Soo, I really hope you all like this story. I've taken a lot of time into making the story line and all of my created characters so that there will be plenty of twists and turns. There are going to be romances and all that jazz too(; NOOOWW time for some key info:

This story takes place after the kishin Asura is defeated. I still don't know how far after, so I just say months, but it might be a year or so (all I know is that it's long enough for Maka to get boobs.). Also, some events kind of don't follow what happens in the anime, and the manga events aren't in this at all (I'm pretty sure I'm never gonna read the manga...oh well.), and some characters may be off... deal with it. The rating is T for now, but it's subject to change.

'things that look like this are private thoughts'

anything else that is bolded is just being very stressed. obvious I know.

OKAY, that's all that i can think of right now! Enjoyyy(:

(7/29)Edit: I'm going back through my chapters and fixing any spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and random typing mishaps. I'll also by making doubly sure that everything is more flowy and that nothing is unbearably and awkwardly written and/or placed. This is for my OCD with writting and so that everyone who reads this/is reading this can find it that much more enjoyable.

Also, I maaay take away bits of information that seems like too much too soon, and I may even add information that will make parts make more sense. Sobe on the lookout for that (If you're already invested in this story. If you're just reading it for the first time now, don't even worry about it)

At the end of the chapters I'll probably give a little rundown of what got changed, just for the hell of it

I don't own Soul Eater

Soul Eater: What Happens Next?

Chapter 1

Three figures stood on a cliffs edge in the humid Nevada desert.

"Hm. Death City... Just as creepy looking as I remember." The figure who said this was a young woman, no more than 19 years old. She had long light brown hair and deep chocolate brown eyes. Her skin was a light tan and she looked like one of the girls that every modeling agency was after. Her dark eyes looked down at the city that she and her companions used to reside. "Only it looks like the big guy made a slight change…"

To her left, a male with messy sandy blonde hair rolled his dark blue eyes at her comment. "Yes, because Lord Death putting his entire goddamn soul over all of Death City is definitely a slight change."

"Shut up, Lance. Last time we were here it was completely different." She shot back. Her tone was harsher than expected.

"Hey now, I was agreeing with you. No need to be all bitchy about it."

"It was the way you agreed with me. Stop acting like a 5 year old." The girl crossed her arms over her chest and ungracefully plopped down to the ground, her legs dangling off the cliffs edge. Lance had a severely confused look on his face.

"You've gotta be kidding me, Sierra! You're gonna get mad at me because of that? What the hell?" He stuffed his hands in his pockets and looked in the opposite direction of his friend. A few feet on the other side of Sierra, another girl was lying in the sand, her headphones were blaring some unnamable song. Her hair was long and a bright red velvet color. She sported choppy bangs and an overall choppy cut to it. The girl had a content look on her face, hands behind her head, eye closed. She almost looked like she was sleeping. 'Maybe this stupid trip won't be a total loss… I can get a good tan.'

"Sorry, Lance. I didn't mean to snap at you."

"Ha, it's cool. I know this heat is worse than Florida's. At least you aren't being as whiney as Ember." Sierra smiled and got up.

"Well, we've wasted enough time just staring at the place. I say we head back to everyone else." She looked down at the girl laying beside her. "Oh Ember, what a huge help you are…" She kicked some sand over her friend, effectively getting her up.

"WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?" Lance couldn't help but laugh.

"We're heading back. We thought you might wanna join us, Sleeping Beauty." Ember's face lit up in embarrassment.

"I wasn't actually asleep! And you know how much I hate just sitting around!" She crossed her arms and started walking towards camp.

Sierra and Lance exchanged a glance before following her. The trip back was fairly quiet, apart from somd complaints every now and then from Ember. Their camp was set up in the middle of a very large and very strange rock formation. It provided the perfect protection because of how the rocks stood, in almost a perfect circle, with many smaller sharper ones randomly about. Most of the rocks were smooth, making gripping them almost impossible. The odd formation of them also supplied some much needed shade for them, but it was, as Ember so eloquently put it, a total bitch to climb. It also didn't help that it was nowhere close to where they had been previously doing recon.

