Chapter 3: Friends?

Kai woke up as the sun rose in the sky above Death Alley. He walked to the bathroom to have shower and brush his teeth and prepare fore his first day of classes. He looked at the clock and saw that it was 6:30 and classes would be starting soon. He proceeded to leave the dorm and make his way to Class Crescent Moon.

"Well today I guess I'm an official DWMA student. This should be interesting." Kai thought. Nervous about his first day, up until yesterday he only ever spent time with Sid, Stein, Mifune, Angela, and Land Death. Now he's dealing with over twenty people at once. And people wasn't Kai's strong suit.

The students piled into the classroom lazily. Kai couldn't figure out why. He noticed that they all looked tired, but why would they be tired he always woke up at 5 in the morning and he never felt tired. He payed no mind to this and made his way to his seat.

Maka and Soul had come in with Kid, Liz, Patty, Black*Star, and Tsubaki. After a small outburst from Black*Star, who appeared to be one of the only people, other than himself and Death the Kid to be awake at this time. Maka, Soul, Kid and Liz and Patty made there way to their seats near Kai. Maka noticed Kai sitting and decided to try and be friendly again.

"Good morning Kai." Maka greeted, "How are you doing this morning?"

"I'm, fine." Kai responded, clearly not interested in any form of communication.

"Well that's good then. You already for your first day." Maka continued, paying no mind to Kai attempting to brush her off. Maka was determined to get Kai to have a conversation with her today. And she would do anything in order to get one out of him.

"So I saw you playing with the little witch Angela yesterday." Maka explained. This caught Kai's attention. He didn't realize that anyone but himself or Angela was on that floor. He didn't like this feeling of being spied on, whats worse is he didn't notice it himself.

"How did you see me!? Me and Angela were the only ones in the school besides teachers." Kai asked.

"We were going to speak with Lord Death, we just happened to notice you chasing Angela around." Soul explained.

"It was really nice of you to play with her like that Kai, she seemed like she was having fun, and so did you." Maka stated, hoping that this would make Kai more comfortable now that they knew how he was around the tiny witch.

"Aaaaaaawwwwwwww, you play with Angela, that's sooooooooo nice!" Patty began thinking that it was the most adorable thing she has ever heard.

"I remember when Patty was little, I'd play with her all the time to keep her amused." Liz joined in.

"Oh, well...um..." Kai was at a loss for words. Why where they still trying to talk with him, they could tell that Kai didn't want to talk, but they persisted. And Kai didn't understand why, he never said to words to them until yesterday. But Kai was glad that they were in away. He decided he would try to be friends with them, but he didn't know if he'd ever be able to talk to them the way he did his trainers and sister.

"Well, um, I..." Kai began to explain

"It's ok, Kai, you don't have to explain anything, I talked o father about you last night." Kid explained. He was pleased with the progress that they were making on befriending Kai, however Kid wanted to know why Kai was so hard to talk to. There had to be a reason for his silence, but at least Kai was talking now.

Professor Stein walked in and everyone went silent. Kai was happy to be out of the conversation, he still wasn't used to this whole talking idea. But then again a small part of himself enjoyed his new found friends, if he could call them friends.

"Good day class, today we have a new student joining us. His name is Kai, he's spent the last 5 weeks training under Mifune as his apprentice, and he is now deemed ready to be a official DWMA student, I expect all of you to be kind toward him, he has trouble trusting others." Stein explained, "Now let's begin with the lesson."

Stein assigned some work for the class and everybody worked diligently. Kai was relieved to know that they were more focused on the work than talking with him. The class was quiet aside from pen's writing, pages flipping, Black*Star's snoring, and Kai shifting his Katana on his back to be more comfortable. When class ended Kai began to walk out of the class and head back to his room and wait for Mifune or Angela to show up.

"Hey Kai, why don't you come to our apartment and hang out for a bit?" Maka asked

"What me, you want me to come?" Kai asked, puzzled by the invitation, unsure if this was a trick or a genuine act of friendship.

"Yea why not, father said to be a friend to you, and you seem like a nice guy." Kid explained

"Yea besides, then you can get a small tour of the city." Liz explained

"Besides, being by yourself all the time isn't very cool." Soul added.

