Those comments last chapter calling me Author-San .....I like it 😌

**warning: this chapter is pretty shitty, the crappy title choice is evidence**
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"Assiah." They both said in unison.

The two boys found themselves in the middle of the woods. It had been little over 200 years since Rin had been to Assiah, and honestly he had mixed feelings about being here. He grew up here, he had been there since birth. This used to be his home, however, it used to be his prison too. He was trapped here, hidden from his true family. He was brainwashed into their customs and treated terribly by everyone, and worst of all, he always felt as though he deserved the treatment he got.
Amaimon could clearly see that being here made his younger brother tense.

"Onii-San?" He asked, putting his hand on his shoulder. Rin shook off the feeling and started walking forwards.

"We're here on an important mission, the sooner complete our task the sooner we can leave this dimension."

Amaimon nodded, still feeling slight concern.

"I'm pretty good at tracking people." Amaimon said.

"We need to find clues as to where it went while it was in Assiah. First I think it's important we figure out where in Assiah we are, that means finding our way out of these woods."

They started their trek through the woods, it was long and there were a lot of branches to push back.

"Rin, come here and look at this." Rin followed the sound of Amaimon's voice and walked over to his side. There he saw Amaimon staring up at a large elaborate white building with intricate designs. There were young people walking in and out of the building chatting holding what appeared to be books.

"It's Mephisto's academy, True Cross or whatever."

"But why would the portal lead here?" Rin questioned with a puzzled look. "You don't think that the culprit responsible for opening all these portals is in there, don't you?"

"If it's a demon we're looking for then how would they get past the seals?"

"Maybe they're not in the academy, but near it?"

"Or maybe we're not looking for a demon at all."

"But what other being would have such power?"

"A sorceress perhaps."

"But there aren't any of those left, are there?"

"Who knows." Amaimon shrugged. "Do you think we should notify Mephisto since it's his academy?"

"Why would the stupid clown want to help us? And most of all why would he want to do anything to help solve Gahenna's problems? He's an exorcist is he not?" Rin snarled.

"I think he would care if it concerns his school. A powerful being running through Assiah opening and hopping through portals."

"I guess. But I'm not sure if I really want to go into that academy, not after all that he'll they put me through."

"I know, I know, but I thinks it's better we let all of our brothers know what's going on. Then after we can leave. We'll only be there for a little while, also it's after the schools opening hours I think, we won't run into any one. We're just there to ask for his help."

"Do we even need his help?" Rin asked.

"Perhaps not, yet again, it concerns his school."

"Do you even care what happens to his school?" Rin asked.

"No." He said plainly. "But I'd rather not end up on his bad side, again. If something happens to his school and he finds out I knew about the whole situation and I didn't give him any heads up, then I'm minced meat. Last time it took me 3 whole days to fully regenerate."

Of course Anaimon would be afraid of ending up on Mephisto's bad side. He's basically putty in his hands. Mephisto and Satan are the only people he lets order him around. And maybe Rin if he asked really nicely and chose his words carefully. Amaimon developed a small soft spot for the blue haired demon on the years.

"Fine, but only so you don't end up on his bad side."

"What about you?"

"Oh, he already knows fully well I'm not going to do anything he tells me to."

"Like father." He said quietly to himself although thanks to demonic super hearing Rin heard him loud and clear and after being in Gahenna for so long, he didn't take it as an insult to be compared to Satan.

"Shall we get going?" Amaimon nodded and they headed towards the building, just a couple feet away Rin felt a great force that repelled him away.

"What in the name of lord Satan." He tried walking forwards again only to be repelled again.

"Onii-san's seals. It won't let any demons enter."

"Then how does he enter?" Rin asked frustrated.

"He has to let us in. Follow me." Amaimon lead him towards Mephisto's window. They saw him in his office with a pile of papers that he was filing. They were s good distance from the window because if the barriers.

"He doesn't see us." Rin said, "how did you get into the academy before Amai?"

"He let me in. One second nii-San." Amaimon started gather objects and throw them at the window. After several objects Mephisto looking rather frustrated abruptly got up from his desk and forceful opened the window.

