A/N: I know this story is late and very long compared to the others, I was on summer vacation at a friends in another state though it didn't stop me from writing, just a part of the story got boring to write and I kept almost falling asleep so I couldn't write as fast as I wanted to sorry it was late for the people who actually like this, it is a lot of people who view, follow and favorite this story it's one of my best in stats, arigato and again gomen for the late story update.
Chapter Four: Memories of a Demons Past, Part Two
Third Person POV
"Why are there purple swirls everywhere now?" Konekomaru said very confused as to why the void changed, "I think just in case there are other memories like the last one" Mephisto said looking around the void to inspect the spirals from far away. "Now for the suicide memory" Mephisto said after a while of looking at the spirals but he wasn't too happy about those particular memories, a few seconds after he said what he did the purple swirls started to expand till all they could see was purple until the purple shattered like glass revealing a room with two kids at around the age of six.
"Would anyone like to give some insight on this memory?" Mephisto asked watching a small Rin walk into the room with the two boys sitting in the middle of the floor both having knives up against their throats, if you looked closely enough and knew a lot about knives you would notice that they were using medium cold steel Espada knives. "Umm… they look like a young me and Suguro" Shima said surprised by this dream since he never thought he would actually kill himself "that would be mine I think" Konekomaru started before continuing "but you guys died by Satan's flames not by suicide" he said looking away from the scene playing in front of him.
"Please don't do this I know you're not real but no one seems to believe me and I cannot see more people die because of me, I can't handle any more of it" Rin said crying silently his eyes not seeming to hold any life as he walked into the room after he kicked the door down (the door was old but the two kids locked the door so their parents and anyone else can't get in). The two kids jumped as the door rattled as it hit the ground but went right back to what they were doing once they realized nothing could actually stop them since they weren't real, and proceeded to slice their throats with the knives they got as welcome back presents from the students.
"No!" Rin shouted as he ran to the two students as he forgot for a moment that they weren't real "what am I doing they aren't real there's no reason for me to stop them I learned that all the other times that I tried and failed" a voice echoed just like it did on the roof of the school shooting. "What is that echoing?" Sheimi asked aloud hoping someone will know the answer to that question "that is what Rin is thinking at this moment it was the same thing as on the rooftop in the previous memory" Mephisto answered very sadly wanting to know why he was so happy when he met him for about the third time in his life.
After Mephisto answered Sheimis question the memory went black but changed to a different day instead of going to a different memory which confused many of the exorcists, "Where's Shima and Suguro at? We were going to play a game today at recess" a boy with red-orange hair said as a six year old Rin came into the room with a sad facial expression on. "Suguro was going to help me with an upcoming test in history and Shima was going to walk me home today after school" a black haired girl complained as she blushed furiously as she said it.
"They died last night, they killed themselves" Rin said as he took his seat "why say that Rin? You're going to get blamed" Izumo said a few moments before a boy a few months older than Rin exploded from his seat. "How would you know? They had a good life in school why would they give up their lives this quickly? You know nothing about them how do we know you aren't lying?" the boy yelled at Rin.
"I'm going to very much regret this but oh well" Rins voice echoed through the room making all the exorcist wonder what Rin was going to regret "here Jack" Rin said handing the boy whose name is now known as 'Jack' a letter. Jack grabbed the letter forcefully and read it out loud for the entire class.
"Ren this is a letter specifically for you, if you want to save someone head to the abandoned warehouse on the corner of Weston and Tree. If you don't, don't bother coming but that would mean you're as demon as your father and by father I mean both adoptive and blood. Hand this letter to one of your classmates if you can't save them, bye bye, have a despicable life and have fun not saving us.
Love, Suguro and Shima"
"That's horrible, why would anyone write that" Sheimi said in the form of a question but was a statement because she knew it wasn't a someone but more like a something "did you not go or something?" the girl from earlier yelled after Jack finished reading the letter. "I did go that's how I know it happened, if you don't believe me ask their foster parents" Rin said never turning from the front of the room as the teacher came in.
"Please tell me this is not the day I think it is?" Yukio asked very panicked because he was remembering a day after two students from Rins and his own school had supposedly killed themselves, his father got a call from a mental hospital saying that Rin had been acting strange as if there was something mentally wrong with him and the nurses at their school didn't want to take care of him for some reason or another. Hey what are you doing? Do you feel no remorse for what you did to them? I mean seriously you must be a demon if you don't feel remorseful for them dying a voice echoed but didn't sound a single thing like Rins though still sounded familiar all the same to the exorcists.
"Those were your friend's right? They were and probably still are good people they were so popular even after their supposed death" Rin said aloud "Rin don't do that, please don't do that" Yukio said with a pleading like tone making the exorcists look towards him in question. Yes they are good people but you're going to break them and you killed them just like a demon is supposed to do the voice echoed again making Rins vision seem clouded at the word demon.
