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"Disgusting! This picture is hideously disgusting." The relative peace in the classroom was momentarily disrupted by a loud, booming voice. For once, it was not Black*Star, nor was it one of the many girls. No, this time, it was Death the Kid.
Indignity flooded my mind, and I teared up a bit, exclaiming rather loudly, "Kid you jerk! Do you know how many hours I spent trying to make this?" I yelled at the black and white haired boy, glaring for all it was worth through my tears.
"No, it won't simply do! It's just not symmetrical! I'm going to burn it." Kid got a lighter from nowhere (I had no clue how he did that) and I shrieked, grabbing the paper from his hands and clutched it to my chest like a mother would her child. We were attracting stares, I noted.
"I swear this is the last time I'll pair up with you on a soul project! You don't let me do anything! And you yelled at me for printing only one of every picture!" I scowled, my eyes narrowing as I checked the paper for any damage. Nothing, thankfully.
"I already TOLD you, print two of each so we can glue them on each side so it's perfectly symmetrical!" He yelled pointing his index finger at a picture of a pink soul. Again with the symmetry? I looked to out project, scowling again.
Our cardboard project was sitting on the desk of the classroom, in it's all symmetrical glory.
For Professor Stein's class that we had to do a project about souls, just to let the information stick a bit longer in our heads. It worked, in theory. But then again, theory didn't involve a certain Shinigami's obsession. Why had I chosen him? Oh, for a number of reasons.
I picked Kid because of a few things.
1- The project is optional and Eira, of course, didn't want to do it. Damn her.
2- Maka forced Soul to work with her, so I couldn't pair up with her. Didn't blame her.
3-There was no way I'd work with Black Star, he would have made me do all the work and say something like 'Stars like me don't do projects'... How did Tsubaki handle him so well?
4-Kid was the last choice, since Tater Tots and Fuji didn't do it, and neither did Lucrezia and Ray.
So I was stuck with the OCD boy.
"Really guys, I don't see why you waste your time on that." Liz said, preoccupied in painting her nails a pretty red.
Patti laughed, as Kid tried to grab the 'asymmetrical' picture of a blue soul that I drew. I kept it out of his reach, fearing the lighter and bending over backwards over the desk to keep it out of reach.
"Give it to me!" He roared, a crazy look on his face, "I will not allow such trash on our project!"
Eira was lazily gazing at us, and eating a hotdog she stole from the cafeteria. I shot a glare at her, and she smirked after swallowing, sticking her tongue out as if saying 'Haha, that's what you get.'
Lucrezia was talking to Tsubaki, whose project was already done. Lucky...
Black*Star was showing off and talking to Kilik, Harvar, and Ox. I faintly wondered if he really would have been that bad, compared to Kid.
Soul, Tatsuo, and Fuji were all talking, seats above us.
Ray was sitting alone, afraid to go by Lucrezia, who was surrounded by girls.
He was wearing his usual orange t-shirt and brown pants. The white cap was always on his head, covering the messy cinnamon hair.
Finally giving in with a sigh, I pushed Kid back, looking at it. I gave up the picture, and he burned it.
It turned to ash, and he blew it smugly, eyeing me.
I rolled my eyes. I didn't really care anymore.
I looked at the white cardboard again.
There at the top was 'Soul' written, by Kid, in black permanent marker. The letters flowed beautifully, in a lovely calligraphy I was almost certain he learned from Shinigami-sama. The end result made the word perfectly symmetrical.
He took approximately an hour and half to write that. Most of the morning, gone for four letters. I twitched, just thinking about it.
Then in the middle there were two sheets of paper, with information on souls printed on it.
Kid insisted that he would write it, and I panicked.
If it took him an hour and half to wrote a four lettered word, who knew how long he'd take to write a two page essay. It ended up being a lot shorter then I thought, but still took longer then it should have.
And on the sides of the cardboard, that could flip outwardly and inwardly had pictures of a pink soul on the top and a blue soul on the right.
Both souls were different in shape, color, and size.
"Okay do you want to put decorations or something? It looks a little simple and blank." I imagined colorful marker lines on the edges of the rectangle. It would have looked rather pretty.
"No! Don't touch it! It looks perfect the way it is." Kid snatched the medium sized poster and glared at me, threateningly. I swore, I could see sparks flying from those yellow orbs.
"Well geez,don't blame ME if we get a zero on creativity." I mumbled and picked my nails, staring blankly at him.
Our teacher came in, and as usual tripped over the threshold. I glanced at Eira, who was laughing silently behind her hand. Several others were laughing more openly. Picking up the chair, Stein continued on his way, clapping his hands to gather everyone's attention.
After he got settled and all, "Class, we will be having a new student today. He's a shy type so be nice to him, understood?" Stein smirked, twisting the bolt on his head.
And right on cue a pink haired boy walked in the classroom.
His right hand clutched his left elbow, and he wore a black dress (he's a boy?), the cuffs being white and buttoned. It looked rather old fashioned, I thought. Almost like something a child from the 19th century would wear.
His shoes matched the dress he wore.
His hairstyle was a bit strange. The back was neck length, and it was all uneven and choppy. He had blunt bangs, and a few v bangs. If I didn't know better, I would have thought he was a girl. Even now, I was not entirely sure he was really a boy...
Kid would have thought 'Such asymmetrical hair!'
"Introduce yourself." Stein said eyeing the shy boy.
"M-my name is Crona. It's nice to meet you all." he didn't make eye contact with anyone.
"Please go have a seat." he took out a lighter and lit his cigarette.
I noticed Lucrezia ushering him to sit next to her. She was smiling brightly.
Ray was staring at the two in confusion, probably wondering if they knew each other.
He eyed Crona suspiciously, then got back to staring at his book. The pink haired boy seemed to blush, grey tingeing his cheeks, (odd) and went to sit down where there were few people.
Stein started talking about the project that he assigned for us, and had the people who did it go in front of the class and present it. I gulped.
When it was Kid and my turn, he took about three whole minutes to straighten out the board, so it sat on the desk perfectly. Oh man, this was going to suck. Only another five minutes, and our presentation was done, although the young Shinigami kept adjusting the posterboard in the middle of his lines.
Stein scribbled a few things on a notebook he had. It was probably the points each of us had earned for his class.
The bell rang and the class just about jumped up, rushing out for lunch time. The only time I had fun in Shibusen.
I was walking with Tatsuo, while Fuji flirted with Eira.
She looked blankly at him, not caring for a word that spilled from his mouth. I swear, I saw a vein starting to form on the weapon's forehead.
"Wonder what Crona is like. He seems nice." I told the albino, who was wearing a white hoodie, a black t-shirt under with a lightbulb on the front and pale blue jeans.
"I guess." he yawned. "I need some Dr pepper." he stretched his arms high and cracked his neck. I laughed.
"Soda isn't good for your teeth y'know." I stated eyeing him from the corner of my eye.
"Last time I checked you weren't my dentist." he laughed loudly as I gave him a dry look which broke into a smile.
"I-"
"Well that's a good thing! If he wasn't the shy type, people would've been talking about him, and he would've taken all the attention from me!" Black*Star informed Soul loudly from behind us, "I swear the dude looks messed up, I think he's mental."
I felt a chill, and looked back to see Soul's Meister, a book in hand and her emerald eyes shadowed. "Hey Maka-"
"MAKA CHOP!" Her black leather covered book slammed into the bluenette's head, the ninja hitting the floor with a slam.
"You shouldn't make fun of people Black Star. It's not nice." The Meister informed, a seemingly innocent smile on her face. It only served to creep the others out, which was probably her intention.
Soul looked lazily at Black*Star, who was clutching his aching head, and glaring at Maka.
Tsubaki was beside Maka, and scolding Black*Star silently.
Kid, Patti, and Liz would've been in the cafeteria by now.
In the creme and burgundy colored cafeteria, we, as in my friends and I, sat on a wide table that fit most of us.
Some had to squish themselves together to make room for the rest.
It was hot dog and hamburger day, and Eira, Soul, and Black*Star grabbed as many as they could on their trays. All of them seemed to be full on Foodies, which surprised me coming from Eira.
They also had different flavored soda with them.
There was mango, grape and pineapple.
I stared at my burger that was layered with lettuce, tomato and pickles.
Last time I ate a burger was the second day I met Kid and his partners, I recalled suddenly.
It only felt like yesterday. And about four months have passed and I got closer to Eira, Fuji, Tatsuo, Maka and Tsubaki.
I would usually spend time with Liz and Patti, those two had a special connection towards me, that the others didn't have.
And Kid. Those three were my first friends, and I got used to them the fastest compared to the others.
Black*Star and Fuji were laughing and joking, while Tatsuo and Tsubaki were talking about Japan.
Both of them were from there so they had a lot to talk about.
They were also talking in Japanese so I had absolutely no clue what they were saying. I simply assumed, 'cause I heard the name of the country a few times.
The cafeteria was loud, as usual. Kids were talking with their friends, either about life or school.
I was sitting next to Patti, who forced me to watch her make a giraffe with the mustard on her burger.
"Th-that's pretty good." I muttered staring at the realistic looking mustard giraffe.
How was it possible that it looked realistic, I have no idea.
She harshly slammed the top bun over the burger, with a loud scream, and held it with her two hands.
I watched in horror as she opened her mouth wide, and I swear I saw the tip of her teeth sparkle before she bit into the sandwich, like a snake would to it.
I shivered and looked away, utterly terrified. I still didn't understand that girl...!
"Hey does Lucrezia know that kid from somewhere? She seems to be enjoying his company." Maka stated as everyone went quiet, except Black*Star who was showing Soul, that he could balance a fork on his nose.
Most of us glanced to the right where Crona, Lucrezia and a jealous-looking Ray were sitting on a table.
They were talking and smiling ignoring everyone, for the exception of Ray.
"It's nice to know he has a friend." Tsubaki picked at her hot dog. "Most people who came here always were alone."
"He looked so scared when he came in the class." Liz said, pitying the pink haired boy. "And why's he wearing a dress? He should be wearing something more comfortable than that."
"Or, you know, something that a boy should actually wear." Eira added, ripping apart her burger with a vengeance.
"Ray looks jealous." Fuji pointed out, taking a gulp of his banana flavored drink.
Kid threw his fries at Patti's tray, "Absolutely disgusting! These fries aren't symmetrical at all!"
He eyed them so harshly, that I felt relieved I wasn't in their position.
"It's because they're curly fries." Tatsuo remarked smiling at the OCD boy.
He didn't mind his outbursts as did some. He said it was what made Kid, Kid.
It was his thing, and Tatsuo respected that, something that I admire from the albino.
"Yay! More fries!" Patti giggled stuffing the fried potatoes in her mouth greedily.
"Oh my god! I'm so bored!" Eira said huffing and slammed her forehead on the table. I stared at her empty tray, wondering just where she put all that food.
She covered her head with her red sleeve covered hands, and groaned.
"Don't kill yourself." I mumbled, used to the tomboy's complaints.
"Adil, we seriously have to get movies or something when we go back home. I'm sick of watching lame TV shows. They're not even funny." She yawned looking at her watch.
The amethyst and silver ring on her hand sparkled in the sunlight.
Soul yawned loudly while Black*Star was telling us his future plans of making Tsubaki a Death Scythe.
The bluenette, who was on the table story-telling ever so dramatically, a few times knocking food in our laps, stopped in mid-sentence and stared at the scene that sucked all drops of attention from him.
It was Crona, with a black and white creature that came from his back and laid on his head. Confusion filled me at the site of it. Of all the strange things I had seen here so far, that just about topped it. It didn't scare me, and I figured it was normal for a world like this one.
It wasn't big, in fact it was just slightly bigger than his head.
Students were surrounding Lucrezia's table, all gawking shocked and impressed at the thing.
I mean, seriously. Giant pigs with angel wings could crash through Shibusen walls and I wouldn't be surprised.
Maybe I'll faint and have a mini heart attack or something, but I'd still be un-surprised.
Black*Star angrily stomped his foot on the table, "Hey, HEY! Why are you looking at that freak, you should be looking at me, the one who'll transcend God!"
Soul stared at him blankly and then the students.
He was ignored and his ego was crushed.
He startled most of us by leaping to Crona's table, eyes red with fury, not literally.
We all sighed thinking the same thing.
He was going to fight Crona.
The kids that were surrounding the said table, immediately went quiet as Black*Star began pointing a finger at the frightened-looking Crona.
"Pinky, I challenge you to a fight!" He crouched to his level and glared.
"Who the heck are you, squirt?" The black thing reached over Chrona's head, punching Black*Star, who then got ticked off.
The bluenette punched it back angrily.
"What the hell is that thing! And I'm Black*Star! I'll surpass God!" he laughed that Black*Star laugh, that could never be mistaken for anything else.
"W-why do want to fight me? I didn't do anything wrong..." we heard the pink haired boy murmur. I felt a bit bad for him, actually.
"Black*Star, just back away from him. You don't have to fight every new student, y'know." Lucrezia said, irked by his actions, and glaring at the bluenette.
"I disagree, I think Black*Star SHOULD fight him. Let's all see what he's capable of." Ray glared at Crona while everyone else stared at him in mild shock.
"Man, Ray. I guess you aren't a loser after all. After this, you'll get my autograph!" He walked at the end of the table, and jumped on the floor.
"Come on, Crona. Are you afraid?" Black Star smirked as Crona got up.
"Should we go get the idiot?" Eira lazily munched on her fries.
"I agree with Ray, I wanna see what exactly Crona can do. And that thing on his back, what is that?" Maka stood up, leaving her tray on the table.
"This is so uncool." Soul murmured as the rest stood up, leaving him behind.
"Come on Soul!" Maka yelled.
He sighed and stood up, hands in his brown pants pockets, and hunched a bit, giving him this cool stature.
Not a lot of kids came, maybe two or three, excluding us.
We ran into Sid while going outside and he agreed to be the proctor.
The wind blew wildly, getting our hair in our eyes.
"No weapons?" Sid asked.
"Nope." Black*Star grinned.
Crona looked really nervous, he held his left elbow with his right hand, and kept his head down, not looking at Black*Star.
"Well if you're just gonna stand there looking messed up," Black*Star smirked, seeming to disappear, coming into vision just before punching Crona in the gut. I heard the impact from where I stood. Didn't sound pretty. "Then I'll go first."
The pink haired boy stumbled back, and got up quickly.
He backed away from Black*Star, looking utterly terrified.
"Dude seriously what's up with you?" Black*Star asked, before he lunged at him again.
"Dammit, Crona! Get it together!" The black human-like shape formed from Crona's back, barking out his order.
As Black*Star aimed a punch at Crona, he ducked, the black creature catching it and began pummeling his head.
He backed away shocked, rubbing his head where the thing's fists had hit. It couldn't have had that much strength, could it? "If we're gonna fight let that mutant of yours shut up and disappear!"
From the sidelines we stared at the fight also confused.
"Lucrezia, do you know that boy?" Tsubaki asked.
Some of us looked at her and glanced back at us momentarily then looked at fight.
"He's my adopted brother."
We stared at her shocked, "You never told me about him!" Ray pouted angrily.
"So if he's your adopted brother, where was he all the time?" Ray pointed out.
She sighed, "He was living with my father before I came here. I came to Shibusen before him because due to the incident if my mother, who was killed by a witch, I came here to be a meister. So I could protect Crona and my father. I met Crona about three years ago. His parents were also killed by a witch so my father took him in."
There was something strange in her eyes as she said that, something I couldn't quite tell.
"Oh, poor Crona." Maka said gazing at him.
Lucrezia kept staring at the gift blankly, not looking back to us.
"So what's that thing on his back?" Soul calmly asked, a bit rudely too. Maka glared at him, and I was a bit glad that she didn't have her book on her.
"That thing is Ragnarok. The witch that killed his parents experimented on him, before my father found him. We still didn't know how the witch did it. Not even Crona knows. He doesn't like talking about it, so don't bring it up." She said, bitterness coloring her voice.
"Hey, Sid that's not fair! He's using that mutant to block my attacks!" Black Star growled pointing his finger at Ragnarok, who was blowing raspberries at him.
Sid, who also heard what Lucrezia said, sighed.
"Crona if you can, don't let Ragnarok interfere."
"I-I'm sorry."
"What's there to be sorry about Crona!" Ragnarok twisted Crona's nose and squished his cheeks together, squeals coming from the young Meister's mouth.
"Agh, stop it! Why do you keep hitting me! I don't like it, please stop! I don't know how to deal with it!" Crona tried moving Ragnarok, but he kept coming back.
Black Star was angered by Ragnarok, since he kept interrupting his fight.
He ran towards Crona and jumped. He threw a strong kick to Ragnarok's face.
The force made Crona fall backwards, a sickening crack echoing across the courtyard as the black thing hit the pavement first. At least it wasn't Crona.
"That's it!" Ragnarok screeched.
He disappeared and a sword appeared in Crona's hand.
"Hey! We said no weapons!" Black*Star glared.
"I'm sorry! Ragnarok please stop this!" The sword was like a magnet that was pushing Crona forward to Black*Star.
The sword was swiping at Black*Star.
The bluenette dodged quickly, but got a cut on his cheek.
"Okay okay that's enough." Sid tried breaking up the fight, but Black*Star ignored him, going for the pink-haired youth again. The teacher's eyes gleamed with an inner light, and he spun around, punching the ninja straight in the cheek. The Meister flew back, knocked out. Sid ignored the yells coming from the small crowd, and ushered Crona to follow him. "We're going to the Death Room, I'm sure Shingami-sama wants to hear about this."
Lucrezia followed them leaving an annoyed Ray.
"What's so special about him!" Ray growled. Me and the others walked over to where our blue-haired friend landed, and it seemed he was coming around.
Black*Star looked to us, glaring at nothing in particular.
"I officially hate that guy."
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A very special thanks to Purple-Eyed devil , for editing this chapter. Without her this chapter would have been crap. So thank you so much!
You can tell there is a difference right, its more detailed, and it has emotion! EMOTION!
LOL OKAY,
Eira belongs to Purple-Eyed Devil
Tatsuo belongs to KittyAttack
Lucrezia belongs to Digimon Dreamer
The story,Adil, Fuji and Ray belong to me.
Everything else belongs to Atsushi Okubo
Digimon Dreamer
Yessss xD
Purple-Eyed Devil
Lol , thats good! i got her personality right :D
KingofHeartless'09
Yeah, its great!
ipokeyouroar-
lol thanks, i cant wait to see it!
AnimeGirl1220
Thanks xD
KittyAttack
LOL its a drug xP
Ive been wanting to learn french, german, polish or some language that uses the english alphabet.
before i met u, i didnt no which one. now i know xP
Yeah can u pm me the basic, or just watever u no, like hi, bye, that stuff :)
Ive been taking Japanese for about 4 years, and i can read , write and speak it, but i wanna learn another language, for fun :)
Next chapter will be juisy lmao, no srsly.
I listened to the song "Uninstall" by Ishikawa Chiaki, listen to it, its soooooooo awesome!