a/n: hello again! i decided to upload the second chapter (i have four chapters ready actually! i want to update at least every other day or every week!) because i find it annoying when i read a multi-chaptered fanfic with only one chapter.

"Hello!" A jolly Death God suddenly appears before Lie after she's walked the very long hallway to get to the room.

Lie weakly smiles at Death, greatly surprised that the God looks and sounds like a kid's mascot. It was kind of hard to be mad at a face and voice like that. She puts down her luggage nearby her and holds Miss Sol to steady herself. Her legs has not recovered yet from the long trek up to the DWMA and well, it wasn't made better by the walk here.

"You must be Lord Death?" Lie asks, straightening her back up. It was always important to have a good posture during first impressions. Her Mother told her that herself. "My name is—"

"Life! I know!" The Death God grins (well not so much that Lie saw Him grin, but it was very evident in His voice). He suddenly approaches Lie and pinches her cheeks. "It's been such a long time since I last saw your Mother and you and boy how much you have grown!" He continues pinching Lie's cheeks. "You look so much like your Mom, you know?"

"Yeush, Ay kneow… Buwt eet's nowt Laiyf—bbuwt eets Lai," Lie tries to reply. She's not quite angry that the Death God was pinching her cheeks, she was rather used to it because her Mother also used to do it all the time although—she was rather surprised that Lord Death apparently knew her when she was young. "Yeou knewo mew?"

"Oh, terribly sorry for that, Lie is it? Your chubby cheeks did not change from when you were a baby, you know!" Lord Death releases His grip on Lie's cheeks. His eye holes seemed to sparkle a bit when he hears Life's question. "Of course I knew you! Me and your Mother were close back in the Day!"

"Well, that sounds fake but okay, but yes it's Lie." Lie mutters, rubbing her cheek. She suddenly remembered who she was talking to and her eyes widened. "Ah! I'm so sorry, it's just—it's hard to believe that Life and Death were friends."

"It may be hard to believe, but we were thick as thieves back then. When you were born, I was there! I visited you numerous times when you were a kid, you know!" Death chuckles, as he moves towards the mirror on the center of the room. Lie follows him nervously, forgetting her luggage at the hallway. "Well, that was until I could not visit, and then it was your mother who visited with you often—well obviously until She was too busy."

"I can't remember that…" Lie mutters and Death chuckles again.

"Of course, you would not! You were just a baby," Death explains to her. "Your mother stopped visiting when you were only two years old. Around that time, I also started thinking of having a child to fulfill my end of the bargain."

"Oh? That makes sense." Lie says. She brings her fingers to her chin and thinks on what Death said. There was something nagging her in the statement of Lord Death. Suddenly, it clicked in her head and then—"You have a child?"

"Yes, I do! Your Mother does not know though yet, so don't tell her." He winks at Lie and she giggles, knowing that it implied the God was going to play a prank on her Mother. It was mean, but Lie still didn't appreciate having to go to an Academy when she had plans. "You're three years older than him, but—" Death rubs his skull chin,"—I'd say he is taller than you by a couple of inches."

"Ah, well—everyone's taller than me Lord Death." Lie tells him, and because she knows that her Mother didn't tell her to visit the DWMA just to chat with Lord Death and catch up with Him apparently (though it sounds like something She would do). "But, this isn't the reason why my Mother sent me here, right? Well, aside from the fact that She doesn't know about Your son—She wouldn't send me here just for small talk, right?"

"Clever girl." Lord Death comments, and procuring red lipstick from somewhere on Him—He writes 4242-379 on the mirror. Lie recognizes that it was her Mother's number (the goddess in training makes an unsightly face and promises to herself to change how to contact Life when she usurps the role, preferably not using the red lipstick) and the mirror glows. As they wait for the Mistress of Life to appear, Death continues to talk, "It wasn't mostly to just talk with Me, though that was a great factor considered by your Mother—but it was also because of a current problem with Life Energy."

Lie narrows her eyes as she knows what the Lord Death was talking about. She clutches Miss Sol tighter than before and utters a silent apology if she was hurting her dearest parasol. Before she can reply though, Mistress Life's image appears on the mirror.

"Hallo! Sire Death, it's been a long time!" Her mother grins at Lord Death. She looks like an older Lie, except She was thinner and wore a long halter dress that contrasted Her glowing brown skin nicely, making Her look like a true goddess. She noticed Her daughter and grins even wider. "Lie! You're already there! I trust you already know the situation?"

"Hi Mother." Lie weakly says. "Lord Death only told me that it concerned Life Energy, nothing less and nothing more."

Mistress Life nods, as if that was what was supposed to happen. "Good. I instructed Sire Death to not tell you anything about this, until after the two of you contacted me." Mistress Life grins once more, "Well, shall we start this briefing about your mission?"

