A/N: So, it's summer break. Which connotes that I have free time! I am most certainly going to milk this for everything it's worth (in other words, you can certainly be expecting a multitude of Kid and Crona fan fiction). Alright then, this story contains KidxCrona and very slight MakaxSoul. The words in italics are meant to be Crona's thoughts by the way. Hopefully you all have fun reading this, and keep I mind that this story is pure KidxCrona fluff, not meant to me taken seriously or to be particularly good in terms of plot (just saying because the theme is kind of clichéd, sorry ^_^).
Warning!: The following fan fiction does not represent my usual style, I am experimenting with a style that can be found in most young adult series (picture Percy Jackson and….well, I suppose the sister's Grimm). So I apologize in advance if it sounds somewhat awkward at first…then again I tend to sound awkward as a general unspoken rule….oh well, disregard everything I have just aforementioned.
2nd A/N: Going back to my previous author's note, since I have a lot of time I have decided to practice with this style and a couple of others a little by writing a collection of KidxCrona one shots. I need to refine my writing and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do so. That and I would very much like to help the Kid and Crona community (if I may call it that) grow, so I have made it my personal goal to get this portion of the Soul Eater fan fiction archive up to about 16 or at least close to 17 pages (I am excluding the M rated stories and including the stories that have been written in different languages)…..Feel free to think of this as Kid and Crona 3 months awareness *grins*. If anyone would like to join the cause don't hesitate to Private Message me,
I'm going to shut up now. And without further ado I present the reader with another Kid and Crona story
P.S: Fair warning, Crona is a female in this fan fiction.
Crona is not sure how Maka managed to talk her into this but one things for sure…This has got to be, by far, the stupidest things she's ever done. Right next to the pickle incident.
Crona sat in a room full of seven teens, approximately fourteen eyes trained on her person.
Well, ok 13, Black Star's left eye still hasn't actually healed from Soul's previous dare….she really hadn't expected Black Star to actually go through with it and run head first into the door blind folded.
"COME ON CRONA TRUTH OR DARE! YOUR GOD DEMANDS AN ANSWER!" Black Star bellowed from his place on the floor before Maka promptly socked him.
"Black Star!…..give her some time, she's probably still in shock from having the bad luck to get picked by you." Maka angrily stated through gritted teeth.
Bad luck? Oh man….she did not know how she was supposed to deal with this….
" Oh right, sorry….wh-, HEY!" Black Star angrily said back finally understanding Maka's statement. Crona visibly cringed at this….please don' let them start arguing, that's another thing she didn't know how to deal with.
"Settle down you two, your making Crona uncomfortable." Kid said breaking up the argument that had been threatening to start. His honey colored eyes turned to her a smile stretching across his face as he opened his mouth once more to say "which one would you like?"
Crona did everything in her power to beat down the blush that was threatening to break out across her face, 'Thank you Kid' Crona inwardly whispered, in her head, where nobody could hear her.
The young shinigami sat cross legged across from her eyes trained on her figure as she lowered her head to avoid his eyes, yet another reason she did not want to play this game…she had witnessed the horrible things all the others had been forced to say or do, it was all so humiliating! A-and completely foolish a-an-d…
She didn't want to make a fool out of herself in front of Death the Kid…
Nobody actually knew that Crona had a crush on the reaper, she hadn't told Ragnorak or anyone else in the group, and especially not Maka.
Maka was a good friend, but something told Crona that telling the young scythe meister her feelings for Lord Death's son would only spur her to find a way to make Crona confess said feelings.
"So, Crona, what's it going to be? Truth or dare?" Liz casually asked a sly smirk painted on her face as she leaned back folding her arms behind her.
Oh man…..
Which was it going to be?
On the one hand, selecting truth would possibly lead to awkward and embarrassing questions about her gender or god knows what else she did not feel comfortable talking about…she'd probably end up saying something along the lines of 'I pass', or something else equally indefinite.
But on the other hand….if she chose dare….she would end up having to do something else potentially humiliating…like running throughout the house stark naked…(Soul….that poor, poor bastard…).
Holy shi-, cow. She did not know how to deal with this….
…..
…..
OH GOD HOW WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH THIS!
"Woo-hooooo….earth to Crona…." Soul said waving a hand in front of her face, apparently her face had distorted into her usual panicked spaced out expression.
So much for pretending to deal with this.
"I-I-I-I-, I-I- d-don't really know which o-ne t-to pick…." She said nervously as she looked down at her lap, avoiding everyone's eyes, avoiding his gaze.
"No biggy Crona! Just do what I did! Eeenie, meenie, miniee, moe! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Patty offered laughing hysterically
Yes, that's it! She couldn't deal with picking one, but this way she wouldn't have to!
