Maka tried to clear her head of all the noise. Closing her eyes, she focused hard on silence. Ahhh! I can't focus. These souls are so noisy. The classroom was packed with students, more than usual. Wait. Something's not right. There are twosouls. They're... different. They seem human, but not completely. Maka opened her eyes and saw the two girls standing in the front of the room, waiting patiently while Dr. Stein looked at a paper they had handed him.
They were new. At least Maka had never seen them before. The shorter one had long brown hair that flowed gracefully over her small shoulders. She stood with perfect posture and confidence, her blue eyes glancing around the room, until they made contact with Maka's. The girl turned away and whispered something to the taller one, who shrugged and continued tapping her fingers against her leg. She stood much more relaxed, and her light brown hair was held back in a bun, parts of it messily sticking out. The expression on her face was one of utter boredom, yet there was something in her eyes. They seemed eager to learn, or to show something to the room. Maka tried to concentrate on her soul, but Dr. Stein, wheeling his chair to the middle of the room, interrupted her.
"Class, we have two new students. This is Shinohara Setsuna," He gestured towards the shorter one, "And this is Fujinara Mitsuki." He gestured towards the taller of the two.
The girls took their seats right in front of Maka and Tsubaki, who had remained silent up until this point.
"Where are Black Star and Soul?" Tsubaki asked Maka
Maka shrugged, "I don't know, they probably got into another fight. But I have the feeling we should talk to those two girls after class."
"Oh." Tsubaki spoke softly. It was always hard to tell whether she was interested or surprised or shocked. Maka didn't like that.
"Those two, they seem… different. I want to know where they came from, and who they are, exactly." Maka thought as she glanced down at the girls, one of whom was taking notes while the other was drawing in a sketchbook.
Mitsuki's mind was a strange place to be. There were so many conflicting thoughts in there. It would've driven any normal person insane. But Mitsuki had learned to tolerate it, all the information floating around in her head. Her mind was filled with all of the souls she could sense, all of her judgments about them and all of her deductions.
Mitsuki stood in the hallway, just outside of class, and waited for Setsuna to come so she could get to tell her about the people she'd judged during that wonderful hour and a half lecture of dissecting frogs. Mitsuki felt particularly impressed by the things she'd discovered about her new classmates. It was almost like they were too easy to read. Setsuna walked out of the room and stood next to Mitsuki.
"I'm guessing you've already met our new classmates then?" Setsuna asked the taller girl.
"What'd you expect from me?" Mitsuki replied snarkily.
Setsuna just shrugged. "What'd you get on the girls sitting behind us?"
"The quiet one's a weapon," she started "She has family issues, mostly with her siblings. Also, her meister wasn't with her."
"What about the other girl?" Setsuna asked her friend
"The other girl is a meister, a powerful one too. Top student with a top weapon and her weapon was also not present." Mitsuki stated.
"How long did it take you to figure all that? Setsuna questioned.
"About ten minutes." Mitsuki replied.
"You're slipping." Setsuna said laughing.
The two walked down the hall and observed the people they passed. The exact two girls they had been discussing just a few minutes, accompanied by a boy with bright red eyes and jagged teeth, suddenly stopped them in their tracks.
"Hey, I'm Maka. Welcome to Death Weapon Meister Academy." Maka stated pushing the boy next to her forward, "and this is my weapon, Soul."
"Welcome to DWMA, I guess." The boy named Soul said bored. "Maka don't we have anything better to do?"
"Be quiet Soul. They're new, and I want to make sure they feel welcome."
Another boy with bright blue hair came running down the hall and tackled Soul, and the two went running off together. In the midst of the two boys doing so, the taller, quiet girl stepped forward.
"Hello, I'm Tsubaki and sorry about that. That was my meister- Black Star." She said apologetically.
Mitsuki stared at Tsubaki, studying her. There was something in the way she said the name of her meister. Something that made it seem like she admired him so much, like he completed her. Setsuna continued the conversation while Mitsuki began observing the girls up close.
"Thank you for the welcome, but I think we'll be going." Mitsuki told the other two girls grabbing her weapons hand in an attempt to lead her down the hall away from them.
"Oh, no!" Maka said sharply. "We can show you around if you'd like." Maka's voice sounded just a bit too tense, and just slightly too rushed.
Mitsuki decided it was time to address the extremely obvious, neon orange elephant in the room, the one that had been bothering her throughout the entire conversation.
"Look," Mitsuki started, "I know you think you're convincing and all, with this 'I'll show you around' thing. But I do realize that you are actually just interested in us. In particular, you want to know where we came from and exactly how advanced we are... You're just like me. You want to know too much. You want to know everything about us. But let me tell you something- you don't." she said condescendingly.
Maka looked shocked, like she had just been punched in the gut. Her mouth hung open and she stared intently at Mitsuki.
Setsuna desperately tried to save the conversation. "Maybe some other time?" She grinned for good measure. Maka and Tsubaki walked off, and Setsuna turned to Mitsuki.
"What the hell was that?" Setsuna wailed throwing her hands up into the air.
"I noticed that she was making very keen observations about us, and so I decided I needed to be the first one to declare the obvious- she wants to know us. And that is exactly what cannot- under any circumstances- happen." Mitsuki told her plainly.
"Can you just, for once, at least try to be normal? Please, for me?" Setsuna pleaded.
"You know the answer to that." Mitsuki said brushing her bangs that hung slightly in wisps on her face.