Lie and Lord Death nods and Mistress Life places her hands together.

"Well, you better sit down because this one is a doozy." Mistress Life admits. "You all know that Life Energy is dwindling, right? To the point that I'm actually scared that there will be a day where there's going to be a shortage of it, right?"

"Yes," Lie replies, her hands nervously tapping on her parasol. "You always tell me that, and I've been noticing it too."

"I've been feeling Life has been … not the Same." Lord Death tentatively says, when He receives surprised and shocked looks from the two, he only shrugs. "We're still connected Miss Life. Whether we like it or not, since we're both different sides of the same coin. I think our children will be too, when they succeed us."

"Ah," Mistress Life simply says, as if that explained everything. It was quiet for a few moments before the surprised expression Mistress Life was sporting a few seconds ago was back again. "Wait—what do you mean by our children? As far as I'm concerned, I'm the only one with a child…" Mistress Life trails off when suddenly all the pieces connected together. "You have a child?!"

Lord Death almost sounds sheepish with His reply. "I was jealous?"

"Oh my god! You have a child and You never thought to inform me all these years?" Mistress Life was now catatonic, "You should've told me! I would've visited!"

"That's the exact reason why I didn't tell You." Lord Death admits, "See, my son—he's got a bit of a symmetrical obsession. OCD, if you will—and You're—You've got to admit Miss Life, you're a bit of an asymmetrical mess. Besides, don't lie—you kind of knew, right?"

"Well, of course!" Mistress Life laughs out loud, "I'm supposed to be asymmetrical! I'm Life! Although, let's go back to Your son. You have any pictures you can show me? Anything so I can put a name to His face—"

"Ahem." Lie coughs loudly. "Can we maybe get back to the matter at hand? That's important? We can talk about Your son after we talk about the Dwindling Life Energy."

"Yes…" Both of the Gods say at the same time, feeling a bit ashamed as They were just scolded by a young Life Mistress.

"Anyways, why exactly did You send me here in the DWMA, mother?" Lie asks, tilting her head. "I mean, dwindling Life Energy is something we can't do anything about."

"That's where you're wrong!" Mistress Life exclaims. "This is what I haven't been telling you, Dwindling Life Energy is caused by—you guessed it! Kishin eggs! Rather, the consumption of Kishin eggs."

"What do you mean, Miss Life?" Lord Death narrows his eyes and the temperature inside the room suddenly dropped down, making Lie shiver. "Are you implying something I do not like here?"

"No, I am not." Mistress Life tells him reassuringly, "The consumption of Kishin eggs are not the main reason but one of the reasons we can do something about." She clears Her throat and starts explaining, "You see, once a Death Weapon consumes a Kishin egg—the tiny Life Energy of that Kishin egg gets consumed by the Death Weapon too, but that does not get absorbed. Meaning that tiny Life Energy will stay inside the Death Weapon until that Weapon dies or—"

"Someone removes them." Lie cuts in, "And the only one who can remove them is someone of Life—meaning, me." She narrows her eyes at her Mother. "Moooooother why do I have to do this? That Tiny Life Energy will still get back to us!"

"Not for at least two hundred years." Mistress Life deadpans, "And that's only a minimum. That's why I sent you here and that will be your job until something more important happens here." Mistress Life stops and thinks, "Well, that is if Sire Death approves of this."

"Well of course, I'd approve of it! Anything to help a good old friend!" Lord Death exclaims, and all hope that Lie was starting to hope had disappeared. Lord Death's eye holes suddenly narrowed. "Provided none of my students or staff, will be hurt in the process."

"Well, the extraction of a foreign Life Energy won't hurt at all, to the most sensitive of people—it will just be a tickle." Mistress Life cheerfully exclaims before her eyes darken. "Are you calling me old, Sire Death?"

"No! Not at all!" Lord Death nervously said. Lie was a bit amused that the Death God was a bit scared of her Mother, but she kind of related—Her Mother was a menace when she was angry. "Although, for this to work, Lie won't need to disguise herself as a EAT student! I think she would not like that at all."

"Well, you're right about her not liking it at all." Mistress Life said, smiling at Lie. "She would not like that at all, she was always the academic type—more on theory rather than practical knowledge. One of the reasons why I'm giving you this mission, you know."

Lie grumbles and Lord Death laughs.

"Well, why don't I pair her up with a meister who often goes out in the field to collect Kishin eggs?" Lord Death suggests. "As a test trial. I'm also sure that she'll face exhaustion if she goes out and takes out all the Foreign Life Energy from our students and staff."

