Soul's POV:
Maka finally came back... and part of me wished that she didn't. My stomach lurched when I first saw her because I didn't recognize who she was. Than... than she shows almost no emotion twords anyone!? Not to mention... she's a weapon? As she fell to her knees, I screamed her name, hoping that she'd stand back up and turn back to normal... but she didn't... instead she fell flat on her face, and went unconscious.
Time skip, in Stein's Lab-Soul's POV:
I sat by her bed. My feet where curled into my chest, my hand wrapped around them. There where all sorts of machines hooked up to Maka. What the hell was wrong with her? She's not the miester I know... and love. "Interesting." Stein's voice broke the silence. I looked up to him, teary eyed. "It seems that Maka's emotions have been shut off. I couldn't imagine why though." Stein said as if to answer a question I was asking him. "So, is this why she's-" My eyes clouded and I couldn't finish my sentence. Stein gave my a pained expression. "Yes, that's why she isn't acting like herself." He finished my sentence. I shook my head, making the tears fly onto the ground. "Than how are we suppose to make her go back to acting like herself!? I miss her so much Stein! I can't even-" My words turned into useless babbling and gasping. Stein put a hand on my shoulder, I looked up to him. He had a sympathetic smile on his face. "We make her remember how to feel."
Maka's POV:
"We make her remember how to feel." I heard Stein say while I was regaining consciousness. I couldn't help but think they where talking about me. "Make me remember what?" I said while stretching in my hospital-like bed, and letting out a content yawn. I felt their soul's emeditely tense at the sound of my voice. I sat up, and gave them a blank stare. "What's wrong with me? Why does everyone's soul give me that look?" I said in a monotone voice, tilting my head. Soul looked down at his lap, and I swore I saw a few tears fall from his face. Stein's soul regained composure, and he looked at me, turning the screw in his head. "No, nothing's wrong with you. You're just broken." He said completely serious. I looked around my body to look for any damage, seeing none, I looked back at him. "I don't see anything wrong." Stein chuckled. "Your body is fine. In fact, that realm did allot of good to your body. What's broken is your soul." I gave him a questioned look, and my eyes turned dark in confusion. "My soul... is broken?" He laughed a bit. "See, that's your problem." He said with a insane tone. "The real Maka who left 3 years ago would have been terrified by this. You feel nothing at all. Do you?" I shook my head. I truly felt nothing. I didn't feel anything since killing my first Kishin that was a child when I was in the different demention. I still remember it's screams. They pierced my soul, and after that... I felt no emotion. "Your soul is broken, you can no longer express yourself with emotion, and you can no longer feel it. We need to fix that. Let's start off with the basics. How did your soul break? What was the last thing you felt? How did you feel for your partner, Soul, before you left, and afterwords?" Soul tensed at the last part, and Stein threw these questions at me like they where important. I had no problem answering them, except the last one. Simply because I couldn't remember. "My soul broke when I killed a 8 year old Kishin child. It's screams where unbearable. I remember... I remember feeling sad and sickened... Than after that, I felt nothing. I became a killer machine, I didn't hesitate to kill anything that I read as a Kishin... no matter what form." I felt my soul flicker a bit as I thought about killing the 8 year old. Professor Stein's eyes widened, and he smiled as if he understood something. Soul was now heavily sobbing. He looked at me, and I felt his sadness. "Okay, Maka. Do me a favor. Think about that Kishin that you killed. Focus on the emotion that you felt when you killed it. Focus on it's screams. Focus on the fear it felt. Focus on the tears you must have shed. Think about how much it hurt you to leave Soul and the others without saying good bye." He had a wicked smile on his face. I knew he was saying this for a reason, so I did as I was told. Than something happened. Something that I hadn't been able to do in a long time. I cried. Boy did I cry. All I could feel was sadness coming from my soul, but I was also surprised because my soul seemed to be fixing itself. Part of it that seemed to have gone missing had come back all of the sudden. And I was suddenly overcome with all the things that would have normally made me cry if I was like I was 3 years ago. I cried over the fact that I saw Soul in pain. I cried over the fact that my father was such a wreck. I cried over the fact that I had killed that 8 year old. I cried that my mother had left me because of my pervert father. And the thing that made me cry the most... was remembering the day that Soul jumped in front of me to protect me when we where fighting Crona. 3 years worth of sadness rushed me head on, and I let the tears flow. "It looks like you've regained the ability to feel sadness." Stein said with a smile. Soul had stopped crying, and went over to comfort me. We both cried together for Death knows how long. Than when we both finally regained composure, I felt nothing again. Just to make sure the emotion was still there, I thought about seeing Soul slashed by Crona, and it brought tears to my eyes, that I gladly stopped. I guess I finally got that emotion back. "I see you're finally done crying?" Stein asked. I nodded my head. "Yes." He smirked. "Well, good news, and bad." Soul wrapped his arms tightly around me. I flinched a bit, I wasn't used to being held. "I figured out how to get you all of your emotions back." I gave a smile to him, but there was no emotion behind it. "You have to experience all of them. But it has to be so intense, that your soul takes in the feeling and keeps it there. You have to experience sadness, happiness, forgiveness, anger, and love. You already gained sadness, so all that's left is happiness, forgiveness, anger, and love." He said pushing his glasses back onto his face. I tilted my head, and Soul asked. "What about all the other emotions like jealousy, hatred, lust, and excitement?" Stein pushed his glasses onto his face before they fall off. "Well, lust and jealousy basically fit in the same category as love. Hatred fits with anger, and excitement with happiness. So once she gets those back, the other in between feelings should return with them." Stein explained. Soul nodded. "Right. So, I guess it's up to me, Kid, Blackstar, Liz, Patty, and Tsubaki to bring them all back?" Stein nodded. "Right. Mostly you though. I know you know what I mean." He said with a wink. Soul's face turned a deep red, and he turned so I couldn't see his face. "Okay, well I guess I better go explain to the others. Me and Maka have allot to catch up on anyways." He said, grabbing my hand, and pulling me out the door. "Good luck, Maka and Soul!" Stein said waving. I looked at him blankly, and waved back as I was being dragged by soul. Would I ever fix my broken soul?
Author's note:
Phew. Believe it or not, it took awhile to think of that plot twist. I needed something that would turn this into a Soul X Maka romance, not just a regular Soul Eater fanfic. And I think this is it! Anyways, until Maka gets all of her emotions back, the chapters will be titled according to what emotion she got back in the chapter, or which she is trying to get back. The chapter named 'Love' will obviously be where allot of Soul X Maka moments will be, but they will be in other chapters as well. Anyways, this story will probably be about 8 chapters long in total. Than I will start another one. Thinking about doing some one-shots soon. Sometimes I get bored with doing full-length stories... ^^;
Anyways, I hope you are liking it so far! Review, and I'll write faster!-LeaCarosella
