Okay guys so this is one I will definitely stick with. I'm stuck on my other fanfic and I just can't find the inspiration for it. I'll get back to it as soon as I do.
Now to the explanation of a few things. This story hasn't been polished beyond what I normally do and hasn't had any professional (or semipro) editing done so if you catch something please let me know. If you're wondering where I got the inspiration for some of the issues in this chapter, it's personal stuff that I've had happen in my own life that has inspired me to write it in a different setting. Same goes with the note in this chapter, I edited one that I found in my freshman year of high school stuff to fit the Soul Eater world, but it is basically what I had written down. Enjoy the story, please rate and review and let me know if there is something you want to see happen later on (besides gooey romance stuff because I have that all down).
Black Star looked around, moving everything from top to bottom in his dresser, his mattress, and his room in a full blown panic, unable to find what he had been searching for. His sweet release from emotional pain, the thing he had kept hidden from everyone else, his razor. Lately his feelings had been getting to him about possibly being into Soul Eater Evans, the guy he was supposed to be best friends with, the guy that he would never have because there is no way that Soul would ever be able to like someone that hurt themselves and had an ego that was larger than life. He knew that it had pushed him away and that he would never love him.
Only Black Star knew the truth about his own ego, he never wanted to be the person he had become, just hide that he had always been depressed and hated himself. There wasn't much that Black Star truly loved about himself besides the fact that he was able to attack with his own soul wavelength without trouble. There was nothing else about himself that he loved. He hated how small in stature and size he was and he hated that there was nobody there for him. He felt the pain that many people who lead from the top felt, the pain of not being able to have someone just hold him and let him cry or talk out his emotions in his most private moments. Sure he had his weapon, but there was just something about that relationship that he couldn't change with letting her know his true feelings.
For many months Black Star had been questioning the feelings he had been having. He knew that boys were supposed to like girls as a standard feeling of attraction in manners of physical, emotional, and sexual feelings but he couldn't quite shake the feeling that he had about developing the same thoughts about boys. Specifically he was pretty sure he had a crush on Soul as every time he glanced into his demonic red eyes, he felt something in him stir deeply causing him to move closer immediately to the boy. It was just the way that Soul talked to him and made him feel, the butterflies in his tummy, the nervousness that clouded his mind, and the small little jitters that hinged on every glance and stare exchanged between the two. Of course Black Star had some feelings developing for Maka and Tsubaki, but neither made him feel the way Soul did. Looking at Kidd did similar things to his psyche and his body. He certainly loved the way Kidd filled his suit and how he looked when he stared a challenger down before a battle. And he hated it. He hated the feelings that he had developed for boys. He knew in his heart that it wasn't normal, that he wasn't supposed to feel this way, and it ate at him festering slowly into a problem of depression and self-hatred. The feelings ate away at him. He felt disgusted in every sense of the word, as he knew it wasn't right, Soul belonged to Maka not to such a lowly person like himself. He knew he wasn't worthy of love from anyone and he hated feeling like that. He hated being himself, he hated existing, he hated being nothing like the person he wanted to be. His confidence had been shaken many times and he swore to himself that he would come back from his low point, stronger than ever before. This time was the exception to that rule; he fell into a deep depression that constantly ate away at him, bit by small bit. He had recently contemplated suicide and was thinking about how to end his life, even writing a suicide note.
Turning over a pile of dirty laundry revealed his suicide note and he glanced at it, quickly reading silently to himself as tears welled deep in his eyes knowing that this would be the last thing his weapon, no his partner would see from him, before putting it back under that pile.
Tsubaki,
By now you have found me and realized that I am gone. My soul has gone quiet forever. I know that this is going to be a shock to you so I have prepared this for you to explain what has been happening to me.
