Gehena Heiretsu Ch. 8
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Rated: T

Before the battle had even begun it was obviously clear who the victor would be. Rin had thought that with all the experience he'd gained from fighting the Impure King, he would be able to stand up against his parallel.

In reality, Rin was no match for him.

'How the hell is he strong?!' Rin cursed in his head.

They were technically the same person, and yet the difference in strength was phenomenal. To make matters even worse, his parallel self had barely even broken a sweat. As for him, he could already begin to see the blossoming signs of bruises forming beneath his skin.

Suddenly, a huge whip of flame smacked him in the side and cut off his thought. Rin smacked into the dirt with a harsh thud that left him dazed for a moment.

"Shit!" He cursed quietly as he quickly squelched the flames from burning his clothing and skin anymore. The flames themselves didn't hurt though because they were the same flames he could manipulate.

"Pay attention!" His parallel cackled as he threw his sword like a spear at him.

Rin hopped to his feet just in time to avoid getting skewered by the weapon.

'That was close…' He sighed in relief. 'Wait… now he doesn't have the sword!'

Grinning, the half demon ran over to grab the weapon, but only to have it suddenly disappear in a flash.

"Ah ah ah, too slow~" The other Rin taunted him while swinging it around.

"Then how's this!" He answered as he leaped forward and slashed down. But before he could make contact, the other was gone once again.

"Behind you!" The parallel laughed as smashed the broadside of his sword into Rin's upper arm.

Groaning from annoyance and pain, Rin tightened his grip on his sword. It was obvious by now that the other demon could easily kill him; and the only reason he hadn't yet meant that he was just playing with Rin.

If anything, this was what pissed Rin off the most about his situation.

"Is this really the best you can do?" The vessel laughed tauntingly.

"I'm just getting started." Rin growled back as he wiped the blood off his split lip. Charging forward, he slashed kurikara forward only to have it bounced back by the other's sword.

They continued this exchange of attacks and blocks, but while Rin was going all out in trying to land a hit on the half demon, the other was almost yawning as he continued to block attack after attack.

Finally, in a last desperate attempt, Rin put some distance between them before jumping up and trying to attack the other from behind.

Instead, he was yanked downwards from midair by his tail and his sword clattered to the floor. Liquid fire pulsed through him as he was smashed to the ground; despite his best efforts he couldn't help but let out a gasp of pain. The parallel Rin then dug his shoe into other's back with a smirk.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Haven't we already gone over this before?" He chided as he used one hand to pick up Rin's fallen sword while the other still kept its hold on Rin's tail. "It's almost embarrassing to see you fall for the same thing twice; not only that, I almost pity you for displaying your weak spot and your heart out in the open like this."

Rin stared at the other in pained confusion for a moment before realizing the vessel was referring to his sword as his heart.

"What the hell are you talking about?" He hissed out since his tail was shooting out intense pain from the other's locked grip. Not to mention the fact that his face was a bloody mess and shoved into the ground.

"Within your sword lies your demon heart. And should it be crushed," The half demon emphasized this word by putting even more weight onto the foot crushing his chest. "Then your death is almost certain."

Rin's eyes widened for a moment but then he let out another cry of pain as the parallel began digging kurikara's blade into his shoulder.

All he needed was a distraction or something and Rin could free himself. But that was only going to happen if his parallel self let him go.

And judging by the pleasure the half demon was getting from flicking Rin's own blade against his skin that was not going to be for awhile.

"Kiragkure Ryuu-Makengi Dabou!" a voice shouted out as a series of sword slashes came flying at Satan's vessel.

The attack had been so sudden and unexpected that the only way the parallel Rin could escape was by letting go of Rin. Sighing in relief, Rin rolled onto his back as his tail was released from the other's harsh grip.

"So Shura, finally decided to join the party?" Satan's vessel smirked as he pointed kurikara at the redhead.

"Cut the crap already." She retorted. "Yer obviously the only one having fun here."

"Shima, are you really sure we should just leave Okumura over there like that?" Suguro asked his pink haired friend as they continued to run.

While the two Rin's had been distracted in their fight, the other exorcists had snuck the two exwires away from there and into the woods.

