Hello everybody. Once again, I'm SneakyDorcas, and this is the second chapter of Death the Kid&! For you fans of the anime/manga Bleach, I'm sorry for using the name of Karakura Town as the setting. I couldn't find the name of the town that Yotsuba&! took place in. For the fans of Legend of Zelda, you remember the Twinrova Sisters from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. I plan on keeping those aspects throughout the story, and I've even added a certain someone into the mix. Let's see who can guess who it is as you place your reviews. Now, on to the disclaimer:
I, SneakyDorcas, do not own the rights to Soul Eater, Yotsuba&!, or any other shows, games, characters, or storylines that gets caught in the crossfire. Enjoy.
Chapter 2: New Neighbors? Meet Mr. Snappy-Snappy!
"Yotsuba! Breakfast!" called Koiwai, cleaning the living room in his 'formal' dress, composed of a long sleeved white shirt and a pair of jeans.
He was answered by our heroine, Yotsuba, in the traditional manner.
"BOXER GIRL TO THE RESCUE!" exclaimed Yotsuba, who was wearing a pair of boxers over her head that covered her eyes. She entered through the kitchen instead of the living room, something that was slightly unusual for her.
"Unhand that bacon, evildoer! Or face Boxer Girl in combat!" she called out to nobody.
Being her father (read: used to her acting this way), Koiwai carried her to her set destination and pulled the boxers off her head. "I can't do that, Yotsuba. We have to clean the house today, and ..." He trailed off as he realized the room was eerily quiet. Opening his eyes, he saw that where his daughter once was, there was now a hole in the air. "Now where did she go...?" he wondered.
Meanwhile, outside the house, Yotsuba ran off to go exploring again. As she ran down the street, she began to hear the sound of someone snapping their fingers. Curious, she ran towards the sound and accidentally bumped into a strange man carrying a plastic bag in his mouth. The rhythmic sounds of clicking fingers crashed into discord, and stopped.
Looking up at the man, she saw he wore a strange shirt, striped with bright colors and monochrome. On his left, the stripes were snow and cinnabar, deep red and bright white. On his right side, the stripes were flipped, showing night-black and sky blue. Flowing over both of them was a trail of hair that stretched to his knees. From his chest down it was shaded a dusty tan, but the rest of his hair was the most brilliantly blood-red hair Yotsuba had ever seen.
He turned to face her, moving extraordinarily slowly. He looked as if it was both exhausting and personally humiliating for him, and the air around him seemed to swell with every breath he took.
Facing Yotsuba, who was on the verge of tears because of the man's scariness, the man kneeled down to her. "Fire is red, ice is blue, I'm sorry that I bumped into you," he rhymed, before gently picking her up and dusting her off.
Yotsuba looked curiously at the man, who just a moment ago looked mean but for some reason looked nice and cool all of a sudden. Remembering her manners, she responded, "Sorry. Yotsuba heard a 'clicky-clacky' and decided to investigate."
The man laughed a little. "Investigating? Now that sounds quite fun. But you should return home after you are done." he said, grinning as he ruffled her hair and began to walk onwards. "I hope that you can be my friend. If we may, we should meet up again." he said. As he turned away, he happily resumed snapping his fingers as if nothing had happened. Some way down the street, he turned a corner and vanished behind a tree.
Yotsuba stayed still for a minute, staring at the intersection, confused. "Who was that?" she wondered, scratching her head. She gave up on wondering (as most five-year-olds do) before she shrugged it off and carried on with her exploring.
Back at the Koiwai household, Koiwai had just finished cleaning when… 'ding-dong,' went the doorbell. Hearing this, and done with his chore, he said, "Be there in a second." He opened the door to find a pair of grey haired old ladies who he didn't recognize waiting for him. They both wore old looking robes and carried a broom each.
"Hello there young man." one of them said. "We're your new neighbors. I'm Kotake Twinrova and this is my younger sister, Koume." she said with a smile.
Koiwai looked at the sisters, surprised. "That's odd. I don't remember seeing any for sale signs up." he said before looking around and seeing a moving truck in front of the house to the left (the Ayases are to the right) of his house. "Oh, then welcome to the neighborhood. People call me Koiwai. Sorry. If I knew that there was a new residence moving in then I would have gotten you a house warming gift."
"HO-HO-HO!" Koume laughed. "Don't worry about it. Actually…" she started before turning to Kotake, who nodded, and continued to say, "...we were planning on holding a block party to celebrate our moving in, and we would love it if you came."
"Sure thing. Is there anything I can help out with?" Koiwai asked.
"You needn't worry about that. Our grandson Sununu will take care of everything." Kotake assured Koiwai. "All you need to bring is you and your daughter."
"Will do." Koiwai said as he turned to go inside when something dawned on him. "Now wait just a minute!"
The sisters froze in place for a minute. A cold sweat ran down their necks. "It seems we've spilled the beans." Koume whispered. She clutched a ball of white snow in her hand, slowly sculpting it into a perfectly hollow sphere.
