I had no clue what the hell just happened. I was about to take a bite into a pancake, and then I suddenly was somewhere completely foreign to me. It looked like a court room, with  a completely black void around it. In front of where the person that sat where a judge would probably sit were eight circles making a larger circle, and it was perfectly symmetrical. I could tell everybody around me was a shinigami, except for Blaire, who just randomly appeared after me.

"What the heck is this place?" I asked.

"You should know." The guy sitting behind the circles said. "You've been here before."

"I don't recognize this place. Like, at all." I replied.

"This is the Order of the Shinigami. When any rules that shinigami's are supposed to follow are broken by a shinigami, this is where we settle their sentence." The shinigami replied. "It is also where we dispute if a child that is only half shinigami gets shinigami powers or not. That's why you've been here before."

"Oh..." I said. "Wait if this place is for shinigami's then why is Blaire here?" I asked. "And while you're answering that why the heck am I here? I didn't break any rules."

"Yes you did." He simply replied.

"What rule? I have no clue how I would have broken any of them." I replied.

"Your blood was used for a revival ritual." He answered me.

"Revival ritual?" I said confused. I didn't know about any revival rituals.

"Yeah, I took some of your blood to revive Black Star, Maka, and Soul." Blaire ssaid plainly. "I didn't know there was a rule against it."

"It said on the page you were reading that there was a rule against shinigami's doing that ritual. You need to be more careful about reading about what your doing, Blaire." The guy to the left said, someone I hadn't even noticed until now. In fact, I didn't even realize that there were a total of five shinigami in there, two on each side of the one behind those circles. "As for the situation, even though you didn't willingly help in the ritual, Death the Kid, both of you have to be punished."

It felt weird being called Death the Kid after everyone just calling me Kid all this time, but I guess he called me that because he was trying to be professional or something.

"Why the heck do I have to be punished if I didn't willingly break the rule?" I asked.

"It isn't a punishment as severe as if you had done it willingly." the shinigami furthest to the right told me. "Normally if someone had willingly done this, their very existence ever happening would have been wiped out, but we can't do that in this case, since the person who did the ritual wasn't a shinigami."

"Okay....." I said. "So how the heck is that supposed to answer my question? I didn't do anything wrong!"

"You have to be punished solely because your blood was used. If we let you go for this, a lot of people would get mad." The guy in the center said.

"Okay." I said, though I still didn't see the point in me paying the consequence for something I technically didn't do. "So what the heck is my punishment?"

"Do you see these eight circles in front of me?" I was asked.

"Yeah."

"These circles all represent a universe, in which everyone you know has existed at some point, including yourself. In one of these universes, you are basically an evil version of yourself. You have to go to that universe and kill that version of you, and then we will summon you back here to decide if you can keep your shinigami powers before we send you back to your own universe."

"Wait I might loose my powers?" I asked, raising my voice and my eyes got wide.

"It's mainly a precautionary thing. We don't want people to be tempted to do the same thing Blaire just did." The guy just to the left of the center said. I was still trying to wrap my head around all of this.

"Okay, I just have one more question." I said. "Are Soul, Black Star, and Maka still going to be risen from the dead?"

"Yes." one of them answered plainly. "Are you ready to go to the  universe where you are evil?"

"I guess." I shrugged, and before I knew it, one of the circles towards the middle of all of them started glowing, and I felt like I was sucked up into the tiny globe. I didn't have time to process how I felt about it before I just fell  flat on the ground at a cemetery, and it looked like a funeral was going on about 50 yards in front of me. I saw a familiar set of pig tails, then someone with blue hair, and a tall girl with black hair. I didn't see myself or the Thompson sisters, or Soul anywhere. I saw Maka look up and look at me, and give me the most hateful look I had ever seen from her.  I don't even think she looked that angry when she fought Medusa.

I didn't even walk over to the funeral service. Since I knew I was evil in this world, and the Thompson sisters were probably with me, it wasn't that hard to guess who's body was in the casket, and from Maka's hateful look, it wasn't too hard to tell who killed him.

When the funeral service was over, Maka, Black Star, and Tsubaki walked over to me, still giving me hateful looks.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Black Star said. "Haven't you already done enough to hurt us?"

"Look, I'm not who your thinking about." I tried to explain, but as soon as I said that, Black Star tackled me.

"Do you really think we're that stupid, Kid?" Black Star yelled. "We were all friends for years before you fucking betrayed us and killed Soul. Do you really think we could mistake someone else for you?"

"That's not what I meant!" I said. "I'm Kid, but not the Kid you know from this world!" 

"What the hell do you mean by that?" Maka asked.

