Okay, so now that I've done a bunch of deep depressing one-shots (XD five chapters? Really?), it's on to the lighter stuff! ^.^ Lots of humor. And a bit of OCD. ;P
8fangirl8: YESH. :3 I was going to make the battle scene longer, but I kind of ran out of time/suck at battle scenes... -3-; and the Avengers is FREAKING AWESOME. Have you read any of the fanfics yet? There are over a thousand already! :DDDD
Cyanide 6: Yeah, Soul and BlackStar are idiots. -.- and I don't really know... I tend not to do romance/pairing stuff, but I might try my hand at it soon. I was going to do one or two KidLiz fics in here, but idk. We'll see.
Annerizu-san: MIM is totally made up, but I SOOO wish it were real. I'm one of the kids who doesn't text on the bus - instead I'm either writing fanfiction in my oh-so-handy journal or drawing. Or laughing about anime scenes and inside jokes nobody gets with my best friend. XD sesame2009: PURPLE PASGHETTI.
Argentcoeur: It's okay. I actually thought it was funny too, I just wrote it because a friend requested it. Don't ask about the ghost thing - it was totally a split-second decision. Could be the marshmallows I was dipping in cold chocolate milk and munching on... :3
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Riku Ashwood: Yes... ^.^ sorta. But Kid got his revenge, so... yay!
Leylani-sama: Thanks! I like the little dialogues, they put things in a little better perspective for me. But I'm just weird ^.^
Mina888: YES. SEE IT. IT IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER. XD No, seriously. And I'm glad you liked it! Hope you keep reading!
YouCanCallMe MrsMalfoy: Personally, I'm in love with Thor. NOT the actor - the character. -3- Crossing my fingers that this oneshot won't go down in flames... ^.^;
Kaoru97: White Chicks? :3 and thanks! Enjoy the story!
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Alright, now on to the story! Thanks for all the reviews though, you guys totally blew my mind! :DDD
Of Swimming and Seas
"Hey, Kid!" Maka called, jogging up to the black and white haired meister in the hallway. He - and Liz and Patty - turned to greet her warmly.
"Hi Maka!" Patty giggled.
The scythe meister grinned at her then said breathlessly, for she had just run through half the school looking for them, "We're going to the beach. Wanna come?"
-Maka, Kid, Liz, and Patty, approximately two months after the Kishin battle-
"YES!" Liz cheered, tossing a sundress in the open suitcase on her bed. "We're going to the be-each!"
Patty danced around her, holding up a loose green top for her sister to see. "Hey sis, think this'll go good with my jean shorts?"
The elder Thompson grinned and snatched it, inspecting the spaghetti straps and the ruffled hem, letting out a small whistle. "Nice, Pat. You might have to let your big sis borrow it too." She winked, and Patty laughed.
Kid appeared and leaned against the doorframe. "Have fun."
Liz wheeled around, incredulous. "Have fun? Ohh, no, mister. You're comin' whether you like it or not."
Her meister flushed and shook his head vigorously. "Sorry, Liz, but I don't really like swimming-"
"Too bad, so sad!" Patty cackled, seizing his arm and dragging him to his room. "Let's pick out some trunks for ya."
"Really, I can't-" he protested weakly, but she was determined, rifling through his drawers and throwing a pair of black swim trunks with the typical skull insignia on the bed, then a white short sleeved t-shirt, a pair of black flip flops, a baseball cap, another pair of swim trunks, and finally as an afterthought a second t-shirt. Grinning widely, she then proceded to attack his pajama drawer, quickly finding black fleece shorts and a tanktop. "Now change!" she ordered with a scary maniacal glint in her eye. He meekly gathered up one of the swim shorts and the white t-shirt, escaping to the bathroom while she laughed evilly and packed the rest in a suitcase.
Liz and Patty waited out in the hallway, toting both their suitcases and Kid's. "Almost done?" the elder called impatiently.
