"Rin, you go cook dinner while Maka sets up her game," Bon ordered. "Shiemi, Tsubaki, Izumo, Ai, and Tsugumi you go help him."
"Hai!" They all said in agreement, following Rin to his domain.
"How come Okumura gets to go with all the girls," Shima whined.
"Shiemi - peel potatoes. Tsuabki - cut carrots. Tsugumi - fry eggs. Izumo - help Shiemi with the potatoes. Ai - cut peppers. And I... will face my nemesis," Rin said, pulling an onion out of cabinet.
"Um Rin? How many should we cut?"
"Bon!" Rin yelled.
"I thought you could handle cooking Okumura?"
"I can't handle giving directions. Tell them what to do." When Bon left each of the girls had a task and was hard at work peeling, cutting or frying something. Ukoback was stewing some sort of meat in a large pan, tossing in different spices, and Rin would come over and talk to the squeaking demon.
"Flavoring cube?" He asked confused. "Why would I use that?" Ukobach squeaked. "My flavoring is delicious!" Rin defended. "Oh, ok." He smiled.
"Can he actually understand that?" Tsubaki asked.
"Mm. Rin thinks demons have telepathic capabilities. He understands Kuro too," Shiemi said.
"They can read each other's minds?" Tsubaki asked.
"No. Rin's just weird," Izumo said. "Huh?" She turned around, hearing sniffling from the other side of the room. Rin wiped his face with his sleeve.
"I hate onions!" He shouted, his face distraught and weeping as he dropped the last one into the pot. "Burn in stew demon vegetable! Eh?" He turned, seeing every one of the girls staring at him. "What?" Shiemi and Tsubaki were the first to laugh, and eventually even Izumo joined in.
'Why do I have to change? These clothes are clean,' Yukio thought as he scanned his closet. He took out a pair of jeans and plain white tee shirt. He looked at the outfit, and shook his head. He traded his black trousers for light jeans and donned the white tee. He took a black button up from the shelf and put it on, not bothering to button it over the white shirt. He walked to the bathroom and saw a note taped to the door.
Leave the glasses. You've got pretty eyes - Shura
"When did she put that there?" He wondered, peeling the note off. He crumpled the note in his hand, throwing the curly letters into the trash. Trading his glasses for contacts and his work shoes for a pair of converse like shoes he pocketed his key and shut the door behind him with a click. He took the flight of stairs up to the third floor, glaring at the cobwebs in the corners as if he thought he could frighten the arachnids. He knocked on the door he's assigned to her himself, checking his phone as he waited for her to answer. The door opened and the phone was taken from his hand before he even looked up.
"No work tonight kid." She said, tossing it in her room and shutting the door, ignoring the protests he gave. Her quarter sleeve black dress fell halfway to her knees and left little to the imagination with the plunging neckline. She had on strappy black shoes that, coupled with the length of the dress, accented and lengthened her already long pale legs. Her hair was pulled around to the side in a hair tie, flowing over her shoulder and curling it's way between her left arm and her body. She looked beautiful. She laced her arm in his, pulling him towards the stairs. "Cat got your tongue?" She asked, looking sideways at him. He still held a height advantage over her and she had to look up to see his face.
"You look very nice Shura," he said formerly. She grinned at him and then watched her step as they descended the stairs.
"Gotta tell the babies to behave," she said as she led them into the cafeteria.
"Who's ready to play INFECTION?" Maka asked, her tone and gestures mimicking something spooky as she said the name. "Oh... hi teacher!" She said, shying up as she realized there were adults present.
"I thought I told you to study nii-san," Yukio said, his eyes narrowed at his brother.
"Actually we are studying," Maka said. "I made up a game to try and help Rin and Shima study."
"Well, we're going out. Stein's in charge," Shura said, knowing that of the two Academy teachers Stein was by far more intimidating. Rin looked them up and down twice, his eyes focused on Shura's arm linked with Yukio's before he understood.
"Whoa like a date?!" He shrieked, falling backwards in shock. Yukio put his hand on his face. His brother never ceased to baffle him: both with his good moments, and with his ignorant ones.
"Sure sure whatever," Shura said. "If ya'll don't pass the test tomorrow we'll haveta get Stein to dissect your brains and see why you can't study," She called over her shoulder as Yukio held open the front door for her. The door clicked shut and all eyes were on Rin.
