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Soul's POV

It's been a year since Maka had asked Soul out on a date. Soul later found out that Tsubaki, Liz, and Patty had forced her to finally ask him out instead of waiting for him to ask her out. Yeah Soul had liked Maka for a long time but he was always too nervous to ask her or he had pissed her off for something he did.

They were a happy couple for the first few months but nothing really changed between them, since it was they're first time having a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Soul tried to change how he acted in daily life to see if that would make Maka a little happier. He stopped pranking other members of their group and stopped calling her flat chested. It seemed to make Maka happy but it didn't last long. Their love life got stale once again.

Soul wondered what he was doing wrong. Now when he tried to kiss her or even hold her hand, she would either make an excuse to not do it or just tell him she's not in the mood or something. This obviously made Soul heart broken, he always wondered if he did something to piss her off every time she was this way.

Now Soul didn't even try to get close to her, he observed from afar. They were growing apart every day and that ate away at Soul. Maka always came home late now days and would leave early in the morning so Soul wasn't even able to talk to her. Soul was questioned by Black Star if something happened between him and Maka. Soul replied no and walked away thinking to himself that his and Maka's little problem and so noticeable even Black Star noticed it and he was so dull at relationships.

"What should I do?" Soul thought to himself as he walked to his and Maka's usual training ground. He stopped mid-step at what he saw next as he opened his eyes, getting ready to practice his partial transformation. He saw Maka wielding another weapon. "No, it must be a practice weapon; Maka wouldn't go that far, right?" Soul cleared his mind of doubt and started walking again, but this time towards Maka. Then the weapon Maka was holding transformed back into a guy and kissed Maka.

Soul turned around and counted to ten and looked back to make sure he wasn't dreaming, but without a doubt they were still kissing. Soul's face transformed into a facial feature of hurt and disgust. He started to run towards his and Maka's apartment and tried to get that image out of his mind. He just witnessed Maka kissing another guy while she and Soul were going out. He kicked the front door open and ran into the bathroom to wash his face with cold water. The cold got his mind off of Maka for a second but no more than that. He started to shake and was on the verge of breaking down right there in the bathroom, but Soul somehow held himself together until he was in the living room sitting down on the couch. There he waited for Maka to come home sitting in silence.

The Death Room

Maka hadn't come home last night and today morning. That confirmed Soul's suspicion; Maka had left him for another guy. This made Soul depressed as hell and he had packed everything he owned right after the clock in ten o'clock that morning. Maka hadn't even come home to get her books for school. He guessed that she took them with her before she left yesterday morning knowing that she wasn't coming back that night. Soul had already left her a note saying that he wasn't going to come back home ever. "Well, she must be happy when she reads that note because she really didn't like me by what I saw yesterday." Soul thought as he approached the platform where Lord Death and Spirit were arguing about some things that eventually made Lord Death knock Spirit out for a while. This was good because he didn't want him to listen anyway.

"What's up, what's up Soul?" Lord Death asked.

"Hello Lord Death, I'll like to request a partner change," Soul asked Lord Death.

"What's wrong Soul? You and Maka are so close to becoming a Death Scythe."

"Some things happened and I don't think Maka and I are so close anymore."

"I cannot let you change your partner without a legitimate reason, Soul, you know that."

So Soul told Lord Death what happened vaguely, leaving out the part about her kissing the guy she was with. Lord Death gave Soul a hardened look after hearing this and asked him if the person he saw was really Maka and Soul replied yes. Soul wouldn't mistake Maka for anyone else; she was his partner and used to be girlfriend. Lord Death gave Soul another look and after a long silence he agreed to let Soul change partners. After getting the answer Soul had wanted, he left to go apartment hunting.

Death Room without Soul

"You know, Lord Death, you don't have to knock me out every time I talk about bloomers," Spirit complained, but he didn't press on any farther after seeing that Lord Death had a shadow over his face and seemed to be in deep thought. "What happened while I was out?"