Setting
The DWMA is in Death City. The special Academy for Meisters and Weapons in training. Death city is a city full of people who work together to keep it peaceful.
"Thank God" Akira thought to himself as he could have sworn he saw steam fuming out of his ears. Luckily Nate stood up and stopped him but he could still feel the tension, well at least they were leaving.
“Oh, I almost forgot I need something from my room Akira come with me” Akira groaned and was dragged upstairs by a seemingly anxious Asuna. As they entered the room she closed the door behind them and sighed.
“whew well we should hurry before papa gets suspicious.”
"What is that supposed to mean? I mean yes I just pissed your father of beyond return that next time I walk on this street I'll probably get attacked but who cares! I mean I have enough manners to know what to do and what not to do at my girlfriends' parent's house. I mean if he would get suspicious over this he must truly despise me..."
Suddenly next thing he noticed Asuna was running rampant around in her room looking for something. Eventually she apparently gave up and plopped down on her bed.
“dammit where did I put it”
He sat down on the edge of Asuna's bed and attempted to comfort her in anyway he could.
"Asuna, what exactly are you looking for? Maybe I can help."
"Asuna, what exactly are you looking for? Maybe I can help."
she thought for a moment on whether or not she should tell him about the album she kept but letting out a sigh she turned to Akira "well umm its this picture album that I made, it has all these pictures of my family in it also the ones we took together when we were kids and I don't want to leave it here, it has a black lacy cover and I cant remember where I put it" she groaned before getting back up searching her room again.
"Picture...album..." Akira began to remember all of his memories with Asuna, he remembered all those times Asuna would be mean to him, and the time when she would soften up and flirt with him. When he was young he thought nothing of it, but now at this moment he realized he was pushing Asuna's feelings away. How long had she had these feelings for him? Was he too blind and naive to notice them?
He quickly began to tear up as he felt imagining how Asuna must have felt, suppressing her feelings until the time was right. While Asuna was still searching for the album he got up and hugged her for behind by putting his arms around her waist and put his head atop her shoulder. "I feel like a jerk...tell me something Asuna, how long have you had these feelings for me and I've just fully recognized them until now?"
"I feel like a jerk...tell me something Asuna, how long have you had these feelings for me and I've just fully recognized them until now?"
once again she tensed but she suppressed the need to flip whoever it was who hugged since she knew it was Akira now. she relaxed in his embrace, her hand reaching up to stroke his cheek. Asuna smiled, letting out a light chuckle.
"papa was right men are jerks, and Akira to tell the truth it was when we first met, do you honestly I would help a random stranger on the streets who looked perfectly fine" teasing him a little at how easily he had been fooled all these years. "but don't go getting full of yourself now your not the only reason I visited you, it was also for her" her smile kind and motherly thinking of Akira's younger sister.
"papa was right men are jerks, and Akira to tell the truth it was when we first met, do you honestly I would help a random stranger on the streets who looked perfectly fine"
"Errr, maybe if said person was as good looking as me then I could see how you would help a stranger. But other than that no. At the time I really never thought about it, I had a few ideas in my head..."
"but don't go getting full of yourself now your not the only reason I visited you, it was also for her"
He kissed Asuna on the cheek and let her go after he got the answer he wanted. "Well, I mean the main reason was for me, and the second reason was my little sister...well at least I was first on the priority list, anyway let's continue searching for that book, I want to see the memories of us together." He first started the check under Asuna's bed then proceeded into her closet.
"Asunaaa, I can't find it!" Akira said, getting almost as frustrated as Asuna.
"Asunaaa, I can't find it!" Akira yelled out in a frustrated tone.
she let out a frustrated sigh "I know Akira no need to yell but I'm pretty sure its not in my room so we'll just have to come back another time otherwise we wont be able to go to the zoo" Asuna then realized what it was she said and went to the her old writing desk looking at the clock.
"dammit Akira its 5:23 the day is half gone already do you want to continue trying to find my album or would you prefer going to the zoo before it gets really busy?" placing the clock back on the desk looking back at Akira.
"Screw the zoo! We can go there anytime! What's worth more to you? Watching some animals and getting ice cream or reliving the memories from when we first met?"
"dammit Akira its 5:23 the day is half gone already do you want to continue trying to find my album or would you prefer going to the zoo before it gets really busy?"
Akira turned around and stared at Asuna with a blank expression on his face. "I demand to find that photo album." He said in a blunt yet polite tone before returning to her closet and looking through all the empty boxes for the album.
