SO this is my first Soul Eater fic, I've written fanfiction before just on another account so I'm not completely new but it has been a while. Just a forewarning, I've only seen the show since its on Netflix so I haven't actually read it. Not sure what caused me to want to write this and I don't really have a solid plan for where this is going, I mean I have a vague idea but still it could use refining. So any help/feedback/suggestions would be appreciated. Otherwise I hope you enjoy!
p.s. I don't own anything soul eater related
Ever so slowly, his eyes cracked open just enough to allow a small bit of painfully intrusive sunlight to assault his retinas before he snapped his eyelids back down. Soul couldn't decide what was more aggravating, the fact that he had to get up form his hopelessly messy, yet blissfully comfortable bed, or the fact that if he even managed to get up all he would get in reward was another day at school and a pushy roommate determined to not miss a single second of it. Letting out a sigh of frustration, Soul turned away from his window and began the process of opening his eyes again only to have them jolted open by a sudden loud bang as his mister, Maka Albarn, kicked in the door to his room looking furious and screaming at the top of her lungs
"Soul I swear if you make me late again ill smash your head in with so many books you'll know more then I do!" Now sprawled out on the floor in a tangled heap of bed sheets soul began to at least put on a show of moving about frantically as he yelled back,
"Alright! Alright! I'm moving just get out and let me get ready in peace! This totally uncool Maka!"
To his relief Maka turned on her heels and marched back into their living room with a small dignified huff as she slammed the door behind her. Now his room was again filled with silence, well except for the loud thumping of his racing heart now that he had gotten a nice dose of adrenaline thanks to his ever so considerate roommate. As he stood up Soul rubbed his side where he had fallen on and did his best to stretch and rub as much tiredness out of his eyes as possible. Making his way to his bathroom he absentmindedly grabbed his toothbrush and began his morning hygiene ritual as he scanned his room for something half presentable to wear to school that day. His eyes fell on a rather bland looking shirt and a pair of jeans that didn't seem to be worn more than once. Before putting these on he rinsed out his mouth, took a quick look at his unnaturally sharp teeth in the mirror and attempted to rain in his snow white hair just a little. After he was dressed and otherwise groomed he threw on his favorite yellow and black jacket and headed out to the living room to meet Maka who he was sure would be close to hysteria if they weren't out of their little apartment within the next minute.
As he stepped into the living room a very impatient looking Maka gave him a menacing glare and through barred teeth asked in one of the most menacing voices he had heard,
"Is there anything else you need to do before we go or can we at least try and make it for second period?" Rather than show the true fear he was feeling Soul threw both of his hands behind his head, yawned and said in the most nonchalant voice he could muster,
"Nah I think I'm good, I guess we can head out now." Satisfied at how cool he sounded Soul began making his way for the door but was stopped only after a few steps with a massive blow to the head and an enraged Maka screeching,
"WELL I'M GLAD YOUR FREAKING MORNING IS RUNNING SO SMOOTHELY!" Soul honestly didn't know where all these books Maka used to hurt him with came from but it seemed to him like they just kept getting heavier all the time.
"Sheesh alright I'm sorry lets go already would you quit hurting me!" He complained as he was nursing the new head injury he had sustained.
"Come on you baby!" Maka yelled as she dragged Soul by the ear out the door and down to his parked motorcycle. As Maka climbed on the back of the bike and wrapped her arms around Soul he couldn't resist letting out another complain,
"You know, with all the books you've been nailing me with I wouldn't be surprised if you gave me a concussion, and you know people with concussions aren't supposed to be driving." While soul was definitely expecting a hit of some sort from her, she instead grabbed a fist full of his hair and yanked his head back so his ear was right up against her mouth as she whispered,
"Soul Eater Evans, I swear to god if you don't start driving you are going to have a lot worse than a concussion to worry about." And while at first soul was a little distracted by the tickling sensation of Maka's breath on his ear he suddenly was too afraid of the punishment she threatened to dwell on such things and immediately revved his engine and sped off down the streets of death city.
