Dear I feel horrible for that cliff hanger...
"Tsubaki!" Black-Star cried again as he watched his weapon fall face-first on to the ground. The kishin that had stabbed her opened his mouth to show its fangs and bent down. Kid quickly made his way over to the demon and stabbed it in the head before it could bite and try to eat Tsubaki. The other kishin were letting out squeals at the sight of a body that wasn't moving.
"We have to get her back!" Kenna shouted. "Black-Star!" The girl called out to the star, who was just standing there, frozen. "Black-Star..." Kenna said softer. Kid saw the anger that was filling the star's eyes.
"Kenna, Miriah, take Tsubaki and run!" He ordered. Kenna and Miriah hesitated before running over to Kid and both of them holding Tsubaki and went off as fast as they could away from the group. The demons were slowly getting out of their crazed dance as they started to notice two bodies leaving them. "Come on Black-Star!" Kid shouted, taking out several kishins that were trying to go after Miriah and Kenna. The shinigami didn't flinch when the star let out a scream, he prepared himself for what he knew was going to happen. Black-Star grabbed his sword and went on a rampage. He let out several more screams as he brutally killed the kishin demons, slashing without looking. Kid stayed away from Black-Star and took out the ones left on the ground that weren't killed, but unable to move from the lack of limbs and what appeared to be organs. One by one the demons were killed and their numbers decreased as Black-Star went mad. The star eventually stopped when he stabbed the end of the sword into a kishin's eye, the last one from the horde. Black-Star gasped for air as he stood in the center of a field of kishin corpses. "Black-Star." Kid went over to his partner and took the sword out of his hand. "We need to go, we can catch up to them and help Tsubaki." Black-Star didn't say anything and took in a deep breath before taking off. Kid removed the now empty bottle from his pocket and tossed it, a harsh pang of guilt hitting him before he ran off.
The shinigami quickly caught up to Black-Star and the two men found Kenna and Miriah struggling at the fence, trying to get Tsubaki's limp body over it. Black-Star didn't say anything and took Tsubaki from the two girls and climbed over the fence without a problem. Kenna and Miriah followed the star with Kid right on their heels as they ran into the apartment.
"Tsubaki's hurt!" Black-Star shouted, trying to get someone's attention as he entered the building.
"Shit, put her down!" Free ordered and the star did as he was asked, hoping the wolf knew what he was doing. "What happened?" He demanded as he ripped open Tsubaki's shirt, exposing the large gash in her chest, a broken claw sticking out of it.
"We opened the house and were attacked." Miriah answered then ran off with a hand over her mouth. A moment later they could hear gagging noises coming from where Miriah had ran off to. Free didn't say anything as he gripped the claw and yanked it out of Tsubaki's body, blood trickling out of the wound.
"She'll be fine." Free stated, tossing the claw aside.
"Fine? She has a hole in her chest!" Black-Star snapped.
"Just wait, Kenna get some rags." Kenna nodded and took off. Black-Star was about to shout again when he noticed the blood had already stopped flowing. Free used his hand to wipe some blood away from the wound and the two men could see it slowly closing. Healing.
"What?" They said together.
"Here are the rags Free. I'm going to go check on Miriah." Kenna handed the rags to Free before taking off used a rag to start cleaning up some of the still wet blood from Tsubaki's body, the gash halfway closed. The wolf used a wet rag to clean out the wound before it completely shut. A moment after the cut was fully healed, Tsubaki's chest started to move up and down, she was breathing.
"What the hell? How is this possible?" Black-Star exclaimed. That was when he saw the marking on Tsubaki's stomach, the symbol looked familiar, very familiar. Free looked at the star and that was when he remembered where the symbol was from, it was the same symbol Free had in his special eye.
"No, that's not possible. How could you even..." Kid's sentence trailed off.
"It's a long story." Free answered, Tsubaki's body was now cleaned off.
"It's not like we have anywhere to go." Kid stated as the wolf picked Tsubaki off of the ground bridal style.
"Let me put Tsubaki in bed and I'll tell you guys. It's time everyone knows as well why Tsubaki is the way she is."