"Whoever is doing that reveal yourselves!" He yelled, shaking his fist.

"Hi onii-San." Amaimon said plainly.

"Oh, it's about time you two showed up." He said with an evil smirk putting down the barriers enough to let them in. Once they were in the building he instantly put back up the seals.

"So you were expecting us?" Rin asked raising his eyebrows.

"Of course, I'm the demon king of time, I knew long before that you would be paying me a visit."

"Mmhm." Rin said, not buying it, Mephisto tended to lie a whole lot. "So, I guess you s,ready know why we're here then." He said crossing his arms. "Since you apparently foresaw our arrival, you must know what was the cause."

"There are many reasons why you could've come. Different paths leading to different realities."

"So...in other words you don't know." Rin said with sass. "You claim to know everything, yet we know that you don't."

"I can see that you haven't changed one bit. Still snarky as ever."

Rin puffed looking away. Mephisto chuckled at his actions. The Okumura brothers were still rather entertaining even after all this time.

"What is your reason for gracing me with your presence, your majesty." Mephito's said with a sly grin taking a bow.

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't disrespect me. Any ways, we're here because of a current situation in Gahenna that may also concern Assiah."

"Go on." Mephisto said sounding a little bit more serious than before at the mention of Assiah.

"We have found a bunch of open portals on the edge of the Shadow Forest in Gahenna. The portals lead to multiple other dimensions including Assiah."

"The problem is?" Mephisto said clearly not getting the big deal.

"The problem is that the gateways to other realms are only supposed to open every 30 moons. It is not due to open yet, meaning that something is opening these portals themselves. As we know it takes a lot of power and drains a lot of energy just to open just one portal manually. Being that it isn't supposed to be easy for outside creatures to get into other realms that they do not belong in, or to escape. Even then the only time they would be able to create a portal would be during what people on Assiah call 'the Devils hour'. The fact that a creature can pry open so many portals themselves at any given hour means that they obtain great power and could pose a threat to our citizens if not dealt with."

"I see. We will have to get our top exorcists to look into the situation-"

"A human would surely die up against something so powerful, and you want to send an exorcist? We don't even know if we're dealing with a demon. If they're a demon their certainly one hell of a powerful demon if they can easily slip past barriers meant to repel it."

"I see where you are coming from, we need to figure out what the creature is and we'll need a team to help us do that. You can't just jump into a situation and solve it all on your own with out the help of anyone, relying on Satan's power alone. That about you clearly has not changed one bit." Rin growled at that stepping towards Mephisto. Amaimon put a hand on his shoulder to pull him back.

"Calm down." He whispered in his ear.

"I'll alert the other exorcists in the morning, until, make yourselves at home. You can take any room in the old boys dorm. No one lives there anymore."

"Stay here?!" Rin exclaimed.

"Rin, we need to stay to figure this out. I don't want to stay here with nasty humans either. But it's what needs to be done. We'll keep our distance ok?"

Rin looks away, but he didn't argue. Amaimon could tell he was apprehensive about staying at his old school, the same building where everyone he cared about betrayed him. "I won't let anyone cause any harm to you, ok? If they do, I'll kill them." Rin looked back at Amaimon seeing that he had a faint smile. It was small, but it was there. Rin smiled back.

"There will be no killing of anyone." Mephisto warned.

"Awww." Amaimon pouted, Rin snickered.

"Alright, I'll go pick a dorm, but I most certainly will not make myself at home." He and Amaimon left the office to go look for a room.

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Being back in the old boys dorm room cause much unwanted memories to flood his head. He had nearly forgotten this place and what they had done to him there. The only thing he remembered of Assiah was how he was brainwashed into believe he should be ashamed if his heritage, and how everyone he considered a friend wronged him. He remembered how humans were nasty vile creatures. He remembered how he wanted to be an exorcist, but they quickly became enemies who wanted him dead. He didn't remember specific actions and he didn't remember names and faces. It had been 200 years, his memories were faded, all he could remember was pain. One never forgets trauma and what inflicted it.

