第八章：家族と大混乱 – Eighth Chapter: Family and Havoc

„Onii-chan?"

Rin slowly blinked his eyes and saw a blurry blue figure looming over him. The sweet voice awoke him slowly. "Onii-chan?", the sweet voice sounded once more, making Rin groan softly. "What the hell~", he purred quietly and slowly startled up. After rubbing his eyes to sharpen his vision, he noticed the blue-haired girl that was previously looming over him.

"Onii-chan!" she squealed and hugged him promptly as well as tightly. "Sooo~glad you finally awakened, Onii-chan!" she exclaimed and hugged Rin harder. "What the hellll~!" he purred again, feeling his breath being cut off. He tugged the girl's shoulder to make her stop before she suffocates him, but the girl didn't stop. Of course she wouldn't; what little girl listens to boys when they're trying to tell her to stop?

"Now that's enough, Aoi."she heard a manly voice and noticed a cold hand resting on her shoulder. As if a miracle just occurred, the girl named Aoi stopped. Rin mercilessly fell back onto the bed, inhaling sharply for air. His breath was very hectic and he didn't rise for about five minutes. The girl just stared at him, as did the figure watching them.

When Rin finally rose, he rubbed his head and looked to Aoi and the demon standing next to her – Satan.

"Papa, Onii-chan awoke!"Aoi said happily and pointed at him. Rin just stared at Aoi and Satan, irritated by her cute and happy demeanour, but his stare rested on Satan mostly. After an eternity, so it seemed, Satan let out a content sigh. "Well, my son." he said. "Have you finally processed the news?" Caught off-guard, Rin tensed. He remembered everything that happened a while back.

"How long have I been out!?" he exclaimed. This was so embarrassing for him; he remembered passing out two times and being totally clueless in the presence of his father. He looked next to him and tensed more. "Where's Yukio!?"

"Yukio?" Satan repeated and rose his eyebrows. "Erm.. he went to help your mother with preparations for dinner."

"Wait, dinner?", Rin yelled once more. "So let me see.. You've brought me and Yukio to Gehenna this morning, so I've been out for about.. 5..6… 8 hours!?" He threw himself back on his pillow. "This is insane~" he rustled. Satan just laughed at that. It wasn't a violent laugh, but a real laugh. Like a real human being.

"You're so funny.", he remarked in-between the laughs. "You take after me more than I initially anticipated." Rin just pouted at that statement and crossed his arms. He got up and promptly noticed that he was only in his boxers.

"What the HELL?!" he screamed in embarrassment and blushed insanely. He noticed Aoi's guilty mimics and her small body tensing. "YOU!" he yelled and pointed a finger at her.

"I.. I just wanted to discard your blood stained clothes.." she murmured innocently and looked up to him. "And she is so right." Satan agreed. "The rags you were previously wearing do not suit a Prince of Gehenna."

"Wait a sec~" Rin squeaked. "Does that mean that I will have to wear the antique, GAY stuff that Amaimon and the others are wearing!?"

"No, not these. You will wear the most exquisite clothing Gehenna has to offer. A Prince should always be dressed properly." his father responded. Aoi nodded in approval. "Just look at the dress your sister is wearing. It's very royal, don't you think?" Satan argued with a cheeky smile.

"Er.. yes. She looks like a princess." Rin answered irritated. "So where's the gear I'm supposed to wear? It better be awesome.."

"You will be eating your words, my son." Satan grinned. Rin grinned viciously at him. "Is that a bet?", he asked teasingly.

"A bet is pointless since I know I'll win.", Satan answered confidently. "Follow me." He instructed his daughter to follow him and Rin as well. Just behind the hall was a wardrobe and Rin presumed it was the royal wardrobe, where his other brothers were getting their gear. Painfully he had to admit that his father was right. He was eating his words. The clothing in the wardrobe was exquisite to say the least; but if one really wanted to exaggerate, they were luxurious. So Rin was just wandering around in pure amazement – the materials were the most valuable he had ever touched. They felt finer than the finest silk. Rin gulped.
"Didn't I tell ya you'd be eatin' your words, son?" sounded Satan's victorious voice from behind. He approached Rin and picked up his designated royal attire. Rin marvelled. It looked like a kimono from the ancient Japan for royalty. "Son, this has been in the making since I had first glanced at you in Assiah when I possessed Fujimoto's body. I knew that you would come home one day." Satan smiled and looked at his son with pride. His hand was resting on Rin's head, gently patting it.

"Papa is very gentle." Aoi interjected. "He is one of the kindest and most solemn demons I know."

Rin looked at her puzzled and gulped. Satan definitely was not anything like he imagined.

"Well then, let's go eat our dinner. Your mother and siblings are waiting." Satan ended the awkwardness. His daughter nodded.

"What the fuck is wrong with youuuuuu!?" growled a rather childish voice.
"Like hell I'll let a hothead you sit on the big chair!" growled another childish voice icily.
"And like hell I will let a cold ass like you sit on it!"