"Why did we let Kiara pick where we set up camp? I know she's super great at it, but she always picks the most ridiculous places. There were like 50 bazillion caves and rocks that we just passed that were soo much easier to get to." Sierra rolled her eyes at her friend's complaints. Lance just shook his head.

"Last time I checked, whenever she picks our sites, we never have to worry about keeping watch, and we never get attacked. Remember what happened last time we all let you pick where our campsite would be? Oh that's right; we got attacked by Kishin eggs almost instantly!"

"Well who was in charge of scouting out the area to make sure we weren't being followed? Oh right, YOU."

"HEY! Trace was too! It wasn't just me."

"So it was BOTH of your faults!"

"Well maybe if you could actually pick a decent place to rest, it wouldn't have happened!" Sierra couldn't take their bickering anymore. The heat had been eating away at them all day, and if she didn't stop them now, they'd probably kill each other before they made it back to camp.

"Will you guys shut up! Yes, Ember sucks at picking campsites. We already knew that! Yes, Trace and Lance suck at scouting out areas. Just get over it!" The two grumbled at each other and then looked in opposite directions. Ember tooklone last second to stick her tongue out at Sierra and then stormed ahead. Lance glanced over at his companion.

"Since when do you yell?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I wouldn't have had too if you two would just chill. We're almost back, and it'd be really nice to go the last five minutes without you two yelling at each other." She turned to face Lance, "And you know, you didn't need to be such an ass to Ember."

"Yeah. I'll apologize later." He started to walk again when he was stopped. Sierra had wrapped her arms around his waist, resting her head on his back. Taking the hint, Lance lifted her onto his back, giving her the piggyback ride she desired. "You're so lazy."

"Noo, I just don't see why I need to walk the rest of the way in this sand and then all the way up those rocks, when I can have my strong and handsome weapon carry me." She made sure to sound as seductive as possible, which was one thing she was exceptionally well at, just to get an extra rise out of Lance. A bright blush appeared on his face.

"Yeah, yeah I. Whatever…"

In Death City

It was an average morning in Death City. Maka was already up and getting ready for school, while Soul was still dead asleep. After his alarm went off for the billionth time, he decided it would probably be a good idea to get up willingly, rather than facing his miester's wrath. He rolled out of his oversized bed and glanced at his clock. 'Hm, I still have over 45 minutes to get ready? Cool.' Soul picked out his clothes, a pair of jeans, a solid black T-shirt, the new black sneakers that Maka got him for his birthday, and the headband he always sported. After he was done getting ready, Soul headed to the bathroom, completely unaware that Maka had just finished her shower.

"MAKA CHOP!"

"AH, MAKA! I swear I didn't know you were in here!"

"Likely story. You pervert." Maka snidely remarked.

"I just woke up! The door was already open a little bit, the water wasn't running, and there was no sign that anyone was in here! And besides, I didn't see anything!" Soul shot back.

"Maybe if you had, oh I don't know, KNOCKED, you would have realized I was in here!"

"Why the hell would I knock on a door that was already open?"

"Umm, because there's a girl living here too, you ass!"

"Maybe if that girl would shut the goddamn door, or make her presence known sooner, I wouldn't have seen her naked in the shower!" Maka's eyes widened.

"SO YOU DID LOOK!"

"Wha- NO!"

"SOUL, YOU PERVERT!" Soul didn't even have time to react to the book that crushed into his skull. He really hadn't seen anything. Well, a lot of anything. Soul hadn't meant to look over when he heard the shower curtain open, nor had he meant to look at his miester's developed chest. But he had. And even though he looked away before Maka saw him looking directly at her, he couldn't hide the nosebleed. He was now standing at their front door waiting for Maka to finish getting dressed. 'Today is going to be so uncool.'

