Note:

This is my very first attempt at a fanfic, so prepare for a bunch of things ranging from terrible writing to unintelligible brain blocks. I have no idea whether or not I'll finish this so brace for anything.

Please R&R.

And whatever criticism you have, I probably deserve.

The day started out like any other, which honestly is kind of surprising. I mean, after everything that happened, with the Kishin Asura and all, you would think that normal would be hard to come by.

But here the students were, sitting in a classroom once again. Almost as if nothing had changed, as if the world hadn't almost been on the brink of falling into madness.

It'd been months since the Asura's destruction and everything felt like it was going back to normal. After rebuilding the whole of Death City and moving it back to where it was before, the first thing Lord Death decided to do was get the school up and running again. According to him, it would bring back a sense of normalcy into their lives. Well, about as normal as a school dedicated to training weapons and meisters could be. But like any normal school, there were the enthusiastic students, and there were the not-so-enthusiastic ones.

One student of the latter category was Soul Evans. As he opened his eyes from his nap, he wondered once again why he was in school early. It only took one look at his meister to remember why. Maka, being of the former category, had wanted to get to school early the first day class went back into regular session. And as they travelled from place to place together, it was to the misfortune of Soul that he happened to get dragged along with her to school a good thirty minutes early.

Maka on the other hand, was ecstatic at the idea of going back to school. After all of the inconveniences that had happened with all the recent events, the idea that they could get back into a life of (not really) normalcy had her all pumped up to get back into it early. With a few slight changes, she noted with as Death the Kid and his weapons Liz and Patty walked into the classroom.

Being a shinigami, Kid didn't necessarily need to go to DWMA. However, he had insisted that he be put into the school to better understand the meisters and how they worked. Deep down though, it really started out with the fact that he saw Maka and Black*Star's teams getting beat down by Stein. For some reason, he felt the need to go help them out, as it felt like they were being given a remedial class that was far out of their control. As such, he enrolled as a student. Maka had only heard about this months later, when she was dragged by Liz, Patty, and Tsubaki for a girl's night out.

Despite all the intention he had of helping, he was stopped short by his ultimate weakeness: OCD. Being a symmetry-obsessed OCD freak came with its ups and downs, as was clearly shown when he couldn't bring himself to go help when he felt something was wrong with the house. All the same, that was in the past now. After an eventful first day of school, Kid, Liz and Patty were now students at the academy. Liz and Patty were happy to have a chance to go to school, and Kid could appreciate his other obsession a little more.

As Kid and his weapons walked up to their seats, Kid glanced at Soul with a raised eyebrow. "Never took you for one to get to class early."

While Soul had matured greatly ever since the whole Kishin situation occurred, he was still somewhat of a slacker when it came to school stuff, so the idea that he would get to school early was still a foreign one that Kid was unfamiliar with.

Soul groaned and planted his face into the table. "When you're partners with the one meister who gets disappointed when school's cancelled, you tend to have to deal with stupid, uncool things like getting to school- "

"MAKA CHOP!"

"… early." Soul finished as his face got planted into the table by one of Maka's deadly book smashes.

Kid only smiled at this. He always found it somewhat amusing when Soul or Black*Star found themselves victims of Maka's book assaults. The action itself was adorable coming from Maka and it always shut up people like Black*Star and Soul whenever they were being annoying for stupid reasons. At the same time though, Kid had to wonder. How had Soul survived the Maka chops all of these years? He had seen some of the chops go almost completely through a person's head and to this day wondered why Maka didn't use her chop whenever they went on missions.

That aside though, another matter popped up in Kid's head.

"Did you hear about the new students coming in?" he asked.

Maka, Soul, Liz and Patty all turned towards Kid with a questioning look on their faces. Maka spoke first. "All I heard was that there were new students coming in. Did you hear anything else Kid?" At this, Kid frowned. His father had taken Kid to the side a couple of days back to talk about the new students coming in, telling him that apparently they were specially gifted as students.

Before he could start talking about it, the rest of the class began to file in, including the rest of their resonance team. Kid often had to wonder about Black*Star and Tsubaki. On the surface, the meister/weapon team didn't really seem like a great fit, with Black*Star always doing stupid things and Tsubaki was the motherly figure trying to get him out of trouble. However, beneath that there was a connection between the two of trust, being able to understand each other and trust each other in tough situations.

As the rest of the class filed in, Professor Stein rolled in on his chair.

"Alright class, before we start today, we have two students that are coming in later in the week from an academy that was recently established in Washington. As the strongest pair from that school, we're letting one weapon/meister team fight them on their first day. Mifune has agreed to oversee the match."

At this statement, the students began muttering among themselves, figuring out who would be willing to take on this challenge. Before anyone could say anything though, a loud voice spoke up.

"Professor! Let me and Tsubaki handle this. We'll show them our godly power."

The rest of Black*Star's resonance team figured that if anyone was going to take on this challenge, it would be him. Maka never liked leaving bad impressions to new students on her first day and Kid was more or less just interested in seeing what kind of team these new students were going to be.

-Line Break-

"Hey, did you hear?"

"Yeah, they're making us fight one of their teams on the first day."

"Sound like it'll be fun."

"I just hope we're not fighting the shinigami that's attending their school. Last thing I want to fight is someone of a god-caliber."

"But that pretty much describes us."

"Oh shut it. You know that's not true."

"Yeah I know, we'd probably get smashed."

The weapon-meister pair continued to bicker as they took the train to the DWMA, getting ready to start their new life at a different school.

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Also, someone give me a good title. I have absolutely no idea what I should do for a title.