"Is your brother dating her?" Soul asked.
"Who would've thought she'd go after Okumura sensei," Shima said, his mind clearly still focused on her attire.
"Yuki and Shura are so cute!" Shiemi shrieked.
"It's weird. She's older than him," Izumo said.
"Stop spoiling everything!" Bon yelled, his angry voice blowing the girl's purple pigtails out behind her. Shima put his hand on Izumo's shoulder.
"If everyone's matching up maybe you and I should get together."
"Don't touch me," she said, her red eyes focused harshly on the pink haired boy.
"Okayy," Maka intervened. "Are you ready?" She asked.
"Um. How do we play?" Rin asked tentatively.
"It's a trivia game. Like hang man. You get a question and you have eight tries to get the answer right before the infection will destroy you. If you don't know the answer you have four choices: call someone, look at someone else's answer, choose save, or take a card. Cards can save you without a catch, or have a question you have to answer to get saved." She took up a marker and wrote on the board the exorcist names. "Whoever wins, gets a prize."
"We all can tell already it's gonna be Bon," Shima said.
"Hell I'm not even in this class and I could beat Rin," Black Star said, cracking up with Soul.
"I'll kick your ass," Rin growled. Tsubaki sat with her hands over her mouth and everyone could sense the situation was one wrong step from exploding.
"Like you could!" Black Star taunted. Rin took on a kneeling stance, his red bag crumpling to the ground.
"Black Star," Tsubaki said through her fingers, trying to calm his competitive tendencies.
"They brought us here cause you guys can't even handle your own town!"
"Watch your mouth kid," Bon said.
"Why else would we be here," Soul said.
"Soul!" Maka chided but as usual he ignored her.
"Your brother can't handle his responsibilities so we're picking up his slack," Black Star said.
"Shut your fucking mouth!" Rin growled. Ai sat passively on the table, watching the exchange but not participating. Liz was hidden behind her sister, afraid of what would happen if Okumura burst into flames and Patty was wide eyed chanting fight.
"Patty what are you doing?" Kid asked.
"I wanna watch the pretty blue!"
"Rin stop it!" Shiemi cried but her plea was useless.
"Hehe Bon let's not start anything," Shima said, trying to pull Bon back down to a seated position. His stance was rigid and unyielding as he glared at the DWMA kids, specifically Black Star.
"They insulted our school and our teacher," he turned to look at Shima and the look he gave made the pink haired child retract his hand towards his body. "They're going down." Shima sighed and assembled K'rik from his jacket, knowing Bon was past the point of no return.
"We all know I'll be down in five seconds but alright. I'm with you." He aimed K'rik at Black Star.
"Maka chop!" Soul crumpled forward, a huge dent in his head. "You're scaring Crona!" Crona sat in the corner, rocking back and forth.
"I don't know how to deal with friends fighting like this. I don't know how to deal with the boy with the tail either, he spouts fire," Crona said to himself frantically. Maka went over to him and comforted him.
"Tsubaki, enchanted sword mode," Black Star said, his eyes on Rin. Rin drew his sword, the room glowing with blue light, his white shirt billowing with the flowing demon energy.
"Black Star stop it," Tsubaki said, not moving from her kneeling position on the ground.
"Fine. I don't need you," Black Star said. "I'll beat you myself!"
"What are you doing Black Star?" Stein said from the doorway. Black Star squealed, remembering the incident with the super written exam.
"He wanted to fight Rin again," Kid said.
"If you two fight in here you could destroy the dorm. How about you do something productive with your energy and study for the test with them. Since you aren't in the Academy you should still learn something," his glasses reflected light, his smile evil as he leaned against the doorway, his shirt one with his body.
"What!" Liz yelled.
"No fair!" Patty cried.
"I won't be studying," Kid said, thinking somehow his knowledge as a grim reaper would somehow carry over in exorcism.
"It's amazing isn't it. They can be friends one minute and at each other's throat in another," Spirit said as Stein walked back through the dark hallway.
"I knew Black Star wouldn't take losing very well. We could have a real problem on our hands if they can't coexist here."
"If you guys think you're so much better than us let's see who does better on the test tomorrow," Bon said.
