Unexpected Moments

A/N: Hello their fellow readers! I know I should be working on the next chapter to my AU fanfic, but I felt as though that I needed to at least update this one, because I really do want to complete the challenge. That, and I hit a writer's block in "The Girl in the Corner".

But to make up for how long it takes me to update, I will make sure that the chapters are more like one-shots than actual drabbles.

Please enjoy!

The song used is "Love Chronicle" from Full Moon wo Sagashite. There is a beautiful piano version of this song, so look it up on YouTube when you get the chance.

I suggest that you listen to it at a certain point in this drabble as it would add to the mood.

Note that the lyrics used are direct translations from the Japanese version, so don't be surprised if you listen to the Fan-dubbed versions and hear them differently.

Disclaimer: This is merely a fanfic meant for entertainment and none of the characters present belong to me unless I say otherwise. I do not own the song used in this drabble either.

67. Playing the Melody

Characters: Kid, Chrona

Quote: "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent"

From where she sat, Chrona quietly watched the clouds in the sky through the rather large window. The sun, while usually frightening her, gave off this strange shine that made Death City seem so bright in coloration. It was a perfect day for an outing with friends, which is exactly what they were all planning to do in an hour or two. Chrona was looking forward for that time, but for now she felt extremely content with where she was and who she was with right now.

"Chrona, are you listening?"

The pinkette almost jumped out of her seat when his deep voice snapped her out of her trance. Flushing out of embarrassment, she turned back to look at her companion with an apologetic look.

"S-sorry Kid…"

Unexpectedly, Death the Kid merely smiled at her, strangely amused by her actions. Normally he would have found someone's inability to concentrate to be irritating, but it seemed like Chrona was the exception. She seemed to be the exception to a lot of his general peeves. Kid was just calmer when she was around. What love can do to an O.C.D guy is just unbelievable.

"I assume that you must be tired of studying, right?"

"N-no, it's not that, it's-I'm just-" Chrona tried to find good words to explain how she was feeling, as if she actually could. In truth she's wasn't tired, just extremely relaxed and strangely happy, and watching the clouds just seemed to enhance these feelings. She didn't want to give Kid the idea that she didn't like listening to him, because she really did. She really, really did.

Kid had to hold back a laugh, since the way she reacted- mismatched words, waving hands, and her face as red as an apple- was just too cute for him. The swordmeister was always so cute…

"It's okay," Kid reassured her, closing the text book that the two of them were supposed to be reading before he stood up to stretch, "I'm getting rather bored of this too." 'Though my intention wasn't really to study…' Kid mentally reminded himself, knowing full well he was using this tutor session as an excuse to have some alone time with Chrona. Maka wouldn't leave the fragile girl alone with him for any other reason after all.

With Liz and Patty out to do some early morning shopping, it gave Kid a good chance to finally confess his feelings. Before he thought it would be simple, but now, faced with the very object of his affections, he came to realize that saying 'I love you' would be much more difficult than he thought.

'No wonder it took so long for Soul to say it,' Kid frowned, remembering those moments when Soul would always complain about how he couldn't say those three words to Maka. If the shinigami could, he would take back everything he said about the weapon. It takes a lot of guts for a guy to do this.

There just had to be an easier way…

"Hey, Three Stripes!"

A smack on the head brought Kid back to reality. Chrona let out a small whine as she attempted to stop Ragnarok from hurting him, though her efforts were fruitless as always.

"I'm hungry, where's the food?" Ragnarok demanded, glaring at the shinigami.

"I told you," Kid, holding in his aggravation, pushed the pudgy fist away from his head before he could get smacked again, "we're eating with the others, just be patient you little pest."

"You really expect me to wait that long you little prissy?" Ragnarok shouted, shaking his fist and ready to hit Kid again. "Ragnarok, stop it!" Chrona demanded, looking up at the black blob that refused to listen.

Kid let out a groan, knowing full well from experience that Ragnarok wouldn't shut up unless they listened. "Alright, alright," he gave in, wanting so badly to not hear that high-pitched voice anymore.

"B-but Kid-"

Kid held his hand out in front of her, "It's okay, I don't mind that much. Besides, we've been sitting here for an hour already, moving a little would help a lot."

Chrona didn't want to trouble him just because Ragnarok was demanding stuff, but she didn't want to argue with him either. "…Okay…" She slowly reached up and took his hand so he could help her up, the seemingly harmless contact sending shivers down her spine.

"So you have anything good, Three Stripes?"

"For the last time, I don't know. Patty did the shopping last week."

"That's not a very good answer you little prick,"

'Good lord, shut up already!' Kid wanted so badly to shout out those words, but he knew better. By shouting at Ragnarok it would also mean shouting at Chrona, something he would never intentionally do. For now he would just have to suck it up and get used to it.

