"Condition number one: they must pass the Exorcist authorization Exam which will be held in six months time. We had to fulfill a ton of conditions. But their judgment was pretty tolerant." Mephisto mused.
"Tolerant, yeah having my foot detached is real tolerant." I mumbled.
"What are we going to do about it?" Shura asked angrily.
"About that, over there."
We all saw Rin on his knees. "I'm begging you Shura. Please teach me how to use my sword!"
I whistled, "That's rare, Rin doesn't normally beg." I said over to Shura.
"Anything I can do in half a year is fine!" we flinched when his head cracked the tile.
"PLEASE!"
"So." Mephisto added with a cheeky smile.
"Don't 'so' me! What's with everyone trying to command me! Well, yer actin' much better then before. Aren't ya? I'll take ya up."
"I'll take Utsukushi myself since it's rare to find a scythe fighter." I looked at him and nodded.
I took a deep breath as I put the key to Mephisto's office in a keyhole. 'I'll prove it to all of them, my flame may be weaker but my skills are sharper than Rin-nii's will ever be. I will be strong,' I sniffed and realized I was crying, "God I'm such an Idiot." ' physically and emotionally.'
I opened the door and saw Mephisto sitting on a couch in front of his desk.
"Ah Utsukushi, how lovely of you to join me." He sniggered at his little pun and I just stole his hat. I put it on my head.
"Get to it old man, 200 hundred years of service to the Vatican plus your appearance is enough proof for me to effectively say you're a demon. One that gets giggles over seeing even the most powerful people fall prey to your little games. So let's get going.".
He smiled to me, "My little sister is smart," he laughed as he walked past me and took out three candles. He placed them on the coffee table. "I want you to burn only the two outside candles, and you have to be able to do it on one try."
He sat on another couch across from me with a smirk as his fingers were entwined underneath his head. His posture was leaning towards me expectantly.
I breathed my flame onto the candles calmly. Only the wicks caught fire, the table was not scorched either. Despite the fact the flames danced across the table the most.
His eyes and smirk widened, "Looks like flame control is fine, shall we continue?"
I myself actually wondered what happened, "First, how am I able to control mine so well?"
"I imagine it would be the weaker flame or your high imagination. It also seems you use the right side of your brain most of the time, that's good strategy work, unlike Yukio who works based on facts and Rin-"
"Who doesn't think at all." I added.
He smiled at me, "Is that it?" when I nodded he continued, "Now lets continue on to one of the cram school's training areas shall we?" I nodded.
He pulled out a key to the cram hall and we walked in greeted by Shiemi and Izumo. My heart ached and I hid behind Mephisto. He just glanced at me before greeting the two girls. I clutched his cloak as my heart did filps.
"Hello Kamiki, Moriyama." He nodded his head.
"Hello Sir Pheles."
Kamiki noticed me but didn't recognize me as I pushed myself further into his back. "Who's that?" she asked.
"None of the business of children such as yourselves, now hurry along." He waved them off.
They shrugged and left. I sighed and sniffed.
"You really should learn to face your fears," he said with a frown on his face.
I shook my head, "Later, right now I really need to train." He shrugged and walked off.
As we walked to the middle of the room he turned to me, "I understand you can focus the flames to certain parts of your body?"
I nodded, "And I can actually make them enhance the muscles. Though, in the fight with Amaimon he was able to redirect them."
"Ah yes, I shall answer these questions later, but for now show me what you can do."
He tapped his umbrella on the ground and I smirked as a group of wooden dummies popped out of the ground. I pulled out Akuma Suraisa and thought, 'Time to show off for my 'brother''.
I glided around the area, slicing each one of the dummies as I passed. More kept popping up. A large group with angry faces popped up in front of me I breathed fire at them then sliced through the remainders. A hurdle suddenly popped in front of me and I tripped.
My elementary gymnastic skills kicked in and I enhanced my arm for landing. I spun the scythe around my hip and landed as it hit my forearm as a catch. He clapped at my performance.
"Yes, your flames can easily enhance muscles in any body part, even certain ones that aren't attached. Your special flames can be used as such enhancers on the battle field to even other people. But they are also powerful enough to burn things. When you glide across the floor you actually use harmless momentum created by burning your flames out of the bottom of your feet. You also enhance the leg muscles so you won't tire easily." He clapped and a table with tea on it appeared in the exact middle of all the carnage.
"Come sit." He told me. "What kind of tea would you like?"
"Green."
"Earl grey it is." I glared at him as he chuckled. He poured green tea into my cup though.
"Now how Amaimon 'redirected' your flames is actually something I've only seen him do. Because he's the Earth King he can control the flow of certain energies. Some easier then others. Living things is difficult while controlling how the nutrients in plants flow is simple, even child's play as some would say. Though for you and Rin it's much easier considering demons tend to have more then the average human."
"Can I do that? Or is it just Amaimon?"