"Um, well, I dunno..." Kai responded

"Dammit Kai, you can't be so anti-social now that your a student. Go with them, I can promise you that this group will be kind to you. Just be careful of Black*Star, he's not fond of your master and can be a bit of an annoyance." Stein explained, attempting to convince Kai to quite being so anti-social with people.

"Oh, alright then, if you guys insist." Kai relented.

"Great, Black*Star and Tsubaki left already so we'll head there now ok?" Maka asked.

At Maka and Soul's Apartment

"Alright, here we go." Maka said, happy that Kai had come along with them instead of heading back to his room. Even if Stein, in a way, ordered him to do it. But never the less with him, she'll take any chance she can to be friends with him.

The group entered the apartment and all made there way to the couches and took a seat. Kai scanned around the room, making sure there wasn't any hidden traps or enemies in the corners. A bad habit he had gotten into when he was living in hell when the clown tormented him with the Kishin eggs.

"Kai come on in, nobody here is going to hurt you." Maka stated, seeing Kai was nervous she opened up a seat in between her and Soul so that way he would feel more comfortable.

"Ok thank you-" Kai was got off by a hidden surprise.

"HHHHIIIIIII" A cat that turned into a women yelled as she pounced at Kai. Unfortunately Kai wasn't one for surprises and through the cat down and sent a soul shockwave through her.

"OOOWWWWWW!" the cat lady yelled in pain, "That really hurt." she said pouting.

"Well nobody said Kai wouldn't hurt anyone." Soul joked, earning a chuckle out of everybody except Kai and the cat.

"Sorry, I'm Kai and I hate surprises..." Kai said in his most sincere apologetic voice he could come up with.

"And I'm Blair, it's ok, I'm a Cat, I just like to jump on new people." Blair said seemingly forgetting the incident and making a pawing motion with her mand.

Kai finally sat down and managed to relax, kind of, hanging out as Kid put it was something he's never down before. The group started conversing about music, missions, class, and there past battles. Kai remained quiet just listening intently to the conversation as it unfolded.

"YAHOOO! Don't Worry Guys The Great Black*Star is-" Black*Star began screaming, however upon the notice of Kai, he silenced himself. Black*Star eyed Kai cautiously wondering why the apprentice of Mifune was here.

"What is Kai doing here?" Tsubaki asked trying to get an answer before Black*Star could do something stupid.

"We invited him, he's a pretty nice guy, you know when he talks." Liz stated, Kai just remained silent.

"Well it's nice of you guys to invite Kai, I've been wanting to speak with this apprentice." Black*Star stated.

The room went quiet. Everyone knew how Black*Star felt about Mifune. So the idea of him speaking with his apprentice about god knows what, terrified everyone. Black*Star began approaching Kai and stood in front of him, attempting to loom himself over the new guy.

"Hi, Black*Star, I've heard a lot about you," Kai began. Shocking everybody in the room with his words. "Mifune speaks highly of you. I hope I can see the person who defeated my master in battle sometime." Kai stated, actually sounding rather impressed with Black*Star.

"Well I am kind of a big deal" Black*Star continued, obviously please the complement he had just received.

"I know you are, you're a very skilled meister, I can't wait to see you in combat." Kai finished.

"You know what Kai, your alright, we can be friends." Black*Star stated obviously pleases with the way things turned out.

After Black*Star and Tsubaki found a seat the conversation picked up as usual for the group. Kai zoned out for awhile do to him not moving or partaking in the conversation. Completly unaware of anything that the group was talking about.

"Kai, Kai, KAI!" Patty yelled trying to get Kai out of his daze. They had been trying to ask him about his sword pendant around his neck on where he got it.

"Oh, um, I don't know." Kai responded

"Well maybe we can go out shopping tomarrow with me a Tsubaki and we can see where it came from?" Liz offered. Something about her tone didn't seem like she was asking though.

"Oh um I don't know..." Kai began.

"Oh please come Kai, where going to Kids anyway, and you could use some new clothes to get out of those tattered clothes." Tsubaki said. "And it'd help you get to know us better." Liz added. How shopping with only two of them would help him learn about the whole group baffled Kai, but he had nothing better to do since he didn't have to train tomarrow.

"Oh ok then." Kai relented.

"Awesome we'll meet you at the school and we'll be on our way then." Liz stated. Kai could tell this shopping trip was going to be interesting. Why he didn't know. But he decided it'd be interesting to find out.

"Alright sounds great." Kai responded.