Sorry to have made you all sad! But it's almost over I promise my lovely readers! On with the story!
Again I was listening Valshe's version of Soundless Voice (originally by Len Kagamine) on loop while writing this to motivate the emotion of this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater
Memories Forever Cherished
Toshio's POV
I stared at Kat's lifeless body as she lay in the snow. It was so incredibly hard to believe that this was the spirited, feisty girl who was fighting just a little while ago . . . Memories and images of her flashed into my mind, her soundless voice as she spoke but her motions and emotions expressed exactly what she was saying. I gently reached out, rested my hand under her head and held her in my arms. The snow kissed her peaceful face before melting into droplets and evaporating into the air. I only stared at my beloved meister's silent form. I couldn't contain my emotions anymore and screamed loudly with tears pouring from my eyes. I hugged her tightly and cried, my body trembling as I did so and my white hair hanging over my face. She was gone . . . the love of my life was gone forever. The memory of when Tomi and I first saw her in Darkness' grasp flooded to my mind and then the memory when she first beat me up when she woke up at our house. It was so hard to believe that that very feisty girl was lying in my arms. Words could not express the pain I was enduring. I remember that night on the balcony when we watched the snow fall. I raised my green eyes to the cloudy sky, "Why must you take away those I love!" I screamed to the falling white flakes as tears continued to pour down my face, "You take my parents and now the love of my life!" I bowed my head and sniffled then looked at her face, "Please, Kat . . . 'If possible, just one more time, let me hear your voice . . . call out my name.'" (A/N Quote from Soundless Voice) However, she did not reply she only lay in my arms with that peaceful look on her face.
I remembered her on Christmas when she threw that concert. She loved to sing . . . she had the voice of an angel . . . and I would never hear it again . . . Then I remembered when I died for her . . . her crying over my body then I recalled when I woke up and later found out Kat brought me back. She sacrificed her stripe therefore making it easier for Darkness to consume her soul but that never happened in the very end of it all. The memory of when she kissed me came to mind and I cried even more when I recalled her adorable, smiling form. Kat was such a wonderful person, inside and out. She was wrongly judged by Angel and called the Angel of Death. She was a Shinigami but she was also an angel. An angel that everyone loved, her heart was pure and she would do anything for us and she knew we'd do the same. Finally, I calmed down but tears remained in my eyes, I gently placed her back on the snow covered ground and smiled down at her. Sleep well my darling. Closing my eyes, I stood and comforted my brother who was crying into his arm, his hair hiding his face and his fists were clenched; Kat meant just the same to him as she did me. She had stolen his heart with her smile and had made instant friends with him; of course there were some knots to untangle for that to have happened. She knew she could trust us, her weapon partners, with her life and we knew we could do the same.
Everyone calmed down but sniffles were still heard and tears were still shed, Kid approached his sister and took her in his arms, her head rested against his chest. It hurt me so much to see them. They loved each other so much. From what I've heard they did everything with each other as kids and that one rainy day changed everything. I knew Kid still regretted what he did with all of his heart despite that the damage was fixed; the damage still existed in their hearts even so. Maka took out her mirror, fogged the glass and dialed the number. "There you all are! Kiddo! Stein has been looking everywhere for you and Kat when he didn't see you in the chamber! Where did you disappear to?" Lord Death's cherry voice really was not what we needed but he didn't know what happened, Maka stared down at the mirror,
"Sir? Could you please teleport us to the Death Room?"
"Hm? What's wrong, Maka~? Why do you all look so down in the dumps~?"
"You'll see why." She replied as her bangs hid her face,
"Alright." The Shinigami replied gravely and hung up then a portal appeared in front of us. Slowly, we walked in, one comforting another.
When we all were standing on the white platform Lord Death stiffened at the sight of Kat's lifeless body. "Kat . . ."
"She insisted we kill her." Kid replied, his hair hiding one of his eyes as he stared sadly at the floor, "She . . . told me to shoot her and I did after much protest . . . then she told Tomi to end her suffering with Toshio." I clenched my teeth at the memory of my beloved's blood trickling around my blade. Lord Death bowed his head,
"I see . . . may I see her?" Kid handed her over without objection and it broke my heart even more, if possible, to see the elder Shinigami holding his daughter close to his tall black body. He had lost her once and now he had lost her again forever. Lord Death looked down at his resting daughter and removed a strand of her black hair from her face, "Sleep well, Kat, I'll see you in the morning." His voice cracked a little but he fought to keep it strong as Spirit, Stein and the rest of us were around. The Death Scythe and professor bowed their heads in respect. "Say hi to your mother for me." Lord Death concluded then straightened up, "I will close the academy for her wake." We all nodded and Maka, Soul, Black*Star, and Tsubaki headed out while Kid, the sisters, my brother, and I remained behind to grieve together as a family.