The only name and face he could remember was Yukio. His twin brother. There was a time, when he had just moved to Gahenna, that his twin plagued his dreams. He could vividly remember his face, taunting him, telling him he'd never amount to anything, how he was a worthless demon who deserved to die.

Though he wronged him, he didn't want to harm Yukio, he didn't want to kill him for all he had done. All he wanted to do, was to make Yukio feel the guilt. He wanted him to feel the weight of his actions. Go through the pain he put his own twin brother through. He wanted to make Yukio eat his words. He wanted to prove him wrong, to show him, that he did amount to something.

He may not have became an exorcist, he may not have killed Satan, but he became something far greater. He was a king. He ruled over a nation, he was loved and respected. He had a family. He had his mom, his true dad, and 8 wonderful older brothers who though were a bit much at times, he could tell they at least cared for him. He made even friends, they were his servants yes but he treated them with great respect, like they were his friends. He played chest with butler, though that didn't sound exciting it was quite fun. He invited some of his subjects into his palace, he made sure they all got what they needed. There was not poverty in Rin's kingdom.

He wanted to take his success, and shove it in his mole covered face.

He didn't want to kill him.

Though, he wouldn't stop his brothers if they wanted to.

They made there way through the old boys dorm room. It was completely empty, there footsteps echoed through the room. They could tell no one had lived there for a while. Yukio probably moved out of the dorm after Rin had disappeared. Though he could be see why he'd want to, then he'd have this whole dorm for himself.

"Well. Let's go pick a room." Amaimon said grabbing Rin's hand. They went to the other side of the house where all the rooms were. "How about this one?" He asked. It was a relatively large room. It has a large window, two beds and lead to a kitchen. It was rather dusty though, and smelt very musty. Rin cracked open the window to let in some fresh air. Amaimon sat on the bed. "The mattress is kind of hard, but it will have to do."

"Mephisto said we start looking tomorrow, so until then I guess we can relax."

"But that's so boring." Amaimon said sprawling himself out on the bed. "Let's have some fun."

"What could we possibly do for fun here?"

"Hmm." He thought about it. "Let's go exploring." Rin raised his eyebrow. "Onii-San never lets me wonder around school grounds, I don't know what's around here stil, so it'll be fun."

"He probably doesn't let you wander on school grounds for a reason. A demon king walking around in a school of humans, let alone exorcists. Sint that cause people to panic?"

"Everyone has probably left, it's late in the day. We won't run into people I promise. We won't go near the class rooms or other dorms."

"I don't know..."

"Oh come on! You're no fun since you became king. All you care about is following rules and running the perfect kingdom to not disappoint father. You never used to care about what rules got broken before. We used to go exploring and hunting. You're the only one who ever spends any time with me and now not even you do that anymore."
Rin felt his words twinge at his heart, he had been neglecting Amaimon a lot lately. All he wanted was for someone to play with him, and he used to play with him all the time, but he had been so busy recently.

"I'm sorry Amaimon. I'm so sorry." He frowned. "Let's go exploring, yeah?"
He saw Amaimon smile at that, actually smile. Not one of his slight smiled you have to look close to see, but a real, full one. Amaimon took his hand and pulled him out side of the dorm practically running. Really, Amaimon was like a great big child. A great, big, hundreds of thousands year old child.
His actions caused Rin himself to grin.

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"Alright students, that'll be all for today, remember to study hard for that test and read chapters 6 to 11." Yukio said smiling and waving his students goodbye. It was a Friday and they wouldn't have lessons tomorrow.

"Hey Shi, are you still coming?" Shima asked with a smile.

"Uh huh." She said with a shy blush. Today all the cram school students were hanging out after school. The fighting about the son of Satan's sudden disappearance had died down, though Izumo still refused to take blame for anything that may have happened. "I'll-I'll be out in a moment, I just need to pack up my things." She put her books away in her bag. Everyone else grabbed there stuff leaving and agreeing to meet at the fountain outside the school. Shiemi was the last on the classroom, Yukio had left saying he had a few errands to run.

