I had just finished getting my boxes in my room when I heard Rai calling my name.
"Kaori! Can you help me?" He called.
"Be there in a second!" I said setting the box on the floor and went outside to help Rai carry kitchen stuff into the house and soon Nikki came out to help as well and everything was in the house, now to get unpacking. Luckily it was a Friday so we had all weekend to get settled before classes, all we had to do was go get registered for classes.
"Why don't we go ahead and go to the school to be registered for classes." Rai suggested.
"Yeah! I wanna see the school and go a head and leave them with one of my calling cards." Nikki said excitedly.
"You are not putting a cherry bomb in a toilet." I said.
"Aw man then can I-
"No." I said.
"You didn't even let me finish." He argued.
"You were going to ask if you could slick all the floors with cooking oil or something like that." Rai and I said in unison.
"Damn." Nikki said.
"No pranks right now, you don't want to get expelled before we're even students do you?" Rai asked.
"I guess not." He answered as we headed out the door and down the street.
"Hi, are you new?" A girl asked from the side of the street. She wore a long sleeved white shirt with a yellow sweater-vest, a red plaid skirt and black and white combat boots. I put a reminder to ask her later where she got her boots from if I saw her again. Her pale blonde hair was worn in pigtails and she looked like she was about my age or a year younger. Her soul was a pale yellow with pigtails, which suggested that the pigtails were a signature thing. It was small but strong.
"Yes, we just moved back to the city." I answered.
"Are you two both Death Scythes?" The girl asked.
"Yeah, just ate our last soul before we got here." Rai answered.
"How did you manage to get 198 kishin eggs and two witch's souls?" She asked me.
"We haven't lived in Death City for a long time, we had time on our hands and practice a lot." Nikki answered.
"Are you going to the school to report to Lord Death?" She asked.
"That and to register for classes." I answered.
"But if you're Death Scythes then you don't need to." She said confused.
"You can always learn more, even Lord Death has admitted that he could." I answered and added, "I'm Kaori, this is Rai and Nikki."
"I'm Maka." She said and we all shook hands with her.
"Well we should get going so we can get back home to unpack." Rai said.
"Okay, see you in school then." Maka said and we waved and continued on up to the school.
We walked through the school until we came to the Death room. I knocked on the door and heard a goofy voice call, "Come on in!"
I opened the door and we went in.
"Hey there Kaori, long time no see. How are you three doing? How's the soul hunting going?" Death asked. There were four others in the room. Death's own weapon, commonly known as Spirit, two girl that were obviously sisters and dressed alike the way Rai and Nikki did and a boy with black hair and the three white stripes that was only on one side of his hair that marked him as a Shinigami. He was staring at us as if he were calculating something.
"Done, now there are ten Death Scythes, three being actual scythes." Nikki said giving a peace sign similar to the way Death himself often did with a big smile on his face.
"Wonderful! Glad to hear it." Death said.
"No! Please don't replace me!" Spirit said.
"I'm not replacing you." Death said.
"Besides we like working with Kaori, no offence Death." Rai said.
"None taken. You three make a great team." He responded.
"Perfectly symmetrical!" The other meister, whom I assumed was none other than Death the Kid.
"What?" Nikki, Rai and I asked in unison as he got closer in a flash and stood before us with a smile and a glint in his eyes.
"Oh great." The elder sister of his weapons said.
"You three are standing perfectly symmetrical! Oh symmetry, beautiful symmetry!" He said excitedly.
"Um is it just me or does it look like he's about to have an excitement explosion?" Nikki asked.
"He's OCD with things being Symmetrical and even. Your weapons look just alike and the way you're standing it's perfectly symmetrical." The elder sister explained.
"Oh, okay." I answered. I knew Nikki was going to have fun with this and he sat on the floor to make it asymmetrical and said, "So something like this would bother you."
"No! You ruined it!" He said. I hit Nikki in the back of the head and said, "Stop being mean to the guy. Sorry about him, he likes to screw with people and play pranks or do anything to get a strong reaction from others, especially playing pranks. That's Nikki."
"I'm Rai." Rai said with a wave.
"And I'm Kaori." I said.
Death the Kid got up and said, "Hello I am Death the Kid, and these are my partners Liz and Patty."
"Nice to met you all." We said as Nikki stood again.
"So what brings you here besides your report?" Death asked.
"We want to register for classes." Rai said.
"But you two are already Death scythes, and Kaori is a two star meister now that she's finished making the two Death scythes. You have no need to be at the school." He said.
"There's always more that can be learned." The three of us said in unison.
"Alright then, but for Kaori to continue wielding two Death scythes she must pass one test to test her ability to fight without a weapon and become a three star." Death said.
"Can do." I said with a smile.
"How old are you anyways?" Spirit asked.
