Author's Notes:

I don't own Soul Eater or any of its characters, no copyright is intended.

This story is a sequel to another story I have done called, 'Eyes of Gold' please go read that story before reading this one just so that you're upto speed on everything that's happing, thank you :)

Italics - Means the person is thinking just so you know

This story is set about a month (or two) after 'Eyes of Gold' ended.

Enjoy :D

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Soul's P.O.V:

I sighed deeply as I stepped out of my home, luckily I was able to make it back home before my brother got really mad at me yesterday, turns out he just wanted me home early because he forgot to take his keys with him when he went to work yesterday morning, so that meant that he had to wait around or me to come home from school since Mum and Dad have been out of town with their company for about a week now.

Maybe I could walk Maka to school this morning, she ended up being late yesterday, so maybe she's still at home now. I smiled as I thought of seeing Maka's cheery smile as I would knock on the door and she would answer happily, addressing me kindly the way she always does, before we would head off to school together.

But as I came upto Maka's house and knocked on the front door, there was no answer. I knew that Maka's Dad had already gone to work so he wouldn't be in, but why didn't Maka answer the door? I tried knocking again and again, but still there was no answer.

'Maybe she got up early and is already on her way to school now,' I thought deciding to just turn around and head for school, since it seemed like no one was home at Maka's, and as I sighed and just shrugged my shoulders, I hung my head low and started on my way to school by myself.

'I really hope she isn't with that damn Reaper right now, that guy is nothing but bad news,'

I hadn't even left the street yet when I heard the loud laughs of a bunch of teenagers. I lifted my head and looked around to where I had heard the laughs come from and felt automatically regretful of deciding to look around, as I spotted a few members of that Reaper's gang hanging around the ally-way talking and laughing.

I really didn't want to go over to them and talk to them right now, but I wanted to know if that Reaper was with Maka or not, and it seemed like talking to them was the only way I would find that out, so I sighed deeply and reluctantly walked over to them, kinda hoping they wouldn't notice me, but unfortunately for me, they did.

"Hey what are you staring at, shouldn't a kid like you be in school by now?" I heard one of the guys in the group ask as they all had obviously spotted me and were all looking to me now.

The group was made up of three girls and two boys, I knew there were plenty more members in the gang, but I guess they weren't here right now. Two of the girls looked familiar as they were the Thompson sisters who were meant to but never did come to school. The rest of the group? I had never seen or heard about them before.

Death the Kid was known around school as 'The Reaper boy' or just, 'Reaper' for short, but his gang was something of a mystery to everyone, in fact The Thompson sisters were the only two members that the students from school knew of.

I know the Reaper's gang isn't a big one but it does have quite a few members and it's easy to point them out, they'll always be wearing a plain black leather jacket and somewhere on their clothing will be a little skull badge, notifying people that they belong to the gang known as 'The Death Gods' (plus there's also the fact if you look closely you can see that most of the members carry around a pistol or two in their back pockets).

"Couldn't I ask you guys the same question, because I know for a fact that at least two of you should be in school right now," I stared at the guy who had questioned me and glared to him slightly, these people were no doubt from that Reaper's gang, they gave off the same bad vibes that he always has.

"Listen kid, we don't want any trouble, just scram alright, unless you want one of these put up to your head," the guy said as he pulled out a pistol from his back pocket and swung it around his fingers, before pointing it to me.

I wasn't scared of this guy, besides this gang wasn't known for killing people right on the spot, and out in the open, they'd easily get caught and thrown in jail for that. They have been reported time and time again, but just like their leader they've been found 'not-guilty' each time, I have a feeling that that Reaper's Dad has something to do with it all.

"Kenny, what have we told you about waving your gun around like that?" the taller Thompson sister now spoke as I looked to her.

"Hey come on Liz, it was just a joke, this thing's not even loaded," the guy addressed as 'Kenny' stated as he smiled back to the taller Thompson sister.

"Do you want it taken away from you again?" she warned in an annoyed tone, to which the 'Kenny' guy put his gun away again in response, and mumbled something I couldn't make out under his breath.

"What do you want anyway?" the taller Thompson sister now looked to me as she was still slightly giving that 'Kenny' guy a glare.

"Where's the Reaper, is he around?" I got straight to the point and asked what I wanted to.

I didn't know how old all of these members were, but I could guess that the two Thompson sisters were around my age since they were meant to be in the same class as me, Maka and the others, and I'm pretty sure the rest of them aren't all that much older, they were probably around their leader's age.

"What's it matter to you, does he know you or something?" a different guy now asked.

"No, not really, but he's date-…in a relationship with a friend of mine," I stated, cringing when I almost said that those two were 'dating'.

