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I would like to thank Dennou Writer, she help make this possible, and is a badass editor and writer! If the intro image thing becomes something so painfully chessy, please let me know and I will stop doing it.
Intro Image: Kid is walking in the city, while the moon bleeds blood behind him. He doesn't know what is about to happen, and there is a tree next to him. He doesn't see the shadow of the person who eyes glow red and is holding a knife. The knife has red blood and one tiny spot of black blood.
A quiet, lonely atmosphere was surrounding the Gallows as the two demon pistols were waiting for their shinigami shokunin to return. The night was giving off a haunting, eerie aura. Even the moon itself was bleeding more than usual, its cries of laughter were strangely louder and drove a shiver up Liz's back.
"You know, they say when the moon behaves like that, someone here in the city dies." Patty commented sort of darkly, completely out of character.
Liz stopped reading her magazine. "That's nothing more than a stupid ghost story. Besides, I hate ghost stories."
The younger sister giggled. "But onee-chan, I think it might be true. And there's more. It's not just a death, it's a cold, cruel, bloody murder." She said, making her voice more deep and slow, followed by a Cheshire-like smile. "You can't spell 'slaughter' without 'laughter'. Hehehe."
Now the other blonde couldn't take it anymore. "Patty stop it!" She hissed with teary eyes.
"Haha, sorry onee-chan~!" She sang innocently. But if you've known the girl as well as her sister did, then you could bet your life that she didn't mean it.
Within time, Liz finally calmed down. "I wonder when Kid's coming back?" She asked to no one in special while giving her sister a bored look, before applying another coat of hot pink nail polish. As if on cue, Kid stepped through the door. He looked tired, his hair was slightly messed up, his dress shirt and tie looked as if he attempted to fix it, but gave up.
"Ah, welcome home, Kid." The older one greeted, quite absently, now that she was focused on her own hands.
"Hiya, Kid-Kun!" Patty said simply, also not seeming to notice his state.
As Liz sat her nails down to dry, while Patty started coloring, Kid's face changed from stressed to relieved. "Hello girls." He responded as he hung his coat and took his deathbucks's coffee with another hand. Once he did, he made his way to the girls, and sat down.
"So, how'd it go, Kid?"
The shinigami let out a sigh before replying. "Well... horrible."
Liz leant down to check her nails. "Why?"
"Well, this one was kind, intelligent, honest, but very persistent..." The New Yorker caught onto Kid's code. "Let me guess, she tried to kiss you? Getcha horny? Have sex (more like rape)? Or all of the above?" She asked with a smirk. Kid went wide-eyed at his mabuki's dirty mind, which she responded with a shrug. "Oh, come on. Don't pretend we haven't been through this before, Kid. That explains why you look like you came back from a bar. And... is that smudge lipstick on your cheeks?" The girl leaned in on him in order to see it better, but he quickly backed up. She then decided to hold him down with an irritated grip. "Wait, you idiot! Hold still!"
"There's some on his neck, too~" Patty's crayon was snapped in half as she grinned devilishly. "Hey, hey, onee-chan, let's teach that whore a lesson!"
Kid knew he had to calm them down, before the girls revert back to their old ways. But before that... "Girls! Patty, that crayon you broke did not break symmetrically, fix it!"
Patty stared at him for a minute. "Okay!" She then began to break it again, until there were eight evenly enough pieces.
"Seriously Kid, I thought you would've found someone by now." Liz sighed before she composed herself, while Patty broke another crayon. Kid's left eye began to twitch, the crayon did not break evenly again.
"Onee-chan, Kid-kun's only 17!"
"I know, I know! It's just maybe, Kid will probably feel more comfortable if he... if he..." The blue-eyed one's voice began to die at the end of the statement.
The young man raised an eyebrow. "Go on Liz."
Liz began to struggle. "Maybe if Kid... I... uh..."
Now he was at the point that he couldn't contain his nerves. "For goodness sake! Spit it out, Liz!"
While Kid took a sip of his coffee, Liz mustered all her courage. "If Kid marrys one of us!"
