A/N: Hello so sorry for how late this is, and I am very sorry for the many spelling mistakes in the last chapter and quite possibly this one. Rin is really out of character in this chapter so sorry about that. I hope you enjoy and again sorry for this being so late I didn't know how to start the memory scenes or how they would go after the first one.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ao no Exorcist/Blue Exorcist if I did it would be horrible.
Chapter Five: The Choked and The Busy
"Acheyon! Come out come out wherever you are" I sang as I saw a flash of red, brown, and black pass down the street and into an alley way "why Rin? Aren't you just gonna kill me if I come out?" he asked as he peeked his head slightly outside the entrance of the alleyway he entered. "That would be depending, since I could just have you tortured instead of have you killed, I've done it before" I said staring at him as I shrugged and hoped father isn't listening in on our conversation.
"I'd rather have the torture, but where would I go so Satan, your father, won't find me?" he asked seeming a bit scared of my father, I wouldn't have blamed him two years ago but I just feel bad for father now since he isn't that bad when he's the king of Gehenna. "Could just do the same thing I normally do, what are you the demon of again?" I asked him he seems a bit confused by my question and I don't blame him since many demons were the same when I asked that.
"Umm I'm the demon of despair and agony" he said seeming a bit scared to answer "ok that means you'll be a doctor greenman" I said thinking about it a bit before I actually answered. "What do you mean my prince?" he asked me cocking his head to the left in question "just like with others I turn them into the demon that are the opposite of themselves after a few years sometimes months, weeks or days if they're lucky they get so used to it they forget what demon they were before I turned them" I said reciting the same speech I gave to about twenty or more other demons before today.
"Ok so why would I be a doctor greenman?" he asked seeming to still be confused "ok I'll explain further, a doctor greenman helps other greenman who are in agony sometimes despair since psychologists are considered doctors who help people in despair or whatever. That is why, you're the demon of despair and agony so you feed on it and dwell on it but as a doctor greenman you will have to stop that instead of keep it going, see what I mean now?" I asked him hoping he gets it now.
"Yes I do, but will it get me away from your father?" he asked again and I groaned 'I just said it would did I not? I mean seriously' I thought after he said it. "Yes you will get away from my father" I said for hopefully the last time "ok then I will become a doctor greenman, just tell me what to do" he said fully coming out from the alleyway.
'Finally' I thought as I grabbed out a vile and clicked the up button until it said 'greenman', I selected it and another scroll came up, I scrolled down and came across the one I was looking for and clicked the 'doctor' button. "Here drink this" I said handing him the blood red vile "what's this?" he asked making me roll my eyes "read the label" I said pointing to the Greenman Doctor label.
'I love demonic technology' I said in my head as he took a drink of the vile and evergreen smoke appeared where he was standing before the evergreen liquid entered his bloodstream. I grabbed the vile before it could fall to the ground and shatter "that was close" I said under my breath when the vile almost hit the ground.
"Rin is that you?" I heard a voice say from behind me "depending on who is speaking" I said already knowing who it was. "Rin what the Gehenna are you doing in this stupid alley in this lame ghost town" Shura yelled from behind me as I lifted up Acheyon to bring him to a nearby Greenman village.
"I'm bringing Acheyon to a nearby Greenman village in hopefully the next..." I paused to look at my azure Gehenna watch, when I raised it up to see that it was 5:28 before I finished my sentence "twelve minutes" I said putting the vile back in my black leather carrier pouch. I started walking to the forest after that hoping that Shura wouldn't follow me, unsurprisingly she was but did not talk which was surprising to me.
"Here we are Acheyon" I said before I bent down and pressed a small button on a silver tinted stone "Gary it's me" I said into the speaker that appeared in the stone after I pressed the button. "That's great Rin who do you have this time and for what?" Gary asked me through the speaker "Acheyon, he's willing to become a greenman doctor as long as Satan doesn't find him since father scares him too much" I said laughing lightly.