Two worlds had clashed. One world was rather cold and icy, while the other one was blazingly hot like fire.

"I'm your older brother, so I will get to sit on the big chair, hothead!"
"Fire melts your puny water!" He threw a fireball at his brother who dodged it with ice. And this just seemed to go on forever.

"Pretend you don't know them, pretend you don't know them…" chanted Yukio from behind, trying to ignore the havoc his elder brothers were wreaking in front of the long dining table.

"What is it, Yukio?" Amaimon, who had just entered the room, asked one of his youngest brothers a bit confused. Yukio just pointed a finger to the scene before him.
"…ah. Those again. Just ignore them." he said casually and walked away.
"Wait! But Mother said…"
"When Naga and Enma clash, there is no one except Satan who can stop them. They are mortal opposites, fire and water." his mother told Yukio. Sighing, Amaimon sat down and witnessed the rather funny clash.

"There is no stopping to them…" he murmured.
"Just what is the deal with those two…?" Yukio whispered. Amaimon rose one of his eyebrows.
"It's been an issue since their birth, ya know. Naga has always been bossy around Enma and that pissed him off. So they are bound to clash when they disagree upon something…"
"And… has Satan been doing anything to stop that?"
"Father always punished them when they caused a mess. Aniue used his famous scare tactics to deter them from fighting in his presence." Yukio gulped. Yes, he definitely did not want to know what creepy tactics Mephisto used.

"Speaking of Mephisto, does anyone have an idea what's taking him so long?"
"Eh… probably still fending off that Paladin. Or… I don't know."

Suddenly, a blackish-purple circle opened on the ground, engulfing it up to the ceiling of the dining room. It was obviously a Gehenna Gate, as the crest of Gehenna's royal family was located on the center of the circle. A tall figure with purple hair stepped outside, carrying a skull and a bright and shiny claymore.

"I have returned. Where is Father?" he introduced himself with a rather deep voice. Upon hearing him, Amaimon got up and ran to him.

"Welcome back, Aniue. Father's busy with Rin right now."

"I see." He quickly glanced all over the room, all over to Yukio and earned puzzled and nervous looks from his brothers.

"Mephisto…" Yukio gulped. "So… you returned to Gehenna?" He nodded.

"Hey, Mephisto..." murmured Mammon, who was up until now polishing his gold bars. "What's that skull and claymore you've got over there?"

"It's the skull of the Vatican's Paladin that I killed. I took his claymore Caliburn as a souvenir for Father."

Belphegor's eyes, upon hearing the word "skull", illuminated. "Can I have it-"

"No."

"Damn you, grumpy as ever…" Belphegor pouted. "You know that I love collecting skulls!"

"Gotta try harder next time, Bel.." Mammon grinned from behind. "You got slow."

"Perhaps you want to volunteer to be my skull… Mammon?" Belphegor suggested with an eerie voice.

"…is that a threat?" Mammon replied with an equally eerie voice as dark spirits moved around him.

"Please don't tell me they're going to fight…?" Yukio squeaked. Amaimon put a hand on his shoulder. "I know that feeling… you better get used to it. Being woken up early because of their sparrings..."

"Just stop them, will you!?"

"No… I would have better luck trying to get Behemoth to do my thing rather than trying to stop them." He pointed at Mammon, Belphegor, Enma and Naga that were fighting.

Mephisto casually walked away. "And here I thought much would have changed. What a pain."

"Do you wish something would change?" Amaimon asked.

"Actually….. no."

"Creepy sadist."

After a series of yellings, beat-them-ups and other cussings, Satan, Rin and Aoi finally entered the room with Yuri who had just finished preparing dinner with the help of her maidens.

"Alright, my sons, time for a glorious dinner feast-"

The whole dinner hall looked terrible to say the least. Fire was burning; some furniture was frozen or destroyed through wind and other disasters. Satan's face turned into a wicked grimace.

"You pieces of shit…." Satan growled, "do you have any idea how much furniture you destroyed through your mindless fighting?" His blue flames were blazing at an abnormally high rate. He sent blue fireballs to all of his sons over and over, not caring whether they screamed in pain. After he was done, they were laying on the floor, burned to the extreme.

Rin and Yukio were in shock. Satan single-handedly KO'd the majority of his sons! The only ones unharmed were Mephisto and Amaimon who didn't fight.

"Tch." Satan let out a growl. "Now apologise before your younger brothers Rin and Yukio for causing such a havoc!"

The brothers desperately tried to move, but Satan's flames sent them haywire.

Rin grimaced.

"….this seems like a good place to call it a day, don't you think..? Yukio…?"

Agh… I have no excuse T^T

Exams over exams, illnesses and lack of creativity caused me to slack on major levels with this story. To all my faithful readers of my story, I apologise.

But I hope you liked this chapter anyways. Don't worry, next chapter won't take so long.

….I hope..

Reiuji