Chapter 1

Weeks of being stuck in the stupid prison cell, no light, much abuse and so much more, and now they had her handcuffed and blindfolded. Things probably could get worse but in all honesty she was hoping she was going to die this time. In the time since she had been kidnapped she had tried to kill herself at least fifteen times, and was still trying to figure out a way to do it again, her current plan was to starve herself.

She was roughly thrown into a car, most likely a van. The car started to move, she sigh, nothing made sense with the people. If she were her kidnappers she would have done what she wanted to herself by now. They had already done everything possible to her that she wasn't sure she would ever be able to deal with the real world again. She had never been this suicidal before her kidnapping, but now…all she wanted was to be free of this torment.

The van stopped abruptly and there was some scrambling sounds from her captors. Some doors opened and she knew then that she had been left alone in the van. She sat up slowly, her arms ached from being forced behind her back. Voices reached her ears, they weren't loud, but she could hear them clearly. Everything was loud to her silence use to ears, and she could hear the voices clearly, and there was no real way to tell if they were people who would save her or not but it didn't matter, because they were probably better than the people who had taken her away in the first place.

She hopped onto her feet from the kneeling position she had been in before, it made a loud enough noise that the voices stopped for a second. She could hear the crunch of gravel under their feet, and when the sound stopped she knew that they were at the open door of the van.

"It's a girl…" said one voice.

"Isn't she the missing girl from like three months back?" asked the other.

"I don't know…take off the blindfold." said the same first voice.

The blind was pulled off her face, and she shut her eyes tightly against the sudden light. She heard a growl from somewhere, then realized that it was herself who was growling. She stopped, and squinted to get a look at the two people in front of her. One guy was blue, which was weird by her standards, but it wasn't like she could judge.

"Are you Hazel Thomas?" asked the blue guy, who was the first voice from before.

Hazel nodded, she hadn't spoken in…well a long time, and wasn't sure she could still talk at all. Her handcuffs were removed and she was taken to a car, a small bag was given to her. She looked at it confused at first, but then opened it. Shock crossed her silent face when the little bit of belongings she had had on her when she was taken were in the bag. Now she could call home, well as soon as she could talk.

"Hey," the blue guy said as he came up to her, "We're going to take you to a place where they're going to take care of you, but you're in Death City. Do you know what that means?"

She shook her head and pretended to write in the air, she needed a piece of paper and pen or something to write with, even with yes or no questions they would get nowhere.

"Okay…well can you wait till we get you to Shibusen? There it would be more likely to be able to get you something to write with." He left without another word and went over to another guy, he then came back and started the car and drove to the place he called Shibusen.

Once at the place the blue guy called Shibusen, Hazel was taken by a nice looking African-American lady, who took her to what looked to be a simple infirmary. Hazel did the pen motion thing again, and this time was given a small white board and maker to write on.

"Hi, I'm Nygus. I'll be tending to your wounds."

I'm fine…please don't… Hazel wrote down quickly.

When Nygus read the note, she stared at Hazel, seeming to know why the girl didn't want her to examine her. "Well okay, but Sid won't be very happy with me for not doing as he asked…but since you don't seem comfortable with it there is nothing I can do about it…how about a change of clothes then?"

Thank you…and please…a change of clothes would be great…ummmm…could you get me baggie pants and I don't really care about the shirt but could you get me a really big jacket as well?

"Sure," Nygus replied and left to go get the clothing. A man with red hair walked in followed by a man with white hair and a giant screw in his head.

"So this is the missing girl?" asked the one with the screw in his head.

"Ya, Shinigami-Sama wants to see her after Nygus is done with her." replied the red head.

It pissed Hazel off that they were talking about her like she couldn't hear them, she quickly wrote out, Hey idiots! I can hear everything you're saying! I'm not deaf!

This seemed to take the red head aback, but the other guy just sorta chuckled to himself. Hazel glared at him, she didn't like the fact that he was laughing at her.

"I'm well aware that you aren't deaf, but Spirit probably doesn't. I'm Stein by the way."

I'm sure you know who I am…

"Yes, but it would be better if you confirmed it for us."

…Hazel Thomas…

"Here hun I was able to find what you wanted," Nygus walked back into the room with some clothing folded in her arms, then she noticed Stein and Spirit. "Oh, are you two here to take her to Shinigami-Sama?"

"Ya, are you almost done here Nygus?" asked Stein.

"Ya, just got her a change of clothing, so if you two could get out for a few moments that way she can get dressed, the she'll be ready to go see Shinigami-Sama."

The two men exited, and Hazel gave Nygus a forced smile. "Do you mind if I just look at you while you change? I want to look for any injuries that need to be treated right away."

Hazel shrugged, she didn't care, Nygus was a woman, Hazel didn't have a problem with woman. She quickly stripped out of her very old clothing and put on the new ones. Nygus noticed scars and a few dirty bandages, but said nothing at first, she waited until Hazel was done dressing.

"Would you mind if I changed the bandages you have? Your old ones are very dirty and old."

Hazel nodded slowly, Nygus slowly unwrapped all the old bandages and was shocked to find what lay beneath. Cuts, gashes, wounds that could kill, and there were scars from very old ones as well. Nygus wrapped the wounds back up not sure what to say, "Ummm…Dr. Stein and Death Scythe are waiting out there for you."

Hazel nodded, she put on her jacket and grabbed the white board and maker the exited the room. She then followed Stein and Spirit to a room, called Death Room. They entered and she silently followed them inside.