"Bon, there's nothing we can do to help anyways." The teen reasoned. "We'd just get in the way and provide a liability to the other exorcists. Not to mention the fact that we were ordered to return to base."

"I know I know." Bon sighed but nodded as he brushed his hair back. "But.. I can't help but shake this feeling that even if we could help, you wouldn't want to."

Shima stopped their fast pace in order to look at his friend.

"What do you mean by that?" He questioned, his eyes narrowing.

Bon had taken a few more steps before realizing that Shima had stopped so he then turned around.

"Okumura has done nothing wrong since the moment he arrived, and yet we are all alienating him just because he looks like his parallel self." He explained carefully. "But most of all, it would be you that's ignoring him the most."

Suguro had noticed the obvious attempts of conversation that Rin had been making throughout his time here, but most of the time they came up with some excuse or the conversation was short. Izumo just turned away entirely so Rin had given up there because he didn't want her to freak out again.

But with Shima, Rin kept trying to get the pink haired teen to talk to him while wearing that same stupid grin that reminded him so much of the one Shima used to have. Something told Bon that in his world, Rin had probably been good friends with that Shima.

"So you're saying I want Rin to get killed?" The other teen asked slowly. "This coming from the guy who immediately told Rin to his face we thought he was dangerous."

"No! What I'm sayin' is that I think you're hatred for our Rin is spreading onto this Rin." Suguro answered, slightly exasperated. "And don't lie that everyone else was thinking that at first too."

"Fine. But that other part isn't true." Shima said as he turned and began walking forward again. "I told Rin already I don't see him as an enemy."

"Yeah but seeing him as an enemy and treating him like a normal person are two entirely different things!" Bon returned. "You don't completely ignore him but you obviously go out of your way to keep your conversations short."

"Do I need to remind you what happened to Koneko?" He asked coldly, his face no longer in Bon's view.

Bon lowered his gaze to the ground as he brushed his hand down his face.

"Just forget I said anything." He told his friend. "We should probably just go warn those putting out the fires about what's going on if they haven't figured it out already."

"Right."

Izumo sighed as she took a break from putting out the flames. Other exorcists gave her an encouraging slap on the back to thank her for her work as she walked by but she made no heed to reply.

Something was definitely going wrong. There was too much blue fire on the horizon to just be from that other Rin fighting salamanders. She wasn't stupid.

However, it seemed like the exorcists in charge either didn't know anything as well, or they weren't going to tell them. Most likely they wanted to keep everyone calm and focused on getting rid of the forest fire no matter what the circumstances were.

So far, they were almost done on their section, but now that those blue flames were popping up it looked like they'd be at it for awhile longer.

Izumo sat in silence on a tree stump while she took a sip of water to quench her parched throat. The smoke from the fire was starting to get to her head, but luckily she had a handkerchief to tie around her face that was soaked in holy water.

Just then, the shrubs leading to the non-burning side of the forest began shaking. Izumo jumped up and summoned Uke and Mike close to her just in case.

But then, the two figures revealed themselves to be only Bon and Shima.

"What are you two doing here?" She asked them cautiously as they caught their breath. "Aren't you supposed to be fighting salamanders?"

"The other exorcists sent us over here to deliver a message to the exorcist in charge." Bon answered in between breaths.

The two had already agreed during their run that they wouldn't tell Izumo about the vessel of satan being here unless it was absolutely necessary.

"Why didn't they just use their walkie talkie?" She questioned further, her eyes narrowed.

"It broke." Shima responded quickly.

And with that, the two left her standing there in suspicion.

The first class exorcist flicked her hair back away from her eyes before switching her gaze to the other Rin bleeding on the ground.

"And as for yew, I hope you learned yer lesson for tryin' to be a self sacrificing idiot." Shura scolded him. Rin however, was still in too much pain to think of a witty comeback so he just groaned instead.

Even if he hadn't been though, he wouldn't have said anything rude. This Shura so far was a lot like the Shura he knew, except she seemed to be a bit nicer and her clothes were more conservative. But even if she were nicer, that didn't mean she probably wouldn't drive her foot through his back if he said anything less than thank you.

"Well sorry Shura, but I'm not done with my parallel self just yet. So, if you could just wait there a moment that would be great." The vessel winked as he made a move to head back over to Rin.

