The Trembling Eyes

Chapter Two

Allen spent the next day helping Yukio pack his things for school and playing with Timcampy during breaks and meals. That evening he noticed Rin walk out the door and decided to follow him, to prevent anything stupid from happening of course. Allen watched as a teenager wearing a plaid shirt approached Rin. He couldn't really hear, but whatever was said was enough to make the hair on the back of Allen's neck rise.

'This isn't good,' he thought and continued to follow them to an empty alley way. The teen in plaid attempted to bribe Rin into not speaking about some incident, dealing with pigeons? Allen wasn't sure because he was so far away. Allen jumped to his feet when the teen, Shiratori as one of his lackeys had called him, grabbed a red-hot iron rod, and placed it near to Rin's face. Allen grabbed Shiratori's hand as the boy began to sprout bull horns from his head. Allen's left eye activated, and he could see the soul of Shiratori fighting back against a powerful demon. Rin, fearing for his new friend's life, burst into blue flames, scaring off Shiratori's buddies and causing Rin to stare at himself in amazement.

Allen cursed under his breath as he realized what was going on. Rin and Yukio must have been the sons of Satan, and he really couldn't leave them alone. They were too vulnerable without him. Allen tried to think of a way out of their predicament, but before an idea could spring to life Father Fujimoto showed up spouting scripture.

"Darn you, exorcist!" The demon cried out.

"The Lord is my helper, and my shield. Demon be gone!" With that the demon was forced out of Shiratori's body and the teen fell unconscious. Allen's eye deactivated along with the disappearance of the demon, and it seemed as though no one had noticed it activate.

"Old man, what's going on? That guy had horns! Is he going to be okay?" Rin asked Father Fujimoto. "Are you okay, Allen?"

Allen nodded and Father Fujimoto began to speak as he dragged the two behind him and ran from the alley. "You were born of a human and a demon, Rin. And not just any demon. You are the spawn of Satan himself."

"What? Then what about Yukio?"

"The two of you are fraternal twins, Yukio didn't get the gene."

"Sorry to interrupt," Allen said, "But I think we should be running faster, more demons are coming after us."

"Crap, come on." Father Fujimoto led the boys to the roof top, sharing insight about certain demons as they fought. When they reached the monastery, he gave orders to the priests to protect the monastery and opened the door to a secret passageway. Father Fujimoto grabbed a sword from a set of drawers and handed it to Rin. "This is Kurikara. Your demon powers were sealed inside it, under no circumstances are you to draw that sword." Father Fujimoto turned to Allen and handed him a flip phone. "There's only one number saved in it, tomorrow pack your things and leave, then call that number, they should be willing to protect you and Rin." With that Father Fujimoto left the secret room despite Rin's pleas to let him out so that he could help.

"Rin," Allen said. "It'll be okay."

"No, it won't, Allen! My whole life was a lie!" Rin yelled. "I can't take it anymore; I'm going out there!"

"Rin!" Allen tried to stop Rin, but it was too late, he'd already left. When Allen exited the secret room, he saw the priests fighting off Astaroth and various of demons related to the king of Rot. Allen started activating his innocence, but the front of a truck came out of nowhere and slammed into him, pinning him to the ground, painfully. Allen was trapped, and the blow was so hard that he'd heard his left arm snap and knew there was no chance of activating the innocence. If the situation became too dire, he would use his noah powers, but even after 200 or so years they were still difficult to control, especially since his uncle was no longer around to show him how to use them. Allen was relieved when the fighting died down and it seemed as though the priests had won, at least for the moment, but then things got worse.

Rin and Father Fujimoto were talking and suddenly Rin was yelling. "Don't ever let me see you acting like my father again!"

Allen was speechless. The words hit his very soul, and he could only imagine how Father Fujimoto must have felt. Suddenly all was silent and then Father Fujimoto was crying out, as Satan took over his body.

"Old man?" Rin asked softly.

"Yes, that's right your true father, but you can call me Papa if you like!" The voice sounded like a mutilated version of Father Fujimoto's, but there was an emotion beneath it that Allen could just barely make out. Was it sadness? Was Father Fujimoto the one that was sad? Or was it, by some miracle, Satan? Satan started to summon a Gehenna gate and dragged Rin into it. When the priests tried to help, they were attacked by blue flames. Rin became so scared that his body covered in his own blue flames.

"What was that? Did you just wet yourself?" Satan was laughing now. "Soon you'll be reborn in Gehenna, as a true demon." Allen managed to shove the truck off his body and attempted to stand.

"Satan..." he said, blood flowing from his lips, there was probably some internal bleeding.

"Oh! Look who we have here! Too bad you're too wounded to fight, you look like you'd be quite the challenge otherwise!" Satan turned back to Rin and called out, "Happy Birthday Son!" That was the moment Father Fujimoto managed to regain control over his body, even if only slightly.

"He's not your son," he managed to say.

"Darned exorcist, still fighting?"

Father Fujimoto continued to talk. "He's my son, and I'm taking him back!" With that he thrust the small blade into his chest.

"Committing suicide? Oh well, the Gehenna gate has you, and once it has something, it never lets it go!" Satan then disappeared from Father Fujimoto's body and the man slumped in Gehenna gate, already having breathed his last.

"Old man," Rin cried. "I haven't shown you what I can do yet, Old Man, you just watch!" Rin grabbed Kurikara and despite the shouts of protest from both Allen and the priests he drew the sword. His ears grew long and pointed, his teeth and nails sharpened, a tail sprouted from his behind, and his eyes had the look of a demon. He allowed his flames to reach out and burn the gate, until he and the body of Father Fujimoto were left on the floor of the monastery, Rin's flames dying away.

Allen looked at Father Fujimoto, his left eye activated, and managed to hear his spirit say one last request, "Protect my sons, please."

"Of course, Shiro." And with that the soul of Father Fujimoto departed from the world, and the only sounds left were the crying of Rin and the priests.

"Dad!"