Chapter 2 First Day of School
"Kaori! Hurry up!" I heard Rai and Nikki call in unison. I grabbed my bag and left my room meeting them at the door. The window was still open from when Nikki had tried to cook breakfast an hour ago and burned everything he was trying to cook. I quickly closed the window and locked it so no one could just stroll right in even if it still smelled like burned food.
"What possessed you to try and make breakfast?" I asked.
"I just wanted to do something useful." Nikki said shrugging.
"You ignore our offer to teach you to cook and then you nearly burn the place down trying to. Either let us teach you or don't try to cook." Rai said bluntly.
"But I don't like learning." Nikki wined.
"Then don't cook, do something else useful like help clean." I suggested.
"But cleaning is so boring." He wined.
"Then shut up about it." I said hitting him in the back of the head.
"Okay, okay, I'll learn how to cook." He said, I punched him and he fell a few feet away.
"Bullshit." Rai said simply as we kept walking leaving Nikki to catch up as he kept saying that it wasn't bullshit.
"I will hit you again, either shut up about house chores or change the subject." I said rolling my eyes.
"Oh fine." He said and started talking about different pranks he was planning to pull on our teachers. Rai and I both ignored him and let him yammer on as we went up the stairs to see Maka, Death the Kid, Liz, Patty and three others we haven't met yet. One was Maka's weapon partner, also a scythe. The other two were partners and the one with blue spiky hair was overly self-absorbed while his weapon partner is accepting so of course she was perfect for him.
"So you're the new students everyone is talking about hu?" The blue haired guy said loudly.
"You're very self-absorbed, I bet it bothers you when the attention is on some random new students over you." I said bluntly.
"Hell yeah it does. You're a three star meister aren't you? The chick who created two Death scythes." He yelled.
"Yes. I'm Kaori. These are my partners Rai and Nikki." I said simply.
"Symmetrical again!" Death the Kid said standing in front of us with the same cute, but goofy look on his face.
"Oh hey Kid's right, even the surroundings behind you three are symmetrical. That's pretty weird." Maka said.
"Really?" I asked and turned around to see, she was right the sky behind us was symmetrical.
"Beautiful symmetry!" Kid said happily. He looked happier than Nikki after pulling a great prank.
"Looks like his head is about to pop or something." Rai said.
"Hey! How can you focus on him when a big star like me is here?" The blue haired guy shouted.
"Oh, I would say sorry but self-absorbed people irritate me so I'm really not sorry." I said bluntly.
"That's it you're just asking for a fight! Come on Tsubaki this is my chance to defeat a three star meister and two Death scythes!" He said. She just nodded and changed into one of her weapon forms.
"I really don't feel like fighting today, can we take a rain check?" I asked.
"Come on Kaori, let's just get this over with so he'll shut up." Rai said changing. Nikki did as well so I caught them and said, "Okay fine."
"Symmetry!" I heard Death the Kid exclaim and let a small giggle escape from amusement. The guy immediately ran at us to attack. He was very reckless wasn't he? Not that I could say much I was described as reckless a lot too.
He immediately started swinging the sword around and I dodged by simply backing away.
"What's your name anyway?" I asked while dodging and connected Rai and Nikki into a double-ended scythe.
"Who cares right now? This is a fight." He said.
"I care. I already know your weapons name, Tsubaki. What's yours?" I asked.
"Black Star." He answered and tried attacking again.
"Stop dodging and just finish this, we can't be late for class on our first day." Rai said.
"Your one to talk, last time we went to school you were always late or didn't show up." I countered.
"Whatever." He said.
"But you're right, I don't want to be late so let's finish this. Nikki?" I said.
"Let's do it." Nikki responded.
I disconnected Rai and Nikki and Rai changed back to human form.
"Soul resonance." Nikki and I said in unison.
"Roots." I said and roots broke free from below the concrete and wrapped around Black Star, pulling him to the ground. More were added when he started to break them until he couldn't move.
"I think this fight is over. Let's get to class." Rai said.
"Yeah." I agreed and used Nikki to cut the roots and return the cement and everything to normal and tossed him and he landed on the ground in human form while Black Star got up and pulled the last of the roots off him.
"I see your irritation of losing on your face. You're not a loser, you don't lose, so don't think of this as losing, think of it as practice, a learning experience. I certainly learned a lot about the great Black Star." I said to him.
"Yeah I am great and I'll beat you during our next fight." He said with a big triumphant smile.
"I look foreword to learning from it." I answered and we headed to the school.
"Hey anyone know where Professor Stein's room is?" Nikki asked, although I was sure he very well already knew where the room was. I had a suspicion that he had already planted something to prank with.
"Follow us, we have his class too." Maka said.
"So what's your name? I don't think we caught it." Rai asked the kid with white hair and red eyes.
