A/N: Here we go again! Lol, I posted the last chapter of Symmetrical Beauty last night and here I am already writing the sequel! Lots of sweet reviews- and to Hitode, everything will be revealed! Muahaha!

Anyway, my friend sweetsheart is writing a really good Stein/Marie fic at the moment, and it's not really a lemon, which is kind of surprising. But anyway, she'll be putting that up soon, and I'm trying to get her to do it because IT'S AWESOME!

Also, you would have noticed by now that I've mentioned Pocky a lot. I love pocky. It's amazing. That is all.

That's my ramble for now. Onwards!

Naturally, a fight like that wouldn't have kept quiet for very long. A fist-fight, or even a weapon fight, would have been normal at Shibusen, and wasn't such big news- but a verbal fight? That was rarely seen around the school, and rumors spread like wildfire.

Tsubaki had rushed off after the fight to try and find Black*Star and tell him what happened. Turned out he didn't need telling- he'd been hiding in a locker a few metres away from the doorway to the Crescent Moon classroom. When she asked what he had been doing there, he rattled on about the assassin's code. Tsubaki took that to mean that he was jumping out and scaring the crap out of the younger, or new, students.

Maka, as usual, didn't care about the rumors, and only rolled her eyes when she walked past students that she'd never seen before that were insisting that they'd been there when the fight happened. She shrugged it off, and walked home early- to Kid's house. He'd stayed back at school to speak with his father, so she left alone, not bothering to tell anyone where she was.

She didn't quite know when she'd started referring to her boyfriend's house as home. But it had all of the qualities of home- love, comfort, warmth, and Pocky.

She had three hours before she had to go back out and practice training with Soul again- they'd lost their resonance, and it'd take a while for them to get it back again. She took a shower, washing off the words that Jacqueline had said to her from her mind at the same time. Maka then walked downstairs and went to the cupboard.

Her boyfriend had been sensitive enough to buy nine boxes of Pocky, so that once she'd had one, there would be eight. She smiled, and grabbed the box closest to her.

She stared down their DVD and movie shelf, trying to find one that wasn't an action film- Kid's, or a sappy chick flick- Liz's or Patti's. Eventually she settled on Harry Potter. Kid had only purchased the series because there were eight films. (A/N: omg I only noticed this as I was writing it! And I don't own Harry Potter (duh!) JKR does.)

Halfway through the scene where Harry, Ron and Hermione flew to catch a flying key, the door swung open. Kid, Liz and Patti came in, and Kid sighed in relief when he saw her.

"We were worried about you, we had no idea where you were!" he said, hugging her from over the back of the couch. She leaned her head against his arm.

"Thanks, Maka," Liz said, not without some sarcasm. She grinned, however, ruffling Maka's hair. Maka cried out at her, attempting to fix it, when she found her hands being covered gently by her boyfriends'.

He pulled out each of her pigtails, then redid them, gently pulling her hair back into its previous position. She smiled as he realized that he hadn't done them symmetrically.

"No!" he cried, before walking around the couch to sit next to her. He pulled her left shoulder back, making her sit with her back facing him, and he redid her hair.

"That's better," he sighed. She stayed sitting where she was, leaning on him comfortably.

"Hey, Maka-chaaaan, when are you meeting with Soul?" Patti asked from the other couch, her eyes still fixated on the television screen.

Maka cried out in shock, annoyed with herself for forgetting. She leapt off the couch, ran to the closet, grabbed her coat and gloves, and pulled on her boots. Kid came to stand beside her as she did so.

"What's up, Kid? I have to go, but I'll be back soon." She said, rather hurriedly. He took her hand, and she stopped for a moment.

"I'm going with you."

Maka turned to look at him, and saw the slight scowl upon his face and the frustration deep in his eyes. She noticed that he looked much cuter when he smiled, but she couldn't deny that his annoyed face was attractive too.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to cheat o-"

"It's not you I'm worried about, I trust you completely. It's him I don't trust. Plus, do you really think that Jacqueline won't be there, guarding her 'prize'?" Maka could tell that he'd thought this through, and that no wasn't really an answer. Smiling, she grabbed his hand and together, they ran out of the double, fixed, doors.

"SOUL!" Maka screamed, dropping the scythe. Bad idea- he landed straight on her foot. "DO IT RIGHT!"

"Well," the scythe snapped, "Maybe if you did it properly, there wouldn't be any trouble!"

Jacqueline laughed. "Looks like the slut can't handle him after all."

Kid glared at her. It was his policy not to hit girls, but he was highly tempted. Turns out he didn't need to, because Maka's book flew through the air shortly after the words had been spoken. Jacqueline went down, and Soul transformed back into his human form.

"Maka! Stop being so bloody stupid, and let's get this over with!"

"Well, maybe if you cooperated a bit mor-" she said, and he interrupted her, transforming into a scythe and landing in her open palm. She caught him.

"Shut up. Just shut up," Maka growled under her breath. He was really pissing her off.

Bringing the scythe back a bit, she practiced her typical moves- overhead swing, back handed swing- that one was used to knock people out, not kill them- and side-swipe. As she swung the scythe forward, she couldn't help giving into temptation.

Soul, still in his buki form, flew about twenty feet in the air. Maka prided herself on how far she'd managed to throw him.

"Maka, Kid, Soul." Stein's voice rang out across the clearing next to their school. Stein had arrived, and saw only the last few minutes. Marie-sensei was with him, as usual.

"Maka, in order to be able to properly wield Soul, you shouldn't throw him across the clearing like that. Resonance, complete resonance, requires wholehearted cooperation. Remember that," the doctor said, sitting backwards on his chair. How he'd managed to get into the clearing on that thing was a mystery.

"Yes, sir," she said, before turning to leave the clearing, hand-in-hand with Kid, "I'll remember that next time I want to work with that jerk."

The couple walked away, and Stein and Marie were left with two unconscious students.

"But seriously," Stein said to his companion, "That was quite a good throw."

Marie nodded seriously. "She has a lot of upper-arm strength, probably formed from years of hitting Soul over the head with books."

The pair of them laughed, then laughed even harder about the white-haired boy's predicament, when they realized that Soul was embedded in a large oak tree.

Maka and Kid walked back down the hundreds of steps on their way home, laughing about the series of events that had just happened.

"Hey, Kid, do you think… um…" Maka said, not quite knowing how to ask. As usual, he guessed what she was thinking correctly.

"Yes, Marie-sensei and Stein-sensei are definitely sleeping together," he said.

A/N: Okay, I'm gonna leave it there for now! How was it?

And yes, I ship SteinXMarie.

Until the next chapter, BYEEE! xD

Xxx Ellie