It was tense. Rin didn't know how to begin. The beginning was a little too unbelievable, at least, the when there. And he couldn't even mention the angels. Only Shura could see them and it was bad enough he couldn't get out of this situation without speaking. Still, he couldn't just sit there and say nothing. Could he?

"What?" he asked simply.

"What is that on your back?" was the first question asked, by Yukio no less. There was a glare from Angel, but he said nothing, curious about the black mark that marred Rin's back. Rin paled slightly.

"Oh... The mark..."

"Rin, is that...? Were you attacked by a demon?"

Ah, an easy enough answer that didn't involve angels.

"Yeah. I have been."

Rin wasn't entirely sure how everyone would react. His younger brother hugging him, squeezing him with all his strength was a little unexpected, but not too surprising. He wrapped his arms around Yukio in as a reassuring manner as he could. Despite that Rin was smaller than Yukio, he held his position of comforting his younger brother.

"How long?" he heard Yukio whisper, his voice barely holding back how upset he was at the revelation. Rin bit the inside of his cheek.

"A few years now. I... I don't remember. One day, I could just see them."

That much was true. He didn't exactly recall when he could see demons. The angelic presence made it difficult for him to notice when demons actually began to appear.

"And neither of you noticed," Angel spoke coldly, stroking the fire of his brother's ire. Rin held his younger brother in the hug, not wanting him to attack the moral peacock that Angel was.

"I didn't want them to notice," Rin admitted. He lowered his head to avoid the gaze of the three, "It was hard enough to know they were out there. And Yukio seemed to want me to be normal so bad... I just... I didn't want him to be hurt knowing I could see the very thing he wanted me to avoid. Him and dad."

Rin could hear Shiro walking over. His hand gently clasping his shoulder.

"Rin, I'm sorry you felt like you had to go through that alone," Shiro spoke in a comforting tone, "This does explain why True Cross was so determined to have you as a student though."

Yukio tensed at Shiro's words. Rin knew that this was only going to get wilder.

"Well, isn't this a wonderfully tender moment," a new voice spoke up. One that everyone knew too much.

"Mephisto," Shiro's voice changed from tender to the iciest tundra with the arrival of the eccentric demon. Mephisto didn't seem bothered in the least.

"It makes me positively gooey eyed," Mephisto joked as he wiped a nonexistent tear from his eye. His eyes rove over the room. He made a quick eye smile at Metatron who hovered near the bed, scowling at Mephisto.

"And what are you doing here?" Angel spoke in an eerily icy tone that near matched Shiro.

"Why, only figuring I would place my offer to Rin once more," he said as he made a missing sign appear in his hand.

"My classmates put up missing signs?"

"They did," Mephisto commented. "You were kidnapped after all. Angel has nearly ruined your education... and explaining this to your teachers and the government might be a tad cumbersome."

"You kidnapped my brother?!" Yukio said forcing himself out of Rin's grip to confront Angel."

"I was saving a blessed being who was fighting demons in an abandoned building," he responded with authority. "I was well within my authority."

"You kidnap people?!" Shiro responded.

"Not normal people. But people who have been blessed who will be forced to fight regardless."

"Not even disputing the kidnapping," Mephisto chuckled.

"I-It was extenuating circumstances! He wouldn't tell me who his parents were and he was fighting demons!"

Eyes went back over to Rin.

"Do you try to cause trouble or is it natural?" Metatron growled.

"A natural talent," Mephisto replied openly and happily.

"Well yes he did have talent as a blessed-"

"You smug little-"

"Do we have to talk about this now?" Rin interrupted before he got confused and responded to the wrong thing when mostly everyone here was still ignorant of the fact of angels and his ability to see them. "I think I'm still a patient."

"You are Nii-san. We're just worried. And curious."

"I get it. But it's not like I'm going anywhere."

"Yeah? Those sound like famous last words," Shiro joked.

"Dad!" Rin whined. Shiro only laughed at his response. Despite the tenseness and the knowledge that there would be a fight, verbal or otherwise between Shiro, Yukio and Angel, Rin took a small sense of relief that he didn't have to be quite as guarded with his family as he once was. He'd ignore that they would probably interrogate him later, once he was considered "fully recovered" by the doctors.

A shorter chapter. But an update.