Symbiotic Insanity Chapter 3

Symbiotic Insanity

A CroMa Fanfic
Chapter 3

Crona lies in the hospital bed asleep, he's dreaming of Maka, the day he was hit by the meteor, except, things were going his way, how he wanted them to go that day. He could see her golden blonde hair, the outfit he saw her wearing that day, and her pearly white teeth. He felt the same way he did that day, no fear, no worry, only love. He approached Maka, and told her how he felt, and she confessed that she felt the same way. Crona now had felt a new level of love he had never felt before, even though he has hardly ever felt love. He proceeds to kiss Maka, but just as their lips are about to meet, oh god how he longed for that, a gentle nudge woke him up. His firs thoughts were
"Damn, why did it have to end at that point?" but then he saw the same girl he had saw in his dreams, his heavenly Maka standing over him, and he thought to himself
"Never mind, this is good enough."  Maka kneeled down next to him, and smiled.
"How are you feeling?" She leaned in closer, and smiled. Crona felt nervous, he didn't know what to do, she was so close, yet she was smiling, what did that mean? Did she want something from him? He was too nervous to find out the answer.
"B-better." Crona stuttered, as he tried to figure out why Maka was so close to him. Maka smiled even wider, but in a split second that smile disappeared, like how fish suddenly disappear when a shark is in the water, then Maka suddenly lashed out, and hugged Crona tightly, with her face resting in his chest. She began to cry, Crona could hear her cries, and feel her tears spilling out onto his chest. Face still buried in Crona's chest, she bawled
"I Thought That Meteor Killed You!" She was really crying now, a big damp spot appeared on Crona's hospital gown. Crona slowly started to realize why Maka was this sad, he remembered back to when Maka saw him nearly die for the first time, this meteorite incident being the second, he remembered being pierced by one of his mother's vector arrows, when pushing Maka out of the way, to save her life. Crona put his hand on Maka's back, and rubbed it a little, in a way to let her know that everything was fine. Crona told her in a reassuring tone
"I'm fine Maka, I really am, please don't cry." Crona kept rubbing her back, and it sort of worked, because she slowly stopped crying. She pulled Crona, so that he was sitting up, facing her direction, buried her face in his shoulder, and continued crying. Crona's eyes went wide, he started rubbing her back again to try and calm her down. Maka, still sobbing in Crona's shoulder, said
"Don't you ever leave me again!" Crona, eyes went even wider, he was afraid that if he said one thing she didn't want to hear, he would be getting a Maka Chop on his already-busted-head. He hugged her back, as tightly as he could, and said
"I promise you Maka, I won't ever leave you again." Maka pried herself from his shoulder, and calmed down. Tears still streaming from her eyes, she looked at Crona, and smiled. Crona took his thumb, and wiped the tears from her eyes, and smiled back. Maka got up and walked out of the room, she came back in with Crona's black robe. She smiled and said
"Come on Crona, it's time to go home." She laid the robe at his feet, smiled then said
"Don't worry, I was able to get all the blood out, let me know when you're ready to leave."
Crona smiled, but his eyes suddenly went wide, and he began to shake, but he kept smiling, so that it would seem nothing was wrong. Crona looked at Maka, and stuttered
"S-sure." Maka smiled at Crona, then left the room, closing the door behind her. Crona threw the covers off the hospital bed, got off the bed, and just stood in place, with his eyes just staring at the ground. Crona's smile was gone, his eyes were as wide as dinner plates. Crona thought to himself
"Oh no! How could I have forgotten?! How did I forget about BUDDY?! This isn't good, what will they say if they see him?! More importantly, what will Maka say if she sees him?!" Not 5 seconds, after he thought this quietly to himself, Buddy burst out of the left side of his back. Buddy's head was smaller now, as was his body, he looked exactly the same, just smaller, and his body, no longer went small to big, it was just a slender size top to bottom, Buddy, now looked like a snake coming out of Crona's back. Buddy lowered his head next to Crona's ear and chimed
"Yay! We're going to your living quarters! I can't wait to see where I'll be staying!" Crona panicked at the sudden emergence of his new little "friend", and at the volume of which he spoke, he was worried that Maka had heard Buddy, so he clamped Buddy's upper and lower jaw shut, with his right hand. He looked at the door and listened, he didn't hear any footsteps, so he thought she must not have heard buddy. Crona looked at Buddy, let go of his jaws, and whispered
"Listen up, if you really are going to be living with me,  then you're going to have to obey a few rules."
