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Rin P.O.V:

I flipped the clip around in my hand, threading it through my fingers absentmindedly as I walked down the school hallway. I hadn't had it out of my hand since Ryuji gave it to me for studying. I think it was his way of thanking me for the whole jumping in front of an angry demon frog for him. I stared down at it embarrassed by my own obsessing. Why the fuck was I so fixated on a clip… a clip for fuck sake. Too bewitched by the small token of gratitude to look up I crashed into Shiemi. I parted my lips in order to apologise but before I could make a sound she ran off cheeks dusted red.

I followed her into class, using the clip to keep my hair out of my face with a smile. I sat in my usual place ready to switch my brain off as Yukio began his lesson. I turned my brain to more important things like the object holding up my hair. Needless to say I was only wearing it because my hair regularly got in my eyes and I had no other clips… obviously.

I half listened to my brother talk having already read ahead. I only started focusing in towards the end of his lecture when he spoke about a combat training camp.

"…Therefore I will be holding a one week training camp for the exams. Starting next week" he said before handing out the pile of forms I saw him bring in at the beginning of the class.

Looking around the room I had very few options for consultation, weird puppet guy… no, hoodie girl who never spoke… no, eyebrow bitch and her sidekick… no, my brother… fuck no. So I sucked it up and walked confidently over to where Shima, Bon and Konekomaru were sitting and slid into the spot next to Bon.

"Konekomaru would you mind explaining what exactly a meister is to me please?" I asked politely. I completely ignored the fact that I could feel the heat radiating of Bon's shoulder, which was only a few inches from my own.

"Wait a second!" Bon interrupted. "You're saying that you want to be an exorcist yet you don't know what a meister is?" I frowned turning towards him but before I could say anything Konekomaru interrupted.

"There are five categories of exorcist, knight, dragoon, tamer, aria and doctor. You can become an exorcist if you acquire the title meister under any of these groups. The fighting style differs depending on the meister."

"Thanks Konekomaru, I'm starting to get it" I said smiling at him in gratitude. "What will you pick?"

We continued talking until the next class, where everyone tried summoning demons well except for me of course because who the fuck knows what the blood of Satan mixed with a summoning seal would do. I couldn't help but notice how distanced Shiemi was being. I followed her out of the classroom to find her grovelling for that Kameki girl's attention, the same girl who had had her running errands all day.

"Shiemi has turned into eyebrows servant…" I said to myself leaving the hallway.

As the day progressed I steadily became more frustrated with and angry on Shiemi's behalf.

"Deliver this message Shiemi. Get me this Shiemi. Pass me that Shiemi. Melon bread Shiemi" I said pacing outside the old dormitories. Yukio was sitting on the steps not bothering to listen in on my private bitching session. "She's totally become her bitch!"

"What?" he said looking up from his book.

"Nothing" I said waving my hand at him. "By the way I was wondering why the hell are we having a camping session in these creepy old dorms?"

"Well they're empty so it's the perfect space for it".

"Yeah…" I said quietly to myself "…perfect". This place gave me a creepy vibe, just looking at it made my tail twitch.

Five hours later everyone had arrived and we'd just finished doing worksheets. I was exhausted and completely ready for bed already wearing a pair of baggy track suit bottoms and a baggy jumper I stole from Yukio a year ago. Walking towards the room I would be spending the night in, juice box in hand, I saw Shiemi waiting outside the bathroom.

"What ya doing?" I asked quietly. She looked a little upset so I approached timidly. I wasn't used to having friends that I cared about so I tried to reign in my annoyance when I realised she was waiting there for eyebrows and her side kick.

"I have to buy some fruit milk!" Shiemi suddenly exclaimed looking flustered before pushing past me towards the front door.

Fuck the sensitive approach I thought to myself. "Will you just STOP that!" I begged her.

"That?" she tilted her head innocently at me, which only riled me up further.

"You're acting like her bit… errand girl. Shiemi you're better than that. You deserve friends who appreciate you, not people who treat you like, like this!"

"I'm not an errand girl. I'm helping my friend" she said.

"Do you actually believe that?" I said lowering my voice. "You're lying to yourself and you know it".

"I've always been hiding behind people! I want to be strong and help my friends!" she burst out in tears. "You wouldn't understand Rin. You've always been strong and had friends!" she shouted before running away. 'Wow could she have been more wrong' I thought to myself…

Just then a terrified shriek came from the bathroom. I grabbed the back of Shiemi's outfit dragging her away from the door.

