Symmetry Gone Wrong~ Chapter 3

Symmetry Gone Wrong~ Chapter 3
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After leaving Maka and Soul's apartment; Kid starts to make his way back home. Many things were floating through his mind, like, "What would father think if he saw me right now? " , "Why does Maka care about me so much?" , "I wonder what Liz and Patty are doing?..." and "What does that voice inside my head mean with the paths...?" .

"I just don't understand any of this... How am I supposed to create a peaceful world like my father if I can't even keep my own mind sane ?!.. " He says out loud to himself, sighing. "This is really pathetic..." He mumbles.

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When Kid reaches his home; he silently unlocks the door and walks inside. The lights are dim, each perfectly evened out. This makes him smile a little but it's not enough to keep his mood sane.

He is about to walk into the bathroom, but then hears footsteps. He quickly turns around.

"Liz? Patty ? ...Is that you?" He looks around the dimmed room, but finds nobody.

"Must have been my imagination..." He sighs and walks into his bathroom.

He looks into the mirror at himself, trying to picture himself as his father; But he can't do it. All he can think about is all the questions he doesn't know how to answer.

"This is all my fault... Why did I have to shoot the Death Cannon!? I should have let Father handle things with Asura on his own...."

He pounds both fists on the sink counter in frustration, making both hands turn slightly red.

"Damn... I really need to get a grip of myself..." He looks at himself in the mirror then stares at his hands.

"Wait a minute...." He looks back up into the mirror and wonders what would happen if he was to call "42-42-564", his father's mirror number. Could he somehow reach his father with that number?  It was worth a try.

"I-I have to try... but what do I say to him?... Just apologize for killing him? That wouldn't be right... You don't just apologize for killing someone and get over it. Especially not your own father..."

He stares into the mirror, his fingers trembling. He can't bring himself to write in the number.

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After shaking for a very long time, there is a knock on the bathroom door.

"W-Who's there?..." Kid asks; grabbing his arm.

"Why don't you come out here, Kid ?" A familar voice says calmly, followed by another girl's giggle.

Liz and Patty.

"Y-You guys.. came to check on me?" He says opening the door with his beaten hands.

Patty notices his hands. "Hey! What happened to your hands?" She picks one up and messes with his fingers.

Liz moves Patty's hands off Kid and tells her to cut it out.

"Kid... Did you do that to yourself?" She asks, looking at him seriously, concerned.

Kid looks down and sighs. "Yeah.. I did.., but can we not talk about this? Please..." His eyes lower.

Patty giggles. "Kiddo, you have to smile! If you don't smile then people won't like you!"

This doesn't make him feel any better. He hangs his head down and starts to walk away all depressed like.

Liz gives Patty a quick, but effective knock on the back of her head.

"Patty! How could you say something like that to Kid?! He's going through a lot right now and you are just giggling and telling him people aren't going to like him!? How is that supposed to help!?" She sighs feeling angry with her sister; highly frustrated.

Kid shakes his head at their fighting and leaves the room. He doesn't want to listen to them fight over him so he retreats to his bedroom to at least TRY... and relax for a moment.

Patty sighs and gives an innocent, 'I'm sorry'; type of look to Liz.
Liz rolls her eyes.

"We have to go after him... Who knows what he'll do if we don't keep an eye on him...?"

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Meanwhile; At Maka and Soul's apartment.

Maka is sitting on her bed, staring out the window. She hugs her pillow tightly to her chest and sighs sadly. She just had gotten into a fight with Soul and was still worried about Kid.

"Poor Kid.... He looked so hurt when he came by...." A tear escapes down her cheek. Blair jumps into her lap in kitty form and gives her a playful look.

"Why so sad, Maka?! " She asks.

Maka looks at her and sighs again. She lightly pets Blair as she speaks. Blair purrs, listening to Maka .

"It's just.... Soul doesn't seem to understand why I'm so sad about Kid... He just tells me that it's 'not cool' to be sad all the time and that I shouldn't hang around all depressed. But it's SO.. hard to do... I mean Kid just lost his own father because of that STUPID Kishin Asura... I'm really going to punch that guy harder than last time when I see him again! "

Blair jumps a little bit at the fury in Maka's voice.

"That DOES.. sound depressing!" She meows sadly.

Maka sighs again. "Yeah... I wish Soul would understand me... I-I just want to help Kid..." She falls back on her bed, staring at the dark ceiling.

Blair rubs her head against Maka's foot. "Well.. Why not? You should go over to Kid's house and talk to him!" She giggles.

Maka quickly sits up on her bed, almost making Blair fall off the side.

"That's a great idea Blair! Thank you!" She smiles confidently and heads for the door but Blair changes into neko/human form, blocking the way out. She is dressed in pink PJ panties and a black bra with pink lace.

Maka's eye twitches a little at the outfit, then goes back to normal.

"What are you doing? I have to get out of here!"

Blair puts a finger to Maka's lip. "Shhh, you have to be quiet. You shouldn't let Soul know you're leaving! " She pauses for a moment and starts to blush. "I'll keep my little scythey boy distracted while you're gone!" She winks and skips out the door, leaving Maka irritated at what she had just said.

Maka peeks her head out her bedroom door and sees Blair in kitty form, headed for Soul's room.

"Erg...." She groans with jealousy under breath, but ignores it because Kid is more important than Blair.

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Maka tiptoes out of the apartment, and shuts the door being as silent as she can be.

"Phew..." She thinks out loud, looking up at the night sky. The sky still has a thick smoke-like red, madness wavelengths.

She starts walking, glancing up at the sky every few minutes.

" I wonder if the madness is what's bothering Kid.... It is a possiblity.. but why wouldn't he be able to keep ahold of his sanity?.... He's a Grim Reaper.. and has always lived up to that... Other than his symmetry freak-outs... He's been such a perfect guy..." She sighs at the sky, trying to connect her thoughts together.

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Back at Soul and Maka's apartment

Blair jumps at Soul and pounces playfully on him in kitty form. He had been half-asleep and it startled him.

"What the Hell, Blair!" He says pushing her away.

"I wanna play! Pwease? " She gives him her innocent kitty eyes.

"...I don't want to play right now. Go away." He points to the door, sitting up on his bed sleepily. He puts his hands in his hair, and lays back.

Blair changes into neko/human form and jumps back on the bed.

"Come on Soul! Pwease!" She grabs him and rubs her chest in his face. Soul gets a major nose-bleed as usual, flailing his arms to get free.

"Let me go, you damn cat!" He pushes her.

Blair meows sadly and leaves the room. She mumbles, "Sorry Maka..." .

Soul gets up, shuts the door, and lays back in bed.

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Meanwhile; Maka steps up to the doorway of Kid's mansion.

She knocks on the door 8 times; But nobody ever comes.

She sighs and walks into the mansion, hoping a security system wouldn't sound off.

She tiptoes and looks around. It's entirely dark, other than a light coming from upstairs. It appeared to be coming from Kid's bedroom. Maka turns her Soul Perception on and begins searching for Kid's soul.

She finds it within seconds. He's upstairs in his bedroom. His soul appears to be troubled and helpless. She quickly runs up the steps to attend to him.

When she reaches the door, she can faintly hear someone talking.  He's telling the voice he senses another person's arrival. Liz and Patty had already tried to come in, but he wouldn't let them.

"Is he talking to himself?...." She wonders to herself. "I'm a little nervous to open the door...."

She takes a deep breath and opens the door. She takes a look around, and finds Kid huddled in the corner of his bed. He is clenching his head as if he's in some type of horrible pain.

Maka steps closer to the bed. "...Kid? Is that you?" She asks.

Kid slowly turns his head, wondering who would be bothering him this late at night. His eyes look up into Maka's. They are a darker golden color, surrounded with repeating circles of black. The madness was consuming him from his frustration, the waves of madness in the air, and his depression. The voice inside his head kept hounding him to choose his path.  

"What do I do...? I-I don't know what to do... I don't understand..." Kid asks the voice

"Kid, Choose your path... right now.. Your perfect world is waiting for you......." The voice replies with a sinister laugh.

Kid smiles at Maka madly. "Oh, hello Maka. What brings you here?"

Maka gulps and steps back a little bit. "I-I came to check on you... You seemed really troubled... and I wanted to help you..."

Kid chuckles. "You wanted to help me ? ....How foolish of you."

"...Kid, please calm down! Y-You're not acting like yourself..."

Kid smirks and steps forward. "That was the old me... " He grabs Maka and pulls her closer to his body; This makes her blush deep red.

"Kid.. What are you doing?" She feels frozen as if he was contolling her every move, making her movement paralyzed.

Kid looks down at the floor then back up at Maka. "It was so... kind... of you to come and try to talk to me... You know that?" He whispered in her ear in a soft, cold tone.

"T-This isn't you...I just know it's not..." She tries to pull away. "I saw your soul! You're taking the WRONG.. path Kid! Madness is NOT.. the answer!" She looks him straight in the eye, meeting his blank expression, yet intimidating gaze.

Kid shakes his head. "You're wrong. I took the path that I wanted to choose. Now I can finally create the perfectly balanced world I have always wanted; A world my father refused to create!" He shouts angrily, stomping his foot at the floor. It shakes the floor and leaves a asymmetrical hole in the floor. Kid's eyes grow wide at the horror.

"LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO, MAKA!" He says pointing the blame at Maka.

Maka's expression grows angry. "I didn't make you do ANYTHING!.. You did this all on your own, Kid. " She looks at him with eyes of sympathy.
"I'm trying to tell you... this is wrong! but you don't listen..."

Kid stares at her in disbelief. "I still don't believe you, and I don't think you realize... but this is MY.. world now. I am the leader and I'm going fight for a perfectly balanced world." He smiles a little to himself as the black lines, revealing proof that he is consumed by madness and obssessed with his new power, appear over his mouth; making it appear like it was sewn shut.  His clothing appearance also changes. His normal, black suit is traded for the outfit that the Black Mass gave him, consisting of a black shirt with white ruffles in the front, and black pants.

Maka steps back. "The world doesn't need to be perfect, Kid. You don't understand that, that is not excatly possible... Everything CAN'T.. be symmetrical... it's okay to be different..."

Kid shakes his head. "I don't believe so... but what I do believe..." He smiles with a slight blush at Maka. "That you are the most symmetrical girl I've ever laid eyes on."

Maka's eyes grow wide and she flails her arms around; her face turning pink. "I-I'm not symmetrical! See!" She lifts one pigtail in the air, and not the other.

Kid laughs. "...I can fix that." He steps forward, holding Maka with one hand, and the other straightening her hair down.

"K-Kid.. I don't want this world... Please.. I want the old you back!"

Kid looks back up at her. "...Why won't you just accept this IS... me!"

".....Fine, if you want to be that way... I'll leave..." She says stubbornly and heads for the door.

Kid does not fight her decision. He stands there and watches her go. The voice in his head comes back.

"What are you doing? You're just going to let a symmetrical beauty like her go? CHASE AFTER HER!"

"That can wait.. Right now... I need to speak with Father." He smiles calmly and walks into the bathroom.

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To Be Continued in the Next Chapter~