Chapter 14
It had been two weeks since Amaimon's attack during our training camp in the forest. I had gotten a text from Shura saying that for now everything with Rin was okay. I was so relieved; I hadn't gone to school since everything happened. I didn't want to talk to Mephisto, I just couldn't forgive him. Ryuji still hasn't said a word to me, I even tried texting him but got no reply. I felt terrible, I was torn between Rin and him and I couldn't fix the problem between them. Ryuji's last words to me continued to ring in my head. 'How could you not tell me Mira? Not only are you a half demon but also you knew Rin was the son of Satan and you are acting like there is nothing wrong with it! I trusted you; I thought we were closer than that. How could you keep all this from me?' The look on his face said it all, I hurt him and I don't know if we could ever go back to the way things were. I finally decided to go to class, as I walked in everyone looked up at me, Ryuji made eye contact with me but turned away instantly. I felt my heart sink as I sat down in Rin's usual spot, only this time Rin wasn't coming. I sighed heavily when the door opened and instead of the teacher walking in, Mephisto appeared. 'Mephy?' I questioned, standing up in shock. 'Hello there Exwires, congrats on passing your recent test. You have all earned the right to go on a real mission... to Kyoto.' Mephisto smirked as I turned back to face Ryuji, it looked as though his heart stopped. I remembered when he told me that he left his home against his parents will to attend school here. I know this was going to be hard on him, but I doubt he was going to talk to me about it. I heard from Riiko, she said that her and Athol were sent off on another mission for some reason, I was happy that things with her didn't change. Sadly, for this trip it looked like I would be all alone.
The class had boarded the shinkansen heading to Kyoto; Ryuji of course didn't say a word to me. I decided to go on ahead of them when I saw Rin in one of the seats smiling at me. 'Rin!' I cried out as I dove into his arms, 'is everything okay? I haven't seen you since... well you know.' I felt tears well up in my eyes; Rin then wrapped his arms around me. 'I'm okay, how is everyone?' Rin responded, I sighed and sunk into the seat next to him. 'Ryuji hasn't spoke to me... and because of that Renzou and Koneko haven't been able to talk to me much either. I got a text from Renzou saying that Ryuji will calm down eventually.' I continued to sigh when Rin reached out his hand to overlap mine. 'It will all work out, they are all great people so in time I'm sure things will be okay.' Rin gave me his usual smile which was reassuring, just then Ryuji and the others walked in. 'Hey guys, I'm glad you're all okay! Did you know about the Kyoto tower? What else is cool in Kyoto?' Rin asked casually like everything was okay. Ryuji looked like he would blow up any second, 'Bon don't!' Koneko called out as Ryuji turned his head to the side and walked away. 'Fine...' he mumbled, continuing to head to his seat. 'Konekomaru...' Rin spoke but Koneko ignored him and followed after Ryuji. 'Whoa don't be so obvious Koneko...' Renzou sighed as he also walked past Rin and myself. 'How can he just sit there? What if he goes wild again?' Koneko spoke with a scared tone in his voice, 'the higher up's said it's okay.' Renzou replied I could see Rin's face sink with sadness, I felt like jumping up and yelling at them at this point. Suddenly Izumo walked in with her usual pissed off expression, 'Izumo come sit over here!' Renzou spoke with his usual perverted grin. Instead to our surprise she took a seat next to Rin and me. We both turned to her in shock as she just glared back with her typical ice queen look.
'Is everyone here? We will be departing soon,' Shura spoke as she walked in. 'All right listen up, I'm the one who got forced into leading this operation, the name is Shura Kirigakure. Mr. Sato from the management department will brief us.' Shura stated with her usual bored tone. 'At approximately 13:20 on July 22 an unidentified person entered the deep keep at base and stole the extraordinarily hazardous demonic item known as the Left Eye of the Impure King. We know that the warden of the deep keep Saburota Todo assisted the incursion... however his intentions and accomplices remain unknown.' 'That's right and at the same time other unidentified persons attacked the keep at the Kyoto field office. The effort failed, but the intruders were after the Right Eye of the Impure King.' Shura added 'excuse me what eyes are you talking about? We never learned about them!' Izumo questioned, 'yes this demon isn't well known. Not to mention the story isn't pretty, your history teacher will explain.' Shura responded turning to Mr. Adachi. 'The Impure King was a high-level demon who spread fever and disease in the late Edo Period around 1858, causing the deaths of over 40,000 people. Fukaku was the monk who expelled the demon and removed it's left and right eyes as proof of the exorcism. The eyes release a toxic gas and are extremely dangerous,' our teacher explained, the class faced him in shock. 'We still don't know the enemy's exact goal but if they want the eyes it can't be good. They may attack the Kyoto field office again; we can't let them get the Right Eye. Our mission is to care for wounded exorcists, and support the office's defenses. Exwires will assist, everyone work together and make this easy on me.' Shura added as she then drifted off to sleep.
