"So," said Shin turning to face Aiko "Who are you? and are you Ayato's relative?" Aiko smiled and nodded "Yes it's nice to meet you Shin, my brother has told me much about you and would be very relieved to know you are safe." Shin grinned widely "So I take it he's alive and well?"

This time it was Aiko's turn to grin "He's fine, he's spent a lot of time researching how to break your seal though. He'll be really happy to know your finally free again, would you like to come with me to see him?" Shin smiled "I'll come later, for now though my place is with Rai." Aiko nodded "I thought as much, but for when you do want to see him, he's currently residing in kitsune forest."

Aiko smiled again "Thank you for all you've done for me, Shin, Rai, I'm going to go see my brother but I'm sure I'll return so I'll see you again." this time both me and Shin grinned as we waved to Aiko "Bye Aiko have a safe trip, we'll see you later." Seeing Aiko was truly gone Shin shrunk down into his dog sized container and we turned in the direction of the home.

After finally arriving home we snuck back into my room where Shin lowered his head to me in apology "I'm sorry Raikou if I wasn't late none of this would have happened." "It's fine Shin, besides they had plans to capture me anyway, even before they knew of our contract to try and make me work for them, plus if they didn't take me then we never would have met Aiko."

Shin smiled at this "I suppose it's true," I nodded "it is." my tone left no room for arguments and Shin just smiled at me "Anyway," said Shin "there's something I have to give you." running over to where there was a crack in the floorboards Shin pulled out a strip of pure white cloth and then wrapped it round my hand.

"Shin what is this?" "It's a special type of cloth, not only will it hide our contract mark but it also absorbs any excess spirit energy leaking out which will help you hide your huge amounts of spirit energy so the exorcists can't find you again. The final feature of the cloth is that it is actually a sealing scroll that can contain multiple youkai, in case you need to seal them, both the exorcists or wild youkai trying to eat you."

I smiled at gaining some more protection "Shin how do I turn it into a scroll and how do I seal youkai in it?" "to turn it to a scroll you just need to deliberately add your spirit energy into the scroll, and to seal something you need to say one who is not human I imprison you at my will. Then you need to add more spirit energy, however if the youkai is very powerful or your out of spirit energy then, putting your blood on the scroll should help too."

I nodded happy with the cloth "By the way Shin why were you late today?" Shin's expression darkened "that brat you live with, Hiiro, has been going around setting up barriers all over town, so I had to dispose on the. I don't like that kid he can't see us but his barriers were considerably skillful which is why they took some time to dismantle."

I nodded "look on the brightside it could be worse, Aiko helped me hide my face so the person who came in to identify me got the completely wrong name and face, which should make for an interesting school day tomorrow" Shin laughed "right you are my friend, right you are."

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"Still no word on the boy then?" said the man on the throne like chair "no, according to Moriya's description of the boy it's like we encountered two different people and since we have no identification for the child we met it is hard to say who he may be or how he convinked the youkai in his cell to help him."

The man on the chair smiled "It's fine well find him eventually, and when we do he will join us or suffer an unfortunate accident."