"I'm not a demon, I have a conscious I have a soul, I am more human than demon" Rin said aloud again but this time louder catching the attention of his teacher "Rin what's wrong?" his teacher asked but it didn't seem to get to Rin as Mephisto observed. But you are a demon you know who your father is so you should know that you are a demon the voice said again surprising Yukio by this knowledge and causing Konekomaru and Mephisto to realize whose voice was speaking to Ren.
You'll never have any friends and you'll always be a disappointment and pest to everyone you meet, your brother and adoptive father already think that so I don't need to prove that to you and you know they think of you like that. That was the last thing that the voice or anyone else ever said before the void between memories returned with the purple spirals "Mephisto was that the day Rin was taken to the hospital?" Yukio asked unable to get those sentences that one of the exorcists told his brother.
"What do you mean Yukio? What hospital?" Konekomaru asked feeling very guilty for what his dream caused Rin and even more guilty if he put Rin in a hospital for it. "I remember my father getting a call from Rin and my own school that Rin was being takin to a special hospital the day after Rin saw two supposed students committing suicide together, I thought they were joking about Rin seeing it since they were supposed students and ones I never even heard of before" Yukio said regretting that time because he yelled at Rin for playing a joke that led him into a mental hospital.
"Yes it is the day he was put there but it didn't show us the meltdown he had that landed him there Rin didn't want me to show you those parts" Mephisto said sadly looking towards the ground because he saw the meltdown and it haunted him since the day he saw the memory. "Now for a different memory the homicide I think you all wanted to be next" Mephisto said gaining the others attention for they were wondering what had happened to cause Rins meltdown, they nodded dreading the rest of the memories same as Mephisto.
"Now for the next memory" Suguro said sadly dreading as much as the others even though he knew the following memories won't be one of his dreams, after Suguro said what he did the void faded slightly but not all the way confusing many of the exorcists. The void showed a dark room the only light was the moonlight showing through the only window in the room but it also showed about eight kids all tied to their own chairs in the middle of the room.
"Where is this place?" Shima asked looking around the room but jumped halting his action when the only door in the room opened and slammed against the wall to reveal a tall guy in a western ensemble armed with an Ar-15 Assault Rifle pulling a kid about six years old with black hair and blue eyes by the back of his black shirt most likely choking the kid. The new guy scared Sheimi because she knew what was about to happen to those kids and he scared her even more when they all realized there was a ninth chair near the window facing all the kids the westerner then threw the kid onto the seat revealing who it was at the same time.
"Rin!" everyone yelled at the same time when they saw who it was "does anyone know whose dream this is?" Mephisto asked recognizing the new comer as the homicidal killer 'Texan Killer' who is definitely not an illusion "I think I do" Shima said seeming very guilty because he does know whose dream this is. "Whose dream is this Shima?" Suguro asked making everyone turn to Shima for an explanation "it's mine" Shima said making everyone gape at him for all the memories that happened previously that had to do with the group.
"Texan Killer? Why did you bring me here?" Rin said making everyone's head snap back to what they were there for "because I want a fellow 'killer' to witness the killing of many people they know" the person many of them now remember and fear as the 'Texan Killer' said laughing manically after his response. "Please don't I don't need more people blaming me for more deaths" Rin pleaded as he cried silently by the window in the grey metal chair that was clearly uncomfortable are you just going to let him do that? You have demonic strength you can take him on or are you to scared to? A voice sounding very familiar to the exorcists said as they looked around for familiar faces.
"Over there" Yukio said pointing to two six year olds right next to each other who look a lot like Konekomaru and Suguro, the other exorcists looked to where Yukio was pointing except for Konekomaru, Shima, Izumo and Suguro they just kept looking towards the 'Texan Killer' who was placing a silencer on the gun as he walked towards a person in the circle. The boy which was the one the four exorcists think will be the first victim Rin will see die tonight as well as themselves, the Texan Killer took off the kids blindfold and set the gun against the boys chair as the kid adjusted his eyes to the dark room he was placed in.
"Hey doesn't he look familiar?" Konekomaru asked no one in particular as he noticed him from a different memory "yes he does look familiar, where is he from again?" Konekomaru asked Suguro because of his long term memory "he's the kid from the first memory we've seen of Rin stuck in these illusions" Yukio said as Izumo huffed in annoyance because of their inability to remember something from not too long ago. "Do you remember him Rin?" the Texan asked Rin in a dark way as he kept a hand on his gun as if readying himself at any moment to kill the boy "yes and I feel very bad for what this dream is doing to all of them, for that I'm sorry Damon" Rin said letting a tear fall as the kid now known to the exorcists as Damon jerked his head up at Rins voice.
