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"Kid you start looking in the Witches section and I'll look for that encyclopedia." Maka says looking down at Kid and the reaper nodded at her before they went separate ways. Both girls were in the library, searching up information for Professor Stein's class. The Witches section had many books, it just depends on which book would satisfy answers.
It has been 2 weeks since Kid came back from her terribly long mission. She felt like her ranking as top meister has been replaced by Maka, and as much as she loved Maka as a friend, Kid really disliked being topped by someone less than God. But it was alright. The reaper will work hard to get back to the top.
Kid traced her fingertips along the books before pulling out one, look at it with a disapproving look, read it and put it back. It was the same reaction to every book. The reaper sighed and folded her arms, leaning against the wall. Looking down, the reaper saw a book lodged between the shelves and the wall. Curious, she pulled out a brown leather book with Gold engravings into it in small letters. ' witchcraft written by 'S' '.
Raising a brow she flipped open the book. It wasn't just a book on witches. It was the spells witches conduct. Their Soul Protection, their potions, the hand motions and the experiments tested on making Demon Weapons.
"Why would this book be here." Kid asked herself out loud. Was it placed here on purpose so nobody would take it? "Suspicious indeed." She squints and hides that book amongst the ones she pulled out for Maka.
"Hey." Kid looked to her left to see a two a meister and weapon. She gave them a stoic look as she looked them up and down. Maybe they were the idiots that decided to put the book in such an awful place.
"Is there a problem?" 'They must be new EAT students from NOT classes.'
"Yeah. You're that girl from the EAT class right? The one everyone has been talkin' about." Kid gave him a annoyed look. The boy was such an asymmetrical disgrace and he thinks he has the right to judge her?
"Depends. Many people talk about many meisters from the EAT class." She snapped. The meister of the pair laughed and sneered. If she was allowed to she would have thrown this asymmetrical trash out the window. Alas, father ( and probably his weapon ) wouldn't like that, but she would be doing them both a favour.
"Rude little girl aren't ya." He grabbed her long hair and tugged on it causing her to wince. The meister grabbed her arm before giving her a sly smile. Kid squirmed in his hand as his other hand traced her side before it rested on her hip. "You may seem like all that but you're nothin' but a lil bit-"
"You don't want to finish that sentence." The three of them turned to see Professor Stein and Miss Marie standing there. "Now, get away from her before I decide to change my mind and use you both for my latest science experiment." Stein says in a low tone, causing both boys to scramble pass the doctor.
"Not so fast!" Marie caught both boys by the ear and pulled. "For the harassment of other students you're both going to be punished!" the boys exchanged glances and didn't mind, since Miss Marie's punishments weren't that harsh. "But this time, for threatening Lord Death's own flesh and blood, he should be deciding your punishment."
Kid went over to Professor Stein and lifted his coat and proceeded to hide under it, sticking to his hip like a child. As Stein and Kid watched Miss Marie lecture both boys, their eyes travelled to the scientist and the girl hiding in his coat. It wasn't the frown and stare Stein was giving them, but the smile that grew on the reaper's face while they were scolded.
"Are you alright Kid? They didn't hurt you did they?" Marie petted Kid on the head before cupping her face and checking for bruises or scratches. Both boys refuse to move from their place because the doctor continued to glare at them.
"I-I'm fine Miss Marie. Just a little bit shocked that's all." Kid gave Marie a small smile before Marie turned to the two boys. Before the Demon Hammer could say anything, Kid grabbed her by the wrist. "Miss Marie, I don't think my father needs to punish them. After all I think you've scolded them enough yes?" She let go of her teacher's hand and stood before the two boys.
"I'll let you both go unpunished." Kid said to both of them. They were going to thank her before they felt a dark aura coming off the reaper. "Make sure you don't harass anymore students. Understood?" They nodded, immediately fleeing once Kid nodded her head. She stared until the pair exited the library in a hurry before she turned to Miss Marie and Professor Stein. "Thank you for saving me Mr. Franken, Miss Marie."
"Ahh! No problem sweetie. We're just glad we came before they decided to do anything to you." Marie bent lower so she could hug Kid, who returned her hug. Kid looked up at Mr. Franken who was looking down at her and he gave her a lazy smile.
