(1) The Dark Shadowed Love

The Dark Shadowed Love - Does He Actually Care?

He smiled as he brushed her soft, gentle cheek. Sitting on the edge of her bed, as she almost fell asleep to his touch, made him feel a lot better than when he had entered her room. She yawned lightly and blinked to try to keep her eyes opened as he stroked her face. The young boy moved the young girl's hair from her face, leaned forward, and kissed her forehead. "It's getting late. I must be going now, if not, Father and the others will become worried." She nodded weakly as a sign of understanding. The young boy stood up from her bed, walked up and opened the metal door, "I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" He smiled, as he stood in between the door and the hallway and smiled, "Sleep well, good night." The young girl smiled back tiredly and said, "I'll try, good night." He nodded and closed the cold metal door; leaving the young girl in a dark cold room, all by herself. He didn't like leaving her in the dark and lonely room, but he had to. He sighed as he walked alone in the corridors of the DWMA, soon leaving the school, and heading to his home. One day, hoping to take the young girl away from the darkness.

It's been about two months since everything had calmed down. The death of the kishin, the witches' disappearance, Medusa's death, everything went to the way it should be. Except that now, the DWMA has new student. Chrona Makenshi. She sleeps and practically lives in the dorms that are underneath the school. She hasn't begun her school classes above but she knows who Maka, Soul, Black*Star, Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, and Kid are. Chrona had met them when Kid took her to her new room. Out of the seven people, she only feels comfortable with Kid. He is the one who had shown her to the school and decided not to kill her when he had the chance. Though, Kid was the one who opened Chrona's heart, Chrona's feels safer with Maka Albarn. Since Maka has understood what it's like to have an "un-loving" parent, and Chrona had seen Maka take a book out of thin air and put Black*Star into the hospital. Sadly, with everything that's going on with meister's that begin go slowly begin to turn kishin, Maka had to go on a mission with Soul, so Kid would be giving Chrona a tour of the school.

He knocked on the young girl's door, "Um hello? May I come in?" Nobody answered so he knocked again. "I'm going to come in now so if you don't want me to, please feel free to say something." Kid opened the door slowly, stepping in the room carefully, since the metal door opened inside the room and might hurt the poor girl if she was near. As his eyes actually began to dilate to the light of the room, he could see that nobody was inside. The bed was perfectly made but the room was only filled with light from the window that is above the desk she was given. "Chrona?"

"K-Kid?"

He moved more into the room and looked to the corner that the door hid when opened, "Chrona what are you doing?"

She lifted her head more, "I feel less alone when I'm in Mr. Corner." Chrona sat in the corner, hugging her legs; her head was buried in the space between her legs and chest.

Kid walked up to her and let out a hand to help her up, "You shouldn't feel that way anyways." She grabbed his hand and stood up; a little under half a second after standing, she grabbed her left arm. "Come on I'll give you a tour of the school." Kid smiled.

She nodded and smiled weakly, "Yeah, thanks."

"What about me, you little twerp?!"

"Hm?" Kid tilted his head, slightly confused from the voice.

Almost automatically, a small blob of black liquid squirmed out of Chrona's spine. Compared to what Kid saw, and battled, on the Black Dragon and underground of the school, this blob looked puny. Ragnarok slipped out and waved his arms around. "What the hell is this?! Why am I so tiny?!" He looked at Kid and began pulling on his hair, bringing him closer to his Meister's face. "This is your fault! Why are you and everyone else friends with Chrona?!"

"Ah!" Chrona whimpered, "R-Ragnarok please, stop! He's getting too close to me!"

"Because someone like you doesn't treat her the way she should be treated!" Kid replied to Ragnarok, giving a slight tone of pain and anger.

Chrona's face turned lightly red at Kid's comment. Wh-Wh-What does he mean by that? She thought, N-N-No. It's not the way I'm thinking...