"PPPPhhhfff!" The shinigami immediately spat out his coffee as another sound of cracking crayon was heard. Of course, he had been raised to be a gentleman. His matters were always meant to be perfect and precise. But this is one of those moments when it all slipped his mind. And slipped hard.
"What?" She blushed. "I mean one of us. You got me, Patty, Tsubaki, Kim, Jackie, Blair..."
"NO! No, anyone but her." The look of horror said it all. It happened everytime he offers to house-sit Maka and Soul's house. After they are done, Blair would like to call it 'play time with the sex kitty'... let's just say Kid understood why Soul told him to call animal control center.
Shaking his head of the memory, he took another sip of coffee, as Liz continued. "Or Maka."
It was as if life hit the replay button again. "PPhhff! Elizabeth? !"
The older twin demon pistol gave the shinigami a dumb-founded look. "What? What's so bad about Maka?"
Kid finished cleaning himself up, then started to massage his temples. "No, nothing much. It's just-" Kid never got to finish, when the younger twin demon pistol answered for him, revealing a very juicy secret.
"It's Kid-Kun's first love!" He automatically flew forward to cover Patty's unsealable mouth. Liz's jaw dropped. "Huh?"
"Patty! You swore you wouldn't tell!" Kid struggled to keep his hand on Patty's mouth. The tone in his voice was a mix of anger, shock, betrayal and nervousness.
He knew very well it was a bad idea from the beginning to tell Patty. But at the time, he had no one else to tell. His father was always busy. Spirit? Yeah, that's a laugh! Stein? He himself said people like him do not understand a feeling like love. Black*Star would just laugh at him or call him a pussy for not telling Maka (not to mention he would know how to keep his mouth shut about it). Soul? You're joking right? Everybody at Shibusen knew about Soul's secret love for the young kama shokunin. Tsubaki was known to tell Black*Star everything. And Chrona? Chrona would just respond something like: 'I don't know how to deal with love confessions!'.
Well, it's not that he feared Soul (okay, maybe a little), but he didn't want to ruin his relationship with him. There were rumors spread all over Shibusen saying that anyone who confessed to Maka would end up having a beat down with the death scythe the next day. Again, Kid had more than enough strength to take Soul, but beating up him could destroy their friendship, and Maka's as well.
Patty finally freed herself. "Oopsie. Sowwy."
As Kid was still growling at her, Liz's gossip mode kicked in. She was about to make more unmentionable questions over the new subject when he suddenly got up. "Hey, where are you going?"
He already felt embarrassed enough. "I refuse to talk about this." About to make his way to the doors, the black-haired man was stopped in mid way when a strong hand stopped him.
"No, sit down, Kid. Please?" Liz asked, trying to look calm. But he kept his ground. "Good-night girls!"
"Nuh-uh! You're gonna tell me what the hell's going on, SO SIT DOWN!" Kid obediently did as she 'gently' demanded.
"Damn. When did she become so intimidating?" He thought while giving her a shocked look.
She just cleared her throat. "Stop looking at me like that. I'm from the streets remember?" Although giving off the appearance of pure annoyance outside, her true emotion was satisfaction. Chibi inner Liz was doing a happy dance. The distaught expression faltered back to his stressed look. He might as well confess, or else her fist would make him.
A loose sigh escaped from his lips. "All right. Yes, even though you were my first kis–"
Patty's turn for surprise landed on the wheel. "What? Onee-chan, when did this happen?"
Both Kid and Liz felt awkward. Kid rubbed the back of his head, Liz decided to be the one to answer. "Kid wanted to experiment, and this was when I kind of had a crush on him. I wanted Kid to feel comfortable with being around women. HEY!" Patty had been giving the 'I-know-what-else-you-two-did' smile.
"Patty, clear those indecencies from your head! We kept our clothes on." As Liz said that, the center of Kid's face was beat red. "Most of them." She muttered turning her head away from the two.
"You're not helping."
"Whatever! Don't change the subject! Keep talking, Kid-kun." The younger blonde said, smiling eerily.
