Soul, Maka, and Tsubaki were sitting in class. The day had gone by slowly; Black Star was nowhere to be seen…again. Dr. Stein was up to his nonsense again, 'Why won't he teach normally?' Maka thought…again. Kid sat with Liz and Patty, they were bored too. 'Won't this day end?' Maka sat in her seat trying not to fall asleep.

"Psssst, Maka!" Soul whispered in her ear.

"What?" she said somewhat annoyed.

"What are you cooking for dinner?" he had that stupid, curious face that made her just want to hit him, so she did. Maka Chopped him.

"All right class is over, tomorrow we'll meet two new students. So welcome them nicely." Dr. Stein said as we stood up and left.

"Tsubaki!" called a familiar voice down the hall. "You'll never guess what I saw!" his normal loud voice could probably be heard a mile away.

"Black Star, Where were you in class?" Tsubaki's calm but concerned voice was soothing, they're the perfect match, 'I guess opposites attract.' Maka wasn't herself today, and Soul noticed.

"Maka," Soul said once we were alone and on our way home. "What's up with you today?"

"I don't know I just feel weird." She clutched her left arm with her right hand and said. "Something's off."

"Yeah…" Soul looked at the ground while he had his hands behind his head. "I kinda feel it too, I just thought it was something I ate." Then he looked up at her with an open smile. Maka blushed and looked away.

"I'm being serious, Soul!" she made a fist and tried to not look at him until the blush was gone.

"I'm being serious too." He chuckled.

The two walked in silence after that and when they made it home, they found Blair in her underwear watching TV soul got a nosebleed, and Maka yelled. It was a normal night.

"Elias?" said a small girly voice.

"Yeah?" a deep voice said.

"I can't wait until tomorrow." The girl said.

"I can." He said bluntly.

"Mean! Elias, will you come?"

"Maybe, but I might not, you did force me into this you know."

"Yeah." She whispered. "But it might be fun?"

"You're too optimistic for your own good, Nami." He said as he lay down on the floor with his legs crossed and hands behind his head. "We don't need to go to school."

"Everyone needs to go to school." Nami said in a small voice, she knelt at the table drawing something unknown.

"What are you drawing now?" he opened one eye to look at her. Her deep red hair that went halfway down her neck, shone in the moonlight, and her already pale skin look luminescent. Her sleepwear, although it was just an old white T-shirt and dark blue shorts, looked somehow adorable on her, she looked like a little girl, and yet somehow mature, as she stared intensely on her drawing, she stuck her hair behind one ear.

"Nothing." She replied, her usual answer to that question. She glanced over at him when he closed his eye again. His light blue, long sleeved shirt had gone up when he put his hands behind his head; it exposed part of his stomach. And his black pants were an interesting contrast, to his slightly tan skin.

"Hm?" he halfway opened his eyes because he sensed her looking at him. She quickly looked away blushing deeply. A hint of a smile crept on his face.

The next day, Maka walked to the D.W.M.A. with Soul, both were slightly wondering what the new students would be like.

"Maka, Soul!" Black Star and Tsubaki went up to them. "Have you seen the new student?" Black Star asked excitedly.

"No, have you?" Soul answered.

"Not yet, but I have a feeling that they'll be strong." He made a fist and there was fire in his eyes.

"You gonna fight them?" Soul asked with a grin.

"You know it!" he laughed.

"You're being awfully loud this early in the morning." Kid came up behind them with the Thompson sister close behind him. "I asked father who the new students might be, but he only responded that they were a very interesting pair." He sounded disappointed.

"You'll just have to meet them yourself, Kid" Liz told him.

"Yeah! You should just wait!" Patty said.

"Maka, you've been pretty quiet." Tsubaki looked at her, her eyes were kind.

"It's just that…" Maka still felt uneasy, but she wasn't going to tell them that. Tsubaki looked at her concerned.

"Class is starting, we should go." Kid suddenly broke through her thoughts.

They all sat down in their usual seats, when Dr. Stein wheeled in, in his chair. "All right, class, this is Nami, she will be joining us." Then he turned his attention to the straight faced girl, she was short and rather cute, her outfit was weird though, she had a sleeveless shirt with ruffles, like an old timely dress shirt, the sleeves were detached and started at a little after her shoulder, blue shorts and striped stockings, brown lace-up boots, and a beanie with a spade. (A/N if you have ever seen Shugo Chara, picture the Amulet Spade outfit, if you haven't seen it then just try to make do with the description. Thank you.)

