For the next six days Yukio and Shura split the class between knight types and dragoon types of kids and taught them individually. Kid and Yukio had a target practice challenge and Shura made her students individually duel her at the beginning of day one. At the last day Yukio's class merged with Shura's to learn battle strategy and how to take on an opponent wielding a different weapon.

"Okay boys and girls, today is the last day of training camp before you go back to your respective schools." Shura started formally.

"Today we have something special planned for you," Yukio started. 'If by special you mean embarrassing four eyes,' Shura thought picturing the duels from the beginning of the training.

"Good or bad special?" Rin questioned suspiciously.

"We decided instead of training with your weapons, we would take a field trip to Mepphyland." Shura gaped at Yukio. He had never strayed from orders and here he was completely making up his own.

"Oy, what the hell are ya doin four eyes?" Shura whispered loudly in his ear.

"I'm letting them have some fun." Shura burst out in laughter.

"The guy who never has fun is giving a day off to everyone else? That's hilarious! What is it, a surprise mission? Scavenger hunt? What've you got planned?"

"Nothing. You're a talented fighter and you advocate having fun every now and then so I'm going to let the kids have some fun together. Start some ties between our two similar schools." Shura bowed her head, showing a semblance of respect for her colleague. 'He sure is something.'

"Well, you're going to have fun too." Shura said. Yukio either ignored her completely or simply did not hear her. They used a special key to go directly to the park.

"There's.. no one here?" Kid said.

"Correct. I spoke with John Faust and got the park reserved for this group today. Enjoy!" Everyone stared at Yukio, none of the kids having ever seen him smile that wide. Rin stared a moment longer than all the other students and then rushed over and jumped on his brother's back.

"What kind of demon possessed you Yukio!" Izumo summoned her familiars, the Academy meisters grasped their weapons, Shiemi had Nee at her shoulder and Bon and Koneko were prepared to chant.

"I'm not any more of a demon today than I was yesterday." He said, still smiling.

"You're actually less of a demon today. We actually saw the resemblance between you and Satan yesterday," Shima said meekly. He then whispered something in Bon's ear that made Bon turn red in the face.

"What is wrong with you Shima?!" Rin hopped off Yukio, determined to figure out what the pink haired monk had said. The Academy students relaxed and the weapons returned to their human forms.

In the end, the kids rode a few rides before deciding to just start a giant game of freeze tag.

"Why are ye doing work at a park?" Shura asked Yukio. They were seated on a bench next to various restaurant

"Because I have nothing to do otherwise," he said, adjusting his glasses and moving on to the next paper.

"You could go play."

"Rin's going to give me an ulcer..." Yukio complained, completely oblivious to Shura's last comment.

"Bwahaha!" She cackled, taking a swig of her soda. "What'd he do this time?" She snatched the paper from Yukio and scanned it, her face becoming more and more confused as she read.

"Why doesn't he try," Yukio questioned rhetorically.

"Maybe he's just really dumb." Shura shrugged. She looked back over and he was head first on the counter sleeping. She smiled, 'that kid is worn thin.'

"Do you like one of the Okumuras?" Tsubaki asked Shiemi.

"Yuki and Rin?" The shy blonde clarified. Tsubaki nodded. "Of course I like them. I've known Yuki since I was 13. He's very kind and caring and I love him. Rin is protective and sometimes arrogant but he has good intentions," her smile grew wider with each word she said about the twins.

"I meant would you date one of them," Tsubaki laughed.

"O-oh. I feel more like family for those two, since their parents and Shiro are gone now. They don't really have family besides each other."

"I barely know any of you but you seem to care about those two a lot, but I see it's not in a romantic way."

"They were my first friends...," she started gently. "Yuki helped me get into this school and Rin protected me while I was adjusting to going to school. They're the best friends you could have! I know Yuki seems tense right now but he's just really busy. He's a really good person I promise!"

"You're very sweet Shiemi."

"Bon may not seem like it either, but he's very protective. He always looks out for his friends." Tsubaki eyed her for a moment. "What?"

"You like him."

"I-I do not!" Shiemi's face was burning red.

"Well, I guess we'll be on our way," Stein said.

"No hard feelings Rin, I said I'd surpass God, I didn't mention anything about Satan!" He said laughing obnoxiously. "Besides, I let you win cause I'm such a big star I didn't need to beat you!"

"It was great meeting you," Konekomaru said to Crona. Shima was amongst Tsubaki, Patty and Liz. Maka was talking to Yukio; the two nerds, and Soul was talking to Bon; the two cool guys. Kid was moaning about how he'd have to fix his whole house when he got back and Izumo rolled her eyes at him.