Buddy nodded in agreement with Crona's demand, and leaned in closer so that he could hear him better. Crona then proceeded with the rest of his rules, and whispered
"Rule number one, you will not eat any of my friends, or anybody for that matter."
Buddy, nodded but then whispered in Crona's  ear
"What is it with you and assuming that I eat people?"
Crona then pointed at Buddy, and whispered
"Because I hardly know a thing about where you came from, now listen up, I gotta finish telling you my rules, quickly too, I don't want Maka getting suspicious."  Buddy nodded, then tilted his head to the side, signaling that he was ready to listen. Crona noticing his signal, whispered
"Rule number two, if you have to eat, wait until we're alone to tell me that, and Rule number three DO NOT LET ANYBODY SEE  YOU, have I made myself clear?" Buddy nodded, and whispered
"Very clear, very, very clear." Crona, satisfied with Buddy's answer, turned and picked the robe up off the end of his bed, then turned to face buddy and whispered
"Now you need to hide, I gotta get dressed and then you'll see my 'living quarters'."  Buddy squeaked with excitement, and chimed
"Gotcha, I'll be back later!" Buddy let out one more squeak of excitement, then receded into Crona's back. Crona shuddered, then removed his hospital gown, and put on his robe. Crona hugged himself, it felt so good to be back in his robe again. Crona stopped hugging himself, and made his way to the door. He grabbed hold of the handle, took a deep breath, and opened the door. The hall went down a short distance, then turned left. Crona went down the hallway, then turned the corner. As soon as he turned the corner, he realized Maka was not alone, Soul and Blair were with her, waiting to walk Crona home, along with Maka. It was only reasonable, since they all lived in the same house. Soul, Blair, and Maka stood up, and walked over to Crona. Soul was very silent, he just had a look of normality on his face. Blair grabbed hold of one of Crona's arms, and she had a look of cheer, on her face. Maka smiled, walked up to Crona, and put a finger on the bandages wrapped around Crona's head. Maka calmly said
"Mr. Stein said to keep these on for the night, just to be safe."
"O-okay." Crona stuttered, as he looked at Maka, then Soul, then Blair. They started to walk out of the hallway, and into the lobby. Soul went up to the counter, and told the nurse, who was wearing green scrubs, except on her head, that they were taking Crona now. She typed some stuff on the computer in front of her,  and wished them a good day. Soul led the way, as Blair, Crona, and Maka walked side-by-side, out of the lobby, and onto the sidewalk outside the hospital. Blair's eyes suddenly went wide, as did her smile, and she nearly jumped while chiming
"Wait! Why walk home, when I can just use my magic to teleport us all home?!" Suddenly, every face turned to Crona for approval. Crona looked around nervously and stuttered
"I-I don't mind." Blair let out a squeak of joy, and pointed her finger towards the night sky. She chimed
"Pum-pumpkin!" And a giant jack-o-lantern made of orange energy, swallowed them whole, and disappeared into the ground.
The jack-o-lantern then reappeared at their house,  spit them out, then faded away. Crona looked at everybody, then said softly
"I'm still kind of tired, so I'm just gonna go to my room now." Blair chimed
"Just be sure to get up in the morning." Soul said, in his usual care-free way,
"Fine by me." Maka looked at him smiled and said
"Sleep-well, I'll see you tomorrow." Crona looked all of them again, smiled, and went back to his room. Closing the door behind him.
Maka looked at Soul and Blair, and said with a stern voice
"Alright you two, you know what to do tomorrow." Blair tilted her head, smiled, and chimed
"We know, we know, don't we Soul." Soul looked at Blair, then at Maka, and said
"Ya ya, I know." Maka then let out a sigh of relief and said
"Good, now let's go watch that 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' movie you've been going on about Blair." Blair's eyes lit up, she started jumping up and down, and chimed
"Yay! It's already in the DVD player!" Blair led the way as she turned on the TV and the DVD player, and sat down on the couch, soon joined by Maka and Soul.
