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Rin did not think he’d return to a classroom after graduating frommiddle school. After all, he did not think he’d be unlucky enough to get blinded and have his adoptive father die on him in the span of less than twenty-four hours. That was two weeks ago. Now, he’s sitting on a paired armchair and table in the front row, sticking his shoulder to the wall on his right where he knows that the door is just directly in front of him is the door.
And also, he now has a pair of fangs and a tail, and apparently, his brother ispart of an organization that kills demons, something that he is now. That was something Yukio had to do something about in rapid fire, making Rin recite some Latin he could barely understand even with the Sundays in the church choir and being a literal altar boy since he was tall enough to hold the cup filled with sacramental bread. He asked Rin to make a bond of some sort with him so that the organization that Yukio works with will not kill Rin. Even with that, numerous rules and conditions still needed to be followed so that the organization would not outright execute Rin on sight. But Rin understands something, the bond is to make him protect Yukio in times of need, something he is already doing since they were in kindergarten. Another is that he needs to study about demons and how to kill them.
Rin is not bothered, not at all. Not after since his actual biological father possessed his adoptive father and dragged them all to hell. If anything, Rin will gladly do anything to have the chance to sucker punch his sperm donator and beat him to apulp.
But it's so hard not to get anxious when you cannot see anything but blue squiggly lines and orbs, and have every other sense he has had been magnified a hundred times. Restless on his seat, he tapped the wooden table with his nails which also hardened with the transformation that happened that night, fully aware that even his tail was swinging behind him like a pendulum. After this, he’ll also need to prepare tomorrow for his therapy because he lost his sight, and Rin is completely lost to what will he do now.
He catches a glimpse of a blue blur passing in front of him, then hears a gasp followed by chants that might be either Shinto or Buddhist. Annoyed, Rin turned to the source of chanting.
“What are you trying to do?” he glared, eye twitching and struggling to not immediately throw a left hook, he doesn’t need his eyes to knock the lights out of a moron.
“Bon? What are…?” a high pitch squeak cried, trying to see what had made Bon disturbed,
“I’m calling a teacher!” another shrieked before zooming out of the room,
“What are you guys doing?” a girl asked from the back row, more of a protest than anactual question based on her tone,
Another girl answered, “The morons are trying to exorcise a Nephilim,” Rin can almost hear her eyes roll, “In what mountain did you all come down from that it’s the first time you see one?” sarcastic venom dripping from her tone, “He’s not even trying to attack you!”,
The teacher finally entered the room, and everyone turned to him. “Mister Suguro, it would do me a great service if you don’t finish that verse and banish my familiar to Gehenna,”,
“Wha-?” Suguro dropped their jaw to the floor, and the other boy who rushed out of the room earlier finally got inside too,
“Sir!”,
“Mister Shima, go back to your seat, everyone settle down to your seats before I start the class,” Rin knew that voice was just from his twin brother, Yukio,
“I will be your homeroom advisor, as well as the teacher for the Demonic Pharmaceutics, Okumura Yukio,” Yukio started, “I would like for the class to stand up and introduce themselves to each other before we start to class proper,”,
“Brother?” Yukio called his brother first, towhich everyone made a noise of protest to,
Rin threw an annoyed glare at his brother first before almost stumbling to stand up to face the class, “Okumura Rin,” he glared at everyone, especially at the direction of the boys who just tried to exorcise him,
The girls then introduced themselves as they sat just behind Rin, “Good afternoon, my name is Noriko Paku, take care of me, please,” Rin remembers that she was the one who asked the boys first of what they were doing to him,
“Kamiki Izumo,” the sarcastic girl said, then the boy who had tried to get a teacher suddenly whistled, to which Rin clapped his palms on his ears immediately, then something like a heavy object was thrown in the direction where the perverted catcaller was sitting down,
“Mister Shima, stop that attitude at once!” Yukio warned, “Miss Kamiki, please settle down,”, Rin could hear his twin make an exasperated sigh, and Kamiki sliding to her seat harshly, making him cringe,
Next to introduce was Shima Renzo himself, who seemed more focused on trying (and failing) to flirt with the two girls behind Rin. To which Yukio reprimanded him again, as well as the two boys Shima was with.
