Desclaimer: I DO NOT own this anime or its characters. Its common sense really.

This is my very FIRST story, so..yeah. I tried my best. Umm My mother language isn't English. but i speak it better than my own r.r

I rated this M, becuase i'm terrified of making a mistake not fit for younger audience. This was going to be LONG One Shot, but im in a Posada right now 'Christmas party' and i didn't want to keep postponing it. Enjoy and review please. Or not... Hi. ^.^u

"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow~"

"what are you doing?"

"Mmm, just asking for a winter prayer that's all"

"Getting all mushy 'cuz of the Holidays are we?"

The Aria/Dragoon exorcist just answered with a grunt. In truth he hoped it DIDN'T snow more, right now they were in the back of truck, they being him and the demon principal, that didn't offer much warmth or comfort in the cold weather of the mountains.

'Damn demons, couldn't they wait 'till spring to cause trouble?'

When Shiro heard about this new mission, he was ready to protest, he was NOT going to Who-knows-where in this weather, but then his instructor (and former mentor) added that he would be accompanied by Mephisto Pheles. He couldn't say no to that; as his stupid mentor very well knew.

'And now here I am, alone with this demon... thing. And I can't even hold a conversation with him!'

"…'re almost- …-re"

'And I call myself a cool guy among ladies, arg, but this is different so maybe it's reverse?'

" 'ello~ Earth to Exorcist-san~"

'Yes that could be the-, wait, his talking to you! Say something you idiot!"

"Tch, even though I am not an idiot I already did say something"

"a… haha, did-did I say that out loud?" Shiro said while scratching the back of his head nervously.

"Yes you did, and now that we have cleared up your thoughts about me, let me say I don't think your much of a gentleman at all" Sneered Mephisto with narrowed eyes.

"Wha-, no, wait I didn't –" started Shiro.

"Regardless, we have arrive. So come on, the sooner the better" With that, Mephisto stood up and jumped off the truck and started walking to the woods.

Cursing himself he got off too, thanking the driver for the lift, he followed the other into the white wilderness. As he walked behind the other, he couldn't help but think that without the other wearing his usual cape, he got a very nice view of his backside. He quickly scoffed at his behavior.

'what are you doing Shiro? You just ruined any chance of getting close, now the only thing left to do is getting this mission done'

"So now what? I didn't get briefed on this demon, and how to deal with it"

Mephisto only looked back at him with those bored eyes, "We're not suppose to 'deal' with it, this place is a demonic natural preserve protected mostly by a barrier, but it has recently been fading so you're here to subdue or exorcist all rampaging demons while I enforce the barrier"

"Is that all? I think you could have done this by yourself"

"I couldn't" answered the exasperated demon.

"To much work for you? I don't think I've ever seen you actually fight, only subduing others and locking them away" remarked Shiro, he meant it as being curious but the white clad figure took it as a demand.

"Oh, please do forgive me for not going head on in battles and using all my strength, ah~ that's right I can't because I'm using it to keep up my school's barrier"

"You need to keep it up all the time?" Shiro was shocked at this revelation, he always assumed that while he knew Mephisto was the one responsible for that particular barrier, he didn't know it had to be constantly casted.

"It wouldn't have to be, but since it's attacked quite regularly, I do need to re-cast it and I need to have a constant connection with it to know where the attack is coming from" explained Mephisto.

"Well, that's… certaintly quite impressive…"

Mephisto waved it off, "nothing special"

"…and nice"

At this, the tall demon stopped walking and turned a little to regard him with searching eyes, then with a smirk just kept on walking. How strange, it almost seemed like he doubted what he said.

"ahh…I mean, it's nice, for a demon; you putting a lot of energy into protecting humans and even future exorcist" Shiro went on to walking next him, he was taller than him but not by much (AN/: I know Shiro is like 5'10 and Mephy is 6'4, but my story my fantasy!).

"Mmmm" Was the response he got.

After that they kept walking in silence, Shiro didn't know where to go so he just let his companion lead the way. After a while it started to snow a little, but the further they went, the deeper the ground got, and though it was a cheap trick, he used this as an excuse to keep slipping and knocking into the other giving him the chance to once in a while to feel their hands brush together.

After the 26th slip, Mephisto got annoyed and just graved the other's arm to hold him steady the whole way, completely missing the blonde's smile(AN/: im not sure about this, but I've seen a lot of fan-art where he's a blonde…so blame them!). Which disappeared when he let go of it as sson as they reached a clearing where some stone-temple thing was located in the middle of it.

"So this is it?"

"Yeah, just keep watch while I do my job" Shiro notices that when he said that, he almost gave a tired sigh. He gave a mock salute and stood under a tree and observed as the other went over to the stones and kneeled over them and started murmuring something.

'Well, this could take a while. Is he just going to stay there or …? WHAT IS HE DOING?'

"OI! What the hell?" He ran over as soon as he saw the white snow starting to turn red, and as he got closer he could see the other had a knife in his hands and was cutting his wrists!

He tried to snatch the knife away, "Stop!" but the other just stopped him with a hand, the bleeding one!