15 minutes later, Maka came out of her room. Soul took a quick second to take in his miester. She had long forgotten her pigtails, and now alternated between her hair being down, in one single ponytail, or in a messy bun. Today she wore it in a messy bun. She had ditched her uniform and trench coat she always sported. In their place she had on short jean shorts and a fitted white tank top that unintentionally helped show off her more mature body. She also wore Soul's old yellow and black jacket. Maka had borrowed it one night when she was going out Liz and the girls, and it had never made it back to Soul, not that he had really cared. He didn't know why, but he liked seeing Maka in his clothes, which is probably how she had ended up acquiring three of his old shirts, two of his hoodies, and two of his sweatpants. She kept her boots that she had always worn, since they were broken in and very comfortable. Maka made a quick trip to the kitchen to get an apple, and then made her way to where Soul was. He had hoped she was over what had happened, but he knew he was wrong when she walked right past him and out the door without a word. Soul sighed before following his miester.

"So uncool."

To say the walk to school was awkward would be a complete understatement. Maka hadn't look at Soul, and almost seemed to be going out of her way to keep it that way. Soul may not always be the most observant partner ever, but it didn't take much to see how embarrassed, exposed, and mad Maka was. 'Was it really that big a deal? She's accidentally walked in on me in the shower. She's even walked in on me while I was in the middle of changing. I didn't give her a fucking concussion because of it. I didn't even make a big deal about it afterwords. Ugh, whatever. I'll never understand women.'

Maka was a head of Soul, her arms crossed over her chest and she was glaring straight ahead of her. 'He's such an ass. He knows I ALWAYS take showers in the morning. Even if it did look like no one was in there... Even Blair knocks before entering any of the rooms in our apartment. I mean, I know I've accidentally walked in on him a few times, but that's only because he wouldn't respond to my knock! And then he tries to lie about looking at me? Maybe if he didn't have a nosebleed that could be believable. But that wasn't the case. He's such a pig. Even when I walked in on him those few times, I NEVER decided to check him out!'Something made Maka rethink that. After a few seconds, something dawned on her. 'Shit.' Maka thought back to a few months ago, a little bit after the Kishin Asura had been defeated.

Flashback

She had been up late doing her and Souls' laundry. She was on her way to bed when she heard a weird noise down the hall. It only took her a second to figure out that the noise was originating from Soul's room. Against her better judgment, Maka decided to investigate. She had been about a foot from his door when she heard a low moan. Her mind went back to earlier that night when Soul had complained about the chicken being undercooked, to which he received a Maka Chop. 'Maybe I did undercook the chicken…' She was about to knock when she stopped herself. 'If Soul is feeling sick from dinner, he's not gonna let me check to see if he's okay. He'll just tell me to go away and then tomorrow he'll feel even worse and insist on not being able to go to school, and then I'll have to stay home and make sure he rests. No way in hell am I letting him do that.' So instead of knocking, Maka slowly and quietly opened Soul's door. Once it was open enough Maka stuck her head in. "Soul you better be okay in here! I swear to Death if you try to pull the sick card tomorrow morning, I'll give you the worst Maka Chop of your ent-" She stopped dead in her sentence when her brain finally registered what her eyes were seeing. Soul was in there. And he was groaning. But he was definitely NOT getting food poisoning. Soul was sitting on his bed, completely, 100% naked, and masterbating. He was staring wide eyed at his miester.

"WHAT. THE. FUCK. MAKA?" Soul shouted, staring at his miester, his red eye wide with shock, slight anger, and complete embarrassment.

"I-I-I-"

"YOU WHAT?' By this point, Maka's face was as red as Soul's eyes.

"I, um, well… I thought you sounded like you where having a bad reaction to dinner. You had said the chicken was undercooked so I…" She was cut off again by Soul.

"Decided to barge into my room, WITHOUT KNOCKING?"

"Well I thought you were getting sick! I didn't think you'd be doing THIS!"

"You should still fucking knock before just walking into my room, AND YOU COULD HAVE MADE SOME EFFORT TO MAKE YOURSELF KNOW SOONER!"