For the longest time I've been outrageous and gone overboard with pretending to be a god. I've said that I will surpass God himself and I now know that it would be impossible for me to do that. My personality has caused you and our friends to be hurt more times than it has saved them. My sheer will has saved us more times than I can remember however I just can't do this anymore. I'm broken and unfit to be your meister. I should have told you what was bothering me, but I can't bring myself to do so. I've gotten feelings for you, I've sat on them so long because I know it would just change us and tear the two of us apart. At least that's normal about me. What's more is that I've started…looking at boys the same way, in a more than friendly kind of way. It's not normal and I'm not okay with it. It's wrong, disgusting and I won't subject you to it anymore. You shouldn't have been paired with me, you would have been better off with someone else who can actually take care of themselves rather than someone who can't even focus long enough to do well in school, can't take care of himself, or even make sure that he is okay. I'm not good enough for you and never have been. I wish that I could have been better to you.
I'm so sorry that you had to find me like this. I wish I could have done something different to fix myself, but there's no way I could do it. I can't fix what's wrong with me and you don't deserve to be subject to a poor partner. I'm so sorry Tsubaki. What possessions I have are yours to do with as you please. Please know that what has happened isn't your fault. You are not to blame for any of this. Please dispose of me by throwing me in the trash where I belong.
I'm so sorry Tsubaki.
Black Star
Soul looked around the living room where he and Kidd were sitting and moved a coffee cup that sat on the table just ever so slightly, causing Kidd to freak out about how it was no longer symmetrical. He laughed deeply and moved it back to where it had been, letting Kidd free of his torment. "You're a real dick you know that?" Kidd said as he shot Soul a dark glare. "Yeah I know I am, Kidd. Of course I know it, but I hope you know that this is just foreplay for what I'm going to do later. I've got this plan to move everything in your room so it's just ever so slightly off." He whispered across the table failing to stifle a few giggles as they escaped him.
"I will reave the flesh from your bones if you even try that." Kidd said as he tried to hide the panic he felt inside from the thought of everything being asymmetrical.
Something had stirred in Soul's chest when he looked at Maka's backside and the way it ever so slightly swayed as she walked with Tsubaki to check on Black Star as he had been away and quiet for an abnormally long time. He loved watching her walk away, just loved it. Kidd made a remark about Soul's staring and a small remark about how he thought the same things about Liz and Patty. Realizing that this was the moment he had been in need of to ask a very personal question without anyone hearing, Soul moved to the other side of the table and sat close to Kidd.
"Kidd I need to talk to you about something. It's kind of embarrassing and I just want to get your thoughts and possibly some advice." Soul said in a voice just barely above a whisper.
"Soul whatever it is, you can talk to me about it. I'll do my best to give you advice on it." Kidd replied equally quiet.
"I'm just going to tell you and then ask." Soul started, "I…I've been feeling strange lately."
"Strange how?"
"Well, I know that I'm supposed to like girls and all and believe me when I say that I do. The things I would do to Maka if we had that kind of relationship. But…I kinda get fluttery when I look at some of the boys. I get a little bit excited and a little flustered, but I don't know what to make of it. Should I suppress it or what? What's going on exactly? A cool guy isn't supposed to feel like this." Soul said nervously hoping that Kidd wouldn't react badly.
"Soul I'm glad that you feel you can trust me with this information. I want you to know that what you are feeling is completely normal. What you feel is simple it's that you are bisexual. You like boys and girls. Kind of…kind of like me, but not in the same sense. As a shinigami I am above sexual preference and do not like boys or girls more than the other. It's truly neutral" Kidd said quietly.
"You what? No way." Soul whispered in quiet astonishment. "Actually I could see that. It makes sense now, the way you looked at some of the people we worked with. Do you know why you are like that? Is there any reason Shinigami-sama would have told you that could explain it?"
"You…noticed that…hmmm…okay." Kidd said, unsure of his next move. He never would discover what he was thinking as yellow jacketed arms wrapped around him in a trusting embrace, shocking him slightly. "Brohug?" he asked in shock.
