I'm probably sentencing myself to death uploading this early, but I was in a good mood and I've been trying to become more daring as I become an adult. So, hello again and welcome! This is my second (and possibly last heheh) instalment in the series of Eight Hundred Legends. For those who are new, this is something of a crossover between the videogame Okami and Soul Eater. Yes, Amaterasu is based off of the wolf goddess herself from the adventure RPG. However, although there are a lot of similarities, I just had to change too much from the Okami universe in order to combine it with Soul Eater that it lacked the ability to qualify as an actual crossover.

Now, without any further ado, close your worldly eyes and let's enter our next dream, shall we?

A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.

That was taught at the Death Weapon Meister Academy since its founding by Lord Death after the rise of Asura. Asura was not always evil; as Lord Death's son, he would have become the next grim reaper, had fate not toyed with him so. Our story actually begins with the grim reaper's opposite, the goddess of life, or Inochigami, as she was respectively called. Asura loved the seventh incarnation of Life, Yuki no Konata. Even though there were countless differences that kept them apart. Inochigami were gods descended from wolves, and Shinigami were descended from humans. That's just how things were. But that didn't stop him from loving her so.

Until his eighteenth year when Yuki was killed by the witch Arachne, who was forging demon weapons out of madness and magic. In his grief, Asura took Yuki's left eye, the only thing left of her, and put it in his own forehead. This caused Madness to consume him, and he became a Kishin. Yuki's mother Ikiru, the present Inochigami, took guilt in Asura's actions and decided that, being the embodiment of madness herself, she had to leave for the better interest of the world. She was gone for 800 years. Until her daughter, Amaterasu, breached the barrier between Life, Death, and Time itself, in order to pursue the one she loved.

Who was none other than Death the Kid. Great.

Prologue; The Way Thing Are, and How They're Going to Be?

It was a nice warm day in Death City. Things were finally coming together after the defeat of the Demon Lord, a formidable enemy that proved to be worse than Asura. Young heroes Kid, Maka, Blackstar, and their weapon partners were all regaining their sense of everyday normalcy with their good friend, Inochigami Amaterasu.

"Hey, Ame!" Blackstar called, holding up a Frisbee to show the white-haired girl. "Wanna play fetch?"

Ame kicked him in the gut forcefully before sitting down next to her favorite people. As a goddess of innocence, she was portrayed as a child. She was short enough that most people that saw her with Kid either thought Kid had a little sister or had a Lolita complex. Even though she was small for her age, she did pack a punch, particularly right now with Blackstar lying unconscious on the ground.

"I'm not a dog. I'm a wolf, and I have pride, you know?" Ame said, irritated.

"Mei-Mei," Kid addressed her softly, using the nickname he'd made out for her. Ame gave him her full attention, like the suck-up she is. "Wanna play catch?"

"Sure!" Ame squealed, her black-tipped white wolf tail wagging behind her, blood running from her nose. She was rather… masculine? More like insane. As soon as Kid threw the flying disk, Ame charged after it in the form of a white wolf with red markings on her fur. She usually had a flaming shield on her back; she'd use this as a weapon, and it was called 'Divine Instrument Solar Flare.' She didn't have it now, of course. She could summon her power from the Celestial Plain, the divine other realm regarded like heaven, when she was in battle.

"She's playing favorites again," the others thought. Kid couldn't help but grin smugly. Kid had always been Ame's favorite. And her least favorite. Throughout the two years that Kid had known her, with one of those years being spent in the same house, he had been kissed, beaten, almost killed, and utterly mortified by her on almost a daily basis. But, he wasn't the victim. He kind of deserved it.

Ame sat in front of Kid in her human form with the disk in her mouth, her tail wagging behind her. The others laughed for a moment. Kid looked at her eyes for a moment, remembering a time when he would mindlessly cringe from their asymmetry. The right orb was golden, like his, whilst the other was a mysterious green. Lord Death called her left eye a gem; she was the first Inochigami to have mismatching eyes, and Ame's right eye gave her powers beyond those of her predecessors. Kid took the Frisbee from her and rubbed her forehead as a reward. How much you wanna bet that little twerp had bribed her from the very beginning? Ame turned bright red and looked away.

"Aw, what's the matter, Ame?" Soul laughed. "Don't like it when we're all watching?"

"Don't be creepy, Soul," Maka elbowed him in the ribs with a smirk. Ever since Ame and Kid had started getting awkwardly touchy with each other (possibly even before that when Ame mistook Kid's kindness towards her for a marriage proposal), the others' main hobby was teasing them about it.

"Kid, uh…" Ame mumbled quietly, fiddling with her fingers nervously—a trait that she shared with Kid's father. "I feel weird when you pet me, almost like my mother is frowning down on us."