"I-I'M SORRY!" Soul seemed to calm down a little after their yelling match. Until they both remembered something. Throughout the entire moment, Soul hadn't had the chance to cover himself up. And Maka's newly blushing face and down cast eyes were all the reminding he needed.

"WILL YOU STOP FUCKING STARING AT IT!"

End Flashback

'After what happened, Soul hadn't made things tense or awkward. He didn't ignore me like I'm doing to him. He didn't even tell Kidd or Black Star about it. But he has less to be self conscious about! It's not a secret that he's really attractive… I mean basically every girl at the DWMA thinks he's hot. He gets like 100 letters daily telling him so. Urgh, maybe I was being too bitchy about it. I mean it IS just Soul. He's my weapon, and he doesn't see me as anything but his miester and a friend, so I doubt he actually thought of anything when he looked. Maybe I should just apologize and move on with life… but wait. Why should I have to apologize first? He's the one who walked in on my unannounced, looked at me while I was naked and then LIED about looking, and then acted like it was MY fault the whole thing happened. Humph, I'm not apologizing till he does.' She was suddenly brought back to her thoughts when something came to her attention. She was walking in a forgotten part of Death City. And Soul was nowhere to be seen. Maka had been so lost in her own thoughts that she had accidentally missed the turn that her and Soul usually take to get to school.

"He didn't even stop me? He's such an ass! Argh, wait till I find him. He's going to get the WORST Maka- Chop of his entire life!" Maka looked around, hoping to see something familiar, but nothing did. She walked to the nearest street sign, only the names crossed out with spray paint, making it completely impossible to see where she was. Not that she'd have known anyway. "How far did I go before I came back to reality? Did I just walk straight? Or did I make any turns? Oh man, there's no way I'm gonna get to school on time! And I bet Soul doesn't even know I'm gone. And if he does he's probably beyond happy about it…" Maka decided to back track her steps as best she could, but the further she walked, the older, creepier, and more deserted everything became. 'Shit. Where am I?'

"Noooww, whaat's a ca-uute young ladiee like you doin' around here?" Maka turned to find a man eyeing her up. He looked to be 30-ish and a lot bigger than she was. He reeked of booze and looked like he'd never heard of a shower before. Or a dentist.

"I was just leaving." As she turned to leave, Maka felt a large hand wrap around her wrist, stopping her dead in her tracks.

"Ohhhh noo, you weren't. It's not very often a girl like you wanders this deep into this part of town. You think I'm just gonna let you walk on outta here? HA. Not gonna happen, sweetheart." Maka tried to get out of the man's grip, but to no avail. His grip only tightened.

"Let. Me. Go- AH!" In a second, Maka was forcefully shoved against the brick wall the man had been leaning against. He now had both of her wrists pinned above her head in his hand. She felt him push his crotch against her lower region, while his other hand was on her hip. She realized just how much trouble she was in. The more she struggled, the tighter his grip became and the closer he got to her letting her feel exactly what he was planning to do. 'Of course, the one day Soul chooses to leave me to my thoughts, THIS happens.' She felt his head get closer to her face. Maka shut her eyes tight.

"Ready for some fun, sweetheart?"

With Soul

"YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOT SOUL!" Liz screamed. Soul cringed at how loud her voice was in his ear. After 2 classes and no Maka, Tsubaki and the rest had made Soul go over the events of the morning. He hadn't mentioned walking in on Maka in the shower, and instead said he had told her that her cooking had sucked more than usual. He said how she had stormed ahead of him and how he got distracted by 2 dogs that started following them and went to pet them. Liz couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Ha, of all the things you would be distracted by…" Black Star and Kidd had to laugh at that point. Soul's face flushed red in embarrassment.

"Anyway, when I got up to go, Maka wasn't there, so I assumed she just went on ahead. And then I got to here and you guys asked where she was and…"

"You realized she hadn't made it here." Kidd finished for him. Patti started laughing hysterically.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA MAKA'S DAD IS GONNA KIIIILLLL YOU!"

"Which is why we aren't gonna tell him." Tsubaki gave a small sigh.