"Yeah..." Kid's muffled, reluctant reply sounded. He opened the bathroom door and allowed himself to be tugged out the door by his gleeful partners. The sisters had called the limousine during their wait, and piled in quickly. "Swing by 2211 Coffins Parkway, please,*1*" the young reaper ordered the driver. They were going to pick up Maka, Soul, BlackStar, and Tsubaki there - the latter's apartment.
"I'm so excited!" Patty squealed as they drove. Liz' head bobbed up and down in agreement, while their disgruntled meister just mumbled something incomprehensible and settled for looking out the window glumly.
The minute the car pulled up and the driver opened the door, a streak of blue flew through and leaped at Kid, who with superhuman reflexes caught the offending foot and threw it aside. "Save it for outside, BlackStar," the shinigami muttered, bored.
BlackStar snorted and puffed out his chest. "The Almighty Me doesn't have time to show weaklings like you their place. I'll be WAY too busy doing more important things like riding the waves!"
"You do that," Kid muttered.
Maka got in the car much slower than the annoying assassin, smiling pleasantly at the group of three. "This is gonna be so fun, huh guys?" she asked excitedly. Kid grunted, but Patty giggled and babbled something about ice cream.
Tsubaki followed, with Soul bringing up the rear hauling four suitcases, which the driver took and placed in the back. The albino scythe slid onto the seat next to a certain gloomy reaper and complained, "Why did I have to do all the heavy lifting?" His meister shot him a look (the shut-up-or-I'll-chop-you look) and he gulped and looked away.
"Who's going swimming?" Tsubaki asked gently as they began the hour-long drive to the beach. The minute their tires left the edge of the dropoff at the end of the small road that led out of Death City, they settled immediately down on smooth pavement, about half an hour outside Wailea, Maui*2*.
Her meister leaned forward and yelled, "ME, OF COURSE! How about you, Soul? You've got to swim with the Super Awesome Godly BlackStar."
Soul shrugged and said, "Sure. Whatever, dude."
"Hey, did you bring sunblock, Paleface?" the assassin taunted Kid, then leaned back and laughed uproariously at his own joke. Kid shot him a dirty look.
"I don't need it," he informed him icily. "My skin doesn't sunburn, or change at all in the sun."
"Oh." BlackStar frowned. "That's weird. A Star like me doesn't worry either! My Godly body tans!"
Liz rolled her eyes at the boys and whipped out her iPhone, calling a girls huddle in the back of the limo and showing them some fashion line. All four whispered and chattered happily, while in the front one egotistical meister was fiddling with the remote to the TV.
"It won't work," he whined.
Kid sighed and snatched it, deftly pressing three buttons without even looking. A 40" flatscreen folded down from the ceiling and three Wii remotes popped up, in plastic gun holsters. "Resident Evil!" Soul cheered, grabbing one. The other two followed suit.
"THE GODLY BLACKSTAR WILL BEAT YOU BOTH!" BlackStar practically screamed. The other two sighed at him in unison.
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Twenty minutes later, BlackStar was slowly turning tomato red as he fell to the creepy Godzilla-like zombie creature yet again while on his left Kid blasted it easily with but a few rounds, knocking its head off. Soul whooped as his character popped back up, and commenced trying to defeat a small horde of annoying black spiders. Without even looking at the screen - he was glancing back at Liz and asking her something - Kid fired another dozen shots, decimating the monsters completely. Both boys gaped at him.
With a shrug, his only comment was, "I've played this about fifty times."
They gave up on the video game and instead watched out the window eagerly as the beach drew closer. The driver pulled them into a small driveway and they piled out to gape at the small premium villa situated in a cove on its own private beach. Kid smirked as he passed them, rolling his black suitcase behind him. Liz and Patty followed, bouncing happily (they've gotten used to the five star treatment) while the others just stared, slack jawed.
"You comin' or what?" Patty yelled back. With a start, the quartet gathered themselves and entered, soliciting a few gasps from Maka and Tsubaki.
