Hello everybody (and by that I mean the whole two people who felt like reading)! It's me, SneakyDorcas, the author of Shadow and Scythe. After my co-author (oath-keeper95) got bored of leading up on this story, he gave control of it to me, so here I am. He had some other ideas for crossover stories, and he put them in a list for me. The ideas are as follows;
Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro X Soul Eater, Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro X Yotsuba&!, One Piece X Yotsuba!&, Soul Eater X Mabuharo, One Piece X Mabuharo, and Soul Eater and Yotsuba&!.
And here I am, typing this Yotsuba!& X Soul Eater story. Here goes nothing. (ahem) I, SneakyDorcas, do not own the rights to Soul Eater, Yotsuba!&, Legend of Zelda (you'll understand later), any other shows, characters, story lines, or titles. Nope… only this story (and I'm taking any bids you got!).
Soul Eater is owned by Atsushi Ōkubo and Gangan Comics. The English translation is published by Yen Press.
Yotsuba&! is owned by Kiyohiko Azuma and ASCII Media Works. The English translation is published by Yen Press.
The Legend of Zelda (the series of video games, not just the original NES game) was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and Eiji Aonuma. The series is published by, and licensed to, the Nintendo company.
Whew. Okay, for those of you who care about the timelines, this story starts about two weeks after the final episode of Soul Eater and immediately after Yotsuba releases the cicada swarm into the Ayases' household.
Chapter 1: A Letter From the Cousins? Rice-Hair's New Mission!
It was a hot, hot day at the Ayase household. Everyone was staying inside, lying under air conditioners and in tubs of cool water. The air is still.
"BBBBUAGHH!" a high voice shrieked in terror. Well, was.
The voice belonged to a tall, short haired brunette. The question, Why was she screaming?, might pass through your mind. The answer is simple: a swarm of cicadas chirping away inside (as any cicada would), and because of a young, short girl with peculiarly styled green hair who had set the cicadas free from their container. She had a look on her face that could only belong to someone who had absolutely no idea what she had done.
Behind the brunette, a teenager with long copper hair walked out of the room. She was called Asagi, in case you were wondering.
Behind the green-haired girl was a man wearing a shirt with a floral pattern, a tall, black-haired giant. The man was tall. Actually, 'tall' is no way to describe how mind-shatteringly huge this man was. He looked like you could varnish him and play pool with his head.
Next to him was a young girl with long black hair. She was young, but still several years older than her green-haired friend. A red T-shirt with a picture of fish bones hung loosely across her torso, clashing violently with her sunny, polite demeanor. (In this narrator's personal opinion, this girl is beautiful.)
Asagi stalked back into the room, clutching a can with the words "Bugs-B-Gone" emblazoned across it. She was immediately tackled by the green-haired imp.
After she got up, the green haired girl took a good look around before she grabbed a nearby cicada and held it in the face of the short-haired woman. "Mom, this is a kumazemi cicada! Are you happy?" the girl asked.
As the girl brought the cicada closer and closer to the woman, the woman said in terror, "Yes! Yes!"
Hearing this, the young girl's grin grew even bigger as she raised her hand and released the cicada, hollering "YAY!" As she did this, the tall man and other girl were busy trying to capture the cicadas. Again.
A few minutes later…
"...and then, I caught a kumazemi! It was huge!" said the young girl to a tall (regular sized) man with black hair. The two of them were eating their curry as she told him what had occurred that day.
"Wow, you caught a kumazemi, huh? That's great." the man said, finishing his bite in the process.
"I know!" the girl said before standing to continue on to say, "I was like 'kou!' and 'sha!', 'bya!' 'pa!'" gesturing with her spoon as she did so.
As she finished, the man took the opportunity to tell her, "Sit down and eat."
The girl sat down and took a bite before looking at the man and said, "After that we went cicada hunting in Ena's house, and mom was really happy! Then Jumbo took all the cicada back to the shrine! And that was it!" Finishing, she began to hastily eat her meal.
"Sounds like you had a good time then," stated the man.
"Yeah! I had a blast!" the girl said through a mouthful of food.
After the two of them finished their curry and finished the clean up, the man made sure that everything was organized before he realized something. "Hey, Yotsuba. Can you come over here for a second?" he said.
Yotsuba (the green haired girl) rushed over to the man in her nightwear. "Yuh-huh Daddy?" she asked as the man held out an opened letter addressed to the Koiwai family and handed it to Yotsuba.
"It's from your cousins Liz and Patty." he said.
As Yotsuba opened the envelope, she unfolded the letter and began to read it. Well… okay, she 'tried' to read it, and after all, she's not even in elementary school yet. "De… Deer Unkool Koiwai, Patty and I have a jaob nearbye you, so we would like to visute with you and Yotsuba for a fuw days while where there. See you then, Ell-sim-bet Thom-song. P.S. Our boss will be ac…acumponieng us, and worining, he's saimetrecally ob... obsi... up sessed."
(For the sake of clarity, this is what the note actually said:
Dear Uncle Koiwai, Patty and I have a job nearby you, so we would like to visit with you and Yotsuba for a few days while we're there. See you then. Sincerely, Elizabeth Thompson.
P.S.: Our boss will be accompanying us, and, warning, he's symmetrically obsessed.)
"Huh?" she wondered before turning to her father. "Daddy, what's does 'semantrically upset' mean?" she asked with pure curiosity shining in her eyes.
