The rest of the school day was quite uneventful, although I was quite unsurprised to see that the rumors about me had already spread to the entire school. However even I had to admit they'd gotten quite a bit out of hand, according to many of the students of my school I was now either possessed by a demon, an actual demon, or secretly a necromancer.

How do I know all this you might ask? Well that's because of Shin's extraordinary hearing, after hearing all the rumors about me going round the cafeteria he told me what they were saying and had been laughing ever still hidden in my bag ever since.

But despite all this the school day drew to a close and finally I was allowed to leave, stopping once I was out of sight of the school I opened my bag to let Shin out. "Thanks for putting up with that all day Shin I'll take you to my home now and we'll figure out what we're doing then."

Shin nodded but rather than walking, leaped up agiliy and sat down on my shoulder "OK I'll sit up here though it makes it easier for me to talk to you without being found out." "thanks Shin." picking up the pace I started to run home, after running for about twenty minutes I finally came to a stop in front of the old care home.

"Shin is it possible for you to go into your spirit form so people don't see you?" Shin nodded and once again turned to his gigantic form "thanks Shin we're not meant to have pets and it'd be a pain if they found out." I whisperd I didn't want to look like anymore of a weirdo than I already did by supposedly talking to myself.

As I was about to walk into the house the door slammed open and one of the older boys, Hiiro stormed out "watch it freak." he said scowling at me with the same dislike as Akira had had this morning "Who was that boy?" Shin asked as soon as he had left our line of sight "one of the care home kids he's away a lot of the time now though with a part time job, why'd you ask?"

Shin frowned as he gazed at the direction Hiiro had come from "he couldn't see me but his aura was undoubtedly similar to the exorcists who sealed me." I looked at Shin in surprise "let's head to my room and talk there." I said realising how odd I must look supposedly alone on the front step talking to myself.

Nodding in agreement Shin nodded and followed me into the house and up the stairs to the dusty old attic I had claimed as my room. "So what does it mean that Hiiro's aura was similar to the exorcists who sealed you?" "well it was not the same exactly but very similar if I was to guess I'd say he was a descendant of the exorcists or possibly a disciple of one of them, do you know if he has any family who visits him or who he goes to see?"

Thinking for a minute I was reminded about all the strange occurrences around Hiiro growing up that had never quite made sense but had never been seen as significant enough to bother looking into "I'm not sure about family but he did get a part time job last year that no one seems to know what it is. He also goes on trips with his boss and his family sometimes and I think there's been talk of the boss adopting him."

Shin was silent considering it, "Rai is there a temple nearby or a big shrine of any sorts?" I nodded there was one that had been there since ancient times "yes it's a temple school that's about ten minutes away from here on the way to school, I try to avoid it though because the place has youkai as it's watchmen it never made sense to me before but I guess they must have a contract with the exorcists living there."

Shin nodded "Rai tomorrow I want to try walking past the temple school to see if any of my friends were enslaved after I was sealed." I looked at Shin in disbelief "Shin isn't that really dangerous considering they may have been the ones who sealed you, what if they seal you again?"

"don't worry I'll be in my dog disguise and with you walking next to me we'll look like a kid taking his dog for a walk I'll also protect you from the spirits on route." I sighed but nodded nonetheless at least the route was shorter and with Shin's help I may be able to avoid having to go past Akira's house again "fine but while I'm in school what are you going to do?"

"Look for my friends and see what's happened to them, I'll meet you at the school gate when you leave though." "ok," I said "but promise me you'll be careful." Shin just laughed, I really hope nothing bad happens tomorrow.