Soul and Blackstar burst out laughing, whilst Kid tried not to be depressed.

"Shut up and get the disc," he mumbled, throwing the Frisbee one more time for her.

"So, Kid, you and Ame dating yet?" Soul asked as Ame ran after the toy.

"Have we been on any dates?" Kid demanded, rather annoyed at his friends' constant nagging comments about his and Ame's quasi relationship.

"Come on, dude, it's not cool to draw it out like this. I mean, you're both fifteen now, it's time to come out of the closet. Have some fun."

"Why, I never!"

"Sorry to say, but Soul's right," Maka said, absentmindedly taking a sip of her iced tea.

"I propose when you and Soul kiss," Kid stated plainly.

"Hmm… Soul, let's kiss," Maka proposed after a moment of thought.

"Sure."

"…Are you two serious right now?" Kid asked.

"My meister has made a decision, Kid," Soul shrugged. "I mean, we've been partners for two or three years now. And I don't think Maka could do any better if I didn't date her."

"Maka Chop!" Maka snapped.

"BLACKSTAR WILL NEVER BE TIED DOWN!"

"MAKA CHOP!"

As it was supposed to be, Blackstar was now unconscious.

"I guess everyone's starting to grow up around here," Kid let out a small laugh. "I never thought I'd be the one left in the dust. You see, I already had two beautiful girls as my partners."

"Cut that out, Kid, I already have a boyfriend," Liz snapped, blushing slightly. She was referring to Ame's adopted wolf brother Nagi. They had officially started dating right after the battle with the Demon Lord Ninetails, a few months ago. "Besides, if you tried to date me, I swear I will kill myself."

"Don't you think that's kind of harsh, sis?" Patti laughed. She was playing with Ame's other brother, Rin. Nagi and Rin seemed to parallel Liz and Patti respectively. They had been adopted by Ikiru and granted the gift of immortality since Ame was supposed to stay away from the humans and even Kid.

"Don't laugh when your sister's considering suicide, please," Kid mumbled.

"I mean, didn't you kind of like him before Ame came along?" Patti continued.

Liz blushed even more. "Yeah, right! That was before I really knew him. Now he'll just drive me crazy with his symmetry rants."

"Oh, that made me realize," Tsubaki piped up. She turned to Kid. "You actually haven't ranted for quite a while. Do you think your OCD is getting better?"

"I guess I've had to gain some tolerance for asymmetrical manifestations, like Ame herself, since symmetry can't be without asymmetry. But honestly, I've been too tired lately, after that battle with Ninetails."

"I thought your injuries were healed by now," Tsubaki tilted her head and lowered her voice slightly in confusion.

"Physically, yes," Kid said shortly. "But that's just not all there is to it."

This left the group in momentary silence. Maka, Soul, Blackstar, Tsubaki, even Liz and Patti, had been stuck in the Death Room when Kid and Ame faced Ninetails. They could do nothing for their friends but watch from the mirror. It was a fierce battle of the gods. Ame had summoned all thirteen gods of the Chinese Zodiac which held her divine power in the Celestial Plain. They were forced to return to the Celestial Plain mid-battle because of the injuries they'd sustained, and after the guardian of the sun Inugami betrayed Amaterasu, Kid and Ame almost died. It's been a few months, but they were still… scarred, in a way.

"I'm with the octopus," Ame spoke up suddenly from where she'd been sitting next to Kid. The others jumped. They hadn't seen her there.

"When did you get here?!" Kid demanded. "And what do you mean 'octopus'?"

Soul Eater

Later that evening, Ame was sitting on the edge of Kid's bed reading some manga. She sometimes hung out in Kid's room before she went to sleep in her own bed. Ame read in silence for a while, until she closed the novel and set it down on the bed beside her. Kid, who was doing some homework on his usual spot on the bed, looked up at her and lowered his pencil. She was being awfully quiet tonight.

"Ame?" he murmured quietly. Ame didn't look at him. He set his homework aside and inched closer to her. He wrapped his hands around hers, again reminded of how small her hand really was. Ame leaned back on him.

"I'm scared," she whispered. She usually didn't show this side of herself around anyone other than Kid. It was something she'd learned from Lord Death; just hide your fear because people look up to you! "We defeated Arachne and Ninetails. We went on the greatest adventures over the past two years. Now it feels as if… there's something coming. Kid, I don't want to lose anything."

"Without loss, there can't be anything to gain," Kid said. "It all happens in equivalent exchange, in balance. You have to accept the bad things."

"… Okay," Ame nodded once. "I… I had a dream a while ago. It was about you and me, and no one else. We were married. And we… we had a daughter."

