It's quiet this morning. Not many people are out at this hour, as most adults are at work. One of the perks of being a kishin hunter team is lots of off days without mobs of people to deal with. Soul and Maka walk slowly down the street to a nearby coffee shop, silent for a long while. Soul is the first to break the deafening silence.
"Do people really mistake us as a couple that often?" he asks, trying not to show his curiosity.
"You'd be surprised. Most people look at you like my dad does, too," Maka replies, not questioning Soul's sudden interest. Apparently his acting worked.
"I wonder what they see in us..."
They walk silently for the rest of the trip. After a quick stop at the coffee shop, they start their walk back home as awkwardly as the trip there was.
It's been like this for months now. Soul has long since stopped the stupid shenanigans and idiocy Maka loved about him, instead showing nothing but his insufferable "Cool guy" act. She hates seeing him like this. It's almost as if he's depressed. Could it possibly be... no. Of course not. He'd never look at her that way. Not with her flat chest, and childish pigtails. How could he ever love her?
Maka had been acting different, too. Soul couldn't quite put his finger on it, but she'd given up on something recently. Perhaps she was interested in a guy. Maybe one of the underclassmen, like Akane. It definitely wasn't Soul, though. He's such an idiot. Maka would be interested in the smart guys, not him. Soul hates to think about Maka liking another guy, but he hates her acting all deflated like this, too. Maybe he could have Tsubaki or Blaire talk to her.
"What do you want, Black Star?" Maka asks suddenly.
The blue haired ninja suddenly falls onto his face in front of them. Tsubaki lands gracefully beside him, having gone undetected unlike her partner.
"How the hell do you do that, Pigtails?" he says after prying his face from the cement.
"It's not all that hard, dude," Soul answers for her.
Black Star glares at him, but is smart enough not to challenge him.
"It's ok, Black Star, you just have to practice a bit more," Tsubaki says with her usual politeness.
Maka wonders how Tsubaki can be so patient with him. He's far more idiotic than Soul is, almost to an intolerable level. And Maka knows Tsubaki loves him. She always has. Maybe she can get some advice about what to do with Soul.
Tsubaki gives Maka a concerned look.
"Maka, can I talk to you privately for a moment?" she asks.
Maka walks with Tsubaki for a bit, leaving the boys behind to bicker over something.
"Maka, your soul wavelength has changed," Tsubaki tells her. "It's giving off a lot of negative energy. Soul's is too. Is everything ok?"
Damn her. Tsubaki could always read the two of them like an open book.
"No," Maka answers hesitantly. "It's about Soul. I don't think... he likes me."
"Well of course he does."
"No, Tsubaki. I mean... romantically."
"I know. He does."
Maka's face and heart fills with hope. Tsubaki notices an immediate change in her soul wavelength, one Soul must have picked up on, too.
"How do you know?"
"Maka, I knew you two loved each other before you did yourselves. You've always had amazing resonance. It shows that you two love each other. I've been waiting for you two to announce it for years. Kid noticed it, too."
"So... he does love me?"
"Mhm. How did you not pick up on it?"
"I... I didn't think he could love me."
"Well let's go ask him, I sure he'll say yes," Tsubaki says as she grabs Maka's arm, dragging her as her face turns crimson.
Tsubaki and Black Star have made an appearance! I ship the crap out of them, too, so perhaps I'll write that next. Anyways, please review! I want to know your opinion!
