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All Sukii could remember from the rest of that night was staring at Soul's unnaturally pale face as he laid limp in Liz's arm, then her eyesight started to be taken over by blackness, but she did remember seeing a bright, white light before she was swallowed into the darkness. She felt like she was floating weightlessly in the air, in a pitch black place, with nothing around her except thick, dense air. Her eyes were heavy and it took her a moment to open them fully, staring into the black nothingness. She looked around, trying to find something to help her out of that place, but nothing was there.
Was she dead? Did she die on the fourth floor like every other person who tried to defeat those demons? Was she in Hell? Had she done something wrong? Where was Soul? Where was Maria? What about Kidd and his Weapons? What about the medical people Lord Death was supposed to be sending over? Would they be able to fix Soul and Maria? What was that bright light before she was in the dark? Was it heaven slipping out her grasp? Would everyone be ok? Did anyone else die? Are they back at the Academy?
Questions spun around her mind as she curled up into a ball, holding onto herself for dear life. All she could think of was that she killed Soul and Maria. They had both tried to protect her, tried to help her, but they ended getting hurt in the process. She couldn't protect or save anyone and she got them killed over it. They might of succeeded the mission, but she failed them, it was over for Soul and Maria didn't even get to live her life.
She didn't even know who she was anymore! Her entire life was around everyone else, trying to help everyone else, trying to make sure everyone else was ok, but when it came down to the most serious and dangerous thing in her life, she was completely selfish and didn't worry about anyone else. When it mattered the most, for the people she had just started to build bridges with, to start caring for them, she ruined it. She failed them when they tried so hard to be selfless for her and she couldn't do anything, but be selfish.
Then a light hit her eyes, making her look up towards the highest point of the black. There was a circle, maybe more like a hole, with bright, bright light shining down on her. Her eyes widened and she uncurled herself, reaching her hand up towards it. Was this helping her out of the darkness? Was it Heaven? Did she even deserve to get out of this place? Her hand curled back something, hesitating for reaching to the light. Maybe she didn't even deserve to be in Heaven, or wherever this light was taking her. Maybe she just deserved to sit in the dark and think about how much of a horrible person she was.
The light pulsed, it becoming bigger above her, but she let her hand down, she wasn't going to go for it. It pulsed again, the light shining even brighter and bigger and her eyes lowered, using her hand to shade her eyes. Was it trying to reach her? Did it want her to come to it? It pulsed again, the light stretching past her and engulfing her entire body, but at the top there was still a brighter part of the light. She looked around her and seen the light already fading back into the black, this was her only chance.
Her hand reached out again, her fingers stretching out towards the light, her legs kicking as it moved her up towards it. The light beneath her started to fade quicker and she kicked her legs harder, reaching the light before the darkness engulfed her again. Her hand started to disappear into the light, then her arms, and then the rest of her body, but she didn't come out to warm feeling and happiness all over, like they said heaven was supposed to be like. All she felt was pain, all over her body and she was cold, freezing cold.
She opened her eyes slowly, hearing mumbles of voices and sighs of relief, a beeping in the back round and footsteps walking around. Was she…alive? Everything was blurry for a second, before she adjusted to what was around her. People, about four of them, wearing all white, with blood covering them. She was in a bed, in a room, with a curtain around her bed.
A hand touched her forehead and pushed her bangs out her face. She looked up to see a young man, with grayish white hair that fell around his eyes, that were a light gold color and covered by round rimmed glasses. He had a giant screw sticking out the side of his head and stitches running all over his body, but he had a gently happy smile on.
"Don't worry Sukii, you'll be alright. Your back at DWMA." He told her. "Oh yeah, and I'm professor Frankenstein, but you can just call me Professor Stein." He pressed the back of his hand to her forehead and she watched all the other doctors fill out the room. "I've hooked you up to a breathing machine and you have IV's in your arm, so don't move much, plus I stitched up your cuts, front and back. You lost a lot of blood and you died, but we didn't give up. We gave you electric shock CPR and you pulled through nicely." Stein explained to her, rubbing her forehead gently, which made her relax.
"My…Friends." She murmured quietly, the breathing mask over her mouth keeping her voice from being clearer.
"The young girl Maria is going to be ok, the injuries were pretty harsh, but she made it. Soul on the other hand…" He paused and shook his head. "He's still in surgery." Her eyes filled with tears. "He doesn't look so good either, but you were worse, so I had to focus on you."