"well okay but don't complain to me later about not doing anything" she snapped. Asuna looked through her draws again but found nothing, "hey im going to look somewhere else in the house so don't do anything stupid to my room got it" opening the door Asuna walked into the hallway going to another room and started her search there.
"Mmmm, it's alright I'll think of something to do."
"hey im going to look somewhere else in the house so don't do anything stupid to my room got it"
"Psh, as if."
As soon as Asuna left Akira took a sigh of relief. He opened her window and stared out of it. "Tsk...I'm craving kishin souls and this treasure hunt for a photo album is making me crave them even more for some odd reason. Even though I just had five I want more...why?" He then plopped onto Asuna's bed causing it to hit the wall. "Crap!" He checked the wall for damages and was happy with the result, only a very small indentation could be seen, and that was only if you were looking for imperfections.
after looking through the room she was in Asuna left that room and ran into Nate who had been carrying a tray of food. "hey watch it little sis" teasing her as he ruffled her hair. "hey you wouldn't happen to know where my album is would you?" looking up at her brother.
"um no I don't think so check the old room it might be in there its where dad usually puts that kind of stuff in" motionoing down the hall at a door that was hardely ever opened. "right okay thanks Nate" nodding her head s she went over to the room hesitating slightly before turning the knob and she opened the door and went inside the room, the door closed behind her.
Akira happily bit into the apple and within a few bites finished it and threw the core in the trashcan. He then headed back into Asuna's room and laid down on her bed, his eyes closing every once and awhile indicating just how sleepy he really was and the only thing keeping him up was waiting for Asuna to return.
Stepping into the room she looked around at all the shelves that lined the walls, each one holding a ton of books, papers, figures, you name it. “Wow this is a lot of stuff” Asuna turned in a circle in awe before walking to the nearest shelf and began looking through it.
After about 40 minutes Asuna sat down tired “ugh where the hell did I put it dammit” glaring at the shelves as if it was their fault she couldn’t find it. Getting back up she walked over to one shelf she hadnt checked yet looking through it until a black cover caught her eye “yes found it” she said joyfully grabbing her photo album, quickly leafing through it to make sure it was actually hers.
Little did she know that she wasn’t alone in the room, stepping back to sit back on the floor the bookshelf she had been looking at fell over, dropping its contents on her. Asuna let out a small yelp dropping the album on the floor. One of the books hit her on the head as she lay there dazed. Then a pair of feet came into view, as two people reached down and dragged her out from under the books. Asuna’s eyes widened as she recognized who these two were and was about to say their names when something covered her mouth to keep her from saying anything. all that came out was a muffled yell before one of them knocked her out.
Then one of them slung Asuna over his shoulder as they climbed out the window leaving only a note on the floor.
“if you ever want to see Asuna again listen to these directions and you will find her”
B1&B2
Muzai
"Well It looks like half of the class is here, let's all get to know each other any pair wants to get up first and introduce themselves?"
"oh I do! I do!" standing up in her chair as she grabbed Arthurs hand, dragging him the side stairs and stood besides Lord Death in obvious excitement. she quickly bowed to him as a sign of respect but then she looked up in confusion wondering why she did that, but with a simple shrug of her shoulders Muzai turned to the crowd of students, giving them her best smile.
"well I'm Muzai and today I just found out I'm a weapon, so I'm very new at all this so please take care of me" bowing once more in gratitude, then she jumped as she remembered something. "oh and this is my meister Arthur; go introduce yourself Arthur" cheerfully clapping him on the back making him stumble a bit.
He got up and left Asuna's room and went looking for Nate for directions on where Asuna was as he knew if he asked her father he would get a lecture or something to the like. He found Nate in his room eating some food. He his head inside and asked where Asuna was. "Wheres Asuna?" He asked in a firm tone. Nate, who's mouth was full of food pointed downstairs. Akira nodded and ran downstairs and noticed a door that lead somewhere he had never been to. Just as he began to grab the doorknob he heard a yelp. He immediately grabbed the doorknob and slammed the door open. He ran down to see a note gently float down to the floor.
He grabbed the note and read it to himself. He cursed and punched the wall with anger.
“if you ever want to see Asuna again listen to these directions and you will find her”
B1&B2
"What the hell does that mean? W-w-was she kidnapped? I should go tell Nate..." He immediately ran upstairs into Nate's room and looked inside, there was no one. He seemingly checked the whole house and it was empty, as if no one had ever been there in the first place.
"DAMN IT!" screamed once again punching the closest wall, this time creating a visible hole in it. He looked at the note and read it to himself over and over. "B1, B2...is this a play on words? Those are two abandoned buildings on D&D Avenue... But they could also mean..." He pushed that last thought out of his head and proceeded to D&D Avenue, it was about a ten minute walk from Asuna's house and was easily one of the worst neighborhoods in death city.