"I treat her just fine!" Ragnarok yelled at Kid. "Besides, who in their right mind would want to hang around your obsession with symmetry when you don't even look symmetrical yourself?!"

"What!?" Kid asked, his voice breaking slowly. "No, you're right. Asymmetrical garbage." He dropped himself on his hands and knees and began to mope, "I'm just a worthless son of a Reaper. I don't deserve to live on this planet anymore! Depression! It hurts, I can't live like anymore! I should just die!"

"Uh, Kid?" Chrona asked, heading towards the weeping Shinigami. "A-A-Are you...o-okay?"

"Not at all!" He managed to say, his voice sounding muffled from his tears.

What do I do? Chrona thought, I don't like seeing him like this...

Ragnarok scoffed, "What an idiot."

"If it m-m-makes you feel a-a-any better, I-I don't think you're garbage..." Chrona said, wondering if that was the right thing to say.

"Really?" Kid asked, his voice sounding more joyful. He lifted his head and gave Chrona a look of admiration, "You really think so?"

She nodded, blushing lightly. "You don't even look like garbage. I stay away from garbage, I-I-I don't want to stay away from you."

Kid felt his face turn red, "Do you really mean that?"

Chrona nodded nervously, "Wh-Wh-Why would I lie to you?"

He jumped up and turned away quickly before Chrona could see his red face. "So, um, Chrona, h-h-how about we, uh, go see the school now?" Damn it! I'm starting to stutter!

"Y-Y-Yeah." She replied. Wh-Wh-What is this? My heart's beating really fast and I felt my face turn red. Where's Maka?! I need her help!

"Chrona, are you okay?"

"What?" Chrona looked up, broken from her thoughts. Kid stood by the door, wondering why she was still standing clueless where he had broken down. "Oh s-s-sorry. I'm coming." She walked behind the reaper and shifted her eyes away from his body.

He smiled and looked outside of the room into the hallway, "Let's go. The beautiful, symmetrical school above is waiting for our arrival."

He thinks a school is beautiful because of its symmetry, Chrona touched her hair and closed her eyes. I don't have that. My hair is the complete opposite of symmetry.

"Chrona, what's wrong?"

She let go of her hair and looked up at Kid's worried face, "N-Nothing I'm fine." She tried to force smile as she grabbed her left arm, "L-Let's go. Your friends are probably getting worried..."

He knew something was wrong but shrugged it off anyways. Kid moved from the door into the hallway, stood beside the door, and let out his right hand. "After you."

Chrona face began to turn red once again, but this time she tried as hard as possible to hold it in. It worked but, it didn't hold all of it in. Her cheeks shone like pink rose, "Um...th-th-thanks." She whispered, as she walked out of the room into the candle lit hallway.

"No problem at all." He said, closing the cold metal door to Chrona's dark prison. When the door was shut closed he whispered something short and quick.

Chrona tilted her head in curiosity, "S-S-Sorry I missed that."

Kid turned from the door to the young girl and smiled, "It's nothing. Let's head upstairs; it's getting awfully chilly down here."

"Um...o-okay." She nodded, still wondering what he could have whispered.

"Are you hungry?" Kid asked, as he and Chrona began walking to the staircase that led into the school.

"Maybe not her, but I am!" Ragnarok spoke.

Kid jumped, "R-R-Ragnarok?! How long have you been out?!"

"Oh, Ragnarok, I forgot you were on my head. You've been so quiet." Chrona said; a sweat drop falling from the side of her head.

"I've been out the entire time, you idiots! I heard and saw everything! You two are so clueless about each other." Ragnarok pouted.

"Everything!?" Kid freaked, Does that mean he heard my whisper?! Oh great, you've got to be kidding me! Mentally, he wanted to just fall and the floor and beg Ragnarok to keep his mouth shut. Physically, he just had on a fake smile as if everything was fine and no secrets were hidden.

