It's Already Inside You | Soul Eater

14 || An Unexpected Meeting

You know how some people wake up peacefully, with a simple flutter of their eyelids? Or how they just go back to sleep, no trouble at all?

Yeah. Well, that's not at all how I woke up. Instead, I woke up in the most irritating, creepy way.

My eyes snap open, and I am immediately greeted by dark green eyes. They held an air of hyperactivity, and insane soul wavelengths.

Black Star.

"AHH!" I screech, completely and utterly terrified. I jolt up and he watches me, about to burst into that loud laugh of his. We are, unfortunately, the only two awake.

"I just knew you would wake up if I did that!" he whisper-yells, eyes as wide as a sugar-high child's.

I scoot away from him and he grins stupidly, the laughter in his voice.

"C'mon," he says in the same volume voice as before. "I know you wanna be with the mighty Black Star."

I shake my head vigorously. I didn't mean to be rude, but I was afraid. Afraid of this blue haired maniac standing before me. I don't think I'll ever get used to him, like I got used to the other people and/or things at the DWMA.

He scoots closer as I scoot away. He puts his face next to mine and I panic. I run straight to the bathroom and lock the door, leaning against it so he couldn't open with my dead-body weight.

I could hear a faint tapping noise, against the window. At first I thought there was a clock in here...but why would there be a clock in the bathroom? Whipping around, I turn to find Eruka Frog in frog form. I open the window and she starts talking immediately.

"Ribbit...hey Kimiko," she greetts, looking like a crazed puppet. I was used to this. I nod a curt hello, sniffing a bit.

"I have some news, and a surprise for you," she continues, not even bothering to sound enthusiastic. She didn't want to be here any more than I did.

"What?" I ask quietly, not wanting to wake the others. 

"Your mother has requested for you to meet her in the alley, ribbit," Eruka says. "She has a plan she would like to tell you."

I'm torn. I feel afraid of the prospect of seeing Mother, but I also want to finally be out of the dark. To be free of this confusion. But...to what cost would it be at? Whose expense?

"I-I'll be there..." I say, after a moment's hesitation.

Eruka nods her froggy head.

"Good, because I don't think she'd take any other answer. And now for your surprise." She turns to the side and calls out. "Come on, hurry!"

My heart starts to pound when I hear a small voice reply weakly, "B-but I don't know how to deal with heights like this!"

Crona. Big Brother. The one person I really want to talk to. 

Crona's pale face appears at the window.

"L-L-Little Sister..." he whispers, clutching onto the windowsill fearfully, and trying to resist the urge to look down. I could feel myself smile that smile, only Crona could bring out of me.

"I missed you so much!" I cry happily. Crona looks sleep-deprived, but happy at the same time. 

"I missed you too. Really bad," he says quietly. The wind lifted at his dissheveled, light pink hair, and he clutches the sill even tighter.

"Did Mother punish you?" I fuss. "Are you hurt?"

He shakes his head. "I'm fine." He brushes off my concerns.

"Has Ragnarok given you any trouble?" I ask in a hushed voice. Ragnarok has hearing like a hawk, so he probably heard that. Crona nods his head grimly, and I wonder. What else can I expect from the Demon Sword? 

"Crona, ribbit. We have to hurry," Eruka interrupts. She seems so out of place in this reunion. I decide not to bring up Rome. 

"W-well...b-be safe Little Sister," Crona says shakily.

I nod my head. "You too, Big Brother. I love you." 

"I love you too," Crona almost whispers. Eruka and Crona leave and I sadly shut the window. 

I then finally leave the bathroom, only to find that everyone was awake now.

"Good morning Kimiko!" Tsubaki says happily.

"Good...morning..." I say weakly, sounding completely vulnerable.

I wasn't too happy about being separated from Big Brother...again.

***After the Sleepover, TIS MIDNIGHT NOW***

I stood in the alley. The cold, freezing, unforgining alley. It felt a lot like "home", or what I called home, anyways. Mother hasn't arrived yet, so I stood in the cold darkness for what feels like hours more. The buildings illuminated the alleyway eerily.

Suddenly, Mother gracefully lands from her broomstick. She wasn't alone, however. Crona was flying on the wings Ragnarok enabled him to have. He lands rather clumsily and falls on his face, like I do on broomsticks.

Mother scoffs at him, and rolls her luminous snake eyes.

I run over to him and help him up.

"Are you okay?" I ask. He brushes off his long black robe and nods his head.

"Children," Mother says coldly, catching our attention. We both whip around and give Mother our individable eye contact. We knew only too well what would happen if we didn't.

"I want you both to listen closely. I have a goal that I need your help to fulfill," Mother continues. "I want to revive the Kishin Asura, who lives below the very grounds of the DWMA. And I need you two to help me."

I stare in awe. So this was what Mother was keeping from me this whole time?

"Wh-what do w-we have to d-do?" Crona asks shakily. Mother smiles a deeply troubling smile.

"I want you to hold them off," she says simply. "The students and staff will fight for their treasure. It'll be up to you two to keep them from reaching Free and Eruka and preventing them from resurrecting Asura."

Wait, so I have to betray the school I love even more than I already have? I don't want to! 

"In the mean time..." Mother finishes up with a thoughtful look. "Kimiko will continue to gain the academy's trust and Crona will come with me. It's all been thought out. It's perfect now."

I wasn't so sure.

"Are you sure this'll work...?" I ask nervously.

Mother glares at me. Crona tenses up, and gives me a warning look with his deep eyes.

"You don't have faith in me?" she spits. "What, have you grown to love that school?"

I didn't answer. 

"Well?" she glares at me.

I look at me feet, ashamed. Why did I even open my mouth?

"N-no Mother..." I whisper.

Mother's frown twists into a smirk.

"That's what I thought." she sneers, "Now, return to your beloved academy. These next three days will be your last there. Come, Crona."

I walk to the building obediently as I hear my family members fly off.

These next three days will be your last there.

 Those words haunt me as I walk under the snickering moon.