Chapter 2: A heated game at the basketball court, a battle between brother and sister?

:Death the Cutie's POV:

I woke up, and looked at the clock.

8:42AM

I walked out of my room in my pajamas. I guess that I didn't have to worry about hiding from people in my own house. Todd and Cody were in their rooms. Todd was watching SGT Frog, like he always does on Saturdays. It's a show about frogs that try to take over the world, but their leader is really stupid. I've watched a few episodes, and I think that the show is stupid, but Todd loves it. Cody was combing his hair. He spends more time on his hair than I do. Sometimes he gets up as early as 5am just to comb his hair. Over-achiever. I got to the kitchen where Kid, Liz and Patty were eating breakfast.

(Liz) "Hey C, are you coming with us?"

(C) "Where are you guys going?"

(Patty) "We're gonna go play basketball! You should come with us!"

(C) "Oh, sure, it's been a while since I played."

(Kid) "Since when did you play basketball, C?"

(C) "Ever since before the tragic day that I joined the academy."

I said that in a, half-sarcastic, half-serious tone.

(Patty) "Ohhh are Todd and Cody coming too?"

(C) "I'll go ask them."

I turned around and ran right into Cody. He was standing there with Todd, both of them were already ready to leave. I looked down and realized that I was still wearing my pajamas and shinigami slippers.

(Todd) "Hurry up and get ready, C! I wanna play throw the ball in the basket!"

(Cody) "It's basketball, Todd."

(Todd) *ahem* "Hurry up and get ready, C! I wanna play basketball!"

(C) "Well you two are as sly as usual."

(Todd) "Yeah yeah yeah, hurry up! I wanna go!"

I ran to my room and threw my clothes on. When I came back to the kitchen Liz and Patty were making some onigiri. I helped out, then we made our way to the basketball court. When we got there we saw, Maka, Soul, Tsubaki, BlackStar, and the anti-social kid, waiting for us. It's going to bother me if I don't find out his/her real gender.

(BlackStar) "It's about time you got here, slowpokes, let's play some ball!"

(Tsubaki) "You guys can play, I'll just watch."

(Soul) "Ok Maka, BlackStar, C, Todd and Cody will be team one. Me, Crona, Kid, Liz and Patty will be team two."

(C) "Hold up, why is the monkey on MY team."

(BlackStar) "Hey, I'm not on your team. Your on my team."

That idiot just called himself a monkey.

(C) "Whatever, let's just start."

(Soul) "We can't start yet."

(BlackStar) "Yeah, we still need to pick the punishments."

(Maka) "These two like to add punishments for the losers, to make the game more interesting."

(C) "Hm, that would make the game more interesting. Ok, if we win, then we can mess up Kid's room and keep it like that for seven days."

(Kid) "What? That's not fair! And why, se- sev- sevehhh-, a week?

I could hear the pain in Kid's voice as he tried to say "seven".

(C) "Awww, are you afraid that your going to be beat by your little sister? Boohoo."

(Kid) "Fine! But if we win, you have to wear a pink frilly dress for the whole day and you have to wear girly makeup."

(C) "WHAT? Now isn't that a little ridiculous? A whole day is a LONG time!"

(Kid) "So is se- se- se-, eight days minus one."

(C) "This is stupid! Can't we just play a friendly game of basketball?"

(Maka) "You're the one that said that punishments would make the game interesting."

(C) "Whose side are you on? Uhg, whatever! I can totally beat these sissy boys any day."

(Soul) "Then let's get started. First team to six points wins the game. Team one can have the ball first."

(BlackStar passed the ball to Soul, and Soul passes it back.)

(BlackStar) "Well let's get started."

I guarded as BlackStar passed the ball to Maka. She passed the ball to me and I ran to the hoop. As I was running I barely bumped into Crona, and next thing I knew, I was on the ground. That kid may be the anti-social one, but his body is as hard as lead. I think I bruised my shoulder. Then he started talking really fast.

(Crona) "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry! Are you ok? I didn't mean to! Please don't hurt me! I'm sorry so Shinigami! It won't happen again I promise!"