"Yes, everything, you knucklehead." Ragnarok laughed, "And unless you feed me, I'll spill everything.

Chrona was confused on what he meant but Kid, Kid knew exactly what he was talking about. All from Kid's face turning red, to what he whispered when he closed the door. Ragnarok could tell it all. Luckily for Kid, Chrona hadn't even noticed any of it. "Fine, I'll feed you. Chrona, would you like some food as well?"

Since Chrona had no idea from what was going on, she just thought that Kid didn't want the fact that he was being nice to her to slip out to the other students in the DWMA. Does he...Does he really not want others to know his kindness towards me? Am I really that bad of a person?

"Uh, Chrona?"

Broken from her thoughts once again, she looked up at Kid's face, "Oh, um, n-n-no. I was feed a while back; I-I-I'm not really hungry right now."

"What?!" Ragnarok shouted, "You ate and didn't tell me?!" He began pulling on Chrona's hair, "I haven't eaten yet you go gorging away at the food?!"

"Ow, ow, ow! I wasn't gorging! I don't eat the way you do!" She whimpered, "Ow, Ragnarok, this really hurts!"

"Too bad! This is what you get for not telling me crap!" Ragnarok growled, still pulling roughly at her hair.

"Stop it!"

Ragnarok and Chrona froze. The angry voice that echoed the empty hallways had given Chrona a chill down her spine. "What was that?" Ragnarok asked tilting his head slowly to Kid.

Kid's hands were turned into fists and his head was looking down, restraining himself from the anger inside of him. "I said, 'Stop it'. Leave Chrona alone. She's innocent and doesn't deserve to be treated like this by anyone, especially you! You're her own blood, for crying out loud, you should be the nicest one to her, yet you treat her almost as bad as Medusa did! If it wasn't for her you would just be a worthless weapon, or even just a worthless bucket of liquid!" The anger inside began to slowly cool down, he sighed, "I'm sorry. I was just...Please excuse my ignorant rant."

Wh-Wh-What was that? Chrona thought, He...He stood up for me. No one's ever done that for me before. Wh-Wh-Why...Why is he's so kind to me. And why do I...why do I feel like crying?

"Whatever. You can't tell me what to do, Shinigami. Hey, Chrona, tell me when you get food next time." Ragnarok said; he patted her head and disappeared back into her spine.

"Chrona I-."

"It's okay..." Chrona interrupted, "You're the only person who's actually stood up to Ragnarok for me before." Without actually realizing she fell down to her knees and began to cry. "N-N-Not even my own mother did that for me." She sniffled and covered her face with her hands.

Kid smiled and sat down on his knees in front of her. This is just like before, when I saved her from her madness. Her non-stop crying because she's happy. I've never met someone like that; she's different from the others. "Chrona come on." He put his hand on her head, "Stop crying, you don't want to go to your first day of class all worn out, do you?"

She shook her head and dropped her hands down to her feet, "Wh-Wh-Why are..." She sniffled again, "Why are you s-s-so nice to me?"

Kid smiled and dropped his hand from her head, "That's because, Chrona, I told you that I would become your friend. A true gentleman wouldn't break their word." Great, He thought, I sound like Soul.

Chrona's tears fell from her face and fell on her black, slim dress. The tears disappearing into the cloth. "Y-Y-You could leave if you want. I-I-I'll start class t-t-tomorrow."

"No," Kid wiped the tears away from Chrona's cheeks. "I wouldn't leave you."

Hello there, Readers! Okay, I know the story line may be horrible but I'm trying to improve it so far! I'm already thinking of amazing storylines to add. This is just a bit of Chrona and Kid in this chapter~. Don't worry there'll be more! Just not yet~. I'm planning to add my OC witch to make the Chrona and Kid pairing more fun! Yeah, yeah. Other OC's usually break that pairing but mine won't. She won't date XD unless you want her to. Please read and review, I need more inspiration to keep it going. Any other pairing ideas?