There were crosses everywhere and down the pathway there giant arch like things that looked like guillotines. Strangely enough Hazel was scared of them, she just looked at them with a strange look on her face. There was a raised area at the end of the guillotines, there was a really tall guy with a black cloak and funny looking skull mask on and sitting in a chair was some odd kid with three white stripes on one side of his hair, and flanking him were two girls.

Stein and Spirit went up onto the raised platform and greeted the people up there, Hazel stayed at the bottom of the steps. She looked down and started to mess with the end of the jacket sleeve. Then remembering the white board she sat down with her back to everyone and started to doodle on it. She ended up drawing a fairly good portrait of the guy and girls by the chair.

"Wow! You're really good! And you never even looked at us the whole time!" Hazel jumped at the sound of the voice, it was one of the girls from the chair. She had short blond hair, and big bright blue eyes. Hazel nodded slowly, not sure what to do.

"Patty stop bugging her! She's the girl who's been missing for like months!" Said the other girl, who had long blond hair. The guy just looked over at where Patty and Hazel were at, looking completely disinterested. Hazel gave him a glare, which seemed to shock him because his expression changed.

He got up and walked over to where Hazel and Patty were. He looked down at the picture on the board and his mouth dropped open. He grabbed it out of her hands and stared at the picture, in what seemed to be awe.

"The symmetry of this picture is amazing! You even got Liz and Patty's boobs to look like their symmetrical!"

Hazel slowly removed the board from the guy's hands and quickly wiped it clean with her sleeve. She quickly moved as far away as possible from the guy, which pretty much meant she was right next to the other group of people. She hid behind the group, not sure where else to go.

"Kidd don't scare her, she's been through a lot and doesn't talk." Said the masked guy.

Why's Three Stripes so weird?

She held up the board for everyone to read, Three Stripes, as Hazel referred to him, went into some kind of fit after reading the board. Liz and Patty both were trying to what look like console him, and the three adults just ignored it.

"Kidd has a thing for symmetry, I'm Death by the way nice to meet you Miss. Thomas." Death held out his hand for her to shake, Hazel took it and gave it a slow and unsteady shake. "You looked starved, would you like something to eat?"

She nodded, then wrote down, I haven't really eaten in almost a week…

Shinigami-Sama looked at her, and it seemed to her that it was shock that he was feeling considering she couldn't see his face.

"They didn't feed you?" exclaimed Death Scythe.

She shook her head, I refused to eat, another attempt of mine to kill myself…

Everyone looked at her in shock, Hazel shrugged off the big jacket. The scars on her arms where only half visible under the bandages that Nygus had redone. She pulled up her shirt and there was a long scar running the length of her stomach, then rolling up her pant legs there were various marks along her legs. Then once proving that she had tried to kill herself, she covered back up the scars and shakily sat down on the ground.

Memories had begun to assault her senses, memories that she would rather forget. She was stuck in the memories and could feel the tears welling up in her eyes as she tried to fight back. Slowly she was brought back by someone gently shaking her.

Blood was flowing from a new wound, no it was an old one. The cut had ripped back open when she had roughly grabbed her arms, squeezing them until old pains opened back up. Looks of concern were on everyone's faces even Three Stripes.

"Are you okay?" asked multiple people.

She shakily grabbed for the board and maker, I'm as fine as I could be…bad things from the last months of my life…

"Kidd I want you, Liz, and Patty to take care of her. Protect her, the whole reason we were able to find her was because the people who had kidnapped her were going to trade her for something. She's worth something to them, and therefore they may go to the trouble of trying to get her back. I want you to guard her and try to help rehabilitee her. Understood?" asked Lord Death.

"Yes father," answered Three Stripes, Liz and Patty just nodded.

So Liz, Patty, and Three Stripes took Hazel home with them. The house was big, which Hazel wasn't sure how to feel about that little fact. She had been locked in a small cell for the last three months of her life, and now she was in a large house. Things were really hard to deal with at this moment, this morning she had been the same captive she had been for three months, and now she was no longer that same captive, now she was free again.

She plopped down onto the ground of the house, unsure of what to do. So many options, she could work on art again. The thought of being able to paint and draw freely again made her smile. The others were watching her and were shocked that she smiled and when the tears started to fall down her face they panicked.

"What's wrong?" asked Liz.

Nothing…for the first time in three months…I'm happy to be alive….I can draw and paint again…I can live…

Three Stripes looked at her oddly, so she wrote down, What's your problem Three Stripes?

That seemed to piss him off, "My name isn't Three Stripes! It's Death the Kidd!" He shouter angrily at her.

"But to us he's just Kiddo!" giggled out Patty.

…I really don't care…either way he's just a guy…

Liz looked at Hazel in pity, "They did some really bad things to you didn't they?"

…Ya…

Kidd looked at the two confused, he didn't understand what Liz had meant. And when it did hit him, shock quickly crossed his face. Humans never stopped horrifying him.

"Come on let's get you to your room…" Kidd pulled her up and led her to a room up the stairs and to the right. "Here's your room, Liz can help you with anything else. Dinner's at eight o'clock sharp." He left her standing there, quickly walking into a room one door from her new room.

Hazel looked at Liz questioningly, she shrugged, a small smile on her face. She led Hazel into her room and showed her all she needed to know. Then left the girl to her new room to get settled.

Liz walked over to Kidd's room and knocked, she entered and said, "Kidd you did a good thing…just don't treat her strange, if anything act like she's completely normal." Liz left Kidd to his thoughts as well and went to hang with her sister.

Okay, so a new story that was stuck in my head...please review otherwise i won't put up anymore chapters...

~DBH