"Demon? What the frick are you doing here? Did you tie all of us up?" Damon accused "no I didn't but I might as well have" Rin said brokenly "and who is this loser? An accomplice of yours?" Damon still accused as the Texan pressed the rifle hard into Damon's head as if to tell him to be quiet. "Oh no, no, no I'm not an accomplice of his but he will be to me later on in life if I'm not caught by then" the Texan Killer said as Damon's last words fell from his mouth before a cracking sound could be heard echoing through the room causing the exorcists to worry.
"What was that?" Suguro asked aloud but looked at Mephisto thinking he will know the answer thankfully enough he did but it was an answer that the exorcists knew already though they hoped wasn't true "a wall cracked from where I do not know but a wall did crack" Mephisto answered Suguros question with a solemn expression he had on many times before during these memories and ever since Rin was executed. Look what you did are you really that weak or are you just that uncaring when it comes to people dying? The voice echoed making Shima close in on himself a little out of grief and despair from what his dream self said and what his dreams did to many people especially Rin.
I bet you're going to blame me for this aren't you? I mean why not it is an illusion created by yours truly "No! I won't blame you for this I blame no one but myself for this, I'm too weak I pretend to be strong for my brother and the others, I'm not strong that's just a façade, a fake me" Rin said in his mind as well as out loud but when he said it out loud it was too low for anyone to actually hear. "Now for the next one, are you going to continue to watch Rin or are you going to help me with these demons?" the Texan said catching Rin and the exorcist's attention for the word he used to describe the kids.
"No I will not, that is too cruel of me to do, no matter what they blame me for I will not do anything to cause them harm, and they are not demons I'm the only demon here for letting you do this to them" Rin said causing the Texan to move the other chair for the next victim the exorcists definitely remember. The next kid the Texan brought up is a girl with red hair and odd eyes, one eye white and one silver "Ariel what do you think of Rin for his attitude towards me?" the Texan asked as he undid the blindfold covering the girls eyes, Ariel seemed to adjust her eyes to the dark before she even spoke a word.
"I think he's a cowardly demon for everything he's done in his life, he makes his family's life harder by just being alive and he's correct he is a demon, but it wouldn't be cruel for a demon to kill us no matter how much someone might care for him it might even open his family's eyes to the truth" Ariel said before another cracking sound like the one before sounded but it was louder this time. "Good maybe I'll go for his family next won't that be a treat for them" the Texan said before a sob echoed through the room making everyone look towards Rin who was the cause of the loud sobbing.
"Demons aren't supposed to cry" Ariel said as Texan pulled the trigger of his rifle to have those be her last words without giving her a warning that they would be the only words she'll ever speak again, to many of the exorcists those words sounded oddly familiar though, "Rin are you sure you don't want to play? I have six more victims left for you to play with" the Texan said spinning the circle on the floor so Rin could see the other kids that are about to be killed. "Yes I'm sure I don't want to play your homicidal game Texan Killer" Rin said seeming to make the Texan mad "you know you want to you just don't want to kill any more people" the Texan yelled making Rin flinch.
"Now for the next kid" the Texan said taking the blindfold off a girl with blood red hair and violet eyes "Rin what have you done now? Before it was a bus then a fire then a shooting then two suicides now whatever this is, disaster seems to follow you everywhere now doesn't it?" the girl everyone remembers as Terre asked in an accusatory tone. "Why does everyone do this to him?" Sheimi asked about to cry from all the memories she's seen seeming to have just now gotten to her "because of all the rumors of him being a demon and because of all the illusions and killers thinking he's like them, like you guys did after he tried and did protect you" Mephisto said looking away from Rin because he doesn't want to see his baby brother break down like he is at the moment.
Yes it does follow you everywhere just say it, say the truth you know should be done the voice said after Mephisto answered Sheimis question "no, I will not say I deserve to die, I may have lived a life worse than most people but someone out there must have a worse one and I'm only six so I have much more left in my life that could be good" Rin said in his head and low enough so that no one in the room could hear him. "Rin doesn't deserve to die, that is not a truth he should believe" Izumo said for the first time in a while of not speaking "you should just die, do you remember when I first told you that, everyone says it at school even the teachers maybe even your brother, father and everyone else at your home thinks that" Terre said before a cracking sound sounded again making the exorcists jump at the repeating sound.
"My brother may have tried to kill me many times in his sleep but he wouldn't want to kill me, would he?" Rin said another sob racking through his body as he seemed to remember what his brother said to him when he started at cram school. "Like many have said behind your back and I said to your face no one would care if you die your brother trying to kill you proves that point whether he was asleep or not" Terre said as her eyes went lifeless and blood trickled from a big gash on her neck.