"Let's make this interesting," Black Star said darkly. "If we win, then you two dumbasses go out on a date!" Black Star yelled pointing at Izumo and Shima.
"And if we win," Rin said, watching Black Star mischievously. "You two have to go one a date!" Also pointing to Shima and Izumo.
"Hey!" Izumo cried. "What are you doing Okumura?!"
"Cut the crap eyebrows, it's obvious you like him so why don't you just admit it," Black Star said.
"Why is everyone calling me that!" She shrieked. Black Star and Rin high fived, grasping each other's hand tightly between them. "Did you two plan this?" Rin smiled innocently and shrugged. Izumo glared at him, her red eyes glaring and her face dark. She took out her seals, prepared to set her familiars on Rin when Shima spoke up.
"You really don't have to Izumo. I don't want you to be mad at me," Shima said, for once his face downfallen. Her face softened as she looked at the player-monk showing a deep emotion for once.
"This is a terrible way to ask a girl out," she said, arms crossed, looking over her shoulder at Rin and Black Star. Soul had crawled over, his head finally retaking a normal shape, and thumped Shima on the back.
"Ask her out you dumbass," he mumbled, his face in the floor.
"Will you go out with me Izumo Kamiki?" He asked. She turned back towards him, her mouth turned up in a gentle smile and her red eyes warm like the setting sun in the Summer instead of burning with hate or anger like hot embers.
"Where are we going Shura?" Yukio asked as they walked out into the crisp night air.
"We're going to dinner." They walked down the sidewalk, still arm in arm, the moon bright overhead. A cold breeze went by and chilled Shura's bare skin. Yukio noticed they were still linked and they pulled away bashfully, both refusing to acknowledge they'd enjoyed the contact. Her blonde bangs swooshed across her face as she walked, the tips passing in front of her eyes. The streetlights cast a glow on her natural pink color scheme, their shadows following behind them. Insects were hiding away from the cool night air and it was quiet apart from the occasional cricket chirp and the leaves ruffling as they were parted, brushed together by the wind.
"Did you have somewhere in mind?" Yukio asked, his hand brushing against hers, the sensory information running to his brain like a gentle wave of warm water, beautiful and pure, refreshing and warm. She pulled her hand to her face, brushing the hair out of her eyes, her fingertips warm against her face and her heart beating a little faster, her cheeks a little darker, and her breath a little quicker.
"Awh man!" Rin cried in anguish.
"What's wrong Rin?" Shiemi asked.
"You're with Bon, Izumo and Shima are together, and I don't have a date."
"None of us are dating," Maka said, referring to all the Academy students.
"Well..." Black Star said.
"What?!" Rin shrieked, his face as if he had just peed his own pants.
"Officially anyway," Maka said, her cheeks red as she twiddled the toes of her boots as she stood.
"Alright. Who is it!" Rin pointed the scabbard around at the Academy students. "Even my kid brother is hooking up!" He fell backwards, the sword clattering against the ground as he dropped it.
"Geeze he's a moron," Soul said.
"I'm still gonna kick his ass," Black Star said confidently, gazing at the demon playing dead on the ground.
"I wonder who's dummer, Black Star or Rin," Kid thought.
"Hey!" Rin cried, sitting up from the cold tile on the white floor.
"That's really gross Rin," Kid said, looking at the various debris stuck to Rin's back. "That floor is nasty." Rin stuck his tongue out at the grim reaper. "How old are you?" He mocked.
"How old are you," Rin mimicked. Bon put his hand to his face.
"Shouldn't you study Rin?" Bon said, interrupting his childish game.
"Rin," Ai said, appearing behind him suddenly, slightly startling the unobservant fifteen year old. Everyone stared at the smaller girl, listening to her quiet voice none of them had heard all night. "Let's play Maka's game." She didn't smile, she didn't frown, she didn't express any emotion.
"Let's start with Bon," Maka said. "You have a air based spore inhaled by a child. What do you treat it with?"
"Alright, what's your favorite color?" Shura asked from across the table.
"What?"
"What's your favorite color," she said, enunciating each syllable carefully. The dim lit room darkened their faces, brightening their vibrant eyes, and casting shadows across the area.
"Why are you asking?"
"I wanna know," she folded her hands under her chin, her bangs darkening half her face as she looked at him, waiting.
"I like pink." She threw her hands on the table and laughed at him before sobering up.