[The following honestly doesn't matter to anyone...it was me writing at 12:00am and in my opinion was terribly written...]
Akira eventually found his way to two extremely abandoned buildings, the whole area seemed eerie but these two buildings just held the trophy for creepiest buildings of all time. The signs were dry-rot and overgrowth nearly took over the whole building. He stood in other silence analyzing the situation heavily. As he stood he felt something, it was extremely minuscule but it was there, he could feel Asuna's soul reaching out to him, calling him to her aid.
The soul felt strained, as if all life was slowly being pulled out of it constantly. Akira immediately began to panic and tried to find an entrance within the dark thick overgrowth of ivy and other weeds that plagued the building. After no obviously visible entrance he decided to make his own by soul menacing the wall. He slammed his palm into the wall causing a large explosion that sent rebar and cement everywhere. He could hear faint footsteps approaching him from the rubble he just made. It was a man in a suit and a shinigami mask, it startled Akira but didn't phase him, it was more of a what the hell moment for him. The man beckoned Akira calmly as if he hadn't a care in the world. Akira hesitated but felt that he could trust the man..for now.
The two walked for a little bit, exchanging literally no words up until they reached an elevator that was numbered one. There were two buttons, up and down but the Up bottom was jammed in and unresponsive. Akira pressed the down button and as soon as the steel elevator doors opened the man in the mask shoved Akira in the elevator. Akira hit his stomach on the elevator and gasped for air as the pain was immense. "FUCK!" he yelled out in pain as the elevator doors closed behind him and proceeded to head down a floor.
*Ding*
The doors opened up and he could see two shadowy figures about fifteen feet away. He approached them and they slowly stepped back, almost as if they feared Akira, however the hostile intent they gave off didn't say that.
[Done]
she woke up in the dark, the complete dark and at that moment Asuna began to panic especially when she found she couldn’t move. "Dammit what the hell is this" cursing every swear word she knew in her vocab and then some. Looking around didn’t help much either as her head began to throb in pain. Groaning Asuna managed to calm herself if just a little but the dark still unnerved her, she didn’t like it. "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! Where the hell am i" she yelled out "where are you Akira please get me out of here" speaking again but on a quieter note.
Kidnappers
the two men that stood before Akira took a step back simultaneously, but they gave off an incredibly hostile intent. They both looked at each other than at the man who brought Akira to them laughing a little. The man that stood behind Akira coughed making the other two look up as they finished laughing and composed themselves.
"Well i guess this means you read the note" spoke one.
"Which means you want to play our little game" said the other
"of gladiator” they both said in unison. Looking at each other again they nodded.
"This is what you will do. In order to get back your dear Asuna you’re going to have to fight us" said one.
"Indeed but if you end up losing well you don’t get Asuna" said the other.
“Oh would you look at the time, you have 4hours to defeat all of us and the battle starts. NOW!” they said at the same time, before stepping back into the shadows and disappeared from view.
The only person in the large room was Akira and the man behind him. “hmm looks like I’m your opponent kid, too bad for you” he said in a monotone voice as if he was sad almost but not really. He rushed towards him, but tripped falling towards the ground. It would seem that he was doing already but the truth was that was how he fought. The man began to sway back and forth like he was a drunk; which he was in a way.
He dropped to the ground, easily standing on his hands as he kicked out at Akira, like a spinning top before he began to waver and he landed back on his feet, swaying as he made to punch Akira.
"Well i guess this means you read the note"
"Which means you want to play our little game"
"of gladiator”
"Gladiator...you disgust me..."
“hmm looks like I’m your opponent kid, too bad for you” Akira immediately turned around to see a man attempting to attack him. Akira simply evaded most of the moves as he swayed back and forth, seemingly drunk. Then the man attempted to punch Akira, a fatal mistake. Akira quickly sidestepped the attack and pulled his arm so he was off balance forwards and sent a soul menace through it. He then tripped the man with a quick leg sweep and kicked him to the ground.
"Gladiator...you do realize in gladiator matches people die right? I SHOULD kill you but Shinigami-Sama wouldn't approve."
Kidnapper1
he quickly got back up still swaying seminly unfased by soul menace. "is that all you got kid" his words somewhat slurred as he ran at Akira again this time he was faster than before as he dropped to his hands and kicked out at Akira this time his kick connected sending him flying if not pushed back by the kick.
