Rain. All that was around me was rain, and it pissed me off.

I WAS planning on running outside the school on a track I was familiar with in Death City, improving my running skills, and untimatly becoming closer to surpassing God. But as soon as a finally got their, Mother Nature decided to get a since of humor and it started to pour the rain.

Just another way for this day to go even worse.

I had just got back from a mission Tsubaki and I had been on at six in the morning and she didn't talk to me the whole long trip back. I know I blew another mission that was worth about twenty Kishin souls, but I had done that a lot! I don't know if it was something I did, but she was pretty pissed.

Then I only had an hour of sleep before I had to get ready for class. So I went to sleep forgetting to set my alarm and I woke up at twelve, missing a test in Stein's Class that counted for a major part of our grade.

I tried talk to Soul, but he was too busy talking to the beholder of his freaking affection Maka. Oh how they lived for each other, and loved each other, and blah, blah, blah. I mean the audacity, ignoring someone as awesome and as big as me! He Should have been greatful!

And Tsubaki still wouldn't talk to me.

The rain started pouring harder, so I started sprinting to get back the academy. The track was only a mile outside of the school, and if I ran, I could at least get somewhat of a run in.

My feet pounded harder and harder onto the ground. Running and exercising was my outlet, the way I let it all out. Some people scream into their pillows, I ran and did push ups.

The scene in front of me sort of reminded me of the day Tsubaki fought her older brother in that old village.

I remembered fighting for Tsubaki and how it wasn't enough. I hated that feeling.

The world around me started to become a blur as I ran harder, letting my frustration go. I would never let that happen to another person again. I would always fight for them. And it would be enough.

I snapped back into reality when I reached the small area a little I wasn't to familiar with. I must have been too absorbed to realize where I was going, so I was currently in a small forest. It full of young but tall trees all of them full of leaves and color.

As I started to attempt to find my way out, I heard a small groan coming from the trees.

I quickly went into assassin mode, getting quieter as I dissolved my breath and got a more detailed look of what was around me.

I looked up.

Nothing.

I looked down.

Nothing.

I looked left.

Not- wait. Trees don't have black hair coming from the roots.

I slowly walked toward the tree I saw the hair. I was slightly less confident without Tsubaki, but I knew what I could do without her. I am assassins for goodness sakes!

I was five feet from the tree. Slowly inching toward it, I was about to meet what could either kill me or I could kill.

Jumping in front to where the hair laid, I follow my first instinct, which was to attack my looking at what the target was, I drew my arm back and let it fly forward

Surprisingly, my target blocked. Getting a better look at my target I was surprised at what I saw.

She was barley sitting up, the arm that was holding her up trembling. She had long black hair in a Ponytail with shaggy swideswept bangs coverings her eyes. Her clothes were ratty and there was a big hole in her shirt that showed her overly skinny stomach and ribs. Beside the hole, there was a big blood splatter stain.

She used the hand holding her up to cover her mouth while she coughed up something. Blood.

Looking at the hand, my eyes followed their way to what was on the base of her wrist. A black star tattoo. The sign of a star clan member

I dropped my punch, looking at the broken girl. She looked up at me, revealing her beautiful, piercing green eyes.

The second I lost focus the girl layed a kick in my right leg. She struggled to get up, but made it up on her feet quick enough.

" W-ho the hell a-are you? Although she sounded somewhat weak, she had some fight in her voice.

"I am Black Star the final, and ultimately the greatest member of the Star Clan! Who are you?" Akane had gotten killed a while back by a witch.

I inched closer to the girl, getting in her face.

"You're not the last member! I am!" Her eyes showed determination and fury my they softened for a second when she realized something.

"S-so I'm not alone?" She collapsed forward into another coughing fit. "Are you going to be alright?" She nodded yes. "Do you have a place to say?" She started to nod yes but paused and changed her answer.

I told her to lay down. Once she was on the ground, I picked her up bridal style and tried to find my way out of this place.

*:.｡.Fallen Star .｡.:*

I had been walking for a about twenty minutes, carrying this girl in my arms. I didn't even know the chick and I was already taking her to my apartment.

"So what's your name?" I said. "Asteria." She said stubbornly, as If she didn't enjoy being held in these strong arms. "Ok then Asteri-"

"Call me Aster," she said. "Why Aster?" She sighed and then explained. "Asteria is a stupid name. Aster is at least somewhat less pathetic." I waited for a second to see if she was going to say something else to begin talking again.

"So Aster, where do you live?" She looked straight ahead and said, " No where and anywhere. I have no home, so I wonder around and find places."

"Do you have any family?"

"All of them got killed."

"When?"

"Same time as yours."

I got quiet very quickly. I forgot we were in the the same clam for a moment. Were we related? Nah, couldn't be. They might have been a clan, but I knew they were at least two different families in it, mixed in with a couple loners. We looked nothing alike, too. She wasn't nearly as big and as awesome as me.

I began to get curious about what happened to her. Her eyes were fully alert, yet pained. She wasn't trembling as much, but she coughed up blood every so often.

"So what happened to you?" I asked. She looked up at me and replied, " I was stalking the girl I was getting paid to kill. She was walking alone taking pictures of the trees and some flowers, not even noticing my presence. I was about to make my move, when someone came out of nowhere and attacked me. We fought for a while, but since I only had a regular knife and he was a meister, he had the upper hand. He got a good blow to my stomach, and I fell and acted like I was dead. He left me alone after that, so he probably wanted me dead. I thought I was going to die until you came along."

