A/N: Sorry for the late update… been a couple days, but my weekend was busy =] I hope get on a good posting-schedule. Anyways, hope you enjoy! It's only a little longer though.
Disclaimer: All characters, places, and brand names mentioned belong to their respective orders and not to me unless specifically mentioned.

Chapter Two: Starlight

Death the Kid just finished his first day at his father's school; he found it amazing. Not only did his weapons Liz and Patty help him get through the day (if you call yelling at him to leave something unsymmetrical alone that), but he also met one of the most interesting people in a while. Sadly, Liz and Patty demanded to know all of the details about said encounter.

"Kiiiiid! Tell us who it was," Patty prodded. God, it was going to be a long walk home. "We wanna know who was making eyes at you all class!"

If only there was a possibility Kid could make it out of this without a migr-

"This isn't time to be in la-la land! Give us the dirt!" Liz interrupted Kid's thoughts - again. Fine, if they wouldn't give up under the cold shoulder, denial was the best path.

"For the last time noth-," Kid began, but was disrupted by Patty.

"You can't say nothing happened, we were there!"

"You were blushing like a school girl!"

He gave up on denial and let his thoughts wander. Who was that blonde dragging Soul away after class? Was it just an excuse to not show him around? Kid threw away that idea; after all, Soul seemed genuinely interested. "Maybe that was his meister…" Kid thought audibly.

"Oh so he's a weapon, eh?" the younger sent a mischievous look to her sister.

"Your right Patty, this could create amazing drama!" the longhaired blonde nearly hit Kid in the face from flailing her arms about. Attempting to ignore his weapons' fan-girlish chatter, Kid opened the doors to their home. Immediately he booked it up the stairs into his bedroom and left Liz and Patty's daydreams and squeals behind. Christ, was it ever impossible to get some alone time?

Kid grabbed his measuring tape and began to go through his getting-home ritual. Unintentionally letting his thoughts cloud his consciousness, Kid started thinking about Soul more and more. What if he was a slacker in school? Maybe that's why he was late. It was possible… but that wouldn't be something to worry about considering he wasn't his meister. Or maybe that would have an affect him. Kid hadn't had many friends at all (he wasn't interested or things didn't turn out well). Or even worse! What if Soul was a slob?

There was a knock on his door.

"Oi, Kid. Tsubaki invited us to the basketball court. Do you wanna come along?" Liz's voice muffled through the door.

Turning the doorknob and pushing it forward, Kid slowly peeked out of the door. "Tsubaki? I don't remember meeting her," he replied. Patty's head appeared from behind Liz's shoulder and she giggled.

"That's because me and Liz* just met her today, silly!" Patty pointed out. It was only the three's first day of class.

The dark-haired boy sighed, "Alright, I'll come along. Everything seems in order anyways, so let me just check the rest of the house and then change."

"Alright, awesome! Patty, let's go get ready," Liz said.

Meanwhile, on Soul and Maka's walk home Maka was oddly determined - to make peace. Maka pulled her weapon by the arm the first half way home until the scythe complained about the likeliness of it falling off. "Soul, why didn't you tell me?" Maka chimed happily.

Utterly puzzled, Soul replied, "Tell me what? What's going on?" Maka suddenly came to a revelation; maybe Soul hadn't realized it for himself.

"Oh. Uh, nothing," Maka nervously mumbled out. She was horrible at covering herself up and didn't fool Soul for a second. "Tsubaki invited us to play basketball, I told her you were coming." Come on…

"Yeah, okay." Yes! Maka held a look of triumph. She confused Soul even more. Maka hated basketball. This had to be a scheme! "Why are you so happy all of a sudden anyways?" Soul inquired. And what didn't he tell her?

"N-nothing! I just realized that I was being mean about the whole thing."

"Sure," Soul exhaled audibly. They turned onto their street. "Home at last! Don't take too long getting cleaned up just to get dirty again."

Maka laughed as she opened the door and began up the stairs. "Hey, I won't make you do your homework if you don't complain." Maka's discovery about Soul shed light on how ignorant she was about the Christmas situation; therefore, she'd go to a couple far lengths to get things calm between them. The white-haired teen, knowing the scythe-wielder well, understood her intentions. Soul also agreed with them.

Knowing just how to handle things the scythe retorted sarcastically: "That's one thing I never thought I'd hear."

"A just shut up and get ready," Maka countered while unlocking the apartment.

"I would if you'd hurry up!"

"Idiot!"

Both partners grinned at each other after they entered the living room. Things were going to be fine.

Across town, Tsubaki put her hair up in a loose bun. "Black Star, are you getting ready?" she chided from the kitchen. The longhaired teen still had to make sandwiches and she knew Black Star wasn't getting ready at all. Blips and bops came from the other room and Tsubaki got even more annoyed. "…Black Star."

Black Star distractedly replied from the other room. "Huh? Uh, yeah, I'll get on that. After I get to the check point."

"Get ready now. I'm almost done with the snack."

"How did you convince Maka to play basket ball anyways? She hates it," Black Star noted. Blue hair moved to the other side of the apartment; finally, he was getting ready.

"She asked me, actually. She told me to ask those girls we met today too," Tsubaki answered. She smiled. After Tsubaki pointed out to Maka how Soul was looking at the stripe-clad boy, Maka finally understood.

"Oi, Tsubaki. I'm ready," Black Star said, appearing in the kitchen. He watched his weapon put the food into a plastic bag to carry. Why is she smiling? Black Star grinned, "What are you thinking about?"

"Oh nothing, just a conversation Maka and I had."

How could Maka not have noticed before she told her…

"Ah, I see." Together they exited their home.

why Soul couldn't stay with one girl…

"Black Star, you're going the wrong way!" Tsubaki laughed.

"Oh, sorry," the meister was clearly embarrassed but shrugged it off. Someone as big as Black Star had no time for embarrassment.

was because Soul was gay?

*Patty was most likely raised with little education. I'll play with this idea by occasionally making purposeful grammatical mistakes like in the anime.

A/N: Please review if you enjoyed it. People tend to read stories if they're more reviews :3 Thank you for your patience with my writing, I tend to be a little too formal ^^;
Also, I had to include them getting ready because they always show them in different outfits when they're not fighting or at school. (Hey, it was also a good filler for important conversation!) Just mentioned that because it seemed like too much while I was reading it over.