Koiwai thought about it for a minute. "Well… first off, I think you mean symmetrically obsessed. And I assume that means he's a perfectionist." he said with his hand on his chin before looking back at Yotsuba, who was currently confused. That wasn't too unusual. Seeing this, Koiwai sighed and said, "In other words, he likes things to stay balanced."
Yotsuba, having had learned about balance from Jumbo a while ago, was able to understand what Koiwai meant. "So… the cousins are coming to see Daddy and Yotsuba with a accrowbrat?" she asked her father.
Koiwai wondered for a moment how Yotsuba got acrobat from balanced, but decided to ignore it. "Yes, I think that's the gist of it." he said before turning to a picture of him, his sister, her husband, and two girls that looked around the same age as Yotsuba. "I wonder how they've been since Lucy and Kyle died." he said. Looking at him, Yotsuba noticed water falling from his face. Noticing this himself, he dried his face with his sleeve before turning back to Yotsuba and saying sternly, "I'll tell you this once Yotsuba. Be on your best behavior! Alright?!"
"Sir yes sir," she said, snapping firmly to attention on reflex. Outside the Koiwai household, the voices of Koiwai and Yotsuba could still be heard as they finished preparing for bed.
Meanwhile, in Death City...
"C'mon Kid, did you forget that we have a mission we have to go on?" exclaimed a tall girl with long, honey-blond hair wearing a cow girl outfit. As she said this, she was focusing on a boy who was clutching at the door frame in front of her with the desperation of a madman. His cropped black hair had three rice-white strips on the left, throwing a kind of silver light across the room. Aside from that, the boy was remarkably, precisely symmetrical, wearing a sharp tuxedo that matched on both sides. A kind of metallic stitching protruded from the suit's shoulders, and an air of danger hung around him. That is, it did, when he wasn't gripping a door frame so hard his fingers turned white. Or rather, whiter.
Behind both of these people, was a girl with short blond hair, who wore a similar cow girl outfit.
"No way! I'd rather die than go to a house that holds that bad of a calligrapher!" the boy cried.
"Well what do you expect from a six year old girl who used to live in Hawaii? She can't read, or even speak the language very well! What made you think her writing would be any better?" The long blond asked, still trying to pry the boy from the house. "Tell him, Patty!"
Patty nodded, reaching into her bag and pulled out the letter that their uncle had sent a few days ago. "I don't think it's that bad. After all, I can read it! Me!" she said as she unfolded the letter. "Dear Liz and Patty, Yotsuba and I are doing fine. Since we last saw each other, we moved to a nice place called Karakura Town. Yotsuba has even made friends with our next door neighbors, the Ayase's. Any ways, we hope you'll come to visit us soon. See you around, Koiwai and Yotsuba." she finished, handing the letter to Liz's free hand.
Liz nodded to her sister and returned her attention to the boy holding it in front of him. "See? All she signed was her name, that's not enough for you to judge her on!"
"Never! One's penmanship is a reflection of one's soul, and her soul is as asymmetrical as a crowbar!"
Liz had had enough. "AAAAAAAAARGH! GET … OUT… OF… THAT… DOORWAY! Patty! HELP!"
Patty trotted over, grinning moronically. "Hoi!" She began crawling underneath the black-clad boy. As soon as she was clear, she sprang to her feet and started pulling on his head.
The boy in black absently noted, "Well, at least I'm symmetrical," immediately before Liz's grip slipped. He went catapulting forward into the room, wailing mercilessly and accidentally crashing into Patty in the process.
He saw with horror that all his paintings were tilting as he flew by. Tears crawled down his face as he slammed into the wall (somehow surviving) and was knocked completely unconscious. "Oh no! Kid! Patty!" exclaimed Liz, realizing that she may have killed the young man, as well as her sister.
"I'm alright, sis." said Patty, popping out of the rubble from where the wall was before while she pulled the unconscious body of the young man behind her by his leg. "But Kid's sleeping, so we've got to be quiet." she whispered to her sister.
Seeing that her sister and friend weren't dead made Liz sigh in relief. "That's good." she replied.
Patty looked at Liz curiously. "Why is it good that he's asleep?" Patty asked. In her mind, Patty glimpsed visions of dragging Kid's unconscious body all the way to their Uncle's house.
"Because if Kid's not awake, he can't complain about going. Right?" Liz pointed out, grabbing the boy's other leg. Patty stood where she was for another moment or two. Suddenly, a knowing grin crossed her face as an idea dawned on her. As she and Liz dragged the boy to the car, they decided to get a few more things before they departed on their mission.
On the way to the car, no one looked down. If they had, they might have noticed an old bounty poster that drifted out of Kid's pocket. At the top of the poster, the word "WANTED" was etched in huge red letters. Just below, there was a large portrait of two hags, both of them riding broomsticks. One of them held a stylized snowflake, an impossibly large disc of delicate ice-white carvings. The other held a tiny plume of brilliant red fire, forever sparking off into the shadowy night.
Just below the picture, there was an elegantly written block of text. It read, 'Sorceress Sisters Koume and Kotake, AKA Twinrova. Wanted for the hunting of human souls and for the act of witch craft. They have been seen using fire and ice magic and have been known to use mind control if necessary. They have only been seen hunting on the night of a full moon, and this may be the only time they can hunt. Use extreme caution. These witches are armed and highly dangerous.'
"Alright! Next stop, Karakura Town!" exclaimed Patty.
"Mmm… What happened?" asked the boy, slowly regaining consciousness.
"Crap! Drive, driver! Drive!" exclaimed Liz as the car speedily raced off, signalling the beginning of their new mission. If only they'd known.