"Where is Kid." Maka asked as she sat in the cafeteria surrounded by the gang. Liz and Patty were already eating their meals along with Patty occasionally stealing mash potatoes from Soul. Black Star looked around for the reaper in the busy cafeteria, but she's nowhere in sight.
"I'm sorry for being tardy everyone. Something came up in the library." Kid approached the team but Patty got up from his seat to walk towards the reaper and stand in front of her. "Patty?"
"Who touched you." he said darkly. Kid's eyes widened in the process and looked over at the rest of the team who also seemed to be in shock. How did Patty know that?
"I'm sorry? Patty are you alright? Nobody touched me its no big deal." Kid wanted to walk past Patty but he extended an arm to block her. She looked at the arm blocking her from walking and bit her bottom lip. "Patty."
"Someone did. Didn't they."
"No."
"Who was it."
"Nobody."
"Kid."
"Patty."
"You know," Liz piped up causing both to look at him. "The only people who can harass you is us." Liz glared at the ground before looking up at Kid. "If you don't tell us I'll feel like you didn't mind being undignified." Kid's eyes widened before she dropped her books onto the floor. Maka sat there shocked dropping her spoon into her bowl. Black Star's eyes widened before he crossed his arms and looked away. He hated it whenever his girlfriend was at her weakest and he couldn't do anything about it. The assassin knew better to get between a meister and weapon. It could possibly cause distrust and so far, the team of three had one of the most difficult and powerful bonds.
"Kid." Patty says one more time. The tone of voice was giving Kid one more chance to tell them before the pistol decided to rampage and find out by himself.
"They're new transfers from NOT to EAT." Kid crossed her arms. "Are you happy now."
Patty and Liz were silent for a whole minute before Patty winked and did a peace sign. "Why didn't you say so! Its okay its okay~! As long as you're okay Kid!" Patty made a heart shape with his hands and Liz bent to pick up Kid's fallen books, passing half of it to Patty and the other half he'll carry.
"I'm glad you came to your senses before you did anything foolish." Kid says before walking away to sit next to Black Star. When Kid wasn't looking, brothers exchanged dark looks before looking back at Kid. Someone dared to touch their meister while they weren't around.
They needed to pay.
The students went back to their respective classes and the cafeteria became less busy. Only class Crescent Moon didn't have class because their classes started at 2pm that day. "Alright." Maka looked at the books Kid brought for her from the library. "These are good ones. Thanks Kid. You're brilliant."
"You're welcome." she says with her normal stoic expression, trying her best not to blush and smile at the compliment. Maka opened all three books and flipped them to a page about the common magics Witches would use on humans. Black Star eyed the pages and then looked at Maka with an expression that screamed he had no idea what she was doing.
"Lord Death says not all witches are similar, but there are some similarities between them. Like the common spells they would use on human beings." Under the table, Kid clutched the brown leather book to her lap, but she felt another hand rest on top of hers. Looking up at Black Star, who had settled his hand on his was hiding his blushing face under his collar. Kid looked up at him with a similar blush on her own face and she intertwined their fingers together and squeezed his hand.
They both didn't notice Maka stopped talking for a minute to look at them both because she was directly opposite of those sappy lovers and sighed before continuing. "The most common is the triggering of certain emotions. Witches posses the ability to trigger certain emotions to a level where we lose sight of ourselves."
Majority of the group raised a brow to look at Maka. She facepalmed and explained again. "Witches posses the magic to trigger our emotions. Like, for example…" she looks at Black Star. "Black Star doesn't get jealous easily. A witch could easily cast a spell to trigger jealousy from a percentage of 10% to 50%. Eventually the jealousy would consume Black Star and he would be making irrational decisions like… killing Liz if he talked to Kid. For example."
Kid and Black Star both stared at Maka with wide eyes before looking at each other and then looking at Maka once again. The blonde haired meister blushed at the disapproving look Liz gave her. "It was just an example! I'm not saying its going to happen!"
