I have discovered the amazing world of shimeji. I now have two Makas and Death The Kids running around my computer screen. It's utterly adorable.
"What do we do with him?" Kid muttered, now sitting next to Maka as they stared at the young boy, his black hair tangled in a mess and partially covering his icy blue eyes filled with rage.
"You let me go! That's what you do!" The young boy hissed as he pulled at his restraints. Upon coming back to their camp, the meisters had taken some of the excess strap from one of their backpacks and effectively tied the child's wrists together and ultimately restrained him to a small tree. The boy had been extremely reluctant to stay with them, he had even tried to retreat into the tree he had been in when he attacked Maka, but they wouldn't in their right mind let such a young child go back out into a world such as this alone.
"I don't know…" The blonde sighed, ignoring any comment the black haired child made.
"What's your name?" Kid asked, turning to the rebellious raven haired boy.
"Wouldn't you like to know." He sneered nastily, spitting in Kid's general direction.
"Show some respect for those older than you." Kid commented, keeping his composure. "Spitting at a person; so impolite. How old are you? Two?"
"I'm five, thank you very much." The child chirped smartly.
Kid smiled at getting the information out of the boy. "Oh? Five years old and you live on your own?"
"Who do you think you are? Keeping children tied up like this? What are you? Some sort of pervert?"
Kid just smiled, shaking his head. "I will admit, you do seem pretty advanced for your age." The young death god stood from his place next to Maka and walked over to their backpacks they had stashed in a tree, away from any hungry animal that may stumble upon their campsite. "Being as smart as you are, let's try this again." He pulled out a protein bar, briefly flaunting it in the direction of the boy who became silent. He slowly walked over to the boy and crouched down to his level. "You seem awfully hungry." Maka thought it was cruel to tease a child with food, especially in his state; it looked as if he hadn't eaten since the break out. All this being true, it seemed as if the boy would be staying with them for awhile, he really had no other place to go, and it was necessary to establish some sort of respect. It still seemed inhumane, but then again the world didn't really seem to be very humane anymore. "Your name."
"Robin." The boy muttered, pulling his face as far as he could from Kid's intent, glowing gaze. "Who are you?"
"My name is Death The Kid. Her name is Maka." Kid said, looking back at the indifferent blonde.
"Death The Kid…" The boy, Robin, seemed to be tossing the name around in his head. "The Death The Kid? Lord Death's son, right?" He raised an eye brow.
"Ah, yes. So you've heard of me. You're from Death City then, I presume?" Kid asked, though pretty sure of the answer.
Robin nodded his head slowly, still glaring at the young reaper. "You're Lord Death's son…?" He still seemed like he was trying to digest that bit of information other than repeating it as a question.
"Yes, what's so hard to believe about that?" Kid uttered, a defensive tone creeping into his otherwise impassive voice.
"You brought down Anubis?" He seemed as if he was about to start laughing. "He brought down Anubis?" He asked again, this time looking past the disgruntled reaper and at the meister behind him.
"Yes, he is Lord Death's son." Maka replied, raising an eyebrow at the boy.
Robin completely lost it. "Look," he giggled in between laughs "I don't know what your boyfriends been telling you, lady, but I don't think he's Lord Death's son."
"And why, might I ask, do you think I'm not?" Kid said in almost a snarl, Robin's implication about Maka going unnoticed.
"Just because!" He exclaimed, trying to through his hands up to make a point, but was quickly reminded that they were still in restraints. "Look at you! You look so… Weak. To be honest, I don't know how the two of you have made it this far. You look like some preppy rich boy." He nodded at Kid, then looked over at Maka, "And you're just a girl."
He snapped viciously without a warning instant. Quicker than anyone could blink, Kid had the front of Robin's shirt clenched tightly in his fist as he pinned the boy's back to the tree, his nose almost touching the childs' and yellow eyes glowing menacingly at the boy's bright blues. Maka stood up, utterly shocked at the mellow reaper's sudden violent actions. "You listen." His voice came out in a low growl. "You're young and I get that. I don't expect you to have the perfect, mature manners of someone my age, but I do expect you to show me and Maka a little respect. You're staying with us. There is no negotiating that; it's far too dangerous for anyone to be alone out there, let alone a child. Now we can do this one of two ways. You can treat us properly and we will treat you properly and untie you, or you can keep acting like a spoiled three year old and stay in time out." Kid's gaze never wavered from the boy's, nor the boy's from Kid's. "And I'll have you know," The reaper added as an after thought, "I'd rather have Maka fight along side me in battle than most men I know; and that's because of her skill. I would even go as far as saying she could even kick my ass, so I wouldn't be so foolish and underestimate her." He let go of the boy's shirt and heard him fall to the ground with a light thud. Everything was silent as Kid walked around to where he had previously been sitting on the other side of the fire.
