetic." Was the only words that escaped his lips.

The girl's face fell in horror, why didn't he fear her?

"You don't even fight your demons, you're simply pathetic." He said, then he walked away. Just before he was out of earshot, she said;

"My name's Wolf. Nice meeting you, Demon of the Slums."

-A few days pass-

Rin walked through the a passageways, taking a shortcut to the Boarder. The sun would rise in a few hours, and needed to be home before anyone noticed his absence.

"Demon of the Slums, am I correct." A called next to him. In the corner of Rin's eye he saw a man leaning against the wall. A few other people, more like teenagers, surrounded him. In other words, if it came down to a fight, Rin would most likely lose, though the numbers did not bother him, it was the aura of the man that messed with his mind. It felt like his lavender eyes were piercing into his skull, reading all of his thoughts. The man sensed his discomfort;

"Don't worry, I haven't come here for a fight, I just want something?"

"What?"

"I want your skill. Your talent. You fight by yourself, it must be tiring. Fighting everyday in the slums, then you head back home like it was nothing. Join us. You already do too much, your body will break down soon if you keep fighting like this. Join us, and you can live an easier life. You can-" Serpent said, convincingly.

"I'm not supposed to live an easy life, I never will. I will never get tired of fighting, and my body will never break down. I am a demon." Rin said, casting a shadow over his eyes.

"Well, that's depressing. Either way I want your skill. I want your fighting force, I want your pure power!" Serpent said, but to Rin, he knew he had another motive.

"What you want and need is too different things. And, my 'skill' is not for sale." Rin said, taking a few steps forward.

"Do you know who I am?" Serpent said, smirking, thinking that his own words would stop Rin from moving. Though, Rin just kept walking, not looking back.

"Nope, and I don't want to." Rin said, waving airily.

Once Rin or the 'Demon of the Slums' disappeared into the shadows, Serpent chuckled, his plan had finally been set into action.

His plan had only one motive, train the best fighters in the slums, and then to take out the Boarder. The Boarder was built with Serpent inside, now unable to get over the wall to get to his family. His own daughter and son would be each turning thirteen, that year, the same age as Wolf.

-A few more days later-

"Shit. What have I gotten into now? Just, what did I do?" Rin thought, as he stared at the sky, only now the sun was rising. Yukio would be awake soon, and notice that his older brother was not in bed where he should be.

Rin's chest heaving, and his body battered. He stood up slowly, he had been fighting non-stop for two years now, it was about time actually that his body would break down. The weird guy he had met was right. A few more days of this and he would have to sped a week of recovery. In that single week, anything could happen.

"Will you join us now?" A voice called, a voice that belonged to Serpent.

"Never. I am not anyone's property."

"I know that you've been fighting for two years straight years, and no human would be able to do that. You have the strength, the will, the speed, the toughness, and the patience to be in Laughing Shadows. I'm Serpent, leader of Laughing Shadows." Serpent gave a croocked smile while Rin glared.

"I don't care who you are, and I don't care if you're a gang leader. It's best you stay away from me, you'll get hurt." Rin muttered with hate, trying to walk, using a wall as support.

"How do you know that I'll get hurt?"

"Everyone does. I'm a demon." Rin gasped as he held his chest.

"Join us. We can help you. Laughing Shadows will accept you with open arms."

"Ugh- I said I don't want to join you, and that's my final answer. I don't need help." Rin grunted, pratically on his knees now.

"It looks like you do though, you can't even walk. I'll take you home." Serpent said, thinking that if he could get Rin to trust him, maybe he would join his gang.

"Demon of the Slums, you are the first person ever to decline my offer, not once, but twice. Who are you? What are you?" Serpent thought with a thoughtful look on his face as he watched the boy try to get up.

Serpent hoisted Rin up and put his arm over his shoulder. As they walked, Rin muttered directions once in a while. Once they got to Rin's destination, Serpent was staring up at the giant Boarder.

"What! Is this boy insane? We walked over two miles and he wanted to do it by himself! And now he wants to climb the highest point of the Boarder, without even a rope? He really is a demon!" Serpent thought, looking at 'Demon of the Slums' in awe as he struggled to get out of Serpent's grip.

Though Rin was weak at the moment, he still had too get home. Once he had finally gotten out of Serpent's grasp, Rin squatted down, sweating, and with Serpent watching, jumped as high as he could, and got over the Boarder with ease.

"Thanks for the help, old man. Either way, I will not join your gang, even if my life depended on it." Rin said, and then jumped over to the other side, disappearing from sight.

Silence hung in the air, then Serpent noticed. "HEY! I'M NOT OLD! I'M ONLY IN MY THIRTIES!" (1)

-End of flashback-

"So, how did Rin join?" Shiemi asked, fully into the story.