"Wouldn't have expected that from you ya straight arrow."
"What's your favorite color?" He asked her in return.
"Eh I don't really have one. But I like the color of yer eyes." It might have been her imagination but she swore his cheeks tinted towards his favorite color. "What's your favorite season?"
"I like winter."
"Cold just like you are," she smiled at him, teasing the boy.
"It's when I was born," he said, his eyes taking focus on something far off, the smile that crossed his face one of fondness. "Rin and I went there after the incident. Where our mother had us, and where she died. Where Shiro was supposed to kill me and my brother. And Rin flipped logic on its head and saved our lives, laughing in the face of death, showing though he was clad in flame he was a baby no different from myself, no different from a human."
"He's an anomaly," Shura said, shaking her head, remembering her time with Rin in the great cell.
"He sure is."
"Did you love Shiro?"
"Yes," he said. She waited a moment, seeing if he would elaborate and tilting her head when he didn't. The restaurant was quiet, mostly empty except for the odd couple, the dark wood of the table giving off weak reflections of each of their intent faces. The carpet scuffed about Shura's bare feet as she swung them back and forth under the table, knocking into Yukio's a couple times.
"Do you miss him?"
"He was my dad, of course I do."
"Satan's your dad too." Yukio glared at her. "But I know what you mean," she added, reducing the anger in his expression.
"Gah!" Rin shrieked as Maka drew another tally mark under his name. "I want a wicked wango card!"
"That's your third one already," Soul muttered.
"Shut up!" He growled. Rin had been on the brink of death three times, the wicked wango card miraculously saving his game life since he didn't know any of the answers. Black Star was already dead, and Soul wasn't far behind Rin. The tension between the contestants was high, the room as if it were filled to the brim with gas and all it needed was a tiny spark to set it ablaze. Black Star huffed as he stood up.
"This is way too boring. I'm going to our room."
"But Black Star you need to study," Tsuabki warned.
"A big star like me doesn't need to study! I'll pass it no problem!"
"How the hell do you put up with him?" Rin asked, already at ends with the Academy student.
"He's very supportive and hard working, he just doesn't like to study," Tsuabki said, speaking fondly of her partner.
"Honestly we wonder the same thing most of the time," Kid said as Patty pulled his hair into odd arrangements.
"Makaaaaaa," she started to say and Rin flinched, covering his head and cowering from her. He'd already received the Maka-Chop a couple times for not paying attention and he did not want to have it happen again.
"Stop amusing me!" Rin said.
"What?" Maka asked. "I don't understand."
"Stop hitting me! It's amuse," he rubbed his head tenderly.
"Abuse. Amusement is like entertainment."
"Which this game is not," Soul said and Maka reared her book, ready to strike her weapon partner. "You're going to destroy my brain cells."
"What brain cells," Maka said.
"Maka," Crona said. "I don't know how to handle all these new things." Maka snapped out of her anger, tending to Crona immediately as a mother would comfort a child.
"What is wrong with that kid," Konekomaru said quietly to Shima.
"They're weird kids," Shima said, remembering Kid's issue with symmetry also.
"You're one to talk pinky," Soul said. "You flip the hell out over an ant."
"They're evil!" Shima cried, animating his limbs dramatically. "They're planning our doom I know it!"
"When did you sleep last?" Bon asked Shima.
"Oh. I dunno."
"Maybe you should go sleep Shima," Maka offered, wondering about the strange monk.
"Freedom!" He shouted, bolting up the stairs and to his room.
"That little shit," Rin said, knowing Shima had overdone his bug fear in hope of being relieved from the study session.
"Wow. No one expected that from him," Bon said.
"He doesn't seem very intelligent," Liz said, messing with her cuticles.
"And you do?" Shiemi asked innocently.
"Excuse me?" She looked up from her nails, glaring at the wide green eyed girl.
"Back off," Bon growled, stepping in front of Shiemi.
"Get the fuck away from my friends," Rin took place in front of Bon.
"Why do you always have to act like the cool one!" Bon complained from behind the demon child.
"Sister!" Patty cried, jumping up from behind Kid and going to defend her sister as it was now a three on one staring contest. Takara had slipped away at some point, and Soul was standing up, prepared to get between Rin and the Thompson sisters.
"Soul! Don't start fighting!" Maka criticized.