"Yes, brohug. I just…I don't know sometimes. It's…difficult to accept this. I don't want it to be the way I am. You're the only one that I've told and I think that it is just…going to have to stay that way. I mean what if Maka and Black Star found out about this? I don't think that they would be okay with this let alone Tsubaki. What do you think I should do?" Soul said as he let go of Kidd and leaned back.
"Honestly I think that you just need to accept those feelings. There's no reason to not accept them as a part of you. As to whom you should tell, that's up to you. As to answer your question of why I have no sexual preference it is at least partly due to the fact that I am a corporeal figure that represents death. I am a god of death, therefore I am above human preference in sexuality, but I am not above the needs of humans. As such I feel emotions and can fall in love but simply have no preference or even an inclination towards one person or another based purely on sex." Kidd said trying to understand what he was telling Soul.
"Makes sense if you think about it a little." Soul remarked while scratching his spiky-haired head and returned to torturing Kidd by moving the coffee cups.
Desperately Black Star wanted to cut, to make another line across his leg or his chest just to feel better. "How did I become an addict? I didn't mean to do this. It wasn't supposed to turn into something like this. I just want some freedom from hurting and aching and just feeling utterly worthless." He thought quietly, hoping Tsubaki or anyone else in the apartment wouldn't hear his thoughts over the resonance. Ever since the battle with the Kishin Asura, which the group had bonded and formed a resonance that was fairly constant while they were in a small area with Soul and himself being the heads of the group as his piano could increase the rate beyond anyone's wildest dreams in addition to his own brute force tactics. The downside to being in a group resonance or even having a resonance with another person is that his feelings were easily read and felt by the others, which he wanted to hide.
Finally, after turning over a long unused pizza box did he find his relief, his medical kit containing all manner of cutting instruments that he would use to relieve his pain. He never heard the door open or the scream from Tsubaki and Maka as they saw his shirt come off and the blade go to his chest. Only afterwards did he realize the mistake he had made in not being careful to hide his problems from his friends.
"BLACK STAR!" Tsubaki yelled as she sprinted towards her meister, knocking the razor out of his hand as he finished a line. In that instant her life had changed from being one of just taking care of Black Star's ego to tame it down a notch, to ensuring his physical safety from himself. Her hand connected with her meister's and broke two of the bones in his hand from sheer force; never had she hit him this hard let alone hit him in general, but she knew that what she had done was the best course of action for the immediate time.
Black Star let out a scream not unlike one of a young girl being scared in a haunted house, "MY HAND!" he cried knowing that something was broken, he moved it closer to him as the tears welled in his eyes. At least it drew him away from the emotional pain that he had been feeling moments before. The tears spilled over slowly and trailed down his cheeks only to be swiftly wiped away by a frightened Tsubaki, who was embracing him tightly.
Maka had run back to the common room where Kidd and Soul were sitting, nagging about symmetry while the other was purposely moving coffee cups around to make the placement asymmetrical. "Quick! You guys need to come with me, we have a serious emergency and we need to deal with this now." Alarmed immediately by the message, Soul turned into a scythe and readied himself for combat with Kidd taking him as a Death Scythe. "NOT THAT KIND OF EMERGENCY!" Maka shouted clearly ready to cry, "Just come with me!" Immediately, Soul went back into human form and took Maka's hand, knowing that she rarely cried especially in front of anyone else, after grabbing Kidd to pull him along.
As they ran back to the room Maka's voice broke during a quick rundown of what she and Tsubaki found after going to check on Black Star. Soul's heart ached knowing that his friend with whom he was somewhat in love had been hurting badly enough to do something of this caliber. He was both bothered and terrified by what had been going on without his noticing. He looked at Black Star's body that had been covered in cuts and scars, some pink and some bleeding from just a few moments earlier and some well healed and worn while others still were somewhere in between. Soul's heart almost broke; his best friend had been having trouble and he hadn't noticed. His grief overwhelmed him and he let go of Maka's hand to run to his best friend to hug him with the others following suit a moment later. His emotions ran wild and everyone felt the impact of the sadness and guilt right after he felt them. "Guys we need to do something about this." He said somewhat loudly after letting go of his friend.