Once she had her things she went outside the class to go meet her friends outside. She walked down the hall towards the exit when she heard the sound of voices.

"U-um, guys, is that you?" She asked with her naturally hushed tone of voice. They didn't answer her, they just got louder. She let out a small sheik and hid behind a wall so they wouldn't see her.

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The two demon kings wandered the school grounds. Rin looked around noticing the familiar looking decorated walls, the large few encrusted halls.

"Amaimon, we shouldn't be here, we're going to get spotted."

"Lighten up Rin, I promise you that nothing bad will happen. And Mephisto never said anything against us walking around school grounds or not letting people see us. All he said was to make ourselves at home."

Suddenly they heard a creaking sound and a yelp.

"Did you hear that?"

"It was nothing."

"That creaking sound."

"You're being paranoid, if you don't like us being here then let's get moving."

"Alright." Rin nodded.

"This place looks pretty neat, you know, compared to the rest of this place which is a literal dump." Rin used to think True cross was like a palace, but after living in an actual palace for over 250 years, this place really was a dump compared to it, considering castle life is all Amaimon ever knew.

"I just...don't like being around people." Rin said sounding uncomfortable

"Me neither, humans are disgusting." He replied. "This place is getting pretty boring, let's go mess with people."

"I thought we were to leave people alone?"

"Nah, he just said not to kill anyone, never said anything against messing with people. Besides, it's not wrong if we don't get caught." He smirked.

"I like your logic." Rin said and followed him out the building.

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Shiemi watched behind the corner of the wall, breathing heavily. She was supposed to be the only one left in the building. All her friends and her teachers had left, a suspicious sounding stranger was in the building with her.
She was starting to freak out. They were quite far, their voices were faint and she could only hear snipits of the conversation.

"...we shouldn't be here." The voice was rather deep, but vaguely familiar, she just couldn't put her finger on it.

"...I promise...nothing bad will happen...." There was a second voice that also sounded very familiar.

She scooted closer to get a better hear of their conversation. Her mama said eavesdropping was bad, but her curiosity got the best of her. She took a step to the side, accidentally causing a pitched creaking noise with her shoe. She yelped in surprise and instantly clasped her hand over her mouth.

"Did you hear that?"

"It was nothing."

"That creaking sound."

She freaked out even more.

"You're being paranoid, if you don't like us being here then let's get moving."

"Alright."

She peered over the side to see who the intruders were. There she saw a tall man dressed all black, strange looking clothing, it almost looked like a costume. It was stiff, like armor was built onto it. He had very bright blue hair that was slightly long and rather messy, going all over the place. He was handsome too, but looked rather menacing and it made chills run down her spine. He couldn't be good news. His back was facing to her and she couldn't see his face to identify him. However, she noted that his eats did not look human, they were long and pointy. There was another person in front of him. He was definitely familiar. Pale skin and green hair with a spike in the middle. It took some time to let it click but she soon realized who he was. He was none other than the demon king of Earth. She first met him at the camping trip the one where they all learned Rin's true identity.
That was a rough time. She was scared of Rin, he looked horrifying in his demon form, but he was also his friend and she wanted to comfort him. But she didn't know how to talk to him, so she didn't. That was a mistake. A big mistake. She regretted ignoring Rin. He was her first true friend and she completely ignored his feelings only caring about her own issues, though Rin had greater issues.

She snapped out of her small flashback. A demon king was in her school, she needed to tell the others right away!

She quietly exited the school.

She saw her friends all sitting at the fountain seemingly waiting for her.

"There she is." Shima spotted her. "What took you so long Shi?"

She looked around avoiding eye contact.

"Shi?" He asked again.

"What's the matter Moriyama?" Bon asked.

"I saw Amaimon in the Academy." She squeaked.

"You saw who!?" Bon asked shocked.

"The demon king Amaimon, in the school. He was with another demon! They were talking, something about not getting caught!"

"W-we should go tell Okumura-sensei." Koneko stuttered.

"Koneko's right, we gotta tell someone. Sooner better than later. This isn't good, how did they even get past the barriers?? Aren't they supposed to be impenetrable to supernatural beings??"