"Right." Kid said, using her left hand with difficulty to turn the book around and reading it for a moment. "Shape-shifting is not a common witch trait, but it seems some witches can in fact, change the appearance of their vessel. So the appearance they have now, may change as much as they like." Maka continued. She facepalmed when she received a bunch of clueless faces once again.
As Maka proceeded to talk about the common traits between witches, while Black Star and Kid basically held hands under the table. "Black Star! Maka!" they looked up to see Ox and Harvar panting hard as if they just ran the whole school looking for them. "Lord Death would like to see you both." Ox says as he arranged his posture and shifted his glasses.
"Right." Soul, Tsubaki and Black Star stood up while Maka closed the books with a thump. "We'll be right back Kid, Liz, Patty." Maka gave them a smile before she left the cafeteria. Kid and the twin pistols sat there in silence before Kid stood up.
"Kid?" Liz looked up at his meister. She looked down at him. When was she holding that book? Patty was sitting beside him doodling himself riding a giraffe onto the pieces of paper Liz gave him to entertain himself.
"I'm going to the washroom." Her voice was quiet. Kid didn't feel right. There was something wrong. Or maybe there was something going to be wrong. Liz noticed the uneasiness of their meister and quickly stood up as well.
"We're coming too." Liz gathered the books in his arms and passed half of it to Patty, who stood up and did a salute before they stood beside Kid. When Liz and Patty held the double doors open for Kid, a red carpet ended before them.
Kid's eyes followed the red carpet to see at the end of the hall was a boy with dark blue hair shouting out something and throwing flowers on the ground followed by a girl with long black hair that had a streak of red on her left and a streak of blue on her right tied into a ponytail and devious looking amber eyes. Her clothes consisted of the punk rocker style. Leather jacket, denim shorts, a shirt that hung off one shoulder and exposed the other, black knee high boots and asymmetrical coloured socks.
"Make way for Princess Stephanie of Lothervan!" students lined up in straight lines as they watched the girl walk past all the students, blowing the bubblegum in her mouth before it popped. The students appeared very impressed with this girl. The three of them could hear the words 'How cool!' and 'She's so pretty', causing that 'Princess Stephanie' girl to smirk.
"Hey punk." Patty stood in front of the dark blue haired male in the tuxedo. "This girl is suppose to be a princess. She looks like a dirty street rat." he sneered. The male looked at Patty in fear before hiding behind that 'Princess'.
Stephanie raised a brow and looked at Patty. "Tutt tutt." Patty was taken back by the finger being waved in his face. "That's no way for a gentleman to talk." He looked at her finger before looking at Stephanie and his frown deepened.
"Look girly, if you're schooling here in Shibusen there's no way you can roll out a red carpet. Got it." Liz joined his brother. Stephanie wasn't looking at any of the twin pistols. Instead, she was looking at the small girl the two were blocking. "Hey. Are you listening to my big brother?" Patty snapped his fingers in Stephanie's face.
"Move out of the way." Stephanie pushed both brothers apart which caused them to stumble sideways. She stared down at the short girl who glared up at her, with a dark aura surrounding her. Gold eyes stared into amber ones and Stephanie grinned. "You're a shortie." she reached down to ruffle the girls head, but her hand was immediately slapped away by Kid's own.
"Do not touch me." Kid says, her voice dripping with venom. Stephanie only raised a brow at the reaper. "You disgusting being. How dare you be so asymmetrical and walk around these halls like you're high and mighty. Do you know no shame." she says. Liz and Patty passed Stephanie, giving her glares before they both stood behind their meister.
"How can such a cutie patootie like you be so intimidating." Stephanie laughed and sneered back at Kid, her face getting close to Kid making Kid step back. "But if its a fight you're looking for, its a fight you've got." she looked over at the blue haired male and extended her hand. "Claude, gungnir form! Please~!"
"No way. This kid owns the spear of the gods?" Liz sighs and Patty continues to glare at the 'princess'. "Besides there's no way you'll beat us." the hallway filled with students started whispering.
"Princess! I think it is unwise to pick a fight with her." the blue haired male whispered to Stephanie before she looked over at him. "That's Death the Kid, Lord Death's own flesh and blood."
"Ah? Why? I thought in Shibusen it was a regular thing?"