"Chrona, wait for me here, okay?" Kid directed the girl as they stood in the foyer, "I'm afraid that if I take Ragnarok with me to the kitchen I won't have any food left."

"What is that supposed to mean rich boy?"

Chrona, understanding what Kid was getting at, nodded, a smile on her face. The shinigami returned that smile before he stepped through the large doors that led to the dining room.

"I swear that that Three Stripes is planning something," Ragnarok hissed. "What do you mean?" Chrona looked up.

"Don't act dumb," Ragnarok smacked her head, "can't you see the way he looks at you? That's the look of a guy ready to take advantage of you."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Were you born stupid?"

Chrona didn't bother to continue talking and just ignored the way Ragnarok was pulling at her hair and insulting her. Chrona had come to notice that her weapon had become much more aggressive towards Kid than usual. He probably knew about how she was feeling towards the boy and didn't like it one bit.

Chrona sadly sighed. That was the problem with sharing a body, no privacy at all.

"I swear, why do you even like that guy anyway?" Ragnarok asked the very question that she wished she could answer herself. Something about Kid made her both extremely happy and nervous, and she had no clue how to deal with that.

Talking with Maka and Marie didn't help her one bit. The meister and Death Scythe merely cooed at what she said, saying that Chrona was 'in love with Kid', an idea that made the pinkette's face grow hot. It also didn't help that the two were practically pushing her to confess her feelings, even telling her that this tutoring session would be a good chance.

How could they expect her to do that? She didn't even understand what 'love' was like!

Ragnarok let out a groan "Ugh, I'm tired, let's sit down or something."

"But I'm the one standing-"

"Just find a place and sit down damn it!" Chrona, giving into her weapon's orders, searched the large foyer for anything that could be used as a chair.

It was then that she noticed the rather grand black piano that was off to the side of the room.

'Has that always been there?' She asked herself, walking over to the large instrument. She reached out to touch the slick black surface, the smoothness of it feeling nice against her fingers. It was a big, but a rather pleasing object.

Chrona walked over to the bench and took a seat facing the piano. Weren't there supposed to be these white and black keys that you were supposed to press?

"You're supposed to lift up the cover you dumbass," Ragnarok pointed out, like he could read her thoughts. "Oh, um- okay…" Chrona reached over and felt the black cover until she was able to lift it up, revealing the piano keys. Pushing the cover away into the slot, Chrona looked at them with marveled eyes.

The piano keys were a bright white; clean just like the rest of the house. The black ones in between were glossy as well.

This is the closest Chrona's ever been to an instrument in truth. When she was with Medusa she has seen many different types of instruments and even watched people play them (before she killed them of course). Maka even told her about Soul's not-so-secret talent with the piano, something she wishes she could see some time.

It just amazed her how people could make beautiful sounds with such strange things.

Lifting up a shaking hand, Chrona hesitantly pressed one of the white keys in the middle. The sound that came up was like a sudden 'dong' that almost scared her. It was a nice 'dong' sound though, it made her wonder what the others sounded like.

"You idiot, you don't even know how to use it now do you?" Ragnarok laughed.

"I see that you two found the piano,"

Chrona stiffened and nearly fell backwards off the seat when she heard Kid's voice. She slowly turned her gaze to find the shinigami holding a plate of sandwiches, an amused smirk on his face. Chrona was quick to apologize though even though he clearly didn't look angry.

"I-I'm sorry, am I not supposed to be touching this?"

Kid didn't answer and merely strolled over and held up the plate to Ragnarok's face. "Here, will this be good enough for you? I made sure ever piece of these sandwiches were perfectly symmetrical so they should taste-"

The shinigami was quickly interrupted when Ragnarok's long, slimy tongue seemed to wrap around the simple snacks before he took them into his mouth and started chewing. Kid watched, disgusted, as the weapon swallowed them all at once.

"Humph, you call that food?"

Kid, putting the plate down on the music rack, didn't even bother to respond. Instead he settled with taking a seat next to Chrona on the piano bench. "It's been a while since I've even touched this." He commented.

Chrona looked at him with surprise, "Y-you play the piano, Kid?"

He chuckled, "It was the only instrument I found to be symmetrical. Father bought it for me so I had something to do when I was a child. Nowadays I only play it when Liz and Patty pester me to do so."

"Oh," Chrona looked down at the keys, kind of disappointed. She wanted Kid to play something, but it seemed like he wasn't up for it and he didn't want to force him too.

Kid raised a brow at the girl who suddenly fell silent. 'Did I say something wrong?' From the way she stared at the piano, it's like she wanted something from it.

…..

