"Hey Kid?" "Yes Liz?" "Did the bottom line always go 3 quarters the way around your hair?" "What are you talking about?" Liz handed him a mirror, and she had been right, the bottom line was 75% complete. "Does this mean, I'm becoming symmetrical? Why doesn't it seem as nice as I thought?" Liz then got a horrified look on her face and tilted a single painting by a millimeter, which Kid did not immediately try to fix. "Kid, we need to see Shinigami-sama, now."

Kid dialed his father on the mirror, who said, "Hey hey, Kiddo, was up, was u…." he stopped when he noticed the line's position. "Kid, get to the death room, now." "Yes father, but are you all right, you sound, different." "I'll explain, oh and don't bring Liz and Patti." Kid was fairly surprised, his father almost never called Liz and Patti by their first names, and if his father wanted to see him alone, it must be something big.

_With Shinigami_

Lord Death took on a serious tone, "Spirit, I need you to get something for me." "Yes sir?" "Behind my mirror, on the side of the platform, there is a drawer, retrieve the drawer and it's contents for me." "Alright." The death scythe did as he was instructed, and carried to Lord Death the drawer, which upon receiving took everything out of it, and arranged them in certain points. "Spirit, I'm calling a death scythe meeting, and no I'm not replacing you, when my son gets here you'll have to leave." At this point Lord Death hands him some money and continues, "Here, go to chupa-cabra's for a while, it's on me. Please enjoy yourself." "Sir is something wrong?" "I'll tell you when all the other death scythes are here." "Alright."

With that, Spirit Albarn left to Chupa-cabra's.

_Spirit Albarn's filler at Chupa-cabra's_

"Just get me a regular beer, no ladies for me today." Everyone in the bar looked at Spirit as if he was infected with the Bubonic Plague in the Middle Ages. "Hey Spirit, you feeling ok?" "Yeah, I am." No one even saw Blair leaving the end of her shift.

_Kid sure does take a long time to get to the death room, don't he?_

"Hey Maka, I think something is wrong with your dad. He didn't want to be with any women at Chupa-Cabra's today." "I wonder what happened…I hope he isn't depressed." "I thought you didn't care about him." "Of course I don't, but if something's wrong then… then I wanna know…"

_Shinigami and Kid in the Death Room_

"Son, do you remember what my face looks like?" "Of course I do dad." Shinigami proceeded to take off his mask. "Well, here's a reminder." His eyes were golden, like Kid's, and on his hair the Lines of Sanzu were full. "Kid, I wish I could go back in time, to when you were little, and spend more time with you. I wish I could go back and prevent your mother from dying. I wish I could go back and make everything right. But I can't. I'm sorry for not doing things right the first and only time, I'm sorry I wasn't as good a father as I should have been." "You were a great dad, I love you, even if you weren't there you always checked on me, every morning and every night, and you came home when I was sick, to take care of me. Thank you." "I was terrible, I should have been there more, I'm the only family you had and I practically abandoned you. I'm a horrible father,"

Kid looked at his father and said, "Dad, You're the best father anyone could ask for." "You might as well say were, in about 2 weeks I won't exist anymore." Kid noticed a slight stutter in his father's voice, as well as a couple of tears in his eyes. "What are you talking about?" "Son, didn't you know Shinigami can die?" "How? We Shinigami are the Gods of Death right?" "There can only be one Shinigami at a time, and you'll be a full-fledged one when the lines connect." "But I don't want you to die…" "There's nothing that can be done except enjoy every minute I have left. I'm proud of you son." Kid started to cry, as well as Shinigami-sama.

Spirit came into the Death Room several minutes later, after they had finished crying and talking and said, "Sir, the other death scythes are here." "Good, make a live announcement for everyone in Death City to come to the Death room." Spirit did as told, and soon every student, previous students, teachers, and citizens of Death City came to the Death Room. Those that could not come watched via mirror.

After everyone was gathered, Shinigami-sama began. "You all know my son, Death the Kid. He is my heir, the next reaper, and the inheritor of the Lines of Sanzu. As you may notice, the bottom line is nearly complete. Some of you that or more traditional know what that means." He let the words hang in the air, then took off his mask and continued, "For those unknowing, it means he is almost a full-fledged reaper, and when he becomes one, he'll take my place, and he will be forced to seal my soul with the others of our family, including his mother, and my own parents." Everyone was silent, and Death dropped his mask to the ground, which he crushed beneath his feet, shattering it into many pieces. Then he said something is a dead language, and great power enveloped the area. "I have lifted my soul from the bindings of this city. I hope you will all enjoy your lives after I pass, in approximately 3 weeks. Now, I'd like to thank everyone for coming, for following my orders, and for working together. I will miss you all when I'm gone." He started to cry, and went off to calm himself, the only one following him Kid.

The Death Scythes cleared everyone out of the room, and then went out to dinner together, mourning the future loss of their boss and friend. There were many tears spread, the most spilled by both Spirit and Justin (that's the guy with the ear buds, right?) After all the dinner they all slept at Stein's lab, and prepared for the worst that was yet to come.

A/N: Yes, this shall be a multi-chapter, and it will get really depressing towards the end, so if you don't want to read it, stop now. Seriously. Look to my wall for the disclaimer, its on there somewhere. I'm putting my other soul eater fanfic on pause for this, but if anyone else wants to write it, you can ask me for permission, if I say yes please be sure to credit me with the idea, and pm me the link.