Free sat down on the middle of a bench in the main room, everyone gathered around to wolf, all wanting to know the story he was finally able to admit to all of them. Kid sat on the heels of his feet, not wanting to get the ground wet and reminding himself to change his pants as soon as the story was over. He and Black-Star sat with Soul and Maka. Maka had dragged herself out of bed with the baby in her arms, stating she had to hear the story and refused to only her someone retelling it to her. She sat on several layers of blanket and Lance was cuddled against her chest, letting out little whines every other breath. Liz and Patty sat together behind the four, leaning against each other for support since they had been woken up from Black-Star's shouting. Kenna and Miriah joined the crowd right before Free started, they sat together next to Kid.
"Most of you already know that Tsubaki can heal fast compared to a normal weapon, but none of you know why." Free looked around the room as he spoke. "It all started the first day of the war, when we were all trapped inside of the DWMA building. I was there trying to free Eruka from a cell since she had gotten herself captured, she's saved me from a prison before and it was my time to pay her back. I managed to break in without being sighted yet and I reached Eruka's cell when it all started. I was in the cell when fire came out from the deeper part of the dungeon and I had shielded Eruka with my body till the flames passed. Madness filled the air as we tried to escape, having to change our route often because of flames or those kishin demons would show up and Eruka would scream. We finally got out of the dungeon, that was when we ran into Tsubaki. She didn't care who we were, she just cared that we were living people in danger and she started showing us the way out, saying she knew where you guys were at. We were almost there, I could smell the clean air, but we were cut off by a large wall of flame. I could have ran though it without a problem, but I couldn't leave Eruka and Tsubaki behind, I'm an asshole but I'm not willing to let them die because I was getting sick of the madness corrupting my mind." Free rubbed the back of his neck. "Then the kishin demons showed up, a large pack of them. I kept the girls behind me as I took kishins out right and left, getting bit but healing fast enough for it not to be a problem. One of them got past me and..." The wolf paused before continuing. "And it tried to kill Eruka but Tsubaki stepped between them, giving up her own life to save someone she didn't even know. Tsubaki died, she was dead." The word 'dead' hung in the air, Timmy and Tommy let out a soft cry and was hushed and hugged against Talia's chest. "I wasn't fast enough to prevent Eruka from getting killed as well and when they took her life, they took her body and ran off, disappearing before I could stop them. It was just me and Tsubaki, alone. The fire wall went down and blood pooled around Tsubaki's body. I went over to her, thinking that maybe there was a chance she was alive and that was when the most powerful wave of madness hit me. I had my hand on Tsubaki's stomach when I lost control. Something surged through me and it gave me the power to bring Tsubaki back to life, some how the madness was strong enough to do that and it gave her my powers. She can heal, yes, but she's also immortal like me."
"She's what..." Black-Star said out loud in disbelief.
"She's immortal, she can't die. But since she's only had the power for four years, when she gets badly injured her mind needs time to recover and catch up to her body."
"You caved." Tsubaki stated. the group turning in unison and staring at the woman. She had on a different shirt but she hadn't fixed her hair yet, stray strands covering part of her face. "I didn't want them to know about me." Tsubaki said, putting a hand on her stomach where her marking was at. "Now all of you are going to think I'm a freak." She sniffed, choking back a sob. Kenna was the first one up, wrapping her arms around Tsubaki, Black-Star and Kid both knowing that she understood how the woman felt. They also knew how it felt when they believed everyone thought they were a freak, an outcast, not one of the normal crowd.
"You're not a freak." Timmy said, taking one of Tsubaki's hands after Kenna stepped back.
"You're really cool." Tommy said, taking the woman's other hand.
"You're big and tough."
"But not scary."
"Free's scary." The twins looked at the wolf and giggled.
"Don't make me eat you." Free threatened with a soft growl and a smile as he jumped to his feet. The boys let out a squeal and hide behind Tsubaki. "I told you, everything's fine with them knowing." Free said to Tsubaki as he stepped up to her.
"I hate you." Tsubaki said with a small smile.
"Whatever you say." The wolf winked.
"Get a room!" Kenna said, making the room laugh.
"Speaking of rooms, isn't it time for the little ones to go to bed?" Tsubaki asked.
