Chapter 4: Standing Against Death the Kid; Will the Hiro Rise to Victory?

Hiro's Fighting Theme Song: We Are Young by Mika from the Kick-Ass Soundtrack

Hiro had the choice in his hand, literally: be free from these cursed weapons or have two friends that will be by his side. He cocked his arm and was ready to throw that explosive as far as he could. It was the logical choice. Be with two people that put his life in danger in every encounter? Not only that but he was holding a bomb in his hand. It was the right thing to do.

But he couldn't do it. Something deep in his soul was screaming at him to not throw it.

"I can't," Hiro said to himself as he clenched the wristwatch in his hand. "I just can't do it!"

Hiro walked back to the brothers and handed Antonio the watch with a tear in his eye. "You guys are the only people I know that treat me like I deserve to exist. I can't get rid of my friends."

Leon couldn't hold back his smile as he spun out of his spot and squeezed Hiro with a big hug.

"You passed the trial!" Leon said letting go of Hiro.

"Good work!" Antonio said smiling and giving a thumbs-up.

Hiro wiped a tear from his eye and looked at them with confusion. "What?"

Antonio took off his watch and threw it about far as 50 feet, holding Hiro's watch in his hand.

Five

"This was the Trial of Trust! We wanted to put our lives in your hands and see what you did with it."

Four

"You still have the bomb in your hand. Throw it now!" Hiro yelled at Antonio.

Three

"I kind of didn't tell you the full story of the watches" Antonio said, scratching the back of his head.

Two

"Why? Was the bomb just another joke?" Hiro asked.

One

"No, one of the watches was set to explode if it was separated with the other," Leon explained. "But-"

Zero

Behind Hiro, Antonio's watch exploded and the dust developed into a giant mushroom cloud. All three of them turned their faces away, keeping the sand out of their eyes.

"The watch that I was holding was the explosive," Antonio yelled in the gust of dust. "If I got too far from you, I would've died."

The whirlwind of dust slowly went away and Hiro could see how the spot Antonio's watch was is now a giant hole in the ground.

"I don't get it. When you made me chase after you, if I didn't keep up, you wouldn't have survived. Why did you put a put your life in that much danger?" Hiro asked.

"To show you how much we trust you. We are your weapons after all. We need to trust you as much as you trust us."

Hiro looked at the two psychotic preteens and couldn't help but start laughing. The two Romano trusted him with their lives completely. If he were to throw that watch as far as he could, his watch would have been more than 30 meters away from Antonio, causing him and Leon to be blown into smithereens. These guys are something else. Even as Hiro was laughing at all of this, the laughing became contagious as all three of them were laughing together.

"I am honored to be your meister," Hiro said with a smile on his face. He turned to Death City but had one more question on his mind. "Are there any more trials that I should be aware of?"

"Just one!" Leon said innocently. "This is to test your reflexes. This trial is called 'You Better Run Bitch Cuz' We Is Gonna Kills You!'"

From the distance, Hiro could see that boar again with bloodshot eyes running towards to attack. This time on the boar's back was a bomb that was set to go off in five minutes.

"And it starts now, bitch!"

And with that, Hiro ran off into the sunset to survive yet another trial.

"Run, Forest! Run!"

It was Monday at the DWMA and everyone is gossiping about the fight between Hiro and Death the Kid. The rumors are that Hiro is training but he might end up chickening out of the fight. There were also some rumors that he blew up when he was training outside Death City on Saturday. A crowd of people circled the entrance and Kid was standing in the center, standing beside Liz and Patti.

Kid looked at his pocket watch and sees that it's 8:02 am and there was no word of Hiro's whereabouts.

"It looks like he's not going to show up," Kid said looking at his watch.

"Maybe he got lost," Patti said.

He puts the watch back into his pocket. "That troublesome pair of demon weapons picked here to be the location of this challenge. He couldn't get lost," Kid said back to Patti.

Liz was deep in thought, crossing her arms and eyes closed shut.

"Watcha thinkin' about sis?" Patti asked.

"Those Romano brothers. I feel like I've seen them before," Liz said. "They seem so familiar."

"Did you meet them at a party?" Patti asked.

"No, but I feel like I know them from somewhere. Maybe it's just my imagination."

Suddenly the crowd started to get quiet as Hiro began walking up the stairs to the DWMA with Antonio and Leon behind him. Hiro was wearing his typical popular-boy outfit. Lyon was wearing his white outfit with a dark pink tie as Antonio was wearing his black attire with a red tie. Lyon was to the right of Hiro with his hands in his pocket and Antonio was to Hiro's left with his hands behind his head.

"Are we still going to fight?" Kid asked Hiro.

Antonio stepped in front of the other two and pointed his finger up towards Kid. "You…" Everything got intense as Antonio kept his finger pointed at the shinigami. "Who the hell are you?"

The whole crowd including Hiro fell down to the stupidity of Antonio. Leon jumped into the conversation. "Yeah, we've never met you and you want us to fight you? What is Lord Death's great name is wrong with you?"