"No. Help…Soul, please. Forget…about me…he's need you, professor, so please… Go help him." Sukii begged, a tear rolling down her cheek. Stein smiled.
"I'll go and I promise, he'll be ok." He rubbed her forehead once last time before standing straight. "I'll send someone in here to bring you some food, but try not to strain yourself to sit up, ok?" She nodded slowly and he left, closing the door behind him.
Sukii sighed and looked up at the ceiling, reaching her hand up slowly to wipe her tear away, which hurt to even move. Maria was gonna be ok, which made her happy, but then Soul was in serious condition and wasn't doing so good. That heart wrenching feeling came back and she let out a heavy breath, the mask over her face fogging up. Man, how long had she been lying here? She needed to brush her teeth.
The door opened and she looked over to it, to see a boy walk in. He looked around her age and seemed slightly familiar. His had was black and long, falling around his eyes like Stein's, and he had three white stripes on the left side of his hair. He had black rimmed bright gold eyes, but then he had another black ring, and the inner of it was a slightly darker gold, then there was his pupil. It was weird, but it was cute at the same time. He was wearing a white dress shirt with a silver skull as the tie, a black jacket with white squares going over the shoulders and down the front, and he had black pants and black shoes to match. On both of his middle fingers there were skull rings, with three loops attaching onto it, holding them in place and he had a tray in his hands. On it was a bowl of soup, a spoon, napkins, a cup of juice, a toothbrush, tooth paste, two small glass bowls, one empty the other full of water, deodorant and a hair brush.
"Good afternoon, Sukii." He said, walking over to her. She knew she heard his voice before, but where?
"Good afternoon." Sukii mumbled quietly. He set the tray on the small bedside table and pressed a button on the side of the bed.
"I'm gonna make the bed go up." He informed her and the top half of the bed starting moving up, making her sit up, which hurt some, but she tried not to show it on her face. "Do you remember me?" He asked, pulling up a chair and sitting next to her bed, his hand grabbing her breathing mask and pulling it off her head gently.
"You seem familiar." She answered him, her voice cracking.
"I'm Death the Kidd." He told her, grabbing the deodorant and applying it to her arm pits, which made her blush.
"I remember now, you were at the Four Floors." Sukii said, her memory kicking in again. Kidd nodded and stuck the toothbrush into the water, put some toothpaste on it then moved it by her mouth. She opened her mouth and he stuck the toothbrush in, brushing her teeth. She felt completely useless and such a bother right now, but at least Kidd was cute.
"Yeah, Are you feeling better?" He asked, brushing her bottom teeth. She nodded slowly, trying to keep her head still. "Good, you pulled through greatly. I thought you weren't gonna make it, but I'm glad you did." Her cheeks turned red as he scrubbed her tongue as gently as he could, when he finished he put the water bowl up to her lips and she sucked some into her mouth, swished it around in her cheeks, then spit it out in the empty bowl he held out for her. Kidd rinsed the toothbrush out, the grabbed her hair brush and started to comb through her pink locks.
"Thank you." She said quietly, holding her hands together as she looked down.
"For?" Kidd asked.
"Doing this. I mean…I feel so useless." Her head lowered and he took the opportunity to brush the back of her hair.
"Don't feel like that. You got hurt and your need to be taken care of so it's ok, it's not your fault." He reassured her and she went to go clutch onto her shirt, but she just touched skin. She looked down at herself and noticed she was only in a purple bra and underwear. Her hands flew towards the covers and pulled them up to cover herself, but she cringed as pain surged through her. Kidd touched her shoulder. "Hey, hey relax." He mumbled gently and she slowly leaned back again, her torso stinging painfully as she did. Kidd reached over and untangled the other side of her hair, before pushing it all back and setting a headband on her head, so all her hair was pushed back and out of her face.
"I hate this." Sukii said, looking up at the ceiling, tears forming in her eyes. Kidd turned his eyes on her. "This horrible feeling I have in my heart, in my stomach, everywhere. I feel completely useless and I all I can feel is pain, and I hate it cause it won't go away." She squeezed her eyes shut and shook her head slowly. "I'm scared for Soul's life too, because if he dies. It'll all be my fault."
"And why would it be your fault?" Kidd asked her, leaning back in his own seat.
"Because I was selfish and didn't protect him." Sukii answered him, a tear slipping out her eye. She couldn't help but cry, all of it hurt so much.
