Chapter 10: Issues
Kai laid in the infirmary bed, not moving or acknowledging anything. A tear riddled Maka was sitting it the chair beside Kai's bed. She told him to be careful, and he didn't listen. What was worse, was Kid couldn't stand to look at him. Whatever happened on the mission obviously took a toll on Kid. She gazed up at the infirmary bed as Kai began to stir. He began to open his eyes.
"M-Maka?" Kai asked, his vision blurred from the fight he had been involved in, and the strenuous use of his resonance with the power in his blood.
"Kai! You promised you'd be careful, I've been so worried about you!" Maka cried, upset to see him in this state.
"I'm sorry Maka, I didn't mean to, but we were desperate, this clown wasn't normal, and I'd been fighting for so long by myself while Kid tended to Liz..." Kai began, his voice shaking at the thought of what he had done, and the images he had given Kid, Patty, and Liz, " I lost control..." Kai finished, he felt ashamed of what had happened.
"What do you mean you lost control?" Maka asked, wondering what all had happened.
"My resonance, My sword was forged with my blood inside of it, and inside my blood is the dorment abilities and powers of my family. In order to use my resonance, The blood from my body has to touch my blade in order for the dormant abilities to be activated. Unfortunately, I have my parents blood..." Kai started, hesitating to finish. He carried depply about Maka and didn't want to lose her over something out of his control. "...and that made me temporarily succumb to madness..." Kai finished, a tear fell from his eye.
Maka didn't know what to think, if his power was so dangerous and unpredictable, why did he use it. But Kai was obviously ashamed of what he had done.
"Hey, it's ok..." Maka tried to comfort him. "You did what you had to do, everybody loses control sometimes, believe me I know." Maka reassured, Kai stopped more tears from coming and excepted what had happened, happened.
"I know, but I almost didn't slip in to the madness, I was just fighting for to long and to hard." Kai stated, still upset over what he had done. "Have you seen Kid's report? I'm sure it'll paint a colourful image into what happened..." Kai said, knowing it would be full of disgust and hate.
"I have..." Maka said, "But if I thought that you were really like that on missions, I wouldn't be here, would I?" Maka asked, she smiled at Kai as she said this and it seemed to cheer him up.
"Thanks Maka." Kai smiled. Maka reached over and grabbed his hand, they sat there in silence for awhil just letting Kai rest until Nygus walked in and said Kai could leave.
The couple made their way out of the infirmary and ran into the group. They all smiled when they saw Maka, but everyone except for Soul dropped their smile when they saw Kai. They were all afraid of him, and they had good reason to be.
"Hey guys." Maka said, trying to lighten the mood.
"Hey..." Everybody said to Maka. Her plan wasn't working.
"Look, Kid I'm-" Kai began, Kid simply raised his hand to stop him.
"I know my father told me, you lost control. But the things you did...I don't know how you could live with yourself after that..." Kid said, his voice dropped to a seriousness, he didn't know what to think of him anymore, who was real, the Kai in front of him, or the demon at the town.
"I tried my best to keep out of it, but I was tired, and it was the only way to save us." Kai tried to defend, but nobody except Soul and Maka were listening to his side of the story.
"And I thought my family was bad..." Black*Star whispered to himself, but it was enough to make Kai realize he wasn't welcome anymore.
"I know, I'm a monster, I'll see you later Maka, I'll leave you be with your friends..." Kai walked off, he didn't need this, he felt horrible already. But they were right Kai was a monster.
"BLACK*STAR!" Maka yelled at him, she looked back to see Kai walking off, she didn't like this.
"What it's true, and he knows it..." Black*Star argued.
"No your the real monster, all of you are!" Maka yelled at them in rage. "He was our friend, he didn't mean to succumb to the madness of his parents, it happened because he was tired and hurt, he couldn't defend himself from it!" Maka started to cry, everybody just looked at the ground.
"You know she is right..." Kid began. Everybody looked at the reaper in shock, was he, the one who watched this horror unfold, taking her side. "He is our friend, and he only did what he did because I wasn't able to fight, had I helped he'd have been fine..." Kid defended, he had been ashamed of how he treated the Blood Meister after hearing Maka begin to cry.
"What do you mean Kid?" Tsubaki asked, wanting an explanation for this change of heart over the situation.
"I mean, had I been focused on the mission, Liz wouldn't have gotten hurt, Kai wouldn't have needed to use his Blood Resonance for so long when he was already tired enough." Kid explained, everyone took this in. Now that they think about it they weren't really mad at Kai for what he did, if he hadn't things would have been worse, but they were mad at how he hid it from them.
"Well if that's the case we need to tell Kai we're sorry and that we were just upset by the situation..." Liz said, sorry at how she quickly judged him for saving her life.
"Thank you guys..." Was all Maka could let out. It meant a lot to her that they would try to rekindle their friendship with Kai.
"Your welcome." Kid began, "But it might take awhile for things to go back to normal now." Black*Star added.
"All I ask is that you try..." Maka finished, everyone decided to return home and get some rest. They needed a day to rest and process the situation. But at least they would all try to put the situation behind them.
In The Death Room
Stein, Mifune, Spirit, and Lord Death were discussing the newly discovered powers of Kai. They had heard of the Blood Meisters that could commune with the powers in their blood line, but they hadn't had one at the DWMA.
"Well I think things went well." Stein said getting the conversation underway, the subject of Kai needed discussing, and now was better than ever.
"The boy massacred a horde of Kishin Eggs in cold blood without mercy, he's to dangerous and needs to be pulled from the DWMA roster as a student and agent." Spirit said, afraid of his power.
"Yes but remember, you kill Kishin Eggs too," Stein defended.
"But atleast I'm civil about it." The Death Scythe had retorted.
"And so is my apprentice, he holds great respect and power. It wasn't his fault that he had accidentally channelled the powers of his parents rather than the powers of say his grandfather." Mifune jumped into the conversation, he'd been ready to defend his apprentice from the day he started to train him
"Mifune has a point, Kai is fairly responsible with his power, but Spirit is also right, that it is a danger to the students." Lord Death said, not taking either the samurai or death scythe's side.
"What Kai needs is an equalizer." Stein began to say. Everyone in the room looked at him wondering what he meant by that. "It's just like Tsubaki and Black*Star, Black*Star is wild and uncontrollable, except when Tsubaki is around, he's more "tame" so to speak. If we can get Kai a meister who can keep his families madness in line, Kai wouldn't pose as much of a threat. It'd be like when you all put me and Marie together as partners." Stein finished. Everyone took in Stein's words, entertaining the idea.
"An equalizer might work if we can find a compatible meister." Mifune agreed.
"Perhaps Maka can be his partner for the time being?" Stein suggested, Spirit quickly came against this idea, no way was he gonna see Maka put into a fight.
"You'd need to kill me before I let you pair those two together." Spirit ranted. "Why their already in a relationship with each other, I'm sure her presence would be calming to him on the battle field." Stein defended.
"I agree with Death Scythe..." Mifune spoke up. "Kai would be more distracted rather than focused, he'd need someone who has the same morals and codes as he does, but can be a close friend with him." Mifune stated.
"Perhaps I'll go through my lists and search for a possible meister for him then," Lord Death began. "Mifune will help me select some candidates." Lord Death finished.
Everyone agreed that this was the best course of action if Kai was going to be using blood resonance on missions. Mifune and Lord Death began work immediately, Stein and Spirit began to leave the death room.
"This better work stein..." Spirit threatened, he wouldn't hesitate to kill Kai, if he had to.