Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Eater. Herp de derp.
I stood there for a really long time. Kid's house was even bigger than I imagined, and I easily got lost in it quite a few times and I had only been here for a few hours. Anyways, I was in the room deemed to be mine, which was conveniently connected with Candi's. I was standing in front of one of many large mirrors placed throughout the mansion, most likely due to how Lord Death liked to communicate. I was staring hard at my own reflection, wondering who exactly I was seeing. I'm not stupid, this is obviously me. I just happened to be the exact image of my mother, who I vowed to want absolutely nothing to do with. My father? Mixed feelings came when I though about him. Lord Death had said he had something for me, but a few of the academy students fad to go on a remedial lesson so he wanted to stay and watch. That was fine with me, I had an eeryly creepy feeling that I wasn't going to like what he had to give me. I heard a knock on the door, knocking me out of my reverie. Just as I was about to say come in, I turned back to the mirror, and gasped. My reflection was NOT ME. My skin was pitch black, with white streakes going which way and that across my arms. My hair was turned white, black streaks wrapping around my normally blonde locks. Even my pupils were a different color!
"Hey are you alright?" A smooth voice I had recognized as Kid came in and I whirled over to his direction. His face was still impassive, and I wondered how he was able to look at me in such a ghastly sight. He just cocked his head to the side, obviously wondering what it was I was so freaked about.
Glancing back at the mirror, I was back to my old self. Blonde hair, violet eyes. I blinked a few times, maybe it was just the mirror? My imagination? Wouldn't that be a little strange for it to be my imagination?
"No it's fine. Oh, there was something you wanted to talk to me about, right?" He said there was something important he needed to tell me, which I was eager to know. Lady Murasaki had never informed me why exactly I needed to go there.
"Yes, but I think my dad should be the one to tell you. Follow me." He was extremely formal for a person of our age, which was expected of Lord Death's son. I just wish he could be a little more casual. If I was going to live with the guy then shouldn't we at least get to know eachother a little bit?
I followed him regardless. He led me to a room even larger than mine. I would guess it was his with all the perfect symmetry, but then again, the entire house was like that. He walked up to a tall mirror and breathed on the smooth surface, creating a smogged oval. He quickly wrote a sequence of numbers in the gray oval and he stood aside to let me see.
"42-42-564?"
"If you ever need to contact my dad, then this is the way to do it." He smiled, and I was pretty sure he could contact him without using the mirror technique, seeing as though he was his son and a shinigami. It was kind of intimidating.
"Oh I see. Sometimes I forget that he can't leave the academy." I wondered if he ever got tired of being in the same place for so long.
"Hello kids! Whassup?" A goofy voice shot out from the mirror soon coupled with the image of a tall zig-zagging shape of black. His mask hid his face, as usual.
"Hey dad. You wanted to talk to us about something?" Kid asked nonchalantly.
"Yes. This is a very serious issue, one that needs to be addressed immediately. Now Aurore, has Lady Murasaki told you about the madness yet?" Oh, that must've been the madness taking over. Was that normal, though?
"Yeah, but not very much about it." She was always letting out important bits of information. I was often times going through things blindly.
"The madness tends to stick to people who feel strongly of their ideals or goals. It is very important that you do not let this take you over, no matter what. Do you understand?" This was the most serious I've ever seen Lord Death, even with the ridiculous vocals.
"Good to hear! Now Kid, since Aurore is new here, I'd like you to take her to play basketball with the others or something. Also, since she's new to the academy, I'd like for the two of you to go on missions together for a while, just until she get's used to it."
"Of course." Kid smiled at me. I figured going on missions with Liz and Patty would do Candi some good when it came to social interactions, and Kid seemed pretty strong when it came to fights and such. Afterall, he was a shinigami. I smiled back.
"Good to hear! Well, I wouldn't want to bore you anymore, so goodbye for now!"
"Goodbye Lord Death."
"Bye dad." The mirror returned to show our reflections again, showing no trace that it had shown anything else but us. The madness must've been a serious thing, seeing as though Lord Death wanted to speak to them himself. I wondered if the madness had ever taken over Kid. Being a shinigami, he must have some of his own ideals, and I knew I had mine. I watched his back as he led me through the winding corridors back to the living room. Should I really ask him, would that really be rude? Should I be barging in to someone else's past when I hardly know them? Why do I care so much?
"Is something bothering you?" He stopped walking and I almost ran into him. His face was no longer impassive, but genuinely worried.
"Hm? Oh, I was just wondering the madness ever got to you..." I looked at him, and almost shuddered. His eyes were intensified on mine, as though I had brought up a bad memory he'd rather forget.