"How were you being selfish?" He questioned, his eyebrows knitting.
"All I did was think of myself and how I was gonna get out of it and everything I did, didn't help us, it hurt him and…now, he could die because of it. Because of me." She let more tears slip down her face as a lump in her throat formed.
"I don't see how it was selfish, because from what I heard was that the entire time you were talking to my father, you never once mentioned anything about someone coming to help you. You were only focused on them and if you were really selfish then you would of only been focused on yourself." Kidd disagreed with her, putting his elbow on his knee and placing his chin in his hand. Sukii looked down at her hands, clutching the sheets tightly and sniffing quietly.
"Your wrong. I only did what I wanted, I was being sel-"
"And when exactly does wanting to help others be put in the same category as being selfish?" Kidd asked, making Sukii looked up at him with a shocked look, tears still running over her pink tinged cheeks. He moved his arms over to her face and wiped her tears away. "Your not selfish and it's not your fault about what happened to Soul and Maria, so stop worrying about it and worry about yourself for once." He grabbed the bowl of soup and the spoon and began feeding her the soup carefully.
This is how it went for an entire week. Soul's condition had stabled, but he was in a coma and Stein said he would be ok, though every other day he would go into cardiac arrest. Sukii was sad she couldn't help him, but she couldn't even help herself. She couldn't lift her arms, the right one was pulled out her shoulder, from the strings, thought she hadn't noticed till one of the doctors told her all her injuries. Her stomach was torn, so she couldn't eat any solid foods, or a lot of food at all, and her left lung was punctured, but it was healing nicely so she didn't have to wear her breathing mask to sleep after the first two days.
Kidd came in everyday, sometimes with his weapons and other times by himself. He continued to help her brush her teeth and what not, because she couldn't lift her arms without causing pain in her entire body. She wasn't even supposed to move at all, because even the slightest movement hurt her, so she just laid in bed all day. Every two days, Kidd would come in with a bucket and sponge, with beautiful smelling body wash and wash her, which made her feel stupid and embarrassed, but he just said it was ok, and he was taking full responsibility over her.
It had been three weeks since she had gotten placed in the hospital and that day she was able to get out. All her wounds had healed completely and she was able to move and do things on her own, with just small pains from the cuts in her stomach every now and then. Soul also had been released from his room an hour earlier, he had come out of his coma after the first two weeks and had been resting for the last week. He hadn't come into Sukii's room because she was changing into clothes, but he waited outside her room for her. Sukii had mixed feelings about seeing Soul, was he gonna be mad at her? Would he sad the same way she was? Or was he just non effected? Her head started to hurt as she pulled on a regular light blue tank top over her head. She had on a pair of jean Capri and blue flip flops, just some casual and easy to walk in.
"You ready?" Kidd asked, coming out the bathroom after he got done using it. Sukii looked back at him and nodded, completely antsy and nervous about seeing Soul, but she was happy Kidd was with her. She felt like he was a close friend, spending everyday together for three weeks would probably make someone else annoyed of that person, but with her, she just needed that. Someone to help her, to hold her hand, to sleep next to her, just to have the company made her happy and she really liked Kidd, not even in the friend way. It was embarrassing but she already had her first crush, it started to come to her around the second week and the feeling she got every time he smiled at her and just came into the room, wouldn't go away.
"Yes." She smiled at him and he smiled back, walking over to her and putting a hand on her shoulder, making Sukii flustered. "Wh-what?" She stuttered out, blushing some, but Kidd just shook his head, smiling wider.
"Oh nothing." He said, dropping his hand. "Come on." They walked over to the door and she grabbed the handle, hesitating to open the door. "You'll be fine, I know he doesn't hate you." Sukii nodded and opened the door, Kidd holding it for her as she walked into the hall. Soul was leaning against the wall, he had jeans on too and a green shirt on, another headband placed on his head. As soon as Sukii walked out the room he shot off the wall and nearly stumbled onto her, but he caught his balance right in front of her, his hands flying up to grab her shoulders.
"Are you ok? Do you feel fine? I mean, I'm sorry if I'm coming on a bit strong.." He mumbled, looking away after his small outburst, then he looked back, locking eyes with her. "I've just been really worried, ever since I woke up…all I could do was think about you. It's all my fault, everything that happened in there. I could have been a better Weapon to my Meister and all I did was end up getting you hurt. I wasn't there to protect you and I'm so sorry. If your mad at me for what I did then that's ok. Hit me, even kick me in the balls if your that angry, just…please, forgive me." Soul gushed to her, shaking her gently. Sukii stared up at him with wide, shocked eyes, completely still under his hands. "Sukii?" She didn't even blink at him, she just stared. "Uh…Hello?" He waved his hand in her face, then snapped his fingers, making her blink a couple of times.