"I guess we have no choice. Take his soul." Kotake whispered in response. She conjured a ball of liquid flame in her hand, which dripped slowly from her hands and scorched tiny marks into the pavement. She shifted her hand, bringing the flame next to the snow. She pushed them together, causing them both to pulse with a powerful wave of invisible magic.
They were about to bombard Koiwai with their magic when he interrupted their ritual with an oblivious laugh. "You didn't tell me when the party was." Koiwai said. The twins dropped the spell they had been conjuring. It evaporated as it fell.
Relaxed now, the twins turned back and Kotake said, "The party is on the 13th, at 5 p.m." Happy to know when it was starting, Koiwai nodded and smiled.
Koume, who dropped her broom, picked it back up and said, "Thank you for catching that. If you hadn't, the party would've been nowhere near as fun." She and her sister then turned back and continued walking, whispering all the way out. "What an odd young man," they said in unison.
"What an odd couple of old ladies," Koiwai said to himself, returning to the house.
Yotsuba, returning home from her adventure, saw two old ladies passing by. One of them saw her, and tugged on her twin's sleeve, pointing at the little girl.
"Daddy! Guess what!" hollered Yotsuba.
"Yotsuba, where were you?" Koiwai asked scoldingly. "Something might happen when you're gone, and I won't know who to call for help!"
Yotsuba stared at him with a look of pure horror. In her mind, she was the the sole holder of all truth and wisdom forever. If something bad happened while she was gone, there would be nothing left, not even the aliens she saw from time to time.
She didn't have the vocabulary to say this the way she wanted to, so Yotsuba went with, "Bad!"
She was momentarily consumed by guilt, but it passed when she realized she was about to tell Koiwai something. She thought for a moment. And another. And another. She said nothing for some time. Then, suddenly, she continued to say nothing.
Finally, it came back to her. "Met a new guy! He didn't say his name, but he looked the same on both sides, except one side was dark and the other was colorful! He made a snappy-snappy sound with his fingers, and he's Yotsuba's friend!" She finished, slightly out of breath.
Koiwai thought to himself. "Did he say anything?"
"He said he wanted to be friends!" Yotsuba replied.
Koiwai laughed shortly, but stopped himself. "Yotsuba. Look at me."
Yotsuba looked- no. She stared- no. She gazed- no... Ah! Yotsuba gave Koiwai every ounce of concentration in her mind.
Koiwai took a deep breath. "I told you once not to go with people you don't know. This guy you met might be like the kind of people who I was warning you about. Be careful of him." Koiwai turned away. As he did, he missed Yotsuba nodding sagely.
She sprang to her feet, startling Koiwai. "Sir yes sir!" she cried. In her zeal, she knocked herself over with a smack to the head. "Sir yes sir," she murmured painfully.
Meanwhile...
Kid awakened slowly. He blinked the sleep from his eyes and shook himself a little. As he shook, he felt a bump from below that pitched him into the air for a moment.
"We're moving..." he whispered. A thought struck him. "THE WHEELS!" he shrieked. "I DIDN'T FIX THEM!"
As he said 'fix', a vicious snap echoed through the car. Instantly, car flipped onto one side and plowed into the ground.
Kid flew out of the car, landing delicately on his feet.
Someone landed neatly on top of him, grunting and wheezing. From inside the car, Patty yelled, "SON of a BITCH!" Kid frowned. "Driver! Get out!" he yelled.
The driver didn't respond. Kid walked around to the car door and kicked it open. "Get out!"
The driver sat motionless, trembling slightly.
"I said get out!" Kid screamed. The driver dived out of the car, rolling as he hit the dirt. He stood up, still trembling. He advanced on Kid, staring straight at him.
Suddenly, he screamed, "I QUIT! You drive yourself now!" As swiftly as he advanced, he ran back the way they'd come from.
Four seconds passed in silence. Then, Kid quietly asked, "What did you do to him?" Patty smiled gently and giggled.
"It was one spider! One!" Liz declared.
"Do you realize what this means, Elizabeth Thompson?" Death the Kid asked. His face didn't turn, and Liz was thankful for that. She could only imagine what his glimmering golden eyes looked like, and Liz didn't have the nicest imagination.
"What?" Liz said, momentarily sympathetic with the flies she'd seen caught in a spiderweb earlier that day.
Death breathed in deeply. "It means, Liz, that this car is no longer symmetrical."
"No kidding."
"Turn it over."
"What?"
"I said turn it over. If I can get the wheel back on, we can keep driving. That's more symmetrical than walking."
Liz blinked. "That's... surprisingly practical of you. Good thinking!"
"Patty's a good therapist," Kid deadpanned.
Liz smiled. "We'll be at Uncle Koiwai's in no time. Hey, Patty!"
Patty's cute blond head poked out of the upturned car. "Hoi!" she yelled, grinning moronically.
"We got work to do!" Liz yelled back.
Turning the car over was the easy part. Resetting the wheel with Kid watching? That was another story.