A/N: Hello everyone! Sorry if this chapter is poorly written. I had the idea but it was difficult to put into words…

Let's see where we left of last time; Rin met man from his childhood that was supposedly the one that attacked Kidd and ordered Giriko to kidnap Tachiko by the orders of "Them" he speaks about. He ordered the vengeful spirits to attack Rin. The shard Rin found protected him long enough to get to DWMA. Though injured severely, he warned Lord Death about them. Now Let's see what happens…

Chapter 13

Magical Mirror

Wednesday, November 19th, 09:28 a.m. - DWMA

Tachiko was running trough school halls, just minutes earlier she heard that Rin was attacked. After less than a few minutes she was back at infirmary, from which she was dismissed a few hours ago. Though when she darted in she only saw Stein.

"Wh-where's Rin!?" She asked, trying to catch breath, though when she saw cold face expression of adult meister, she got even more worried and straightened up "H-he isn't, he can't be-"

"He was transferred to hospital due to seriousness of wounds…" Professor cut her off, fixing glasses

Tachiko stared up to him, clearly not even slightly calmed down.

At that moment doors opened and Yoshiki entered, his broken leg was slowing him down.

"I told you to wait!" he wheezed while trying to walk into the room, "I'm still not used to these crutches!" he stopped when he saw that his meister was rather upset.

"H-hey, look, Rin's a tough guy, he'll recover.." he then looked up to Stein, "Professor, do you know in which hospital is he in?"

"Safe Soul's Hospital, at Skull Avenue." He replied

"Thank you." Yoshiki said then turned to Tachiko "We have one more period then we'll visit him, now calm down, we should go back to classroom, the next class is about to start."

Tachiko hesitated for a bit but agreed. She thanked the professor and went back to class with Yoshiki.

09:44 a.m. - Saint Soul's Hospital

Rin was lightly sleeping in his bed. He had an oxygen mask on face, blood transfusion and bandages all over his body, partly covered by a nightshirt and pajama bottom. His usual clothes were on table near the bed, along with his glove and headband. Ever since they brought him to hospital they had been treating is wounds. Most of them needed stitching, the worst were bitemarks and claw wounds, and on top of that, he got a mild brain concussion from being constantly thrown around last night. They ended just a few hours before.

His eyes slowly opened, the first thing his look reached was white ceiling of room. After a few times trying he sat himself up. He looked around the room; It was a small, clean room with dark blue linoleum floor and light blue walls. In it was a nightstand, a table and two chairs mentioned before and a big window with curtains currently pulled over it, despite them, he could clearly see that outside is a sunny day.

He let out a sigh, what happened yesterday was still a mere blur to him. He then took off the oxygen mask and unstrapped the blood transfusion device from his arm, what was it now when tank is empty?

Barely a second after that there was knock at doors.

"Come in.." His look slowly went to doors as he spoke. A nurse opened doors, by her side were Kidd, Tachiko and Yoshiki.

"Young mister Yakari, you have visitors." the nurse spoke, "Doctor said-"

"Let them in" Rin cut her off calmly.

After a few seconds of silence she nodded and continued her walk down the hallway.

He slightly smiled as they walked in. Yoshiki sat on one of chairs by the table while Tachiko put a small bag with a cartoony octopus wearing a headband and chopsticks drawn on it on the nightstand.

"We brought you some Takoyaki on our way here" she smiled, clearly relived that he's alright.

"Thanks. I really wasn't expecting that someone would visit me right away.." Rin said, smiling back

"So, how're ya feeling?" Yoshiki asked, looking at him

"Not too shabby actually." Rin replied in a rather casual tone.

"You sound like you don't remember what happened last night at all" Kidd said in a serious tone, moving the curtains to side and letting the sunshine inside.

"To be frank, it's still in blurs." Rin replied leaning back to bed, "Only thing I know is that whoever or whatever got me, got me bad.."

After a few moments of silence, Kidd spoke again, avoiding everyone else's eye contact "Father said you darted into Death room screaming something about Vengeful Spirits and Monsters.. Needless to say, it was uncertain how were you still running counting the shape you were in…"

That's when all started coming back to Rin, the monsters that attacked, the man that made all that happen, the mirror shard, the mirror shard…

His eyes widened as he almost literally jumped to feet, ignoring the confused expressions of others present in the room he ran over to table with his clothes and started digging around his shirt's pockets. He felt relief and more adrenalin coming when he felt his fingers touch a glasslike, smooth surface. He pulled the shard out and looked at it, he only saw his own eye this time. That droopy, dead grey eye was staring back at him.

"Uh… What's with that piece of glass?" Yoshiki asked after a shorter pause.

"That's the thing that both saved me and almost got me killed last night..." Rin said, still staring at the mirror shard.

Seeing the confused faces of the three he told them everything that happened last night.

"You're saying that same person that gave you a part of his soul also planned attack on Kidd and kidnap of Tachiko?" Yoshiki asked

"Precisely" Rin replied, look glued to the mirror shard, like he's still expecting to see something in it but only his grey eye kept staring back at him.

"Look, I still think you made all that up. You could've got a concussion, by the sound of how hard you hit the floor when you fell off chair" Yoshiki said, looking at Rin

"Made that up?" Rin looked up to Yoshiki with nose of anger in voice "Oh sure, I made all that up, I made up being beaten to death, I made up this whole situation!" he then ripped a bandage under elbow and shown a deep bite mark that doctors couldn't stitch up "I made this up! Wake up and face the facts, those things are coming for everyone else!"

"No, I meant-" Yoshiki tried to continue but Tachiko gave him "Shut it" look

Rin exhaled, calming down "Though, if I could figure out how to hack into that security system, to get access to rest of shards, to the one through they had been watching whole building, this would all be done soon.." Rin said quietly, looking back at shard

Seeing he's alright, and that he clearly needed to think some things through, they left. Rin didn't even seem to notice.

"But wait a minute…" A thought suddenly popped up in his head, "He knew I had the shard, he practically called me there, and definitely was aware that those monsters fear it. Heck, he's definitely one who trained them to fear those… Then what was the point of ambush if he knew monsters wouldn't kill me after ordered so? Did he only want to intimidate me? No, then he would only scare me… Maybe I was the courier that was supposed to last only to warn others? No, that doesn't fit either.." he looked up, "What kind of game are you playing, Koroshi?" ((Rin's nickname for the antagonist, it comes from Japanese word "killer" or "murder", written in kanji as: "殺し"))

Meantime, in forest, the same person Rin was thinking about was playing around with a mirror in a locket.

He was tall, he had slightly tan skin, dark, dark brown hair that was a little longer than shoulder length and the famous, bluish purple eyes. He was wearing grey cloth covering nose below as usual, black long coat, and black pants, shirt and shoes.

"Should I pay our poor Rin a little visit?" he spoke to himself, though as if he's expecting a response from someone else.

"We got ourselves exposed more than expected, Master" he continued after short pause "we better proceed with caution.. The Shinigami now won't let anyone get close to the girl, especially not the younger one."

After a longer pause he continued "Understood, Master.. We'll get your long deserved body back.." he said slowly closing the locket and putting it back into pocket.

A/N: Hey everybody! Sorry for short update that took long, I'm again running out of ideas. Well, despite this one being short and crappy, I hope you enjoyed. In the next one: Students are starting to get attacked, do we finally get to find out Tachiko and Rin's past relation and with that, their true life paths? That's it for now, peace out!