"What happened to the girl?" I asked. She cringed and lowered her head. "She got away." I could tell it pained her to admit it. " I can't believe I let her get away like that. I should have just killed the guy and went after her instead of wanting to fight. It was stupid."

"Well yeah it was. A good assassin wouldn't have let that happen." I said, although after what happened today, I didn't have much room to talk.

"Shut up. You've done it before, too, I bet," she shot back. I got quiet after that since I would be having a pot calling the kettle black moment if I said anything else.

She spoke back up. "Where are you taking me?" I replied, "My apartment at the DWMA."

As soon as I said the "A", She was out of my arms, pinning me to the ground. Damn, that girl was fast. There was no denying she was a Star Clan member. Even when she was previously stabbed.

" Why in Hell do you have an apartment at the same school that killed our families? ARE YOU STUPID?" She was screaming as loud as she could. The girl had a temper.

As quickly as she pinned me to the ground, I pinned her to a tree. " They took me in as a baby, saving my life! They took care of me, letting me train there!"

" They also killed your mom and dad. And they probably want me dead, too.

I let go of her and walked away. "Find somewhere else to stay. It isn't my job." I was extremely pissed.

I got a couple yards before I heard something fall hard on the ground. Turning around, I saw Aster, unconscious.

" Dammit." I picked her up and started running out of the forest. I was suprisingly close to the edge, so I didn't take me long to get out and find Death City.

As I was running, I looked down at her. Her shirt was soaked with the blood she had lost, and it was still going through the hole in her shirt. Looking at the wound, I could tell she had been stabbed. Why hadn't I noticed it before? She could die all because I was to lazy to check out her wounds. Because I didn't see she was still bleeding. Because I didn't even think about stopping it. She did say she got a good blow. A god wouldn't let that happen!

God, I was so stupid. Aster might die on my account. The only person left that I could relate with that I only knew for ten minutes.

I finally found the DWMA. Sprinting to the entrance, I prayed that she would be alright.

-Fallen Star-

"So she'll be alright?" I looked up at Stein. He had just sewn up her wound and had blood pumping into her*. "She'll be fine, if we can keep her overnight. Can I ask you something Black Star?"

"Well, Yeah I guess." He paused for a moment. " Why did you bring her in?" he said. "I couldn't just leave her there! She WAS bleeding to death!"

"Black Star, you don't understand do you?" He looked like he regretted saying anything. He took a seat in his swirly chair, sitting in it backwards like he usually did."What am I supposed to understand? Is their a hidden message I'm missing?" He told me to take a seat so I sat down it the chair in front of him ,waiting for an explanation.

"Aster is one of the three people that survived in the Star Clan. But, unlike you , she didn't grow up with people telling her what was right and wrong. So, she was an assassin, like you, but unlike you, who just killed kishins, she killed whoever she was told to kill. The DW-"

" Wait, how do you know so much about her?" I asked.

" I was getting to that. The DWMA had been observing her for a year, which is how long we had known there was an additional Star Clan member. We were worried that she was doing what we had eliminated the majority of that clan for in the first place, so we had sent one of our older students out to kill her. We had reports that she was dead, but turns out she wasn't."

I stayed silent for the longest time. I was beeyyyoonnndd pissed. Why in hell would they kill her? I know Star Clan members are extremely dangerous, but why not just take her in and use her for the academy? The audacity they had. Did they even think about how happy I would be if I found someone else in the Star Clan?

"I'm not letting her stay here overnight." Stein looked at me like I was beyond stupid. "Black Star, if you don't let her stay, she might die. We can't l-"

"But if she did stay here, you and and the other people would just kill her in her sleep. You wanted her dead then, and why not now when she's weak? I'm not letting that happen." I walked over to her bed and picked her up. With her blood pump in my hand, I started to walk out of the room.

" Black Star, you can't take that with you!" Stein said. "SOMEONE AS GREAT AS ME CAN TAKE ANYTHING WITHOUT PERMISSION! I-" I paused for a second to think about something.

"I leave her here if you give me more information about her." He walked over and put his arm on the inside of the door frame. "How much do you want to know?" he said. "Everything."

"Ok. Her clan name is Grey Star. She's killed over two hundred people in a year. She has amazing meister potential, but has no weapon partner. We think her parents snuck her away to someone out of the clan to carry out her Assassin training the day the DWMA killed the rest of the clan. She's extremely good at throwing shurikin and using most ninja weapons. She's a trained killer, that's deadly to everyone around her, and that's why we need her dead. Good enough?"

I stared at him for the longest time. He gave me alot of information, which is what I wanted, but it seemed as if he was hiding something from me. I looked at her and remember what she said about the academy when she was still conscious. Aster was right. The academy had tried to kill her and the rest of my and her family. She couldn't trust them and that's why she got so mad. I believed her.

"Nope. I want her enrolled in classes here. You said yourself she has meister potential, and why not put that potential to good use? Find her a partner. She'll be staying with me and Tsubaki. She'll be under my watch, and if you even lay a finger on her, you'll regret it." And with that, I turned around with her in one arm, a blood pump in the other and led her to my apartment.

*I'm not sure if that's what would happen if someone was just stabbed, but we'll roll with it.

Hiya! This is my first Fanfic, so please be nice! Shew, it was long for a first timer! I hope you all like it, and if you do please review! I'll try to update every three days and you'll be waiting for a week a the very most! In the next chapter, we'll find out what's going on in the mind of Stein and what the DWMA is going to do about her. We'll also see how Aster will react to living with Black Star from now on. She meet the group, tour the school, while she tells Black Star about her past. Stay tuned!

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～Alice