"Princess, you may be royal blood, but Death the Kid is… a God. Fighting her may be lethal."
"Believe us, she is." a foreign voice appeared behind behind the two new students and there stood Soul, Maka, Tsubaki and Black Star. Stephanie's eyes landed on the blue haired meister and her eyes widened.
"Black Star?"
The rest of the gang looked over at the assassin who had his hands behind his head. "I'm not surprised. Of course people know me! I'm the one who will surpass god nyahaha!" Black Star folded his arms proudly, but the sudden feeling of hands on his shoulders made him look at the girl and Stephanie's face was very close to his own.
Amber eyes stared into green ones. "It is you! Isn't it!" the girl tackled him into a hug. "Its been so long since I saw you! You're so tall now. Amazing! Absolutely amazing!" Stephanie grinned from ear to ear. Maka, Soul and Tsubaki were staring at Stephanie and Black Star with confused looks on their faces.
"We used to be the best of friends in preschool! This is amazing how we get to meet again!" Black Star's eyes seemed to shine a slight purple before it disappeared.
"Oh my god. Steph!" Stephanie seemed overjoyed that Black Star recognised her. "Wow, you dork where have you been!" he swung his arm around her neck and proceeded to mess up her hair.
"I've been in Lothervan for so long. Being a princess sucks. You gotta report everything and everyones so annoying." Stephanie made funny gestures with her hands causing Black Star to roar with laughter.
"Still the same ol' Steph! I thought you freakin' died or something. Why did you stop sending your letters?" Black Star and Stephanie started to walk away, arms swung around each other as they happily chatted away.
"Wow. I've never seen a girl so close to Black Star like that. She seems cool." Soul watched the two walk away and felt a finger tap his shoulder. "Maka? What is it." he looked at the direction his meister was pointing and yelped. The Thompson Brother's seemed to have scary expressions on their faces, but their meister had an incredibly dark aura surrounding her.
"um… Kid?" Maka tried to get her to calm down, but the fact her Black Star was walking away with someone who she has now considered her arch enemy was terrible! Disgraceful! Disturbing!
"What is it Maka." Kid asked in a low voice, looking down at the floor. Her hands clenched into small fists as she listened to Maka.
"Lord Death wants to see you… now…"
"...right."
Liz, Patty and Kid walked towards the Death Room before she knocked on it a couple of times. "Liz, Patty, please stay here. I'll confront my father by myself." the twin weapons looked uneasy at the command, but they stayed put like guards. Kid opened the door and made her way under the guillotines towards where her father was stationed. But instead of finding her father, she found Excalibur.
A few minutes later, Liz and Patty were standing on either sides of the door when Black Star and Stephanie appeared. "Hey Liz! Patty!" Liz lifted his head to look at them both, but looked at his brother before looking at Black Star.
"Hey. Seems like you're both having a good time catching up." Liz crossed his arms and gave them a bitter smile. Stephanie stood in front of Black Star and bowed at Liz and Patty.
"I'm so so so so sooooo sorry for what I did!" She bowed and put her hands together. "Please forgive me! I didn't mean to be so rude to you both or your meister!" Liz's expression softened and he looked over at his brother who seemed to be smiling.
"Its alright! Your apowogy is accepted!" Patty pats Stephanie on the head. By the time Kid exited the Death Room with her usual stoic expression on her face, her eyes widened as she saw her weapons joke around with Stephanie. Seems the Thompson Brothers forgave her quickly.
This is too much to handle.
Too much.
Kid attempted to walk past them, ignoring them. Perhaps she could sneak back home and scream until Liz and Patty get home. She was horrified by what Excalibur told her. It would take her forever to get over it. Kid's plan was working out well, she did manage to walk past them without being noticed.
"Hey Kid!" Or not. Black Star jogged up to her and grabbed her shoulder, wanting to press a kiss to her cheek but a hand stopped him from doing so.
"What do you want." Kid felt her voice caught at her throat. Her voice sounded brittle no doubt. Black Star observed her slightly quivering lip and watering eyes. He blinked a couple of times before she shoved the assassin so he wasn't so close to her face.
