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“Kid, I'm bored.” the uninterested girl with a short attention span groaned as she laid, spread out on the couch.
Kid, himself, sat directly across from her on the other couch, only a small mahogany colored table was separating them. He wasn't bored at all like the other young Meister in front of him. He was too absorbed in the new book he got yesterday.
“Well, I don't know what to tell you.” he looked over to the girl from the top of his book. She laid on her back, one hand under her head, the other resting on her stomach as she stared up at the ceiling with a bored haze in her eyes. Her hair was on one side of her shoulder, draping over the edge of the sofa.
As he went back to his book, the girl began to talk once more, “Don't just go back to your book.”
This time when he looked up, the small girl was sitting up, looking right at him now. “I said, I'm bored. You can't just ignored me.”
“Are you saying I'm supposed to entertain you?” Kid cocked a brow as he looked back to the page he was on, pretending to be reading again. He already knew if he started to, she'd end up talking, making him loose his train of thought and have to reread the paragraph once more.
“You know what I meant, Kid.” she leaned back on the sofa with a huff, slightly giving up on the idea of getting him to put down the book and do something.
“If you wanted to do something, you should've gone out with Liz and Patty.” he told her flatly, flipping to the next page even though he hadn't even finished reading the previous one yet. “They did offer, remember?”
“Yes, I do remember,” she rolled her eyes at him as she laid down on her stomach, propping herself up with her elbows.
It was silent between the two now and that made the girl even more anxious to do something, anything, other than just sitting around all day in Kid's mansion as he read a stupid book.
When she sighed in disbelief, Kid decided to speak again, “You should have gone with them.”
He flipped over a page again.
“But I didn't,” she smiled, enthusiasm in her voice. “Come on, Kid. It's not like I'm asking you to do something asymmetrical.”
The young female Meister hit a nerve right then and there. Kid looked up from his book once more, his left eye twitching from the cruel, inconsiderate word she had just spoken, but she didn't apologize. She just laid there on the couch with a sweet and innocent smile etched on her face, but he knew that she was far from it. She was toying with him now, waiting for him to finally crack and put down the dumb book in his hands. He was close from doing so, she knew that, maybe even he knew that, but she was slightly hoping he'd refuse just a little longer. It was starting to get fun, annoying the black-haired boy with the three white stripes on the left side of his head.
Kid closed his eyes, letting a slow breath escape his thin lips to collect himself before speaking, “Does that mean you have something in mind?”
She looked at him. She hadn't thought about that part yet. Obviously, they were going to have to do something once he finally agreed. She had to think quick before the honey-eyed boy caught on that she didn't even have something in mind and go back to his reading.
“Hide and go seek?” she sat up with a bright smile. Proud with her fast idea.
“But that's a child's game.”
“So? It doesn't mean we can't play it.” the girl pouted. She actually wanted to play the game now. In fact, it was one of her favorite childhood games.
Kid studied her for a few moments, teasing her more than she'd like, “Fine.”
He closed his book and set it perfectly a lined with the corner of the table, leaving two inches exactly from the book to the edge of the table before standing up.
“You count to a hundred and I'll hide.” the small girl bounced up from the couch and skipped out of the room leaving him alone in the big, symmetrical living room.
Kid chuckled to himself at the child-like demeanor of the little oddball that he'd never dared admit his feelings to, not even his own self.
Her named rolled off his tongue in a low murmur.
She was now running around the massive mansion of her friend's, thinking of a place to hide. It was going to be a tough challenge to cover her tracks and fool the black-hared boy.
Unlike Weapons, Meisters have the capability to see and sense other souls. Kid could easily find her by her soul wavelength radiating by this sixth sense from wherever her hiding spot was going to be. This wasn't going to be a fun game as she thought, if Kid found her straight away.
She found herself in the kitchen. It had been a while since she left kid to count. He probably was already looking around for her wavelength as she stood there.
The kitchen was a huge room with ever kitchen appliance you could think of possible. One half of the room looked just the same as the other half, like a mirror image of itself. Everything from the refrigerates to the small jars that lined against the backsplash was symmetrical from each other..
Kid had a problem with symmetry. Everyone who knew him, knew this. If something was even the slightest bit asymmetrical, he'd freak, laying on the ground sobbing about how asymmetrical everything was. It tooks a lot to calm him down after his breaking points and don't you dare mention his hair to him either.
The girl turned around in a circle, scoping out the place for a good hiding place before Kid find her standing in the middle of the kitchen. That wouldn't be good. He'd probably end up teasing her on how she didn't even know how to play the game right.
The kitchen was large with a long island and several cabinets. If she hid in one of them, he'd have to go through some to find her.
Perfect.
After the young Meister had moved and stacked piles of pots and pans, she had managed to make a placement for her to stay in one of the cabinets. It was a small and cramped space, but it would have to do. She looked around herself before she crawled in, not wanting to leave any evidence that she was there, out in the open for Kid. It took her a few tries to find a good stance before she closed the door of the cabinet, now entering a pitch black darkness.
Now, I have to wait.
Maybe playing hide and seek in a mansion wasn't a good idea. It could be a while before the young reaper could sense her soul in his own kitchen. His house was huge after all and the living room was on the other side of it.
It was very restricted in a small cabinet on the right side of the kitchen next to the refrigerator on the left. If anyone wanted to try kneeling in the dark, tight space for over five minutes, the teen wouldn't recommend it at all to them. She couldn't move a muscle or else she would bump into one of the piles of pots on either side of her.