"You're gonna just stand by while he burns them?" He asked, looking back with his red eyes. Smiling at her confidently, knowing what her response would be.
"Right." She held out her hand and Soul morphed into a scythe.
"Ragnorak," Crona said in a monotone voice, a black swirl flowing through the air and hardening into a sword. Tsugumi looked on helplessly, not knowing how to even begin aiding either side, Izumo didn't care about the petty disagreement, not getting up from her seat on a table, and Tsubaki stood by her side, rendered useless with the absence of her meister. Ai had taken a side though.
"Ai?" Rin asked as she stepped in front of him, Konekomaru taking the rear behind Shiemi.
"Care to try dying once?" She asked ominously in her childish voice. Her words visibly startled Maka.
"I'm a Grim Reaper, I control death not you girl," Kid said, gripping his twin pistols in his upside down grip.
"Oh stop it!" Izumo said, flipping her bangs back. "You're all just cranky and need to go to sleep. Face it, Rin is an idiot and isn't gonna pass no matter what you do, and Bon has studied before now, this is pointless."
"At least I'm trying to help!" Maka yelled, the purple haired, small eyebrow girl not even acknowledging the Academy meister.
"Seriously you guys?" Spirit said from the hall. Stein hadn't even bothered to come break of the idiotic fighting. "Go to your rooms. If you absolutely can't stand your roommate you can room with Stein."
"Why are they always threatened with Stein?" Rin asked.
"You're threatened with your own brother," Maka said. "Talk about lame."
"Leave him alone," Bon intervened.
"Ryuji," Shiemi said, putting her hand on his shoulder. "Rin," the instant her hand touched his skin his anger was gone, it was like she had a neutralizing effect on him. With Rin's aggression falling out of the atmosphere the hostility dropped, Maka relieved her weapon and Kid disarmed himself.
"It's like the madness," Maka whispered. "Poisoning everyone."
"What is it Maka?" Soul asked, ever observant of her.
"Nothing," she smiled. 'No need to worry everyone about Kishin here. At least not until I figure this out some more.'
"Why do they fight so much," Shiemi said to herself as she changed into her light pink night kimono. It was silky against her skin and she let her blonde hair fall out of her side ponytail.
"I'm sure it will be alright," Tsubaki said. "Black Star just doesn't like losing. He lost to Kid when they first met but look at them now." She smiled, her eyes closing as she let out her black hair for sleep. She put on a plain pair of yellow capris and a pale yellow tank, her dark hair breaking the color much like a pastel bumblebee.
"Rin just.. wants to protect his friends. Yuki always makes him feel bad about it but he has good intentions."
"Why does he make him feel bad?"
"Because sometimes Rin endangers other people trying to protect his friends. Yuki says Rin can't discern what's necessary from unnecessary."
"Oh. Well, I guess you can say something similar about Black Star. He always goes to unnecessary lengths to beat more opponents. He and Mifune, a samurai, fought three times because Black Star was determined to beat him, even though he was nearly killed the first two attempts."
"A samurai? Ms. Shura is a female ninja."
"Maybe our schools aren't so different after all. I was able to convince him to become a teacher at the Academy."
"Shiro had Ms. Shura join true cross. I don't really know how or where or even what she is."
"She likes Yukio though."
"Everyone but Yuki knows that," the two girls giggled. "Will you be my friend?" Shiemi asked, a little less intensely than usual.
"We are friends silly." Shiemi's cheeks flushed red and she nodded. She was happy. "Are you ready for your test?"
"Mm! Ryuji helped me study."
"You guys are really cute together."
"Yeah. He's was a little intimidating and scary when I first met him but he's like a big teddy bear now."
"He seems to really care for you."
"Black Star seems to care a lot about you also. Is there something going on with you two?"
"Oh no. Black Star is like a brother. He's always protected me and respected my privacy. He's dating a girl at the Academy, her name is Jackie."
"You're really pretty. Are you dating someone?" Tsuabki blushed at the compliment.
"I'm actually with Mifune," she said shyly.
"The samurai!? Isn't that scary?"
