Hailie's Song

The team of meisters and weapons have currently been wandering the streets of Detroit for the last couple of hours or so, completely lost and confused by the barrage of buildings which constantly shifted from nice homes and apartments to crack houses and abandoned factories every couple of blocks.

"Arrgghh," Maka screeched, "How did we end up listening to Blackstar for directions!"

"Because you don't have any idea on which way to go," Blackstar blankly answered.

Soul chimed in, "You know? It's A LOT harder to stalk a celebrity that I thought it'd be. I'm actually kind of impressed for the people who do this for a living."

"How are we even sure that he's not doing concerts," Kid then wondered, "I looked into him last night, and he's famous enough where he could basically live the rest of his life being on tour."

Soul shrugged, "Nah man, his last album was freakin Encore, and he's been keeping a pretty low profile since then."

Liz awes, "He hasn't put out music in 4 years!"

Soul smirked, "Yeah, even though Hip-Hop fans tend to have the memory-span of Maka's goldfish, this guy's probably the exception to that rule."

"MAKA CHOP!"

"Owww…"

"I don't know what you've been doing to Swimy, but stop it," Maka demanded.

As they finish talking, the DWMA students decide to continue their search. A couple of hours pass and they were still unsuccessful, so they decided to make a quick stop at the nearest corner store; after losing at "Rock, Paper, Scissors" Kid is the one has to go in and buy everyone a bottle of water and a varying assortments of candy.

Trying his best not to take much interest in the fact that NOTHING in the store was symmetrical Kid mutters to himself,

"I'm just going to buy everyone a loaf of sugar bread. I-I don't even care at this point."

A small voice calls, "I-I'm sorry b-but were you talking to me?"

When Kid turned his head all he saw were cans of Beefaroni and expired bags of potato chips. Then he felt a slight tug from his sleeve and looked down, realizing that he was standing next to a little blond girl.

"Oh, no I'm sorry! I was just thinking to myself," said Kid as he attempted to salvage the situation.

"Oh okay," the girl smiled and then extended her hands, "My name's Hailie. What's yours?"

Dumbfound the young Shinigami stumbles, "Um, Kid. My name's Death the Kid."

The child puts her hands at her waist and pouts, "NO! Not the name your nickname, I wanna know your REAL name!"

It was at this moment that Kid realized that he did,in fact, have the kind of name that sounded like an alias. As he quietly cursed his father for such a name, Kid still had the awkward task of explaining that this was in fact his real name. Then a voice called for him,

"Kid, why are you taking so long? Did you go all cuckoo again because things weren't symmetrical?"

Despite what she thought of him, Kid was never happier to see Patty since she would be able to take the attention off him.

"Is she your friend," Hailie asked quizzically.

"Yeah, her name's Patty," Kid explained as he motioned to Patty, "And this is Hailie."

As Patty ran up to squeeze the little girl she exclaimed, "We've been waiting for you Kid, Blackstar even bet Liz their M&M's that you flipped out in the store again!"

With this Kid noticed that Hailie awkwardly lowered her glaze to the floor.

Kid shifts the conversation, "So, where do you live Hailie? You seem pretty young to be here by yourself."

"Hey! I'm almost 10 years old; I'm NOT a baby anymore!"

"Alright, alright," Kid laughed as he held his hands up in surrender, "So are you close to home?"

"It's actually right there," as Hailie pointed through the store window to a lone, quite little suburban home that rested upon a hill.

After everything was purchased, Hailie was introduced to all of the others. After Blackstar reluctantly forked over his bag of M&M's, they told Hailie that they'd walk her home despite all of her objections.

When they finally arrived at Hailie's house, (Which was MUCH farther than any of them realized) she invited them in for a while.

"Are you really sure your parents won't mind seeing us here," Liz asked.

Hailie nodded her headed and answered, "Don't worry; my mom lives in a different house than daddy now, and he likes to sleeps a lot more than he used to now so he's probably still in bed."

As Hailie spoke about her family situation so nonchalantly, Kid couldn't help but be reminded of why he has his OCD tendencies. "No," he thought, "I'm not here to deal with that; there's a man out there who has three souls."

"Besides," Hailie continued, "I want to thank you."

"What do you mean," Soul wondered.

"Well, you guys spent the day with me. I guess if I didn't meet you all, I wouldn't have talked to anybody today."

A dark cloud began to descend over the atmosphere of her kitchen.

Then footsteps came from the stairs as a man called,

"Hailie are you down there?"

"Yes," she responded.

"Who else is with you, I can hear voices," The man questioned.

"J-Just some new friends I meet dad," she stammered.

The man laughed, "I know I say not to bring friends without permission, but I guess breaking the rules ever now and again is okay."

Hailie gave a sigh of relief.

"I'm coming down okay."

Once the man entered the kitchen, everyone's jaw dropped. Standing before them was none other than Eminem, the man who they had to extract the souls from.

The young father looked at them for a couple of minutes before finally speaking,

"Boy… What do they feed 4th graders these days," the father slurred as he tried to understand why they were with his baby girl.

"Umm…" everyone hummed in unison.

This is getting pretty good. In case you were wondering, I'm setting this story the year before Eminem released Relapse because I think it would be a better build for a story. Also, in case you didn't notice, I'm going to name all of my chapters after various Eminem songs. If you enjoyed this story please check out my other works like "Soul Eater Vs. The World" or "Soul and Chrona: Too Much Adventure!" Please favorite and/or review, so that I may know where to make improvements and to stroke my ego! Thank you for reading! See you in Chapter 3! ~Traffic9991