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Kid's eyes opened when he thought he heard the sound of the door being opened. He waited and when he was sure that no one had entered the shinigami let out a soft sigh and pressed his back against Black-Star's. Kid closed his eyes back up and smiled at the warmth from the other man. He wasn't warm for long. Kid let out a small yelp as someone grabbed his arm and yanked him out of bed, a hand covering his mouth to prevent him from shouting out for the star.
"It's just me." The whisper in KId's ear made the shinigami shiver. "Don't scream." Free ordered. Kid's answer of 'okay' was muffled by the wolf's hand and he allowed himself to be dragged out of the room. Kid soon found himself sitting on one of the benches in the main room.
"What the hell?" Kid cursed after shoving Free's hand off and the hand went right back over his mouth.
"We don't need to wake everyone else up." Free stated and pulled his hand away.
"What do you want?" Kid demanded in a quite hiss.
"You're the shinigami, the child of Lord Death." Free said as a statement.
"Don't mention him." Kid growled.
"I don't care about your daddy issues. I do care about why you froze in front of the market."
"That's none of your concern." The shinigami grunted when Free pushed him up against the wall, one hand on his neck and the other pressing hard on his stomach.
"It is. I am in charge of these people and I'm not letting some spoiled brat get them all killed." Free growled. Kid gasped as a response, not able to breathe properly. "Kenna is hurt because you choked during your first run. Now tell me. Why. Did. You. Stop?" The wolf pressed harder with each word and Kid let out a strangled cry.
"Can't...breathe..." Free released Kid and the shinigami fell to his knees, holding his neck and gulping down air.
"Maybe I'll ask the blue-haired man." Free turned around. Kid took in one more gasp before anger surged through him. The shinigami jumped to his feet and grabbed Free by the back of the shirt. He let out a grunt as he pulled the larger man back and slammed Free against the wall, chest pressed against the cold surface.
"Leave him alone." Kid said and pulled harder on the arm he held captive.
"Why are you protecting him?" Free asked before pushing his other arm against the wall. Shoving Kid back and forcing the shinigami to let go of his arm. "He's a grown man,he can take care of himself." Free swung out an arm and Kid caught it. His feet slid against the ground for a moment before he yanked down and kneed the wolf's nose. Free let out a curse before turning around and punching Kid across the jaw. The shinigami fell to the ground, he glared up at Free and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"You hit like a bitch." Kid said before leaping off the ground and slamming his shoulder into Free's chest. The wolf gasped for a breath before grabbing Kid and throwing him against the wall. Kid dodged to the side as a fist punched the wall where his head had been at.
"Why are you fighting for him? If I recall from the stories from the others, you two fought almost everyday over the dumbest things." Free stated. Kid didn't respond and tackled the larger man again. Catching Free off guard, the wolf tripped over and ended with his back against the ground. Kid managed two punched to Free's face before he was flipped over and his hands were pinned to the ground. "What is it between you two!?" Free demanded, his voice echoing in the empty room. Kid stayed silent and breathed heavily, not having a good fight in a long time had caused him to become breathless. Free felt something digging into his hand, he pulled one of his hands away and saw a small star had been pressed into his skin from Kid's ring. "A star? That blue-haired man is named...Black-Star...a member of the extinct star clan..."
"What is going on?" A anger-filled voice asked above the two men. Free looked up and saw Black-Star standing with his hands clenched into fists.
"Don't get your panties in a twist." Free said and got off Kid. "We were in a fight if you can't tell by the blood. You don't have to worry about me messing with your partner." The wolf let out a harsh laugh. "That explains a lot. I don't care what you do who you do in bed, just don't let it get in the way."
"What are you talking about?" Kid asked, getting himself off the ground.
"You got distracted on the run didn't you? You were thinking about him, weren't you?" Free pointed a finger towards Black-Star. "You can not allow your emotions to get in the way or we are all going to end up dead."
"Is everything okay-Kid you're bleeding!" Tsubaki went over to the shinigami and looked at the scrap on his cheek he had gotten from Free throwing him against the wall.
"I'm fine, I'll heal." Kid said.
"What happened? Why are you bleeding as well Free?" Tsubaki asked, pulling a rag out of her pocket and dabbing at the wolf's bleeding nose.