Kid just looked at the buffoons. "You said that you wanted to fight me at 8 o'clock in front of the DWMA."

"Don't you remember, Leon?" Hiro asked. "You're the reason why I've been training me for the last 48 hours."

"To be honest, I don't remember much of what I've done in the past two weeks." Leon turns to Deeath the Kid waiting for some kind of resolution. "But a fight is a fight! Let the time of hammer commence!"

Leon dashed towards the unarmed Kid and jumped ten feet in the air. He came down from the sky and kicked the shinigami with all of his strength. Kid crossed his arms, blocking the attack and stopping Leon. He then grabbed Leon's leg with his great speed and slammed his body into the ground. Leon spun his body and landed a fatal kick to the jaw. Kid was surprised by the attack but it didn't stop him from chopping the kicking Romano from further into the ground.

Leon was down and Antonio ran in to pick his older brother from the rubble.

"You've failed me," Antonio said to his brother in a serious tone.

"But I've tried! Trust me, I've tried," Leon cried into his brother's chest.

"I understand. You did your best! It's going to be okay."

"You are a kind! Thank you onii-chan!" Leon cried into Antonio's chest as Hiro stood there in confusion.

"What the hell is going on?" Kid asked Hiro.

Hiro just shrugged his shoulders in confusion. He didn't have control of his own demon weapons.

Leon walked away from his brother and looked towards Kid with tearful eyes. "Why are you always starting things with us?" Leon takes a better look at the shinigami. "Oh crap, I remember you now! You're Death the Kid!"

"Yes, that I am," Kid said. "I guess I knocked some sense back into your skull. Now if you're going to get serious-. Liz! Patti!"

With that command, they transformed into their gun forms and landed in Kid's hands. He spun them around a couple of times and pointed them at Hiro. The Romano brothers saw their technician being in danger so they pulled out guns from their pockets and pointed them at Kid. Leon had two black pistols and Antonio had an AK47.

"Mexican Showdown!" Leon shouted.

"But we're not Mexican!" Antonio added.

"Okay. How about the quarter-Russian, half-Venezuelan, a third Japanese, five-eighths African, and two shots of German Showdown?"

"Where did you get the two shots of German?"

"Remember when we got shot twice by that cop in Germany?"

"So we're-" Antonio does the math in his head as he pretends to use his guns like a giant pencil to do the math. "- about 171%?"

"God Bless America!"

Kid got tired of the idiocy that plagued the battle by making the first moves and pulled the triggers, unleashing a hell storm of bullets. Both Leon and Antonio dodged the bullets shot some of his own. Kid missed the majority of them but one landed on his left side. Kid went down as he stared at it, then turning back to the Romano brothers.

"Make it symmetrical! Shoot my right side with another blue paintball and make it symmetrical."

The guns that Leon and Romano were holding were nothing but real looking paintball guns. Antonio made Kid wish come true by shooting him precisely on his right as the first paintball did to his left. Kid took a breath of air to return his focus back to the fight as he was no longer asymmetrical.

"I'm bored with this," Leon shouted as he and his brother dropped their guns and walked back to Hiro.

"It's your turn Hiro!"

"Show him yo' skills!"

Hiro began to shake as the son of Death was waiting for him. He really didn't want to fight him but Antonio and Leon each held one of his shoulders.

"You can do this," Leon said with confidence. "Now get your ass in there!" Leon spin kicked his meister into the battle.

Everyone laughed as Hiro tried to get back up from the ground. It was as if everyone was against him. Antonio just smacked his brother behind his head and helped up the incompetent meister. As the meister got to his feet, Antonio whispers something to him.

We need a Hero!

It was as if a switch inside Hiro's brain had been switched. He grew a confident smile as he did a victory pose already in this fight. He stretched his arms out as far as he could as he shouted up into the heavens. "Leon! Antonio! Transform Now!"

With that command, his loyal subjects Leon and Antonio began to unravel themselves as if they were giant balls of string. Until they were nothing more, the string took form in Hiro's hands and became the Demon weapons of Antonio and Leon. Hiro held Antonio in his left hand and Leon in his right. Everyone in the crowd just stared at the demon weapons that the Romano brother became.

Black Star was the first to start laughing in the crowd. "These are your weapons? This gotta be a joke to the invincible Black Star! HAHA!"

Maka didn't know what to make of it. "Well, it is said in history that they were once weapons so…"

"So you traded the holy sword Excalibur for these, Hiro? That's a letdown," Soul said, being cool.

Kid put his guns down from his shooting position at the mockery that was in front of him. "You challenge me to a duel and come back with his? Yo-yos?"

In each of Hiro's hand, there was a yo-yo with the finger loop already wrapped around his middle fingers. On Hiro's left hand was Antonio, a red yo-yo with a black phoenix on it, and on his right was Leon, a dark pink yo-yo with a white phoenix on it. Both the yo-yos had string that was as black as the night.