"I'm Soul." He answered.
"That's cool, you're a weapon so you eat souls and your name is Soul." Nikki commented as we all walked.
"So how did you, Rai and Nikki come about to becoming a team? It is hard for three souls to work together like that." Maka asked.
"I'm not really sure, they're twins and have the kind of personalities that are opposites but fit like Yin and Yang so they already work together well. I'm really not sure how I fit in with them, but they're like my brothers, they gave me a home and they're my only family. I guess I admire and respect them. That's the only way I can think of how to fit in with them." I answered.
"Who are your parents?" She asked.
"I don't know. I have no memories of who I was before six years ago." I said shrugging.
"You don't have any memories of your childhood?" She asked.
"All I know is that I have weapon blood in me. Other than that the only family I know are Rai and Nikki, but I don't mind, I'm happy just the way things are." I said with a smile.
"Hey it's like the opposite of us. Her two weapons gave her a home while you gave us a home." Patty said to Kid with a smile.
"Yes. But I am curious to know what happened to her memories." Kid answered.
"Wonder if she suppressed them." Liz said.
"What do you mean sis?" Patty asked confused.
"If a person had suffered a great trauma in their lives then sometimes the brain will suppress or completely dumb all memories that could bring the traumatic memories back. It's rare but it happens." Kid explained.
"Why don't you ask her about it?" Patty asked.
"Patty, if she doesn't remember then it's likely that she couldn't answer why or if someone asked it could bring something back and cause her to remember and hurt. If she's happy then what's the point." Liz explained.
"Oh right, you're so smart sis." Patty said smiling.
"You can ask, others have already tried to bring my memories back, it's not going to work." I said turning around to face them.
"Eh, he, sorry." Kid said with a guilty expression that Liz shared for talking about me, literally, behind my back.
"It's okay, I'm a very curious and nosy person myself. I don't care if people talk about me unless it's something untrue." I answered with a small smile.
We made it to the classroom and took a seat. I sat between Kid and Nikki with Rai on the other side of Nikki.
Stein rolled in and the chair got caught on the doorframe and he fell and slid in, faster than what seemed normal and hit the opposite wall with a crash.
"Well that was certainly new." Kid said.
Stein got up and said, "It seems someone slicked the floor."
I instinctively hit Nikki upside the head.
"Ow! How do you know it was me?" He argued.
"Because Kid just said that was new and you're the only one of us three new kids that would do that. Besides I smelled your guilt since you asked about where the classroom was." I said.
"Damn I can never get away with anything with you and Rai around." He mumbled.
"I'll let it go for now." Stein said dusting himself off and sat in his chair again and started class. I sat and took notes like most of the other students. Every so often Stein would go off topic to discuss dissecting something or other. The students were obviously use to this by now so I just let it go over my head as well. Wonder how well he did back when Asura's madness was spreading. I wondered.
Nikki disappeared with Soul and Black Star after class and I was sure they were up to no good.
"Those three are going to end up turning the school upside down together." Rai commented watching them run off.
"Hey! Rai come join us!" Soul called to him.
"You should go, it could be entertaining, especially if they get hurt." I said.
"Hm, good point, see you at home then." Rai said and headed off. The second half of the day we had separate classes weapons had their own together and meisters had theirs, although I was sure Black Star would skip.
Liz, Patty and Tsubaki went off to work on something in the library, I'm pretty sure she was going to help them study leaving Maka, Death the Kid, Crona and myself to go to lunch together.
I met Crona through Maka after class, clearly he was still working on self-confidence but I could tell it was rock bottom before so he was improving.
"Hey did anyone get the assignment written down? I forgot what page we were supposed to be reading." Maka asked. I pulled out my planner and flipped to the right day and said, "We need to read chapter nine and answer the questions at the end out of the book." She wrote it down and said, "Thanks."
"No problem." I said and made a move to close my planner but it was no longer under my hand but in Kid's and he looked at it, analyzing it, or so it seemed to me.
"Um is there something wrong with my planner?" I asked.
"Your handwriting. It's so neat and perfect." He said with a similar gleam in his eyes that said he found something symmetrical. Normally someone that OCD would annoy me and I would have long ago hit him, but with Kid, I just found it funny or adorable.
"I don't believe in perfection but hey whatever floats your boat." I answered with a shrug. I wasn't even sure he was listening; he was still staring at my neat handwriting.
"Can I have my planner back, I kind of need it to write other class assignments." I said.
"How do you write so neatly?" He asked.
"Um, I don't know I just do." I answered, slightly confused. I suppose he couldn't obsess over the symmetry of writing, that would be absurd, but making it as neat as possible is another story.
"You'll get use to the OCD." Maka said.
"It doesn't bother me I just need my planner back at some point before the end of lunch." I answered with a shrug.