(C) "Hey, chill. It's just a little bruise. No biggie."

I looked at my shoulder. It turns out that it wasn't a little bruise. Ouch, I should've known better than to make a dumb move like that.

*Ragnorok comes out*

(Ragnorok) "Hahaha stupid Shinigami! Good job Crona! You managed to get your enemy on the floor. You're just a hopeless little girl."

Ragnorok? He's the demon sword. And that means... Crona is the demon swordsman! I had no idea that a weakling like him was the demon sword. Then I snapped back to reality and realized what I'd just been called.

(C) "Who are you calling a hopeless little girl? Without Crona, you would be nothing!"

(Ragnorok) "Without Crona, I'd be getting somewhere! This pathetic excuse for a person is just weighing me down!"

(C) "Yeahhhh, totally! I'm sure that's why your the size of a plush toy I could win at a carnival."

(Ragnorok) "WHAT? CRONA ARE YOU GOING TO LET HER TALK TO ME LIKE THAT?"

(Crona) "Umm I-"

(C) "See? You need Crona's help to protect you from a "little girl". You call him weak, but in reality, YOU'RE the weak one."

That little speech left Ragnorok speechless.

*Ragnorok shamefully goes away*

(Crona) "Um thanks..."

He talks so quietly. I could barely here him. He's probably scared of me because I talk so loud.

(C) "Don't thank me, really, it was nothing."

(Tsubaki) "First point goes to team two!"

(BlackStar) "Good job, C. Thanks to you we lost the point!"

(C) "Yeah that was totally, my fault. If you were a good enough basketball player you would have been able to make a shot without my help!"

I won't let that happen again, if we lose I have to wear pink, and that's NOT going to happen. BlackStar may be annoying, but I have to deal with him, just this once. My bruised shoulder is going to slow me down a bit, but luckily my shinigami body can heal easily. I got ready. Soul passed Maka the ball and she passed it back. Then we started. I tried to avoid Crona this time, but I'm still at a disadvantage. Soul passed the ball to Patty and she dribbled the ball to the other side of the court. Before she could make a shot, the ball disappeared. It took me a while to realize that Todd had sneakily taken the ball when Patty wasn't paying attention. Todd passed the ball to Cody, and he effortlessly threw the ball in the basket.

(Tsubaki) "One point to team one!"

I took the ball. First I passed it to Kid, He dribbled the ball eight times before passing it to me. I gave him a questioning look.

(Kid) "For good luck!"

I rolled my eyes then started running. I passed the ball to Cody, then he passed the ball to Todd. And then I heard a high-pitched voice yell "GIRAFFES". Todd turned around and Crona took the ball from him and made a shot. I didn't know that the anti-social one had it in him.

(Tsubaki) "One point to team two! The score is now two to one."

(Maka) "Wow, nice shot, Crona."

(BlackStar) "Maka! Crona's on the other team!"

(Maka) "But he's still our friend, BlackStar."

(BlackStar) "There are no friends when it comes to a competition!"

(C) "Someone's a little over competitive today."

The game went on. We scored a shot, then they scored a shot, then we scored a shot and so on. Eventually the score was at four to four. I was dribbling the ball to my side of the court. I was looking out for Kid, but I couldn't see him. Then he appeared in front of me, grabbed the ball and made a shot. That little cheater.

(Tsubaki) "Another point to team two! The score is five to four. Team two needs one more point to win."

(C) "Kid, you cheater! You can't use your Shinigami skills to win."

(Kid) "Hey you could've if you wanted to, but you didn't, so I guess that's to bad."

Kid annoys the crap out of me when he acts like this. I can't lose! If I used my Shinigami skills in the first place, I would have won by now. Todd passed the ball to Patty, and she passed it back. Then he dribbled the ball over to me and passed it. I took the basketball and kissed it, leaving a charcoal-black kiss mark on one side. I threw the, now asymmetrical, ball at Kid. As I had thought, he dodged the ball completely. I laughed, then grabbed the ball and made a shot.

(Tsubaki) "Point to team one! The next person to make a shot wins the game!"