"Soul, you know we would be on board with that plan, but Stein was our teacher for both classes. There's no way he missed Maka's absence for both classes."

"Shit." He was officially screwed. 'I take my eyes off you for one goddamn second and you disappear. Not cool, Maka. Not fucking cool.' It looked like Kidd was about to say something, but the bell rang signaling it was time for their next class. 'Wherever the hell you wandered off to Maka, you better be okay.'

With Maka

'Come on legs, move faster!' Maka was running. She didn't know where to, just that it had to be as far away from where she was as possible. She had managed to get out of that creep's grip by kneeing him in the balls, but she hadn't expected three of his friends to come out of nowhere to finish what he had started. One had managed to hit her in the thigh with a metal pole, but Maka kept fighting to get away. After running for a good 20 minutes, Maka had tripped and gained a seriously bloody leg and a sprained ankle. But she got right back up and continued running. She knew that if she wanted to make it through this alive, that couldn't stop to dwell on any pain. She had no idea how many random turns or alleys she used, only that anytime she thought she had lost her pursuers, they always seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"What's with these guys?" She couldn't run forever, she knew that. And the longer she kept on going, the faster she was running out of energy. 'That's probably their entire plan. Keep chasing me till I collapse, and then when I'm too tired to fight back, do whatever they want to me and leave me for dead. Great, just great! And Soul won't even know. He'll probably think I just abandoned him and take one of those new slutty miesters up on their offer to be his new partner.' Tears started to spill from her eyes, some from the pain her ankle was releasing, some from the pain of all the other injuries she acquired, and some from the idea of Soul picking a new miester. 'Dammit! I can't let my mind take over. I need to get the hell out of here!' Maka made one more turn, but stopped dead in her tracks.

"Shit! Of every turn I pick. Of every fucking turn I pick! A dead end." She went to turn around, only to face her biggest nightmare. All three of the men chasing her.

"Yoouu put up quite the chase my dear. But it's over now. Maybe if you play nicely from here on out, we'll be a little gentler." He took a step forward, so Maka instinctively took a step back. The man next to him spoke next.

"Hey now kitten, it's okay, we just wanna play a game." He licked his lips, eye her up. Maka felt like she was gonna puke.

"Please, just let me go. I just wanna get to school." The third man, probably the most disgusting of them all, took a step closer.

"See, we can't do that. Cause you'll tell on us. And then the authorities and all that shit will come down here and investigate. And we really, really can't have any of that. Besides, why the hell would let a girl as good looking as you just walk outta here?" Maka gulped. She felt the brick wall behind her and knew that no matter how great a fight she put up, she wasn't making it out of this alley. The man who spoke last raised an eyebrow and then a creepy and disturbing smile crawled on to his face.

"Looks like we got ourselves a lost little girl. Talk about a lucky day. Now, ready for some fun?" The three started closing in and all Maka had the energy to do was shut her eyes as tight as possible. Her legs gave out and she slid down the brick wall she was against. Tears began to fall from her eyes and when she heard their footsteps get closer, she knew it was over.

"At least she knows when to give up. Impressive fight she put up though I have to admit. I like my women feisty." Maka could hear them get even closer and her heart dropped. 'This isn't how things were supposed to go. Ugh, this is all my fault! Why did I have to overreact this morning?' Her arms wrapped around her body and she clenched Soul's jacket. 'Ha, it's times like these I wish those stupid fairytales about some knight in shining armor saving the day at the last second were true.' Not even 10 seconds after thinking that, Maka's horrible situation changed.