"Well, during the time Serpent was tormenting Demon, I had asked Demon out." Wolf said as if it was nothing.

"And he said yes?" Shima said, still upset that it was Rin who stole his next 'target' to hit on.

"Nope! He said no and crushed my heart. He said he didn't even know me. So, we started hanging out. A few months later we were dating, and Demon joined Laughing Shadows because of me." Wolf said happily, with a smile.

Everyone stared at her in shock, the way she had said that Demon had crushed her, she sounded too happy. What kind of girl is happy that she gets rejected by the guy she loves?

Wolf got up from the table and cleared every ones dishes with the help of Demon. While Rin scrubbed the table, Wolf washed the dishes, Crow polished and cleaned a knife covered in blood (2), and Rock watched TV in the living room, the Esquires had nothing to or knew what to do.

"So, um, Crow, what's your real n-name?" Konekomaru asked, not meeting his elders eyes. (3)

"...Don't got one." Crow said, chipping off blood, in chunks.

"What do you mean 'Don't got one'?" Bon asked leaning forward a little.

"It means that he simply doesn't have a name." Rin said, leaning over the table to reach their side of the table to scrub.

"When I was young, I was abused. I was abused by my own parents until I was eight years old. At eight, I was tipped over the 'edge' and went insane. When I 'woke up' I was covered my parents blood, my mother's head was ripped off and in my hand, my father's heart in my other. I wandered the streets until Serpent found me and brought me in." Crow explained, a shadow cast over his eyes.

There was a long silence that drifted through the room, except for the running of water and scrubbing tables. It was Rock who broke the quietness of the room, just as he was walking in.

"Pack up and let's head out, we're gonna be late." Rock said in a hurry, going through another door across the room. Rin sighed and headed upstairs, Wolf, Crow, and the Esquires following, though the group had no idea what was going on.

As they headed up to the third floor, Crow departed from the group on the third floor, entering room number 2,217.

"All rooms are labled with a number, the only room you may never go in is room number 2,234." Rin announced.

"And why not?" Shima asked.

"Because, that's a special room. If you feel like sleeping in a dead man's bed, fine by me." Wolf informed then, a smirk playing on her lips.

They were still standing outside Crow's room when Wolf gave them their room numbers;

"Anyways, Yukio, you're in room number 2216, right next to Crow." The numbers 2216 were written in sharpie years ago, the numbers its self barely there. Yukio took out a sharpie and rewrote it, making stand out. Before Yukio could open the door, Crow came out, without a shirt, and told everyone to turn around. Crow opened Yukio's room door and walked in. Inside was a old mattress, a desk, and a moldy rug. Crow went over to a dark corner of the room and picked up a corpse, its skin rotting and his eye balls were missing, for a reason only the small gang knew, it's clothes were shredded and dirty. A knife was in the corpse's heart. Crow pulled out the knife, and swung the body over his shoulder and walked to the window (remember, the windows don't have any glass in them, so they're not really windows.), and threw the corpse out like it was nothing and this was completely normal. He walked back out of the room and told everyone it was ok to turn around, then went back to his room to finished changing.

"What happened?" Shiemi asked, head tilted to the side.

"Nothing!" Rin said quickly, too quickly, which earned him glares from the Esquires.

"Yeah...um, Bon, your room is 2215, and Shima, your room is 2214." Wolf continued. "Shiemi you get 2213 and Izumo you have 2218. And Konekomaru, you have 2219. As you can tell Crow's room is 2217. Rock's room is 2220, next to Konekomaru. Demon's room is 2221 and mine is 2222." And with that being said, Wolf left for her room, leaving her boyfriend and the Esquires alone in the hallway.

"Yeah, sorry about that, I guess Wolf is still mad at you guys. Good luck." Rin said, not looking at anyone in the eye.

"What exactly did we do to set her off, we didn't do anything. She was the one who attacked us, she's the one to blame!" Izumo said accusingly.

"Actually, you trespassed into the base without her knowing. This place has been her home since she was six. Her parents abondoned her on the streets, and left her for dead. They didn't even look back at her. For two years she survived, then Serpent found her and took her in. He's the one who named her 'Wolf'."

"But why 'Wolf'?" Shiemi asked.

"By the way she acted and fought. I think you noticed, but she fights like a beast, never letting her prey escape her. Once you are her target, then there is no stopping her. Serpent trained her for years, turning her into beast, and he didn't even know it." Rin said sadly, his eyes softening.

"Who is Serpent, anyways?" Bon asked.

At this Rin stiffened. He turned around started to walk down the hall to his room. "There's a pair of clothes in each room, put them on and wait in the hall. I'll help you get downstairs. If you have a problem with you room get me or Crow." And with that he walked into his room next to Wolf's.