(Kid) "Ok C, now you know that's not fair!"

(C) "All's fair in love and war, my dear brother."

I was a little nervous though. I HAVE to make the next shot. Well, it doesn't have to be me, it could be BlackStar for all I care, but I really need to win this game.

:BlackStar's POV:

I didn't like how C was taking the spot light off of me. I'M BLACKSTAR, THE SPOTLIGHT SHOULD ALWAYS BE ON ME! I'm going to make the final shot, and I don't care who's in my way.

:Death the Cutie's POV:

The round started and I was hoping it would end quickly. I had the ball, all I needed to do was make a shot. I was about to shoot, but someone pushed me. I looked to see who it was, and it was BlackStar. I was about to backhand him, but there's not much you can do when your on the ground. The idiot started running to the other side of the court.

:Maka's POV:

BlackStar took the ball from C and started running. The idiot probably wanted to make the winning shot.

(BlackStar) "I'm the star of the show here and I'm going to make the winning shot!"

I knew it.

(C) "Hey ! The hoops over here!"

(BlackStar) "THAT'S WAY TO EASY! I CAN MAKE THE SHOT FROM HERE!"

BlackStar was running pretty fast, but he didn't notice that Patty was sticking her foot out. She tripped him and took off with the ball. I tried to get the ball back, but Patty made a shot before I could blink.

:Death the Cutie's POV:

I'M GOING TO MURDER THAT SON OF A B*TCH! I ran over to him and grabbed him by the shirt. I lifted him about two feet off the ground.

(C) "ARE YOU CRAZY? I HAD IT! WE COULD HAVE WON!"

(BlackStar) "Hey I'm not the crazy one, your holding me in the air right now."

I threw him on the ground and looked behind me. Standing there, was Kid, with a big grin on his face.

(C) "You better wipe that grin off your face before I slap it off."

He just smiled even more.

(Kid) "Someone has anger issues."

I took a deep breath.

(C) "A loss is a loss. I'll get over it."

I lost my cool for a second there. It did sting to lose to Kid. But I was NOT looking forward to wearing a dress.

(Liz) "Well, who's hungry? We brought some onigiri!"

(Everyone) "Me!"

We sat on the floor and started eating. I sat by Crona. Maybe I could get him to tell me his gender. And plus I wanted to sit by him.

(C) "Hi, Crona."

(Crona) "Hi..."

He talked barely above a whisper.

(C) "That was an impressive shot you made back there."

(Crona) "Thanks..."

It sounded like he didn't want to talk to me, but I wasn't one to give up.

(C) "So how are you?"

(Crona) "Okay..."

He kept giving me one word answers. I might as well talk to a rock.

:Crona's POV:

C was talking to me, and I don't know why. I've never met her before but she seems so interested in me. Why was she so interested in me? She makes me nervous.

(C) "What do you like?"

She moved her face closer to mine when she said that, so I moved back a bit.

(Crona) "Uh, I don't know."

Girls are so hard to talk to! How am I supposed to deal with them?

(C) "Oh come on, there's gotta be something that you like."

Is this a test? I'm no good at tests! I didn't have anytime to prepare my self for this.

(Crona) "Um, I guess I like Maka, she's really nice."

(C) "Do you like me?"

There she goes again with the questions. I can't deal with a girl that asks so many questions! And what am I supposed to say to a question like that?

(Crona) "Um, sure, you seem nice. I think..."

(C) *giggles* "Thanks."

(Crona) "Oh, I'm sorry about your arm..."

(C) "Don't worry about it, it doesn't hurt that much."

(Crona) "A-are you sure? It looks like it hurts..."

(C) "Aww, don't worry I'ma big girl. I can handle it."

She nudged me on the shoulder, and smiled.

:Death the Cutie's POV:

Crona is so interesting. I like him. I won't ask him his gender yet, that'll just make him more uncomfortable then he already is. I think I was a little too, assertive. I grabbed an onigiri and started eating. I may have to wear a dress tomorrow, but I can still enjoy the rest of this day.

(A/N: There was one anime reference in this chapter. Please rate and review thanks!)