"That didn't stop any of the other demons from getting past them all those other times. I'm guess they were let in, that or they just have their ways." Izumo said casually. "It's probably nothing if they were just chatting-"

"Two high level demons are in the school Izumo! How could you say it's nothing!? Demons are dangerous creatures. We're training to be exorcists, its our mission to stop them from causing harm to other people." Bon yelled.

"Causing harm...by talking. What are they gonna do, talk people to death? 'Oh no! they won't shut up! AHHH, OUR EARS!?" She said sarcastically.

"Now is not the time Izumo! Don't you ever quit!?"

"The term 'quit' is not in my vocabulary."

Bon snarled and pushed her out of the way storming off towards the building. Shima and Miwa quickly followed after him.

Shiemi and Izumo then followed after them, Izumo let out a puff crossing her arms. Why were they always so dramatic? They acted as though every demon was a blood thirsty diseased animal foaming at the mouth. Not all demons were bad. In fact, humans were worse than demons. They were capable of being every bit as evil, yet they refused to beleive that was so. They thought they were perfect saints, the good guys.
They believed every stereotype about demons they heard.
Yes, most demons were bad, but you couldn't lump the whole species together.

It used to be that Exorcists killed only the demons that caused trouble. Now they killed demons just for...being. They see a demon, they kill it.
How was that any different from being a murderer who killed for sport? But their all if a sudden not muderers, but heroes because it was a demon they killed. She didn't like how things have become. She didn't like how she was stuck with ignorant people. These very ignorant people were the ones that got rid of Rin. Despite how she acted, she actually did consider Rin a friend. Sort of. An acquaintance. But that wasn't the point. She was 99% sure that Rin had killed himself, I mean, they never found his body for 2 years. If he had ran away, then he's one hell of a hider. Because not even the blood hounds could track his sent. Yet again, if he were dead, they would've probably found his body, it's not like a dead corpse could run. She chose not to look into the details.

Before she knew it, they were outside Yukio's new dorm room. They knocked on his door. They heard the sound of feet shuffling before the door opened.

"Ryuji." He said sounding quite surprised to see them. "and students." He said noticing he had brought an entire entourage.

"Sensei, we have something important to tell you."

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  The door to Mephisto's office was slammed open.

"Sir Pheles! I have important matters to discuss with you."

"Please, do come in." He said sarcastically. "What could be so important to have you barge in uninvited, that it couldn't at least wait until tomorrow when I've finished filing these important documents."

"This is urgent." Yukio said with a stern expression. The cram school students had followed him all the wait to Mephisto's office though they were not to.

"Urgent you say? Do, go on." He said folding his hands and resting them under his chin.  Yukio disregarded his body language that showed lack of interest and continued on.

"It would seem as the Amaimon, the demon king of Earth has found his way past the seals and into the Academy. Though I don't know how this could have portably happened if the seals are unbreakable." Saying the last sentence to himself.

"How ever could that have happened." Mephisto said, with an uncaring expression.

"I have no clue myself. What should we do about him, shall we gather the others to annihilate him?"

"There will be no annihilating today, and I do not usually say that." Mumbling the last part.

"But -"

"No buts."

"What could he possibly be doing here, obviously he is up to no good."

"The demon kings are just here under business, they'll be here for a week or so and then be out of our hair."

"Kings?? As in plural, more than one?"

"Well it has been fun talking to you, but it's about time I get back to filing. Get some sleep, read some books or whatever it is you do when you're not working, don't work yourself to hard, ta-ta!" He rushed his words and shoed him out of his office.

"But I'm not done speaking to you! What is he doing in the academy? Are there more demons with him?"

"I said ta - ta." He said closing the door and locking it. "Ahh, that one never changes either. I guess the Okumura twins are alike." He took a seat back down at his desk. "Oh, how interesting this family reunion will be. I hope there is no bloodshed~"
"The last thing I need is a mess to clean up."

This chapter is unedited, sorry for the typos that I know are there.this chapter is probably shit.