The inside was furnished with mostly white marble, gleaming brightly in the late morning sky. The entire front wall of the living room/open kitchen area was floor-to-ceiling glass, looking out on a patio with an infinity pool and a smaller hot tub. A small path led through the grass to the beach below. There were two sets of couches in the living room - one sunken in a circular shape, directly next to the other stone-patterend wall, and another L couch closer to the kitchen counter that looked out onto the ocean. Two hallways extended from there, one smaller and with three doors - one at the end, two on both sides - and another longer hallway with four doors.
"Pick a bedroom," Kid instructed vaguely, gesturing at the four-door hallway. He then rolled his suitcase down to the door at the end of the other hallway. Liz and Patty followed, giggling, each entering one of the two doors on the sides. Shrugging, the rest of the group raced down the other hallway and threw open the doors to their home-away-from-home for the next week.
"This is SO AWESOME!" Maka whooped, diving onto her bed and tossing her suitcase carelessly behind her. After a moment of just lying on her back and grinning blankly up at the perfect white ceiling, she jumped up and started unpacking books in a whirlwind - stack after stack after stack. Finally at the bottom was her handful of crumpled gym shorts, t-shirts, two swimsuits, a miniskirt or two, and her toiletries pack. Throwing that easily into the small bathroom attached to her room, she picked up two books (Sherlock Holmes: The Hounds of the Baskervilles and A Tale Dark and Grimm) and skipped out to the living room, doing a cartwheel onto the couch and curling up against a pillow. She sighed happily at the beautiful ocean view, completely unaware of the figure behind her hidden in the shadows as she opened A Tale Dark and Grimm and began to read.
The figure silently made his way until he was crouching right behind Maka's head, given she was in the sunken couch area, then said quietly, "That's a good book."
She screamed and leaped forward, aiming a kick at the person's face. He caught it calmly and frowned at her.
"Kid!" Maka gasped, retracting her foot. The shinigami chuckled at the expression on her face (pure terror).
"Maka, what happened?" Soul demanded, racing into the room with his blade out. He skidded to a halt, confused, and BlackStar and Tsubaki nearly slammed into him. In front of them, Maka was shaking with silent laughter, tears streaming down her face, and Kid was still struggling to hold his own sounds of mirth.
Patty appeared in the hallway, brandishing her sister in gun form. "All right, ya little motherf-" She screeched to a stop, then cackled when she realized what happened. Liz transformed and rolled her eyes.
Maybe this wasn't such a good idea, Soul groaned inwardly.
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About three hours later, after some more settling in and touring of the rest of the mansion (a game room, two indoor shooting ranges, another shooting range in the massive backyard, a huge training gym, four extra bathrooms, and exactly eight rooms that were furnished with couches, TVs, Wii systems, you name it.
But now it was time for the beach.
"SWIMSUITS! SWIMSUITS!" Patty shrieked, racing through the house with a GIGANTIC floaty plastic blow-up giraffe on her back. Cackling (she does this a lot), she bowled over BlackStar, Soul, and Maka in one short row as she stumbled and tripped slowly to a standstill. She giggled at their dazed expressions. "You just got Patty-smashed! PREPARE TO MEET... THE MIGHTY GEOFFRY!" She shook the giraffe in their faces and growled.
"Patty, don't kill them until they've at least gotten in the ocean," Kid reprimanded absentmindedly from the doorway, glancing only briefly down at their guests, then turning back to tapping on the waterproof iPhone he held in his hand. Maka dusted herself off with a good-natured shove for the crazy blonde weapon, then peered over her host's shoulder. "Hey Kid, aren't you going to the beach with us?"
"Yeah, take your shirt off!" BlackStar added, completely innocently oblivious to the double meaning of his words.
Kid let out a small 'tch' and glared at the spiky-haired meister. "No."
Maka pouted and gave him her puppy dog eyes. "Aww, come on."
Hesitating, he stared at her expression reluctantly, "... No. I have my reasons. I'm not going swimming."
"Oh, yes you are!" Patty peeked over his other shoulder with a creepy wide smile that made Soul whimper. "Come on, Kiddo-kun. LET'S GOOO!" She encircled her arms around his neck, and fast as lightning pulled him away in a cloud of dust to the grassy field outside. The other three followed quickly, picking up Tsubaki and Liz (who were both hauling bags of beach gear) along with them.
