Chapter 2!

"Kid, Kid, calm down, okay," Death said, rubbing his back. His soul was turning black as the sickness ran its course through him. Kid began to cough, sending spasms down his body.

"I don't… f-feel good," Kid said, between coughs.

"Shh, it'll be all right," Death said, those words brought back the most painful memory of all.

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"Shh, it'll be all right," Death said to Medusa as the kishin opened the door. Death turned around and snarled.

"So, this is your human form," the kishin stated.

"What do you want, Asura?"

"Only your son," Asura answered.

Death said nothing, only growled.

"You can't fight," Asura said, "You don't have your weapon."

Medusa screamed as pain racked through her. Death snarled and tried to attack Asura through his soul, but as soon as his consciousness touched it, he blacked out.

When he opened his eyes, the first sight he saw was Asura holding his baby boy. Medusa was sitting and crying with darkness wrapped around her wrists, like manacles.

"Let go of my baby!" Medusa screamed.

"I think not," Asura said, and then looked over at Death, "Ah, our audience is awake. Just in time for the grand finale."

Suddenly, the darkness around Medusa's wrist spread and grew until it made 2 tattoos of a snake. One on each arm.

"Wh-what?" Asura asked, "No one should be able to control the madness, but me. Who are you?"

"Medusa," Medusa said and gave an insane smile, "Naka Snake Cobra Cob~bra." Purple arrows shot out and sliced through the shocked Asura, he fell back, still holding on to Kid.

Asura regained his composure, as did Death. He sprang up and tried to summon his power.

That didn't work.

Asura and Medusa both shot dark strings of madness around him, effectively cutting off his movement.

"STAY AWAY FROM KID!" Medusa screamed.

Asura chuckled and brought 'Kid' up close to his face. Kid squirmed in his grasp. Black madness snaked from Asura's mouth and into Kid's. After that transaction Asura kissed him on the forehead, directly in the middle. At that moment Kid's eyes flashed red for a moment, and he looked like a mini-version of Asura. Then, his eyes faded back to yellow.

Medusa lost it.

She screamed and purple arrows laced with madness shot out everywhere, striking Asura through his chest. The action caused him to drop Kid, who fell with a thud. Death's eyes grew wide as blood began to pool around him, and Death broke free of his bonds and scooped Kid up in his arms.

"Don't worry. I got you. You are going to be fine."

"I think not."

Great. Death looked up and noticed that he was now directly in between Medusa and Asura. Asura was covered in blood.

"You…I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Death roared. Already, his soul was expanding and becoming visible. Death's eyes turned a bright blue and he shot pure death at him. Asura tried to dodge but couldn't. His eyes rolled back in his head and he fell back.

But he still wasn't dead.

He couldn't die; he was immortal.

That's why Death fainted; immortality is naturally against a shinigami's nature. They were death; immortality is the complete opposite of it. It would make them sick.

At least Asura was knocked out. Death turned back to Medusa, and his eyes saddened at how lost she truly was. The madness was in her eyes, her very soul. She wasn't his weapon any more.

She was a witch.

"K-kid," she muttered, and then she screamed.

And screamed.

And screamed.

Death just stood there holding his nearly dead son in his arms. He was in a daze. He couldn't hear anything anymore. He couldn't see any more. He couldn't feel anymore.

Medusa was crying, "He's dead. He's dead." Then, she disappeared. All that was left was a small trace of madness.

Silence. That's all there was. No sound.

Death looked down at his son, "Kid." He muttered. Kid was all he had left.

"Hold on a little while okay?"

That's when the doctors decided to finally show up. They took in the sight before them and immediately rushed to Kid. They took him away from Death, making Death want to scream. He managed to hold on to sanity though. One doctor stayed behind.

"We would've been here sooner, but the kishin… he wreaked havoc all around. Death City will have to be rebuilt."

Death said nothing.

"C'mon," the doctor said, "I'll take you to the hospital."

That's when Death realized he was still in his human form. He quickly brought his hands up and covered his face. He didn't like being looked at. The doctor, sensing his distress, quickly averted his eyes.

"No one will see you. They will all be with their families."

Wrong thing to say, Death had just lost his family, but still he muttered, "Right."

The doctor led the way and within minutes they were at the hospital.

Death waited in the room for hours. He honestly didn't know how long. Right now, he felt more human than ever. Finally, the doctor walked in the room.

"Hello, I'm Dr. Reynolds" he said. Death said nothing.

"Your son is going to be reasonably fine. He is going to live, but your son has contracted an illness. Something that we have never seen before. His soul has been infected with madness. Not the same kind the kishin has, but pure madness something which none of us have never seen. Also, his immune system shut down and he now has a rare disease. We've managed to combine the madness and the disease and hide it in the back of his soul. However, should your son ever lose control of his emotions or loses himself to insanity, the madness and the disease will come rushing back."

Death closed his eyes on how hard it would be to keep Kid alive, but he would do it. Kid was his.

"What do you want to name him?"

"K-kid," Medusa muttered right before she screamed.

"Kid. Death the Kid."

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After that, Death went back to his Manor where he fought the kishin and wrapped him in a bag of skin. Death City was in disarray, but within a few months everything was ready to go, they were even beginning a brand new school. Death connected his soul to the city and made everyone forget about the Kishin, Medusa, and Kid's illness. Only he would bear this secret.

Only him.

"F-father," Kid choked, trying to get his father to pay attention. However, that was all he could get out because he immediately started coughing.

Death seemed to snap out of his reverie and looked down at his boy in his arms. Kid was coughing non-stop and his soul. Oh God, his soul. It was a complete mess. The madness was overwhelming, Kid's soul, and it was like Death could feel his son become weaker and weaker. He felt as if he would break him any second.

"Hold on, Kid," Death said as he picked up his son.

Death practically jumped through the mirror and into the hospital. Being a shinigami did have its good points. Immediately the doctors and nurses turned towards him and his son. Death the Kid coughed again sending blood everywhere.

"I need Dr. Reynolds!" Death shouted.

The doctors gave a weird look, but ran to go find him anyways. As soon as they did, Death used his free hand and touched the doctor on his forehead, closing his eyes in concentration. All of the doctors memories came rushing back to him and he gasped.

"Oh my goodness!" he said, "C'mon, this way. We'll take you to room 88."

Death was appalled on what a lucky coincidence that was.

"Fa..ther… what's going…on?" Kid choked out. His eyes were closed and he was panting heavily, "I don't feel so… good. Father?" Kid blindly reached for Death's face.

"Let's hurry; I don't know how fast this will progress."

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Somewhere on the planet, a witch grasped her head and screamed.

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Well, there's chapter 2. Oh! And in chapter 1, ignore the decipher this thing. The thing to decipher was originally the line that separated the memories from reality, but it didn't upload that so… whatever!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy!