A Sound Soul

Chapter 1

Chapter One

Fuuma and Kamui sat in Fuuma's brother's office. Fuuma still questioned why they were sitting here. "Um Nii-san? Why are we here?"

"You really don't know? You're starting at the DWMA. It's time for orientation. Now this young man with you, is he your weapon?"

Fuuma turned red as did Kamui. "He's a weapon but he's not really my weapon! At least not yet! Nothing is official yet! We haven't picked partners or anything!"

"No kidding. You pick your partner at the end of orientation. I hope you're not tardy every day this week because that would look terrible quite frankly."

"Is that really why you wanted to see me Nii-san?"

"Perhaps or perhaps I wanted to see who my baby brother picked for his partner. Who's to say? Now get going to homeroom and try to stay out of trouble and watch your baby sister."

"What; Kotori's here too?!"

"Yes and let me remind you she got here on time unlike you. Dismissed."

As Kamui and Fuuma left Kamui looked over at Fuuma. "I didn't know you had a baby sister."

"Yes, she's a weapon though I'm not sure what she turns into. Come on before we hear it from my brother again."

Kamui and Fuuma walked into their classroom and were greeted with bright green eyes and a wide smile. "Hi! I'm Hokuto Sumeragi...oh hi Kamui I didn't know you were coming to school here."

"Kamui, who's this?"

"My older half-sister and Subaru's twin." Kamui paused for a minute. "Hokuto I didn't know you were a student here."

"Oh you know Subaru took after grandmother's side and then there's me, I'm not a weapon just a humble meister after all. Now take a seat before Subaru gets here he's going to be a substitute teacher for this class since Sei-chan hasn't found a replacement yet."

"Subaru a teacher? That doesn't sound like Subaru at all..."

"Of course it doesn't, Subaru's changed since becoming a death scythe. It probably has a lot to do with Sei-chan. He's changed since becoming Sei-chan's partner. Then again Sei-chan has changed quite a bit since the two of them have partnered up as well."

Kamui scoffed. "He seems the same to me."

"Oh hush Kamui, you never liked Sei-chan. Just get over him and Subaru being very much in looove and focus on your mission."

"What mission?"

"Don't you know anything about the DWMA? All students have a mission."

"Fuuma may have mentioned something about before I had my morning coffee; what about it?"

"The mission of every DWMA student is to collect ninety-nine kishin souls and one witch soul. In doing so makes you a death scythe to be used by Lord Death."

"Oh! Good morning Subaru! Late on your first official day as a teacher!"

Subaru blushed. "Ah well I wasn't sure which classroom it was and I got sort of lost."

Several students sat in wonder and awe at Subaru Sumeragi standing there in front of them. "Death Scythe-san! What it's like being the weapon of Lord Death!"

At this Subaru smiled before holding his arm up. There was a white glow and his arm was now a black and white scythe blade. The blade shone in the early morning light and even Kamui looked more awake now. "Being a scythe weapon I can transform parts of my body into scythe blades at will. As for what it's like being a death scythe...it's terrifying at times. I, unlike other death scythes of the past started out as Lord Death's weapon partner, before Lord Death was in fact Lord Death. Now you all know of course the mission of DWMA students in the EAT class. We work with Lord Death to keep the city safe. Now of course you're not ready for the EAT class yet, you need to have your partners first so I'll let you all get to know each other. Everyone is wearing a meister or weapon tag so that saves you the awkward question of asking people what they are."

Fuuma looked at Kamui who just shrugged. "I had a feeling this was going to happen. Hope you're a good shot."

"Of course I am! I've been training for this since I was young! I can't wait to go after a witch! I have an upper hand you know, my brother being who he is."

"You still have a long way to go big brother."

It was Kamui's turn to ask Fuuma who the girl was. "Ah Kamui, meet my sister Kotori. She's a weapon so I guess you can say she's the oddball of the family."

"Hey Hokuto's the oddball in ours, but technically your brother isn't a weapon or meister either."

"No he's a shinigami and is in his own class I suppose."

"Just listen to bigger brother for once big brother. Don't try to go after a witch until you've collected 99 souls."

"Why would I ever do that? I'm crazy, not stupid."

"Lots of students do it for the fame and glory, the usual stuff."

"Ah you're a weapon young lady? How would you like to pair with me? Ohohohohoho."

Kotori nodded and they walked off while Fuuma sat there tapping his fingers on his desk. "Kamui, tonight we're going to prove everyone wrong."