I sat groggily at the table still half asleep from the long night before. I had forgotten about Kirimi so when I had woken to see green eyes staring down at me the first thing I thought was,
"Maka."
"Who's Maka?" the voice was only slightly familiar at first.
"You are…" It was too early for games.
"No silly, I'm Kirimi!" It had all flooded back to me then and what I had thought to be a strange dream now became reality.
Kirimi smiled at me from across the table, swinging her legs in a carefree manor. I tried to smile back but I was so tired and from her disturbed expression I could tell that my bad attempt had failed. Maka was still asleep and we were already late but honestly I didn't care about her perfect attendance this time. It wasn't like we would be going to lessons anyway…
There was a click as Maka's door opened and she plodded to the table barefooted and yawning. I'm not sure why, she hadn't had to sleep on a lumpy couch and been woken up at all of seven o'clock by a bouncy child.
"Hey Soul, hey Kirimi." She greeted us like it had always been this way. Kirimi however stared at Maka with fixed determination, as if trying to remember something important.
"So…" I broke the news to Maka steadily, "I was thinking maybe we could sort Kirimi out and take her to school for…tenish?" Maka laughed.
"We'll be late though then and it will only take thirty minutes to get ready and to school!" then Maka saw the clock, showing the time 9:30. Me and Kirimi looked at her innocently like dumb idiots who didn't want to be punished. I thought Maka would explode from shock or something but remarkably she didn't. She just took a long breath and then was quiet.
"Well I guess we should get her ready then!" she finally announce, pulling her buns out to let her long ash blonde hair fall free down her back. Kirimi's eyes widened and she reached forward to grab the edge of Maka's nightgown as she walked away. Maka turned round in surprise at the tiny fist clenching the soft material and I watched in confusion.
"Yes?" She asked smiling lovingly. Kirimi giggled softly.
"Mamma!"
I stared at Kirimi. What had she just said? The silence stretched out for a while as cogs turned in Makas brain. She suddenly looked at me angrily.
"You taught her that didn't you!" She walked to me so that she could look up at me.
"What? No!" I was shocked that she would even think that, "Why would I do something like that?"
"Oh I don't know!" She said sarcastically, "Maybe because you're a jerk as usual! It's not nice to trick children when they're already vulnerable enough!" She shouted back.
"That makes no sense! And you're the one acting all moody and hormonal recently!" Maka glared at me, reaching to grab her book but before she could a small whimper came from behind us. Kirimi was standing there, tears running down her face, silently crying.
"Mamma…" She whispered, "Please don't be angry at Papa…" The sight of her crying enough to quiet my anger and Maka rushed forward to pick the child up. Soothingly she rubbed Kirimi's back whilst apologising in a very un-makaly way.
"It's ok… Me and Papa weren't really properly fighting we were just talking about things…"
"Is it my fault…" the girl sobbed.
"No!" Maka lied, laughing slightly, "of course not!"
Kirimi smiled at Maka and I felt the need to make things up to them too. I walked over and put my arms round both of them. Maka jumped, surprised, and looked at me but I didn't look back. I wasn't going to be drawn into another argument.
"See! We're all still a nice happy family!" I grinned.
...
It had taken slightly longer than I had anticipated to get Kirimi ready as it turned out she was actually a fussy little drama queen when it came to what she wore, but finally we arrived at the academy. Kirimi was wearing one of Makas old tee-shirts as a dress and had her white hair tied back into two bunches. Nervously i felt her hand reach out and touch mine so i took it in my hand and gripped it tightly.
"Carry her will you." Maka didn't even look at me as she spoke.
"What, why? She has her own legs." It would certainly ruin my reputation if I was seen carrying around.
"She's scared Soul and I said carry her." I flinched at Makas hostile tone. She was angry again?!
"Sure..." I picked Kirimi up,who was clearly enjoying herself now that she didn't have to walk and with that over we entered the school.
I hadn't really thought of a plan or what we would actually do once we reached the school, I guess it had just been the main goal and I mean it wasn't as if we could just take Kirimi into lessons with us. So when Maka lead us straight to the crescent moon classroom I was a little more than confused.
"Wait, why are we here?" I asked. Maka sighed as if it was obvious.
"To see professor Stein so that we can ask him who's child this is." Now I thought about it that was quite an obvious thing to do... maka pushed the door open without even bothering to knock and walked in, interupting the lesson. And without thinking I followd...big mistake.
"Professor Stein,we need to speak with you." She announced.
"That I can see." He stared at me and Kirimi and I now completely regretted coming in. Everyone was staring at us, shocked. Damn, I knew exactly what they were thinking. "I see the two of you have been busy," Dr. Stein remarked, "Although I didn't expect this to happen for a while yet." Maka went bright red and looked away but stayed calm, unlike me.
"It isn't what you think!" I frantically shouted. Stein cocked his eyebrow at me and Maka interrupted before things could be made worse.
"Just please could we speak to you for a moment..."
...
We stood in the hallway with Dr Stein, having finally finished explaining what had happened and waiting for his reply to it all. He thought for a long moment.
"Hmmmmm...well there is something strange about the child, I can detect that from he soul wavelength..." He thought out loud.
"What do you mean by strange?" I asked.
"I'm not sure yet, I'll have to run some tests first." subconsciously my grip tightened around Kirimi.
"There's no way I'm letting you anywhere near Kirimi! I heard what you did to spirit and she's not gonna be your new guinea-pig!" i took a step back but Stein only laughed.
"No, no, not those types of tests!" I breathed a sigh of relief, "I just need to check out a couple of things. You two should speak to Lord Death though because this could be more serious than it seems." He reached out to take Kirimi from me and reluctantly I handed her over. She smiled at the professor and then waved goodbye to us, making me wonder if leaving Kirimi to a madman with no girlfriend and a dissection obsession alone was a good idea...
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