When I woke in the morning, things were feeling better but then I looked at the pile of letters that had accumulated under my door during the night. I started to count them based on what they were. I had twenty invites to train with some of the guys, I had thirteen invites asking if I would like to go out with different girls across the school, five invites to play games with some people, fifteen invites to go on a tough soul gathering mission, and one official letter from Lord Death Himself. I, of course, opened the one from Lord Death first, and it was a simple letter, explaining that I was not to accept any invites to go collect souls, as they were not sure what would happen if I stole the soul of a Kishin egg the way I had stolen souls of normal people. One note though, I have never eaten the soul of a human. I've taken bits and pieces, but I have never eaten a full soul. It also talked about how I was going to stay meisterless until they deemed it safe for me to have a meister, assuming I wanted a meister at all. I read through the offerings, writing a common 'no thank you' response for all of them, except for one. I looked at it closely and was unsure of what to do. The reason behind me being unsure? This was the most well written letter, and when I looked at the sender I froze. The sender was signed Death the Kid. I read over the letter four times before I decided what to do. It was an offer to come with him, liz, patty, maka, blackstar, soul, and tsubaki to play basketball after school. I debated it in my head, and finally came to a sneaky conclusion. If I paired myself up with these guys, the people at school might think I was one of 'those' kids, and might leave me alone. I however, had no intention of doing anything to reveal my gender, as it would become a bit awkward and might cause some troubles at the school. I went to school, nothing much happened. People still tried to get me to talk to them, I still shied away from them. I found that I actually liked a good walk during lunch, even if I'm followed by fan girls and guys wanting to learn my secrets. After school, with my cloak still on and all, I went down to the basketball court and sat on a bench, waiting for the others. Black Star was the first to arrive, no surprise there. Then it was kid, liz, and patty. Oh, and of course Tsubaki came with Black Star. Maka and Soul were the last to arrive. They all looked at me, and soon they were making teams. Obviously they had their own pre-chosen teams, and they were debating where to put me in before I decided to speak and said,

"I do not actually plan on playing, only observing."

They frowned a bit and Black Star and Soul started to complain, but Kid just kind of sighed and motioned me off to the side. I frowned and formed my main gauche, but went over with him. I kept my hood low and made sure to stay far enough away to keep my voice hidden, but also lowered my volume on the voice changer so that it was as if I was whispering. He looked at the area of my face, even though it was hidden by my hood. He spoke very softly,

"It's fine if you don't want to do anything Fallen, can you sound a little happy to be here though? The others were all excited that I had invited you and that you had accepted."

I sighed and nodded and he spoke even more quietly,

"After this, if you would join me I'm planning to go to a nice restaurant, but Liz and Patty are going to be elsewhere."

I blinked at this but shrugged, Kid was someone I envied. He was cool, collected, and even with his disorder, he was amazing. His hair was cool, and I knew the significance of the bands on his hair, even if he didn't. I smiled, laughed a bit, and yes they can't see the smile but I don't care. I did as he asked because I thought he deserved my cooperation. The game ended

with kid's team winning, I cheered in good faith actually, which surprised even myself. I smiled under my hood, these guys were amazing to watch. Even at basketball I saw their fighting styles coming out. I reached into my hood and felt the scar on my face, sighing heavily. Kid noticed this and raised an eyebrow but made no comment. All but Kid and I ended up leaving quickly. He smiled once he was sure nobody was around and said softly,

"It's good to finally meet you, Fallen. As you know I am Death the Kid, and I know what you're hiding under that hood, that is at least the overall. I don't know details of how you look, but I know what you are, Ms. Fallen."

I sighed heavily and spoke still with the device active, I didn't want anybody to suspect if we passed them.

"Did your father tell you? Or did you figure it out on your own?"

"Does dad know? I guess he would. No, I figured it out."

"what gave me away?"

"Well for one the device you have leaves a tiny, tiny trace of your original voice left. It's very hard to detect, but I was curious and so was using everything I could to try and figure you out. Another thing was after you left class this morning I passed your seat and found a very long strand of silver hair. I know nobody that sits near you has that long silver hair, and so I guessed that you might not be who you claim you are. My only question is: Why?"

