Finding the Way Home

11: Back Home

I woke up in the middle of the night because I was summoned by the Order of the Shinigami. Everything looked exactly as it was when I was here before, when I got sent to that world. It's funny how that was only four days ago, yet to me, it felt like it could have been months ago. I didn't know if I was going to loose my shinigami powers or not, but I didn't care about that. I just wanted to go home and see my old friends again. I wanted to talk to the Maka and Black Star that I knew, not just another version of them, and above that, I wanted to talk to Soul.

"Death the Kid, as promised, you can go home when this is over." The guy in the center said. "We've decided that we're going to temporarily take away your powers, until Blaire does what she was told to do for her punishment."

"Wait what was Blaire's punishment?" I asked.

"You'll see." One of them said. 

"Okay..." I said awkwardly. "So how does taking my powers away work?"

"Your powers are kind of just going to be sucked out of you when you go back to your world." The middle shinigami said. "You might feel a little dizzy when it happens, but that should go away in a few seconds really."

"Umm ok-" I started and before I could finish saying 'okay' , I felt myself practically getting sucked back into my own world.

Within a few seconds, I found myself standing about a block from the old park that all my friends and I would always play basketball in, and it looked like it was sunrise. I decided I would just walk to the basketball courts, before going home, and when I walked up to the basketball court, I saw familiar messy white hair. (For those of you who read Chapter 9, this is where Soul's POV cut off. If you think about it, it all lines up. Kid spent 4 days in the other world, and Soul wasn't back alive until 3 days after Blaire raised him from the dead, and he's gone through a whole day since then ;))

"I never expected to be here with you again." I said, walking up behind him. He jumped in surprise that there was someone behind him, then looked at me with even more surprise.

"Kid!" Soul said in excitement and surprise, and practically jumped up to hug me, even though there was a bench between us. "Wait, what happened to the stripes in your hair? They're gone.."

"My shinigami powers are basically suspended right now, and the three stripes in my hair were something that came with that power." I explained, and came around the bench so Soul and I could actually get close without the bench between us.

"It's stupid that their punishing you for something you didn't do." Soul said. "They should just punish Blaire."

"I thought the exact same thing." I said. "Though, I have to say, I actually kind of liked being in another world. It was a pretty fun experience. I couldn't really stop thinking about getting back here, though."

"I still don't see why they had to do that." Soul said.

"Hey, at least I didn't get the usual punishment for raising the dead." I said.

"What's the usual punishment?" Soul asked me.

"Every trace of my existence would have been gone if I had willingly raised you guys from the dead." I said. "I prefer being able to go to a practically parallel universe."

"I guess that is a lot better of a punishment." Soul said, and smiled a little. "I'm just glad you weren't gone too long."

"Well, I didn't want to keep you waiting." I smirked at him.

Before realized it, his lips were pressed against mine, and I had my arms wrapped around his waist. 

So sorry for the short chapter. I have to say, though, I'm having fucked up thoughts about the ending for this one, but I think if I ended it the way I'm thinking I would end up back with people bitching about the ending, because, well... Ehhhhh you'll see. I'll reveal what my fucked up thoughts were in the last chapter, which should be the next update, but I'm not sure on that yet. Anyways, I'll try to update tomorrow or Friday, but Saturday I'm completely booked with an indoor drumline competition and then going straight to a JROTC competition, so I won't be able to update then, so if I don't update by Friday expect an update Sunday. Or maybe it will be later tonight, idk. I have a couple of hours of free time.