"Do not mock the weapons of a man who surpassed the title of mere meister," Hiro said with as showed off some yo-yo tricks to the crowd. "I am no longer the Hiro that you all know. I am a hero that will be remembered throughout all of time for his light that destroys the darkness. I am a HERO!"

Hiro took another action pose with his yo-yos as everyone laughed at his proclamation of being a king. Kid used his Soul Perception to take a better look at what was going on. Antonio soul was red like his tie with its tail on the bottom, resembling a tie. Leon's soul was the same with its tail resembling a tie but it was dark pink instead of red. Hiro's soul was a plain white color with his two tiny earrings on the side.

Kid sees that Hiro is full of himself with his inflated ego. Even though the three of them look like a joke together, they were in perfect sync. The Romano brothers had a lot of trust and respect for their meister and vice versa.

"Now face your hero's wrath!"

Hiro stopped posing and made a dash at Kid with a yo-yo in each hand. Kid was unsure of what he was capable of but he didn't take any chances. He fired a couple of rounds of bullets but Hiro dodged each and every one of them. He was faster than he lead on, moving quickly around the firing bullets and in an instant, launched his right yo-yo at Kid, hitting Kid's nose. The string extended to unimaginable lengths to hit Kid. Kid fell back to centimeters and whipped his nose, finding blood on his hand.

"Kid, are you okay?" Liz asked in her gun form.

"Yeah, but that yo-yo-." That attack felt like he was actually punched in the face.

Kid looks up to see Hiro charging towards him again and fired his guns again but this time Hiro slid on the ground and launched his left yo-yo at Kid's left leg, wrapping itself around it. Hiro pulled the string; pulling Kid's leg and making him fall onto his back. As Kid was tied, Hiro then launched his right yo-yo again and got another shot towards Kid's right leg. That yo-yo attack also felt more painful than it looked. Even though Kid was down, he flipped himself up and pulled his leg back, pulling Hiro closer. Then with Hiro at a perfect spot, Kid pulled the trigger and shot Hiro right in the chest.

Hiro thought quickly and pulled the string that was wrapped around Kid's leg as he forced himself to fall back. He dodged the shot completely as he held the string tightly; preventing him from falling flat on his back. He raised himself back up by pulling the string again, keeping Kid unbalanced and asymmetrical.

"Dammit," Kid said as he is being played a fool by the puppeteer known as Hiro.

"This isn't over!"

He launched his right yo-yo at the Kid's chest, wrapping themselves around his body. His arms were immobile, preventing him from aiming, let alone moving, his guns. And with all of Hiro strength, he pulled the string and launched the shinigami into the air.

"Take This! The Yo-Yo Hero: Hiro the Strong!"

Hiro slams the shinigami into the ground. Everyone was shocked to see the hole that Kid body created during the impact. Kid was six feet deep underground and Hiro was just tugged the string, making the yo-yo unwind itself from the shinigami's body and return back into his hand.

"Did he just-" Black Srar was at a loss for words. The most useless meister in the school just took out a shinigami. Hiro began posing his magnificence towards the crowds of people that were in awe. But Hiro's pride got the better of him as he didn't see Kid get out of the hole with both his lower arms as cannons. His forehead had blood on it and his outfit was dirty but he didn't take much damage. Kid was not playing jokes anymore as he crouched down and pointed both of his cannons at the joyous Hiro.

"Hiro," Kid yelled out to get Hiro's attention. Hiro turned around and fell into shock to see the grim reaper. "-you may be a hero but no hero can escape death!"

DEATH CANNON!

He fired his cannons and a blast of energy shot out at Hiro. On impact, the blast left behind a series of skull shaped smoke. After all of the smoke cleared, the cannons' returned to their original gun forms as Kid stood victorious. Everyone cheered on Kid and the Thompsons sisters on their victory as Hiro remained on the ground in total defeat. The string of the yo-yos spun around until they disappeared and returned into the form of Antonio and Leon. The Thompsons sisters returned to their human forms as well. Antonio carried Hiro on his back as Kid walked over to the three.

"I'm amazed by his skills," Kid said. "He's becoming quite the meister."

"Yeah, all you gotta do sometimes is just get his ego up there and he becomes this tough guy," Leon said, looking at the unconscious Hiro. "But then his pride gets in the way and he becomes the 'hero'."

Liz snaps her finger and points at Antonio. "I remember you. You were part of the Bla-"

Antonio puts his finger in front of her mouth, stopping her from finishing her sentence. "Shhh… I know you know! Just leave it in the past, okay."

"What is going on out here?" The shouting came from Sid was disappointed that everyone was outside and not in class. With that everyone ran inside of the DWMA before they got in trouble.

"Oh crap!"

Antonio and Leon were in front of the group, running to class without getting trampled as Hiro was being dragged across the DWMA's floor. This was the beginning for the weirdest trio in the DWMA.

Kid had to win, sorry for all the Hiro fans but I had to make it realistic. Also, yo-yo's as weapons matches Hiro's personality: not intimidating and but looks badass. Rate and Review and God Bless Monarchy!