"Soul's right." Kidd said as he swiped the kit and the razor from the ground away from Black Star. "First we all need to calm down and get this cleaned up. Tsubaki, go find the first aid kit and we can make sure that this doesn't get infected. Maka go with her, Soul and I will take care of things her for the moment."
"Black Star…I…why? What's been bothering you this badly? How long? I'm so sorry." Soul said with tears spilling from his eyes like a burst dam as he hugged his friend once more.
"Soul…Kidd…" Black Star said with hesitation, "I'm so sorry." He said quietly, falling to his knees with his head in his hands. It was so out of character for Black Star to do something like this that it stunned both Soul and Kidd to the point that they stopped in their tracks, not knowing how to respond to an apologetic Black Star. "Your God shouldn't have made you worry like this." He said in response to the tension in the air.
"Black Star…it's…we are all here now. We can take care of this." Kidd said coolly as Maka and Tsubaki returned with the first aid kit.
"This won't feel great Black Star but it needs to be done. Soul, Kidd I need you to hold his arms while Tsubaki and I clean this cut. We need to know how deep this goes and if he needs stitches. From the amount of blood on our clothes and the amount still coming out of him, he probably does." Maka said blinking back tears, "I'm sorry."
The boys did as instructed and held Black Star back to the best of their ability until the alcohol swab got deep into the cut he had made. At that point, Black Star pulled away from both of them and almost smacked Maka's hand away before he was grabbed again. Black Star cried silent tears and bit the inside of his cheek to distract himself from the pain. In minutes that felt like hours, Maka had fully cleaned his injury before making the decision that everyone agreed with, Black Star was going to need stitches. Looking in the first aid kit, Tsubaki found some mild anesthetic that would make the process hurt much less than it would without the aid. As Maka reached for it, Tusbaki pulled away saying that she was the one who needed to do this process as he was her meister. Tears flooded her eyes as she applied the anesthetic and looked at her meister, "Stick your tongue out, Black Star." She told him softly. Upon him doing so, she dropped a bit on his outstretched tongue so that he would be distracted. Threading her needle, she quickly wiped her eyes dry so that she would be able to see her work and stuck the needle through. Working quickly, she finished in just a few minutes without much complaint from her meister. As soon as the process was completed she gently kissed the stitching and hugged along his waist. "Black Star." Her velvety soft voice lilted through the air, "We are going to get cleaned up now. It's all stitched up." She stood up, looked back and forth between Soul and Kidd, and spoke quietly, "You two need to stay here with him while Maka and I get clothes for everyone to change into." Everyone was stunned in quiet silence as it was a rare occasion for Tsubaki to be giving orders.
"I'll make sure he doesn't do anything else." Soul said with Kidd nodding in agreement.
"Let's go get ourselves new clothes, Tsubaki." Maka said with a soft smile trying to lighten the mood. Over their soul link, Maka ordered Soul, "Something is very wrong with Black Star's soul. Tell me what it is when you get him to talk about it." Soul responded by a nearly undetectable nod in the affirmative and the two girls turned around to go off and complete their next mission.
The three boys were left entirely alone in Black Star's room, staring at each other in an uncomfortable silence. Black Star breaking the quiet said, "I'm sorry guys. I…you weren't supposed to find out. I…"
"Just…what led you to do this?" Soul said while helping the ninja sit down.
"Yeah what gives? What is wrong? Your wavelength is chaotic." Kidd asked soon after they all were seated.
"I don't want to talk about it. You guys won't want to be my friends anymore. I don't want to lose you guys. My friends are what makes your god great." Black Star said, showing his vulnerable side mixed with his usual self.
"Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure we can handle it. After this, I'm pretty sure we can handle anything you throw at us." Kidd said looking at the wall behind Soul.