"The only reason he fought Black Star was because he was protecting a young witch. To become a death scythe you have to have 99 Kishin egg souls and one witch soul. Black Star didn't listen long enough to realize the witch was a child. Mifune was her guardian, so before Black Star knew she was just a little kid he was intent on beating Mifune and eating her soul." Shiemi gasped. "I suppose our witches are much like your demons. Most of them are bad, but sometimes you have those that surprise you. Like Rin and the Witch Angela. She did kick Black Star once though," she laughed.
"I can understand why," Shiemi said, knowing how irritated Rin had gotten. "He has a lot of personality to handle."
"That's a polite way to say that."
"You're very nice. I like you Tsubaki."
"I like you too Shiemi." They shut off the light, darkening the bland room. The moon reflected in the cold tiles on the floor from where it shone in through the window. Shiemi turned towards the beige wall, smiling as she fell asleep against the soft pillow, her blonde hair billowed out around her like a corona and her green eyes closed, her mind at peace. Tsubaki twirled her hair around, pulling it around her shoulder so the long hair didn't get tangled up as she slept. She folded her hands under her head and looked at the boring colored wall, her blue eyes still wide even though it was late. The black hair framed her pale face, her blanket tucked up under her chin, wrapping her snuggly. After a few minutes of reminiscing of her home at the Academy, of Mifune and her weapon partner Black Star, her blue eyes closed and she slipped into the unconsciousness.
Maka tied the white caps on her pigtails, removing her plaid skirt, trenchcoat and shirt, folding them neatly and setting them on the pale wood side table. Izumo had left the room to change, rather impolitely in Maka's perspective. She put on her yellow flannel pajamas and went to turn off the light when Izumo came back.
"I need to study," she said, turning the light back on.
"You could've studied earlier with us," Maka said somewhat shortly, her cushioned house shoes protecting her feet from the icy tile. Izumo stood in a pair of shorts and a large sweater type shirt, her feet bare and her hands on her hips. Her hair was fixed in a ponytail and he red eyes were undeterred.
"Like that game would've helped."
"What is your deal?!" Maka said, her voice intense and angry. She was quickly losing patience with this girl's absolutely arrogant attitude. 'She acts like she's so much better than everyone else. Black Star is like that sometimes but even he isn't this damn irritating!' Maka thought.
"You're the one yelling dummy."
"We didn't have to come here and help you people."
"We didn't need your help."
"Obviously."
"Don't you think you're top notch. In case you forgot, Ms. Shura kicked you guys' butt! You just have your panties in a wad cause you feel like a rescue crew, but you're no better than us we just needed more people!"
"You didn't even do anything fighting Stein! Ooh look at me I have foxes!"
"And what are you? Crazy lunatic scythe swinger?"
"At least I'm strong enough to fight on my own I don't make other people do it for me!"
"You have to have strong will to make demons work for you!"
"Oh my I bet that's sooo hard. You need strong will to control Witch Hunter and Genie Hunter too, and you have to have physical strength."
"That's hilarious. You're as frail looking as I am."
"I'm stronger than you!" Their foreheads were near touching, Maka's fists were ready to fly when Izumo just backed away, swinging her ponytail to the side and putting her hand on her hip.
"You Academy kids are so easy to rile up." She sat down, wiggling her body under the navy throw and taking out her Demon Pharmacology book.
"Coming from queen temper tantrum," Maka muttered as she laid down in her own bed, squinting her eyes and trying to fall asleep despite the glaring light in the room.
"Why do you look like a demon?" Rin asked Soul. Soul shrugged, not really paying attention. "What's your last name?"
"Eater."
"Seriously?!"
"Sure."
"I'm Okumura. I don't know where it came from, my mom was Egin and my dad was Fujimoto. I can't wrap my head around that."
"You aren't very bright are you."
"And you are? I heard you didn't do so hot on your exam, at least I passed my exwire authorization exam."
"That test was uncool."
"Maybe it's cool ad you're not cool."
"Least I have a girlfriend."
"Low blow man," Rin said, flopping onto his bed.
"Why do you care?"
"I liked Shiemi, and she's dating Bon. So it's a little sore," he said into his pillow, the pillow fibers getting in his mouth as he spoke. He sat up, trying to pull each pillow piece off his tongue. "And now Ukio'sss dating Sshura," he said, still holding his tongue in his hand. Soul smacked his hands, his tongue falling down onto his chin before he slipped it back in his mouth.
"So Satan's attacking the world and you're biggest worry is girls."
