It was that day, the day Kishan Asura had fallen. The brave miester stood there as her team stared at her with shock. Maka collapsed onto her knees shaking. Soul regained some strength and rushed over to his miester and fell into a warm embrace. Holding her so tight that she couldn't breath. Placing his hand onto her shoulder while the other hand raised her chin so Soul could see her eyes. Maka was crying. "Maka, are you ok?" He said while brushing his sleeve to wipe the tears away. "I'm fine, …I just can't believe it... It doesn't feel real." "Well believe it. But lets worry about that later, we need to help Kid and the others." He said with a grin. With a quick nod, Maka tried to stand up but failed as she was clearly too weak. Fighting the Kishan made her loose a lot of blood from the wound in her arm. "Maka!" Soul grabbed her before she fell. "Damn it, if you couldn't walk then you should have told me." He threw her into his arms, carrying her and starting walking toward the academy.

"Maka!" Soul heard an annoying voice yelling and getting louder as it approached. "Huh?" He looked up only to see a redhead man with waterfalls coming from his eyes and running outrageously. 'Great, the last person I wanted to see' He thought as the man crashed into him holding Maka who was half asleep from exhaustion. "What happened to my poor Maka?! Is she hurt?!" "P-papa...?" Maka said. "Yes Maka, your papa is right beside you. Here, Soul let me take her." "It's alright I've got her." "What?" Spirit said with a confused but frustrated look. "You heard me, I've got her. I will take Maka to the academy, you need to help the others." He said with those fierce and determined red eyes. "Excuse me, this is my daughter and I won-" He was cut off by walking toward them. "Spirit, don't…Let him go" Hesitating for a couple of seconds, he lowered his head and placed his hands in his pockets. "Fine, but you make sure that my daughter is feeling well and safe." Soul immediately ran to school to find a nurse.

"That's was hard for you wasn't it, Spirit?" Turning the screw that was connected to his head. "Shut up, I know that I'm going to have to let her go soon. It's going to be hard knowing that she's gone with that albino. I still don't think he is capable of protecting my Maka." "Oh, really now. That's an interesting thought" he said grabbing a cigarette and lit it with a match. "But I don't think there's going to be anymore evil, for a while at least….…huh?" he trailed off as he found a piece of Ashura's skin on the ground. Stein threw his match on the skin and watched it burn to ashes that disappeared in the wind. "Remember Spirit, there may not be any more kishin, but madness and evil will forever be upon this world" He ended the sentence with a devilish smile hoping that Spirit didn't notice. But he did, he ignored it but Spirit couldn't help but feels a strange presence coming from Stein…"Well I better go find Soul, I doubt that there gonna find a nurse or doctor in the academy". "What! No! No way in hell am I letting u operate on my daughter!" "Well have fun trying to find another person that's going to heal Maka's wounds." Spirit broke down knowing that he didn't have any other choice but to allow the scientist to operate.

It only took a couple of minutes to find the two partners. They were in the nurse's office, he walked to the door about to turn the knob, and he suddenly stopped when he heard crying. He didn't recognize who it was so he his power to see whose soul it was. He couldn't believe it…it was Soul. No one ever heard him cry before. He knocked before entering, giving Soul a chance to regain his tough he entered the room, He saw Maka on a bed with nothing but a couple of old pillows (one of them looked like it was foam ripped from a cushion) and Soul's jacket on top of her as a blanket. Sitting right next to the unconscious girl was no one other but Soul. For some reason he was shirtless but then found Maka's arm wrapped with it to stop the bleeding. Stein tried to talk to him but he never answered, He was lost holding on to the blond's hand and gazing at her. "Soul, I'm going to need u leave the room. I have to perform surgery as soon as possible if we want her to live" He gripped her small fragile hand tighter then started to release. A tear fell down his cheek and landed on Maka's face. Soul rose up and walked out of the room, slamming his first into the wall. "You're gonna make it Maka…You're gonna come back to me safely" He told himself repeatedly. All he could do know is wait…

Soul fell asleep against the door, when he woke up he saw that an hour had passed and Stein still wasn't finished with the surgery. He walked out of the academy wondering what was taking so long to fix Maka's arm. The second thing he had to worry about was his friend's. When Soul arrived at the destination Black-Star came running into Soul, happy that his best friend was safe. "Yahoo! That was an awesome battle wasn't it? I beat the Kishin! Who else can say that?" Every one just gave him a glare of annoyance but Black-Star laughed about it just like what he did with most things. Kid just sat on a rock focused on one thing… Then realized "Hey Soul, what happened to your shirt?" With that question, it just reminded him of his miester that's probably in pain right now. "Oh yeah, um I gave it to Maka when she passed out" They all gave a worried look. Black-Star immediately rose up and asked "How is she?" Soul choked up as he was just so depressed but managed to answer. "Her arm got really messed up but she's in the middle of surgery with " "Come on Soul, don't sweat it. This is Maka were talking about, it's gonna take more then a couple of broken bones to stop her." All Soul could think was 'There was so much blood, I managed to clean it but it just wouldn't stop pouring out…she has to make it' He wanted to tell them so bad but he also didn't want them to get to involved so he just kept quiet. "Yeah, you right, thanks Black-Star" The two best friends smiled at each other.

It was only a few minutes after that Soul had found out that the operation was done. The entire group including Crona went to see her, she was still sleeping but they just needed to see if she was ok. stood beside them "The surgery was perfect she just needs a little rest" Soul was basically attached to her, holding his miester's hand once again. Tsubaki knew what was happening and whispered to the rest "I think we should give them some time alone" They all quickly nodded and left the room. Soul was staring at his beautiful partners face, he never noticed how cute she looked when she was sleeping. He hesitated for a moment then leaned closer and closer to Maka's face. The distance between them was slowly decreasing. Maka felt a warm breath coming closer by the second and managed to open her eyes…