When the Academy students had left the True Cross kids went to go have dinner with Rin in the twin's dorm. Yukio proceeded to follow until Shura yanked him back by the collar. "Uh uh. You're coming with me."

"Shura what are you doing?"

"Letting you blow off some steam," she said as she walked into the cram school, dragging Yukio by the wrist into the training room they fought in years ago.

"Why are we here?"

"To hunt dragons chicken." He rolled her eyes at Shura. "You either sit down and answer some personal questions, or you beat me at infinity mode and you can leave." Shura removed her exorcists jacket and took her place in the cage. "You coming?" He scowled at her, at least this time they'd make it out fully clothed.

"Eh wait!" Shura said, running to the side of the room and grabbing a beer. "Want a drink?" Yukio looked at her with 'are you freaking kidding me right now, Shura,' written all over his face. "Sorry, it's hard to remember you're not actually middle aged already." She laughed loudly.

"You are a terrible influence."

"Pft you don't see me as an influence."

"I looked at you as a challenge. I always wanted to beat you."

"Huh, Shiro was right then."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"What did my dad say?"

"It's early in the night. We'll keep it light right now. Infinity mode!" The machine repeated off the command to the wooden sword wielding woman and started hurling targets at the two exorcists. Even though he was exhausted and stressed Yukio's reflexes were spot on, nailing every target dead on. Shura kept glancing over at the well toned fair skinned boy. 'He takes everything so seriously,' she thought. The targets came at them even more frequently; Shura could feel each one reverberate through her wooden sword tingling her hand. It was an unreal display of talent and skill; the two were very closely matched. Shots echoed through the room as Yukio annihilated every target, and balls rebounded off the wall as Shura kept them all away from the back of the cage.

"Getting tired?" Yukio asked, smiling at her over his shoulder, still not missing a single target.

"You wish," and with that retort she nearly let one slip past her. She kept it from getting by but hit it at an odd angle, rebounding it off the ceiling and sending it flying down onto Yukio's head. It knocked his glasses to the ground, leaving him dazed and blind against the assailing targets. "Oy, Yukio!" She went onto his side of the cage, keeping the balls from hitting him while she shut the program down. She crouched down next to him, picking up his broken glasses and putting them on her head.

"Alright... you win." He wasn't sure what happened, just that he was on the floor and couldn't see. He must have missed one... But how? How did it strike his head? Thinking about it just made his head hurt worse.

"I'll give ya five passes, after that you have to answer my questions and I will answer yours."

"You first." Yukio said firmly.

"Interesting. All right." She thought for a moment before she asked. "Do you miss Shiro?"

"Pass," he said quickly.

"Well shit kid you're passing the easy question!" She laughed.

"Do you slack off as much as you seem too?"

"Bwahaha. You caught me," she sighed. "I do that cause it pisses you off so much. They don't send drunk, unreliable exorcists to determine if Mephisto is raising a demon that could end Assiah. Why won't you ever let loose?"

"Pass. What did you mean about Shiro earlier?"

"Oy... He guessed by Mephisto's eagerness to wager your lives that Rin would awaken as a demon. He was trying to set up precautions to give you the best chance of living if you two were exposed. Do you like Moriyama?"

"Pass. How did you meet Shiro?"

"Ugh you're making even this boring! He rescued me from becoming a target for the order. You have to take four shots if you don't answer this one four eyes." Yukio had his head hanging between his knees, the pain increasing on the top of his head, what he could only assume as a bruise forming on his cheek and a pain flaring up in his shoulder where he had been hit after losing his glasses.

"Have you ever had a girlfriend?" Yukio groaned out a no without looking up at her. "Why?"

"Nope. My turn," he looked up at her, he wasn't hurt enough to let her get away with asking more than her share. Shura flicked him off but waited for him to think up a question for her anyway.

Most of the students were already asleep in the twins' dorm by the time Shura had helped Yukio back to it. She sat him on the bed and he immediately fell back, hitting his head on the wall and falling to the pillow. Shura laughed and set out a glass of water and some pain killer for him in the morning.

"You'll thank me later," she said, tousling his hair as she walked out. "Woops!" She said as she realized she had his glasses on top of her head. "Eh, he has spares," she said as she continued on to her room.

He woke in the morning to a fierce headache, sore jaw, and aching shoulder. He turned over to his nightstand.

Yukio,

Here's some pain killer, sorry I rebounded that ball on your head. I still won though. :-)

Shura 3

He had thought Rin would be the death of him, either directly or indirectly. But now he was thinking Shura might be the one to make him come undone. He glanced over and saw Rin's bunk was empty. Rin was already up? That's an omen. "Maybe the world will end before Rin kills me."