"What he said; if it makes you more comfortable I'll be more than happy to trade secrets with you. We are all friends here anyways." Soul spoke quite softly knowing that he was going to drop a bombshell on the unsuspecting ninja.
"I don't care. It's too big of a secret. You guys can't know." The ninja said with a slight flash of anger behind his sad and depressing tone.
"It can't be worse than this, Black Star. No matter what it is we are always going to be your friends. Nothing can change that. Not even if you strayed off the path to collect human souls. We would have to kill you, but we wouldn't ever stop being your friends. I mean seriously, it's not so big that we can't keep being friends. Do you secretly love Maka or something?" Soul said half jokingly, garnering a giggle from Kidd.
"No, well…no not that." Black Star started, "I…please don't tell anyone else. Not even Maka or Tsubaki. I'll do that myself." After gathering his thoughts for several minutes, he spoke again, "Guys. I just don't know how to say it…I…like both guys and girls." He said before breaking down into tears, leaving Soul and Kidd to stare at each other blankly as they shared a quick thought about what they had just talked about minutes before coming in here.
"That's it, Black Star?" Kidd asked receiving a nod in confirmation from the ninja. "I wasn't expecting that, but it's no big deal. Truth is, as a shinigami I like boys and girls equally. It's just that as a god of death…"
"Don't give him that speech, it will just confuse him like it did me." Soul interrupted quickly, "Black Star, the truth is…all three of us sitting here are like that, we both like guys and girls. I still have trouble accepting the idea, but it isn't something to be ashamed of." He said as he scooted closer to black star and hugged him minding to keep clear of his wound. "Nothing is different between you and I and I know that Kidd feels the same. Right Kidd?"
"Quite, in fact I feel no different at all. In fact I feel better knowing that this is what has been bothering you. I'm sorry I didn't notice sooner than this. I wish I would have so that I could have stopped this from happening." Kidd replied softly to assure his friend
"I do as well, Star. Truly I wish that I had noticed it before." Soul said before letting go of the young ninja.
"Really? You guys don't feel any different?" Black Star said in confusion. "And Kidd I didn't know that about you. I…I'm so sorry guys, you weren't supposed to find out about this."
"We are just glad we stopped it before you really hurt yourself or worse." Kidd swallowed nervously with the gravity of his words. "I'll go make us all some tea, symmetrically of course." The shinigami said getting up and heading towards the kitchen.
"I'll stay here with, Black Star. Tea sounds fine with me and I'm sure that we need to get him rehydrated after that amount of blood loss." Soul said, scooting back over to his friend.
"You know where it is, Kidd. It's in the middle cabinet on the right side and the left." Black Star said with a weak smile before latching onto his friend's chest releasing silent tears.
"Shhh…it's okay. Don't cry, Black Star. I'm here." Soul said gently patting his friend's back trying to get him to calm down.
"I just…I don't know anymore, Soul. It's so hard living like this. I'm not supposed to be this way. I'm only supposed to like girls."
"Black Star, it's okay to like boys and girls. I like them both."
"But…I don't think I'm supposed to. It's not normal." The ninja said looking up at his friend.
"No, liking boys and girls is completely normal. Thinking it isn't normal is a typical way to feel about the issue especially when you are the one liking boys and girls. I know it's hard to accept it or to even admit it, believe me when I say that I know it is hard. I am going through it as well." Soul said as he looked down into his friend's soft bluish-green eyes. His heart raced, his mind went blank, and to him the only thing that existed was the two of them in this moment right now. It was the two of them focused on the other and their emotions, the beginning of a soul bonding moment. In this slowed down few seconds of time, an unshakable bond had formed between the two boys that cemented them into each other's minds for the rest of their lives. Beyond this point they both knew everything would change between them with little being the same as it was before. Soul gently pressed his lips to his friend's noting the softness of the tear soaked skin around them, feeling the gentle prickliness of a beginning moustache on the top against his own smooth skin. A burst of romance mixed with love forced his hand gently to the ninja's face only to feel more facial hair just starting to come in, leaving his hand slightly itchy but gently formed to the shape of his jaw as he held him close. He held his breath knowing that he just kissed someone that he saw as his best friend, someone he could trust with all of his secrets, knowing that he felt the same way in return. Slowly he backed away ending his first kiss with another boy.
