The next morning I awoke next to Shin and went through my usual routine of sneaking downstairs, grabbing some food and sneaking back up. As I entered my bedroom I sat down on the bed and silently gave Shin a slice of toast, once we had both finished eating, I turned to look at him "So Shin what's the plan for today?"

"Well," said Shin "I'll escorts you too school, obviously not the route past the temple and then once you are safely there I'm going to take a trip to Kitsune forest to see Ayato and hopefully catch up on the whereabouts of some old friends. I'll still be back in time for the end of school though, just be sure to keep the cloth wrapped tightly around your hand though."

I looked down at my hand and nodded "Ok." Shin and I then passed the next few hours talking about various things until finally it was time to go to school. Slipping out early I managed to avoid Hiiro, however a downside of not using the temple route is that I was once again stuck on the route past Akira's house. Oh joy.

After luckily avoiding Akira I made it to school and bid goodbye to Shin, seeing as I was early I settled down into my seat just as Akira walked in "Hey freak, sad to see Moriya hasn't exorcised you yet." I sat there in silence as Akira's followers laughed in amusement, however just at that moment Moriya slammed open the door, and he did not look happy.

Seeing Akira Moriya stormed over to where we were sitting, noticing Moriya's face Akira tried to find out what was wrong "Moriya are you...."

Akira was barely half way through his sentence when he was awarded a punch in the face from Moriya. The whole of the class stared at Moriya in shock as he punched Akira again.

Just at that minute the teacher walked in to see Moriya still punching the living daylights out of Akira "What the hell is going on here?!?" yelled the teacher running up to separate Moriya and Akira "That's what I want to know?!?" said Akira "The bloody physcopath just started hitting me!!"

The teacher looked at Moriya confused "why in hells name did you do that? Nevermind outside in the hall, both if you now. Everyone else open your English books to page ninety-five and start reading in your head."

Telling class went quiet and strained there ears as they tried to listen to what was going on outside, whereas I just put my head down and tried to hide my grin, obviously no one had bothered to inform Moriya that my appearance in the cell was fake. Still trying to hide my laugh I looked up as the teacher walked back in again and Moriya and Akira stormed back into their places.

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Shin's POV

Afew I left Raikou at school I turned to my full size and flew over to Kitsune forest, after a full two hours of flying I finally arrived and touched down to see Aiko and Ayato running towards me "Shin!!!" exclaimed Ayato as he hugged me "I thought you be gone forever, we searched for years and never found anything. And now you have a contract with a human, must be one interesting human for you to make a contract with him even if you were desperate."

I smiled widely at Ayato, I had missed him in my years of solitude "It's good to back I was also starting to be worried about being stuck there forever. And I'll let you make your own impression about my contractor, he's coming with me this weekend."

Ayato looked at me in surprise "Are you sure that's a good idea Shin, this weekend is the annual full moon festivals a human with a strong spiritual energy might become the prey of many." I made a dismissive noise "It's fine, in the first place that child has a presence similar to a youkai, he's also using the kitsune cloth to absorb any excess spirit energy, so he has means of defending himself."

Ayato nodded and looked happy "Ok then glad that's sorted, now let's get started we have some catching up to do." I nodded too "Oh, and Rai has one more protection. I will singlehandedly kill anyone who dares to try and harm him." Ayato shivers as I released some killing intent, but soon enough started smiling again as he begun to fill me in on the whereabouts of our friends.