(3rd person p.o.v)

"Now, breathe in through your nose, and exhale through your mouth."

Azazel spoke with his soothingly calm voice. Both Rin and his older half brother Azazel sat in a garden, in the centre of the demon king's kingdom of spirits. The garden was full of exotic plants and herbs, never before seen by the human eye. Each flower an array of pastel colours, some of the plants even glowing like the stars above. The stars were nothing like he had seen in Assiah. There were purple, blue, and white stars, and they shone and sparkled like glitter. There were little firefly like spirits flying around them.

"Feel the negative energy flowing out of your body as you relax."

The two sons of Satan sat cross-legged on the soft pale green grass, both of their eyes closed in a meditation position. Everything remained silent besides the sound of Azazel's voice.

Both of them wore loose-fitting clothing and flower crowns, Azazel created a circle of jade and rose quartz gemstones that surrounded them both maximize the relaxation. Jade for tranquility, and Rose Quartz for positive energy to clear away any negative emotions.

"As a future demon king, you must always remain calm and neutral, displaying any extreme emotions can be seen as a sign of instability and weakness. Just think of Amaimon, there was a point of time when he just like you. Young, naive, emotional, unstable. But now, thanks to myself, he is much more calm and down to earth." His lips slightly curved into a smile at his clever pun. "As a son of Satan, you are a leader, a role model, the public looks up to you and depends on you for their safety. Which is why you mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. Your powers, our powers, are linked to our emotions, as you may have noticed. When you become overly upset or too worked up, it may cause you to burst out into flames. And when you are too sad or unsure of yourself, you may find yourself unable to summon any of your powers at all. Therefore, in order for you to control your flame, you must learn to control your emotions. Is that understood?" His pale face was mellow and expressionless, his long blonde bangs fell into his face, and his straight hair rested on his shoulders.

"The first step to becoming tranquil is letting go of all that troubles you. To do so, you must acknowledge what is upsetting you, all of your past mistakes and embrace it."

"O-ok." Rin said with his eyes tightly closed.

"Tell me Rin, what troubles you?"

"Heh," he fake laughed. "Where should I start?"

"Hmm, preferably from the beginning."

"Ok...well, for starters, everyone hates me, haha. For as long as I can remember everyone called me demon child, a monster, the spawn of the devil. No one would ever want to hang out with me, because they were always afraid of me. All I ever did was defend myself from other people, but that part didn't matter to the teachers, or to my dad." He took a shaky breath. "Every time I tried to get a job, I would always get fired within the first week or two. They'd say it was because I was a lousy employee, or a screw up, or I was slacking on the job. But I know they were just finding lame excuses to get me fired so that they wouldn't have to see my face everyday. Then, if things couldn't get any worse, I basically murdered my own father, or at least the person who raised me my whole life. It's my fault that he died. He died trying to protect me, and if I hadn't said what I did to him, maybe he'd still be alive today." At this point Rin looked like he was about to cry. "I know it's all my fault. I thought that I could possibly make something of myself by becoming an exorcist like dad. Then I'd also be able prevent other people from dying, because of m-me. But I couldn't even do that properly. Now the Grigori wants me dead, even my own twin brother wants me dead. *sigh* But who could blame them. I'm a horrible horrible person, and a danger to everybody's lives. Just my existence is a threat to society. It's no wonder everybody wants me to die." He wiped a couple of his tears from eyes that were still closed. "Even I want myself to die."

Azazel had one eye open, watching Rin's rant, but quickly re-closed it as he saw his eyes started open.

Rin continued to wipe away his tears.

"Hmmm... It looks like you and this human who raised you were awfully close."

"Yeah..." Rin looked away with a sad expression on his face. Azazel hated to see his baby brother sad.

"Well... I see your problem here."

"What?" He looked back at Azazel with an expression of both mourning and curiosity.

"Your looking at things in the wrong light, you can thank the humans for that." He spoke the last part quietly to himself, though Rin could still here him loud and clear thanks to his enhanced hearing capabilities.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well, if you'd be patient and let me explain." He said with slight annoyance "You're the son of our Lord Satan. You come from one of the most powerful bloodlines in history. You have even inherited the blue flame, third most powerful flame, and that's saying something. You are a strong paramount prince, who the public looks up to and depends on for protection and reassurance. All the humans may hate you, yes. But that is only because they are programmed to see things through a very narrow lens. That is, they see things in a 2-dimensional way. Humans are good, demons are bad. Exorcist are the heroes, Satan is the disgusting villain made of pure evil. There is only right, and wrong, and nothing in between. No matter what, they will always see themselves as the 'good guys' and demons as the 'bad guys'. They murder thousands of us on a daily basis, and it's suddenly okay because it is for a good cause. No matter how wicked their actions are they will always be good. And there is absolutely nothing we can do to help that. So you mustn't try to change their minds, for that is a lost cause. That is why we do not waste our precious time on those puny mortals. They are very, very thick skulled, and stupid. Us demons live longer, therefore we have more time to grow wisdom, and more time to see things as they truly are.

I may have gotten a tad bit off topic, your problem is that you are seeing things the wrong way. All the humans fear you, as they should. You are an all-powerful being, with the ability to take their worthless lives in the blink of an eye. You are strong, they are weak, they are smart to fear you. You are the son of Satan, demon God and king of Gahenna, which is fantastic! That makes you royalty. You should be proud of who you are. You are a living weapon, you don't need a knife or gun, you have your fist! You have your flame! And don't blame yourself for that humans death, from what I can hear, he cared for you like a son. It is a fathers duty to protect his children with his life. It was in no way your fault, he did what he had to do out of love."

Rin kept his head down, soaking in all that Azazel had said.

"Now, that we have acknowledged what has been making you upset, this is the first step to letting go of your worries. The next step is learning ways to keep your emotions in check. We control our feelings, they do not control us. You control your fire, it does not control you. Our feelings are our weakness, we must not let people see us weak, our enemies can use that to manipulate or take advantage of us. The only ones we can let our guard down near is with our brothers, and with our mate."

"What about Satan? Can we let our guard down near him?" Rin asked out of curiosity.

Azazel's eyes shot open. "Oh Gahenna, no! Father cannot have any weak sons"

"W-Why?" If he's their father, shouldn't he love them regardless?

"*sigh* I know he doesn't show it, but he does care for us. Weak people die in battle, so he makes sure that his children are the strongest they can be." Rin nodded in understanding.

"It's a cruel cruel world out there." Azazel said looking off at a distance. "So we must be prepared to receive worst. To be fully prepared for the worst, you must be used to getting the worst."

"Well...I'm definitely used to getting the worst." Rin said with a small smile.

Azazel felt really bad for his brother, and also furious with the humans for how they treated Rin.

"Good. Then it should only get easier from here."