Black Star felt the kiss end and quickly drew another breath before leaning in to kiss his best friend. He pulled him down and pressed his lips against Soul's with some force, causing them both to inhale with excitement stemming from the fireworks they felt on the other's lips. The ninja felt his nose gently rubbing against Soul's incredibly smooth face and pulled him further into the kiss. He closed his eyes slightly tighter before opening them quickly to make sure he wasn't dreaming and that he really was kissing his friend. "Boyfriend" he thought quietly before quickly pushing it out of his mind. His pulse quickened and he was sure that Soul would feel it against his neck now red with embarrassment.
"I heard that, Black Star." Soul said as he pulled away from his friend. "Are you really thinking about that?"
Looking away in embarrassment, Black Star spoke in a small voice, "I ummm…maybe." He stammered, "I uhhh no I mean ummm…"
"It's okay. I'll entertain the thought. I'm still not sure I'm ready for that…and I don't know if you are ready for it. I mean…we only just came out to each other." Soul said trying to comfort the nervous ninja.
With his nerves clearly taking their toll on him and sucking a lot of his energy away, Black Star let a small yawn escape and smiled lightly at the thought of being with Soul.
"Your heartbeat is erratic even for you. What else is bothering you? You need to relax and talk to me about everything that's bothering you. I can't have my best friend in a fit because something is troubling him."
"Well I uhhh…the real reason I've been cutting…" the ninja stammered, "I just can't do this anymore."
"Do what exactly? What's bringing you down?"
"I umm just that…I…" the ninja said just as Maka and Tsubaki returned.
"Boys! I've got stuff for everyone, fresh out of the dryer." Maka said in a voice that was a cross between happy and flat. Her face changed as she sent Soul a thought over their soul link, "What's going on?" she asked. What Soul sent back soured her mood, "I can't tell you." He had said quietly as if everyone would spy on their link, "He asked me not to tell you and he wants to do it on his own at his own time. It's best if you let him do it his way. Trust me. You've been gone for half an hour and most of that was spent trying to get him to talk."
Hearing the words over their soul link left Maka slightly upset, but understanding as she knew it would be important for Black Star to tell everyone on his own time, "I trusted you, Soul. I still do, but I trusted you to tell me. I'm upset because I wanted to know, but if it's that important to him, you're off the hook." She sent back over their link just before she sent a happy feeling along with it.
"I'm back Soul, Black Star." Kidd said just before noticing the girls had returned, "Good to see you have come back, girls. I anticipated this and prepared us all some tea, in a very symmetric fashion. The cups are all perfectly aligned with the tea pot."
"Thank you, Kidd." The group responded in perfect unison, making Kidd happy and giddy for a perfect start and finish.
"First let's get everyone into a new set of clothes." Maka said softly as she handed everyone their clothes, "You boys can have your little changing party in here, we'll be away. Don't think too hard about it." She said with a wink not directed towards anyone. Soul smirked and tried to choke back a giggle at her pun making Maka smile brightly. Black Star smirked thinking about Tsubaki in a mostly obvious fashion causing his partner to fall into a deep blush. Kidd had no reaction other than a smile and a quip, "Nice one, Maka. What's the next one going to be?" which caused her to go from smile to frown immediately, "I'll Maka-chop you for that later, Kidd." She said as she and Tsubaki walked out of the room to head to Tsubaki's.
"Black Star. Here let's help you get changed so you don't bust your stitches. I just have this feeling that if you even try to do it alone you will do just that and we will all have to stitch you back together again." Soul said quietly.
