Nightmares

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Rin's POV

"NO! DON'T HURT THEM!" I scream. Satan has Shiemi by the throat in one hand and Yukio in the other. He's standing on Bon and Shima but I can't tell if they're alive. Shura and Izumo are dead, being the first to burn in Satan's flames. Konekomoru was burned to death when he tried to run.
Satan's grip tightens Yukio and Shiemi. They choke, unable to get enough air. Yukio reachs for his gun and shoots Satan with a holy water bullet but the wound quickly heals.
"Break Kurikara if you want them to live. Become a demon and come with me to Gehenna and I'll even heal busty and purple head over there." Satan says nodding towards Eyebrows and Shura. Break my sword?! If I do that, then I'll lose control, I think.
"Fine. Let them go first," I demand, unsheathing Kurikara. Immediately, I flame up but I ignore it. Instead, I grab the blade with two hands and prepare to break it.
"I'll let the girl go before and your brother after," Satan replies, releasing Shiemi. I snap the sword and scream. It feels like someone ripped me in half. He doesn't release Yukio and instead grabs Shiemi by the throat again. He snaps Shiemi's neck and laughs while grinning like a maniac. He drops her like a sack of potatoes. Then he twitches his fingers on the hand holding Yukio, snapping his neck as well. He drops his body beside Shiemi.
Then he walked towards me and started violently shaking me?
"RIN! RIN WAKE UP!" he yells with Yukio's voice. What was happening?
My eyes snap open and I realize that I had been dreaming. Then I notice blue flames surrounding me and my brother's slightly burnt arms. I quickly extinguish the flames.
"S-sorry," I say, "I was having a nightmare." He proceeds to then flip out on me.
"Just because you had a nightmare is no excuse to nearly burn the entire dorm to the ground! You having a nightmare is no reason to start burning my bed!" he yells at me. He goes on for half an hour. I finally get fed up with being lectured.
"Look, I already said I was sorry," I say to Yukio before grabbing my shoes and exiting the room. I walk upstairs toward the roof and stop to put my shoes on. I open the door at the top of the stairwell and walk out onto the roof.

Yukio's POV

My idiot brother tried to burn the entire dorm down in his sleep. Sighing, I grab the first aid kit beneath my bed and painfully grab some ointment. After applying it to the burns on my arms, I wrap my arms in bandages and take some aspirin.
I had snapped at him about him having a nightmare. Wait...why would he be having a nightmare? He only has nightmares when he's depressed or I'm in emotional pain. Except, I'm perfectly fine. That means... Rin is... depressed?? I wonder to myself. This was confusing. Oh well. He was the cause of Dad's death. I should hate him... not care about him.

Rin's POV

My feet dangle over the precarious drop, with Kurikara beside me. I look at my hands, noticing the obvious trembling. The nightmares are just getting worse and worse. First of was only yelling at me and degrading me, but it moved on to beating me into unconsciousness, and finally to killing everyone close to me.
Crap! I realized that I told Yukio I had a nightmare... He knows that we only have nightmares when the other is in emotional pain, but since he is be perfectly fine, he'll be suspicious.. I doubt he'd care anyways, he hates me for the old man's death. He thinks that I caused it.
As of guided by invisible hands, I reach into my pocket and grab the holy blade lifted from Yukio's weapons safe. I need to cut, now I think. Subconsciously, I draw the blade across my left arm, leaving a deep gash. I'm still trembling so I cut my arm a second, third, and fourth time. Just as I'm about to open a 5th slice, I hear footsteps on the stairs. Seriously Yukio? Now of all times? Quickly I hide the knife and roll my sleeve down. I turn to face the opening door. Here goes nothing. I prepare for another lecture. However, it wasn't Yukio that opened the door.

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