"Yeah, you could probably do that." Tsubaki said smiling sweetly at her. "pretend your left hand is truth and your right is dare!"
Yes, she could probably manage to do this. No decisions, no worrying that she had made the wrong choice, no stressing out over picking….she could deal with this.
This was better, right?
Right?
She sucked in a deep breath nodding slowly before she began to hold out both her hands and start the song she had heard Patty sing many times before.
"Eenie meenie minee moe, catch a t-tiger by it's t-toe, I-if he h-hollars let it g-go, eenie meenie minee moe…"
She hopes those are the right words, those are the words Patty had sang right? Oh please let those be the right words…
Unfortunately Crona was too busy worrying about whether or not those had been the right words that she paid no attention to the only now raised hand.
the group instantly got quiet and stared knowingly at Crona's raised right hand.
Oh no, she took back everything she had said before about truth and dare being equally bad…
Dare was worse! Oh, no! What was she supposed to do!
"I can't deal with being dared…" Crona sighed as she slowly turned to Black Star.
Maybe he would be kind enough to rethink daring her…
"Alright! Let's do this! Ready to get the ultimate dare from your god?"
Guess not.
"ok then…let's see.." Crona pulled her knees to her chest as she watched Black Star with a hard look on his face.
5 minutes later…
Wow, this is by far the longest amount of time Black Star has thought of, well anything really.
"Come on man, go easy on him…don't make him do something completely wacked out OK?"
Him? Crona turned her head up to look at whoever Soul was referring to. But all she found was everyone's eyes focused on her and Black Star. Oh…right…the gender issue. Apparently she wasn't the only one thinking about this topic, as a certain blue haired assassin perked up at this with an excited grin on his face.
"I GOT IT!" He exclaimed jumping into the air and swinging his arm towards Crona, finger pointing directly at her.
"Crona!….take of your clothes."
Wait, WHAT!
"Black Star what kind of dare is that!" Maka screamed from her position on the floor. "Crona don't you listen to him, he's crazy," she said sheepishly smiling at the frightened pink haired meister.
"Psh! The kind that let's everybody know which gender Crona is! Doy! And I thought you were supposed to be the smart one?" He chirped back happily.
"Black Star, this is hardly an appropriate dare, you cannot possibly expect her to disrobe in front of a group of mixed gender." Kid said while standing up, clearly aggravated.
"Man, this is Truth or Dare, you're not supposed to be appropriate, I got naked too and Maka was here! Besides, who said Crona was a she? He's totally a he! Soul 'coolly' said pointing at Crona.
Please don't start an argument, please don't start an argument, please don't start an argument….
" No way! She's a girl! Crona's too pretty to be a boy! HAHAHAHAHA!" Patty exclaimed giggling as she turned to Soul.
'She thinks I'm pretty?' Crona thought as a shy smile worked it's way across her face.
"Kid thinks so too! HAHAHAHAHA!" Patty continued to say, now rolling on the floor laughing.
Crona's face shot up a hundred degrees as the blush from earlier returned full force. Kid? Death the Kid? He thought she was pretty?
"PATTY!" Kid screamed at the blonde, face a rosy pink.
"HAHAHAHA, SORRY KIDDO!"
"Ohohoho! Cool, now I see why your hoping Crona's a girl!"
"SHUT UP!"
"Well, I bet 10 dollars that Crona's a guy!" Liz said interrupting the screaming waving the money in the air.
How the heck did this game turn into a bet over which gender she was?
"Alright! So Crona's doing the dare? I'm totally betting it's a girl!" Black Star bellowed pumping his fist into the air.
"Wait, WHAT!" Crona exclaimed, she had not accepted the dare!
"Black Star don't call Crona an it! And you can't make Crona do the dare!" Maka said in a scolding tone.
Crona let out a deep breath of relief, thank you Maka….
"And for your information, 15 bucks says Crona's a boy!"
'NO! NOT MAKA TOO!'
"Stop betting on Crona's gender! This isn't fair to her at all!" Kid interjected sitting beside Crona, making her heart skip a beat. She whispered a soft thank you, before going back to ringing her hands.
"Oh yeah! And how much are you willing to bet that you're right and she's a girl!" Soul said getting in Kid's scowling face.
"I'm not betting! This dare is ridiculous! If you want to know Crona's gender, then just ask!"
"But shinigami-kun…I didn't pick truth…"
'Me and my stupid mouth!' she thought, mentally scolding herself.
"That's right! Crona didn't! Alright everyone, place your bets!" Liz said excitedly, now bouncing along side her sister.