"Aww so you're Maka-chan's little friend then?" the shorter Thompson sister asked, she seemed to have a much more cheery tone in her voice than her sister did, plus she smiled when she talked, while all the other members were just looking to me like I was some sort of annoying pest that they really wanted to get rid of right now.

"Err….yeah kinda," I gulped nervously as I could now see that both of the Thompson sisters had two pistols in their back pockets instead of just one, like all the others did. Why didn't I notice that before? I mean I'm not scared, it's just I can tell at least one of their guns would be loaded full of bullets, ready to puncture my body, if I said something they didn't like.

I shouldn't be talking to these people, I should've just gone to school, and I don't want to end up in the hospital because of this. I'll just see if they'll tell me where the Reaper is and then I'll leave and go to school, simple. I nodded as I took a deep breath and repeated my earlier question.

"You didn't answer me, where's the Reaper?"

"He's not here alright, we haven't seen him since yesterday," the taller Thompson sister answered me. So coming over here was a big waste of time then I can see.

I just nodded as I felt like there was nothing more for me to say, they hadn't seen Kid so there was no reason for me to stick around them any longer, as I turned away from them all and started to walk towards the end of the street.

"Hey wait!" I froze as I heard of the cheery voice of the shorter Thompson sister calling to me, and turned back around slightly.

"What?"

"Say 'Hi' to Maka-chan for us alright?" she asked with a bright smile, while I nodded to her. The other members all then looked to me with smirks that seemed to give off the feeling that they were all looking into my soul right now.

I turned back around and quickly started making my way to school, while I heard the group go back to chatting and laughing amongst themselves in the distance behind me. I wasn't scared of that Reaper I knew that, however his gang was a different story, no one knew much about them, plus they were the ones rumoured to do away with their leader's victims after he was done 'playing' with them. In truth they were all killers just like that no-good leader of theirs.

I soon found out that talking to that Reaper's gang was only the start of my troubles and worries for toady as when I finally got to school, and looked around, there standing off to the side of the big school building stood the Reaper himself talking and smiling along with Maka (of course) and….Tsubaki?

Same long black hair tied up neatly in her usual pony-tail, same formal, but casual looking clothing style, same kind smiling face, same tall form, and same impressive sized bust. There was no doubt about it that was most certainly Tsubaki, but what was she doing talking to that damn Reaper.

I shook my head before I walked over to my two friends and the Reaper they were with. Well I bet that Tsubaki is just giving that Reaper a good telling off for showing up here with Maka, she's probably telling him to back off of Maka like I always do.

But I soon found out that I was completely wrong in my thinking, as when I came over to the three, all of them were laughing and joking about random things just like best friends or something.

"Umm…what's going on here?" I asked, feeling completely confused.

"Oh hey Soul," Maka greeted me with a smile, while the other two just smiled to me.

I was stunned, I mean I know Maka had been blinded and hadn't yet realised what a true monster that Reaper was, but I thought Tsubaki was smarter than all this, after all she had been telling Maka to keep her distance from him not too long ago, so now, why was she talking and laughing with him like he some nice guy?

"Umm….Evans you alright?"

I automatically snapped back to my senses once I heard that Reaper's misleading kind voice and turned to him with a glare.

"I'm fine,"

"Well I'm sorry that I can't stick around longer, but I'm on class duty today," Tsubaki stated with a smile to Maka.

"That's fine see you in a bit okay?" Maka replied with a smile in return.

"Yeah, sure, it was nice meeting you Kid," Tsubaki waved as she turned to leave and go inside of the school.

Did Tsubaki just say what I think she said, and did she actually just call the Reaper by his name? What is happening right now?

"It was nice meeting you too, Tsubaki," the Reaper I was standing beside replied with that damn smile, as he waved back to Tsubaki, just before she smiled back to him and disappeared into the school building.

This couldn't be happening right now, could it? Just yesterday Tsubaki was still warning Maka to not be around the Reaper, and today after just spending probably a few minutes with him, she's just like Maka, in the sense that she talks to him like he's some nice person that you can easily become friends with.

How, how was that damn Reaper able to trick Tsubaki so easily, I didn't think she was like Maka, but it turns out that it seems like Tsubaki has been blinded now as well.

Writer's P.O.V:

"Well it was wonderful meeting Tsubaki Maka, but I have to go before the school bell rings, Liz, Patty and the others will probably be wondering where I am right now," Kid stated as he smiled to Maka.

"Okay, I'll see you after though right?" Maka asked.

"Of course you will," Kid nodded as he kissed Maka lightly on her forehead, before he turned to leave.

"Soul, always a pleasure," Kid bowed to Soul, while Soul just glared to the older teen, still feeling like he didn't know what to say , or how to react to this situation.