Mephisto didn't look in pain, or even bothered, he actually had a little devilish smile on, but his forest green eyes showed no mirth. "I'm doing what is required so if you could keep quiet before you start attracting demons~, kukuku, its almost like you've never seen blood before young exorcist-san"

Shiro growled and freed his hand from the other, and threw a quick look around to see if in fact he did attract attention. When he saw the coast was clear he returned his reddish gaze back on the other with accusing eyes, "I have seen blood, but I didn't know this was a sacrifice type ritual"

"Sacrifice? Kukuku, this is sacrificing to you? I'm just being polite in giving this place a taste of me to get to know me and that way it can accept my magical signal and let me enforce it" Explained the principal, who seemed to find Shiro's concern amusing.

" it?"

"Of course~, its not a demon per say… it's more like a feeling that all it's inhabitant have been giving this place, so you can say, Nature here has taken a natural spirit form"

" Oh…well I'll be over there…if you need me…yeah, and i... knew that..." As he walked away he could feel the other's gaze burning at the back of his head, how could he forget something like this? He once saw something similar from watching his mentor do it on a mission in Portugal, but he didn't give blood.

'That's strike two –sigh- first you call him an idiot, and now you make yourself appear like an idiot!"

They stayed like that for what seemed like hours, it was really 2 hours, but the most action Shiro got was warding of some curious Hobgoblins, and just when it started to get dark and Mephisto was starting to get up did a huge Bear demon appear.

"You dare get in my way? This is now MY territory and prey!" The demon said, though only Mephisto understood what it said.

"Pff so the Lord of this land finally makes an appearance, does he?" Too bad that since this was a preserve, it was most probably a good demon mistaking them as threats and protecting this place.

"Back off! Or We'll make sure to kill you now" warned Mephisto.

"Hey come on, no need for hostility right?"

"Now you threaten me? You're nothing more than a conniving demon, all bark no bite!" With that, the huge white bear demon charged head on towards Mephisto, but was stopped by rapid bullets in his way. "Easy fella, we just wanna help your home" Shiro tried to reason with it, like some lost dog.

"Fujimoto it's not puppy, and how about doing your job? And get rid of it!" Yelled the purple headed demon from behind.

"Weren't you the one that said not to kill the demons here, since it was a preserve or something?"

"SSHHHHHH"

"Herherher, so your not allowed to kill huh? This will make it easier" said the demon, who suddenly threw a bunch of snow at Shiro blocking his view and charged again at Mephisto; who was ready to defend himself and kill it with one fire spell; but just as he was going to chant it with his signature german count he got distracted by the other's yell.

"Stop! Don't kill it! It's just trying to protect it's land!"

"I know that, but this isn't hi- gyaaa!" for that one second of hesitation, the bear attacked with one huge bear-claw the size of a boulder, his plan was to either knock the white-clad demon away or make it move from it's place by dodging; but it didn't do neither, it took the stab in the stomach and stayed it's ground!

"Fool, even if you're a magical demon, I can sense that you've mostly used up all that energy, now you only have enough to either finish the ritual and risk dying from this wound or heal yourself and abandon it" Said the demon with malice dripping from his every word, inching his claw even deeper. Mephisto gritted his teeth together from the pain, but still stood his ground; and even though he prided himself on being a very powerful demon, he had to admit that he had reach his magic's limit and if he stopped the ritual now, the Natural Presence won't be strong enough to accept him again or even let him. –Sigh- No choice. He brought his hands down on his wound and smeared the blood all over them and started murmuring the ending.

"You insolent fuck! Now die!" And just as the demon was going to tear Mephisto in two, it was thrown away by a force, forcing his claw out of Mephisto who's only acknowledgement was slowing the chant a little bit.

"Grrr who dares attack me?" before he could turn around to face the other intruder, he got knocked over by rapid bullets being shot at him.

To say Shiro was pissed was maybe an understatement, he was pissed when his mentor forced him to go undercover once, dressed as a woman, now he just wanted to paint the white wonderland in all possible shades of red with this demon's blood. Though he was also angry at himself; Mephisto told him to kill it, he didn't listend and just watched like a fucking newbie Exwire, after the shock, he saw the demon Knight not only take that brutal attack head on, but kept on chanting the stupid ritual!

'Now this thing is gonna pay! I Haven't even made my move yet and already I've made a bad impression!'

The battered demon tried to get up for another round, stopped when he noticed he couldn't move, he was paralyzed!

"Listend here demon, you did a very bad thing just now and I think you know as well as I that this is the end for you" Said Shiro very slowly and menacing. The demon understood that this was a very powerful exorcist and that he was going to die, yet as he thought this he could see in the distance the other demon fall to the ground.

"Herherher, you may have won human, but at least I take consolation that I took one of you down"

Shiro didn't understand what he said but when he saw that the demon was smiling despite its situation, he turned, following his line of vision. At first he didn't see anything through the snow, until he realized he should be seeing his eccentric companion. He looked harder through the downfall of snow which seemed to increase as the night grew darker, and just as he was about ready to run over to the rocks he saw a reddish spot in the ground where Pheles was. He turned sharply to the demon, somehow knowing that this was both its fault and origin of it's smile even though he was facing definite death.

With a final meeting of their gazes, one of victory and the other undisputed anger, Shiro said his prayer and finished it off.

Then he ran towards the growing spot of red snow.

'Damn it, please don't let me be late'