Soon enough the pair reached the DWMA and after Soul parked his bike the two made their way up the massive steps in front of the school. Once they got inside Maka looked up at one of the clocks and let out a sound of despair,
"Soul look we missed first AND second period! You and you're stupid snooze button I swear I'm gonna get you an alarm clock that doesn't shut up until you get up an-" Maka continued to berate him as he began dragging her to third period letting out a sigh of exasperation. He sometimes couldn't believe what he could put up with but no matter what, he always had the patience for Maka, and although she was upset with him right now he knew it was exactly the same for her. In all honesty, he probably didn't need to hit the snooze button 5 times this morning but hey, it was just one of those mornings.
Their third period class was with professor stein and it had already started so when Soul and Maka arrived at the door, Maka began to panic about her tardiness,
"Soul we can't just walk in in the middle of class everyone is going to stare at us! Maybe we should just skip this class too! But, I really need the notes form today and what if he gives us a pop quiz and we miss it or-" Soul cut her off and silenced her with a single finger on her lip.
"Look Maka, it was me and my uncoolness this morning that made us so late so I'll just tell Stein and take the blame." Without waiting for a response, Soul pushed open the door to the classroom and walked in dragging Maka behind him.
The entire room was silent as the two entered and finally Stein looked down at them from his desk and said,
"Well thank you for gracing us with your presence this morning we were getting worried." The sarcasm dripping from his statement would have been enough to drown the two of them. Taking a deep breath Soul said,
"Sorry professor it was my fault, Maka had nothing to do with it, it was all me. She would have been here on time if it weren't for me." There was a long pause before stein eyed Maka and asked,
"Maka, is this true?" For a moment she just stood there looking down at her shoes but before she could answer soul interrupted,
"Of course it's true, like I said it was all my fault so any punishment needs ot be given to me." Again, stein paused until he finally adjusted his glasses and said,
"Very well soul I suppose I'll be seeing you in after school detention for the rest of the week, and Maka?" Maka, slowly looked up at the professor,
"Yes professor?" she said quietly.
"Do try and reign in your weapon's tardiness, wouldn't want him getting you into any more trouble now would we?" stein said.
"Yes sir." Maka quietly replied.
"Very well," Stein said, "To your seats your just in time for one of my favorite dissections."
As Stein began rambling on Maka and soul began to walk towards their seats and when they sat down Maka reached over and grabbed souls hand and mouthed a thank you to him. Soul squeezed her hand back and winked at her, glad that he could help her and for some reason enjoying the feel of her hand more than he felt comfortable with. A subtle blush creeped into Maka's cheeks as she released his hand and turned her attention to the class and Soul simply brushed off the strange occurrence and did his best to pay attention to what was happening in the class. Before long, the class had ended and Soul and Maka were making their way to the school's courtyard for lunch to meet up with their friends and see if they had missed anything too terribly important during their absence that morning. As they were walking Maka turned to Soul and said,
"You know you didn't have to take all the blame back there, I would have been able to survive a detention." Despite the resilience in her voice soul knew his partner too well and replied,
"Sure Maka, and when was the last time you got a detention? Oh wait, that's right, you never had. Thanks for the thought but it's not a big deal detention is nothing cool guys like me wind up there all the time."
"If you say so," Maka said as she did her best not to let her face flush red at the thought of having her won personal protector. Not that this was a new role for Soul, he had always been there for her and had scars to prove it, she just felt warm inside at the fact that even for something as trivial as tardiness Soul would go out of his way to protect her. However as quickly as these thoughts sprang into her head she dismissed them with disgust at herself for acting so childish. Soul was her partner and that's what partners do. They were partners, no more, no less. After clearing her head, Maka returned her attention to her surroundings and noticed that Soul had taken them on a quick stop to the mission board and was browsing the available missions. Turning to him Maka asked,
"Were you thinking about taking a mission this weekend?" After a short pause Soul replied,
"I don't know maybe, I'm not really seeing any that sick out. Plus I'll probably want to relax this weekend since I'm going to have a significantly less amount of free time this week." He shot Maka a playful look as she smacked him lightly on the shoulder.