Maka smiled as she waved to her boyfriend and watched him leave the school gates and walk off into the distance, before her attention was brought back to Soul, while he rested a hand on her shoulder and still seemed to be in quite the shocked state.

"Maka, what was he doing here?" Soul asked.

"He walked me to school this morning," Maka answered simply.

"Why was Tsubaki talking to him?"

"She saw us walking onto the school grounds and came over to talk with us. She did seem awfully cautious of Kid at first and gave him the cold shoulder a lot, but after we all talked for a bit she soon warmed up to him, and I think found him to be quite the gentleman," Maka explained chuckling slightly at how Tsubaki and Kid acted around each other, upon meeting for the first time.

"He walked you to school huh? Does that mean that he stayed over at your house last night?" Soul asked with a raised eyebrow and he folded his arms.

"What does it matter if he spent the night at my house last night, it's none of your business Soul, so just leave it!" Maka replied sternly as it was obvious that she really didn't want to hear another lecture from Soul about how her boyfriend was 'bad news', and that she should stay away from him and all that. So she just turned away from Soul before he had the chance to reply to her, and quickly headed into the school, leaving Soul alone, still having no words for what he had just witnessed.

'What the hell was all of that. I hate to say it, but I think we may be losing Tsubaki now as well.'

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Maka's P.O.V:

I was so overjoyed that Tsubaki and Kid were able to meet and get along without much trouble, I could always tell that Tsubaki would like Kid if she knew what he was really like deep down, but now there's just the problem with getting Black Star, Soul and hopefully the rest of the school to change their minds about Kid, which is no way going to be as easy as this job was.

I sighed deeply as the school day had gone by with me trying to avoid talking to Soul since I really didn't want to hear another lecture from him today.

'Well at least I can go home now and not have to worry about hiding from him,' I thought with a smile, 'I mean Soul is a good friend and all, but when he's constantly telling me to stop hanging around with my own boyfriend, he can be such a pain to be around.'

I slowly walked out of the school along with many other students, as it was now home time. I knew that my Papa wasn't working late tonight, so that meant that I wasn't going to be eating my dinner all alone tonight, and I wouldn't have to ask Kid to come round to keep me company.

Of course I don't mind him staying round, everything was fine last night when I had decided to let him stay round, it was just like how it used to be, Kid and I ate a small dinner together, then we watched a scary movie (we normally watch romance movies, but we decided to change it up a bit last night), and then I fell asleep in his arms, before he took me to my bed, and slept downstairs on the couch.

Kid was like the perfect house guest whenever he stayed round at my home, he would sleep downstairs on the couch, even if my Papa wasn't going to be home until morning, he would always make breakfast for me (bar the days that my Papa would be home), and to this day I have never known him to seek into my room. He really can be such a gentleman sometimes, nothing like what you would expect a gang leader to be like.

'Mind you his gang is quite different from most of the other gangs in this City,' I smiled again while I thought of my dear boyfriend and his surprisingly nice gang.

Papa really liked having him round again, since he seems to like Kid, and I'll admit that I have missed having him round quite a bit as well.

I guessed that Kid was probably going to be meeting me outside the school gates today to walk me home again, but as I walked out of the school entrance, I noticed that most of the other students were avoiding leaving through the school gates, which was odd since they would normally just run out of the school gates, rushing to all get to their homes. But today many of the students either were taking the bike slope that was beside the school gates, or were just simply waiting around in front of the school building looking nervous for some reason.

I soon found out the answer to this strange behaviour from the other students when I walked through the school gates and a familiar voice called out to me.

"Hey, Maka,"

It was Liz, she was here to meet me instead of Kid, and she was also accompanied by her younger twin sister Patty, the quiet girl in the gang with red hair 'Cat', and the loveable 'Kenny' that everyone else seemed to constantly pick on and yell at for random reasons.

Liz smiled to me as the four all walked up to me and I sighed with a smile to them.

"What are you guys all doing here? "

"Kid's seeing his Dad for something at the moment, but he still wanted to meet up with you and walk you home, so we're here to stand in for him," Liz explained while Ken and the others all smiled and nodded to me in agreement.

"Well thank you guys, really, but I think you all scared the other students," I stated nervously as I looked back to the others students standing outside the school, as most of them had turned to look to me now.

"I know they've been acting like scared little girls since we got here, I'm not sure why though, none of us have any pistols on us right now, so it's not like we're a threat," Ken explained as he looked around at the other students and shrugged his shoulders with a sigh.

"Maybe it's because you all are still wearing those little skull badges on your clothes, things like that kinda give away the fact that you all belong to one of the gangs in this City," I pointed out.