"Ok good you can come in it may be a bit small though" Gary answered laughing, a belly laugh "yes I know Gary" I said smiling. "Who's Gary?" Shura asked me "oh Gary forgot to ask if Shura can come as well?" I asked to which he answered with a laugh and a yes, "come on Shura if you want to meet him" I said as I walked through a tree earning a gasp from Shura which surprised me since I never heard Shura gasp from surprise before. As I dissolved into the tree I was greeted by a lot of little greenman "hello Rin who have you brought this time?" a female toddler greenman asked before Shura dissolved into the tree as well "it's Acheyon but he won't bite, right Acheyon?" I asked glaring at him he gulped and the other greenman laughed.
I put Acheyon down on the ground after Shura came through the wall and gasped again from surprise "why are you so surprised all of a sudden Shura? I mean seriously this can't be that much of a surprise" I said walking towards the small tree like building that houses Gary and his family. "I'm not surprised I'm just..." seems she couldn't find the word "oh well come on you want to know who Gary is right?" I asked as I kept walking making sure to be careful of the small greenman, "yes which who is he anyway? The owner of this village or something?" she asked she was so close to the answer but I don't want to give anything away about who he is to her.
I kept walking until I reached the small tree, I bent down "Gary it's me! Acheyon is with Jessy and the other girls I brought Shura with me as well" I said as I knocked lightly on the door of Gary's home "ok I'm coming Rin, Mary, Maya, Nick come here I want you to meet someone!" I heard Gary call to his family. "Mary, Maya, Nick this is Rin he saved our village awhile back when he became a demon" he introduced me "hello Mary, Maya, and Nick this is Shura, she was my friend I think it was when I was human, and I'm not that much of a hero just a rarity" I said hopefully clearing things up a bit for the young greenman and the middle aged female named Mary.
"Don't be so modest Rin, you're the one that saved this village from a salamander not that long ago, why don't you come in for a while so we can meet your friend or ex-friend as you keep saying to everyone but your soul and heart know It's not true, right?" Gary asked me with a raised eyebrow in question. "Yes they're still my friends in my mental world but that is all it will ever be, now what is it you wanted to speak to me about anyway?" I asked in a tone that could be mistaken as a diplomatic one and probably is but I wouldn't really know being in isolation at the end of the day which was really strange for me to do without speaking to people.
"Is that how you always speak to demons Rin?" I heard Shura ask which confused me a bit since I didn't think I was speaking differently, but I did figure I was as well "I do speak to Demons in Gehenna slightly politically when there's a meeting discussing war on Assiah but that's it, here I only do when there's a high ranking demon in a village whose part of a kind race like this one" I said gesturing to Gary and his family. "Oh right these are demons" I heard Shura say as I turned around to see that she was looking around Gary's home and towards Gary, Maya, Mary and Nick, I smiled at Shura making her stare at me and for some reason I made her embarrassed.
I looked at my watch again to see I was half an hour late to Gehenna "sorry everyone but I have to leave for home" I said shaking Gary's small hand as a farewell. "Goodbye Rin I hope you visit us again soon… could you tell us who Acheyon is again so we know who he is?" I heard Mary say which made me feel stupid for forgetting such a thing. "Of course sorry about that, he's a Greenman Doctor with reddish leaf hair on his head and reddish black eyes" I said before I left their home and through the portal to head home.
Shuras POV
"Rin what are you doing?" I yelled trying to get his attention but it didn't seem to work as he stepped into the gate that I didn't even know was there in the first place 'how did he even make that? I thought only Satan knew how to do that, then how did Rin?' I thought as the gate disappeared from view. "I might as well tell Yukio and the others if they want that is" I said aloud in front of where the gate used to be, I started walking to the nearest holy area and inserted a key to the academy into the doors lock.
"Hey Shura where have you been?" a familiar voice called as I entered the hallway from the portal "hello Yukio, I was going to inform you once I found you" I said smiling even though what I was going to tell him isn't really that good of news. "Really that's why I've been looking for you as well" I heard him say when I looked towards him, he had as serious facial expression on and that sort of scared me a little since I haven't seen him like that in a long while.
