Sweet Like Candy

MephyLand, AKA Childhood Trauma

"So, how'd you guys do on your first missions?" Rin asked the guys, just to start a conversation to cure the boredom of sitting in silence. It was their first mission as a class and Shiemi and Kamiki were late. They had met at a fancy fountain not unlike the ones in courtyards outside the Cram School. Yukio stood off to the side with a file in hand and Yamada and Takara stood away from them in the opposite direction.

The Mephisto Themed amusement park gave Rin the creeps. There were huge gold statues of the Headmaster everywhere, grinning and holding his stupid umbrella, standing on a pedestal that was almost as tall as she was. Rin scoffed at the thought. The guy probably held himself on a pedestal above everyone else.

"I had to clean out the Leaper's cage." Konekomeru wrinkled his nose at the memory.

"I had to take a sample of bariyoshi to Yunokawa." Suguro answered disappointed.

"I had to carry supplies to Tsubakki." Shima whined. "They weren't even real missions, they were just odd jobs the Exorcists didn't wanna do themselves!"

"What did you expect? It's just like at home–all the adults give the kids the shitty jobs they don't wanna do when we get old enough to do them." Rin snorted. She'd complained about it to Shiro as a kid, but all he'd said was "Children are better seen rather than heard." And dismissed her to clean the kitchen, the bathroom, and his office.

But this time, Rin got the better end of the deal. "I'm a step ahead of you guys, then. I talked down an angry demon and got another familiar out of it!" She gloated. It felt nice to be the one bragging for once.

"Pffft, yeah right." Suguro rolled his eyes. "Why don't you summon it, then?" He challenged.

"I can't exactly do that. I left him back at the dorms and he's more of an independent familiar. And I gave him to my brother anyway, so he's not really mine to summon." Kuro had said that he hadn't been to Gehenna in a long, long time. He liked Assiah better because he was treated better here.

"You 'left' him at your dorm?" The teen scoffed.

"You think I'm lying?" Rin arched a brow, crossing her arms.

"Ok, this is ridiculous." Shima interrupted. "Aren't the girls really late?"

"Not all of them, but I'll just forget about you saying I'm a guy." Rin pointed out.

"That's not what I meant! You are...." His eyes trailed up and down her body and Rin scowled. "Very female."

Rin was about to hop down from the fountain and roundhouse kick him, but Suguro got to him first and swung a nice left hook to catch Shima in the jaw. That would leave a worse bruise than the one Yukio had from her right hook a couple days before! Rin grinned and Suguro looked at her sheepishly. She beamed at him and he sat back down, proud of himself.

Rin heard a soft snicker off to the side and saw Yukio biting back a smile behind his clipboard. He seemed to approve of the fighting in class, for once.

"We're sorry!" Shiemi and Kamiki had finally arrived. "We took a long time!" Rin could see why. Shiemi was in the school uniform. How the hell did she hide that body in a kimono?! Rin had thought she was petite under the kimono, but she was thick and curvy! The girl had been very shy when she changed out for P.E., so the most Rin had seen was her regular bras on the bench when she changed them out for sports bras.