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(c) Soul Eater belongs to Atsushi Ōkubo
(c) Patiently Waiting For You belongs to me

Summary:

Kid and Maka have been the best of childhood friends since birth. But when dreadful news of their parents' death are received, Maka is taken under Marie and Stein's custody. Kid, on the other hand, is trapped into rigorous work to become the youngest shinigami under Nygus and Sid's watch. Before their departure, Kid gives Maka a silver ring-a future betrothal upon their next encounter.

It has been five long years and the promise has never faltered, giving Maka the strength to continue living through the days with anticipation of his return. In his absence, Maka moves in with the mysterious, sadistic Soul Evans who takes her under his care. Through the course of trials and tribulations, Soul becomes aware that his feelings towards the spitfire young woman is anything but a roommate or best friend. To his dismay, he can only gain unrequited love, for her only strife of existence revolves around her childhood lover. Is their promise truly impenetrable? Can Soul still find a place in Maka's heart, or is there no more room? Will Kid's and Maka's promise come true?

"No! You promised we'd be together forever!" cried a twin pig-tailed sandy haired child. Tears dripped down her cherry colored cheeks as her emerald eyes glared into a pair of gold ones. Despite the betraying tears that escaped the ducts, her eyes remained strong.

The figure before her had shoulder length obsidian hair with white thick lines imprinted on the left side of his hair to mid-back. He had flawless albino skin and intriguing pairs of inherited gold iris that represent his high rank in Death City. The young man wore a soft smile for the young girl while his eyes held similar determination. He stretched his hands towards the child and gently cupped her cheeks. His thumb softly brushed the tears away as he murmured a promise; audible for the two of them to hear.

"Don't think of this as a goodbye forever, Maka. This is just one of those see you later adages. I'll be back soon, I promise."

"B-but you're going to be the shinigami now," the girl complained, "there's no more time to be with me."

"Shh," the boy comforted, "Maka, I promise I will become the greatest shinigami of this city and I will come back for you." The young shinigami released a hand from her face and dug it into his pocket. He held the object in a fist while the other hand reached for her hand. "When father passed away, Sid gave me this." He opened his hand to reveal two plain silver rings, one thick and the other slim, with gold rims and their promise adage engraved within the bands.

Maka was dumbfounded by the twin rings in his hands. She had a difficult time wrapping her mind around the action taking place.

Her best friend took the silence as an explanation despite the fact that Maka knew his life story very well.

"These are my parents' weddings bands," he stared at the rings with an empty, unreadable expression as he spoke, "Sid retrieved them from father's body."

He paused.

A moment later, the boy gently strokes over the two rings his thumb. "He never took off his ring after mother passed away. The words inscribed were their wedding vows. They swore to each other that their love will continue to remain intact if ever anything happened to one of them."

Another moment of silence.

"Father wanted mother to wear it even after her death in order to preserve the vow, but she requested him to keep it for me until I grew up and found someone as special as she had been to father."

"K-Kid…" the girl croaked with heart wrench.

"I wish mother was here to see me right now. A fine young man who she would be proud to call her son. I wish she was here to see me present her ring to the person I solemnly vow to protect with all my life." Kid picked out the slimmer ring between the two and slid it on to Maka's left ring finger; it was a perfect fit to Kid's relief. With a small smile, he brought her hand to his lips and gently kissed it.

"Maka Albarn, I promise when I return, I'll make you my wife."

A new round of tears prickled Maka's vision once again. Not from sadness of their departure but from pure happiness. He loved her as much as she prayed in all their years of being together.

Maka tried to voice out her reaction, but her throat sealed her words, encasing them in an overwhelming amount of heat. She stared into Kid's eyes with as much emotion as she could muster from her inexperienced eyes. When Kid continued to probe her eyes for responses, Maka pulled him into a tight hug, burying her face into his jet black polyester suit.

"I love you. I love you. I love you, Kid! I love you!" she wept into his chest incoherently. "I love you!"

Fortunately for Kid, he was able to pick up the words due to their close proximity. Kid felt his heart flutter in accordance to every word of her confession. A huge grin made its way to his lips as his arms circled young Maka's thin waist and crushed her to his chest. After the exchange, Kid and Maka pulled back only to pull into a gentle first kiss.

Kid had been holding back for a long time and finally he was able to feel Maka's soft lips against his. He wished that they could remain like this forever, for time to stop to freeze for their sake—for their last few moments to be together. For several moments, Kid greedily stole as many kisses as he could. When Maka paused to take a breath, Kid trailed peppered kisses from the corner of her lips to her cheeks, forehead, nose, and back to her lips. Each kiss to her lips deepened their passion and longing for one another, but Kid reluctantly pried himself away from her addicting, swollen lips before his emotions took advantage of the situation. Kid had already gone over the time limit he had promised his two advisors just to talk to Maka in privacy.

"I love you, Maka," Kid stated softly, "I love you very much."

"And I you, Kid," Maka responded with a twinkle in her eyes.

"Then with this ring and God as our witness," Kid held Maka's marked finger, "I vow that I will love no one else, but you."

"And I will be patiently waiting for you," Maka added.

"Even death, we are bound," they finished the vow in unison.

With a final peck on her forehead, Kid left with Sid and Nygus to begin his training as the youngest Shinigami to rule Death City.

YES! MY 2nd SOUL EATER SERIES IS FINALLY HERE!

Oh my goodness, I don't know how much more I can express my excitement for this new series! My goal is to write at least 10 chapters because the story should be a roller coaster of feels! My, my, I wonder how far my imagination will take me with this story... but let's hope I won't fall into a writers block with this one! :D

Oh yeah, one more thing. Turns out I started this series exactly one month after I posted the cover photo. Coincidence? I think not. No, but seriously I just happened to post this on March 20th, while the cover on February 20th. That's weird. O-O''

Anyways, enjoy.