"Terre?" Rin asked softly when he didn't hear a another voice for a few moments, he lifted his head to see Terre with a knife wound on her neck "I thought you were supposed to use your Ar-15 Assault Rifle on your victims not a Timber rattler western outlaw bowie knife?" Rin asked seeming to be prideful in the exorcist's eyes but he wasn't. Oh now you're acting confident I see you're trying to get him to kill you great plan that'll help so many people Rin finally you give up the voice said "trying to be confident causes me to die anything I do results in me getting hurt, hurting others, or getting someone or something hurt or killed so I'm not trying to be that" Rin said again in his head and low enough so no one in the room could hear.
"Now for Suguro and Konekomaru" Texan said as he spinned the wood again so that Rin could see them as Texan took off their blindfolds "now what do you guys have to say about Rin?" Texan asked them before their eyes could adjust to the dark room "we don't know a Rin we know a Yukio that has a brother named Rin but that's it" young Suguro asked surprising the said exorcist because he didn't know a Suguro back then. "I know a Rin, he's said to be a demon I'd exorcise the demon if he was being possessed but he's not so I'd stay away from him for as long as possible" Konekomaru said before he and Suguro were shot in the heart and disappeared but not before they left an everlasting scar in Rins memory.
"Well that was unexpected, and it leaves less bodies now, man I wanted the police to find more bodies than six oh well six is better than none" Texan said before turning the wood again to go to the next victim he was going to kill "now what do you think of Rin? Do you think he should kill you or at the very least start killing you guys?" Texan said taking the blindfold off of a boy with short red-orange hair and clear blue eyes. The boy shook his head to clear his vision so he could actually see in the dark before he spoke "I think he should've done that a long while ago since demons aren't supposed to hesitate when someone says to kill something or someone they're just supposed to do it no questions asked right" the boy said before sneering at Rin.
"Brayden I'm not a demon, I'm human nothing more nothing less" Rin said a tear falling from his left eye as he tried to reason uneventfully with the boy the exorcists now know as Brayden "yeah right why would anyone believe what you have to say you're a demon after all" and those were the boys final words before he was shot on the right side of his head a centimeter above his ear. Another cracking sound was heard when those words left the small boys mouth making the exorcists cringe and left them wondering when the cracking sound would finally end and as if reading the exorcists mind Mephisto started to speak.
"The cracking sound will never end in these memories though there will be a shatter every now and then from Rins walls falling down, but other than cracking and shattering there will be voices and that will probably be about it in his mind as the memories progress" is what Mephisto had told them making them feel very remorseful for how their dreams are treating Rin and how their words and silence affected him back then. "This is going a little too slow for me how about I just have them not talk and just let them see your face as they die instead, there are only two more victims left after all" Texan said resulting in Rin taking a shuttering breath that didn't go unnoticed by Rins friends and brothers.
Texan spinned the wood so the next two victims will see Rins face as they die just like he said they would "let's finish this, you have to get home soon don't you Rin?" Texan asked making everyone including Rin look outside the window though the ones that are blindfolded couldn't look outside the window because of the blindfolds. Texan took the blindfold off a girl with long wavy black hair and evergreen eyes everyone recognized as the girl from the previous memory but they don't know her name "Wait could I ask her something before she dies?" Rin asked surprising the others by the question.
"Of course" Texan said smiling a smile that seemed to creep many of the others out though Rin wasn't even close to being creeped out "Jessica? Did you like one of the boys who killed themselves about four months ago, Shima and Suguro?" Rin asked her earning a glare from her most likely from asking the question. "You always got nervous around them, you were always shy when they came around and you were especially shy when they asked you to do something with them" Rin continued.
"Yes I did like them, but so did everyone else in the school you idiotic demon, they were popular, smart, beautiful etc. they had perfect lives that everyone envied them for having and wanted to be around them…" she wasn't able to finish because Rin saw that Texan was about to shoot the gun so he said "I'm sorry I wasn't able to save them I don't like people dying or being hurt because of my actions please have an amazing afterlife that is what they would want everyone in school to have after all" were the last words Jessica heard before she died. "What was that for Texan there's no reason for you to kill them, none of them at all, so why are you doing this?" Rin asked close to yelling but he knew if he did Texan might go after his family so he didn't yell "I have a reason, not a justifiable reason but a reason none the less" he answered him spinning the wood again.
"What reason do you have then?" Rin asked him shuttering slightly from the cold of the open window that he didn't fully feel until the last victim was about to be killed all because of him, "because I escaped an insane asylum or mental hospital whatever it was called because you had a meltdown at school the day after I was caught, which was the same day that two supposed classmates killed themselves with you as a witness" Texan had answered causing Rin to have a visible panic attack. "This is all because of me, including me being here?" Ren asked aloud to either himself or to Texan no one really knows but Texan answered him anyway "yes I believe it is though I never thought of it that way this is just a thank you for getting me out of there" he said causing Rins panic attack to raise a level.