Kat's POV
I wore a black miniskirt and sailor shirt and sadly stood there in the Realm of Darkness; I opened my eyes half-way in sadness and raised a lightly clenched fist to my heart. It hurt so much . . . seeing everyone grieving over me as I was dying . . . onii-chan even more. I closed my eyes. It was the only way to end my long endured suffering and theirs as well: their suffering of seeing me slowly rot away while Darkness consumed more and more of my soul and being. In the very end it was all for the very best. I opened my eyes and solemnly, slowly approached the white doors that lead to Paradise. And I knew who would be waiting there and I was right: Angel, my other self.
Toshio's POV
We all wore black as we stood in the church where my own wake was, we all had paid our respects and had gathered together to grieve, remember, and comfort each other. Then the very priest I had seen that night saw me and approached me. "Say, aren't you that fellow who was resurrected by the will of God's angels?" I looked at him,
"Yes that's right."
"Why have you returned, whose event is this? I have just returned from a retreat so I am not aware." I looked ahead solemnly,
"My meister's . . . Kat . . . Lord Death's one and only cherished daughter." He was silent for a brief moment,
"May I see her where she sleeps?" I nodded and guided him to Kat's coffin. There she lay on a bed of white roses; her hands were clasped on her abdomen. She wore black knee-high socks, a black miniskirt, and a long-sleeved black shirt with white cuffs and a sailor flap with thin white lines, a white undershirt was revealed as well. The priest looked at her and kissed her cold cheek, "Sleep in peace, Miss Kat, may the angels welcome you in the wondrous world of Paradise." I bowed my head. Sadly she won't be . . . because of her other self . . .
Kid's POV
I sat in a pew, bent over and my head bowed while my hands were clasped in prayer to my sister and the angels to welcome her. Then suddenly hands on my shoulders made me jump and look up to see a woman in a dark grey cloak smiling at me kindly. The hood had covered her face but a twisted braid of her light brown hair draped over her shoulder. She handed me a black rose and I gasped with wide eyes. The woman continued to smile kindly and lovingly at me, she cupped my check for a few moments and then straightened up and slowly walked to the door. I looked at the rose in my hand after a moment. Who was she? Why did she give me this rose? Then I gasped and stood up quickly and ran out the double doors and looked around for the woman. I didn't see her but only caught a glimpse of the breeze blowing a cloud of white feathers and petals into the clearing sky. A single tear escaped my golden eyes and I smiled at the sky which was now cloudless and revealing the shining sun. "Thanks, Mom." I watched the cloud vanish into the sky then bowed my head and closed my eyes briefly before reentering the church and approaching my sister's side. I knew what I had to do, why Mother gave me the rose. I knelt next to her casket and placed the black rose on her chest, clasped my hands together, bowed my head and closed my eyes.
Normal POV
A bell-like sound chimed as a white halo surrounded his body and a breeze made his bangs levitate. Then the black rose floated into the air and a faint white glow surrounded its bulb, Kid's top white stripe slithered out of his bangs as if it were intertwined in them and floated to the flower before wrapping around and absorbing into its petals turning them white. The petals then burst from the stem as another bell-like sound rang then they disappeared into the air above Kat's body.
Kat's POV
I stared at Angel, her deep sea green eyes met my golden ones and her long white hair framed her porcelain white face. We stared at each other in complete silence for a while then she broke it: "So . . . you've finally passed away and have come to enter the gates of Paradise." I blinked,
"That's right."
"Well I am sorry but I cannot allow that." I gasped,
"What? Why?" Her gaze hardened as she now glared at me seriously,
"Because like I've mentioned before, you are the Angel of Death and you belong in the Realm of Death." My eyes were wide, "Sorry to break it to you, Kat." She said, "There's already a part of you that belongs in the gates of Paradise and that is me, there is no reason for the Angel of Death to enter Paradise when she belongs in the Realm of Death." I stared in disbelief and my heart hurt even more then I closed my eyes half-way in sadness. Then another being joined Angel and when I looked up my eyes widened in surprise.
"Mommy." I murmured, she only smiled lovingly at me and tears began to pour down my face, "Mommy!" I ran to her, crying, but it was like an invisible wall kept me from going through the gates. She kept smiling at me, me, her only daughter who had lost her at the age of seven on that fateful rainy day. My hands pressed on the invisible wall and she met them. I was too consumed by emotion to notice white petals drifting down from a white light above in the darkness. My beloved mother smiled at me then a glow came between one of our hands. The petals swirled around me and began to lift me up to the light while I cried loudly and reached out to my mother with one hand while the other was closed around something. There she stood, my mother, waving to me with a melancholy smile on her shining face. Then before I knew it, a blinding white light overcame me.
