Soul x Maka: Unexpected Partner

Chapter 1

"Soul… um… could you let go for a second?" Maka pulled unsuccessfully at Soul's shirt. Last night they had fell asleep on the couch, and now Soul wasn't going to let go.

"I'm sorry Soul, but I am going to do this…" Maka picked up the closest hard-covered book. "Makaaaaaaa- CHOP!" She hit Soul right in the middle of his forehead, she only hit him hard enough for him to let go.

"God Maka, what was that for?!" Soul rubbed his forehead where a red mark had begun to form.

"We're meeting the others in a while! Don't tell me you forgot?!" Maka rolled off the couch and began to walk to her room.

"I didn't forget! I-", Soul then grabbed Maka by the waist and pulled her down back on the couch," I just would rather stay here with you." Maka had tried to get up, but he was too strong for her to break free.

"Soul, we need to get ready!" Soul wasn't listening though; he began to lean back onto the couch cradling Maka in his arms. "Soul, if you don't let me go I'm going to Maka-chop you again!" Maka lifted the heavy, leather bonded book in her hand.

"Alright, you win." Soul released Maka from his arms. She didn't really want to go; she would have rather stayed in Soul's arms.

Maka walked to her bedroom door, she was about to go in but she noticed that Soul still sat on the couch, looking blankly into space. Maka laughed and walked into her room, shutting the door behind her. She dung through her drawers to find the perfect outfit. She then found a light-blue tank top that had ruffles along the neck. She then found some black shorts; she had gotten these as a present from Soul on her birthday. She was going to wear her hair in her regular hair style, twin pigtails. She then decided to just wear her hair down for a change. She had remembered all the times Soul commented her with her hair like that. She then put on some white sandals that were hidden in the back of her closet. After making sure she looked good she looked at her clock that was on her desk, it glowed that numbers 12:36. They were all meeting up at 1 for lunch. Maka then walked over to Soul's room to see how he was doing.

"Soul…" Maka knocked on his door," are you almost done?" No answer. "Soul?" Was he going to answer her or not?! She opened his door to see him in his underwear with clothes spread out all around him.

"Oh, hey Maka." He looked up to see Maka standing there completely awestruck. She then begun to giggle, did Soul have trouble to find something to wear?

"By any chance did we get any laundry done?" He looked sheepishly up at her.

"Be glad I did laundry last night." Maka then left to go to wait for Soul in the living, sitting on their couch.

12:43

"Alright, let's go Maka." Soul stepped out of his room with a red button-down shirt, black jeans, and black converse. He looked good in whatever he wore, but Maka especially liked this outfit.

"Um. We got time to kill though…"

"That's cool, but it takes thirty minutes to get there if we walk."

"Then why don't we take the bike?"

"I- I kind of wanted to walk with you…" A slight blush appeared on Soul's cheeks. He stuck his hands in his jean pockets and turning his head slightly to the left to make sure Maka doesn't see how uncool he was being.

Maka smiled at Soul's embarrassment, 'he really is cute!' Maka thought.

As they walked out of their apartment together, a shadow had watched them from a safe distance.