"I know what I'm going to do with Satan. I don't know what to do with girls."
"What are you gonna do? Get killed?"
"Maybe. I'm protecting my friends no matter what. If that means I get killed to protect them then fine. Satan just can't run around destroying my precious friends." Soul smiled creepily, his sharp teeth gleaming in the light. He took off his jacket. Rin looked at him, eyes wide, not knowing what the boy was doing. Soul pulled his shirt over his head, revealing the scar that stretched from his hip to his shoulder. "What the hell man?"
"When we first fought Crona."
"Whoa you fought that kid? He beat you?"
"You haven't seen Crona's madness. The only way we beat him was falling to the madness ourselves. Almost couldn't bring Maka back from that."
"What's madness?"
"It's kind of like losing your consciousness, losing all fear, and you become this crazy death machine. Maka is a lot like you. She flips reality on its face. Beat Crona, let's go hug him and make friends." Soul smiled at his feet. "She's a hell of a girl."
"So what happened with the scar?"
"I got in front of Maka and shielded her from one of Crona's attacks with my body. Stein stitched it all up. Took me awhile to recover."
"I use myself as a shield, but I heal really fast. Still pisses Yukio off though."
"Maka was pissed for a long time after I got hurt. They're only mad because they care." Rin smiled, knowing his twin would do anything to save Rin's own life. He knew he'd go as far as sacrificing himself in Rin's place, and he did take Rin's place once, when Egin was trying to open and destroy Gehenna. "My last name is Evans."
When Bon walked into the room Black Star was hanging from the top bunk doing countless sit ups.
"I'm going to sleep." Bon said gruffly, turning off the light before Black Star could respond. There was a crash as Black Star fell to the floor.
"Hey rooster! Who the hell do you think you are?!" He shouted. Bon turned back on the light and stalked over to the child, grabbing him by his shirt and holding him up by his scowling face.
"Listen you little shit. I have a test tomorrow. I'm going to sleep. Shut your loud mouth, or I'll kill you." He released Black Star and he landed on his feet. He was startled for a second before he responded to the scolding.
"You can't kill a big star like me! I'll destroy you!" He was pushing himself in Bon's zone and he was fuming.
"Little man syndrome," Bon muttered. Black Star punched him in the face, knocking the streak haired teen to the ground and sending him flying to the other side of the room. Bon spit blood to the floor as Black Star guffawed about. He smirked, blood on his teeth and stood up, walking to Black Star. Oblivious to the exorcist above him, Black Star continued to gloat about his "success." The next thing he knew Bon had tied him to the bed, keeping him from being able to get up.
"What if I have to take a leak?"
"Piss yourself." Bon growled, flopping over in his bed so he could go to sleep.
"Are you scared?" Shura asked from across the table. Yukio was quiet. "You are." He looked up at her, removing his gaze from the table.
"I'm not scared for me." His eyes wandered back down. "When you despise yourself, you tend to not care whether you live or die or not. You just can't stand to take others down with you."
"You don't care if you die?"
"No."
"You don't care about how Rin would deal with that?" She looked at him, waiting for an answer but he didn't even look at her. "You don't care about how I would deal with that? Your students?" She sat back against the seat, relaxing into the cushion. "You really are dense."
"What?"
"You mean a lot to many people. You're strong, smart, careful and controlled. I don't know a more capable exorcist out there to be honest. Maybe more brute or more rude, but not a more capable one."
"We should probably be heading back," he said, not sure how to respond to her comment. She was acting strange. Very strange. And he didn't know how to deal with it. Yukio's phone went off and his face went white. He grabbed Shura's wrist and pulled her out of the restaurant. They were running, near flying down the street.
Stein and Spirit were waiting for them when they got back to the dorm, a group of sleepy and angry kids behind them.
"Have you told them?" Yukio asked Stein, not even winded from running.
"Not yet."
"I'm afraid you must go back to the academy," Yukio said, looking at the visiting students.
"A witch has attacked our school," Spirit said, his eyes obscured by his hair. "And Lord death has fallen."
Alright well, that's really all I've got. Hope you all liked it! I had more planned but it was just more blue exorcist centric and wasn't a cross over so much as a guest appearance so I decided to scrap the rest and move on. Thanks for all the support!
Lifehouse Fanatic 2011