“Good afternoon, my name is Suguro Ryuji, I came here to learn to become an exorcist, please take care of me,” he said, before sitting down,
Then next was, “Miwa Konekomaru, please take care of me,” he stuttered and almost fell to his seat,
“Takara Nemu,” an inhuman voice came from the back,
“Yamada,” the other boy said, the two of them not even bothering to stand up for introductions.
In front, Yukio nodded, giving a worried glance to his older twin brother before turning back to the class to see Suguro raising his right hand.
“What is it, Mister Suguro?” Yukio asks,
“Sir may I ask, what is your brother?” the student asks, “And you also said he is your familiar, why is he here with us,”,
“You really are an idiot aren’t you?” Izumo rolled her eyes, having been irritated by Suguro’s group since the beginning of class, “Okumura Rin is a Nephilim, a half-demon half-human, and it seems that the demonic genes skipped Sir Okumura seeing as it’s only Okumura Rin that had his tail and fangs on display, many exorcists are actually Nephilims or at least have descended from one, and in some occasions, their relatives would make them their familiars,”,
“Stop calling me a fucking idiot, you hag! I was just asking!” Suguro growled, finally removing himself from his table and meeting Kamiki in the corridor between their tables, both grabbing their collars,
“Oh yeah! Then stop being a moron! You idiot!” she retorted back,
BANG!
Yukio dropped one of his more heavy books on the teacher’s table up front, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Sit down! The two of you!”, he also eyed his brother who winced at how loud he dropped his book. He let out a ragged breath, “Now, who in the class has yet to have their temptaints?”,
Three hands rose up to the air. One isfrom Kamiki’s friend, Miss Noriko, another is from Mister Miwa, and lastly from Mister Takara in the last row. Yukio nodded at them and carefully approached his brother.
“Rin, this might become too loud, do you want to go outside with the other or…?” he asked,
Rin let out an annoyed growl, “I’ll get out,” he said, cracking the joints on his fingers,
“Alright,” he nodded and went back to the teacher’s platform to make the other students go outside, “Behave yourselves, it will be quick,”.
Rin traced his way to the hallway outside. Shoulders square with tension, watching blurs of blue follow him. He may not see it, but he can feel eyes boring a hole on him.
“What do you want?” he growled,
“He speaks!” Shima exclaimed,
“Of course I speak, what did you take me for?” Rin glared at the blue blurs,
“A demon?” Yamada sarcastically suggested, “It’s weird to have a familiar as a student too you know. Tell us, what made your case special, Okumura?”,
“Tch! Get off my case!” Rin growled, “My case is my case! So shove off!”,
Gunshots suddenly rang from inside the room, to which Rin grabbed his ears and almost curled down on the floor in panic. The door to the room then opened to let them all in. Inside the others can see the three have become paler, tense, or both. Rin pinched his nose with the scent of metal,gunpowder, and blood suddenly flooding his sense of smell. When everything finally settled down to calm, Yukio finally started his class. He explained what courses they may take for this year, as supposedly this is their first year in cram school, they will mostly take introductions to courses that will show them the different meisters the students may specialize in the future when they become exwires then full-fledged exorcists. Surprisingly, no one asked any more questions when the class ended. Rin was the last to leave the classroom, as he was waiting for Yukio to pack up.
“I now remember why I hate school again,” Rin grumbled, grabbing the arm Yukio offered him, “You actually use guns?”,
“Yes, was it too loud?” Yukio asked softly,
“I think my ears are still ringing,” Rin replied, “Where are we going now?”,
“We’ll go to the dorms Sir Pheles gave us, it’s the old boy’s dormitory and we’ll be the only ones there so that you can…”,
“…Okay,” Rin nodded, “Also, why didn’t you tell me you’re actually our teacher?”,
“I… I was just supposed to be a TA, but the teacher for my subject… left,” Yukio hesitated,
“… It's father isn’t it, father was supposed to teach your class, right?” Rin let go of his grip on his brother’s arm, “… I’m sorry, it’s my fault,”,
“I… brother…” Yukio still hesitated.