"That's a wonderful idea!" Mistress Life's eyes sparkles as She says this. Lie can't help but shiver as she's sure that her Mother has a plan that will either end with Lie's embarrassment or something equally bad. "It will indeed exhaust my poor little girl—she's not strong enough to do this—at worst perhaps even face certain death." Mistress Life's eyes glazes over, "We do not want that."

"Yes, indeed." Lord Death agrees, nodding his head. "That's why if you're okay with it, I'd like to partner her up with My son! I trust him well enough that he'll be able to protect her as well collect enough Kishin eggs that we can test this theory."

"But he has extreme OCD, does he not? That worries me so." Mistress Life admits. "What if he were to not kill because his enemy was symmetrical?"

"I assure you that will not happen. His weapons will prevent that from happening," Lord Death replies, "And besides, have we not talked about this when we were young? Our agreement?"

Mistress Life's eyes sparkles in pleasure once more. "Ah, yes indeed. Very then, I'll let you pair up Lie with Your son."

Lord Death rolls His eyes, "As if You did not like the agreement when I first suggested it."

"Yes sure! Talk about the girl you're finding a partner for like she's not in the room!" Lie cuts in, obviously annoyed. She rolls her eyes, "Well, this suits me anyway, I did not want to spend extra time talking about who I'll partner with. So I reckon, I'll be with Your son?"

"Yes you will!" Lord Death gleefully answers back, "My son will be your partner, if he does agree. Well, I think he'll agree." Lord Death eyes Lie to the top and bottom and nods, "I think he will agree—you seem symmetrical enough."

"Well, I just felt like I was fish being sold in a marketplace, but that's okay." Lie deadpans. She grabs her parasol tightly once more and bows to Lord Death and her Mother. "I'll be going now, I guess? I would like to use my spare time to read."

Mistress Life chuckles. "That's so like you. I think I'm starting to miss you Lie…"

Lie rolls her eyes, "That's what You say now that I'm no longer there at home. " She then turns to Lord Death. "What time do I come here tomorrow, Sir?"

"Oh, no worries. I'll be calling for you, Stein or Sid will come get you, or perhaps you'll be coming in with My son." Lord Death tells her, his tone jolly. "If you go outside right now, a student I think will be waiting for you and will show you around the school."

"So no reading time for me yet." Lie sighs as she says this, as that was the only thing she got from Lord Death's sentence. "Can I at least leave my luggage here?"

"Yes you can! You'll be living at My home after all." Lord Death explains, "The least I can do for Mistress Life is house you in My own home after all."

"Oh." Lie simply replies back. She looks back at her Mother who is whistling, not meeting Her daughter's eye. "I was not informed of that, but no need to ponder on that now. After all, I have a tour to get on with, right?"

Lie walks into the hallway and leaves the two Gods (and her luggage!) alone in the room. She's a little bit tired and just really wants to read, but alas—she has a tour to see.

"She's really a good girl, you know?" Mistress Life starts when She hears Lie close the door behind her. "She can hold her ground with adults, can even insult them under the disguise of being polite, can even decipher the emotions of adults but—she doesn't really hang out with people around her age, can't understand their emotions she says. "

"Making her socially awkward?" Lord Death continues the sentence for Her. His voice is soft and full of understanding, like comforting a friend. "I understand, my son is the same way."

"Yes. That's one of the reasons I sent her here," Mistress Life gives Him a soft smile. "They'll get along well, I hope."

"They will." Lord Death tells Her almost certain. "If They do not, then our agreement between our children—well, that's not going to end well."

Mistress Life laughs loud and brightly, like the wind chiming or the birds tweeting out loud. "Well, whose idea was it to link the destinies of Our children and arrange… partnership between them? Certainly not me."

"Ah-ah, you can't use that excuse Miss Life." Lord Death wags a gloved finger, "It was also you who agreed to the deal. Besides, it's for the good of the World too."

Life and Death being partners together—that would greatly help Mistress Life in keeping track of the large Life Energy there is and help Death with His list. Making managing the living and the dead more organized and efficient than ever, making little room for mistakes.

Mistress Life sighs. "You don't have to remind me, I very well know that it's good for the world if it succeeds." She looks at the clock near Her mirror and Her eyes widen. "I cannot believe it's already twelve am! I have to go—call me next time you need me Sire Death."

The mirror goes off, and Lord Death is left alone in His room.

If the partnership between the future Lord Death and future Mistress Life does not go well—it's going to end up in more wounds that's needed. He sighs and rubs a gloved hand to his eyes.

"I really hope this was a great idea." He mutters.

a/n: ehehe... there is a Plot! i hope you all love lie and her mother Miss Life. also, life's calling number isn't random, i actually thought long and hard about it huhu. if you have any comments or questions or misconceptions or if you just want to plain make fun of me, leave a review!