"Nope." The twins said together and took off.
"I'll get the twins and you get James?" Free offered.
"No problem." Tsubaki smirked.
"Break!" Free ran after the boys, shouting 'the big bad wolf is going to get you'.
"That man is an idiot." Tsubaki sighed and went over to Maka. "How's Lance?"
"He's getting fussy, I'm going to take him to a different room." Soul helped Maka up to her feet, the woman handed the baby to the scythe for a moment so she could hug Tsubaki. "You could have just told us, you're still Tsubaki no matter how long you live."
"James!" Patty called.
"He was right next to me, five seconds ago!" Liz exclaimed.
"He couldn't have gotten far." Tsubaki said and joined them in the search. They stopped when they heard a shout from Robby. "Robby what's wrong?" Tsubaki found Robby and James in front of the door, James was playing in the puddle of blood that Tsubaki had made earlier and Robby was paler than a ghost.
"El Diablo." Robby crossed himself as Tsubaki picked up the small child.
"That's just weird." Kilik stated, his own face turning a light shade of green.
"Let's get you cleaned up, buddy." Tsubaki grimaced as she held the boy at arms length and walked out of the room. Robby started calling out for his brother 'Jose', crying 'El Diablo' when he finally showed up. The two bother went back in forth in Spanish for a while.
"He probably doesn't even know what he was playing with." Ox said to Kilik.
"It's still messed up and now Robby's flipping his shit." Kilik responded.
"I'll be right back Black-Star." Kid went off, going to his and Black-Star's room and changing his pants. He was zipping himself up when Black-Star joined him.
"Why did you change?" The star asked.
"I had sunscreen in my pocket and when I fell it got everywhere." Kid stated.
"Sunscreen?" Black-Star looked at Kid's discarded pants. "Sunscreen's white."
"I rubbed the color off." Kid didn't face the other man.
"Sunscreen doesn't smell like blueberries." The star saw Kid stiffen, the shingami had been caught in his lie. "You had lube?"
"Shut up, I'm a man too." Kid tucked his undershirt in. "And I hate it." Before Black-Star asked him what he meant, Kid continued. "If I never grabbed the bottle, Tsubaki wouldn't have gotten hurt. She would be dead if she wasn't immortal, all because I grabbed a bottle of-" Kid stopped, feeling something press against his neck.
"It's okay." Black-Star said softly and gave Kid's neck another kiss.
"God I'm done with place." Kid lifted his arm and grabbed the star's hair, leaning himself against Black-Star's lips.
"We could still just leave." Black-Star said between kisses, trailing his tongue up the pale neck after his last word.
"We can't leave them." The shinigami let out a soft moan when the star bite a sensitive part right behind his neck. "Maka just had a child and what about Kenna?"
"You're ruining the mood." Black-Star muttered and wrapped his arms around Kid's hips.
"I just changed." Kid protested weakly as he turned himself around and pressed their lips together.
"You can change again." Black-Star stated and untucked Kid's undershirt and ran his hands across Kid's chest.
"Black-Star, Kid." Kenna said from behind the door, knocking.
"At least she knocked this time." Kid stated as he and Black-Star parted. "Coming!" He called as he tucked his shirt back in.
"I just wanted to let you guys know that Maka and Soul named you as the Godparents of Lance."
"What?" Kid opened the door and saw Kenna standing at the door with her eyes covered with her hands. "We're Godparents?"
"Yep." Kenna removed her hands and saw Kid completely covered, thinking everything was safe, she walked in. "You guys are, why does he have a pillow on his lap?"
"Really Black-Star?" Kid sighed.
"My thighs are cold." The star stated.
"Wait, I think I've read about this-"
"Nope, nope, nope." Kid ushered Kenna out of the room. "Black-Star take care of your...cold thighs and join us out in the main room.
"You could help."
"No!" Kid snapped and slammed the poor shut.
"Is Black-Star okay?" Kenna asked.
"Yeah, he's just an idiot."
"He's your idiot." Kid rolled his eyes and rubbed Kenna's head, getting a shout of protest about him messing up her hair.
"Both of you are my idiots." He stated.
...Cold thighs...damn it Black-Star...