"Ok where would you like to speak?" I asked him not knowing if I should be worried or not for how he's acting now "in my classroom, my students have witnessed the same thing I've had and have the same questions as well" I heard him say and that worried me even more. I followed him to his classroom to see all the students sitting in only two rows even though the desks can't fit that many people 'this can't be good' I thought as I witnessed that and my worry only increased as I saw their facial expressions that were very scary, even for them.
"We saw Rin earlier as well as Satan and we were wondering if you know about Rins past having to do with us?" all the exwires said surprising me again since I wasn't sure they even knew anything about that, I didn't even know about that till a week after the incident at the campsite. "About him reliving your dreams but they were more or less twisted because of your hatred towards demons?" I asked them unknowing how they'd react or that Mephisto was listening in on us.
"Yes, when did you find that out?" I heard Suguro ask seeming angry and sad at the same time "I found out a week after the camping trip, I was surprised when I found out that Yukio tried to kill his brother not once but four times while he was asleep" I said not realizing that Yukio and the others didn't believe or know that part. "I thought Rin was lying when he said that, I didn't know it was true" I heard Shima say before Yukio said that it can't be true, right then I realized I made a mistake in saying that because Mephisto popped in saying that he could show us the truth.
"I don't trust you with that Mephisto, that's worse than when Satan does it and Satans sorry after he does" I said unsure why I said it, I felt that what I just said was true but the words sounded foreign on my tongue because I was being nice to a demon. "What was that about Shura? He's not sorry about what he does to Rin he's just using Rin so he can have an heir" I heard Suguro say in an irritated tone though I'm pretty sure he knows it isn't true. "If that's true then why hasn't Rin left yet? And why would Satan be so kind as to stop when Rin asked him to and apologize after?" Shima asked his friend who I think realized was telling the truth.
"Sorry I just don't get it, why is Rin staying with Satan when he doesn't even like him?" Suguro said hanging his head low, I feel bad for him not knowing what is going on in Rins head even though they were shown his past. "Do you want to see Rins past again or no?" Mephisto said smiling but he sounded sad and irritated at the same time which made me change my mind again, remembering how he acted when he showed me Rins execution. "Fine you can show them but I wouldn't recommend it to them" I said unsure whether Rin will feel it or not which would cause him more pain then he is already in.
"So yes or no for the third time?" he asked still seeming irritated "yes" everyone but Yukio and I answered, which barely surprised me since I don't think he would want to see himself choke his brother close to death. Pink smoke surrounded us and started sparkling like it was a barrier from a fantasy show which seemed to surprise everyone in the room, except for myself that is. "Where's the other one Mephisto? What happened to the void?" Suguro asked as everyone looked around at the new surroundings "oh that… well this one is different as it isn't a memory caused by a dream or hatred and because Shura just saw him recently, whether it makes sense or not it's true" Mephisto answered causing the others to ask me questions.
"When did you speak to Rin? And what happened when you did?" Suguro asked a little angry but I sensed it was because he was worried "umm earlier before I exited the portal to get here, I was going to tell you if Yukio wanted me to but he told me to come with him so all of you could ask me something" I said sweat dropping because I was being crowded with questions. "What was he doing when you were with him?" Shima asked this time which surprised me since he didn't ask Suguro for permission before speaking like he seems to always do before asking/doing anything.
"He turned a demon into a greenman and then he took him to a village he saved when he was first turned into one" I said not sure that they'll believe me when I said it, just then the scenery changed from sparkly pink and fluffy to dark and gloomy it was then that I realized the memory started. "What just happened?" Konekomaru asked seeming surprised by the sudden change of scenery "I remember this or at least most of this time, I don't remember anything except opening my eyes after a nightmare because I was being woken up by my brother who had bandages all around his neck and upper body" Yukio said looking around the room for whatever reason.