"Just an argument between men." Free growled.
"You woke up half of the apartment, that was not just 'an argument between men'." Tsubaki stated and stopped cleaning Free's face. "You two, in the kitchen now so we can get you cleaned up properly. Black-Star, go calm down the others, tell them everything is okay." The three men hesitated. "Now." She snapped. Black-Star ran off and him shouting 'We're all good' could be heard by Free and Kid as they were ushered to the kitchen. Tsubaki set the men next to each other on a table and dunked her rag into a bucket of water. "Now tell me the truth, what happened?" She asked as she dabbed at Free's nose again with the piece of cloth.
"We just got into an argument and it became violent." Free said, leaning away from the rag.
"Bullshit." Tsubaki's curse made Kid shake his head in shock, did she really just say that? Tsubaki rolled her eyes and pinched the wolf's nose with the cloth. "Hold that there." She ordered and Free obeyed with several grumbles. "Kid, what happened?" Tsubaki asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"What Free said. An argument that became violent." Kid answered.
"What could the argument be about that you would risk injuring yourself or another person?" The question was directed at Free.
"The boy froze and got Kenna hurt from it." Free said, voice clogged from the pressure on his nose.
"I am not a boy, I am twenty-two years old." Kid protested.
"You are still a child compared to me." Free growled.
"Both of you are acting like children. Fighting over a stupid mistake will end up making another stupid mistake." Both of the men looked down at the ground. Tsubaki walked over to the bucket and grabbed a new rag and soaked it in water as well. "You two can be in charge of breakfast." She said and rubbed the towel on Kid's scraped cheek. "Then you can clean some bowels." Free opened his mouth to protest, but Tsubaki's glare made him stop. "I'll be right back, get into another argument and you wish you had cooking and dish duty." Tsubaki walked out of the kitchen, throwing the rag she had used on Kid on to a pile of other bloody rags.
"Wife my ass." Free muttered, removing the rag from his nose and sniffing. "You look like a queer." The wolf didn't have time to say anything else before Kid punched him across the face.
"Even if Black-Star was a woman, I'd still be with him." Kid said and jumped off the table, going over to a large pyramid of canned food. "Gender doesn't mean anything." The shinigami grabbed a can of corn and a wave of guilt hit him.
"Little sensitive, aren't we?" Free chuckled and finished cleaning up his nose.
"You would be too if you were in my spot." Kid took one of the can openers that laid beside the cans and started to open the can of corn.
"You ran away and lived a fun life while everyone else suffered through a war, how bad could it be?" Free asked, joining Kid in opening cans and dumping the contents into a large pot.
"We didn't run away...my father kicked us out because he didn't approve of me and Black-Star." Kid said darkly, crushing the empty can in his hand.
"I've talked to Lord Death, he doesn't seem like the person to do that."
"Apparently he is, just like every other idiotic, homophobic person out there that would just take the time to understand that what I do in my bedroom won't hurt them. I bet my father is ranting about how his gay son is going to ruin everything and he's going to get everyone killed..." Kid took in several breaths. "You already said it, why wouldn't he?"
"Kid, your father-"
"How are we doing?" Tsubaki asked, already sounding like as if her anger from earlier had never happened. "Are we having a vegetable stew for breakfast?" She asked, seeing the corn and potatoes in the pot. "Put some left over pork into it."
"Am I still on dish duty?" Ox asked, standing at the entrance.
"You're good, Free and Kid will be taking care of that today."
"But I was going to go on a run to get into that hardware store we've been spotting for a week." Free protested.
"I can handle that." Tsubaki said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"But-"
"I'll get the fire started for you two." Tsubaki said, dismissing any more protest from Free. "Come on Ox, you can help me." Ox followed Tsubaki out of the room.
"I heard someone got into some trouble." A voice sang a moment later and the two men were soon joined by Kenna.
"How's your arm?" Kid asked as Kenna sat on the table they were just on.
"Stings like a bitch, but I'll get over it." The girl laughed, rolling the arm that had been cleaned only minutes ago.
"You should still be in bed." Free said.
"And miss all the fun? I wanna go out on the hardware store run." Kenna said with extreme excitement.
"Absolutely not, you are injured." Tsubaki said, returning to the kitchen.