"Now that that is done" Texan said lifting the blindfold off of the next victim that looks very familiar to the exorcists with the short brown hair and gray eyes with gold flecks in them which you wouldn't have noticed if you didn't look into them "I'm so sorry Jack this is all my fault" Rin said another tear falling from his right eye. "Of course it is you idiot, everything that's bad is your fault all the wars that have happened and everything else like that is…" was all Jack said before he died just like with many of the other victims of that night.
"Well that was great though it wasn't supposed to go all the way like that I said I was going to kill them before they were even going to speak guess that didn't happen, oh well curiosity kills the cat now that's probably going to happen to me now since I wasted so much time with them talking" Texan said seeming bored now with everyone dead. "They're way too cruel to him" Sheimi said with her head in her hands so she could cover her eyes from the blood stained bodies not even seeming to worry about the next memory that has no exorcist left but her, "Sheimi? How long have you not been watching?" Yukio asked as Izumo walked towards Sheimi to rub her back to comfort her.
"Since Terre was talking and Mephisto said that because of the rumors and everything else was the reason Rin is going through all of this" she answered him as the room seem to collapse around them revealing a familiar void but with a lot of dots that look like stars instead of the violet spirals. "Why does the void keep changing?" Shima asked seeming to get very annoyed with the void "most likely to go with the upcoming memories" Mephisto said observing the stars as they started to brighten and temporarily blinding Mephisto and his students.
The next thing the exorcists knew other than the blinding light the star like objects created were that they were in the middle of a four way crossing in the middle of town which somewhat confused them until they saw a kid with black hair and azure eyes wearing knee high leather strapped boots, ripped blue jeans, and a black t-shirt reading a book of some kind cross the street as a dark blue 1998 Dodge Viper GTS Coupe turned a corner not seeming to realize that someone was walking across almost ran the boy over but for some reason didn't. What did happen however was what surprised the exorcists, the car's tires screeched as the woman frantically tried turning but drove into a lamp pole that connected to the traffic lights though that isn't what surprised them what did surprise them was that the pole and car weren't damaged at the moment.
They quickly realized that this was the illusion but they didn't see what would cause Rin to be traumatized or whatever they were there to witness "what were you thinking kid! You could've killed someone doing that!" the exorcists heard someone yell "what the Gehenna did he do?" Suguro yelled knowing that no one in Rins past could hear him. "I'm sorry mam is she okay?" Rin asked getting up to check on the woman that Sheimi just realized is her grandmother in a car from her dream some time ago no she is not okay how could she at all be okay a voice the exorcists definitely recognized echoed making them turn to Sheimi who nodded covering her face in her hands out of guilt even though nothing has really happed yet.
"Oh it's you, now this is not a surprise since of course you would want this to happen why else would it have?" the same woman in about her mid-twenties said in what could only be described as pure disgust "I didn't mean to the sign said I should go I followed the sign" Rin said try again demon the voice said making Rin groan as he looked towards the woman as she pointed at something. Rin looked to where she pointed and noticed that the traffic signals weren't changing and that the walk sign and traffic signal said the total opposite of what he thought they did "b-but th-that's impossible I was sure it said I was supposed to walk" Rin stuttered making the woman smirk evilly "that's what you get for not paying attention and being around much less alive" the woman said before walking away her smirk never falling.
"So this is my fault?" Rin asked aloud not even noticing that others were gathering until whispers were being echoed in his head "guess that makes it official he is a demon, what else could cause disaster wherever it went?" a woman asked another as others started whispering the same thing except harsher in more ways than one. "He shouldn't even be alive I wonder how his brother handles such a monstrosity?" a man asked as the car evaporated as if it was never there "I wonder what possessed his father a priest to keep such a disgusting creature in his monastery?" another whispered making that the last straw for Rin as he ran away from the scene seeing no reason for to even listen to them talk about his adoptive father and brother like that.
If you think running away will solve your problems you're dead wrong it'll only prove them right you know the truth though and it's what they keep saying the voice said causing Rin to yell "get out of my head! Whatever anyone says the people close to me aren't bad people they just make bad decisions that is all but I'll still try to protect them no matter what" is what Rin yelled as he entered an ally not far from the street where the car used to be. Yeah your right they just want you gone like everyone else why else would they be kind to you one moment but not care the next? The voice said surprising Yukio and the others with what it said "you're using almost the same words as the others, family, friend or lover?" Rin asked with ragged breathing surprising the group with the question.