"Hey boss, what's that up the-" Whichever man was talking was abruptly cut off. The other two started yelling and Maka heard a gun fire which was followed by the sound of metal hitting the ground and then more shots being fired, and then the sound of flesh being cut open. A gut wrenching scream was heard that sent chills down Maka's spine, and a fine spray of blood splattered on her face, neck, jacket and tank top. Almost immediately after that, she heard someone hitting the brick wall with such force that it produced a horrific sound. Seconds later there was another scream and more flesh being cut open. After nothing else was heard for a good 5 minutes, Maka decided it was safe to open her eyes. When she did, Maka couldn't believe what she saw. A boy a few years older than her was standing in front of her, and his arms were in the form of sword blades, but in an instant, a bright flash happened and they were normal arms again. When he turned to face her, Maka's breathing hitched. He was one of the most gorgeous boys she had ever seen. He had dark brown hair that was long, but didn't go past his eyes. It looked like silk. His eyes where a deep brown, and had a gentle look in them. He was muscular, but not overly so. He sent her a comforting smile.

"You okay?" Maka almost died. His voice was smooth and manly, and her body unwillingly shivered.

"Uh, I think so…" He started to move closer, and in response she tensed. The boy noticed and stopped.

"Hey, it's okay. I'm not gonna hurt you. I promise." His voice was gentle and Maka knew he wasn't lying. He had just saved her life after all. She nodded and he took it as the okay to come closer. He moved very slowly until he was in front of her. He slowly went to his knees so that we that he was at eye level with her. She felt his hand land softly on her shoulder.

"Did those guys do anything to you?" Maka shook her head.

"No, not really. They chased me and one hit my thigh with a pipe, and one who was way back somewhere else slammed me into a wall. But they didn't get to finish anything they wanted to…" The boy motioned for her to put her leg out so he could inspect it.

"Ouch. That looks like it hurts." Her bruise was now a lovely purple and black color, and it had a weird yellow-y color surrounding it. "Hm. Well all in all I'd say that you got off lucky."

"Yeah, thanks to you. But, I also don't get that… I mean, you're a weapon, but from what I heard, you killed those men. And it's against Lord Death's law for weapons to kill humans…" The boy let out a small laugh.

"Very good. I'm a weapon, but I didn't break any law. Those guys, they weren't humans. You may have been too scared to notice, but they were Kishin eggs." He moved to the side a little bit, and Maka's eyes widened. In front of the two floated three red souls.

"How didn't I see that? No wonder I couldn't lose them. They were stalking my soul."

"Well, you had your priorities straight. I'd say running was more important than trying to see if they were human or Kishin." Maka couldn't argue with his logic. He stood up and offered her his hand, which she took.

"Oh, I'm Hunter by the way."

"I'm Maka Albarn." He nodded.

"Well Maka, I'd say it'd be pretty rude of me to save you and then leave you in your battered state to find your way out of this shitty place. What do you say? Want to put up with me a little longer so I can help you out of here?" Maka giggled at his attitude, he was trying to make her feel comfortable with his presence and it was working.

"That would be nice." She said and smiled up at him. He returned the smile with his own, and Maka felt a blush appear on her face. 'He's so attractive!' As they started to walk, the pain in Maka's ankle really made itself known. She began falling but was caught in a pair of strong arms.

"Heh, careful, wouldn't want you to get hurt any worse."

"Yeah… I guess I hurt my ankle more than I thought."

"It was the adrenaline. You were so hyped up you couldn't even feel it. And because you kept running on it, you made it worse." The two sat again to examine Maka's ankle. It was almost three times its normal size and was badly bruised.

"This walk is going to suck…" She was about to stand when Hunter stopped her.

"Um, you actually think I'm gonna let you walk all the way back to the DWMA? You're insane." He stood up and turned his back to her. "Get on." Maka was beside herself.

"Wha-w-what?" Hunter turned and raised an eyebrow at her.

"Get. On. My. Back. What part of this do you not understand?" Maka blankly stared up at him. She understood exactly what he was saying. 'Why am I making this such a big deal? Soul has carried me tons of times. Why is it suddenly different now that this Hunter guy is offering to? Oh, right. Because he's offering, I'm not asking or begging him too. Jeez Soul, you need to take some notes. You seem kinda lame compared to him…'

"Earth to Maka. Hellooo? Are you still there? Any day now." Maka snapped from her thoughts and nearly jumped when she realized how close Hunter's face was to hers. 'His eyes are so brown… beautiful.'

