Thinking of nothing, I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep. I was awoken very rudely with a sharp pain in my stomach. I winced and said "Well, that's a nice way to wake people up." I was jerked up to my feet. I opened my eyes, it was Giriko. "Oh, it's you." I said, unamused. "Yeah, it's me." he grinned. Giriko was holding something in his hands. He said "New bonds, you can't escape from theses." I shrugged and said "We'll see." He grabbed my hands and wrenched them up against the wall. He tied the rope tightly around my wrists. I waited for him to leave the room before testing the new bonds. They were strong, brute force wasn't going to work. I made a blade shoot out of my hand, nothing, didn't even cut one strand of the rope. My last hope was my soul wavelength. I closed my eyes and sent my soul wavelength through the rope, it did nothing. Realising I couldn't get out I growled and yelled "DAMMIT!" The iron door across the other side of the room opened. It was Noah; I struggled in the bond but couldn't get out. His book opened and Kid was back in the room. I smiled and said "Hey." Kid nodded and looked at Noah. Noah left the room, completely calm.

I turned to Kid and said "How can I get out?" He looked at my bonds and said "They're different from mine?" I nodded and said "Yeah, I got out of the ones before." Kid laughed and said "It's just like you." I nodded. We were silent in thought. Kid said "When someone you can easily beat comes in, you need to get them to somehow get your bonds undone, and then you run as fast as you can." I nodded and said "Okay."

We waited for a few moments in silence, trying to think of any bumps in the plan. I decided that Giriko would be the easiest to beat and get through to. If I suddenly said something they would suspect something, unless they are complete idiots. Okay, I would wait for a while, and then say to Giriko that I would go into the book, he would untie my bonds and then I can run. I told Kid and he agreed. He told me to run and save myself, then worry about him.

When we were in complete silence the door creaked open again. This time it was Gopher, his mouth was in that funny V shape again. I laughed and said "Did Noah scold you again?" He walked over and punched me, very hard, in my stomach; I coughed a little blood out. He growled "I hope Noah doesn't see me damaging his collection!" He beat Kid and I. I saw someone familiar outside the door, someone with headphones, Justin Law, the autonomous death scythe. I yelled "Justin!" he looked in, waved and smiled. I growled and spat "Traitor." Justin was standing outside the door, with one headphone out, listening to our grunts of pain. Gopher moved onto beating Kid. I kicked out and tried to reach him "leave him alone!" I yelled. Giriko walked in next, "Oh great, come join the party." I asked sarcastically. He had his hands in his pocket when he said "Yes, you ugly piece of trash." I smiled and said "That's not what you said last time." He raised an eyebrow. I laughed and said "You were drunk, I was impersonating an Arachnophobia member, I was cleaning your room, and you said I was actually quite pretty." He growled and walked over to me, he threatened to use his saw. I showed no emotion in reply, not fear or anything. He looked to Kid. He walked over to Kid and watched my face as he beat him. I showed no emotion…but one lone tear slid down my cheek and fell to the dusty floor. They soon realised that the only way of getting a reaction out of me was to use Kid.

Noah informed me that they would keep doing that to Kid until I went inside the book, I replied by spitting at his feet. He just laughed and walked out of the room.

I looked at Kid's bonds. They were like the ones I had on before. I made a shield around a bubble of air so it was like a floating orb. I then sent my soul wavelength through it; it was now a ball of soul wavelength. It hovered towards Kid, and then broke his bonds. He ran over and tried undoing mine, it didn't work. I tried using a blade again; I managed to break through a little. At that moment Noah walked back in. "What is with you people?!" I cried out. Noah sucked Kid back into the book. I stamped my foot and snapped the bonds before rubbing my red wrists. He said "You can get him out if you go in?" I shook my head. Noah whistled. Gopher walked in and looked at me, he charged. I ducked out of the way, grabbed his arm and twisted. I bent down and hissed into his ear "If you try that again then I will kill you." Gopher nodded and got up, before retreating back to Noah. Noah called someone else in, it was Justin. Justin smirked when he saw me. I put my hand over my mouth when I spoke. I said to Noah "Why recruit him, the fact that he ran from Stein and Marie just shows how much of a coward he is." Noah did nothing; he turned to Justin and said "Tie her hands back up." Justin nodded and tied my hands back to where they were before. He said "Why don't you struggle." I looked him in the eye and said "You saved my life once, even though you are now my enemy I am repaying that favour so that I can kill you next time." He chuckled and left.

