Okay, the 3rd chapter is here!
Enjoy! :))

(Just before Rin arrived at the church)
He'd just finished explaining the life and training an exorcist has to go through to Yukio. Hearing the young boy exclaim that he wants to do it to help Rin really warmed his heart up. However, at that moment he suddenly got a really bad feeling, as an exorcist, the current paladin, he had learned to trust his gut when something feels wrong. Just as he turned around rin burst through the doors. Normally, this would be a sign to start lecturing Rin about manners, but today was not that day. In his life as an exorcist Shiro Fujimoto has seen some pretty gory wounds, but the wounds on his surrogate son made the old man flinch back even only a little. Rin swayed from side to side, eyes dulled as he fell. Shiro thinks he's never ran so fast in his life, he lunges forward unable to hide the fear, shock and worry plastered on his face.

'Who did this to Rin?' 'How did this happen to such a young and vibrant child?' 'Will he be okay?'

But this wasn't the time for that. Rin laid motionless in Shiro's arms if he didn't have knowledge in medical care one would think Rin was dead. Dread filled up Shiro as he began to gather his bearings, remembering Yukio was next to him. Quickly he reassured Yukio his brother was fine, even though he wasn't sure if Rin's mental state would be, his physical state was going to be okay regardless, however his mental state was unknown.

Now wasn't the time to be dwelling on it, he sent Yukio to his room and brought Rin to the infirmary that resided in the church and looked over his wounds. Where the skin was pale and clear, Shiro knew a bruise had resided there not too long ago, so he ignored the bruises and smaller cuts and focused on the larger wounds across his chest and back. On a normal person, a child no less, the wounds would be fatal, considering Rins heritage tho it's no surprise he will survive this. However, even Shiro didn't know if the wounds would scar or not. He got to work cleaning up the dried blood and making sure the wounds won't get infected, redressed Rin in clean clothes and laid him on the bed in the infirmary and head up to his room, guilt filled him up, eating at him, why couldn't he save Rin, how could he allow something like this to happen to a child he called one of his own!

(Next day)
The first sensation that came back to Rin was that of floating in complete darkness. Where was he? What happened? So he focused on remembering what had happened first. What had happened? He just couldn't remember, after what felt like a few minutes a new feeling hit him, pain. He remembered. The cruel words, the glares, the pain. He remembered it all. What was he doing here? He needed to get back,back to the church. He needed to tell them he was okay. He picked a direction and ran. He didn't know if it would lead back to the church hell he didn't even know where he was, but he kept running and running and running. Then he saw something, a reflective surface. Was that a mirror?

"What the hell!"

Then a familiar face stared back at him, he thought nothing of it after all mirrors are supposed to do that right?? Nothing seemed weird until he got a closer look, sure the guy in the mirror looked like him at first glance. But, his ears were pointed, he had fangs and his eyes carried a red glow to them.

'Is this really me?'

"Yes, I am you, and you are me. We are one and the same Rin. I'm the you that's been locked away. Free me, you can be whole again and no one will ever hurt us again, I promise you. So remember me Rin, don't forget me. I'm counting on you. Though it'll be weird to refer to me as Rin as well....I guess until we reunite you can refer to me as Aeshma. Now run along don't keep your brother and father waiting."

He waved and the mirror started to crack and break into pieces the world surrounding me follows and a voice pierces the air.

"IN....RIN!"

Slowly his sense began returning as Rin processed what he just witnessed.

Who the hell is Aeshma?

Now Rin is not the smartest of the two twins that title goes to the younger of the two, but something (or someone) was screaming inside of him to keep him a secret for now.

"Rin are you okay? You really gave us the scare" Shiro questioned

It was evident that he and Yukio wanted to bombard Rin with questions.

'What happened'
'Who did this to you'

But upon seeing the confusement on Rin's face after he woke up the two came to a silent agreement to not over question him.

"Did you get into a fight again brother?"

Of course they immediately thought it was his fault

A sudden spike of anger made itself known deep inside Rin, he wanted to lash out, he wanted to yell, to let his anger out. He never felt anything like this before.

What's going on?

Pushing it down he went along with Yukio's accusation.

"Hehe, yeh you know what I'm like."

"You know Rin you have to stop getting into pointless fights I mean can't you be more like Yukio?" The old man said no malice evident in his eyes or voice however if you look harder and listen harder you could see a trace of malice evident.

Or was that just his anger talking?

"Yeh yeh whatever old man"

"OLD MAN!! I'll have you know I'm only 41 you little brat"

"I'm not a brat! AND THAT'S STILL OLD!"

"Why you...!"

And at that they launched into a tickling fight. Which Yukio tried to stop seeing as Rin was still injured..supposedly.

It hurt though, his family automatically jumping to conclusions, that it was his fault he ended up like this. All his previous fights happened because some bully was targeting Yukio. It hurt even more that Yukio never took his side in the 'arguments' , if you could call it that, against their dad.

He never really cared that he got compared to Yukio, seeing he was the more favourable twin, he just never expected their dad to treat him that way too.

A wave of exhaustion washed over Rin, eyes drooping, Shiro told him to get some sleep. Yukio said his good nights and he fell asleep before the two even left the room.

(With Yukio)

I feel bad, I really do. I know I should take Rin's side of the 'arguments' more often seeing as he got into all those fights because of me. But he is a.....
NO! He's still my brother.....right?

With the thoughts swirling in his head Yukio soon followed his brother and fell asleep.

(With Shiro Fujimoto)

I wonder what happened to Rin for him to gain all those wounds...in the end I'm glad he's alive and healthy.

Whilst he was pondering what/who Rin got in a fight with there was a pound crash that game from downstairs. Rushing down the steps of the church what he saw made the paladin freeze where he stood.

They were here.

Why are they here already? By our calculations they weren't supposed to be here until Rin gained the ability to see demons.

"We're here for him"

Uwah, I literally just finished the chapter cuz I forgot I was going to update today lmao.
O3O so this isn't beta'd if there is any typos or somet that doesn't make sense just leave a comment I'll sort it out!

Thanks for reading!