They are looked to me for a moment, seeming like they were surprised, then they all looked to the skull badges that they always wore somewhere on their clothing and then nodded to me nervously.

"I told you guys we should have changed before coming here," Cat stated as she blankly stared to Ken and Liz.

"Sorry Maka we'll be more careful next time," Liz smiled to me, to which I just nodded to her.

"It's fine guys,"

"Come on then Maka-chan, let's get you home," Patty cheered happily as she grabbed hold of my arm and started to pull me along.

"Yeah sure," I nodded as I chuckled to Patty, while we all started to walk out of the school gates and head for my home together.

Soul's P.O.V:

I unfortunately didn't get the chance to try and talk to Maka again throughout the whole school day, and although I did see her a few times I never actually talked to her, since she kept running off. I kinda got the feeling that she's avoiding me right now.

I just don't get it, what did that Reaper do to make Tsubaki think that he was a good guy? I mean Tsubaki knows that Kid is bad news, not just from what the rumours say, but from the fact that she's seen how the Reaper has hurt many girls before, and in result they normally end up moving away from this City, it's happened many times before and it'll soon happen to Maka if she isn't careful.

'Just what is Tsubaki thinking?' I questioned as I was now on my way out of the school (since it was home time) and just as I walked to the front entrance of the school, there I saw one of my friends that I had been wanting to see and talk to since this morning.

"Hey, Tsubaki!" I called over to her as I walked upto her.

"Oh hey Soul, how's your day been?" She turned to me and smiled kindly like she always does.

"Err…fine, hey if you don't mind me asking, why were you talking to the Reaper this morning?" I asked getting right to the point.

"You mean Kid?"

I nodded in reply.

"Well I saw Maka walking into the school grounds with him this morning, and I was going to pull her aside and tell her to be weary of him, but after he introduced himself to me and we got to talking for a bit, I really started to see why Maka likes him so much. He's a wonderfully kind person who acts like the perfect gentleman. He and Maka explained to me that all those rumours were just made up stories and false assumptions of him. I didn't believe him as first, but I soon found out that he's very kind and there's no way he could have done all those things that those rumours said he has," Tsubaki explained with a smile, while I felt studded again.

'How was this even possible?'

"B-but Tsubaki you've seen how all those other girls have gotten hurt by that Reaper, and even if those rumours are just all lies, there's no denying that there's just something that seems…off with him," I tried to reason with her as I didn't want her to fooled by that damn Reaper as well.

I didn't believe a lot of the crazy rumours that went around school about that Reaper, but the fact that I've see countless girls look broken and lifeless because of being hurt by him just makes me wish he would leave this City and never come back. I've always known he was nothing but a killer, who loved to watch people suffer.

"But you see all those girls believed those terrible rumours so of course they would get hurt and leave him after they heard things like that, but Maka however doesn't believe a word of those rumours, so I really don't see her ever leaving Kid. And yes while it's true that he could hurt her like he did before, I can tell that he is deeply sorry for it, and will defiantly not do anything like that again," Tsubaki explained sounding an awful lot like Maka now.

"But Tsubaki, how can you trust him after all that he's done? All the people he's hurt, all the life's he's ruined, how?"

"What are you talking about Soul? I think you need to stop listening to what those rumours are saying, Kid's got a kind heart and you can see that he really does love Maka, there's no way he would even think about hurting her again, that just doesn't sound like him at all," Tsubaki replied to me before she turned away from me, "Well, I've got to get to my club activity's, so see you tomorrow Soul,"

I watched Tsubaki wave to me, before she ran off to go to attend her club, leaving me to think about all the things she had said. She sounded so much like Maka just then, no she sounded exactly like Maka, which can only mean one thing. I hate to say it, but we've now officially lost not only Maka to that monster, but also Tsubaki.

'Damnit, how far is that Reaper going to go?' I wondered as I cursed under my breath and clenched my hands into tight fists, while I quickly left the school and walked to the school gates.

Once I got outside I noticed that a lot of the other students were looking to the school gates nervously, and avoiding walking out of them, like there was some sort of ghost standing there blocking their way.

'The hell? Why is everyone acting so weird?' I wondered as I looked around at all the scared looking students, before I looked to the school gates, and as I came closer to them I then realized what had spooked all the other students so much.

There standing just outside of the school gates was Maka, along with some of the members from the Reaper's gang. I recognised the members as the ones that I had seen and talked to this morning outside of the ally-way, were they here to meet up with Maka or something.

I could see Maka talking and laughing with the gang members like she was best friends with them all. Almost like she was one of them.

Now I could see it, and now I could easily guess what that Reaper's plan really was.

'Death the Kid, you really are a monster,'