Family, she was my grandmother the voice said sadly "why are you sad? Not like she's actually dead or is she and you just want to make my life even more unbearable?" Rin asked dryly as a sound like a vase shattering made the exorcists jump even Izumo who doesn't show fear as often as others. "What was that?" Konekomaru asked even though he already knew the answer "a wall" was all that Mephisto had to say to make the exorcists deathly silent as the memory continued.
There's no reason for me to make your life unbearable since it already is but you are the one that makes it that way was the last thing the voice said before the memory started to fade though it wasn't the last thing the exorcists heard before the memory fully dissipated, no the last thing they heard was Rin saying that it was true but that would be no reason to kill himself the only way he would is if someone made a promise they said they wouldn't break but did anyway. What Rin had said surprised the exorcists since he didn't try to kill himself then or at least to their knowledge which caused them all to feel even more ashamed for not treating him as Rin since they realized too late that the only thing that changed was them knowing Rins secret, Rin himself did not change only they did for puerile reasons.
"Now what was the next memory students?" Mephisto asked the exorcists even though he already knew the answer he just wanted to see who would remember "that would be when he entered the classroom as an exorcist" Shima said in a low and confused voice because they were there when he entered the classroom. "Yes we were there but we don't know what he was thinking then you idiot" Izumo said in an irritated voice because she could tell he was confused about that since it was clearly written on his face "oh ok" Shima said shrinking a bit from Izumos agitated state.
Just then the void shattered into pieces to reveal Rin walking into the door of the classroom though they were in their own bodies instead of spectating outside their bodies which was new to them not like being spectators to Rins past was anymore new to them but they were slowly getting used to that part. "Oh please no" a voice echoed throughout the room but they knew it was Rins, the exorcists remembered this day very clearly but what they didn't sense like they did now was the fear that Rin felt they now knew the reason for it because back then almost all of them thought it was from being stared at was making him uncomfortable.
They knew why he acted the way he did around them it was because he recognized them from when he was a lot younger, "why them, why does it have to be them, I know they were illusions back then but I know they don't like me or at least won't like me when they find out" the voice echoed again causing the exorcists to remember what their dream selves had told him so long ago. "I wonder why they're exorcists though, I might not know much about them other than what I learned from long ago but I do know it wasn't very good if the illusions were like they were" the voice echoed again but sadly as Rin walked into the room to take a seat with who the exorcists thought was Mephisto in his dog form and they were correct in that assumption since it started talking in Mephistos voice.
In an instant the room dissipated to leave a different memory in its place it was a dark alley this time which surprised the exorcists a bit since the memories didn't do this often if not at all "what just happened?" Shima asked the look of astonishment clear as he uttered the words. "This is Rins other memory I said I had to show you though I didn't make it do this and I'm not quite sure Rin knows this either" Mephisto said inspecting the memory as if there was danger around the corner "Rin!" someone sang in a sing song voice surprising the exorcists in the process.
"What is it that you want? I'm going to be late getting home" Rin asked/said very irritated as the exorcists observed "oh I just heard from a friend of a friend that your brother is going to be attending the same school as myself and my friends so I was wondering what it would cost you?" the boy asked still in a sing song voice that made Rin scowl at him. "I don't need money, I'll keep quiet about you causing innocent animals and people trouble just as long as you stop doing it" Rin said never losing his scowl "are you sure? Because I know your monastery and priest Fugimoto are quite poor so the monastery might not stay where it is for very long" the boy said looking at Rin without moving his head as his right side faced where Rin was at.
"The old man should be fine as well as the monastery I may not be able to help with the financial problems but at least I'm trying, the monastery and myself don't take pity money so I'll be going now" Rin had said turning his back but still alert as the boy got a little more than irritated and tried to punch Rin with his back turned, but Rin saw it coming and dodged it but he wasn't able to dodge the other two as they cornered him. "Good you're restrained… now I can get you to listen" the boy laughed demonically after he uttered the sentence, he then turned to a fire that no one not even the people the exorcists were watching noticed and grabbed a bladed metal bo staff that again no one even noticed until the boy put it in the fire making it burn red showing that it was at burning temperature.
"Reiji I don't think that's a good idea I mean if you go too far we could get arrested…" the kid wasn't able to finish as the kid named Reiji threatened to do what he was about to do to Rin "that isn't normal fire is it?" Rin asked softly making the exorcists snap their heads in Rins direction for his assumption. "No it's not good eye Rin if you get burned with this no Gehenna plants can heal you and you can't even heal yourself either" Reiji said making the exorcists very confused "Astaroth are you sure father will like this? I mean I am his son after all and your brother" Rin asked/said making Astaroth show himself though it surprised the exorcists especially Yukio that he knew that.