" five dollars, Boy. I mean come on, with the amount of time he spends with Maka…."
"Soul for the last time it isn't like that!…And you can't make Crona do this bet! It's not fair to him.."
"20 dollars, Girl! HAHAHAHAHA! Kid and Crona sitting in a tree F-U-C-"
"PATTY!"
"Boy, no wait….Crona kind of looks like a girl…..wait, boyish voice….wait…."
"No Tsubaki! Bet with me that she's a girl! I mean, she's got to be a girl! I bet 12 bucks!"
"Ok then Black Star…g-girl, no! Wait,….yeah ok, girl."
"Boy, like I said, I'm betting 10 dollars."
'This is ridiculous' Crona thought as she repeatedly thumped her head against the floor.
It took her a couple of minutes to notice that the sound of her thumping her head over and over on the floor had been the only sound for some time now. She froze, then gently lifted her head to look at what the heck everyone was being quite for.
If anyone had walked in at that moment, they would have thought that this was some kind of western stand off with the way Kid and the rest of the gang were glaring at each other.
"I'm not doing it." Kid said through gritted teeth, breaking up the nearly tangible silence.
"Come on Kid, we are going to do this with or without you….this way you at least get some cash after it's all over. Now how much are you willing to bet that Crona's a girl?" Liz Thompson taunted.
Crona was at the end of her rope here, they were so….definite. If crying kicking and screaming would have helped remove the dare off of her neck, Crona would have definitely done so by now.
But Crona knew, that right now, not even a car crashing into Kid's mansion could have gotten anyone to withdraw the dare.
" I'm betting no money, and there is no way that Crona is performing the dare." Kid turned to face Crona and gave her a determined look, "you don't have to do this," he assured her.
Despite the unfortunate fact that she did in fact have to do this, she smiled slightly and nodded her head. Kid was trying to be kind, and Crona would not let those smiles and encouraging words of his go to waste.
"Oh well…..Crona ok, you know the rules. A dare's a dare, so let's do this!" Liz asserted, happy to begin what would possibly be the most humiliating moment of Crona's life.
Oh no…..how was she supposed to deal with stripping in front of everyone and Kid…
She stood up and everyone stared at her, a few in shock that she was actually doing it, and others in anticipation.
Kid was staring at her too with a bright red blush painting his cheeks. Crona almost giggled and told him that his cheeks were perfectly symmetrical, but decided that any conversation between them now would only make the whole experience even worse for her. So much for having some kind of friendship with Kid, after this, she would have lost whatever shred of dignity she had left.
She let out a sigh before she reached for the hem of her black dress and almost began to peel it upwards.
Almost being the key word.
Before she even knew what had hit her she felt Kid's right arm shoot out and knock her off her feet only to be dragged towards him. His cheeks were still crimson as both his arms gripped her shoulders.
He turned to face the rest of the room.
"I didn't want to have to this in front of all of you, but you have left me no choice. I'll reveal to you all Crona's gender my way." After Kid finished speaking, he turned his head to her and said those three little words she had least expected him to say.
"Please forgive me."
Soft cushiony lips smash themselves onto her slightly parted mouth. A sudden feeling of shock engulfed her being as she mentally floundered around attempting to figure out what was going on. Her eyes were wide open as she stared at the now extremely close shinigami, his eyes were slid shut and his lips were moving softly against her.
A warm feeling burst through her chest and spread though out her body, making her skin tingle, she wasn't sure what was going on but she felt good. A kind of good that she had never felt before, this wasn't like eating sweets or playing basketball. It wasn't like getting compliments from Maka or Tsubaki. This feeling she was experiencing now wasn't like anything she had ever felt before, she gradually let her eyes close.
Kid's lips started to press a little harder against hers, and it took everything inside of Crona not to panic. She wasn't sure what she was doing, and she would be lying if she said that this wasn't scaring her a little, but for some reason she didn't want this feeling to end. She hesitantly began to mirror Kid's movements by pressing her lips against him and moving her lips as well .
He seemed to like this a lot, she heard him moan slightly before he began to press his mouth even harder against hers. The warm feeling intensified and her brain started getting a little hazy as Kid's hands ventured to her waist and he began to softly prod her mouth with his tongue…..
"ahum *cough*"
The prominent noise of a clearing throat effectively shut off whatever emotion had been beginning to take over Crona, she gasped slightly and began to pull away from Kid. She wasn't sure what it was that was going on…but she had caught Soul and Maka doing something similar to this once and they had hurriedly pulled away when they had become aware of Crona's presence. So she guessed that this was something you did only when you were alone…
Kid, on the other hand, had other plans. Growling, he wrapped his arms tightly around Crona and pressed his body flush against hers as his past innocent touches became something more. He had apparently mistaken her previous startled gasp as permission to enter her mouth…..
