Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Eater, If I did, Soul and Maka would be kissing a lot…and other things

Chapter One

She just wanted everything to stop.

She didn't want to do this anymore. She had enough of this bullshit. The fighting, the killing, the murder, the blood. It made her nose wrinkle and flashes of a black piano cross her mind. Keys being beaten, and drowned by colorless liquid. Images of a little red speck with something that looked like horns entered her vision every fight she gotten into since Crona. But it was too blurry to see. Not that she could anyway, the blood would prevent her from seeing.

She faintly remembers when she could kill a kishin and not have a problem with it. Then she would start to wonder what the kishin's life had been like before it became evil. What if it had a family? Would they worry? Do they have children? What if their looking for it right now?

That's when she began to feel guilty with every mission she took. When a card was taken down form the bored f missions, she once again thought about the poor hunted kishin's family.

Every kishin she killed…

Another father, mother, brother, or sister's life was taken away from their loved ones.

She became just a bit depressed. She wouldn't admit it though; too bad her so called friends were already on to her.

"Maka?" A fragile voice broke through her inner thoughts and directed her attention to the black haired beaut beside her. "Is there something wrong?" Maka was able to put up a fake smile just good enough for Tsubaki to not suspect anything. "No way! I'm fine Tsubaki! I'm just a little tired" Unsatisfied, yet knowing she's unable to pry any farther, the chain weapon nodded and turned away.

The meister sighed and glanced towards the basketball court, where Kid, Black*Star and Soul were trying to defeat each other in a 'basket to the death'.

Soul was trying to avoid Black*Star and pass to Kid; and failing. Black*Star snatched the ball out of the weapon's grasp and flung it to the net. Direct shot. While the two losers moaned in defeat, the ninja proclaimed that 'I AM THE GOD OF BASKET BALL' and 'PUNY WEAKINGS SHALL NOT SURPASS ME' and other crap he was known for shouting.

Meanwhile, Maka was thinking about her partner, Soul. Did he ever wonder how kishin's lives were? Does he think about the kishin's family? What about how when they kill they kill another person's love?

Maka shook her head, erasing the thoughts from her mind.

….

Soul sighed and stepped into their apartment, his meister following him closely behind. "Phew, man, I can't believe that blueberry beat us in basketball again, and he made us buy his dinner. Well, Kid bought it anyway…I didn't have any cash…" Not hearing a response from her, he turned to see sorrow filled eyes and frown.

Soul narrowed his eyes and advanced on Maka. "Hey, you seem down… what; did ya catch your bastard father with another woman again?" He waited three seconds, than crouched down to midget height, clutched his skull and waited.

No Maka-Chop?

He confusedly looked up and was greeted by a fake smile.

Maka smiled at him and walked into her room, locking the door. Leaving a very confused and slightly pissed off albino weapon in her living room. Sitting up and staring at where she had disappeared, he couldn't help but wonder; what the fuck just happened?

Not once, EVER, had Maka let him get away with something like that. He would know. He has said a lot of things to her just to make her mad, to check if everything was okay. But Maka had NEVER let him slide for as something as harsh as mocking her because of her papa. But then why did she just leave him here in the middle of confusion, and walk casually into her room as if he had said nothing at all.

Now, he knew something was wrong.

Then it all added up. He had seen slight changes in her behavior since last week, but he didn't suspect anything back then. He should have known better, Maka was very good at hiding her emotions. When she started changing her behavior, she became more gentle, soft and even apologized for hitting him on the head with a twelve inch thick dictionary a couple of times.

Unable to make sense of anything that had happened in the last ten minutes, Soul stumbled to his room and fell asleep.

….

Tsubaki watched the scythe meister and weapon closely on their way to class. Currently, Black*Star and Soul were just talking about an upcoming basketball game, completely unaware of the sapphire eyes watching their every movement. Then those eyes flicked to Maka who, of course, was reading some kind of new book she had gotten on the weekend.

The chain sighed and directed her gaze to the floor and her feet as they led her to class. What was she to do? She knew something was troubling her friend but she was too afraid and embarrassed to ask. Besides, Maka would refuse to tell her anyway, and come to think of it, she would deny having a problem in the first place.

But she just can't let her suffer like this, can she? No! Tsubaki was determined to find out what was wrong with the meister, and no, she wasn't talking about the messed up Black*Star.

As she sat down, she then noticed Liz also keeping watch on the two.

"Those two are acting weird, aren't they?" Liz spoke dumbly. She was leaning over a whole row to talk to the chain weapon, good thing that they and their little group were the only one in class currently. Tsubaki nodded and frowned. The two girl's blue orbs were fixed on no other than Maka and Soul.

Liz's eyebrows furrowed. "Then we gotta do something! We can't just sit here like dead fish and wait for the problem to fix itself!" She whispered, making sure that the others couldn't hear her. Tsubaki directed her attention back to the partner pair nodded. Maka was completely ignoring her weapon, reading away. Soul was trying to have an everyday conversation with his buddy, but he looked over once every minute or so with a worried look in his eyes.