He let out another sigh. "As you both know, Tsubaki was my first girlfriend."
Now Patty couldn't help but laugh. "Haha, Black*Star beat the crap out of you for that."
Kid let out an annoyed groan at the memory. "Yes, I know! Enough!" A shinigami could only take so much, ask his father or Spirit. "As I was saying, oh yes. As the time went on, I began to see Maka's true colors. Yes she's polite, impressively intelligent, respects her elders, but that's what everyone sees on the outside. Not the soul. She says she hates men, yet she loves us (referring to her male teachers, classmates and himself). As I said before, she is intelligent, but her recklessness says otherwise. She's harsh, yet forgiving. She doesn't baby me, yet she offers comforts when needed. She tends to fight battles with the heart instead of the head. No matter how many times she gets beaten to a bloody pulp, she never gives up. The balance of her emotions and personality amazes me." Kid stared off into space, then finished his statement. "This was probably the reason why I was possibly jealous of Soul."
Liz felt like she was listening to a poet. "He makes her sound like a Goddess." She thought, watching Patty smile.
"Awww, you kept rambling on about her. That's so cute! Onee-chan~! I think Kid-kun has found her!" Liz finally took in all of what Kid said.
"You never told her, right?"
His face fell a little before answering. "Regrettably, not directly. Because of my mistake, Soul won. And soon after, Chichi-ue said they started taking on more missions. Never staying in the city for too long. Not since Maka became a three-star shokunin."
Liz gave Kid a look of determination. She stood up with a smirk on her face. "Don't matter. You found her and I'll-" There a loud bang at the door. "I'll get that."
Patty took this chance to ask Kid some more questions. "Ne, ne, Kid-kun~! Why did you date Tsubaki-chan? And what did you mean by ' not directly'?"
He smiled weakly, but his eyes contained sadness. He patted her head lightly. "Perhaps another time." Patty was at the brink of tears, and made a gesture to hug him, when a scream ruined the moment. "No! No, no, no! This is not happening!"
Kid and Patty both dashed down the stairs. The duo was astonished to find Stein, Sid and Nygus at the door.
"Good evening, you two."
With worried golden eyes closing, Kid cleared his throat. "Good evening Stein-hakase. May I help you with something?" Liz's sobbing was the only thing heard through out the Gallows after that question. There was awkward silence among the two confused young people and the disappointed-looking adults.
"K-Kid, I'm so sorry..." She managed sputter, keeping her head down. She couldn't look at him.
"What's wrong Liz? Tell me." Liz just shook her head. Kid gave her a light shake on the shoulders. "Come on, somebody tell me what the hell's going on?"
Liz finally answered him, but her response only made him get confused and distaught. "You can never tell her now. Ever!"
He was now feeling tense, his voice slightly raising. "Why? Is she hurt? Missing? Be specific, dammit!"
"You lost her..." Liz sunk to the floor as she let go of Kid. She covered her face, and sobbed harder.
Patty had enough. "Onee-chan, please..." She tried to comfort her sister, but Liz jerked at her movements. This did not cause her to react well. "Gah, stop crying at once!" A slap echoed through the Gallows. "Be strong, onee-chan. Tell us what happened!" She tried to pull Liz up. Yet she wouldn't move or say anything.
Franken Stein, who was never one for drama, decided to step in for good. "Kid, Patricia... I'm sorry to bring grave news... but tonight," He took a deep breath, then sighed loudly. "Maka Albarn was found hung in the training woods near the school. We believe did not commit suicide. It's highly doubtful that she would brutally murder herself."
Kid and Patty could feel as if the world had just stopped. "What?"
Stein was now pissed. He knew it was quite a shock, but they were going on too slowly for his liking. "Wake up, children! Maka Albarn's death was an homicide!"
And that was it. Out of all the things, death itself had stolen Maka away. As they always say, 'till death do us part'.
Yep, poor Kid never got the chance to tell her. For those of you who are going 'What the f$ck at anything, everything will be explained.
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