"No, I'm afraid it's only Amaimon, on the bright side no one else can use it against you." He mused.
I sighed, "So when are you going to teach me something?"
He looked at his pocket watch, "Tomorrow, my little sister. Eins. Zwei. Drei." With that the table and chairs were gone and I fell on my ass. He had also disappeared.
"Stupid clown." I pulled the hood of my jacket over my face and walked out of the room. I walked down the hallway with covering my eyes and hair. I grabbed my dorm key from my pocket and almost placed it in the lock when Shima opened the door.
"Oh hi are you new here?" his hand reached out to my shoulder and I smacked it away, only to have my hood fall. He looked at me in shock, "Ku-kushi-chan?" I ran past him only to find I was in Konekomaru's hospital room. Bon sat beside Konekomaru and they both just looked at me.
My heart beat fast, but I didn't move. Not until Bon's face changed. I didn't see what it turned to because I ran back through the door and to a different door in the cram hall. My hands fumbled the keys I was shaking so much. I realized I was crying when I sniffed.
"Ustukushi!" I heard Bon shout. I finally found the right key and opened the door. Right as I was trying to close it Bon's foot stopped in the door.
"Leave me alone!" I cried.
"I demand an explanation! Why didn't you two tell us before?"
I kicked his foot out of the door and got it to close. I leaned on to the door, exhausted.
Leo already had all his things moved into Bon's dorm room along with Konekomaru and Shima.
I breathed shakily, 'why am I so afraid of Bon, he's the same guy, it's just… He sees me in an all new 'light' I guess.' I curled up and wrapped my hand around my knees, "A blue one at that."
Bon wondered why Utsukushi was in the middle of their hospital room, crying. Then Remembered why she would be. His face distorted in slight anger then she ran back through the door and he limped after her.
"Ustukushi!" he shouted as she finally slipped through the door.
"Leave me alone!" she cried at him. It broke his heart slightly to see someone who was always so happy crying in fear.
"I demand an explanation! Why didn't you two tell us before?" Before he could get what he wanted she kicked his foot away and slammed the door.
Bon held his foot in pain. "What was that for?" he yelled angrily.
"Bon, when you first saw her in her demon form you did insult her. No matter how much she tried to hide it, it was pretty obvious… Plus when you saw her you did kind of yell." Shima reasoned.
Bon groaned, "I just wanted to know why she didn't tell us personally instead of getting her brother to do it."
Shima sighed as he directed Bon back to the chair in the hospital room.
"Wh-what did she want?" he asked shaking in fear.
"Nothing," Bon slumped against his hand, "It's what I wanted from her."
Konekomaru couldn't say anything. He still loved the memories he had with the girl, but also feared the beast she was born as. He continued to see them as two different people. The first one, the human one just moved away, to a different world and left in her place: a demon, the very thing he feared and killed. It was the same with Rin. Though his demon was much scarier and his human self wasn't as bright as his sister.
Bon didn't know what to think. He'd come to like Utsukushi as a friend, she and Rin fit in a place that he'd felt he'd known them for years, yet know NOTHING about them. He also almost felt like he loved her. That's why he wanted to protect her back at the training camp. He wanted his friends and rivals safe. He continued to think about how many fun trips they had, and how much of their past they shared. No he didn't hate them for being half demons, he disliked not being informed properly. They themselves should've told him in person.
Then he had to go and fuck up by calling the weaker half demon, "The spawn of Satan." He hated himself for it too.
Shima could easily look past the bit where they're demons unless they were attacking him or anyone else. He enjoyed their presence, they were a couple of funny kids to him. He found that they were very protective of others and would gladly fight along side them in the future.
"Hey guys, how's it going?," Leo said slightly sadly. Their group wasn't complete with out Utsukushi. They've got the pervert-Shima, the yakuza-face-Bon, the clueless one-Leo, and the intelligent yet shy one-Konekomaru. But without the funny one, it's just depressing. "Hey you guys look like someone just died." He tried joking.
"No but the head monk of our temple got really sick along with a lot of others there. And while Shima was going to get our work we had a run in with Ustukushi. She was scared of me." Bon said depressingly.
'ouch' passed through Leo's mind. "How do you know she was scared of you?"
"She ran and screamed 'leave me alone' while crying." He added only to make his mood worsen.
"I got the test results today from Mephisto." Leo pulled out a piece of paper, on it was a '98'. He sighed. "I was also told I'm moving in with you guys… At request of Utsukushi… She would've been happy to see that she won her bet with Mephisto."
Everyone's faces dropped. "And now she's scared of us." Shima said.
"I can't believe we didn't see it though, speedy recovery from critical condition, amazing strength, an "allergy" to Holy water. Hell, Neigauz must've gone after her and Rin because he knew and wanted them dead!" Bon exclaimed.
Leo hummed, "But they both protected us so many times, and it was probably with their powers too."
They all focused on this before sighing in unison.
'We might've just lost an awesome friend.'