"Soul…?" He sighed.
"Don't tell me you spaced out while I gave my speech?" Soul asked, a frown on his face. Sukii shook her head, tears forming in her eyes and her own frown forming on her lips. "Don't cry, I said hit me, not cry." He said.
"Why do you have talk..?" She said, as she started to cry, then literally flung herself at him, wrapping her arms around his torso tightly as she cried loudly into his chest.
"Ah, S-Sukii." Soul's cheeks turned red and he lightly put his hands on her back, looking up at Kidd who stood in the doorway. "Wh-What I do to make her cry?" He whispered, making the other boy smirked.
"This entire time she's been here, she was thinking all the same things you just said." Kidd told him, making Soul look down at the crying girl. His arms snaked around her more tightly and he leaned his chin on top of her head, maybe next time he'll try to think of what she's feeling before he tries to pour his heart out to her.
"Welcome Soul and Sukii." Lord Death said the next day when they came into his personal quarters.
"Nice to see you again, Lord Death." Suki smiled happily.
"Hey." Soul mumbled, waving a bit.
"Yeah it's nice to see you two not passed out in hospital beds." Lord Death said, making the two blush in embarrassment. "Well, I'm very happy you two succeeded in the mission, but I'm very curious as to ask, Sukii.." Sukii looked up at him, blinking.
"Yes?" She asked, hoping he wasn't gonna ask why Soul got hurt in the first place and other difficult, painful questions.
"Where did you stay last night?" He asked her, filling her with relief as he did.
"At Soul's. He said he'd let me stay at hi house temporarily until I can get my own and if that doesn't work out, then Kidd said he'd give me an extra room at his home." Sukii explained to him.
"Aah, yes. He did mentioned something about that to me, but it'll be fine, thought while we are talking about temporary things. How do you guys feel about becoming permanent partners?" Both of them stayed silent for a moment, but then Sukii spoke up.
"Uh, Lord Death, I don't think that will be a good idea. I mean Soul's a cool guy, I mean really cool, plus he nice and sweet, in a tough love way, but that's just the way he is, but I don't think it would be ok for him." She explained, rubbing her arm and looking down.
"Sukii dear, I didn't just ask what Soul feels about it. I asked what you feel about it too." Lord Death told her. Her eyes widened in shock and she took a breath, adverting her eyes back to the ground and lowering her head some, her hair covering some of her face.
"I mean…I would love to have Soul as a partner. We work great together and I would love to spend some more time with him and get to know him, but I don't know if he'll be ok with it." Sukii said to Lord Death, like Soul wasn't standing a couple feet away from her.
"Ask him Sukii." Lord Death suggested. Her eyes darted over to Soul who was standing there, hand stuffed in his pockets and shadows from his hair covering his eyes.
"Uhumm…" She blushed heavily. "So, I know you heard me Soul…so what do you say?" Her hand curled into a fist and she held it out towards him. Soul looked at her, before his blank expression turned to rage.
"Are you kidding me? She's freaking crazy Lord Death! She rushes into to everything, she doesn't listen, she's so selfless it's annoying, she's clumsy and not that smart at all and she doesn't even know how to keep calm in situations. I mean, all she does is cry!" Soul took a large breath, his face becoming blank again. Sukii took that as a 'no', but as she started to lower her fist, she saw a large grin spread across Soul's face. "But then again…she's like…one of the coolest partners in the world and I guess I could give her a chance." He made a fist and connected it with hers, smirking at her. "You got a deal Sukii, I'll be your permanent Weapon."
"Good." Sukii giggled and smiled brightly at him a small giggle escaping past her lips, and Soul chuckled.
Awwwww! Aren't you happy he's alive? Well, you should know that he wasn't gonna die either way. ^-^ And they're partners! . I don't even know what I'm gonna do for the next chapter, but I'll come up with something! And if you have any ideas, for anything, about anyone then just tell me in a review I guess or inbox me...whatever! Find some way to tell me and I'll try and make it happen ^-^ And I will also say it was your idea up in the toppy part area. Okiiee R&R Pweasseee