"No I'm sure he won't but oh well" Astaroth said making a shrugging motion as he said it and after he did he torn Rins shirt and slashed Rins skin leaving an everlasting burn causing the exorcists to either close their eyes, turn away or do both plugging their ears so they wouldn't hear the scream that Rin would cause out of pain though to their surprise it didn't cross their ears like they thought it would. Because of that oddity they looked back to where Rin was and he seemed to have not been in any pain though there was a burn around an open wound that seemed to start closing though it didn't close all the way "wow I wonder what you'll do if I go after Yukio if you don't seem to mind pain" Astaroth said with a saddened expression for not getting what he wanted.
"He is way to strange he must be the demon everyone keeps rumoring about" the kid on the right said in a scared tone as he let go of Rins arm before Rin was able to even respond to Astaroth "yeah lets go" the other said hurriedly letting go of Rins left arm as Rin seem to burst into a fit of blue flames "you are him the one with Satans azure flames" Astaroth breathed as Rin whispered "I guess I am so father was right and everyone else to" was what Rin had whispered causing everyone to gasp. (Continues like anime until Reiji collapses) "He's all right don't worry Astaroth is gone from him is all" Fujimoto said smiling a small smile as Rin got up from where he was sitting on the ground "guess I awakened huh?" Rin said much to Fujimotos unhindered surprise "yes you did now we got to get you back to the monastery and keep you safe there until morning so the demons will disappear" Fujimoto said as he grabbed Rins arm and pulled him out of the alley.
"You're wrong about Astaroth disappearing he's gonna come back into Reiji those two are way to alike in their soul and mind" Rins voice echoed through the alley as he was being dragged away by Fujimoto who knew not what Rin had said "so he knew even back then?" Yukio asked sighing after he did. "Yes he did know he knew because our father gave him a book on demonic flora when he was younger in fact that black weaved basket he had with him was the basket he carried the flora in" Mephisto said surprising the exorcists as they saw about half a dozen flowers falling out of the basket before the scene of the alley disappeared and they saw the black void but had green glow in the dark leaves as a pattern now.
"What the Gehenna is with all these changes?" Suguro exclaimed sounding very angry with all the changes "probably because the last memory I'm gonna show you will take place in a forest" Mephisto said sounding a little exasperated because he already explained what the changes were probably about a little while ago. "Thank you I don't think I could handle many more memories" Yukio said sadly with his head slightly down "same with me Yukio Rins a very nice person even when he lost control he was so close to hurting us but he stopped a few feet away from me before he collapsed, and it was our fault for not trusting him and mine for not being able to fight off Amaimons power over me" Sheimi said sadly as a memory started to play but they weren't in a forest when it happened.
"Why would we believe a word that you would ever say, you're a demon nothing more than a lying demon who loves to twist people's emotions to get what you want" a voice sounding very familiar said before two ear drum shattering noises were heard echoing throughout the classroom making the exorcists including Mephisto cover their ears because of how loud the sound was. "I remember this day" Yukio said as he watched himself enter the room and place books on his desk "Rin why aren't you sitting down in your seat? Sit down so I can start my lesson" everyone heard as they saw Yukios' past self set down a stack of books on his desk.
"Sorry Yukio but I'm leaving, start without me" they heard Rin say but they just now noticed it didn't sound close to human as he said it, they saw him get up from the desk with a sort of dead look in his eyes that no one noticed back then or at least to the exorcists knowledge anyone noticed. He headed to the door but just as the exorcists remember Yukio stopped them but not like before they heard what Yukio had told him "oh no you don't you're going to stay here and learn" is what he had said that the exorcists didn't hear before and didn't want to because of how it sounded to Rin.
Yukio had once tried to pull Rin into the classroom as they all observed but they noticed he stopped trying when Rin told him to let go so he did and they all saw tears running down Rins face quite slowly for their liking, they all didn't realize how their actions had hurt Rin until they got worried because he was no longer there. After Yukio had let go of Rins arm they felt like they were being pulled right in front of Rin as he walked out they also noticed that he looked around so they did as well to see no one there, just as quickly as they had looked they were moving inhumanly fast without Rin anywhere nearby.
"Where's Rin?" Sheimi asked getting worried that she couldn't see him anymore the others were too, well except for Mephisto of course "he's over there" Mephisto pointed to the wooded area that they didn't know was even there until Mephisto had said that, as soon as they spotted Rin walking into the woods onto a partly paved path they noticed the air had changed a bit from before. "What do you want to be burned back to Gehenna you stupid dog? What do you want?" Rin had asked in the same voice the exorcists barely recognized, when Rin said that the dog started to speak in a voice that sounded close to Rins but a bit more garbled you seem so broken in heart and soul my young prince, you seem to be more demon than human now did you know that? Was what the demon hound had said.
