It was a seemingly bright and sunny morning at Death Weapon Meister Academy. Students, Meisters and their weapons, stood outside the large building they called "school", chatting with friends and preparing to begin the new day.

"I hope we don't have to dissect anything today…" Maka Albarn shuddered as she sat near the side of the school with her friends, Black Star, Soul, and Tsubaki. "I'll never get yesterday's image out of my head." She squeezed her eyes shut at the memory of Stein's class the day before.

"I'm not such a wimp when it comes to things like that, but I think I have to agree with Maka. Totally gross yesterday," Black Star agreed, nodding his head and crossing his arms as he stood beside his best friend Soul Eater. The scythe shrugged.

"I thought it was pretty cool. I never knew those things could live for ten minutes with all of their organs removed." He said. A squeal could be heard from the right of Maka as Tsubaki covered her ears and shook her head.

"No more!" She pleaded when the others chuckled. Soon the chuckles died down and everyone went silent.

"I'm surprised we aren't getting any rants today about how unsymmetrical something is," Black Star noted off handedly, causing the others to look around their group.

"Where is Kid today?" Maka asked, getting a shrug from the others as a response.

"Probably late," Soul suggested as the bell to enter the school went off. The group made their way around the side of the school towards the front of the building.

"Weird, he hasn't been late since his first day of school," Maka replied.

"Oh, hey, there he is!" Black Star said as he stopped and pointed towards the steps of the school. Everyone turned to see when, just like the light blue haired teen said, they saw Death the Kid walk up the last step towards them, the twin pistols Liz and Patty in tow.

"Is it just me, or does something seem off?" Soul said after a close inspection as the black and white haired boy came closer. His head was bowed, bangs covering his eyes as his hands sat in his pockets. Liz had a gloomy look on her face as her arms hung loosely at her sides and even the usually happy and energetic Patty was quiet, fiddling with her white tie nervously with a frown on her face as her eyes shifted around.

"Something's definitely up," Black Star said as he stepped in the path of the young shinigami. "Hey Kid!" He greeted happily, his usual smirk plastered on his face. As Kid approached him, he made no move to stop and converse, opting to walk around the assassin gaze still lowered. Black Star raised an eyebrow as he crossed his arms, Liz and Patty stopping right beside the group as their Meister continued walking into the building. "What's his problem?"

The sisters sighed at the same time as the others approached them, concern on their faces.

"We don't really know for sure, he's been like this since this morning." The oldest Thompson sister replied. "Whatever happened, it must have been pretty bad."

"Why do you say that?" asked Maka. Liz let off another sigh.

"He hasn't once complained about symmetry today, and he didn't do his routine check of his house to make sure everything was symmetrical." Everyone gasped in shock.

"W-well, whatever happened, I'm sure he'll get over it by the time class starts." Maka said, trying to sound cheerful.

"Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it if he had one of his OCD fits in class like he does every day." Soul added. Everyone nodded hopefully as they walked off into the school and towards their respected classes. Soul and Black Star had their first class with the young shinigami, so they were going to try to see if they could find out what was wrong with the boy. Luckily, Soul sat right beside said boy.

"Yo Kid," the scythe greeted as he sat down beside the gloomy looking teen. The boy made no attempt to reply, instead lifting his head up, face blank as a slate, and then resting his gaze on his desk. Soul raised an eyebrow at the lack of reaction as he rested his chin in his hands in an attempt to look cool. "You seem down today, what's wrong?" He saw the boy beside him fidget a little, but silence followed after. Soul sighed. "Fine don't answer, but you'll feel better if you do." The teacher began talking and Soul inwardly growled as papers were passed to the students signaling a pop quiz. One that Soul was unprepared for, as usual. He looked over at the young shinigami's reaction to the sudden quiz to see the boy writing his name neatly on the paper, no fuss about the position of the letters or the frantic erasing of mistakes.

Okay, this is just weird. He thought as he shifted his stare with some difficulty from the usually OCD teen to the quiz paper that sat in front of him. Even weirder than him WITH his OCD attacks.

Liz and Patty sat beside Kid in Stein's class, eyeing him up and down from time to time. The young Shinigami never said a word as he stared at the front of the room, eyes glazed over as if in a daze.

"Kid… What's the matter with you?" Liz asked for the umpteenth time that day.

"Yeah, you're usually slightly more emotional than this!" Patty added, trying to cheer her Meister up. "You can tell us what's wrong!" Once again, there was no reply and the sisters sighed and went back to facing the board. Everyone else in the class seemed to notice something was off, for there were no random OCD attacks throughout class, no arguments between Kid and Black Star, and any teasing or tricks coming from the Thompson sisters. The class was unusually silent.

"And that, class, is what poachers do to the almost extinct animals they catch," Stein said as he showed the corpse of the once living animal to the students, a smirk on his lips. No one seemed to react like they usually did. There were no moans of disgust or people covering their eyes. Everyone was too focused on the unusually stoic shinigami that sat in the room. Quickly, the smirk died down and the teacher raised an eyebrow at his class's reaction. The bell rang and, with one last glance at Kid, students began to uneasily pile out of the room, leaving the usual group of friends behind.

"Kid, you sure were quiet today…" Maka said as she approached the black haired teen and his twin pistols. The boy didn't reply, picking his stuff up and placing it in his bag.

"Hey Kid, you can at least make an attempt to answer people when they talk to you!" Black star growled. The shinigami sighed as he turned towards the group, head bowed low so his eyes were hidden by his symmetrical bangs.

"Sorry guys…I have to go." He said, his voice low with obvious depression as he began to walk away from the others. Everyone exchanged glances of worry and concern.

"Poor Kid, something is really wrong with him," Tsubaki said, breaking the silence. Everyone silently agreed.

"What should we do? I hate seeing him like this…" Liz said as some chuckling could be heard from the front of the room. Everyone turned to see Stein sitting in his chair, eyes fixed on the group of students.

"Sounds to me like you have a little problem with the boy death," he said.

"So?" Soul asked, crossing his arms. The teacher laughed again.

"And I'm guessing you don't know what's wrong with him?" Stein asked, resting his head on his arms that were propped up on the back of his chair. Nobody said anything as they exchanged glances towards each other and then back towards the teacher.

"Do you know what's wrong with him?" Maka asked. The teacher shook his head.

"No, I'm merely going to tell you a way you can find out what's wrong, since it doesn't look like he's going to tell you anything any time soon." He answered.

"How?" Liz quickly asked, attention fully on the mad scientist.

"Snoop through his stuff," Stein replied. The others went silent before the Thompson sisters let out a loud shriek.

"Kid would kill us!" Liz shouted, clutching the sides of her head in shock.

"He'd be ouchy!" Patty cried, shaking her head back and forth. The teacher shrugged.

"Then wait for him to tell you, which who knows how long that would be." The sisters went silent and looked at each other for a few seconds before turning back towards the teacher. Liz sighed.

"Well… I guess we don't really have any choice." She said. Everyone gasped.

"You don't mean…" Black Star started when Liz nodded her head.

"Yeah. We're going into Kid's room."