Call Me 'Nix (AO No Exorcist Fanfic)

Six: Feeling Sorry

I hadn't realised how much Ryouta would worry about me until I didn't go back to Japan until mid morning their time. He 'grounded' me for a week despite being older than eighteen. I decided not to challenge my cousin's authoriity so obeyed and stayed home.

Upon staying home I had been given a job. Which I have just finished, an exorcism usually that takes place with a team but the people I had contacted were being slow so I took down the demons alone. Not that I was really alone, I unleashed my phoenix familiars to aid me. The six small phoenix familiars that rest above my chest and the larger one that waits in my shoulder.

Now that I'm free to go out again, I'm taking advantage of the good weather and the fact that I have been asigned a job so go out and get ice cream. Who doesn't love ice cream. As I take the carrier bag of treats toward my home i hear choking and spluttering. I stick my head into the alleyway in which the sound is coming from and see my group, Konekomaru, Shima and Dot brow! There are several assailents in the alley. They look like the type that the group of demons I just took care of were hosting. My eyes widen; I clearly didn't take them all down.

"The-a." Shima croaks, the host crushing his larynx.

"Hell no." I mutter, drawing my gun, aiming for the host's heart with a dart. In my other hand is the holy water bullets that will kill the demon.

I shoot the dart at the host holding the pink haired boy and the demon flees, only to be hit by my other round of exorcism bullets. I see that one of the goons is coming toward me since Konekomaru is unconcious on the floor. I grimace.

"Here girly girly girly." the demon leers at me. Again I shoot a dart and then a bullet at the demon. Another one dead. I shoot again at the one that is more distant, pinning 'Dot brow' to the wall. I shoot three darts at the host and hit the demon at the fist shot.

I feel the weight be taken from my feet as a grimy beefy hand covers my mouth. I reluctantly take advantage of one of my physical abnormailies and clamp my teeth down on the host's hand.

BANG!

My leg feels like it has been pricked by a pin.

"OI!" Is that... Rin?

BANG!

BANG!

The host topples forward, trapping me under him.

"Shima! Get Konekomaru and put him in the recovery position!" Bon?

"Kameki-san? Are you alright?" Is that Yukio?

My eyelids feel so damn heavy.

I fight to keep them open.

"Why am I so sleepy?" I murmur.

"Thea?"

"Yu-ki-o." I choke out as my lids flutter closed.

...

"THEA PHOENIX EMBER THIS IS WHY YOU WAIT FOR HELP! YOU DO NOT TRY AND ACT ON ADRENALINE! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU THAT?" Ryouta shouts.

"One, you sound like dad. Two, you have never told me that and three, this was not the result on acting on impulse!" I cough, voice wobbly.

"You're lucky you're friends got you somewhere you could sleep!" my cousin continues to rant.

"Sir, it wasn't Nix's fault, I've got a bad shot and I could see that she was in distress. I hit her with the tranquiliser dart over the demon that was attacking her."

"My brother is right, Sir, he was the one to act on impulse, not Thea."

"Just shut up, both of you." I complain. "My head hurts."

"Obviously." Shura snorts. "Rinny shot you with a tranq'."

"Shura, if I could move." I mutter.

"N'aww Nixy's all woozy. No worries kid, it feels just like a hangover. I should know; I've been hit plenty'a times by Rinny." Shura laughs.

"I wonder why your words ar not soothing me." I murmur sourly.

"'NIX YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW WORRIED I HAVE BEEN ABOUT YOU, WHY DIDN'T YOU USE YOUR PHOENIX? YOU CAN MAKE THEM AND I'VE SEEN YOU USE 'EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 'NIX YOU HAD M WORRIED SICK, YOU DISAPPEAR TO ENGLAND AND THEN NEARLY DIE!!!!" Ryouta shouts.

"Technically she was only tranquilsed." Rin interjects.

"Don't argue with Ryouta when he's pissed." I chide.

"'NIX I'M FUCKING SERIOUS! YOU HAVE POWER! YOU'RE JUST STUPID! YOU'RE A FUCKING CHILD WHO WAS GIVEN HER FATHER'S REPUATATION WHEN ALL YOU DO IS ACT RECKLESSLY!" I glare at my furious cousin.

"I know." I murmur. "I know I'm not as good as father, I know and trust me I know I'm not worthy of his title. I just knew that the people I was out to protect have brighter, more promising futures than the girl who will never be as good as her predecessor."

"That's not true 'Nix!" Rin looks appauled.

"You don't know." I shake my head. "You never saw my father act. He was the ideal sort of exorcist, a quick thinker yet a strategist. A strong man in all medias and holder of the most powerful thing that anybody has ever read about!"

"Thea." Yukio gives it a go. "You might not be as good as him yet, but you will be. You took on the path of a tamer for the same reason I followed the path of a dragoon didn't you? To fill your father's shoes."

"How did you-." that's when I remeber. Yukio lost his father too, those boys before me know the burden of having to be known as 'Shiro's sons', that or 'Satan's sons', both are big shoes. To prove that they are better than Satan, Rin and Yukio have to be well behaved, maintain an air of subordination and be quick on their feet whilst maintaining morality yet to show they are Shiro's sons they have to be like him, Shiro always sounded like a strange yet happy man in my father's stories. Yet Shiro was a merciless paladin and was a badass whether alone or in a team.

I meet Yukio's eyes, he looks confused. He apparently could always see demons. I had heard that he was aware of who his father was for a long time and had somewhat accepted it. I turn to his older brother Rin. Rin didn't know and he became angrier upon finding out about being the son of Satan.

I sigh.

"Sir, I promise 'Nix won't be in this state because of us...I mean me, ever again. I won't intervene with her actions anymore. I'll stay out of her way. Thus keeping her out of situations like this." Rin vows.

"Rin." I chide.

"Rinny don't be ridiculous!" Shura dismisses.

"Nii-san, you're being stupid. It could have been any of us!" Yukio reprimands.

"'Nix, the thing that's made me madder than anything else, is that Jun found a pawn nd has tabs on it, this is your vendetta, your fight and your mission. Now all the work that we put in to help you is going to vanish while you recover from this tranquiliser. Who knows, maybe that little rat knows about how Uncle Charles died. Maybe he did it, and now because of something so stupid and reckless, you might miss out on acquiring the most valuable piece of information to use when avenging him." Ryouta stands up. "You can stay here until you can stand, make your own way home. I don't even want to look at you right now."

And with that, my cousin and roommate leaves me in the Okumura apatment with the sons of Satan and Shiro's apprentice. I sigh.