"Yeah, once. That's a long story though, I'll tell you about it some other time." He brushed it off easily, but I don't think it was as laidback as he was making it seem.
"You don't have to, I was just curious." I realized that that might be a sensitive subject, especially when we hardly know eachother.
"No, no, you should know about it. I don't mind telling you." He seemed as though it was nothing more than just a bad experience, but I highly doubt being overwhelmed with power and greed to be tossled into destructive ways and losing yourself completely could be labeled as just a bad experience.
"Okay, if you say so." On the other hand, if he was willing to tell me then I would be more than willing to listen.
"Yay, yay! Our first basketball game together!" Patty was clapping and laughing, which I found she did often these days.
"Yeah I know, it'll be fun. But we have to go shopping first." Liz added as she smiled brightly at me and Candi.
"Hey, do you even know how to play basketball?" Candi asked from the opposite side of the room, where she was currently painting her nails a grassy green.
"Yeah of course I know how to play basketball, it was a favorite back at the temple!" Candi didn't really like the temple (our old home, ran by Lady Murasaki), simply because she thought it was too uptight.
"Okay. You need a haircut, by the way. It's way too long." At that Patty starting giggling at nothing in particular, and Liz shot a nervous glance back at Candi. Kid looked as though he had been struck with a brilliant idea.
"Uuh, I'm sure we can schedule an appointment at the mall or something, can't we Kid?" Liz looked at Kid nervously, before glaring at his unmoving facial features.
"Nonsense. They could never cut her hair perfectly. You will let me do it, won't you?" He looked at me with those golden eyes, his hands pressed together in a pleading manor. Liz made X's with her arms, shaking her head furiously.
"Umm-"
"Please, you have to let me do it or else it won't be perfectly symmetrical!" Was that it? Oh, I can't say no when he looks at me like that? He looks so...cute? No, that wasn't the word... was it?
"Yeah sure, why not." I gave in to his pleading, and as soon as I did so his mood immediately changed. He stood up and started to make his way to a large template of paper before being stopped short by Liz.
"Hold on a sec, you can't take a whole week planning out her haircut. You either do it right now, or we taker her to a salon." A whole week? This guy was really passionate about symmetry. Liz had a hold on one of his arms, and he eventually gave in.
"Fine." He said, sighing.
"I'll get the scissors~" Patty said in a singsong voice.
"Sorry about that, it's just that he's so obsessed with symmetry it's annoying." Liz said modestly, giving a small sigh of her own and glaring at Kid.
"It's not an obsession, symmetry is what makes the world beautiful." Kid stated as he positioned himself behind me, a pair of silver scissors in his right hand.
"I think it's nice to have someone so passionate about something like symmetry, in a way it represents the balance between good and evil, and the thin line that seperates them." I'm not really sure what it was that made me say that, I just had an overwhelming feeling that maybe Kid's love of symmetry went a little deeper then a simple obsession.
Liz didn't say anything, but instead smiled knowingly at me. I was unable to see Kid's face although I was able to notice him freeze completely. I hope I didn't strike another sensetive nerve, but I couldn't help but think about how I was right. I was right, right? RIGHT?
"Yes, Exactly. See Liz, I'm not the only one who realizes the beauty of symmetry." I could tell he was smiling behind me, and I was glad that I would probably remain on his good side for a while.
"So, what movies do you like?" Liz asked as she walked over to the large flat screen centered in the middle of the large room.
"Horror, comedy. The same everybody else likes." I stated as I scanned the large rack full of DVDs.
"Awesome! Kid likes horror, and Patty likes comedy, so we have a ton of those." Liz started moving her finger up and down the rack of DVD's, stopping at one with a particularly gruesome cover.
"So what kind of movies do you like?"
"Uuh-" She started to stammer, and I would've cocked my head to the side for if it didn't have Kid carefully snipping bits of hair from the back of my head.
"Sissy's a perv, so she likes to watch special romance movies!" Patty exclaimed, much to her older sister's dismay.
"Is that why you like to meet up with Tsubaki so much?" Kid asked from behind me.
"No, shut up! Tsubaki's just a really cool girl so I like hanging out with her, is that so bad?" I had to put my hand over my mouth to stifle my laughter.
"Oh, and after basketball we were all thinking of meeting up at Maka's for a while." Liz quickly returned to her normal state, as though the previous conversation had never happened.
"Sounds good." Kid was speaking quicker than usual, probably due to him wanting to focus more so on my hair than on anything else. At least my hair would be even. Perfectly, even.