Chapter 2: Kai

Kai followed Mifune into the Death room, He's spent a lot of time here with Grim Reaper and is grateful for his kindness of allowing his master to train him. As he passed the guillotines he couldn't help but remember the first time he came in this room. The way Sid and Stein treated him, the grim reaper being not what he expected, and the little . Of all these things, these were his only happy memories.

"Ah Mifune and Kai, welcome, welcome, how's it going?" Lord Death said cheerfully as always.

"Lord Death I just wished to inform Stein that his class performed well today, however Black*Star needs to have a wake up call on the importance of studying when told to in order to better his skills." Mifune reported.

"Ah I see, thank you Mifune. I'm sure it was nice for the class to have a new substitute for the day. And you're welcome to give that lesson to Black*Star anytime, as usual." Stein responded, laughing at the possibility of convincing Black*Star to study by ambushing him.

"Kai, I heard that you finally took part in your class today. How did things go for you?" Lord Death asked.

"Things today were fine Grim Reaper." Kai responded being straight to the point.

"Kai, your 17 and you've seen me for most of your time here, you can call me Lord Death, or just Death if you want." Lord Death had explained. He knew Kai wasn't particularly the most social person, but he knew Kai had to start to come out of his shell.

"Hm, very well Lord Death, things went well I believe." Kai finally responded much to Death's delight.

"Splendid! Did you happen to meet any new friends yet?" Death asked.

Kai had to wonder for a moment. That moment with the girl Maka seemed kind but, he didn't try to make any friends, he just met three people by chance. They seemed nice enough, so maybe he could consider them friendly enough.

"Well I met your son, Lord Death. He seemed nice to me. And I met Soul and Maka, Soul seemed like a nice guy, but Maka was ok-" Kai began to explain, finally starting to act social around a group of people. Until...

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY MAKA IS OK! SHE'S PERFECT AND COMPLETELY AMAZING AND YOU WOULD BE SO LUCKY TO HAVE HER BE YOUR FRIEND LIKE THAT AND-" Spirit started to go off, but after that outburst Lord Death decided to intervene.

"Spirit enough, you know Kai isn't social and you didn't need to cut him off without hearing what he had to say. Your lucky I didn't reaper chop you!" Death yelled at his weapon partner.

"I'm sorry Lord Death, please forgive me." Spirit began begging, much to Steins amusement, even gaining a slight chuckle out of Mifune. Kai however remained quiet, not worrying about the situation. He understood how he felt, if someone started talking about Angela like that Kai would have went off on them. The little witch is the closest thing he had to a family left, and imagined that's how Spirit felt about his daughter.

"It's fine Lord Death, I was going to say she's ok, she just asked to many questions." Kai finished explaining.

"Alright then, well I'm happy your making friends here, and it's about time to. My kiddo is a nice boy and I'm sure you'll get along with him quite well." Death remarked encouraging Kai to be friends with his son.

"Ok, I'll try." Kai responded.

With that Kai dismissed himself from his Master and went to find Sid in the court yard. He made his way to the top of the school and found Sid looking over Death City. The buildings that stretched over to the edge of the city. Kai couldn't comprehend how the hell they made the whole city move.

"You know when I was alive, I was always a man to admire beauty." Sid started

"I know, you tell me every time I come here." Kai replied.

"Wow more than three words this time, I'm impressed, someone must be feeling chatty." Sid joked, he began laughing at the thought. It took him 3 weeks to get Kai to even say hello to him and Nygus. The only one Kai really was ever social around Sid noticed was Mifune and Angela. He hoped that whatever had made Kai so untrusting to even speak with people, would go away the more he trained at the DWMA, and it started to look like things were going to look up.

Kai noticed that his sparring partner was lost in thought. Why he didn't understand. Did it have something to do with Kai, or was he simply taken by the beauty of the view. Either way Kai saw this as an advantage for him to take.

"Hey Sid." Kai began.

"Two sentences, I'm truly impressed. But what is is?" Sid asked.

"...dodge" Kai replied as he drew his Katana from his back and swung at the zombie.

Sid narrowly managed to dodge the attack by burrowing down into the ground. Impressed that Kai remembered to take advantage of his opponents mental state. When he reemerged he drew Nygus who was waiting in her weapon form to begin sparring.

The two combatants clashed, the way Kai moved to always keep his attacker on edge from all directions was wearing Sid down. Mifune had taught this form to Kai do to his special abilities. And Kai made great use of it, never fully giving himself away but always leaving his opponent guessing as to wear he was gonna be next. Nygus and Kai's Katana clashed, after holding the blades to each other for a moment, Kai sent a Soul shockwave through his blade, knocking Sid off his game.

"I see Stein has been doing his job and teaching you how to do that ." Sid remarked.

"I always pay attention to my superiors." Kai responded. He then began incorporating Stein's soul attacks he had taught him, the fighting form Mifune had created for him, and the acrobatics that he had picked up from sparring with Sid daily.

After this final surprise Sid was impressed with Kai's form. The way he carried himself by flipping in the air with grace, having a balance between his blade and soul attacks. The air around Kai was riddled with his wavelength due to Soul Force, and Shockwave attacks. After another 15 minutes of being pushed back, Sid yielded.

"You, huff, huff, are no longer needing my sparring lessons, huff, huff." Sid managed to get out clearly out of breath from Kai's barrage of attacks and Sid's failed attacks.

"What's wrong Sid, I didn't think Zombies needed air." Kai joked, although out of breath himself with sweat dripping down his face, he could tell Sid was glad that he made a joke with him. Kai didn't know why, he had a sense of humour, but just with his instructors. He felt comfortable around them for there treatment of him.

"Well Kai, I'm sure Mifune is proud of his apprentice. You'll do just fine in Class Crescent Moon." Sid said, clearly proud of the progress that he had made despite all his hardships.

"Thanks Sid. Stein no longer needs me to train, you don't need me to train, and master Mifune said I can train with him in technique on the weekend." Kai said, proud of his accomplishment.

"And he has emotion now to." Sid once again joked, Kai althought he knew he wouldn't be as talkative with others his age, he would be fine.

Kai took his leave and went to his room in the DWMA. Surely Angela missed him by now and wanted to show him a magic trick or play hide and seek. Kai finally felt accepted here. Upon reflection, he thought about how Mifune was like a father to him, Sid was a brother, Stein a messed up Uncle, and Angela, his little sister. They were the family Kai never had. One that accepted him for what he can do.

His train of thought was quickly diminished when he entered the dorm room him and Angela shared as the little witch jumped onto his back.

"KAI!" She screamed with happiness.

"Can we play a game Kai, please, pretty please." Angela begged.

"Sure we can Angela, what do you want to play?" Kai asked. He didn't know why he felt like these people where his family but, he just hoped he could come to trust others the same way. After all he started school officially the next day.