"You should, any memory you have gaps in are the memories that you tried to kill your brother" Izumo said which surprised me and everyone else as well "how do you know that?" I asked with Mephisto at the same time. "Because it's an observation, anyone can guess that after hearing Yukio say what he did and knowing the reason we're here in the first place" she said closing her eyes and turning her head to the right as she huffed in annoyance after her explanation.
Third person POV
"Ahhhhh!" someone screeched though no one within the group did so they all looked around the room they were in seeing something they wished they hadn't, the exwires saw Rin covered in blue flames and sweat with his face contorted in fear and pain. How Rin looked made everyone look away but what had everyone gasp was seeing Yukio half awake and staggering towards Rin, though it seemed everyone didn't think it was for anything good and they were correct since Yukio bent down and placed his hands around Rins neck pushing him into the mattress in the process only causing Rin to thrash about.
All the ruckus from their room seemed to have woken everyone who inhabited the monastery because the door flung open right when Rin woke up with more fear on his face when realization struck him, his brother was chocking him for a reason he didn't know. "Yukio what are you doing? Get off of Rin" Shiro yelled grabbing his son and trying to pull him off as gently as he could without harming him.
"We'll get him Fugimoto, just see to Rin" one of the exorcists said that no one but Yukio and Mephisto recognized as Izumi "alright" the one they already knew as Fugimoto said as he got in front of Yukio to get Rin away from him. "Hey Rin are you alright?" the ex-wires heard Fugimoto say as he walked and took a shaking Rin out of the room, it took a while for Rin to realize that he wasn't being choked by Yukio but when he realized this he started crying wondering why his brother would do that half asleep.
"I'm fine old man but why would Yukio do that?" Rin asked seeing the pain on his adoptive fathers face, the ex-wires noticed this too "it's not that he doesn't like you Rin, he has never disliked you so please don't think that" Shiro said surprising the ex-wires and Yukio. "I know that isn't true but I'll still protect him anyway" Rin said very low but everyone except the monks and priest heard him.
At that moment the scene changed and this time the pink void was back sparkling like these memories were good instead of unfathomable "now for the next though as I said before these will be memories of Yukio choking Rin" Mephisto said making Yukio flinch because he forgot about the times that he choked his brother. "Here comes another" Konekomaru said and everyone looked up from the ground to see the barrier of fluffy pink slowly disappearing "Stupid old man" a raven haired sapphire eyed boy said as a young man was cleaning his hands.
"Why this one? I was trying to help him how'd I'd end up choking him?" Yukio said covering his face in his hands "what do you mean?" Suguro asked finally speaking again after a little more than half an hour. "When are you starting school Yukio?" Rin asked and everyone watched as Rin flinched when Yukio continued cleaning his hands "very soon Rin, I'll be joining True Cross" Yukio answered making Rin gawk at him.
"An elite school huh? You are so lucky! I wish I was that smart" Rin said before he continued surprising the ex-wires "I'm so envious and proud that my brother is so smart" Rin finished. "You could be smart if you applied yourself more Rin" Yukio said with a sad smile "I do apply myself, I'm just a contrast to your smarts" Rin said making both Yukios frown from it.
"Oh there you are" the ex-wires heard someone say and they looked to where the voice came from to see a monk they saw in the last memory "what is this?" Rin asked as he caught a white box which confused him. "It's a suit for the interview" the monk said and he nodded solemnly "I never said I was going to it you know" Rin said and everyone gawked at him for the statement before they turned to Shiro who spoke.
"When you pass you can make Takuyaki for dinner" is what they heard him say and Rin had snapped his head to Fugimoto "with meat old man!" Rin said excitedly before there was a thud and they saw Yukio passed out on the ground. "Yukio are you okay?" Rin asked and you could tell he was afraid but not from just his brother unconscious, they saw Yukio raise with an inhuman force and him run towards Rin grabbing the dark blue almost black tie in the process.
"Yukio stop!" Fugimoto said as they all saw Yukio wrap the tie around Rins' neck though not to tie it for him, all the monks tried to get Yukio off Rin until another monk came in. "Priest Fugimoto let us take care of it you have a visitor" the monk who just entered said and Fugimoto reluctantly agreed leaving the room while the rest tried to get Yukio off of Rin.
