So, I'm back again with a new chapter! Thanks for all the reviews and love for this story. There hasn't been a lot of people voting on the poll, so I'm still going to leave it up. Keep voting, so I can decide where this story's going to go. Sorry for not updating for so long, so much school work with finals and AP tests, I have summer school as well T^T. Well, here's the next chapter and I hope you guys enjoy! I DO NOT OWN BLUE EXORCIST AND ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE AUTHORS AND CREATORS OF THIS STORY!

Chapter 23

When they arrived in Kyoto, Rin took Yukiko sightseeing instead of going to the temple with the exwires and exorcists.

"Where do you want to go?"

"I want to go to Tokyo Tower."

"Okay, lets go."

"Don't we have to help the others at the temple?"

"It's not going to hurt if we just go sightseeing for a while."

"Rin..."

"What?"

"You can't avoid talking to them forever, so lets go back."

"Fine."

"We can all come back to the Tokyo Tower after this mission okay?"

Rin and Yukiko arrived at a hectic temple with everyone running up and down everywhere. They were tending to the wounded and taking care of other chores around the temple. Rin had noticed all the wards and the multiple demon repelling sutras, though he was a half demon it still made him uncomfortable inside the temple. He really didn't care about getting to know the members of the temple, because once they found out what he really was they would probably not welcome him. They were victims of the Blue Night and the Kyoto group hated his guts for it because he was the Son of Satan himself. Rin with Yukiko and Kuro walked thorough all of the chaos, noticing one of the rooms in the back isolated with all of the other rooms. There was one kid however, who was at near death from the miasma and unlike the adults it was horrible. They found no way to save the boy, ,only pray for a miracle, and he noticed that there was one man that sat there praying for the boy. Rin stared at the man, assuming it was Suguro's father because he had the robes of a high priest.

"Your miracles aren't coming through prayer, priest."

Why do you say that young man?"

"There are no miracles."

"If you pray hard enough, your prayer will be answered. Anyone can be saved. You're Bon's friend right?"

"I wouldn't say friend, just a classmate."

"You must be an exorcist too. Tell me, why do you think our prayers won't be answered?"

"I've prayed my whole life and none of my prayers have been answered. Your so called god, couldn't even save a half demon like me."

Rin got near the boy and put his hand on the little boy's chest, soon blue flames spread across the small body, clearing the miasma.

"Y-You...!"

"Don't worry, I just cleared the miasma he should be okay."

"Those blue flames... those are Satan's flames."

"Yeah... why are you scared priest?"

"..."

"It's not a big deal if you're scared. I'm used to it."

"W-Why did you do that then?"

"Well, because I wanted to return this to you."

Rin took out the broken Kurikara with it's sheathe.

"This is Kurikara! The sword that I gave to Fujimoto all those years ago."

"Yeah, I wanted to return this to you because I have no use for it anymore."

"You know Fujimoto?"

"Yeah, he was my father for fifteen years."

"How's he doing?"

"He's dead."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"It's fine."

"What happened to it?"

"The sword had my flames encased within it, but it recently broke and my flames returned to me."

"There's no way to fix this sword, the metal used for it are all gone."

I didn't expect it to be fixed, I just wanted to return it."

Rin stood up and walked out of the room, and looked for Yukiko and Kuro. When he found them, he sat down and watched them play in the backyard, lazing around. There was suddenly a large ruckus at the basement of the temple, curious Rin walked over towards the large crowd to see what happened. With Yukiko and Kuro trailing behind, he saw Suguro and his father arguing.

"Don't you do anythin' rash," Shura whispered to Rin who stood right behind him.

"Ryuji..."

"Pops is what Mamushi said about you betraying us true?!"

"Of-Of course not."

"In that case with everyone here present as witnesses, right now tell us the truth!"

"The truth? That's a 'secret'. That's a 'secret' I can't even share with you my son. Really wish I could just bring it with me to my grave if I could, you know?"

"What are you talking about in a situation like this?"

"Anyway, this isn't the time for that. We've got to chase after Mamushi. Ryuji be good and listen to what your mom and teachers tell you, okay?"

"DON'T YOU BE ACTIN' ALL FATHERLY!"

Rin scowled seeing this scene which was so much like when he had yelled at Shiro the day he died to never act like his father ever again because he had thought that his father didn't care for him because he was the Spawn of Satan. How wrong he had been and to this day he regrets ever saying that to him, leaving that as his final words to him because he had died just after that. It was all because of him and telling him those words that weakened him, letting Satan to take over his body. Rin clenched his hands into fists, Yukiko watching him worriedly.

"Ryuji."

"If you're going to brush this off without saying anything, I'll never acknowledge you as my father till the day I die!"

"Now I must go. Please pardon me."

Rin steps in trying to cool his anger down, pulling the priest back towards Suguro.

"Hold it."

"Okamura!"

"Why are you walking away?"

"Aren't you Suguro's dad?" Rin turns to Suguro, "And you Suguro, you bastard!"

Rin punched Suguro really hard on the face, causing him to fly back into the crowd of priests.

"What the..."

"I don't know the details but I'll say this, because I know you're going to regret it later if I don't. Apologize to your dad! Do it while you can!"

"This has nothing to do with you! Just shut the hell up!"

"Don't cut off your father nonchalantly!"

"I don't want to be told by you! Not by you who said he'd defeat Satan...!"

"Now, now, Okumura-kun, Ryuji. Let's shake hands and make up okay?"

"You can just go wherever the hell you like! Don't you dare come back!"

Rin was so close to bursting into flames, his blood was boiling.

"You don't even know anything so why don't you just shut up and listen to me for a change!"

Suguro was puzzled slightly at the seriousness of Rin, the usually goofy and cheerful demon has never looked so serious in his whole life. Still, he was in rage and snapped back.

"Oh, I don't know anything? More like you don't Okumura! Your father is the Demon King so I don't know how you understand!"

That one phrase set a whole row of events to start, and Rin burst into blue flames, charging towards Suguro. The crowd of priests were surprised, whispering among themselves mentioning demon and Son of Satan. Rin scowled as Yukiko came to his side with Kuro as if they were trying to protect him from the others.

Okay, this is what I got so far... sorry for the long break I didn't really have the time to update and I'm trying to wrap this story up because I want to write another story. Well, hope you guys enjoyed it and please leave a review! ^^ Thanks.