Meanwhile, in Crona's room, things were just getting started. Moments after they started watching the movie, Crona heard the DVD player and TV playing, and knew that he could count this as being alone. He started to  call out Buddy, but before he could even breathe out the first letter, an all-too-familiar-person burst out of the right side of his back, and started tugging on his ears, of course, he couldn't catch a break, Ragnarok had gotten there before Buddy. He shouted angrily
"Who the hell is the  new guy?! I'm a one-of-a-kind deal pal, he's gotta go!" Crona whimpered, while trying to get out of Ragnarok's grip,
"Ow! Ragnarok, stop it! He's a new friend!" Buddy, wondering what was going on, burst out of the left side of Crona's back, and turned his head to see Ragnarok bullying Crona. Ragnarok and Crona didn't even notice him. He didn't know what to do, he saw his new friend, being bullied by someone else that lived inside him. He took a moment to collect himself, then he recognized that Crona was in pain. He didn't like this. Buddy reared back, turned his head 360 degrees, counter-clockwise, and shouted angrily
"Stop Hurting Crona!" Ragnarok then turned his head to face the rearing Buddy, while still yanking on Crona's ears, and let out a very confused
"Wha-?" Before Ragnarok could finish saying "What?", Buddy shot forward like a shot out of a cannon, and bashed the top his skull, dead center, right into Ragnarok's face. Ragnarok let go of Crona's ears, and Buddy smashed Ragnarok, right into the wall, Ragnarok's head slipped to the side just before making contact with the wall, making it so that he was pinned to the wall by the side of his head, Buddy keeping him pinned against the wall. Ragnarok let out a quiet, yet pain-filled
"I hate you." To which Buddy replied
"You'll learn to like me in time." Crona rubbed his hears, and looked at the pinned Ragnarok, and Buddy, who was pinning him against the wall. Crona shook nervously at the sight of the pinned Ragnarok, for he knew he would pay for it later, and he stuttered nervously
"R-R-Ragnarok, th-this is B-Buddy, he's going to be s-staying for a-awhile, B-buddy let him g-go." Buddy reluctantly, pulled back and released Ragnarok, the middle of his white X had a blue spot from the impact, which he rubbed. Ragnarok looked at Buddy, then at Crona angrily, and shouted
"I don't need this, I'm going back, THAT FUCKING HURT!" Buddy looked at the blue mark on his white X,  snickered, and chimed
"X marked the spot!" Ragnarok got mad, and receded into Crona's back, Crona stopped shaking and looked at Buddy, who, he noticed, was looking in the drawers of his dressers, looking at his clothes. Crona thought quietly to himself
"How did do that so quickly?!" before asking
"What are you doing?" Buddy looked left and right in the top drawer of the dresser, and said
"Wow…You must like to sleep a lot." Crona was confused as to what he meant, and asked
"What do you mean?" Buddy zipped over, right in front of Crona's face, you have an awful lot of robes in there, in fact,  I only  saw a few shirts, the rest were undergarments and…..robes." Crona got really nervous, because he didn't know what Buddy would do if he admitted that he wore robes that looked like women's' dresses, but he couldn't come up with any lies, so he nervously confessed
"I-I wear those robes daily." Buddy, turned his head around, looked at the open drawer, looked back at Crona, and with a grossed-out look and tone, said
"Oh Nuh-uh, that's changing tomorrow! We're buying you new clothes tomorrow, and NO ROBES!" Crona nervously stuttered
"A-alright, fine!" Buddy, with a look of satisfaction on his face, said
"Good, then it's settled, tomorrow, you will no longer wear just those robes", he then receded into Crona's back, and left Crona alone. Crona was mortified by what he just agreed to, he hardly ever worn anything but his robe, and when he did wear something else, he immediately changed back into his robe, now he'd HAVE to wear something else besides his robe, he didn't know how he was going to deal with this. He pulled out a black shirt, a pair of black boxers, closed the open drawers on the dresser, got changed, and tossed his robe to the side. He took a deep breath, climbed into his bed, and threw the covers over him. He took another deep breath as he thought about tomorrow, he'd be seeing his roommates, his crush, and his other friends tomorrow, and be buying new clothes tomorrow, not to mention he'd probably be hearing from Ragnarok tomorrow…..tomorrow…..what hell would it bring?

End of Chapter 3