"Hey that was your own doing I never asked you to take all the blame!" she said halfheartedly, knowing he was just playing around with her. Laughing, Soul turned and began to walk away from the notice board with Maka right behind him.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm just teasing. So with all that extra time this morning were you able to make us something better than usual for lunch?" Soul asked.
"No!" Maka said as they walked out a set of double doors onto the courtyard, "I was busy hurrying your slow self up to get ready!" Soul let out a light chuckle and said,
"Well, I guess it was worth asking anyway." The two looked around for their friends and found them all gathered at a table talking and enjoying themselves. They began walking towards their friends when all of a sudden Maka stopped in her tracks and latched her hand onto Souls arm.
"What is it?" Soul asked turning back to look at her only to see a face of absolute horror on her face. Ever so quietly Maka replied,
"My library book." Soul quizzically looked at her and asked,
"Yeah what about your dumb book?" ther was a pause of silence and then Maka exploded,
"IT'S DUE TODAY AND I LEFT IT AT HOME SINCE I HAD TO PRACTICALLY DRAG YOU OUT THE DOOR YOU IDIOT!" Even though she had just said she was missing a book, she still managed ot find one to cave in the top of Souls skull as he did his best to ward of the unrelenting assault he was receiving from Maka.
"Sheesh quit it we can go it calm down!" he whined at her trying his best to get out of the line of fire of her fists.
"Now we're gonna miss even more class this is all your fault you big stupid idiot!" Maka shouted as Soul tried to step around her and start making his way back towards the entrance of the school.
"Come on Maka," he said, "We need to get moving if we are gonna get that stupid book back before school's over." That's all it took to get Maka to begin hurrying towards the front of the school practically dragging Soul behind her. Before long the pair were at Souls motorcycle and began to climb on. Soul put his key in the ignition and the bike flared to life as he felt Maka's grip around his abdomen tighten.
"Come on Soul hurry up!" Maka's voice urged him despite being somewhat drowned out by the rumble of the engine. Snapping out of his temporary stupor at the feel of her breath tickling the back of his neck, Soul revved the engine and they sped off down the streets of death city back tot heir apartment. The wind whipping both of their hair caused a deafening roar in their ears and were it not for their connection in the back of their minds they would not be able to communicate at all.
Before long they were back at their apartment and soul felt Maka's grip on him loosen and disappear altogether as she hopped off the bike and practically ran up the stairs to their small home.
"Stay right there I won't be long!" Maka called over her shoulder as she disappeared into their apartment. Soul sat on his bike and waited patiently for his meister to return with her stupid book and couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle at the memory of her face when she had realized about the book in the first place. She got so worked up over what seemed to him to be such trivial things but it was these little quirks that made her so interesting tom him. He truly did feel bad about causing her all this grief but he couldn't help but smile at the fact that despite his tardiness, she stayed behind to get him ready and drag him to school even if it meant possibly getting in trouble. Even though he did take all the punishment for it he made a mental note to take an extra turn cooking dinner one night or something to make it up to her. As he was pondering things he could do to make up for the morning he felt a surge of panic come through the link in the back of his mind and without even thinking he was bounding up the stairs and burst into the apartment searching for Maka.
What's wrong? Where is she? He thought to himself as he entered the living room. He didn't see her so he bolted to her bedroom and saw a panicked looking Maka throwing things everywhere in her room.
