Sure enough, Leo got to follow me to every one of my classes. Once normal school was over I showed him a copy of my cram school key and gave it to him.
"This is the cram school key. What happens in cram school is strictly hush-hush for normal people, oh and before we continue…" I looked around and grabbed a coal tar from the air. "Open up you got to swallow something."
He must really trust me because he blinked then opened his mouth. I tossed the tiny demon into his mouth. "Don't chew, swallow it like a pill." He did as I said then began to choke. "You'll be fine just open your eyes and look around."
His eyes flew open, "Whoa what are those!" he pointed to a coal tar.
"Coal tar; lower-class demon. You just ate one and sustained a mashou that's what allowed you to see them now."
"Oh. Cool."
"Now the cram school key: it doesn't matter what door lock you put it in, you'll be able to go to the cram school hallway. Observe." I opened a door nearby and showed him it was a normal janitor closet. Then I whipped out my key and turned it in the lock. "Open it this time."
He did and looked at me, "That is awesome."
"I also have one that leads directly to our dorms so normal people won't question why we're out in school so late. Just follow me and do your best. We're all pages right now and that's the lowest rank you can get so you'll be fine." I began walking down the hall to our first class.
Yay four classes down and he's been able to follow just fine. Now it's physical stuff. I've noticed Bon glaring at Rin. More intensely then usual.
'I wonder what's his problem?'
This time though while they were running/racing for their lives, Bon kicked Rin, right in the side. That turned into arguing then punching and kicking. I sighed at my brother's childishness. The teacher scolded them then proceeded to try to explain to Bon why Rin was even here. After though, he left at the call of 'kitten'. I sat off on the side explaining the leaper demon to Leo.
"Sounds nasty."
"Ain't even the beginning of nasty, it's able to be chained down and approached so that's why we use them here."
He gulped.
"Don't even get me started on the students!" Bon shouted.
"What makes you think I don't take this seriously?" Rin shot back.
"The way you act in class!"
"Bon you're acting pretty immature." Shima added.
"Cut him a break, kay, Bon?" Konekomaru stated.
"Here it comes," I muttered. Leo heard me
"Happens often?"
"No but you kinda have to be a real idiot to NOT notice this would happen." Leo nodded as we listened to the rules of Bon's challenge.
"Heh, sounds interesting…" Rin said with a sneer. "He won't do it." I said to Leo. "He has an ambition to live for so he's not about to risk his life on someone like Bon." Leo nodded understanding how much I knew about my brother.
"Still… I'm not going to do it." Rin added while picking his nose. "What If I screw up and really get my self killed?" I held out my hand as if to say 'see I told you' Leo just laughed. "I've got ambitions, just like you after all. I can't go risking my life on a stupid little thing like this."
Bon looked like exploding and muttered something to his friends.
"You're just scared! That's all ain't it!" He shouted to Rin.
"Why don't you fight? Aren't you bitter at all?"
My eyes narrowed and I scoffed, "Of course he is. We both are."
"Shut it! You speak so highly of him, but you're probably just covering up his real nature!"
I didn't smile but I did challenge him, "Fine go face the leaper yourself and see what happens."
"I will!"
He hopped off the edge down into the pen. We all stood at the edge and I had a look on my face of a bitter judge.
"I'm gonna… I'M GONNA DEFEAT SATAN!"
"Pfft did he just say 'defeat Satan'? What is he, A KID?" Izumo laughed at him.
"And? That's the only reason I'm here. If not for that reason, I would be dead." I whispered to myself.
The leaper's eyes grew wide and lunged at Bon. But before anyone could see, Rin had already jumped down and took the bite that was meant for Bon. I merely smirked. "Idiot, if Rin was a horrible person at any point in time, he'd have had it beaten out of him by the old man."
"Now you listen here, The one who's going to defeat Satan; is me."
I cleared my throat. "Getting a little prideful are we Nii-san?"
He groaned, "Fine, Us happy?" I nodded, "So you can just get lost!"
"Y-you're the idiot here! Were you trying to get yourself killed? And don't steal other people's ambitions! Either of you!"
I jumped down to the pen and used Rin as a landing cushion. "We aren't stealing your ambition, the 'special case' that we are is because we're homeless because of what Satan did to us as well. I'll have you know as well, for Rin it might just be a simple ambition," with each word my anger grew and I stepped closer to Bon. Though at this point I was up against him and shouting, "But for me; It's the very reason I live. So if you dare say anything about it again, I'll treat it as a challenge and I'll force you to compete." He looked down at me in surprise as I smiled sweetly to him, "Got that, chicken head?"
I climbed the ladder and left with Leo following nervously behind. I saw Yukio and nodded to him.
"So a-squared plus b-squared equals c-squared. To find the hypotenuse you take a and b and multiply them by themselves and then add the two products. Once you get the final bit find the square root of the sum and plug it in as c." I explained to Leo. I looked up from today's normal homework to find Bon hovering over us. "Hello Bon, how are you today?" I asked sweetly. Leo picked up his stuff and moved to a different seat, sweating.
"I'm fine, I'm sorry about yesterday. You seemed pretty insulted, well I'm just used to people making fun of me because of it."
"It's fine besides the only reason I seemed to get angrier was because I was trying to hold back laughter. Your shocked face was hilarious."
He looked at me in shock and I giggled, "See, it doesn't look like you're used to being shocked. More like you have pride issues." I looked at my hands on my lap, "I don't even know how the old man died really, Rin was the one who saw it, all I know is that it was Satan who possessed him."
"Who was your old man?" he asked, fully aware he was treading dangerous waters.
"Fujimoto Shiro. Crazy-ass old man, never kept his nose on his face, always in our business." I chuckled slightly.
"What? You mean the Paladin Fujimoto Shiro? The one that-" he stopped before the first tear could fall. "You ok?"
"could never be possessed?" I finished taking the sleeve of my shirt and wiping my tears away. "Yeah, I made Mephisto fill in the blanks. There was A LOT of stuff he kept from us. Exorcism being one of them unless we got a mashou. If a person came in with problems with a demon he'd give them a charm, or perform a ritual to keep them away. Then if we asked about demons he'd just reply with, 'we all have our inner demons' or some bull like that."
"So were you his real kids?"
"Yes, but we never knew our biological parents."
"Oh adoption. Sorry."
"We learned of one of them after he died, but we could never consider it to be family." I got up and walked up to turn in the assignment and ignored Bon for a while.
AN: I'll tell you this much about Utsukushi, she's alot like Rin in some places and Yukio in others but while Rin is strong physically and Yukio mentally, she is smart and strong just not as much as her brothers. In a way that's similar to Bon. She's also very mother-like to Rin and Yukio.
Can't cook worth two shits though.
Parts of this story were pre-written and others will take some time to get down. So hold your breath and hope I don't lose it.
R and R
Tata for now 3