"I'm fine, look. I can still run." Kenna jumped off the table but before she could take off, Tsubaki caught her arm.
"You are to stay here and watch Maka. Soul needs help to keep her from leaving the building."
"But that's boring." Kenna whined.
"You can ask her about the DWMA."
"Really?" Tsubaki nodded at the younger girl and Kenna ran off. Tsubaki pointed at the pot and gestured for the men to follow her. Free and Kid set the pot on the burning fire, sitting next to it so they could stir it.
"Could you tell me about the DWMA?" Kenna asked Maka and the chattering group went silent.
"The DWMA?" Maka straightened herself up.
"Yeah, I was only told I was going to join it four years ago, but the demons were released and I never learned anything but the word DWMA." Kenna said.
"That's right, you're fifteen. A decent age to start the true training." Maka stated.
"Go ahead, she and the others have a right to know." Soul encouraged.
"The DWMA stands for, Death Weapon Meister Academy." Maka started and the group, most who already know the story, listened to Maka's retelling. "You're a bow and arrow, a weapon. When you would have joined, a meister, someone that could use you as your full weapon form, would have been assigned to you. Weather it be a boy or girl, just whoever matched your soul wavelength then you spend years training and learning about kishins and how to kill them. A kishin is someone that had surrendered to the madness and eats innocent souls, like the ones we have. The person who put the academy, that large building that's burning, is Lord Death, Kid's father." Kid looked away from the group and Free stirred the pot. "He's a great person and he's always willing to help a student. You could call him from any mirror or window the numbers-"
"Forty-two, forty-two, five six four." The old members of DWMA said with Maka.
"He'd greet with with a hi, hello and a howdy. He's a silly person, but is the lord of death so don't piss him off." The group laughed. Kid stayed silent and helped Free serve the stew. "If you do, run like hell ." Another group laugh. "You'd train and learn so then one day you could turn your weapon into a death-scythe."
"A what?" Kenna cocked her head.
"After collecting ninety-nine kishen souls and one witch soul, your weapon will gain extreme strength and be a death-scythe."
"That sounds awesome!" Kenna exclaimed.
"Yeah..." Maka held on to Soul's hand. "Maybe after we get through this nightmare, we can put the DWMA back together."
"Sounds like a plan." Soul responded, squeezing his meister's hand. Maka let out a groan and put a hand on her stomach. "Oh God is the baby coming!? What do we do!? Tsubaki!"
"Calm down you nut-job, the baby just kicked hard, that's all." Maka chuckled. "I still have two months, don't worry."
"Nice to know how calm Soul is going to be when her water actually does break." Kilik said and the group laughed together again. Kid only smiled a little and sat next to Black-Star after he and Free were able to get their own bowels of food.
"So what are you going to name the little..." Black-Star's sentence trailed.
"Guy." Kid said, taking a sip from his bowel.
"How coul you know that?" Soul asked.
"I can see the baby's soul, it's a boy. Maka should know that as well."
"I wanted it to be a surprise you asshole." Maka said with a laugh.
"My bad." Kid said and winked at the pregnant woman.
"So after we eat, I need a group to go on a run with me. We're hitting the hardware store across town." Tsubaki stated, standing up and setting her bowel on the cleaned counter, the shattered pieces still haven't been swept up. "I'm going."
"You can't go." Free said, standing as well.
"Yes I am, you are staying here and doing dish duty."
"You know nothing about the hardware store."
"I know enough to break into it and cleaning it out." Tsubaki's last word came out harsh and the two stared at each other for a tense minute.
"Fine, but don't come crying to me when everyone's dead or you return with nothing." Free growled.
"Talia, Bre, Max, Ox, Soul."
"I can't go, what about Maka?" The scythe protested.
"She'll be fine, I put Kenna in charge of her and we'll be back before her afternoon craving kicks in." Tsubaki smirked at the middle finger response she got from Maka.
"I'll also take Black-Star and..." Tsubaki looked around the room. "Kid."
"What!?" Free exclaimed. "Why the hell is he going!?" He demanded.
"With you staying, I need someone else to break open the door." Tsubaki stated. Free let out a growl and left the room. "Don't forget to clean." She called after the wolf. "Hurry up and finish leaving, we leave in ten."
I love my badass Tsubaki. I want to hug her but I feel like I'd get killed.