"Yeah I really don't want to go through that again. It wasn't very pleasant. In fact it wasn't fun in the slightest." The ninja said with a frown crossing his face.
"I'm with Soul. Let's get your shirt on first. Then we will need to get the blood out of your pants, which shouldn't be all that hard in all honesty." The symmetry obsessed reaper said with a slight dip in his tone.
Soul helped Black Star to his feet despite protests to his own ability to stand up. The ninja barely raised his arms in order to assist the boys on either side of him to help put his shirt on. He felt the deep hatred inside himself for putting his friends through this situation and internally lambasted himself hoping nobody else would know what he truly felt. As the shirt drifted down across his stitches he winced in pain as the numbing agent had mostly worn off at this moment and he could now feel mostly everything including how the stitching stretched as he moved his arm around.
Knowing that the time was at hand he took his clean pants and turned around to face away from the other boys, his friends. "Please…don't look." He had said hoping to get some slight privacy. He didn't normally wear anything under his pants and he today was no different. He snuck a quick peek from behind his friends to realize that neither of them was wearing anything under their own pants either. "Well then." He said nervously, "Uhh guys. Are any of us wearing anything under out pants?" the ninja asked. Both responses he received were steeped with deep embarrassment and in the negative. "Guess that's one more thing we all have in common then. It's okay. Your god isn't afraid of it now that he knows the truth." He said as he turned around naked from the waist down.
"Really Black Star?" Soul said trying to look away, "Are you effing serious?"
"I'm going to have to go with Soul here. Seriously?" he said also trying but failing to look away.
"Yes really." The ninja said very proud of himself. He was the farthest along in puberty, which left him being the biggest out of the group. "And best part is. I'm a grower too."
"I am so not having this conversation." Soul said as he turned around finally, knowing that he wasn't the biggest even though he was the oldest.
"I'm not either. It's not like we really need to compare." Kidd said as blush filled his pale cheeks, turning them redder than they had been in a while.
"You guys are awful. Way to make my self esteem jump up." The ninja said with a frightening sadness.
"Oh do not try to pull that one on me." Soul had said with a giggle as he pulled on his pants and fixed his fly. "That's just not happening today or ever."
"I'm with him on this. Not today." Kidd said as he pulled a set of shorts and a light t-shirt.
Black Star finally slipped into a pair of sweatpants after gingerly crouching down to avoid bending his body and smiled, "I did it. All by myself."
"Actually, that's a good thing, Star. It means that you are smart enough to actually avoid ripping your stitches." Maka said as she and Tsubaki walked in.
"I see we aren't a moment too soon." Tsubaki said in her usual timid voice, "Much sooner and I think we would have gotten to see things, literally."
"Uhhhhh did she just say what I think she said? Never mind that, we should already know that she's the most likely to feel that way after being trapped in that stupid book." Soul said in a cool manner.
"Really? Did you really have to bring that up?" Tsubaki said, narrowing her eyes as a sweat drop formed above her.
"It's kind of funny actually. Well to us it is." Kidd said with a smirk.
"You guys are something else. Let's go back to the couches. I think we need to have a very long talk with a certain ninja about this incident." Maka said, leveling a look at Soul, telling him that she wanted to know what the deal was.
"Black Star please hand me your pants. I'll get the blood out really fast and join the rest of you guys in there. Kidd please bring the tea. If it needs to be heated or chilled, I'll let you decide what to do." Tsubaki said concerned sweetness.
As they all walked back down the hall, the Soul stayed with Black Star to make sure that he didn't fall over and hurt himself, making the ninja feel useless and out of place in his own life. "I can walk on my own, Soul." He had said with a flare of anger and depression intertwined in his voice. The scythe ignored the comment and had dropped a step or two behind him to make sure that his friend felt like part of the group. Upon making their way to the small den, Kidd broke away to the kitchen, intending on chilling the tea in the refrigerator.