(a/n) this is lulu's fault. also the nick show does a poor job at reminding us how important shini is to karai so I thought I'd do it for them! Yay! Also semi spoilery for season 4 finale so...


When Shini, on the cold, frozen over roof of someone's apartment, told her they were going to drive as far away from the city as they could manage, Karai hadn't believed her, her dismissive laughs puffing out into the night like smoke did, intertwining with Shini's breath just below the stars they could barely see.

The sky was just so close, way up here.

And they had both shared the unknowing of what lies just beyond their world; they felt small that way. There were bigger things than them, but they could get stronger and crazier and do all the wild things they dared to do.

When Karai didn't have a broken arm, preferably.

So she didn't believe her when Shin had told her they'd stretch across the cities, the states, the country sides and see the night like they never had before, because that was something for other people; people that didn't nearly get murdered by their father and saved by their humanoid turtle brothers; that weren't orphaned and lost and insane with grief and anger and the perplexity of the spectrum of emotions, new and heavy.

But then there was this van Shini stole- and then there was Shini, sitting in it with a smile that promised the insanity of two runaways on the journey to find some kind of purpose.

But then there was this van Shini stole- and then there was Shini, sitting in it with a smile that promised the insanity of two runaways on the journey to find some kind of purpose.

No itinerary.

They'd just go.

And they did.

Karai left a note and they went.

Motels held them long enough, cheap and dirty and wonderful in that way. One place after the other. Searching, digging, finding.

No one could stop them. Not grief, not anger, not vengeance, not themselves.

Because sometimes that's the only way to find the best version of you, Karai thinks, staring up at real stars, vast and magnificent, Shinigami asleep on her shoulder.

And her black cat between them.


(a/n) so here it is dudes! some shinigami and some karai to fill all the empty spaces the show's left us with. this will be a little one shot series so feel free to keave comments and requests buds!