She felt shock as his tongue explored every nook and cranny of her mouth, swirling around a couple of times to touch her tongue. She timidly responded to his advances and pushed her tongue against his, earning yet another groan from the boy. Her eyes slid shut once again as a pleasurable buzz besieged her, loosening a breathy moan from her own throat.
"Wow, Kid. Didn't know you had it in yah…"
That got him to stop.
"I want to change my bet, a guy doesn't moan like that….jeez…" Soul said, visibly stunned by the show they had both just given them all.
She might have been embarrassed by the comments if Kid's eyes weren't currently locked with her own. He didn't seem very embarrassed either, actually, Kid seemed more dazed than anything. His sharp half lidded honey colored eyes bore into hers as they briefly drifted down to her lips and back up to her irises.
Maybe this game isn't so bad after all…
"She's a girl….I told you.." Kid gulped.
Oh man, there's no way that her blush was going to go down now with the way he was looking at her. Still, that was not the serious issue right now.
How the heck did Kid touching his lips to hers prove that she was a girl…?
"Ok…so is she going to do the dare now?" Black Star muttered for the first time in his life slightly serious.
Crona was not a particularly violent person(when she was sane anyways), but right now if there had been a sledge hammer around, she would have bashed his head in.
What the hell Black Star!
" WHAT THE HELL BLACKSTAR!" A voice shrieked at the top of their lungs.
All right! Somebody said it!
She almost turned to thank the person before she realized that everyone was looking directly at her completely stunned.
Did I say that out loud?…..
"Awww….but how are we supposed to know your real gender if you don't do it! I'm betting 0.2 dollars on this!" Patty said in a somewhat whiny tone.
Oh gosh…..Kid's efforts were nice but apparently whatever he had just done hadn't been enough to stop everyone form making her undress..
"You betted 20 dollars Pat."
"Oh! Thanks big sis! HAHAHA! Your so smart!"
The world was slowly turning grey as the colors withered away. This wasn't great at all, this wasn't going to be fun to deal wit-
A familiar shooting pain burned her back as the infamous black dragon burst from her spine.
Ragnorak? Why had he decided to come out now? She didn't get much time to ponder this question before the swords nasally voice shoved her thoughts aside.
"GODDAMNIT! YOU BRATS ARE SO ANNOYING!YOU WANT TO SEE CRONA'S GENDER! FINE I'LL SHOW YOU!"
Ragnorak's round hands (if they could even be called that) reached down to the hem of her dress at lightning speed and…and…
She wishes that she could say that she stopped him before he could pull the dress above her hips like she always does.
She really does.
Seriously, it wasn't her fault that an extremely cute shinigami was sitting right next to her, still incredibly close!
I mean come on!
Sadly, the fact remained that she did not stop him in time.
For the hundredth time today the entire room was completely silent. And the dark onyx blush on Crona's cheeks had officially become permanent.
Maka and Liz's mouths had hit the floor in their shock at finally discovering Crona's actual gender. Black Star, Patty and Tsubaki weren't much better off with their wide open eyes and hair standing on end….
Soul had, naturally, gotten a serious nose bleed. And Kid….
Well Kid had unexpectedly gotten an even bigger nose bleed than Soul, the poor guy was on the floor right now gripping his nose in a futile attempt to stop the blood.
That's when common sense decided to kick in (not entirely sure why though, it had never really been present before….wait! Shut up! Nobody asked you!).
Crona shrieked in panic at her raised dress and began to furiously attempt to pull it down, Ragnorak laughing hysterically the whole time.
"Ragnorak cut it out! GAH! Quite it! Stop it, I don't know how to deal with everyone seeing me like this!" She cried.
"Oh stop crying you stupid brat! Fine I'm done gosh!" He released her dress somewhat reluctantly as Crona pulled it down in record time.
"Patty….your b-big sis was w-wrong…. I'll get you the 20 d-d-dollars as soon as I get home.." Liz stuttered turning to her wide eyed sister.
"I can't believe it…. I was actually right…." Black Star whispered in a monotone.
Crona buried her face in her hands in utter shame at having been exposed so publicly. Crona had always been very insecure about herself, and having Ragnorak put her body on display the way he did (and especially in front of Kid) caused the last remnants of her self esteem to shatter into a million pieces.
Have fun cleaning that up.
"Crona….you're a girl?…..why didn't you tell me? I mean I had always just assumed….I mean you never protested when I referred to you as him or he…" Maka questioned her softly, green eyes gentler than she had ever seen them.