"Um sorry! Okay." He stood back up and shook his head but turned around so she could climb on. The walk was silent, but not awkwardly so. Maka was trying to think of what to tell her friends. She'd missed 3 full classes and it would probably be 4 at the rate Hunter was walking, not that she was complaining. But there was no way that they'd let the slide. Not to mention the fact that he wrists had perfect impressions of the first man's hands from when he grabbed her, her thigh was very noticeable bruised, and she now couldn't walk without almost falling.'I'm basically a useless miester. Soul's gonna kill me.' Then there was Hunter. How was she supposed to just nonchalantly mention him? Because he's definitely not a nonchalant guy. As Maka was working on a story to tell her friends, Hunter was lost in his own thoughts. 'They're gonna shoot me. It's bad enough I disappeared for 6 hours, but to make a scene like that too? Fuck. I'm already on thin ice from yesterday.. Dammit, I thought she was unconscious. If I had known she was totally awake that whole time I would have gone about that completely different. And Lord Death even said to steer clear of the current students here. Well, I've never been good with staying out of a fight, or making life choices.' Maka pulled him from his thoughts.

"Hey, Hunter?"

"Yeaaah?"

"Do you have a miester? You seem to be a really talented weapon, but you were alone when you saved me and I noticed no one else was around then. And there's no other miesters around now besides me." Hunter let out a soft laugh.

"You're pretty perceptive, aren't you? But yes, I do have a miester. We just don't see the need to be around each other 24/7 like most partners. Both of us are capable of fighting efficiently, so we don't need each other all the time. But traveling alone is pretty boring, so we agreed to watch each other's back when need be. It's unconventional, but it works." That was something Maka had never heard of. The only weapon she'd ever met that was 100% efficient without a miester was Justin, but he was a Death Scythe. And then a self efficient miester? Now that was something that Maka hardly heard of. Miesters didn't have too many great skills. There were some that could last awhile without their weapons like Black Star and Kidd, but even they heavily relied on Tsubaki and Patti and Liz.

"How efficient?" Maka wanted to know if Hunter and his miester actually even needed each other at all.

"Very efficient." Hunter could tell that the girl on his back wanted an elaboration. He stayed silent for a few moments, thinking about if he should really give that information to her or not. 'Oh what the hell. It's not like she can use it against me or anything. "Alright, if you're asking if we need each other to fight, we don't. I can hold my own in a fight and my miester can hold their own. We actually usually fight separate."

"That's…wow."

"Ha, it's really not that impressive. Now I hate to say it, but I can't take you any further. I don't need any kind of attention. Sorry…" He left Maka get off and started to leave, but she stopped him.

"Wait!" He stopped and turned his head.

"Look, Maka, I wish I could take you all the way back to the DWMA, but that'd be one big headache that I don't wanna deal with."

"No, I understand that. I'm not trying to make you come back… I just want to thank you for saving my life." He was taken aback, but recovered quickly. He shook his head and turned to face her. He gave her a smile that made Maka's heart skip 10 beats.

"No. You definitely don't need to thank me. You needed help, and I wasn't about to just leave you there to be raped and left for dead. And besides, you seemed worth saving. Glad I was right." He winked at her and turned again. "Bye, Maka Albarn. I'll see you around." Maka could only wave. She didn't know what to say. She watched Hunter walk away until she finally spoke, but not above a whisper. Maka knew he wouldn't hear her.

"Goodbye Hunter…I hope you're right."

Phew! Chappy one is done! I'm almost done with chapter 2, soo please do check back!

Ooooo la lalaaa, who is this mysterious sexy man Hunter? And who are these random people at the begining of the story? Who knows! HA, all will be revealed soon enough(: I'm a loser, I know.

(7/29)EDIT: I fixed some tense errors in the beginning of the story, spelling errors that were everywhere, and a really weird sentence combination that happened when Maka was flashbacking. Also, some information Hunter tells Maka was taken out, and one of his thoughts was changed around so that it gave less away.

That is all for now.