Chapter 2
The next day, as Kentaro was hounding me to get out of the bathroom so we wouldn't be late, I decided to see if maybe he knew who that guy had been.
"Hey, Kentaro," I called from inside the bathroom as I forced my brush through my hair. "Did you see that guy yesterday with the weird striped on just the left side of his hair?"
"What, you mean Death the Kid?" He replied. "What about him?" Death the Kid, huh? What a name.
"Well, who is he, exactly?" I finger-combed my bangs.
"You seriously don't know?" Kentaro asked incredulously. "He's Shinigami-sama's son!" I flung the door open to face him with an expression of shock.
"Are you kidding me?" I demanded. "He has a son?" Kentaro nodded slowly.
"Um, yeah, that's what I just said…" He sighed. "Come on, let's get going." He turned to go, and I followed, all the while wondering about Kid and what on earth he'd been staring at yesterday.
We were lucky enough to avoid a dissection again with the seemingly scalpel-happy Dr. Stein, leaving me free to zone out in class. Thanks to this, the class went by reasonably quickly, and, as my attention began to come back into the room and I prepared myself to stand up, I realized Kid was walking over to me where I sat. I froze, not wanting to get up and leave now at the risk of seeming rude. When he reached me, he stopped directly in front of me, an intense, solemn expression on his face.
"Um, hi…?" My pitch rose at the end, making it sound more like a question that a friendly greeting. He didn't respond, he just narrowed his eyes, and pulled out a pair of scissors. My eyes widened, and I glanced around to see if anyone would help me, should he fly into a murderous rage and attempt to kill me with said pair of scissors. "What the-"
"Shh!" He cut me off, holding up his hand as if gesturing for me to be silent. He studied me for a moment more, then leaned forward, took his scissors, and very purposefully snipped off a small piece of my bangs. His intense expression then softened into a look of relief, and he stood up straight, nodding thoughtfully. "Much better." He decided, then left to join the two blonde girls that he had been with yesterday. I simply sat there in shock, with Kentaro waiting for me to get up and leave with him. As Kid was standing with the girls, the taller one smacked him in the back of the head.
"What the heck were you thinking, Kid? You don't just go around cutting people's hair!" She berated him. My thoughts exactly. Alright, I decided. Later, I definitely needed to talk to this guy and find out what the hell his deal was!