"I'm sixteen." I answered.
"Impressive, and what about you two?" He asked Rai and Nikki.
"Seventeen." They answered.
"A two star meister going on three and two death scythes before you're even an adult. Impressive, you three must make an excellent team." He commented.
"With a lot of free time on our hands." Rai and I said in unison.
"Yeah that makes a difference." Nikki said.
"Anyways here are your schedules and Kaori if you want to go ahead and take your test you may do that now right here in the Death room." Death said.
"Okay." I answered with a shrug.
"Very well I will call your opponent in." He said.
"So you're joining the academy even though you're about to take a test to determine weather you'll be a three star or not." Kid said.
"Yeah. There's always more to learn." I answered. Liz and Patty were talking to Rai and Nikki.
"Mind if I go out on a limb here?" I asked.
"What about?" He asked.
"You're use of two weapons." I answered.
"If you wish." He answered.
"You're obsessed with symmetry, yet Liz and Patty don't look very much alike, they're exactly alike in weapon form aren't they? Probably some kind of weapon you can use with one hand each to keep you balanced. Considering the apparent severity of your OCD you would likely not use them to fight if you had only one with you because then you would by asymmetrical." I said.
"That is correct, they are twin pistols in weapon form." He answered.
"Cool." I commented.
There was rattling and a small bang and a thud. I turned around to see someone fall, his rolling chair having gotten caught on the doorframe.
"Damn it. You called for me Lord Death." The man said. He had a screw in his head; a stitch theme about him and his soul was enormous and very strong. He was sadistic by nature and loved to dissect living beings but worked to keep that side of him in check.
"Yes, I would like you to meet Kaori, she's a two star meister and has two Death scythes but needs to prove that she can fight without weapons to continue being partners with them," Lord Death said.
"Very well." He said turning the screw in the side of his head.
"You have a decent sized soul, the same color as a witches soul, very interesting…it is very similar to a witches soul or a magical animals like a cat besides the music notes floating around, yet your personality reveals nothing about music, you're headstrong and stubborn so most likely you fight despite fear, but coupled with your headstrong attitude it would probably come off as reckless." He said.
"You have soul perception too. You gather data before making assumptions or fighting." I said.
"She's also allergic to Bullshit." Nikki said from the side. Stein briefly looked at him. Both of us waited to make a move.
"If both of us keep waiting for the other to make a move we'll never get this fight over with." I said bluntly.
"I agree." He said and came at me, still sitting in his rolling chair. I noticed his hand crackling with energy so he was likely using his soul wavelength to attack. He hit my side before I had time to move but I threw myself back, catching myself on the floor and pushed back up into a back handspring and landed on my feet and let myself slide a little bit.
"That had little affect on you. You must have a flexible soul as well." He said turning the screw.
"Yes." I answered and ran at him and hooked my foot on the bar of his chair and flipped it, knocking him out of the chair and kicking it away.
"The wheels were squeaking it was irritating." I said as he got up. We started fighting again. He managed to get his chair back so I used it to my own advantage and eventually he ditched it, quickly realizing that it was helping me more than him.
I jumped out of the way of an attack but ended up being right in place for another one that I wasn't prepared for. There was a blast and I was knocked into the far wall and knew it had cracked from the force. I fell to the floor with a gasp and sat on my hands and knees.
"Impressive. You are a decent fighter, especially since you're still getting up and using anything you can to your own advantage. You have a flexible soul but you cannot project your soul wavelength without a weapon." He said adjusting his glasses.
"Not too shabby yourself Professor Stein. Why are you holding back though?" I asked.
"Why are you?" He asked.
"Touché." I answered and we went back to fighting again. Neither of us holding back this time and it proved to be a challenge none the less and to be honest I'm surprised I was lasting this long, he was rumored to be the most powerful meister to ever graduate and it seemed to be true by how great of a fighter he is without a weapon, not to mention the fact that he didn't really need a weapon.
I tied my long gold-bronze hair back into a ponytail so it would be out of the way and we jumped back into the fighting. I knew I wouldn't win but that wasn't going to stop me from trying anyways. Out of the corner of my eyes I noticed Death the Kidd gushing about something symmetrical and had to crack a smile and was knocked off my feet. He grabbed my wrist.
"You have lovely skin, I would love to dissect you." He said.
"Yeah I got that vibe from your soul, but I'd rather not be cut open." I retorted and delivered a roundhouse kick. He ducked but my hand was free and that's what I was aiming for. I grabbed the screw and threw him to the ground. He grabbed my ankle and pulled it out from under me, at the same time he used his attack and it blasted me back into the wall again, higher than the first time I had hit the wall. I fell to the floor about ten feet below hard and slowly got up.
"I think you've proved that you can fight well without a weapon." He said.