Death the Kid

He awoke with a sudden jolt. His vision very blurry, he rubbed his eyes. Still blurry. Where was he? It didn't seem like anywhere he knew, but then again, he couldn't see. He got out of the bed he was in and tried to find a door. His hand hit a swirled piece of metal. Found it. He opened the door and suddenly he could see clearly. It was Maka's apartment. Well, the living room at least. Maka was sitting alone on the couch.

"Maka?"
"Go away."
"What?"
"GO AWAY YOU TRAITOR!" She turned to him with tears in her eyes.

"Maka, I'm sorry," he started.

"I don't care. You killed Soul."
"What?"
"Yeah, you did."

"I couldn't have."

"Oh, but you did Kid. Or should I call you Kai?"
"Maka, that wasn't me!"

"Your stronger than that Kid! You shouldn't have trusted the lies they gave you."
"It's not my fault." She turned away. "Maka," he reached for her hand. She jerked it away.

What was this? Most definitely not the end. Simply a cruel nightmare left to haunt the lost mind.

Maka

With Soul in her arms, and her legs constantly moving without stop on that cold evening, she finally reached their apartment. Soul was in terrible condition, but she knew he had to rest as soon as possible, and, face it, the bouncing arms of a 15-year-old, running girl weren't the easiest place to rest. The DWMA was too far. Soul, by some miracle, was still awake. And he was going to be for hours.

"Soul, get some sleep," said Maka.

"I can't."

Throughout the night, Maka stayed in Soul's room. He constantly looked up at her, trying to let her know he's fine. The silence was kept until finally, Soul broke it.

"I guess you were fine to stay."

"I told you."

"But you should've left, it could've been worse. Why didn't you leave?"
"I already told you, I couldn't lose you too. Especially not you."

"But what if you were to die?"

"Then I'd be with Kid, and I would still know your fine." The thought secretly did make her happy. To die and see Kid again, but she still had to pretend, and become indifferent on the subject of him.

"Maka, just promise me one thing."

"What is it?"

"That I won't lose you the way we all lost Kid."

"I promise." Soul passed out from exhaustion shortly after that statement. Maka didn't want to be the person to make everyone feel terrible, so she promised Soul that. Even if she wanted to be with Kid more.

Gopher

At the restaurant, now burning down, Gopher picked up the unconscious boy. As he flew out, he caught a glimpse of the running girl. Her black dress gained a slight red hue from the boy in her arms. For that moment, they were alike. They both carried a reddened body, and they both wished for someone. What they wished and whom they wished for was different, but they both wished. Realizing that, Gopher looked down to the blond boy's face, and instantly hated the color yellow.

Kai

When they had gotten back, Noah scolded them both, but mainly Gopher, for having failed so badly.

"Man, he is angry," Kai said after Noah finally left.

"We did fail."
"But what does he expect? We planned to get the girl unarmed; she was armed, so we weren't prepared. End of story."

"Can't you show more respect? He did take you in after all."
"You mean us."

"Right, us."

Gopher

Later that night, Noah had pulled Gopher away.

"What were you thinking, shocking him with the magic?"
"I'm sorry, Noah-sama, I just tried to find a quick solution."

"Then use the extra pills." Gopher had forgotten about them.
"I'm sorry, I wanted a faster solution."
"That 'faster solution' is simply suspicious, first your teammate protects the enemy, and next you attack him."
"I was worried he might tell them who he was."
"That's a little hard for a mind that can no longer speak."

"I'm sorry. I thought too carelessly, I decided that a shock might be the best because it would've taken effect faster and last longer."

"Don't ever make that mistake again." Noah said in an extremely menacing voice. As he walked away, Gopher stood alone, outside. He stared up to the stars and imagined all the other people looking at the stars.

Maka

That morning, she woke up early, only to find herself still in the chair she had sat in the previous night while Soul was awake. He was still fast asleep, and who knew how long he would be sleeping for. Maka got up and walked out of the room. She realized was still in her ruined black dress and changed into better-suited clothes for school. She didn't want to pull to much attention to this incident. It was still confusing.

"Blair, I'm heading out. Keep an eye on Soul." But then she saw the cat asleep on the couch. "Better leave her a note." She said.

At school, Soul's seat was empty. No one questioned why. They had all heard about the restaurant burning down. They didn't know too many details, but they did know that Soul and Maka were there. After classes, various students asked Maka about the details, and she told them most. The only detail she left out: when the boy suddenly protected her.

"Wow, that sounds so fun!" Shouted Patti.

"But it wasn't, Soul got hurt, wouldn't that be not-fun if your partner were to get hurt?" Liz said to Patti.

"Yeah, I guess. But at least she gets some action." The two had only been used once since the disappearance/death of Kid. They went on a mission with Kilik, but they hadn't had a real partner yet.

"So, what did they look like?" Liz asked.

"Huh?"

"The two boys."
"Oh, well one had black hair and purple eyes, and the other… Blond hair and yellowish-gold eyes. Kinda like Kid's eyes."

"We'll keep an eye out for them."

"What do you mean?"

"They're obviously coming back. They didn't get what they wanted."

"Right."

Gopher

Gopher was looking for Kai for a half-hour now.

"Kai!" He yelled into the forest. Where has he gone now? The guy was hard to handle. He would go for a stroll in the forest and not return for hours. It was often a problem, because he could wander off and find out who he is… Or was…

"Kai!" He repeated for the thousandth time today. I hope he hasn't wandered too far off… Gopher finally found him. He was in a tree playing with a cat.

"Kai! Get down here!" Kai seemed a little ticked off by his little brother ordering him around, but he came down anyway.

"What is it?" He demanded.

"I thought maybe we should try and get the girl once more."
"I think we should do it tomorrow, the moon will be new and there'll be less light."

"Of course." Gopher knew it was just Kai being lazy. Gopher was set going with or without Kai anyway. Who needed tomorrow? Why not do it today?

Maka

"Soul, Blair, I'm home!" She said as she opened the door to the apartment.

"Maka!" Blair shrieked cheerfully. "Where have you been? I had no idea where you were all day!"
"Didn't you read the note? I was at school. How's Soul?"
"Oh him? He's been boring all-day, just sleeping and sleeping. I doubt he's even breathing."
"WHAT!"

"Relax, I said I doubt. I never checked or anything."

Maka went and checked in with Soul. He was still breathing, but it was weak, like his pulse. She should've taken him to a doctor.

Author's Note: Hi guys! I hope your enjoying the story! Thanks for reading this far! Please review what you think so far! I have a few announcements, so feel free to leave if you don't care.

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