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the story idea was given to me

Ryuji and Yukio quickly gathered up all the Exwires, who all met in hiding behind gravestones nearby Rin and the demon.

"Okumura-sensei?" Konekomaru turned to the Okumura "Who is that?"

"The demon" Yukio replied. They had decided, since they didn't actually know the demon's fatal verse, only the section it was in, all the Arias would recite verses until they hit the one. Then the girls and Shima would try to protect the Arias if the demon turned it's attack on them. Yukio, meanwhile, would go get Rin and snap him out of the demon's spell.

"I know that, but who is the demon supposed to be?" Ryuji asked, wondering the same thing as his friend "Some sort of preist?"

"Isn't that your dad, Yuki-can?" Sheimi asked. The other Exwires panicked.

"Your dad!? As in Satan?!" Shima yelled

"Why is he here?!" Ryuji yelled. Izumo was completely pale and Konekomaru looked close to hyperventelating.

"To clearify, not Satan, the demon is immitaing our adoptive father, Shiro Fujimoto" Yukio said. The Exwires stopped panicking. Ryuji remembered something:

"Didn't you say that man over there is dead?"

"Shiro is dead. He died a few months ago, just before we came to True Cross" Yukio said "that demon took his form. Now we should really exorcise it before-" just as he said that, Rin fell to his knees. He demon loomed above him, an evil smile on his face "Rin!" Yukio yelled. The plan was immediatly set into motion, and the Arias began chanting while their classmates stood in front of them protectively. Yukio started running to his brother when the demon noticed the group. It began hurridly whispering to Rin. Speaking of Rin, the half-demon was on his knees and in tears, his hands over his ears in a futile attempt to block out 'Shiro's' words. In his eyes, though, you could see a grim and sad acceptance, as though he believed the demon's words. Yukio noticed this, too, and panicked. The Culpa could actually eat his brother's soul.

"Rin!" he yelled. Rin didn't seem to hear him, he was solely focused on 'Shiro' "RIN!" he yelled again, louder than the first time. This got a quick glance from the older Okumura, but he was right back to listening to the demon in a second. Rin appeared to be muttering something, which Yukio was too far away to hear.

"Rin! That's the demon! Whatever it's saying, don't listen!" he yelled. Though he could've been yelling at a wall for all the good it did. He continued yelling for his brother to snap out of it, and eventually the demon turned on him. Before it could say anything, though, Yukio drew his pistols and shot at it, clipping its ear and it's chin. It was a weird expierience to shoot your father in the face, but he just had to keep reminding himself this was a demon and not the Shiro he knew. The demon snapped it's attention to the Arias; one of them was clearly reciting it's verse.

"Cursed exorcist!" it yelled "I'll destroy you and your foul tongue!" it began running towards Ryuji, who was apparently the one saying the right verse. As it was distracted, Yukio ran to his brother

"Rin! Rin, are you alright?" he asked, kneeling next to his twin

"It's all my fault... It's all my fault..." Rin kept repeating the phrase over and over like a mantra.

"Rin?" Yukio shook his brother's shoulders "Rin? Snap out of it. Are you all right?" Rin kept muttering over and over, completely disregarding the younger twin's concern. Yukio concluded they would that they would probably have to get rid of the demon before Rin would be able to hear truly them. The demon had Rin under it's spell, the only way to revese it seemed to be to get rid of the source. Prying himself away from his guilt-ridden brother, he reloaded his pistols and charged the demon. He was having a hard time shooting his father, he kept hesitating and missing. 'Damn it Yukio! This isn't father! This is a demon pretending to be him!' He kept trying to tell himself. 'This is for Nii-san. You promised father you would protect him, and you can't do that if you can't even hurt them demon hurting him' he reminded himself. With that thought in mind, Yukio shot the demon directly in the face. As the bullet pierced it's skin, Ryuji finished the demon's verse, sending it back to Gehenna.

"Is everyone alright?" Sheimi yelled. There was a choir of responses, all meaning "yes" coming from the Exwires, but Yukio didn't hear his brother's voice.

"Rin?" he called. He looked over at his brother, who was no longer in a trance but was still on his knees. He looked to be trying to dry his tears. "Nii-san? Are you alright?" he yelled to the older Okumura, who looked over at him and nodded.

"I'm f-fine" he said, trying not to sniffle. Everyone stood (or, in Rin's case, kneeled) in silence, until Ryuji, albit a little akwardly, suggested they head back to the bus. The ride back to the academy was nearly completely silent, leaving the other Exwires to wonder "Who exactly is Shiro, and what happened the day he died?"

Yay! new chapter! I'm pretty sure this one is my longest one yet

It's still really small tho...

Well, I TRIED

I apologize the fight against the demon was kind of pathetic. I never said it was supposed to be a strong demon

I also suck at writing fight scenes...

so The Black Blue Cat, how did I do on the Yukio/emotion thing? I think I did ok, and I did say I would try, so... it's something (btw Japan sounds like lots of fun, and your a lot of fun to talk to!)

- Lew-chan :D