"Why isn't Rin leaving? He just froze in place" Izumo asked seeming very worried since it isn't the Rin she knew from about two years ago or earlier that morning, "did you not hear what the Gehenna hound said?" Mephisto asked very sad because he's seeing what made Rin want to leave. "That's Gehenna of an excuse" Suguro said before Rin spoke "what are you talking about I'm human not demon" was what Rin said making the exorcists look at him since it didn't sound like the truth at the moment with how his voice was.
You're even sounding more like a demon, you should go to your father's side, he can make you forget your pain the Gehenna hound said smirking slightly or at least what looked like a smile to the exorcists, the Gehenna hound took a step forward as he said it so the exorcists looked at Rin to see what he would do. They expected him to take a step back but he didn't he just stood like he was frozen in place but he didn't seem scared at all "that's just like Rin, never backing down from a demon" Yukio said but he somehow doubted that that was the case.
"He's not at all himself or at least the one you know him as, all the memories and thoughts all of you have heard in previous memories are the real Rin and he's the real Rin right now" Mephisto said causing the exorcists to look at him then at Rin to Mephisto again, they were confused since they weren't used to this Rin not moving towards or from something. "How is this Rin?" Yukio asked a little louder than was necessary "from how his past treated him though if you don't remember he basically said that he tries to protect people, even though all the people he has tried to save were just memories he realized that way before the suicide illusion he still tried to save them anyway, that's the real Rin but so is the person that is in front of you right now" Mephisto said gesturing towards Rin as he said the last part.
"And how could he make me forget the pain?" they heard Rin ask the Gehenna hound making them look at him am I really giving this some thought, I mean seriously I know I'm broken but still why? They heard the voice of the old Rin echo throughout the forest as they watched Rin stare at the Gehennna hound. You could become full demon instead of half demon, you could forget everything your 'friends' have done to you because you wouldn't have any memories of them, my young prince they heard the Gehenna hound say though were slightly startled by what they felt from Rin.
They felt loneliness, regret and sadness, they knew it was from Rin because of what the Gehenna hound had said "why is he feeling this way? What does he have to regret?" Sheimi asked in a sad tone "loneliness when you guys treated him how you did, regret for trying to save all of you with his powers and for hoping but knowing it wouldn't be true that all of you would keep your promise" Mephisto said sadly as he looked Rin over. "How would I become full demon? I'd rather forget than live in solitary again" Rin said causing the exorcists to jolt their heads up in surprise, "I guess that's why Rin chose to leave" Yukio said dejectedly after he jolted his head up.
You'd have to be executed by the Grigori to become full demon my prince as well as entering the door of demons instead of heaven, if you enter the door of heaven you'll become an angel with every memory you ever had of being called a demon and every memory since then, it's more a Gehenna than Gehenna itself for half demons the demon said causing the exorcists to gasp from what it had said. "Is that why that idiot chose to become a demon? That's just stupid" Suguro said angrily before he huffed in annoyance "it's not stupid Suguro, its Rin" Mephisto said with a serious like expression on startling the exorcists a bit "no one here back then except Izumo were treating him as you always do, you never kept your promise, you said the same thing someone from his past did, etc." Mephisto had continued quite agitated that the exorcists haven't seen what their actions have driven Rin to do.
Though the one thing I don't know, my prince is how you're gonna contact the Grigori to get to the execution if you choose that route instead of talking to everyone like a human would they had heard the demon hound say, so as a result they looked toward Rin to see his reaction to the demons words and what they saw and heard what they should've expected but didn't. Rin was smirking and he had said something that hurt his demon brother a lot even if it was what he had said "how else? I'm going to contact my brother to ask the Grigori for such a task, he would love to see such a sight, it would be like a movie for him" though the only difference for Mephisto was it wasn't a movie and it was not a sight to see in the least.
After Rin had said what he did and the hound walked off he started walking in the opposite direction of his shared dorm making the exorcists wonder what he was up to "Mephisto where's Rin off to?" Shima said confusion evident on his face as he said the words everyone was thinking of asking. "He's headed to my office as he had said earlier, and it seems this is all you're supposed to see since the barrier is breaking apart" Mephisto answered looking around in a daze like state, the memories finally getting to him as the barrier that shielded them from the outside world collapsed.
A/N: Hi I hope you like this it's over 9,000 words I think but without the author notes it's 8,853 words, a lot longer than the other chapters which are in the 5,000 area. I think the longest memory is the homicide one with the 'Texan Killer' idiotic name I know, which when he said something close to the killings taking too long that was when I started getting bored with the memory to where I was close to falling asleep. None the less I hope you like this chapter and story, it's my most popular other than Family Nightmares which I think viewers hate though I don't mind that, all the chapters of my stories get less and less views as the story progresses. with this story it would go from above 100 to about 20 less than 100, so sorry if my stories get boring as it progresses I don't mean them to be, anyway those who've kept reading thank you so much it means a lot.