"Why is Yukio so violent to Rin?" Sheimi asked though she still liked Yukio regardless of what he did, even if it was terrible in her opinion "it's Yukios' demonic side, despite Rin having the blue flames Yukio just hasn't awakened yet" Mephisto said making Yukio look at him. "I thought I just couldn't awaken" Yukio said and Mephisto let out a dry laugh at it "you are just very dense, why else would you have survived with just a mark of a demon?" Mephisto said and Yukios eyes widened in realization.
There was another thud and they saw Yukio on the ground again as well as Rin gasping for air this time knowing that it was Yukios' demonic side "how can I protect Yukio from himself? Do I just leave him and hope it helps?" the ex-wires heard him say and it confused and shocked them. "So Rin thinks leaving is the best solution?" Izumo said sadly as the scene disappeared and the barrier was back up sparkling a black and purple color instead of a blinding white color.
"You'll see why in the last memories because that is where Rin first believes that is the best option" Mephisto says as the barrier turned a very dark color like with the homicide. This time the memory was placed in the public part of the chapel "stop pretending to be my father, stop lying about who my father actually is" they heard Rin say before a scream was heard.
At this Rin turned around and saw the changes his father made on the old man "hey son how've ya been? It's been so long since I've seen ya" a gargled voice said and Rin stumbled back before he hit a wall. "Don't be so scared, I know you don't like this form especially since it's the one who has taken care of you but don't treat me like the enemy" the gargled voice continued as a tear fell down Rins right eye.
"I'd like you to come of your own free will but forced is good enough" Satan said making everyone look away but Shima and Konekomaru back away as blue flames licked the ground and Shiros' blood formed a gate with burnt sienna heads floating in it. Satan walked around to where Rin had looked at the portal and pushed Rin in as Rin saw the mirror that showed his demonic features it scared him a lot and at that moment Shiro decided to make an appearance.
"Whether you're his father or not isn't the problem here, Rin is my son now not yours and I will do whatever it takes to keep him from seeing the real you" Shiro said as he stabbed his own heart with his cross necklace. "Please stop this old man, it isn't worth it" they all heard Rin yell making them look at him as he grabbed and unsheathed his sword and slashing the gate making it shatter.
"Old man are you alright please stay with me Yukio will hate me if you leave" Rin said and no one liked to hear that especially Yukio since he didn't like Rin for what he did until Rin died and he saw what had happened. "Yukio can't hate you Rin that's impossible for him" Shiro said "I love you Rin, this isn't your fault not even close" Shiro finished and before he died he heard Rin say that loved him which caused him to die with a smile on his face.
"Rin what did you do!" everyone heard someone yell as the door slammed open revealing Yukio who seemed very angry at the moment contrary to what Yukio remembered from that day "I'm sorry Yukio, it's my fault this happened" Rin said in a broken voice everyone had observed. Yukio 'stalked' towards Rin and grabbed him by the collar of the bloody suit he had on forcefully pulling up "why didn't you stop that from happening you could've done something before he risked his life for your worthless one" Yukio yelled and the others were shocked by the words including Yukio.
At those words though Yukio raised his hands to Rins neck and put some force behind said hands in a bruising grip causing Rin to try and fail to gasp in air, after thirty second a few of the monks came in and ran to the duo grabbing Yukio and pulling him off of Rin careful so Yukio won't pull Rins throat with him. "How come I can't remember doing this to him?" Yukio asked and Mephisto sighed before he answered "unless you do this of your own free will you won't remember anything, it was the same for Rin" Mephisto answered as a black void with white stars surrounded them annoying the students again.
"When is this going to be over I didn't entirely mind this until I saw Satan being almost nice to Rin and when he was older but as I child it was very sad even if it was only one memory" Izumo said finally speaking. "There's only two more left Izumo and that's all so it won't be too long until this is over" Shima said stepping closer to Izumo but he wasn't in the mood to get into her personal space.