I sighed and scratched the back of my neck. I wasn't sure how I was going to respond to that one, I'm sure he didn't want my whole life story, and the...incident was still a very sore subject. While the wound of that memory wasn't bleeding, it still hurt me as it had sense that day. I shrugged and said what first came to mind,

"Well you see, I dislike people. That is, I hate social contact. I took your offer to come to your little basket ball game today because I thought that if I was seen with you guys, the other students might leave me alone as one of those 'super fancy' and 'powerful' kids that hang out with each other. My only question for you right now Kid is: Can you keep this a secret? I've been sworn by your father to have privacy, even though Black Star made an attempt to break into my room yesterday. He failed utterly, but it was interesting."

Kid laughed at that, which I found oddly comforting, and we finally got to the restaurant he was taking me to. The waitress only did one double take before we got a seat, something I was impressed with. I looked around and turned the volume on my device down, so that others could not hear.

"Is it ok if I stay with the hood up? I'm apparently a pretty famous person here, and I'd rather not go spreading myself around."

He nodded and made a few recommendations. I showed him which one I wanted and when the server came by he was very gentlemanly and ordered for the both of us. I nodded my thanks and sat back, enjoying his company. He just smiled and leaned back also, despite the many stares we were getting from other students from our class and in the school. The food came, we made small talk, we ate and I never removed my hood. He actually helped me when a few strands of my hair fell down out of my hood, that is he told me about it and then I fixed it. Eventually at one point I sighed and said,

"You know Kid, you wouldn't like to look at my face at all."

He raised an eyebrow at that and asked curiously,

"What do you mean? What about it would I not like?"

I sighed again and leaned back, explaining the scar I had and how it made me asymmetrical, even though I hated that. He frowned and nodded, saying for now it might be best for me to keep it up and to keep a low profile. I nodded back and we finished. He was nice enough to pay and we went our separate ways. I flopped onto my bed and sighed, muttering to myself as I fell asleep.

When I woke up next, I saw another letter, this time from Soul asking if I could show him a few things about being a solo weapon on my next soul collection run. Apparently my limitations hadn't been made public yet. I considered how to respond and resigned to just tell him in class. I sighed as I got dressed and got ready to head to class, it was going to be another eventful day, I could feel it. I sighed and accepted my fate, that for at least a little while, I'd be the center of attention while I was at the school. Class went by, and at the break I went up to Soul and told him that I wasn't allowed to go on soul gathering missions at this point in time. He shrugged in confusion but it is what it is. That day was actually kind of peaceful, that is until after class was out and I got called up to see Lord Death. There were murmurs from the other students about what was going on. A favorite theory was that I was going to be put into a cell or deemed too dangerous to live. I sighed and shrugged, going to see what he wanted of me. He was sitting there with...tea of all things. There was a cup across from him and a seat, but what got me was the third seat in the room, which was occupied by Kid. I gulped and made sure the door was closed. I scanned around, and nobody was there. I sighed and turned off my device, removed my hood, and sat down keeping my eyes at the ground.

"You w-w-w-wanted to see me, L-L-Lord Death?"

He nodded and said,

"Ya I did. We need to see what happens when you try and collect a Kishin egg soul. Kid has offered to take you out to do a minor collection job."

I blinked a few times and nodded slowly, I was surprised after he told me and I therefore got the story spread that I couldn't do collection missions. He went on to explain that it would be registered as Kid, so that the students wouldn't know. Also, the one the other students would see is one Kid, Liz, and Patty had done earlier, but had never been put up as completed, it had been taken off the board, but never shown as completed. That apparently had been before the whole Kishin incident, which surprised me. I was to go collect the soul of a murderer of some kind. I nodded, still not having looked up, and asked slowly.

"But K-K-Kid...what about symmetrically, won't it b-b-be off for y-y-you?"

It wouldn't actually be off, for my weapon form is very odd indeed. Instead of the rapier or main gauche, I can form a second rapier or main gauche, but I wanted to see if he knew that. He froze and then Lord Death spoke up, explaining that to Kid. Kid looked at me with an odd grin, obviously who knew I was trying to be tricky. I looked at him and was shocked to see him only twitching a little bit from looking at my face and the scar on it. I sighed and pulled my hood back up.

"When do we leave?"

I asked, the words changing to the male voice halfway through as I set up my little device. Kid explained that we were leaving now, and that we had been excused from class for the time we'd be gone. I shrugged and went to my room to get a few things. I had asked him which weapon's he'd prefer me in, and he said the rapiers. I grabbed two rapier sword sheaths, nice leather with decorative design. I made them myself actually, but only after years of work. Anyway I met up with him and we went off.