Tsubaki turned back to the gun weapon and spoke, with such a soft tone Liz could just barely hear her. "I think Soul has noticed the change in Maka-Chan's behavior as well…" "Ha, no kidding..." Liz replied, almost laughing. "Don't you think he noticed something was wrong when Maka apologized for chopping' him the other day?" She faintly remembers training, a certain albino shouting 'Tiny-tits' to his meister, a Maka-Chop, than an apology flow past Maka's lips.

Liz sighed and pointed her perfectly filed nails towards Soul. "As hard as it is to believe, I sort of know it's not his fault. I mean, Maka has been mostly ignoring all of us, so either we ALL did something wrong or something's going on in Maka's tight little head of her's…."

"Alright, class has begun…"

They had been so busy worrying about the albino and bookworm that they didn't seem to notice the room fill with loads of students.

….

Death The Kid stormed furiously through Shibusens hallways. His footsteps left holes in the tile and he pushed poor defenseless students into walls as he made his way towards the Academy's bathroom.

The GIRL'S bathroom…

'My GOD… cant Patty listen to me for once and do as I say! All I want her to do is to fold all the toilet paper in the girl's bathroom into symmetrical folds! And she does THIS? Ugh, I just cannot believe that she had said that she had thrown it all over the restroom! Why I…' He marched straight through the bathroom doors and sighed

Everything was fine…there was no toilet paper everywhere.

But there were a bunch of Shibusens student girls…

He received many beatings to the head, face, neck, arms, torso, legs and groin, before they were all chased away by non-other than Patty Thompson. Kid rubbed his pounding head before looking up to lock stares with the person who just saved him from a horrifying death.

"Patty! What is the meaning of this?" Even with his head hurting and his vision blurring, he could very well see one of his weapons standing over his beaten form. "Heheheheheheh Sis wants to see you Kid-Kun~…." Patty's bubbly voiced made his head hurt even worse.

"Tell her I'm busy nursing my wounds Patty…" "Actually, I'm right behind you." With a painful twist of the neck, Amber eyes met sapphire. Liz stood confidently over her meister and looked at him with amusement. "They got you good…Didn't they Kid?" Kid only coughed and attempted to stand up. "We need to talk, Kid" "What about? And why here of all places? AND WHY DID YOU LET THOSE YOUNG WOMAN ABUSE ME IN SUCH AN UNSYMMETRICAL MANNER?" "Now, Kid. I can only take one question at a time." Patty ran up to stand beside her sister and giggled at the tiny meltdown her 'Funny-wuny meister' had just had.

"It's about Maka-Chan; you've noticed her acting weird right Kid-kun?" Shinigami's son stood straight up perfectly and blinked. "Yes, it seems as though Maka had been ignoring Soul, as much as she has been ignoring the rest of us." The older gun's face looked impressed. "Sharp eye…" "It comes with being a Shinigami"

Liz nodded and proceeds with her point. "Anyway, we have to do something, everyone has noticed. Tsubaki, Patty, Me, You…and even that thick headed Soul. Tsubaki is probably explaining everything to Black*Star as we speak. We're all gonna pitch in and try and help her, that includes you mister 'I need everything in the world to be perfect'!"

Kid's eyes went white and he pointed at his weapons or more likely their chests. "YOU'RE JUST JEALOS BECAUSE PATTY'S BOOBS ARE MORE SYMMETRICAL THAN YOURS"

He was once again being beaten to death by a girl that was his WEAPON

….

Black*Star leaned against the corner outside of Deathbucks, accompanying him were no other than the rest of Spartoi, minus Maka and Soul of course. He held the steaming cub of coffee in his hand as Tsubaki and Patty talked about their plans to help their friend, sipping the hot liquid; he was actually being quiet for once.

Kid handed each of them a piece of paper with a job on it. Everyone had a different job, and everyone had to keep to their job at all cost.

Death the Kid: Try and use his 'Shinigami charm' to weeze any information out of Maka that is somehow related to her problem.

Liz: Watch Soul and Maka and note any new changes in behavior.

Patty: Make sure everyone is to stay to their jobs.

Black*Star: See if-RIIIIIPPPPPPPPP

The rest of Spartoi stared at the blunette ninja, who was now ripping up the very clear instructions he was given. Once the paper was nothing but tiny small pieces of paper that anyone could barely see, Black*Star let him fall to the ground and let them be swept away by the wind.

"BLACK*STAR YOU IDOIT IT TOO ME A LONG TIME TO WRITE EVERYTHING ON THERE SYMMETRICAL!" Kid lunged a little too dramatically at his throat, but was tackled by Patty before he could reach his target. Black*Star looked like he could laugh.

"Really Kid…Didn't you see it before? Didn't Soul tell you? Then again…I'm not surprised he only told a god like me!" Black*Star laughed with victory that seemed to come from nowhere.

Kid looked a little confused, while the girls just looked like they were about to blow, except for Patty, who was giggling her little blonde head off.

"I know how we can cheer them both rights up" The ninja stuck his thumb in the air and his comrades leaned in for dramatic effect….

"We hook'em up together!"

EH?

Black*Star was surrounded by confused stares and wasted frowns.

"Oh yeah you don't know….do you"

Tsubaki dumbly shook her head.

"Souls in love with Maka"