As soon as that was said the white stars expanded to where everything was a blinding white until it showed the classroom and a fallen vile that was still in one piece on Yukios' table. "Why are you even here?" they heard Yukio ask and they looked to see that a few hobgoblins were appearing from within the walls "is it to avenge fathers' death or for redemption for yourself? If either it would be better to kill yourself" Yukio said surprising the ex-wires and causing Yukio to flinch.
"That wouldn't solve anything, though that would be better for everyone huh?" Rin said in a low voice something which Yukio didn't remember "yes it would and I can help with that right now" Yukio said lunging at Rin and closing his hands around Rins throat. "Yu-Yukio we *gasp* can't do this *gasp* right now" Rin said in between gasps for breath making Yukio stop and Rin to fall down gasping for breath before he noticed his brother was back to normal before answering him.
However his answer is the one thing the ex-wires did not hear because the void was back with a pattern of glowing white swords and a fluffy pink background "I was wondering why I saw bruises on Rins' throat when he opened the door, it was because of Yukio" Suguro said shocking everyone since they didn't notice that till now. "This is going to be the last memory right?" Sheimi asked in a breaking voice since she started crying two memories ago "yes this'll be the last memory Rin has of Yukio choking him" Mephisto said drawing relieved sighs from everyone.
The swords started glowing a blinding white again till the whole barrier was covered before it shattered with a glassy noise making everyone flinch since they knew that sound very well. "Why did you have to lose control like that? Now I have to get everyone to not be scared of you when you should be the one doing that?" Yukio yelled and everyone turned their heads at that including Yukio since he still can't remember the times he tried to kill his brother.
"Why can't I remember this entire part? I don't remember even talking to Rin in a forest" Yukio said as he looked around more so to not watch this "this was two weeks after the camping exercise when you were both asleep, well you were anyway" Mephisto answered and Yukio flinch at that. "I'm sorry Yukio please don't do this again, not again" Rin pleaded breaking many of the ex-wires hearts at the voice Rin used.
"Then make them not be afraid of you instead of me having to fix all your problems" Yukio said and everyone saw that Rin flinched "you saw how Konekomaru acted when I tried to help, he won't listen to anyone and Sheimi didn't tell anyone that the flames didn't hurt her" Rin said as Yukio came closer. "They didn't hurt? Is he telling the truth Sheimi?" Konekomaru asked and Sheimi nodded "I was too surprised to say anything" she answered and they started to watch on guiltily.
"Don't bring Sheimi into this it doesn't matter if they listen to her it matters if they listen to you, so don't put blame on someone who doesn't deserve it!" Yukio yelled walking to Rin and raising his hands to choke him again "doesn't that seem a bit hypocritical in anyone's opinion?" Mephisto asked and everyone looked at the ground again regretfully for their actions. "Yukio that's enough" they heard a new voice say and they looked up towards the voice to see a green hamster on the ground "how can that hamster talk?!" Suguro yelled as Izumo and Sheimi said 'it's so cute' in their own way.
At the voice Yukio passed out and loosed his grip on Rins throat in the process "thank you Amaimon but aren't you supposed to be with Mephisto right now? I don't think he'll be pleased when he finds out" Rin said and everyone looked to Mephisto to see he was indeed very angry at this new development. Just then the memory shattered and they were in the classroom again and hearing Mephisto calling out for Amaimon who appeared in hamster form shaking on the spot.
"I guess I'll have to apologize to Rin if I see him again" Yukio said and everyone nodded that was when Mephisto stopped yelling at Amaimon and said to go to the Greenman Village Shura mentioned because he visits there frequently. They all silently agreed to that and decided to leave to the village in the morning with Shura guiding them there.
A/N: Hello again I hope you liked this chapter and will continue to read it, even though I don't know if you'll like the next chapter for the other reason Rin left I'll still add it to the next chapter which I haven't written yet. Again I hop you like it and continue to read Goodbye and see you next time.