It took him another second to figure out what.

"Chrona," she looked up in response to her name. He smiled gently.

"Would you like to hear a song?"

"Eh?" Chrona tilted her head in confusion, as if she wasn't too sure if what he asked was true. Kid gestured her to scoot over a bit more so that he was facing the direct center of the piano.

He sat there pondering to himself for a second until he said "I believe I remember one song that I could play without a book. Liz heard on the radio one day and told me to give it a try, and so I did."

Kid positioned his hands on the keys and relaxed himself, "I may not be as good as Soul, but I still hope you'll like it."

With that, his hands started playing. The song began quickly, the same keys being pressed in a rather fast pace for about three times until he moved on to play at a much more soothing tempo, his foot stepping on one of the pedals below to enrich the tone. Chrona watched as his fingers pressed down on the keys, entertained by how swiftly yet gently his hands moved about the ivory, and also entranced by the slow and soft song that filled the room. Even Ragnarok seemed pleased, for he had shut his mouth.

This song that he was playing, she heard it before as well. When she was with Maka and Soul one day in their apartment, a gentle song like this was playing on the radio. Maka was singing along with the lyrics, and the pigtailed meister prompted her to do the same.

Strangely enough, listening to the instrumental version of the song brought back the memory of those lyrics. She almost felt like singing along, like she did with Maka, but that would be too embarrassing.

"Why? I've completely forgotten how to love. Meetings will come someday with the beginning of parting somehow, I have decided upon that idea."

Too bad that Chrona didn't realize that she was already unconsciously singing the song, even though her voice was almost like a whisper. Kid was stunned when his ears picked up the soft voice that was going along with his playing, but he didn't stop for he wanted her to continue.

"-You tied my loose shoe laces of my dirty sneakers. Your shy smile suddenly shone in the sunlight."

He didn't know Chrona could sing, albeit she wasn't exactly good- she was a bit off key and clearly needed lessons- but she wasn't bad either. Her rather high pitched yet gentle voice was soothing on his part, and he could imagine that if someone were to teach her how to develop it she would have a perfect singing voice.

"-It's not that I love for want of love. You gave me the courage to love straight-forward. The two swear to the journey from now. That no matter what occurs; the two hands will never part."

"It's weird, the everyday landscape begin to seem special- the flowers, birds, and sea the wind, mountains, sweet sun- when everything shines and cuddles together."

Kid's fingers didn't stop dancing over the keys, afraid that if he were to remove them for a second or screw up even once Chrona will snap out of this magical trance and stop her singing. This may be the only time he'll be able to hear her voice like this, and he wasn't going to let it end anytime soon.

On Chrona's part, she didn't want this small moment to stop. This wasn't the first time she sang (she mostly did it when she was bored and music was playing as a way to comfort her); just the first time she did it around other people. If this was with anyone else she would have ultimately died of embarrassment, but as always Kid gave off this comforting aura that made her feel that it was okay to do things like this around him. He wouldn't make fun of her. Actually, it seemed like he actually enjoyed it, like he wanted her to go on.

It almost felt like she was singing not for herself, but for the shinigami.

It was strange. As she was singing these sweets lyrics, it made her feel like she was professing something. It was something she would never say at any other time, but what exactly was she saying to Kid as she sang these words?

"I found the last piece to the unsolvable jigsaw puzzle. Your broad back protects me and I'll continue to follow you for eternity."

"Until now, I've took the longer way around but I'm finally able to love straight-forward. The two will head to the dream of tomorrow, no matter what occurs, the gaze won't be shifted."

If Kid could remember correctly, they were nearing the end of the song, which was a real shame for he would have loved to hear her voice like this for a while longer. Of course all good things have to come to an end.

He couldn't hold back a warm smile as he listened to the mix of his music and her voice that was filled with what was, to him, affection. Kid could feel this strange desire to sing along with her, for from what he could remember the next few lines were mere repeats.

His hands never ceasing their deft movements, Kid started to sing along with her, his deep voice mixing with her child-like one to create a loving duet.

"It's not that I love for want of love. You gave me the courage to love straight-forward."

"The two will head to the dream of tomorrow. No matter what occurs, the gaze won't be shifted."

"It's not that I love for want of love. You gave me the courage to love straight-forward."

The two meisters never had any interest in singing in the past, so to those who knew how music worked would have found the way they sang to be unbearably off-key, but neither of them cared. To Kid and Chrona it was only the two of them. Not even Ragnarok, who was still perched on Chrona's head, was acknowledged.

Right now, it was just them, being musical amateurs. It didn't matter if neither of them could sing or if Kid's piano playing wasn't as beautiful as Soul's. All they cared about was singing this song about love together, unknowingly pouring out their feelings for each other.

