Sweet Like Candy

Surprise, Get Attacked Brats

Rin laid on her back on the roof, one of the only places she could get peace and quiet. It was nice when her mind was already a mess of questions and no answers.

The demon from the day before was the same kind of Demon she'd seen both attacking the Monastery that fateful night and summoned by Mr. Nehause. But that ratty old teacher wouldn't do that, would he? Unless he was one of the teachers that knew her secret. Did he have a grudge against Satan? Rin wondered just how many people her father had left behind in his wake to suffer life without their loved ones. She could understand their hatred of the bastard. But hating Rin was like killing the messenger when they brought bad news. She'd done nothing wrong. Why did people want her dead so bad when they learned who her father was? It wouldn't hurt Satan. He didn't care about Rin.

"Rin." A gentle voice called her as a face appeared above her.

Instinctively, Rin tried to sit up, but that was a mistake. Her forehead slammed into Shiemi's and they both fell back, groaning.

"Hey! Don't suddenly pop up over me like that!" Rin cried.

"Don't suddenly sit up like that, stupid Rin!" Shiemi whined back. She stood and picked up the basket of sheets she'd carried up there.

"What are you doing?" Rin asked.

"I was just bringing everyone's sheets up here to dry." The blonde answered.

"Oh. Do you want help?" Rin offered.

"No, I'll be fine on my own. Isn't that right, Nii?" She smiled softly at her adorable little familiar, who she was hardly seen without since the Greenman had been summoned the first time in class.

"Oh. Well, I guess I should go get ready for Cram School then." Rin got up and went downstairs to her room. She suddenly remembered Suguro standing over her in this same room, his solid figure holding her up with no struggle at all as he carried her up several flights of stairs. Her face flushed and she shook her head, trying to dispel the image. If she remembered that every time she came into her room, she'd need a different one just to get dressed.

And there was the other thing. She'd been mostly naked when he was carrying her. And had he seen her without the Blazer?! God, Rin's mind was a mess of questions about the attack and Ryuji Suguro. What a hassle!

She brushed her hair and very carefully brushed the fur on the end of her tail, detangling all the knots. Rin wrapped her tail in tight coils around her hips under the uniform skirt and pulled her bangs into a ponytail at the back of her head, clipping it there with the hair clip Suguro gave her.

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All during Cram School, Kamiki was completely out of it, obviously not in the right mindset for school. Rin figured she was thinking about Paku.

Finally, in Holy Scripture Recitation, the teacher called on Kamiki and she flunked it and asked the teacher to call on someone else.

If that woman called on Rin, she'd be screwed. Rin was good at memorizing things through doing them. Memorizing holy texts was not her thing and she honestly didn't even try to anymore. Luckily, the teacher avoided Rin like the plague, so Rin never had to face her scorn when she learned Rin hadn't even tried to memorize a single piece of holy text since the first week of school.