"Get Yuki!" I said running inside.

My eyes swept the room. Three demons, a wounded human and eyebrows girl that seemed so frightened her own summons were turning against her. I was going to have to do this without unsheathing my sword … great.

I quickly jumped in front of eyebrows and punched her oncoming summon in the nose. I had to cover my knuckles in a barely visible amount of blue flames to make sure the strike actually did something.

"Rip the paper!" I commanded.

"The paper?" Kameki asked shivering. I pointed at the summoning circle at her feet.

Once the fox demons were dealt with I turned my attention towards the zombie looking beast that was crouched over my other classmate. Still sheathed I used Kurikara to back the demon into a corner.

"Princess?" it hissed making me freeze. Suddenly it grabbed me, flinging me across the room, through a pane of glass and into a shower stall. I landed hard cracking a few tiles upon impact, my skull bounced off the floor. I was suddenly jolted out of reality. My body and mind felt like they were being ripped apart. I realised that I was obviously hallucinating when I found myself walking down the hallway with Konekomaru and Shima. They both seemed shorter then they usually were and were calling out for Bon and waving their hands in front of my eyes.

"Are you ignoring me because I suggested we spy on the girls in the bath? Bon? Come on! Don't be such a prude! Dude! Seriously are you ok? You're worrying me now" Shima said. I blinked and was back in my body and conscious.

There was a large shard of glass sticking out of my side as well some pretty nasty bruising and a serious smattering of lacerations up and down my left forearm. I attempted to get up only to have my head slammed into the tiled floor beneath me. The demon loomed over me smelling of rotting flesh, its eye sockets although empty seemed to be looking directly at me. Its deformed hand tightened around my throat. My head felt like it was going to explode. My feeble attempt to force its hand off me failed miserably. "This is my masters bidding. I'm sorry princess" it hissed.

I reached out blindly searching for anything I could use to free myself from the creature above me. It had black liquid dripping from its eye sockets like oily black tears as it begged for my forgiveness whilst slowly choking the life out of me. Giving up, I reached down to the only weapon I had at my disposal. I screamed my last breathe of precious air as I pulled the shard of glass from my side and lodged it right between the two empty eye sockets hovering above me. The grip on my throat slackened and then disappeared completely.

I lay there, in a slowly mixing pool of black sludge and my own blood, greedily gasping lungfuls of air and trying to calm my erratic heartbeat. I sat up slowly inspecting myself. I noticed the cuts on my arms had already begun to close up and the gaping wound on my side had stopped bleeding. Taking one more deep breath in, I gritted my teeth as I pulled the skin on either side of the wound together. I watched in morbid fascination as the skin began to sew itself together. I'd always had fast healing but this was on another level. Looking to my left I saw Kurikara still sheathed only about an inch out of reaching distance.

I laughed bitterly contemplating the irony that even if I had the lethal weapon in my grasp at the time, I still wouldn't have been able to use it with the looming threat of execution upon discovery hanging over my head. I took off my second favourite lazy jumper, which was now soaked in blood and unidentifiable demon fluids. Slinging the useless sword over my shoulder I trudged out of the shower room in only sweat pants and a bra.

Looking up I saw Yukio, Bon, Shima, and Konekomaru racing into the room all looking equally flustered. I frowned at their timing, my throat suddenly dry when I saw Bon inspecting the scab on my side.

"Did any of you guys see a half empty juice box on the way in?"

(5 mins earlier)

Bon P.O.V:

Walking down the hall of the abandoned building gave me the creeps. The hairs on the back of my neck stood to attention. I stopped suddenly the smell of demon reaching my nose. I froze, shoulders going ridged as I took in a breath. My heart began to beat erratically and was almost immediately accompanied by a stabbing pain in my side. I gasped quietly, slowly sliding my hand up my ribcage to see what had cut me when everything went black.

The world faded in and out of focus in a flash and next thing you know I'm lying on the floor with a shard of glass sticking out of side. Coherency seemed an unattainable state through the onslaught of pain. I tried to focus, tried to understand what had happened and where Shima and Konekomaru had gone. Looking down at myself only confused me further.

"Am I wearing Okumura's jumper?" I mumbled to myself before blacking out again.

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