Everything was quiet for a minute until Robin cleared his throat, which made the two teens jerk their heads simultaneously in his general direction. "Death The Kid?... May I please have that granola bar?"
The rest of the night was fairly quiet and, just as every night before it, restless. After Kid's awkward attempt to feed Robin while he was still in restraints, they decided to untie him, just for a little while, so he could finish eating and take a bathroom break. Though of course, much to his dismay, they replace the torn backpack strap a few minutes after he had downed his protein bar. Unfortunately, after finding the boy, neither teen had any desire to begin another round of the question game. It was sometime a little after dawn when Robin finally broke the silence.
"So… I'm staying with you?"
"Yes." Kid answered, somewhat coldly.
"Well, can I at least go back and get my stuff?" He tried.
"No." The raven hair boy replied before adding, "we'll all go back to get it."
"Well, let's go then! We have to get it before the others find it." Robin whined.
"The others?" Maka question, "There's more of you? I mean, more kids you age?"
"No, no, no." He shook his head. "There's other people out there. There gonna take my stuff! I bet you it's already gone." He sighed in dismay.
Kid and Maka looked at each other, as if they had the same thought. The rest of the team. "Other people? What did they look like?" Maka pressed.
Robin scrunched up his face, trying to remember. "I only got a glance, but there was a bunch. Ten, fifteen guys maybe. They all looked like they had been living in the woods for weeks though."
Kid frowned a bit when he said 'guys'. So the twin pistols weren't with them; well part of him was hoping they weren't, if it was ten to fifteen men. He shuddered at the thought of what could happen if the men found the girls before he did. "Did you see anyone with white hair? O-Or blue? What about a girl with long black hair pulled back?" Maka still seemed hopeful.
"Blue hair? No…" He said, giving her a strange look. "And I don't think there was any old guys with them, so no to the white hair. And I only saw boys." Maka's heart sunk, maybe Soul and the others didn't make after all.
So, I walk into my bathroom and the toilet paper is folded into a triangle and I completely flip out, all excited, and then my 11 year old sister starts laughing from the other room. Apparently she watched Soul Eater from the recently watched queue from Netflix, likes Death The Kid and enjoys to torture her older sister.
On another note, will be going out of town at least until thursay night, maybe later, meaning no updates until I get back. I will still try to be writing, but I will not have any internet access… So yeah… Sorry! And also, the Kid and Maka I had on my screen has now turned into about 20 Kids and Makas. Its kinda awesome :D
Replies~!
Checkered Brook- Yeah, I know! And I don't understand why they don't even have at least a good friendship. I mean really, they are both uber smart, like to read, follow instructions, polite and so much more! They seem like once they met, they would just hit it off! But oh well… I felt in necessary to build it up a lot before the fluff, but a zombie apocalypse really would bring two people closer together. And yes, he is on hell of a kid, quite literally, as you just red (read?... Idk its too late to think about it) But I won't go into details about him yet ;)
Jeager's Paradise- Thank you! And I know, when I first thought of this idea I was like 'oh! That'd be cool! Total destruction and fear like that would totally bring two lost teens closer together!' then I was like 'crap… the show already has a zombie..' so just ignore Sid ^^' And yeah, I made the decision to add the little boy pretty early on when I was developing the story. He's pretty essential, but I won't say just in what way yet…. And thank you! Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Guest- Sometimes I manage to upload everyday, but sometimes my ADD (mixed with my ADHD and OCD…) takes me off track of writing and I end up doing other things ^^' But thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it!
Mikaela- Dude, I didn't even think about it being Blackstar XD I guess it sorta sounded like him the way I described it XD Thanks! Your awesome too :D hope you enjoyed this chapter just as much!