Over the next few days I got hardly any water and when I fell asleep they would wake me up, I was exhausted and hungry. Now I could put my plan into action. Giriko came in one morning and woke me up by pulling my hair. He asked "Had enough yet?" I nodded and said quietly, adding a few tears for effect "Yes, I'll go into the book now." He grinned and nodded triumphantly. He undid the rope around my wrists and brought me out of the room. When I was out I stopped. He asked "What? Scared?" I shook my head "No, just looking around." I used my senrigan and saw where the exit was, I was quite near to where Shibusen was, but there was no way I would be able to remember where I was because of how tired I was.

While we were walking I suddenly spun around and kicked at Giriko. He went back a few metres. I took this opportunity to summon my skateboard and skate as fast as I could. I went through many hallways. Soon after I was on my skateboard I heard a noise like a chainsaw. I looked back…CRAP! Giriko was coming. I sped up, but he was fast. Suddenly we came out into the open. I smiled triumphantly. I used my Shinigami powers to make the wheels into rockets. I flew through the skies and straight to the Nevada desert, which was where death city was located.

When I got there I went straight to school. It was dark so I doubt anybody would be there. I stumbled through school and went to the death room. When I got there, father and Spirit were in there. I stumbled in and said "I…found…Kid." before completely passing out and falling to the floor.

I woke up the next morning in the infirmary. Nygus was there along with Maka and Soul. I looked down at myself, on the covers was Kam. I grabbed her and hugged her. She said "TARU!" I smiled and said "Yeah, it's me." Soul walked over and kissed my forehead. He said "Are you alright." I nodded and said "I managed to escape and come here," I looked around and continued "Before any of you ask, no, I do not remember where I was or how to get there." Nygus sighed and said "That's alright." I grinned and said "So, what's been going on while I've been away." Soul grinned and said "Not much. Just plain old missions. Oh yeah, I have some stuff for you." I furrowed my eyebrpws. He brought out a bag. He poured them onto the bed, "Letters?" I asked. He nodded and said "Loads of meisters here at school want you as their weapon." I shook my head and said "No, my weapon is Kam and I don't belong to anyone, end of." Soul nodded and said "It is quite cool, a death scythe that wields a death scythe." I smiled and nodded "I guess so." I then asked "Where are the others?" Soul thought for a moment before answering "Kirikou, Fire, Thunder, Kim, Jacky, Liz and Patty are on a mission somewhere and Black*Star and Tsubaki are on another." I threw the bed covers aside and tried to get out of bed. As soon as I was on my feet I couldn't help but fall down. Soul caught me. I said "Thanks." He nodded and tried to put me back in the bed. I shook my head and said "No, I need to help." Soul shook his head and replied "No, you're too weak." I folded my arms and said "I am not weak." I stood up on my own and stumbled to the door. He ran over and grabbed me before carrying me back to the bed bridal style. I said "Alright, but I want to be kept updated on everything going on." He nodded in return. He smiled and kissed me on the forehead before sitting down again.

I looked at the closed door; in the window was the face of a boy. I asked "Who is that?" Maka looked at the face and said "Some kid that wants to be your partner." I studied the face, he was glaring at Soul. I laughed and said to Soul "You have competition." Soul grinned and waved at the boy in the door, who ran away. Soul laughed and said "No, no I don't."