I gasped and shot up, I felt something in my hand and looked down and when I opened it I gasped. It was a sakura flower. The memory of that day came to me when I was with my mother for the last time before she died.
Normal POV
Kat's mother smiled faintly and with as much strength her body withheld, she closed her eyes and summoned two sakura flowers that attached to the front two locks of Kat's hair. The weak woman smiled,
"There you are . . . as pretty as a sakura flower . . . they look so nice . . . with that kimono." Kat's eyes drifted to her hair accessories then to her mother,
"Thank you, Mommy, they're beautiful." She smiled an innocent smile, "But not as beautiful as you." Cynthia smiled,
"Thank you, dear. How sweet of you." She stared lovingly at her daughter.
Kat's POV
I was crying again, huge tears escaping my golden eyes as I stared down at the precious flower that lay in the palms of my hands. "Mommy. . . ." I sniffled.
"Kat." Said a quiet voice and I gasped, my eyes widened and the last tears remained in them, I turned my head and saw Kid standing next to me, a loving smile on his face, and only two stripes in his hair. I looked at my hands. I'm alive . . . I looked around and saw that I was in the church Toshio was for his wake, everyone was standing in clumps, grieving me, their eyes wide in disbelief.
"Wait . . . is that Kat?"
"Why is she . . . ?"
"Wait, look! Kid-kun has only two stripes just like Kat does!"
"Could it be . . . that Kid used his stripe in exchange for Kat's life? But if that's the case . . . his power is decreased significantly now!"
"And if Kid used his stripe to bring back Kat . . . then Kat used her stripe to bring Toshio back! That's the only answer that makes more sense than Toshio's of an angel bringing him back!" More murmurs arose but that didn't matter to me as I continued to stare at my brother and he continued to smile lovingly at me. A single tear trickled down my face from my wide golden eyes; I couldn't contain my emotions any longer and then threw myself forward and into Kid's arms. He hugged me tightly as I cried on his shoulder,
"Onii-chan . . . onii-chan!" He tightened his hug,
"Sh, sh . . . I'm here, Kat. . . My beloved sister." I pulled away and he smiled down at me then used his thumb to wipe my tears, "Onii-chan," I sniffled, "your stripe . . . you brought me back?" I smiled amongst my tears.
"Of course I did." He smiled then kissed my forehead, "You're my sister, Kat, and I was not about to lose you again . . . forever." I sniffled again and laughed then hugged him again tightly,
"I love you, onii-chan."
"I love you too, Kat, and I always will, remember that." I pulled away and beamed up at him with happy tears in my eyes.
"I got it memorized~!" (1) He smiled at me and I giggled then gasped when I saw a white-haired boy, I stepped away from my brother and stared at him, he stared at me with tears in his eyes and I ran to him smiling, "Tomi!" He embraced me tightly and picked me up,
"Kat! Kat!" I tightened my embrace then pulled back and he placed me down gently, I wiped his tears and he gently held that hand as he cried,
"Hey, hey. I'm here, you're gonna be fine. I'm not going anywhere." He hugged me again tightly, and I closed my eyes as I returned it, "I'll always be with you, you are my partner after all." He laughed while tears trickled down his face. We stayed like that for a few more moments then pulled away. I beamed up at him lovingly; he was one of my best friends and it hurt me so much to see him this way. I knew how much I meant to him and knew how hard it was for him to kill me. He rubbed my head, messing up my hair doing so. I playful hit him with a giggle and fixed my jet black hair. He smiled down at me then stepped to the side and the person I saw made me freeze up: Toshio.
We stared at each other with wide-eyes and speechless faces. We stood there like that for a moment then a tear escaped my eye and I threw myself into his open arms. He hugged me tightly and began to cry, we both were for a while as we hugged each other. Everyone's eyes were on us but I didn't care. The rest of my friends were crying happily together. I pulled away and stared up into Toshio's moist, light lime green eyes, "Kat." He said shakily as he smiled, tears continued to stream down his face. Tears kept coming from my own eyes, I wrapped my arms around his neck and stood on my tip toes and kissed him and he returned it gently.
Normal POV
A sole sakura flower stood out as it lay amongst a sea of white roses; a single joyful tear started a cascade of happy droplets, and a lifetime of memories forever cherished in everyone's hearts.
(1) KH reference again! I do not own it.
OH MY GOD MORE TEARS! BUT THIS TIME OF HAPPINESS! That's it! I won't make you guys cry anymore! But this is a very emotion-jerking fanfic and I am so ecstatic that you've all enjoyed, endured, and stuck with it for all this time, thank you all so much! I love you all! –heart- Only one or two more chapters left and then this fanfic is finished! Thank you all again for sticking with it for this long! See you all next time! :D