"Maka! What's wrong I thought you were in trouble!" Soul shouted. Not stopping her hysterical trashing of her room Maka cried out,
"I can't find it anywhere! I don't remember where I put it! Where could it have gone?!" Taking a moment to digest what was said, Soul realized she was talking about that damned book and felt himself calm down a bit knowing there was no real danger. Before he could ask her anything else she looked at him and screeched,
"Well don't just stand there help me look!" So Soul began searching through her desk, underneath piles of clothes and folders scattered across the floor and as their searched continued Maka's room looked more and more like a tornado had passed through it. Admist his searching Soul didn't realize that he had begun searching the drawers of her dresser due to the fact that he had to continue the appearance of searching or else risk being smacked in the head with one of Maka's personal books lining her bookshelf. While opening and closing the drawers of her dresser not really paying much attention, Soul realized, too late, that he had accidentally opened up the drawer containing all off Maka's underwear. It took a second to register, but once he did, he immediately recoiled from the dresser out of reflex but quickly scrambled back hoping to close the drawer before Maka could notice, but of course that wasn't about to happen. Just as he had his hands on the handle of the drawer-and his eyes on a very skimpy looking pair od light pink undergarments- Maka noticed where he was looking and before Soul knew it, he had a very thick book lodged in his skull and Maka screamed,
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING LOOKING IN THERE?! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU TIHNK I KEEP BOOKS IN THERE YOU PERVERT!" At this point, any apologies Soul would have been able to get out were meaningless so amidst a flurry of blows from Maka's fists he quickly escaped her room and threw himself down on the couch. As he sat on the couch he tried to regulate his breathing and as images of Maka's less than innocent undergarments ran through his mind he could feel a small tinge of heat enter his cheeks. He did his best to dismiss the thoughts but he couldn't help but wonder why Maka had some of those. He certainly had never seen them before and that's saying something since, even though neither brought it up, he very often caught glances under her skirt in the midst of battle and he's gone to do laundry with hers already in the machine more times than he could count. Before he could come up with a logical conclusion he heard a triumphant squeal come from Maka's room and soon after saw her come out with what appeared to be a rather thick library book clutched against her chest. After glancing at the clock, Soul jumped up from the couch saying,
"Damn Maka, we have to go school will be over soon and we have to get you back with that book and I can't be late for detention!" Eyeing the clock herself, Maka began to bolt for the door calling behind her,
"Oh my god you're right come on Soul!" He was right behind her and almost as soon as they had exited their small apartment they were back on Soul's motorcycle pressed against each other and zipping through the streets heading back to the school. During the ride to the school Soul's stomach rumbled loudly enough for Maka to hear the vibrations through the ear she had pressed against soul's back.
"I'm sorry about all this Soul, I didn't mean to make you skip lunch." She said apologetically momentarily forgetting her panic. Soul wasn't very difficult to live with, one of the only basic needs he had was a regular eating schedule and she didn't like to ruin it for him. Feeling a little embarrassed soul replied,
"Nah it's okay, cool guys like me don't need lunch I'll be fine." But despite his cool act his stomach once again betrayed him and let out another loud grumble. Letting out a small giggle, Maka pulled some food out of her bag and reached around to offer it to soul while he was driving. Soul took a bite of the snack bar Maka was offering him and before long he had finished the whole thing and licked the crumbs off of Maka's outstretched fingers causing her to recoil with a laugh.
"Soul!" she chuckled, "Don't be such an animal!" By this point they had arrived at school and they hopped off the bike together. Giving her that crooked smile he reserved only for her he replied,
"Your lucky I have to get to detention otherwise I may have just finished you off for a snack." Even though he was kidding he could still taste Maka on his tongue and he did his best to keep form being distracted by it. Shaking her head and chuckling Maka said,
"Whatever Soul, you enjoy your well deserved detention, I'll wait for you in the library since I have more homework than usual to catch up on. As they began walking separate ways Soul called over his shoulder,
"Alright I'll see you in a bit, and I guess since I was so uncool this morning I'll make dinner tonight so make sure you have something in mind by the time I get out." He could hear her laugh to herself as he rounded the corner and made his way to detention with a smirk on his face and a very strange feeling whirling around in his gut.
Well there's the first chapter, pretty boring but I had to get started somehow. Reviews would be much appreciated and I promise I'm working on chapter two this very moment!
Until next time!