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As Wolf got changed she pulled on combat boots, gray jeans, a black T-shirt and a black leather jacket with the letters LS on the back. On the design, the letters cast a shadow that formed a skull, laughing, blood dripping from its mouth. This was the outfit of all members of Laughing Shadows.

As Wolf laced up her boots she sung a song quietly to herself;

"As much as I'd like the past not to exist

It still does

And as much as I'd like to feel like I belong here

I'm just as scared as you

I have nothing left

And all I feel is this cruel wanting

We've been falling for all this time

And now I'm lost in paradise

Run away, run away

One day we won't feel this pain anymore." (4)

Wolf stopped when she heard her door open and Shiemi came in. A scowl insteantly formed on Wolf's face. Shiemi flinched.

"I-I'm sorry!" Shiemi said, bowing.

Wolf's scowl was replaced with a look of disbelife. "W-why are you sorry?"

Shiemi straightened out. "B-because we trespassed into your territory without you permission! I felt really bad about this time-"

"Did I hit her on the head too hard?" Wolf wondered.

"-And I hope we can be friends!"

Wolf bursted out laughing, doubling over. While Shiemi looked confused and asked her what was so funny.

"Y-you!" Wolf said between laughs. "Friends! No ones asked me that!"

"Why not?"

Wolf stopped laughing and stood up straight, an evil smirk on her face. "Do you know what I am? I'm a killer, a murder. Everyone, including Demon, has killed at least once. So, here's an idea. Before you start being friends with someone, know who they really are. I am no exception." An with that said, Wolf strode out of her room, leaving Shiemi there, wide eyed.

Shiemi turned around, determination blazing. "I care if you're a murder! I'm gonna be friends with you, Wolf-san!"

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The night was cold, but Esquires felt nothing. They too had been given a leather jacket, with the design LS, which branded them as one of the members. The passages were cramped so they walked in single file, Rin taking the lead. The air was quiet except for the sounds of combat boots hitting the ground. After another turn, the gang stopped. They just stood there, not making a sound, looking at a wall. The Esquires looked at the too, not sure as of why, that was until they saw it. A stain of crimson stained the wall and the ground. Horror filled the Esquires eyes and sadness filled the others.

"No way. No. This can't be the 'event'!" Shima thought.

"You get it now? Serpent, who you've heard so much about, is dead. And this is where he died. His resting place. His body was eaten by rats. Since the Boarder was built, he was never able to see his family again. Welcome to the Slums." Rin said sorrowfully.

"A place where you can get in, but can't get out." A voice said, drawing everybody's attention.

"Show ya' self! Coward!" Rock yelled into the darkness.

A figure stepped out, he was in his early twenties, wearing a white tank top which showed his arms, which were cover in tatoos, blue jeans and running shoes. His brown hair went down his back in a braid.

"I honestly never knew that there were actual members of Laughing Shadows that were still alive! Eh~, it looks like you have six members too many. Are they temporary?" The man sneered.

"And if they are?" Rin said, glaring at his enemy, waiting for a fight.

"Oh~. Demon of the Slums, Crow of Haunting Death, Rock of the Underground, and Wolf of Chaos, am I correct? The youngest members of LS, but also the strongest." He said, theatning.

"And if we are?" Crow shouted.

"Then I, the leader of the now top gang, challanges you to a fight."

"Anytime! When?" Wolf spat.

"In one month, at the base Bloody Lucifer."

"We accept, and when do come, we're gonna rip your throats out, one by one." Wolf said aggressivly.

"It'll be fun, then."

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A/N: Ok. I did say that there was an 85% chance that I was gonna update yesterday, I just forgot that God hates me and he loves messing up my life. So, no promises that I'll update tomorrow, it just depends on my damn luck.

Anyways;

(1) Ok. I got the idea from Black Cat, an anime (you should watch, it's awesome), when Train Heartnet's nick name for Sven is 'Old man'. So~, yeah, now ya know.

(2) His knife is covered in blood because he killed a few people a few days ago or something, you make something up.

(3) Remember when Rock told the Esquires that 'Crow' was Crow's gang name, not his real name, Konekomaru was just wondering what it was. Just tellin'.

(4) Yeah! Who knows what this song is! Faster update!

Truth be told, I might change the P.O.V. to Rin, tell me if I should or shouldn't. I don't know. I didn't explain Rock's past yet, but it will be reviled. Yeah... the 'event' was a mourning for the death of Serpent. Please review! I still wanna thank everyone for reading this far (if you've decided that you hate, and don't want to read it any more, I completely understand.) For those of you who want to keep reading it, thank you!