Luminescent

Confrontation

With his new and blossoming relationship with Mephisto and Amaimon, Rin knew Yukio wouldn't like it and would likely say something about it. In which case, Rin would've avoided his younger twin the best he could.

But he didn't really need to. Whoever was in charge of distributing missions was giving Yukio an unfair amount of missions to go on. He was a student in advanced classes, and he was also a teacher on top of being an exorcist. Yukio was turning into a stiff-collar before he was even 16 and it was really sad.

It sucked to be Rin's brother right now because Rin's reputation held absolutely no weight in terms of convincing anyone of anything in the Order and actually dragged him down. If he could, he'd march up to whatever douchebag didn't take note of people's lives outside of Exorcism and either give him a tongue-lashing worthy of Bon's mother or just punch them and tell them to stop being such a dick to minors.

He didn't know if his trash reputation reflected on Yukio, he desperately hoped it didn't. That would just give him more work to do....

The day Yukio finally found free time to get pissy and bitch at Rin about his relationship with Mephisto and Amaimon was about three weeks after the relationship became a thing and he'd first seen the trio in the bath at the Dorm.

"You need to stop seeing them, Rin." Was the first thing Yukio said to him. Three weeks since they'd talked aside from Yukio snapping at him to pay attention in a classroom and the first fucking thing he said was that Rin needed to end the one thing that made him happy.

'He's stressed. He hasn't been around, he doesn't see how happy they make me. It's not his fault.' Rin soothed himself, taking a deep breath so his tail would stop the violent lashing it wanted to do in the air behind him. He looked at Yukio evenly.

"No."

"What?" Yukio was starting to look like he'd eaten a slice of lemon. "No. I won't stop seeing Amaimon and Mephisto." He repeated. He felt the scathing words before he heard them.

"Rin. I don't care how happy they make you now, as soon as the Grigori finds out about your relationship with them, they'll execute you for sure. Or, they'll take advantage of it and set new parameters for your deal." Yukio growled. Frown lines wouldn't be far behind if Yukio kept that ever- present glower on his face.

"I don't care anymore! My life sucks! I hit rock bottom and barely made any way up over this past year! I have people that make me happy and you want me to cut them off because you don't approve and just won't admit it?! Stop making excuses! You hate it when I'm happy! That's the bottom line here!" Rin crossed his arms. It was now a conscious effort to keep his tail from lashing the air violently.

"I don't hate it when you're happy! I'm trying to protect you and you keep doing reckless shit that completely undermines that!" Yukio gaped.

"Again, I never asked to be protected! I can hold my own now! And there isn't a single thing that I've done that doesn't have a good reason behind it! The Order wants me to lay down and take it, but I told them I'm not their bitch! You keep telling me things and I listen to you, but it just keeps hurting me! So why am I still listening to you?!" Rin snapped back.

"Because I'm your brother and I care about you! You are sleeping with heartless demons who don't actually care about you! They like you for sex and your power and that's all! They don't love you like I do!" Yukio told him, frustrated.

"No, they don't! Because you don't love me!" Rin finally yelled back.

They stood there, Yukio with his eyes wide in shock and Rin looking at his little brother with tired eyes. It felt like they'd switched places in that moment. Rin was tired and done and Yukio was the surprised one for once.