Chapter 1: The New Student
5 Weeks Later
Soul and Maka where sitting in class Crescent Moon, waiting for the class to begin. The students where filing into the class ready to start there lesson. The bell rang to start the day, but there was no sign of Stein. The students began talking amongst themselves as they waited for the arrival of Professor Stein.
"Hey Maka, where's Stein? It's not like him to be missing like this." Soul questioned.
"I don't know but he should've been here by now. I hope he gets here soon." Maka replied,
"huh, whatever, this is so uncool." Soul stated.
"Perhaps Stein got busy dissecting something?" Liz began to joke.
"I highly doubt that, they probably wouldn't let him near a scalpel after he succumbed to the madness." Soul retorted.
"What do you think is wrong Kid?" Maka asked
"Hm, I don't know, father has had him pretty busy lately. I don't know why though, it wouldn't be very wise to send him on a mission yet since he hasn't fully recovered from his ordeal." Kid responded.
All of a sudden Spirit walked into the class with a clip board. His eyes gazed around the room with a cold and serious look.
"Alright class listen up, I'm Death Scythe and I'll be your teacher for today, Professor Stein is running an errand for Lord Death, so take out your books and get ready for the period of your life." Spirit said with a proud look in his eye as he attempted to strike a heroic pose.
"How was that Maka?" Spirit thought to himself, his heroic pose quickly diminished into one of stupidity as he gazed over at his daughter.
"He is so annoying" Maka whispered to Soul
The class began working on the assigned work. Maka and Kid finished there work almost as quick as it was assigned and proceeded to find some ways to occupy themselves. The work didn't last long as the attention of the class was drawn to a couple of visitors.
"Death Scythe, Lord Death has requested your presence in a meeting of the Death Scythes."
"Oh yeah and who'll keep an eye on the class while I am-" Spirit began to protest only, to see Mifune standing in the door way with a new student.
"Class I've been summoned by Lord Death for an important issue, So Professor Mifune will be keeping an eye on you until the end of the day." Spirit announced and then made his way out of class Crescent Moon.
The announcement caught Black*Star to wake up from the nap he had fallen into while trying to complete the assignment. He eyed Mifune suspiciously, as if waiting for him to do something to try and challenge the class. He's only been at the DWMA for a couple months and he's already sparred with Black*Star numerous times to try and teach him a different lesson every time.
"What the hell is he doing here!" Black*Star angrily asked to Tsubaki. His eyes filled with rage as he stared at the samurai, hoping he would disappear from his sight. Even after there battle at Baba Yaga's castle with Black*Star's victory, he still hated Mifune, mainly for showing him up everytime he wanted Black*Star to learn something.
"Black*Star calm down, he's only here to make sure nobody causes any trouble, there's no need to get angry." Tsubaki stated as sweetly as ever, hoping that Black*Star would let it go.
"Fine, but just for today, the great Black*Star doesn't like those who think there-" Black*Star stopped in his usual, "I'm the big man" speech. Instead his and everyone else of his group of friends eyes shifted focus to the mysterious boy that had followed Mifune in.
"Hey Kid who's the new boy?" Maka asked
"I'm not to sure, father never mentioned him as a new student for me to tour around, and I've never seen him around before." Kid answered. He looked puzzled by this new boy, unsure of who he was, what he was, or why he followed Mifune.
Mifune spoke to the new arrival and instructed him to sit down in an open seat near Maka, and that he should get used to this room since he'd begin taking classes here. He nodded and made his way to the seat without saying a word to anybody. Maka and Death eyed up the boy taking in everything about him, trying to figure out anything about him.
His dark blonde hair fell over his eyes in spikes. He wore a black sweater that he kept unzipped and a dark red shirt. He had a chain with a small sword pendant around his neck. His jeans were torn at the knees and are dark blue in colour. He kept two chains attached to the waist of his jeans. The most noticeable feature to Maka and Kid however was the Katana on his back.
"That's strange normally weapons prefer to come out into their human forms during classes here..." Maka whispered to Kid
"I know, he is an odd meister for sure, but...he could be a bit more symmetrical..." Kid began to obsess.
The youth took his place next to Maka, he turned and gave her a slight nod as if to say hello. His eyes met hers for a brief moment letting Maka determine his eyes where hazel in colour.
"Hi, my names Maka, and this is my weapon partner Soul, whats your name?" Maka introduced, sounding as welcoming as she could.
"Kai." the boy said with no apparent joy in his voice.
"Oh, nice to meet you Kai, when did you become a student here?" Maka questioned.
"5 weeks ago." Kai stated, again sounding as if he didn't want to be talking.
"Oh nice, why haven't we seen you in class before." Maka once again questioned.
"Maka quite prying the poor guy, its not very cool of you." Soul intervened trying to save Kai from Maka's unintentional interrogation
"Oh hush up Soul, he's just trying to make him feel more comfortable with being here." Protested Maka
"Both of you please be quiet. My name is Death The Kid, my father created this school." Kid stated
"Oh, that's cool, so your a grim reaper to?" Kai asked
"Yes I am, if you need any help, feel free to ask me or my weapons Liz or Patty ok?" Kid explained.
The class continued in silence, Maka, Soul, Kid, Liz, and Patty where still left wanting to know about the mystic Kai and why he hasn't been in class when he's been here for 5 weeks. The bell rang signalling the end of the day, Kai got up and left and followed Mifune along closely. All of them were wondering why he followed Mifune the way he did until...
"YAHOO, god that's over, I was gonna go insane HAHAHAHAHA!" Black*Star laughed as loud as he could
"So you guys met the new kid huh?" Tsubaki asked.
"Yea we did, his names Kai, but were not to sure why he's the way he is." Death explained with a hint of curiosity in his voice.
"I swear though he might be more anti-social than Crona, if that's even possible." Liz joked.
"That's not cool Liz, Crona is our friend and he was just shy from being treated the way he was." Soul defended.
"Yea, I'm sure Kai will warm up to us the more we talk to him." Maka said, sounding reassured in the fact that Kai could just be shy.
"Who gives a damn, he was with Mifune, as long as he doesn't try to up stage me we won't have a problem." Black*Star exclaimed not giving a care about the new class mate in the slightest.
"Can we go play a game now Kid, I've been bored aaaalllllll ddddaaaayyyyyyy." Patty said trying to get everyone to do something fun and not worry about the new kid.
"Sure Patty, let's go play some basketball." Kid acknowledged.
They all left to go play basketball, however Kid, and Maka would still wonder all about Kai. Who he is, where he came from, or why he followed Mifune.