Rivals 4

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The tension in the room could be cut with a knife, though even then you would still have trouble. Kid glared at Soul, Soul glared at Kid, Kid glared at Maka, Maka glared at Kid, Maka glared at Soul, Soul glared at Maka. There seemed to be electricity sparking between them, and they all knew what the other wanted.

"We're not going to solve anything with a staring contest." Soul finally broke the silence.

"I agree," Nodded Kid, "Then I think it's time we make our final arguments."

"Right." Maka agreed as well, "A decision has to be made."

"Who gets Crona's heart!" they all declared at once.

The object of their desire was in fact, sitting between the three, but was blissfully unaware of the war of wills that was going on around him. The death scythe Justin had come by to see Shinigami-sama and had stopped by to see the boy, after all he had saved his life, and brought him the gift of a small music player and headphones. Crona sat on a stool, eyes closed, head bouncing gently to the music, he had never owned such an object before.

"Marionette!" he sang softly to himself. "Teacher's pet~."

"I think it's obvious who is best for him." Maka began with a huff, her arms crossed over her chest. "I was the one first saw his soul for what it was, I brought him over from Medusa's clutch. I'm the one who brings him back whenever he's in despair. Besides, he obviously had a crush on me before he even came to Shibusen, he's been blushing at me ever since we first met."

"Marionette… Sensei wa petto~."

"That might have been true when he first came here." Kid objected. "But now that he's come out of his shell it's obvious that he wants more. Now he needs someone who can help him develop into the right person, show him the way, fix the mess Medusa has made him so he can be happy, not just distracted."

"Boku wa marionette, Boku wa Romeo~, Kimi wa Juliet~, sensai wa petto!"

"You know you two need to chill about all this, honestly you're like two stuff dogs having debate club over a piece of meat."

They both glared at him. "Well you're here two aren't you!"

"I'm just here for Crona's sake, it's his choice to make anyway, did either of you even consider that?"

The two halted, looking at the ground in shame, they knew he was right. Looking to Crona they watch him, still bouncing contently to the tune of his music.

"Wind up the mechanical grand pia~no, a loving heart is vi~olet, the freedom of your heart is sto~len." His voice hitched to a high point, "It's the way -of- pleasure."

They all blinked, then smiled, looking up, they knew what the others were thinking and nodded, leaning back down. Together they wrapped their arms around his thin form in a gentle hug, making the boy jump in surprise, suddenly sucked out of his world. As soon as he realized what they were doing he just squeaked something nervously and shrank into himself, a dark pink to his face.

But the moment was broken rather quickly when Ragnarok popped out of his back and began to swat at all of them.

"Get away you bastards!" he shouted in his high pitched voice, "There's only one person gets Crona, stupid!"

"Oh? And who's that!" Maka growled.

"ME!" he wrapped his thin arms around the boy's head. "Crona is my bitch."

They all groaned together.

"And no one else. Isn't that right, idiot."

Crona looked up at him for a moment, then looked at the little music player in his hands. "Justin-kun was really nice for giving me this." He held it to his chest and smiled shyly, blushing again, "I wonder if he'll be back soon."

There was a heavy silence, and then everyone toppled to a chair with a sigh of tired surrender, Crona just blinked, smiling innocently. "Did I miss anything?"

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I am SICK BASTARD! YEAH!. The song Crona is singing is called Marionette by Rolly, it's one of the end themes to one of my fave anime's Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, I altered them a little but you can find it here if you want to hear it

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These are the lyrics in english

Marionette

Teacher's pet

Marionette

Teachers pet

I'm a marionette

Teacher's pet

Marionette

Teacher's pet

I'm a marionette

I'm Romeo

You're Juliet

Teacher's pet teacher's pet

Wind up mechanical grand guignol

A loving heart is violet

The freedom of your heart is stolen

It's the way of pleasure