Suddenly, a shot rang out and nearly hit the half demon in the head had it not been for his fast reflexes.

"Stop right there." Yukio commanded, his hand still pointing the smoking gun at the other Rin. The vessel stared at Yukio in shock, and remained completely still.

"What the hell are yew doin' here, four eyes?" Shura questioned him. "I thought yew asked me to come here 'cause yew were occupied at the medical tent."

"I was." Yukio replied. "But then I realized this was more important and not something I could let you handle by yourself."

Parallel Rin faltered for only a moment before he snapped out of it and let a smirk replace his earlier expression.

"Well, well well, it's nice to see you too!" He laughed as he began playing around with kurikara.

"What is your purpose here?" Yukio demanded coldly, his gun still aimed at his twin's head.

"Tsk," The half demon let out as he turned away. "That's really no way to talk to your older brother."

"I said," Yukio repeated as he cocked his gun. "Why are you here?"

Rin had by now managed to position himself in a way where he could watch what was happening without being in too much pain, when he noticed something surprising. Right as Yukio said that, a look of disappointment flashed through his parallel's eyes. No one else noticed it because it was concealed in the way Rin always used to hide certain things. To anyone else it just looked like the other was bored or slightly annoyed.

"None of your damn business." Rin growled as he continued walking away. "That shitty pistol of yours wouldn't do a thing to me anyways; and as much fun as it would be to kick both of your asses, I finished what I needed to do here."

Grabbing one of the corpses nearby, he then quickly stabbed Rin's sword into the exorcist and dropped the body once again . The moment the blood spewed out onto the ground a gate to gehenna opened up and the half demon fell through it right before it closed.

Yukio lowered his gun and headed over to where the portal was to make sure it was closed.

He then gently pulled the sword out from the exorcist and closed her still open eyes.

"I'm not explaining this one to our superiors." Yukio told Shura as he walked over to the practically unconscious Rin.

"Well too bad 'cause there's no way in hell I'm going to tell the story alone." She answered back as she surveyed their surroundings.

"Fine. We'll do it together, but if you try to abandon me again I swear I will blame this all on you." He decided as he carefully began helping Rin back up.

"I thought I told you not to do anything stupid." The bespectacled teen scolded him.

"This is me we're talking about right?" Rin laughed, as if to imply it was physically impossible for him not to do something stupid.

As Yukio helped Rin drap an arm around his neck, Rin let out a hiss of pain before beginning their hobbling walk.

"Why did the other me's attitude change completely when you arrived." He managed to fumble out.

"What are you talking about?" Yukio asked him.

Rin looked his parallel twin in the eye.

"I know what my face looks like when I'm lying, and since the moment you showed up, his expressions changed completely." He explained. "Is there something I'm not being told?"

Yukio's eyebrows raised for a moment before he hid his eyes from view.

"Let's just say that how my Rin came to be Satan's vessel isn't as black and white as the Order wants everyone to believe." The twin answered slowly.

"Tell me the real story then."

The attack Shura used means "Hidden Mist Style - Demon Blade Technique Serpent Fang" which is the attack she used on Rin in chapter ten when she was planning on killing him

Parallel!Rin's kurikara is hidden somewhere by Satan so no one can destroy it and thus destroy his only vessel. So instead he just uses some other random sword. Most of the time he has to constantly replace them because they all break/crack from the heat of his flames and his strength.

A/N: I AM SO SORRY

SO VERY VERY SORRY FOR DISAPPEARING! LIFE, COSPLAY, HOMESTUCK, AND TUMBLR HAPPENED.

IMPORTANT NOTE! I basically rewrote chapter 6 because I really didn't like it and I changed Parallel!Rin's outfit because I disliked the old one

I just want to thank you all for reviewing, favoriting, and following this story even though it looked as though it was abandoned. ;w;

I also want to thank AoWoSora for the lovely fanart! (remove spaces)

link: tinyurl rinvevilrin

Originally, I planned on using it as the fic's cover art, but since I took so long to update I think I'm going to draw it myself as a thank you for all the reviews and favs!

I cant answer the reviews for the last chapter, but I promise if you write one for this chapter I will reply as usual!

Oh and that 100 review contest thing I mentioned before is still a go uwu

Sorry for another cliff hanger ouo I'll try to update next week.