Chapter 11: Mind Exploring?

Isamu's POV

I looked over to check on how Miyu was doing and she wasn't looking to good. She was pale and shaking, with a few scratch marks down her cheek and bleeding from her wrists where the shackles still hung. Yet she was so lost in thought she didn't seem to hear the clinking of the metal off the floor, and I held out my arm to stop her. She awoke from her daze and I walked in front of her and looked her in the eye with my hand out. Miyu gave me this confused look and I gently grabbed her hand and, with my other hand, dug out the pocket knife I kept on me.

"What are you doing?" Miyu asked in a shaky voice and I looked at her questioningly.

"You still have the shackles attached to your wrists love..." I said as I concentrated on picking the lock with my pocket knife.

"Oh..."

It took me a good long while to get them unattached, and one by one they fell clanking to the floor. Since there was no clocks in her mind, I had no idea how long it took.

"Isamu...how much did...I...hurt him?" Her melodic voice rang out quietly, and I placed my finger over her lips.

"That was not you. Don't do that to yourself. That was...that...thing." I reassured her, and yet she did not believe me, I could tell in her gold eyes. (A/N: I know her eyes were a different colour at the beginning but I am changing it to match Kid's beautiful golden eyes ;) )

"But I saw it all and heard her thoughts. I saw her...", Miyu shook herself of the thoughts and continued. "ideas, for what she wanted to do to him."

"Does it have a name?" I asked, draping my arm over her shoulder.

"She said Cupido..."

"What is Cupido?"

"She said she was the mad part of my soul, the insane bloodthirsty one. Apparently she has been trapped there since I was born and finally caught her chance there." Miyu said, and leaned her head against my shoulder as we walked.

She seemed tired, so I leaned down and picked her up, one arm under her knees, other under her head. She snuggled into my chest, and I smiled at the way she fit into my arms. She slowly fell asleep, and I continued walking back to the entrance of her mind. It was a while yet...

I looked down and saw her peaceful face leaning against my chest. She looked less troubled, almost more childlike innocence. Her brow wasn't furrowed and her mouth had a small smile. Her raven hair fell gently over my arm, and brushed against my side. It was mussed up from the ordeal, but still soft and silky. She really didn't see how much I loved her.

Flashback, 2 years ago...

"Come on Isamu! It's time to meet your potential partner!" Dayna said as she dragged me along by the arm.

I sighed as I was dragged down the hall to Dayna's room where my potential partner is waiting.

Dayna had came rushing up to me about twenty minutes ago and said I might be a pairing for the daughter of Lord Death. I was shocked that they had thought of me, a demon weapon with not much control of the transformations. All Dayna told me was her name was Miyu and she is an outgoing person. I was thirteen when this happened, and Miyu was twelve.

"Here we are! Ready?!" Dayna said excitedly.

Not even giving me time to answer, Dayna dragged me through her door and my eyes landed on Lord Death's daughter. My first thought was 'wow, she's really pretty'. Miyu turned to me and waved excitedly. Her gold eyes lit up, and a smile tugged at the corner of her pink lips.

"Hi! I am Miyu!" Her voice rang like bells, and she held out her hand.

"I'm Isamu." I answered back, and shook her soft hand. (A/N: I know most 13 year olds wouldn't talk like this, but Isamu is a very mature thirteen year old lets say ;))

"Shall we see if this partnership will work?" Dayna clapped a hand on both our shoulders and Miyu nodded.

"Why not?" I answered and smiled at Miyu, praying to Lord Death my transformation would go well.

"Alright! SIDNEY! GET YOUR BUM IN HERE!" Dayna yelled, and her partner walked in covering her ears.

"Holy Death, could you yell louder? I was just about to come in when you yelled, after I remembered you asked me to come help oversee this." Sidney joked, and punched Dayna lightly in the shoulder.

Sidney transformed into her weapon form, a serrated shovel, and I grabbed Miyu's hand.

"Let's do this!" Miyu said, and held my hand harder.

I concentrated on our soul wave-lengths, and synchronized mine with hers. My body began taking the shape of my weapon form, a scythe. The form has a black handle with red and black separated by a zig-zag. The transition went smoothly, I was surprised. I felt Miyu's help after, the way she seemed to automatically help concentrate my thoughts and soul waves.

"You good?" Her voice rang in my head, and I turned the blade so she could see me and gave her a thumbs up.

Dayna was standing on the other side of the room, and held Sidney in front of her. Miyu confidently held me tightly, and swung me in front of her. I smiled, feeling the tight grip she held on my weapon form.

'This will be interesting!' I said to myself, and kept an eye on Dayna.

Dayna launched herself across the room in one single leap, and Miyu made a slight shift, and I concentrated on my form and where Dayna was striking for.

"She's aiming for your legs, jump left. Swing me up to catch the blade, it won't hurt. After that swing it down to catch her with the flat part of my blade." I told Miyu in her mind, and Miyu gave a small nod to indicate she heard me.

Miyu did exactly what I said, and we managed to pin Dayna down in a few moves with our teamwork, me telling her my observations and suggestions, and Miyu adding anything or changing something she saw flawed.

Miyu was now standing over Dayna, pinning her down with my blade to her neck and Sidney was pinned down under the other end of my handle.

"Good teamwork guys! I think you two will make a killer team, literally! Round 2 out of 3?" Dayna said, still pinned down.

Miyu put me down and helped Dayna up to standing, and picked me back up. She walked gracefully back to her side, and Miyu settled back into a defensive position. Dayna launched herself at us, and barely gave us time to think.

