The rest of the week passed with no trouble or irregularities other than Minamino not being haunted by that face or the prophecy. On Sunday he felt the struggle starting to begin again and he knew he would be stuck with it until he went there again. He sighed. It hadn't been the same since the tournament and now it was starting to get worse. He feared that one day he would take over and Minamino wouldn't be able to come back. Monday came and Hinata caught Minamino up on the way to school again.
"Hi, you okay?" Hinata asked when she caught up, with a smile as usual.
"Fine, you?" Minamino replied, again, with a smile.
"Have you heard about these 'demons'?" Hinata asked him tilting her head to one side slightly. Minamino felt as if he'd fallen in the deep end of the pool, unfortunately there were no life-guards to rescue him from her question.
"Yeah. Not entirely sure what to make of it all. It could be just one big scam." His expression was the only thing that changed, from a slight smile to a frown, he managed to keep his emotions in check and didn't give anything away.
"Two will be revealed and all will be lost." The prophecy echoed in his mind and he shuddered visibly at this line. Hinata didn't seem to notice.
"Hmmm, you could be right about the scam thing. But lots of weird things have been happening lately so maybe they are real and-" She was cut off by a stone hitting her on the back of her head. "OW!" Was how she finished her sentence.
"Sorry!" A familiar voice said and Kuwabara ran across the playground to see if she was okay. Minamino looked at him and Kuwabara read his expression perfectly: ' What the hell are you doing and why are you here?' Kuwabara helped Hinata up and looked at Minamino.
"Erm...I have a message..." He said shifting uneasily as he passed it to Minamino. Hinata then, having properly regained her senses, slapped him around the face. The impact almost knocked him over.
"What the hell was that for? You jerk!" She said glaring at him like an angry bull. Kuwabara didn't know what to say but Minamino stopped her from hitting him again by saying:
"He's a friend." He gave the letter back to Kuwabara and smiled his thanks whilst Hinata fumed silently.
"I'll be there later, we'll talk then." He said dismissing Kuwabara who nodded and slunk back off towards his own school. Hinata had a head ache from being hit so hard by the stone and Minamino knew he would have to ask why Kuwabara had being throwing so hard if it was only meant for him. Hinata fumed on the way back to the classroom after getting painkillers, she mumbled most of what she said but the words Minamino did catch were 'idiot' and 'why so hard?' Luckily, by the time he opened to door for her, the internal rant she'd been having seemed to have ended. She sat down in the seat in front of him for the moment, as there was still half an hour until class started so it didn't matter where you sat.
"Back to our earlier conversation," Hinata started and Minamino shifted uneasily, but she didn't notice.
"Do you think these 'demons' are dangerous or not?" She asked looking him directly in the eye. He looked back and shrugged, keeping his expression blank and putting as little emotion as possible into his voice.
"Like I said it depends on whether it's a scam or not, also they may be calling themselves 'demons' for a reason." He used his logical way of thinking as an excuse to try to incriminate demons, though he had no idea why he wanted to make all of them to seem bad. Hinata nodded.
"You could be right there." She said and then added "But some of them I've seen and met have been nice so I don't think they're all bad." Minamino nodded at her comment.
"I think you might be right there. Surely, you believe it isn't a scam if you've met some?" It was quite a valid question considering their converstaion earlier. Then again, that had been rudely interrupted.
"That's a good point." Hinata frowned as she said this. Minamino smiled. Sometimes Hinata didn't consider everything in the conversations,whereas he always did, as was his nature, and the way she sometimes contradicted herself afterwards made him smile without fail. Just then the door opened and teacher ordered them to get into their proper seats so he could start the lesson a bit early because of all they had to fit in. Hinata sighed, said goodbye for now and trudged across the classroom to her seat. Minamino put his hand in his pocket and idly fiddled with the contents whilst the teacher tried to calm down the rabble that had just collided when moving to their seats, they were complaining about being scratched or pushed. They finally settled down and the teacher took the register. Just as he was halfway through, Kensuke barged into the classroom, knocking the door hard into the wall and sending it clashing back to it's original closed position. Kensuke then preceded to knock two people off their chairs as he walked passed and to almost push over Minamino's desk. The teacher had paused the register to glare at Kensuke.
"Just what do you think you're doing barging in late and doing things like that in my classroom?" The teacher's voice was icy cold and angry. Minamino was glad that he wasn't one of the teachers that was scared of Kensuke. Kensuke returned the icy glare and stormed to the front of the classroom. To everyone's suprise he grabbed the teacher by his collar and held him so his feet were just off the ground. Minamino shifted slightly, letting his offensive side take over slightly, ready to attack Kensuke if need be.
"I. Am. Not. In. A. Good. Mood." Kensuke said looking directly into the teacher's shocked eyes. "Do. Not. Get on my bad side this morning. Otherwise, I will kill you." His murderous gaze flew across the classroom. "And that goes for everyone." Kensuke put the teacher down and stomped back to his seat and threw himself down, knocking his desk slightly making it skewiff. The lesson had got off to a bad start but as it progressed it got even worse as Kensuke decided to start a fight with anyone who looked at him and, by the end of the lesson, nearly everyone in the room had been punched or had a new bruise for some reason. The teachers changed and Kensuke was taken out of the lesson to be spoken to, though most of the people there wondered why he hadn't been taken earlier. This teacher let them sit where they wanted so Hinata moved to sit next to Minamino. She didn't sit in Kensuke's place, though. No-one dared sit there. Kensuke always sat in that seat and would beat up anyone who sat in it. When he returned to lesson he would sit there.
"Well, that was a fun lesson (!)" Hinata commented sarcastically, rolling her eyes. Minamino smiled.
"At least you only got knocked off your chair. I got a full blown punch and I was knocked off my chair." Minamino then added. "My desk almost fell over twice as well." Hinata laughed and then the conversation drifted off into talking about the work. The door opened and Kensuke walked back into the classroom. Luckily, he seemed much calmer than before as he took up his seat next to Minamino and the teacher put some work he wouldn't do in front of him. Minamino and Hinata merely ignored the few comments ('Sittin' with your girlfriend again, eh Minamino?') he made throughout the lesson, even though they both noted they were less than usual, and got on with their work until they had nothing to do but talk.
"Do you like caterpillars?" Hinata asked dreamily. Minamino smiled, she would often say things like that when they had nothing else to talk about.
"They're ok, but they decimate one of the worlds rarest plants which is why it's so rare in the first place. I prefer butterflies as they don't actually harm the plant." Hinata smiled.
"You and your plants." She said and Minamino laughed.