"Ah! Kid! I wanted to apologize-" Stephanie waved at her and before she could continue her apology, Kid raised a hand.
"No."
"No… need for apologies?"
"No. I'm not going to accept your apology until you find a way to make yourself less disgusting in my eyes." Kid's harsh voice made Stephanie's eyes widen before she squinted at the smaller girl. "Liz, Patty. I'm going home."
"Do you want us to go with you?"
"No. You both can stay until class ends."
"Black Star I didn't know that was 'your type'. To be honest I would have expected her reaaaally far from your type of gal. If you know what I mean-" Kid could hear Stephanie say as she was walking away. The reply Black Star made the beads of tears form at the corners of her eyes.
"Kid's normally like that. She's a strange thing, but a good person under all that though." Kid felt like her heart broke from the inside as she began to walk away faster. Stephanie glanced with the corner of her eye at Kid's retreating form and her smile grew into a smirk.
Once Kid reached the stairs, she was tired. She was emotionally tired. 'I thought he accepted me for my flaws.' she walked down the flight of steps of Shibusen.
"Uwah! Look! The eiffel tower is absolutely symmetrical! How amazing!" Kid's eyes sparkled as she looked at the tower.
"There she goes again." Liz sighed as Patty only grinned and carried Kid's and their own baggage. Kid pressed her hands against the glass panes to look at it, her eyes shining with glee.
"I want to marry the Eiffel Tower!" she shouted before racing outside and marvelling at the building. It was a winter night and there was no way in hell Maka or Liz or Patty was going to race out there to chase her down in the snow.
"Kid!" a hand caught her wrist and pulled her back so she stumbled into the assassin. Both of them fell to the ground. Kid fell on top of the blue haired meister and the other one had to land in the cold snow. Kid felt a hearty laughter and a kiss on her nose. "You're crazy. You know that." Black Star grinned down at her and properly kissed her on the lips.
'I thought he thought... I was perfect?' Kid stopped walking down the stairs and stood there beads of tears dripping down her cheeks and falling onto her dress shirt. Her fists gripped the hem of her skirt till her knuckles turned white.
Kid walked through the halls of Shibusen, people busy talking as she passed. Of course as the daughter of Lord Death she was expected to be perfect.
But nobody really thought she was absolutely perfect because she was so obsessed about symmetry she was willing to do anything for it. Everywhere she went everything must be in order otherwise its not good enough for her.
Soul managed to smack her hands away from his hair before she could make his hair 'symmetrical'. "Yeesh Kid. Could you not? That's not cool."
"Black Star let me do it to his hair. Why not yourself? You obviously need more symmetry in your life." Kid gestured to Black Star standing beside Soul, his hair completely flattened down and he didn't seem to mind.
"I'm not a symmetry freak like you okay! I don't need to spend 3 hours checking my house if everything is symmetrical before I leave. I swear Kid you're the weirdest person ever." Both boys watched as Kid went to her little corner and cried about how she was absolute trash.
"Nah." Black Star said before he patted Kid's head. "Its okay Kid. You're already perfect just the way you are."
"Even with... the symmetry thing?"
"Yeah. You're totally perfect."
Kid grinded her teeth in frustration before she looked up at the Sun laughing above her and screamed with all her might, letting go of the anger she's built up after so many years of enduring.
"GOD DAMMIT!"
Kid hung her head and stared down, her hair blocking her face like a curtain so nobody could see the angry tears that flowed down her cheeks.
Soul lifted his head from the table and looked over at Stephanie and Black Star. "Did you guys hear that?" Stephanie and Black Star looked at each other before shrugging.
"Huh? What noises?" Stephanie says, cupping her hands beside her ears before leaning back against the chair and smiling to herself. "Might be your imagination Soul." she grinned at the demon scythe, who only accepted the idea of it being his imagination and placing his head back down on the table.
A/N:
Maca: I completely planned this when Maka was asleep and managed to make her mad. Oh and yes, Stephanie is not a canon character ( luckily ). She plays a big part with Black Star. ( some reason Maka likes her Black Star something like a lady killer doesn't she. *looks at Maka* ilu bby )
Maka: