"I'm open, I'm open!"
The sound of a ball dribbling was heard, and hollers of friends that were playing basketball. It was another slow day, it seemed, and a good old game of basket ball had been decided upon by my friends, despite me never playing it before.
It was another sunny day in Death City, dry, hot, and seemingly without a care.
Kids were playing, parents were working.
Everything was... Normal.
It was about four thirty PM, and in an hour, the sun would set on the desert city, casting everything in shadows. That gave us just enough time for another game before it became too dark to play. The entire thing was reminiscent of childhood summers, running around outside until they couldn't see anymore. It was a nice feeling, after the tension before.
"Yeah! Three to one!" Maka grinned high-giving her teammates, Liz, Tsubaki, Soul, Fuji and I. Our team was leading, and Maka was proud of her team, as evident by the huge grin on her face. It was infectious.
The other team consisted of Patti, Kid, Tatsuo, Black Star, Eira and Crona, who was invited to play. We thought it would be a good experience for him, get him to open up a bit to the others. We were trying our hardest to include him in our group, the same way the others included me when I arrived so long ago.
Lucrezia was busy doing something, Crona had said with a nervous sounding half-laugh. As always, he didn't meet anyone's eyes as he spoke.
And we couldn't find Ray anywhere, so we just got on with the game. We'd have enough fun without them, anyway.
Currently, Maka's team had three points, while Kid's team had one.
I shielded my eyes with my hand from the cackling Sun's rays, the first traces of fatigue on the giant ball's features. I found it a bit funny that even the sun got tired. It was such an odd thing, so different from the sun back on Earth.
"Crap, I need a drink. Time out?" Eira suddenly suggested, using the top of her shirt to remove some of the sweat from her face. Despite loosing, she was having a blast, that same focused look in her eyes that I normally only saw in battle.
Everyone else agreed that now was a good time for a break, since we've been playing for ten minutes.
"Damn Maka, you sure learn fast." Her weapon informed her drinking from a water bottle, drops falling onto his black wife beater.
He smirked at the girl who was handing out water bottles from a cooler they had bought. And man, was it needed. Earlier, Fuji had stuck his head directly into the cooler's ice to cool off his face a bit, only to come up yelping when Eira shoved his head further in.
The green-eyes Meister grinned smugly in triumph, "Well it isn't as hard as I thought it would be. Of course I can't get pass Patti, Black Star and Tatsuo, since they're the fastest but that's what team work is all about. Right, guys?"
Patti and Tatsuo smiled, sitting randomly in the basketball court, a freezing water bottle in hand.
They were both wearing black shorts. Patti wore a red spaghetti strap top and Tatsuo wore a dark platinum tee.
Black Star looked at us from the corner of his eyes, seated beside the bench, his right arm, which was bandaged at the knuckles and wrist, rested on it while his other one held a bottle lazily. One of his legs was against his chest while the other laid on the ground.
He didn't even smirk smugly or smile.
Or even flatter himself. Which was weirder than anything I had seen him do lately. Did he just not do well in heat? That didn't make sense... The school was in the middle of a desert. But then why was he acting so strange? It didn't add up.
"Hey Crona, do you like playing? Is it fun?" Fuji, who was wearing dark green shorts and a white long sleeved shirt (crazy), asked the black jumpsuit-wearing boy.
He smiled shyly and nodded, "It is a bit hard... but... it's fun."
Ragnarok didn't interrupt the entire time, which relieved us all.
Maka laughed sitting by Crona, who smiled sweetly at her. She began telling him of stories of her playing basketball for the first time, and messing up.
Liz was muttering something about taking a shower after the game, while Eira sat bored staring up at the cloudless sky. It was an odd quirk of hers. She hated clear skies. Said they bored her.
But... She didn't have much sleep, I could tell. That sort of thing came from being so close to someone.
At least she had her coffee in the morning. She was scary without her coffee.
"My legs are so sore." I whined rubbing my said blue jeans covered limbs.
"You didn't listen when I told you to stretch before the game." Kid replied smugly, taking a bite out of his apple. Ooh, I hated it when he was right.
I groaned and yawned, stretching my hands up towards the blue sky.
"It's no fun playing without punishments." Soul stated, grinning at the memories likely playing though his head.
Maka shuddered glaring at him while most of us laughed.
"Toss me a bottle, would ya?" Tatsuo commanded, politely.
He was talking to the closest one near the cooler. And that was the blue haired, scowling ninja.
Black Star had a frown on his face, while opening the cooler with one hand and tossing it to the albino, without ever looking away from the other boy's blue eyes.
It was quiet for a few moments until the grey tank top wearing assassin stood up, "Let's finish the game." his voice was monotone, something else unusual about him. If Black Star was anything, he was colorful. I couldn't fathom him anything different, yet here he was.
He walked in the center of the court, and bent to get the ball.
As he was waiting he shot the ball in the basket repeatedly. That accuracy scared me a bit... Normally, he would be bragging about his skills, and then failing epically.
I noticed some of my friends stare at one another in confusion.
They noticed the change in him too.
The mint green hoodie and black jeans wearing weapon and stood up first, walking towards her meister.
"All right come on guys, we're gonna win!" Maka jumped enthusiastically, while Black Star gave her a cold stare that was unnoticed by most of us.
The players for each team were crouched by their basket while the two captains, Kid and Maka, were in the middle.
"Three, two, one." Kid threw the ball in the air, and from our view, it covered the sun like an eclipse, before flying back down. I was tempted to make a comment on how much it was like a cheesy movie, but bit my tongue.
Maka, who had a happy grin on her face, got the ball first and threw it to Liz, who the closest in range.
The pink t-shirt wearing girl smirked as her symmetry obsessed meister turned around and waited for an opening to steal the ball. She didn't give him a single opening.
She dribbled it fast, and her eyes darted in every direction, as if it were a battlefield, and she was fighting for her life.
Her smirk grew as she noticed Soul near our opponent's basket, staring at her with his own smirk while he prepared himself.
The had an advantage for being tall, and she threw the dark orange ball towards the ready Soul.
As he felt the said ball on his finger tips, he ducked as the other team's players tried to grab it with their own hands.
He ran towards the basket a wide smile on his face, and threw the ball on the square of the platform. My heart caught in my throat in anticipation, willing it to go in.
It rolled on the hoop several seconds before it went down with a 'swoosh' and slammed to the ground, hopping.
Our team cheered and ran to defend our basket.
Black Star had the ball in his hands, dribbling it and eyeing us with his lime green eyes.
Fuji and Tsubaki were on each of his sides, waiting to steal the ball, and he eyed them cautiously.
He jerked forward as Fuji's hand stretched out, then twisted as his weapon tried doing the same, preventing either of them from stealing the ball. I had to admit, he was good.
He ran past some of his teammates, who were trying to get him to throw the ball to them, shouting as he whizzed past.
He ignored them and with a concentrated face he dodged Maka, Soul, and I and jumped to make the score.
Liz, luckily slapped the ball away from our basket just in time, and it flew over to their side if the court.
Patti cheered for her sister, even though she was in the opposing team, while the rest of his team glared at him.
"Why the hell didn't you pass the ball? We could have made it!" Eira roared crossing her arms above her burgundy halter top, fury evident in her eyes. It was clear she didn't like loosing because of someone else.
"Black Star, you can't just play, thinking you're the only one on the team. That's the point of teamwork." Kid sighed rubbing his temples, trying to stem an oncoming headache.
Tatsuo was by them, eyeing the angry boy with annoyed eyes.
Crona and Patti were on the sidelines, not involved in the bickering. I couldn't blame them, honestly. With Eira and Black Star involved, anyone could easily get pulled into the fray.
"You guys are too slow, we wouldn't have even gotten a score if I passed it yo you anyway!" the blunette seethed, eyeing his three teammates with pure hatred in his green eyes.
"Kid, you should seriously kick this idiot out if the game, he's acting like such a brat." Eira scowled at the blue haired boy, regarding him with contempt.
I sighed dramatically as Maka, Soul, and Tsubaki walked over to the group, to break up the verbal battlefield.
What a way to ruin the game.
"Hey hey, calm down!" Tsubaki tried reasoning with her friends, holding her hands in front of her in a sign of peace. Even I could sense the tension in the air between my Weapon and her Meister.
Tatsuo walked away, not wanting to get involved. He stood by Patti, Crona, Fuji and I, on the sidelines watching the fight.
"It's getting ugly." Fuji remarked serious, for once.
Crona had an upset look on his face, that his friends were fighting.
My eyes widened when I heard screaming. I looked up immediately, where the group was.
Black Star had punched Kid, who was holding his hands in an 'X' above his face, protecting it from any other blow the blue haired boy was giving.
Tsubaki tried grabbing her meister's shoulder at the same time Eira stood in front of Kid to assist him, and tried calming him down, but he rolled his shoulder to throw her hand off.
Soul stepped in the middle, a hand extended in each one's direction as if he were repairing himself to stop them both. "Hey hey! Don't get into fights now, that ain't cool at all! It's just a game, okay?" he yelled at the two who were having a glaring match, my weapon growling low in her throat.
"Kid, ignore him." Liz spat venomously, obviously on her meister's side.
"Black Star, just calm down." Tsubaki told her meister who sneered at her.
Tsubaki was taken aback, not used to Black Star's behavior.
Maka looked at everyone, unsure of the whole thing.
He turned away, and walked over to the ball muttering "Whatever."
"Let's...just continue, all right guys?" Maka stepped in, trying to ease the suddenly tense mood of the group.
Kid sighed, and the game continued.
He and Maka were in the middle again, and the ball was thrown upwards, then came down in Maka's hands.
She dribbled it down the court, a triumphant grin on her face.
Kid's teammates were beside her, and she suddenly looked nervous, looking around for any of us to throw to.
Luckily I was the closest, and she moved quickly and threw the ball towards me.
I mentally sighed. I hated having the ball, it felt like everyone was going to chase and kill me. Which, with my friends, that was actually likely. Especially if they were feeling competitive.
I clutched it in my ready hands and passed it to Liz, as Patti tried grabbing it, failing thankfully.
Liz threw it to Fuji who was near the basket.
Before he could catch it, Tatsuo's pale hands grabbed it, and he ran the opposite direction, towards our basket.
Eira sighed agitated, that she had to keep moving from place to place, end to end.
Some of the players on my team got defensive as he came, others tried stealing it.
He looked around frantically for his teammates.
His eyes landed on mine, and I smirked inwardly. I ran to go help steal the basketball from his hands.
As soon as I reached him, it went flying past my head either to Black Star or Eira, and my hand subconsciously flew upwards at a weird angle and caught it. I still didn't register what was going on at the moment, until I saw Kid and Eira running to me.
"I'm open, I'm open!" My captain said from behind me.
I ran past Crona, and threw it to Maka.
Patti ran to her immediately and the ball came back to me.
I blinked, everything going too fast for me, "Shoot! Shoot!" Soul barked, sounding so far off.
I gawked as I saw the opponent's team running to me, like a stampede of wild buffalo. Oh god.
I scrambled to get into a right position and aim.
Everything afterwards felt like slow motion.
The noise stopped.
A tan hand grabbed my wrist, and the person tried to slap the ball away.
I shoved the person with my free hand, and they let go of my basketball held hand.
It hit the platform and dropped through the net.
Then it felt like everything went back to normal.
All I heard was my team shout in joy, since we won. Five scores and the team wins.
There were sighs of anger from the other team.
I looked down at the person who tried the dirty trick, and was surprised to see Black Star on the floor, gritting his teeth angrily.
Veins were visible on his arms and forehead, and his eyes held so much anger.
I blinked confused and awkwardly backed away a step.
I let out a small gasp and my eyes widened, when he stood up, gripping the collar of my orange colored t-shirt. Several shouts echoed from the others, the loudest of which coming from Eira and Maka.
I clutched his hand, trying to loosen it, while staring at his furious filled green eyes.
"That didn't count! You pushed me, you little bitch!"
"You're the one who was playing unfair, jerk!" I roared, kicking him in the gut.
He got even more pissed than I thought was ever possible for him. To be honest, the look in his eyes scared the living daylights out of me.
Well... That little display caught everyone's attention.
Soul, Eira and Tsubaki all ran towards us, all of them angry.
A sickening crack broke the silence, and I went flying back, hitting the street light's pole. Pain blossomed from where I hit, and I saw stars. Being a Meister, I got hurt a lot, but despite popular belief, repeated pain did not make you used to it.
"Black Star!" Tsubaki yelled, shock coloring her panicked voice.
He was standing in the same spot, his eyes shooting daggers at me. That same sneer was still on his face, like he was looking down on some insect. Slowly and surely, an insane smirk replaced it, dark flames burning in his eyes. I had never, ever seen anything like it before.
I glared at him clutching my mouth, where he had punched me.
"You bas-" my eyes widened, and I cringed at the pain in my mouth.
Tatsuo came to my side, and glared at the blood that dripped constantly from my lips.
"Open your mouth." he ordered.
I complied, and he sighed as if he was correct about something.
I looked at him confused, and he scowled while closing his eyes, "Some of your teeth are broken."
Eira shoved Black Star back, furiously cursing him, swears ranging from English, to Spanish, to Japanese, and even some languages I couldn't place. I honestly didn't know she was that lingual.
He yelled back, just as pissed as she was.
Tsubaki, Soul, Maka and Kid were trying to stop the verbal fight.
Fuji looked annoyed at the whole situation.
Liz who was next to her sister gave an exasperated sigh.
"Patti. Transform." she growled.
"Alrighty!"
The ceaseless noise stopped as two loud cracks echoed through the air, all eyes turning towards the Thompson girl, who was holding up her smoking sister.
"We done yelling here? Everyone going to listen up? Yes? Good."
We all turned to Liz who looked furiously at Black Star and Eira.
"Calm down, we don't wanna kill each other over some stupid game of basketball. And Black Star you didn't have to punch her!" She spat furiously at the younger boy, who didn't even look sorry for his actions. Eira snarled loudly at the boy upon seeing this.
The blunette snorted and looked back at me, grinning that insane smile.
He walked away, and stopped right before turning a corner.
We all stared at his back, and he chuckled a bit, darkly, "You're all so stupid, y'know that?" And with that, he disappeared into the swiftly darkening city.
A guttural yell burst from my Weapon's mouth, "Get back here you piece of shi-"
"No! Don't! I'll go talk to him!" Soul said.
Kid, Fuji and Tatsuo all followed him.
It was then I noticed Crona wasn't there anymore.
Where was he?
Out if frustration, Eira slammed her steel toed boots on one of the benches, the sound echoing through the court like the pair of gunshots heard earlier.
The wood cracked and splinters and chinks fell on the cement floor, the auburn teen just about demolishing it with that one blow.
I got up, covering my still bleeding mouth and walked over to them.
Maka checked on me and said what Tatsuo had, lips pressed into a fine line while her brows gathered over her brow, a sign of worry.
About three of my teeth were dislodged horribly, one of them almost coming loose. That was bad.
She gave me a bottle if water and told me to go rinse out my mouth by the grass.
I did as I was told and listened to the conversation that the others girls had.
"I swear I'll rip out his spine, and lash him with it when I see him again!" a growl came from Eira's gritted teeth, feral and unnatural. It was in her nature to be protective of her friends, but I had not seen her like this.
"What the hell is his problem anyway?" Liz asked confused.
"He's not acting like he usually does? What's up with him?" Maka asked Tsubaki who looked so frustrated.
Patti was quietly patting my back as I accidentally choked on the water and blood. I crouched and gagged, disgusted as my teeth wiggled in their sockets.
"That's not Black Star." Tsubaki said quietly, but somehow, all of us heard her.
"Huh?" Liz and Maka asked simultaneously.
"It isn't him! I know it's not!" Panic filled the normally strong weapon as tears formed in her dark eyes, clinging to her lashes.
"Tsubaki, how..." I started, unsure of what to say.
"Ever since yesterday he's been so aggressive. Yesterday night, got into a fit when I asked him to turn down the volume of the TV. He even smashed a mirror, earning him those bandages." More tears fell from her eyes, sobs wracking the pained girl's slender frame. Guilt instantly overtook me, dark thoughts threatening the edges of my mind. I couldn't help her, just like I couldn't help-
"He hasn't been acting like himself! That person . Is . NOT . Black Star !" Tsubaki finally yelled out, cutting off my train of thought before it even started. The girl collapsed to her hands and knees, salty drops falling like rain from her eyes.
We all stared at her bewildered, and the remote cries if an owl made us all shiver in fear.
If that wasn't Black Star... Then who was he?
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It was about nine pm and everybody settled home.
Eira took Adil to the hospital so her teeth would be fixed, cussing all the way, while Liz and Patti went home, walking with Tsubaki until they couldn't anymore.
When the black haired girl came back she found Black Star sitting on the couch of their home watching tv, arms dangling over the arms of the couch and a bored expression on his face.
He didn't even acknowledge her presence, a jarring emotion that made the earlier feelings of sadness resurface. Pushing them down, the lady went about her buisness, without Black Star's antics to cheer her up. It was a lonely thing.
She sighed as she was in the kitchen a few minutes later, dressed in her pajamas, ready to complete her nightly rituals. A headache buzzed behind her eyes, making the teen rub them to try and rid herself of the slight pain.
On the stove, the teapot whistled merrily, as the water inside boiled.
With half lidded eyes and the buzzing in her head, she poured the green tea in her mug.
Steam swirled in the air before dissappearing.
A knock on the door made her raise her head, saying without thinking, "Black Star! Answer it, please."
The said boy, who was still in the living room unlocked the wooden door and opened it.
Who ever it was on the door made the ninja's face split into a feral grin, one that would put the Cheshire cat to shame.
He walked to the kitchen and stood by the doorway, the same dark grin on his lips, the kitchen light only half-illuminating the boy's face.
"It's for you..." it was barely a whisper, and the tone he used made her skin crawl.
She stared at him, mildly suspicious, an stood up, the chair screeching on the floor in the process.
Mug in hand, she walked past Black Star, whose eyes seemed to never look away from her.
She ignored the demented grin on his face, and he walked past her to the door, waiting for her.
She eyed him suspiciously before creaking open the door.
Her dark indigo eyes widened, and her fingers went numb.
The mug fell on the ground, cracking into several different pieces, and the boiling liquid splashed on her bare feet.
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