I watched as Rin looked over to Izumo, 'aren't you scared of me?' Rin asked, Izumo turned to face him, 'hah of you? Not in the least,' she gave her evil smirk. 'Maybe you don't know but there are tons of people with demon blood like Mira here, and like her many are exorcists.' Izumo stated, Rin turned to her in shock, 'It's common knowledge; the problem is that you're Satan's child. The order hasn't killed you because they don't know if you are a boon or a bane yet. That's about it, so I can't be flipping out like an idiot over every little thing!' Izumo added I couldn't help by smile, Rin's eyes widened, 'funny brows are you being nice to me?' Rin smiled showing his fangs. 'What's with that name?' Izumo yelled out, 'I knew you weren't so bad.' Rin continued to smile as I laughed, I was happy to see that Izumo didn't mind his background either. 'My name is Izumo Kamiki not funny brows!' Izumo yelled back covering her small eyebrows. 'Thanks Izumo,' Rin smiled, her face turned red. 'Don't get so casual, some people go on about how they are going to defeat Satan and make friends but chicken out when it counts, I hate cowards like that.' Izumo yelled causing Ryuji to stand up from his seat, a really pissed look crossed his face. 'I'm done listening to this! Who're you calling a coward?' He belted out as he and Izumo started another one of their fights, making me sigh once again.
"Shockingly" we all got punishment again, having to hold the demon rocks on our laps, the ones that get heavier by the minute. 'More collective punishment,' I sighed; Shura then gave us all a really angry look. 'I told you to work together! This should cool your hot head's until we get to Kyoto. Got it? Don't wake me up!' Shura shouted giving us a death glare that would even put Satan in his place. 'This feels like Déjà vu, it was Bon's and Izumo's fault last time too. You guys haven't made any progress.' Renzou laughed, I couldn't help but let out a little chuckle myself. 'Why did she have to leave us with Okumura? If he acts up our lives are in danger.' Konekomaru yelled out with a look of horror on his face. 'Don't give me that crap, how could you talk about Rin like that?' I shouted back as everyone turned to face me. Just then one of the Bariyon demon rocks jumped up and landed on top of Shiemi. 'Shiemi!' Rin and I both called out bolting to her side. 'Shit if it gets heavier it will crush her,' Renzou added. 'Shima take that side and I will take the other,' Ryuji called out while he and Renzou both attempted to lift the rock demon off of the frail blonde. However the Bariyon didn't budge, 'leave this to me.' Rin smirked as he approached Shiemi and tried with all his strength to move the bolder, however during the process his flames let loose. 'Rin!' I called out when Ryuji ran up to him pulling him back. 'Stop it!' Ryuji yelled out as the sudden shock made Rin's flames surround the shinkansen.
'Oh boy...' I sighed, everyone started panicking until Izumo summoned her demon familiars, which pored sacred sake on the flames. Rin then charged at Ryuji grabbing his collar and pulled him closer 'Why did you interfere, I was doing fine!' Rin demanded, 'didn't look fine to me,' Ryuji argued back as I did my best to separate the two. 'You gotta trust me,' Rin proclaimed, he still had a tight grip on the older boy's collar. 'Trust you,why would I do that?' Ryuji argued back, his eyebrows furrowed, the anger grew on his face. 'Bon...' Konekomaru's voice quietly spoke, 'that blue flame can kill people! Like my Grandfather and Shima's Grandfather and oldest brother, and Konekomaru's parents! My temple's followers are like family to me, how can I trust you when you endanger my family?' Ryuji yelled as I felt a tight knot in my chest, so that was it... that was the reason he couldn't trust Rin. 'I'm sorry those things happened, but what about it? What's that got to do with me?' Rin argued back, 'oh right I forgot, you're going to defeat Satan!' Ryuji responded with a smirk. 'That's right so don't go lumping me in with him!' Rin shot back when Konekomaru pulled Ryuji away from Rin. 'Stop it get away from Bon... and you too Bon, if we really are like family then please don't do this.' Konekomaru shouted, very much to everyone's surprise. 'Bon above you!' Renzou yelled, the demon boulder was headed straight for Ryuji; I quickly tackled him sending us both hard into the ground. When I looked up Shura had destroyed the demon with her sword. 'Thanks... you know for saving me...' Ryuji blushed as he turned away from me, 'yeah,' I nodded in reply, I got up holding back my tears. Shura ended up giving us a lecture on teamwork and the importance of it being exorcists and all. After the never ending lecture the shinkansen had arrived in Kyoto. We all ended up on a bus, however through the whole ride not one person said a word.
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Everything I Want (Ryuji Suguro x OC)
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