On the beach, the blonde all but screamed in evil/happy triumph, and launched her meister five feet in a spray of sand. He sat up, spitting the irritating white granules out and looking absolutely livid. "Patty..."
"Oops!" she cackled, running away and shedding the baggy t-shirt she'd been wearing to reveal her bright sunflower-yellow bikini and diving into the water with a splash.
Liz appeared with the others in tow, and taking in the situation with an amused smirk, stripped off her sundress and following her sister in a sky-blue bikini. Both sisters laughed and paddled around each other, flinging handfuls of sea water at hyper speed. Tsubaki was already in her bikini and walked more slowly in, just dipping her toes in. After a moment she returned to their gear, setting up a huge umbrella and anchoring it as BlackStar and Soul raced each other out of their shirts and pushed and shoved as they sprinted into the waves. Finally the ponytail-toting weapon followed them tentatively, leaving just Kid and Maka.
The scythe meister narrowed her eyes at the boy beside her. "Please tell me you're not going to just sit here under an umbrella while they have fun."
"Yup," he muttered, settling down crosslegged and tapping quickly away at his phone before fishing through a picnic basket with one hand.
"Ohh, no." The sandy blonde removed her hair ties in a flash, easily doing up a more practical ponytail, then tugged on the black-haired reaper's arm. "You're coming in the water. Do you want me to call Patty and Liz in here? I'm sure they'd be happy to help..."
Kid paled, if that was possible, and looked at her pleadingly. "I just don't want to! Is that too much to ask?"
"Yes. HEY PATTY! LIZ! I NEED HELP WITH YOUR MEISTER!"
They came happily, dragging a spluttering Kid behind them as they splashed back into the ocean. Pretty soon, his shirt was soaked and he had no choice but to shed it, cheeks turning a light angry pink as he folded it and stuffed it in a bag. Both Thompsons winked suggestively at his bare chest and dived back in, leaving an embarrassed Maka to stare for a moment before turning away, red as a tomato. Soul grinned at her.*3*
"This is pointless," the shinigami growled, crossing his arms and just standing as the waves washed over his feet.
"But it's fun!" Patty squealed.
Maka waded over to him, grinning from ear to ear, completely soaked and holding something behind her back. "Join in, Kid!"
"Or what?" he snapped.
She giggled, then in a flash withdrew a plastic bucket from behind her back and emptied the contents - a load of seawater - over his head. Spluttering, the dripping Kid glared at her and this time (albeit more playfully) joined in, scooping up handfuls of water and tossing them superhumanly fast at his opponents. BlackStar yelled something about being Godly and belly-flopped on top of the stripey-haired meister.
After nearly half an hour of this, Patty splashed over to Kid and handed him a sand dollar, laughing something along the lines of "Present for Kiddo-kun!"
He smiled. "Wow Patty, it's very nic-" Breaking off, Kid's stare had fixated on a tiny chip in the bottom corner of the sand dollar.
"What's wrong?" Maka asked, a little concerned. The reaper didn't answer at first.
"It's..."
"Seriously Maka?" Soul groaned. His meister just looked puzzled.
"It's..."
"She totally forgot," BlackStar scoffed.
"It's..."
"Should we straitjacket him?" Patty cackled.
"So..."
"Oh joy," Liz muttered.
"ASYMMETRICAL!"
XDDD YUSH. BEACHES.
Oh, I'm also considering changing my pen name... do you think I should? :3 And who wants to see an epic story cover for this with the amazing new invention on ffnet called IMAGE MANAGER?
*1*: I made this up. It's BlackStar's 'address.'
*2*: Yes, this place exists, no, the mansion does not. -3-
*3*: I don't know how many times I'll have to say this in coming stories, but... NONE OF THESE WILL BE KIDxMAKA. Not that I have anything against the pairing, I just don't like writing romance. :P
Prompts? Questions? R&R!
~DeaththeKidKat~