"The two swear to the journey from now. That no matter what occurs; the two hands will never part."

With that, they silenced their mouths. The lyrics were done and all that was left was for Kid to play the last few keys. The song ended in a pleasant silence, allowing the pair to have a breathing moment.

Surprisingly it was Chrona who spoke first. "…You were right Kid…" The shinigami faced her and raised a brow, wondering what she meant by that.

"..Y-you're not as good as Soul," Chrona shyly smiled at him, admiration in her blue eyes, "y-you're much better…"

Kid's ever-present smile couldn't get any bigger as he took in that compliment. He knew that it was just Chrona's opinion- after all she's never heard Soul's fast paced playing that he could never compete with- but it still meant a lot.

"You're not a bad singer yourself," he teased, reaching over to gently tuck a strand of loose hair behind her ear. Kid let out a small chuckle at how her face became red due to the compliment and how she tensed up a bit at the contact.

It was then that the shinigami noticed just how close the two of them were since the piano bench wasn't too big. If Kid were to lean in just a bit more he could kiss her without any problem.

Maybe he could give it a shot since the moment seemed right.

Kid slowly leaned his face closer to the pinkette's, only for his lips to stop just millimeters away from hers when a loud applause rang through the supposedly empty mansion.

"~That was amazing!" yelled a familiar kiddy voice.

The meisters immediately pulled away from each other and turned to face the door. There, the front doors wide open, stood the entire gang applauding their rather mediocre performance. Even Soul, the music expert of the group, seemed impressed by the smirk on his face.

"W-when did you guys get here?" Kid yelled, pointing at them, demanding an answer as a blush crept up on his face. Liz merely rose up the key to the front door, prompting the shinigami to smack his forehead in irritation.

"They got here when you lovebirds were singing," Ragnarok pointed out the obvious, "man you two are so mushy- and horrible singers to boot!"

"Don't listen to him, Chrona; your voice was so cute!" Maka squealed. "I-I-" Chrona buried her face in her hands, "I-I can't deal with this!"

"No really," Tsubaki assured, "if we could get you a teacher I bet your voice will sound beautiful!"

"I didn't know Kid could even play the piano," Black*Star said, a smirk on his face since he had something new he could tease the shinigami about. "He can," Liz shook her head, "but most of the time Patty and I have to threaten him to do it."

"But he'll play it for Chrona anytime~" Patty giggled.

"I have to admit, that was impressive," Soul nodded, turning around, "now come on, I want to get to the movie as quickly as possible. Maybe Kid and Chrona can give us another show tonight."

"Oh that would be awesome~" Patty clapped her hands excitedly running down the front porch with the ninja right behind her. "Heh- I bet that I could play the piano better than any of you if I tried," Black*Star grinned.

"Pfft- like hell, you've never even touched an instrument~"

"Says you, blondie!"

"Seriously you two, that was amazing," Maka smiled, "you really need to try playing again! We all love that song after all."

Kid and Chrona didn't really want to response since they were really too embarrassed to say anything, and just quickly moved away from the piano so that they could join the others outside. They were having such a nice time together too.

"Come on you two," Liz called out, walking away with Tsubaki, Maka, and Soul, "we'll talk about this later after the movie."

"Their voices really complimented each other, don't you think Soul?"

"It was alright,"

Kid, the last one out of the mansion, tried his best to ignore the comments of the others as he locked the front door with his own key. How could he forget that they were supposed to meet the others at this time? Now Black*Star and Soul would never let him hear the end of this, and the sisters were probably going to ask a lot of questions. It was just going to be a long day. There was absolutely no highlight.

"K-Kid,"

Well, maybe there was one. Kid faced a blushing Chrona who was nervously twiddling her fingers, her eyes more focused on the ground than on him.

"I-I know that- that you may not want to- but- but can you…" She seemed to have lost her sentence to hesitation, but in just a second she was able to gain some confidence to finish.

"…Can you play the song for me again, Kid?"

Her answer was a smile and a peck on the cheek, which just caused Chrona to tense up even more. She almost wanted to melt at the contact.

"Of course," Kid assured, "only when we're alone though."

"Man," Ragnarok groaned, "you two are just so corny, you know that?"

A/N: I actually think that Kid might know how to play the piano. He's probably not as good as Soul, but he could still play. He has a giant piano sitting in his mansion after all (episode 31), so either it's there for looks or someone living there at least knows how to use it.

And yes I find the idea of Chrona singing to be adorable. For those who don't know, her Japanese voice actress is actually a beautiful singer, and so is Kid's. (Look them up on YouTube: Maaya Sakamoto and Mamoru Miyano)

I hope you enjoyed! Please leave a review.