OKUMURA

Chappy 8

Rin pov:

The next day arrived, when shura and izumo were scheduled to visit with kuro. I quickly rose from my bed and got changed into some suitable clothes, ready for the day. I dashed out of my room and raced down the familiar halls, down to fathers work study where I screeched to a halt. After composing myself I firmly knocked on the closed door with my left hand. After hearing a gruff 'come in' from the other side I entered, closing the door behind me. "Yo dad" I said with a wave and a huge grin whilst walking over to where he was perched behind his desk. "Good morning Rin" he replied, sounding tired. He gave me a small smile and asked me why I came. "Just wanted to remind ya that shura and izumo are coming by today." I said with a big cheesy grin plastered on my face. "I know, I did remember, my memories not that bad yet, I just opened the ghennah gate for them so they should be down any minute. But remember-" "bring them to you first, yeah I remember" I replied. "I'll c ya in a bit" I yelled running back out through the large oak doors. "Bye Rin" he said tiredly after me.

I hastily resumed running through the corridors, I was on my way to mephistos room. I knocked quite frantically until a very sleepy looking brother appeared at the door. His hair was a mess of purple and his pink kimono was hanging off of one of his pale shoulders. He looked down at me, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand, yawning. "Oh hi Rin, what's up?" He asked. "Well big bro, remember how you said that you would go and pick up izumo and shura?" "Yep I remember that" he said sounding very confused. "Well there supposed to be here very soon" I said rocking on my heels as I saw a look of realisation hit him as he glanced at the clock. "Shit! I overslept!" He exclaimed, slamming the door as he raced back into his room, presumably to get changed and ready for the day ahead.

Shura pov:

We were spat out of that weird ass portal and dropped onto the hard ground. I stood up and brushed myself off, marvelling at the exquisite place we were. The sky was a strange hue of purple with dark clouds swirling over head. Small lights illuminated the bustling streets. Many small demons were busying themselves about the town, buying groceries and other necessities for themselves and their families, not giving us a second glance, clearly not caring that two demon killing exorcists had just dropped out of the sky and into their world. It makes me wonder why I ever became an exorcist if these wonderful people actually are calm and nurturing creatures that we humans, over the course of hundreds of years, have hunted for no other reason than the fact that we don't like them, that they could possibly pose a threat to our pathetic selves.

I stretched my hand out and hauled izumo up off the ground, her grunting as I did so. She brushed herself off and we started walking through town, hoping to get to wherever Rin was. Kuro was carefully strutting behind us, a spring in his step due to being back home and, hopefully, back with Rin.

We wandered around aimlessly for a few minutes until a huge cloud of pink smoke appeared in our faces. And who emerged from that cloud of ugly pink? Why it was the one, the only, mephisto pheles!!!! Woo hoo.
I internally groaned at the pink clad demon. "Why hello miss shura and miss izumo, I have come to escort you to the palace" he said, over exuberantly as kuro leapt up onto his shoulder. "Hello there my cute little feline, how have you been" kuro meowed as a response which, clearly, mephisto understood. "Good to hear kuro" he nodded as he started walking, and we took that as our cue to follow him. He glanced back at the cat on his shoulder and said "you know that Rin has missed you while he's been gone?" Kuro looked at him excitedly and meowed quite loudly looking up happily at the demon clown. They continued to talk with each other as me and izumo trailed behind, not knowing where we were headed.

After a lot of walking and awkward conversations we arrived at the black, iron gates of the palace. They loomed over us as we walked inside, guards stepping aside when they saw one of the princes.

We were taken through many halls and corridors, through thousands of twists and turns until we arrived at a simple oak door. Mephisto knocked twice with his left hand and once hearing a come in from the other side, opened the door and ushering us in. "Father, I have brought them to you as requested, I will wait outside until you are finished to escort them to rins room." "Thank you samael" a deep voice came from the other side of the room. He then picked up kuro from his shoulder and placed him in the room with us as he stepped out and closed the door, leaving us with this intimidating figure.

He rose from his seat and walked over to his desk, sitting behind it and gesturing for us to sit on the lush sofa behind us.
The walls were painted a simple cream colour with the sofa being a soft blue with green cushions, that same green being used for the soft rug beneath our feet. The carpet was a strange mix of cream and beige, subtly different from the walls with the desk and chair the man was sat at was a dark brown, the same colour as the oak door we came through.

We sat down as the man requested as kuro curled up on my lap. "The reason I have called the three of you here" he began, kuros ears perked up at the voice. "Is because I need to know if you are a danger to me and my family, I'm sure that you aren't however I need to make sure because I can't afford to lose anyone else like I lost my yuri."

He looked up at us as he was about to start speaking again when we felt the ground rumble beneath our feet and a loud commotion outside. We heard running before Mephisto and all the others burst through the door. "What the hell is going on?" They yelled. The mysterious man who I can now safely assume is satan looked out of the window. He turned to us with a grave face "The exorcists have invaded ghennah."