Akira expected the man to atleast be stunned by the attack, but considering his recovery speed it would need to be more than a Soul Menace to take him out. As the man ran at him he had planned to dodge and Soul Menace him, however he ran at a far faster sped and kicked Akira in the chest, sending him flying backwards and towards a wall.
Akira didn't bother to stop himself from crashing into the wall but instead positioned himself so his feet would hit the wall first. Once he hit the wall he then jumped off the wall and used it as propulsion to send himself forward with enough momentum where if it hit it would definitely do some major damage.
He approached the man and smirked as he attempted to Soul Menace him.
Kidnapper1
he hadnt expected Akira to use his attack to his advantage but he took a simple step back almost falling over as Akira nearly hit him with his soul menace. he managed to stay on his fet and spun to face Akira again bringing his hands up in a loose defense stance. "gotta try *hic*harder kid*hic* now one clild easily tell he was drunk from his hicups.
instead of waiting for Akira to attack him the man charged at Akira going low, his fist swaying in the air with no clear target.
Akira hit him hard, but not hard enough. "I'm losing stamina fast..." he thought to himself as he jumped backwards to create some space between the two of them. He tried to have a breather but he never got the chance as he saw the man running straight towards him, fists not really aiming for anything particular area. "A brawler technique...wild, strong yet extremely stupid." Akira laughed as he just stood in the way, waiting for him to come near. Just as he had come close Akira had been self resonating with himself to create the intense vibration within his own hand that allowed for faster movement and more overall power. He quickly jumped up and over (Considering he is aiming low I'm assuming his back is at least bent a little bit) the man and attempted to slam his palm into his back.
the man was indeed bent if just a little and managed to turn and face Akira which eas a bad move as Akira's palm hit him square in the chest making his body go rigid as he was slammed into a wall from the force of Akira's attack. he even coughed up a little blood but it wasnt noticable, he stood back up shakily clearly having a hard time standing. "ah looks like you win kid now hurry up and go fight the others" he laughed a little as he collasped.
[TL;DR: Akira kicked some ass and Asuna is pissed, obviously.]
returning to her side Arthur looked up at her "Muzai, can we please return to our seats now? I'm extremely uncomfortable up here."
she looked at him the way a mother would but smiled kindly "sure"nodding as she lead the way back to their original seats. Muzai plopped down in her chair laying her arms straight across the tables surface her chin resting on the hard wood as she continued watching Lord Death instruct the class. "when does the boredom end"she grumbled quietly making sure that Lord Death didnt hear here.
listening to Lord Death Muzai turned her head to look at Arthur, a kind and loving smile on her face as she really looked at him for who and what he was. 'my key to success and also my way of finding out who I am' her smile widened. just thinking of what they would be capable of doing together, it made her happy knowing she has a new friend that she can put all her trust in. Muzai then remembered what Arthur had said before when they were up front ' "I will not be a great meister. I am here only to appease my parents, and to help out a friend" no you will be the best meister ever, I just know it you just need to see the color you have' she closed her left eye and looked at Arthurs colors which had a light tint of purple, but it was being suppressed by heavy tones of red and black. "don't worry Arthur I know you will surprise yourself one of these days"
she smiled at his words and was happy to see the colors shift to show determination and conviction. "i know you will Arthur and you wanna know why because your a lot stronger than you think you are"her grin widened with joy patting the top of his head messing up his hair even more.
"Have any of you practiced soul resonance yet?" He asked demanding to know.
"And if so please share with the class how the experience was like." Death gestured the peace sign towards the class.
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Ace was the first to raise her hand.
"Yes Lord Death sir, me and Matthew have done soul resonance..but only once. It's when you and your partner connect souls and then somehow your partner's weapon form changes, and gains an enormous amount of power yet it takes away a lot of your energy." Ace said quickly, patting Matthew's shoulder.
"That is right miss Ace, it can be a little bit over powering. That's why it's suggested not to be used a lot. When weapons become Death Scythe's though they won't need to put in so much power into it though." Lord Death said with a big smile on his face.
"O-OH look at the time! Class is dismissed everyone, I will see you all here again tomorrow. And please don't pull a Akira/Asuna move!" He said with a small laugh at the end.
putting her arms out she followed Arthur jumping down the stairs one at a time like she was a plane pretending she was flying. she was well aware that she looked childish but then again what do you expect a person who forgot everything about themselves to act.
she was heading to the door when she realized Arthur had gone over to Lord Death and explained to the shinigami about her perdicament. "wait you think i was already enrolled here before but that was 7 years ago along with last year too" a look of excitment and some doubt flashed across her face.