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Chapter 5

Just like the time, back at Cross Academy during the camping trip, his friends found out that he was a demon; not just any demon but the Son of Satan. He could never run from his true identity, the fact that he was the Son of Satan.

"I'm so stupid. Thinking that this time it'll be different, that I'll be able to hide or even erase the fact that I'm the Son of Satan."

He truly believed that he could be a normal human again, that no one would find out that he was a demon. All he wanted was someone really, even if it was only one person. Someone who would look at him for who he was and not what he was, someone who he could lean on when he's suffering. This time it was the same outcome, like time had reversed back to when he was at Cross Academy. He relived through his nightmares, the pain once again.

Their class had a field trip to a shrine in the woods. When they got there, they went into the lodging cabin near the shrine and unpacked their things. The owners of the building cooked the class food, which they happily ate, chatting. Rin was happy, he wasn't able to do these kinds of things with friends around him. These past few weeks, he had a lot of fun with Saki and his new friends, going to new places, and having fun together, something he wasn't able to do when he was alone back at Cross Academy. But on this fateful day, everything seemed to revert back to what it was, as if time just reversed back.

After resting up, they went to the shrine to leave thier offerings and prayers. They then got time to explore around the forest, then had a barbeque outside the cabin. Rin showed off his cooking skills, cooking up delicous food that everyone enjoyed. During the night walk, a test of fear, Rin and his group of friends went through the course like everyone else had as the last group. During the walk to the finish point, all hell broke loose, and everything went wrong. Throughout the course, many of the other students helped by scaring the people going through the course, they had a lot of fun some people in the group getting scared and all. They all laughed as they realized that it was only the students. Finally they reached the endpoint and grabbed the flag they needed to bring back.

"Yeah! We got it! Lets head back now."

"Lets go!"

Happily, the group started to head back to the starting point till low level demons started appearing, playing pranks.

"Hey, is this a new thing they're doing now? We know it's you guys!"

"This isn't props, it's real demons." Rin thought to himself, swearing silently to himself. "There's no way these guys can fend off from them, even if they're low leveled demons."

"Guys, run!"

"What do you mean Rin?"

"I mean it run!"

Rin grabbed onto Saki and started to drag her away from the demons.

"What is it? It's just props?"

"That, is a demon, not props."

"What do you mean? Demons don't exist."

"Yea they do actually."

"How do you know?"

"Cuz first, they're what's chasing us and second, Cross Academy is an academy for not only studying but also to train exorcists to fight against them."

"I mean you can't be sure if they're demons."

"I don't think you want to take that chance."

As they started running across the forest, the swarm of demons were catching up to them and most of the group members started losing the energy to keep running.

"Dammit. None of them can keep running forever."

Rin looked around and found a small area, a brush enough to hide them from danger.

"Hide here, and don't come out."

"What about you Rin?"

"I'm going to get rid of them."

"What do you mean? I mean what can you do that we can't? You'll get yourself killed!"

"I told you that I attended Cross Academy. I trained to be an exorcist, I'm used to these kinds of situations."

"Let us come with you."

"No, you'll just be in the way, and it's dangerous."

Rin ran off to the swarm of demons, unravelling the red covering of his katana and grabbed the familiar handle of the Koma Sword. It was a while since he drew his sword, he had no need for drawing it outside of the academy, but he still kept it near him for times like these. He felt the familiar feeling of his blue flames covering him, reveling his tail, ears and fangs elongated, and his blue eyes mixing with crimson, making it more demon-like. He managed to kill off most of the low level demons from the swarm, but there was still some left. Just as he was going to finish up, he saw the demons attacking his friends that came out of the shrub where they were hiding. Quickly, he ran towards them and managed to kill them, Saki got a spirit wound from the demon just before he killed it. He then saw the same expression of those at Cross Academy, eyes full of fear. He slowly approached them, pained in the inside of having to go through the same nightmare all over again.

"W-What are you? Y-You're a d-demon too aren't you? Are y-you going to kill us like them too?"

"No, it's not like that. I am a demon, but I'm the same person. I'm still the same Okumura Rin."

Rin silently wished to himself for the same thing to not happen, but it was a wish that can never be granted. People always judged from what's on the surface, and not what's on the inside.

"Demon! Get away!"

All he saw now was the same fear present, it was the same like in the past. Just like back at Cross Academy, he didn't belong anywhere. Sadly, he retreated back to the cabin, quickly packing his things and leaving a note.

Rin collapsed on the bed as he reached his small apartment room. Kuro looked at his master in worry.

"Rin? Why are you back so early?"

"I just wanted to come home early."

"Did something happen?"

"It's nothing Kuro. I just want to be alone for a while, please..."

Rin lay there, crying softly to himself. He didn't belong anywhere anymore, he was rejected everywhere he went, for what he was and not who. Everyone looked only at the surface and not what is in the inside. Nightmares of more faces of those he knew, eyes full of fear and avoiding him, emotionally crushing him in the inside. Waking up, he grabbed his violin and to the park where he first performed and played his last song.

The next day, he packed all of his things and decided to isolate and undergo some training in the woods. With Kuro, they went into the woods and there, he master the use of his flames. He also emotionally hardened his heart, bot wanting to face the same feelings again of getting rejected by his friends. Rin now knew that being alone was the best for him and others. Fully embracing his demon and human side altogether, knowing he can't run away the fact that he was half demon and half human. Though his habits of cutting and playing the violin still stayed with him, which helped him cope with all the bottled up feelings, he decided to return to Cross Academy.

Thanks for reading this chapter and hope you liked it... sorry for those who don't like how this story's really going downhill for Rin. Though he's a really happy, comical character always surrounded by others, I wanted to change his character and emphasize on his loneliness.

Rin: dude, I'm some kind of emotionless demon now.

Writer: well, I wanted to change your character. Maybe people will notice and something interesting might happen.

Rin: still, all my new friends are gone, and I'm all alone again.

Writer: technically you still have Kuro

Rin:...