Crona honestly didn't know what to do. The situation was pretty bad, and for once Maka's soothing tone wasn't doing much to make her feel any better.
She didn't look up, she didn't speak for several seconds. She was kind of busy feeling mortified at the moment.
"Ok, s-so w-what?" A slightly unsteady baritone voice announced.
She peered upwards at half of Kid's face, his left hand still had a firm grip of his nose.
"She's a girl, big deal, she's still Crona, no need to be so somber." Death the kid continued to say, obviously trying to take the attention off of the chagrined swordsman. A tiny smile crossed her features at this. Did this mean that he wasn't going to start avoiding her?
"Now let's stop playing this stupid game…..I need to get another rag to clean up this mess anyways." Kid said gesturing at the gore he and Soul had unleashed.
Gradually, the gang shook themselves out of their stupor and shot Crona apologetic looks for making her feel so awkward.
"a girl huh? That's pretty cool Crona….now I don't have to feel so awkward about calling you cute ay?" Soul reassured ruffling her hair as he stood next to her.
"C-Crona! want to come with me to get a rag?" Kid interrupted getting in between Soul and Crona, for whatever reason he sounded kind of nervous and…insecure? That was definitely new, the reaper usually sounded so confident when he wasn't throwing M.S.F's (major symmetry fits).
Crona noted quietly that this was the same possessive tone Ragnorak used whenever Kid stepped too close to her.
"Ok shinigami-kun…" She took his outstretched hand and stood up with him. He started walking her to the kitchen.
"Have fun you two." Soul blurted out after them, a grin plastered on his face making his razor sharp teeth visible.
She wasn't sure how walking to the kitchen would be a whole lot of fun, but Crona turned around and smiled at the scythe anyways. Kid only quickened his steps.
When they got to the rather large kitchen (seriously, that place was huge) Kid finally let go of her hand and began searching the cup boards for a rag.
The loss of warmth in her hand made her a little sad but…well, she supposed he was going to have to let go eventually.
'Don't deal with that now…deal with that later, Shinigami-kun needs you to help him get another rag right now.'
Crona did her best to keep from sighing as she crouched down to look through one of the cupboards. There wasn't much in there actually, only two first aid kits placed symmetrically upright, she also found a pencil: but that was it, no rags.
"Crona….I would like to apologize properly for what I did earlier.." Kid's voice was soft and pleading as he stopped his search in one of the cup boards. He wasn't looking at her though.
"It's just. I wasn't sure of what else to do. Y-you seemed distressed and, w-well, no that's no excuse. I took advantage of you, it was wrong an-" She cut him of there.
"You don't have to apologize. I know you were just trying to h-hep!" She shouted out. She blushed at the involuntary increase in volume, but refused to look away from the boy. Still he wasn't looking at her, was he embarrassed for what he had done? Or was he just not looking at her for what Ragnorak did?
She really hoped that wasn't the reason, was she really that unattractive?
"Besides….it was nice…" She mumbled slightly looking down at her lap. She still wasn't quite sure what it was that they had done, but the feeling that it was something personal still remained.
"W-what?" He was looking at her now, his cheeks were still pretty red.
"W-what you did….it felt n-nice…" Oh boy, back to stuttering again….
Death the Kid got down from the counter and slowly started making his way towards her. He kneeled in front of her and lifted up her head so that she wasn't peeking through her bangs.
"You…liked it?" He said starring directly into her eyes.
Those eyes again…they didn't have that hard look in them that Crona had become accustomed to seeing when he addressed the rest of the group, those eyes were never hard when looking at her….
She wasn't sure how it happened but she managed to make the words come out, maybe her heart had a mouth too..
"Y-yes…a l-lot. T-thank y-you." She could barely hear herself talk, his eyes had her full attention.
"Crona.. may I…k-kiss you again." His head was getting a little closer now as his eyes repeated the same half lidded stare they had taken on a while ago. It occurred to her that maybe what he had done with her earlier was called a 'kiss'. The word sure sounded familiar.
"O-ok.." his face was only a few inches away now.
She wasn't sure how to deal with physical contact, but maybe some physical contact from Kid was ok…..
"Shinigami-kun…" She whispered, centimeters away from her second kiss.
"Call me Kid.." he chuckled briefly and his lips were on hers.
She's not at all pleased with Ragnorak at the present moment. And the uncomfortable feeling she got when standing around the group is still present and will most likely remain for the next few days. But right now she decides, it doesn't really matter. Her embarrassment, and fear are washed away as her mouth melds with the young reaper's, for the moment it is just the two of them, and you know what?
She is perfectly content to deal with that.
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