Redd Starr and Chime

~Chapter One~

~Reunion~

Redd Starr crouched at the edge of the building. She looked to her friend, Chime, and gave her the signal. Chime quickly turned into katana form and Redd looked over her shoulder one last time. Redd and Chime were both friends with Death the Kid, Liz, and Patty for a long time. They wanted to surprise them and hopefully regain their trust after the whole incident with who got to eat whose soul. Swiftly, Redd ran across the side of the building, doing a back flip to catch Kid's attention. Kid simply turned around, facing Redd, whose plan to scare him absolutely failed. Before he could see her face, she put her ninja hood on and jumped behind him, putting Chime's sharp blade up against his neck.

Liz and Patty both stared. All Kid did was try to say something after Redd covered his mouth. Redd slashed her katana right next to his face, missing on purpose.

"HA! I got you, didn't I?" Redd announced, hands on hips, acting very proud. She knew that the second she lifted her hood, Kid would go crazy in symmetry fit over her new perfectly symmetrical haircut. She slowly lifted her hood, giving Chime the signal to turn back into human form. Kid gaped at the perfectly aligned freckles across her nose. The red hair that fell ever-so perfectly into absolute symmetry. All he did, though, was hug her.

Patty laughed and exclaimed, "OMG! You're back!" She looked to her sister and smiled, "now if only you were a giraffe."

"I can't believe it," Liz said happily, shaking her head, "you're back huh? Oh hi, Chime!" Chime smiled and said hi, like a normal person. Redd sighed and pointed to the reaper that was (still) hugging her. Liz nodded and tried to pry Kid off of her.

Kid cleared his throat and straightened himself out. "Nice to see you again Redd, you too Chime. Well, Liz and Patty, we should be on our way now. Come on, hurry up. We haven't got much more time to make it to school before the bell rings." Redd and Chime exchanged some looks.

"School?" Chime asked, "What school?" Kid laughed and pointed to the huge building in front of them. "Oh," she said, "that school."

"What? You two aren't enrolled? Well you really should be. It's my father's own academy, you know," Kid told the totally clueless ninjas in front of him.

"Well," Redd said, "maybe we will. But let me ask you this, how? And what do you do at this, "school"?"

"Just come with me," he said impatiently. So they followed him into the academy for misters and weapons and met Lord Death. He thrust one giant paw out and Redd assumed she was to shake it. Chime shook the other hand, and when they all got acquainted, she went to her first new class to meet all of Kid's friends and people that just talk to him for no apparent reason.

First was Soul and Maka. Redd got the impression that she likes to hit people with books. Well, that's an interesting character trait. Soul just acted all cool and stuff, saying a whole lot of nothing. Next was Blask*Star and Tsubaki. It was really weird. Like Redd was looking into a mirror or something. They literally made the exact same moves and said the exact some words! The same, that is, except Redd's voice was a little deeper than his. Tsubaki just stayed quiet and shook their hands, not saying much except an occasional "Calm down, Black*Star!" So these are Kid's "friends and people that talk to his for no apparent reason". Well okay then.