"Dodge to the left, shes moving fast bu-" I was cut off as Dayna made a quick slice right where we were a minute ago, Miyu had dodged as soon as she heard me say it.

The next attack happened in a quick succession, and suddenly we were standing across from each other again. Miyu was bleeding from a rather deep cut on her left arm, and Dayna had a bruise beginning on her leg where she had landed during an attack.

"I should have warned you I was stepping up my game." Dayna said, a mischievous glint in one eye.

Miyu just glared, and tightened her grip.

"Any suggestions?" Miyu asked me and I thought for a minute.

"Aim for her legs, she might favor the bruised one. I have also noticed she favors her right side, near her hip. Past injury maybe. If she blocks the leg attack, she will be open for you to hit her with my stock in the hip." I told her, and Miyu's lip lifted in a smirk.

"I like your thought pattern. I think we will make an awesome team!" Miyu answered, and never gave me time to respond as she launched herself through the air at Dayna.

As I had predicted, Dayna blocked the leg attack so Miyu hit her hip with my stock. Dayna winced, but nothing detrimental happened, Dayna seemed fine. Suddenly Dayna had the upper hand though. She trapped my stock against her side with Sidney's blade, and had the handle around behind Miyu's knees. She tripped Miyu, and I saw only one thing I could do. I transformed my body back, except my arm, quickly away from the trap, and launched myself so I was kneeling over Miyu with my bladed arm stopping the shovels movement from hurting Miyu. Dayna swung the shovel and the blade hit my arm pretty hard. I groaned from the impact, but it gave Miyu time to crawl from under me and get back behind me. Dayna pushed the shovel harder, and I put my other hand behind my shoulder, and Miyu caught on. She grabbed my hand and I transformed back to a scythe, Sidney, in her weapon form, was still against my blade. Miyu flipped Sidney out of Dayna's hands, and then jumped behind Dayna and held me against Dayna's neck again.

"Hold Death, you guys are fantastic." Dayna said, and Miyu let her out of the death-hold, Dayna turns to us and I transform to human form again. "I felt like I was fighting partners that knew each other their entire life. You guys just met today and already have such a fantastic connection."

Sidney transformed back to human form and stood beside Dayna, smiling. "Is there a doubt we can't let them be partners?"

"If there is, I can't see. Lets go tell Lord Death!" Dayna clapped her hands together and rushed into the hall.

There was a loud thud, and then a crash of things hitting the floor. Sidney, sighed and shook her head, walking into the hall. Miyu followed and I left the room last. What I saw was hilarious. Dayna and Justin were sprawled on the floor, books surrounding them. Both were tomato red and staring at the floor in embarrassment. Justin shook his head, and got up, then offered a hand to Dayna. Dayna took it, and Justin helped her back to standing. They both began picking up books and soon had them off the floor and back into Justin's arms. Dayna smiled shyly, and Justin smiled back.

"Sorry..." Dayna said quietly.

"It's alright, don't worry about it." Justin said, and smiled cutely.

"Well...umm...see ya around."

"Yea. Bye Dayna!" Justin said as he walked off down the hall, balancing the books.

I look at Miyu who is looking thoughtfully at the blushing Dayna while Sidney rolls her eyes. Sidney grabs Dayna's arm and drags her off down the hall toward the Death Room.

"Ha! Payback!" I muttered.

"What?" Miyu asked confused.

"Dayna dragged me here today now shes getting dragged off."

"Oh, that is kinda funny isn't it. Thanks for today by the way, you really didn't have to take the hit for me." Miyu said, looking down with a tint of pink in her cheeks.

"Hey, that's what a partners for right? Besides, I would take a hit for you anytime your in danger. I would rather me than you. Now c'mon, your Dad awaits."

"You are making this sound like a boyfriend meeting the Dad thing..."

Return to present...

I smiled at the memory, jerked back to the present by reaching the end of Miyu's mind, right before the exit. I looked down at the sleeping girl in my arms when I stopped walking. She truly is beautiful...

I could never tell her that though. She has enough on her mind and I am sure I am just her best friend to her.

She will never know the way I feel for her. Way back when I was 13 I didn't know what this feeling was. I thought it was a best friend thing, something all friends felt for each other. I see her and I see a wonderful girl who has her share of problems but she continues to become more gorgeous everyday with every minute. The quirks she has, like flipping her hair and the way she laughs, her wonderful gold eyes...

I fell for her hard, but she can never know.

I love her.

There I said it.

I love you Miyu, but you will never know.

What can I do about it? Now she has a crazy insane side that likes to show up in the worst times. Even still though, it hasn't lessened the affection I have for her. It has just hardened my resolve that I will fight for her and die for her.

Yes, I have envisioned a life ahead of me with her. And kids, what young guy hasn't if they fell for a girl? I certainly have, but I would trade it all if she lives out the rest of her days happy and healthy. She will help her brother when they become Shinigami, the first pair of them to grace the earth. She will meet other boys and maybe fall for them, but there is still that part of me that wishes for nothing more than for her to turn to me one day and say 'I love you'.

I hope it never has to come to that, but it might. And I would die happy if she was happy, even with someone else. My life would be complete if she fell for me.

As her weapon I fight to protect her, and someday we will beat Cupido into the dirt and rid Cupido from Miyu's mind. But until that day, I will just have to keep a close eye on Miyu in battle.

I love you Miyu.