Kid straightened, his eyes widening a bit. Ame smiled softly.

"Her name was Ushio, for 'ocean tide.' We always told her, 'You're like the tide; you can go anywhere.' I don't want a baby, Kid. Not right now. But I still want to be with you. I want us to always be with each other like Liz and Nagi."

"We will be," Kid said. Ame turned her head slightly to look at him. She gazed peacefully into his golden eyes as he continued. "Ame, we've been through so much already, and I never really asked you this before. Um… what do you think about… us getting married some day?"

Ame pulled away from him, blood running from her nose. "A-a-are you serious right now?"

"Amaterasu," Kid knelt in front of her and took both of her small hands together. "Will you be my girlfriend?"

Ame smiled at him and leapt up to hug him happily.

Meanwhile, Liz, Patti, Nagi, and Rin were all in the hallway… spying.

"I think he proposed!" Liz exclaimed, whipping her cellphone out of her pocket and sending a text message to nearly everyone in her contact list (the other people in her contact list were either old boyfriends or dead now.).

Maka looked up as her phone vibrated on her desk beside her. She flipped it open and read the message Liz had sent her. She almost dropped the book she had been reading. She stood up so quickly that her swivel chair crashed to the ground. She ran to the hallway.

"Soul!" she called. Soul was already standing right in front of her doorway. "You got it too?"

"Yeah," Soul nodded. He looked just as shocked as she did for a moment. They suddenly began laughing, more in unfathomable triumph than finding the situation funny. Soul threw his arms around Maka and spun her in a small circle.

"It's about time," Blair sighed, walking around the corner in her cat form. "Now who will play with me?"

"Blair! Kid and Ame have started dating!"

"What?! Ame asked Kid out all by herself?" Blair questioned.

"No, Kid finally had the guts to ask her!" Maka exclaimed happily.

"He did the right thing," Soul said. "Which reminds me, Maka, would you do me the honor of becoming my significant other, stage one?"

"Are you serious right now?" Maka asked quietly, blushing slightly. He gave her a toothy grin and she nodded once. "I'd be happy to, Soul."

Kid finally pulled away from Ame as his phone began vibrating. He felt kind of guilty about prioritizing his cellphone like this, but Ame didn't seem to mind. She was just too stupid to understand how to be angry at him for something like that.

"Huh, it's a text message," he mumbled to himself as he began reading. "You're a lucky guy, just make sure that you treat her right. What the actual heck?"

His phone beeped one last time as he received another text message. Ame peeked over his shoulder and began reading out loud.

"I hope you and Ame have a lot of fun in your new relationship. Just don't get carried away because Ikiru is always watching you do it in the bedroom…?"

"STOP READING THAT RIGHT NOW!" Kid shouted, slamming his phone shut and blushing profusely. "How did they all find out so quickly?"

He raised his head and turned around when he saw the mirror in his room start to glow.

"Oh please, god, no," he begged.

"Hi, Kiddo!"

"Hello, Father, what are you doing calling at this hour?" Kid smiled nervously, praying that his father wouldn't say or do anything to embarrass him. Don't worry, if he just played it cool, it'll all be fine.

"Well, I heard the news, and I'm very proud of you, son! I almost can't believe you actually asked her out. I mean, not that she's not your type, but she is a little…."

"Um, Dad, she's standing right here," Kid said, pulling Ame close enough that she was in view of the mirror.

"Hi, Lord Death," Ame waved at him. Lord Death decided to move on without finishing his sentence.

"Uh, as I was saying, I just hope that your relationship ends up better than that last one."

"Last one?" Ame asked curiously.

"Don't bring that up yet, Dad," Kid mumbled under his breath.

"I want to hear about this last relationship of yours!" Ame said, holding Kid's arm and glaring at him. Kid recognized that look as the I'm-your-girlfriend-so-don't-refuse-me look. Where the hell did she even learn that look?

"Later, okay?" Kid said firmly. He turned back to Lord Death. "How did everyone find out all of a sudden?"

"Oh, Liz just instant messaged everyone! Spirit here just got it."

"Congratulations, you guys!"

Kid was already running down the hallway.

"Elizabeth!"

Hello, my lovely readers and writers, it's When the Wolf is no More, back and ready to write! I didn't expect this chapter to be this long; most chapters I write are only about two thousand words. However, since this one is a sequel of a very long fanfiction, I put in a lot of exposition for any new readers. You can all ask in the reviews if there's something that I missed or that you don't understand, just ask away!

Anyway, I will attempt to upload again soon. I have at least thirty documents, but most of them are scattered around without being in order; I just picked up one day and began writing again. Also, new laptop! So I can write all I want! So, I hope you all are doing well, and I shall see you in the next chapter!