A few more minutes had passed and the naive girl was starting to get impatient with Kid.
Her muscles in her legs were starting to burn in the position she had been in for over teen minutes now.
What if Kid fooled her into think he was going to play, but really, he was, at this moment, reading the dumb book again, forgetting about the whole game. No, she wasn't going to give up in the middle of the game. Kid was out there, wandering the halls of his home, trying to find her.
And that was exactly what he was doing.
Just as the Meister was about to sigh, doubting on Kid once more, one of the doors to enter and exit the kitchen rushed open. She held her breath when the presence had stopped walking. Just by the feeling of their soul wavelength, she knew it was Kid, but she somehow doubted it. She wasn't exactly good at sensing soul wavelengths like Kid or Maka. It had to be Kid though. They were the only two in the house.
Unless, if it was Liz or Patty, coming home early, but then again they'd make their arrival known, loudly. The person who had just entered was quiet.
The sound of cabinets being opened and shut made the young female jump, almost ruining her cover, but instead she placed her hands on the top of the little confined space she was in. Good thing she had fast reflexes or else she would have blown her cover.
Everything got quiet again, causing the girl's heart to speed up, pounding so loudly she was almost sure that the other soul in the room could hear it, clearly.
Then, there was a sound of... the refrigerator opening?
This isn't the time for a snack, kid, she thought to herself, rolling her eyes to the dark. The person outside of the cabinet had now opened a can, probably a soda by the fizzing sound that was made when the tab opened the aluminum can.
It then suddenly got bright, almost completely blinding the girl that had been hiding. It all unraveled so fast, it took her a few seconds and a lot of blinking for her eyes to adjust to the light.
In front of her was a pair of legs, dressed in black pants.
They now started to bend, kneeling to the floor to identify their owner. A small smile crept on the Meister's face. She tried to hide it, but before she could meet his face, she hid her own in her hands, so she couldn't see anything again but darkness.
“Found you,” a low whisper in front of her said, sending chills up and down her spinal cord.
She pressed her small hands to her face even more, “If I can't see you, you can't see me.”
A small giggle escaped her lips, surprising herself a little at the sound.
“Oh, really?” the young man chuckled, reaching his large hands to the tiny ones attached to his favorite Meister at the DWMA. “What about now?”
Now he could see the bright irises of the girl still in the cabinet. His lips curved up at the sides as she looked up at him. He loved how innocent she looked right there. It made him want to wrap his arms around her petite, fragile frame and kiss her. To protect her from this cruel and dangerous world they put their lives into, but he didn't do that. He didn't want to jeopardize it.
Instead, he helped pull her out of the small space she had been hiding in and sat on the floor, staring at each other. It felt strange to Kid as he sat there, looking at the most beautiful girl he had ever laid eyes on. He always thought about kissing her at random times like this one, but he knew he'd never pluck up the courage to. It almost pained him as he remembered all the thoughts and daydreams he had of kissing this girl and all the times he really could have made his fantasy become a reality.
He slowly moved closer to her, awkwardly. He lowered his face, trying hard to not let the girl in front of him see the pinkish blush staining his cheeks. She looked at him, unsure of what he was thinking and it almost scared her a bit, but what scared her the most was how unpredictable Kid was being in this moment. She was able to read him most of the time or, well, she thought she could at least.
Her breath hitched in her throat when she noticed how close his face had gotten to hers. Their noses almost touching as she closed her eyes. The small space between their lips were gone as Kid gave himself his own kick in the ass to finally kiss her.
It was a simple and sweet kiss, something a first kiss should feel like.
The beautiful girl of his dreams was the one to pull away first, shocked at what had just happened.
Her named left his lips.
He cringed at how small his voice sounded. The look on her face made him almost regret kissing her.
Clearly, she didn't feel the same as him.
Or so he thought.
The young girl licked her lips, tasting the flavor of grape soda on them. Up on the counter above them was a small can of grape soda, opened. The same can Kid had gotten out of the fridge only moments before. A laugh escaped from her, before she leaned towards him, but at the last second she shoved him backwards, making him fall onto his back as she hovered over him.
“You found me!” the reaper underneath her chuckled meekly. She was acting like nothing happened and that brought Kid even more down as she acted like her usual, childish self.
The little devil laughed lightly this time, her eyes softened as she slowly leaned down towards Kid a second time. She let their lips touch briefly, toying with the shinigami below her saying, “I've always wanted you to do that.”
She smiled, her cheeks turned red, making Kid calm down and chuckle at her shyness all of a sudden.
“Good,” he grinned up at her as he put both of his hands on either side of her waist. She put her's on his chest.
The young reaper lifted his head up from the tiled floor and kissed the Meister on top of him, fiercer this time around, but not by much. He didn't regret kissing her now. He was happy he plucked up the courage to do so. She made him feel like this for sometime that it was starting to be unbearable to just keep the feeling bottled up, and now it exploded like a shaken can of soda, but this time it was a good thing.
“I've wanted to do that for a long, long time too.” Kid pulled away, breathless, letting his head fall to the floor with a look of delight on his face.
A hand reached up to play with his black locks, “Another round?” Kid's lips formed a wicked smile that almost terrified the girl laying on top of him.
He pecked her on the nose before replying back, “You count to a hundred and I'll hide.”