Finding the Way Home

10: Protective

Liz, Patty, Black Star, Tsubaki and I all started fighting as many kishin as possible for the next few days, getting ready for fighting the me from this world. After only three days, we decided we were ready. We had no real plan, other than dodge all the attacks. Maka wanted to come along, deciding that maybe there was some way she could be useful.

In the end, she was the most useful person out of the six of us, even though she didn't fight at all.

We went to a cozy house, that Liz and Patty said was supposedly the other Kid's home. I used my soul perception to see if there was a soul in there, and there was. One lookedso similar to mine it was scary. The other was Excalibur's, No doubt. We snuck into the front door, Patty, Liz, and Tsubaki as weapons. Before we even made a sound, he walked out of a room with Excalibur in his hand.

"I didn't think there could be a version of me stupid enough to fight against someone with Excalibur." he said.

"If it gets me home, I'll do anything." I said. It felt weird, looking at another me, but that didn't stop anything. It may have only been three days of killing kishin, but I probably killed more kishin in this world than I have in the past six years of my life, and that was really saying something. If this version of me was the cause of that many kishin, I wanted to get rid of him so fast. I looked the other me in the eye and I saw something I never expected to see from someone like that- guilt.

He actually looked a bit unstable, like he couldn't tell what he wanted to do at this point. He looked at Maka, then to Black Star and I.

"Why the hell is she here? She has no weapon to defend herself, and you two let her come along?" He asked.

"Wait are you trying to come off like your concerned for her? You tried to kill her!" Black Star yelled. "We all know that you don't care what happens to her, so stop acting like you do!"

"You don't have a clue what's going on in my head!" The other me yelled. "I may have tried to kill her but god you don't know what it's like to even feel half as guilty as I do!"

"What, are you trying to get us to forgive you?" Maka yelled all of a sudden. "There's no way in hell any of us would forgive you for what you did!"

"I'm not saying that I want any of you to forgive me!" The other me yelled back, and swung Excalibur towards be, and I easily dodged.

"So you feel guilty? You look like you would do it over again any day!" Black Star yelled and swung his scythe at him, but he dodged. I started shooting Liz and Patty at him, but he managed to dodge both Black Star and I at the same time, and swing Excalibur at both of us, and we barely managed to dodge his attacks. I didn't know what gave me the idea to do this, but I stopped shooting at him, and pointed towards Maka. I didn't point directly at her, I pointed it far enough to her left to where it looked like I was aiming straight at her head, but it wouldn't hit her.

When I did that, the other me looked over with wide eyes, and so did Black Star. Maka just stared a the barrel of the gun, but looking at her face close enough, I could tell she knew that if I shot right now, I wouldn't hit her.

"What the hell are you doing?!?!?" Black Star asked. "Your supposed to kill him, not Maka!"

I ignored Black Star, and looked at Maka, and she gave me a very slight nod, as if she knew what my plan was. If there was anything that I probably had in common with the Kid from this world, it was being stubborn when it came to loving someone, and with the way Maka described him from before and the way he acted when he saw her here with no weapon, I could tell that he really did have feelings for her. If we had that in common, I was really hoping that maybe, just maybe, he would be as protective of her if he had to be. That's why I aimed the gun towards Maka and the second she nodded, shot Liz towards her. I wanted him to jump in front of the shot to 'save' Maka.

Turns out, I was right. He jumped right in front of the shot, and it hit him right in the head, killing him instantly. All three of us felt at least a little shock that it had actually worked.

"Do you not have any faith in me? I wouldn't betray you guys like he did. I've lost you guys before in my world, and it was the most painful thing that ever happened to me. I'm not about to give up my chance to have you guys back." I told Black Star. "Besides, it was aimed slightly to her left, so it wouldn't hit her."

"How did you know he would jump in front of her, though?" Black Star asked.

"Let's just say that even though he's the evil version of me, we have a few things in common when it comes to our personalities." I smirked. "Well, I guess the Order of the Shinigami should be summoning me soon. How about we try and go out for dinner real quick before they summon me?"

"Sounds like a good idea. One last meal with Death the Kid- for old times sake." Maka said.

"Let's go, I guess." Liz said.

"Let's go to dinner!!!!" Patty said. 

The five of us went to a diner that I'd never heard of, and probably didn't even exist in my world. All the dishes there were things I had never really bothered to try, but I guess I had no choice now. We all ate our food, laughed, and even shared stories about what had happened to all of us in our pasts. At the end of the night, I ended up staying in Soul's old bedroom again, and in the middle of the night, I was summoned by the Order of the Shinigami.

Can't believe I managed to get two chapters done in one day, along with a bunch of hw I forgot to do over the weekend! And I don't know if you guys should expect an update tomorrow, because I'm going to have make up work in a couple of classes, on top of other homework and JROTC (though JROTC only takes up an hour and a half right after school). Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and if I don't update tomorrow, expect an update Thursday!