But it was her eyes that made everyone look at her. They were white, the only way you could see she even had irises were because a thin outline was emerald green, and they were mesmerizing. "Will your partner be joining us today?" Dr. Stein asked her and she simply shook her head. "I see, well then make sure he comes tomorrow." She nodded.

Nami took her seat, and Dr. Stein continued his lecture about how to dissect a rare species of toad. Black Star looked disappointed at the new girl, Nami, Kid looked in shock, and she did seem interesting, just like lord Death said, so why should Kid be shocked? "Psssst!" Maka looked over at Soul. "Maka, did you see her eyes?" Soul whispered.

"Yeah, it seems familiar, like I read about that before."

"Yeah, but they also seemed sad." His comment surprised Maka, 'What? Did they?' she thought to herself. She sneaked a glance at the girl sitting in the highest row, in the corner, all alone. And suddenly, Maka saw it, her eyes, past the mesmerizing color, the sadness appeared, it was well hidden but not well enough. 'Is it because her partner didn't show?'

After class, Maka and Soul watched as Nami got up and left without saying a word. "Hey!" The loud voice of an idiot rang out, it was Black Star, and he put one foot on the desk in front of him and laughed. But Nami simply walked away, she thought he was talking to someone else, which was a reasonable conclusion since most of the class was still in the room. "I'm talking to you, newbie!" he pointed right at Nami. This got her attention. She stared at him with an expressionless face, which caught him off guard. "I challenge you and your partner to a duel!" he grinned big, but she just looked at him with those eyes. "Did you hear me?"

"Of course she heard you, you're too loud." Liz intervened, she walked over to Nami. Most of the class had left by now. "Sorry about him, he probably thought you would be a lot stronger, granted so did I." she admitted.

"What makes you think I'm not as strong as you thought?" she said blankly her eyes pierced through Liz, and rendered her speechless.

Kid strode toward them. "Oh kid, thank God." Liz said under her breath. But Kid pushed her aside and got starry eyed.

"You-you-your perfect!" Kid exclaimed. Everyone was speechless, even Nami. "You're completely symmetrical!" he was looking around her. "Except…" he took the spade that was at the left her beanie and placed it in the middle of it. "There!" he was in a daze about how perfect she was.

"Kid…" Liz was disgruntled, she dragged him out with Patty, and they went home leaving Soul, Maka, Black Star, Tsubaki, and the mysterious girl.

"So, how about that duel?" Black Star broke the silence…loudly.

"No, thank you." She politely bowed and started to the door.

"I won't take no for an answer!" Black Star jumped down and blocked the exit.

"Please move." She asked.

"Not until you say yes." He said grimly.

"Then I guess we're not moving."

"Guess not." The atmosphere grew electric as there glare at each other didn't waver.

"B-Black Star?" Tsubaki grew uneasy. "Maybe you should just let her pass."

"Nope." He never broke eye contact to say that.

Finally, Nami closed her eyes and sighed. She smiled sweetly. "Sorry, really, but I need to get home, I'll ask my partner about the duel, I promise."

Her smile was enough to make him move it was simple yet also fake looking. It was obvious it was faked, but still he moved. "Don't forget to ask." Black Star, for some reason or another, was calm, probably for the first time.

"How was your first day?" Elias asked when Nami got back. She just pouted at him and went to the bookshelf. "Aw come on!" he got up and set down the magazine he was reading. "I said a was sorry." He stood by her as she got a book and sat down to read. "Are you not going to talk to me?" he knelt down beside her. "Hm?" He looked at her spade in the middle of her hat. He adjusted it back to the left. "There."

"Thank you." She glanced at him and saw his big lopsided grin.

"You talked to me." She stuck out her tongue and then he laughed. "So really, what happened?" he sat with his legs crossed waiting for an answer.

She smiled. "Guess you're going to have to go with me if you want to find out."

"Man." He sighed

"Oh, but there was a boy, he was weird."

"Oh? Who?"

"He wanted to duel with us; I promised him I'd ask you."

"No." he said bluntly.

"Thought so." She smiled slightly and kept reading the book called The History of Literature.

He smiled and went back to reading his magazine.