"I mean I'm not the Kid you know! I didn't kill Soul or betray you guys, that was the version of me from this world. I'm not the same as that version of me. I would never do that to the people I love..." I said.

"I don't buy it." Black Star said, then punched me in the face.

"Wait Black Star!" Maka yelled. "I'm pretty sure Kid never cut himself. I don't ever remember seeing scars on his wrists when he killed Soul, but he looks like he has several scars from cutting, like they've been there for a while."

"Dang your more observant than- well practically anyone in my world." I said. "Honestly it took four years for anyone to notice that I cut."

"I think I can believe that your from another world, only because of that." Maka said. "But that doesn't mean I believe your a good person."

"Okay, I can understand that." I told her. "But honestly, if you guys could just tell me where I might find the version of myself from this world so I could kill him, that would be nice."

"You think we're just going to let you kill him?" Black star yelled, and I realized he was still on top of me. "No way in hell! We're going to get our revenge."

"But I have to kill him." I said. "If I don't I can't go back to my own world."

"Wait, how did you even get here in the first place?" Maka asked.

"It's a long story." I said. "Like, really long."

Maka just shrugged. "We've got time."

***********

Time skip to after Kid explains everything.

"So in your world you were dating Soul?" Black Star said, scrunching up his face like he was disgusted.

"I don't really think I could say that. Literally two hours after we got together he was killed." I said. "Though part of me always blamed myself for getting the three of you killed..."

"The way you made it sound it wasn't your fault at all..." Maka said.

"I know but its always liitle things, like what if I had gotten to you and Soul sooner, or what if I hadn't even decided to get that beach house and stay in it the night before prom with you guys..." I said. 

"Stop sounding like your so pitiful. It's annoying." Black Star said.

"Don't be so mean, Black Star!" Tsubaki yelled.

"I don't exactly expect him to be nice to me. You should see how many fights he picked with me before he died in my world. In fact, I bet the first thing that happens when he gets back is the version of him in my world is going to try to fight me." I chuckled. "Though, I guess we were pretty good friends either way."

"Whatever. I couldn't see myself being friends with you." Black Star said.

"Didn't you say when you saw me that you used to be friends with the version of myself from this world before he betrayed you guys?" I asked.

"Yeah, but I mean this version of you." Black Star said. "You seem to self loathing."

"I'm normally not, but honestly, the everything going on is kind of making me wander why the hell I apparently have a streak of bad luck." I said. "But nevermind that. I just want to be able to get out of this world and back into my own."

"Sorry, but I don't think we can help you track down Kid." Maka said. "We haven't seen him since the day he killed Soul."

"Oh..." I said, lowering my head a bit. "Hey can I ask you guys a question about the me from this world?"

"I guess." Tsubaki said.

"How exactly did I betray you guys? Was it by killing Soul, or was it something else before that?" I asked them.

"It was before that." Black Star replied. "It was while we were fighting Asura together. We were halfway done with the fight, and you just suddenly teamed up with Asura and started beating up on me with him. Maka, Soul, Tsubaki and I all barely managed to get out with our lives because of that."

"Wow...." was all I could say to that. I could never actually imagine myself siding with Asura.

I thought back to when I was little, hiding in the empty kitchen cupboard to try and hide from Asura, (Go read Kid's Long Past from Kid's Beach House (Kid x Soul) if you don't understand what it's talking about). I remembered how I watched him defenselessly while he ate our mother, and then his weapon, then turned to me, fully prepared to kill me next. I remembered how if my father hadn't gotten there in time, I would have been dead a long time ago. As much as I used to see Asura as a brother when we were growing up, or really when he was growing up, since my aging was slowed, I could have never seen him as a brother after that.

Yet the me from this world had teamed up with him, the one person I hated more than anyone since that day. I couldn't understand the actions of the me from this world because I didn't make those choices, but I would never understand why I would team up with Asura.

What happened at the Order of the Shinigami came back into my head after that. The me from this world was evil, that's why. 

But one thing I didn't understand was why. I could tell before I even went very far around in this world that the balance between good and evil wasn't there, and the scale wasn't exactly tipping towards the good side. I couldn't understand why any version of me would become evil if there was already too much evil.

But whether or not I understood why didn't matter. All I needed was to find the way home, and that started with tracking myself down.

So for those of you who haven't figured it out yet, if you thought this story was about Black Star, Soul, and Maka finding their way back into the world of the living, it isn't. It's about Kid trying to get home from an alternate universe (Hence the reason the cover is a pic of Kid, rather than the other three). I think this story might be a lil short compared to some other stories I do. It's probably going to be about the same length as the beach house one, which if you still haven't read, I'm going to reference that one a lot, since it's the same storyline, so you may want to go back and read it.