The next day I was feeling well so I got up and went to my locker, again, a lot of notes fell out. I looked over at Soul; notes fell out of his locker as well. I laughed. I had been told about Kirikou's mission. They found Medusa's lab, in the lab were papers about black blood, clowns, madness and Crona. I hadn't heard from Black*Star or Tsubaki yet though. I hadn't mentioned anything about Crona to Maka, either she didn't know and she would kill me, or she did know and she would kill me. I grabbed my books from my locker and put them in my bag. I walked over to Soul and waited with him from Maka. I had at least 20 letters in my bag at that moment, but that didn't compare to the amount that Soul was getting. I asked him "How many today?" He sighed and answered "30, what about you." I thought for a moment before replying "About 20." Maka came and got her books. We started to walk. Kam was walking behind my legs. I smiled and lifted her up onto my shoulders. I looked around the corner, there was a girl. I said to Soul "She's been following you all day." Soul nodded and said "She wanted to be my partner." I listened to the girl's muttering, she was saying "Maka is unfit to be Soul's partner, they're incompatible, and don't get me started on that Shinigami." I rolled my eyes and kept walking with Soul and Maka. Half way down the hall I stopped Soul and Maka. I said "Is that Blair?!" And next to her were two witches, Lisa and Arisa. I growled, I had had enough of freaking witches! Lisa walked up to a random student and said "If your mission goes well then you're welcome to visit our establishment. It's a unique club with witches! You're all welcome." I furrowed my eyebrows.

I said to Soul "It's about time I check on Kid, but I won't be able to talk to him, only see through his eyes." Soul nodded and took me to an empty classroom. I sat down on a chair and used Senrigan to see through Kid's eyes. I saw Gopher; I felt my hands ball into fists. I saw Gopher punching Kid repeatedly in the stomach. Gopher growled "BASTARD! Why don't you beg for your life?!" Kid smirked and said "Who would beg after such a dismal effort?" Gopher's mouth formed a V shape. Kid laughed and said "How pleasant, I'm not all that tired of being confined after seeing the grumpy mouth that you make." He looked closer at Gopher's mouth. He gasped and said "Wh…why you…" I then saw what he saw; the left side was higher than the right side. He yelled "SOMEBODY SAVE ME!" I zoned out from Kid. Soul asked "Sum up what you saw." I laughed and said "Asymmetrical bastards." Soul laughed and helped me to my feet. We walked back out of the room. Maka was talking to Blair. I asked "So, what's this club?" Blair giggled and said "The club is in block 8 of the city. You're all welcome." I asked "What are you doing with those witches?" Marie appeared at the end of the corridor and yelled "HEY! Don't make a scene here! Come back here this instant!" Blair turned to us and said "Bye Maka, I'll be home late tonight." Marie then said "You can't make contact with the students! Think before you act." Lisa pouted "SO this is how past-marriable age humans are." Arisa nodded and exclaimed "She's just jealous!" Lisa said "We witches have a longer lifespan so we have a lot of our youth to spare." Arisa nodded and said "Yeah! Being a witch is so much better!" I laughed and said "Nah, being a Shinigami rules." Lisa nodded and said "Fair enough." Marie was fuming when Soul asked "Is it okay to have witches walking around like it's nothing?" I answered by saying "It seems like Marie already knew that they were witches." Maka nodded and said "Yeah, look. Marie's hitting her." Spirit entered the hallway. He said "You're here. Shinigami is waiting for you two. Prepare yourselves before you enter." Lisa and Arisa gulped. After the witches walked in, the door closed and the sign that normally said 'open' now said 'closed'. After a few minutes Marie came out. I asked her "What's going on in there?" She was fuming when she said "Go and knock some sense into them." I grinned, cracked my knuckled and said "My pleasure." I walked in through the door and frowned at what I saw.

They were having a party?! Lisa was reaching for father's mask. I ran over and kicked her. She rubbed her head and said "Owwww!" I nodded and yelled at everyone "THIS MEETING WAS TO DISCUSS KID! NOT TO HAVE A DRINK AND PARTY! WE NEED YOUR HELP, AS MUCH AS I HATE TO SAY IT, WE DO. NOW, LET'S GET DOWN TO BUINESS!" I looked at Spirit; he was holding a wine bottle. I stormed over to him and threw it across the death room. "Now, buck up or get out." He nodded. I heard a massive 'bang!' I looked around. Black*Star had kicked the door open?! "Black*Star! Careful!" I said. Kam came running in after him. She ran to me and hugged my leg. I said to Lisa and Arisa "Like I'm sure my father would say, we need to get Kid back with your help. If you don't then we just need to get rid of you." I flashed a blood-thirsty grin in their direction. "So, it's either, you help us, or die? I know it's a hard decision but I'm gonna be nice and leave the decision to you." Stein smirked and said "Either way, you'll say goodbye to freedom."